Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-10-18

Who abducted 60 the girl!
If John Wayham isn't a clever man.
If certain gossiplng old ladies will
live always.
How to get the evidence before our
last grand jury.
If Audrain will not have a candi-
date for State Senator next fall.
What young girl had to leave Gen.
tralia on a married mans account.
Why the boys could not s'reap a
rich harvest at Troy, last week.
II Mexico did not have a Mary
Churchill case, if for only "a hours.
If there is not religion enough in
the LEDGER to suit even Mrs. Show.
If Isaac White and his six lend
men, amt the boss 'possum hunters.
How Keith Lackey will look with a
''plug' hat stuck on that Uranium of
his.
Whether the clergy, in denouncing
immortality, have a right to be per-
sonal.
If Pomp Plunkett furnishes SIS
rings with every IS cent pair Of gloves
he sells.
If the fatted calf will be slaught-
cred, now that the prodigal has re-
turned.
What a gent in Vandalia was doing
with four queens ove four ices last
Sunday.
Why H. P. Smith don't pay for the
three years he has been taking the
LEDGER.
If that wasn't a quick trip our
young friend made to New Or
leans. O.
If you have all heard from Ohio,
and if there are offices enough for all
of us in 1884.
If, according to her evidence, Mrs.
Galloway would not make the dandy
moral lecturer.
If a certain couple, now ON pretty
intimate terms, won't hear a gun go
off pretty soon.
If q certain party hadn't better
"waited till the clouds rolled by
ere he returned.
II. Alb. Armstrong isn't becoming
very much interested in the ''tele-
phone business"
If Rev. DR.. Gooch don't know how
to ''sit down. ON the holiness gang
in elegant shape.
If our ministers are out of texts,
why they do not tackle a "boarding
house" of this city.
If "Ned'' Taylor's arms don't
sometimes get SOL ''nudging'' peo-
pie to whom he tells jokes.
/ Why a friend of ours just northeast
of Mexico, who. has % cats and 19
dogs, was buying a mouse trap this
week.
Why Arthur Paul allowed the train
; to ''roll by and did not awaken his
guests. Was he asleep or only sin s
tranceP"
If the young woman who was drunk
on the street Saturday evening and
was fined Monday, had not better 60
home to her ma.
If that young married mans eyes
didn't start from their sockets when
he beheld on our streets a certain
damsel from Centralia.
How much worse things could be
if Mexico had a social evil law, and
why the ministers do not turn theil
spare time to this matter.
If a certain party's wife won''
"walk all around on the basement o.
his pants if the C. p. dent &C
mighty straight in future.
; Why so many of "the boys
were eager to see the LEDGER repor
| tiers after their interview with a Ger
tain young lady the other day.
Why some people s'kick'' about tn
LEDGER publishing the news, whel
t other people, who take the paper, pa,
: for it because it docs publish tn
news.
If Bro. Cross, who keeps foolin:
) with the LEEGER, won't be like tn
man kicked by the mule-not a
pretty as he was. but will know
heap more.
Why some of the anonymous let
. ter-writers that infest this communit,
with their polluted presence, canno
: be caught onto, and have that pun
iahment melted out to them they de
e serve.
: If a preacher, who is finding faul
with the fair, and had a compliment
airy ticket "for self and lady, di'
> take one lady in on this ticket, an
$ then went out and brought anothe
u lady in on the same free pass.
: Harry LaMertha is home on a visi'
He was in another big railroad acc
dent up north about q month sine
where he had a close call, as he di
here. His arm was broken, and b
was badly scalded. A bridge broke
q and the engine he was running fe
+ forty feet. to the bottom, and twenty
ID ~ eon @r tar ~ II aud II NC