Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-04-21
Personalities.

Mr.. Isaac Chanslor is very low.
DIR. and Mrs. Q uarles are at Sedalia.
Mr.. s.. G.. Wentworth is in Brownsville.
v Twins are described as just too too much.
Gen. Shelby was in Kansas City Wednesda
Mr.. John krsiser is quite i'll with pneumoni
Mr.. A. F. B.ueke was in the city last Sunda
Mr.. Charles E. Stokes is here visiting /
a children
Mr.. Jpo. A. Mitchell who has been very 81
5 is better.
Lizzie Ball.
4 The queen IL not vet able to walk. though b
knee ia getting better.
Mr.. Geo. Plattenburg went down to Jeaerst
! City last Saturday evening.
\, Mr.. e. c. T. Brightwell has moved to Il
Robson place, near town.
B Mrs. L. B. Gordon Is visiting her daughte
: Mrs. Ed. White. near Dover.
MISS Suda Robinson who has been quite Sit
> Tor a week past is able to be out.
Capt. J. Q. Plattenburg and B. p. Harwoo'
l OF Dover, were In town Thursday.
Mrs. Ellie Hall has gone to Kansas City on
visit to her aunt. Mrs. 4. NJ. Taylor.
Mrs. P. II. Chambers went to Kansas City
Tuesday, aud returned Thursday evening.
Hon. Samuel Davis. orsaline cou nty. was I
the city a day or two this week on legal bu
slness.
MI. Jennings says In . cable despatch to tt
New York World that Mr.. Gladstone will nc
retire.
Rev. A T.. Sharpe lie now living In Rochester
N. T. His address is number nine, Hickor
street.
Mr.. Joseph L.. Thomas Is going to We
Plains. Mo-. where he intends entering II
banking business.
Miss Mamie Young gave q reception, Tues.
day night, to the Lexington Social Club. 1t wa
. very pleasant affair.
Mr.. Ben. v. Simpson. who married Ms
Matte kerdolR. asks US to change his address
from m as City to CsntoRs Ohio.
Mr.. e. Allen was in KRnsssCIty. Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday, as the representativ,
of Lexington lodge. knights of Honor.
Boston Times;-''The Dudine has arrived
She Is the feminine of the Dude. She Is also tn,
companlon-piecs OF the cigarette smoker"
A wise man Of Athens says friendship is lik.
good coffee, when once it has become cold i
cannot be warmed again without losing Its frs,
flavor.
Rev. w. F. Bailey, of Charlton county, who
formerly iieei in this county, visited friends
here, this week. on his way 70 PresSytery. al
Sedulla.
Mrs. Edmonia Roberts. sister OF Mrs. ia.
Quarles. Miss Nelis. Q. Roberts and Miss Mary
Quarles went up to Kansas City last Tuesdsy
morning.
A hVe-year-Old son OfHOn. VIM. p b adshaW
whose wife is a sister Of Mrs. Jno. Z. Burden.
has been very ill with scarlet lever, at the resi-
dence OF the latter, but Is now better.
We DO not envy the mental condition of q man
who maria from 81 cnnmnnifv in uhJch ho h~a
spent more than an average lifetime by giving
1t a vicious kick. even though the kick be
awkwardiy administered. -.5
> Mr. N: Haerle, who has been confined to his
room for iye'months with rheumatism. left last
Tuesday for Excelsior Springs to try the water
there. He was accompanied by his wife. They
will be absent some weeks.
MIR. w c. Brdnaugh, of Clinton, was In the
city Saturday and Sunday last, and pxad the
editor u pleasant visit. Mr.. Bronaugh Is .
clever gentleman, and Is an extensive dealer III
cattle, being one OF a firm which owns one of
the largest ranches In Texas.
Small boy OF eight docking over picture book
with boy of ten)-What's that ? 8 b. of ten
Why, don't you knowe That's q donkey;
haven't you ever seen a donkeyf S. b. of eight
(doubtfully)-No. s. b. OF ten (patronizingly)
Why, l have-lots OF 'em-in the theological
gardens, you know.
Capt. Mark Belt, Col. McClelland, Hon.
Chas L. Ewing. T. S. MeChesney. Charles Nc
Girl, r. T. Russell. Judge Cannon, B.. A H..
Hill, Capt Mason L. Henry, John N. Ewing,
Pat and Weed Marshall. Judge Prather, and
forty or fifty other well known citizens. have
been onour streets this week. most OF them Is
witnesses in the Cannon farm case.
sweet editor at home in the Avoca, Iowa,
Herald office, sweetly writes 1.-THE author of
Sweet Home died in New York last Friday. He
has gone to enjoy the holy gran deur that was SO
vividiy depicted in his worl Id wide composition
lone that was familiarto every mind." Alasf
there are, unfortunately, according to this some
people who are not s.famlliar'' with this
''world-wide competition ~. II,
John G. Webb. a prominent citizen OF jasper
county, Mo-, died April Is, He vas .ahy-six
years old. and had. brep a citizen OF Jasper
county since 1856, Hs had all that time resided
within the bounds of. the $50 ACRES OF land on |
which Webb City and the Webb City mines are
He became wealthy by the develop
ment of The mines and the town. and leaves q
estate 10 his heirs-his wife, two |
daughters and u son.
Mrs. a. H. McFadden left. last Monday night, |
for Alton, illinois. where she will remain until
)une, and from thence go to Western New York, |
she has relatives, and expects to spend
the rest Of ner days. Mrs. McFadden has been
4 resident of this city for forty years. and has a
Larse circle of friends here who will regret that
circumstances are such as to induce her to leave
mem. but she carries with her many prayers and
Well wishes for her happiness in her declining
ears.
Mr.. Geo. s. Rathbun. Jr., left for Buffalo.
0q11ae countv M Wol,., --
where he will engage In the practice of law with
ar. Edgar p Mann. also formerly ofthis coun-
y. Mr.. Rathbun is a young man of bright
nlnd and excellent character. He has had an
thorough legal education, receiving
ne very highest compliments fronJudgestrother
'hen he was admitted to the bar. MIR Msnpt,
quaily worthy, and we bespeak for the gentle
len the confidence and announcement of the
omnunity with which they have cast their lot.
hey may, In return, be depended on to do
in their power to build up Its interests.
A Sifting:-''A gentleman who had been In
Justin only three days. but who had been pay
,g attention to a prominent belle, wanted to
ropose, but was afraid he would be thought loo ,
asty. lie delica tely preached the subject IA :
flows: If l were to speak to you of marriage. !
Ter having only made your acquaintance three
avs age. what would you say Of 1t ?' Well
should say, never put OF until to morrow that
Inch you, should have done the day before
.sterday.'' Evidently Texas is not a slow q
at any rate the bellies down there are not {
ow In their desire to enter the state of mat e
mony. o
Mr.. William K. Trigg Is in the city. Mr.. u
rigg is not a Dude. but We have our doubts "A
whether he Is not something even worse-an
young man with a first baby, and i.
at baby u boy. II there is any man, woman l
child in Lexington who has not heard the q
rrits Of that boy. extolled-its beauty, its fat. v
So, its tremendous sire myth. Its lung power
; they have only to be patient; their time
III come. IT the young man Is seen TO pause
a conversation on the street. throw his he.d
OK as if b II OF ght had struck him with the
rec OF u catapult. and lien suddenly break !"
'ay and speed down to ward. home. his friends
ed not be uneasy. he has me rely gone TO zee
W the baby Is getting on. 1t is . wonderful
tng to be a daddy, especially the daddy of q 8,
y. o
Stock Notes.
Read Mr.. Thos. W. Wheatley's ad. Of his
eNorman horse, Hercules. =.
We are requested by q number Of stock v,
49,