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Janette's Hair.

oh, loosen the snood that you wear, Janette !;
Let me tangle hand in your hair, my pet;
For the world to me had no dantier sight
Than your brown hair yelling your should
ers white,
As tangled hand in your hair, my pet.
1t was brown, with golden gloss, Janette;
1t was finer than silk of the floss, my pet
Twas beautiful mist falling down to your
waist;
Twas thing to be braided and jeweled
Twas the loveliest hair in the world, my pet.
My arm was the arm of clown. Janette;
1t was sinewy. bristled and brown, my pet !;
But warmly and softly it loved to caress
Your round, white neck and your wealth
of tress,
Your beautiful plenty of hair. my pet.
Your eyes had a swimming glory, Janette,
revealing the old, dear story, my pet
They were gray, with that chastened tinge
Of the sky,
When the trout leaps quickest to snap the
fly,
And they matched with your golden hair. my
pet.
Your lips-but l have no words, Janette-
They were fresh as the twitter of birds, my
pet,
When the spring is young and the roses
are wet
When the dewdrops in each red blossom set,
And they suited your goldbIo own hair, my
pet.
oh. you tangled my life in your hair. Janette;
Twas silken and golden snare, nv pet
But SO gentle the bondage my soul did
implOre
The right 10 continue your slave evermore,
With my fingers enmeshed In YOUR hair, my
pet.
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r. q. CHANDLER.

TTORNE Lexington, Mo-, will
n practice in the circuit and )ther courts OF
Lafayette ald adjoining counties. Being thor
oughly familiar with the course of business be-
fore the executive departments washington, ,
D. c. will give special attention to all matters
before the Patent office, Gener; Land office.
War, Ioteri Ir, and other depar ments. Office
over Grimes 4 Venable's. m9y
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-09

Thus ever dream what you were, Janette,
With your lips and your eyes and YOUR hair,
my pet;
In the darkness of desolate years 1 moan,
And the tears fall bitterly over the stone
That covers your golden hair, my pet.
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or. r. ri. CHAMBERs.
DENTIST.

PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, ofiire opposite
L ,ourthouse over Graham 4 Morrison store.
Re ,idence; At the Benz. Chinn use on Ash
atreet jsnl76-1y.
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MEDICAL.
DIR. T.. l.. Bolt ON,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ras removed
from his old stand to back room over kriehn
. 3 deyer's shoe stor.. Hem DrrhOids special
" Residence near BAPTIST College, first house
sI,,,h of tho mart feb7ml3
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XENOPHON RYLAND.

A TTORNEY-ATLAW. Will give prompt at.
htention to all business entrusted to his care.
W Ill practice in all The courts, except the Pro-
bate Court of Lafay site county. dec2yl
Hr my a wAIIAcR VIM II cIzIIRs
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WALLACE T. CHILES.

A TTORNEYS AND CO,INSELLORS AT
Law. lexington. Mo. Office, front room
tue court house. Will practice in the courts Of
lafayette aud surrounding counties, and also in
the ,upremt court OF the state OF Missouri, and
the u s. circuit and District courts for ths
We,tern ID strict OF Missouri.
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Canvas aud woven wire cots at II. b y
Winker's, Lexington. msyaau
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F. HASSELL, d. u. S.
SJ front rooms over Com mercialH(
Bank. opposite the Courthouse. .u YS
Lexington, Mo. mnJJtf
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TAXABLE WEALTH,

the education of the deaf aud dumb,
including salaries and repairs 1O0,sO0
For the Missouri school for the educa-
ton of the blind 20 OOO
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ATTORNEYS.
JOHN s. BLACKWELL. ALBERT r. srROTHRR
BLACKWELL s. STROTHER,

A TTORNEYS AT LAW. VIII practice in all
n the coufts OF the state. Prompt attention
given to al business entrusted to their care.
store. ianlOYl
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Weeklg gntelligeufer.
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.

Terms, So per Year.
A deduction of 80 cents will be made if paid
strictly in advance for full year.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-09

The assessed valuation of the state
tor taxes of 1886. amounts to $74l, ,S7O,.
5S9 "a, as follows:
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DIR. j. W. MENG.
ON RECON DENTS ,oficeorpos1te -
- tue courthouse, up stars, Lcxing- df&
to /, Misf ouri. @H2
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-02-11

and no this miserable and mercenary
quarrel stands at present Ii is sim.
ply dirty dog fight over brides and
slush, and the gas consumers and
tax, payers Of the city will have TO pay
for il. The honorable ~ house gets
into this kind OF racket every
now and then when powerful rival
corporations want certain ordinances
passed for their own benefit
Six cinnamon are on trial here charg-
ed with the cold-blooded murder of
one of their oountrymen. They will
all DO convicted and hanged in due
time. They ara q vicious and de.
PRAYED set of fellows, we'll educated
and dressed in the hight Of their ma
tive style. Interpreters were fur
nish ed by the Chinese legation at
Washington, and tho trials will last
several months and cost enormous
sums to the State.
The police are busy reporting and
relieving cases of distress. Never
before have the people of st. Louis
experienced such a winter, Good
and sober men are advertising and
begging for situations for their board
only. The city is full Of starving
people.
Old Billy Barr, the head OF the
great dry goods house of Barr & Co.,
discharged $50 clerks yesterday.
Business in st. Louis is paralyzed.
- CARL SMYTHR.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-02-11
Notes OF Correspondence.

Under the above head We propose
giving now and then some passages
of general interest from our private
correspondence. We begin with one
from an old Indiana and Texas friend
now n citizen OF Los Angeles, Cal
We wrote him soon after our main
blizzard, to inquire if it had been felt
where le is, aud in reply he says:
It seems hard TO impress upon
those living east Of the Rocky Mount
aims. the fact that this valley never
has any winter, stated in n some,
what florid manner, in one OF my pub
lished letters, that the Sierra Nevada
and its neighboring ranges kept eter-
nal guard over oil this basin between
them and the ocean, that the vegeta-
ton therein might never be smitten
by the frost king. stated only that
which / knew TO be true. We have
had no worse weather than you had
prior TO your late billiards., and TO-
day is MS balmy and sunshiny MS al
any time in May. Have had mucA
more ram than last year, and last
week the river flooded the lower por-
ton of tho city, doing more damage
here than during the famous wet win
ter of "a, although SO far there has
not been, in the aggregate. SO great
rainfall AZ in that season. Before the
seagon closes we may have as great
an amount as fell in that memorable
year. In December we had several
white frosts in low places, but gener-
ally speaking no vegetation was in
jured In many localities you can
see tomato vines three and four years
old, still bearing. OF course such To-
calities never have any frost; and in
the most exposed places the orange,
lemon, and similar tender trees, are
entirely uninjured. All southern
California, including Los Angeles,
San Bernardino, San Diego and adj
joining counties, may be set down as
free from freezing weather, and un
til the mountains are leveled, always
will be.
Our next extract we take from q
letter from Grinnell, Kansas, written
just after the blizzard. It says:
No such weather was ever known
n Kansas before. Our section-hands
we're sent west to opeE the big snow
drift west of Wallace, and could not
make it.; and they sent the mammoth
snow-plow down from Denver, with
six engines: "She came down to the
drift and took n look at it, and backed |
off mile-and-a-half, and came down
at the rate of 40 miles an hour, and
threw large cakes of snow 200 feet
from the railroad, and broke the tel
egraph wire" but she went through,
Ill the same-and the trains are run
hing now promiscuously, from Kan
'as City to Denver.
We think our readers will agree
with us that the performance of that
gigantic snow-plow approaches the
sublime.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-02-11
ST. LOUIS LETTER.
ST. LOUIS. Feb. 4, 1886,

ST. Louis, Feb. 4, 1886.
Ed. FREE Press Another cold
wave reached here yesterday morn
ing at three o'clock and the Their.
mometer went down to 8 degrees be-
low zero; to-day it is at 5 degrees
below and the intense cold is the
cause of great suffering in this city
and state and business is almost sus-
pended.
Rev. DIR. Goodell, the eminent d.
vine and pastor of the Pilgrim church
Mt the corner of Beaumont and Wash
ington avenue, died suddenly of apo
plexy, yesterday morning. DR.. Good
ellis church is magnificent structure
and its musical chime of bells is the
pride and wonder of st. Louis. The
funeral services will be of an impos
ing character.
The blouse of Delegates" one of
the braches of our city Legislature
or city council, has broken into two
factions over the Water Gas Bill.
The old gas company Of St Louis, a
swindling concern worth millions, is
conducting bitter fight against its
mortal rival, the proposed chesp wa
ter gas company backed by influence
and capital and between these corpor-
atoms tits believed that the members
Of the House Of Delegates have been
bribed- Speaker Fox. Of the House.
a bold leade- Of the water gas corpo-
ration. adjourned the House last En-
day night amidst the wildest uprOar.
and IN his absence that body reor-
ganIzed by elCcting q new speaker
and clerk. having secured a quorum
for that purpose. The others came
hack and undertook 10 take posses
SION by force The police we're call
Il apCn and responded in squads.
fu-blddluE Fox and his faction 10 IN T
terfere or euter the hall TIE citv
Register meanwhile has been enioin- .
81 by urlts s1e1 out bv both factions
not % receive tke Cr1iuauesz DEGREES
o. res-lut5C-s passed " the otbs1
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-02-11

We invite the attention OF our
readers 10 the interview with Hon. w,
J, Swain, our present State Comptrol-
lor, aud a candidate for Governor, II
will be found on our outside pages,
We give place 10 il in the first place
because il is repleto with valuable
political information, such az every
citizen Of tho state is interested in.
The FREE Pass is not as yet commit
ted to the support Of any gubernator'
ial candidate, but wo arc FREQ to say
that tho sagacious views and sugges-
tons and tho manly frankness dis
played by Mr.. Swain do him great
credit and indicate him as q suitable
man 10 be placed at the helm of
State. On the subject Of prohibition,
while his sentiments are not those OF
n pronounced advocate Of >tho cause,
his position that such advocacy does
not exclude from the democratic party
shows his superior breadth Of mind
to some other politicians Of our state,
while his idea that local option can
not DO enforced in Texas, though IA
vored by general past experience, is
simply his individual opinion, which
the example Of Georgia and other
states shows to DO more than ques-
tionable.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-02-11
For the FREE PRESS.
T0LERiTIOy.

Socrates, speaking of the Athenians said
" 1t appears to me that the Athenians d
not greatly care what sentiments ma
holds, provided he keeps them to himself
but if he attempts to instruct others, thei
they become Indignant
If that's the way they did, old man.
In your dark, heather age,
No wonder they took the hemlock plan
To drive you from the stage.
And in your city, no doubt, you
Had your great leading men,
Who sought the thinking all to do,
With more of brass than brain.
With uS should peaceful methods fail,
And nothing else will do,
On tar and feathers and n rail
We put our teachers through.
And some, here, go much further still
Than poisoning man with drink
For teaching, and scrupe not to kill
One who presumes to think.
And some who, full of cowardice,
Cannot their victim face,
Will coin and inter coward lies,
TIE bring him to disgrace.
So Athens, after all, we see,
Was not so bad, you bet,
As is our land of liberty,
Among certain set.
But why, in this progressive age,
Among chosen people,
Should any sage his time engage
In cawing from a steeple?
A man may be a man of mind.
And show want of sense;
To warn the blind against the blind
Is sure to give offense.
So, Socrates, we let you know,
From what men were. you say,
More than three thousand years ago,
Some here are worse, to-day.
JrNIrs
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st. Elmo.
ST.. ELMO, Feb. 8, 1873

ST. ELMO, Feb. 8, 1886.
ED. FREE PRESS As we have never seen
letter from our village in your paper, I
will give you few items.
We only have one store and postofice,
but it is as pleasant village of its size as
any. Our enterprising farmers are about
through breaking land. They are prepar-
ing for large crops, trusting they will be
abundantly rewarded.
Our estimable citizen, Mr.. A. Ri ode, has
sold his farm to Mr. Badger, of Austin, ia
ther-in-law of Mr.. Stewart, well-known
banker of the capital city. We regret to
lose our worthy friend, but hope Mr.. Badger
will fill his place.
Miss Hattie Scott, of Staples Store, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Allen Digger. She
expects to spend several days. Mrs. Dug
ger will return home with her.
We attended a very pleasant social par ty
at the residence of Mr.. Todd last Friday
evening, and are to have dance at the resi-
dence of Mr.. VIM. Red on the 18th inst
Anticipate gay time.
Mr.. A. NJ. Digger, of his place, has sold
most of his common cattle, and invested in
Jerseys-a very good idea.
We are needing rain very much. The
State fsh-pond is dry, and the carp all dead.
Barton spring, from which the pond was
watered. 10 lower than it has been for years.
We regret that the water has failed, as the
pond was being made lovely. CADENCE.
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Hunter.
HUNTER, Texas, Feb. Z,

HUNTER, Texas, Feb. 7, 1886.
ED. FREE Press knowing you as an old
acquaintance and friend feel il my duty
and desire to subscribe for your paper; also
wish you to insert in your next issue few
lines written by me.
We have settled down in our new life" "
Mr. Scrutchins and Mr.. Pryar have made
considerable progress in the farming line.
Grain looking beautiful. Gardens here ad-
yanced somewhat Onions and English
peas fourishing.
Our home, notwithstanding rather remote
from your town, has some advantages over
many others. Its rugged hills, and massive
oaks covered with waving moss, with now
aud then shower of pecans, give it rather
q picturesque appearance, and we are in
thriving condition. The stream long known
as York's Creek affords us plenty of fish.
and numerous game abounds. We are pro-
vided with squirrel and partridge" all idle
and rainy days, by the skillful shot, Mr.. p;
and the thoughtful and wise housewife, Mrs.
P, laid in years supply in the line of
daiuties, such as peaches, pears grapes,
pickles and canned corn consequently our
pantry is filed with all the good things. She
now has charge of the Stringtown school,
coming home once week. ! am alone, but
80 much eugrossed in housekeeping, am
hardly aware as to how time moves; but
peace dwels here. We are away from court
houses, surrounded by good and
clever citizens three Mr.. Poseys
and Mr.. Straler, who are kind and
accommodating and the Germans stick to
their characteristic stay -at-home -and- attend
to-their-own business style. We also have
n hourshing school in our midst, church lib
critics. etc. We are free from all sensati on
and xcitement-nothing but the capering
of Texas ponies, the noise of the many cat
tie and the whistle of the merry schoolboy,
to disturb.
We were agreeably surprised BY the bright
faces of Mr.. Shaffer and lady last Sunday
and before the evenings close,
quite number of guests had assembled.
Mr.. Scrutchins has brother recently out
from Americus, Ga. He thinks Texas rich
and glorious country. His mother, sister,
and family are expected in the fall which
will add to our group. will furthermore
add. Mr.. Scrutchins is quite happy in his
new life" and his ambition is, now, TO
make and save money. Our future is bright
ening Sir, by these presents we extend a
hearty welcome to you and all friends. We
are civil-not dangerous unless attacked, in
case we are we'll fortified. May peace and
be yours. Very respectfully,
Mrs. EMMA SoRUTcHINs.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-02-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l. 1856.


WASHINGTON, Feb. l. 1856.
ED. FREE Ess:-The proceedings
of the week in congress have been
partially overshadowed in interest by
the fight which the republicans of
the senate have forced with the ad-
ministration. Our lawmakers have
not been idle. however. although
there has been but little legislation
to speak for their industry. Both
ends Of the capitol gave one day to
obituary eloquence 1t was gwen in
the senate in memory Of vice-presi-
dent Hendricks - Nv the house in
memory 81 the late representative Ell
wood. Of Illinois.
Then Dlkota has consumeia large
share 81 the senate's time. and de
bate on this question promises to be
long. Interest IN Dlkotas affairs
and demands has been enhanced dur
ing the discussion by the presence
on the floor Of the senate q her two
asuirants for seuatOrial h0nors.Messrs
Moody and EiCeIton. They are SIN
liar IN arpesrance. both beng large.
uortly men With short grew besris
They listen n every wo-l Tat y
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Judge Terrell has formally an
nounced himself rs n candidate for
the senate, and in speaking of the
fact the San Antonio Light says:-
THAT he is man of ability is be-
yond question and commendable
feature of the campaign will be that
he will stump the state, and n AXE his
candidature an issue for candidates
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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-02-11

And now another notable man
goes to Join the recent throng of the
great departed. Major General Win.
field S. Hancock died at his head
quarters, Governors Island, n. Y.
on Tuesday, the 9th inst His disease
was malignant carbuncle. If he had
lived till the 14th he would have been
60 years old. His death was unex-
pected, though the disease had caused
anxiety to his friends since the be-
ginning Of the year.
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Correction.

In our issue of December 3lst, we
copied from the Denton Monitor a
statement made 10y one j. III. Ashley,
a convict who had been pardoned, OF
alleged outrages on other convicts
employed on the Garrett farm, in that
part of the state. Our readers will
remember what he stated, and we
need not recapitulate. We have since
been kindly furnished with the result
of an investigation had of the matter,
and it appears, from the sworn testi-
mony of no less than four witnesses,
cognizont of the facts, that the charg-
es made by said Ashley are inbound.
ed; that oil said convicts were treated
fairly well, and that Ashley himself.
who was in bad health, received spe-
cial indulgence. We doubt not there
are not few cases of wrong and out
rage perpetrated upon the convicts
thus farmed out, and as incident to "
wrong and imperfect system and we
are glad TO see one, even, withdrawn
from the list, by plain proof of IA
vorable record,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-02-11

The National Banks may look for
ward TO some hard knocks in the near
future This. from the New Orleans
Picayune, is a pointer: 1t will not
be strange II the present year should
see some measure Of restrictive legisla-
ton against the national banks. II
such should be the case. they will
have themselves to thank for their
punishment, because tLey were not
prudent enough TO let well enough
alone.