Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-09-12
City council next Monday night.

City council next Monday night.
County court next Wednesday.
Criminal court second Monday in October.
The City Restaurant has opened out its
oyster parlor. septlZl2
Thursday, October s, is the day that 4-paw
will be here.
Sixty-seven boarding pupils at Central
Female College.
Judge Meet looks ten years younger since
he heard the circus was coming.
Miss Emma Primer can be found at NJ. r.
Royle & Sons and will be glad to see all her
friends. sep5m1
The Goose Pond culvert is completed. and
q day or two will suffice to finish the wing
walls and manhole.
The Old Reliable Red R Jour still takes the
cake. Warranted free from worms common
to -four in hot weather. j~une27tf
Fine rocking chairs, reed, cahe seats, and In
fine pushes, at low prices ut H. = +. Wink
Ter. Lexington, Missouri. mStf
Hamburg edging and insertings Torchon
and Me lici lsces in full stock to please every
taste. NJ. F. Royle q Son. sept5ml
In Mexico hot milk, not boiled, Is found an
cACcIcuI cure v tAElOuS VI uIAsn
complaint. 1t is especially recommended
for children
A pupil asked il that word was parsed
right. TIL teacher remarked in reply to
that, that that that, that that pupil parsed as
q pIonoun was q conjunction.
For Sale-A good residence, one of the
best in the city, on Main street. large house,
good outhouses, well, ~cistern, etc. Price
only - 600. Terms easy. Inquire Of j. P.
Ardingers nov2Stf
1t will cost you nothing to look at our new
fall goods, ari we tLink you will appreciate
them. The styles are the newest, the prices
are the lowest. Call and see H. Wilker for
cheap dry goods. sept5t2
There was q case of assault and battery at
Concordia last Tuesday. Alvin Meyer and
John kroencke were the parties. Mr.. Black
we'll could not attend. as he had q case to try
at Higginsyille. We have not heard the re-
suit of the case.
The lightning killed a mich COW, "a valuable
animal, belonging to MIR. Jonathan Stanfeld,
living about one-half mile east Of Odessa,
during the storm. Friday of last week. A
horse was also shocked to insensibility BY the
lame bolt, .but recovered.
In cutting a trench from the waterworks
pump house to the reservoir the workmen
cut through the old levee at the foot of Com
merce street. They were much surprised
steamboat landing. Two feet of earth had
accumulated on the stones.
Brownsville Herald:-"Rev. DIR. Profits
man, of this place, dedicated Gilmore church,
five miles east of Marshall, last Sunday. 1t
Is stated In q special to the Kansas City Jour-
nal that about 500 people attended the servl-
ces. The new church Is the successor of an
old one which was dedicated by DR.. Profits
man thirty fou years ago. A dedication for
the same church and by the same minister, at
each end of = generation, ID indeed 3 rare
event."
As the orthoepist was passing through the
calaboose yard, one day, he overheard two
negro boys OF the rock pile dlsputing about
the meaning Of the words dts'-ert and de-
sert', one maintaining that they were syno-
nyms, and empssizing his speech with vigor-
Gus blows of his hammer on the ''dornicks."
''No, ye children of NATURE" said the wise
one, 'sthere is a great difference; this yard,
now, is to you a des'-ert, but If yoa should
scale these frowning ramparts, and escape to
your native heath, you would desert; see? p
xxi. yah" chuckled the city's wards. while
the man of many words pursued his walk,
proudly conscious of having cast some light
in q dark place OF the earth.
The Carroll, Capt. Silver, passed up last Sat-
urday at O'Clock, p. m. She came down
q gain Monday night. When in the bend just
above town she unshIpped and lost her rud-
der. After searching for it for some time I'M
successfully, she dropped down to this place
and rugged up 3 temporary affair with which
to proceed on her way to St. Louis. This is
the CarrolPs last trip for the season. The
Dacotah, Capt. Keith on the roof, left st.
Louis for St. Joseph, last Tuesday, with SOC
tons of freight. She is due here to-day. This
will be the DacOtah's last trip to St. Joseph
but she will continue running from st. Louis
to Kansas City until ice forces her to with
draw for the winter. Our merchants will do
well, even this late in the season, to avail
themselves of the cheap river freights. espec-
tally on their heavy, cheap goods. TIL river
stands at about 4 feet above low waller mark,
The Missouri Pacific railway company
should run a sleeper from st. Louis to st.
Joseph tv way of Lexington. They did SC
for n while, but discontinued it because the
local travel would not ill the sleeper. Meth.
er would the local travel on any other part of
the road of like length. Persons making
short trips. or out but Tor one night, are gen.
orally satisfied with u chair, aud it is the
through travellers who take the sleeper. But
there are u few persons who want :
sleeper il travelling but one night. and
We can see no reason in this cast
why they should not be accommodated
The company runs two or three ~sleepers over
the old line by way of Wsrrensburg, and
they are pretty well filed of course or they
would not be hanled. II it would send one
OF these by way OF Lexington and assign
sufficient number Of through passengers to il
there would be no trouble about making !
pay. II could not ill the sleeper with lOca
passengers on the other route. The distance
over The two roads Is practically the same
and by this winter The time over them shout,
be about alike. Even If il il a few minute.
longer over this road for the present all St
Joe travel would prefer 10 take a sleeper 90.
ing to that place only, and leaving from tina
place, so that their purchase Of tickets whei
going east need not be made by telegraph il
order to be secure. We hope the manage
ment will think this matter over, a. there 1
q great deal of complaint by persons who al,
now compelled to gel out of the sleeper a
Sedalis, when coming this way, ut an unrea
sonably early hour, breaking up their rest
and making it of doubtful expediency ss t.
taking a sleeper at all.
The Post copies the remarks we made las
week, inviting 1t to aid us in securing tn
next reunion for Lexington and says:--"W,
need not tell the Intelligencer that we ar,
heartily in favor of having the next Reunion
in Lexington, and If there is any possibl
chance for it to be held there the Post an,
every citizen of Higginsville will unite to as.
sist in fetching it. We all have a warm plac,
In our hearts for Lexington ON account of thu
way she turned out and helped US, and NJ
effort will be spared to make her reunion q.
great q success rs was ours. There SCENE,
to be a general understanding that the mex
reunion would go to Marshall, by reason O
the committees action in voting for that town
but if she can be induced to foregD her CLAIM
this time, then Lexington will get the mex
reunion. and a grand one it will be-" Now
that is the kind of talk we like to hear. 1t i
friendly, neighborly and kind. There is
particular reason why the %e-uuiOn should b
held at Lexington next year. 1t will be tn