Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-12-23
Flogging in the British navy has

"A Christmas turkey in hand is
worth two in the market.
A nan of words and not of deeds
is like q garden full of weeds.
The aim of a shrewd beer seller is
to draw a bead Oh his lager.
Taste and Imagination. rightly cul-
tivated in youth, lead to vigorous
manhood.
Probably the man who never made a
mistake in his life, never made any,
thing else.
Jay Gould has purchased the stock
of Mr.. Thos Allen in the Iron Noun
tain Railroad.
A premature explosion of a blast in
the Forman shaft, Virginia City two
men were killed.
Payne's Oklahoma colony OF about
400 srong, are camped on the line of
the Indian Territory.
The schooner Emma, from St.
Johns, Mt Green Bay, is reported
lost with all her crew.
Philip, the Morey letter man, is 60
ing into the lecture field. His SUBJ
ject is ''Morey Antique
The lannon's stallion Blue Gown,
purchased by James R Keene for
$40, 900, died on shipboard.
He that will not reason is a blgot /;
he that cannot reason is a fool; he
that dares not reason is a slave.
The tobacco factory of James Leigh
jones, Richmond, Virginia, burned
Thursday night. Loss $50, 900.
Twenty-three members of the
House of Representatives of the
Missouri Legislature are LAYERS.
A young man named Adams acct
dentally killed himself in the vicinity
OF Cedar Rapids, Iowa, while hunting.
A bald eagle was killed in Graham,
Texas, measuring seven feet from tip
to tip, and a prairie dog was found in
it craw.
Mrs. Glassman, a German woman
of Marquette, Wis, in a temporary fit
of insanity, cut the head Of her babe
nearly off.
A Presbyterian congregation has
been organized among the Nez Perces
in the Indian Territory, numbering
SO members.
Bowling Green, Mo, is to have
anew bank. McAlIister & Bro, pro-
prietors, Fenton Murray, ex-circuit
clerk, cashier.
A cyclone which passed over the
section Of country about Carthage,
Mo , did considerable damage in des-
troying houses and farms
! Chang, the Chinese giant-the big.
gest man in the world-arriyed at New
York IA few days ago. He is nine fee,
high and developed accordingly.
William S. Logan, of Montgomery
county, is an applicant for the office
Of tobacco inspector. Tne Mober!y
Monitor endorses him very highly
A New York dispatch saws Il largt
force is employed on work of mining
Flood rock in He'll gate preparatory
to another great submarine explosion
BY marrying his mother-in law Mr.
Bertrand, of Rockford, ILL.,, become'
a grandfather to his own children, ant
narrowly escapes being his W step
father.
Cincinnati men are SO fond 0
music that they won't throw a boo
jack until they look out to see that i
is a cat and not q Cincinnati prim,
donna.
"What is home when papa's alb
sent?' sings a bard. We do no
know: but without a majolica jar il
the front hall for the folks to stumbl
over, home is usually very quite.
A convention of lawyers will NEE
at Kansas City the 2Sth of thi
month, to devise some means of as
sisting the Supreme court in disposin!
of the cases which have been accum
ulating on its docket.
Thirty six cents 0 fevery half dolla
the people pay for matches are rev
enne, the balance being the actua
) cost and manufactures and jobbers
profit. Yet the total revenue raised i
only $4,000 per year.
> A young lady, named Phinney Ri
dolph, of Ballard county, Ky. while i
a wagon with her father and a~fianced
was killed through the vehicle beir
:, overturned and a broken rib cause
, by the fall, piercing her heart.
Stanley Hnntley. & hayward new.
, paper man well known in the west.
now suspected of being the forg"r {
j, the Mo-vy letter, and has >udhenl
, resigned his position on the Brookly
, Eagle and left FOL parts unknown.
a yonng man while atlemting t
= fix II "misp!a"eI SWITCH on a youn
t iady's head in a bail room. stepped o
her dress and wrecked the train.
She told him to conductor her to
. seat. and he more car-iul in futule e..
l For President and Nice-rreSid.nt of AL men II
Would be W. p. Tucker and George G. Vest.
Fulton Telegraph.
: Touching W. B. Tucker, pleas
give us a rest.
:, Mrs. Marion Richards returne
=, home from Mexico Sunday, aftt
-. spending several days at the bedsid
Of her sister, Mrs Steele, who has ft
q week or two been lying very low
| but is now recovering.-Perry q.
:, zette.
1t is proposed to erect a sugar mi
on theUniverslty farm at Co lumbia,
: plant ten acres of sorghum and en-
courage its cultivation in the SUI
/, rounding country, and manufactur
} large quantities of sugar, syrup an
: molasses.
Conner & Davis have sold a ha
interest in their saloon business
+. b. Norris of Mexico. The ne
: firm will move about the 30th int
t the new building on the corner {
Asylum and Nichols Streets-Fulto
: Gazette.
5 1t is said that Mr.. Conkling's pei
sonal relations with half of the sers
ators on the Democratic side are of tt
most rigid and formal character, an
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