Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-10-24
Wseklg gntelll9enter'
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
SHCR'ES.

Dress trimmings at Alrs Mooreheau D oon~
Try sDresden WATERS" for sale by Trigg
4 Shields. octlIw2
Stylish millinery at Mrs. Arnold's, Main
street. oct10lf
Sell your old iron at o1dsn's Foundry and
lfaobine shons m6tf :
Platt & Co.'S. yellow peaches are delicious.
Trigg y Shields sell them. octl1w2
Millinery, notions and hair goods at cash
prices, can be seen at Mrs. Arnold's. olot1
Trieg h Shields have new dates new prunes,
new currants, rais,ns, pitted plums. etc. IL
Messrs, Walker Tebbs and Jno. E. Bascom
caught a nice string of bass and croppy each.
last Thursday.
If YOU want your hair to curl. try a can OF
early June peas. Plat y Cos. goods from
Trigg b Shields. oe,i'~1
Go to Martland's new gallery for the best
photographs, His cabinet size at 30 per
ao,on conf he heat. apr4tf
few more carpets and rug mattings etc''
lett. Come and close out the balance below
cost. Henry Wilker. ociaw'
Every farmer that raises wheat shouldget
one of the double land rollers manufactured
Dy W. NJ. Jordan, Lexington, Mo. july2Stf 81
Central Female College has seventy-three
boarding pupils and forty-seveu day pupils
making In all one hundred and twenty pupils.
Mr.J. W Grant practices what he preaches.
He has greatly improved his residence by a
fresh coat of paint, and new blinds 10 the
windows. 49,.
Rev. w. B, Palmore has ordered the S2oO
worth of books which he promised to the
Central Female College. They will be here
In q few days.
Don't buy lumber, lime, hair, cement OF
mixed paints until you give me a call. L VIII
> make YOU bottom figures. G. A. Sturges
I..;,o,or Mo sept28tf
Mr.. Davis Duck has rented the room form
erly occurred by Mr.Schoield back Of Marks
butcher shop, where he will make and repair
boots and shoes. Ladies' work = speciality.
That we may not be considered behind II
anything we invite the ladies to examine oul
stock, when wanting anything in the DIR!
goods or notion line. Henry Wilke olt3
DIR, Robertson writes from Cooley's Lake
"What has become of the royal old sports o
Lexington? Gone into winter quarters
suppose! Nevertheless bass are biting splen
d,dly at Cooley's. Ducks in large flight; a!
things lovely and the goose hangs high
We have positively the largest stock
ladies' and misses' cloaks and dolmans In fhi
city. They are all new goods and the bes
fitting garments. We will sell them at lowe
prices than any other house, therefore 1t wi
nav YOU to inspect our stock before purchas
ing elsewhere. Henry Wilker. oct3w3
PROT. Kerdolff has Just received at Centr'
Female College quite a collection OF philo
sophical apparatus for the use OF the pupl
during the present year. This in addition
what was already in the college, places tn
institution in an excellent condition so far
philosophical apparatus is concerned.
A colored man named Geo. Gates presente
~ a few DAYS ago some sorghum molass'
nearly as white as ~cut-loaf syrup, and to OIL
taste far better. 1t wa made on Mrs.. Deane
place. II sorghum can make such syrup
this, very much more of it should be mani
featured. Gates makes 1t up for any one WI
has cane, and he is said to be the best hal
st It in the county. He should be kept bu
during the season.
And who can get ahead of old Tim How
ard, whether it Is in a breakdown, In
long-tailed blue, over the election OF Clev
land, or at raising q cabbage or a potat
Tim brought four or five Irish potatoes to
Office, the other day, either of which won
measure fifteen inches in circumference o
way, and q cabbage hat weighed II poun'
and of solid enough material to have ma
heads for a dozen dudes. Tim is a ''dais,
and his cabbages and p~otatoes-well, tn
can't be BATE
A number of Jolly millers met at Higgii
willie, last Saturday to organize a Mile
Society. There were present. A. V. Bob
son, Lexington; Henry Keiser, Glasgo
Murphy and Hartman, Oak Grove; Be-
Whitworth, Aullville; c. w. Banks, Blae
burn; 8. B. Walker, Higginsville; T.
Whitworth, Odessa. Mr.. A. v. Robins
was made chairman and Mr.. S. B. Walk
secretary. After a discussion of milling
terests the meeting adjourned to meet at 3
glusville, Tuesday, October q.
The fish commission of Missouri writes
-"All persons In the state of Missouri
string young carp for public waters or priv
ponds, should apply at once to Phil. kopp
Jr., Forest park, st. Louis. or to Elias ca
rell. st. Joseph, Mo. Give postoffice. couI
and nearest express Office. Cost of can
express charges must be paid q. o. D. A
gallon can will ship safely thirty small ca
All applicants will be notified by mail a
days In advance Of shipment. Shipments
begin early in November, and ease when
ponds freeze up"
Higginsville Post:-"What is ~nirvana, {
how? And of what advantage Is all this
sument about it? Isn't 1t a much ado at
nothingf'. sF. t. NAV not be a Christi
but neither IL he q Heather nor a Hint
He 10 merely a sentimental youth who Of
slonally drops into poetry and loses him
in the labyrinthine convOlutions of a tn
ametonymy or a synecdoche in the desir,
turn q period or fill out a measure" FIX
iy. We thought the three or four line.
criticism which VIC gave the subject at
enough, with perhaps as many line
reply.
The jury In the case of the state ags
Harrison and Love, charged with burr
Harrison's saloon fer the insurance. retur
Averdict Of ''not guilty. last Saturday e,
ing, at about six O'Clock. Court adjourI
and as the crowd came out of the courtht
Harrison met Joyce the o-caIled.detectiv
few words passed between them, Hsrri
cursing Joyce. They then separated Harr
going to the Commercial and Joyce to
Laclede hotel. A short time after this, j
came to the Commercial hotel, walked u
Harrison, and offered his hand. Harr
sprang at him, cursing him, and there W
have been a fight, only that friends of H.
son interfered, and took him away frou
house. Joyce walked backward and forv
with his hand thrust in his coat pocket, W
it is supposed he held a pistol. Joyce Wa
in the least excited, and some think he
to the hotel with the intention of provoki
fight, and then killing Harrison. All the
cept Joyce, who remained till Sunday Il
and then skipped out without payinl
hotel bill. Mr.. Lowell intends search
Joyce, and if he can be found he will be
ecuted.
Get Trigg s. Shields to show you theIl
Of eyaporated fruits. oct11
An alarm of fire was sounded, last !
day morning, caused by the burning
small frame dwelling near Robinson's
The first alarm was given by a few
blows from the whistle of the ferry boa
soon spread on the street that Robin
mill was on fire, and it Immediately occn
to every one that the waterworks wer'
Of order, and that the mill would be a
loss. 1t was a great relief to learn tina
mill was safe, The house burned wa