Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-10-17
uszieo Weekly Ledger.
i newspaper of the present time
,atended for people now on earth!
who made the antelope?

=" Whoa, Emma! l am IN such
dilemma. Buckley.
County election November 5th.
Tie Greenback movement Is a
boomerang.
An honest man is the most lone
ome work of our Creator.
Subscribe for the LEDGER till Jan.
Ia '79, only 35 cents.
-Wanted.-Bran new stove pipe
hikes for next week.
The best time on record, is lunch
3 sac.
Buckley don't claim 10 be
Greenbacker.
i in California alcohol is made of
] bets; in Mexico beats are made of
tie same thing.
D -"Indians never kiss each other +"
Z Having seen few Indians we don't
bl me them.
y We know SONS self-made men
that did very poor jobs when they
A made themselves.
H when you see a man trying to
tDd something to do to kill time.
4 kill him at once-he is no good.
" The grand drawing for the old
Catholic Church, of this city, will
sone off about the 4th Of November.
Neither Buckley nor Bridges
] claim to be Greenbackers, and still
ley want to keep hotel' for that
ry.
The drummers are swarming out
1 Of St. Louis since the fair, and our
merchants have their hands full.
billiard Guthrie is learning tele-
graphing at the depot under QUE at
eommodating agent, d. Henderson.
The handsomest compliment you
can pay TO woman of sense is to ad-
dress her as such.
-Bald-headed people count them
selves among the immortal few that
we're not born to die.
The Monroe Appeal wants Buck
aer to be our next. United States
1Senator.
4 The "Union" was Republican
on the outside and ''raggv" on the
Ii side this week. That's good.
| -"Friends, Romans and country
men, lend me your ears,' so We can
let the Fulton Enterprise man have
them while he has his washed.
| Col. Hayden, formerly Oh Mex
leo, now of Texarkana, is in Mexico
visiting his daughter, Mrs. Joe Stan.
hope. The colonel is the nominee oil
the Democratic party in his county
Z 1fOr the legislature.
We heard a prominent Green.
backer say yesterday that there was
only about 400 organized Greenback
ers in the county.
Mart. Roberts has moved hi:
billiard parlors to the room undel
the Cromwell House. He has alst
introduced shooting gallery in th'
aeme room.
Did you ever notice the expires
sion on his face when his wife says, ny
adear l want you to stav st home to
1morrow and put up the stoves.
Buckley and Bridges are two O
ithe best men in the county in theil
places, but they make very poor out'
Jas Greenbrack men.
When you are buying your win
Aer clothing don't fail to give III. Ric,
call, at the Mexico wooden mil
store.
Billie ManvilIe has the bos
picked pigs feet at the Depot Res
aurant. Boys, give him a call. HI
open all hours of the night.
Regular trains now run on tn
Extension Of the G. G A. r. r. t,
md from Glasgow.
l-Lay in your coal and cougl
yrup while the weather is good.
We are reliably informed tha
PERSONS hauling water from the creel
70 wells In the city are not careful
ron what holes they get it. Car
shouid be exercised in this particula
T in this way much sickness vii
brought on our community.
The General Association of tn
Sapists of Missouri will meet a
aexico, Mo-, on Wednesday, tn
FSd Of this month. Let them b
Hospitality entertained while in ou
midst.
What has become Of that MAJ
mo was going to sue us for $40, 900
We have the money just now an
Fould like to compromise. La th
ature we may not be fixed.
Ian fayors and courtisies shoul
ethankfully received. A perso
hat can't appreciate favor shoul
made to dig his own grave.
Probably there is nothing in thi
forld that man resents so quickl
nd so deeply as to find you awful
asy when he is perfectly at leisure
The Greenbackers want to max
pure party" out Of the ''two oil
orrupt parties" They begin wit
fOmeroy, Hill, Fagg, Kearney van
few other unprincipled polite:
aeksters and try to deceive the pee
by telling them that they have
u.r-e party. So has the devil.
while We are averse to participa
V in all public ceremonies, we hay
ecIded To 90 To orr funeral in