Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-22

All the colored gamblers who were arrest

All the colored gamblers who were arrest
ed last Monday, for playing scraps on Sun
day, are in the calaboose except Bell and
Renick, who paid their fines.
Mr.. Henry Uphaus' hired man in Freedom
township saw some one stealing corn out OF
the crib, last Saturday. He procured a shot
gun and fired at the thief, seriously wounding
q negro man.
Charles Thomas, colored, who was the
principal witness in the negro gambling
cases, disappeared Thursday afternoon. he
sent word to City Attorney atcklin that he
was hiding in the willows. and was afraid to
come in and testify. He said he had told the
truth, and would do so again If caught, but
he had been threatened with death by inter-
ested parties, some of whom have not vet
been arrested, and he thought it best to skip
out. Mr.. Hicklin was thus forced to dismiss
the case against Matt Walker.
A man signing himself C. c. Moore, drew
q check payable to Samuel Smith, at Hunts
vile, on the Commercial Bank Of this city,
for se5, on August 16. The check was for
wsrded for collection by j. M. Hammett d
Co., and was protested for the simple reason
that the drawee had never been . pavee into
this bank. The same individual. on the next
DAY, signed the name S. c.. Mack to . check
upon the same institution, at Salisbury. pay
able to Jno. W. Smith, for $50. This check
was sent for collection by the Bank of Sails
bury, and was returned.
The following cases were disposed OF in the
circuit court since our last issue. Groves VS..
Hit, tried before the court and continued for
argument at next term. Bogie vs. Geo. N.
Nolan, appeal granted to supreme court.
Samuel 8. Shsw vs.. Charles S. Shaw, judg-
meut $4,000. special judgment property at
tached. Owens vs.. the X. c. st. 10. 4 G. B.
r. R., appeal granted to supreme court.
| State ut the relation of J. s. Blackwell to the
use of Geo. Chsmblin, vs.. j. W. Branch,
| new trial filed.
The Dacotah will leave st. Louis for st.
Joseph to-day. She will be here Tuesday
evening or Wednesday morning. Several
ladies and gentlemen from here will take the
trip to St. Joseph and return, which will be
delightful, as the weather is now cool and
pleasant, especially the nights. There will
be . large party on the Dacotah Of the incest
people of Boonvllle, in charge of Mr.. Speed
Stephens. 1t is a good opportunity for ladies
to take q pleasant. safe and inexpensive trip,
in the care of the gallant and polite Capt
Keith.
Holden Enterprise :-ssProf. Sanford Sell
lers, principal of Wentworth Male Academy
at Lexington, Mo-, was in town last Friday
and secured as pupils Of his school for nexl
session the sons of Messrs. D. Gollsdsy. c,
C. Tevis, I. Nichols, j. G.. Cope and Capt. 1
Starkey. Others have the question Of send
ing under favorable consideration. Thii
school is making q good reputation through
out the state and is rapidly growing in pa
tronage. Any one pstronizing the schoo
may feel sure that their son is receiving sound
instruction and at the Same time is being pro
tected from the temptations to which boyi
are greatly exposed when sent to schools
where there Is no supervision over the pupils
outside of the classroom. This academy Ii
under military discipline and the pupils ant
teachers all board together"
The Holden Enterprise ssys:-"The Lex
ington papers are making a kick over tn
fact that the colleges in that city almostc com
pletSly ikuOTo tuc uOme pTesSs LUG press u
mightier than the college why submit to sucl
Injustice: The institutions are unworthy o
Z recognition and should be made to feel tn
power Of an outraged press. The Lexington
papers can kill those institutions, and If the
are 30 small as to patronize no home institu
ton, their death would be = good thing 70
Lexington" 1t is only fair to state ths
whatever structures are deserved in this di
rection cannot apply to Central Female Col
Y lege or the Wentworth Male Academy, bot
t of which institutions have their work don
, at home. The Enterprise is right in its con
9 clusion that these Institutions could easily b
q killed by the home press. So far tue news
papers here have been more than willing eve
. anxious, to print all they could get hold Of i
t the way of news, and to write and publis
long notices of entertainments, &C., fire.
h gratis for nothing, only to be repaid frol
= some quarters by the advertisement SCI
a broadcast over the land that for printing 1t
= still necessary to send to Kansas City.
does seem to be q rather one-sided sort {
business, especially as nothing would
easier to demonstrate than that the printiu
facilities of Lexington are quite abreast wit
il not in advance of its educational fscili
, ties.