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Handsome Increase in BUSINESS.

Without exception the fifteen roads centering
here show more less of an increase in traffic in
the week ending July IL. as compared with that
of the preceding week, and prospects are for
further improvement the coming weeks for some
time to come The train records show that last
week there was total of Is, 465 cars received
and forwarded at this point, of which number
Il 053 were loaded cars against total of l6. 179
cars handled at Indianapolis IN the week ending
July 10, of which number II, COG were loaded
cars and against total of 49, 400 in the cores
ponding week 1885, of which number I3. 585 were
loaded cars. From the above statement it will
be seen that last week 2,047 more loaded cars
were handled at this point than in the week end
ing July 10. and 468 more loaded cars than in
the corresponding week, 1885, 1t is noticeable
that the gain of last week was made entirely in
the last two three days of the week.
The increase east-bound is not as
marked to the seaboard as to the
lake ports. The shipments to Toledo and San
dusky are quite heavy. and increasing daily,
and are largely made up OF new wheat 1t will
be noticed that with east and west lines there is
quite large movement of empties. West
bound traffic is still lighter than sixty days ago,
but is heavier than usual in midsummer.
Freight men look for heavy west bound bust
ness to set in next month. North and south
roads are doing grandly-never better at this
season of the year Moving the new wheat
crop, carrying south provisions and ice, and
bringing north the Southern products, is load
ing the cars quite equally, and rates are well
held.
Local BUSINESS is excellent the abundance Of
produce Of all kinds moving actively At the
city freight depots platform men are making ex
ira time, and great activity is noticeable in the
movement of local switching trains over the
Union tracks Below is given the number of
cars received and forwarded at this point in the
week ending July IL, as compared with the
movement of the corresponding week in 1885:
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AGENTS FOR THE JOURNAL.
In THE CRY.

GEws STAND AT UNION DEPOT.
DESIS0N HOUSE.
BATES HOUSE.
GRAND HOTEL.
OCCIDENTAL HOTEL.
ENGLISH HOTEL
BRUNSWICK HOTEL.
SHERMAN HOUSE.
SPENCER House.
MRS. HUFFMAN's NEWS STAND, 80 Massachusetts,
avenue.
r. B. JERUSALEM, II Massachusetts avenue.
n v. ATKINS 81 Massachusetts, avenue.
ANDY SHARP, IL Massachusetts, avenue.
Cox IL BROTHER 262 West Washington street.
JAMES CHAMBERS 152 East Washington street.
ID. Il. HALL 3 III East Washington street.
SAGE 81 Co., % North Illinois street
SCoTT'S DRUG STORE, Virginia avenue.
CAPTAIN MILLER s NEWS STAND w. Washington st.
DRUG STORE, southeast corner First and Illinois
ScHULMEyER's DRUG s TORE northeast corner Fifth
and Tennessee streets
PETER RICHTER. corner Lafayette railroad and In
diana avenue
HADLEy's DRUG STORE 317 Indiana avenue.
DIR. JOBS DRUG STORE, All Indiana avenue.
lAMBERT's DRUG STORE northeast corner Blake
and Michigan streets.
TIMBERLAKE's DRUG STORE, northwest corner
Seventh and College avenue.
DAILY ONLY.
A. b. YoHN, IL North Meridian street
SUNDAYS ONLY.
DRUG STORE northwest corner North and Illinois SITS.
Drug STORE, No. 1854 Blake street
DRUG STORE, southwest corner Seventh and Illinois
streets.
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4 Locomotive to Run Seventy-Eight Miles


A Locomotive to Run Seventy Eight Miles
an Hour.
The day is very recent when the talk of a loco
motive making mile minute was received
with due amount of doubt. being almost uni
versally disbelieyed. To-day, however, sixty
miles an hour is not The limit and the locomo
tive-builders now essay to increase the speed
from ten to fifteen miles above that figure. The
latest novelty in this line is locomotive de-
signed by NJ. Estrada, graduate of L'Ecole Pol
ytechniques which is to be experimental with on
the southern lines of France. NJ Estrade, con-
vinced of the value of large wheels has fitted
his engine, tender aud coaches with wheels eight
and quarter feet in diameter The engine is of
the outside cylinder tyne, with slide-valve on top
Of the cylinder, and all the gearing carried out
side. The following table of dimensions will be
read with interest:
Total length, feet ............ SO
Width between longitudnals, feet. ..--.
Diameter of wheels feet. ..-...-----. GA
Distance between axles. rear to middle, feet. Chg
Distance between axles middle to leading, feet S3a
diameter, inches. -----.-..--... 1Sl9
Cylinders ( stroke, inches. Observation-Disclosures 27l2
from axis to axis feet. Gig
Crate surface. square feet. .--.......... 24a
Heating surface square feet ,4OS
Capacity of boiler cubic feet -.---.<..-..-.. LA
Weight of engine, empty, tons. ..--..-.... 80
Weight of engine, loaded, tons --..--.... AZ
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RoANN--S. IL. Baker.
ROBINSON. Ill.-Charles A. CRUDE.
R0CHESTEE-L T.. Hannels
RocKPoRT-Wessler & Graham.
k0cKvILLE-L. N. Bates.
RosEDALE--W Butcher
ROssvTLLE-M. Kusher
RUssIAvILLE-Slyte s. Nicholson.
RUsHvILLE-H. G.. Hilligoss.
RUSHSYLvANIA. O.-S. A. Taylor.
SALEM. A. Kemp.
SCoTT LAND, I'LL. a. Greenwald.
SELENA--J. Il. Simmons.
SEYMOUR-Plaster & Son.
SHARPsvILLE-Haynes Grishaw s. Shook.
DISQUALIFICATION EIm0re.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES & Powell.
SHELDON, Hilbert Brady.
SHERIDAN-W. e. Clements.
SILVER LAKE-W. Y. Long
SOUTH BEND. B. Madison.
SoUTHPoRT-H A. McAlpin.
SoUTHPoRT-Sunday-G George w. Christian.
SOUTH WHTTLEY-Goheen & Co.
SPENCER. F. Lawson & Co.
SPIeELAND--O. H. Nixon.
STAUNToN-A Webster.
STILEsvILLE-J. Gentry.
ST. JOSEPH. Iu.-G. N. Wininger.
ST.. LOUIS Mo.-John Overton, Union Depot
ST. PAUL-Thomas Eek, sr.
SULLIvAN--Eddie Weir.
SUMMITvILLE-E. p. Searle.
SwTTZ CfTY-W. M. Martin.
TAYLoRsvILLE-Tillman Fulp.
TERRE HAUTR-G W. Fapis
THoRNToWN-C. +. Utter.
TIPT0N-H. Mehlig.
TROY O.-Eugene G. Thomas.
UNION CITY-Swain & Brit.
URBANA. HIN. e. Watson.
NEEDERSBURG-John Hurt
VERMILLroN, HID. M. Mason.
VINCENNES-Tom Robertson.
WABASH-W. X Thurston.
WABAsH-Sunday-F Frank Rigler.
WALDRoN-Chapman & LaFmore.
WARREN T. M. Huff.
WARSAw-L. 9. Boydston.
WAsHINGToN--Horrall & Bro.
WATERLoo-A. L. Geaugue.
WAvELAND-H. A. Pratt.
WAYEETowN--.I. q. Heath.
WESTFIELD-J w Davis.
WEsTFIELD-Sunday-Ja Williams.
WESTFIELD, INV. A. Snyder.
WEST LEBANoN--Jas kimbalL
WEST NEwToN-Moses Allen.
WHITELAND-Smock Il Combs.
WHITELOCK-J. Horned
ENTHUSIASTICALLY. s. Crawford.
WINCHEsTER-Ira Trip.
WoRTHINGPoN-W. b. Squire.
XENIA, Ind--R. Powell.
YoRKToWN-W. A. Goings.
ZIONSyILLE-B. f. Clark.
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proving To Be Another Elephant.

The Mexican Central as did the Toledo Gin
cinnati & st. Louis road, is proving to be an
elephant on the hands of Boston capitalists
The Boston Herald says: Earnings have not
equaled expectations, and expenses have ex-
ceeded them. The prospects of the road were
Landed too high when the company was placing
its loans. The road was in some respects hur-
riedly built, and the cost of maintenance has
been large, and, on account of the climate. must
continue 50 In the matter of tie renewals: fuel
has been heavy charge: the main line has been
loaded with lot of branch line bonds, issued on
mileage separated from the main line and uu-
profitable. although the Tampico division is now
said to be earning operating expenses by aid of
the wagon train. Another burden came in the
excessive cost of the southern division of the
road through poor local management and super
vision by telescope, and supervision from Boston
was little else than telescope. Business, more
over has not developed as rapidly as had been
hoped. and Mexican advices say not as rapidly
Is it might had the management been wide
awake and enterprising. There has been grow
ing discomfort with the local management in Mex
leo and with the chief executive officer and some
of it has been found in the directory. Director
Paine has stepped aside, and report says Di-
rector Cheney as we'll, although i'll health is as
signed for the latter's withdrawal. And there is
dissatisfaction in the directory outside of these
members.
The Dry Goods Men Stirring Up Rate Matters.
Mention was made few mornings ago that
the dry goods merchants of New York and Bos
ton were perfecting organization for the pur-
pose Of demanding just classification of low
priced cotton goods by the railroad lines to the
West. o movement necessitated by the neglect
which this matter has hitherto received from the
railroad companies. The Boston Advertiser saws.
"In 1883 attention drawn to the respective
classification of domestic dry goods and groceries.
whereby rate of 70 cents per hundred pounds
was charged upon tina former. while the rate for
the same amount of coffee or sugar was only 80
ceats. The dry goods merchants then urged
that It cost no more to haul carload of cotton
fabrics from New York TO Chicago than it did
Carload Of coffee: that dry goods were cleaner
more easily handled. and less liable to damage
than sugar or coffee; and. finally that the profit
on Domestic cotton fabrics was notably smaller
than on almost any other class Of merchandise,
and afforded no excuse for subiecting it To twice
rs heavy n charge as that borne by other
branches Of business
In spite OF these convincing arguments the
unjust rates were continued. and although the
Nav York Railroad COMMISSIONERS decided that
the discrimination was indefensible. aud recon
mended change, the railways refused TO com
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Loaded Emp. Loaded Emp.

,a aSsf l.. | Ja aSsi Is.
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Big Four Earnings.

The earnings of the c., T., ST. L. 6 C. still |
show up favorably. Treasurer Osborns report |
for the second week in July shows an increase |
of Sc, 2807o Below is given the earnings for |
the first half of July
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This locomotive Is expected to make an aver
age speed of from seventy-two to seventy-eight
miles per hour. The coaches are peculiar in
that they are carried inside iron-girders. while
the wheels run under the center Of the longitude
nal seats. Two axes, sixteen feet apart sup
port through elliptic springs mounted upon the
oil boxes, these longitudinal Orders, which have
ends curving toward the ground. Each girder
carries three other elliptic springs from which
is suspended, by means of iron rods, the lower
frame on which the body of the car is supported.
The coach is separated into two stories the low
er of which is made in three pendent sections,
with doors, which may be used as baggage
rooms etc. Above is single compartment with
central passage way, reached by stairways at
each end of the coach, and communicating with
the other portions of the train by hinged plat
forms. The result of the trial of this new loco
motive will be watched with great interest.
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BELT ROAD TRAFFIC.

BELT TRAFFIC.
There were transferred over the Belt road last
week 8, Ill cars against S,965 in the correspond
ing week, 1885: increase this year. LAG. Belt road
engines last week handled 819 carloads of live
stock, against l, ISL carloads the corresponding
week 1885
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-22
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

COUNCIL CHAMBER, May II, 1856.
Council met pursuant to adjourn
ment, His Honor, W. b. Hamlet, in
the chair. Present all the councilmen
except Mr.. WinsOr, who was sick and
excused.
Moved that the register be instruct
ed to have published the mayors proc
lamatiOn and notice of the general city
election to be held on Tuesday, June /,
1886, and that a copy of the same be
printed on hand bills aud posted. up in
the city, thereby giving legal notice of
said election. Carried.
Mr.. Russell moved that the ordinance
committee be instructed TO employ, if
need be, assistant legal advice to assist
the city attorney and said committee IN
preparing an ordinance to make all as.
%sesslnents by the city assessor legal not
to exceed $40, Carried.
Mr.. Russell moved that the finance
committee be instructed to settle with
city officers on annual settlement.
Carried.
An ordinance to amend an ordinance
entitled an "%ordinance to grant certain
rights-ot-way and privileges to the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway Co.." passed its
first, second and third reading and be-
came Il law.
Mr.. Williams moved that Mrs. Mary
Mulhearn's tax on lot 6, block =, Wad-
delPs addition to the city of Lexington,
for the year 1885 be abated. Carried.
MIR. Homer moved that the commit
tee on streets and alleys be granted fur
Their time to report. Granted.
Moved to adjourn. until regular meet
ing in June, 1886. Carried.
Council adjourned.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-22
A GARD FROM ]. B. SANTMEYER.

HIGGINsvILLE, Mo-, May II, 1886.
To the democratic UOters Of Lafayette
county:
1t will be impossible tor me to make
u nva of the entire county. NV
home affairs will occupy the most of
my time during the month of MAY, and
L will have to commence my work as
deputy assessor on the first day of June.
| would like to see and talk with you
all before the primary election, but
this is rendered impossible by the fore
going facts, and l think it is hardly
necessary. 1t is a fact well known 10
the most of you, and | repeat it here
for the benefit of those who are not
thus informed, that | have acted in the
capacity OF deputy assessor for a period
of seven years, which service, l think,
thoroughly qualities me for the duties
of the office to which | aspire-assess-
or. The assessors Office is a very re-
spOnsible II it requires great care and
pa%ins-taking to prevent mistakes, az
Il mistake of a single letter in the de-
scription of a tract of land would cause
vast trouble and annoyance, to say
nothing of expense, to the wner Nv
work as deputy assessor is Oh record
and open to the inspection of every
taxpayer in the county. | point TO if.
If you elect me [ shall use the same care
and diligence in the work in the future
that have in the past. and | will do as
much of the work myself as is possible
for one man to do. | am very respect
fully yours, j. B. SANTMYER.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-22
Ir1TEILIGE NCER. MAY %, 1886

The Count de Waddcll, accent on the dell,
and DR.. Meng, not Ming. went over TO Hell
singers lake, chaperOned by Mr.. J. p. Steele,
last Tuesday evening. They didn't get into a
w~eavIng-no a fishing way. until Wednes-
day morning, when the way they snaked in
the crappie and 'pierch' was a caution to all
small fry. They caught about 400 in I few
hours, and quit from very exhaustion of the
deltOid muscles. The count is always gener-
Gus to a degree, and when he saw his piscator-
ial friend, the writer, passing by sans fish he
called him in and forthwith strung a string.
They were beauties; and duly sailed, mealed
and fried, they made a man imagine he saw
a cork a bobbing, and heard somebo dy yell
ing, "Play HIM, Billy; play him" oh, those
halcyon days with line and rod, when the
Count and the writer have lured the wary
bass from his retreat, and the timid crappie
to his doom. Who wouldn't be a fisherman!
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-22
. LETTER FROM AN OLD FRIEND.

ARKANSAS CITY, KAN, May IL, 1851.
EDITOR MISUNDERSTANDING
that a few notes from this town would
possibly interest a few of the readers or
your paper, | now propose to redeem
nv promise made to you and many OF
nv friends in Lafayette county thai
would give my views, or rather my
opinion OF Kansas, and especially OF
Arkansas City. Kansas is the most
beautiful prairie country eyer beheld;
much prettier than good. The towns
generally, seem to be in advance OF the
country contiguous to them. This
town is booming and, in my Judgment
the boom is substantial and reai.
We have a population OF fully four
thousand five hundred and the busiest
community l ever saw, more than nine
hundred children enrolled of school age,
two very large public school buildings
and the third one in course OF construc-
ton unlimited water power, ineXhausti-
BILE supply of the finest quality OF build
ing stone, excellent water, good rail-.
road facilities, A. Z. 81 S. +. railroad
with large depot on the east side OF
town, St. Louis s. San Francisco, with
depot on the west side OF town, a
mile or more between them, and very
flattering prospect for other railroads.
1t seems to me, from the amount OF
building going OH here and in prospect,
that stone masons and carpenters will
find employment here all the time at
good wages. .
l could not have been convinced of
the fact that the contrast between this
town, Arkansas City, in southern KAN
sas, and those good, old fogy towns in
Missouri was half so great as l find it to
be, and to the skeptics among you l
will say, come and see for yourselves,
and to those who have capital 1 am sure
that a judicious investment here will
yield a profit of from fifty to two hum
bred per cent. in from six months to
two years. We have representatives
from every state and almost every ter
ritory, white, black and red, but few
of the German and fewer colored. For
the present, goodbye. l may write
again. ED. r. BARNETT.
Dc.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-22
NIB. s. p. BASOOM'S REPLY TO MR.
BURTON.
ODESSA, Mo-, Nav 1886.

ODESSA, Mo-, May 19,1SS6.
EDITOR lNTELLIGENCER:-l notice
in your last weeks issue a card, over
the signature of +. S. Burton, accusing
me of not being a democrat.
In reply l will say to MIR. Burton,
who, for some reason not defined, has
thought proper, though for several
years a citizen of Howard county, to
thrust himself into the canvass of
Lafayette county to determine an issue
that is of purely local interest-that he
can neither harm me nor help my OPP
ponent for sheriff, Mr.. Bowman, by
%intruding himself into a matter that
modesty, at least, should teach him
was no concern of his.
What are the facts? Before the civil
war 1 affiliated with the wing party,
as did a large majority of the voters of
Lafayette county. During what is called
the reconstruction period, after the
close OF the war, l was not allowed to
vote at all. Since that privilege was
granted 1 have voted the democratic
ticket steadily, even voting for Greeley
as the party decided was the best, and
on down and inclusive of Mr.. Cleve-
land. If this does not constitute me a
democrat, then there are thousands in
the same condition. That is all, Mr.,
Burton. SAM P. BAsCOM.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-22
THE PROBATE JUDGEsHIP.

EDITOR INTELLIGECER:-Permit me
to say that, with all due Difference to
the Hon. E. NJ. Edwards (whom |
highly esteem), the democrats ought
to re-elect Judge Xenophon RyIand to
the probate judgeship. The Judge has
for years given his time and talents to
the democratic cause, not only in our
local but also in our state and national
campaigns. This is the only office that
has ever been awarded him, and as he
has given the utmost satisfaction he
should have a second term. 1t takes
some time for a person to tamiliarize
himself with the records and routine
of business in the probate court. and
changes should be made as few times
as possible. Judge Ryland has
thoroughly acquainted himself with
the duties of his office, transacted bus
mess with promptness, accuracy and
dispatch, is a gentleman of perfect in
tegrity and a very able lawyer, and
everything goes to agree that he should
have the benefit of the office, and the
people the benefit of his very valuable
services, for at least one term more |
trust the democrats will so declare at
the primaries Oh June 9Th.
hEnnrp ~
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-22
ANOTHER RASCAL AROUND. NAB
HIM.

LEXINGTON, Mo-, May 10, 1886.
EDITOR INTELLIGENCER:-I am in
formed that there is a man travelling
through Lafayette county representing
that "R, land & Ryland" are the attor-
neys of the "United States Collection
Association, principal office at St.
Louis, Mo-, j. ID. Bell, secretary" and
selling certificates of membership i'm
such association. On receipt of this
Information [ wrote to the above adj
dress at St. Louis, and received from
the postmaster at st. Louis an official
card stating that no such association
existed in st. Louis and that no such
man as J. D. Bell could be found. The
firm of Ryland& Ryland, attorneys, at
Lexington, was dissolved nearly five
years ago, and have no knowledge of
any such association and any use of the
name of that firm or Of the individual
names of John E. Ryland or myself is
wholly unauthorized. Please give this
letter publicity in your columns to pre-
vent any of our citizens being duped in
this matter. XENOPHoN RYLAND.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-22
A GARD FROM MR. FIELD.

LEXINGTON, Mo-, May 81, 1886.
EDITOR INTELL1G ENCER:-I am in
formed that it is being reported in some
parts of this county that l have made
an effort to have the county primary
election postponed till the 18th day OF
July SO that the general primary should
be held on the day fixed by the judicial
committee for the nomination of a
circuit judge. The report is untrue,
and l avail myself of this opportunity
to deny it. l think it would have been
better to have nominated a candidate
for circuit judge at the general primary
in each county so that there could be
the fullest expression of the people,
but the committee decided otherwise,
Respectfully,
RICHARD FIELD.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-22
CHEAP! CHEAr!! CHEAP!
Q
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