Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-02-05

1T is RUMORED

uy spring Is SOou.
That Ed Taylor is the shining light
at a country dance.
That Rush Hill will have a block of
brick buildings in the spring.
That the present grand jury was
entirely of hummers.
That the grand jury believe in
marriage and giving in marriage.
That one of our friends left his
watch when he went down South.
That the Mexico opera house is
one of the best heated in the state.
That Bob White at last got all the
items from the court house he want
ed.
That We are to have a genuine
building boom as soon as spring
opens.
That the fascinating (?) travelling
man Hoffman is the lightning change
masher.
That the last sensation is too heart
rending to publish unless the matter
gets into court.
That the grand jury was going to
investigate where Charley Dobyns
got the $40 bill.
That nearly an entire family of this
city came near being poisoned by
eating corroded vinegar.
That Dobyns & Gibbs have sold
their music box-not the two-legged
one but the wooden one.
That there was more of a demand
for extra copies of the LEDGER last
week than we could supply.
That the city politicians are begin
ming to be found as of old at the post
office corner Sunday afternoons.
That the grand jury found a true
bill against Uncle Abe Hit on the rat
story and fined him a hushel of ap-
piles.
That VIM. Beck will soon begin to
give his open air concerts every even
ing if the weather continues favor
able.
That Bob White has always held
that people seldom got their just de.
serts in this world. He has changed
his mind.
That a certain Irregular" doctor
who has just withdrawn from the
medical society had better look GU
for his scalp.
That some people think no sermon
should be preached over the remain
of a woman who has fallen, when SIN
dies, as happened in this city not lon!
since.
That A. Larkin Bennette, the tacit
princeps correspondent of the De
, troit Free Press, went rabbit hunting
last Monday and killed a wagon LOAF
of rabbits.
That a gentleman in Southwes
: Mexico whips his wife brutally ant
that she is afraid to complain. If b
don't stop the neighbors r gong t.
attend to him.
) That a Connecticut man died fror
: his bones having turned to chalk
!. People cannot be too careful IN reg
ulating the amount of milk the
drink in this world.
That Col. Bybee, proprietor of til
Laddonia hotel, got even with
g boarder who did not pay his bill b
giving him a good thrashing and the
making him pay
>. That the cup of life is filed wit
d punch. Youth furnishes the spirit
d middle age the sugar, and old a.
is the acid. Ice is furnished by ms
who endorse notes.
j. That a gentleman who lives in tt
,e county is only waiting till his ar
s. gets we'll when he will "come
n town and wipe the earth up with
If certain gent who lives in Mexico
That Pat Dyer, of Rush Hill, Is
week licked Mr.. Strict, of the sar
st place. for making some remarks
re iecting ON the holiness meeting
IN which some member of his family b
n been attending.
That pleasure is a silken cho
a composed of exquisite cobwebs, a
lis foods of rich sunshine give it a bes
ne tiful hue. Duty is a golden rol
ne which once thrown over u nee
at leads us, unwillingly where pleas'
is obliged to follow.
y That a girl at sixteen wants dt
with toothpick shoes and a misc
SCOPE moustache; at twenty, a Oh
Justice with piles of tin; at TWEEN
five she'll. be satisfied with a mem
of of congress; at thirty, a coun
by doctor or preacher will do; at thir
,sy FIVE, an ilinerant tinker; over thin
of FIVE, anything that wears pants, Fl
an editor up to a coachman.
ct. That a nan who owes several We
ler subscription on a newspaper
:all asks the postmaster to send it b
,dy refused" without paying up, VIC
The put tar in his hat when taking u
r." church collection, in order to s
&c. small change. When you wan
stop your paper go to the office,