Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-05-08
PROGRAMME:
Welcome Address,
By the. Noble Grand.
Horticultural society meeting to day.

HORTICULTURAL society meet1ng Today.
The Old Mems Club will meet at the res
idence of Mr.. H. j. Higgins on Saturday,
May %.
Mr.. Jacob Fegert is to- day announced as
| candidate for city assessor.
Read the Ahrens Bazaar ad. 1t is a daisy
Look carefully at its figures.
The Turnvereln will give grand picnic on
the 9Th of July, the 4th coming on Sunday.
Mrs. Jennie Stewart has new fence which
greatly improves the appearance of her resi-
dence.
The Missouri Pacific railroad company has
sgnitied to the city its acceptance of the right
| Of-way ordinance, with slight and unimpor-
tant amendment.
Mr.. Daniel Sherman brought us, yesterday,
| two sprouts of corn, about inches high, both
growing from one grain of corn. He thought
it very unusual thing. We do not know.
Willie, aged about IA years, son of Robert
Beall, of Clay township, while getti ng over
fence, last Tuesday, broke one of the stakes,
thereby causing heavy rider to fall upon his
| lett shoulder. A fractured collar bone was
the result.
Messrs. VIM. H. Ewing & Co. have dissolv-
ed their old partnership, Mr.. Al Leard with
drawing from the firm. which will hereafter
be known as Jno. C. Young & Co. The firm
is reliable one in all its dealings. and we
wish for 1t continuance of its past pros.
perity.
No secret society should combine under the
shadow of its guarded door for a political
purpose. That is wrong and un- n-American.
Secret societies are all right in their places,
but that is not one of their legitimate objects.
A man may belong to secret society and be
a good citizen, but he cannot be good citi-
| zen if he sanctions such an act.
The following fishing parties have been at
| McMillan's lake during the past few days.
None of them had much luck except s.fsher-
man's sluck":-U)Jos.E Edelen, j esseC Crensbaw.
Lee Mitchell, Geo. Venable, Will Smith. (2)
| James c. McGrew, r. F. WaddelI. C. Ben
Russell, Ed. Hill. t3) Dave Smith, Percy Sill.
yer, James Robinson, John Robinson. Albert
Taubman, Ben Hamlet. az Mann Chinn,
VIM }. Morrison, VIM. Trigg,W. F. Kerdolff
| Dr.. Thomas Sawyer, N. c. Ewing, Young
| Ewing. (5) Ethan Allen, Jr., John Wimott
Dave Heathman, Frank Taubman.
The county judges and party of other
gentlemen visited the courthouse tower, the
| other day, to see how well Mr.. Kaufman had
placed the clock. They were all surprised to
see the amount of work that had been done.
its substantial character, and the quantity of
machinery that there is. Mr.. kaufman has
done first class job. The clock is one of
the very best in the world, surpassed by none
as 10 hneness OF Workmanship, and durabill-
ty Of its parts. The bell alone weighs 500
pounds; its fixtures 400 more. The hammer
| will be made to strike it much harder in a
few days, so that the sound produced will be
louder The clock will in day ar two be abb
| solutely correct, after which it NAV be relied
| on to the second.
A colored boy, about one year old, wss
lett by his mother, Maria Lawson, yesterday
morning. IN care of two other colored bows.
aged and years, respectively, his BROTH
ers, while she went to do days washing at
DIR. Owens, who lives in the neighborhood,
After about an hours absence the mother
was alarmed at an unusal commotion which
she observed at her home, and hastily run
ming ,thither, found her child dying, She
quickly raised an alarm, the neighbors came
| tlocklng in. DR.. Temple was hastily summon
ed. and everything possible done to relieve
the little sufferer, but IN vain. The little
boys. upon being questioned, both agreed
that the baby had been hit upon the head
with rock, but each claimed that # was
done by the other; one of the boys also stat.
ing that the other had pushed a stick down
the baby's throat. But a critical examina.
ton, made by DIR. Temple, of the head of the
child and also of the throat, both inwar1iv
and outwardly, failed to show any bruise
Or other cause which would produce sucb a
result. As the child was playful and appar.
emily healthy but an hour before, the cause
of his death still remains u mystery.