Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-01-30
County court next Monday.

order.
Mr.. John Oliver IS to build, next summer,
on the Warren farm.
The young ladies' of the +. A. S, took their
sleighing last Monday.
A beautiful line of %ginghams Just receive
ed. NJ. F. Royle Il Son. jan30t2
A well written article on "Central Schools"
will be found on the first page.
Get Boston Betting Company's Standard
Betting, at Jordan's Foundry and Machine
shop. mott
There have been over 20 houses built in one
neIghborhood in Lexington during the past
year.
Ben Ireland will sell your children reserve
seats to the McGibeny matinee for 20 cents.
February 6. j3el2
Subscribers who fail to get their paper reg
ularly from the carrier will greatly oblige us
by promptly reporting to this office. If
Go to the McGibeny matinee and see Jen.
ME and Dockie, the only rivals to the Bridges
twins, Feb 6. reserved seats % cents. j3Ot2
Travellers should be prepared for the
changes of weather and the effects of eX-
posture by providing themselves with DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup.
Mr.. Lewis Neale has built up a first-class
reputation for the Commercial Hotel, and we
are glad to see him prosper. A good hotel is
a great advantage to our city. Oct3tf
A Nashville doctors prescription for a lady
suffering with neuralgia: A new bonnet, a
cashmere shawl, a pair Of gaiter b"ots-and
a bottle of Salvation OIL. The lady recover
ed Immediately of course.
If you wish to get the benefit of our re-
duction in subscription price, all that is ne
cessary is, pay up your arrearages to date and
then pay for a full year In advance. The re-
duction is only to those who pay strictly an
adeanee. jsn3Otf
johnson County Star:-s.The celebrated
McGibeny family, gave one of their most ex-
cellent performances at Empire Hall, on
Monday evening. A large audience was in
attendance, all of whom were highly pleased
with the entertainment, Master Jamie, the
four year old bass drummer can not be ex-
celled."
Mr.. C. L. Ballard contemplates extending
his lumber business in the spring to much
larger proportions. He intends to tear away
the frame buildings OF the corner of Main
and Twelfth streets, thus charging his yard,
and will lay in an unusually large and varied
stock, in view of an anticipated increase in
demand.
The old lawyer said to his boy:-"My son,
when you have no case the proper thing to
do is to abuse the opposing counsel" So it is
with the Higginsvllle Post, poor thing! 1t
hos M aSa and rather fhun tn ufforIv fail IN
serve up anything to its constituency on the
railroad question, it SHES some of its alleged
wit at the Intelligencer, as follows:-'The
Intelligencer has more encouraging railroad
news. 1t saw a man who saw another man,
who heard somebody say that he knew a fell
low that believed his uncle once heard about
a man who, when he was q little boy, used
to hear the early settlers talk about the 'Old
road-bed;' what excellent condition it was IN
and how well preserved. Which is very i'm
portant if true, and should be copied by the
matter of-fact when the Intelligencer has
quoted anybody it has done SO discreetly,
| with moderation, and has given the persons
name, so that there might be no trouble to
verify or Gisprove its statements. None Of
them have been disproved, and nearly all OF
them have been sustained by communications
or conversations made public afterward
through others. We are going to give
our esteemed but unfortunate contemporary
another dose that will make its stomach
ache. When Mr.. Gllchrlst retul ned to Odessa
from the south he told Mr.. John c. Cobb,
(note the name), that he found the road-b bee
in good condition considering all things; thai
it would compare favorably south OF Odessa
with that part of it from Odessa to Lexing.
ton; that the obstruction at Chapel Hill was
not formidable; and that the difference to his
road to get to Holden by the Waverly or Lex
In2ton route would be between q foot and
half and a mile and a half; he could
not exactly say which without actual
measurement. Mr.. Gilchrlst told Mr.,
Robert Il. Russell lSee? Robert T.. Russell, o.
Odessa?) that it would be no trouble to build
4 road on the old rOad-bed; that the road -bet
was just as good on the other side of Chape
Hill as on this side, and that he was favOrably
impressed with what he had seen. Mr.
Gilchrist was longer with Mr.. Thomas A
WhitwOrtE at Odessa than with anybody else
We happen to haye Mr.. WhitwOrth ut hant
to speak for himself. He says:-'In my in
terview with Mr.. Gilehrist, civil engineer o
the c., Il. " q. X. R., on Thursday thu
14th inst, l drew conclusions favorable t.
our interests from the following statement
and limitations of the gentleman in question
He said The old rOad-bed was in much bette
condition than he expected to find it, and eX'
pra.SaJ binnSalf "a, tnnSf f.vnrxhlV iTnnraSspl
with the cOuntrJ through which this road
bed runs. asked him if he could Judge O
the country correctly under such unfavOra5l
= conditions Of season and weather, and he SAT-
t that he could from his long experience il
, making such Investigations and ut I'LL season
a OF the year. In general conversation wit
e him | learned that he bad during the past feS
months looked over and made several pre-
v liminary surveys on the north side of th
T river from Bogard Mound and CarrOlltOn AN
a took encouragement from the fact that ever
e single one wa headed toward the Missouri
= river at Lexington, not ore pointed towar
:, Waverly. He stated that he would nc
. go oyer the route from Holden to Higgins
vile. and us soon as he returned to his ofic
e at Keokuk. Iowa, which would be immedis
tely, he would make maps Of the coq4tr.
s specifications of the work. &c, showing h
e lines of railroads now in the territory, nun
= Der of acres Of land tributary to the propose
e line; percentage of waste land and all fac
" necessary to give the superior officials a fu
e and correct idea Of the situation. PERSONAL
he expressed himself as favorable to Il
n building Of a southwest line. In answer
: the question as to which was the more dire
or shortest route of the two surveys, vi
Waverly or Lexington, he said there WI
II feet difference but as TO which was shorl
er he had net measured The two accurate
Is enough to determine" Mr.. Charles Nelson
e cashier of the Bank of Fort Scott, at the eli
- OF that name, in Kansas. He is one OF Il
" most respected of the enterprising, prOgre
ID sive citizens of that PLACE. Mr.. Nelson ga
II to US. over his signature ;--'Col. Law y
r not very communicative as to the i~ntentiO
n, of his company, bqt ! don't think you Ia
d auythiag to .feur. IN all of his talk he spO
j. of your town as the point on the river.
), think his idea is to use the old grade part
+ the way, but not all the way, asked h
te about the Waverly AMI Higginsville ro4
SIS and he said u Oas quite difficult and eTpeHsi
er lie made the impression here that your tov
J. was the point If the road was built. He tai
a ed of no other" The italics are Mr.. Nelson
r 1t being quite natural that Col. Law shou
ln eGlk more freely of Lexington at Fort Sc,
D, than here, we asked Mr.. Nelson VIII
he did say, because ll we Knew |
lii you'd see As much OF Col. la