Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-05-29
to hunt upTa candle. !" He at ffflst eli .t5-pre pre-
tended he had none. bnt a i ip;eee {. m

--1------- 1-l11 -5t,i4
to hunt upa candle. ffe At ffifl.t at11rre pre- 81
tended he had none, bat a piece Of @.
one was at last found. d With this
they began the search of the interior
OF the stage, but found little or moth !,
ing that was worth carrying of. @ q
~ The boss robber, a little fellow
scarcely five and one-halfr feet high
wearing q soldier blue overcoat, with !:
trcwsers stuffed in his boots, then; /,
gave the following command :
Il "Yon feiIers Inside there, get out
and walk ahead Of the hosses.s The :
fust one that looks back will have the
top of his head blown off, ,f,,- Eeg,;
They marched off in good time.
The exercises was kept up till the
bandits got through Searching. s"t
s.-----4- ------- % baalss4
The Gallagher Divorce Case.
Max Adeler in the New York Herald.
tsMy name is Gallagher, said the
stranger as he entered Colonel
Browns law office! 81 called to see
you about SUIT for divorce" ,.-r .
Take seat" said the colonel.
'In the first place. said Mr.. Gal
! lagher, II want to ask can a divorce
be obtained on the ground ofgeneral
incompatibility? .la.f. z.l-.. .-.....
81 dunno said the, colonel. Il
must ascertain the facts"
''Because, if it can, 1 want you to
begin sixty-eight divorce suits for me
Tomorrow, upon that ground.?' aar
"Sixty.eight?", ?",qg,l naa t..sa.., ,.. .
''Let me explain, You see, about
1 four years ago I went to Salt Lake
! City, and l was converted to the
Mormon religion. When / joined
Bishop Grubb saidfI ought to marry,
and SO ! proposed for, his daughters,
and we were consolidated at once.
On the following Thursday the bishop
died. He'ieft eleven widows. His
executors pointed out that / might
assuage their grief and get "a frmer
grip on the property by taking them
out OF their lonely condition. So
married them, and alsb pooled in two
sisters of one Of them living in Idaho,
and a cousin of another--a cousin
who was single and had . cast in her
eye.ps,t sy;,,s r-,. ,...,...r,..,... .......
s'That made twenty, did it7'' OBJ:
served the colonel. -" 7'Aii '-''i -i1-A
..s'Twenty. Well, then, the inn
preston, your honor, naturally got
around that / was a married man,
and SO the twelve apostles at their
next meeting sealed to me four Wild
ows and an old maid that were drift
ing about the settlement with no one
in particular to look after them, and
as took, the act good natnredly, why
on the following week, Bishop Knox
got the apostles to pass over to me a
job lot of his relations, including two
aunts, one grandmother, and a! seq
ond cousin and Bishop, O'Toole
threw in step-sister, mother-in.
law, and three miscellaneous orphans,
who were related to nobody. So
you see, j was gradually getting quite
a little family about. me-" s,s..-
Il see," said the colonel.
s'And then, your honor, if any un-
attached would come along in emf
grant trains. they were always order
ed to be married I to me, SO that
eventually, in, addition to my other
wives, / had gathered in two Welch
women, a Mexican, an old lady from
the Sandwich Islands, three PeruYi-
ans, the widow of q Japanese acrobat
and a Kickapeo squaw. i thought
the heads of the church were q little
hard on me, but had to stand it."
; .'Did you have happy house
hold?'' ts ri1H..n ta3Ls oal9 IN
II am just coming to that. / can't
say that. we were all perfectly. congo
NAL, our tastes differed so. The
Bishop Grrbb delegation, for in
stance, would want caromels for
breakfast in the morning, when the
folks from Peru vSF5ssu----srrls1hn9aa
have CLANS. Bishop Knox's detacD-
menu would insist on cleaning house
at the very time when Bishop
O,Toole's relations wanted to givesa
Lparty. Ifthe Sandwich Islander and
the squay wanted to boil a dog or
two in the soup kettle, there was al
ways fuss with the other women,
and the Mrs. Gallagher, 1who came
from Japan, used to make the rest OF
the ladies furious by turning somer-
sets in the. parlor when there was
company, and by standing on her
head on the piano stool AS for
wash dayl Well, one wanted it on
Monday, and another would haye4lt
on Tuesday and so on, If there had
been thirty-seven days In the week,
1 we should have had Washing going
Eonton each of,them.',di t;nIlH isun
| /, .'Noaunanimity, iasnit we've ~ tlob-
lseryed the colonel sI,o. v,idtox
Il ,ssPrecisely. All! then Emiline,
i1onie Of my first batch OF wives, had
tstudied medicine, and she was al
ways praGticing upon the others. She
introduced whooping-co 70 the
family in order to try o fayorite reme-
tdy of hers. Imagine sixty-eight wo-
4 meh in one house with the whoopirg-
! cough. Aad then she puteipecac lin
their tea q few weeka afserward,q u to
4 see il it would give them asthma, and
it did,, The whole crowd went around
\ gasping for breath, and l think the
I Mexican woman Is probably short
i,winded for hfe.i i Eremonstrated with
Emeline, bnt the very next day she
tried to yaccinate the old lady from
! the Sandwich Islands by. boring
s1K6fe ID her elbow with 3 ginfet. %"
q atnsssDidn'timind You, Ashrp sf ais'
fI tasNo.9s And one day about three
ll weeks agold, brought homesA poodle
for Julia, one Of the younger ones.
9tiTh 7 iThis looked 4 little like partiaiity,
y ana Of course the slxtyuseven Others
wanted poodle q piece at.i'once.
Now. I am not 6bie to pay dog tax
sixtyseiS k5 Ames 1 yesl, 70 ] declin-
4 IediDsI aaw there was trouble. brew
\ [inga and the next day when 4 came
i home, every woman of them had
4 adoe T hef h ownf WI 81 fbeen 81 out and Bought
Ibtlen! 1ofheyeflangeds from blood
aIhoulSiset to black aid d4tan vtsrriersu
4 repenstrased;, and ithsnrs1weli, dths
4 WOMEN began to cry, and that set the
" 49, ~ s>eTorIynu and then Luc1n0a I