Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-13
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Per6onallCleS'
Mrs. TOZer Is home again.
Mr.. Wood Young is in town.
Miss Lucy Mckinley is much better.
Isaac Neale, Esq, was in own Tuesday.
Mr. willie WEIGH is visiting relatives ut
Chapel Hill.
Miss Meta Price has returned home from
Higginsville.
Mr.. r, T. Greer went to Kansas City Tues
day morning..
MIR. John E. Burden was in Kansas City
Saturday last,
Mr.. John W. Keithly returned from Bates
City Wednesday.
Mr.. Benz. Simmons has been quite i'll for
some two weeks.
Alexander NJ. Creel, ESQ.,, was in the city
on business last Tuesday.
Miss Katie Wilrnott spent last Saturday
and Sunday in Kansas City.
MIR. r. II. Benton of Clay township, has
been quite sick with pneumonia.
Richie. son of Mr.. Thos. G. Young, has
been i'll with pneumonia, but is better.
/ james Gordon Bennett has bought in Paris,
two pictures of Millet for III 900 francs.
Mai. B. j. Newsom, formerly of this city,
| died at Springfield, No., last Thursday.
Mr.. Ike Gratz left, last week, for Nash
Vile, Tenn, where he will in the future re-
side.
MIR. James McRoreY, express agent at Sc
dalIa, has been visiting his relatives, the Meet
family.
United States Minister Cox has obtained a
furlough on account of poor health and has
gone to Egypt.
Willie, son of Mr.. Frank Nicholson, had a
severe attack of Group, last Wednesday. He
is much better.
Miss Annie Wilmott left, last Saturday, for
Liberty, where she will remain a month
visiting relatives.
Miss Myrtle Russell is visiting Mrs. Con-
way Holmes, of Kansas City, Mrs. Holmes
was Miss Maud Gregory.
Mrs. Hunter Barley returned home last
Sunday, after spending a few days in this
city with relatives and friends.
Mrs. Watts, of Fayette, came here Sunday
night to see her daughter, Miss Katie Watts,
a, c. F. C. She left Wednesday.
j. West Goodwin, of the Sedalia Bazoo,
was in the city, Thursday, attending the
meeting OF the railroad commissioners.
MIR, c., E. Ballard was, by a jury, before
the probate Judge, last Thursday. adjudged to
be of unsound mind, and Mr.. Robt. Taylor
was appointed guardian Of his person and
property.
Colonel f. C. Kemble, for many years rep
resentative of the California press association
IN New York city died, Wednesday,. BE had
charge of the first printing office in Cali
fornia in 1876.
Mr.. Charley Barley, formerly of this city
but now OF Delphi, Iud., has been visiting
friends and relatives in this city for the past
ten days. He will spend 3 few days with tn
E family of Mr.. Richard Barley. of Dover
= township, before returning home.
Hon. Jno. G. Thompson, of OHIO, for man.
. wears chairman of the democratic state cen
trail committee. and afterward sergeant-at
arms of the house of representatives, died q
A Seattle, w. T., last Wednesday. He was, 6
t the time of his death, U. s. land claim agen
Of Washington Territory.
1t Mr.. Michael Gavin, an old Lexington boz
le who has been away for nearly two years, re
ID turned home, last Monday, from Butte City
4. Montana. His mother, who has never cease
lie to think of HIM, as mothers mostly do unde
It such circumstances is said to have dance
l. some kind of an "auld country" jig upo
W seeing him.
Il Elder Robt. E. Swartz has received a ca
lie from the Woman's Foreign Missionary 81
ciety, to go to Jamaica, and has accepted Il
n, call. He will resign his pastoral care OF Il
III church in this city to take effect about ii
e. middle of March. The many friends OF Ed
1t, Swartz and family will be sorry to hear til
lS they will so soon leave US.
II. Some one tells us that our Jake was ru
lg ming around sort O. loose in Kansas City, Ii
lie Saturday. He had heard that old things we
ut made rs good as new up there. and thong
l. he would experiment with q suit Of cloth
We which he toted along in a valise. We ha
to still TO learn whether or not the removal
he renovated to his satisfaction.
- r.. j.. Armstrong, of Eldorado Sprini
called upon us this week and reports Il
y, prospects are favorable for Il big boom at I
Springs in the coming season. MIR. A. a
~ informs us that EldoradO will have n Uni
" Teachers Institute in order to afford prof
30 BILE recre alton for the teachers of the SOU
80 west. who wish thus to spend their vacaii
NJ Judge VIM. r. Wood. of this city, wa.
,os contemporary and friend of Hons. David
md Atchison aud Amos. Rees, and has a gr
many pleasant "reminiscences to relate
ba them. In response to the Intelligence
Tho questions Judge Wood, a day or two sin
,o, said:-"About the Goth of January past,
IN, death of Gen. David R. Atchison was
nh nounced, and on the Doth of the same MOI
"a the death of Amos Rees was announced,
old was 10 the past summer noticed in the pap
,oir as IA fact. regarded as remarkable, that of
a.. LAWYERS, Amos Rees. d. L., Atchison, A.
=. !, DJniphan, 2. II. Burnett and myself, C.
shutting the bar resident at Liberty, n
a., souri,, more than fifty years ago, all were
living. But three of the five of US sull lins
and soon we must follow those who l.
gone before. Mr.. Rees for some years
;. sided and practiced law in Lexington,
from Lexington in 1880 removed to Libe
-. About The same time Gen. Atchison arri
in Liberty: L was there in that place. ha,
made my location there in July 1929. G
Donirhan and Gov. Burnett located Il
about the same time in 1888. Rees, whel
non Lexington, was the only praclicing law
49, west of Boonville and Fayette; 1 was
ord. ~ '' ~ '0 p
,;.a flee but was for years circuit attorney,
.a was faithful and efficient. He was a
ia lawyer and an earnest and able spea
'.aa Atchison, Doniphan and Burnett, all pOs=
49, ed talents of a high order. 1t will suffic
and soy -
than twelve years in the United States sen
,n,h where such men were then as Clay, Web
.h.If Calhoun, Benton, Davis, Douglas and ott
limo and Was by his colleagues deemed the
Nod man for president of the senate, a positio
!, ~. held for six or eight years, and until OF
= own suggestion Bright, of Indiana. was e
q nc ed to that position. Doniphan was di
Win guished in both the civil and military ser
bsrs of the country land was possessed of pOwe
oratOry unequaled in the state out Of
. Louis. Burnett achieved in California
aran highest distinction the state could co nfer
,ina in Missouri occupied, with credit. high
,h.,r tiOns of trust and honor. l speak of
ann. gentlemen while yet living, because
no1 haye retired from public life and no 10
Z, i. desire or would accept public favOrs
noun early professional life our libraries were
-. :, limited, aud we had to content ourselves
H., some of the elementary books and q
nm, stray books of reports. Yet with this 4
..ao vantage | think | may venture the asseI
.,.. that the law was AS well administers
!, rno now when books everywhere abound.
- members of the Liberty bar fifty years
rance :" ~ ~ ~
,ano. profession, were jealous of its honor, ST