Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-12-08
Circuit court in session this week.

Circuit court in session this week.
Remember the Farmers Institute.
The town was chock full of people Mon
day.
That fellow who got s424 50 for building
bridges over Lafayette county streams IS well
named-John Bridgewater.
The Robert Buck dramatic company is
playing at the opera house. There will be a
matinee at 2 O'Clock this afternoon, as well as
a performance at night.
Next week will be the opening week OF the
Odessa opera house. All the friends OF the
| place who can attend should do so, as it
marks an epoch in the social advancement Of
| the town and vicinity.
The case of John Pool VS.. Jno. P. Herr,
damages, was decided by q jury, Tuesday
last, Pool getting a verdict for 81 and costs.
Two railroad surveying parties are run
ming lines around the Odessa country, but
~reticent as to their purposes.
We understand that Marshal Crowder says
he will not return any money collected under
the city hog ordinance without suit. We
hope he will reconsider that determination.
All the proceedings of the police under the
second section of that ordinance were wrong,
and the sooner the wrongs are righted, with
out litigation, the better.
Mr.. R. NJ. Spark met with a very serious
accident yesterday. He and q man who was
to work for him left town about noon, driv-
ing a team of bay ponies which Mr.. Sparks
bought last Monday. When near home the
ponies took fright at q log wagon and ran
away. Both men were thrown out. Mr..
Sparks was very badly bruised generally, and
has ene,rib slightly fractured. His companion
escaped unhurt. The buggy was pretty
badly broken up. The horses were very lit
tie injured.
James Jarboe and A. G. Berry, two gentle.
men of leisure at Waverly, went to Grand
Pass lake fishing Thanksgiving day. They
had pretty good luck, and came home. In
the mean IN they had imbibed pretty freely
of the anglers delight, SO when they came to
a division of the spoils they were somewhat
intoxicated, as Uncle 81 would say. So OF
course they quarreled over the fish. From
words they came to blows, from blows into q
rough and tumble fight, and during the fracas
Jarboe stabbed Berry with his pocket knife,
the blade entering the abdomen, (accent on
lIlc dOsJ peAcLIaIluS lie WILLS t0ercOI, anu
threatening to let out the most important
part Of his anatomy. DR.. Henry was called
to attend him, and hopes he will recover.
On November 18th Mr.. Henry bankers OF
Concordia got on a jamboree, otherwise q
drunk. Thu marshal attempted to arrest
him, when he resisted. The marshal then
summoned q posse, arrested him aud tool
him to his home, leaving Mr.. Albert Never
, there to guard him.. In the night bankers
got up and with his shotgun ran Meyer of.
!, Meyer gathered another posse, arrested Dan.
kers and took him to the calaboose where hs
left him. Tn next morning bankers wa,
fined So and costs by the mayor. bankers
now asserts that the posses that arrested hin
| were nothing but mobs, and that they uset
undue violence, fracturing his skull. On THU
charge Albert Meyer. Henry Deuchler, Geo
, Schnakenberg, John Buck and John Kessnel
are to be tried in this city, December ID. be
l fore Esquire CLAYTON.