Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-03-29

and Or. Talblrd are all al ODESSA al Tue baP-
tist Association to-day:
Cav Tate, ESQ.,, of Maryville, Nodsway
county, has been In town this week, called
here by the death of his father.
Mr.. CD. Ward, a prominent grocery mer-
chant of Kansas City, was here Tuesday look
ing after produce for his house.
Mir. M. Maxwell is back from q two
| weeks stay at Eldorado Springs, somewhat
improved in health by the waters.
Misses Bessie Harris, Grace and kebekah
Field, returned last Monday from a visit to
Mrs. Jennie Vaughan, ut Kansas City.
Hon. William II. Cock, of Henry county,
was in the city a few days ago visiting his
daughter, who is a pupil at the B. F. Z.
Mr.. Leonard Mann, of Wellington. has
been very i'll with congestion OF the brain but
was better when we heard from him last.
Mr.. j. L. Nelson, who has been living in
Cameron, NO., has returned to Old Lafayette,
and will farm the Joe Wood place, near Col.
Ford's.
Uncle Billy White was up yesterday. He
says he is as young as ever he was, except
sometimes when he reflects that his sou, Ed,
is getting bald-headed.
The N. Y. Evening Post observes that,
"if the practice of the Asri.kGri were in
vogue, Mr.. Ochiltree might well avail him.
self of its privileges"
Col. and Mrs. Reid have returned from
their winters trip south. Both are looking
we'll. Most of their time was spent in GAL
weston and New Orleans.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. I. Bell left for Kansas
| City, Tuesday morning. MI. Bell will remain
there for treatment by DR.. Carson, and Mrs.
| Bell will go to Edgerton, Kansas, to visit the
family of DR.. Tucker.
A French critic says that German and Bel
| gian workmen are supplanting those Of
France. because the Partisan workman III
reasonably asks 10f. a day, and works only
four or five days in the week.
Mr.. NJ. F. Bell, architect, and Mr.. W. S.
| Epperson, contractor for the construction of
the new G.. F. C. buildings, called on the In
telligencer Tuesday. They say the work is
moving along very satisfactorily.
Mr.. Hugh Mcdowell, wife and two children,
Of Kentucky, reached here Monday, and are
visiting Mr.. MS br~other-in-law, Mr.. John
Spears. Mr.. Mcdowell has bought n farm
near Odessa and will soon move to it.
Fred Douglass ed-headed white wife not
above her left ear, but she sits by the stove
hours at a time reading the Atlantic Monthly.
The enemies of Douglass feel fully avenged.
Mr.. W. a. Robnett, representing a large
Kansas City agricultural house, passed
through town last Monday upon his rounds.
\ He has almost entirely recovered from the
severe cut which he received in the arm about
two weeks ago.
Kansas City Times March 24:-tMrs. WIN.
E. Foote was much better last night, though
still quite weak. She will undertake the
journey to DesMoines, where her mother is
dangerously ill, this evening. Her daughter
will accompany her"
VIM. Mcdowell, who died at Traverse City,
Mich, aged 1914, was the Oldest Mason in the
world. He was made a Mason in lodge No.
26S, Ballymaney, county Antrim, Ireland,
June %. 1897. He was a master In 1872, re-
signing that year to emigrate to Canada.
N. Y. Herald P. I. Man:-"Dr. McCosh, of
Princeton College, is a very handsome old
gentleman, who was born seventy-three years
ago. He was a pet Of Sir William Hamilton,
who was q great opponent OF phrenologv. AS
an oldtime :m~etaphysician DIR. McCosh has
hardly an equal In this country. Recently,
while the doctor was being complimented in
o Pennsylvania railway train for his ability
to dissect Kant, the good old gentleman re-
piled, with that little spice of conceit which
comes from ones knowledge of ones abili-
ties. 1T was perfectly easy to me-" II the
old doctor could annihilate all men who live
by can't as easily as he thought he could disect
Kant he would be a rare good man indeed.
New York Herald, March 22:-''Our cable
dispatches from Paris announce the success
fnl debut, last night. of Mile. Emma Nevada
In Lucia at the Theater des Italiens. Many
Americans in Europe have expressed great
confidence in Mile. Nevada's voice, but critl-
cal Paris seems to have found her even more
than had been promised, for she charmed
alike by her acting and her singing, and was
declared the Californian nightingale before
the performance was over. The success was
shared by Gayarre, the tenor, whose reputa-
ton has become most enviable; aud NJ.
Maurel, TO whom Paris owes the Joint ar-
pearance of Nevada and Gayarre, is probably
the happiest man in Paris, as, for his enter
prise, he deserves TO be-"