Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-02-14
AUlLVILlE.

Large amounts OF cattle. hogs sheep and grain
are being shipped from here.
Six hundred dozen eggs VT re shipped from this
place. Wednesday. to st. Louis.
A drunken Irish'nan AMI n yellow negro had
flight at the depot Monday evening
Ike Avitt has bought out Sam McCasland.
md Is now a frst-class city merchant.
r Graham Is building II store room on Walru'
treet. 1t will be occupied by DR. Hartman
Grove Young has bought the stock and good
will of Harrison & Jackson, and occupies his
Id corner.
l won't say anything about the weather. bu,
, sn't 1t b en- II lovely winter? Bat II Is rain
ing hard to day
Two corn shelters hav. all they Can do IN tow"
while there are one or two in tn. country rum
nlng ON iull time
John Catron. while acting as fireman for the
corn shelle, engine, Tuesday, shoveled hts Sil0
gold watch INTO IN furnace
1t Is stImated that only one-half Of the corn
ID. BEEN shelled in this neighborhood There
Is also II large amount of whe It yet to thresh.
a II. Il j. T Major have added u complete
took OF staple and fancy dry goods to their
already large stock of groceries. boots shoes.
mi q.eensware.
For Gods sake hurry up the building of your
.reut bridge and give employment to several
hundred so ce-seek-,he-man-men'' before they
IRE petitioned or announce themselves.
l think the Intelligrncer is one of The best, II
not the best edited and managed paper in the
state. and 1 an proud Of it. Even ''old 1862
ID constrained to copy the lntelligencer's edlto-
rails.
Bob Greer and John Hord left for st. Louis
Wednesday morning with several car loads of
sheep. cattle and hogs. While absent they will
visit Kentucky, and Will purchase u car of nne
sheep.
John Prince bought. some time since. the
Thistle store room, and has fixed it up in first
class style. and has flied it with a ans stock of
hardware, cutlery, stoves. tInware, &c. He has
filled his old store room with plows. cultIvators.
&C., &c.
Mr.. Editor. what are We going to do for dele
gates to the various conventions that are to be
held this summer? II u few more candidates
come out We will have to send over to Johnson
and Saline counties to borrow q few democrats
to act As delegates.
A number of our young men went up to Lex
Ington last Friday night to see Madam --
(what ever her name i) as Mary Stuart. and
ever since their return they can not decide
whether to &C to Leadville or go on the stage and
become . great actor
There WAS q ''leap" year party at Mr.. W. c.
Anson's, west of Aullville, ono night last week
Some of the young men have been wearing long
facss ever since. None of the young ladies re-
questsd the pleasure OF their company, 20 the
young men remained at home.
VIM. H. Chlles. Jos. Bowman and John f.
Burden spent Friday last in our city. JOHN
Burden must think this is u funny town; as
about fifteen of the boys watched him at dinner,
and when he had finished handed him Il new
fiddle, with three strings broken. and requested
= tune. He played one or two tunes Tor the
boys and would not play any more. 1t was i'm
possible to play on a fiddle with three broken
strings. But the boys told him TO go ahead
that 1t was much finer music than could be heard
around here.
This township, Freedom. is almost solid for
Judge Hord for probate judge; Dick Conn will
make u clean sweep for collector; about evenly
divided on c. o. Smith AMI VIM White for asses
sor; Capt. Thornton will carry the township fol
sheriff, bur Col Elliott will run him close-some
ihlnk Elliott will carry 1t, but the writer doea
not. w. have some ten or twenty more candi-
iates out here. but The above Is sufficient ioi thu,
letter. lfut as \ successor Will be elected in
Judge HarrIson's pace. and as no one has been
nominate JudgeJ ". Harrison to succeed nm.
sell; n good and true man. one OF natures
b-en mentioned Tor the Legislature from thu
district. Give old Freedom Il show. W. wan
y sharp, shrewi. honest man-"ne that knows
our wants, and will go TO Jefferson CITY AMI pass
! just such laws us we neei. in as short u time rs
possible and then come home Capt. John &.
Handley, OF West Freed IN, Is the mar to fill the
bill.
T. 8 Il thought l WAS through with the canii.
dates. but | have JUS seen II " III 0 RlcrarI
| Field, oil Lexington for circuit judge, aunt Ju "
ing by III. number of names on il. II looks lIKs
Di k has II all his own way Why, even tha
radicals are -IguinS 1t SO You can put Freed n
down for ID OK, amt gu know when that nobiv
Pole fell, why afr e ION shrlrked - but, this
time, the voice OF Freedom will make ''ItIchtrd
| himself once more" iAFA{ErTE.