Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
California peaches are selling for
con a ton in the orchards.

llEW0 VA
California peaches are seiiing ior
soO a ton in the orchards.
Granville Higgason, Jr., OF Green's
burg. XIV, is 81 years old and only %
inches high.
A RockIand, Me-, newspaper an
nounces that stscarlet fever OF a pc
nevolent typen is prevalent in that
city.
Up to the end of last year Phiiadei-
phia's new City Hall had COST sio,-
6ss, 1854. 81, and it is not quite fnisneo
yet.
A nepbew of the great japanese
commander, Field Marshal 1amagata'
ia living in this country. Though he is
man of middle age, he Is OF very
Youthful appearance.
After simmer weather had fairly
set in. and the residents had donneo
their straw hats and seersuckers, a
snow storm swept down from the
mountains on Canon City, Or, on
June %.
A genuine mountain trout measur-
ing 26k inches and weighing . POUNDS
was caught near Durango, Col, a few
DAYS ago. 1t was caught with a eve
| ounce rod and a No. 6 hook.
Citizens of Taylorsville, KY, are
jubilating over the good work OF a re-
form commission of street cleaning
in successfully clearing the streets OF
hogs, which have been permitted py
| former administrations to pasture at
large in the highways of the town.
The discovery of wood pulp as a
substitute for rags in the manufacture
of paper will, it would seem, soon
have to be followed up by the discov-
cry of a substitute for wood pulp. 1t
/ is estimated that 500, 900 900 feet of
spruce logs will be needed to fill the
requirements of the mills for this
year.
Snow Salsbury,an eighty-four-year-
old citizen of Canaan, Me-, skipped
the age of steam entirely. He never
rode on the steam cars, but last week
had his first ride on an electric a +
Some fifty years ago he went to Bos-
ton by steamboat, but since then he
had remained quietly at home on his
farm until last week.
Mr.. T. D. Pinkham, of Harpswell,
Me-, who enlisted in the Union Army
when past three score and ten years
old, having made a notable military
record in the Mexican War, will be
100 years old if he lives until next
November, as there is every proba-
bility he will. He is still hale and ac-
tive, and travels around alone visiting
his many friends all over Maine. He
has had twenty children, but only one
is now living.
A premature celebration of the
Fourth, which people Whereabouts
thought was an earthquake, occurred
in Dubuque, Ia, last Tuesday, through
a farmer dropping some ashes from
his pipe into a stock of fireworks in a
department store. Seven thousand
dollars worth of fireworks went up in
half a dozen grand explosions, which
partially wrecked the big store. The
plate-glass front of the store was
blown out, but the farmer who start
ed the celebration was out in the
street ahead of the first rocket.
The anti-tobacco reformers do not
seem to be keeping up with the pro-
cession even, to say nothing of max
ing Roadway. The consumption OF
tobacco in its various forms shows q
steady increase. Last month, accord
ing to the Government reports, there
were manufactured in this country
365, 1926, 647 cigars, 305, $50, 1860 cigar
cites, q 1857 ,443 pounds of tobacco,
and more than a million pounds OF
snuff. This was ar increase over the
production during the same period
last year of nearly two million cigars,
half a million cigarettes, and one and
one-half millions of tobacco.
Four members of a curious COM
munity of semi-white men, which is
said to exist in upper Maine, nea the
Canadian boundary, were arrested in
Norridgewock, Me-, a few days since,
for sheep stealing, and are nov in the
county jail there, where they r at
tracing much attention. They were
almost naked when caught, and their
chests and backs are covered with a
thick growth of fine hair. The gang
to which they belong consists of some
forty men, who live in caves, subsist-
ing on what they can find in the woods
and steal from neighboring farms.
Sturgeon Exchange Bank Receiver
STURGEON, Mo-, July Sd. Mayer,
cashier of the Farmers and Merchants
Bank, has been appointed receiver
for the Sturgeon Exchange Bank,
which closed its doors last week. He
will be required to give a $50, 900 bond
1t is reported that a fair association
is being formed in Centralia.