Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-13
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
WELLINGTON.

He WAS q WISE IL
when told of anything that s'hackea Oh scah-
| dial. 81 have so much to do that L CANNOT
| hear it. One half my time Is taken up Win
letting alone that of nv nelshoors."
Would that the world was filled with such
considerate people - he. Peace anu neigh
horlv love. we oplne, would reign supreme.
| How many excellent opportunities of letting
alone other peoples business are slighted
| and the world troubled with the Interference
of people with what does not concern them.
| Neiphborhoods are driven crazy by reports
of idle or misehievous people who watch
for occasions of scandal and lose no oppor-
tunity of making it pu'lic regardless of its
truth or the lnju ry it intiicts upon the feel
ings Of others. Again it has been said truth
fully, .sgossip passes for fact ano surmlse
for history, and the nimble lie runs many q
league while the truth is -putttn. on its
boots" 1t was Sir Walter Scott who said:
..Mapy a shaft at random sent
Finds mark he archer little meant,
And many y word at random spoken,
MAY sooth or wound o heart that's broken
But this scandal never sooths no, no, its
| not intended to, but is rolled under the
tongue as q sweet morsel to injure others,
| and for that and that alone is 1t intended 1t
otherwise would lose its sweetness.
RAIN, RAIN, RAIN.
est never rains but 1t pGurs."
1t has not lone much else here for the
past two weeks but rain. Nearly all the
corn Is washed up and will have to be plant
ed over. Farming land badly damaged,
roads rendered nearly impossible by bitches
and bridges washed away. Farming bust-
meas very much behind and farmers dispir-
tied and talking 81 50 corn already. We
had better wait about II price and see first If
we have auy, maybe We'll have to buy again
d last year. 1t is raining at present wri it.
ing, it rained last night, it rsined yesterday,
day before. day before that, day before that,
in fact we hardly know when 1t was not
raining. The damage IL immense in one
way or other.
THE NARROW GAUGE.
The county court Of Jackson county, with
quite a crowd Of others, were down last
week to inspect the road. 1t was y very un-
favorable time to look at it, the continued
rains having done great damage. to 1t. We
have not heard what they have done, but
pi esume they received it. and the futhsr
extension will commence in u few days, and
that regular time trains will soon DO put
upon the road.
STRUCTURES.
MIR. John G.. Moran, who has been very
i'll for ZONE time, we are glad to report bet
ter.
Arrangements are maturing to follow the
example Of Lexington in organizing a
Young Mems Democratic Club here.
ID. X. Duck, who has been plying awl, last
and wax-end at Orrlck, Ray county, since
last spring, has returned aud is now on his
bench at the postofice.
The rains we are having are a great s'both-
GRAFTON" to the Narrow Gauge road.
Great fears are entertained for the wheat
crop on account of it being too rank.
There will be q very small apple crop here,
the trees refuse generally to bloom.
Silver currency is beginning to put in an
appearance slightly about here:
Jingle, jingle little silver,
How We wonder what you are!
It's been so long since we have seen you,
We scarce can tell you from a star.
Miss Ella L. Williams, an employe of the
Treasury Department, Washington City, is
visiting the family Of Mr.. Duck.
ANOTHER BLOODY AFFRAY
Last Monday evening the quiet of, our
little town was thrown into sudden excite
ment by another bloody ARRAY. The parties.
Joseph Lightner and old man Stanley, about
60 years old. We were not All eye with ess,
but 1t seems that the parties were intoxi-
Gated and got into u quarrel. when Lightner
drew 4 knife and cut Stanley three or four
bad cuts on the shoulder and slde. Some
how Lightner received a bad cut in the
thigh, SUI posed with his W knife. Mr..
Stanley Is In a bad condition, and ut present
writing it Is not known really how 1t will
terminate. Will report more fully next
week. As this Is written soon after the
aff. ny and all is excitement, 1t may be that
all the facts are not embraced in the above.
Both bled most profusely and were horrible
TO behold.