Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-03-08
The LEDGER.
THURSDAY, R 8, 1888.
SATURDAY SALAD.

SATURDAY SALAD.
Political and Social Matters-A
Female Mystery at the
Post-oface.
"The average everyday reader
who skins over the murders, fires,
suicides, casualties, politics, &C.,
in the great metropolitan papers
day after day little knows how that
news is collected. A great deal of
it is made up from reports of the
Associated Press, but now every
newspaper that amounts to any,
thing has its own special cores
pondents in all towns of any note.
If anything of any importance hap
pens it is sure to be gobbled up by
these alert correspondents to appear
in print a few hours later in the
papers they represent. Mexico is
and always has been a good news
center and the leading newspapers
are well represented here. B. B.
Runkle is the correspondent of the
Globe-D Democrat, Cincinnati Enquir-
er, New York World and Police
Gazette Frank N. Frost represents
the Post Dispatch and Kansas City
Times Homer Bassford is the
Kansas City Journal and st. Louis
Chronicle correspondent ; BENZ. F.
Dobyns has been doing good work
on the st. Louis Republican for
years, and Jno. M. Pollard is the
efficient Chicago Times correspond
emit. All matter is sent by tsle-
graph and several thousand words
leave Mexico by wire every night
for the great dailies. All matter
that is worth printing is worth tel
egraphing,' said. Mr.. McCullagh,
managing editor of the Globe-Dem-
ocrat, and so it goes"
"We have a full fedged, real,
live mystery in this end of town."
said a man who does business near
the post-ofice. SIT is a female
mystery, at that. For the past six
months a heavily yelled woman
has entered my store every other
day about ten o'clock, purchasing
some triling thing and going out.
She comes regularly, asks for what
she wants and pays for it. She
has a very pleasant voice but | can
not say what sort of countenance
she possesses, as her face is always
yelled. I sent one of the boys
after her the other day as she left
the store and she was traced to &
neat cottage in the West End. ]
inquired of the neighbors as to bel
identity but, strangely, they, too
had never seen her face. My Gu
riosity was fully aroused when
heard this and / inquired at thu
post-ofice. The authorities knew
the woman's name but had neve
seen her face. I have seen he
every other day for six months AM
she always wears a heavy veil
Come around some morning at tel
O'Clock and I'll point her out t
you"
ssThe month of March promise
to witness an unusually large mum
Der of weddings, if reports ar
true,"' remarked Recorder Torrey
son yesterday. 81 have alread,
granted a number of licenses an
understand q dozen knots are to b
tied in leading families during th
coming thirty days" County Clerl
Williams was within hearing an
becoming interested in the CONVEX
sation, said: Speaking of maj
rage licenses, / expect I have a
many applications for those all-im
portant documents as my fTien
Torreyson. Only to-day a youn
man called for a license. As h
came IN / spoke to him very NIGEL
md asked if / could do anythin
for him. He hesitated, then sale
Moo, II guess not I gave hir
= seat while I stepped int
the vault to wash my hands. TIL
young man was after me in a me-
ment. He seemed to have chang
ed his mind, for with innumsrabl
shems and haws,' managed to sa
that he wanted to get married. c
course / could do nothing for hil
and he thanked me very kind
when I took him to the Office {
Recorder Torreyson.n
tThe coming city primary wi
be = warm one, or I'm no prophet,
said q local politician this morning
1.-THE candidates ere. all lookin
after their fences and, although IL
primary il two weeks Of, polite
is beginning to warm up. I hay
heard that there will be lively rae,
ia nearly every ward for Counci
man,.
p. II. Young and son, of Audrai
county, are in the city to-da,
Nootinga 1t the town with q view
1aqeting here. They are old -
I'M eikissns ef Audrain, and /
Ga y have them sett'
Eoberly Hsadlight