Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-08
III STATE AT LARGE

Inc oPpic SAoP IL uAOhioS SouiisJ
is very large.
Lead is only worth So IS per hun
bred in Joplin.
Butler county is doing eonsidera-
BILE in the fur trade.
Hogs are dying rapidly from chol-
EZRA in Scotland county.
Inv cholera has. killed alarge num-
Der of hogs in Linn county.
One farmer, in Green county rails
ed ten acres of castor beans this yoar.
Caterpillars have made their APP
.pearance in Reynolds county in large
numbers.
Seventy thousand pounds Of fruit
were dried in Henry county this sea-
son.
Seven murder cases were on the
Criminal Court docket of Pettls coun-
ty last week.
Large numbers of e~migrants are
settling Bates, Barton, Cass and
Vernon counties.
A new p~ost-otiice has been estab-
lished in Lawrence county, called the
Strawberry.
The new Catholic church in st.
Geneyieve is nearly completed, and
is a fine structure.
The apple crop of Howard county
this year is enormous, and thousands
of bushels are being shipped.
Willis James, the alleged murderer
of the Spencer family, is the only &C.
cupant of the Clark county Jail.
CIlillicothe claims to have 1900
inhabitants, and to be the best town
on the Hannibal and st. Joseph Rail-
road.
Scotland county is troubled with
hog thieves, one of whom has been
convicted for a term in the Peniten-
tiary,
A pumpkin vine measuring $50
feet in length, and bearing l3 pump
kins, grew in st. Francois county
this year.
Work will begin OH the Springfield
branch of the Memphis and Kansas
City railroad about the middle of the
month.
A little son of Mr.. Joseph G.
Willeke was scalded to death at
Springfield last week by pulling over
pot of hot coffee.
Mr.. George w. Rose, Il lawyer of
De Kalb county. raised a head of cab
bage OH his farm that weighed forty
one pounds.
The trials of the Spencer family
murderers in Clark county were set
for this week. The opinion is That
the right men are in custody.
The potato crop this year is I'M
mense and many farmers in the nor
thern portion Of the State will not
dig their crop because it will not pay.
Damage to the orr crop in Cape
Girardeau county by the July storms
amounted to about 1O per cent.
Much of it is now rottlng i'll the
fields.
Little Gertie Gross, whae return
ing from school, at .5edalia, was run
over and had her collar bone broken
by some rough school boys.
Two widows, aged respectively so
and 20, we're robbed in SedaIia of
500, all they possessed in the world
to carry them through the winter.
The Joplin White Lead Works
have a csfacity for making 5000
pounds of lead every ten hours. 1t
is worth seyer cents per pound.
Louisiana has so far this fall pack
edaand shipped 2S,200 barrels of APP
pies, which yielded the producers, at
the price paid, 81 80 per barrel,
So, 800.
A son of Jesse Groomer, Of Davi-
ess county, vas unfortunate in cut
ting off four of his toes. The wound
mortified and amputation of the foot
became necessary.
Nineteen covered wagons, contain
ing emigrants from Green county,
East Tennessee, passed through
Springfield last Wednesday on their
way to Kansas.
One hundred and seventy five feet
of the 800 feet front that was burned
ont by the late fire at Joplin is al
ready under contract, and will be
built up of brick.
Fifteen thousand pounds oftobacco
was destroyed by fire near Brunswick
last week, the property of Mr.. Will
liam Allega, who estimates his loss at
81, 600.
The fRolla Mills Company, of
Phelps county, has bought this sea-
son over 1000 bushels of wheat, and
has made, since the 2ist of last July,
l3, 900 barrels of -four.
Last week Ethan Watson was ar
rested in Lawrence county, for vio-
lating the law regulating the practice
of medicine and surgery, and bound
over for his appearance ct Circuit
Court.
Mr.. G. G. Sartain, an old farmer
of Howard county, vas relieved of
S210 by masked highwaymen. He
had been collecting money in Glas-
gov during the day, and vas doubt
less followed.
CRANKY, a mining town in the
Southwest, is about to be depopulat-
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