Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-10-23
GLEANINGS.

ThUMfSON ULEANlNuSs |
Correspondence of the Ledger.
THOMPSON STATION, Oct. 20.-Here
we are. Encore"
Health status most excellent.
Splendid weather for the develop
ment of fall pasturage.
VIM. N. Creasey contributed to
the C of the st. Louis fair.
Sour sorghum: An over produc-
ton of sour, scummy, seething sor-
ghum.
A. g. Pool spent the past week
seeing the sights at the st. Louis
exposition:
The mercurial column oscillates
between ~sweltering days and shiver-
ing nights.
j. j. Edwards realized SIS per hun
bred for a car load of hogs shipped
to st. Louis last week.
w. II. Pool, of Hiattville, Kansas,
smiles b~enigningly upon numerous
friends and relatives in this vicinity.
I. T. Turley sold to a Mr. Ryan,
of this vicinity, 12O acres of unculti-
waited land in Northern Kansas for
800. Also Nj. B. Mcdonald & Co.
sold to VIM. Pulls & Bro. 100 acres
one mile north of Thompson Station
for $4,000.
Alas for "Ajax;" we know that the
good die young. The Lord hath
need of him as he quietly sent in an
old stereotyped joke i'll regard to
cruelty to animals" passed in his
little checks and monkeyed up the
golden stairs to bloom in the new
Jerusalem.
Rev. T. G.. Poole, of College
Mound, preached powerful theolog-
ical sermon from the It'll chapter of
Romans at Bethlehem Sunday. Terse
in diction, trenchant in logic and
wonderful in eloquence he completely
shattered the fimsy dogmas of the
holiness people.
Despite burglary, incendiaries,
tramps, dead men and saloon petit
tons Thompson is bound to boom.
The latest acquisition to her popula-
ton is in the person of j. Y. Mccoy,
a most excellent blacksmith. He has
put up a boss shop and proposes to
hammer out all honest living.
One of the substantial farmers of
our vicinity is Irwin J. Sims. Own
ing one of the largest stock farms in
the county he has concluded to or
nament it with a handsome %two-story
residence. When completed Mr..
Sims will have the model stock farm
of the west end of the county.
At the residence of the brides
father, Mr.. Hill, on the night of the
18th inst, Irwin Fenton, of Boone
county, led to the matrimonial altar
Miss Louella Hill, Rev. Wigginton
officiating. May everlasting peace,
contentment and happiness attend
them as hand in hand adown the
pathway of life they journey.
The "soi-distant" holiness brethren
have howled their ste deum" in our
midst for three weeks and departed.
They set themselves up as "summum
bonum" and infuse their "ignis
fatus' into the sympathetic ganglion
of the unsophisticated. Christianity
to-day is attacked from two sources,
viz: Intellectual and Ignorance. In
tellectual scientists, such as Voltaire,
Paine and Ingersol, who attack
Christianity because they car not
reason out its homogeneousness with
scientific facts. Ignorance that
comes to us in sleeps clothing,
crawling like Shiny scorpions up the
sloughs of superstition and ruts of
ignorance to the church of Christ
and striking their envenomed tooth
into the sympathetic church member
infuses their venom into them.
Skull Lick boasts of a number OF
semi-dudes whose unfathomable ig-
norance renders them supremely con-
temptible. They set up the stand
ard that they guage their W mea-
ger, warped, narrow ideas by and
every one who does not come up to
the mark is simply a fool. They alb.
solutely know it all-certain as death
and positive as sledge hammers, and
to differ with them is objectionable
crime. One as well try to demolisf
the rocks of Gibraltar with boiled
peas shot from a popgun as to rea
son an idea into their Uranium. Ii
all things they are adamant. Brush
ing away the superstition, Ignorance
and impudence that surrounds then
and we have left a minus quantit,
that lacks three scruples of having
dram of brains. Now be it known i
some of these wise (!) bipeds dom
keep their long poky nose out of GU,
business the readers of the LEDGE
will peruse an interesting sequel t.
the above.
>, JEREMIAH SwADDLEToN.
Wanted-Geese.
> Fifty dozen full feathered liv
L. 1900, a., zach