Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-12-15
Personalities.
FRS. Man. Chiun is at Dover.

Susan has got back from Europe.
Mr.. Henry Herr Is visitlng in the county.
Miss Maria Wood was in Kansas City this
week.
Miss Kstie Fish, OF kansss City, is the guest
of Miss Katie Hollis.
Miss Lille Jameson Is home from a two
months visit in Illinois.
Mrs. W. H. Robinson, OF Kansas City, 10 in
the city visiting relatives.
Senator Chrlstiancy's divorced wife died in
New York p day or two ago. -
Mr.. r. M. Sparks has sufficiently recovered
to come to town on business.
Miss Charlotte Thornton, OF Kansas City, ia
the guest of Miss Mamie Patterson.
MIR. Herbert Sparks Is home on a visit from
the Sparks Medicine Lodge rancho.
Mrs. s. R. Snith, of Slater, is in the city Wis
ltlng her daughter. Mrs. Kemper Drane.
Hon. Alexander Graves returned home, last
Saturday night, TO remain for a short time.
DR.. Henry Bartens. OF Concordia, was in
W Thursday, attending the bankers trial.
Mira. j. F. Lanneau is home from Kansas CITY.
where che attended the Gaines-Martin wedding.
Misses Kate Gosewisch and Mamie Patterson
came home Wednesday, from q visit to Kansas
City,
Mr.. w. G.. Rronaugh, of Clinton, Henry
county. spent Thursday in this city visiting
friends.
Miss Sarah Grady started to Marshall last
Monday night. to spend q few days with her
many friends there.
Gov. Hendricks and wife sailed on the Vera,
Thursday, for Europe. They will remain abroad
four or five months.
Judge Wisdom. of Warsaw, with his wife has
been in the city. this week, visiting the family
Of Mr.. David Russell.
MIR. Siias A. Reason, of Salt Lake, has been
in the city. this week. having ZONE here to bury
bis wife near thebome of her childhood,
Mr.. Wm. B. Walton paid us q pleasant visit
the other day. He has sold out at Brownsville
and bought a farm near Windsor, Henry county,
Mrs. Richard Field and her son, Wentworth.
spert last Monday and Tueeday visiting friends
at Odessa. and attending. the opening Of the
opera house..
We are glad to learn that MIR. j. II. Ysnris'
health is not SO bad a. We had been led to be-
lieve. He is better and hopes for gradual and
permanent Improvement.
Miss Mamie. Barley, a teacher in the public
schools at Marshall. came up last Friday night
on a visit to her relatives and many friends.
She returned Monday night.
-sMessrs George Trigg and j. E.. Ball. county
clerk and prosecuting attorney of Ray county.
were in the city Wednesday.
Mr.. O. A. Watkins, of Eureka Springs, Ark,
spent three days In this vicinity, visiting friends.
returning home Monday night.
st. Joseph Gazette, Dec. ll:-.sCapt. Harvey
". Plattenburg. left last evening for Lafayette
county, aud after a short visit with his parents
Will proceed to Washington. d. c.. where q
awaits him."
MraT3RmoSs Wa00I1I nf E,,raH, soSr.
who has been Waiting the family Of Mrs. Flor.
da Grady and other relatives in this vicinity
for a couple OF weeks. left Monday night for q
visit to relatives at Marshall,
MIR. VIM. H. Ewing returned last Wednesday
night from Vernon county, where he vent to see
his daughter. Mrs. Bette HAYNES, who has been
dangerously i'll. She was much better when he
left, with assurance OF recovery.
Miss Mary Siquart, a graduate of our Lexing-
ton high school. at present engaged as book
Keeper in a large wholesale house at Omaha,
Neb., Is home on q visit to her parents. She
will remain until after the holidays.
Mrs. E. E. French, OF St. Louis, who has
been seriously ill. is now much better; it is
thought out OF danger. Her mother, Mrs. n. G..
Bishop, who has been with her come time, will
probably return home about Christmas.
Capt. John Brown was in town Wednesday.
Among other things he was endeavorIng
to make arrangements for procuring q first
class photograph Of the new mill at Aullville,
which Is said to be one of the best in Missouri.
The New York Times says of Mr.. Shurz' with
drawal from the Post:-''His retirement is On.
tirely credltable to him.. A man Of Mr.. Schurz's
Independence and honesty Of opinion is obvi-
ously out OF place on y corporation nswspa-
per-"
Washington Irving once said to q lady:
''Don't be anxious about the education of your
daughters; they will do very we'll; don't teach
them SO many things: teach them one thing,
"Whnt is that, Mr.. irving }" she asked.
''Teach them.'' he SAID. $50 be easily pleas
ed" .
Bill Arp lives In an honest neighborhood. He
says. II have been living In Georgia seven
years and haHe.had but one Visit from q beggar.
1 have never locked my front door at night. Nv
family sometimes go from home on q visit to .
neighbor and stay all day and leave the house
unlocked, ana nothing has ever been stolen that
We know Of"
Writing of Mary Anderson, the London World /
says:-''lt will endear her perhaps still more to |
English people to know that there does not ex-
ist in this country or In America q more enthust. |
astlc admirer Of the great English novelist of |
the century. Many of her few leisure hours are
spent in pilgrimages to the spots round London |
made immortal in the stories Of Charles |
Dickens" :. - |
When a reporter asked Mr.. Schurz, the other |
day, what he expected to turn his attention to, |
he streked his beard and refectively said, 81
wish that l was twenty-threei" What posi- |
bHities presented themselves to him In that a. |
No matter that if he were twenty
three he would not have been foreign minlster, |
cabinet officer. All these were as moth |
ing. All! If were but twenty -threel
Mr. W. Hllliard, formerly of this county, |
but now raising cattle in the Pan Handle of |
Texas, Is now at his old home on a few week.
visit. He tells us cattle are doing well, the grass
being good. and the open winter up to the pres-
ent time having been very favorable. Mr.. Hill,
llard and his assistants In the cattle businees |
somewhere IN the nelghborhood of
ten thousand cattle, a nice little bunch to have
in an emergency. or better still to pay taxes on.
Mr.. billiard is a clever gentleman, and we re-
jOice ut his prosperity. |
Mr.. Schurz has retired from the editorshin ofl
the New York Evening Post. Mr.. F.. l.. God
kin, present itor-in-chie of the Pest. sa,d |
q day or two ago that MIR. Schurz sympsthfzea |
with the striking telegr aphers last summer. and
that the other owners of the paper could not in
dorse the strike and took opposite prounds. Mr..
schurz thereupon ut once ceased editorial work. |
but retained his interest until now. Mr.. God.
kin says Mr.. Schurz is at present writing a life |
oil Henry Clay. Mr.. Schurz In an interview
with u World reporter corroborates the first |
here made. So it seems that there |
is one prominent republican who does not be-
long body, boots and breeches to the monopo.
lists. and has heart enough to svmpath,zs with
mortals in their difficulties. Mr.. |
Schurz is In a FAIR way to become a democrat,
China Hall.
Since tits fashion to advertise
fhysic, law and merchandise,
And eyarx mechnnic Of ihai. Ii.l L