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Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

John A. Flood has our thanks for
late Wyoming papers. We would
state for the benefit of Mr.. Floods
many friends that his health Is i'm
priyiuo' fast.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

A way freight on the North Mis-
souri, railroad passed through Mexico
going West last evening at 4 o'clock.
1t did not run out Of st. Louis, but
started from Furguson.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Banker Carson and Daughter are
very much disappointed. They had
made every arrangement for a trip
East, and now can't go an account of
the strike.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

The Vandalia Leader comes out
all o. X. this week. The Leader Is
now established on a firm basis and
will be q permanent honor to Wanda
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Prof. Bradley, formerly superin-
..,dsu, Of the Mexico public schools,
\ making arrangements to open q
h., .ebool in Concord this winter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

The st. [. K. C.. & n. M. r. r.
have settled evrything and the boys
re hsupy. Passenger trains run on
4me on that road.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Cashier Weir's bondsmen are Capt.
j. C. Jamison, David Ball, DIR. Ayers,
DIR. Stewart, T.. l.. Anderson Of
Louisiana. His bond il $4,000. He
rs now in St. Louis seeking q po-
sition. @
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Red Galloway made us a social call
Last Tuesday. He says the Vandalia
boys will be up in a week or so to
play the return game of ball.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

We learn from q private letter that
T. T.. Morris has just worked 40 days
in Potato Gulch and found 20 cents
worth of dust.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

The tramps have come to the con-
clusion that as God put them In this
world he owes them q living; for
this ~ they refuse to work, but
are determined to I" knock down. a
living {?)
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Everybody goes to DR.. Allison's
spring every evening. The spring
seems to be a popular resort for
lovers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

CsELEss.-The reasoa the mail
trains on the Q. r. y. have
been stopped i because Of about
6,oo0 minefs that i've at RAidwood,
about 80 miles this side Of Chicago.
These miners stop all trains, and for
this reason all the rolling stock on the
road is housed, but we~=fkil see
why travel is stopped on the branches.
1t was useless to stop the accommo-
dations from Louisiana to jefferson
City. This discommodes the public
and does no good. There is no ex-
element in Mexico about the strike,
and the trains on the branch should
be run ut once.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

County court meets first Monday
in Aug. Probate court second
Monday. Circuit court adjourned
term fourth Monday,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

"That' Santa Fe boy ''did not run
last Monday night?" No! he just
run. Santa Fe boys can't be beat on
q run.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Mr.. e. Silver made US a pleasant
call last Monday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Miss Carrie Duncan has not entirely
recovered from the effects Of the fall
from her buggy not long since, but
she is ~cOvalescent. a
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

There are 1,4O0 prisoners in the
penitentiary at Jefferson City, but
boys, there is room for more.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Last Saturday an excursion train
eft this city at Z oseloek a. m. for
the Grand Barbecue at Cedar City,
sl.soIfor che round trlps About fifty
persons boarded the train at Mexico ;
between Mexico and Cedar about
three hundred and more exc~ursionists
were picked up, and before we
reached Cedar City the six coaches
were crowded full. At Cedar we
found q large arbor erected, under
which twenty sets at the same time
could g. tip the light fantastic toe.'
After an hours enjoyment in this line
the word went that the "Grand Din
ner'' was ready. This much sought
for dinner was found 10 consist of
ssliye > meat aud ssdead'' bread with
water, which was so thick you could
cut it with a knife why a p~eniten-
tiary dinner would have been more
acceptable to the public. After dim
ner the Mexico crowd left for Jeffer-
son City to visit the "pen." After
o pleasant strol through that city OF
the Hills the excarsionists left for
Mexico, which 1t reached at ten
O'Clock that night. Among those
from Mexico we noticed DIR. Shar-
ach, wife and daughter, j. Wright,
wife. and daughter, Mr.. Kabrich
and wife, Mr.. Jones and wife, Mrs.
Bishop and son, Mr.. Stansbury, Ed
Rines, Bob, Ben Tureman and the
Mexico ''bhoys."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

rs. rain up, last night had to steal
I 81. Louis and it did just barely
ne notice of the mob.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

!. p. Dyer, killed, last week while
fishing, two snakes, each four feet
and one half long at one ''strike."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

-. Jefferson City mail now has to
!, &. Louis, and the Fulton mail
\, Columbia.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Men will take q ''run" sometimes
In spite of the strike, all the same.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Mexico is quiet, no excitement con-
corning the strike. The railroad boys
laying of in Mexico a r oil sober,
quiet, fellows. They have all joined
the Pony Club, If they can't unftheif
trans they are bound to u some
th;u0. EAh~st Z
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Miss Annie Hafford left for Colora-
do Saturday to see her dying brother.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

The engines on the C. & A. r.
r. are all still draped in Grape in re-
membrance OF the death of Riley
Ewing, deceased engineer of engine
81.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

~. nexsboys on the st. Louis
n:,,tch have struck, and are caus-
good deal of trouble.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

rsv.oue tickets were sold for the
.,.u,.ion to Cedar at Mexico last Sat
,,d,v. and l0S at Fulton.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

L. Phillip is in New York buying
new goods. S
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Hay harvest is nearly over, and
better hay was never ''put up'' in
this State at any time.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

SIC, 1000, 900 worth Of property was
burned in Pittsbarg, PEN. last Sunday
by the strikers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

MIR. Barton carries the small
durihg this trouble, and Capt. Shea
does the striking e
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

George Tyrel has charge Of engine
81, formerly run by Riley Ewing.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

A hand a left this city at four
o'clock this evening carrying the mail
matter and one hundred and fifty-six
st. Louis papers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26
THAT BARBECUE

FOUR HUNDRED PERSONS ON THE Elk
cURsfoN-MExIco REPREsENTED-BIG
pNNER (?)-ExoURsIoN 10 IEFFER-
som CRY FROM CEDAR erTY-vTsrr TO
THE PENTTENTIRY.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Read the City Ordinance pertain
ing to the City Engineer found in this
isana
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

81, LOUIS FAR:-rhe Industrial
Expositisn opsus Monday, the 10th
dsyiof 6eptember,s 1897. The Live
Stock Floral. Frait, &C., Depavtnaents
commencs Monday the lst day Of
October, 1877. The exposition and
lair closes Saturday, the 9th day OF
October, 1871
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

49,. Scott and Mr.. Bryan, Coun-
rark Of Galloway County, made
' a...aut call last Monday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Hon. A. n. Dackner win speak at
Florida, Monroe county August 1lth,
81 . pie-nic.i
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Mcdowell q ssstriking'' for more
watches.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26
ORIGIN OF THE FOURTH OF

- -
$50 A
What do we have the Fourth Of
July foff asked a sFalton boy 81
his ma.
Fourth of July? Why, Freddy,
I'm ashamed of you. We have the
Fourth OF Jaly to celebrate the-hus-
band, 1 declare, I can't think fol
the moment what it is"
why don't you know why We Gel
citrate the Fourth of Julya Who was
it that discovered Americaf" . '
christopher Columbus ex-
claimed the mother and boy simnlta-
neously.
Right; ard when did he discover
it," s5sE y8
"Why, ON the Fourth of July, Of
course" replied the mother; " but
I've got the worst memory about
these historical facts"
That's it," said the wise father,
encouragingly. (" Columbus discov-
cred America on the Fourth of July,
and the nation celebrates the day in
honor of the event. Freddy, l want
you to study up; i should feel awful
ly mortified had you asked me such a
question before company"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26
BASE BALL.
CRATER H.

IFs
EprroR LEDGER With the advent
of your last issue the eyes Of Mr.. Cal
laway and myself were opened to
the fact that you dexterously managed
to place us on opposite sides Of a con-
troversy that belonged 10 yon and me
alone, and with this comes q desire to
straighten the matter up.
When in your comments upon the
Leaders article you said: a.We have
received a note from MIR. Callaway
stating that the club does not indorse
the (Leaders) article" / supposed
that "we'' used was the editorial per-
sonal pronoun, and that MIR. Gala
way had written to youf for republication,
which I find from your last article was
not the case-that he merely wrote to
one of the boys i'm q private note, and
meant them to understand that the
club was not responsible for the article
that while most Of them thought it
true they did not like to have evident
good feeling between the clubs, dis
turbed by an unnecessary publication
of such truth, and above all he never
meant his note for publication, and
did not mean to convey the idea that
as such it was authorized by the club.
On my part + wish to say that had
I have known that they were the
facts, my last letter to you would never
have been written. When / wrote
that i understood that Capt. Galloway
had taken1it upon himself, without the
authority OF the club, to write you fol
publication o disclaimer of an article
that ON its face appeared not from the
club or any member Of it, but from
the editor OF the Leader, and (which no
purporting to appear with the indorse'
ment or even the knowledge Of th.
club or any member Of It as such, die
not call for my expressioa from then
or any of them-all Of which 1 nov
find was not the ease, and that Il i
all your mistake and our time to-
smile.
Il g. - EEt4
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

MAEsrED.-Inyt ais city On the
evening Of the 2lst inst, by Rev. II.
b. Seeley, MI. George K. Mcdonald
and Miss Maggie A. Garland.
Perhaps there 10 . little romance
connected with the above. MI.
Mcdonald il o young man Of good
address. He came to Mexico about
three months ago and some Of our
fair laaids seemed very muci. taken
with him. We are unable to express
their surprise when his fair betrothed
arrived and their happiness consumat-
ed. Of course 10 they knew all about
it all the time. o, yes.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Gty Council have %, 1913. II to
y. A. current expenses of the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26
LIST or TETTRRS

Remaining In the Postofice, Mexico,
July %, 1877, and which, ii not called
for within four weeks, will be sent
to the dead letter Office. Persons CALI
ing for letters in this list, will please
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26
F~raternally, &C.,

EDITOR LEADER.
The above sounds very Welt We
guessisAis ai right only ~eddo not
see the points all we know 10 that the
Mexico boys heat Fnndalia, and that
ON the square. s,,5,, = lEp,]
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26
THE HEART.

Two chambers hath the heart,
And there
Dwell Joy and Care.
\, Joy In thine
inns Care in his
Win peacefully rscline
Joy, beware!
speak gently
Asst tnou waken Care.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

boilers for Pollock & Co.'S
; ~. arrived and we're put up this
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

He all
apgaieahts free OF charge. It-4t.
The old Pony Club struck and was
discharged, and now a new one has
been organized. This club do,ft
run theik game, Il Stands them.
pon'tit Billet
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Ii you near i tessle IN mere
evening don't interfere. I've got a
handful of snuff all ready for the old
man's eyes, and it'll nearly kin me to
see him feeling around fora club with
one hand and digging his eyes with
the other. Well, tra-la."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

In sHnsofS3e0. 1900, $1,000, 81. 900
and $4,000 secured by good city ami
arm property on three, five, and ten
Years time. D
Apply to JNo. II. CLARK & SoN,
General land and loan agent,
Office over Savings Banks MEXICO
Mo. H.N .Er.45t-s fHot45lf aE
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

.,uble is anticipated at Mober-
~v..ryt,dng is quite now.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

Aggregate wealth Of city $62!
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-26

q free at Westminster Col
pulton, No.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-07-28
LETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, July 24th, 1877.
DEAR WHIG:-When | first saw car
moving noiselessly up Market street with
no {" CRITTERS " to it, l thought it must be
moved onward by the Kelley Motor, but
when l boarded it l found l was in one of
the dummy engine sort. 1t was very hot
morning, and | soon found that the inside
of car, run by an engine, is not the cool
est place in creation, while the sickening
smell of the gas is any thing but agreeable.
When we reached Belmont Avenue we
felt like one "who treads alone some Cir
Gus show deserted-the lions gone, the
tigers dead, and all save he departed;"
yes, alone we stepped from the car and
finally found the entrance gate. What a
vivid contrast the scene presented to that
short year ago.
In the Main Building we found the cream
of the great exhibition gathered within its
capacious walls. In the center of the build
ing the glass blowers have reared their
fierce roaring furnace, and some twenty
five men and boys are busly engaged in
making gobletS and ink stands. The ne
groes still show US how cigars are made,
while they delight our ears with genuine
plantation melodies. There is still much
of interest and profit to be seen in the Edu-
cational Department. The New England
Cabin occupies conspicuous position in
the northwest part of the building; minia-
ture lawn is laid out in front of it At the
farther end of this lawn sits an Indian
woman industriously engaged in bead work.
Whether she is genuine "Modoc," or only
painted daughter of Erin, know not; but
do know that her warrior, who sits by her
side and leans so pensively upon his bow,
is made of wax and warranted not to melt.
There are number of fine paintings
which have been left in the Main Building
for sale. They are all the works of Ameri-
can artists; prominent among them is Mrs.
Spencer's Truth dwelling Falsehood,"
work which deserves more than pass
ing notice. Mrs. Spencer, who is Boston
lady, first called her picture :" True Love
dwelling Lust" and this is the true idea
embodied in the grouping of the life. size
figures. True Love is the central form.
On her right hand sits young mother,
clasping to her bosom young babe-inno-
cence, purity, confidence and trust, all are
faithfully depicted in the attitude and coun-
tenances of the mother and child reposing
under the protection of True Love. On the
left hand Of Truth, or True Love, which
ever we choose to call it, are three figures
instead of two. Falsehood, or tho Seducera
is represented by creation of the art
fancy having two faces. Ono Of these
which is being drawn slowly av
mask by the hand of True Low
the countenance of handso'
pensive, seductive eyes.
CONTINUED ON
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-07-28
ELEVATOR BURNED,

About ) o'clock the fire from the Union
Depot communicated to the immense grain
elevator at the corner of Grant and Wash.
ington streets. This was built of huge
timbers and covered with slate. 1t con-
tanned large quantity of grain. The
destruction of these buildings seemed to
satisfy the rioters, as they began to disperse
while they were burning.
additional particulars on tie inside.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-07-28
BUBBLES.

A Yankee has patented an electric
lock. Would not a thunderbolt answer
the same purpose?
The young man who boosted he could
marry any girl he pleased found that he
couldn't please any.
-Godd partners at cards-a chimney
sweep, and bugler. One can follow soot
and the other trumpet.
-Baloonists find passage over New
Jersey very dangerous. They are fire.
quently shot at for mosquitoes.
Sing Sing prison is to be surrounded
by wall twenty feet high. 1t will be hard
work to get into that prison now.
1t is tlattery to salute very young
gentleman as cold man," and gentleman
of uncertain years as sold boy"
One of the fashions in gentlemen coats
at the watering places is for the sleeves to
fit tightly-round the girls waist.
The latest invention is paper trunks
And now we suppose we may call the
ruthless baggagemen the papier macher
Woman was never made to whistle,
and when she tries, it makes her whole
countence look as if it had declared war.
"A little Bridgeport boy, who lost three
fingers in drop-press, only remarked:
"Fll bet mother will cry when she sees
that
-" What's fellow to do, Doctor when
he's in company and has nothing to say p"
" He should say it quietly" replied the
Doctor.
-" How to Tell Mad Dog" is the title
of an article that is going the rounds. We
haven't anything to tell mad dog that we
couldn't send to him on postal card.
There is limit to everything but the
destruction that folowes the course of a
mans big toe when he gets it through a
hole in the bed quilt, and is suddenly at
tackled with the nightmare.
An Atlantic girl set on her lovers hat
and kept him three hours over time. The
next time that young man goes to see his
girl he should hang his hat on nail
insted Of holding it it in his lap.
The season has arrived when man
makes a goat of himself and eats cucum-
bers and the like, and then wears an ex-
preston of countenance that would do
credit to an ancient pirate.
An American man, after dining at a
London restaurant, paid his bill and was
about leaving when the waiter suggested
that the amount did not include the waiter.
"Ah ~ said the man, "but | didn't eat
the waiter"
Dion Boucicault says il is dangerous
to make love to a woman through an ink
bottle. Which, in Americanese means: 1t
does not matter what you say exactly; it is
what you put in black and white that plays
the mischief.
Many an humble man lives dreamy
and proftless life in the sunny South, and
then reaches a praiseworthy condition Of
usefulness after death by being buried
where he will keep nocturnal darkies away
from a melon patch.
In attempt to carve a fowl one day, a
gentleman found considerable difficulty in
separating its joints, and exclaimed against
the man who had sold him an old hen for q
yound chicken. "My DEAR" said the en-
ragged mans wife, 9" don't talk SO mucl
about the aged and respectable Mr.. b.; he
planted the first hill of corn that wa.
planted in our town" 81 know that, >
said the husband, "and believe this her
scratched il un y
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-07-28
GLEANINGS.

New York restaurateurs are now serv'
ing "peach short cake
Maryland has school population OF
3O3, 700, with 731 teachers
Tartar women have pretty eyes, at
least the cream of Tartar women have.
Bound to be ahead-California Their.
mometer 115 degrees in the shade recently.
Goldsmith says the Harvard boys
brains measure sixteen inches around the
upper arm.
A murderer escaped from the Jail at
Somerset, KY, the other day, by clipping
with the Sheriff's daughter.
-" Please don't shoot the cows" is a
sign on farmers fence near Chicago, in
tended for city sportsmen who 60 out for
prairie chickens.
Under the head of Marriages " in an
exchange we find one commencing "Paris-
Green" The happy couple should never
be troubled with potato bugs.
When a Pike county, Pennsylvania,
man is bitten by rattlesnake the condition
of the snake five minutes afterwards is
said to be the best temperance lecture ever
delivered
A Liverpool banker has just left 3d.
O00 900 to his nephew, besides making him
residuary legatee of an estate valued at
over $l2,000,0O0. This is the kind of an
uncle worth having.
"A Hartford gallant, taking lady to
ride, told her, I" l will take you either to
Cedar Hill cemetery or the Charter Oak
trotting park" She replied; Your offer
is both grave and racy.''
"A Wayne county (Mich.) lawyer has
just been fined for throwing a copy of the
Compiled Laws at a brother member of
the bar. He excused himself on the
ground that he was justified in taking any
means to get law into the head of his legal
brethren.
just because Western hucksters stick
their thumbs into the measures on selling
berries and then withdraw and retain those
portions of their anatomy, the Chicago
Journal asks in towering rage. "Shall
we, as American citizens, pay for thumbs
by the pint and quart and not get them ~
When the bridge fell at Bath, England,
the other day, Somersetshire yokel, who
was one of the first picked out of the water,
edited everybody by shrieking, in accents
of anguish, as he pointed to woman who
was still in the stream. There, my wife?
There's my wife . I'll give sixpence to the
man that saves her."
Some men have very peculiar tastes
In one of the daily papers recently we
found the following advertisement: "Want-
cd, boy to sand paper" Now, why did
that man yearn for a chance to sand-paper
boy? If he must Sand-paper something,
why couldn't he be satisfied to rub post,
or his aunt, or even the top of his own
head? There is something morbid in this
Unsuitable longing for boy to polish off,
and it seems to US some check ought to be
put on the man. Suppose he could not get
enough boys to satisfy him, and should 60
around at nights breaking into orphan
asylums and seminaries, sand -paperipg
innocent children while they are asleep, so
that they will wake up in the morning
with half their cutlcle rubbed off? 1t is
too horrible to be considered calmly.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-07-28
MEETINGS Of County Commissioners,

TIME regular meetings of the County Commissioners
i will be held the second TUESDAY Of every
month.
Persons having claims against the County, will please
file the the Commissioners Office, with legal
voucher: as account will be allowed not properly
chargcablc To the same.
Collectors aud others having accounts to be stated
settled will apply the Clerk during the of the
Board. BY Order
I. F. EANARSDALE. Clerk
Commissioners of Cecil County
De IA 1877
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-07-28
SIMM'S PAIN SEARCHER

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The application of the Pain Serchcr 10 the parts aiec
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Travellers will find the Pain Searchcr splendid med
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Ply siCians, ClrrgymSn. Lawyers Editors and hundreds
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cines Remember il is used nwardy and outwar,ily.
Do not he put oil with other articles. Make your drug
gst dealer give You the Pain Searchcr. 50 bot
tie, or six for $50
Principal Depot, 4th and King streets, Wilmington
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-07-28

senseless condition, and were borne back
into the armory.
RAILROAD BUILDINGS BURNED.
AT 10 O'Clock the dispatcher's house at
the lower end of the depot at Camden Sta
ton was fired and totally destroyed. The
depot was badly burned as far as Barre
street. The lamp and oil-house, corner of
Barre and Howard streets, was destroyed.
AT about 1870 O'Clock, an old building,
formerly used as a stable, at the corner of
Montgomery and Howard streets, was fired
and totally destroyed. At about II o'clock
some cars at the Riverside Round house
were burned