Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-06-17
SHORTS.
River very high and still rising.

River very high and still rising.
Rain! Rain Rain! All the week.
Steamer Joe kinney passed up yesterday
MIR. F. Morath has charge Of the Fourt
Ward scales.
Go to Days & Allstadt's and get q good Pie,
Shoe for 81 so.
Cheap ladies Goat Shoes ct Davis q Allstadt'a
for 81. good quality.
Remember the Catholic picnic at Afford
grove On the Fourth.
You can 60 to the st. Louis convention cheap
81 so for the round trip.
Quarles & Co. have the best soda waite
ever made in this city.
Another square on franklin street vii
soon receive q coat Of macadam.
Robt. Afford, now Of Norborne, was IL
the city on business last Wednesday.
Devotional Mass meeting at the Baptis
Church, tonight. led by L. b. Ely Esq.
Jordan has completed the addition to hi
foundry and is now ready for business.
Ladies' side lace kid and box-toe shoes. yer,
y handsome and cheap, at Davis q Austadt's.
= The Presbyterian church will be Lighted
with gas tomorrow night, for the frat time
For a pure Flora del Fuma Havans
cigar, 60 to Quarles & Co.'s drug store.
II you want q Piano, Organ or Singer
Sewing Machine. write to VIM. Bird. Lex
ington, Mo novzo-tf
Table Linens, crashes and napkins cheaper
than ever before known in Lexington, 1t Conk-
ling & BeedinE's {
A new lot of those cheap E~mbroidsrfes n
low as q cents per yard. just received ii
Kriehn Il Wilker's.
Miss jamie ksill, of Middleton township, il
visiting friends in this city. She is stopping
atrhe residence of Miss j ans Long.
Ladies' ready made suits at about the price OF
making, at Conkling & Reeding's. Only . few
left; call at once or you may be too late.
Wsnted-Butter, eggs, chickens. hides pelts,
tallow, beeswax, dried fruits and all kinds Of
country produce. by A. A. 81. o. Lesusur.
Adam Toeppe has purchased the Doughar.
ty property, Franklin street, and removed
his grocery store thereto. Advertisement
next week.
. Davis & Allstadt have moved their boet and
shoe store two doors west of their old stand,
in the house formerly occupied by Robert r.
Waddell.
Don't forget that DAVIS & Allstadt have moved
to r. F. Waddell's old stand, opposite Court
House, where they will be happy to see all thsir
old customers.
{ A colored brother hearing yesterday that
Hayes was nominated for president, limo
Gently asked whether 1t was Mr.. Bill Hayes
or Mr.. Abe Hayes.
Elder Plattsnburg has resigned bis charge
of the Marshall Christian church. II. is ex-
pected that he will accept the call OF the
church at this place to become Its pastor.
Mr.. Charles Il. Royle has bought out the
book and stationery Store Of the late Mr.. W.
". Chapman. He will keep = full stock Of
goods in his line, and solicits the patronage
of the public.
The st. Louis, Kansas City 4 Northern
railroad has completed Its connection. At
St. Louis, with the Union depot, and now
runs its trains in close connection with all
eastern roads at that point.
Tn Marshall correspondent OF the Sedslia
Democrat gives these items !: ga number Of
OUR citizens will attend the national couyen.
zion on the 9th, and 60 on the Lexington
excursion train 1.-THE Christian church
here Is without q pastor. Elder Platten-
burg will take charge of the church at Lex
1ngton."
We will publish enc call or communication, Of
reasonable length, advocating the claims Of any
cNAen for a county office, free; for subsequent
ones We will charge one half regular advertising
rates. We are compelled to do this in order to
protect our columns from an avslanch of com
munications. This course will give every can
didate 4 chance to be placed before the people
without cost to himself or frien Is, and in doing
this much We think thrt we shall have done our
duty to the public. II
Effects OF Decision of Supreme Court on
the Sni-a-bar Township people.-Ar. A
<'Old lady. Land me the gun; 1 see Mr.. Il.
coming home from town, and 1 want him
to shoot a couple of young rabbits for ne,
out in the lane" Mr.. B-"Well, Nj. A
have some good news; the supreme court
has decided all our township bonds illegal
and void" MIR. Ais that SO? Then lust
hand me back the gun, MIR. b.; you needn't
shoot The poor innocent little rabbits-Pm
full enough for one day."
The rains of the past week have done
considerable damage to the wheat crop Of
Lafayette county. Hesvy wheat has been
badly laid down.. and much of 1t will not
s~traighten up, and will consequently NOT
1tll well, and be hard to save, A great MANY
formers would have commenced harvesting
"Early May" this week had it not been fol-
the u%npropitious weather. The crop will
not be heavy in any event, as the heads are
generally short. If the weather Is clear
from this on, the quality will be good.
A young man named James Terrell was
nearly disemboweled at Hughesville, last
Monday evening. He had been drinking
with others during the day, and had quar-
relied with several, among whom was enc
Emmerson Wood. High words passed be.
tween them when Wood stabbed Terrell in
the abdomen. A portion OF the entrsils
p%rOtruded. The wounded man was prompt
ly cared for until medical aid arrived. He
is now in a fair way to recover. Emmerson
Wood is still At large, but will be arrested,
This is another warning to young men who
indulge in bad whisky.
We are pleased to be able to announce to
the public that the Curators of Central Fe-
male College have elected q successor to DR.
Sullivan. in the person OF Rev. Marshall
McIlhany. Mr.. Mcllhany comes to Oh,
midst from Northeast Missouri, where he
has been engaged for a number of years in
teaching. He was president of a college nj
Palmyra, Missouri, for four years, and sub.
sequently had charge of Monticello Semi.
nary, as its president, for four years. He Il
an educator of considerable experience and
reputation. broad and liberal in his views OF
ftShat constitutes true education. He be.
iieves in educating the whole being. the
moral and the social. as well as the intel.
iectual, in order to fit it for accomplishiIp
. the end of Its creation. MIR. McIlhany In q
yirginian by birth, but having moved to
Missouri when quite young, he may Justly
:. be called a M%issourian ; he fully understand
the nature and wants OF our western peo-
pie, and knows how to adapt himself to the
circumstances, and to meet the peculiarities
OF western society. He is a christian gen.
:. 1leman, a member of the Methodist Episco.
pal Church South, under whose auspices the
college is conducted. He will enter at once
upon the active discharge of the duties OF
the position to which he has been called
and We bespeak for him on the part of our
people, that consideration which his Der.
sonal character and standing and the merits
OF the college he now represents, 50 well
deserve. Lexington has reason to be proud
Of its female schools. Let these schools Ls
rostered and sustained as they should be,
ID they will make her renowned As the
: ~ of schools, aud tue seat OF intellectual
! Improvement.