Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-29
UUNCORDIA.

Mrs. Henry w. Meyer living three
miles south of town, died in a cramp
Oh Wednesday.
Sickness is quite prevalent i'll this
community.
The conference held by the Evan
gelical congregation closed OH Monday
last. The attendance was good, and
as O whole, the conference was very ia
teresting throughout. The new church
which is capable of seating five hum
dred persons, was often found to be
too small to hold all present.
The Co%ncordians, ten in number,
who visited at the Lake creek camp
meeting, returned yesterday. Rev. j.
Demand and family came home to-day.
time.
from this place, attended the reunion
at Higginsville Oh the 25th. On en-
tering the city we were struck to see
how much pains the people of Higgins
vile had AIKEN in decorating their city,
and we SOC discovered that Il great
many people would be present, and
that the decoration would not be in
vain. We do no doubt that the num-
Der of people present far out-numbered
the expectations OF the most enthusiasts
tic citizen. But to the reunion! Our
post was represented by twelve ON
rades, and had the morning been clear
this number would have been doubled.
Some felt a little timid, perhaps, in
being present, but had such taken into
consideration the character of the men
who were instrumental in getting up
the reunion, they certainly could nave
found no room for suspicion of even
being sighted, not to speak OF insult.
Our boys, of whom Dicto was one,
enjoyed ourselves beyond our expecta-
tons when going to the re- union. We
spent the day in the very midst OF
those with whom we had often met 81
years ago under very different sur
rOdndings. The hearts that we carried
in our bOsoms at that time have been
changed from that of brave soldiers,
OIL either side, ready at any moment to
strike dead u foe, to that of friendly
and loving citizens who are glad to
shake hands and exclaim in one COM
mon voice, "We are all American citi-
zens." Let the past be the past and
let the present be the present. AS stated
above We spent the day in the midst OF
the Shelby brigade and the ex-confed-
crates, and we must confess that their
number were lot few, but during this
Time we heard not one insulting word
toward those who fought on the con-
quering side. We had moi seen a con-
federate flag since 1865; still it looked
familiar when Maj. Hickman unfurIed
it to the breeze; aid while first looking
at the stars and stripes and then at this
one, thoughts of scenes that took place
before we had reached our goth year
came back, for we had often seen that
flag before, and then we thought of the
change, and it did us good, and we
think it did all old soldiers good to
meet thus, and shake hands and talk OF
old times. Ii there was any thing that
we could find fault with it was the
way that we were treated at dinner
time. In the first place we were in
vited to eat at the table which was
groaning under its load of the best the
country affords, and on our way
thither we met that prince of good
fellows, PhareZ Hammond, and &C
copied all invitation to dine with his
pleasant family. After doing ample
justice TO a splendid repast, we were
solicited six different times by Shelby's
brigade and by x-confederates to
take some dinner, and here is where
our objections come in. If we had &C
copied all these kind invitations to eat
there would have been a funeral sure.
But enough of this. Didn't Capt.
Jake Conner look like a military man
though? And did you notice how he
would almost raise out of his saddle
when the ladies waived their handker-
chiefs at him? DICTO.