Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-20
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A grocer in Chaplin, KY, last week
found q diamond worth SO in a barrel
of sugar.
Kentucky produced twice as much
whiskey during November and De-
cember of last year as in the same
period of 1894.
The oldest school teacher in Connec-
ticut is said to be Horace Staples of
Westport, who celebrated his ninety
fourth birthday last week.
In Murray, KY, last week, a farmer
arranged with an auctioneer to sell a
mule at auction. The mule brought
81, and the farmer paid fifty cents
auctioneer's fee.
Vermont has made a new move in
the attempt to enforce prohibition.
Persons who rent places where liquor
is sold are to be fined-as well as those
who actually sell the contraband.
The largest dog in Connecticut is
said to be a st. Bernard, owned in
Mystic. 1t is twenty-five months old,
stands thirty three inches high, is six
feet ten inches long and weighs ITO
pounds.
Now it's the egg eating champion
ship. The record is held in Kentucky
by an greensboro man, who in a con-
test last week ate fourteen hard boiled
eggs, against nine eaten by his nearest
competitor.
A lady 70 years old of Deer Isle, Me-,
last week walked two miles to a pond
to go skating. Z She took part in the
sport with great zeal and agility for
an hour or morefand then walked
home.
One man is reported to have made
$50, 900 in the liquor business in Maine
during the past twelve years. OF
course Maine is a prohibition State,
and profits are unusually large under
such circumstances.
James Gould of Barnet, VT, who is
"a years old, has been very busy for a
week past in the woods nea his home
cutting wood for his years supply of
fuel. He is working alone and says he
doesn't need any assistance.
Two young unmarried women have
been conducting a revival in Malta
Bend, Mich, during the past week or
so, and with "wonderfur' results.
Among the many converts are several
men more than seventy years old.
Two months ago a horse and lap
robe were stolen from Jonathan Davis,
of Greenville, Ga. Last week MI.
Davis was asked by. his b~rother-in-
law, in Macon, to run over and look at
a fine horse he had bought. Mr.. Davis
went, and found that it was his horse,
and that the man who had sold it to
| his brother-in-law had thrown in the
lap robe.
George Leonard, of West Rutland,
VT, died a few days ago at the age of
81 years and 10 months. His wife died
three years ago at the age of SO years.
The couple had four sons and three
| girls, all of whom are nov living, the
eldest being nearly 20 years old. AT
the time Mr.. Leonard died he had 80
grandchildren and 81 great grandchii-
dren living.
Farmers living in the vicinity of
Lake City, Mich, are seriously talking
of boycotting that town because of a
state of affairs existing there which
they say ought not to be allowed in
any properly conducted metropolis.
Cows are permitted to run loose on
the streets of the city, and when a
farmer with a load of garden truck or
feed stops to do any trading the cows
gather around his wagon and eat his
stock and more than his profits. The
farmers say they are not in the free
lunch business and the cows must be
restrained, at least on market days, or
they will trade elsewhere.
A runaway couple were married or
a railway train near Shelbyville, Ind,
last week. The girls parents opposed
the match, and watched her closely to
prevent her giving them the slip and
getting married. The young man
learned that the squire was to travel
by a certain train one day last week,
and arranged with the girl to meet
him at the station. He went to Co.
lumbus and got the license, met the
girl at the station as the train came
in, and the pair boarded it and were
married by the squire before the train
had gone many miles and before any
stop was made where they could be
intercepted by a telegram from the
girls parents.