The Lincoln County herald., 1869-11-25
Sale News.

Wheat was selling at Sedalia, Pettis
county, Oh the 10th inst, At so to IS cents
per bushs!.
The Editor Of the Fulton Telegraph
anticipates Invitations to not less than o
dozen weddings within two weeks.
It il said Gov. McClurg is about to
marry Miss Phoebe Cousins, of St. Louis.
She is female suffragist and lecturer.
Elder Moses 4. Lard, one Of the ablsst
ministers of the Christian Church, has
been preaching at Chillicothe lately.
An infant child Of . Mrs. Jamison, Of
Kansas City, was seriously and probably
fatally sca!ded, on the night Of the 18th
inst, by overturnins teapot upon itself.
Rev. Il. A. Boutland, Of the N. E.
Church, has been holding very interest.
ing p"otracted meeting at Mexico, at.
tended with quite number Of additions.
Twenty seven individuals and firms in
Galloway county, for 1869, pay $40, 1888
IN taxes, but the twenty seven taxpayers
only have fifteen votes. That's Radical
jusrlce. ..,....,.............
The papers Of Pike county condemn
the action Of their County Court sppro.
priating 5000, 900 to the st. Louis and
Keokuk railroad. The condition is that
tho road runs by Bowling Green. .....
Quite protracted meeting has been
going on in this place for the past few days
under the supervision Of Revs. Van
deventer and Monroe. Ono annexation
to the church. .--Warrenton Banner.
The Ironton Enterprise says the cosI
Of supporting tho State Penitentiary 70,
tho past twenty years, has been ovel
81, 600, 900 above the income derived from
the labor Of the prisoners, or $4,000 los'
per annum.
Last Saturday afternoon, Mr.. GIVEN
, became cmbroiled iu . controversy will
another man, drew his pistol to shoe
his antagonist, when Mr.. Eugene Rick
ards caught II, and received . sligh
wound in the fore 6nger of bis left hand
l-Clarksville Sentinel, 18th.
Fl Messrs. Ring l. sons, Of Louisiana
Pike county, last week slaughtered o ho
} weighing $50 pounds not. The anima
I was raised by Mr.. Haskins, Of Pix
county, Illinois, who received for hi
porker $54, an amount which, not Ion
! ago, would have purchased pretty goo
. horse.
+, On the 18th inst, Mr.. John Montgom
cry died at the residence Of bis son, nea
St. Joseph, at the age Of IS years. Th
deceased was born near Abingdon, VII
: gipia. He was ono among tho oldest se
tiers Of tho Platte Purchase, having Z,
= sided in Buchanan county over thirt
= years. 30.
What Is now called Henry county vi
!. originally named "Rives," in honor
!. William q. Kives, Of Virgins. Whe
!; : that gentleman left the Democratic part
and went over TO tho Wings, the LegM
, lature changed the name Of the ooun,
:, TO "Henry," in honor of Patrack Hem
. . Of Revolutionary memory.
On the 9th inst, 4. l.. Young, On eu
ployse at . saw mill at Montgomery Git
), Montgomery county, was accidental
u thrown against the saw while in mott,
r aud 10 terribly mAnglsd that he died ear
/. next morning. Young 10 respected %
/. sober, industrious and worthy young ma
He leaves . wife. -. :
!. Tho project Of starting . 60 .opsrsti
10 store with capital Of e40, 1000, 10 bei,
y mccted st Louinians, Pike county. II
0. proposed to have two hundred shares
I. 5000 each. Tho business, If starte
will embrace general merchandising,
) that stockholders and others can purcha
J. almost any article needed sos family