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&5Lue1, NlUtu5r, ana InfeS sisters DEAD,
Mr.. David Claypool, formerly Sergeant
alarms ofthe New jersey Senate, and now
Notary Public at Cedarville, Cumberland
Co., n. j., makes the following startling
statement: My father mother, and three
sisters all died with consumption, and my
lungs were SO weak / raised blood. Nobody
thought could live. My work (ship-
smithing was very straining on me with nv
weak constitution, and was rapidly going
to the grave. While in this condition /
commenced using Mishler's Herb Bitters,
and it saved my life Because it was so
difficult to get it in this little place, and |
had improved SO much, Istopped taking it
for n time, and the result is that have
commenced going rapidly down hill again.
Somehow, Mishler's Herb Bitters gives
appetite and strengthens and builds me up
as nothing else does, and 1 must have a
dozen bottles at once. Use this commu-
nication as you please, and if any one wants
to be convinced of its truth, let them write
me and 1 will make affidavit to it, for /
owe my life to Mishler's Herb Bitters."
Thesecret of the almost inyariable relief
and cure of consumption, dysentery, diar-
rhea, dyspepsia, indigestion, kidney and
liver complaints, when MishIer's Herb
Bitters is used, is that it contains simple,
harmless, and yet powerful ingredients,
that act on the blood, kidneys, and liver,
and through them strengthens and invigor-
ates the whole system. :, Purely vegetable
in its composition; prepared by regular
physician; standard medicinal prepare
ton; endorsed by physicians and drug
gists; These are four strong points in favor
of Mishler's Herb Bitters. Mishlers Herb
Bitters is sold by all druggists. Price SI.OO
per large bottle. 6 bottles for $500.
Ask your druggist for MIsHLER's HERB BrrTFRs.
ne does not keep it. do not take anything else INF
send postal card to M1sHIER HERR BrTrgRs'C y'
ID Commerce Street, Philadelphia wv
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The light Brahma makes a good
cross On common fowls to increase
size and other desirable qualities.
The Vermont Record says that
wounds of animals are quickly cured
by washing several times a day with
turpentine in which the yolks of eggs
have been thoroughly mixed.
Beware of using too much carbolic
acid about poultry. Unless you are
accustomed to using it, you are more
apt to kill than cure. Better to keep
the chickens healthy by keeping them
dry in coops out on clean ground, with
good food and clean water, and kill
any sick ones, rather than kill all.
Care, caution and common sense will
raise more chickens than all other
remedies combined.
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II the toes of Young chickens are

II the toes of young chickens are
connected merely by membrane, or
web, /" they may be divided. Use a
pair Of shdars rather than knife, as the
latter will cause too much bleeding.
Shut the chicken up afterwards for two
or three days in clean place. There
IS very little chance of the prog eny be-
fng defoimed, as such things are not
commonly hereditary: although it must
be admitted that very abnormal and
very trifing and peculiar deformities
have, on rare occasions, appeared in
animals, ard have been reproduced
for successive generations. Some re-
puted cases of this phenomenon turn
out false on investigation.
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Mishler's Herb Bitters cures cholera
morbus, and thus gets the better of the
complaint every time. Samuel An
derson, a blacksmith, living three
miles from Springfield, o., writes: L
was taken with a severe attack of
cholera morbus-so severe that | was
unable to straighten myself. After
taking two doses of your Bitters | was
entirely cured
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Fifiy-tWo Dividends
The TNDEPENDEAT

of New York, 10 acknowledge TO be Whist the Pa
Mall Gazette. OF Lotd0n, says u, zone OF the
Abiest weeklies In exfsteDcc.h IL occupies two
nelds--reilyion and literary.
II publishes sachwsek from Twenty-Five 70
Thirty three per cent more rosding matter than
any dfits contemporaries. With the exception OF
la column Of '.ScIect;ons.n every line In every
issue 10 New, Original Hattsr. written expressly
forit. ftp.Js more each week for literary mai
ter than any three oflts contemporaries put togeth-
sr. IL has TIC larrcs' hnd best corps OF coniribH-
tors Of any ppriodlc.l In fbe world Il is unde-
nominationai in religion. and unsurpassed In lit
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In journzlisfn lis EdItgrisis fearless Its de-
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valuable Information unohfainei elsewhere. Its
Markets and Financial Reports aud commercial
Articles eagerly sought Tor by those wanting
correct information upon those subjects, Its de-
parfmeits for -'old aud young - filled with
stories aud articles In prose and pootry.
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Notice fs hereby given that letters OF administers
ZION upon the estate of Andrew Roberts, Sen. late
OF Adair county, deceased, have been granted to
to the undersigned John II. Roberts by the 2. ~
bate court of the county OF Ad.ir bearing date the
AIN day of April, A. ID. 1885. All persons having
claims against said estate required to exhibit
them to me for allowance within year after the
uate OF said letters or they may be precuded from
any beneht OF such estate and If such claims be not
eIhibited within two years from the time ofthe
red. John n R0RFRTs
April l0th. 4. D.. 1871 ~
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EXECUTRlX' NOTICE.

-, Letters OF administration upon the estate Of
Thomas A. Smith.ueceased, were granted TO the
undersigned, the 9th, day OF April 1873 by the
probate court OF Adalr county. ALL persons hav-
ing Chains against.sald-e ESTATE required to eX-
within one year after the date OF said letters or
they may be precluded from any benefit of such
estate: and ifsuch claims be not exhibited within
TWO years from the date of said letters, they will
be forever barred,
This 18th day OF May, 1855.
ZANTyPPEE SMITH,
Eyecutriy.
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Letters of administration with vail annexed up
ON the estate OF W. L. Conner. deceased. were
granted to the undersigned on the Sd day of March.
1855, by the Probate court of Adair county, All
persons having claims against said estate are re-
CURED TO exhibit them for allowance to the admin
isrator, within year after the date said let
tiers, or they may be precuded from any benefit OF
such estate; and II such claims be not exhibited
within two years from the date said letters they
Will be forever barred.
This 18th day OfMarch, 1855.
WASHINGTON Conner.
AdminstratOrswith the will annexed
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| tried Tongaline upon myself for
facial neuralgia aud it gave lmmedi-
ate reliet. l also tried it upon one
suffering intense pain from neuralgia
of the head; one dose gave perfect re-
lief. C. w. Duval, NJ. D., Pineville.
Mo.
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Dissolution.

Notice is hereby given that the copartner
ship heretofore existing between the Will
lard Bros. has this day been dissolved by
mutual consent, the books and accounts will
be found in the hands of j. A. Willard, at the
old stand. Parties owing US please call at
once. ". D. WILLARD,
]. a. WILLARD.
April 9th. 1855.
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a man is wiser for his learning, and
the sooner he learns that the only
way TO cure a cough or cold is to use
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, the better he
is off.
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THE FARMER

In search Of new home, where he can Sc
cure better returns for his labor, should re-
member that the wabash is the most direct
route to Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska,
and all points South, West and Northwest,
and that round trip 1and-explorers' tickets
at very low rates are always on sale at the
ticket Offices. Descriptive advertising mat.
ter of Arkansas and Texas sent free to all
applicants by addressing the General Pas
epnuar rant
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The indication of good health in
fowls are ford color of the comb.
bright eyes, free from moisture, dry
nostrils, and bright, glossy plumage.
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THE TOURIST

Has long since chosen the Wabash as the
favorite route to all the summer resorts of
the East, North and West, and winter re-
sorts Of the South, as the Company has for
years provided better accommodations and
more attractions than any of its competitors
for this class Of travel. Tourist Tickets can
be had at reduced rates at all principal
Offinas of tn COmpanv
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Call at Normal Grocery for your
Coffee, Sugar, Flour and anything in
the grocery line. WILLIAM GIBBONS.
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The Best.

The Studebaker wagons are the
best For sale by Carothers G. Green.
SaTe from five to fifteen cents on the
sack By 5uying flour from B. w. Ross,
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Call at Ladies Bazaar FOR any novelty
In Millinery.
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THE INVALID

Will find the Wabash the most convenient
route to all the noted health resorts of
Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, and
that the extensive through car system and
superior accommodations of this popular
line will add greatly to his comfort while en-
route. Pamphlet descriptive OF the many
celebrated mineral springs of the West and
9nufh cont FREQ IN anpliPatinO
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FINAL SETTLEMENT.

Notice il hereby given to all srsdftors and others
Interested In the estate OF Wlliaa Mcswsn de-
ceIIed, mat Harriet EaRw en- sduipl,irn mi of
sale estate intend 70 mako anal settlements thereof
At tho nett term OF me pYobats court Of ldaH
hay 1855. HARnr1r NcEvxE
Administrats1xfof Wn. As1vsn, deosased
Hyreh StA, 1855.
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500 sacks of flour at Murphy Bros.
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THE INDEPENDENT

has twenty-five distinct departments, edited by
Researches Sanitary, Fine Arts, Music, Scibncas
PEBBLES. Per sonaIities, MinstsriEl Register, Hymn
Notes. School aud college. Literature, Religious
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WABASH
R0U ] E!
THE BUsINEss MAN

When he travels wants to go quick, wants to
be comfortable, wants TO arrive at destina-
ton on time, in fact, wants o strictly bust
ness trip, and consequently takes the
sure to meet his engagements and continue
TO nrnsner and ha hannY.
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First door north OF DouEhlass Il Sons lumber
yard opposite City Hotel, respectfully soiicits a
snare OF your patronage. Guarantees satisfaction,
sewed work speciality.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-10
Canine Intelligence.

at is truly amusing" says the Lon
don. Truth, Ito see the assembled wise
acres of the British Institute making
discoveries in canine intelligence which
must have been common knowledge to
dog-fanciers in the days of Nimrod.
Sir John Lubbock's learned poodle is a
fool beside a little performing mongrel
which l have lately seer at one OF the
south-coast watering-places. Any
spectator was invited 10 show this
little animal his watch, when the dog,
after studying the face for a moment,
would proceed to tell the time by
selecting the proper figures from a row
of Arabic (not Roman) numerals
placed before him. Again, Prot.
Flowers eminently Scotch tyke who
refused to go for a walk on the Saw
bath is very little ahead of the dog
whom most of us have seen or heard of
who loses all desire to go u Sunday
morning upon being shown a prayer
book. In the same way l have heard
of a university dog-probably O a
unique specimen-who, though al
ways frantic TO start out the moment
his master took up his hat, never
offered to owe when the head-cover-
ing was a college-eap."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-10
Peculiar Weeds.

al have the 'dead-wood' on you,'
remarked Prof. Rothrock in response
to the applause which greeted him as
he appeared i'm the lecture room at
Horticultural hall, Paramount park,
Saturday afternoon. In his arms he
carried a number of chunks of ''pecu-
liar woods" to better illustrate his lee
ture. His subject was Peculiar
Woods" The lecturer explained that
peculiar eXogenous woods were those
that differed in important particulars
from the normal or average growth.
He classified them as peculiar in color,
weight, and manner of development.
He showed several specimens having
peculiarities of color. There are no
less than sixteen plants grown in the
United States that are peculiar, be-
cause they are of greater weight than
water and will therefore sink when
placed in it. These heavy woods grow
in the southern states, in the damp at
mosphere of the country adjacent to
the Gulf OF Mexico, and also in the dry
climate of Arizona and New Mexico.
Their popularity is due evidently to
heat more than to any other one agent.
He next exhibited a number of spec
linens OF peculiar growth, showing
with the aid of the blackboard that
they had not grown as trees usually
do. with perfect medullary and CAM
blum formations. Sometimes, instead
of the regular rings formed at the ends
of the several years growth, they
have bark soundirgs, becoming. as it
were, trees within trees. The professor
showed one block in which the woody
fiber had formed a perfect Maltese
cross, another a checker-board surface,
and several others nearly as remarka-
ble.-Phttade phia Times.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-10
PretZeI-BakinU,

The ordinary reader undoubtedly
knows something in a general way
about the bakers art, but in 4 cosmo-
politan city there are about as many
varieties of the staff of life as there are
nationalities. The pretzel is peculiar
to the German table and perhaps the
process of preparing it is less familiar
in this country than that of any other
article of food. There is nothing mys-
FERROUS about pretzel-baking, although
some things about it may surprise the
consumer of Boston brown bread and
knickerbocker ''short-cakes." A good
natured Teutonic baker recently took
a reporter through his establishment.
Flour, yeast, water, and a great deal
of salt are the sole ingredients of
which the dough out of which the
pretzel is evolved is composed. 1t is
tough and heavy, and after having
been well kneaded is placed in great
heaps on a long table in front of the
workmen. They grab it up by hand
fuls, roll it out in long, thin strips, and
then curl and tie it up iuto the queer
shapes in which it makes its appear
ance in peer saloons aud on cheap
lunch-counterS. A journeyman baker
is expected to make one pretzel every
two seconds. After it has assumed its
definite form it is laid upon Il wooden
rack in the middle of the ROOM. Rack
after rack is thus filled. and they are
piled one above another. Each one
contains n hundred pretzels. \
thousand are generally prepared tol
the oven before the baking begins.
The ovens are of enormous size. The
pretzels are baked very thoroughly,
and are regarded as especially whole.
some for this reason. Then come the
most singular part of the process.
Racks, charged with p~retztls, are
dipped in a weak solution of I've, the
effect OF which is to give TO their sur
face 4 bright and glossy appearance
After being thickiy sprinkled with sail
they are ready for sale. Those that are
intended for shipment or to be kept 70,
some time undergo an additional pro-
cess. They are placed in 4 steam-boS
and remain there for two or three
hours. This sort of cure makes then
proof against mold or seuring fol-
months. One of the greatest peculiari
ties of preizels is their salty taste, and
they conduce to the greater consump'
ton of beer. But so much salt is used
simply for the purpose of preventing
them from becoming stale. They are
a favorite part of the rations of the
Prussian army. The amount of pref.
zels made and eaten in San Francisco
every year is almost as important 4:
the number of kegs of beer that are
drunk, but the statistician is yet to be
discovered who can estimate it without
q vast deal of laborious Investigation.
San francisco Chronicle.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-10

Ex-Boss Shepherd of Washington
City, who has been digging gold mug
gets out of the ancient mines of Mex
leo for the last seven years, is soon to
visit his old home. He is to have a
reception worthy of a conqueror.
Grateful citizens who appreciate the
ability with which he improved and
beaulliied the town are preparing \
grand banquet. The fact that the boss
squandered something like $50. 000,-
900 in polishing up the place-one-
third of which went into the pockets
of ringster, and jobbers-has been
forgotten. The grateful citizens only
realize now that they have Il pretty
city, and they think that they owe the
great improver something. But many
an old taxpayer will keep away from
the feast and the triumphal process
sion.-AsU IOr1 Hcrdid.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-10

IT'S a glorious game, with a weiiearned iauhe'
A diamond in royal setting;
And its beautiful rays light up our DAYS
From the fed with an emerald fretiihg-
So day after day | am watching the pay,
Absorbed in the outings and innings;
Though I risk not a dime, I'm the eainer each
And the joy that it gives is my winnings.
But sometimes on a day nv mind is away
From the game with an idle pcrusing,
And ] think of another so much like the other
That l blend them together in musilg;
'Tis the old game of life, with its conquest
With its wonderful outings and innings:
Where the umpire of fate forever dotn wan,
Giving gladness and sorrow Tor winnings.
Incrc's the man at the hat, he'sa king on
A.d he watches the bali that is feeting.
Till his blow meets the same, and It scars DER
the game.
And receives from the people a greeting.
It's the man that doth wait while fortune
Changing hands like the shuttle in weav-
ing,
Comes and touches his mace, and he u n
While the people shout. Luck is retrieving!"
See the pitcher, whose aim is surely not
tame.
While his curvinCs are often p~erplexing;
And the poise of his fist. and the twis. of his
To these running the bases is vexing.
It's the man VINO in fame hits the mark all the
same.
Though he throws a curved bail there to
do it:
And the one who would steal to a base on his
field
Viii nave cause to remember and rue it.
And the catcher with nerve that all good
might deserve.
And Il visor drawn low for the danger;
With Il smile by that base that's as cruel &c
face
As the blow of a spitefuI sky-rauger-
IT'S the man of strong nerve whom no terror
can SwcrEe,
And who laughs where the peril is thickest;
And he guards the home base 'gainst tht
And outs them with hand that is quickest
There's the guard at each base. who. alert ii
his place
Knows the work and performs it witt
pleasure:
And the tielders that stand with the gamt
vel in hand
And consider high balls but a treasurer;
IT'S the men of each age, who on history
Have written their names with their actions
Catching fame on the fly, though it come
from the sky,
And nc'er bothered with foolish attractions
So the Old game of life. with its conquest anf
strife,
Ever moves, with no pause or delaying.
The wise and the great and the foolish wit
fate
On the field of the great world are playing
And the games will neier close, till the book
shall disclose
All the wonderful outings and innings.
With the sun meath the west and the player
And the best with their bountiful wiz
nings.
$. d. Richardson.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-10

Aliens. own Is. 600. 900 acres of Amer.
lean soil.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-10

Al Albino child. living near Eustis,
Florida, named Jimmie. is thus de-
scribed: His SKIN is a pure milky
white, and his hair of q similar shade;
the features are all strictly African
with one exception. His eyes are as
pink as those of a white rabbit, and
have that peculiar restless movement
so noticeable in Albinos. Jimmie is o
robust, healthy child. with no weak
ness excepting that of vision, his eyes,
when he took his hat off, appearing to
hurt him by contact with the light.
His mother states that he can see much
better in the night than day time. He
is about four years old.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-10

Sockabesin Swassin is said to be the
richest Indian in Maine. He is the
handsomest man on the island of Old.
town, and n of the most intelligent.
He is a lineD descendant of the Baron
de Castine.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-10
SUPPLEMENT.
Base Ball.

IT'S a glorious game, with a weif-earhed iaMe'
A diamond in royal seitine;
And its beautiful rays light up our days
From the led with an emerald fretting.
So day after day l am watching the play.
ABSORBED in the outings and innings;
Though I risk not a dime, m the gamer each
tEFFa
, 1885-06-06

MADRID, June 1.-The cholera cpl
demic is raging with increased virulence
at Valencia and other towns in the south
eastern provinces Of Spain. Peasants
continue to chafe under the restrictions
imposed by sanitary cordons, and by their
willful neglect of the precautions pre-
scribed by the authorities they invite and
disseminate the disease.
A report that cholera has made its ap-
pearance in this city is denied by the
Madrid officials, but this was also the
case at Valencia for many weeks and un
til after c~oncealment was impossible.
Some truth is given to the report by the
new and stringent sanitary laws which
have lately been made and are being
rigidly enforced.