Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-28
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EDITOR ,lNrEII.eEIsscEERs EIsc n :IaiWell, "a lby bore !.
am. In Cblcage. several hundredl 1lan miles lies.
from home-farthera from Lexington
than have, ever before been vi since Et eJ1.l ny
residence, there, isud1 the ss second 9nd TINE ne
that haye been opfts3ide af 3 the TstateM7tIhe sE7 y
first time only as far, ass assuL L.eayyennworth y y
and. by the way, the first man man spoke
to there said something about having
men at the depot ITO send id Misseu--
rians back where they came from ~. as
soon as they got int town OF course
1 wasn't particularly well pleased With
Kansas hospitality. But here there g, are are
so many people that ]. an unsophistica-
ted country boy, feel as much out OF
place as giant in Liliput or whale
among minnews; so many, in fact, that
1 believe if Mark Twain's speculative
genius, "Col. Sellers" we're here. he
would find them more numerous than
the number of bottles OF eye-water he
hoped TO dispose of-in Africa, think
it was. .rr ..-.-. y,,,-. ..
Before going further. l will give you
an item l had intended for my letter
from Odessa, but which escaped my
memory at the time-itis a condensed
report of the stock shipped over the
Chicago Il Alton, for the year ending
June 1, 1880, between Centralia and
Independence Jack son county, $50
cars; Lafayette, TT cars; Saline. ], S4S
cars; counties near the road. 552 cars
Blue Springs made the largest shipment
from jackson countY-89 cars; Odessa
from Lafayette - 227 cars; Marshall
from Saline-652 cars. Bates City, La
fayette county. made the largest ship
ment at one time-34 cars. This stock
was shipped at an average OF $40 per
car, making a total Of S116.8o6. 1t is
evident that Tom Chinn is live stock
agent. '~
Now for the trip. Our party. consist
ing of Mr.. Geo. F. Maitland and lady, 7,
Mr.. Charles A. Morrison and lady, Mrs.
D. F. Boulware, Mr.. Ethan Allen and
lady, Misses Fannie and Annie Allen,
and myself, left Lexington last Saturday,
for Kansas City, where we arrived at 9,
, a. M, Conductor Dewyer' bringing us
r through in good time. The day was
5 spent there, and saw quite a number
, of our old citizens, among them, Messrs'
George Zeiler, Joseph Baehr, S. j.
, Beeler, S. 1. Drysdale. H. Geiger, Otto
Langovitsch. j. r. Peters, Il. Clayton,
Hugh Wallace and Henry Bruce. color.
ed. Mr.. Bruce did the circular work fol
the Intelligencer some time since.
also saw MIR. G. u. Baker, one of the
gentlemen who got out our business di
rectory. He is publishing a railway
guide here. l saw sight or two a
p Kansas City, on my way to the uniol
depot-a woman about fifty years .
age. and emily three ieet high; an ''ar
!, lists cutting,'' so the sign said, and al
= ice-cream, parlor in the same rosm
Some place, but l don't remembe
:, where, l have seen the line Beauty hn
;, adorned is best adorned CHANGED t
spy, at laundry window, female VIII
was entirely unadorned. and l must de
i, clare don't agree with the author o
. the above quotation. We lett kansa
" City at 6:SO. p. NJ, on the H. & St. Jc
for Quincy, where we arrived at abou
four o'clock the next morning.
t. stood guard over the baggage in tn
Il depot there. while the rest of our crow
went up town tor a walk. The depe
J. building is about two blocks lsng, and
is on the levee. The buildings opposit
< are saloons and hotels-those which ar
T. not saloons are hotels. and those whic
m are not hotels are saloons. When th
a. folks came back, they said Quincy ws
10 a lovely place, and had an elegant cour
,t house. l was relieved from my pos
20 and walked down to the Mississippi ft
10 Bill Meets sake. Beside pretty ierr.
re the Alex. McGregor. Minnesota pacl
ee et was at the wharf. "A party OF excu
q. sionists, among them nicely uniforme
or tand, went on board. l alse saw lit
in man-torty- or fifty years Of age.
" heavy whiskers, quite corpulent, and b.
no little taller than little Annie Allen.
our party. In the depot saw a lar
hit g!ass case, lull of glass jars, containil
m samples OF wheat. oats, corn, barle
an beans, etc, the products Of Nebraska al
Ir Iowa Each jar was labelled. telling t
an quantity to the acre and the weight
,st the bushel. A case similar to this is
mr. the depot here. They are the ADVERT:
re- meuts of the Burlington & Misso
,,d railroad land company.
has At 80, a. m., we left for the city
my Mrs. OLeary's kicking COW, on the
ver B. & Q.-Cheapest, Best Il Quickest,
has Chicago, Burlington s. Quincy. I
lily train was in charge OF Conductor
has Scott Dewey, a handsome, elderly-lo
and ing gentleman, who promised to put
MI into Galesburg-l00 miles, even, fir
lle. Quincy-in two hours and fifteen m
cor utes. and he did. Mr.. Tom Molin,
lis brakeman, MIR. Morrison and myself n
lfli- on the platform OF the rear coach, 8
pom while those tive gentlemen kept tim
city counted the mile posts. The first 4
!. was made in slxty-seven seconds;
second in sixty-two, and the third
ime sixty. The last eleven miles were IN
,ine in ten minutes. Between the two pls
the above named the towns are but Fl
This two to five miles apart, and such tow
Mr. The houses are one-stOry frame bu
yeeu ings, and are in dilapidated. scare
T. in habtabe condition. l saw but th
ac- brick houses in the hundred miles =
,rial doesn't compare tavorably with old
in souri,, does 1t?
stir We got to Chicago nearly three h'
Mr.. ahead of the regular time-ours beiI
! to ,,o,;,1 train fbouub MO loft nu;