Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-12

h1o Jul lletlhS III OlIG
of the most beautiful and artistically
arranged bouquets we ever saw.
The Grand Lodge of the Good
ITemplars of the State of Missouri
will hold its next session in Macon,
commencing July 18th.
Thirty hogsheads of tobacco were
shipped from Galloway county last
week and the season has not fully
opened yet.
There will be a grand sale of live
stock in Louisiana on the 2Sth Of
July. Buyers from st. Louis and
Chicago will be present.
Herman S%harlach, son of DR..
Sharlach, of this city, who is clerking
in a drug store in Parson Kansas, lost
a finger lately in attempting to put a
loafer out of the store.
Gleason has bought a new bell and
placed up as Il sign above his store.
Anyone to hearit would think Gleason
kept a restaurant and served up meals
every moment.
Homer st. John informs us that
Robert Tureman has put a 81. 100
piano in his mansion. This instrument
is one of the finest in the State. w.
O. Lee & Co. can furnish you the
same kind of an instrument.
DIR. Lanius, a practical physician.
well known to the people of Mexico
and vicinity, has his office over
Mitchell's drug store, and is in his
office day and night when not profess
sional absent.
W. W. Rodman, NJ. d., formerly
of this city, practicing in Novel
ty, Knox county, is at home resting
up. Willie deserves much credit for
the success that now crowns his eff
forts. Few boys have overcome the
obstacles he has to gain success.
One hundred thousand small shad
were placed in Salt River by the
United States Fish Company just
above the St. Louis Kansas City &
Northern railroad bridge last Sunday.
A shipment will also be made to
Quivre and Luter of a less number.
The above shipments were made at
the solicitation Of our Congressman
Hon. A. ii. Buckner.
Monk Branstrettcr returned from
Jefferson City yesterday. He has
changed so that his most intimate
friends did know him. lie will have
q new trial.
LATER:-Monk is out on $4,000
bail. His father and uncle are his
securities. They are good for the
bail and enough more. The bond is
approved and Monk is FREE.
- WLet-' aoI.s IA eseoh"ITgv, arc
the auses of drunkenness: Well,
we can't answer for all of them, but
we believe whisky causes a great deal
of it; whiskey, sir, resolutely stuck
to. will cause abont as large a drunk
as anything we know of, although a
iudicious mixing up of various drinks
will accelerate matters in a hurry.
"--"rs -nn Tum-J
night some young lady( ?)met a young
man up neal the old graveyard, and
went to cursing him in New Jersey
style. Now this thing happens often,
and is very disagreeable to those liv-
ing in West Mexico. Unless this
thing is stopped, the citizens in that
part of town may tar and feather
somebody some night, and the person
may be of the female persuasion.
"
A Mexico man who was crawling
into the garden at Il late hour one
night told his wife that he was look
ing for a cabbage leaf to keep him
from getting sun-struck.-Fulton
Gazette.
| wonder if that mans wife don't
keep u boarding house in Fulton and is
the one that has ''all the delicacies of
the season" after the market is closed
has three kinds of meat, pluck, liver,
and lights.
"Hit it," ''Didn't." "Did, too"
Didn't, neither Did" Didn't"
Il won't play any more" Don't
want you too" Hateful thing"
Don't you want to borrow IL pa
per? Mother says you don't come
and get it but six days in a week
before we've seen it," Thus the IA
miliar tribes Of the crOquet ground
begin to be heard again as they float
down the street.
The editor of the Mexico LEDGER
is grievously mistaken if he really
suppposes that we l." have a spite" at
the people of his beautiful city.
We often indulge i'll pleasantly and
badinage towards them, but there is
no venom in the thrusts, no poison in
the words. ssDid we ever live there! Z"
Yes. Ten of the happiest years Of
our life We're spent there, beginning
at a time when the ground on which
many of her business palaces and
vine-clad homes now stand was thick
ly studded with forrest growth, and
hazel brush. The years of our ear
Inst manhood were lived in Mexico.