Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-14

j. b. EotkIn is having the roof OF
his stable newly shingled. He is
preparing for winter.
j. P. Clark & Son have now one
of the neatest offices in town. They
have been papering and otherwise
fixing up.
G. A. Keeton went to St. Louis
Monday to buy new material for his
paper, the Audrain County Press.
1t will appear Wednesday, Aug. 20.
Geo. I. McCarten, one of our old
Jefferson City boys, located in
Mexico, Missouri, subscribed ten
dollars to IL Mo. Central to-day
Jefferson City Eclipse.
The novel of Miss Eta l.. Hume,
"Etalee," is to be dramatized and
played at the Opera House in Mexico
for the benefit ofthe Methodist church,
South. Miss Hume is now engaged
in recasting the first act.-Daily
Statesman.
Warming.
Having lost, on August s, my
pocket-book, containing valuable
notes, L hereby warn all persons from
buying or trading for the same, as
payment has been stopped.
j. C. MCGEE.
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Old Mr.. Campbell, father-inl-aw to
''house-mover" Jones, was robbed Of
S75 last Friday night. 1t is supposed
that some one saw him counting his
money through his window and re-
turned and stole it while he was
:esleep.
T. W. Carter has moved his cottage
residence on Promenade street back
somewhat, and is now putting up q
handsome two story front to it, with
four lofty rooius and passage and pi-
aza. This is the eighth residence that
has been erected GU Promenade street
this season.
The Menefee boom has reached the
IateHige"cer office also. T. NJ. q K.
W. Gill have purchased the building
in which it is printed, and design i'm
proving and charging it this fall.
They have also bought the lot i'll the
rear Of it, on which the lumber yard
is situated.
Two G. & A. brakemcn, coming IN
from the depot, saw just ahead OF
them a fashionably dressed lady. She
had on avery long train, which caused
the sOberest of the two to remark ::
II say, jim, she'll never make the
bill without Il header. The track won't
hold her."
We'd hate to undertake to run 4
paper down in Warren county. See
what names printers have to deal with
at Warrcnton: There is Mr.. Schoppen-
horst and Mr.. Meinershagen, DIR.
Staudinger, +. Schowengerdt and Mr..
Bussmanscrantzil-t- and the
Lord only knows how many more Just
such unearthly names.
The attention of the readers of this
paper is particularly directed to the
sale OF short-horn cattle on Friday,
9Th of September next, advertised i'll
this number by Mr.. G. b. Gillum OF
Ashley, Pike county, Mo. Those
desiring to obtain fine breeders and
mich cows will have an opportunity
to secure them then, which is rarely
presented.
The new religionist camp-meeting
near Long Branch Church, between
Monroe and Audrain counties, is nu-
merously attended. Rev. Allen con
ducts the exercises, and converts
claim immediate sanclitication. All
the modern attractions are close at
hand. Swings, liverics, boarding
tents, barber shops, shooting CALLER
les, wheel of fortune, and several re-
ircshmcnt stands.
The opera house in this city is to
have a new drop-curtain-not by the
enterprise or liberali;y of the prOprie-
tor, however; but Il Chicago firm
, proposes to put it UP more for an
advertising medium for our business
men than anything else. We are
glad of it; we are getting tired of
looking at those goats, hogs, horses
or whatever they Yer intended for
on the old me. Il should now have
some tablets of s~ceRsFy."
large eTovds to
Mexico by the London Circus @z5as,
Friday last. Wagons began to ar
rive, with small boys seated on big
watermelons, as early as 3 a. m. BY
exhibition time, there were over three
thousand visitors in town. Besides
attending the performance, the crowd
bought a large amount of goods from
our merchants. Indeed, 1t is said to
have been the best day for sales en-
joyed this year.
Communicated.
EDITOR LEDGER:-I notice that the
city council, under its power to tax
sales of liquor by merchants, has I'M
dertaken to demand two licenses from
them. A license tax is one thing,
and au ordinary tax is quite another.
There is no limit to what may be de-
manded as license tax, but the cOnsti-
tuition restraints and confines the di-
rect tax within reasonable bounds.
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