Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-06-21
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Grant is 81.
Conkling and Bayard are 81.
Eugene had nothing left but her boy. and now
he is gone.
Stanley Matthews thinks Hayes will be re-
nominated.
DR.. NJ. A. Brown, of Misni. paid us a pleas
ant visit Thursday.
Miss Katie Boteler, of Kansas City, is visiting
at Mr.. NJ. F. Royle's.
Mr.. CHARLES Knipmeyer, of Higginsviile. was
in the city Wednesday.
Mr.. Hunter GIlkeson returned last Saturday
from his trip out west.
Miss Maria Page, OF Page City, has been WIS.,
iting friends here during the week.
Capt. Ryland Todhunter. the great trottinR
horse man, was in the city Tuesday.
Col. John Reid Is absent in st. Louis on BUSH
ness connected with the fish commission.
Mr.. Brad Bethany, the popular boot and shoe
merchant of Brownsville. was in town Thurs
day.
Tom Ewing SAYS that he and Rice. with three
legs. can beat Foster and Hickenlooper with
four.
Mr.. Eli NJ. Kennedy called on the Intelligen-
Ger Tuesday. He is as proud as ever of his fine
sheep.
Messrs. c.. Z. Ballard and j. D. Ish. were
registered at the Planters, st. Louis, last Sat-
urday.
Mr.. James T. Clayton. formerly of this place,
but now of Kansas City, was In the city Tues
day last.
Mrs. John c. Young went down to Browns
Vile Monday evening, to secure rooms for the
summer.
Mrs. James Bergman. OF Marshall, Is In the
city visiting the families of DR.. Alexander and
A. A. Lesueur.
Mr.. VIM. Lauderdale. OF the Fairview neigh
borhood. has been In the city during the week,
visiting relatives.
According TO the Hartford Post there are four
the circus season. the gresn-apple sea-
son. Fourth of July and winter.
Jno. Young says he is going to quit chewing
tobacco and get fat. He is tired OF being taken
for an escaped cabinet skeleton.
The latest for a lager beer saloon sign Is.
'.Five Hundred Men Wanted-With Five Cents
Capitalize Unload Schooners."
Miss Sallie Clagett. OF st. Joseph, daughter
of NJ. M. Clagstt, Esq, is visiting the family of
her cousin, Maj. T. b. Clagett, of this city.
Mr.. Ike Ward, a stock dealer OF Kansas City,
| was IN the city Tuesday and Wednesday,. He
succeeded in buying i've horses and four mules.
The Intelllgencer received pleasant calls
Wednesday from Capt. W. A. Thornton, A. 7.
| Kirtley. j. s. White, H. II. Hughes and l.. a.
Fulton.
Mr.. Rudolph Bircher, proprietor of the
Laclede-Birchsr hotel. st. Louis, died in that
city last Saturday, aged 20 years. He had
amassed quite y large fortune.
Mrs. Matthew G.. Perry. widow Of Commodore
Perry of Japantreaty fame, and mother Of Mrs.
August Belmont, dieu June l4th, ut her
daughters residence. in Newport. RI.
Ethan Allen, No. /. Ethan No. 2, aud Miss
Birdie Allen left for Chicago last Monday even
ing, Miss Birdie will remain a couple of months
the two Ethans will return in about ten days.
Messrs. Harvey w. Plattenburg and Jno. S.
Wheatley, who spent Monday and Tuesday in
town, made us a welcome call. They report
Dover quiet. crops good and affairs
dull.
Elder w. r. Cunningham, who has returned
to Lafayette county, to make it his home. called
on the Intelligencer Monday. A notice of hi
church services will be found in its propel
place.
John Young says that the boys who wore but
ton hole bouquets and sported canes and eye
glasses while the school girls were here. now &,
in their shirt sleeves anu only wear one sus
pender
Marshall Progress:-Hon f. NJ. Edwards, O
Woo StSSANAhS SOuAly SOoiG IA W.
city last week. . . Alex. Graves and L
D. Ewing. OF Lexington, were registered a
Ming's yesterday.
Mr.. Wilson Aull. son of the late Robert Aull
came up to tell us good bye. Monday, as he wa
leaving for his home, in st. Louis. after q shor
visit to friends here. His sister, Miss Mary F
Aull, is still In the city.
Will Trisg was in town Tuesday and Wednes
day. He says a horses kick on the shin j
pretty hard to bear, but not half as hard as tn
kick his girl gave him once. That's his way o
talking, mind, not ours.
Mr.. Geo. F. Maitland returned from st. Loui
last Wednesday morning. where he laid in
very large stock of goods. lie also interviewed
the Missouri Pacific officials on freights to thi
place on behalf of the business association.
''Col." Silas Cheek. a prominent young law
yer, and q very clever gentleman. of Clinton, al
rived in our city Friday last, and spent thre
days visiting the family of his uncle. Mr.. 5.
Drysdale. He left Monday evening for = Wis
to Illinois.
). Major q. G. Morrow, Warrensburg, who cam,
over In a buggy, last Tuesday, with Majo
Henry NELL, dropped In to see us. as in dut
bound. The major is editor of the Journal
Democrat, one of the siaunchest Democrat
papers in the state, and one of the best.
I MAT 4dDo, VI NlTSlulas Is IN the CITY
on II visit to Mrs. Moorehead. Mrs. Tabb
also on a prospecting tour, and if she can I'm
f a farm 10 sui, her, her husband will buy it, IN
f the family will make this their future home
We hope u suitable place will be found.
We received a pleasant visit last Monda
morning from Mr.. C. Y. Ford, who was In tn
Z city as a member of the grand Jury. Mr.. Ford
western trip seems to have cut him down some
v what in flesh, but he is still as handsome q
ever. Pity he's married, girls, amt it?
h e. d. Max, OF Murdoch, ILL.,, impelled by
serious sense Of duty, writes a letter to the Cir
' cinnat, Enquirer, IN reply to a ''Young man i
. love" in which he plaintively says, 'Don'
marry a twin. 1 did. Consequences: Eigl
Y years married. and iour pairs of twins. Youn
Z man, find q girl Ii you can who never heard {
twins"
4 L. Rufner Smith, ESQ.,, the enterprisin
. Odessa merchant, ano our old time friend, pal
US one of his two-minute-and-a-balf calls la
Tuesday. He's always in q ''terrlble'' hurry
until he anchors near a certain piece of dimity
when it almost takes h log chain to drag hi
q away. For a fellow that will do to tie to
takes HIN u long time to get spliced.
Major A. q. Young honored our sanctum vii
his presence last Thursday. Despite his yea
n the major retains the vivacity and good natui
OF his younger days, and he feels as much intel
est in public matters us ever he did. One of Il
pioneers Of this section, conscientious, hone
and brave, to few men are we under mo-
obligation for the advancement of our comml
nifty than to him.
Col. JnO. Reid returned yesterday from S
Louis to attend q meeting of the state hsh con
missioners. The commission was organize,
Wednesday, by the election of DR.. J. G.. "
ia Steedman as presldent, Col. Reid declining Il
position because of the TACT that 1t will be I
more convenient to have the thief officer at S
LOUIS. Col. Reid and Gov. Woodson came
yesterday morning as far us Jefferson City al
thence home.
Richmond Democrat, June 49,: Miss MINI
Davis, of Lexington. spent Saturday and SUI
day in this place. the guest of Miss Annie Woo
. son. . Miss Katie Hubbell, OF Columbi
Mo-, is visiting in this city, the guest of Mi
- Mamie Hubbell. Our "deyIl,'' accor
~ panied by John Shotwell. took u run over
Lexington Tuesday night, to be present at
r party given in honor of Miss Boteler. of Kans
Is CITY, ut the residence of Mr.. NJ. F. Royle.
The Lord Mayor OF London gave q banuu
at the Mansion House, Thursday night OF la
!, week, to the members of the international Ii
erary Conference and the delegates to the Int
i. national Telegraph Conference, then in sessi,
in that city. Toasts 10 the Literary Congre
VI were responded to by Messrs. Edmond Abou
Frederic Thomas and blanchard Jerrold, \
s. Ferdinand de Lesseps. replying to a toast to ii