Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-02
Emmett Cough has been danger
ousl sick for more than a week.

DR.. W. II. Williams will move to
Kansas City o What will III
people do without a magnetic doctor?
A petition is being circulated and
signed asking Vim. Pollock to be a
candidate for Mayor. If elected
he will make a good officer.
John Hart, of Cedar City, had p
sheep killed by dogs last week. We
learn that there are eve dogs to each
voter in Galloway county.
There is no great difference be-
tween Oscar Wilde and other dam
phool aesthetics and Balaam's ass. as
they were all made too utter.
L. +. Perry, one of Audrain's old
and honored landmarks, died yester-
day. He was widely and well known
and respected by every II who knew
him.
Uncle Jessie Gilliland. of Laddonia,
was in town Tuesday. Jessie has
bought his partner out and is now
running on his own hook in first-class
style.
A. White, living a mile south of
town, had 10 sheep killed by the
dogs Sunday night. 1t is a pity we
don't have few dog killing sheep in
this State.
County Collector Dobyns settles
with the court next Monday. Ben
always has his books in such good
shape that it is no trouble to make
his settlement.
Thos. Board and ID. ii. Smith have
formed a co-partnership in the gro
Gerry business. They are both relia-
bic men and the LEDGER wishes them
Il booming trade.
Mr.. Hugh Wilson has just returned
from Atchison, Kansas. and informs
us that never before did wheat look as
well and that the acreage is much
larger than usual.
Lyman Fetter has had the town
clock and everything connected there
with shaped up in good order, and
will as usual, give us plenty of time
and a good article.
The meeting at the Liberty st. M.
+. Church is still in progress and is
daily growing in interest. We think
it will prove the grandest meeting
ever held in Mexico.
Mr.. Brashear has our thanks for a
curiosity in the way of ahen's egg with
a perfect picture Of a goose outlined
on the shell. Who can account for
such Il freak of nature!
In our last issue there was a mis-
take in the date at which DIR. Jenncr
made known that cow-pox was a pre-
ventative of smallpox. The date
should have been 1880, not 1870.
A. {. Smothers, lumber merchant
of Cairo, Mo-, was burned out last
week. He is a brother of l.. p.
Smothers, the druggist, of Mexico,
who was burned out not long since.
W. H.. ii. Russell, of st. Louis, re-
piled to Ingersoll at opera house last
Thursday night for the benefit of the
Public School library. Ingersolls
work cannot be found in this library.
Geo. $. knave, of Illinois, has
purchased and moved on to the Nc
Cullough farm just south Of town.
He is a good farmer, a bright Demo-
crat, and, of course, subscribed for
the LEDGER.
Oscar Wilde lectured in st. Louis
last Saturday night to about $4,000.
We are thinking of taking Berry
Mitchell to England and bring back
some of the money Wilde will take
home with him.
Our mailing machine is now in
working order, and much time will be
saved in making up our mail, which,
heretofore, has taken up a whole day.
Parties not getting their paper, should
let us know at once.
Mr.. Jehu Johnson, formerly of
Audrain and a brother of Mrs. Josiah
Wright, Of Mexico, died in Utah last
week. Mr.. johnson was one of Au-
drains first settlers and had many
warm friends in the county.
We see that our contemporary
states that '%'innocent'' games were
INDUCED in at the phantom party in
Mexico the other night. We hope
the editor did not expect when he
went to the party to play faro, keno
or poker.
Mexico is getting tired of Uncle
Toms Cabin. This play, by the way.
is one of the most satisfying Oh the
stage. After seeing it once no one
wants to see it again. 1t is usually
put on the boards in Mexico about 2(
times a year.
We hear some talk of an ordinance
being introduced into the council re
ducing the pay of a councilman-nov
$50 per year-and the pay of til,
Mayor-now S10O-to nothing. w,
think they should either be paid NOR,
or else nothinO-