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Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

Rev. G. Donenburg, of Columbia
ILL.,, is in Audrain county on bust.
ness,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

We are ready for the regular an
nual rumor that s'the fruit is all
Killed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

!. j.. ID. Tucker will make a bust
ness trip to Moberiy this week.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

Frank Luckie, son of DR.. Luckie,
is going to Houston, Texas, to live.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

Mrs. Walton, Of Salisbury, Mo-, is
the guest of her son, Rev. T. NJ.
Walton, OF Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

John s. Marmaduke, wife and
child have returned to st. Louis after
short visit to relatives here.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

The thermometer registered II de-
grees above zero Monday morning.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

Mexico hotels obser we'd Easter BY
serving unusually sumptuous din
ners.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

ADVERTISE your horses in the
Mexico Weekly LEDGER. 1t will
pay you.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

G. I'll. Chambliss has moved his
printing office to Santa Fe, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29
JerseY Pennies far Sale.

A car load Of Jersey COWS for sale.
Will be in Mexico Saturday, March
81. Most of them fresh. DIV 1t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

B. B. Tureman will be home from
California in a few days.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

The following refers to a grandson
of DR.. N. Allison, of this city: Ma
thaniel Allison, recently selected fol
a West Point Cadetship by Con
gresham Cobb, received notice yes
terday that his examination showed
satisfactory results and that he would
be expected to report at the Military
Academy June Is. Young Allison
is Is years old and the son OF James
w. Allison and the grandson o
Chauncey F. Schultz.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

Hugh Logan, of Laddonia, was
in Mexico this week on business,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

B. l.. Locke, s. NJ. Locke and
Chas. Rodgers are in Laddonia on
business connected with the Lad
donna bank.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

In the daily and weekly LEDGER
will be found the announcement of
George E. Iaforce, of Mexico. He
is a candidate for Sheriff of Audrain
county, subject to the rules and
usages of the Democratic party.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29
Candidates' Speaking.


The candidates for county offices
will speak at the following places /:
Farber, Thursday, March 20.
Laddonia. Friday, March 80.
Beagles school house, Monday,
April 2.
Mo:;no, Tuesday, April 8.
Bryan school house, Wednesday,
April 4.
Naylor school house, Thursday,
April5 5.
Thompson, Friday, April g..
Rush Hill, Monday, April Q.
Martinsburg, Tuesday, April 10.
Benton City, Wednesday, April IL
Jackson school house, Thursday,
April ~.
Beaver Dam school house, Friday,
April Is.
Central school house, Monday.
April 16.
Sailing school house. Tuesday, April
II.
Pisgah school house Wednesday
April Is.
Cant, Friday, April 20.
At each of the above named places
the candidates will assemble apd
make speeches, shake hands witt
everyone and make themselves gen
| orally agreeable.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

To c. r. Lupton, Mexico. Mo
ST. LOUIS, March 28.-Fry's
application for mandamus to strike
names of Democratic nominees
from ticket refused by Court OF
Appeals. GEO. ROBERTSON.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

Nevada is having q revival and
enlareine her jail at the same time.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

l.. Phillip & Sons have contracted
with the daily and weekly LEDGER
for liberal advertising space. This
firm has purchased one Of the larg'
est lines of clothing and gents
furnishing goods ever brought to
Mexico. The very best taste was
shown in the selection and those
who desire fashionable suitings
should examine this stock. Com
petition in styles and prices de6ed,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

Born, to MIR. and Mrs. Sam Nor.
ris, a son.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

u. B. Guthrie, F. ". Gentry,
Notary Public. Notary Public.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

W. Fl. Goodrich, superintendent
of the Mexico Fire Brick Work, Is
home from an extended visit to
Chicago. During his absence he
was confined to his room with a Sc
yere spell Of illness, and his friends
will be glad to know that he has
entirely recovered his health.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29
WORRELL,
The JEWELER.

Oats. are reported injured by the
frost
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

The owners Of fine stations in Au-
drain county should have a meeting
and arrange for a public parade oil
fine horses in Mexico some Saturday
this spring. There is no show which
is more attractive than a parade oil
the fine horses of Audrain county.
II is a good advertisement for the
town, a good advertisement for the
stock and encourages our breeders
to improve their animals every year.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

County Judge, Western District,
WE are authorized to announce
w JOHN 7. CREWS
a candidate for County Judge Western District
subject to the Democratic primary, May 5.
I'VE are authorized to announces
" j. D. SMITH
| a candidate for County Judge Western District
| subject to the Democratic primary, May s.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

WE are authorized to announce
" DR.. J. E. HUTTON
a candidate for Coroner: subject to the rules and
usages of the Democratic party.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-03-29

w are authorized to announce
w DR.. C. A. ROCKWELL
a candidate for Coroner; subject to the rules and
usages of the Democratic party.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-04-09
TO BURN AFTER DEATH.
Newton, Dana, Kate Field, Frances
Willard and DR.. Hammond.
Cremation Growing in Favor-There Are
In This Country To-Day sixteen Incor-
, porated Cremation Societies.
Rules of Cremation
tCOPYRIGHT, 1894 !

Some months ago there died in New
York a romantic German who be-
queathed his body to the flames and
his ashes to the winds. To heighten
the effect he ordered that his incin-
srated remains be scattered to the
breezes from the top of the Liberty
statue.
His requests were followed and his
ashes found resting place in every
cline, carried on the decks of vessels
and on the waves of the Atlantic like
ghostly messenger to all the points on
the compass
The incident created but a passing
notice, for cremation has become an
everyday affair with US. Since 1855,
when five bodies were incinerated at
Fresh Pond, L. L., over a Thousand ere
nations have taken place there, and
Of these the Germans claim at least six
hundred. From 1881 to 1894 the Gre
nations in America numbered almost
three thousand, and to-day there are in
this country sixteen incorporated ere
nation societies with crematOrieS at
Fresh Pond, L. l., at Detroit, at ROX-
bury, Mass, at St. Louis, at Los
Angeles, at San Francisco, at La
Crosse, at Baltimore, at Pittsburgh. at
Troy, at Waterville, n. Z, at German
town, at Buffalo and at Cincinnati.
Cremation as practiced by the an
clients was literally a burning Of the
body, after being placed on funeral
pyre Of wood or other cOmbustible ma
terals. Cremation of the present day,
is really an incarceration and not
burning of the body in any ordinary
sense of the word burning, but a re-
duction of the body in a spacious closed
retort, under the influence of super
heated oxygen, which at a very high
temperature unites chemically with
! the carbonaceouse clements of the body,
with no flame contact whatever, like
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-04-09
and SCrOfula

Ladies whose systems are poisoned
and whose blood IS in an impure cOndl-
ton, due to menstrual irregularities,
are peculiarly benefited by the Won
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critics of p. P. F. Prickly Ash, Poke
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The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-04-09

Of blind orthodoxy could allow any
notion of this kind to have weight In
so far as it does have weight it
ought to be exposed and ridiculed. |
have for years had the intensest
horror of thinking of anyone dear
to me undergoing the noxious process
of decomposition, as we have made
sure that it shall be made noxious by
our whole mode of interment. | want
those | love to pass from this life to
higher life without any such abhor-
rent decomposition of the form once
dear to me. On every hand cremation
has commended itself to my judgment,
and am sure that it is destined TO pre-
vail in the future. expect to be dis
posed of thus myself. and do not know
of any expression of opinion which |
could offer that would have any more
weight than this.
r. HEBER NEWTON"
Kate Field is crematiOnist and
speaks forcibly on the subject. She
says:
Il am cremationist because earth
burial poisons earth, air and water,
and consequently breeds disease
among the living. Much Of what is
called malaria is nothing more nor less
than the result of cemetery gases
generated in the vicinity. Many a
New England town is now subject to
zymOtic diseases because the inhabi-
tants are drinking up their ancestors
remains in the sparkling well water
which is considered healthy merely
because it is clear. This is no indica-
tion whatever of purity. Cremation is
not only the healthiest and cleanest,
but the poetical way of disposing Of the
dead. Whoever prefers lCathsome
worms to ashes possesses a strange inn
aginatiOn. KATE FIELD"
Miss Frances E. Willard proposes to
be reduced to ashes in the most ap-
proved style. She says:
81 have the purpose to help forward
progressive movements even in my
latest hours, and hence hereby decree
that the earthly mantle which | shall
drop ere long, when my real self passes
onward into the world unseen, shall
be swiftly unfOlded in flames and
rendered powerless harmfully to affect
, the health of the living. Let no friend
Of mine say aught to prevent the ere
nation of my cast-off body. The fact
that the popular mind has not come to
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-04-09

this decision renders it all the more
my (uty, who have seen the light. to
stand for it in death. as have sincere
ly meant in life to stand by the great
cause of the poor oppressed humanity.
There must be explorers along path
ways, scouts in all armies. This has
been my Acall' from the beginning
both by nature and by nurture; let me
be true to it's inspiring and CHEEKY
mandate even unto the last.
FRANCES E. WILLARD"
Even that greatest of journalists,
Charles A. Dana, expects to burn. He
pats it cOncisely thus:
1T is my judgment that cremation
is the most rational and appropriate
manner of disposing of the dead
"CHARLEs A. DANA"
The rules governing cremation are
interesting, those at Fresh Pond, l.. l.,
being as follows: Each application
must be made by the person having
charge of the disposal of the body or
his representative; n blank form pre-
pared by the company must be filled
out and filed in the office Of the com
pany On the filling out of this appli-
cation blank. payment of the lnclnera-
ton fee, and the presentation of the
physicians certificate stating time,
place and cause of death, an order di-
recting the incarceration is given the
applicant. To this order the under
taker in charge of the body must have
attached the customary certificate
of the board of health. Every in
cineratiOn must be attended by some
relatives of the deceased or representa-
tive of the family. The price Of incin-
Grafton is thirtytive dollars. This
does not include transportation or I'M
dertallers services. Children under
ten years are cremated for twenty-five
dollars. No special preparation of the
body or clothing is necessary. The
body is always incinerated in the
| clothing as received. The coffin in
which the body is carried to the ere
| matOry is-never allowed to be removed
from the building, but is burned with
the body. In every instance of death
| from contagious disease no exposure
| of the body is permitted. Incarceration
may be as private as the friends of the
| deceased desire. On the day following
| the incarceration the ashes are deliver
able at the office in a receptacle pro-
! .vided by it.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-04-09

the snow in the genial warmth Of the
sunshine.
The funeral cortege arrives at the
chapel, where the services are held.
The body is placed on the catafalque,
which is surrounded by an ornamental
brass railing. After the services are
completed the catafalque with the body
descends by the means Of an elevator
to the crematory below.
Before the coffin has entirely disap-
peared from view, a black pallis drawn
over the railing. After the body has
reached the crematory, the coffin, with
out disturbing the body, is placed on
light traveller, which rests on the top
of a long carriage or table with
wheels, that fit to a track leading to
the retOrt.
The coffin is then covered or envel-
oped with white cloth that has been
saturated in a solution of alum. This
is done to prevent any part Of the cof-
fin igniting while it is being placed in
the retort. The retort door is opened
and the coffin with the body is then
moved into it by means of the travel
er and table. The table is withdrawn,
the door is closed anil frightened, so
that no air can enter the retort, or
none of the gases escape. All is done
quickly and in harmony with the So
lemnitv of the occasion. The process
of distillation begins. First, the gases
of the wood of the coffin crumble and
finally the body.
In about three hours the coffin is re-
duced to charcoal, and the body to
pearly white ashes. When the ashes
are removed from the retOrt the char
coal is separated from the ashes. and
the ashes are then placed in tempo
rary receptacle until final disposition
Of the remains are determined on by the
relatives of the deceased.
DR.. William 4. Hammond expects to
be burned. his sentiment on the sub
iect reading as follows: so far as |
can influence the matter shall be ere
mated myself at the proper time
"WuLIAM \. HAMMOND"
r. Heber Newton will astonish his
parishioners. most of all, by his pros
pective incarceration. He says: "Believ-
ing thoroughly in life tocome. have
not the slightest notion of that higher
life being conditioned in any possible
way by the way in which we get into
it. Nothing but the stupid prejudice
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-04-09

sPR1EeF1ELD, no. ,, Aug. 14th, 1898,
Il can speak in the highest terms Of
your medicine from my own personal
knowledge. was affected with heart
disease, pieurisy and rheumatism tor
IS years, was treated by the very best
physicians anG spent hundreds OF dol
lars, tired every known remedy With
out finding relief. have only taken
one bortie of your P. P. P, and can
cheerfuliy say it has done me more
! can recommend your medicine TO all
Sufferers OF the above diseases.
MRS. NJ. NJ. WEARY.
Springfield, Green County, no.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-04-09
Mza: : " Aorts|kaWsstsrnR.R.
Schedule in Effect April !, 1892.
DURHAM DIVISION.

DURHAM DIVISION.
LEAVE DURHAM. NC.
$40 p. m.-Daily for Lynchburg and Way
Stations. Arrive LynchburR 13o p. m. All
trains, Durham Division, arrive ana depart
Trains arrive at Durham from Lynchburg
at d. a. N. daily.
and south Boston. Leaves Durham ESQ a. m;
a"r YES Durham sis p. N. Daily except Sum
day.
wINSTON-SALEM DIVISION.
Leaves winston-Salem l:5O p. m. daily =. arr
rive at Roanoke ISO p. m.
MAIN LINE-wEST BOUND.
LEAVE LYNCHBURG-DAILY.
$50 D. m. for Roanoke, Radford. Pulaski,
Bristol and ali points south, wa Is. Il. V. e.,
H. H.. tor bluetieId, ohio Extension.
Leave Bluedeid 6:l0 IA. III. daily for kenova and
Columbus. Parlor Car To Roanoke. Pullman
Sleeper Roanoke TO Memphis via Knoxville
7:25 a. m tor Roanoke. Radford. Pulaski,
Bristol also tor Bluefeld, Pocahontas, Elk
horn and stations Clinch Valley Division also
for louisville and stations L. n n. h X. via
Norton. Pullman Sleeper Lynchburg to Louis
vile via Norton. Connects at Roanoke 1:S0 a.
II. with W Washington and Chattanooga Limited.
Pullman sleeper Roanoke TO Nashville, Mem
pins and New orleans. lining Gar attached.
2:35 p. C.. daily, for Roanoke, and inIerme-
dIaUe stations. Has no connections beyond
Roanoke
EAsT-BOUND-LEAvEL YNCHBURG-DAILY.
9:l5 a. u. for Richmond, Petersburg and Nor
folk arrives Petersburg at LIS p. m. connect
ing with Richmond and petersburg railroad,
rrTiving in Richmond at 2:l5 p. IN. Arrive
Norfolk 6:CO p. IN.
lI:5O y. III. Arrive Petersburg AIS a. m.
connecting with X. n p. X. X. daily; arrive
ttIchmond 7:47 a, M; arrive Norfolk ZOO q. m.
Pullman Palace Sleeper TO Norfolk.
Also Pullman Palace Sleeper between
Lynchburg and Richmond.
This car will be ready at Lynchburg at 300
p. III. Tor reception OF passengers.
2:55 p. m. for hlchmond, Peterourg and Nor
folk arrive Richmond $50 p. M; Norfolk e;2O
y. IN.
Pullman Parlor Buffet Car TO Norfolk.
w. Is. BEVILL.
G. =. Il T. Agent. Roanoke. Va.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-04-09
Is Your Life
Worth Anything

to others? Are there not
persons dependent on
your earnings for their
support? Are they pro-
vidcd for i'll case of your
death? The simplest and
safest way of assuring
their protection is life i'll
surancc. Business, pro-
fcssional, and working
men generally, should i'll
sure, for their brains or
their muscles, are their
capital and income too.
Death stops them both.
Insure in the
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-03-07
ORIGIN OF HOSPITALS.
The Work of a King in the Third Century
Before Christ.

The Work of a King in the Third Century
Before Christ.
Hospitals, as we now understand the
term, are of modern growth, says the
Quarterly Review. True it is, as Mr..
Burdett tells us in the historical sec
tion of Hospitals and Asylums of the
World that in the records of Egypt
and ancient India we find illusions to
institutions that foreshadow the hos
pitfalls of latter times, and even our
asylums for sick animals are borrowed
from the east.
An inscription engraved on a rock
near the city of Surat tells how Asoka,
a king who reigned in Gujerat in the
third century B. c., commanded the es-
tablishment of hospitals in all his do
minions and placed one at each of the
four gates of the royal city of Patna.
Six hundred years after this Fa Han,
an intelligent Chinese traveller, who
visited India in 500 A. D., records that
Asoka's hospitals still existed and
fourished, but the successive floods of
conquest swept all away, and by the
beginning of this century only hos
pital for animals remained of all the
pious kings foundations.
Ancient Egyptian records are more
vague in the illusions to the treatment
of the sick, but it seems likely, from a
legend which is given in the ''Papyrus
Ebers,' that a clinic existed in connec-
tion with the Temple of Heliopolis. It
is equally probale that, if the history
of the temples of Esculapius could be
unveiled, we should find that in them
also a hospital supplemented the
shrine, and that the sick who offered
sacrifices there found something more
than faith healing within their
walls. But from none of these arc our
hospitals derived; they were destroyed
or forgotten in the barbarian con-
quests, and so utter is the oblivion
into which they fell that it is now an
article of the popular creed that it is
to Christianity we owe the first idea of
care for the sick and afflicted.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-03-07
SHERIFF'S SALE.

Notice is hereby given that by virtue Of an s ex,
ecution issued out of the Circuit Court of the
State. of Oregon for Wasco County in suit
tiff and E. P. Reynolds is defendant, to me di-
rected, and commanding me to sell the real
property hereinafter described to satisfy the
sum of $4,000 and interest thereon at the rate
of eight per cent per annum from September p,
1898, and the sum of $4,000 and interest
thereon at the rate of eight per cent per annum
from the 10Th day of March, 1898, and the further
sum of $4,000 attorneys fees, and the further
sum of 90 costs, adjudged to the UtaintiR and
against the defendant in said suit, will on the
the 18th day of March, 1894.
at the hour of 2 O'Clock p. M. at the front door
of the County Court House in Dalles City, Ore
gon, sell at public sale to the highest bidder, for
cash in hand, all of the following described real
property, to-wit The south half of the south
west quarter, the northeast quarter of the south
west quarter, and the southwest quarter of the
southeast quarter of Section %, Township l
North, Range 13 East, w. NJ, containing 160
acres, and the north half of the northeast quar-
ter, the northeast quarter of the northwest guar
ter and the southeast quarter of the northeast
Quarter of Section 50, Township North, Range
iS East, W. M, containing 16O acres, to satisfy
said sums and cruing costs.
T. A. WARD
jl0wtd Sheriff of Wasco County,.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-03-07
sHERIFFs SALE.

By virtue of an execution and order of sale
issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon for Wasco County, upon decree and
Court on the 10th day of February, 1894, in
favor of plaintiff, in suit wherein Maximilian
and Augustus Bunnel1, John R. Foster and Da-
Vid Robertson, partners as Foster & ROber tSOn,
and Mrs. D. E. Price were defendants, and to me
upon and sell all the lands mentioned and de
scribed in said writ, and hereinafter described, /
upon, and will sell at public auction to the
highest bidder, for cash in hand, on Saturday,
the-31st day of March, 1894,
at 2 O'Clock in the afternoon of said day, at the
front door of the County Court House in Dalles
City, in Wasco County, Oregon, all of the lands
and premises described in said writ, and herein
described as follows, to-wit:
The south half of those certain lots known as
the Bickle lots in Trevitt's Addition to Dal1es
City, on the road from said city to the U. s. Gar
rison formerly travelled, and being the same
wife to said A. Bunnell, by deed duly recorded
at page 35S of Book "E', of deeds for Wasco
county, Oregon, and which are particularly de
mencing on the east line of Liberty street at a
point on said line 10 feet southerly from point
on the south line OF Fourth street where the
Liberty street 60 feet; thence easterly and at
northerly and parallel with said east line of Lib
erty street 60 feet; thence westerly to the place
Of beginning; said premises being in block ID
Oregon, together with the tenements, heredita
ments and appurtenances thereunto belonging
or in w the SO sum aef o
with interest thereon at the rate of 8 per cent.
per annum since the 10th day of February. 1894;
together with costs of said writ and accruing
costs OF sale. 4. a; WARD,
Dated at DalIes City, Or, March I'd, 1894
Inch3W5t
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-03-07
.rhe Kangaroo Rat.

One of the queerest little animals OF
the antipodean wilds of the paradox
ical continent of Australia is a little
geological oddity which the, naturalists
have called the kangaroo rat. It aver
ages no larger than the common rodent
of the Norway variety, but is a. minia-
ture kangarc in every respect. Their
mode of locomotion is precisely the
same as that of Macropus giganteus.
Besides this, the female carries its
young in pouches which nature has
provided for that purpose, and in many
respects initiates the habits and char
acteristics of its gigantic relative.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-03-07
t,anadIan sIedce Doc.

Six or eight dogs are used on each
sledge. They are fed only once in
twenty-four hours, and that is in the
morning before the start is made and
after the dogs are in harness. AT that
time about four pounds of frozen fish
are given to them. Everything must
be in readiness for the start, and the
men must look to it that they are at
hand to jump on the sledges, for at the
very instant that the last morsel of fish
disappears the dogs are off at break
neck speed Strange as it may seem
the drivers do not dare to feed the dogs
unless they are in harness. Otherwise
they would scatter, and nothing more
would be seen of them. They are
driven with one long rein attached to
the leader. A whip with very short
handle and very long lash is used to
urge them on, though in most cases
they need no urging, for they seem to
feel that the faster they go the quicker
they will come to the post, where food
and warmth and a lazy life await them.
They travel often as far as ninety miles
a day.