The Lincoln County herald., 1870-11-24
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Monroe county gave Colonel Dyer two
votes.
In Iron county, where B Grafz Brown
lives, McClurg did net get a single vote
The aggregate Democratic majority ol
the five Congressional districts Of Mary
land is 1862.
10 Butler. Bates county. corn is sell
ing on the streets at thirty cents busbcl
The Sedalia Democrat pronouuces Miss
Townsley far head Of Olive Logan, as a
lecturer.
John Wright, young man living near
Mount Airy, in Randolph county, was
killed on the 9th by being thrown from
his horse against a tree.
Drake thinks the election 10 Missouri
is the "grandest piecs Of villainy on
record" Almost as grand a piece of
villainy" as selling his slaves and then
stealing his neighbors.
Apples are getting to be great crop In
Western Missouri, especially in the vi.
cinity Of Barry, Platte county, where
over three thousand trees have been
planted in the last two years.
On Thursday last brother aud sister
met in Kansas City after twenty years
separation. For six months prior to
their meeting they had been living within
five squares of each other.
Kings vote in this Uhe 9th) district
is 1035O; Dyer's 3,Sl2; Diapers g..
24S. Kings majority over Dyer, is g..
53S, and his majority over the combined
vote Of both the Republican candidates is
1920.
A few days ago justice Ransom, of
Kansas City, bought new hat. Shortly
afterwards thief snatched it from his
head, and ESCAPED down an alley. Jus.
tice had to walk considerable distance
bareheaded.
During game of base ball at Victoria,
Jefferson county, on Saturday last, fly
ing bat struck little Willie James, boy
eight years old, oD the head, causing his
death in twenty four hours. lie was a
son of DR.. Louis Jamos.
Says the Huntsville Citizen "Mr.
Thomas Mathis, of Clifton Hill, chal
enges the State on the turnip question
lie has patch of an acre and half,
and three fourths Of the turnips in it will
a'erage two feet in circumference "
Thomas Mic. ols, laborer at Fry &
Taylor saw mill, seven miles south Of
Licking, Phelps county, was killed on
the 5th inst, while at work at the mill.
Nichols was standing some thirty feet in
front Of the saw while in motion, when it
----1@. plank wnicn nau Ueeu saweu GU
and threw it forward, striking him In the
pit OF the stomach with such force as to
injurc him SO that he lived about two
hours.
The Kingston Sentinel Of the 11,h
is responsible for the following: There
is boy in Breckenridge who has no
ears. They are entirely grown over, if
they ever were otherwise. 1t is said
that he can hear distinctly through his
mouth. We did not learn his name.
We had the following iu the Kansas
City Bulletin of the 15ih: "a drunken
girl named Lena Rose, about seventeen
years of age, was picked up in an almost
helpless condition on Delaware street
yesterday morning. and placed in hack
This so enragsd her that she struck her
fist through the plate glass windows on
both sides Of the hack, aud continued to
beat her arm, wrist and fist upon the
broken edges until her arms were nearly
cut cff"
Says the Kansas City Journal, of the
18th: Yesterday A. L. Dyke, a train
boy on the Kansas Pacific railroad
started for England, in obedience to a
summons by telegraph. The dispatch h
stated that wealthy uncle of the boy
had died, leaving him his entire property,
valued at s1,24O,OOO. The boy started
yesterday afternoon for New York, and
will take the first steamer for England.
He was in the St. Nicholas Hotel for a
short time yesterday. He was nervous
and excited, although he attempted to
conceal his agitation. A friend asked
him what he was going to do with the
vast fortune left him. He replied be
meant to go slow He made the re-
mark that "the lawyers shouldn't get
their clutches on it if he could help it,"