Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-06-20

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evening for Fayette, to remain during vaca-
ton with her parents.
Mr.. W. P. Roberts, of Lawrence county
NO., = this-year's graduate from the Stale
University, visited Mr.. NJ. d. Harrison on
his way home.
The Laclede hotel was put up for sale
Monday and was bid in by a man named Mil
Ter for 81. 600, but as Miller shortly after
disappeared it IS supposed that there was no
sale.
Lexington lodge, No. l49, A. F. and A. ~,
elected the following officers last Monday
night: F. Kerdolff, DR.. w. NJ; NJ. j.
Chinn, S. W.; R. E. Smith, J. W.; Fl. c.
Boteler, IT,; P. H. Chambers. Sec; j. A.
Price, Tyler.
The storm of last Saturday evening was a
very severe one. We began a list of the
small casualties, but 1t grew too long. Many
chimneys and trees were blown down, some
fencing was blown away. more was washed
away. The fall of water was very heavy.
Lightning set fire to the telephone office at
Mayview, but it was extinguished. In town
here the most severe damage was to the
heavy retaining walls which all suffered
more or less. Nobody was seriously hurt.
Deputy Sheriff W. A. Jackson lodged Lie
Jones in Jail at this place, last Thursday.
Jones, it will be remembered. stabbed Jim
Vinegar, election day, April !, at Higgins
vile. The wound was a terrible one. and it
was thought Vinegar would die. He is alive,
but will always be disabled by the wound.
Mr.. Jackson traced Jones out to Kansas and
| secured his arrest at Lawrence by Chief of
Police Prentice. He went after him, and
| Jones agreed to come without a requisitiOn
until he got to the train, when he refused.
| Mr.. Jackson left him and came back to JEFF
ferson City, where he secured a requisltion
| from the governor, then went to Topeka,
secured the necessary papers, and returning
to Lawrence secured his man. In his absence
a writ of habeas corpus had been sued out.
| but the officers re-arrested Jones on a charge
| of murder. and the judge put hun under
$15, 900 bond. As he did not have the money
in his pantalOOns pocket he was sent to Jail.
hen brought here he waived an eXamina-
| ton and Esquire Clayton sent him to Jail in
default of 81 900 bond. jackson says that he
Is under obligations for great cOurtesies ren-
l ucIcu ulu ny thC oilCCIS al tuCe auu
TOkeka, and to Mr.. Yantis, the governors
private secretary.
A very distressing. accident took place on
the Missouri Pacific railroad track about four
| miles east of town, last Saturday evening.
Just before the west-bOund passenger train
came along Ellis Newton, aged eleven, the
step-son of Mr.. Thomas Macklin, Il laboring
| ,>o ,ubn Twas Inv tho eide nf tho road WOE
| sitting upon the fence. AS the train ap-
preached, for some unexplained reason, he
| jumped from the fence and ran toward 1t.
Either the COW catcher or some other part of
the engine struck him, and he was carried or
thrown fifty feet forward, rolling under a
~culvert, where he was subsequently found,
the posterior part of his skull fractured, the
bone depressed, his left thigh broken
and having suffered a commlnuted fracture
of the left leg. He was otherwise bruised.
He was insenslble and remained 30 for over
two days. At first 1t was thought that he
| would surely die. DIR. P. 81. Chambers, the
surgeon Of the road at this place, promptly
attended him, and everything was dom that
medical skill could suggest. As a conse-
| quence on Tuesday he recovered conscious
ness and ate something. and since then there
has been hope that he might get well. DR..
King, who is in the roads employ as surgeon
at Sedalia, came up to see him Wednesday.
There is, we hear, talk of suing the road for
damages, but if the facts in the case have
been related to US we can see no cause of
aclion- The accident is a very sad ole, but
the boy seems to have run into the danger in
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| prevented it.
"a little nonsense now and then.
Is relished by the wisest men,"
And, to transpose, 1.-THE man that hath no
humor in his soul, is fit for treasons. stratagems
and spoils." Such a man is no, John C. Young,
and on last Tuesday he and Thomas j. John
treated the town TO a rare piece OF fun. Messrs.
Young and John disguised themselves as Italian
organ grinders and with an instrument whose
melancholy tones would cause dyspepsia in
seventeen minutes by the clock, they went about
town serenading their friends. Mr.. YOung's
coat was a marvel. 1t had ''mendicant'' writ
ten everywhere in the peculiarly OF its rents
and tatters. Mr.. John. who seemed to have but
one arm aid one eye. having mysteriously dis
posed Of their mates In some way. was about us
hard looking q party as one often meets. Mr..
"a N"N So'"hs - kVh-
orally battered up condition. AS the two pass
ell from serenade to sefenade they were followed
by half the town. Mr.. john producing the music
and Mr.. Young taking up the collection. Their
disguises Were 30 good that several times
persons sud. as they came up, ''Why. that
fellow looks like JOhu Young" Aftel Il mum
Der of serena,ies Officers owen and Chinn arrest
ed them as vaSraIts, AMI by the assistance of a
posse OF clti2ens they were conducted to
Duvall's gallery, where their pictures were
taken for the rogue's gale y. atte: which they
were arraigned before Recorder Welborn. Mr..
Hicklin prosecuted and Judge Xenopt.ol Ryland
defended. The tramps were charged with
having entered into a conspiracy with rod and
Simmons, two colorei gentlemen whose minds
nave been missing from birth to rob the people.
Young and John 10 attract attention with the
organ, while Tod aud Simmons picked pockets.
1t would take two Columns to write out in full
the hum ors of the rial-the scintillations OF wit
on the part of The attorneys. The court and the
prisoners. John Young Ut one time ate mpted
ID escape, but he Was pulled back through the
window by one leg, and US it stretched and
stretched IL the operation the people there
assembled f,r the nrst time realized Row high
up one OF the measurcs for his pantaluuns must
go. The Witnesses We're Messrs. Epa. King, F.
pa W 'i@N
Ryland's able deiense the defendants we:-
] proven to be VIGOROUSLY bad characters, coun Ell
~feiters. p.ckpockels aud horse thieves. They
repeatedly IrieI to bride the judge, but he evI-
IDENTIFY thought very lightly of q purse only
sparsely supplied with nickeis. TIN tops and old
postage stamps, and his virtue remained firm.
fhe verdict Was guilty. as might have been
supposed. and the punishment assessed was
that Mr.. Young must d ince Tor the crowd, while
his associate furnished the music. His consci-
entious %scruples interler.d somewhat, and he
tried his best to have some other penalty i'm
posed, but the court and the Gro wd We're inexor-
able. Finally he succumbed and the music
striking up he shook rags for d few minutes in
such a furious manner rs to elicit shouts and
screeches OF applause from the audience. The
gentleDaniy ushers will row please pass around
Only I 0enty-fS cents each cheap at half The
money.
When Baby was sick, We gaze her CASTORIA,
When she was 4 Child, she cried for CASTORIA,
When she became Miss, she clung to CASTORIA,
When she had Children, she gave them CASTORL