Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-06-05
4 Newspaper Of the Present Time,
Intended for the peopls now O Earth.


Intended for the psopls now q Earth.
Pay your dog tax, or shoot him.
The town clock is at last ''fxed
Judge Porter Is looking remarkably
well.
Weather cool, with rain in modera-
ton.
Porters chicken cholera cure never
fails.
Call for Porter's chicken cholera
cure.
Robert Hooton is acting deputy
sheriff.
Does Fulton claim to hive a street
sprinkler?
Miss Belle Morris is in St. Louis
on n visit.
Buildings are going up In all parts
of the city.
Sherman seems to have the "boom''
over Grant.
The next Editorial Convention will
/ be held at Sedalia.
]. B. Smell, OF Fulton, made us a
social call yesterday.
Some farmers are complaining that
their corn is wormy.
Henry Woodward is clerking for
4 G. D.. Ferris & Son.
Day trains will be put on the c. 6
A. railroad next week.
Miss Lizzie Thompson is visiting
friends In Kansas City.
Eugene Schuyler, of New York, is
counsel-general at Rome.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage sail
ed for Europe on the 2Sth ult.
The ants and seed-ticks are up and
dressed for the coming p~ic-nlcs.
The military interference bill failed
to pass over the Presidents veto.
DR.. Allison has moved his office
up stairs over w. w. Harper's store.
This is commencement week at
Westminster College at Fulton, Mo.
Goyernor-elect Head, Of New
Hampshire, will be ~inaugurated to-
day.
William Lloyd Garrison died last
week. He ought to have died years
ago.
Annual examination of Hardin
College begins to-day, and will last a
week.
The saddest event of the year.
the adjournment of the late legisla-
ture.
The forest fires are again raging
in Michigan and doing great damage
to timber.
Senator Thurman is acting Vice
President, while Mr.. Wheeler is roll
Ing around.
There have been SO vetoes by
Pre- siden:s since the foundation OF
the government.
The scenery used last Thursday
night by the Uproarin' Club was
painted by Dutton.
Col. John E. Hutton did not go to
Put-In-Bay with the excursionists.
He twas not we'll"
The St. Louis Savings bank which
failed last week, will only pay fifteen
cents on the dollar.
l.. Phillip, the Star clothing man
is building an addition to his MAN.
moth clothing store.
We infer from some of our ex-
changes that calico balls are getting
ripe in many localities.
The weather is very cool in the
northern part of the U. S. 1t sleet-
ed in Canada last Sunday.
John Menefee's new building is
nearly finished. 1t is one of the
finest structures in the city.
Cucumbers are now being used as
an antidote to Patterson's ague pills.
Don't be afraid to buy them.
If the barbed wire fence comes into
general use in ILL.,, where will David
Davis seat himself hereafter.
Miss Lizzie Marmaduke, who has
been visiting in St. Louis for several
weeks past, has returned home.
Senator Vest is the prime mover
Of measures intended to open up the
Indian Territory to settlement by
whites.
Strawberries ,cabbages. green beans,
cucumbers and new potatoes have
been on our market for more than 0
week past.
Tie small boy now counts ovel
the weary days, and rejoices inward.
ly to know that the Fourth of July il
on the way.
Henry NJ. Hutton Of Chilllcothe,
has bought a half interest in Thos'
McConnell's drug store at Frankford.
Pike county, Mo.
An elegant gold chain and locke,
were presented Col. Hutton, of the
Mexico Intelligencer, by the Missouri
Press Association.
The rails County Guide" is the
na'ue of a new paper started at New
London, Mo. We welcome it t.
our EXCHANGE list.