Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1883-04-07

Secretary Folger fs getting better.
Hon. q. L. Ewing was In town Thursday.
Mr.. Geo. Plattenburg is at home on a visit.
President Arthur lett for Florida Thursday.
Mr.. George schofeld is still Dangerously i'll.
Senators Cockreil and Vest have returned
| home.
Bismarck continues to be seriously indls.
posed.
Peter Cooper, the millionaire phiIanthroplst,
| Is dead.
/ Capt. A. e. Asbury. of HIEginsvllle, was in
town Thursdsy.
Mr.. By. Austin has removed with his family
to Kansas City.
Henry Ward Beecher weEt to the opera fol
the 1rst time a f,w nights sg,.
Tilden is Well, now. the old fellow is
not married, and 1t Is hardly fair to tell.
A Bangor schoolmistress has lE ohews OF
gum, all captured during one tenn OF school.
Mrs. Charles H. KldwelG is no. better, and
very little hope is entertained of her recovery
Mr.. Theodore Bates was at Sedslis, this week.
attending the short horn breeders' convention
air j. L. Lockhart requests us to send the
Intelligencer to his friend b. B. Glass, at Rock.
dale. XIV.
city. at the bedside Of his niece Mrs. T. C..
Wood this week.
MIR. Miller Bullard. well known oncsr of
tie Missouri Pacific Railroad. died at sedalis,
this week. He had been Ill for some time
Col. Jo. Davis was In town, "wednesday .,vv--
ing passably well after his severe illness. ne
was warmly congratul.'>-"S Wy many friends
The B5st6h Transcript concludes, after long
and careful observation, thai man is not work.
ing like beaver simply because he throws In .
lot of Unnecessary damns.
aisginsville Messenger:-''Mr. Jesse Fields
is the luckiest man in Lafayette county. On last
Thursday night. his wife presented him with
twin boys. and the republicans nominated him
as one OF their Candidates for the bosrd Of
trustees"
The Following card has been sent TO rrisnds:-
Mr.. ana Ars. ID E. Keller request your pres.
ence at the marriage OF their daughter Gussle to
6aWaTd de Neveu, Thursday morning. April
tenth. at eight O'Clock. 203O Chestnut strset.
Saint Louis 1sss.''
A venerable couple at Downsvllle, Delaware
county. New York. have Just passed the seventy
dfth anniversary of their marriage, but there
were very few diamonds lying around at the
celebration. Their jewels are children upon
children. extending 10 the flfth generation.
The official card of DR.. 8. Z. Bickford, now
column. DR.. Bickford comes to our county
clan, and upon the assurance of our best citi-
sens who know him well, we bespeak for him
the conf ience and patronage Of the people.
Mr.. j. Robert Davis, of this city, has made an
engage tment to travel for the wholesale boot and
shoe house of Schnefer, Schwartz 4 Co.. St.
Louis. He will begin work about the nj ddle Of
May. in the mean time settllng up his old busi-
ness here. This place will continue to be his
residence, his family remaining here.
A colored man known as Louis the Grave.
digger, who claims to be liz. years old, WAS
MARIE ed few weeks ago ut Yonkers, n. Y, TO
a good-looktng mulatto girl. twenty y-Uhree years
o'o. Louis by his seventy years. occupation ~
grave digger has accumulated some property,
which he transferred to bis wife on their ed,
dug LAY.
the town Of Mason, in Oxfori county, NJ,
has elected the following officers: Moderator,
I. A. Bean; clerk. J. c. Bean, seiect,nsn J.
Fl. Beam aid F. 1. Bean; trea asurer, +. l. Bean:
supervisor of schools. j. II. Bean. and agent.
J. e. Bean. The New York Sun thinks the
whole POI has got into otice. No teling-heans
are proiifc vegetables
Hons. L. NJ. Edwards and VIM. H. Carter
have returned home alter the. 10 them, arduous
duties OF the session. Both have done loyal
I'd zeilous service Tor their ,nstluents voting
always for the right as they saw It, and always
in their places ard attentive to their various
duties. No county could be more faithfully
represented than has Lafayette county been by
afessrs. E iwartis and Carter
Arropos of the death of Leopold Meyer, the |
London World tells this story of the late En- |
peror Ferdinand. whose brilliant Intelligence
Haps sburgs: After Meyer-who was rather |
'toutish man-had played the emperor spoke to |
aim and said: my dear Mr. Meyer 1 have
1sard Liszt Meyer bows levi; have heard |
Chalberg IMey er DO rs lower stilIl. but not one |
IF tnem-perspired like you" Tsbleaul
The death Is announced in Chicago OF Major.
General Napoleon Bonaparte Buford. in his
eVenty- y-siXth year. General Buford was born
n Kentucky aud was graduated at West Point
II lsT, receiving commission as brevet second
lieutenant Of artillery. He resigned from the
rrny In 1885 to take the position Of resident en-
'ineer f'r the Licking river improvement, and
liter seven years. service entered business "a an
ron-founder in Rock Island. When the war
'roke out he was given the command of the
Wenty-sevenih Illinois Volunteers and subse-
Iuently saw service IN most OF the campaign In
he West and southwest. After the close of
ostilities he was appointed special commis-
ioner OF Indian aGairs.
Greeley Col is uniting on airs il mas t,d a |