Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-06-04
Missouri Items.

Tho bueincsS mon OF Clinton have
subscribed $4,000 cash, to aid in
starting an agricultural manufactur-
ing establishment in that place. They
"plank down the cash without grunl-
bling-give no bonds to draw ten per
cent. interest" This looks like bust
ness.
w. II. Brown. owner of the city
bakery, this city, was killed at the
Todd residence, four miles south of
! Ccntreview, Sunday afternoon last.
a preliminary examination was COM
mcnccd Yesterday before Squire Har-
mon and is now progressing. AS
there are two sides to the matter we
forbear comment until an impartial
hearing shall be Notwithstanding
Standard.
a st. 10. company is opening an>
other stone quarry at Warrensbnrg.
The supply Of stone ID iuexhaustible,
and the demand is such that the ex-
isIing company find, it impossible to
tiA all orders, with the present limi-
ted facilities for shipping.
Several Missouri exchanges report
the appearance of chinch bugs in the
wheat fields.
The Louisiana, Mo-, bridge will be
20S0 feet.long, which is 500 feet longer
than tho bridge. ut Hannibal. The
cost will be between eight and nine
hundred thousand dollars, and is to
be completed by the first of ncxt De-
tccmber.
+ Tho state Board of Equalization
raised the taxable value of lands in
Boone county 20 per cent. The Her
aid is not satisfied with such substan-
tial acknowledgements Of tho mate
rial prosperity of old Boone.
| We yesterday brought to the at
tention of citizens of Buchanan
tcounty the wrong under which they
suffer on account of the eXtravagant
and unjust assessment Of the lands OF
this county. 1t will be their own
fault.now i fthe wrong be not rightcd.
Justice requires that the assessment
of the lands of this county should he
reduced nearly one hundred per cent.
list. Joseph Gazette.
ENFORCING THE VAGRANT Act
Andrew Clay, colored, has been do
clared vagrsnt, and will be scfa OH
Saturday next, to the highest bidder.
The darkies who have been 50 long
idle about town had now better look
sharp.-[Salinc Progress.
1t is said that the grape crop abeu,
Hermann, Gasconade county, will
DO an entire failure this year, with
the exception perhaps of the Concord
grape, which fortunately withstood
the rigors of the past winter.
The people of Saline county con-
denim the action of the county court
in making tho new Jail appropriation
of $4,000.
! A daring bank robbery was COM
mitted at st. Gcnevieve, Mo-, OH the
18th inst. Two men entered the bank,
forced tho cashier to open the safe,
aud then made him accompany them
to the outskirts of the town where
they rcjoined q number Of confcder-
ates who were holding horses. The
party tllcgvrodc away. a son of the
President Of the bank was standing
near by when the cashier. was over
powered, who ran away, receiving a
slight wound from n shot. The rob-
bers got about $500 in money.
When leaving the cashier they saluted
him with several shots.
Nearly one hundred Yards in depth
of the river bank have been washed
away from in front of New Madrid,
Mo, this spring.
There are fifteen applicants for the
Marshallship of Huntsville. The po-
sition is worth about thirty dollars a
month.
An NJ. d. in the Boonvillc Adver-
tiser Eliminates the spinal ineningi-
tbs question thus: II1he treatment,
we will try to lose sight of the
idea that VIC have purely an inflam.
matory disease or primarily q BLOOD
poison, as commended by some, but
rather of hyperacnia or congcs-
ton from an irritation induced from
external causes localized and intensi-
fed by q peculiar impressibility ofthc
nervo centres. As q patho-
logical result, there is n pervisi
on or abolition of those. func-
tional powers which in the aggregate
develop q peculiar erethism not SO
much above q normal condition as a
departure from or below, producing
stasis of the Speculation, s~uspending
normal nutrition and elimination.
Thug we soon have an Inherent power
capable of generating its own morbid
! poison, paraly ziRg tho function of the
body, and is its ultimate death.
From tho foregoing conclusions we
! draw our deductions as TO the ration
al treatment Expressed briefly sup
port, antiscptics, aud proper climb
nation.
I The Fulton Mail says Galloway
county Will only yield halt . crop Of
what this year.