Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-01-09
gatalligenter.
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
SHORTS.

The days are perceptib'y longer.
Stylish millinery at Mrs. Arnold's. Main
street. octl0tf
Sell your old iron at JoIdan's Foundry and
Machine Shops. m6tf
The thermometer was 14degrees below zero
Yesterday morning.
Mr.. I'D. Shewalter had his right ear frozen
Yesterday morning.
Millinery, notions aid hair goods at cash
prices, can be seen at Mrs. Arnold's. o1otf
The best -four in the market is the Excel
sior brand. Ask vour grocers for it. n15tf
DIR, A~lexander's thermometer marked 145
degrees below zero vest rday morning.
Lexington has secured the fridge across
the river: look out for corn and wood from
Ray COUNTY! -.
The roads throughout the county are said
to be rougher than they have been at any
time for five years.
The end of Mr.. Jno. c. FalPs nose was
touched bv Jack Frost yesterday morning ana
aliule of the pealing taken OH.
A sndlord of the Commercial Hotel, Mr.
Lewis Neale is q great success. His house Is
always full, and everybody is we'll tt
The city collector took in about $1,000 In
taxes during December, a much Larger
amount than usual for that month.
The weather made an effort at showing
last Monday, which lasted nearly twentY-tour
hours, and turned out to be a failure.
Higgin sville Positive have received a
copy of the Intelligencer's carriers address.
Neatly printed and grimlv humorous"
Mr.. Cheatham is liking UP the old Mchin-
-.o-a.tr xybi,h u-oS SPnrehpd hy the
late fire. aud it will be in batter Tx than it
was before.
Saunders & Son, photographers, are turn
ing out some very fine work indeed. They
fnake a speciality of photos Of children
which are very fine. no'2ir
TIL contract for rebuilding the fourth
bridge east of Dover has been let to Clayton
Bros, who will go right to work and get II
up as quickly as possible.
The Post, thi. week, has nothing to say on
the railroad question in criticism Of Lexing-
toms efforts, which is quite as well since
eyery time it has opened its mouth upon it,
1t has put its foot In it.
.Higginsville is organizing a hook ard lad
der company. 1t could not do a wiser thing
We hope they will get it up in good shape. as
itta the very best protection against fire thai
can be obtained for the money.
II we could have ten inches of snow To
protect the wheat, and about n month of cold
weather, to make Ice and help the coal trade
everybody would be better satisfied.
The Lexington Coal Company has bought
the Withers farm below the city, at some
thing like $50 per acre for the coal land upor
IT. We understand negotiations are on foo'
for several other pieces. As the gamblers
say. money talks.
Friends and fellow citizens, ladies and gen
tlemen, we want and must have some casl
for spring purchases, therefore we offer yo'
very-yes, very low prices on our stock o
dry goods and notions. Call and get bar
gains. Henry Wilker. jan2t3
Among the proceedings of the Kansas Cit,
court Of appeals, Wednesday were the fol
owing:-"Nolan.a dmr. and Int, etc.. resp.
vs.. Deutsch. app; Lafayette county, continu
ed on stipulation. Robinson, resp, VS.. Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway Company, app; La
fayette county; same entry"
1 Capt. Jos. Il. Turner has our thanks for
copy of q series of letters written by hir
from New England last autumn. They ar
we'll WIltI6u III III ChoS tathilloi q gu
full of interest. We wish the captain and hi
good lady. whom we number among our yer
good friends, a happy and Il prosperous Ne1
Year.
Pleasant Hill Dispatch 1.-THE Lexingto
1as.sa,s~noor, a-usuai, favOrs us wist, i" cop
of its very neatly printed and exceller
Christmas Address. No neater specimen {
the printers skill and taste graces our tab
on these holiday occasions than the INTEL
sencer. We have deposited it with sever
of its predecessors
Higginsville Post:-''Our esteemed frler
of the Intelligeucer makes such IA pother an
gets so excited every time the Post says an!
. thing about the c. B. & Q. road, that we ha'
almost concluded. out of compassion, to ST
no more. 1t looks too much like wantt
cruelty" The ''gall" in the above Is giga
tic. 1t Is no cruelty to US for the Post
utter erroneous and nonsensictl stuff. T
Posts cruelty Is to the Post. Come again, v
like 1t.
Higginsyille Post:-s.The man McCartt
who was arrested here some time ago for +
sisting arrest and selling goods witho
license has been discharged from cuStOt
having worked out his fine of 525 and cos
he was the most unrulv and i~ntractal
prisoner our city officers ever had to d
with, and was suriv, ugly and rebellio
while In Jail. He swore he would not wnr
would starve first. But the LeXingt
officials soon brought him to his senses.
IL a bad man." That |, Just what was thoug
of him here.
The Small Boy-We have written a
printed columns after columns, about I
school girls, and about railroads, and abe
nearly everything el>e, but the small boy b
been almost overlooked. except when so
nisce of mischief brought hun into proI
nenee. We are the friend of the little ra>c
and hope to pick up some of his sayings. W
and otherwise. for the benefit OF our reade
One little fellow has been taught to
HsCieyeiand is president: Hendricks is vi
president, and Carlyle is speaker of
house." Not long ago his mother wanl
him to show off before company, and ash
him who Was president. He showed off
saying: MIR. Rinehart is president; H.
bricks is vice-president, and my ma Is spe
or of the house," He was right on the
clause. Another little fellow heard some
III 0uh iiih III" SSN 49,
drop" on another with q pistol. Shoi
after he was at 4 neigtbor's, and wss tell
the story, aud wound up by saying: 81
man ever draws a pistol on me, I'll Jerk
my pistol, point it at him. and tell him
my name Is George -, and for
TO drop bis pants.n One OF the Young La
present remarked: We'll, George, I hops
Conscience you'll never have occasion to Il
a pistol on a man when I'm around"
There was a stabbing afrray at Higg
Vile last Saturday, the particulars of VIII
so far as we could learn, were about Us
lows: Joseph Koehnsberger, some time
employed Ernest Kieeschulte to do ,.
work for him. In making some chan
Kleeschulte charged about 80 tor extra "
which Koehnaberger refused to
Kleeschulte then made a whisky bill
koehnaberger's saloon, of about $40, w
he refused TO pay. Matters stood thus
some time. each having hard feelings TOW
the other. Saturday. Koehnaherger
heard to say that he intended TO whip so
body, and not long sfterward. as h!eesch
was passing by the saloon. KoehDabe
stepped out of his door, grabbed him by
collar and struck him two or three til
KIeeschulte had a broken strap-hinge 10
hand, and he struck koehnaberger Il h
blow with the sharp and jagged end OF
hinge. A severe wound was made, a.
end of the hinge struck the neck, laying
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