Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

o.
county last week.
B. F. James, just south of Mexico,
has been very sick.
Audrain farmers are taking good
care of their stock.
Make a guess and get the watch.
There is no string tied to it.
Marshall johnson, of Laddonia,
has one boarder in his ''hotel.'
Don't fail to read the supplement.
It is filled with good local matter.
Several of the G. & A. r. r. pas
sepger conductors 'quit" last week.
Hon. j. +. Hutton is domiciled at
the National Hotel, Washington City,
d. G.
Mrs. f. Bennett is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. A. P. Bishop, in
Miami, Mo.
The LEDGER gives more reading
matter than any other country paper
in the State.
w. III. Ebey, of base ball fame in
Mexico, is running a paper in Mar
tello, Kansas.
There was a pleasant party at the
residence of NJ. Y. Duncan one even
ing last week.
The Louisiana Journal came to us
last week with a dandy supplement.
1t is booming.
There will be an Xmas sociable
and tree at Wesley Chapel the night
before Christmas.
The prospect for the grand Xmas
sociable is good. 1t will be the af-
fair of the season.
The Triple Alliance is spoken of
in connection with the wildcat insur-
ance companies of the U. S.
1t is said that Confederate money
is being circulated in Canada. So is
smallpox; but that does not make il
good.
The bee never cackles," observes
an exchange. The bee doesn't have
to. 1t has other ways of making it
self known.
A Tennessee city is said to b'
troubled with an epidemic of lovers
who parade the street arm in arm
Vaccinate them.
The Governor, Warden and prison
commissioners started out NJ onda,
to try to locate the new pen. The.
will not visit Mexico.
Coles circus horses and camel
arrived Sunday. They will be wiz
tered on the old "Jim Robinson
: farm north of Mexico.
Miss Ida Spencer, of Laddonia,
i selling all winter millinery at tn
i very lowest. Call and see her an
you will be sure to buy.
Miss Carrie Hite, who has bee
visiting relatives and friends i
Macon City for the past two weeks
returned home last week.
. Hazen should float out of the Sig
nal Service on the crest of the nel
e cold wave. We offer this suggestio
in the interest of reform.
IS Is it not about time this congress
Il ional district should get consulshlI
a clerkship or at least . railroad pc:
tai clerk? What are we here for?
The st. Louis POST Dispatch rol
the editorials of our contemporai
about the presidential appointment
under it's tongue as delicious morsel
1t you want space in the LEDGER
IS Xmas edition of next week yc
i'll should apply early. The demand
our advertising space is in propo
ton.
" Patrick Sullivan, of Sheboygan,
re said to have such a large mouth tina
9 had he been in Jonah's place, Il
y Biblical whale tragedy would ha
V. been reversed.
n. The prospect for the new railro'
= being built is good. A bill has be-
introduced in Congress for a bridi
an over the river at Alton. The bill W
pass without any trouble.
Republican worship for civil ST
eft vice is simply unutterable disgust
H. being deprived of offices that til
had grown up to imagine belong
exclusively to themselves.
d.; We are glad to know that d.
in Cook, editor of our contempora
ny is again able to be at his post.
~, cold and overwork confined him
es- his room a portion of last week
lnh James Robinson, the champ
bareback rider of the world, wal
to purchase a good residence in M
, leo. He wants to make Mexico
home. We trust he will succeed.
ave
al Vanderbilt left ten millions to e:
ity of his eight children, a large s.
of to his wife and a million to CHAIR
oal The most of his 5000, 100000 ,
the left to his two Oldest sons SO it
remain in the family.
The LEDGER prize watch is no
Waterbury. It is a good wat