Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-05-21
Garden Seeds. Gordon & rulkerson. tt

Garden Seeds. Gordon 4 Fulkerson. tt
One dollar to Sedalis and return to.mo
row.
Excursion to all points on the Branch t
morrow.
One dollar to Brownsville and return t
morrow.
Landreth's garden seeds, at Gordon
Fulkerson's. f26tl
All the Late Styles in Spring Hats,
Davis 4 Allstadt's. fsb2S.tf
Everybody seems to be painting and fu,
bishing up their places.
The latest novelties in Spring Hats can b
found at Davis q Allstadt's. fb26tf
Davis 4 Allstadt have just received all til
Nobby Styles In Spring Hats. feb26-tf
10. Plattenburg IL constantly receiving
new goods Of every description. m14t4
Read h. ]. Z. Ahrens' advertisement
in another column, and profit by 1t. m7tf
The Red Front 10 the plsce te get bargain
In stoves and tinwsre. Call and see, Mali
street. a9tf
10 Plattenburg keeps the best OF good
and will sell them as low IS any house in tn
county. m14t4
The string band was out %ssrsnading
Saturday night, and made very prett,
music.
One thousand dollars worth Of ladies' ant
childrsn's shoes at . great sacrifice to close
at N. Chspman's. aStf
Read II. J. E.. Ahrens' advertisement In
another column. and give him q call before
buying elsewhere. m7tf
Mayor John still refuses to recognize MI.
Clsgstt. Courts have no tsrrors for him ; be
10 . law unite himself. .
Ladlss' kid gloves, two, three, four and
six buttons In opera shades at reduced
prices, at N. Chspman's. a1et4
Bennett 3 Morrison have the finest line Of
cooking and heating stoves IN the county.
Be SURE and see them before buying. OFT
The session Of tho probate court will be
extended into next week long enough to
accommodate oil who have buslnsss.
SID. Harris, colored, was tried before
Esquire Callahan, yestsrdsy, for keeping .
gambling house, and was fined go and costs.
Thomas Hall and Henry Hill. two town
youths. killed q black snake, near the Dulin
farm, last Saturday. 1t was s feet 81 inches
long.
The celebrated sFsvorite" cook stove and
the NEW Sovereign" range, at Bennett 4
Aorrison's. opposite the Aorrison-W snt-
worth bank. o2tf
We are asked to publish two poems which
We have net at hand. We will try to pro-
cure them. The writer OF the note should
have signed bis name.
The spring races and horse fair Of tho
county fair association will be held ut
Butler. Missouri, Friday and Saturday,
May q and IS, 1881. Premiums. 500.
Dress goods In all the various styles
aud shades also dress ginghans,
and calico. will be sold cheap. II.
J. z Ahrsns' Dry Goods Bazaar, Franklin
Street. m7tf
shsksspear's works arc beisg rendered
Into the Malo-Russian language by . we'll.
known writer In that dialect, II. Kulish who
has already completed . translation Of six OF
he plays.
A full line Of the celebrated Indianola, Lex
lugton and Economy cook stoves and Vulcan
heating stoves made by G. A. Morrison for
at Bennett d Morrion's, Nam street,
Mo. m6tf
The managers Of the Higginsville fair are
Working hard for success, smd they deserve
{. The grounds are beautifully located, and
will be quite handsomsly improved before
he time set for the exhibition.
Sheriff James NcGinnis, OF Kay county,
passed through here Friday Of last week,
N route for Jefferson City, having In charge
Nm. Sanders, = white man, who was sem
encsd to two years IN tho penttentiary for
lorse stealing, and John Stone, colored, to
en- years, for shooting . Miss Williams, q
vhits lady.
Mr.. J. Mortimer Murphy, whose books of
ravel and adventure In the far west nave
sceived much attention here and abroad,
10 arranged for the publication Of three
ew books. First on the list is ewing
hooting Beyond the Rocky Mountains /"
his will be followed BY dangling Sketches
a the West and Southwest ; "The Training
Management Of Hounds' is tho third, !
10 10 at present busy with . fourth. "Rsm.
Of Life on the Border" Mr..
lets little OF the life he sees escape :
IL notebook. |,
sedalia Democrat, May 10:-"A few days
60 the Democrat gave an account of the
weeping away OF . Number of bridges and
long piece Of track on the Neosho division,
ear junction City. Parties have informed !
no reporter that this work Of destruction
above was done by . regular wa.
spout, U a. have been numerous dur. .
1g the past I've years. The spout was an
normous one, and possessed an almost re-
lstless force. Yesterday . gentleman. from
lexington told the reporter that there was
phenomenal rainfall In lafayette county
bout . week ago. The area In which the
ain fell was limited. but 1t came down In
erfect foods and In binding sheets. A
said that the last through he made
nth his pillow, when the rain began, was In
shsrt time transformed. and enlarged into !
ditch six feet deep and three feet wide by .
foods Of wEtsr pouring through 1t and
'ashing 1t out. Tice and Vennor have not
lid anything about these phenomena.
The Taxpayers OF Freedom, Washington
nd Sni-a-Bsr townships will be called on |
ext Saturday, to vote on the proposition to
2mprsnise their township debts, tho fern. !
at 40 cents on the dollar Of principal and !
.itsrest, and the W latter at 20 cents. We
ave no anxiety as to the result IN Freedom !
lWnshiP. The people there rightly consider !
,s unsettled debt - an Incubus upon the l
rosperity Of Tho township, which costs It .
lore every year In the depreciation Of the
alus Of their ana than the sum total
mounts to. They are, therefore, deter
lined. % far - In them lies, to make an ef-
UT to finally dispose Of the matter. In the .
Their two townships equities are still being
We fan to see any good sense In
Ding 80 now. Everybody whose opinion is I
'orth anything made up bis mind long ago
. the merits OF these bonds. No enc that We !
now Of except the %bondhoiders holds that :
icy are legal no one believes that there ID
ny moral obligation to pay them ; ne one !
'srs that If the people remain united they !
IN ever be collsctsd. All these things are ]
'sll understood; but there is another side
the question, and that side 10 the practical !
ne. The compromise will reduce tho debt
I Washington township to less than $780,. !
70; the debt Of sni-a-Bar to $4,000; and . Z
4 Of OF 1 per cent. per annum .will pay
I the interest and principal In 10 or II
The real question to consider is, will
best pay to litigate this question for 10 or
} years. paying out lawyers fees, travelling !
for attorneys and witnesses to the !
nited States courts, and the high costs al I
lost alwnvs assessod av,fp.t tha no,,. -. I