Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-07-14
c. Ben has resumed the sale of Tickets OF
the Wabash road s'from eend to eend."

C. Ben has resumed the sale of tickets On
the Wabash road from eend to eend."
Quite u heavy wind storm passed over this
place at about 81 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Limbs of trees were blown of, &c, but no |
serious damage was done. There was some /
rain
Live Oak whisky is just the thing needed |
in the field. Not one headache in q hundred
gallons; absolutely the purest In market.
Only four dollars per gallon. Powell has
it. Franklin street. >y. julyl4t4
Fort Scott has voted $25, 900 Of bonds to the
Fit. Scott, St. Louis & Chicago railroad. A |
dispatch from Fort Scott says that six miles
of the road is already graded, and that forty
miles more Of 1t is under contract.
We are always ready to commend the coun-
Gil when it does right, as we have often
shown, but it strikes us that it did several
wrong things at the last meeting. First, as
to the allowance of $50 to Mr.. N. G, Will
liams as special policeman. We think this
allowance indefensible. Mr.. Williams is
clerk at the Commercial hotel. AS we under
stand it he was annoyed with loafers In front
Of his house; he asked to be appointed q
special policeman In order to have authority
to prevent this annoyance; he simply told
men his authority and ordered them away
when they became troublesome. There was
no agreement for compensation when the
authority was conferred on him. Now he
comes in, asks pay, and $50 Is allowed
Every other hotel keeper in town has -
much right to q little sinecure of this sort as
has Mr. Williams. They are all troubled
with Ioafers. The bill should not have been
allowed. The city has a sufficient police
force, and is paving out now more for the
purpose than the people like. Mr.. Love was
allowed 50 for a cinder walk which he had
made, without any order from the council.
We have seen the council refuse to pay bills
of the sort because 1t WAS dangerous to estsb.
lish the precedent of permitting citizens to
make Improvements as they see fit and then
demand payment. If this policy is right to-
ward other citizens, it should also be right to-
ward members of the council. We think the
principle is correct, and we, therefore, think
Mr.. Loves bill should not have been allowed.
We further think the council did wrong in
passing the ordinance permitting Mr.. Bauer
ly to build a frame addition to his house ON
Laurel street. This house Is in the very
heart OF the city, in the densest built block
inside of the fire limit. The permission to
build there with frame il a virtual abrogation
OF the ordinance prohibiting such buildings.
II Mr.. Rauerle's prayer is granted, no one
else's can justly lie denied. We regard this
as a very important question, and the error
made by the council as a very serious one.
The action of the counci is especially open TO
criticism because of the recent failure to OBJ.
tain the privilege by Mr.. Mitchell to build a
frame carpenter shop on a large open lot on the
extreme edge of the fire limit. With al
this adverse criticism we have to say that ir
sus tanning the mayors veto of the license or
dlnance the council did well, and deserves
from the people the heartiest commentator