Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-16
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
WELLINGTON.

NkLI, "ElI.y
here we are again at the end of another week.
How quickly the week has passed, 1t don't
seem possible; but tits so. and is only corrobo-
rative of what every man says, that the older he
gets the faster time seems to Ny. What once
seemed years are now but months. and months
weeks, weeks days, and go on. We Will very
soon be old at this rate, amt then comes diving
time, and then-what? As We have never died,
We can give no experimental knowledge of
'sthat undiscovered country from whose bourne
no traveller returns,' - but The generally accep-
ted belief is that there are two countries or two
places OF existence in eternity for disembodied
sonIs. One of everlasting happiness and pleas
ure a world of light. No night there, "where
sickness, sorrow, pain and DEATH never
come: where the inhabitants drink of the sweet
| waters of the river of life which lows from be-
meath the great white throne, and plnck the
ambrosial fruits from the tree Of life, and walk
the golden-paved streets of the New Jerusalem,
and dwell IN the presence of God and the holy
angels, with crowns upon their heads and harps
OF gold In their hands. singing praises and Civ
ing honor and worship to God forever and ev-
er. The other, a place of perpetual darkness
and misery, "where there is weeping and
waIling and gnashing of teeth.'' a lake of fire
and birthstone where the worm dieth not, and
the fire is not quenched; where the poor lost
soul must dwell in the presence Of The devil and
the evil spirits OF darkness, and remain in ever
lasting exile and Punishment from the presence
of an angry Deity, and suffer torment In a
world without end.
As before stated, this is generally believed, be
it worth much or little. And to one of those
places, family described, is every human soul
fastening rs fast as the wings OF time can carry
it; some are now crossing the river, others al
most there; we will all soon be there. 1t only
remains for us to ask to which place we are &C.
ing. Have we made our calling and election
sure? Or are we still sporting it out. as if we
were to live always here, and sighting time
and opportunity? Ur are we just drifting along
and not very sure what the chance will be for
us? Have we no hope; ami in our meditation
oil death does it present itself to lis as to Clau-
dis-alI uncertainty and dread?
...Ay. but to die and go We know not where
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot:
This sensible warm motion 10 become
A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit
To battle in fiery foods or to reside
In thrilling regions OF thick ribbed ice;
To be imprisoned in the viewless winds
And blown with restless violence round about
The pendant world; or to he worse than worst
Of those that lawless and uncertain thoughts
Image howling!-'tist too horrible!
The weariest and most ioathed worldly life
That age, ache, perjury and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is . paradise
To what we fear of death
that's all on that subject, but think of it; and
here are the
VARIOUS LOCALS.
Drs. ':Mat'' Flournoy and .'Kirt'' Harris
left last Tuesday for st. Louis to attend the med
ical lectures there this winter.
Geo. G. Adamson was awarded the contract
for building the McClelland bridge which was
let out by commissioner Turner Williamson, at
50 eco.
All our stores are crowded with new goods
just now
Our town was made lively two days last week
by two Italian boys, with harps and fiddle, who
picked and sawed out music at the rate Of
''three tunes and one sing for ten cents"
Several valuable (D dogs have mysteriously
disappeared from hereabouts. Lest some of
our citizens may be suspected OF knowing
something about their fate, we suggest perhaps
Hans. of Concordia, is lurking around here af-
ter nightfall.
The Danbury News man says "what the
American people want most is a good five cent
cigar" Marshall's got 'em.
Mrs. Turner Williamson had a good many ia
Bile cloths, sheets, shirts and other things stolen
from the clothes line one night last week.
Shake, shaker, slakest.
The corn and cold weather are now on a race
The corn, as yet, is all right.
''Punkins'' sell in our market at one dollar a
load.
Ducks are putting in their appearance on
Helms lake.
John Porter, who went ont to Colorado last
winter, got back last week, satisfied that La
fayette county is the place for most everybody.
Mrs. Mary Houston and Miss Lutte, who have
been absent in kentucky several weeks, got
home last Sunday.
suppose you try your quotation from Bryant,
The melancholy days have come
The saddsst OF the year
again, as it is slightly incorrect in two particu-
lars.