Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-02-14
Personalities.
Mr.. James CIowdaley ia better.

Mr.. james Clowdaley is better.
Mr.. A. F. Beneke WAS in town Thursday.
DR.. a. V. Small, of Scdalia, was In town last
Monday.
Mr.. Ed. II. Smith has gone to St. Louis to
study law
Mark Twain was born in Florida, Monroe
County, Mo.
Hugh says elena Rivers'' can pour out his
coffee for life.
Tilton Davis, Esq.,, was in the city several
day this week.
Little Willie Lesueur, son of J.. o. Lesueur,
is very i'll with pneumonia.
Miss Littlejohn. from near Aullville, is visit
ing her sister. Mrs. Welborn.
Gen. Grant and party were 10 sail from
Havana for Vera Cruz Yesterday.
Miss Annie Price, daughter Of Mr.. Jacob A.
Price. is very i'll with pneumonia.
Miss Corrinne Bone, of Independence, is visit
ing the family of DIR. W. A. Gordon.
Mr.. T. C.. Moore left. Tuesday, for a two
months visit to friends at Kingston, Ky.
Miss Sarah Powell. of Richmond, Is visiting
her sister. Mrs. John Powell. of this city.
Allie. the little four-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Marrs'. Is very low with pneumonia.
DR.. Jacob Ditzler. well-known In this state,
has charge OF a church in Indianapolis, Ind.
Mrs. T. n. Dicken hes returned from St. 10.
seph, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Bean.
Messrs. Cuilum Brown and Virgil Keene, of
st. Louis. attended theifestlval last Monday
night.
Miss Farmhouse, of. Washington, D. c., is
visiting her sister. Mrs. Thomas Galloway. of
this township.
Miss Matte Sparks, who. had been visiting
her sister, Mrs. John White, returned home
Thursday last.
Mrs. Sallie NJ. Sharp, widow of the late F. C.
Sharp. Esq. is visiting the family of Hon.
Henry c. Wallace.
Miss Fannie Porter II visiting her friend. Miss
Belle Tommerson. In St. Louis. She will be
absent about q month.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lehman left, this morn
ing. for = trip through Kansas, Colorado. New
Mexico and Arizona.
Mrs. w. B. Cobb, whe has been visiting al
Mr.. J. B. Eckle's, LEFT there last night for a
visit to her father in Saline county.
Mr.. Virgil Keene, Of Barnard s. Co., St.
Louis, called to see US Tuesday. He wants to
know who his namesake is up In Clay township.
W. s. Thomas, OF Elizabethtown. Tenn. has
two sons. one Is years old and weighing a5l
pounds. and the other years old and weighing
17s pounds.
The Empire ID authority for the statement that
. lady Of Pierce City, II lew days ago gave birth
to u girl baby that weighed twenty -seven pounds.
1t IL II terrible statement.
NJ. r. T~arlton, prominent citizen OF Galloway
county. and tslher-in-law OF Phil. E Cnappell.
banker OF Jeder.on City, died Wednesday Ut his
farm above Cedar City Of erysipelis.
J.F. Fish and family. OF Stanford, KY, are
visiting the family of Jno. W. Grant, Eeq., OIL
this city. They are looking upa location, and
will probably remain in missouri should they be
suited.
Airs. Henry L. Haynes and her little son,
selden, reached Lexington from Stringtown, L.
T., one day last week. She will remain here
visiti., 6 her relatives and irienis for about Two
months.
Some bald.hsaded gentlemen in the east are
agilating the question OF the .bolitlon OF the
custom OF gentlemen taking of heir hats whel
passing q lady acquaintance on ts street. Our
bald headed friends oul this Way have done BET
ter-they never introduced such u f.shion.
The following named gentlemen have paid .
pleasant vlslls sIuce our lsst issue. zen. 10. y.
Shelby, w Boon Major. Alex. L.eper. James
X. Welho-n, W. 5. Sc, nour, oil Kay county, .
veIy clever gentleman, and "a candidate for s.c-
Rotary OF Estate. j. W. Lewis. II. T.. Pncc, Dan.
Bates, John r. Herr aud A. Bergensh,useu.
MIR. WIN. II. Carter, of Dover township, than
whom there Is not u more clever gentleman In
Lafayette county, is suffering from . severe
attack OF rheumatism. He has, we regret to
learn, been compelled to abandon tho school
room for q time. He went up to Kansas City u
few days ago to try the virtue of the Turkish
bath.
We clip the following from a recent Issue of
the Columbia Statssman:-''The inaugural of
Prof. Fleet occupied nearly ono hour in its de-
livery, and was a singulsrly able and exhaustive
exposition and defense OF THE Advantages Of
Classic Study 1t was listened to throughout
with the closest attention and warmly applaud-a
at its close. The address abounded in philosorTT
ical and historical arguments. most beautii,,r.
and cogently expressed, and made a dee,r NJ,
preston on all .present-even on the champ. lis
Of the natural science. Want of space alane pfHs4
vents US from appending a synopsis OF it; but
the address Is to be published"
Higglnsvllle Advance;-Mrs George Kennedy
has been in Lexington the past few days visiting
her laughter, Mrs. G.. c. Wallace. . . Judge
WIN. T. Wood and Hon. Henry e. Wallace
were here on Monday. Both are prominent for
circuit judge. . Richard Field, q prominent
member OF the bar at Lexington. added his
genial presence in our Office on yesterday. He
has numbers of friends who desire him for the
next circuit ], dye. Capt. w. A. Thorn
ton, one of the prominent grain buyers OF Aull-
vile. was here on Saturday last. and made the
Advance office a pleasant call. The captain has
q host Of warm friends who would be glad to see
him the next sheriff of the county.