Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-09-05
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friends. sep0m1
The Old Reliable Red R flour still takes the
cake. Warranted free from worms common
to flour in hot weather. j%une27tf
Fin rocking chairs, reed, cane seats, and In
fine pushes, at low prices at H. Il F. Wink
Ter. Lexington, Missouri. m3tf
Hamburg edging and insertings Torchon
and Meiici lsces in full stock to please every
taste. NJ. F. Royle & Son. sept5m1
For Ssle-A good residence, one Of the
best In the city, on Main street. large house,
good outhouses, well, cistern. etc. Price
only 81 900. Terms easy. Inquire of j. P.
Ardinger. noV29u
Friday morning of last week u young col
ored man was standing on the steps OF = car
as the train pulled out from the depot in this
city. He stepped of carelessly. missed his
footing and got a heavy fall and a severe
scare. He fell on his head. which prevented
his being injured. The way thai niger roll
ed over the platform, getting out of the way
of the cars, showed how badly he was fright
ened.
There was q meeting of the business asso-
citation ut the courthouse, Thursday after
noon. Mr.. W. G.. McCausland was In the
chair, and Mr.. W. B. Bolton was made Sec
rotary. The financial committee made a re-
port, which was accepted, and the committee
discharged. A new committee of three, con-
slsting of Messrs. Chiles, Bolton and Went
worth. was appointed by the chair. Some
unimportant matters were discussed, and
the meeting adjourned.
TIL three female Summaries and the male
academy have all opened. this week, with
good prospects for the scholastic year. The
first week does not give a fair idea of what
the schools will be. but enough is shown, we
think, to see that the boarding attendance
will be larger than usual. We greet the
young ladies and gentlemen on their return,
and welcome them to Lexington. We hope
they may in future years be able to look back
to the days spent here as those in which they
laid the intellectual and moral foundation for
useful lives.
Somebody put stones IN the street car
track, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets, last Wednesday night. The cars were
thrown off the track several times before the
drivers discovered the cause. 1t is supposed
that ZONE boys expected a lot Of school girls
to be on the cars, and took this method Of
giving them q welcome, rather a rough one,
we should think. There is a law against the
particular nuisance which these persons per-
petrated, and they will be prosecuted very
vigorously If they are discovered. 1t :sa very
1t Is viciously done 1t is worse. Stop it, boys.
The work on Goose Pond is rapidly near
ing completion. The culvert has been lined
with a thirteen-inch wall Of hard brick, laid In
cement, and has been extended several feet
east of the old man-hole. Brio L wing-walls
have been built in the form Of q ", and q
inch brick man-hole is at the
of two wings. At the bottom of the
man hole is q we'll 80 inches deep, full of
water, which will form q cushion for the fall.
ing water. The wing-wslls and man.hOle
will be raised to a level with the old man.
hole. a, 1 the ground be made to slope to the
east, so that all water will run In at the prop
er opening. Mr.. Farrar thinks this job viii
stand.
We think we hav been entirely courteous
to our contemporary, the Herald; we GER
tainly were not out of temper; we certainly
said nothing about the Intelligencer; we GER
tainly do not think Lexington has been Scrip
pied" by anybody or any town. The fact
that other own get trade that it might other
wise get Is no evidence of "crippling." Lex
ington Is neither blind, nor halt, nor lame.
We do not think either Higginsville or Odes-
So s'crippled," the one by the other. We
think them both active, live. wide-awake
towns. and never lose an opportunity to say
so. We never print anything rejecting upon
them. We advise our brother of the Herald
to take the medicine he recommends to US,
and to be courteous-to Lexington.
A friend writes TO US from Waverly :-s'In
your issue of the 29th of August 1 noticed a
In the list of federal soldiers, which
you will please correct. Mr.. Casper Weaver,
q German of this place, is very proud of hav-
ing been a confederate soldier and of having
served all through the war. lie was a bugler
In Jno. Morgan's regiment, and often now
arouses his neighbors with the clear notes of
the same old bugl. he blew-'in the summer
of siXty-three y = = when on
like the wind they hurried, and Morgan rode
in advanced He still retains his southern en-
thusiasm. and II he lives until eighty six will
give the Comrades u blast from his dear old
clarion horn"
Mr.. Gu.hner finds 1t difficult to collect even
one dollar from each OF the owners Of lots at
tie cemetery. That should not he the case.
He has done more to beautify the place than
was ever dOn before. 1t Is now in better
oo,Ist;,, tb.n ,vo b.,,a .r,o ,aon ft oa.t
money to do this. Ole dollar u year for each
lot owner is not a large sum. There are six
hundred lots sold. AT least one half of the
lot owners cannot be reached. Some one
must be employed, constantly, In order 10
keep the ground. in order. Even more than
one person is needed In the summer months.
What is $500 for such a purposes Beside, II
there il any money LETT oyer it does not go TO
Mr.. Gnhner, but to beautify the grounds.
There i, u lot owners committee. 10 which he
will account for every cent. We, therefore,
hope that every lot owner will cheerfully pay
the sun recommended by the committee, and
mat our city of the dead may not be "a re-
prOach to The living.
The safe i'll Roses store, at Mayhem, was
blown open and robbed of about SS5; last
Wednesday night, between one and two
O'Clock. Dir. Rose saw two men losting
srouud the store during Wednesday, but
thought nothing Of it. When he went to the
store, Thursday morning. and saw what had
been done, the recollection Of the two strang-
ers flashed upoh him. He telegr 4phed the
facts to Jailer Chinn, in this city, and asked
him to be on the lookout. Two hours after re-
ceiving the dispatch Mr.. Chinn saw two
strangers passing along the street, and he no.
ticed them carefully. Their boots were COW
cred with mud, and their paHtaloons were
wet up to their knees. They had evidently
had a long walk through mud and wet grass.
City Marshal 10. Owen also saw the men, and
recognized one Of them rs John Brosnahsn,
formerly deputy collector of jackson county
under 10. Green. and the man who Green
thinks did the stealing in that Office. Mr..
Owen spoke to ~BrOsnahan, and shook hands
with him, and noticed that he hesitated, as
though he did not like to own his name.
Messrs Chinn and owen arrested them on
suspicion. and took them before Mr.. j. S.
Blackwell. who asked them several questions,
and became satisfied that there was some
thing crooked about them. The other man
gave the name of j. N. O'Brien. They wele
sent to Jail, where they now are. They were
both very much excited. The prisoners
claim that they walked from Higginsville to
this city. and that they took breakfast at q
restaurant in Higginsville. They say they
stepped off the train at MAYHEM Wednes day
long enough to get a drink of water, aud then
got back on the train and went To Hipoips.