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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28
County Stock A ssoc,ation

The annua meeting of the Lafayette Coun-
ty thoroughbred Live Stock Association will
be held in Higginsville, No., at the American
Bank, on Saturday, Dec. 18th, 1885, al one
O'Clock p. m. All members are requested to
be present. FERp. r.. BATES.
nov14td* Secret.rv
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

There is no place on the Missouri
river where a bridge can be more
cheaply built than at Lexington. The
river is very narrow here; flows in one
body, and there is III difficulty as to
the approaches on either side. Beside
this, the revetment placed on the Ray
county side by the government has
proven effective i'll protecting that bank
from encroachment, and secures at this
place a permanent channel.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

When Baby was sick, we gave he- CASTORIA,
When she was a Child, she cried fer CASTORIA,
When size Became Miss, she c!:ng 10 CASTORIA
When she had Ciildro". s,c "a 40 them CASTORI
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

. The pen is mighticr than the sword
in driving honest labor away from
its vicinity.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

The Turnverein ball, last Thursday night,
was in every way a success,
The county court has at last made arrange
ments for a rock pile BY the purchase of iour
lots from Mr.. Tilton Davis, under the hill.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

Messrs. Jerry c. Butler, Ethan Allen
and A. A. Lesueur have just been
granted a patent on a device which be-
lug attached to any corn planter Will
check the cor accurately. without
ropes, guys, chains, springs or cog
wheels. The machine is perfectly sim
pie; light; "a be very cheaply manu-
featured, and, we think, will revolu-
tionize the system of check-rowing in
corn planters.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

Col. Elijah Gates has been appoint
ed marshal of the western district of
Missouri. A good selection.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

R.. D. Lancaster has been appointed
surveyor of customs at st. Louis.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

The first elections in England have
gone against the Liberal party.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

There is no sort of question that the
route by Lexington is the best one for
the c., B. & @. railroad, and it will
take very little investigation to ascer-
tain the fact. All we ask is, that they
shall come and see.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28
STRAY NOTICE

TAKEN up by Henry Warder living N
L in lexington township, III LaiIy- IN
cite county, Missouri. on the 2iSt day NA-
ami y ID 1855, one stray Mare, Black,
10 years old, II hands high. brand,d with the
irtier ''k'' ON the left shoulder. hui Il shoe on
one hind foot. Apina sed rtTwenty five d ,ilnrs.
nOv2Si3s GRANVILLE CLAYTON,
Justice OF the Peace OF Lexington TOWNSHIP,
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

No individual has a valid claim upon
the old L., l.. s. q. road bed, to
the extent of fifteen cents; and the
people along the line in this county,
offer it to the c., B. s. q. u~nencumber-
ed. and free.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28
MeskIg gntelligenter.
OFFICIAL. COUNTY PAPER.

The Bulsarians are tanning the Ser
vians.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28
FOR RENT.
NATIVE LII

-Four elegant rooms In the flats on souti,w
corner OF Main and College streets Apply
novel RICHARD FIELD
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28
Keynote to Health.

Alfonso, king Of Spain, is dead,
The queen has been made regent.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

who are 80 pertinacious in endeavor-
ing to bring it here should succeed, and
then find that the institution will kill our
schools and mines, and become bloody
minded thereat, We pray them not to
shake their CORY locks at usl 1t will
only be a case in which our foresight
has proven equal to their hindslght.
The Holden Enterprise of this week
has all attack upon utilizing the old L.,
L.. & 6, road bed, that seems to be a
declaration of war against Lexington,
which only a few weeks ago extended
its friendly hand to Holden, and which
has never yet said or done a word
against its Interests. 1t is The people of
Lexington and Odessa who ask that
the OLD road bed shall be utilized; and
they have only considered it so far as
1t exten.ted two Or three miles south of
o ,es-a, leaving the company due north
OF Holden to make Its way to that place
over a favorable route, which does not
go near the obstruction spoken of at
Chapel Hill. The old road bed, in this
county, is just what we have said it is.
i, We know, because we have been over
it. Denouncing it IS bosh, folly, a
knavlsh or ignorant trick, is to f1y in
tine tace of the truth, and is a violation
OF Courtesy to a people who have been
all 49, sill friendly to Holden. The
- - I'D from LeXing on south to
ia ID 'vr suggested is the best
4 At; o1iAinable an, wbere acr1ss La
f,,etiJ county for a al road. We are
willing, for Il part. to let the location
OF the road hang upon that assertion,
the determination to he by competent
disiutcrestcd engineers. There is not
q bridge needed upon il; not a grade
over forty feet now; and need not be
ou- "ver 25. So far as the condition
Of 'hr road-bed is concerned there is
al cas-, soiu ion 10 that problem. II
needs very little work TO make it ready
for the ties; and IN order that there
may be no doubt about that the people
of Lexington are willing to pay fol
that work, and turn over to the c., B
& @. a newly graded road bed. The
Enterprise should modify its remarks
they are insulting to the people of Lex.
ington. Washington and a Bal
townships, who now have this matter
in hand. not individuals who want tc
make money out of the road bed, bu,
the people themselves, who have to pa,
for it, and who now want to get som,
benefit for their money.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28
NATIVE

The undersigned has male arrangement
supply iia 'est,ifnts oil Lexington a - vie nj
VIA native, hard and soft. lumber deliveret
such quantities as they may need, with PROV
ness and dispatch. Orders for iumb"r ma
left with Messrs. Nicholson a. Barteisy
Franklin avenue. or Capt. Wiley, on ferry bvi
with the assurance that they will he filled In
satisfactory manner and in the shortest pOssit
time j. W. MCMlCHAEL.
Hardin, Mo-, Nov. 20, 1855 noy2lil.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

Our contemporary, the Post, is to be
congratulated in that it seems, to its
own satisfaction, at least, t o have Sc
cured the location of the c., B. & @.
before the officers of hat company
have even looked at its proposed line.
We believe it introduced into this dis
cussion the word gall. 1t evidently
thinks there is nothing like it.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

Kansas City Times:-"The journal,
whose ideas of craftsmanship were set
forth in its advocacy OF Blaine II year
ago, takes the occasion of Mr.. Hem
bricks death to %depreciate the late vice.
presidents character and abilities. The
Journal thinks Hendricks was no a
great man There is some c. consolation
in that. He certainly was not a great
mai as measured by the journals mar
row-minded partisanship, which de.
mands that everything must be stamp
ed with republican bigotry to pass the
limit Of adverse criticism, no matter at
what time or on what OCCASION" That
is 80.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28
The editor of this paper is perfectly

willing to bear any reproach that at
taches to him for working in the inter-
est of the community in which he lives.
He has done so persistently, on all oc-
c~asions, for many years. But he has
been broad enough in his views to take
in the whole of Lafayette county, and
when the c. & A. was projected, wrote
columns, editorially, III its behalf, and
printed many more columns of what
was said for it at the meetings along the
line. MI. Tilton Davis has not been
our personal friend; indeed for a long
time we did not speak. For the reason
that it is thought that he is unpopular
with the people. because of his con-
nection with the old L., L. & G. road,
Il names are beng coupled together
in certain quarters, with intimations
that Mr. Davis is probably trying TO
make some money out of the road-bed.
The people of Lexington selected Mr..
Davis to represent them at Chicago.
He is responsible only to them for the
discharge of his duty. We do not
know whether he is our friend or
enemy, but in the interest of truth we
will say, that having accepted the trust
he discharged it faithfully and we'll.
The people of Lexington propose to
furnish the ~right-of-way through La
fayette county over the old road-be d,
free, to the c B. s. Q. if it will come
this way. 1t needs very little work to
put it in condition for the ties. If
necessary Lexington will do that work.
That will dispose of all questions as to
the condition Of the road bed. We see
lie reason why this railroad question
cannot be discussed decently, and with
out unjust imputations upon peoples
motives The people of Lexington,
Washington and Sni-a-Bar townships
have for some time desired to put by
cones behind them, and tt labor united
ly with their faces to the future and
not to the past. They have shown this
in nearly every one of their meetings
for a year Or more. If this is So, why
should persons who never struck a
blow for them in the day of their
troubles, obtrude themselves into their
affairs to tear open their old wounds?
Lexington comedies the right OF it's
neighbors to work, day and night if
they see tit, to secure the c., b. & Q.
railroad Lexington committee v
dreamed of intimaling that Messrs.
Potter and Law should not examine
the Higginsville route, but opened its
remarks to Mr.. Potter with the sSump-
ton that both lines would and should
be gone over. And Lexington is not
so fearful and uneasy as to its chances
as to be forced to say hard things of
any gentleman upon the Higginsville
committee, who is periodically doing
his best to secure the road for his town.
The c., B 40 people are quite apt
to be Impressed with this fact.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28
$500 REWARD.

WAvERLY, Mo, Nov IL, 1855.
I'VE above reward Will be paid Tor the arrest
L ana CONVICTION of The party or parties who
robbed the Middleton Bank at this place. on the
night OF November 10. 1856
n0vlitl JNO. E. CORDER, President.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

am closing out n large stock OF yellow {
touwood lumber very cheap II c"nsiets
FrnCing, al kinds # Framing, Boxing a
Shs-tiug. VIII deliver The same or sell NJ I
Mi J.. fur and one-halfmrl"s cast %: Lcxirg,o
near the rIv T.. Leave orders nj NV Ollie"
Lexington. n2!If DE \ HlCkLiS.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28

Bud Hackney, who was dangerously hurt,
last week, by falling upon a barbed wire
fence, in Clay township, it is now thought
will recover.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28
G.. G. LUDWIGS.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION

In Lafayette county, and guarantee my price
from 10 to % per cent lower. Call and you sha
be convinced. NiR22tl
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-26
The Senate and the PeOple,

Ihe United States Senate has given a
remarkable illustration of its lack of SYM
pathy with popular opinion, in the debate
which occurred over the result of the
Swain court martial. That verdict and
sentence have been received with surprise
and indignation throughout the country,
and they seem TO be regarded with like
feelings in the Senate; but the feeling
springs from very different cause. The
country is indignant that an officer who
has been convicted of dishonorable
conduct is sentenced to remain on the
pay roll Of the army during his life, with
out doing any dnty which appears to be
reward rather than a punishment. The
Senate is indignant because the president
disapproyed the first sentence of the court
OF years suspension from rank and pay.
The thought that Swain was abused by
the final verdict never occurred to anyone
until it was advanced in the Senate. The
senator's who took this view NAV
not be majority of the body
bat they did the talking for it
and so far as appears they represent its
sentiment. The senators who came to the
defense of the assailed executive had no
attack to make upon the court, whose yer-
dict is everywhere else considered to be
absurd and inconsistent in the highest de-
gree.
The senators who assailed the president
Tor disappearing the finding of the court
and sending it back for reconsideration
seem to have forgotten that this is not
only his right but his duty under the law.
They fell into the mistake of likening
a military court martial to trial by jury.
There is IN fact no similitude. The com
nander-in-chief of the army controls the
punishment OF his subordinates. He ap-
points the court that tries them and
executes its findings only when he approves
them. The citizen is entitled to be tried by |
a jury Of his peers, under the laws of the |
land; and no higher authority exists to
oyerrule their decision TO his detriment.
Senator ingalls, thought il was worthy of |
Ihe dark ages and of dark countries that a |
,ourt should be put under executive pres |
ure TO decree seyerer sentence than its |
Inst Judgment approved, which shows that |
cnator Ingalls, thinks that soldering is a |
rofession of the dark ages and of dark
and so perhaps it should be
nj viii be when the millennium comes.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-26
Che fanfastcr 1ntelli9enfer
LANCASTER, FEBRUARY 2s, 1855.
IaAkS Like n Job.

Several carloads of members of the legis-
lature were dead-headed down to Philadel-
phia the other day, escorted around the
various institutions there, lunched and
entertained, and as one of the results of
their visit it is reported from Harrisburg
that !" the bill authorizing the purchase of
the Philadelphia House of Refuge by the
state for the purpose of converting it into
an intermediate reformatory, is making
friends among the legal fraternity. In
about twelve counties outside of Philadel-
phia the judges and lawyers have indorsed
the project. The bill puts the purchase
price at s550 600. 1t is claimed that the
property is worth nearly sl,O00,000, and
that House of Refuge could be built in
the country for the difference between the
amount demanded and the amount the
property is alleged to be worth
1t looks very much as if this scheme was
job.
In the first place there is no occasion
whatever for the state to establish reform
atory in Philadelphia at this time. 1t has
undertaken on a very extensive scale, and
has not nearly finished the reformatory at
Huntingdon. That institution was originally
designed for penitentiary, but after its
protector had been elected TO Congress,
largely bg reason of his success in getting
the appropriation for it, it was found that
the state had no need of middle peniten-
tiary and it was concluded to turn it into a
reformatory school. The wisdom of this
measure and the efficiency of the new insti-
tuition have not yet been tested. 1t will
take at least half million dollars of addi-
tional expenditure before the state gets the
Huntington experiment started. Until
that is accomplished the state should spend
no more on reformatory enterprises.
Secondly, if the present location of the
House of Refuge is not a good one for its
purposes, 1t is not a fit one for like insti-
tuition under state Management. The fact
that the directors want to move it to the
country raises the question why the state
should not locate its institutions also in the
country, where sites can be had at one
tenth of the price and where penal institu-
tions are certainly much better placed than
in the densely packed cities.
Finally, if the House of Refuge property
is worth a million dollars, as pretended, we
do not believe its owners could
OF should sell it TO the state
for half that sum; and then go
begging TO the legislature every year for
an appropriation to help to run it,
Let them sell it, if they can, toprivate par
ties at a fair price and with the proceeds
build their new institution in better
place and when the time comes for the
state to build another reformatory, let the
location of it be selected with considera-
tion for economy and fitness, and not on
site abandoned for very similar purposes
after long experience.
That time, it is repeated, has not yet
come /; and will not arrive at least until
after the Huntingdon reformatory is com
pleted. The scheme to sell the House of
Refuge to the state looks like a job, smells
like job, and most likely is a job.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-26

whom Clinton mourned and Washington
pitied. Nandals have deiaced Tho monument
reared 10 him Ivy Cyrus w. Field at Tappan,
but rich marbles mark his tomb in West
minister Abbey.
From Reading Andre seems to have been
taken direct to Philadelphia At any rate he
was the artist of the gli;tering "MeschianEl,"
that splendid social pageant aud tourney
which was given during British occupancy
of the Quaker city hy the officers of Sir
William Howe's army to that officer ON his
quitting command to return to England.
Drawings Ivy Andre of the costumes worn on
that occasion arc still preserved, and the
scenery and other decorations were thCwurk
of his hand lie was the historian oi the
fctc, too, and calls il " the most splendid en-
tertainment ever given 10y an army to its
general To her latest day the queen nf
that brilliant festival declared that AudrC
was the charm of the company. His brother,
Lieut. Andre, then only II, was "A conspicu-
Gus social figure and gave the promise of
an accomplished gentleman"
SINDU\p
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-26

SOME people, and sentimental young ladies
in particular, are filled with horror at the
thought that they may be buried alive, and
they eagerly read all the narrowing literature
of the subject with the firm conviction that
they will some day wake up with six feet of
earth on them and vainly struggle for re-
lease from their collins. They seldom read
that these thrilling tales have no foundation.
Only the other day in West Virginia hor-
rible story Of young woman awakening in
her tomb turned out to be pure fiction. But
one hundred read the lie where one peruses
its retutatiOn. And so the belief grows. For
the sake of those who are timid in this regard
and VINO have not reached the progre ssive
state of cremation advocacy, we reproduce
the death-test discovered by a French physi-
clan which took the prze of 10000 francs
offered by the French academy for some GER
tain test of death. 1t is this : Hold the hand
of the supposed dead person to strong light;
ifliving scarlet tinge is seen where the
fingers touch, showing a continuous crcula-
ton of the blood no scarlet being seen if
dead.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-26
The King Holocaust.

The Philadelphia coroner jury that con-
sidered the King holocaust, came to the con-
clusion that nobody was TO blame for it.
The fire department was innocent though
il did not get to the fire FOR an hour;
although the first engine that came got
there in just eight minutes after it was no.
titled TO go. That fact of itself shows that
someone was TO blame. If the depart
ment did not have immediate notice of the
fire, the police force was derelict; If it did
have notice, it was derelict itself. The
developments of the inquest showed that
the loss of life was wholly unnecessary.
There was ready access TO the roof through
two openings and ladder to reach them
was conveniently placed. Mrs. King says
she called her husband attention to it, but
he did not act upon the suggestion. 1t is
passing strange that among five adult peo-
pie this means of escape should not have
been used. There was intimation that the
master of the house had gone home from
the Philadelphia club the evening before
intoxicated. But the gentleman who ac-
companied him to his home testified that
he not only was sober, but that he had not
drank any liquor for several weeks. This
being the fact we can only conclude that
the excitement of the occasion paralyzed
the faculties of the inmates of the house,
save the wife, who was the only one to ex-
hibit nerve and self-possession. 1t is a
very remarkable illustration indeed of the
power of a sudden terror to numb the
brain. The lesson is that everyone should
contemplate beforehand what his course
should be in every imaginable position of
peril, that he may be ready to resort to it
instinctiNelN.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-26


IN the United States district court at New
Haven on Wednesday three defaulters of the
Norwich bank pleaded guilty.Two were SEN
fenced to five years in the state prison, and
the other to four years at hard labor. Before
tho men were sentenced The district attorney
made the remarkable statement to the court
that not one national bank defaulter con-
victed during the last ten years, had served
out his sentence He asked that the prisoners
be made To serve their terms to the very
last day. The district attorney voices the
public sentiment when he protests against
the leniency extended to criminals of thi
kind. \ few days ago Philadelphia en-
bezzler was sentenced TO less than three
years imprisonment for stealing $1,000. If
the vindicatory part Of the law is intended as
Il terror to would-be offenders, il is respect
fully submitted that the sentences OF en-
bezzlers contain an infnitesimally small
portion of this element.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-26
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Nine Boys and Girls Injured.

wednesday afternoon sled on which We're
nine boys and girls dashed into passing
wagon at the foot of the hill near Williams.
bnrg, south Pittsburg, and all were more or
follows: Lizzie Meeker, aged 10 years, left leg
Fractured below the knee, and Injured inter.
hally; Sam Seitzinan, aged l3 years, left
shoulder dislocated and injured Internally;
Annie Gemmel, aged 10 years, ankle frac-
tnred ana two ribs broken; Fred Falloch,
nose broken and arm dislocated al elbow Joint,
Mamie Neubel, head badly confused and
LEFT wrist sprained
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-26
No More such Spurs.

A kentuckian one day mounted his good
mare Pidge and threw across his saddle a bag
with two turtles in each end. Being a hu.
name man, he made hole near each of the
turtles To give them air. This did very well
until the ill-natured turtles worked their
heads out Of the holes and nabbed poor Pidge
simultaneously on her hanks. She made
spring that threw her rider, and away she
went, as If the devil We're prodding her. The
turtles held.their grip, and Pidge ran till she
iell exhausted. Since then no Kentuca ian,
SO far as heard from, has ever used turtles
for spurs.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-26
rerished In the snow.

ON Sunday evening last Michael Fablin
and Joseph Logan, miners, left Eckley to go
to Highland Luzerne county. Snow was fall
ing at the time and the wind blew at a terrific
rate. When about half the journey had been
completed, and while they were passing
through dense wood, Fablin's hat blew OFT,
andhe started in pursuit oft. Logan journeyed
on and reached Highland, but his companion
Jailed to appear. A searching party Started
our btlt had failed to find any trace ofhim up
10 Wednesday afternoon. 1t is thought he per
lshed III the woods and that the body is COW
cred with snow, which is two feet deep in that
locality.