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Birmingham state herald., 1897-06-30
BELLE BOYD'S DAUGHTER.
The Famous Southern spy's Offspring Has. Been Married-Two Gifted Young Composers Now With .sSs. Peters and Green.

Belle Boyd was famous spy in the service of the Confederacy. In private life she is known as Belle Hammond and is now on the stage. She had a daugh- ter, Birdie Hammond, who has made quite a reputation for herself as sou brette. She is now playing in the Grand opera house in Nashville.
 Women of the world though actresses are, cupid gets in his sly work there as in ordinary walks of life. One of the little gods arrows pierced Miss Ham, moni1s heart and she is now Mrs Will fred B. Taylor. The wedding occurred in Nashville last Saturday. Mir. Taylor is with the Peters and Green Vaudeville ,company- at East Lake. He is an accom- 5plished musician and composer of merit. Among the songs he has written or ar ranged are nCould We Only See the Flu tllfe as inc Past and Its Never Too Late to Right the Wrong"
 Afioth6ts Brilliant young composer is Aff Albeft e. Lawrence, the remarkab bly, gifted singer with the same company. He has written several beautiful pieces, the 9mos tiprominen of them being Sunshine and Shadows the song that made such d great hit at East lake last week. Be Sides this he is an excellent ventriloquist and a high class imitator.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-06-30

Music for dancing at East Lake five nights a week by Montano's Band. 4-aS-tf
Birmingham state herald., 1897-06-30
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 Price 59 cents per bottle. Sold by all drug gists.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-06-30
A NEW CAPTAIN.
The Jefferson Volunteers Changed Their Commanding Officer Monday Night
 Preparing for Encampment.

The Jefferson Volunteers are preparing for the approaching encampment at Tus- kaloosa and will be represented by thirty men.
 At an enthusiastic meeting held on Monday night H. B. Kennedy was unani- mously elected captain and will be per sonaIly in command of his company at the Druid City's encanipment.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-06-30
DaedWay's 1e Pills

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Birmingham state herald., 1897-06-30

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 A few doses of Railways Pills will free the system of all the above named disor- Gers. E.fs 4 s. Sss{5 N s4
 Price Scents perbox. Sold by Druggists or sent by mail.
 Send to DIR. RADWAY & CO, Lock Box 365, New York, for Book of Advice.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
The Whiskers of Henry Akers, of Dem
yer, Pulled in q Convention.

DENVER, COLO, March 15.-At the
convention of the middle of-the-road
Populists Saturday resolutions were
offered condemning the present city
administration, charging the mayor
with fncompetency and terming his
recent denomination the "attempt Of
a few self-styled taxpayers to make a
pink tea affair of the rights of Amer
lean citizens" W. @. Frazier support
ed the mayor, and in his speech said
that it was apparent that money was
more potent than Populist principles.
He was Immediately called a liar by
T. M. Marshall and a dozen others.
Marshall and Frazier struck at one
another, but were pulled apart.
Shortly after Mrs. Reed and Miss
Holmes, of the Women's Populist club,
engaged in a discussion with Henry
Akers, a leading member of his party.
Akers became enraged at their insin-
uations and told Mrs. Reed that she
should be at home, and intimated to
Miss Holmes that she was making a
fool of herself. In an instant each
woman seized Akers' long whiskers
and pulled them until he broke away
and escaped. The meeting then ad-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
FitzSimmonS Beats COrbett.
AUSTRALIAN WINS THE
GREAT BATTLE IN THE
FOURTEENTH ROUND.
The Most Furious Fight on Record
Both Men Badly Done Up-Fitz-
simmons is Proclaimed
Champion.
special Dispatch to the Ledger.

Special Dispatch to the Ledger.
CARSON CITY, New, March H.
Robert Fitzsimmons won the great
fstic contest over James j.. Corbett in
the fourteenth round after the hottest
fight in the history of pugilism. The
deciding round was fought about 1:3o
O'Clock, coast time. The battle was
fast and furious from start to finish
and both gladiators were in most ex-
cellent condition. Honors were even
at the tenth round, and both men were
bloody from fast fighting.
In the fourteenth and last round
Fitzsimmons landed on Corbett's neck
and then jabbed him squarely in the
knocking him completely
out. The referee called time after
counting off tina allotted ten seconds
when Corbett started to his feet, but
it was decided that he didn't come to
the scratch on time and the battle
was given to Fitzsimmons. The men
were in the ring over an hour.
The stakes aggregated s25, 900 and
portion of the gate receipts go to
the winner.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
Trustees Sale.

WHEREAS, Serena b. May, by her
certain deed of trust, dated December
q, 1892, and duly recorded in book 10.
page 2l3, in the Recorders office for
Audrain County, Missouri, conveyed
to the undersigned trustee the follow
ing real estate situated IN Audrain
County, Missouri, to-wit: Lots 8, 4
and 8 in block S, Ladd's Addition to
the City of Mexico, Missouri, to secure
the payment of a certain note In said
deed of trust described. Default hay-
ing been made in the payment of said
note, at the request Of the legal holder
OF said note, notice IN hereby given
that ! will, as such trustee, proceed to
sell said real estate at the east front
door of the Court House, In Mexico,
Missouri, on
Friday, the 26th Day of March, 1897,
between the hours Of Q O'Clock a. M.
and 4 O'Clock p. m, to pay said nots
and cost OF executing this trust.
j. T. WILLIAMS,
4o-tus. Trustee,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
Monday, the Twelfth Day Of Apr
Trustees Sole.

WHEREAS, James w. Stuart, an
adult and unmarried, by his certain
deed of trust, dated November 20,
1891. and recorded in the Recorders
office of Audrain County, Missouri, In
deed OF trust book No. 8, for trusts, ct
page 532, conveyed to II. A. Ricketts,,
trustee, the following described real
estate situated in Audrain County,
Missouri, viz:
All of lots three (3) and four (4) In
block six (8) as laid down on the plat
OF Hill q Reusche's Second Addition
to the village of Rush Hill, which said
conveyance was in trust to secure the
payment OF the promissory note in
said deed described; and, whereas,
the said note described in said deed OF
trust remains due and unpaid; now,
therefore, at the request of the legal
holder OF said note and by authority
OF the provisions of the said deed Of
trust aforesaid, 1 will, on
Friday, the Second Day of April,
A. D., 1897,
at the east front door of the Court
House, in Mexico, Audrain County,
Missouri, between the hours of nine
O'Clock In b forenoon and 8 O'Clock
the afternoon of said day, sell the
above described real estate al public
vendue, to the highest bidder, for
cash, to satisfy said debt and the ex-
penses of executing said trust.
III. A. RICKETTS,,
oo-tos. Trustee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
KNOWS HOW IT'S.
Mayor Spends a Night in J,il.,.
Profits Thereby.

BOWLING GREEN, g., March !,
Mayor A. R.. Campbell, who ~.
Tuesday night in Jail Tor drunkennsS
and who fined himself inscourt ~
next morning So and costs, mn ~
terview with a Scripps- McRea Ca.
respondent says the police court ].
efficient, but not strict enough Nin
the saloons. 1t should close then n
at night and on Sundays.
Their being open tends to incrsass
drunkenness. The sanitary condiHou
of the jail, he says, is not good.
Campbell joined the Disciple ChurcA
last night and says he will reform. Re
has been fighting the drink habit for
years. He said his arrest has hada
Statutory effect, and that drunkards
brought before him need not expsct
leniency because of his own arrest. In
view of promises made, the Council
will not impeach Campbell.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
THE LITTLE WIDOW.
From Frisco Town Talk.

From Frisco Town Talk.
She is cunning-sometimes witty,
Free and easy, but not blood;
Like an apple, ripe and mellow,
Not too young and not too old;
Half inviting, half repellant,
Now advancing and now shy;
There is mischief in her laughter,
There is danger in her eye.
She has studied human nature;
She is schooled in every art,
She has taken her diploma
AS the mistress of the hearti
She can tell the very moment
When to sigh and when to smile,
Oh, a maid is sometimes charming,
But a widow, all the while!
All! sold FOSSILS" nearly fifty,
Who are plotting, deep and wise:
Ye "Adonises' of twenty
With the love-light in your eyes!
You may practice all the lessons
Taught by Cupid since the fall,
But l know a little widow
Who can win and fool you all!
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
An Attractive Woma

Ii a woman ia not attractive, there
Is something wrong. Any woman can
be attractive if she will make the
effort. 1t isn't altogether a question
of beauty. It's largely a matter of
health. The bloom and glow of health
60 far toward bringing beauty. A
clear skin, bright eyes, red lips and
the vivacity which bodily good feeling
brings, will make even a homely
woman handsome.
Half of the women one meets are
semi-invalids. Failure to heed the
warnings of outraged nature-failure
to give the help needed by the most
delicate and sensitive ~orgaus-little
troubles ignored until they have be-
come dominant-these things bring
about the sunken, circled eyes, the
hollow cheeks, the pale and sallow
skin, the f1abby, strengthless flesh,
which characterize the appearance of
the woman who suffers from stfemale
weakness"
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
has cured thousands of suffering
women. Tt is a perfected specific for
the troubles peculiar to them. 1t
eradicates the disease, stops the drag
ging, life-sapping drain, and in a per-
feetly rational, natural way, builds up
the wasted strength. 1t will bring
buoyant health. 1t will put roses in
to pale faces-solid flesh in sunken
places. 1t does away with the hu-
initiating examinations and slocal
treatment" 80 much dreaded by mod
estly sensitive women. For thirty
years it has been successfully pre-
scribed by DR.. Pierce, Chief Consulting
to the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute at Buffalo, N. Y.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18

REFERRING to the poor support
some local newspapers receive at the
hands Of the home business men, an
exchange in speaking OF travelling
fakirs, very aptly says:
"He pays no taxes here, buys no
goods of our merchants, has NJ cares
or responsibilities connected with our
city, no n has a claim upon him nor
he upon any n else. Yet some
OF our business men p~atronize such
schemes. A gocdly portion OF such
keep out of the newspapers, which
could do them ten times the good with
the same amount of money, and, when
they want q man or measure roasted
or boosted, they 60 to the man who
got out that advertising scheme-nit.
On the contrary, they expect the
homo newspapers to do 1t for them
free, gratis, for nothing. There is
always . complaint in the air that our
people do not p~atronize the home
At the same time how few of
the home stores ~patronize the home
There Is hardly q firm in the
city but could easily afford 20 pay SIS
10 $500 = year to the daily paper here
and they would receive ten times that
amount In return"
The LEDaER has no fault to find
With tho business men Of Mexico, who
HxLA-~rI
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
Notice of Sale Under Deed Of
Trust.

WHEREAS, W. I. Paul and A. Il.
Paul, his wife, by their deed of trust,
dated the 18th day of September, 1855,
and recorded at book Y in the Re-.
corder's Office of Audrain County.
conveyed to the undersigned trustee
the following lands, to-wit:
Begin at the northeast corner of lat
six (6), block @, Pearson's Addition 70
Mexico, Mo-, thence east along TIE
south line of Promenade street In said
city sixty (60) feet, thence south one
hundred and fourteen feet Ola feetl
thence west sixty feet eco feet, thencs
north to the place of beginning. Abo
another tract Immediately south IL
the above described tract described q
follows: Begin at the northeast cor-
ner of lot three (3) of said P~earson,e
Addition to Mexico, Mo-, thence eat
sixty feet (60), thence south one hun
dred and fourteen feet Ola feet), n0re
or less to north side of Liberty stree
IN said city, thence west sixty (60A
feet, thence north to the beginning
fsT Fhs ian pITeose OF sscTIdng
whereas, said note is past due and uHf
paid; and whereas, power OF sale wm
conveyed upon said trustee in IL
event said note was not paid accord
ing to its terms; now, therefore, =
order to carry ont the provisions n
the said deed of trust and pay of SAD
note, l will, on
Monday, the Twelfth Day Of April
A. D., 1897,
between the hours of 10 a. m. and s 81.
m. expose said lands to sale to the
highest bidder for cash at the east
front door of the Court House In the
city of Mexico, Audrain County, Mis-
souri,. III. A. RICKETTS.
Solids. Trustee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
Land Sales,


The property disposed of by war
raiaty deed during the past week is as
TO lows:
Henry II. Meyer to Mildred L.
Browning, half interest in 6Ox240 feet,
part OF lot 4, block 8, billiards. addition
to Mexico, $3.50.
Henry III. Meyer to Ethel L. Brown
ing, half interest in 6Ox24o feet, part
OF lot A, block 8, billiards. addition to
Mexico, $3.50.
Edward F. Beatty to Alvin A. Sell
lers, 80 acres, part northeast north
east, 3-50-10, $500.
Edward F. Beatty to Columbus H.
Float, northwest northeast, 3-5O-10
and 1 acre adjoining, $1,000 n
Heirs of E. A. Collins to Henry
Rnollenburg, east half northwest, 16-
61-7, $4,000.
Louis Nagel to Edward L. Tuepker,
Ito acres in 25 and 36-52-s, $3.50.
George M. Laird to E. j. Humphrey,
%0ne-fourth of block 8, McPike's addi-
tion to Vandalia, s225.
j. G.. McCune to Bertha M. Bib,
60x120 feet, east side of lot s, block IL,
Vandalia, 81 1000.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
DESTROYED BY / r
The Wake Dry Goods Co.'s Store
Burns With a Loss of Over q
Million Dollars.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 16.-The
magnificent eight-story granite build
ing at Eighth street and Washington
avenue and st. Charles street, occu-
pied by Ely Walker Dry Goods Com
pany, and owned by Liggett & Myers,
waB Quilted by fire last night. The
walls OF the Eighth street and st.
Charles street sides fell, killing John
e.. Gottwald, a fireman, who was on
the top of a sliding ladder on a Skin
ner truck, and injured several firemen
slightly. The building, which was
completed in 1888, was valued at $500,
900, and insured for $4,000 1t is
damaged to the extent of $350,0O0 at
least. The EIy-Walker Dry Goods
Company carried an ss0O,0O stock,
which is almost a total loss. All the
goods on the four upper floors were
destroyed by fire and all the first three
floors thoroughly saturated with filthy
water, scorched by flames and i'm
pregnated with smoke and wetted
cinders. The loss will be fully 500, |
DOC, if not more, as the salvage will
not bring over 500, 900. The insur-
on the dry goods stock approx
mates rs per cent of its value, OR about
$500, coo.
The seven-story building owned by
& Myers and occupied by the
Versteeg-Grant Shoe Company and
the Gauss Shelton Hat Company, just
of Ely Walkers, on Washington
avenue, Ninth and st. Charles streets,
wss damaged to the extent of $4,000
'y water springing the walls and
varying the floors. The shoe COM
'any carried a stock of $500, 900, which
8 damaged about $50, 1000 by water and
muoke, and the hat company's 5000,
'0D stock is damaged s25, 900 by smoke.
Both are fully covered by insurance,
IS is also the building.
The estimated total loss is s1,15O,
100, with insurance of 5000 900 appli-
to the losses.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
Political Economv Club.

Following is the programme for the
meeting of the Political Economy Clut
Saturday night, March Goth:
1. "What is Distribution?" Mr.
Million.
2. ''The Origin of Private Prop
erty," DR.. Spence and MIR. Macfar-
lane.
8. "Wbat is Communism" DIR.
Usher.
4. "What is st. Simonism Zone form
of non-communistic socialism)?" Mr..
Crossley.
5. "What Is Fourierism (another
form of non-communistic socialism?")
Mr.. Whitley and Mr.. Basket.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
Administrators Notice.

Notice is hereby given that letters
OF administration on the estate OF
Mrs. Christian Cant, deceased, were
granted to the undersigned on the nth
day OF March, 1897, by the Proba,e
Court OF Audrain County, Missouri.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to exhibit
them for allowance, TO the admins
traitor within one year after the date
OF said letters, or they may be pre-
cluded from any benefit of said estate,
and II such claims be not exhibited
Within two years from the date OF
said letters they shall be forever
barred. w. 4. CANT,
51-4t. Administrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
What Ais You7

Do you feel dull, languid, low
spirited, fullness or bloating after
eating, tongue coated, bitter Or bad
taste IN mouth, irregular appetite,
frequent headaches, "foating specks''
before eyes, nervous prostratlon and
drowsiness after meals? If you have
any number of these symptoms, you
are suffering from torpid liver and
dyspepsia. The more complicated
your disease the greater the number
of symptoms. No matter what stage
it has reached DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery will subdue it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18

THE LEDGER is glad to know that
John A. Knott, of the Hannibal Jour-
nal, has been elected Clerk of the st.
Louis Court of Appeals for six years
at a salary of $1,000 a year. 1t is one
of the very best paying political offices
in the State of Missouri and John A.
Knott, as an active, aggressive, work
ing Democrat, deserves the honor and
emoluments. The newspaper men
of the State heartily endorse the ap-
p%ointInent.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18

WALTER WILLIAMS, of the Columbia
Herald, is gaining a well deserved
reputation as a lecturer, and the fol-
lowing from the Rocheport (Mo.)
Commercial refers to an address lately
delivered at the Christian Church in
that city:
"Walter Williams, the brainy young
editor of the Columbia Herald, deliv-
cred his lecture on "Things Old FASH
ioned" at the Christian Church Mon
day evening and twas indeed a grand
treat for all present. Owing to the in
c!emency of the weather not as many
were present as would liked to have
been, but since the lecture, Mr.. Will
liams has been the talk OF the town.
The theme of the lecturer combined
pathos with wit and humor in such a
catching name that his audience
was held entranced throughout the
evening, and it was a most decided
and enhancing treat to all lovers of
pure language, brilliant rhetoric and
thoughts expressed which stir mems
souls and make them better for hay
ing listened to the speaker. Some
time In the very Q future, the citi-
zens Of Rooheport hope to accord Mr..
Williams a large audience and have
the pleasure OF hearing him on his
other topic which is said to even ex@
eel the one lectured on by him Mon
day evening.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18

THE st. Louis Globe Democrat COW
ers the lower Mississippi flood with the
following headlines:
Lower Mississippi Raging-Ohio
Valley Floods Spread Death and Dis
aster South of Cairo-Twenty-Five
Negroes Reported Drowned in Brushy
Bayou-Family of Five Lost Near
Marion, Ark.-Break in the Levee
Near Nodena, Ark, and Mississippi
County Devastated-One Thousand
Refugees at Accomplishments Point,
Mo-, Inundated.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
Advertised L0ttdrs.

List of letters remaining in the Pot
Office at Mexico, Mo-, for the weak
ending March 20, 1897, which II not
called for in thirty days VIII be semitic
the Dead Letter Office at Washington.
Persons calling for letters in this LIT
viii please say "advertised:"
Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Clara Caftsr,
Billie Cooper, Carl Davis, Rosa Dew-
son, Mrs. Tina Farras, Mrs. Parthenxl
Graham, Annie Hook, Fannie Rlchs
son, Otto Rosh, Mrs. L. Layer, Ohas.
Allie Yarrah, Mrs. Kittie
Turner, Mrs. W. P. Whitley.
LUKE MORRIS,
Postmaster.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
Terrible Flood.

The Globe Democrat covers later re-
turns from the floods with the follow
ing headlines:
Appalling Loss of Life-Sixty HUI
rna Lives Sacrificed by the Flood in
Arkansas Alone-Four Hundred Help
less Creatures Awaiting Death at
ldarion, Ark.-One Hundred More
Praying for a Boat on Presidents Is
land-Ten Thousand People Flee from
Lowlands Near Memphis--The River
Twenty Five Miles Wide at Cairo
Thirty Miles of Country About Nash
vile, Tenn, Inundated-Ohio, Cum
lberland and Tennessee Rivers Raging.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18

A BROOKLYN girl, 20 years old, tes-
titled IN court the other day that al
though she was born and raised in the
city of churches she had never been
elsewhere than to Coney Island, not
oven across the river to New York.
There is nothing very remarkable in
that statement. A large proportion of
the Gothamites believe that the
United States is bounded on the north
by Harlem, on the east by Brooklyn,
on the south by the battery and on the
west by Jersey City and Hoboken.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18

THE relatives of wife murderer Ar
thur Duestrow, of st. Louis, are being
criticized because his grave is neglect
ed and there r no flowers growing
oyer it. We suppose that vegetation
In all parts of the st. Louis cemeteries
has been somewhat backward during
the last few months. 1t is not reas-
enable to expect Duestrow's relatives
to construct a dollhouse over him
when he has SO much heat to contend
with below.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18

THERE is a prospect that the Missis-
sippi River floods this month will sur-
pass the records of many years. The
whole valley is threatened with anoth-
er of those frightful overfiows which
every few years destroy millions of
property. There ought to be some
effectual method of providing against
the fearful damage by flood along the
lower river.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18

A KANSAS editor went to Mexico on
In editorial excursion recently, leav-
ing his daughter, II years old, to get
out the paper during his absence. The
first issue under the "new woman
regime contained this notice at the
head of the editorial column:
"Pa is in Mexico. / received a let
ter from him this morning. He has
got ma with him and is having a darn
good time, 1 guess. wish he was
home, as it is lonesome to be editor
in-chief all alone. Paand ma went to
church and a bull fight last Sunday,
Go well together, pa and ma, church
and bull fight,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
Hon. W. 8. Hathaway Endorsed,

From the MEXICO Tr1bune,
Hon. w. 8. Hathaway, of this city,
yesterday received from Jefferson
City a petition signed by the Repub-
lican members Of the General Assem-
bly, indorsing his candidacy for Com
missioner of Railroads under the Nc
Kinley administration. This is GER
tainly q high compliment to Mr.. Hath
away's ability, coming as it did wholly
unsolicited. 1t recognizes his ability
as a business man and high standing
as a citizen and Republican, and will
certainly have great weight with the
President,