Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-11-29
Shut the door.
How is your clold!
Will you turn out
Mince pies are ripe.
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smut the dOOr.
How is your clold?
Will you turn out:
Mince pies are ripe.
Butter and eggs scarce.
As cold weather sets in the Jail is getting
full.
See Chinn & Chinn's advertisement on next
page. nov29tf
1t is the boss. John Powell's is the place
for Pierce's Favorite. nov29m3
Don't forget the place. John Powell sells
Pierce's Favorite Sour Mash. noy29m3
Go to John Powell's with your jug fr
Pierce's Sour Mash for Christmas. n29m3
Admission to he. free; children half price.
See McCausland's advertisement. nov29tf
The Turner's are talking of having a grand
masquerade ball on New Years night.
John Powell Will fix you for Christmas.
Don't forget your jug. Pierce's FaHorite.
Everybody takes 1t. nov29m3
Work on Russell street, HigginsvIlle,
which is being substantially mscadamized. is
progressing favorably.
The circuit court docket will be found on
the first page OF this paper. The term be-
gus utAt NlOUuhy, btctiuUeI Ahts
Read the programmes Of the concerto next
Monday and Tuesday nights. They are both
excellent and shout attract very large audi
ences.
The undersigned will be in Lexington, on
December I'd, (next Wednesday, and
offer some fine Bismarck colts for sale. r
S. Lomax. IL
What q blast old Boreas gave US last Sat-
urday night. The mercury fell to Is degrees
below the f~reeasa;g point. This does very
we'll for a start at winter weather.
For Ssle-1.5 acres of extra good land
within one mile of Page City. Price t35
per acre. More land adjoining can be bought
il desired. Terms 10 suit. Inquire of J. P.
Ardinger. nov2Stf
Fol Sale-A good residence, one of the
best in the city, on Main street, large house,
good %outhouses. well, clstern, etc. Price
only 50 00. Terms easy. Inquire Of j. +.
Ardinger. novs9tf
We walk in the midst of secrets, we are
ecompassed with mysteries, but it is an open
secret that there is no remedy in the world SO
wonderful as DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup for
coughs and colds. 1t
Davis Creek Grange will hold Its annual
election Saturday next, Dec. 6. A full at
tendance Is requested, and members are ask
ed to bring dinner with them, as the session
will be protracted through the day.
Come one, come all, and secure your win
ter stock while the great sale is going on.
Our aim is to close the sale by the fifteenth
or twentieth of December. These goods must
be sold for cash. Christmas ia nearly here,
buy your family shoes, caps or hats, some-
thing useful. Chinn Il Chinn. noy29tf
There is talk of taking off the rolling stock
from the Bobtail road to the junction. just
when We are calling q meeting to pay the
bonds this looks something like an able.
bodied 'sarkasm.' But, despite this, we hope
1t will be done, for the way it is now man
aged tho road Is a frsi-class nuisance. 1t
takes passengers from here snd makes them
wait at the Junction from one to three hours,
and returning in the evening it forces people
to stay all night at the Junction. II the roll.
Ing stock was taken off and Mr.. Jno. C.
Young was given control of the road he
could put y comfortable horse car on 1t that
would make close connections with all trains,
making a round trip every two hours, and
beating the present abominable arrange
ments about five hundred to one.
Will you turn out?
A terrible case of ku-kluxing occurred
within two miles of this city a few nights
ago. A mulatto girl was coaxed away from
her home at night, her clothes torn from her
body, and she was outrageously whipped.
Ten men are said to have been engaged IN the
affair. So far we have seen no thrilling &C
count OF 1t In the Glcbe-Democrat OF other
bloody shirt organs. Why this thusness we
say. except the girl was not voter.
Seven of the ku-kluxers were arrested, and
fined 300 each last Monday,and will perhaps
work out the fine on the county roads. They
were all big, s%trapping negro men! Do you
hear! negro men! This puts another phase
upon the affair, we suppose. If the crime
had been committed by white men the "Bour.
bon county of Lafayette" would have been
held up to the execration of the world. Not
only was the poor woman brutally assaulted
IS we have above stated, but one of the party,
Tiff Green, on pretense of escofting her
home, committed an additional and more
heinous Outrage upon her. The men con-
cerned were Henry Fisher, Perry Williams,
John Nash, Geo. Nash, Jas. Jacobs, Wright
jenkins, Tuck Bush and Tifin Green.
Quite a number of persons assembled in the
Jail a little after noon, last Wednesday, to
witness the baptism of jefferson Wilson. The
ceremony, which was an impressive one,
performed by the Rev. DR..
a colored Baptist minister.
Howard asked jeff if he was repentsnt,
and if he was ready to make a profession of
religion, and, briefly, state his experiences, to
which the candidate answered in the afirma.
tive. The minister then told him to give his
experience, which he did substantially as fol-
from my sins. When I first came to his
place and heard the clsnk of the jailer's keys
10 the lock my heart would go right up into
mouth, but since l know that my soul Is
free do not mind it any more. 1 know,
brethren, that my sins are forgiven. do
not think so,or believe SO, but I know it by INV
experience. and I am ready to suffer for my
crime If I have to, or to take whatever pun
comes, My soul Is free, brethl en-
Here DIR. Howard, as the speaker
hesitated, said, THAT will do" and be SUBJ
a vote to the church members assem-.
bled as to his admittance to membership in
The church, and he was admitted. The min.
lsted then uttered a fervent prayer, and pro-
ceeded to immerse him in a large bath tub,
by a sort of poetic justice was the same
vessel in which the body of his victim had
been for some days preserved in ice. AS
JEFF arose from the water he exclaimed.
Thank God; thank Godw DIR. Howard said. |
you feel now that the work is DONE,
Jen answered. eyes; thank Godw The
was then taken to his cell to change
his clothes. and the assembly dispersed.
Hon. o. H. P. Catron, mayor of West !
Plains, Mo-, writes to the Intelligencer az
find enclosed draft for 81,
which apply on my subscription account. !
West Plains has hal a good, healthy and sub
improvement this year, more l think
han any town in the southern part of the ,
tate except Springfield. We have a popula-
ion of over 1900, and our merchants do not !
complain OF hard times. They say that their
BUSINESS Is better than it has ever been. We
lave two houses general stores) whose bus
ness amounts to over $3.50, 600 each q year, !
built u brick school house this year
y feet, = stories high, and over three |
students are now in attendance. !
crops of all kinds have been good this year,
the crop of democrats. Two years
we had just 3 bare majority. This , ear