Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-06-11

building marble iias boos found IN
Martes county.
1;cxaa county Is excited over lead

sl,Uulutn& marnte hos Do0o
Martes county. II
1cxaa county Is excited over lead
discoveries.
Southeast Missouri is nlivc with
sewing and washing machine agents.
Trenton, situated on Grand river,
which is q limo stream for fish, buys
its fresh fish IN Chicago.
Arrangements are being made for
tho erection Of extensive car works
In st. Joseph.
>The Cirangcmcn Of jasper county
intond erecting M agricultural im-
plcment factory at Carthage.
Tho Cnrrollton journal notices the
elopcmcnt Of q school girl OF tender
fifteen with her fathers hired hand.
Tho Osceoln Democrat has lately
gone Into tho Jenkins business in.
working up n marriage in high
life. awe suspect tho Democrdt Ell.
dorscd tho Louisiana RESOLUTIONS, but
as n jenkins lie is not n success.
The other day twcnty-sevcn loaded
cara passed over the st. Joseph bridge
at II time. 1t stood the pressure
finely.
There arc one hundred and forty
licensed dogs In Mobcrly. the license
OH which amounts TO &804-more thnn
all the dogs are worth. Some sixty
have been killed since the licensed
dog law went into operation in that
city.
Tho Weston Commercial is troubled
about the matter of six thousand
dollars of school moEcy. Some
body ts suspected of s%pcculat-
ing on capital borrowed without III
tcrcst. Tho Commercial man is de-
cidcdly captious. If the principal is
safe he should say nothing about a
trifle of interest. We have heard of
county officials who had a principle
against paying interest, and who
made il their interest TO keep all the
principal they could lay their hands
on. OF curse they were unprinci-
palcd men.
The Fulton Press arraigais tho Tel
cgraph man, aud charges him with
entering ipto n nice little family ar
rangement@ with the Fair Play man,
whereby the county treasury was
made to bleed the maximum for pub
fishing the delinquent tax list.
When bidding time came, II seems,
the Teiegrnph's lines were down, and
Fair Play gothic job at the maximum,
and truct to its nomenclature, did tho
fair thing by making a fair divide
and giving the Telegraph 7 1-2 per
; cent. of the 20 which 1t received. II
/ the Press was posted it would not
howl over such ~triflcs.
Four carloads of piles, from neal
= Lexington, No., arrived in East st
Louis yesterday, for the bridge ncros'
Cahokia Creek for tho approach 4
the great ST.. Louis aud Illinois bridge
list. Louis Democrat, 7th.
II An eighteen foot snake Is roamin!
Q around In tho neighborhood of DiI
II PiAcy, Pulaski county. lie woul'
o be q nice pct in a family.
g Henry Clay Dean, tho orator nm
politician, resides upon n fart
q of fifteen hundred acres in tho easter
part Of putmnm county,, Mo. HI
residence Is known rs "Rcbcl's cove,
and himself rs tho "Grcat Rcpudit
" ZIONIST"
ri SuiCfDE.-RoberL Magill, \ nativ
=, of this county, agc,l thirty.omc,
searmcr by occupation. residing abol
five miles southeast of lloustonin,
= this county, committed suicide b
drowning Himself in llenth's Gree
= on tho 2b;l ult. lie was laborin
= under temp. rary insanity. IL Is p',
sumcd, occucioncd by suffering froi
M attack OF mumps. lilo was sec
hv His brother to throw himself int
> tic stream but too fur Off to rendC
; any assistance. In the ndlghbo. hoo
lo bore IN excellent character TO- u
dustry, sobriety anu honesty. I'll
coroNcr's Jury hold M inquest OH III
body Oh Monday last, and 4 verdi Z
was rendered III accordance with tn
i. above faets.-tSedalia Opinion.
= An election was held in Hannibal, o
= Tuesday last, Tor the purpose OF deeidin
whe, her the citizens would authorize I'll
Board Of Education to issue bonds to th
amount Of $4,000, for the purpose q
0 buying grounds and building schoe
houses thereon for public school purposes
. The proposition was defeated by a vet,
u OF nearly Two to one--,he vote standing
= 43d "No," TO ala EYES,"
During tho heavy stopm which pre-
vailed III this section OF tho state ias
= Monday night; tho depot At Fulto,
0 was struck by lightning. aud mar
i rowly escaped destruction. On III,
Saturday evening previous. u stabl,
In tho lower part OF tho town wa
struck by lightning aud entlrcl!
consumed. A little girl was IN III,
stable at tho time, feeding some pigs
but fortunately escaped withou
injury.-[Prcss.
w. G. IIandlcy, &. w. holland al,
James Owens, tho newly Clccte,
members of tho county court, unde
G tho township organization law, pre-
scented their commissions to til
court last Monday and mado fo,ma
i demand for their seats, ard the oil,
court refusing to vacate, proposed I,
the claimants to make an agreed cas-
aud carry it Immediately to til
Supreme Court for final adjudication
@ which was agreed upon. Awaitini
tho decision, the court adjourned t
s the third Monday in July (WestoI
Commercial.
v Tobacco Prospects.