Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-10-10
!Nsyico We9zly LEDGE.
I A newspaper of the presents tir1S !
1ntended fer people row on earth!

,iD the Sonth.
-"What Audrain county needs is
Republican paper
Mexico is well represented at the
gt Louis Fair this week.
sam Buckley is a good fellow, but
..he can't keep hotel" this term.
The LEDGER has the largest circu-
,.tion of any paper in the county.
Raise no more spirits than you
can conjure down, say at four swal
lows.
If you want to keep. posted on
II topics of local interest. read the
LEDGER.
4. Rather go to bed supperless than
rise in debt, now that the bankrupt
law has expired.
"A spendthrift lets go the bride,
crabs his steed 10y the name, and
wells. "Whoa, Emma!" -.
.re--N nat cihHo1 uS SuiCu uiiot pS
endured, but first try Jones Magic
Liniment.
Trust not horses heels nor a
dogs tooth, neither man who says
he'll pay you Saturday.
"A short horse is soon curried,
7 hut mule, short or long, will kick
Won into the next township.
# "A wise man reflects before he
speaks; a fool speaks, and then re-
eects while his eye is getting well.
When war begins hell's gates arc
act open, and 1t is the same wher
congress reassembles.
Who hath cold hath sorrow. tc
his sops, especially if his handker'
chici hath starch in it. -.. a..
The little props under Bridge
are getting weaker every day, ane
fewer of them.
There is no business man cal
auccecd in without hard and per
sistant labor.
..s Read Mrs. Beck's "ad'' in til
;ssue. She has the lasesG styles al
shows goods with pleasure.
-S.W. Buckley voted at the prim;
u election, and for Gregg, whom !
is now trying to defeat.
The Grceubackers solicited }.
Clark to run for'circuit clerk, but
very respectfully de'lned.
The Republican press can accn
us OF anything it. plcases, we ha
nothing to say. We have sold ou
The ..Audrain Whites" carrie
Off the $50 prize, for the best bas
ball nine, at the Montgomery fair.
That which Is mine is all n
own; that which is yours l 60 halv
in. | will also take up a collectlo
The wolves eat the poor ass I'll
hath many owners, but no" until
oets the rheumatism in his hind leg
Il, --Deride the Jews as much rs y
& please there is no sect that keeps
sacred days more strictly than th
y do. Their faith may be wrong, |
s they practice what they preach.
II Geo. Marshall is ''cultivati
the weeds at Sam VOLTS cis
store while Sam is "ofi'' Oh his /
q. dial tour.
-IJext Tuesday, October 10
DR.. Hamilton gives an exhibition
Curry's Park, in the afternoon.
. will break 81 balls out of posi-
- one hundred.
Who wants to beat dog, &c
finds stick but already has the q
shot around the next corner yell
ski kip
The second meal makes the g
ton, the second i'll word ma
the quarrel, and the second load
pistols with blank cartridges.
a.. The fiddler of the same u
. never plays we'll at their feasts,
cause he is too full to distinguish
tween the s'Arkansas Traveller"
the "Dead March in Saul"
The fool never thinks higher
p the top of his house, and penneth
festive joke at the expense OF
lightning rod agent.
There is only one thing that
more wearing and annoying and
pressing to a man than having to
for train, and that is, when
train hasn't waited for him.
A Tennessee mob, took n
from Jail at Murfreesboro' the G
night, and hanged him. There
SOME doubt of the negro's guilt
there is none of his death.
We can't keep from col
~ menting the young men OF Mt
= in that not one df- them is idle.
y do not wait for something 70 LUZ
y out boldly embrace the: first q
= tnitv, be it agreeable or dis'g
i z bic.
We had the pleasure last
I of examining the drawings mac
Newton Basket, our county sur
III Of one of the best bridges
q made in Audrain county, SUI
tended by him.
$. w. Buckley is not greer
IN man no more than we are. III
4. Democrat. Take your gruei' y
hackers, like men.
e., Last Monday Ticket ASeh'