Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-01-31
Personalities.

Personalities.
Miss Mamie Hubbell Is wishing at Mr..
Moun'joy's.
Ms. Laura Young. of this .ity, is very Ill
with bronchitis.
Representative John II. Reagan, Of Texas,
Is n uative of Tennessee.
MIR. W. D.. Butner. of Concordia, was In
town on business yesterday.
Prot. W. F. Kerdolff went down to Saline
county on business yesterday.
Miss Ssllie Goodwin, of Marshall, is visit
ing the family OF B. R. Ireland, Esq.
Mrs. H. q. Woestemeyer, of Napoleon,
who has been very i'll, Is cOnvalescent.
Prof Il. Demands little girl, an only chld,
Is very low, at their home in Napoleon.
Mr.. T. NJ. Ewing asks rs to change his
address from Nspa City, Cal, to Las Vegas,
N. NJ.
Mrs. Charles A. Morrison has been dan
gsrously LII recently at her homo In Kansas
City.
MIR. b. Wilson Winsor, Of HiGginsvnle,
spent from Sunday to Tuesday with friends
here.
Miss Bodie Mountjoy who has been visiting
friends in Kansas City, returned home Thurs
day night.
with her husbands old enemy, Rheumatism,
for the past two weeks.
Messrs. James Broughton, 1. n. Wheeler
and Jacob Mcintyre, of Odessa, were in town
on business, last Wednesday.
Christopher Ehlers, of Jefferson county.
died q couple of weeks ago aged 1o2 years.
he was = soldier under Napoleon.
Emerson's head was smaller than tho min
imum which Schopenhauer has laid down for
philosophers. and like Shelley. he wore . very
small hat.
Higginsvflle Post--"B. Wilkerson, cashier
of the American Bank, is confined to his bed
with catarrhal fever. DR.. Fulkerson Is At
tending him."
Prof. c. F. Storsndt, after an absence of
over seven years, has been In the city this
week greeting his many friends. His resi-
dence is Marshall, Mo.
Mr.. j. W. Branch called Oh the Intslligen-
Ger yesterday, and actually got away alive.
We hope this astounding fact will not throw
anyone into conniption fits.
Mr.. Will Green, who has been here at his
fathers quite sick for some three weeks, is
convalescent, and will return to his business
ut Kansas City in a few days.
Mr.. Charley w. Buckles left this week for
Healsburg, CAL, where he will in the future
reside. He takes with him the good wishes
of a host of friends who desire for him many
years of happiness.
Campanini. who has settled down In Italy
has q class In a Sunday school, and Is raising
children and cattle. When he was In this
country he used to take too much tea and to
raise h-ail Columbia. That's what made
him quit the stage.
Miss Fannie Allen left for Houston, Texas,
last Thursday morning via. of Kansas City.
She will remain here with her sister, Mrs.
Geo. B. Dealey, for about six weeks, and
then she will visit Galveston and the New
Orleans exposition.
Mrs. Temple, of Higginsville, was struck
with paralysis of the tongue and right side,
on last Monday. She is still very low, and
her sons Herman and Ernest, of MAYHEM,
and her daughter, Mrs. Mark, Of Indepen.
ence were called to her bedside.
A dispatch from New Haven, Conn.,, says:
Mrs. General Tom Thumb, who 10 at pres.
emit playing at a museum in this city. is to be
married in about three months. The name
Ut the prospective bridegroom Is not known
to q certainty but IL thought to be Count
Rosebud, a gentleman Of exceedingly dimin-
utlys stature" 9
Higginsvills Post: -"Mordecai Gladish,
ESQ.,, who has been connected with the
Grange Store, this city, for several years,
has resigned his position there aud moved
back to his farm, west of Aullville. Mr.. G.
was one Of our best citizens, and We are
sorry to have him leave US, but hope he will
prosper in his new vocation
Spooner, the newly elected senator from
Wisconsin, is described by u Washington
gentleman who knows him as q man Of
about medium size, with . slight figure,
plain, unprepossessing face and the manner
of q provincial who has not seen much Of
life. He was the attorney Of the West Wis
consin railroad up to q short time before hi
election. He has been identified with thu
corporation interests of Wisconsin for years
and WAS backed by those interests In hi
struggle for the senstorship. His home Is In
the small town Of Hudson, Wisconsin. Hi
principal business headquarters, however
have been in st. Paul. He has q good Wal
record and is said to have fair business abili.
tv. Yet he has don nothing to deserve hi
high promotion. He Is only another added
to the rank and file Of the corporation sena.
tors. He is in the neighborhood of fifty years
Of age.
We mentioned, last week, that Mr.. Franz
A. Schmidt was here visiting his mother,
Mrs. Charlotte Reubel. Mr.. Schmidt since
he left here nearly six years ago has cir
cumnavigated the globe. In 1879, as q boy
he went to st. Louis where he enlisted fol
the navy. He was sent thence to New Yorl
where he was assigned to the receiving shiI
Vermont. From the Vermont he was draft.
ed to the training ship Constitution. Upor
this ship he remained a year learning seaman
ship. We may say here. parenthetically, tina
the United States has for some years maintain,
ed q training school from which to draw re.
crults for the navy, and that 1t has resulted
In q great improvement In the morale Of tn,
service. From the Constitution Mr.. Schmid
went to the U. 8. war steamer Tennessee
commanded by Capt. David Harmony, whicl
was the flag ship Of the home squadron an,
carried Rear Admiral R. 81. Wyman. III
Tennessee is q wooden, ship-rigged vessel o
5000 tons measurement, carrying q crew o
$40 men and "a guns. Thu Tennessee cruise,
on the home station and In the West Indie
for about q year. when Mr. Schmidt, at Phil
adelphia, re-enli>ted and was sent to duty OF
the U. 8. war steamer Essex, a wooden
bsrk-rigged corvette of 600 tons, 6 guns AN
1s5 men. The Essex left Norfolk Jauuar,
IL, 1882 for Madeira thence went to the Caps
De Verde Islands; thence to the west coas
OF Africa, dropping anchor at Monrovia ane
other Liberlan ports to settle up some dis
t%urbances there thence to Cape Palmas ther
over to Montevideo in Uruguay; from there
through the Straits of Magellan, to the Pa
cl6c and up TO Valparaiso, In steaming ur
the west coast Of south America the Esse,
broke her shaft and had to put in at Callao
Being unable to procure a new shaft Their,
one had to be sent out from home, and thu
Essex lay die ut Callao for seven months
During that time yellow fever prevailed snt
II was mt the most mfortah Ia tartb ,u,ar;,