Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

IL jill dhy u ouiJs Aoob AfS
calling and providing for holding nominating
conventions for said districts. A full atten
dance is requested. GEO. L. HAYS,
Chm'n. Dem. Cen. Committee.
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SHORTS.
Go to Days & AIstsdt's and get a good Plow
Shoe for 81 so.
Cheap ladies Goat Shoes at Davis Il Allstadt's
for 81. good quality.
Good Flour only % 30 per sack, at POWELL
on Franklin street. june244t
Firewood and chickens are scarce aud fine
ready sale at high prices.
Roasting ears are now quite plentiful ir
market at 10 to 123 cents per dozen.
Ladies' side lace kid and box-toe shoes. very
handsome and cheap, at Davis & Allstadt's.
For 4apure Flora del Fuma Havana
afkaE. gQfoQ uarles & Co.'s drug store.
5fs9e &tas1llf pounds Of choice lilo
Coase for -, at Poweps, on Franklin
STREET. june244t
Lovers of bargains should not fail to call and
see how cheap Conkling & Bedding are selling
dry goods.
Prof. Tice predicted the storm on the
Fourth, and he has now billed one for the
18th inst.
II you want . Piano, Organ or Singer
Sewing Machine. write to VIM. Bird. Lex
ington, Mo. nov2o-tf
Hunting local items with the thermome-
ter at 80 in the shade, is, to say the least,
rather warm work.
D~eputy-sheriff 10. Bowman has been con-
fined to the house, since the Sd inst, with q
severe attack Of the piles.
Rev. J. A. Prsther will preach at the
Cumberland Presbyterian church tomorrow
morning, at the usual hour.
Wanted-Butter, eggs, chickens, hides pelts,
tsllow, beeswax, dried fruits and all kinds of
country produce, by A. A. q j. o. Lesueur.
Don't forget that DAVIS 4 Allstadt have moved
to B. F. Wsddell's old stand. opposite Court
House, where they will be happy to. see all their
old customers.
We want everybody to read Conkling &
Besding's double-column advertisement, be-
cause such q rare chance for cheap dry goods
seldom presents itself.
Dr. Bolton is wanting . good young horse
for saddle purposes. Will pay . fair price.
he is still at his old stand between GO and
II, nearly opposite the City Hotel. 1t
VI SSVoaS VI u LcupOI6Iy AD86uC6 OI
Capt. A. A. Lesusur, Messrs. Allen and
Musgrove will conduct the editorial depart
ment of the paper until further notice.
For Sale Cheap-A Grover & Baker Cabinet
Sewing Machine, nearly new and in complete
order, and will be sold at a great sacrifice. In
quire Of g.. c. Ludwigs, or address Mrs. Georgia
foungs, Aullville, Mo. julys-3w"
We have q few planet reapers and mowers
which We will sell low. They are first class
machines and will be kept constantly in the
market, with necessary repairs.
%junl7-tf. A. 81. o. LEsuxuR.
The last Brownsville Messenger
that the Office of that paper will be removed
to WaYerly, this county, where it will be
published under another name. Here's our
NE. Shake!
Miss Mary Francis Hawkins, who has
been visiting in Texas for some months, re-
turned home last Monday, much improved
IN health and giving glowing accounts Of
the lone star state.
The young men of the neighborhood nine
miles southwest OF Waverly are preparing
the grounds at Fletcher's Ford for an old
fashioned picnic and barbecue, ON the I'D
ofJuly. W. will try to be present.
Reapers, Mowers, Threshers. ThreshIng En-
Glnes Horse Powers, and all other kinds of
farming machinery repaired in short time, of
good material, in the best manner at the very
lowest prices, at Chas. A. Morrison's, Excel
Iron works, Water street. jlst4.
Any repairs for Respers. Mowers, Threshers,
Threshing Engines. Horse-Powers, or any other
of farming machinery not on hand, we will
make. in from one to five hours, either night or
day, with our new arrangements, built for this
especial purpose. Chas. A. Morrison, Excel
Iron works, Water street. julStA
Repairs for all kinds of Keepers, Mowers,
Threshers. Threading Engines. HORSEPOWER
and all other kinds of farming machinery con-
stantly on hand, and for sale ut factory prices.
thus saving to the buyer enormous express char
ges, and middle mems profits. Chas. A. Nor
rison, Excel Iron Works. Water st. julst.
The grand barbecue and pigeon shooting
which was to have come of at Brownsville
yesterday and to-day, has been postponed
until K Monday. A good time is antici.
psted. Eminent speakers will be present.
We recommend our people to turn out.
Blackberries will soon be In market and
the crop We understand will be unusually
large and fine. With the thermometer il
the nineties. green apples and ear,
plentiful, and every ala>- 40 city in q
fearfully foul condition Id entire crop will
DO needed for cholera-morbus medicine.
NJ. McGirk, travelling agent Of Messrs.
Greer, Shaw & Co., commission merchants
and salt. agents, No. 2 South Commercial
street, st. Louis, was in the city during the
week. working up the interests Of the house
'lke' Is known to every man, woman and
child in the county, and so far as Lafayette
is concerned, the interests Of his EMPLOY
ers will not suffer in his hands.
A.. G. Bonham has been appointed by the
county court as special bridge commission
or, TO make q thorough examination of all
the bridges in the county which have been
damaged or destroyed by the late floods,
and to report to the court at the earliest
o,ests f-I.hie. Mr.. Bonham, therefore. re.
hose citizens living in the neIphbor.
mood OF such bridges to drop him a note
through the postofhce, directed to Lexipg.
ton, informing him of the fact, to the end
that the trouble and expense of this exam.
ination may be as small a. possible.
IA. Matthews, agent Of the Missouri
publishing company, wa In our city last
Thursday, and in case he should receive
sufficient encouragement frsm our citizens,
proposes to get up a map of Lafayette coun.
ty in atlas form. by townships, colorsd
plates, showing location Of towns, post.
offices, timber, streams, wagon roads, rail-
roads, churches, schoolhouses, coal banks,
and every other necessary particular also
q full biographical and historical review OF
the early settlement OF each township. It
will be q work which is almost indis.
pensible to our citizens, and we hope NAV
receive such patronage as will insure its
completion in the shortest possible time.
From DR.. G.. P. Herndon, who was in this
city last Thursday purchasing a new outfit, we
learned that his handsome residence, in Green.
ton. was totally destroyed by fire upon the nigh
ofWednesdsy, 1lth inst. When arst discovered