Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-01-11
Hustling Pill.

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This may be called the age of new
and startling things. Hardly a day
passes but what something new under
the sun is discovered in some depart
ment or walk Of life. Renfro Gibbs,
who clerks for j. F. Llewellyn, was
startled yesterday afternoon by a
gentleman, looking like a drummer,
entering the store with a grip and
asking for some good pills. Renfro
asked: ''What kind of pills?"
1.-The best pills you have" replied
the drummer.
Eyes, but w have a good many
kinds; they r all good"
81 know, but l don't care for ex-
penses ; 1 want the very best"
sour pills are for various diseases
and made of different medicines"
Eyes, but 1 might stand here and
die before you can wait on me-"
Estate, SIR replied Gibbs, getting
a little warm, ''what is the matter
with you and l will give you a box of
pills to get rid of YOU"
Il want q pill that will take hold
of the liver if it is affected if not,
the pill will hustle around and grab
hold of the kidneys if they are dis
eased; if not, it will climb up to the
heart and fix it all o. X, Or straight
en- the brain out if 1t is in trouble"
answered the drummer.
II thought your brain was affected.
We have no such pill"
Il thought not, and (opening his
grip 1 called to show you just such
a line of pills. You should buy a
large invoice. No we'll regulated
drug store should be without them.
l have put an advertisement in the
LEDGER, and they will sell like hot
cakes, and" just here a customer
called Renfro and Mr.. Llewellyn
took the drummer in charge. We
have not e nor heard of him since.
Some Queer Suicides.
81 Am weary and want to de-"
said Mrs. Bella Gray, of Hamilton,
Ontario. Then she shot herself in
the breast.
Frank McCarg, a musician Of Corn
ing, committed suicide by jumping
from the Knoxville bridge because he
had been forbidden to play in the
orchestra, owing to his drunkenness.
Caleb Hobbs, of Lincolnton, North
Carolina, found his favorite mule
dead in a field. After a good crying
spell he wrote a note saying he could
not live without the mule, and then
committed suicide.
Hiram Tucker, a disappointed in.
ventor of Boston, 60 years Of age,
attached a rubber hose to a gas jet,
turned on the gas, and, putting the
other end of the hose in his mouth.
suffocated himself.
;. Failing to affect a reconciliation
with his wife, Homer w. Barnes
of Rockville, Ohio, went to the barn
loaded a gun with heavy huckshot
and placing the muzzle against hi
heart pulled the trigger with his toe.
Claud Lester, ar Englishman, 81
years of age, declared he could no
live without the society of the youns
son of a former employer, and, go
ing to the boys home rear Magyar,
Falls, murdered him and then sho
himself.
!, David Lawton, of West Winfield
New York, would not work, and hi
brother refused to harbor him an,
longer. He burned his brother,
barn, containing his crops and COWS
and then went into the Woods ant
hanged himseH-
= William F. Ransom, a railroad
agent at Barnet's Mill near Jefferson
City, Missouri, after being arrested
for embezzlement, stepped from a ca
at Smithton as the train began tt
move, put his neck across a rail, ano
l was beheaded by the train.
In consequence of lack of health
: Mrs. Charles Seeney, of Rochester
] threw herfour-months-old child on tn
. bed and then, crawling underneath
the bed, committed suicide by put
ting a rope around her neck. one emf
e of which she had tied to the spring
. of the bed.
DIED.
= Onthe goth of Dec, of Pneumonia, Vir
1 gil, infant son of Greed and Mamie Carter
, aged 5 months and 10 days.
b God sent a shining angel, 3d.
To take him home above;
!. IT'S He who whispers, "come to me
q And live in peace and love-"
, o, bear your loss on earth,
In heaven there's one more tie,
' Two little hands wait p~leadingly
q To beckon you on high.