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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-08
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

STATE. OF MISSOURI
LAFAYETTE COUNTY,
In the Circuit court of said county. in vacation
May 2lsi, 1873
Andrew j. Hughes. Matilda MrCor-l
mack and Henry Mccormack, herr
husband. Mary Hughes and Daniel
L.. Bishop,
Emeline +. Hughes, a minor under
seventeen years OF age, Rama Ada
! lIne Bishop, Charles Hughes, Jesse
Hughes, William Hughes and David
Hughes.
VNu tina said Rama Alkaline Bishop. Charles
/ Hughes, Jess. Hughes, William Hughes,
and David Hughes: You are hereby notified that
SAID plaiAtiils have commenced n suit against
you anu other. in said court, by PETITION Tor
PARTITION, in which It is alleged that one David
Hughes, late OF said county. departed tnis life
III the month of July. le.5. select. III ice simple,
ct the following described real estate, situated III
Lafayette County, Missouri, to-wit: torty-two
and tiiiriy-thre. une-hunuredtns az 3D. 1901 acI e.
Of land beng the northwest quarter oil the north
east quarter of section five Isl. and eighty-three
AMI forty OnP-hundreifhs ts3 4O-l0D acres OF
land, being the north halt of the northwest quar-
ter OF said section live t5), and three hundred and
twenty G.o) acres OF land. being the north hall
of section six 90. ali said lands being in town
ship forty-eight Hs) OF range twenty-eight t2s)
that said deceased left AT his death the following
Hughes, JESSE Hughes, William Hughes, DAVID
Hughes, Matilda Mccormack Mary hughes. and
Emelin- F. Hughes, and the following grand
children, tv-wlt: Daniel l.. Bishop, and Rama
Aialin ne Bishop, Ia whom SAID land descended.
his children beng entitled To on--ninti l-9th)
and hs grandchildren TO one-cighteenth u-lsth)
each, subject, however. 10 the following Ad-
vancrm-,,ts: To Andrew j. Hughes, one thou
sand dollars Isl 800 To Charles Hughes. one
thousand dollars ISL $50. and 10 Matilda Nc
tnrmack. seventy dollars $50 that forty HUl
acres OF said land. being The northwest quarter
oil III" northeast quarter oil said section live tl IL
subject To the pay incEt oi the debts of SAID de
ceased.
And the prayer Of said petition is. that tho
court Will determine the right. ami interests al
said parties ID and 10 SAID real estate, and UIdrI
the same To be- sold, and thu proceeds divided
among the parties according to their rights.
Ana Sou are further notified that unless you
appear al the next term Of said court, to be Uc-
gun and held ut the courthouse in the city
oil Lexington, on the 5lh day of August next land
on or before the 9Th day thereof. II The term shall
so long continue, anu If not. then before the end
Of the term. and answer said petition, the sam
VIII Ue taken as confessed.
And it Is further ordered that a copy hereof b.
published IN the Lexington Weekly lnteliIgen-
Ger. p newspaper printed In SAID county OF La
fayett", for four weeks successfully, the last in
sertion 10 be at least Tour weeks before the com
meGccUent of the next term of this court.
a true copy. Attest:
FRANK TItIGG, Clerk.
by {. Is. DANIEL, ID. Z.
Rathbnn 4 Shewa'tsr. attys Tor pills. my25
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-08
TR NoTvCc

T ETTERS of administration on the estate of
II Alexander Berry, deceased, were granted
to the undersigned on the 2lst day OF Nav.
1873, by the Probate court of Lafayette county.
Missouri.
All persons having claims against said estate
are required to exhibit them for allow ancs, to
the administrators. within one year after the date
any benefit of such estate; and il such claims he
not exhibited within two years they will be for-~
ever barred. SUSAN o. BERRY,
JOHN l.. II
my2sH Administrator.r
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-08
M1NIsTRATOR NOTICE,

T EITERS of admin istration on the estate Of
Il John W .Wickular. deceased, Were granted to
the undersigned on the Eth day OF May, ISIS,
by the Probate court of Lafayette county. Mis-
Souri,.
All persons having claims against said estate
are required to exhibit them for allowance to the
administrator within one year alter the date OF
this notice, or they may be prccluded from any
benefit Of such estate. And il such claims b..
not exhibited within two yeers they will be for
ever haired. DR.. JAMES q. RJSSELL,
myls W. Administrator.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-08
~NISTRA NOTICE.

r ETTERS of administrator on the estate OF
IL DIna Sutield. deceased, were granted to
the undersigned on the Sth daN OF May.
1873, by the Probate court of Lafayette county,
Missouri.
All persons having claims against said estate
administrator within one year after the date oil
this notice, Or they may be precluded from anv
benefit Of such estate. And If such claims be
not exhibited within two years they Will be for
ever barred. PETER Is.
maylsl5 Administrator
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-08
MITCHELL b BANDON,
CONTRACTORS g. BUILDERS.

CHOP on Main-Cross str ct, near Episcopal
- Church, Lexington. No mart-ly
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A

THIS PREMIt VI ~>TALI.ION will <.
i stand the present season NJ Judge k-N&I\
r. 4. Barnrtt's stable, at SO to IN N
sure.
MANMADDIS is II beautiful uiack, 10 hands
high with perfection oil form and temper; with
every pronI-c of II first class trottcr. AMI just
he horse Tor farmers To patronize; was sired by
Capt. Tuiluntrr's celebrated horse, McmbrinO,
out of Sally Fox, 10y Marion, son OF Mcmbrino
Chief. &c.; royalty bred. This stock Of horses
Is better suited for farm and all purposes, than
any stock We ever iHi. being kind, large AMI
durable.
atrtU Pm JOS.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-08

TAT OF MISSOURI
LAFAYETTE COUNTY.
In the Circuit court of said county, in vacation
April 2Sth. ISIS.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19
Long Swim for Life.

In late number of the Detroit Free
Press we find the following One night
during the latter part of last week, as
the schooner Bay Leaf was crossing
Lake Ontario, James Ferguson, of this
city, who was second mate of the craffs
was thrown overheard, and as he WAS
the only man on deck at the time, his
absence was not noticed until too late to
to bring the vessel about In an effort to
rescue him. When Ferguson fell into
the water the schooner was sailing rapid
" before fair wind, and the unfortu-
nate man could only swim for life. One
by one he diyested himself Os coat, vest
and shoes, and for an hour or more kept
himself afioat, when he fortunately came
across piece of board about four feet
long and foot wide. With this slight
assistance Ferguson was able to secure
occasional breathing spells. and when
daylight came he found himself out of
sight Of land and with no sail in hailing
distance. Having kept his bearingsjn
a great measure, the swimmer struck
out for shore with his board, being then,
as he estimated, fifteen miles ont In the
lake. All day long, and with a hot sun
beating down upon his barred head, Fer
guson worked to shore, and finally, after
being in the water and without food for
nearly twenty four hours, he landed on
shore near the village Of Niagara, but
considerably exhausted. Yesterday
morning Mr.. Ferguson arrived in this
city, and walking into his house, No.
sos Fifth street, presented himself to
his overjoyed wife, who ever since she
iirst heard that her husband had fallen
into the lake and been drowned stoutly
maintained that she could not believe he
had been drowned. def9 i;-e t.iliHias-
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19
A Califnrnia Fortnne


Rich mems fortunes are nearly always
overestimated during their life-tirne, and
it is only when these fortunes pass
through the tests of administration that
their true value is ascertained. During
the Lifetime of the late W. s. O'Brien,
one of the bank and bonanza magnates
of California, ke was represented to be
worth somewhere from 800, ,000, 600 to
80, 600, ,O001; but it seems that the actual
value of his estate as appraised to the
probate court of San Francisco is
$9, ,655, 459-a good round fortune, it
must be admitted. The principal items
are: real estate, 1929, ,493; furniture
and paintings, $26, 1853 ;. books, 1898 /;
cash balance in Nevada bank, $58, 1858 !;
ieweary,i $794 one-third interest in
Ewing, Plum & O'Brien, $20;0 in
terest in the firm of Flood & O'Brien,
Q, 377, 800 shares in the NeAadas bank,
So, 325, 600 United States bonds 50, ,562, :
500 !; gas stock, $92, 800; Pacific Mail
stock, $780, 375i; Pacific wood and
Lumber company stock; S15, $50 /;
Golden City Chemical Works stock, So
531 SeIby Smelling Works stock, 81
500 Virginia and Gold Hill Water
company stock, $99, sos; notes, 1919, :
973.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19
Japanese school Compositions.

Some of the first attempts of students
at committing their ideas to paper
through the medium of English are
somewhat amusing in one sense.
The following composition was duly
read on the day for such exercises: a
TOXIC.
"Tokio is very large city in the world !;
it contain about one million of people
and one thousand streets. The men in
Toxic is SO many, but science men very
seldom appear comparatively, therefore
civilized men is very little-men in
Toxic is very uneconomist. It's most
principal streets are Gina, Nihonbashi,
Koiimachi, Asak- 'sa, Dakurocho and
Others. Fire in Toxic is very common.
Their houses is destroyed by it two times
year. I think will not destroyed it
ther houses is bluid built from stone,
but ther mind do not reach it, therefore
is uneconomist as I said above. I like
to write story of the city but would
have no time to write. / will write to
you much afterward.
We have adopted the plan of having
pupils write sentences only till they can
do in comprehensive manner. In this
they usually succeed somewhat better,
and yet some of their efforts in this di-
rection not only lack in clearness, but have
touch Of the ludicrous as well, as the
following examples will show: " Re-
morsing his foolishness and having
ashamed it he was forgave." g A gen
tleman divided his property into his four
sons at the point Of death.' "There
was a pleasant wife whose name was
Masa ;.she was justice and obedience /;
she did not SO humorous as another
women, and assisted of cultivation of her
husband in day. and in night she en-
deavored to amlse her old mothers
tedium.' "She could done what che
hath. ~ =. -
Doubtless our crude efforts to speak
and write their vernacular afford them
as much if not more cause Of merriment
A missionary, not the earliest in the
field, not long since attended the SER
vices Of q colleague, and at the clos
ing was asked to dismiss the congrega,
tion. He complied, but unwittingly
went through the formula for baptism
instead of the benediction, not discover
ing his mistake till too late toscorrect it.
John C. Ballagb, S,s Harper's Moga-
zine tt
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19
The Kings Kiss.

IHo A1uS'c MSS
"How long, he asked, twill you remember
this
How long?" Then downward bent
His kingly head, andpn her lips kiss s
Fell like fame-a flame that sent
Through every vein ~
Loves joy and pain a
How long," he asked, win you remember
this?"
Chow long?n She lifted from his breast q
cheek
Red with her sacred love,
Yet when her redder lips essayed to speak,
And when her heart did move fR
To answer grave and sweet,
Somehow smile unmeet
Broke waywardly across red lips and cheek.
" How long, how long, will remember this
Say you," abe murmured low
bliss,
That smile went to and fro
Across her blushing face,
And hid graver grace
"Say you, how long will you remember this ?"
He bent above her in that moments bliss,
He held her close and fast
How long, how long, will remember this ?"
Until | cross at last,
With failing, dying breath,
That river men call death
So long, SO long, will remember thisn
But, when apart they stood, did he remember
His word that summer day!
Did he remember thrspgh the long December
The warmth and love of May,
The warmth, and love, and bliss,
The meaning of that kiss,
When kingdoms stood between-did he re-
member? =
All! who can say for him? For her we know
The kings kiss was her crown;
For her we know no agony of woe,
No other smile or frown,
Gould make her heart forswear
That summer morning there,
Between the forest trees of Fontainbleau.
Nora Perry, IN Appleton's Journal
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19
How Gold Wire is Made.

One of the most singular mechanical
operations Imaginable is the making Of
gold wire for what is known as gold
lace. The refner first prepares solid
rod Of silver about an inch in thickness ;
he heats this rod, applies upon the sur
face sheet of gold leaf, Furnishes this
down, applies another coating, Furnishes
this down-and so on, until the gold is
about one -hundredth part the thickness
OF the silver. The rod is then subjected
to a train OF processes which brings it
down to the state of fine wire, when it is
passed through holes in steel plate
lessening step by step in diameter.
The gold never deserts the silver, but
adheres closely to it, and shares all its
mutations il is one-hundredth part the
thickness Of the silver at the beginning,
and it maintains the same ratio to the
end. AS to the thinness to which the
gold-coated rod of silver can be brought,
the limit depends on the delicacy Of
human skill. It has been calculated,
however, that the gold actually placed
on the very finest silver wire for gold
lace is not more than one-third Of one
millionth of an inch in thickness that
is, not above one-tenth the thickness Of
ordinary gold leaf. -
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19
items Of Interest.

A narrow escape-A fire ladder.
The speaking trumpet was in use 335
b.. y. ,7,rTyr g..s = rrfrs. SrSsE
Cape Town was planted by the Dutch
in 1858.
The sonnet was invented by Guido
d'Arezzo, 1924.
Streets were first lighted with oil
lampsin 1862. 3tasAh
The bee gives us honey, but We give
the wasp whacks. ~ gsa44s5
The locust sings by fddling on its
wing with its leg.
Sandbars are visible everywhere IN the
Mississippi river. '','
1t will never move Of It's own accord.
We mean a cord of wood. - -
The first light by gas was made from
distillation of bones in 1856.
Paris has 65, 900 houses, London AGO.
600, more than Paris, Berlin, Vienna and
New York combined.
A leopard and fox had contest SO
to which was the finer creature of the
two. The leopard put forward his num-
berless spots, but the fox replied " It
IL better to have versatile mind than
variegated body" .4ss .ssa ,s.s
Among Stanley's competitors in the
field of African travel is an elderly
schooImaster of Steglitz, Germany. On
the principle of doingat Rome as Rome
does, he left home (having started
secretly with one shirt, one pair of
stockings, and an old overcoat.
The artificial production of minerals
throws the greatest light on the natural
production of mineral substances.
Rubies and sapphires have been pro-
dueed that have the adamantine luster,
hardness, density and form of natural
rubies, that scratch quartz and topaz,
and like natural rubies lose color on
strong ignition, and regain it on cooling.
Lapidaries have found these products
quite as hard as the natural stones.
eele LITTLE T1RASr.
Let every sound be dead
Baby sleeps.
The emperor softly tread
Sal! 3l Baby sleeps. 81 slt
Let Mozart's music stop ~,
Let Phidias' chisel drop
Baby sleeps.
~ Demosthehes be dumb
Our tyrant's hour has come
Baby sleeps.
A man may give nickles to the poor,
he may never have bilked a bootblaek,
he may never have wronged the widow
or the orphan, perhaps he has always
paid for his newspaper, and sweet chari-
ty, tender forgiveness and compassion
may linger always about the edges of
his lovely character, and yet when that
man reaches out carelessly after fve-
dollar gold-piece which he sees lying on
a show-c case and finds it stuck to the
glass on the inside, he is obliged to ad-
NIT that one Of the rivets in his moral
character has only been saved from Civ
ing way by the thoughtfulness Of the
man who put it on the under instead Of
the top side. Breakfast Table. -@'si
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19
NUMBER 81.
ADOthesms.
ROM THE TURKISH.

FROM THE TURKISH
l3l) An Ancient 5TFes. Il
Mock not the fruit-tree's wrinkled face,
It's knotty boughs, its want of grace;
For underneath no barren tree
Could you so many missiles see.
Bitter Words;
The knife's sharp cut can be endured
Its ugly cash by time is cured;
r But bitter words, when they o'ernow,
/. iTnfict deep, unhealing blow.
The Right Road.
How easy tbs for some to say
/" Your routeis wrong, that's not the way !"
For, whom the carriage breaks, all know
Which road the driver ought to 60.
Death.
/" Death is the dark, grim guest,
Who sights not rich nor poor
The coaI-biack camel's form which
"a Kneels at every door,
-Applao,fs Journal
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19

From the time boy is eight years
old until be is thirteen he devotes two
solid hours of every day of his busy life
to learning how to make new kind of
noise. By the time he is thirteen years
old he has accumulated noise enough
to last him the rest of his natural life,
and use three kinds of noises the same
day, too. o.-Buytiasgtou HaOkeye,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19

Crook City, in the Black Hills, wants
another postmaster. Luck ran against
the last incumbent at poker, and he
grabbed q $125 "pot 2 SO as to pay his
expenses home, threatened to blow off
the head Of any one that prevented him,
and fed.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19

A tomato weighing two pounds and
measuring eighteen inches in circunnfer-
ence, grown by W. A. a.. Edwards,
near San Jose, CAL, is the latest vege-
table wonder.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19
TIMELY TOPICS.

B The city Of indianapolis, Ind, reports
eleven atrocious murders within the last
twelve months. ..,si#.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19


f1 ---
What are called the Princess Mary's
Village homes, at Addlestone, England,
were established chiefly for the benefit
of the infant children of female felons.
The children are carefully trained for
industrial occupations, and large pro-
portion OF them turn out remarkably
well. They require exceptional care in
training, from the fact that SO many of
them have had drunken mothers, which
often produces in the offspring what has
been termed moral insanity. 34
The horse that carried Sheridan into
the fray from Winchester, twenty
miles away" lis dead. He was a jet.
black colt, with small white star,
years old when presented to the general,
then colonel of the Second Michigan
cavalry, in 1862. Rienzi was his name
at first, from the town in Mississippi,
but after the famous "ride" he was
always known as Winchester. The gen:
eral had not ridden him since the war
closed. A Rochester .taxidermist is to
prepare and set up the skin of the horse.
Artificial sentiment finds appropriate
expression in the newest style of eight
ened mourning" Says an indisputable
authority, s' a collection of French f1ow7
ers for tbe several stages of mourning
is peculiarly sentimental. The roses
are brown and wilted, with fluffy cob
webs among the buds, and q worm in the
haoz.t Of tho racoa tho vi01nfa oTn fodod
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-10-19

IA widow lady named Mumm has siy
children. The eldest, a boy, is narneo
Maximilian, and the youngest, girl, is
named Minnie. Thus one is the Maxi
mum and the other the Minimum.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-12-04
THE INDIAN BUREAU.

Gen. Marcy on the Transfer to the s1yar
Department..
Gen. R. B. Marcy has addressed a letter 10 The
commission having in charge the transfer Of
the Indian bureau to the war department. He
makes the most sweeping declarations Of cor
ruptions in the Indian service, and says If any
more direct evidence were required to substan-
tiate the charge of malfeasance in Office than
from time to time has been made against
Indian agents, contractors, and Others,
the fact that instances might be adduced
showing that many Of these agents entered
the service poor and retired rich would be suf-
Hcient to convince the most skeptical that
frauds have been committdd. The most untu-
tored Indians are cognizant Of these facts and
the recent Indian difficulties may be traced to
this cause. The transfer, he thinks, would be
expedient and wise, though it is not seriously
desired by the army. The army officer he
adds, 'is the last person who wants nm Indian
war, Hnt his experience in Indian affairs is
great his probity unquestioned, and his influ-
ence doubtless has been most salutary with the
Indiana, for they know he never deceives them,
and the only motive no could have III
desiring change is the preservation Of peace
and tranquillity, Referring to the Sis,lx and
the possibilities of their rising he SAYS that 81
the absence Of suitable military force hostile
ties might be brought on that would devastate
the frontier settlements. On the question Of
economy. ho says the transfer would BE rood
thing. Retired officers could perform the Gln-
ties of agents and department. commanders.
and act as superintendent. Quarterm asters
and commissaries would have the same safe avs-
tenn of accountability now required in the army
and medical officers could supply me1;c;ne.
for sickness, and all without additional nav.