Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-04
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Miss Evans ssInfelice'' at Smiths Boo
store.
Mr.. Cbaney's lecture Thursday night wa
q success.
To-day is payday for the shaft hands o
the Lexington coal company.
A jury was At last e%mpanelled In the Tur
ner case on yesterday morning.
The Lexington Coal Company shippe.
twenty car loads of coal Thursday.
City warrants are selling at s0@s5 cent
on the dollar, and are in brisk demand.
The Dunkle brothers have removed theil
stock to corner store in the Lewis block.
II you want Dry Goods CHEAPER than
ever, don't fail to call at Kriehn & Wilker's
Franklin street. dec44t
Judge Burden, whom we noticed last
week as being sick, is, we are glad to see
able 10 be about again.
We are pleased to learn that Mrs. Keno
rhon Ryland, who has been quite Ill fol
some time, is much better.
The .Infant's Delight" club met last
~ ~ VI i ANA~AASS SSAASA
of Main-Cross and Franklin streets.
Yon can sars money by buying your Dry
Goods at Kriehn b Wilker's Franklin street.
] They are selling at . great reduction for 30
, days.
Captain Kinney, his wife and daughter,
Mss Alice, left Boonville last Thursday,
for New Orleans; where they will remain
until March.
Dispatches of tie 29th ult., from all over
the north indicate q rapid descent Of the
mercury. The canals are frozen over, and
many vessels have been injured, and some
few wrecked by ice.
Here's an item for young men to mem
orize: Henry wilson always tried for q first
seat. The Boston Traveller recalls that
"when he made shoes he was the most Ok
pert workman in Natick."
Charlie Carroll, q typo, who for about a
year has been on q tramp, returned home
Wednesday, looking well and wearing good
clothes, from which we judge he found plen.
ty Of work in has wanderings.
An alarm of fire was founded last Sunday
which caused the deserted streets to swarm
with people. 1t was occastoned by the burn
ing u Of q fiue near the Bourbon House. A
high wind was blowing at the time, and 1t
is fortunate that it was no worse.
The man who married q woman named
Pepper ana then took unto himselfa second
wife named Cinnamon, undoubtedly believ-
ed in the old saying, that 'svarlety is the
spice Of life ,"-[Sedslis Democrat. No, he
believed that spice should be the variety of
life.
The ladies of the Methodist church have
formed q mite society, to raise means to pay
for putting the gas into the church and par
sonage. A very proper movement. The
Maj. Jno. E. Ryland. last night, with graft
flying success.
President Eames took the Lafayette gen.
tlemen, now in Kansas City attending the
Turner trial, On an excursion over his road
last Thursday. They came about fou miles
this side of independence, and were much
pleased with the way they were treated, and
with what they saw.
Ed. Wolf should not be forgotten when
any of our citizens wish fresh meat, game or
poultry. He always has . full supply on
hand, and will sell as cheap as the cheapest.
cupied by DIR. Boulware. Give HIM q por-
ton of your custom.
Owing to the crowded state of our columns
we are unable to print the interesting COM
munication in regard to the pleasant meet
ing of the Brilliant Club, at the residence of
Mrs. Elizabeth Allen. 1t must have been q
very enjoyable occasion, and such soclable
reunions should be encouraged.
Daisy, a little daughter of John T. Hills,
on last Wednesday, while pl~ayinglnear q
piano box, knocked the prop from under 1t,
and 1t fell on her bruisfng her, side and leg.
No bones are broken, but she was injured
sufficiently to conHne her to bed. She will,
it is thought, be all right in a day or two.
The following certificates of marriage have
been recorded since the LIST inst: Lewis
Heron to Josephine Shanks, by Rev. T. l..
Smith; L.. W. JACK to Miss Mary r. Wood,
by Rev. A. A. Moore; Frank Russell to Miss
Mary j.. Lauderdsle, by Rev. A. A. Moore;
john Eaton to Miss Margaret L. Miller, by
Rev. A. A. Moore.
Mr.. Geo. Nance was attacked with a con-
festive chill last Friday evening, and was for
some time near DEATHS door,. He told the
young men who went to see him that they
had better have q serious thought OCCASION
ally, for the grim spectre had very nearly
slipped upon him Short sermons
are sometimes very impressive.
We see by the Boonville papers that
their experiment with Columbia coal, for
gas has proven q failure, as it turns out to
be no better than their own. All experts,
who have tested Lexington coal, declare it to
excel any found this side of Pittsburg for
that purpose. II you doubt it, gentlemen,
send for one car load and try it. The ex-
pertinent will cost but little.
The Register is in receipt of q private let
ter which recounts an accident that befel
VIM. Ashford, Neut. Chamberlain, Pleas.
Trotter and q young man named Thos.
Cooley. They were crossing a railroad
track in q two-horse wagon, when a train
struck it. All saved themselves by leaping
out but Cooley, who fell upon the track
and was killed.
Geo. P. Venable, Of the firm Of Grimes &
Venable, started east last Wednesday, fol
the purpose OF selecting q full stock of toys
and other goods, for the holidays, and from
the %well-known good taste OF George in such
matters. our citizens may expect to see
something nice when the goods arrive.
These articles, together with any other arti
Gle at present in the store, will be sold al
cost and carriage until January l, 1876.
F. NJ. Powell, of Linn county, Oregon. Il
visiting his brother, ID. j. Powell. OF thii
county, and called at the Intelligencer ofice
last Tuesday. He was. long years ago, 6
resident of Lafayette, but removed to his
present home in the year 1852. He notice:
many changes and finds scarcely any OF hi.
former friends and cquaintances left to wei
come him back. If reports be true. one O
Lafayette's fair ones will accompany hin
when he returns to his home, which will BIZ
sometime next week.
MIR. Jno. C. Fall, an old merchant, favora.
bly, known as a salesman, to the people OF
Lexington for thirty or more years, has &C,
cepted a position with the dry-goods house
OF Cunkling & Bedding. MIR. FaIps many
friends In the country will ind him there
ready to attend their wants, and he cordially
invites them to see him that he may show
them what he can do for them in the way OF
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