Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-06-24
Fandalia is to have a bank.

iI'ti Sapto iuuCJ
at dinner.
Inc LEDGER boom is only equaled
ny the Buckner boom.
The only thing that can be found
against Tilden is his unavailabilitv.
Iilden's friends failed to see where
he declined in his letter of declina-
ton.
Laddonia will have her celebration
on the 9Th, neal the Wilder School
House.
The LEDGER will have a reporter at
the execution of. Hade Brown to-
morrow.
The st. Louis census will come
out all right if they don't IL out of
pencils.
Hutton's little tow line did not
even last till the delegates got to
Cincinnati.
We hear Kit CLARK and jim Rinco
talked of in connection with the office
of assessor.
A. White completed the census in
the South half of Salt River township
last Monday.
Congressman Buckner's speech on
the tariff question will appear in next
weeks issue.
Joel Smith, of Huntsville, uncle of
r. w. and b. 3. Turemau, is visit
ing IN Mexico.
How mad it would make a cannihal
to go hunting and kill nothing but
the Herald man.
Quite a number Of Mexico boys
are going to Florida on q fishing
spree next week.
Laddonia celebrates the Fourth OF
July on the fifth (Monday) neal the
Wilder school house.
Tilden's letter declining to he 4
candidate, is one of the best gems Of
literature we ever perused.
We fear st. Louis will have to re-
sort to her hotel registers before she
reaches 800. 900 inhabitants.
The dailies are read by maybe one
hundred people. The LEDGER has
1900 bonafide subscribers.
The Tilden men, even when Tilden
admitted he could not get there, still
continued to stick by him.
We learn that G. w. Batterton, of
Sailing township, is talking of being
Il candidate for The legislature.
The NJ. F.. Church festival Melted
$50. The ladies' intend to have a
repetition OF it during fair week.
Ed. + Il. Cake may be a very
good temperance advocate, but he is
anything but temperate in his talk.
1t Is easier to tic a knot in q bulls
horn than to make your wife believe
every other night is ''lodge night
IfCol. Hutton will wait till the
people want him to 90 to congress,
the LEDGER will support him heartily.
II. NJ. White and J. Med. Trimble
leave for st. Louis to-day to purchase
fire works for the ratification meeting.
The most enjoyable affair of the
season was the moonlight party at
Judge Cunninghsm's last Friday
night.
We always were Of the opinion that
there WAS more than one lnan in the
Democratic party worthy To he prc.i-
dent.
We want the country people to
make their arrangements to he pres
cnt on the night of the 9TH to help
ratify.
b. +. Dobyns is visiting his old
Kentucky home. The tax collectors
books are with Il J.. Locke, county
cler:.
Mexico needs gas. We will refer
to this matter again shortly, and we
hope the city council will look at it
rs we do.
Elder Cake, last Monday night,
abused people as usual. Some peo-
PIE might live always and still never
learn some things.
II. X. Taft and wife, II. Heating
and wife, with J. +. Jacohy and
friends, leave for Florida ON a fishing
spree tomorrow.
IIadc Brown has not, as yet, been
informed Oh ittS WIG y Sultit't, tIiti
will not be until brought down to
Huntsville for execution.
"TiIdcn will he nominated on the
first ballot.'-Iuteiligencer.
Tilden declined with two columns
of self praise.
"Thc times are hard even the rich
arc OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
No wonder cherries are worth 10
cents 4 gallon, only.
Elder Moses f. Lard, one of the
most prominent ministers in the
Christian Church, died in Lexington,
Kentucky, Thursday, the 18th inst.
The Thompson Theatrical Combl-
nation show at the opera house next
Monday night. 1t will be a first-class
entertainment. Don't fail to attend.