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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
Our Baby.

What is most like her, our baby sweet?
Straye. from the skies on yester-even,
SO newly come that her dimpled feet
Still are missed in the gate of heaven,
Where the angels kissed them and bade them
go.
What is most like her? Don't YOU know?
The bud of a rose, of mOsS-ro fair
Flushed and dainty; folded flower,
The blossom wOmiG is fain to wear
Over the heart. May sun and shower
Brim her cup 10 the overflow
With dcwy perfumes, If this be so.
d.; call her rather Il nesting dove,
That tluttered down through the moonlight
amber,
To be brooded under the wings of love,
Here in hushed and happy chamber,
Nav never 4 stain of earth below
Dim her plumage, if this be 50!
Or else deem her spellbOund lutte
Unconscious yet of her Songful mission
The silver melodies sealed and mute
Waiting the breath of the sweet musician
Even of Life. May grief aud woe
Melt in her music. if this be so!
l liken her unto pearl-a pearl
From seas of trouble. But whist. nv num.
bers!
What strains are these for our babv-girI
shut like star in a mist of slumbers:
| They yeX her dreams with their tupeless
flow;
She heard the angels night ago.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
Fly and Bug Remedy.

EDITOR INTELLIGENCER:-As l receive
valuable hints from your reports ofthe Horti-
cultural Society and wish to reciprocate, will
you kindly hand this remedy to member or
publish, as you deem best, and oblige.
s. F. GEORGE.
To protect cabbage plants from the flv
sprinkle lightly, but freely, with fresh wood
ashes when the seed is sown and as it is coming
up, as that is the critical time, and as often as
washed off by rain or dew. Trest melons,
cucumbers and other plants same way, and
then if you fail, call and we will supply all
reasonable demands. Ashes are an ''institu-
ton" with us and will aid in saving our
fruits also. hoed my raddishes but they are
not at all good this year.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.

FURNISHED weekly to the Intellige ncer by
Captain j. D. Conner, recorder of deeds of
Lafayette county, Mol
Abstract of the deeds filed in the Office of
Recorder of Deeds from Saturday, June 49,
to Saturday, June 26, A. D., 1856. Only such
as contain covenants of warranty contained
n list.
Nj. L. Green to Packard & Hen
derson, $50 acres; Sc, Is; also Sc ne
and NV sw Sc sw IS, 4S, % .-... $40, 900 90
A. K. Leard and wife to John c.
Young interest in lots IA and IL,
blk A, LIST add to Lexington; also
interest in part lots IL and II, blk A. 1000 90
+. j. Harness to Ellen McDermott,
lot 5, McDaniePs add to Higginsville. $50 90
A. w. Willis TO Mary N. Hacklay,
10 acres, NV ne ne, IL, 81, %. ..... 80 90
t. HallerOn to Catharine Ready,
lot s, blk Buckingham's add to Lex
Chas. o. Grimes to j. &. McGrew,
part NV, "a, 81, q 1........ 500 90
Herman Krause to b. F. Simmons,
lot 7, blk 5. Buckingham's add to
Lexington -. % 90
David H. Owen to Elizbeth II.
Blanton. lots 7 and s, blk %, Shelby
Il Co.'s add to Waverly -. Is 90
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
AN HONEST CONGRESSMAN.

Mr.. Wallace, the new Louisiana con-
gresham, has stirred the wrath of some
OF his colleagues by calling for quo
rum when an attempt was made to pass
pension bills with less than one-tiflh of
the members present. This, of course,
defeated the game. On previous oc-
caslon private pension bills had been
passed when only one tenth of the rep
resentatives were present. The new
Louisiana congressman is making a
very good start and can afford to put
up with the wrath and disgust of his
associates.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
THE COST OF PENSIONS.

Congress the other day restored to
9O-year-old woman, the widow of
revolutionary soldier, whom she mar
ried in 1915, the pension she had lost
by being dropped from the pension
rolls when her state, Georgia, seeded,
twenty five years ago. This shows
how the pensions of soldiers widows
may run for / hundred years after the
war on account of which such pensions
are granted We have paid $500 ,OOO,-
900 on account of pensions already,
and the calculation that our existing
pension laws provide for an expendi-
ture of $500, ,000,0 900 more is probably
under rather than over the mark.
Persistent efforts to greatly enlarge the
list of pensioners must be met and
stopped somewhere, or the pension
paving capacity of our government will
soon be pre-empted and mortgage
ed for several generations to come,
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
Learning to Whistle.
BY MRS. CLARA DOTY BATES.


From Our Little Ones.l
Our boy is learning to whistle;
It's aiwavs something new;
He begins first thing in the morning,
And he stops last thing at bedtime,
And he keeps il up at intervals.
The day through.
And pray who is his teacher?
We haSen't decided quite
w neither 1t Is the thrushes,
The bObOlnks in the meadow,
Or the swallows round the barn caves
Or Bob White.
What is the tune he likes best?
Well. 'tis between u call
And the shrek Of the wind in the chimney,
Or a gale in the tops of :he pine-trees
For, in fact (dOn't telD it Is no
Tune at all!
Go ask his little playmates
And .sk the housemaid, too,
II they like that SORT of music,
They'll sigh: "Oh, dear" Good gracious /!
Now ask me if | like it
G,.s 1 ln
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
Under the Snow.
BY IVY ENGLISH.

June, with Its roses, went long ago;
Tonight the earih's lying deep under the
snow.
Hopes richest treasures, like roses of yore,
Are scattered and vanished, to come ever
more.
The breath of thy blossoms, o, love haunted
days.
The Oit-sighing zephyrs, thy birds tender
lays.
Thy far-away skyland>, so blue and 40 fair,
The mists of thy mornings, rOse-tinted ant
rare.
One voice made thy music, its silence in pain
Oneface made thy beauty, twill come ne'el
again.
While chill winds are blowing | weep in my
woe
Ger the love that lies buried deep under the
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
GOOD ADVICE
From the Atlanta Constitution.

IFrOm the Atlanta OnstitutiOn.
AT this season of the year citizens
everywhere should be compelled to
keep their premises clean. They should
be advised by their health authorities
to make free use of lime and copperas
a hot spell following our heavy rains
will produce great deal of sickness,
and we can not afford to neglect such
simple preventive measures as are with.
in our reach.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03

A pickerel was caught in a cornfield
in the Rock River, ILL.,, bottoms while
engaged in husking corn. The water
of the river has covered the bottoms
eight months, and much of last years
corn remains ungathered in the fields.
The fish swim into the fields and nib
BILE the grains OF corn out of the husks.
This is fish story.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03

A bill has been passed by the house
repeating all laws providing for the
pre-emption of the public lands, laws
alloa y ing entries for timber culture and
laws authorizing the sale of desert
land. During the debate upon the bill,
Mr.. Payson, of Illinois, stated that 80
per cent. of the entries under these
laws were fraudulent. The bill was
passed by a vote of 1873 yeas to 40
nays.
A Washington paper thus speaks of
the prospects for the speedy payment
of claims under the French spoliation
bill:-"At best it is not likely that any
claim will be paid within two years,
while in the majority of cases three or
more years will elapse before money
can besobtained by the claimants. The
formalities consist of the trial of each
in the court of claims, the transmission
to congress of the decision of the court
upon the law and the facts, and there
after each case will be exposed to the
tender mercies and caprices of con-
gressional committees and to the in
Vulnerable delays incident to leglsla.
! ton"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
EVERYTHING.

"What have you got?" queried young
Sinks OF the waiter in state street
restaurant.
"Everything," was the prompt reply.
"Well, I'll take little" and Jinks
looked up expecting to enjoy the dis
cOmtiture of the waiter.
cone plate of hash. sung out that
tunctionary.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03

Clinton Democrat :-"Judge E. ALI
son has an imported 2-year-old jersey
heiier that has never had calf, about
which he became uneasy Oh account of
the enormous size of the udder. He
measured it, and to his surprise found
it was 5lt inches round. His milk
maid then MIXED her and Obtained d 81
gallons of milk at one milking The
Judge says she is worth ST. 900.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03

Joplin Herald:-"Yesterday strange
freak of nature occurred in the north
west part of the city. A mare gave
birth to twins, one a mule and the
other horse. The former is a male
and the latter female. The owner
says the mule is a horse and the horse
is mare''
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
DR.. QUARLES' PROMOTION
From the Boonville Adverti-er.I

:.
Rev. DR.. j. a. Quarles has resigned
the presidency of Elizabeth AulI Semi
nary and accepted the protessorship OF
moral philosophy in Washington and
Lee University. We regret very much
to lose DIR. Quarles from this state,
where he has labored so long and zeal
ously and has such large number OF
Devoted friends.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03

we're:
Whitsett, of Johnson.
Steele, of Lafayette.
O'Rear, of Saline.
Conner, of Pettis.
The committee was called to order
by the chairman, Mr.. Whitsett, Of John
son.
Mr.. Steele moved that the committee
order primary election to be held
throughout the district July II. The
motion was put and lost.
AYES Steele.
NOes-Conner, O'Rear and Whitsett
A motion was made by Mr.. Whitsett
that the committee call convention
for August II. This motion was also
lost.
Mr. Steele then moved that cOnven-
ton be called for July 19. The mo-
ton was put and carried.
1t was next moved by Mr.. Steele that
Higglnsville be named as the place the
convention should be held. This mo-
ton was lost. The vote was as follows
Ayes-Steele and O'Rear.
NOes-COnner and Whitsett.
Mr.. Conner moved that the conven
ton be held at Sedalia, which motion
was also lost.
Ayes--COnner and Whitsett.
Noes-Steele and O'Rear.
Mr.. O'Rear then moved that Browns.
vile be named as the place for holding
the convention. This motion was pul
and carried
Mr.. Rear offered the following
resolution which was adopted:
Resolved, That democratic conven
ton be, and is hereby called to con-
vene at Sweet Springs on the 10th da,
of July, 1886, at 2 O'Clock p m., tor the
purpose of nominating candidate tol
the office of judge of the criminal court
for the sixth judicial circuit and John.
son county, state of Missouri, the basi;
of representation being one delegate
for each three hundred voters or frac
ton of one hundred and fifty votes cas-
in each county at the last general elec-
ton for the democratic nominee fo
president OF the United States.
On motion the committee adjourned
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
A Feline Bee Line.
[FrOD Puck,

From Puck.I
In the spring feline's fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of love,
And he hies him to his Nancy-to his furry
turtle dove.
Mounted high upon the fence. he poureth
forth his sweet bravura;
And by way of recOmpense, he hopes from
dOwny rug to lure a
Certain giddy Maltese fairy, on her neck q
ribbon blue,
Who. though somewhat proud and airy, to
her Tom ''was Ieal and true"
So he earOlled forth his carOl-pOrtamento,
rest and all
Till a stranger took barrel-took barrel
from the wall
Drew bead on Mister Feline Caterwaul-
And the feline made bee line-pass the but
ter, ma: that's all.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03

1t has been estimated that cocoa is
used by 10000, 900 of the human race,
betel nut by 1OO,OOO,OO0, chicory by
5O,OOO,OOO, coffee by 1OO,OOO.OOO; 3OO,-
100000 eat or smoke hasheesh, 4OO,-
100000 use opium, 500, ,OOO, 900 use tea,
and all the known people of the earth
are addicted to the use of tobacco.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
MORE POWER TO Your ELBOW
From the Washington Post.

W HsHTI1gtUH TUSt.1
Slap it to the bogus pension bills, Mr..
President Every broadside of vetoes
makes friendly echo from the sea to
the lakes and back again, More power
| to your elbow!
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03

James w. H. Howard, colored, of
Harrisburg, Pa, author of a novel en-
titled "Bond and Free" and late editor
of the Harrisburg State Journal, re-
publican, stated, recently, that the
better class of colored republicans of
that city would hereafter vote the dem
ocratic ticket, if it had good men on it.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
Chicago & Alton r. r.

Trans marked .'will not stop.
Trains marked will stop signal.
Local freIghts run daily except sunday Other
trains daily.
We keep tull line of through tick. is to all
principal points IN the United States and Can :
ada AT lowest rates. Also through checks.
r. T. PRICE. Agent, at HigginsvIlle.
A JOHNSON, Agent at Odessa.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
~ q. CHANDLER,

sna s.Ser courts
sprs,a psas asi T. adjoining counties; Being thor or
nshy with the SSaIse Gi Washnson,
,ore Tue vii Give speciai attention. to all ma,ters
eioro he ratent office. Gener. Lana 9Mie 1iiiee
war. InIeri ,r, and other depar MENUS NOV
., var Grimes Il Venable'S. -
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
aeNnY C. WALLACE. "A. n eoAA
WALLACE g. CHILES,

a TToRNEYs AND CO,INsELLORs AT
a Law, Lexington, Mo. once iion. !, o,nos,ts s0uW
n a conrt house. viii practic. in the courts OF OF
stayette and surrounding Souatiss amn aiSa and
re suprem, court OF the state oi cnnrts for the
te U. s. ircuit and Dlstfist cour'0 i'i 'Ne
Soatarn ID strict Of Missouri.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
Mo. p. r. R. Time Table.
Passenger. Freight

Local ireights do not carry passengers west OF
L, xingtOn.
Excursion tickets Sundays t6 Kansas City and
Sedaia. and intermediate points. Tourist
tickets to summer and winter resorts, in season
Tickets to all important cities throughout the
United States and Canada. Close connection at
junction and terminal points oyer the Old
Reliable.
OSCAR STEERS, Agent, Lexington.
NJ. +. REINHARD, Agent, Higginsville
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
AM THREE-FOURrHS ACRES
nE VERY RICH LAND

About 100 best apple trees, 200 of them hearing
large quantity oil otner fruits. oil ali kinds,
anu Of tne best quality. One acre IN Turner
aud Gu hirrt 'spberries. One-iOurth OF an
acre in The best v,riety of Strawberries 4 fine
vein oI Coal unde' lies the whole place, AMI is
easily reached. .SIl sell the place Tor less than
tile cost OF House and Barn. Located one MI q
from the cOurthOse, the best road IN the
unity, ami commands very line view Ol the
h.y feh2lti JOHN Il Gi!FATHAM
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
CoraIlne.

Coral1ne.
She has dainty, shelllike ear.
NV COraline;
Small, delicateIy-veined and fine,
Soft, loving locks around it twine;
I'm sure in all the world its peer
Never was seen.
And then rosebud of mouth
Has COraline;
White little teeth and pOuting lips.
A tingle to my tinger-tips
She sends. this beauty of the south,
My fond hearts queen.
But this, alas 1 must confess
OF Coraline;
All that she hears with shell-like ear
With rosebud lips she tells, | fear,
And so I've got i'm many mess
Quite unforeseen!
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
SUBUR BAN RESIDENCE FOR
SALE.

r OFFER for sac, at bargain. my 80,
twO-siory Brick Residence, contain f4f.3
Ing Rooms. Kitchen and Cellar. III
good large New Barn. RugSy-hou5e -2.sA
plenty OF stock ater. There also all ntce. I.
slry outbuilIing5. Good well aad Euw-shed. d.
I'll made of the best pine lumber
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03

A Massachusetts, family has such a
love for mural decorations that it dis
plays on the walls of its sitting-room
the legend, elaborately wrought in
worsted, "Gone, But Not Forgotten, %
with spaces for the reception of photo
graphs, AS no members of the family
are yet dead the spaces remain blank.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
ATTOR IN EYS.
JOuG 8 BLA A.KwxL. ALBERT H. sTROTHER.
BLACK WELL s. STROTHER,

4 rTORNaYS AT LAW. Wiit practice in all
~ tile courts Of the state. Prompt attention
wen t. al business entrusted TO their care
I flee In Nj SONIC building over rrigs " Shields
tore janl0yl
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03

The Keytsville Democrat says that
a new,. simple and reliable remedy fol-
snake bite is coal oil. Battle the bitten
portion of the flesh with it and it is
said to destroy all pain and poison.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03

A TrORNEY AT LAW, Will practice in all
~ the courts Of the Sixth Judicial Circuit
1ne supreme Court of Mo-, and the Federal
ourts' Urlce on second foOr in the Winsor
Iosnrsnce Ruil,iinr. sep20ly
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03

Judge Mott of the Albany, N Y,
county court, says he has been offered
$50 by the states prison contractors
tor all the long term prisoners he will
send up.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
Weeklg gatelli9enfer.
Wabash Railroad Time Table

Wabash Railroad Time Table.
Omnibus VIII leave the hotels in this
city for X. Il l.. Junction, making
connection with trains gong east,
west and north, at t................. 100 q. m.
Returning, will arrive at............ 900 u. IN
Omnibus will leave for K. & :. juno
ton, making connection with trains
going east and west, and north as
lar as Richmond, at 300 p. IN
Returning, will arrive at ............ 5:3O p. o.
JOHN q. YOUNG, Superintendent.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
xENOPiIspN RYLAND.
RICHARD FIELD.

TTORNEY- -Ar-i.AW. Will give prompt at
N tentlOn to all business entrusted to his care.
VIM practice in all the courts, except tue Pro-
a re CIurt Of Lafaye,te county. dec2yl
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
Special Notice.

The farmers of Missouri, who would make
their business success, are called upon to
resort tO;every possible expedient to utilize
the means at their command by which they
may be able to produce the largest crops at
the least possible..cost To do this, they call
to their aid the experience of their fellow
farmers In all parts of the state and great
west, as it Is presented in our best agricul-
| tural papers. Their own individual exper-
| ience is valuable, but to that they may add
| the experience of hundreds of thousands OF
| others, like situated and differently situated.
by which to judge Of the correctness of their
| own practice. When the Rural World
reaches everylhome in the state. who can con-
template the changes that will be made by
improved methods, and the success that will
attend their general adoption. We question
if any one thing would add so many millions
to the farm commerce of the west as would
the universal reading of this paper. In order
to afford every one an opportunity of seeing
it and of approaching its value, it will be sent
for the remainder oi this year for fifty cents
Now, friends, urge your neighbors to sub
scribe. Address Coleman's Rural World,
| 10o Olive street, st. Louis, Mo.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-10-19

The Union should howl and cons
denim the Dora Wiley opera company and
Sharp Silvis and his friends, because in
the performance of the opera La Mas
cote" at Harper's theatre last evening,
the great curiosity, Par5on Morgan. was
made the subject of stage joke A pro-
duction was spoken of as "a treatise on the
Aascotte by A. f. Morgon." 1t was
asked who Morgan was, and the reply
was that If was q candidate for sheriff
but would never get there. The repub-
lean organs all of which will swear to
lie if one will start it, have
not gotten through yelping yet for
an injury(?) done Morgan by Luke
SchOolCraft at the MINISTRIES a week
ago, aud all of the friends of the demos
cratic candidate are charged as having
lnstigated the joke. BY the time few
more trnupes come to Rock Island and
make the parson the subject of their wit
and sarcasm, the republican sheets will
make up their minds that the republican
shrieYalty nominee is something of a
curiosity, and that a stranger is not in
the city very long without hearing of
him.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-10-19
BRIEFLETS.

Oysters and celery, at F. G. Younys
Machine needles and oil at Taylors.
Nice apples By the barrel at Lamps
Cape Cod cranberries at F. G. Young's.
A new line of flannel shirts in light
colors, corded and plated, at Libermans.
The finest cabbage seen in the city this
year at Truesdale & O'Connor's.
Mr.. E. D Sweeney returned this morn
ing from visit to his son in Nebraska.
Oysters by the can or dish, at Krell &
Maths.
Col. J. W. Judy of Toulon, Ill, was in
the city last evening
Squire W. R. Carey, of Carbon Cliff,
was in the city last evening.
L. L. Mum. a commercial tourist of
Freeport, was in the city today.
Railroad caps and badges Of all kinds
at Lloyd & Stewards.
Oysters served in all styles. at Krell &
Maths oyster parlor.
The latest things in hats and caps at
Lloyd & Stewards.
Miss Zeis has Just received a new line
of fall millinery goods.
The very latest styles in millinery
goods at Miss Zeis'
Underwear in great variety at Li5er-
mans.
Nice ounces and sweet apples at
Truesdale & O'Connor's.
The latest thing out IN hats and gen.
tlemen's furnishing goods at Lloyd g.
Stewards.
Miss Mary Liberman of Lincoln, Neb,
arrived in the city on a visit to Simon
Berkson and family.
The Central shoe store has an immense
line of seasonable boots, shoes and Slip
pers. Call and examine.
If you like oysters, drop in and try
dish of the best New York counts kept
in the city, at kreIl & Maths.
Rev. r, G, Pearce and family left for
their new home at Normal this morn
ing
J. E. Eddy and W j. Kerr went up
to Green river yesterday and caught
thirty-five pounds of bass.
Chas. Wulff, the gunsmith, left for
Minneapolis on business trip last even
ing.
Miss Lizzie Kemble. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. s. S. Kemble, has returned
from her trip to Chicago and the north.
Johu O. Freed, the shoemaker, has re.
moved to his old location or Eighteenth
street under the Rock Island National
Bank
The Rock Island Social Quadrille club
will have a grand opening ut Turner hall
tomorrow night. aud continue every
Wednesday evening thereafter. Else
where will be found complete particu-
ars.