Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28
Jerseys at Mrs. Moorehead's. oct 8 m2
Come, boys, let the girls alone!
Business has been lively Of late.

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Delicious plum pudding, at Clagett's. If
Stylish millinery at Mrs. Arnold's, Main
street. oct100
Underwear, boots and shoes for men and
bows, at Clagetts. nov2stf
Messrs. VIM. H. Ewing 4 Co. want all the
good mules they can buy.
Bridge timbers sx10 inches, 10, II and IA
feet long, for sale be E. Allen. july4tf
The best foul in the market is the Excel
sior brand. Ask your groces fof it. n15tf
Get Boston Betting Company's Standard
Betting, at ordan's Foundry and Machine
shop. m 6tf
Groceries. boots, shoes, ~queensware, and
tinware cheap for cash and 10 the gilt edged
time trade at Clagett's. nov2stf
The Old Reliable Red R -four still takes the
cake. Warranted free from worms common
to -four in hot weather. junt21f
Subscribers Who fail to get their paper reg
ularly from the carrier will greatly oblige US
by promptly reporting to this Office. If
The Ladies' Fancy Work Club will have
its first meeting this season at Mrs. J. c. Nc
Crews, next Thursday, Dec. 3. at 2 O'Clock.
Acute rheumatism Is an Inflammation Of
the joints, marked bv pain, heat and redEess.
With these symptoms apply Salvation Oil,
the great pain at once. Price % cents q
bottle.
For Sale-A good residence, one of the
best in the city. on Main street, large house,
good outhouses. well, cistern. etc. Price
only So 900. Terms easy. Inquire Of J.. P.
Ardinger. nov29tf
Hammered gold finish library lamps with
patent canopy tops. are among the latest
things from inventive genius, and make
handsome as we'll as useful holiday presents,
on exhibition and sold at Young's China
Hall. nov2St4
Mr.. j. B. Silver bought and shipped from
Lexington. MAYHEM and Waterloo, four
thousand bushels of apples, for most of
which he paid 50 cents a bushel. He left,
at ST. Louis.
Ali is not nickel plate that glitters and
things are seldom what they seem. but to any
one taking the trouble to examine our stock
there can be do doubt that Ioung's China
Hall contains many handsome and inexpen.
sive goods suitable for Xmas presents. 2St4
The case Of the state against Alex. Tro-
baugh, for assault with intent to kill. winch
has beer continued from time to time, came
up before Esquire Clayton, Wednesday morn
ing. when the defendant took a change of
venue. The case was sent to Esquire Harri-
son Smith, and will be brought up for hear
ing on Thursday the I'd of December.
Mr.. A. j. Bishop, a gentleman well known
to our people as a competent and reliable
business man has opened a grocery store In
the room recently occupied by Messrs. Rine-
hart y Edmonds. on Main street, east of the
courthouse. Mr.. Bishop has an advertise
ment, elsewhere, to which we call the atten-
ton of our readers, and we take pleasure In
saying that if they will give him a share oil
their patronage they will be we'll treated.
Columbia Statesman, November 27:-"The
engineers on the above line. (St. Louis and
Kansas City Short Line railway arrived he'll
on Saturday having completed the western
division of the survey as far west of Columbis
as Lexington. On Monday the engineers be-
gan on the survey east of Columbia and ex
pect to reach a point on the Missouri river
near HoweIl's ferry In st. Charles county
sometime in February, 1886. VIM. Miller
chief engineer in charge, reports that at NJ
| place on the line will the grade exceed fifty
feet to the mile. which Is q very satisfactory
feature of the enterprise"
ST. Joseph Gazette: F Mr.. JOhI
Kercbeval, the agent of the Missouri River
Packet Company, at this place, Il Gazette re
| n rt ar Ioornod thot tho onannrononons uhioI
had been offered his people by the St. JOSEPH
merchants during the past summer had in
duced them TO extend the terminus Of theil
line from Kansas City to st. Joseph, and or
three boats instead Of one. This will brins
back, TO some extent 81 least, the good oil
days when steamboats, were the rule here
and not a curiosity. as at present. There i
also q scheme on foot by y st. Joseph syndi
cate to put an advertising boat afioat mex
summer, which will draw only twelve inche
Of water, and be light enough to run into al
the Mi.sourl's tributaries as we'll as the rive
ITSELF" Lexington is ready to aid St. JOSEF
in its river projects, as it will find when tn
time comes. Now we ask st. Joseph to hel
US with our bridge by encouraging the 81
Joseph & st. Louis railroad people.
A little daughter of Mr.. Dudley Love. age
three years and eight months. was seriously
if not fatally burned, Thursday Afternoon
about . O'clock. She, with some other child
rem, had built u fire In the yard, and all wei
engaged in gathering leaves, grass and ruh
bish, and throwing them on the fire. Tn
little girl cast an armful of leaves on the fl I
and her clothing caught in q blaze. Her litt
brother ran to her, and tried to put out th
fire. and the other children gave the alarm
Mrs. Love ran to the child. and wrapped hi
own clothing around the flames as we'll as ST
: could. Mr.. Thomas Owen was soon notifle
by one Of the children. and fastened to Ii
place. He tore the clothes from the bod
of the little sufferer. while Mrs. LO'
held her, and kept the flames fro
rising. The child was badly burne
T about the hip, abdomen and breast, and it
feared that she breathed the flames. 1t
hardly expected that she can recover. MIR
Love and Mr.. Owen were both badly burnt
3 about the hands and arms in fighting Il
} flames, and the little brother, who ran to Il
rescue, was slightly burned.
Following is a list Of the pupils in Il
l second ward and high schools who have di
l tinguished themselves in scholarship duril
the past mouth:-Fourth and Fifth grade
Saliie Bryerly, Emma Gever, Fleet Harriso
Maggie Lane, Earnest Hoffman, Mary Rupl
| Simon Adels, Annie Schaeffermeyer ,Richsl
: Bywater, Rosa Graendorf, Blanch Gate
Mamie Hall and Emma Weis, Second al
a Third grades, Rosa Gehner, Laura Mitche
. Anna Toeppe, Anna Gelzer, Madeline B!
S water. High School. Octavia Lesueur, Ma
/, tie Grimes, Bessie Vaughan, Margie Vsugha
S Mamie Vaughan, Alice Thomas. AM
Lesueur, Emma Hays, Leila Gordon, Kat
Reeder, Minnie Marshall, Fanny YOun
g Mary Winkler, Tessie Taubman, Kate Grsel
e dorf, Katie Selling, Carrie Cowie. Ron
n Mexican, Robert Walker, James Gilkieso
Herbert Duncan, William Bandon. Thorn
Is Mens and Charles Ginther. Sixth q
Seventh grades, Fannie hitcnell, Mat
o Powell, Maud Graham, Alfretta Earne
e Nellie Edmonds, Katie Kramer. Alice Moul
l. joy. Tracy Nicholas, Edwin Venab
y Ernest Durand, Columbus Carney, Wlllla
Welsh, Joseph Bsehr, Oscar Graendo
Rena Toeppe, Maude Hamlet, Maggie Turn,
d Mary Turner, Lena Ripple, Lizzie Lesue,
d Fanny Russell. An average of 50 is nece
airy for mention in this list.
e A prominent business man at Cord
writes US as follows:-''The Advance su
e plement shows the number of hands Ell
n ployed In what they call coal mines OBJ
Higginsville, when In fact the largest nul
as Der, lis hands. is not at HiRginsvjlle at (,