Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-12-04
SAM IN KANSAS CITY.
KANSAS City Nov. %, Is

EDITOR lNTELLIGENCER:- - A2n98!
City, to-day. presents anything but ar
attractive appearance, it being cloudy
and muddy, and the streets compara
lively deserted. Il
got here. last night. on Chicago &
Alton train, which l boarded at the
prosperous little town Of Odessa, and,
for convenience, expecting to take a
Wabash train for Richmond, the next
morning, stopped at the Union Depot
Hotel. In spite OF the Changing OF bells
and the whistling OF locomotives, rest
ed we'll. but maybe l wasn't mad when
found l could not get away this morn
ing, no passenger trains leaving hore
Sundays over that road except in the
evening.
Oi course l was only a little bit anx-
ious to get to Richmond. as can easily
prove: 1t is but fourteen miles from
Lexington to Higginsville; fiity-thres
miles from there to this place. and
about sixty-hve miles from here to
Richmond, total of ono hundred and
thlrty-two miles. 1t is nine miles from
Lexington to Richmond, and rs l travel.
ed but one hundred and twenty three
miles further than the actual distance
between those two places in Or.
der to reach the last named. no one
can charge rue with very earnest de-
sire to get into the county scat of tho
"free state Of Ray" Mr.. Ice. OF St.
Louis, who is we'll known in Lexington,
is here with me-, and Is offering his SYM
phathies to me in my disappointment.
Well, am going to stay here until this
evening, and if q train leaves then for
the point which l Wish to reach, I'll be
a passenger on it if 1 knew beforehand
that the journey will bs as uncomforta-
ble to me as the stage journey in Mark
Twain's "Roughing It," and enc of the
passengers on that trip had his nsss SO
severely bumped by the pitching and
tossing OF the vehicle that he could see
down the nostrlls. Rather s.turn up
nose," ehP -........
Whenever 1 come to this place look
up the Lexlngtonians living here; but
to day it is too unpleasant to run about.
l saw three or four of them however.
and they are all doing well :-Messrs. j..
r. Newbold, Millard and Marsh Cham
bers. Dudley Flynt, Joseph Baehr, Gee.
Zeiler, Cliff: Ferguson. Hugh Wallace
and Tom. Letton. Perry Catron,
of Alma, saw also. .....
The amusement season has been fair
ly lnaugurated, and MIR. Hudson, mana
ger OF the opera house, has furnished,
so far, series of first class entertain
ments. He proposes to do this through
out the season. ..... .... .....
The poor will be rather we'll cared
for, judging from what is being done
at present. Thanksgiving day they
were given a good dinner under the
auspices OF the Press club, and now
Mr.. Whitaker proposes to be one oi
five, ten or any number of persons, who
will monthly donate one hundred loads
OF coal or wood to those who are in toe
destitute circumstances to buy 1t. OI
course this generous donation will be
made, for 1t has already been seconded
Sitting close by mo is very pretty
little lady, of five years, who informed
me that her name was frankie Madison
Blossom, and asked me to print hel
name for her so she could copy It,,
did so, and she copied II IN very good
style. Then, reaching over the table
and catching hold OF the moustache of g
gentleman who sat opposite her, she
exclaimed, "oh, what a nice bang
frankie is bright little miss for hel
years.
Ex-Mayor Shelley, Mr.. Grimes ant
others have formed a company with ,
capital of $500,OOO, and will open 8
stock of dry goods in the elegant Grimes
block, on Delaware street. This will
make dry goods market OF this place
Train time is approaching, 80 1 will
have to close, and with the full deter.
mination OF going "on to Richmond"
subscribe myself yours. respectfully,
SAM.