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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-03-27

The announcement made Thursday that
the New York Court OF Appeals mad de-
MED the r-Ction for reargument OF the
celebrated Faysrweather VIII case, there
hv making good the courts decision Of
several weeks ago distributing the s. co.
600 residue OF the estate 10 the twenty col
leges named originally IN the tenth clause
OF the will. was received here with great
pleasure by alumni Of the University or
Virginia. BY this decision that insti-
tntinn receives SlJnnO.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-03-27
CRG ED 10 kIItRN.
Mr.. A. r. Withrow Member Of the House
from Alleghany, Bath and Highland.

Mr.. A. f. Withrow. the tall sycamore
OF Bath county, as he IS called by his
numerous friends. and who lives at Hills
boro. Bath county, called at the office OF
Colonel John Bell Bigger yesterday morn
ing.
Mr.. Withrow was the representative
OF Allegheny. Bath and Highland counties
i'm the House Of Delegates during the ses-
sl9ns Of lSl-'9s and Ises-'?L and during
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-03-27

KlCHMOND'S
New Enterprise
At No. | n. 7th Street,
COR. 9TH AND MAIN)
is a new enterprise in
the Tailoring Frater-
nifty. Tomorrow, Sat
urday, March 9th, is
the first opening day
OF a series of six days.
The public is cordially
invited to come and Sc
lect anything OF the
immense stock at cost.
They expect and feel
confident you will or
der again and again
after trying one OF
their superb suits or
trousers. Here are the
Prices for the opening
week, commencing to-
morrow
Suits to order, IA to 40
dollars,
Coats and vests to or
der, 10 to So dollars.
Trousers to order 4 to
16 dollars.
Suits Cleaned, spOnged
and pressed, 81.
uits Pressed, Coo.
Coat and vest pressed,
SOC.
Pants Pressed, 1Oc.
Everything Cut and
made in their own San
itary Work Rooms and
only the ''swellest Of
the SWELL work is
turned out. Every
thing in the way Of fit,
workmanship and ma
terial guaranteed
Better take advar-
tage of this week S
opening. The number
is l North 9TH street,
near the corner Of
Main.
Goods called for and
delivered free.
New Phone 423.
Parties living out of
the city can get meas
ure blanks and sam
pies by dropping a
postal to B. j. Smith,
l N. 9TH street.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-03-27

Richmond Locomotive and Machine
Works VS. Ford. Argued By Charles v.
Meredith for defendant In error and +.
w. Christian for p.aintif In error and
submitted.
TAYLOR VS.. Mahoney. Argued by T.
X. Borland for appellants and continued
until Monday.
The next eases 10 be called are Western
Union Telegraph Company vs.. Goddin.
No e. and Epes vs.. Williams, No. 10.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-03-27

Judge William J. Leake has returned
from q trim IN ties>1A
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-03-27
4 CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
1t Must lie Voted for by the People OF This
state by Prepared Ballots.

The following letter has been received |
from the Attorney
IL l. IL Ii.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-03-27

THE KNIGHTS or Pl IlilA0'
Last night was "A red-letter night Win
Friendship Lodge No 20, knights or
Py1hias They had about sixty SIR
Knights from Richmond. who represented
Damon. Syracuse. Virginia. and Myrtle
Lodges The Applied Council OF Ia
mon Lodge was present and conferred
the Knights Rank on two canuluates'
The work done hy this team was highly
appreciated 10y the members Of Friendship
Lodge. and was instructive and entertain
ing TO an who were present. After the
meeting the visitors were handsomely
entertained
THE TROUBLE ADJUSTED.
The trouble between The employees az
Belle Isle who work in the Sail Fac
tory. and the Company has been AMIGA
bly, adjusted and they Will start 10 work
A notice was posted in the Nail Mil
OF the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works
about the 10th OF last December This
was 70 notify the men that the CompaW
would have 20 make q cut IN The wages
OF the men employed I'm this department.
This cut made The wages received by
these mon much lower than tho WAGES
Maid AT Bailey s Mil in Harrisonburs. Pa,
which rs the works that nave ALWAYS
Governed the pay received az these works.
The men refused 10 work Tor the WAGES
stimulated and this branch OF the works
have been idle ever since.
on last Wednesday the nail men had a
meeting when they decided 10 make the
company a proposition. which Was pre-
scented by n committee.
counter proposition, with the request II
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08
MRS. CLEVELAND A REF0RMER.
Had the Dolly Madison Spoons and Forks
Melted and RemodeIed in
MOdern Form.

WASHINGTON, March 27.-Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland were sur
prised shortly after their installation
in the white house to learn that the
old Dolly Madison spoons and forks,
that have been part and parcel of
the executive mansion belongings
ever since that famous woman held
sway there, had some time ago been
melted down. This historic silver,
together with various odd bits that
from time to time had, in past
administrations, been added to the
white house possessions, had been
converted into the set of forks and
spoons used at the cabinet dinner
Thursday evening last.
1t has been urged from time to
time by successive mistresses of the
white house that the stock of the
white house silver was not only
incongruous al to size and shape,
but in most instances a positive bur-
den to use at table. 1t was said that
the forks and spoons were not only
clumsily constructed, but, having
originally been made more with
regard to weight than intrinsic
beauty, the use of them throughout
a meal was a WEAKNESS to the flesh.
Mrs. Cleveland, during her incum-
bency as mistress of the white house,
it appears, decided to inaugurate a
reform. The Dolly Madison spoons
formed a part of this motley
but valuable collection of white
house plate Having been duly
weighed, a messenger was dis
patched to one of the large local
Silversmiths un Pennsylvania
avenue, asking for an estimate as to
just how many forks and spoons,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08
SPINAL DISEASE
And Painful Affections Of Nearly
all the Organs Cured by Dr.
Williams Pink Pills.

"Disease of the spinal cord and nervous
prostration, was what the doctors called ii at
first" Mrs. Rosa Tapley, of No. 721 Harrison
Street, Ionia, Mich, said yesterday to a re-
porter, "but it was not long before every
organ and member of my body was affected.
There was a continuous beatingsat the pit of
my stomach, my head ached on until /
thought | should grow insane. / felt as if /
was smothering and my legs would become
so weak that l had to drop when | felt the
spells coming on. As for sleep, that was out
OF the question, except little cat maps, for in
addition to the feelings | have attempted to
describe, l had neuralgia, and for six months
l kept getting worse and worse, and at last
was confined to my bed in October, 1894.
Il have nearly always thought it was Ia
grippe, that l had" Mrs. Tapley continued,
Though the doctor never would say SO, but
whatever 1t was it kept getting worse and
worse, especially my head and nerves, and /
thought l should die, but l dragged on a
wretched existence until about one year ago.
when, while l was reading the Detroit Jour.
nat and SGrdnac Weekly, 1 saw q long &C.
count of a similar case to my own being
cured by the use of DIR. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People. / made up my mind to try
these pills, and SO procured a supply and
began taking them according to directions.
My experience has been most happy.
My hearts action is normal, my back and
spine gave me very little trouble, all neural
gic and rheumatic pains have left me. /
have no headache, whatever, and after the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08

Tim Il IA L H
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08

Mrs. T. w. Carter, of st. Louis, is
the guest of Mexico relatives.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08
WILL HAVE NO %DRUNKARD.
Indiana's Chief Executive Declares
Himself Strongly Against EN-
ploying Steady Drinkers.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, March o.
Governor Mount declared to-day that
he intended to appoint the trustees of
the southern insane hospital with di-
rect reference to the removal of Sup
erintendent A. J. Thomas, adding that
he had received numerous letters from
persons who have friends in the IN
stitution protesting against the hos
pital being in charge of men who en-
ter saloons to drink.
"No man, said the governor in a
bulletin posted in his Office, ''who is a
steady drinker can be superintendent
of a benevolent institution while I am
governor.
"There is not a business concern of
any standing that will retain in its
employ a man who drinks constantly,
and I shall not permit such a mar to
remain in Office under me-"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08
ALL THREE DEAD.
Mystery Of the Marine Hotel Asphyx-
iation Unsolved.

New YORK, March 2S.-Anthony
Marshall, who was found unconscious
yesterday afternoon in the Marine
Hotel, while two women were lying
dead in the same apartment, all hav-
ing been overcome by Illuminating
gas, died to-day in the hospital, where
he had been taken, without recover
ing his lenses. The two women were
identified by relatives at the morgue.
One of them, the younger, proved
to have been Eliza Jarvis, IS years old,
whose home was formerly in South
Glen Falls, N. Y.
The woman who was registered as
Mrs. Marshall was identified as Mrs.
Mary Emeline Mahoney, 80 years old,
the wife of q bartender, from whom
she was separated. Nothing new has
been learned about the mysterious
Anthony Marshall.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08

hell that I suffered my life by comparison is
o like heaven.
- cannot say too much in praise of Pink
Pnis. You may use all the adulatory lam
guage of which you are capable, Mrs. Tap
ley said TO the reporter, and l will endorse
IT.. L have never tired of recommending the
pills to my n~eighbors, and my sister who is q
school teacher, and had a serious time with
her nerves and suffered from loss of
memory, at my suggestion is taking DR..
Williams Pink Pills and is being rapidly
cured.
Read over what you have written" Mrs.
Iapiey requested, and after listening atten-
lively to what she had dictated. said: 1T
can sign that statement with the greatest
pleasure" and when the last remark was
entered the lady signed her name to the re-
p~orter's notes thus:
(Signed) MRs. Rosa TAPLEY,
721 Harrison Street, Ionia, Mich.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain, in a con-
densed form, all the elements necessary to
give new life and richness to the blood and
restore shattered nerves. They are also a
specific for trouble peculiar to females, such
as suppressions, Irregularities and all forms
of weakness. They build up the blood, and
restore the glow of health to pale and sallow
cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure
in all cases arising from mental worry, over
work or excuses of whatever nature. Pink
Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bulky
at 80 cents a box or six boxes for $3.50, and
may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail
by addressing DR.. Williams Medicine Com.
pany. Schenectady. n. Y.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08
THROUGH CORSETS.
Roentgen Rays Penetrated Royal Por-
tuguese Bodies-The Queen Show
ed Her Ladies Their Dis
torted Ribs.

LONDON, March 27.-The latest ex-
plot with Roentgen rays is reported
from Lisbon. 1t was at the instance
of the Queen of Portugal, who takes
q keen interest in science, that the
ladies of her court submitted them
selves to the searching action of these
vibrations.
The ladies have been startled at the
sight of their distorted ribs and bones,
the result of tight lacing, and hence
forth they have determined to be free
women. Corsets are to be cast aside.
@. ]. Townsend, the night operator
at the depot, has brought his wife and
child, Eugenia, to Mexico to reside.
They are boarding at Mrs. Kate
Steele's, in Southwest Mexico. Mr..
Townsend is a clever gentleman and
the LEDGER is glad to see him bring
his family to Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08
NEW A PROPERTY.
Deed Conveying the Confederate Home to
Missouri Filed at Lexington.

LEXINGTON. Mo-, March 25.-The
warranty deed conveying the Con-
federate Home property to the state
of Missouri was filed for record
today with the recorder of deeds for
Lafayette county. The property
conveyed is valued at $3.50, 900 and
consists of 222 acres of land, the
buildings thereon and the personal
property, together with all the
rights, privileges and appurtenances
belonging or in any wise appertain-
ing thereunto to the Confederate
Home of Missouri forever. The
deed bears the corporate seal of the
association and is signed by James
Bannerman, president; Henry A.
Newman, secretary, and the fifteen
directors of the home, as follows
Thomas p. Hoy, Ed w. Strobe, w.
c. Bronaugh, A. L. Seelinger, K. Fl.
Peddicord, T. K. Cash, Sam NJ.
Kennard, Henry Guibor, o. H. P.
Catron, Samuel L. Asbury, F. L.
Pitts, Frank Galennie, E. Med.
Coffey, w. H. KEENAN, and G. T.
Davis.
MIR. James, of Moberly, well known
in Mexico ia daad
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08
respectively, in tea and dessert sizes,

respectively, in tea and dessert sizes,
could be made from the collection.
When the reply was returned to
the white house, it was accompanied
by a request on the part of the firm
that it be allowed to retain the
Dolly Madison spoons, these to be
considered as an equivalent to pay
ment for remodeling the balance of
the plate. This offer was refused.
Then the enterprising firm offered
a price, a fancy figure, which it was
willing to pay for the Dolly Madison
spoons. This offer also was refused.
1t is understood that the shrewd
silversmiths wanted to preserve the
Dolly Madison spoons as relics of
great historical value, esteeming
them as really worth their weight
in gold to any iniquarian collector,
if retained in their original shape.
But Mrs. Cleveland would not
listen to their propositions. She
sent the silver to the mint and had
it melted into ingots. The silver
smiths were then requested to fur
nish affidavits that they would use
the silver ingots and no other silver
in making the new lot of spoons and
forks. This was an unusual demand,
but white house custom is worth
keeping, and it was complied with.
The new silver is simple, but
handsome in design. About the
edges of the forks and spoons runs
a beading, which is the only orna-
mentation of the kind in their
makeup. On the handles, in
repousse work, is the coat of arms
of the United States, and beneath
this is engraved, presidents
House." Both the design and orna-
mentation are of Mrs. Cleveland's
suggestion.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08

MIR. James, of Moberiy, well known
in Mexico, is dead.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08

A few weeks ago there was publish
ed a testim onial of the great virtue of
Paine's celery compound from Rev.
Charles L. Thompson, D. D., Ii. D.,
the eminent Presbyterian preacher of
New York City. Rev. DR.. Meek,
editor Of the Central Methodist, recent
ly wrote an open letter, telling that
Paine's celery compound had worked
q remarkable cur in his case. And
last month the great temperance
evangelist, Francis Murphy, told the
public how Paine's celery compound
had been a blessing in his family.
These are a few among thousands.
Every nj knows conscientious,
charitable persons who are too busy,
more often too proerastinating, to
save their health from going to pieces,
and find it easier to help others than
themselves. Such persons fill up the
army of broken down business men
and sickly women.
Every one in this spring time needs
to purify the blood and regulate the
nerves. Garry home to-day-not by
and by--a bottle of Paine's celery
compound. Cure nervousness, neu-
ralgia, and rheumatism this spring.
You can o put your health on a
sound basis by means of Paine's celery
compound.
Charity should now begin at home.
Attend to your own health and that of
your family.
Paine's celery compound is within
the reach of every family where there
is a member afflicted by any stomach,
liver or kidney trouble. 1t cures per-
manently and rapidly.
1t must be distinguished from all
other remedies.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08

If politics really pays in the long
run?
Why cheap "~sassiety" is SO very
cheap?
just how many bicycles there are in
Mexico?
Where ice will be cheaper in Mexico
this season?
When the streets arounds the pub
lie square will be paved with brick?
Why young people try to keep folks
from knowing when they will marry?
Who writes the resolutions for the
Jackson school district political club?
If the world is really to be destroy
| ed by wind and water instead of fire?
Why you don't practice what you
preach and uphold home institutions?
Why you don't advertise in the Mex-
leo papers if you want to sell your
| goods?
If the fish are not glad that Capt.
Frost can't do business with them this
spring?
Why more interest is not manifest
ed in the rebuilding of the Military
Academy?
What town has more prosperous
business men than Mexico? (They all
advertise.)
If it is not cheaper to subscribe for
a daily paper than it is to borrow, beg
or steal one?
Any reason why Mexico can't have
one of the best interior fairs in the
country this fall?
4 more successful business institu-
ton than the Mexico Building and
Loan Association?
Why men who introduce and sup
port political resolutions do not prac-
tice what they preach?
If people who are talked about are
not often, very often, better than
those who do the talking?
Any aso why Mexico should not
be a good manufacturing town as well
as the best school town in the State
Why SO much deviltry is %concocted
by politicians for the "benefit of the
farmer, "and if the man who works the
man who works the soil don't get the
| stuff2
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08
GOV. STAFF.
Official Announcement of Military Ap-
polntments Made.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, March 81
Gov. Stephens to-day appointed his
private military staff, as follows:
Harrison 1. Drummond, of st. Louis,
Quartermaster- General; E. F. Swim
ney, of Kansas City, Paymaster- Gen.
eraI; ]. A. Banks, of Carthage, Com
missary-G General; o. M. Spencer, OF
st. Joseph, Judge Advocate General;
each with rank of Brigadier- General.
II. H. H~ohenschild, of Rolla, Inspec-
tor-General with rank of Colonel OF
Cavalry; R. Fl. Allen, of Maiden,
Lawrence o. Branch, of st. Louis, o.
D. Gray, of Sturgeon, and Wilbur T.
johnson, of Boonville, Aides-de-C Camp
with rank of Lieutenant Colonel of
Cavalry.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08
Something to Be Thankful Fol

Something to Be Thankful For.
The following resolutions were
passed at the last meeting of the
Jackson Free Silver Club.
Resolved, by the Silver Political
Club of Jackson District of Audrain
county, Mo.
First. That we r~everently thank
the great and good God of causes
and effects for His prolongation of
time,until He, in His mercy, saw fit
to unceremoniously choke off the
equity hero of Buzzard's Bay by cut
ting off his plutocratic reign forever.
Second. That we believe that no
no man ever left the presidential
chair SO utterly despised by so many
people, not even excepting the
usurper, r. B. Hayes.
Third. That the governor of Mis-
souri, appoint a day of fasting and
prayer for our deliverance in the
opportune time from the accursed
reign of Cleveland.
Fourth. That the board of trade
of Mexico invite Cleveland and Nc
Kinley to Mexico to explain dormant
prosperity and restoration of conf
dence.
Fifth. That Drs. Fritts and
Bridgeford be on hand to examine
McKinley's spinal column.
Sixth. That we indorse the Mex.
leo resolutions in tull.
T. A. MCINTYRE, Pres.
FRED ToMPKTNs, Sec.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08

Home and hospital established and controlled
by Baptists, but admits of sick and afflicted of
all denominations or of no denomination. The
medical staff is composed of some of the best
known physicians of the city and who are
recognized authority in their special lines of
work. Any physician of good standipg can
treat his W patients in this sanitariuin and
patients can choose their own physician IL they
so desire. 1t has a nurses training school and
a woman's board of charity. The location of
the sanitarium is good and with it's many other
superior advantages. without a doubt, makes it
one of the most attractive and desirable insti-
buttons of its kind in the West, and there are
hundreds of patients who need treatment and
yet they hesitate to come because they are not
acquainted with sanitarium methods. To all
such we will say that the Mayfeld Sanitarium
is a Christian Hume and you will feel that you
are with friends; viii be tenderiy cared for by
trained nurses and will receive such skilled
medical and surgical treatment as each fndi-
vidual case may require, and we solicit your
at S., 81, $40 and Sl4 per week. Nursing ut $50
to SIS per week. Medical and surgical services
reasonable. Our aims in this new sanitariuin
are just the SAME as when We first entered the
work twelve tl2I years ago As in the past,
ministers OF all denominations and their farni-
lies receive free professional treatment. Also
no charges for professional serv ices rendered
INDECENT persons whose board and nurse bills
are paid by churches, lodges. &c.
For further information address
W. II. MAYFTELD. NJ d.,
Mayfield Sanitarium. st. Louis, Mo-.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08

Rev. MIR. Lusk, of Vandalia, is COM
ing here to take the pastorate of the
NJ. E. Church, and Rev. Mr. Cox, the
present pastor, goes to Laclede, Mo-,
to take charge of the church at that
place. During Rev. Cox's stay with
us he has endeared himself not only to
his own congregation but to the COM
munity at large, and it is with ex-
treme reluctance We part with SO
worthy a man. Rev. Lusk, his sue
cessor, comes most highly recon-
mended and we doubt not, ere long,
win have a warm place In the hearts
Of our people.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08

Later in the year the p%roprietors of
this wonderful remedy received still
another letter from DR.. Bailey, as fol-
lows:
Gentlemen:-I propose to do what I
a to let people know of your Paine's
celery compound, the medicine that
has done me 10 much good. Ishall in
my own way, in speaking of my rapid
and great improvement from the pull
pit, give as is justly due, tribute to
Paine's celery compound. I married,
six years ago, Miss Lille B. Dunna-
want, a lady well known in social life,
the niece of Capt. Robert F. Lewis,
U. s. navy. During the whole six
years she has been an invalid, suffer-
ing from hysteria, laughing, crying
and screaming, so that she could be
heard for squares. I have had a great
deal of trouble and expense. Eighteen
doctors have, first and last, attended
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08
DR.. Palmore Endorsed.

The Methodist District Conference,
which has been in session at Fulton,
adjourned Thursday. The LED
GER understands the Conference en-
dorsed Rev. DR.. Palmore, editor of
the st. Louis Christian Advocate, who
delivered that much-talked-of prayer
before the State Senate in which he
invoked deliverance from the infiu-
once of liquor and trusts.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08
AMONG THE EXCHANGES.
The Centralia Courier saws:

The Centralia Courier says:
Miss Fannie Potts, of Mexico, was
here at the bedside of little Anna Pape
Sunday.
Mrs. 8. E. Wayne has returned to
her home in Mexico after a pleasant
visit to relatives here.
Twelve or fifteen Epworth Leaguers
OF Mexico came up Sunday afternoon
to visit the league at this place. A
very interesting meeting was held,
after which they attended preaching
at the Baptist Church in a body; and
then were entertained by Mrs. c. w.
Adams until train time. They had a
pleasant visit and the Centralia peo-
pie hope they will come again and
often.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08
HoW's This!


We offer One Hundred Dollars re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. ]. Cheney for the last 1E years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, o.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.