Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-20

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A beautiful collection of dress prints, Ii
several hundreds of shades. The style
are pretty, and in fact they are NOR
limitations OF rich worsted goods, at II
J. E. Ahrens' Dry-Goods-Bazaar, Franklin
street. -
Mr.. Geo. W. Mexican dislocated his lef
arm, Tuesday morning, near Wsyerly, b.
the overturning of his buggy. The limb Wa
reset by DR.. Yancey. and Mr.. Mexican cam
to this place, and took the evening train To-
his ~home-Sedalia.
Our Ice dealers will please get their LEI
houses ready to harvest a big crop as soor
as the opportunity presents Itself. Dom
wait till ice Is ripe and then begin to fs
your house. The .'oldest lnhabilant' say.
If we don't get ice before Christmas WI
won't get il at all.
A valise, containing the samples OF MIR
Ware, n grocery drummer, was stolen frou
a buggy lie had been driving, last Saturday
night, while it was standing IN front of Mr.
VoiZ' store. in Old Town. Ii was found the
next afternoon, by Marshal Crowder, in
hollow, cut open and entirely rifed of iti
contents.
Last week we published the following
"A good milk cow wanted, inquire at this
office" Every day since then there have
been from enc to ten persons calling In to
sell cows. TIE advertiser now wants every
body to know that he has a COW. Ii you
want to buy or sell anything, advertise IN
the InteiIigencer, aud the thing is as good
as accomplished.
MI. John e., Burden recently sold one of
his farms to Mr.. VIM. c.. Kneedler, of PettIs
county, a relative OF Col. NJ V. l. McClel-
land's, for $40. 700, and refused So, 900 for
another. Lafayette county lands are look
Ing 'up.ANow Is the golden opportunity to
buy them. Mr.. KnecdIer Is an extensive
stock man. and will devote his attention to
the raising OF fiue sheep and cattle. We
We leone him to our county.
Journal Of Agriculture and Farmer AT
present Gen. Frank Cockrell seems to be the
only active aspirant for the place he now
holds IN the United States senate. from Mis-
souri,. There are some persons who think
tile election OF George Wilson, of Licking
ton. Lafayette county, Tor senator would be
x;-oI w. william - The
only democrat OF prominence in the state
who has consistently and persistently main
tanned an attitude Of opposition to the con-
tinuance OF our national banking system.
Should his democratic friends bring him
forward US a candidate, and lie consent, he
would make a lively contest In The coming
legislature = n an
We fad this valuable item In the careful
ly edited columns Of the Scientific Ameri-
can, . paper which should be upon every In.
telIIgeEt mans table:-"A powder known
as streupulUtr, composed OF 3 parts s~aiIcylic
acid and 81 parts ~sllicate Of magnesil, is
used 1.-THE German army as a remedy for
of the feet. Recently a Belgian
physician. DR.. kohnhom. tried ITS efficiency
In several cases OF night sweating by con-
sumptives. The beneficial effect was i'm
mediate and permanent. The powder was
over the whole body. To prevent
any breathing Of the dust aud quent
coughing d handk erchief must be held over
the patients mouth and nose while the pow
der is being applied"
Mr. George Il. Griffin, of Kansas City.
who is connected With the stave factory at
was in town Monday night. tie
says that at the factory and at the cooparing
been kept very busy, sometimes hardly able
to I'LL their orders. The factory is not rum
ming at present, because OF repairs and i'm.
provements which are being made-among
the putting in of a new fifty-horse
power engine-and operations will he re-
sumed with increased facilities Monday or
Tuesday. This is partly q Lafayette county
enterprise, and our miilers aud others who
need barrels should give it their patronage
rather than to send abroad. We are glad to
hear of its prosperity, and hope 1t will al
ways be successful.
A practical joke was played upon a we'll
character In this community last Sun
day night. He sleeps In a certain shop, not
innny miles from his off .. mi about dusk
every evening he goes there and puts down
hisibed-it is a portable one, and is removed
IN the day time Last Sunday evening he
prepared his couch. and after all the bed
had been laid, he sauntered forth to
spend the evening. A young man who is
employed in the shop, with the assistance OF
a couple OF friends, procured a suit of cloth
Ing, which they stuffed with wagon hubs.
A tin bucket was placed in the coat collar,
and a hat was put over the other end, leav-
Ing just enough OF the metal exposed to
shine for a face, and then they hid. Well.
tue tired person sought his couch, and by
the rays Of Il dim fire, discovered The in-
Aiming himself with a stick, he
Jim /; Is that you !" Receiving no response,
he remarked, "Well, Pm going to hit you
his you in the side, notthe face" and he sc-
companied his words with a terrific blow.
stick, coming in contact with the hubs,
Jared bis hand terribly and he then realized
he had been sold. He threatens ven.
on the perpetrators of lhe joke.
A writer in an Iowa paper calls attention to
the fact that the volume OF water In the rivers
and streams OF that state Is much smaller
1t was when the territory was first set
tied. He states that in The year 1858 steamers
regular trips from the Mississippi
river to Des Moines.s and that one went up
as far as Fort Dodge. At present a tirst-class
picksrel can scarcely make the trip. At that
time the Boone river was a stream of con-
magnitude, but now it is scarcely
more thar . creek fTwenty-three years ago
rocks that were covered by water, except
In very dry times, are now boulders several
rods from the bank OF the river. As with
open streams, so with those that are hidden
beneath the crust Of the earth, and where
Is only rescued by sinking wells.
decade it Is necessary to go deeper for
In localities where living water
reached at a distance of twelve feet OF
The surface, when the country was first set
tied, 1t Is now necessary to dig at least TWEEN.
ty feet to obtain it. The same condition Of
affairs exists in Missouri. II is not to be az
counted for because OF the cutting away OF
timber, for it is observable where no forests
ever existed. The most patent reason tor It
Is the cultivation OF the soil. Old residents
most every hill side there was u spring, or a