Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-05-06
Personalities.

Mrs. J.. X. Mortified is visiting friends in tn,
city.
Miss Dixie lIutchins has gone home to For
Worth.
Victor Hugo has had a slight attack of apo
plexy.
Miss Ella James is in town visiting her re;a-
tives and friends.
Misses Cassie and Jennie Bascom, of Alma
Were here on IL shopping expedition Yesterday
"Jay Gould's income is u dollar a second, ant
the neWspapcrs have made i minute OF it, Bat
for Jay.
Elder Lucas and family left for Virginia las
Monday morning, anu will be absent two OIL
three weeks.
Campanini says that after the May festival il
New York is over he will sail for Italy and tax
u rest Tor IL year.
Annie Louise Cary's sister. Mrs. Ada Cary
Sturgis, is announced 10 sing ut u concert il
Biddcford. Me-. on May 9Th.
Mrs. VIM. p. Beck, nee Laura Mcmillan. anC
her Two children. OF Pueblo, Col, are IN tn.
city visiting relatives and friends.
Angus Mcdonald. whose cap was shot of his
head at the battle OF Waterloo, died In Monlreal
the other day, at the age of lO6 years.
lnter-Ocean ID u horrible rumor thai
Shipherd is Eli Perkins in disguise" In con.
science's name, then. who is BiaIne2
John G.. Whittier, the poet, was too ill to at
tend the funeral of Emerson, Sunday. The grim
reaper seems to be aiming high of late.
Rev. Geo. L.. Leyburn will leave to attend the
southern general assembly ut Atlanta mex
Monday. He will be absent about three weeks
JnO. T.. Hill. ESD, left with his family, to
take up his permanent residence in Kansas City
last Tuesday. We dislike to lose 80 valuable q
citizen rs Mr.. Hill. and 80 charming a family
Richmond Observation-Disclosures Lizzie Car
ter, Sarah Powell and Katie McCoun, went 10
Lexington Sunday, to spend some time with
friends. We wish them . pleasant visit and q
safe return."
Past-Grand High Priest Xenophon Ryland,
Past Eminent Commander Robert Taubman,
Past Eminent Commander E.. Allen, nnd f. S.
Joseph o. Lesueur have been in attendance on
Grand Chapter and Grand Commandery this
Eweek.
st. Louis Republican society notes:-''Mis
Willie Donaldson, of Leonard avenue, and Mr..
Chinn, OF Lexington, Mo-, are to he married
May 20ih." The only error in this. we are
given to understand. is in the date. The event
will occur u little later.
Richmond Denocrut:-'tMisl Annie New, OF
Lexington, is visiting Miss Lulu Hughes. . =
A'o N"hs 80 oPShb 0ot HAiuuy III
Richmond, the guest OF MISS Wilson. Of the
Hudsins House. Miss W. accompanied Miss
Bayliss home. and will spend several weeks in
The historic city,"
Miss Mary Henry's numerous friends In this
county will be glad to learn that she has safely
arrived at her old home In Mason county, Ky,
with the precious ward she had in clurge, her
gradmother, Mrs. 4. Il. Blanchard, q lady,
though an Octoginarian who possesses rare per-
sOnal attractions and retains all her mental
powers 10 o wonderful degree. We wish item q
happy visit. and will extend q hearty wecome
whenever they return to their adopted hOm,.
N. Ferdinand de Lesscps was Toasted o. the
night of April 18th by his fellow-townsnen OF
Versailles. On the house where he was born on
tho 18th of November, lSO5.- a commemorative
tablet was placed in the presence Of an enhusi-
astic gathering, and this was followed by anon-
ster banquet. The veteran engineer ridiculei tue
English fear OF the Channel Tunnel, whi,h he
facetiouslyc called 1.-THE French pipe. and plopn-
esied it would become as great an accomplianei
fact us the Suez Canal. The ladies present wee
Interested to learn that Nine. de Lesseps CAV,
birth to her tenth child a fortnight before.
Last Sunday NJ Concord, Mass, a brief service
over the remains Of Ralph Waldo Emerson wa
performed by Rev. DIR. Furness, OF Philadel
phIa, in the parlor of the residence, when mem
bers of the family bore the body to the hearse
At the village church E. lockwood Hoar deliv
cred II touching address and Bronson Alcot
tremblingly read q poem. Among those presen
We're George William Curtis, Mrs. John A
Andrew. General Banks, Professor Elliott ant
DR.. D. W. Holmes. A cousin OF the deceas,
preached the final sermon, and the cortege mad
its way to an open grave in Sleepy Hollow be