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Father, Mother, and Three Sisters Dead.

Mr.. David Oaypool, formerly Sergeant
at-Arms ofthe New Jersey Senate, and now
Notary Public at Cedaryille, 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-
smithlng was very straining on me with MY
weak constitution, and was rapidly going
to the grave. While In this condition |
commenced using MishleI'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, stopped taking it
for time, and the result is that / have
commenced going rapidly down hill again.
Somehow, MishleFs Herb Bitters gives
appetite and strengthens and builds me up
as nothing else does, and l must have
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 anG / will make affidavit to it, for /
owe my life to Mishler's Herb Bitters''
TIE secret of the almost invariable relief
and cure of consumption, dysentery, diar-
rhea, dyspepsia, indigestion, kidney and
liver complaints, when Mishler'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 vegets bic
in its composition; prepared by regular
physician; a standard medicinal prepare
ton; endorsed by physicians and drug
gists. These are four strong points in favor
Of Mishlers Herb Bitters. Mishler's Herb
Bitters is sold by all druggists. Price 81 90
per large bottle. 6 bottles for $500.
:. Ask your druggist for MIsHLER's HERE BIrTERs.
II he does not keep it. do take anything else but
send poets' card to MIsHLER HERB BITTERs Co.,
Us Commerce Street, Philadelphia
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Took His Note,

''Out in the country" said travel
ing man, "a note is a biz thing. Coun-
try merchants take notes from farmers
for supplies of groceries. and imple-
ment dealers acquire big boxes full of |
0 US. In some sections of the West
everything is done by note, to be paid
after harvest Out in Western
Iowa the other day came across a
country storekeeper, German. l sold
him small bill OF goods and took his
note for the amount That note is as
good as wheat. 1t will be paid on the
very day it falls due. While l was
there a man came in and says:
Jake, did you sell your bay horse
to that chap who pretended to be a
lightning-rod dealerP'
Yah, replied the storekeeper.
Did you get cash for him?'
Not Won cent.
just as l thought. That light
ning-rod peddler is a swindler He
has sold your bay horse for $50 cash and
skipped the country. You'll lose every
cent of it.
''But Jake didn't seem to be alarm
ed. He laughed and chuckled, say
ing:
Dot vos a good choke. He sell dat
horse for eighty tollar, ven he pay me
a huntert and vorty. 1t vos in great
schape l looked him in already
But you have been cheated out of
your horse. The man is swindler.'
'Sheated? Svindler? l guess not.
Amid l got his note for huntert and
vorty tollarsP' Chicago Herald
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manitomof pilot.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1885.
A Gamblers Find.

Talking about finding money" said
Old Sport, would you believe me if |
told you found 1900 one time?'
mo; but tell it anyhow"
ut was in Washington. Dee See.
The occasion was the Inauguration of
Grant, and there were 100000 people
in the streets. l saw a small green
thing lying on the pavement, and some
thing prompted me TO pick it up. Or
dinarily | wouldn't stop 10 pick up
things on the street, but this time |
thought I'd chance it. After picking
the green thing up | thought it was
patent-medicine advertisement, and
was on the point of throwing it away,
but l wasn't very busy just then, so l
unrolled it, and when saw it was
81, 900 bill was scared to death. /
was dealing bank then, and / didn't
know what to do with the find, because
l couldn't fake up any excuse for the
possession of so much of the filthy. The
main guy would swear that | was hold
ing out on him, and there would be the
devil to pay; and you can bet it would
take the whole of the $1,000 to pay
him. So took the bill to my board
ing-house and stuck it between the
covering OF my trunk and the outside.
looked at the paper for several days,
but couldn't see any advertisement for
a lost 81, 900 bill l didn't dare get it
changed in Washington, because it
would soon be noised around that |
had big roll, and the snap would be
given away. Each day | would recon-
mr. I.h Il Il &c Al
bill was safe, and I'd change her from
place to place. The fact that the loss
was not advertised led me to suspect
that the blooming bill might be coun-
terfeit, and l was in a terrible stew
But held on to it. One day 1 went
over to New York and took the bill
with me. At last l screwed up my
courage to slap the bill down on the
counter of the bank, and asked to have
1t changed. The dealer, or rather CASH
Ter, grabbed 1t up and squinted all
over both sides of it, and 1 imagined
every body in the world was looking at
me. Mind you, this was three months
after | had found the bill. After cycling
the bill for few seconds the cashier
laid it aside, and didn't know wheth-
er he was going to set the dog on me
or what; but he clinched on to tistful
of $50 bills and counted out twenty of
them, which were handed to me. So
that was all right. Well, l felt pretty
gay, and | went down to Sandy Hook,
and from there to Long Branch, then
back to New York, over to Philadel-
phia, and once more to Washington.
That night Iplayed faro and got broke. :"
- Cincinnati Enquirer
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HORSE-OWNERS ATTENTION,

Sore neck aud breast on horses are
healed the quickest by "Hinrichs Equine
Healing Lotion" Sold by Fl. Hinrichs,
druggist,
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"She Was OAR"

Mrs. Yerger, of Austin, having been
absent for several days, returned to
her home. She was met at the gate
by her colored servant, Matilda Snow
ball.
Has anything happened while was
gomez" asked Mrs. Merger.
''De Lor', | should say sumft hap
pened. We came mighty nigh habin
de biggest kind oh fire. replied Ma
tilda: rolling her eyes around.
Whereof
I'm your bedroom. You orter be
mighty glad | was dar when de fire
started. Eff hit warn't for me bein'
dar de hull house would hab been
burned down befoah now"
80 you put out the tire?"
Yes, mum, l drapped de lamp, and
it cotched de curtain, but as luck
would hsb it, l was dar Ell | hadn't
been dar when | drapped the lamp,
whoope! dar's no tellin' what mout
hab happened. "-1eras Sitltngs.
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Langtry and a Cook.

One would hardly suppose that amid
the adulation of the young nobility of
London and the undisguised attention
of the future ruler OF England, Lily.
the charming, the Incompatible Lang
try, would give thought to any of our
fellow-townsmeu. But she has. The
lucky individual is our young real
estate agent, Mr.. j. Cook, Jr., and il
the boat is not wrecked and the animal
don't die, DR.. Cook will ere long re-
ceive a beautiful dog which Lily prom
ised him for his courtesy one day in
Washington.
Mr.. Cook, as everyone knows, is one
of our most engaging young gentle
men, and on this occasion, in partIcu-
lar, the snow and slush was ankle deep
on Pennsylvania avenue. Lily was
playing at Ford 5, and, as luck would
have it. rode up from the capitol in the
same street car in which sat Mr.. Cook.
With the politcness of his sex, Mr..
Cook not only offered the strange
young lady his seat, but, noticing the
embarrassment under which she labored
from the multiplicity of packages and
bundles with which she was laden, con-
siderately gathered up in his arms the
ugliest pug dog on the two continents.
He nursed the dog, chatted with tho
fair owner, and made himself other
wise agreeable till Ford's theater was
reached. Here the young woman pre-
pared to alight, and the young gentle
man, equal to the emergency, lost no
time in following her with dog and
parcels. These deposited on the side
walk, Mr.. Cook eXpeditiously and with
grace soon placed her with equal care
clear of the slush and the snow. 1t
was but q few steps to the theater, but
before separation the gallant found his
pocket full of comps" and the lady
in return eXacted a solemn promise
that he'd be on hand at the evening
performance. MIR. Cook was on hand,
in a front seat, never dreaming that
his companion was anything more
prominent than stage fairy or men,
Der of the ballet, at the most. Judge
of his surprise, therefore, when the
curtain rose and in the fair face of the
young woman Mr.. Cook saw the famed
Mrs. Langtry. Recognition was mutual,
and the Lily. from the expression on
her face, enjoyed hugely MIR. Cook s
ill-concealed astonishment. The ac-
quaintance thus Economically begun
didn't end here. He called at Lily's
hotel, was handsomely received, and
the pleasure was reciprocal, for during
the whole of Lily's engagement at
Ford S, Cook and his friends were plenti-
fully supplied with complimentary
tickets.
Here's where the don comes in. Be-
fore leaving the city the Denver young
man insisted that he ought to have the
dog. Lily, however, would not part
with her pet, bat promised, upon her
return TO England, she would send to
Mr.. Cooks Denver address one of the
finest dogs in ali England. Lily is a
woman or her word, and Mr.. Cook at
any time may expect to see at his door
the promised canine.-DeHuer Opinion.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-10-08

1t was hoped at least that these
United States might claim the inven-
ton of the great American game of
poker, but now turns up 4 mythical
.Mr. Benjamin. fresh from Persia,
who asserts that from time inmemor-
ial the game has been known in ORR
entail lands, and that it was played in
Persia centuries before Columbus dis
covered America.
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A CARD

To all who suffering from the errors and in
discretions of youth, nervous weakness, early de-
cay, loss of manhood, etc, 1 will send a receipt
that will cure you FREE OF CHARGE This
great remedy discovered by a missionary in
South America. Send selfaddressed envelope
to the REV. JOSEPH T. INMAN. Station D.. New
YORK City. septl0-S6
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-10-08

When that heartless foe, Yellow
Jack, who proved more deadly than
Yankee bullets, slew General Hood,
there were left eleven little Hood chill
dren without father or mother. Six of
the eleven were twins. Two of the
eleven died, and nine still live-three
At New Orleans; one at Cohoma. Miss. :;
two at New York City: Two at Wood
vile, Miss, and one at Scarsdale, n. I.
Not only have the orphans good homes.
out fund of $50, 900 raised for them
already has rolled. like the traditional
SNOWFALL of the philosopher of thrift.
into lump worth S2S, 773.
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Horses for Sale.

The celebrated French Stallion, Trojan.
The Hambletonian Stallion, Bradley
Sixteen 10 others of all ages.
Cheap for cash. or time will be given on ap-
proved security. Will exchange entire lot for
Manitowoc real estate. G. C. BARNES
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-10-08

SICK HORSES
are cured the quickest by the Horse
Medicines prepared by Henry Hinrichs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-10-08

F. G. Buerstatte and II. Hinrichs will
refund the price paid if Acker's Blood
Elixir does not relieve any skin or blood
disorder. A new, but thoroughly tested
discovery.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-02-19
Bold Robbery.

One day last week Il neat and
dapper looking young man was going
around to different residences '.look-
ing for a book agent" He was not
working in Bob Whites interest.
either. lie would call and knock at
the front door. If no one answered
the bell he would go IN and carry off
anything he could get hold of. II
any one came to the door or saw him
in the house he would ask '.if book
agent had been there, that he was
looking for him. &C., &c. At DIR.
j. +. McWilliams' he carried off some
jeweiry and a few dollars in change
he found. Mrs. McWllllams was il
the kitchen; he was very hold an
all the neighhors saw him. He callcs
at R. allaway's and Capt. Bryan
and other places but found the folk
at home. The same party or hi
partner (there were two of them
each I'M pretending to he 10 king fo
the other) got into Mrs. Judge Gun
ningliam's residence and got some o
E,nmct's wearing Apparel, pistol, &c.
&c. Marshal Murray found some o
the goods i'm the pawn shop. If Ii
had been notified in time he coul,
have captured the thieves.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-02-19
Furniture.

We take pleasure in announcing to
our friends and patrons that we can
now be found in the basement under
Kabrich's store. southwest carner of
square, with a full line of Furniture
suitable for this market. While in
st. Louis we found many of the fac.
tories willing to sell at bare cost OF
production. We paid cash for our
goods and will simply a We will moi
he undersold by any house in NORTH
Missouri. The ladies' will find Mrs
Robertson always in the store read,
t" assist in showing goods, and the,
will find our rooms rs pleasant and
respectable as any house in town
Our undertaking department consist
of a nice SELECTION of cuffins, easkrts,
burial rnies for men, women an6
children, &C.. &c. We have purcbas,
ell a beautiful new hearse which will
be shipped to us early in the spring
44-tf n. A. ROBERTSON.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-02-19
A Pretty MiliiRer Triumphs.

Special Dispatch to the Glnbe- Democrat.
JEFFERSON CRY, NO., Feb. 16.-
The Supreme Court to-day affirmed
the Judgment of the trial court in
the case of Lewis L. Ketchum, ap-
pellant, VS. Margaret Harlow. re-
spondent. The case originator Mon
re Co. Ketclun, WAC was a wild
over, made love 10 Miss Harrow, and,
according to the evidence of herself
and other witnesses, promised to mar
ry her. While she was expecting to
be Mrs. Ketchum he went back on
his promise and married another
woman. As he was rich, Miss Har-
low sued him for 500. 900 to heal her
wounded and lacerated heart. The
jury thought her figures too high,
but gave her $4,000. Ketchum
sought to avoid paying the judgment
by urging the incompetency of his
attorney and that the case went to
trial without notice being given him
sn that he could attend as a witness
in his W behalf. The Court finds
that Miss Harlow won her suit fairl,
and openly, and that Ketchum's at
torney made as good defense as wa
possible. The result is that Mis-!
Harlow. who is apretty milliner, vii
| get her $1,000.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-02-19
Bayard will lie liz the cabinet.

bdyd1u Will bG III TUT Sfblilet.
There will he no adjourned term of
congress.
The roller skating rink craze is
wearing out
Kansas City was too small a town
for Patti to sing in.
Only twelve days until We have a
Democratic president.
Edgar Frost aud Uncle Frank Tom
Inns n will be the candidates for city
recorder.
No of importance were tried
at the adjourned term of circuit
court, which convened Tuesday.
Our friend, Clay Judy. of Santa
Fee, called this week. Clay would
rather ..stand again" than ''cail."
There have been nearly 100 bills
introduced III the legislature. About
Ten per cent. of them will become
laws.
How do some of orr ranting tenn
perance and prohibition people ge'
along sitting under their speakers
who have their mouths so full of to
bacco they con hardly talk. Is tina
temperance?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-02-19
Cured of Drinking.

D. r. Locke, better known as Pc
troleum-V. Nasty, tells a reporter of
the Detroit Free Press how he came
to leave off drinking, which he did
absolutely eighteen months ago. He
had been a hard drinker for thirty
years. Up to about the time he be-
came forty he had been able to go to
bed drunk every night and yet do a
reasonable days work every day,
but at this time he was pretty we |
used up. Application to his duties
was beyond his power. He would
lie abed until IL o'clock and then
contemplate his boots half an hour
at a time without enough energy t."
pull them o. He would drink foul
or five WHISTLES before breakfast and
take another nip at that meal, which
consisted Of soft boiled eggs. One
day the business manager of his
newspaper came to him and said that
20 per cent of the subscription to the
weekly would expire in a week, and
it was necessary for him to furnish
two or three serial stories, some Mas
by letters and a lot of other stuff
with which to brighten up the sheet,
lest the dropping off should be per
manent. Locke promised the matter
should be ready at the appointed day.
but he could not bring himself down
to work and when the time came
around he had not prepared a line
As he lay abed. realizing what a mis-.
cradle creature he was and staring
at his bouts, he suddenly resolved
never to drink another drop of alco'
hol. He dressed, told the people il
the Office that he should not be IL
for three days, and spent most Of tht
day walking, about the Toled'
wharves, bareheaded, smoking inces
sanity and with his faceto the breeze
He was full of fever but held out unit
eleven at night when he went to bed
The next morning to his great sur
prise, he was able to eat small piec'
of porter house steak, which he hat
not done before at breakfast In TWEEN
ty years. At noon he ate a fair luncl
and at night a well mans dinner. Il
three days coffee began to taste goo'
: and solid food had q delicious flavor
D The better condition to which b
I had come was the cause of SO niue
pleasure and exhileration that he ne,
er felt enough like putting it in per
to make him crave liquor agaiI
Nowadays about 4 O'Clock in the a
ternoon he feels a deep depression
not so much for the want of q nip 0
9 because he is tired with work. Th
natural impulse then is drink, but b
beats it down without great efor
{ and in a little while it passes He
absolutely certain that if he took on
drink he would take forty.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-02-19
Mrs. Caudle and the Ledger.-A Cur.
tain Lecture.

Candle, did you subscribe for The
LEDaKn. to-day a. I told yous Its
costs too much, ehs and you can't af-
ford it What did that bottle of
whisky cost, and that big plug of to-
bacco, I'd like to knowt Its none of
my business, and you'll find it out if
you continue to make q beast Of
yourself by guiding whisky and
squirting your filthy tobacco juice
over my new carpet. that I made
with my own hands. A pretty how
do you do indeed. that you can afford
t, bring home q bottle of whisky,
and a plug Of tobacco every time yon
60 to town, to addle your brains. if
You have any, and poison your sys-
tenn, and you can't afford to take
your county newspaper, that only
costs, let me see, not quite three
cents a week.
For shame Caudle; you make me
almost wish / had never married
such o niggardly miser. You haven't
time to read it! That isnot so. eau
die, and you know it You spend
more time in idleness every day, than
it would take to read the LEDGER
through, advertisements and ALL
The truth is Caudle, land Tn sorry
to say it) you are ignorant, grossly
ignorant, and what is worse. you are
content to remain SO. I doubt If
you know tonight, who respects you
in the Legislature. Let you alone,
you want to sleep! If you would
sleep less, and read more you'd be
more account than you are. But I
won't let you alone! There's our
neighbor, besides the LEDGER,
he takes a number of other good pa
pers. He finds time to read them
too, and so does his wife and chill
dren, and they are all spruce, bright
and intelligent. Oh, it is a real
pleasure to talk with such people.
Why didn't I marry hint Oh.you
brute! I did not have a chance or
perhaps I might. Does that comfort
youi Oh, its no use whining about
sleep! I know my rights and mean
to have them. If you are satisfied,
that our children shall grow up in
ignorance, I am not. -Four dozen
of eggs viii pay for the LEDGER a.
whole year, and I'm determined to
have it. If you won't let me have
the LEDGER, you shant have any
eggs, that's fat. You'll subscribe
the first time you go to town! Well
now that's clever. Caudle, you're a
good fellow after all, and yeu have 3
good and faithful wife, if I do say it
myself. Now Caudle you may go to
sleep, but remember, the LEDeER-
LED-LE-L. Mrs. CaudIe snores
audibly. and all is quiet in the eau
die rancho.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-02-19
HARDIN COLLEGE.
Who will be President i-Public Don't
Want II Closed.

E-ZH&s
Prof. j. E. Lanneau has resigned
the position of president Of Hardin
College. to which he was elected a
few weeks SINCE. Al this writing we
are unable to state inst what the di-
rec,ors will do. Ex-Gov. Hardin is
it, New Orleans and we learn thai
nothing definite will be done until he
srts home. The many friends of
Mrs. Baird would like to see her re-
elected. The college, they claim. is
iourishing and she has built it up to
the enviable position it now occupies.
We find that there is a good deal of
feeling in the matter and that on this
account some of the hoard will vote
20 close the school up rather than for
the Bairds to remain. The Bairds
say they have no feeling in the mat
ter and are ready to remain and do
as they always did the best they
know how. We do not know how
the natter will end. 1t would he a
serious blot on all concerned to have
the school closed and we trust the
affair will soon he amicahly settled
There is no me-, d for any trouble or
hard feelings. F,lk does no good:
If the Balrds are the people for the
place they should he retained and the
matter settled at once. Personal and
petit prejudices Should cut no figure
in the matter. They say they are
willing to rest their claim on their
work and that if ttley>are worthy the
confidence of the patrons of the school
they ask no more. We trust the
matter will soon be pleasantly adj
iusted. IS
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-02-19
COME THIS WEEK if you want the BEST CLOTHING at nearly HALF real value.
Joe & Vic Barth.
Leaders in Styles and outftters Of all Mankind.
North Side Square, MEXICO, MO.
Murray Looking for Everett,

We learn, on good authority, that
NJ. L. Everett is preaching holiness
in this county. and claims he is ''pure,
holy. and without sin" City Mar
shall Murray would like To have a few
moments talk with .Brother" Everett.
He got $3.50 from Murray to buy a
load of wood for a poor widow. The
woman never got the wood-at least
that is what she tells the Marshal.
At the same time Everett continues
To preach and claim holiness, abusing
preachers of all other denominations.
As the LEDGER stated once before.
hell is full of ''holiness" people of
this kind. There are many good and
CONSCIENTIOUS people who belong to
this sect, hut they owe it to them
selves to shut out such preachers.
Whenever you hear a man preach
ing that he is pure and holy as our
Savior was" you had better lock your
meat house and load Your wool
pile. We underworld to get MIR. Ev-
erett's side of the story u could not
find hun.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-02-19


A Chicago'judge riding in the cars
from a single glance at the counte-
nance If a lady by his side, imagined
that he knew her and ventured the
remark that the day was very pleas
ant. She only answered. Yes"
why do you wear a veil?' LEST
attract attention" ut is a provinces
of gentlemen to admire" replied the
gallant mar of law. mot when they
are married." ''But l am not"
''Indeed!" "'Oh. no, I'm a bache-
Ior." Then the lady quietly removed
her veil. disclosing to the astonished
magistrate the face of his mother-in-
law