Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-11

The rlVer has raised considerably Il
II the last torty-eight hours.
Conkling s. Bedding are selling brown
v and bleached domestic cheaper than an.
house in Lexington.
Seest thou a man wise in his own con
ceit? there is more hope of a fool thai
0 of him.-[Provcrbs XVI: y.
Big inducements are offered this weel
r in dry goods by Conkling s. Bleeding II
make room for their new goods.
Let another man praise thae, and no
thine own mouth ; a stranger, and no
4 thine own lips.-[Proverbs x1vii:2.
:, The Fannie Lewis left St. Loui:
t Wednesday for Lexington, loaded to foul
feet. The Kinney leaves this evening.
Horsemen are requested to call and
see our horse and jack cuts. We can
turn of, on short notice, the best bills
ever seen in the county.
! Conkling & Bleeding have just re-
ceived a most superb line Of Turkey Red
table cloth, table linens, towels, napkins,
&C., which you will find very cheap.
We have Just finished a lot of work
for Mr.. c. o. Grimes, advertising his
hsgs. Charlie has as fine hogs as can
be found in the world, and he is justly
proud Of them.
Mr.. VIM. T. Hays, lecturer of the
county grange. will address the grange
at Wellington. on Saturday, March 18th,
and the grange at Pageville on the first
Saturday in April.
The Stock Importing Association will
meet at the courthouse, on Saturday,
April the LIST, at 2 o'clock P. NJ. The
committeeman from the various town.
ships are requested to be present to re-
lport.
We call especial attention to the matter
upon our first and fourth pages, much of
which will be found Of unusual interest,
particularly a well written and sensible
Communication, entitled "Hancock for
President"
So many of our friends have called in
to see us during the week that it Is
impossible for US to make mention OF
them all. They !cheered us with many
words of c~ommendation and encourage
ment, and left substantial remembrances,
for all which they have our thanks.
Geo. Nolan, colored, formerly belong
ing to the Landlords, and who at one
time was confined in the asylum at
Fulton. being crazy, but discharged
sometime since as cured, was placed in
the jail yesterday, preparatory to being
again taken to the asylum. The other
guests at the Hotel-de-Fly objected
strongly to their new roommate, but had
to submit
We learn that it is the intention of the
Marrow Gauge company to put on a
hack line from this city to Wellington,
as soon as the track reaches that place.
and to make several trips each way
every day in order to facilitate commu-
~nication between our town and Kansas
City. This is to be done for the reason
that the work will be very heavy from
Wellington, as there will be so many
switches required as to almost nece ssh
tate a double track.
cit is rumored that the organization
will present the following ticket at the
ensuing city election: For Mayor, VIM.
P. Beck; for Marshal. Eugene NJ
Ewing for Attorney, Frank K. Tutt.-
Register" AS unreliable as rumor IS
to be, we can not ascribe to her
such a report as the above, forthe simple
reason that s'rumor" has sufficient in
to know that the two first
gentlemen do not live in the
city of Lexington.
The Register had better put a mush
poultics Of its "informer's" head and
put him to bed. This course may keep
him from sticking his nose into other
peoples business and reporting things he
knows nothing about. Whenever the
Register desires to know whom and for
what we charge advertising rates it can
do so by applying to our business
manager. We have never charged
county grange for notices of meet
ings. but if we were to do so we
can see no reason for u neighbor to
complain. We rather think that it was
D surmise on tho part Of the Register.
and that the green-eyed monster was
gnawing at its vitals because the dollar j
did not 60 into its Golfers instead of ours.
This is a very little spirit to evince, and
if the r. can not spread its wings and
soar to a higher plane of Journalism, we
shall absolutely become ashamed OF it. /,
Moses H. Griffin, late of this county, ]
but now of Upton, Mo-, has been in the
city during the week, as a witness in
some case before the criminal court. On
Tuesday evening quite a misfortune
befsll him for the present hard times.
had eaten his supper at Powelrs
paying for the same, and
then placing his pocket book in his coat
breast pocket. where he at that time
carried his handkerchief. Shortly after
the restaurant he missed his
pocket book and hurried back to see if |
could not find it, but failed to do SO. |
The book contained, besides about $50
in sreenbacks, a county warrant for a
amount and some other valuable !
papers. The book, with the papers. s
found the next morning in an old +
clubhouse three Oh four squares from the +
place where it was lost, and was return t
to its owner through Capt. J. d. l
Conner, who obtained it from an old |
man, who brought it to him for identii- /
c
MIR. John Matthews lives upon a farm c
to P. NJ. Cav, Esq, near
Dover. One day last week when all the c
male members Of the family were away c
Mrs. Matthews discovered that a spark t
rom the chimney had set fire to the roof
IN the south side of the house, and had i
burned about a square yard. t
like q brave woman, as she was, she t
vent Immediately to work drawing t
water from a c%istern, and by her unaided t
'xertions extinguished the fire, but not v