Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-07
THE EDITORHEARD FROM.
- South Hampton, long Is-
Iand-A MIXED Mess--He
Likes Married Life.
MONDAY. July 2Sth. 1879.

change for candy and ice-cream.
It's much nicer, especially for your
"better-half." Ofcourse, when writ
ing for a newspaper it is good taste
to say 'swe"-it never came so ma
tural to %sus' before. ''We' never
say "I'' now, especially when ''our'
wife is looking over ''our' shoulder.
Leaving Mexico Monday, July 81,
81" reached Carrollton, ILL.,, the same
evening. Tuesday, July %. VIII
"F'-rather ''we''-(pshaw! don't
know which pronoun to use there)
forget that day? Warm? Oh, no !;
it was not warm! Put your hat on
and you experience Il Turkish b:gvii.
Prot. Hamill and j. Med. TrimbIe,
two of the coolest men in the state.
said it was the hottest day they ever
heard tell of. ''Wc" thought it was
cool-at least cold chills ran down
''sny" back. At 6 p. m ,''P' became
"we." After lingering q few mo-
ments in the arms Of Trimb!e ("I"
don't think Trimble's arms were ever
made to embrace aught but a many
"we" left for the East vio Chi
cago, passing a day in that city, Il
day at Niagara and day in New
York. "We" are now in the coolest
and most romantic spot in the world.
Col. Haden, We feel for you. 1t is
warm in Missouri; come East and
sec "us." Niagara Is the .'boss"
place. Now, don't think we are 90
ing TO write it up-we should prefer
to write it down. At Niagara you
can get most anything for money ;
you have on the table all the deIlca-
cies of the season; three kinds OF
meat aIways-pluck, liver and lights.
You can buy a pint of Niagara water
to take away to remember the falls
| for $3.50; you can get your picture
taken with the falls for background,
Il COW on your right and a donkey on
the left 1--WE took n center position
co" $1,000; for 500 you can get :
man to ride over the falls in Il steam.
ho.t We were there Wednesday
Thursday there was not steamboat
in siobf. We should have bought
the falls. bu: remembered that not
long since a ma rs wife was carried
over them and Iille,i, so we abandon,
ed the idea. After tas 'ung The water
as it came laundering ov,,F 'lle rocks
''we" diSeorered that it was hoS SAT-
South Hampton, the romantic Sio
where Col. Il. NJ. White, of the Ne. VI
co LEDGER, and Chas. A. Dana, Oh
the New York S@n, are rusticating-
and where Col. Hutton should be, as
all great men pass the summer here
is one Of the loveliest spots in the
universe at least, it strikes 'us'
that way just now.
In New York city, Chastine Cox,
the murderer of Mrs. Hull, being the
fashionable topic of conversation, we
called around and gave him q ''talk. ="
Though Chastine Cox may be
hanged for choking the life out of
poor Mrs. Hull, there is no doubt
that he is thoroughly enjoying him
self during his last days on the glo-
bule of the universe. For he is a
Hero. No statesman going to adj
dress the Legislature-not even Ros-
coe Conkling preparing to favor the
Senate with the ''greatest effort of
his lite"-could pay more attention
to his toilet, could groom himself
more carefully, than did this dandy
darkey murderer when on trial for
his life. We heard how he soaped
or creased his kinky hair into a de-
gree of smoothness how it was part
ed accurately in the middle; of the
care with which he adjusted his col
lar and neck-tie; and how he remov-
ed his glistening shirt-cuffs during
recess, and when he was not before
the pubIjc. The fellow is on exhi.
bitiOn, and he knows and appreci-
atcs and enjoys it. He is Hero
and proposes to do as Heroes do.
lie sucks lemons as he would draw
from the silly sympathy of the public,
which, he complains, doesn't send
him cigars. Before he was a mur.
derer, he would never have expected
the people of New York to find him
in tobacco; but now he is a Hero, |
and lie calls to the public to.bring on
their delicacies. He does his part,
He is on show, and he gets himself
up "regardless.
If he is hanged we expect to hear
his smiling last words of assurance
that he is going straight to Jesus
that he warns his friends to beware
of lovely women, etc. Anyhow, we
know that he will be sobbed over by
the loveliest of their sex, will be flow
cred and feasted and petted until his
fate is decided.
Is his crime has fault? Didn't he
come into the world with a homi-
cidal head? Professor Fowler, and
Lawyer Howe, and half-a-dozen doc
tors, with theories, can easily prove
that a baby coming into the world
with such head muSt commit MUIR
der sooner or later. Clearly, then,
it is not the fault of Cox. 1t is the
fault of Cox, pere, for begetting such
a kid without arranging, beforehand,
to have him born with level head
But as old Cox is supposed to be nom
come-atable, We'll have to 60 for the
Did mother. What business had she
to have such son? Hang her, and
let us keep our Hero, with his hair,
MS moustache, his lemons and his
rt,cutts,
Reader, put yourself in his place.
You go out one night, walking inno-
Gently along the street. Suddenly
,he idea comes to you to rob house.
You enter through an open window.
You find your way to the back par
or. There you discover, unexpect-
sdly, an old lady asleep. What busi-
ness has anyone to sleep in a back
Darlor? She wakes up and interferes
with your labors-rudely, brutally
nterferes. You tie her down to the
ped, but she is deaf to remonstrance
you put a pillow on her face, but she
still obstinately refuses to view the
natter from your STANDPOINT. Then
you lean on her, quietly but firmly.
She is fat. Is it your fault that she
s fat? She cannot stand pressure.
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