Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-12-05
ne Sc. Louis Dispatch is no

Mes. Smith has just returned
from a visit to Boonville.
j. J.. Steele will be at Martinsburg
on the 18th Sturgeon, the 18th, and
Vandalia the 18th, to receive taxes.
Lost on the street, a gents gold
Alaska dian ond pin. The finder
will be suitably rewarded by report
ing to this office. C.
General Hockaday is spoken very
favorably of, as chairman of the SEN
ate Judiciary committee. We know
of no better mar for the place.
1t is when n woman tries to whistle
that the great glory of her mouth is
seen without being heard very much.
Call at the Wooden Mill Store and
examine their stock of goods. MIR.
Tomlinson is one of the most accom-
modating statesmen in Mexico.
We suppose the defeated candi-
dates gave thanks just the same last
Thursday.
Mexico has the best fire depart
ment of any town of its size in the
state.
T. B. Buckner made a very neat
as well as logical and enthusiastic
speech at the Murphy meeting last
Monday night.
The errors in the Educati )nal col
umn, on the outside, are the fault OF
the ''intelligent compositor," and not
OF Prof. BIanton.
Mr.. Bob Steele is now doing the
agreeable for the mammoth clothing
firm of Blum & Son. Bob is a good
salesman and will command a large
trade. His motto Is, "Strive TO
plea9e."
Mrs. Jones, Of Louisiana, will adj
dress the Murphy meeting next Mon
day night. Prof. Blanton will read.
A full house is anticipated.
Col. Bob Ingersoll has just return
ed home from a lecture tour. For
six weeks nightly, he has given his
audience ''hcll."
We owe Miss Loar an apology for
letting our compositors make us in
sinuate that she could wear out her
voice. We are ready to wear our voice
out in begging her pardon, if she
will only say where and when.
Rutledge & Treloar will move their
stock of boots and shoes TO the rooms
now occupied by A. +. Ryerson, on
the north side of the square, on JAN
uary lst.
Charlie Day, editor of the Union,
and Watts, first clerk Of the Martin
House, INDUCED in a little ''mili' al
The depot n night last week. Nc
blood shed.
Bob Arnold is in Columbia with
his brother, DR.. Arnold, who is very
sick. B. +. Dobyns is actin0 cashier
in the Exchange bank during Mr.,
Arnold's absence.
j. NJ. johnson has the Boston
boot and shoe store in full operation.
He is selling out for cost for the mex
thirty days, so he can get a new and
full line of goods.
MI. Cave!la, agent for the ''Ye:ba
Buena," Bittcrs, made US a pleasan'
business call this morning. He is :
most agreeable man to do business:
with, and is only surpassed in hi
mildness by his bitters. See adver
tisement of same in this issue.
DR.. Arnold, OF Columbia, brothe,
of Mr.. Bob Arnold, OF this city, dice
of dyptheria this morning at II
O'Clock.
Dr.. S. III. Lewis, the celebrated
chiropodist of st. Louis, is at til,
Cromwell House. He cures cOrns
bunIons, etc., without pain. He viii
remain in Mexico until Saturday.
''Where," asks Puck, ''does tht
peoples money go"" Why, don
you know 1t goes for boots, anc
beer, and bread, and billiards, ant
oeef, and beer, and opera, and u~lsters,
and beer, and oysters, and tooth.
picks, and beer, and rent, and drains,
and the drama, and kid gloves, ano
fast horses, and beer, and-and-
well, ask Talmage where much of il
goes. We never visit such places.
Ingersoll can't hold to Blaine and
hell both, SO he gives up the lesser
evil and sticks to Blaine, and repu.
dates hell.
Read Mrs. CAROLS new sad" in
this issue. She has the finest and
most complete line of millinery goods
end fancy notions ever brought tc
Mexico.
Splendid line Chewing aud Smok-
ing Tobaccos at Opera House Gro
Gerry. 33-tf
There are some boys, a few of then
now young men, who go to the Muir
ply meeting simply to m%isbehave anC
make idiots of themselves and dis
grace their friends. We simply sa,
to these, ifon any occasion they be
have as they did last Monday night
they will suffer for 1t.
We have tried the Celebrates