Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-08-22
Louis is quarantined.

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The corn crop In Missouri will
be an average crop. risk
We hear Thos. Board talked of
as Coroner of the county.
Go to Edgar and Jack Frost $
for fancy and staple groceries.
L. Phillip leaves for New York
on Saturday for his fall stock of
clothing.
j. NJ. Menefee is happy. 1t is
a bouncing boy, and will join the
gun club in a few days.
Galloway and Whitney shipped
four~earzloads of cattle to Chicago
lest Tuesday morning.
Quite a number of emigrant
wagons pass through Mexico daily
for Kansas. g
g-Stanhope's hay press is now in
action, about four or five car loads of
pressed hay are shipped to st. Louis
each week.
Read our article on real estate
in this issue of the LEDGER and then
tell US, if you can, what the people
of Audrain need fear i'll the way of a
panic.
jacob III. Ginger should have
been Jacob Harlinger, in our last
issue, as IL OF the registration board
during the war.
-"Dying in poverty" says a mod
ern moralist, lis nothing-it is living
in poverty that comes hard on a fell
low" ..-.
The old School Baptist associa-
ton ven at Berear church, in
the north part of this county, on the
3Oth of this month.
DIR. Scharlach has just received a
very valuable present from the Old
Country in the way of a fine gold
stem winding watch.
-Forrist & Fry cleared young
Borgonia last Tuesday, who was ar
rested for the shooting of Nathan
Faucet some time since.
Nearly every Democrat in the
county reads the LEDGER. Those
who do not should come to the front
at once and take advantage of our
campaign rates.
The Mexico Driving Club Twill
meet at the court house on Saturday
to nate arrangements concern
ing the fair at Curry's Park this fall.
All interested should attend.
The ''FuIton boys" have our
thanks for an invitation to the hop at
the Powell House on Friday night,
only business engagements could
keep US from accepting.
H. Rice has opened a salesroom
for the Wooden Mill on the north
side of the square, under the super
vision of Mr.. Tonlinson, who is a
most experienced salesman and 4
thorough business mar.
We this week r. T.
Freeman as a candidate for Sheriff Of
Audrain county. Mr.. freeman is
one of our old staunch farmers and
his claims for the Office should be
considered.
They tell about the weather be-
ing so hot in July that it Matched
eggs in cases on the railroad. That
won't wash. We might have beliey-
ed that the eggs were baked in the
cars, but no railroad egg was ever
sound enough TO hatch.
Robert c. Wright has a hive of
bees which swarmed three new
swarms this season, the second swarm
coming Is days after the first and the
thirl one day after the second. Who
can beat this?
There will be a grand picnic at
the bridge over Young's Greek on
Paris road, on Friday, August 30th.
The candidates will all he present
and a jolly time is anticipated.
The Moberly Monitor supports
G. f. ROthwell, Of that city, for the
Congressional nomination in the
tenth district. He is a brother of
DR.. Rothweif, of Mexico.
We hear a report eli culated that
M. Y. Duncan would vote for Glover
if sent to the legislature. This is a
mistake. Mr.. Duncan, if elected, will
vote for whom instructed. We
heard him say last week that he never
on any occasion, said he was for
Glover.
-s'How greedy you are!' said
one little girl to another, who had
taken the best apple in the dish; /
was going to take that"
lon Thursday, August 18th, Hi
sey Bros. have their grand annual
picnic. This viii be the picnic of
the season, everybody is going.
There is no law to prevent a man
from making a fool of himself, and it