Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-05-08
LOCAL AND

Greeley and Gratz Brown. "Hobson's
choice" 'That's the best we can do"
The days are growing warm. Jim Nc
Grew and the ice season have commenced.
Greeley is 60 years old, wears specs.
walks without a cane and blows his nose in
Il red Bandanna He'll make US a good
President.
Our Catholic friends are making arrange
ments to build a $4,000 church at Higgins
vile. The lots have been secured, and the
building is to go up soon.
Greeley is a temperance man. his chief
diet being bran bread and cold water. The
only thing b. Gratz ever did for the tenn
pcrance cause was the letter he wrote to the
Howard County Advertiser. Nothing like
getting up 4 ticket that will harrnonize the
people.
Wa,crly i, red hot for II. g.. When the
news of his nomination came she went wild
with enthusiasm. Guns fired. b%onfire~
hlaZcd. big crowd collected, and addresses
mad by Capt. Collins. Shewaltcr and Ed
wards. The jubilee closed with a telling
speech from strppere. a noted colored ORA
tor. who mounted a goods box, waved his
'''Ai III iut I'LL, ttill SIOtltcu 'NITteuS DrUNl.
dat's dc ticket for me-"
ii. q. is now busy at getting ont extra
large edition OF What | know about farm
ing to distribute in the rural districts ~
campaign docuin' nt>. In thi, way he j.
blowing his way to the white house."
Aldri,"c COrdcr, Bob" Dcatliridgc. and
Alcck Carlyle. of WaverIy, left for Sal;
{ Luke. titI last pnnrlny l.tlr,Ir. ,r,
Carlyle carry with them four car loads OF
mules. and Cordcr goes to see the country
They expect to worship at the ..Tabernacie''
next Sabbath, and hear Brigham discourse
of the heautIcs OF the Mormon faith.
A. an orator and lecturer Horace j. a fail
urc, hut he never fails TO take the platform
and >tanlmer out his piece. His ungainly
movements. and the bad habit lc has OF
trrauing on all the loose cUrils about him.
and installing " story hats Tor cushion
chairs. has given rise t" the rumor thai
aw k~wardnrsa i one OF his weak points.
As Il player of whist IL. &. j. hard to beat,
but IL poker player he il the butt of Yves.
tern >port>mcn. While engaged in this pop.
ular game on his l.ttc tour To Colorado, 4
friend sitting al the same table said, ~'.llvrac,
>~traI'!lc that blind" At ili, the plIiloSo.
piIrr locked over his ">pcc>,'' knit his brows
and said. I'm do no >IIrn Il DIN thing, ".
don't do any vulgar Tricks like that in York
State"
AT Il recent election held in Louisiana. Mo.
the following men were elected To the boar,
of the Louisiana railroad
.luo. W. Reid. Ju". T. Pcndlcton. jackson
Il. V. L.. Mc''lclland. CHRIS. CatrVn, L.aiay
cite: David LandOn. +. L. Rainey, Saline
Tho>. Siiacklciord. John l.. Sebrcc. Howard
l;nht. Il. Price. Iiuonc: {. II. Hardin
AudrIin; Vim, King. d.. NJ. Tucker. Gala,
way: II. V. Z. Block. Pike; j. j.. Mitchell
l;"bt. i. Tan>cy, II. Louis.
At an election held IN Ills city last Mon
day the 10 liowin. men were elected to tn
board of the LcN.& ST. l.. X. X.
j. q. shelly. NJ. W. Wither>. James ii
Beatty. L. Il. Russell, b. ii. Wilson. Gcr:e II
Farrar ana Geo. Gordon. Lafayette county
Joseph Higgins and Vim. Gentry, Petit
county.
ANOTTIEH MAGNIFICENT VICTORY
Horace Greeley for President. Il. Graf