Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-04
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SHORTS.
One hundred car loads OF corn were ship
ned from HoustOnIa last week.
For sale. cht ap-A light spring wagon.
Apply to Jno. d. New. noV2'-tt.
A new drug and grocery store has been
opened in MAYHEM by MIR. Arthur Brown.
lr you want u Piano, Organ or Singer
Sewing Machine, write to VIM. Bird, Lex
ington, Mo. hoS2"-"
w. w, Rhodes has been appointed gener-
al baggage master and travelling accountant
of the A, Il p. r. R., with headquarters at
st. Louis.
Tornado Jim, with his train. came down
like q cyclone upon seven head of cattle last
Saturday evening, near BROWNSVILLE oreaA-
ing the legs of five and killing two.
When a Chinese bank fails all the officers
have their heads cut off and flung into a cor
ner with the assets, and it has been 500 years
SINCE there was a bank failure in that coun-
try.
A country editor says, with apparent
truthfulness "The best paper now issued
is the greenback signed by Treasurer New.
1t is difficult, however, to get it on the ex-
change list"
Now that the horses have all recovered, a
great many children and some grown folks
have got the epizootic. They cough anu
blow and complain of sore throat just as
their equine friends did.
Grand Commander Jno. C. Bloomfield, &C
companied by Grand Marshal h. T. Gray,
and Grand Warden John R. Parsons, are on
an inspection tour to the various
cries knights Templar Of the state.
We will wager . dollar to a dim that
jake Julian will read every word of every
speech and every resolution that was offered
in the great railroad convention in st. Louis
on the 23d ult. His town, San Diego. is the
Il, opposed Western terminus of the road.
We are glad to announce that John Phelps
has been reinstated at the Missouri Pacific
.enot. John Is a quiet, industrious and
f.itbful agent. And the writer does not
slosh praise over men merely because they
are railroaders either.
The Lexington Branch is the best road of
its length in the stnte. The regular freight
train has 80 much to do in hauling corn ana
stock that q special has been put on to do
nothing but carry coal, and this not being
enough the passenger is compelled to take
some stock and coal from Lexington. MAJ
dssperanduxn Lafayette county. All this
must bring money into the county.
Young men, there is one thing which is
said to be handler than a pocket in a shirt.
~ TIM uIoovo Of vnnr Ovprenat
for your girl to put her hand IN. Young
ladies, there is one thing nicer than chewing
gum. It is to snuggIe your hand into that
rocket and have your adored one press 1t to
his manly bosom every m your pull back
trips you, which can be as often as convent
ent, you know.
A great many devotees to the piscatorial
art have imbibed the idea that the only way
to fish a stream is to wade up the current.
We rave recently Iearned that this is an in
correct theory. A great amily of fishermen
lived many years ago who had no surname
as was common then. On one occasion the
principal man in this family .fshed up a
stream and then successfully hshed back.
His descendants have all been known as
Fshbacks.
We apologize to our readers for the small
amount of literary matter on the first page
of this paper, occasioned by printing the
preamble and resolutions of the Pacific rail-
road convention, which In st.
Louis last week. We deemed a thorough
understanding of the subject of great m
portance to the people OF the southwest /; as
in conjunction with the improvement OF the
mouth OF the Mississippi river the greatest
step that has been taken for years towards
diving the transportation question.
The glowing account which we see Of the
tobacco crop in other counties, and the
large sum of money which 1t is bringing
them, impresses the fact upon our mind hat
there is no better tobacco land in the state
than here in Lafayette, and that but q very
small quantity of the weed is raised. In
most other crops it is easy to overstock the
market, but in the bright yellow tobacco
which can be raised in the hills of Washing
ton. Davis, Sni-a-Bar and Clay townships
there is no such danger. Tobacco might be
made the staple of these lands, and many =
ssthin FARM" which is now considered almost
worthless could thus be made to pay as well
rs the richest of our lands. Tobacco is q
crop which requires only light hands, and
the BOYS and girls can do more substantial
work in il than in almost any other crop.
AS hemp has ceased to be largely raised. we
should substitute some crop which we can
not eat or waste, and which all going out OF
the county will bring its whole value in
money into our midst.
A shert time ago a young couple were
married in this city, and Immediately depar-
ted for their home in the rural district.
Some of the neighbors got together and gave
the couple q warm reception and a big sup
per, of which we will suppose they both
cat heartily. About II O'Clock the company
departed, and the newly welded PAIR sought
lest and sleep. About half an hour after ly-
ing down John began to feel the twfnges Of
cholera morbus, hut he endeavored to keep
still and not disturb his new wife, but the
pains got worse, and John began to groan.
and Sally wanted to know what was the
matter, John said his head hurt, but his
hands were rubbing somewhere else, and
Sally thought she would let him alone.
Just then John gave a bigger groan, and
Sally got ScaIeu. uaG mot1Si 3oonh'
.sOh, noth-good-ge-ru-dod blast the thing.
wish 1 had 3 little-oh. me, thunder and
lightning" D you want a doctor, John?'
s.No ; 1 am all right. but my heal is-l-o-d
ge-meny ,yes,-he lives the third house down
the-by georgetown the road. Tell him
am dy-dy-oh, dying with cholera morbus,
and Before he could finish the sentence
Sally was on the road, and in a very few
minutes old Pillbags was at the bedside, and
soon relieved John of his misery. But Sally
did not sleep much that night, fearing, per-
-haps, a return of the complaint.
The Lexington young mems debating So
siety met on Tuesday evening last in the
OLD Town engine-house. The question dis
cussed was ''Resolved, that the Indians
have a right to the SOIL" The affirmative
was sustained by Messrs. l.. Atkinson, VIM
Aull and C.. H. Royle. Messrs. Cyrus LAM
horne, G.. Tate and Ed. Smith looked at it
from a negative point of view, anu said so to
the best of their ability. We are told that
the young men made very creditable argu-
, ments. After the debate VIM. Seldom and
VIM. Tate detained, but on what themes
we did not learn. Go or In that course
boys and instead of spending your evenings
puzzling beer or punching billiards, try to
improve your minds, and one OF these days
Won will be men. There are a great many