Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-06-28

A large stock of all kinds of fruit jars just
received at Clagett,s. j2St3
Picnic, Reeves grove, Saturday. July 10,
See Napoleon correspondence.
DR.. Alexander says that W. inches OIL
water fell on last Tuesday night.
TIT annoyance to farmers Of being shor,
Of stock water is now done away with for
the summer.
A gentleman signing himself "Common
Sense" tells some very common sense truths
in another column of this paper.
The Sunday train on the Missouri Pacific
railroad is a great accommodation to this
place. See time table elsewhere.
Cashmere, jeans, cottonades. cheviots,
brown and bleached, c%ottons, IN full lines
may be had ut Royle s. News. may3m1
The merits of DR.. Bulbs Baby Syrup are
the diseases of Infancy. Price only % cents
a bottle.
The Missouri Pacific train arrives on Sun
day at 1920 q. m., and leaves at $40 p. m
1t connects at Sedalia with trains to and from
st. Louis.
There will be a grand gathering of Jack
son and Lafayette county people at Reeves
grove near Bone Hill, on Saturday, July
10Th, at a picnic.
Many, many years. Mrs. Winslow's Sooth'
ing Syrup for children teethiDg, has stool
the test OF many years !; never to fail. 70 cts
Avoid limitations. c2Sl2
Mr.. Burdens fine new building on South
street is progressing rapidly. The walls viii
be up mex week, and by fall Mr.. b. viii
have one of the handsomest houses on South
street.
The frame work of MIR. Jno. C. Young
building on the corner of Main Cross sne
South streets is nearly completed. 1t viii
be q very pretty cottage house, and a grea
improvement to the locality.
Persons of sedentary habits, and over
worked, find in DIR. BULBS Baltimore Pills
specific for want OF Appetite, Palpitation
Debility, Constipation, and many other all
ments. At all druggists. Price % cts.
On Tuesday night last during the storm
lightning struck the back part of Col. JnO
Refd's residence, doing slight damage, ant
also again struck the new Catholic church
further SCATTERING the small spire over tn
middle OF the roof.
1t ralned all OF Thursday night, b~sginninl
about 9 O'Clock. The rain continued through
out the day yesterday. 1t had the appear
aRce of being very general, TOO, which
true will result in q considerable rise in til
river. which is now bank full.
"What makes your lips SO awful sore
asked Sarah's cross eyed pap and Sarah t
the old man said !: sIt's caused by q sms
chap Then Sarah's youngest brother, a
yet unknown to fame. looked Sarah in til
eyes and asked : what is the small chap
name p"
Pleasant Hill Review 1.-The Lexingtol
I%ntelligencer of last week was unusually In
teresting, containing as it did full and intel
esting reports of the commencement excl
cises OF its colleges and other educational in
stitutIons. 1t is one of the most reliable an
interesting exchanges on our table.
We acknowledge the receipt of the bus
ness card Of the law firm of Gwynne
Smith, Kansas City. The firm is compose
of Mr.. Nat. NJ. Gwynne, member of til
legislature from Kansas City. and Mr.. Henri
Smith. They are both clever gentleman, an
we know Mr.. Gwynne to be an able lawyer
Persons having legal business IN kans'
City cannot do better than to entrust 1t
these gentlemen.
Madame Moody's abdominal corsets
CoukIing's. j28
The efficacy of cooperation is well illu
trated In the following incident: SIN 49,
thirteen men gathered together. thrice
prayers were said, and S13 subscribed X
the establishment of a place Of learning fl
Baptists. To day Madison University,
Clinton, N. Y, owns all its buildings ar
100 acres of land in a beautiful part of tt
country. It has a fine library, no debts ar
more than $4OO, 900 drawing Interest,""
: Blind Tom gave one of his unique exhit
lions at Hagen's opera house on Frid'
night Of last week to a very good audienc
To those who have never seen him befo
Tom is a curiosity and a study. He is real
a prodigy, for though there Is clap trap abo
: some of his performance 1t is really wonde
full that a blind negro, OF rather lnferi
9 mind, should he able to become as good
pianist as he is. That he is a fine pianist ,
o | wv SoAhh az tANSs u ~ 10
= a very remarkable one.
Madame MOody's abdominal corsets
Conkling's. j2e
The man who takes q paper is alwa
ahead the Independent thinks. Its edit
says: II knew two friends as much ali
as ever you saw two stumps, and no phre
ologist could find a difference in their BUM
One took a paper, and his life was hsppi
o than a kings. his children all could read q
10 write, and talk OF men and things. T
other took no paper, and while STROLL
through the wood,a tree fell down upon
crown and killed him-as 1t should Il
IN he been reading Of the news at home, Il
Neighbor Jim. I'd bet a cent this sccid'
70 had not befallen him."
"a Madame Moody's abdominal corsets
Conkling's. y
Ethan Allen, Esq. returned from his vi
at to Chicago. last Wednesday,. He could
tain no definite Information from the ofic
Ia OF the G. B. Il @. R. R. regarding their
tr %tention Of extending the Burlington
a Southwestern to Kansas City. He laid fl
!, before them the feasibility and desirable
at of building the road by way of Lexingt
and 1t is to be hoped that his presentation
the case may result in good. The vice.pl
idcnt, Mr.. -. Perkins, who alone "a
have spoken authorltatively, was un'
n tunately absent. Mr.. Allen waited four d
,la for his return from Colorado, as be was
pected home, but could not %convenieI
at walt longer. He was treated with the
most courtesy by the general officers of
road, who gave him long interviews
%, listened with much interest to what he
to say. The matter will be fully laid bel
In MIR. Perkins and the executive committs
he the directory Immediately on the retur
III. that gentleman. In the mean time corresr
rd dence is in progress with the promir
stockholders of the Burlington & Sol
ts. western,
tb- Madame Moody's abdominal corset.
Conkling's. j.
Two young ladies' soliciting contribute
ce. for a church picnic created consternatio,
Try tue courthouse ring last wednesday al
IT noon. They caught Buck Steele, of cou
IN as he was never known to run, but the
W. Mountjoy and Jake Conner made track
the Jail was a caution, and Frank Trigg
At got all about being lame and made dou
2 quick time into the cupoIa of the courtho
,t. Jake's sentinel went back on him,
he whistled before the ladies' had left, and q
Inv came out smiling at the way he had out
,rt. ted tLem, slap he ran up to one hol
no out her hani. He surrendered immed
ly. The last we saw of him he Was wi,