Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-23

FRESH FISH ut II. u. Iaul =.
Flour is gong up to war prices.
The wheat crop will be very poor.
A sidewalk should be built to the
j cemetery.
Maurice Mann is erecting q neat
] new residence.
A little daughter of Green Cant
3 died last week.
Tom Rodhouse killed an immense
eagle this week. .
Don't fail to read Gregg & Miller's
new grocery ad.
4 ]. F. Llewellyn's soda water foun-
! tain Is in full blast.
Bob Hooton, as assistant city as
SCISSOR, is now at work.
Charley Rodgers has our thanks
for fayors again this week.
Chal Green, formerly of Mexico, is
managing the Bridges twins.
Mrs. Sam Cook, a most estimable
8 lady of Warrenton, died last week.
An infant daughter Of Earl Morris,
of Thompson Station, died last week.
s. The Baldwins are playing ball with
the Wedge House nine of st. Louis.
Rush Hill reports a case Of sod
omy. A little cowhide would be
good medicine.
Prof. II. NJ. Hamill, formerly of
8 Mexico, has entered the Methodist
ministry in Illinois.
Grant is getting better. He is
8 going to flight it out on this line if it
takes all summer"
Miss Ida Spencer, of Laddonis,
has just received a full line Of spring
and summer millinery.
George Laforee has established a
new dairy called the EIgin. He has
q neat new milk wagon.
5000 people went to church and
$4,000 went to sec a game OF ball In
8 Kansas City last Sunday.
q Oscar Krieger, of Martinsburg, is
going to open a bath house in Mexico
when we get water works.
81 James Wallace, of Santa Fe, who
shot himself with suicidal intent 9
week or so ago, will recover.
Walker Ragsdale left Tuesday fol
q Cincinnati, Ohio, where he joins 6
big circus and will play the tuba.
Governor Marmaduke is ready and
anxious to the Legislature
but he don't think it for the best.
Frank Tucker will have his boo'
and shoe store open in the Shootmar
building by the first of the month.
The farmers are beginning ever
now to talk about wanting pay TO
the hogs that have died Of cholera.
Andy Sullivan is going to make
white hotel of the Goode house. MI
Lott, Of Rush Hill, is plastering it.
il we had a sidewalk to the GENE
terry people could then attend bury
ings and visit the graves Of the dead
The Paris Mercury is issuing
daily during circit court week. 1
is a live little sheet and full of news
81 We found a person last week VIII
never saw s'Uncle Toms Cabin" be
fore. The said person was just thre
weeks old.
J. G. Trimble and Rem Gibbs wen
to Columbia this week to attend tn
wedding Of G. L. Bennett, OF Gala
way county.
The way the skating rink at Van
dslla is patronized surpasseth all un
Outstanding. It is a small gold min
for its owner.
Bowling Green, Pike county, ralse'
$1,000 for a gravel road. Mexic'
could raise 5000 for rock roads
and why not do so?
Miss Nora Branstetter won a hand
some prize the other evening at tn
rink in Vandalia as the best ant
most graceful lady skater.
Willard Bennett and "Slipper,
Sims" known in Mexico as ''sharps,
were arrested for the Miami ban
robbery but proved an alibi.
Circuit court convenes in Audrai
as follows: On the fourth Monday i
January, first Monday in June an
the first Monday in October.
Our friend, John Laird, Of Fands
lis, now passes through here at nigh
when he goes down the Wabash, i
order to avoid LEDGER reporters.
"a A Georgia physician declares tha
mule meat is more wholesome tina
beef. This Is placing a high est
mate upon the Illinois Legislature.
Another runaway Tuesday. A
long as people leave their teams III
hitched we will have runaway
Some one will be killed in this way
One Of the jackssses belonging
the Uncle Toms Cabin show We
fined S. and costs for allowing one {
his donkeys to walk on the sidewall
G. NJ. Lakeland was IN Callawa
this week and reports the cattle me
and every n else greatly excite
about the spread of pleuro-pneumoni'