Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-01-22

received several hogshsads Of very fine New
Orleans sugar, j22t2
Sweeping reduction In the price of all
ssasonable WINTER GOODS, at Ahrens'
Dry Goods Bazaar, Franklin street. jl3
Our % white double blankets reduced TO
So IS, and from s3 30 to 50 Is, finer grades
reduced in proportion. krlehn u Wilker,
Lexington. Mo. 1872
L have my own team and will go to the
country and do all kinds OF tin work a.
cheap as any one. Call and see me. Respect
fully, q. e. Graham. j22ti
Mr.. Geo. Setter has placed on exhibition
large cakes Of ice, seventeen inches thick. as
specimens of his crop Just harvested.
The character of the man needs TO be
very high who can safely accuse, in this
community, such men as Judges Wood and
Strother, of rendering partussn decisions.
Lost-About October 1915, u tolersbly
large volume, in sheep, entitled, IAN
Encyclopedia OF Things Worth Knowing"
belonging to this office. The finder Will
please return 1t.
Mr. Hamlet has sent for a lot of Gulf
fish, which will be here, to regale epicures,
In a dsy or two. The assortment will con-
slst OF Rompano, Red Snapper, Sheep Head
and Blue fish.
1 am going to put up guttering and roof
ing In town and country, as cheap as the
cheapest, and will guarantee stock and work.
manship, or no charges made. Respectfully,
G. C. Graham. j22tf
Tho hlNol- nf hrf1dlnna nnnr thu rnI.,r,l
depot, at Brownsville, was destroyed by
fire Thursday night. The opposite block
took fire, but was saved. 1t was certainly
the work of an incendlary.
Our amiable republican friends, some OF
them. say they can't get justice from a dem
ocratic court. 1t is a very general opinion
among well Informed people. that justice is
the last thing that they want.
The arm OF Besding = CIsgett has been
dissolved, Mr.. Clagett having bought out his
partner. The business will be continued by
that gentleman, whose lIbcrslity and correct
dealing render bin worthy OF u generous
patronage.
Don't leave your coal oil lamps In the sun
or too near your stoves or fire places. 1t
causes the generation of an explosive gas
and Is sometimes the cause OF a ''mysteri-
ous' explosion and serious damage to per-
son and property.
Sedalla Democrat, Jan. q :-"Eighteen
colored exedusters from YpsilAnti, Miehi-
gan, arrived In this city yesterday evening
and took the branch train for Lexington,
where they will go to work In the coal
mInes. Thay were all mIners
The Ltederkranz society proposes TO have
. gr and masquerade ball In their hall, Mon
day night, Feb. Z. The advertisement. will
be found 10 another column. This ~associs-
ton never does things by halves, AMI 1t may
confidently be expected that the occasion
will be q pleasant one.
The banker who Is IN part supported In
business by merchants. and who sends to
another city for his goods !; the merchant,
who complains OF this treatment, aud then
sends away for every little job on which he
can save a nlckle, taking the profit from the
mechanics who sustain him. are not exactly
the kind of citizens who build up towns
We are reminded of this by a case in point
with another class OF business men. The
Missouri u Kansas Manufacturing Company,
OF this city, having a job Of printing To be
done, this Office offered to do 1t for 1850:
they spent $25 In going to Kansas City and
st. Louis to dicker over It, and finally had II
done at the latter place for 1881, making the
total cost % more than it would have cont
to here. We do not say that the work should
have been given to this Office, but we d.
think that 1t should have been given to Lex
ington prlntsrs. The company Will yer,
readily swallow all the soft soap the paper,
are willing to give them, and all the news
papers here are liberal In this way to every
enterprise. and 1t certainly seems only fail
that iAyers should be recIprocated.
In this Issue Of the lntelligencer will b,
found much Information desired by cltizenl
who are discussing the matter of compro
mlsing township bonds. On the first pag
is printed the law. In full, under which an,
contemplated compromise must be made
While it Is somewhat lengthy, a careful
perusal Of Its terms by all Interested pei
sons, Is necessary to secure Intelligent at
ton. In another place we give, also In full
the petition prepared at the Free
dom township meeting, OF last Satul
day, and now on die for action b
the county court. In still another plsc
q long interview, with various persons
which will prove OF interest, and no dout
} be useful In crystallizing thought upon til
) subject. In other parts Of the paper will b
} found calls for meetings which explai
themselves. To what has already been sal
a | uo daoiro En- odd a fo- r,or1, 1,fo .lolk,
t the townships stand as follows :-Lexingto
. township-Fo the Lexington Il st. Jossp
Il. R., $4,000, and interest from March Il
1872. This debt has been declared uncol
stitutlonal and void by the United State
courts as well as state courts, and need nj
be further considered. To the Chillicotl
Q b Gulf X. T., $4,000, with interest frol
July 10, 1872. Washington township
Q the C.. d G. r. r., SO. 900, with intere
frem July IL, 1872. Sni-a-Bar township
the Z. 4 G. R. R., $a5 900, with in,ere
from July 10, 1872. Middleton township
To the T. u N. Il. r., SIT, 900, with intere
from August 20, 1874. Freedom township.
. To tie L.. j st. l.. r. R., $25, 600, with inte
d est from April 3, 1915. Davis township-I
the L. 4 st. l.. Il. r., $4,000, with intere
q from April 8, 1875. All these bonds pore
per cent. interest. 1t becomes, therefore,
q very simple matter to calculate how eac
township stands. The meetings called w
q doubtless all act as has been recommends
That Lexington township, which took Il
lead In the matter, should be ~relegated
the rear IL her own fault, and the action
o the other townships Is perfectly natural al
proper. In considering what may be do
BY different townships 1t will be as we'll
remember that there's great difference In Il
equities OF the Cases. Lexington, WashIn
ton and Sni.a-Bsr are about on a plane
D this respect. Freedom and Davis havil
voted their bonds for q specific purpose,
ter the full Acknowledgement of tbs poop
Re and having secured the object OF their 81
+ scriptfons, stand together, and Middlet
e. has q peculiar case Of her own. 1t Is Il
;. expected by any one that the first nam
three townships will pay as much as vii! II
8, next mentioned two. We have this ADV
3, to offer to the meetings. IL is that they
10 not take definite action until they thoroug
of ly inform themselves. The preiinlna
N deliberations in regard to the settlement
the county debt occupied over Il year. VIII
O., 1t was finally done, however, 1t gave su
8, satisfaction that 1t has not and will never
10 disturbed. 1t is a great mistake to be i
patient In such matters. We are in favor
IN . speedy attainment of the object, but
desire that the people shall know the f
p effect of their action before they irrevocal
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