Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-03-18
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Hand painted window shades ut koyle's.
: Use Dimmitt's Cough Bslsan, at Tsvls'
drug store. ml6t2
Landreth's Fresh Garden Seed, At Gordon
& Fulkcrson's. MILNE
For cheap queensware and glassware, 60
to Adam Toeppe, 81 Frsnkiin street. fans
Babies like Dimmitt's Cough Balsam. It u
pleasant to take. vt Tsvis' drug store. 2t
We pay the highest market price for ell
kinds of country produce. Gordon B Bu-
ford. js1tf
Duprez h B~snsdict's great Minstrel
Troupe, opera house, Monday evening,
March 20.
For the best sugars and cofees. - cheap
as the cheapest. go to Adam Tosppe, "a
Franklin street. i4m3
W. W. Patterson says Dimmitt's Cough
Balsam is the best 10 the world for Group, ct
D. W. B. Tevis'. m1St2
Mr.. c. A. Morrison will deliver, to-day, .
complete new saw mil to Mossrs. johnson
u Nelson, near Waterloo.
Mr.. Charles A. Morrison, OF me Excel
Foundry, wants two good. stout, healthy
boys, from l6 to Is. to learn . trade. mist
The county grange OF Lafayette county
will meet,a at Walnu Row schoolhouss. three
miles east of Odessa, TUESDAY,. April II. I'd
J. D. Shewsllsr. Esq. made an able de-
Tense In the case Of Martha White. His
speech is highly spoken OF by all who heard
1t.
Subscribers failing to receive their papers
regularly and promptly will greatly oblige
us by reporting every omission at this Of
fee. f1Stf
We have q full line of new hanburgs.
sverlastings and Swiss trimmings n laeas
Of every description which we ere selling
very low. Wliksr 4 Miller. militia
Stock men having their horss q jack
bills printed ct this eaics. will receive . no
tIce In our stock notes free OF charge. New
cuts. new borders, new type, and good
workmanship. fish
Don't forget that you can get yeur horse
and Jack bills printed in two c0lors ct the
I%ntelligencer Office for the same price you
ordinarily hAye to pay fsra very plain black
job; and a neat, attractive Job IL guaranteed
In all cases. nesf
MIR. Blackwell is so we'll qusiiaed TO take
care Of himself in . controversy which In
wolves his own business, hat We will NOT
anticipate anything he may have to say In
reply to the attack made upon hin by oar
contemporary at Odessa.
G. H.. RoJle, at his Doc store, In Kriehs's
new block, has Just received . full line oil
cut glass ink-stands and paper weights
which it will do you good to lock at. Ths
designs are new, the coIors beautiful. and
the prices very low. Call and see them.
Some weeks ago Mr.. J. Frank Campbell
lost 70 valuable sheep by dogs, beside SOM
10 or 10 more or less crippled. He now ask
US to tell him how to get paid for them. W.
have not the space to give the law or I
next issue.
That narrow gauge railroad from here "a
ksn-no; We were going to say from here "a
Kansas City-from here to Independence, II
3 first.clsss nuisance. Why does not the
Missouri Paclfc, which ID amply able to do
so, convert the thing into . broad gauge, and
make It Of some account?
The secretary Of the democratic executive
committee Of the county has been authsriz-
ed by the various members Of the commit.
tee to call . meeting. the first Monday in
April being the day indicated ~ oonvsnient
to the majority OF tbs members. About the
only business that can prsssRt itself IL tbs
provision for IN election Of . nav commit
tee, still 1t is desirable to have . full 81.
tendance.
Mr.. Blackwell wrote IA indictments at this
term Of the criminal court, and secured IA
convietions, seven OF them involving terms
OF various lengths In the p~enitentiary. There
wss but one scquIttal during the term which
was an appealed case Of assault. Tbs judge
dispatched businsss very promptly. and be-
tween himself aud the prosecuting attorney.
the term was msds the cheapest regular
term held for many years In Lsfayst eoun.
ty, and it was conducted. toe. with nuch
less than the usual annoyance and dstsntiop
to jurors and witnesses. They are Q nrst
rate team.
Signs running across sidewalks under
awnings are . nuisance, and 10 well reg
ulsted. cities are prohibited BY ordinance.
They Obstruct the view, and after bscomiag
common are Of little value 20 they can only
be seen when one is very near them. A
movement has been on foot for some time to
do away with th lem, . number OF merchants
having signed an agreement to take them
down. Some have been removed, and nov
we are told that some Of those who agreed
to Ito away With them refuse 70 comply
with their promise. We hope this 10 not 90,
Is 1t would look rather badly. Wher1 the
oSUno havo Ionn roroAu>N Ako~> a. ,on.s
manifest improvement IN the light aad neat
appearance Of the store fronts.
Mr.. Posey s.. Wilson, writes US from Fort
Collins, COL, March II :-.'It grisves me- to
have to write the news OF Mr.. James B.
Fletcher's death, at this place, on the 9Th
inst. Altar . brief illnsss,in December last,
he mounted an unruly horse and rods after
cattle. In chasing 9 Wild steer the hsrss
refused to take a ditch which lay In his path,
and, in the sudden stop, the horn Of the
saddle struck him 10 the groin, occasioning
rupture. This, maLtreatsd, Induced blood.
poisoning. Impatient Of confinement he
exposed himself on The I'd inst, aud pasu.
monia set in, which ended his life ON the
9Th. Many Lsxinktonians will remember
Jim and also 10. MeFadden. both dsshing
riders in their youth, and generally liked.
Both lived many years in this region. 81.
ways on horseback and literally dying there.
In q horseback journey, four years ago,
between Denver and Cheyenne l chanesd to
rest at a village called St. Louis, where
learned that q man named Je. AcFsdden'
had that day been buried. The friends oil
nay youth who have lived their lives and
gone, already make q vast army. Often l
pause In this the high noon Of my own DAY
to mark the way and marvel at the haste
with which our beating hearts beat out our
lives, and to wonder, In breeding sort.
whence come we. why are we here and
whittier do We goy"
The Leonard Scott Publishing Co., Al
Barclay street, New YORK, have issued their
reprints of the London Quarterly aud Edin.
burgh Reviews for January. The former
review will attract much attention, n 1,
contains q further criticism OF the Revised
Version OF the New Testament. The article
In the number for last October confined Il.
self TO an examination Of the new Greek
text; thst In the present number handles
with severity the new renderings OF tha
Greek into English. Both articles are r..
ported to be from the pen Of Dean Burgon,
OF Chichester. The other articles In this
number worthy OF note are "Americsn
Politics and Partes," ''The Jacobtn Goa.
quest" "Darwin or Earth Wsrms," and
''Ths Comte de Montlosier." The Edin.
burgh Review Is q very full and interesting
number. L. contains eleven articles, tho
principal OF which are: .'Taine's Con.
quest Of the JacObIns," "Ths Life OF Mr.,
CObden," "Ancient Animals Of South Amor.
lea" Three articles are devoted to subjects