Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-23
MISSOURI MATTERS.

1OpI6C Oluu IL u ubSo ou nuAntouA
dramatic club.
Young wolves are plentiful around
Lone jack.
q The Carthage public schools opened
with an attendance Of 1854.
Kimmswick has clipped more peach
es this year than over before.
The Rich Hill Gazette says there are
1888 '.grass". widows in that town.
The editor OF the Perryville Sun has
. cabbage head weighing Is l 2 pounds.
A genuine bed of iron ore has been
discovered zeal Lamar, IN Barton coun.
IT,.
A citizens stock bank has been
organized at Slater, with q cash capital
OF $50. 600.
Stock hogs are selling for 8 cents to
their corn.
Some parties from Georgia have
decided to establish q chair factory IN
Cape Girardeau.
The hot wind took the thermometer
up to 11d in the shade In Platte county
last Monday.
The shock OF earthquake that was felt
In Ste. Gsnevieve was alsu felt in some
places in Jefferson county.
A new tswn has been started In Per.
ry county at Magnetic Springs. A
large hotel 10 to be Luilt atronce.
The Carthage Light qua d has again
been organized and limited the number
of active member to thIrty.tWo.
There has been discovered, three
miles south Of Upton. Mo-, a lead mine
from which 1000 pounds OF ore per day
is being taken.
The Marble Hill Herald has been
presented with 90 apple OF the Belle
flower variety weighing 20 ounces and
measuring Is inches In circumference
Louisiana is now In the enjoyment Of
the biggest b0om ever known to her
Real estate 10 almost daily changing
hands. and that too, at good prices.
Tbs Alton and the Wabash roads
both have steamers on the Missour
| river delivering wheat to them from
| various river points not reached BY
rail. a.--
Mary Taylor, . Glasgow colored
woman, going out to wash on Monday
locked up her children, and as frequent
ly happens in such cases. one OF then
was burned to death.
A Carthage man, vino has just re-
turned home from a trip through Hi
nois and Indiana, reports that the corr
crop Of Missouri is far ahead of th;
crop Ii those states. II
Big apples are the boast of every
connty in Missouri this year. Lawrence
county has turned out a pippin weigh
Ing IS IL ounces and measuring II
inches in circumference.
A:nurse in Perry county, desiring t
quiet q irettul child by giving it a dos
ct soothing syrup, made the mistake o.
using carbOlic acid. 1t had the effec
of quieting it forever.
TObncco cutting has been commenced
10 earnest by the farmers of Charlton
county. The acreage this year 10 high.
er than usual, butt it ID. said that thu
quality was never finer.
Three Cooper brothers, helping q
neighbor to fix his pump in Atchisol
county. on Monday. were overcom.
with choke damp, and Heck Cooper
was dead before they could all be res
QQed.
Joplin has organised . company and
subscribed $50. 600 tor the manufacture
| US sSo0A q ~ J Nl0lInOS
TO be cheaper and more durable that The
lumber made by the saw mills.
| A monster ratt.esnake was killed in
Bollinger county, and now adorns the
Office Of the Herald. The snake was
over five feet long, thirteen inches In
circumference, aud had thirteen rattles.
Nine hundred square miles OF coa
errttO ~ have bean developed 10 Bates
aud Vernon counties, showing vein,
six ieet III thick ness, at q depth OF from
forty to eighty feet from the surface.
Morgan aud Karr are now reaping a
harvest FROM their shaft at the Carthag.
mines. The miners are going through
twenty-one feet Of lead at a depth o
eiehty-one feet. The mineral Is slmos,
pure galena.
WIN. J: Brown, living n mile norti
Of New London, says that within thu
past ten days or two weeks three G.,
four head OF his best cattle have gone
blind, and q number OF others viii, il
all probability, follow suit. MIR. Brown
10 unable to account for the strange
disease now prevailing among his cat
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