Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-02-16
SALAD.
Some Reminiscent Remarks OF In
terest-Other palatahle Read,
ing Matter.

not over u halt dozen brick
on the Court House Square.
One stood on the present site of the
Hotel, about where Pol
jewelry store is; q couple
ON the North Side, and | do
not remember where the others were
located. The present residence of
Collector Hopkins marked the foot
Of Liberty street and ON fashionable
Monroe the houses were few and
between. Only an occasional
house stood out prominently on
high West Mexico. l say promin-
because shade trees were not
so plentiful then as now and al
house stuck up on stills on a hill
side was a striking object. Where
the Windsor Hotel and Electric
Works now stand there was
a ragged, deep gully, the sites of the
House and the residence of
Bassford being ON the east and
west slopes, respectively. Where
Mr.. Bassford's residence now
stands, opposite the Windsor, there
a patch of hazel brush. Some
of our leading citizens would adj
journ from the log Court House,
which stood about where my office
now is, to this hazel patch,
where they whuld while away
the hours playing cards. Some
of those who spent their af-
ternoons there afterward took top
seats in the tally-ho of life, one in
particular, l remember, becoming
an able minister of the gospel.
The scene of these little games
was then considered out of town.
A hazel patch cut a figure in the
early judicial history of the county
as well. The Court House of logs,
as | told you, stood where the
Weinand block now is, and there
being but one room, the juries adj
journed to the brush patch in the
rear, on the present location of Nor
ris' stables, where, with the
ground birds cEirping merrily
about and only the sky for a
shelter, they arrived at their ver-
diets, which gave as much satisfac-
ton, I expect, as those handed
down in the halls of justice by the
Supreme Court of Missouri to-day.
Mexico then and now are not to be
recognized as the same town."
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"The first intimation William
Bybee had of his acquittal of the
murder of Greenman, when the
verdict was brought in last Satur-
day night, ''said one who was in the
court room when the jury fled in,
twas from one of his attorneys, j.
Med. Trimble, who extended his
hand in congratulation as the ver-
dict was read. Those who know
the old man will know just how
this could be. He is very hard of
hearing, nearly deaf, and of course
could not hear the verdict when
read by the Judge. 1t was a strik-
ing incident OF the trial. but had
not Mac shook hands with his for
tunate client, he would have known
the result very soon by the scores
Of other hands that were offered
him within the next minute"
"Much more has been said, both
on the streets and in the newspa-
pers, of what the Chicago & AL
ton folks intend to do with their
Branch than the Chicago & Alton
folks themselves know" remarked
a railroad man last night. "It will
take hundreds of thousands of dol
lars more to build a bridge at JEFF
ferson than the railroad people
care to spend, and this is one of
the weighty reasons that the road
will never be extended. The c.,
j. c., G. & E. P. may connect with
the Branch by ferry, but this last
named road is not yet assured. A
party of Eastern capitalists is said
to have gone over the county south
of Jefferson City to the Arkansas
line and thinks a railroad in that
section would not pay for years to
come. The people of Mexico have
an opportunity to secure a good
thing in the Chicago, Hannibal and
Springfield, and they hadbetter Sc
cure it, and leave the wild goose
chase fer others to run, that's all
I've got to say"
X
81 saw an awful big, fatletter on
a desk in a leading Office the other
day, addressed to a young
lady in another State" said one
of our society bellies. "There was
nothing very strange about that
she went on, "but it set me to
thinking They say the date is
already set and another one of the
best "catches'' in town will be
safely landed some time in March.
When the pair return from Ken
lucky they will occupy one of the
handsomest residences in the city.
/ won't tell you his name; you car
guess that, but | do think it is aw-
fully provoking, don't you 2"