Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-02-26
A Newspaper Of the Present Time,
Intended for the People aow On Earth.
Law is not justice.
Who laughs last gets left.
Hinze has a new hearse.

Whom the gods Lore die drunk.
Discretion is nine points ofthe law.
We think next summer will be
open.
W. L. Gary left yesterday for the
South.
W. I. Fields now resides al Hamil-
ton, No.
The Maine war cost that state about
s25, 900.
We learn that Richard Muir is
worse.
Melt your butter and it will spread
over more bread.
Let the tax on paper go to meet
the tax on quinine.- .
Round dancing is not square chris
tan amusement.
Jas. f. Stewart of Centralia, was in
Mexico lueSttav.
W. w. Fry went to st. Louis on
business last night.
Geo. A. Poteet has moved into his
new house in South Mexico.
The straighter you take your H.
quor the crookeder you get.
Jack frost's contract is nearly out.
He did not keep it very we'll.
Miss Lulu Hord las returned from
a very pleasant visit to Fulton.
The Parker case for highway rob-
berry was called yesterday evening.
DIR. Grasty will preach next Sunday
on RAILROAD Street Car Theology
If God made the country and man
made the cities, who made Centralia =:
Beautiful ladies are mad if you
gaze at them and indignant if you dc
not.
Christian Church sociable at Tho
Cromwell House tomorrow (Friday,
night.
About 700 names are on kilgore':
petition for Communication to the Gov
ernor.
Jake got out his naturalization
papers again last week. He lost hi
old ones.
The Democratic National Conven
ton will he held at Cincinnati, Ohio
June 22d.
S. =. Martin, 1t the Z. O. Boo
Store, has just received q fresh slocI
of No. l cigars.
j.. J. Gill, who, for the last eigh
weeks has been confined to his room
is again able to be out.
Court adjourns to-day. Judg
Potter said he would clean out tn
jail, and he has done so.
Mrs. Hortie Collins, who has bee
visiting friends at Slater, returne'
home q few days since.
Mrs. Shackleford will reopen he
millinery shop. next door to Harper
Turner, Monday, March 1st.
Don't get married on the 29th c
Februaty-yon will have a hard tim
celebrating wedding anniversaries.
February is the boss month for IN
working man this year. 1t has tiv
Sundays and is one day short besides
EX-Gov. Hardin, VIM. Pollocl
r. W. Tureman and Judge Macfa
lane left for St. Louis last Tuesda
noon.
Thomas Board has bought of ia
Melon aid splendid saddle hors'
and he 0 rides the best horse i
the county.
Connoisseurs say that the pre-
grammes for the next Home Gu
dance, executed by oar foreman, |
b. Runkle. IS the best job of printin
ever done in Mexico.
W. +. Spencer, of this count.
died on the 18th Of February,
typhoid pneumonia. He lived nil
miles east OF Mexico, and was burie
on his farm, which was his dyir
request.
Lacy & Brown, tobacco manufa
t%urers, are thinking of moving
Mexico. Our citizens are doing {
they can to get them. Mexico is tt
place for them and we think tho
know it.
Mr.. Anderson, of kentucky, h
bought an interest in j. L. Brook
grocery store. The firm is no
Brooks, Anderson & Co. The bus
ness will be enlarged and made
boom.
Mr.. Isaac Middleton, living t.
miles north of Mexico, on the Wilshi
Wilson farm, will have a public So
OF all his effects on the 10th day
March.
County Collector Dobyns says
those who have not paid their tax
for 1879, will save heavy penalties
calling and paying the same befo
March l.
! And still they go. Two car loa
OF negroes went to Kansas last TUE
day night. They say that there 6
thousands trying to raise the mea