Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-22
STATE NEWS.

you are all worthy Of q better cause.
STATE NEWS.
Carthage is to have an e~ighty-acre
park.
The Joplin Railroad is about COM
pleted.
Jasper county has paid for 463 rat
scalps thus far.
:, niphtheria is prevalent In some OF
the southeastern counties.
Hog cholera is playing havoc with
the swine in Clinton county.
Cape Girardeau public schools have
113 scholars in attendance.
A large number of farmers in Mis-
sissippi county have in 50O-acre wheat
crops.
There is a Wild woman roaming the
woods near Knob Lick, st. Francois
county.
William Moore, Of Schuyler coun-
ty, recently slaughtered a hog that
weighed $50 pounds.
Upwards of 1000 emigrants have
passed through Columbia during the
last two months going West.
Wheat crops in the Southwest are
looking very fine, and the acreage
sown is larger than usual.
The Kansas City Journal Is about
to change hands again, and this tme
ID. r. Anthony is to take hold of it.
A farma near Hillsboro hos
peach orchard of 100 acres, and wSsich
contains 1000 peach trees.
The saloon-keepers of joplin pro
pose to prosecute druggists who gel
whiskey without taking out . saloSl
license. .r,. K.
The New Methodist Church q
Leesburg, Monroe county, was dedi
Gated, last Sunday, by DR.. McAnnal
ly, of st. Louis.
A party Of hunters visited Bird
island, In Mississippi ooun'y, las
week, and killed eighteen deer ant
thirty wild turkeys.
The Columbia Herald says tn
wheat crop of that section, which
unusually fine, threatens to be de
stroped by the Hessian fly.
Clark county is said to have IL
lodges of the "Ati Horse-Thief Asso
ciation,'' and thieves do not find ]
profitable to operate in that county
The grade Of the Oronogo an
Joplin railroad has been complete
Utmost to Webb City, and ties wer
distributed last week preparatory t
track laying. pa
Henry Clay Dean Is lecturing abot
the PHILOSOPHY of American indie
pendence'' in Nodaway and Buchar
an counties. His lectures are highl
complimented. "a
Lieutenant-G Governor Brockmeye.
according to the New Madrid TT
bune, is slaughtering deer, turkey
quail and wild game in general, b
the wholesale in that county.
The freight business on the raj
roads leading into St. Joseph is sta,
ed to be larger now than any time fo
years. Hundreds Of cars are on side
tracks awaiting movement.
An ill-mannered panther has bee
committing d~epredations In Texs
sounty. Mrs. Oxendine, q wido,
lady, abandoned her home throug
fear of the vicious animal.
Daniel Tickle shot and it is though
MORALLY wounded Francis nj. Clus
ter, six miles northwest of Kirksville
The shooting was the finale Of q diff
Guilty that occurred at q dance som,
time ago,
A reward Of 800 has been Offered
for the arrest of Burgess Miller, ,
Deputy Sheriff of Ozark county, who
is charged with conniving at the es.
cape of Mary Ann Lawrence, indicted
for murder.
Charles McGree, O laboring mar
of Dayiess, met with ON accident last
week that will make him a cripple fol
some time. He stepped upon an up
turned axe, which entered the foot,
cutting it almost in two.
Burglars are making life very I'M
pleasant and improbable exceeding
ly for farmers In the country about
Unionville. The evil-doers break
into the houses, chloroform the Sleep
ing inmates and rob the premises.
A little girl named Lewis, living in
Cape Guardian county, got her LEFT
arm caught in a sugar-mill, and the
arm was so badly crushed that It had
% be smputated. Three fingers on
her right hand were also mashed.