Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-25
THE G. B. & 0. RAILROAD.

In reply to an editorial in last weeks
Ray County Chronicle, the Norborne
Independent says:
Whatever in the above article relating to the
value of the extension of the Il. & S. W. rail-
way through Ray county, would be of like adj
vantage to Carroll county, were it to pass through
it instead Of Ray. There seems to be little doubt
of the early extension of this road to Kansas
City. The officers of. the road say SO, and the
peculiar combination of western railroad inter-
ests alike make it all important to have a direct
connection with the net work Of roads ceaterlnS
at the wide-awake and fiourishlnS city only So
miles distant from us. Several surveys bereto-
fore made on the route to Lexington only leave
Norborneone-half or three-quarters Of u mile to
the south.
The route from Cunning ham Station to Kansas
City, midway between the II. Il st. 10 4. r.,
and the st. l.. X. e. & n. Il. r., Offers objec-
tons III This, that it is over a rough, BILLY coun-
try, and that would necessarily add largely to
the expense of construction, while the road
would be SO near both the former roads named,
AS to be sllorn of any large amount Of local busi-
ness. The officers OF this road, observing these
objections, and knowing that soon, very soon,
all the traffic of the Chicago & Alton, over the
st. L., X. Z. n N, from Mexico to Kansas
City. will be transferred to their own read, now
almost competed. have conceived the idea
of leasing the western end of the st. LOUIS,
Kansas City 4 Northern, from such a point
rs they can most conveniently make the juno
ton, to be used by them in a similar manner US
the c. K y. has. This would save the expense
not only of building many miles Of road over q
rough country but The keeping the same in repair.
from which they could expect bu. little benefit.
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an extension to Lexington and on to the south
west at some future time, We can see no other
point SD favorably situated for the junction as
Norborne, on Il direct air line between the prese MT
terminus aud Lexington. In this event the eX-
tended road would Come near enough to Car
rollton on the north to give her q station and
traverse nearly the whole of Carroll county, and
add largely TO our taxable wealth. The fact that
our county is out of debt. and taxes are light is
an inducement also to the railroad company to
put as many miles of road in this county as they
can to advantage and avoid those counties In
debt.
The advantages of this road toNorborne and the
whole of Carroll county il almost incalculable.
The com petition 1t would give our farmers and
merchants III fare and freight to the two great
rival cities of the west, Chicago and st. LOUIS,
would cause such IL revival of business and in
CichSe Vi "ciit - " uSIoulSu the ledSt OUsCIf-
ing. And is it not worth while that our citi-
zens, the men OF influence and. means through
out the entire county, be up and doing, and
leave no stone unturned that would have.a ten
dency TO secure this load from being diverted
from its legitimate course, its former survey.
Other towns and other counties have lost nearly
all benefits from great railroad t~horouXhfares
| simply because men thought the railroad would
come any way; there was no use of mind or
money being wasted as an influence. By secur-
ing this road we have much to gain rs a county
and rs a town; by losing it, we have not only
to lose the direct benefit OF the road, but also
suffer the damage it would be to us in skirting
our county. building up competing towns to re-
ceive the trade and traffic of our people,, and no
pecuniary increase whatever to us as a county.
Let action be at once taken. Let there be a con-
cert OF action. Let there be wisdom in the
councils. There is nothing like being early in
the field of action when work is to be done.
In this connection we would sug-
gest to the committee appointed at the
public meeting held IN the court house
last summer to correspond with the off,
GERS of the 3. & S. W. railroad in regard
to its extension to this city, that they
Immediately open a correspondence
with the officers of the G. B. & @. road,
in relation to the matter; and that they
call a meeting of our citizens so soon as
they become convinced that anything
can be accomplished by united action.
The wild outbreak of imprisoned
~Cheyennes from Camp Robinson, Neb.,
the prompt retaliation OF the guard,
which killed forty of them at short
range, and the subsequent pursuit by
cavalry to wipe ont the survivors, are
DIoouy incidents which canny. fail to
arouse fresh indignation at the manage
ment OF the Indian bureau. The gov
eminent expends money enough to keep
them comfortable, yet they were so
badly treated that they deliberately re-
solved to risk death from cold and hun
ger on the prairie, should they be fortu-
nate enough to escape the bullets OF the
soldiers. rather than return to the
agency which they had previously de-
serted. We have always thought a dead
Indian, killed in an honorable manner,
was worth ten live mes but to mistreat
prisoners and make them revolt, and
then shoot them down. is nothing less
than diabolical murder.
The assumption that if a democratic
president had been ~inaugurated In 1877
the resumption act would have been re.
pealed, is nonsense. No bill for such a
purpose could have become a law. So
far as hostility to the act was concerned,
the republicans were as deep i'll the mud
as the democrats were in the mire. Both
parties contained soft-money men, and
neither can consistently upbraid the
other on that score.
, Leonldas Grover, an old farmer in the
l vicinity of Newton, Fountain county
5 KY, was killed this week by a meteorit
2 stone weighing twenty pounds. which
l fell through the roof OF his residence
! Mr.. Grover was in bed at the time. This
=, is probably the first time such a thing
: has happened in the history of tn,
world.
Last Saturday we published the new
that Stewards remains had been givel
=, up, and $4,000 paid for the same. Sine
J that time the New York papers hav'
, contained many speculations on the sub
" lect, but not one additional word o
news. Mrs. Stewart and Judge Hilton
refuse to be interviewed.
The republicans will make an effor
p to seat Corbin, of South Carolina, i