Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-13
Personalities.

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Mr.. r. F. Waddeil was in the city last
Sunday.
Col. Z. l.. Bleeding, Of Cambridge, is il
the city.
Mrs. Oletha Rathell is visiting the famil,
of Mr.. Marquis WIthers.
Mr.. VIM. Carpenter, of Norborne, Is Ii
town visiting his fathers family.
Dom Pedro visited the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington on the 9th instant.
McDeMuth is local editor Of the rsdica
S.dalls Times. We sympathize with you
Mac.
Kissing your sweetheart is like eating
soup with a fork-it takes y long time to ge
enough.
Hon. Jerre Black, of Pennsylvania, de
clines to be considered o candidate Tor IN
presidency.
We regret to learn that Mr.. c. v. Mead 1
preparing to move back to his old home
Chillicothe, Mo.
Commodore Vanderbilt is recovering from
his recent illness, and will be able to drl''
out in q day or two.
The New York Herald says that Ann
DlChluSOuS StCp HULL lhC w
stage was q mistake.
DIR. E.. A. Dulin, who has a clerksBip Ii
Washington City, is In the city on q shor
visit to his wife and family.
Mr.. Frank Donahoe, who IS now employed
In the NJ. K. i T. Il. 4. Office at SedAlia, il
in the city visiting friends and relatives.
Hon. Jacob r. Child, editor OF the Rich
mond Conservator, and John Brown, sheriff
of Ray county, were in the city yesterday.
Col. Gordon, the African explorer, ha'
abandoned his proposed expedition 10 the
interior, owing. it is said, to lack of funds
Mr.. L. K. Smith has sold his stock of books
and stationery to Mr.. Charles B0nnell, o.
Sedalia. MIR. Bonnell is y goou business
man, and will keep an attractive stock o.
goods.
Capt. T. W. Park, editor of the Platte
City Landmark, in a letter to the st. Louis
Times. peremptorily declines allowing his
name to be used for the office of Secretary
OF State.
Charley Fox, 3 Lexington boy, now hold.
Ing an important position with Messrs. Bull
Iene, Moore & Emerys, Is here among his
friends on q short leave OF absence, to recup'
crate his health.
MIR. Virgil Keenc, of the house of Van
Beck, Barnard & Tinsley, st. Louis, called to
see us Saturday. Virgil is q No. l salesman,
and is, of course, always successful here.
He is looking we'll.
Mr.. Samuel B~rittenbaugh, formerly a
citizen of this county, died vt his home in
Lees Summit. last Saturday. His remains
were Inferred in Mschpelsh cemetery, III
this city, IN last Tuesday.
Reid Morelsnd, one of our carriers, and as
manly q little fellow as there is in town,
broke his collar bone while at play q few
days ago. He has been down to see US, and
is ready for work again.
James w. Edgar, formerly of this city now
Of Carbonate, KS, called on us last Satur-
day to tell us how he was getting on, and to
renew his allegiance 10 the Intelligercer.
Mr.. Edgar was warmly welcomed by many
old friends. He Is in the coal business, and,
WI are glad to hear, Is prospecting.
The President has pardoned james E.
Marsh, Gauger, convicted in the Western
| District of Missouri Of false returns, on the
| ground that there was no intentional wrong.
TIL pardon seems to meet with general fa-
vor in Kansas City, as Col. Marsh is thought
to have been more sinned against than sim
ming.
The St. Louis Republicans Sherman,
Texas, correspondence of recent date contains
the following personals which will be of In
Lerest to our people ; Hon. Joseph Bledsoe,
son of Ed. Hiram Bledsoe, Of Lafayette
county, Mo-, and brother OF Col. Hiram NJ.
Bledsoe of confederate fame, resides here
and is one of the most distinguished and
successful members of the Texas bar. Geo.
H. Gordon, o native of Lafayette county
Mo-, resides here"
The London Times says the Cunard steam
er Bothnia, which sailed from Liverpool on
the sth inst. for New York, took out Isaac
Lowthian Bell, membe of parliament for
H~artlepool, Col. Rich and Maj. Noble, the
judges appointed to represent Great Britain
ut the centennial exhibition at Philadelphia.
Sir Sydney Waterlow, judge for the print
ing department., comes IN the steamer City
Of Berlin, which leaves Liverpool for New
| York on Thursday next.
MIR. Lewis W. Smsllwood. q denlzen of
Santa Rosa, CAL, IL in the city on \ visit to
his many friends. He says that this country
looked absolutely charming to him. after
gazing at the bare rocks and barren wastes
of the far west. Mr.. Smsllwood exhibited
to US one of the curiosities of California
wood growth in the shape Of = piece Of Red
wood bark, eleven inches thick, which was
cut from y tree in Guernsville, Sonoma Co.
With such bark what must the tree have
been? MIR. 5. leaves In u few days for the
centennial, and will return home BY way Of
Lexington.
We gladly publish the following extract
from a private letter we Lave received from
Mr.. r. +. Waddell, dated Kansas City, May
9th, concerning Eugene Ewing: 81 called
to see Eugene to-day, found him In fine
spirits and feeling far better than could
have expected. He will be out by next
Friday, so he says. To satisfy myself AZ to
his condition, 1 asked DIR. Lewis to accom-
pany me he did so, aud reported him
to he mending very fast. or course b..
wound Is not entirely healed, but is in q
healthy condition. Eugene told me that he
intended staying with pr. Sloan about two
weeks after next Friday. At present, he
says, he has more comfort in his sickness,
through the attention Of the sisters, than he
would have had vt any other place. His
wants are all attentively supplied"
Receivers, o.. Garrison, j. L.. Stephens and
j.. H. Beach !; D. r. Garrison, General Man
ager c. W. Mead, General Superintendent;
j. W. Way, Chief Engineer E. A. Ford,
General Ticket Agent /; j. Hewett, Master
Mechanic I; Warder Cumming, Superlnten-
dent Eastern Division L.. L. Keller, Gen
eral Road MASTER H. Starring, General
Baggage Agent, p. g.; r. NJ. Peck, Master
of Bridges; and A. q. Blakey, Western Pas.
senger Agent, paid our city a visit yesterday
morning. They are on a tour of Inspection
over the road. They were travelling by spe.
cial train and only remained q short time.
Messrs. John w. WaddelI, VIM. Morrison,
John Reid and !ward Winsor, Of this
place, accompanied them down the road a
short distance to talk over the coal business.
we suppose. The sentlemea found that the
Lexington Branch Was in good order and
had suffered less from the recent rains than
almost any portion OF the road,
We take pleasure In commenting to our
citizens Rev. 4. l.. hamilton, agent of the
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