Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-11-14
Prepare for a cold winter.

Prepare for a cold winter.
A free ballot is what we want.
Ben Reilly is plugging teeth in Paris
Mo.
Geo. Marshall is clerking for r. Fl.
Fowler.
Thanksgiving Day, the 2Sth of this
month.
Grant will be back on the first Of
April next.
T. B. Buckner is in Marshall, on
law business.
The New Catholic Church will soon
be completed.
Every Mexican Journal employs q
bull fight critic.
Lo, the poor Indian-summer we
have had this year.
Buckner's whole majority in the
District was 1851.
Nellie Grants husband looks like
the prince of Wales.
Gambetta says he is a political
commercial traveller.
Ireland will at no distant day be
annexed to the United States.
We are glad to e that our street
crossings are being repaired.
Homer st. Johns stock of books
and stationery is sold under the
hammer to-day.
THE colored troops fought nobly''
at election, for the bObtailed faction,
but it was no use.
The Nile this year was more than
half a foot above the highest point
previously recorded.
Students of the University of Cali
fornia are promptly indicted by the
grandJury LOT Iazlng-
Luther Smith and lady were in
Mexico last week. They have re-
turned to their home in Texas.
Miss Matte More, of this city,
who has been visiting relatives in
Knox county, has returned home.
The excursion to Louisiana will
leave Mexico at 2:3O p. m. Friday
and return that night with the Denver.
The Oil City Derrick regrets that
the president has not taken a single
premium at any fair he has attended.
The St. Louis Journal put it So
fashioned: "Helps harnesser hitch
ing up his steeds for election day"
1873.
The name is MeCarten, the place
1913 Washington street Mexico. 29tf.
Butler made six speeches between
2 $50 and and IL p. IN. on Monday.
He makes sick speeches now all the
time.
~ The girl of the. is the girl who
makes a--for the CRATE and puts
the: whenever her beaux, round to
see her.
In Philadelphia, telegraph poles
have been voted a nuisance and must
come down. The wires will have to
be grounded.
VIM. Shumate left Mexico for Ken
lucky last Tuesday, from there be
will go to Texas. He will return to
Mexico in about ten days.
Bow down your head, We naughty
clam; We oyster say your prayer,
the month that has an r has come
you're on the bill Of fare.
Hamilton Hall will, in all proba-
Ebility leave for the Malinda Allen
mine next week to examine into the
richness of the ledge, &C., &c.
Mrs. Sallie j. McIntire, wife of N.
p. McIntire of Adams county, Ills. !,
and daughter of George S. Brown, of
Mexico, Audrain county, Missouri, is
dead.
Johnny Clark and young Mr..
Smith, Of Louisiana, are making ar
engagements to open a parlor oyster
saloon in this city, the first of next
week.
In the Forty-ftth Congress there
were 1877 Republicans and l56 Demo-
Gratis. In tn: F~orty-sixth Congress
there will be l3l Republicans, 14s
Democrats and s Nationals.
1t always does us good to read
J~amison's, Of Louisiana, attempted
~vindications of Fagg. There seems
to he an eternal fitness about these
two men defending each other.
Special Telegram to the Ledger.
Fulton, Mo-, Nov, i4th, 1873.
Shack, the child murderer, is sen
fenced to be hanged in this place De-
cember 27th, 1873. S.
Harry Brown end lady arrived in
Mexico this noon from their bridal
tour. They will remain at John P.
Ciark's for about a week, when they
will leave for their new home in Mil
waukee, Wis.
Our paper is "chuck full of inter-
esting reading matter this week.
Read everything carefully=-especiai-