Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-04-29
1870 IIl1xINGrorT INTE1.1 -IaHiNoEIa, SATURDAY. APf
Personalities.

Personalities.
Mrs. G. w. Mexican is in the city visiting
friends.
Miss Rovilla Corder is visiting Mrs. w. B..
Steele.
MIR. Geo. Wilson returned from Colorado last
Monday.
Mrs. DR.. Talbird returned, last Monday from
a visit to Sedal;a.
Mrs. Emma Storandt, of Marshall, is here
visiting relatives.
Mr.. w. K. Trigg returned from st. Louis
Thursday evening.
Mrs. Anna Buckingham. of st. Joseph, is
Miss Bette Atkinson is very ill with nervous
prostratlon and grief.
Mss Finnie Harris, of Marshall. ls in the city
visiting Mrs. Lewis Neale.
Mesdames Geo. and John Zeiler, of Kansas
City, are visiting friends here.
Hon. Henry c. Wallace has been absent, this
week, attending supreme court.
Mr.. Harry Balm and his wife, nee Fanny
Royle. are in the city vising friends.
The Pettis county criminal court having adj
journed Judge Ryland is again at home.
Y. Ryland, Esq. went down TO Jefferson City
Thursday night to attend supreme court.
We elsewhere extend to DIR. Yantis the privi-
lege Of reading an obituary notice OF himself.
Misses Meng and Vaughan. of Dover. honored
the IntellIgencer with u pleasant visit Monday.
John Owen, the lifelong companion OF Henry
| w. Longfellow. died, Saturday night in Cam
bridge, Mass.
Leave of absence for an indefinite period has
been granted to Field Marshal Won Moltke, of
the German army.
Hon. w. B. Allen, of Greensburg, KY, au-
! thor of Il history of that state, and u leading
| Mason, died last Sunday.
Rev. f. NJ. Pecke. Bloomington, Ills. is in
the city. and will conduct the services at the
| Episcopal church tomorrow. %
MIR. j. p. Hall, who spent q couple of weeks
In Kansas City taking baths, thinks he is some
what relieved from rheumatism.
Elder c. S. Lucas and family leave. Monday
morning. for II visit to friends in Virginia, and
| will be absent about three weeks.
Mrs. Col. Jos. Davis is getting better slowly
but apparently surely. which will be good news
to the many warm friends of the family.
Sedalia Record :-''Rev. j. A. Quarles, Of
Lexington, Mo-. is writing the biography of the
lamented Prof Kemper. of Boonville."
Mesdames w. j. Mcdonald and L. R. Smith,
oil Odessa, were In town q couple of days this
week, and attended the Juvenile PInaiore.
Prince Leopold. son OF Queen Victoria, was
married, Thursday, to Princess Helen, Of
Waldeck, in st. Georges Chapel, Windsor.
Oscar Wilde expects to spend a portion OF the
summer with Henry Ward Beecher on the Hud-
| son, and the remainder with Julian Hawthorne.
Mr.. Blackwell himself and some of the mein-
bers of his family being ill Judge VIM. Young
represented the county as attorney before Judge
Krekel.
An English party en- route for New York
comprises Lord and Lady Churchill, Lord
| Elphinstone. Lord Vaudeville, and u count and
countess.
Ralph Waldo Emerson the sage and philoso-
pher. died, alter q weeks illness. at his home
in Concord, Mass.. Thursday. He was born in
Boston, May Is, 1898.
Kansas City Saturday Evening HeraId:-
''Miss Minnie Grant, of Lexington, Mo-. Is
visiting Mrs. Thos. Hackett. corner of Central
and Fourteenth streets, and other friends"
Mr.. e. u. Hereford. writing from st. Adams,
w. Va. on business. adds:-'.we have had
some real cold weather. the fruit is all killed
save some late apples; the wheat is badly in
jured.
Miss Susie A. James, of Waverly, who has
been to St. Louis for treatment, has returned.
She was entirely cured by tile use OF ''Human
Electricity Her sister, Miss Belle C.. James,
accompanied her.
MIR. Dayton, of New Jersey. whe goes a. min-
lister 10 the Netherlands. is u son OF the candl-
date for yIce-president on the Fremont ticket in
1856. His father was minister to France, under
Lincoln, and died in Paris.
MIR. VIM. Levisay, of Levisay, jackson coun-
ty, after whom the place was named. and who
has many relatives ami acquniDtances in the
western portion of this county, has sold his farm
to a Mr.. Wallace, of Jackson county, and will
move TO Texas or Colorado.
Tue following card has been sent to the friends
of the persons named:-.'Mr. 4 Mrs. j. G..
HARDWOOD request your presence at the marriage
of their daughter. Jennie, to j. Lee Carter,
Tuesday afternoon. May 2, at 800 O'Clock.
Christian Church. Dover. Mo. 1882"
Col. Jno. Reid and Capt. Jos. L.. Thomas
spent Tuesday and Wednesday fishing at Lake
Contrary. near st. Joseph. They report having
had a glorious time, catching a large number of
Dish, some Of them bass up to 3 pounds in weight,
and being royalty entertained by the st. Joseph
ties.
JEFF. w. Bedford, Esq, was in the city Tues
day and Wednesday,. He has recently been APP
pointed agent at Omaha for the sale Of the Rich
Hill mining company's coal, u lucrative and re-
sponsible position. His family will come to
this city about the Middle OF May to visit rela-
tives for u few weeks ere they move to their new
home.
Capt. JOS. L.. Thomas has returned from his
trip to Florida, somewhat improved in health,
and charmed with the hospitality that was ex-
tended to him on all hands while he was there.
DE likes the climate very much, and the vim
and push which seems to characterize the peo-
pie, but lie says that there is no such county in
Florida as We have here.
Sedalia Democrat:-"Eld Geo. Plattenburg,
Of the Chaistian church, came down from La
fayette county yesterday morning and went up
to Dresden in the evening, where he breaches
twice to-day. Under the minIstration of this
able and eloquent divine, the congregation has
grown largely at Desden, and before the year
ID out it will be one Of the most dourishing in
Central Missouri"
Chicago T~imes:-''In 1889. q gentleman con-
nected with the government of the United States
declined to appoint u nephew, for whom he had
u very great affection. and whom he was sim
cerely DESTROYS Of aiding. to u much-c0veted
post. The nephew's name was Bushrod Wash
ington. The uncle's name was George WASH
ingt0n. But u greater than George Washington
arose In the person of Ulysses 8. Grant, who
L mt an anil n. ouah ,,lIa Fo,n,