Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10
Vote for Jno. F. Philips.
Clean off your side walks

walker Ewing, desire us 10 return tn
- thanks 10 our patrons for their liberal tire
mcnt.
III. f. Ahrens will continue to sell
#. f%anneis, jeans, blankets. bed comforts a
re all other winter goods at such reduced IA
as will bring the prices flat down to cost.
& H.J. E. Ahrens will continue to sell
ladies dress goods, nublas. shawls, children
hoods, ulsters, chllGren's and ladies' hosie
at such reduced rates as will bring the prft
., nat dow to cost. j1Oti
All winter goods now on land Will be SC
,r at greatly reduced rates, in order to ma
q clean sweep of 1t, and thus enable us
get into our new store with a bran ne
stock. H.. j. E. Ahrens. j1Otf
It Pupils, or young ladies' or gentlem,
desiring to take lessons In elocutfon, eth
In class or privately, may be taught by appl
Ing to Miss Emma Bobbtt, at E. A. Sem
nary. Terms will be reasonable.
O Our greenbacker friends had a bell ring,
out last night crying a meeting, and IL
n courthouse WAS lit up for their accommod
tfon, but as no one would come the alta
was adjourned sine die without any speaI
Z ing.
There was a grand leap year party
wellington last Thursday night. We al
I promised particulars for our next. Their
are so many pretty girls up there that
must have been very interesting for tb
boys.
The preliminary trial OF William Wi
lams, commenced In this city before Esquir
VIM. b. Wilson yesterday. A number O
witnesses from Odessa are here. The a,
torneys for the defense are Messrs. Sbewa]
ter and X. RyIand.
Mr.. Geo. Wilson, DR., is talking OF organ
izinR q telephone exchange in this city. HOY
many will join: 1t will cost each subscribe
% per month for u telephone. or 81 pc
month for a m%icrophone. With the latte
whispers may be heard.
Msssrs. Grimes Il Eenable's STANDARD
thermometer has marked during the pas
week, at /, II and 3 O'Clock each day, a.
follows: Jan. 4, o-64-73 Jan. 8, 47-6O-
64 Jan. &. 4o-4S-46 ; Jan. :. 41-5I-52
Jan. 9, 44-4s-40; Jan. 8, 45-4O-42.
There will be a musical and literary enter.
tainment given by the young people OF
Dover. on Wednesday night next, January
H. The programme is an excellent one,
and We hope there Will be the large atten.
dance which we feel certain Its creditable
rendition will merit,
Col. j. L. Child's lament in yesterdays
Conservator :-''Some shirtless wretch raid.
ed our clothes-llne, Tuesday night, and took
therefron five shirts. We hope that they
may stick to him as close as the enyelope
mat chung to Nessus- just think of 1T, five
snirts, the accumulation of hard labor for
months"
Col. Jno. f. Philips made a good speech
to a large, representative and Intelligent au-
dience, at the courthouse, in this city, last
Tuesday,. The school-book convention hav-
Ing met That day be had the presidents of
over eighty school districts to hear him, and
at least nine-tenths of them were democrats
and Will work and vote for him.
An application was made to the county
court to change the voting precinct in Eas,
Sni-a-Bar township from Mt. Hope to Odes-
sa, but 1t came too late to make the necessa-
~ notices to the Judges and regarding the
limits OF the intended district, so 1t was Der
United to so over for this time. We SUD-
pose 1t will be renewed and granted.
by the courtesy of democrats and repub-
licans. h. Martin Williams had a fair AN.
dience to hear his three hours greenback
'aik' last Saturday. He abused the existing
parties roundly, and only had good words
Tor the moribund organization which he
champions. He Is not Il bad fellow. but he
needs to be born again-ltke Brother AL.
bridge.
hlchmond Conservator I'VE learn that
Sne leap year party at Dover was a decided
success, and Richmond was represented
there by Samuel Taylor, of the Conservation
CORPS who expressed himself in regard to
1t by the one word ''superb," the flashing
eyes, 1.-THE forms aud fascinating manners of
That vicinity rendering them peerless among
the fatr maidens of this section"
Inc force OF example was we'll illustrated
on Laurel street, near the opera house
thursday about noon. A son of Mr., Jacob
AppsPs, a lad OF about fourteen, met a
dusky youth of about the same age thsre.
ihey had bad a quarrel before, and young
appel threw a stone at the black boy, to
which the latter replied by hurting back a
enunk OF wood. At this Appel whipped
out q pistol and fred at his antagonist. Far.
tunately he did not hit him, and the negro
III OUT In double quick time. Young Appel
mas kept out or the way since his exploit.
MI. Jno. b. Burris, sexton, makes the fol-
lowing report of interments IN Macbpelsb
cemetry during the year1s7s: Whole number,
~ unoer ten years Of age, % ten and I'M
Ger twenty, 8; twenty and under thirty, 7:
thlrty and under forty. 4; forty and undo
n'ty, Z; nifty and under sixty, o; sixty and
under seventy, 9 seventy and under eighty,
o; eighty and under ninety, s.; ninety aud
over, l. Thirty-nlne died In this CITY. one
In hansas City, four in st. Louis, one In
carroll county, one In Clay county, tive IN |
nay county, one in Johnson county and |
twenty-five In this county.
Inc annual oyster feast, given by the direc-
TOT receiving the highest number OF votes fp
the election OF officers of theLafay cite NJ arine
insurance Company, took place at Haerle's
last Monday afternoon. Mr.. Jas.
Z. McGrew having the honor of footing the
Dill for the present occasion. The financial
exhibit OF the past years business was yery
creditable and showed a gratifying balance
upon the right Side of the ledger. but nv
reason Of the great reduction in The smonnt
oi business lone l: was thought best to wind
up the affairs of the company. During Its
existence, dating back only to 1869, upon b
pslo up capital OF about SAC, 900, nearly
e'o'ooo net profits have been divided among
us stockholders. The directors for the en-
suing year are VIM. Morrison, J. w. Wad-
ueii, +. Winsor, Jas. C. McGrew, Nj, f.
hoyie' A. V. Robinson. T. b. Clagett, NJ,
u. Jacobs and Lewis FL. Day. AT a meeting
VI the directors Immediately after the all
OF the stockholders meeting
W IN. Morrison was elected president, J. W.
" aadeii' treasurer, and E. Winsor. s%ecreta-
same officers who have been at the
neau OF Its affairs since it's organization.
we print, elsewhere, an official report of
ne expenditures OF Lafayette county for
he year 1879. 1t Will be seen that there WAS
'ald out, on the county expense fund
'zo'l4' %: on the road fund, So, SGG A: on
he poor house fund, S3,6IS SO. A Total q,
II. Mr.. Steele, in compliance with
ne law, turned back into the treasury
'I,o2o 81, thus reducing the actual expendi.
ures OF the county to S27 ,6O4 OF. In the
mount charged to county expense is in
for criminal court, So, sOs 6s. for
ircuit court. S2,061 81; for building new
Jerks offices, s5,1oS 95-all apart from the
ordinary current expenses of the county.
[aklng the aggregate of these sums. Sill.
90 To- from the total for county expenses, s