Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-05-24
Remember the Old Mems Club meetingte to-
day, at Mr.. Ferd. Smiths, near Prairie

Remember the Old Mems Club meeting to-
day. at Mr.. Ferd. Smiths, near Prairie
church.
Messrs. VIM. Smith, VIM. Morrison, VIM.
Duncan and Brent Young went fishing In
Tsbo Thursday. Their luck was not very
good.
Strayed-From this city. q brown cow
white face, moderate order. Liberal reward
for information which will lead to her re-
covery, at this Office.
A young man living in Old Town brought US
q bottle full of "seventeen year locusts" a few
days ago. They seem to relish apples. and are
quite plentiful in placed.
The county clerk has received notice that
there will be about twenty thousand dollsrs
OF bonds offered for compromise at The next
term of the county court.
Mr.. G. X. Fox sends us a stalk of wheat on
which were deposited the eggs of the fly which
is 30 destructive. He says In his note that every
stalk which has the fly ''has turned to cheat"
Capt. A. +. Asbury, Of Higginsvillr. re-
ceiv-d word q few days ago, that Mr.. j. n.
FarrIs, who Intended publishing = paper at
that place was dead. Mr.. Fsrris lost one Of
his chill, rem q few week. ago. and now the
announcement OF his death will cause a
shade of sorrow to pass over bis many
friends In this county.
during the storm last Monday evening
Mary Button. aged about eight years, was
Killed while ut play In the dooryard. by q
falling limb. der parents live opposite the
island. below town, and were in the field
when the storm came up. They FASTENED
home, but the accident had occurred before
their arrival. Her body was brought to this
city next day for burial.
Mes.rs. James Zsllsr and ). W. RInehsrt
were divorced during the week. After the
separation Mr.. kinehart. moved bis stock OF
goods into the store-room recently occupied
by G. G.. Ludwigs, Esq , and Mr.. Zsiler re-
moved to the kriehn store-room, formerly
occupied by J. A. Qusrles d Co. Both gen.
tlemen are nicely situated In their new
quarters, and the enc can sell you stow 81
and pans, aud the other rat-tsil files and
buck saws ut bottom prices.
There was q very fair attendance at the
meeting Of the Business Association last
Thursdsy night. The encouragement Of
trade from Bay county, by offering to the
people there free ferriage. was discussed
and decided upon. The Improvement Of the
Wellington road was also discussed, but no
conslusion was arrived at, owing to the fact
that the surveyors had made no definite re-
port. The Association Is In the way Of doing
much good, and we hope to see every busi-
ness man encourage 1t.
Sheriff George NJ. Mountjoy found. In
Uy-..3to IT,. let rr,>.l.v of.ht r.
ner Brown, n colored man. who is accused
Of stealing q COW from Geo. Odsll, Of this
county, In 1876. He was released on his own
recog niz .ncs just after the crime wal CON-
mitted, and ran awsy to Kansas, where he
has been ever since. The colored constable
In Wyandotte found him for the sheriff, and
be proposed to come over into Missouri to
submit 10 arrest, rather than to be placed in
Jail at Wyandotts to await . requlsition from
next Wednesday night. 30 says The cores
pondent Of the Kansas City Journal, but as
he is boarding at Mr.. Chtnn's hotel. 1t Is
supposed that the nuptiaIs have been indef-
inlteIy postponed.
Hugh c. Wallace, Of this city, son of
Thos. b. Wallace. Esq and bis brother Tom,
who are members Of the United States Mis-
souri, river survey ARE spending = day or two
| with their friends here. The surveying
party has finished up its work In the lower
| Missouri river, and is on Its way to Sioux
| City. Iowa, where new quarter boats will be
built, to prosecute The work from that point
to Ls wentworth. from which place the first
survey began. The tug, Iris, win 20 on up
the river TO join the party. the men going
up by rail, next Monday night. 1t is to be
hoped that this survey, which was secured
by Gen. Jne. B. Clark, will result In clearly
indicating to congress the necessity and x
to make the Missouri river, the father OF
waters, q reliable stream for commercial
purposes.
A little boy, aged about four years, the
son Of Mr. Dennis GAVIN, while playing in
Mr.. Russ Gathers wagon, Thursday eve.
ming, In some way turned of the brake.
The wagon, happening to be on an inclined
plane. started backward toward the large
hollow at the corner OF Pine and Howard
streets. The child's mother ran out Of the
house, nesr by, screaming in alarm snc
Mrs. Gather ran to the wagon, and tried te
fasten the brake ss 1t passed by her, but un
successfully, and Joined her voice to those
Of the scared mother and mora badly fright
ened child. SO that the whole neighborhooe
was aroused. The wagon, gaining in mo
mentum the. further 1t rolled, plunged
of Of the street into the gully
some twenty feet deep. aud turned com
pletely over, but strange to say the littl'
fellow who had taken the perilous rid
crawled out from under the box unhurt,ant
the tears o. tie frightened mother wer
changed to nervous, hystsrical smiles. Thi
Is the third wagon that has taken the sam,
journey in somewhat the same way, an,
little chaps should be kept away from them
as they are like he gun which the boy salt
t was dangerous without lock, stock Or bar
rel, as his daddy whaled him with the ram
rod, to be feared even when NO horses ar
sttsehsd m them