Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-09-04
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
WELLINGTON.

TON.
We have lots of leisure time to
think, write and mediate, 10 correct
our spelling and grammar, to dot all
the is and is. and cross the It's.
If the fashionable and pious you'll
| notice fashionable nj tirst) circles
Of IL society were only disturbed
and all in 4 tluttcr and splitter about
some member having run Oft with
somebody else's wife. or vice versa,
or both, or something else worse; or
if somebody had died or got married,
or some little wee bit of thing. moi
bigger than a skinned rabbit, zones
into the world or. if we had had a
fight, a runaway and smasli-up, 4 sui
eide, 4 fire, Il huge burglary, OF even
n game OF base ball, we could find ma
tcrial to fill up with. By the way. if
times remain thus for any considera
BILE length of time, we may suggest TO
II youngsters the prnpriety of Or
gamiZing a base ball club and then we
will have something 10 write about
material to fill up long, "fai" col
umns, a great deal to say and very
little said after ii was said about the
exciting game just played between
the Red Stockings aud the Blue
Stockiugs-Ours to be the Reds-thc
great interest manifested in the game
a : II q hainr nlovn1 fhn nl.la in tho
bets. the innings, the hits, the miss-
cs, the catches, he scores, the runs.
the fouls, the pitches, etc. How bad
the defeated club locked alter the
game was over, and how happy the
victOrs We're. How they eel
feastcd, toasted, tiddled and danced
the evening after The raiisucinE CANA
All of which might he t?) acceptable
to YOU il not to your readers. AS prop
err material to till up the columns Of Il
great and fashionable newspaper of
the day. But we have none of those
things in II virtuouS village. The
fashionable and pioms (the two go to-
gether you see) never think Of doing
any such thing. Our town is not so
large and densely crowded that the
population cannot breathe Il pure at
mospherc. Isn't it remarkable how
differently we look at things any
how, and what "a change another
standpoint makes in Our opinions
how certain things can he done by
one man Dr. woman and be applaud
ed therefor, when the same thing,
done by another, makes them de
serving of hanging! How true the
words of Bassania
''The world Is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But being seasoned with Il gracious voice
Obscures the shore of evil? In religion
What damned! error but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue oil his outward parts
How many co wards whose hearts are all Ms FALSE
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beard OF Hercules and frOwning Mars
Who inward searched have iivers white rs
milk
ASSEMBLIES.
Among the several absentees of our
town, IN visits and business, we note
at present !: Mrs. l.. Ill. Day and fam.
lily and Miss Alice Richardson, in Ken.
lucky. Mrs. Mary Houston and daugh.
ter, Lutte, III Kentucky; Mrs. Ida Full.
kerson, ILL.,; Mrs. V. Barnhill, La,
Moses Grihln, Warren county. Mo.
Mrs. White Ragland, ST. Louis.
REAL ESTATE SALES.
The following sales of real estate
except the first. have been made with,
in the past two weeks, all the land
above this place:
Gideon Mayne, 80 acres, to T.. Sci
emeyer for 81 1900.
= G.. NJ. Thomas, agent, Gillespie, 81
acres for $500 to same.
Hiram Kite, 40 acres tn n German
Of Warren county, for $37 al acre
Martin Kite. so acres for 1900. AL
the above purchases are by Germans
who expect to mope upon the land
! by the first of March. Germans ar,
: generally industrious and thrifty ,ant
we welcome them among us.
:. LOCAL SCORES.
John E. Arnold and family are pre-
pairing to remove to Texas
The country is "Aoodcd" with cat
tie buyers, all wanting lhree-year-ol'
steers and upward, to feed 85cts an,
81 corn to in other localities.
The Narrow Gauge, from all ap
pearances, will soon be here. The Ia
eating corps are campcd here, an,
i, are driving stakes all around LIS
Look out for our promised laugh.
The public school at the Fiourmo'
school housc will open the third Mon
day i'll September with Prof. j. A
= Lee "a teacher.
+ There are ten times rs many Gu
t cumbers about here this year a
ever before !; iow's your time fn
y pickles. =
IL Is me DtSt liIlt III 90 nDIlill!
e that we ever saw 4; while We are loaf
ing we know We are not neulectin.
: business thereby.
! Things begin to look very s'tiicka
tive" for the young corn.
The late rains We have had are fin
for the corn 4; previous TO which W,
} were too dry.
. Mr.. David Harris, of California
arrived kere last Saturday on a visi
to his father, Il. ID. Harris.
Dan. Bates was appointed assessor
fnrthis ton-..Siip. and iS s,oin9 rount
: finding outflow much each individua
has. If you escape "Dan" you're
boss"
There was so much s.cOnsolida
- tio"' in your last paper that il strain
. ed and crossed our eyes so badly the
have not come straight yet. Iol
ought to have seen us trying u rea,
q both papers at once one with on
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