Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-24
Waterworks or death.

Waterworks or death.
Read John Beahr's advertisement.
Everybody is painting and cleaning up.
We have the bulliest old town in the state.
Old Soldiers meeting Monday night. BE
III hand.
Col. Colman, courthouse, Monday. June
June I'd 1850 o'clock.
Work on the building of the new bank
Was commenced Monday last.
The night train over the Pacific runsthrohgh
from Alchison and Leavenworth, ks.,without
Everything that is new and novel in cali
roeS, ginghams, chambrevs, &C., eau be found
1t Wilker 4 Miller's. msy24t.
The Thoroughbred Live Stock Association
will meet at Higginsville on the 3lst. See
notice elsewhere.
A crowd of eighteen persons left COncor-
dia Wednesday, to make their homes n.DaY-
ton. Oregon. They will never find ~ good
land NJ that which they have left.
We are offering so dozen 8 button "MouS-
uuetaire" kid gloves In blacks and %colOrs, at
sixty cents y pair, worth 81 %. Call early
and get your fit. Wilker Il Miller, Franklin
street. msy.a'.
The infant son of Israel Burrell, colored,
died last Tuesday from the effects OF injuries
about five weeks ago. by falling
into u kettle of boiling soap. The family are
honest, hard working people, III deserve
the sympathy OF all.
A high mandarin of China. in his letter of
thanks to DR.. Aver for having introduced
Ayers Pills into the Celestial Empire, called
them .sSweet Curing Seeds'-a very appro-
pirate name! They are sweet. they cure, and
are, therefore, the most profitable ''seeds" q
sick man can invest In. 1t
The ladies of the Christian church gave an
Ice cream and strawberry festival in the
basement of the church last night. We went
to press too early to get a report,bu we know.
that the affair was well conducted. that 1t
was q %pecuniary success, and that all present
had q pleasant time.
The rain last Saturday evening was one Of
the heaviest we ever saw for the time it last
ed. A small amount of hail fell in the city,
but no damage was done. Reports from near
Nv every direction say that the hail was very
severe, In some places entirely stripping the
tS6cS u LuclE lcatcSs auu CNCh oaS~06
large branches.
Higginsyille Post:-"A fishing party will
be given by the young ladies and gentlemen
of Dover, Lexington and Higginsville, Tues
day. May q, at Tabo BRIDGE miles west Of
Dover. Let the young people of the rival
towns come; put OF their business Interests
aud meet together in harmony, joining heart
onJhorJ for q fo1Iv Onn1 fimoO
Last Saturday evening, Gen. 10. Shelby
who lives near Page City, sent his son, Sam
to the postofice. The little fellow was re-
turning home, when he discovered a danger.
GUS break in the railroad, caused by the rain
He gathered up u lot of brush, made q fire
and sat Oy the roadside till nine o'clock. wait
ing for the train, which he succeeded in stop
ping. A brave and thoughtful act for a nine
year-old boy, and one which we hope to SET
properly recognized.
The Popular Science Monthly for u con
| tains an article on "Clean Drinking Water
in which it says:-"Wster has much to an
swer for in the csusation Of disease" 'Pol'
| luted water is a common cause of ~dysentery.
"Typtoid has frequently been communicated
through the medium of water" "Milk adul
terated with polluted water has been th'
| cause of serious outbreaks of fever" Dozen
| of other pointed extracts might be taken from
the article, but these are enough. The AL
thority is unquestioned. Vote for water
works, and get pure water.
Buff" a large dog, which was raised b.
the late Capt. George Wilson. died on Mon
day last, aged thirteen years. He was probs
bly, the largest dog in the state. his eight
ing weight was one hundred and sixt.
pounds; height at shoulders, thirty tw'
inches; length..from tip Of nose to end of tai
six feet four inches. He had the "tawn.
lion" color of the st. Bernard breed; also tn
white stripe on throat and breast, maxim
the "cross" which Monkish tradition says wa
miraculously placed oil his ancestors. A
his annual shesring q mas, of wool was Gu
off, varying in length from four to ten inches
He was a wonderful swimmer. traversin
long distances and remaing many hours in tn
river. He could support a man in the waite
with ease. He was an invlnclble fighter
though peaceably inclined as a rule. Wa
kind in harness, and as Sir Andrew said
his horse che will bear you easily and reir
WELL" His sire Bruce Hays was sired b
Pilot, imported st. Bernard, formerly Owne
by Rev. John r. Bennett, late of this count.
His dam was a large Newfoundland. Blu
was decently buried on q green, shady hill
side, and juvenile friends decorated tt
grave with flowers, as was appropriate ft
mans fai thful friend" CAPTAIN JACR.
Kansas City Times:-'Mr. James Lilli
who has the biggest contract connected vii
the construction OF the cable railroad.
pushing the WORE in.such q way as to lead Il
officers of the road to declare that he has
perfect genus for work. This is the first d.
plicate cable road ever built, and the work
all new to Mr.. lillis, but he knows the art
management 30 well that he takes hold Of Il
work as il he had spent his life on that xii
of labor. His contract is an enormous on
and includes the excaysting the Jokes, bull
ing The pulley pits, BUILDING the sewers, la
! ing the slot rails, all the concreting, all I
! brick work and the stone work at the engil
I house, laying the track aud paving the sire
between the tracks. All this work IN for t
whole line from the bluff to Woodland avenu
. Some idea Of the magnitude of the work m
be gained from the fact that he now has in |
employ, including all kinds of skilled and q
binary laborers, $50 men. The digging Of t
trenches is M small Job Of itself, the trench
being sixteen feet wide the entire length
! the track, and it being necessary to dig dop
five feet at a level, and ut some other plaC
! he has had to 60 down thirty feet. The wo
= is progressing very rapidly. Between t
q bluff and Penn street the work is about col
pletel, and it will be finished soon TO Was
: ingtop street. Gangs of workmen are al
engaged at Broadway. Main street, Graz
avenue, Walnut street, and Eighth and w
nut streets, and another force will. be put
to-day at Eighth and Campbell streets. Il
contract was taken last September, and n
. Lillls declares that he will have the emit
work finished by the LIST of next November
o "Parson Adams writes from Concord
s"The corner stone of the Lutheran Cole
building at this place, was laid with appl
If pirate ceremonies last Sunday al ? O'Clock,
h NJ: Rev. Willie officiating az orator for I
OCCASION. There were quite a number
d visitors present from other points, aud t
d crowd in attendance was vsriously estimat
G At from seven hundred to one Thousand ....
Among Gnr visitors this week were Mr.. W.
d Avery. reporter for the Kellogg Printing G.
Kansas City; Miss Minnie HuseteF sna n
e Henry Meyer. Of Hlgginsville; Mr.. Fre
y Becker and daughter, and Mr.. Winter
Lexington, and Nessrs. Haase and Schrel'
of St. Louis 49,. Miss AA4ie Taylor spe
Saturday and Sunday at home. Mr.. q
'e Mrs. Ehlers, Of Brownsville, visited frien