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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-11-27
MINISTRATR NOTICE.

r ETTERS of administrator on the estate Of
ia William B. Lilleston, deceased. were grant
ed to the undersigned on the 18th day of Octo-
Der, 1886. by the Probate court OF Lafayette
county, Missouri.
An persons having claims against said estate
are required to exhibit them to me for allowance
within one year after the date OF this notice, or
they may be preciuded from any benefit OF sa.d
estste and If such claims be not exhibited with.
In two years they will be forever barred
MARY +. LILLESTON,
oct3Ot5 Admin istratriy
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-11-27
SHERIFF,S SALE.

Lafayette County
LOUIS X Harrison ct al.
NY virtue of an order of sale issued from
Ii the oficc OF the clerk OF the county
court OF Lafayette county. Missouri. In iaVor
of Lafayette county, tor the use ana DeneAt y !
the inhabitants of township f'ty-one l5il range
twcnty-slx 1851, and township htty loOl, range
twenty four [24l. and township hfty-one tail;
rang. twenty -four I24l. and the county ssnooi
fund, and against Louis R.. Harrison, ana
Frances J. Harrison, his wife, TO me Ill
rrcted. and returnable to the December term'
1886, OF said court, l will, on
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1885,
betuean ,he hours of nine O'Clock in the fore
noon and five O'Clock in the afternoon oil SAID
day. and In front OF the courthouse door. IN the
CITY of Lexington, in Lafayette county, mis-.
sourl, during the session OF the salo clIcult
court OF said county, sell publicly, ny auSt'on,
to the highest bidder. for cash 10 hand. al tne
rIpht lille. interest claim and estate of the
said LOUIS r. HarrlsOn. in and to the following
described real estate, situate. lying ana oeing
in the county OF Lafayette and state OF MIS-.
sourI. to-wit: U, e hundred and twenty ll20l
acres on south end OF the southwest quarter oil
section thirteen (l3l; alsu the northwest quarter
of the northwest quarter OF section twenty -Iour
Iall and ten (lOl acres of east side OF the south-
east quarter OF the northeast quarter OF section
twenIy-fuur I24l, all IN township iorty ,hlnS
(49l, Of range twenty-five t2Jl, an I being IN All
one hundIe ed and seventy (l1Ol acres more ot
less ~
Given under my hand this l!th day o. NO
vemler. ISS6. JOSEPH W.
nnyIatd Sheriff.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-11-27
he eop|c'sC|othier
The STAR CLOTHING HOUSE.
Now is the Time for Bargains!!

ldesre to say to the people of the County tina, l have n
unPreeedentedy large assortment of CLOTHING, carefully
selected, and marked down to Bed Rock Prices. l want to sell
them. NO ONE SHALL MAKE LOWER PRICES.
Come in and see. 1t will costy you nothing to examine Goods.
Stock full in all departments Four Button Getaway Suits in
Black, Brown, Daia and Fancy Woraeds. Sack Suits in Plain and sou,r.
Ca'Smeres an Worsteds, square and rouni cut, from S. to the Fine.r Cu.,,m
suits. All Wool Cashmere Suits from s. 50 to Sc. Cent. Furnishing
1ooost the largest stock IN the city. Underwear from soc t. s. q Suit. The
oethtung White Shirt in the market, wide and narrow pleas, from 81 and up.
at 50 cents. "'
Agent for two of the TO- celebrated Mechan, Tllors in Chicago. Suit,
to orcera nd perfect fits guaranteed, or n sale. In all cases perfect suisGc-
ton guaranteed, or money eheermly refunded.
Business don o the square. Your custom wanted, II will nav M ~
stock in all lines.
N STNAUER
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-11-27

III tiC tuuiSh 'CLiCiViS a. LtA'uSlOu. /
heirs were not pleased with the will and
when the trustees, acting in behalf of the
church, sued for the portion of the estate be-
Queathed to it, q stubborn contest was made,
eminent legal talent being enlisted on both
sides. Their suit was to establish the validi-
" OF the will, and was transferred on a
change of venue to the circuit co urt of Liv-
ingston county, which decided in the plain
tiff s favor in 1881, holding that will to be
T,bbein's last. The case was carried to the
supreme court. and in 1884 a decision was
r -ndered %annulling the decision of the Lly-
ingston county circuit. Another suit was
then instituted IN Caldwell county and
brought to Jackson county. The heirs in
their answer to the plaintiffs petition denied
that it was The intention to make the bequest
TO the church of the Immaculate Conception
the specification in the will being only the
Catholic church OF lexington They denied
that Tob5ein was Il believer in the Cathuli,
faith; that his children had been Inferred in
the burial ground Of the church End that the
will vested any rights in the trustees to ho'd
! One-half of the estate and they therefore had
no legal authority to sue. They claimed the
bishop of the diocese WAS the only person in
whom the title to church property could be
vested and said the will was void because the
time had passed for it to be admitted to pro.
bate. The case will again be carried to the
supreme court and Its final determination
will be watched for with considerable inter
est" This case has been u long time pend-
ing. One OF its adverse decisions was
because The church here was not incor-
porsted. This defect was remedied
, and. rs Judge Gill holds, properly anl
sufficiently; and il is to be hoped thai
the suit will soon be settled, and that ths
long litigation may not have SO far imp aired
the sum that it will be insufficient to enable
the Catholics of this city to build as they de.
sire. They were extremely unfortunate il
their last building. and they have the best
wishes of the community in their future
efforts, toward which this legacy has for
long time heen expected to contribute.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-11-27

Though the earthquake SHOCKS Al Charles-
ton gave occasion for q good deal of specula-
tion on the causes Of seismic phenomena, an
authoritative and generally Ineligible sum-
mary of the conclusions of geologic science
upon that interesting subject is still needed.
THIS task is now to be performed by Major j.
W.Powell, director of the United States Geolo-
gical Survey, in an article which is to appear
in The Forum for December.
Corder The blizzard of Wednesday made
US step lively and anxiously hunt for shelter.
The different denominations of Corder have
united for the purpose Of having Thanks
giving services. and have invited L. T. Cobb,
the presiding elder, to conduct the same. The
temperance society continues prosperous. II.
c. Sydnor shipped a car load OF fine looking
cattle to Chicago on the 10Th. He continues
to watch around the premises of the farmers
in search of fat hogs. j. F. Groves is buy
ing a large quantity of corn with the view of
feeding cattle for the Spring market. George
Corder is busy housing his crop of corn, con
sisting of about one hundred and fifty acres
and yielding from eight to ten barrels per
acre. There is still q scarcity Of stock water
in this community. John Gordon who was
teaching the Harrison school. on account of
bad health was forced to resign. Perry
Latham Is now engaged in completing The
term. COrder school under the administra-
ton of Misses Reese and Itine is giving per-
feet satisfaction. Elder A. F.. Roth, on ac-
count of age and general debility. has resign
ed the pastOrage OF the Baptist church of
Corder. The old soldier Of the cross was ill.,
strumental In planting the church and has
nourished it ever since its organization. 1t is
with sad hearts the membership give him
up. He has, for many years, been an earnest
and faithful servant In the whey ard of the
master. He is loved and honored not only
by those of his own church, but by Christians
OF every name. Fl NEST In all his dealings,
faithful in cOndemning sin earnest in pointing
to the Lamb of God, he can look back with a
pleasing satisfaction over q we'll spent life.
! May our last days be like bis,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08

To-day the situation u just this: the
young man, we'll educated, an honor to his
parents and credit to the community, de-
sires to take part in public affairs. To do
so he must go downward. He must 20 to
the saloon and beg it's influence that he
may take the first step in political life.
And this is especially true Of our great
cities. 1t is not too much to say That a
man must become the friend of the Rum
Power to obtain preferment. He must be.
the friend Of saloon keepers, and see that
the money tribute that they exact is psid
He must buy the influence of pot-honse
politicians, who practice at the bar of the
saloon. He must be frequenter of rum
holes, and achieve the friendship OF the
idle, the vicious, the criminal habitues
thereof. He must know all the loafers who
pack caucuses, and shout at ward meetings.
What self-respecting man will voluntarily
take up such associations? The political
control of the country is drifting into the
hands of the worst elements, and these ell,
ements are constantly recruited and made
larger by the saloons. It is time to call
halt. The saloon must be crushed that
freedom may live. The people must destroy
it, or be destroyed by it. Hence we had
with Joy the growth of the anti saloon
movement, for it is step in the grand eff
fort to pulyerize the Rum Power!-1oeedo
R1OIo
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
THE GRAND REVOLUTION.

prohibition Will Be Realized IN the
Country by Political N.cans.''
Sam Jones, it is reported, says he be-
leves Prohibition will be realized in this
country by political means." As usual, he
hit the nail sguarely on the head. All
great reforms come through political
means. We fully believe that prohibition
of our suicidal and criminal liquor traffic
means, and political party means. The
reform will come through the people,
through the peoples votes, and through
legislation set forth and compelled under
the auspices of some political party.
Whether that grand revolution will be born
of the Democratic, the Republican, or the
third party" is to be determined by
events. 1t is but just to say that it is so
manifest some party must compel this re-
form, that the present so-called "third
party" ought to have been anticipated.
Whatever may be said of its present expe-
diency or wisdom, the advent of that party
was in the very nature of events. There
fore, the very citizen who most fully be-
lieves that the third party can not carry the
day is under strongest obligations, in logic
and duty, to insist that some other party
must put on the armor of reform. He who
argues that new political party is sure to
harm the issue should insist that some
other party must openly, courageously,
persistently, and Immediately enter the list.
We shall be interested to hear from the
citizen who can gainsay this proposition.
Prohibition can come only through political
party means. We do not claim that any
existing party must needs be that agent of
coming reform. We do, however, ask:
what party will God thus ordain, and
when?" All creation doth groan, hoping
to ba delivered. Some say the Republican
party will lead the exodns, and some local
the old parties will not. can not; new
party must lead the vanguard!" The ma
| ton cares not for name. Some party is
needed to purge this foul Egypt.-North-
| aCester7e Christian Advocate
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
The Outlook for Prohibition.

The prospect that is now before the Pro-
hibition party for grand success in the
near future is much brighter than it was
last year. Every voter is now canvassing
the question, and it is very evident that d
very large vote will be polled TO. prohibi-
the old parties. From the best statistics
that we are able to secure, We learn that
the proportion will be about as follows:
One-third from the ranks Of Democrats,
and two-t thirds from the ranks Of Repab-
leans. A widespread enthusiasm has
sprung up among the people that demands
the humiliation of the saloon. and as the
curse of the liquor traffic has made itself
more apparent by it's arrogant claims to
are coming to be just as determined in
their efforts to put the brand Of infamy on
the whole business by prohibition
Demorests Monthly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Compiled by Miss Julia Ames, Of the w. G
L. u, Chicago.
PORTLAND, Me-, has nightly temperance
meetings in a great tent.
A GRAND LODGE of Good Templars has
been instituted at Reykjavil, the capital Of
Iceland.
Mrs. MARY A. L1vERMol.E is making Is.
tour of Vermont under the auspices of
w. c. T. U.
A VIGOROUS mission Sunday school has
been established in one Of the deserted
| saloons OF Atlanta, Go.
An English edition OF Miss Frances z.
Wizards Nineteen beautiful YearD," is
soon to be brought ont by Morgan " Scott.
of London.
ARcHDEAcoS FAHEaE says: ii: Ess-
dia the English have made one hnrased
drunkaras to one Christian, and arc grid
ling the earth with Drunkenness
The Hull Police Temperance Society of
London has temporary home for tho ,:ts
| titute, by means Of which many have baen'
| rescued from the streets and restored to s:a-
spectacle life.
TIE Springfield Ohio Prohibition sjaet
have Just finished a handsome temperance
hall. II is beautifully furnished an.l dec
Grated. At one end is large room tos the
use Of the w. G. t. U. Of that city,
SIR W1LFRED LAWSON, the great teAt-
perance advocate of England, has been re-
turned to Parliament, and all frient,f Of
the cause are looking to him to lead in an
effort to secure some effective temperance
legislation.
The Minneapolis W. G. L. U, have
filled up booth in the Exposition build
ing, where they sell and give away ali ,s,nsas >
of temperance literature. The ladies' ALSO
have lunch stand, which is popular
sort for visitors.
In Germany the Government has besoIsle
SO anxious about the physique of the sol-
diers of the future, that they have ordered
the police to arrest all boys under Is years
of age found smoking and have them
punished by fine or imprisonment.
MISS MATILDA H. Ross, National :su--
perintendent of Knldergartens, for the w.
institutes and associations over 3O,0G0
teachers and has talked to them OF the
temperance and Christian Kindergarten.
A LEADING paper of Montreal, Canada,
says: "The Whitby Jail is now flying u
white flag from it's turn cts in token Of its
purity, there not being a single prisoner
confined within it's walls. Before the Scott
act went into effect this Jail did. a liyely
business"
SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY delegates
attended the Pennsylvania Prohibition
Convention, fifteen of whom were ladies.
The platform adopted was the most pro-
nounced in favor Of the w. G. T. U. and
womans suffrage of any that has yet boon.
accepted by o convention.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
PHASES OF THE SALOON BUSINESS.
How the Agreeable Proprietor Systemati-
cally Turns His Pleasing Ways to Ac-
count.
From the indianapolis Journal

count.
IRON the indianapolis Journal
The perpendicular saloon, of which there
are few in this city, has no Sweat boxes"
places partitioned of and furnished with
tables, at which guZzlers may sit by the
hour. Consequently. the shrill voices Of
women, maudlin with drink, are never
heard in the perpendicular saloon. In the
sweat-box saloon large proportion OF the
business is done with abandoned men and
women who, by means of a convenient side
or back door, sneak into these places to in
dulge in drunken orgies, often beginning
early in the evening, to be prolonged until
midnight or later. Here they are secure
from observation, and do not offend the
counter customer, except, perhaps, by occa-
sional outbursts Of laughter aud obscene
language that would require careful disin-
lection before being used even by the po
lice force.
There is another style of saloon which,
without sweat boxes, does large table
business. Nearly all their customers sit
down to drink, and card games and doml-
nos are encouraged, as drinks go with the
games. This species of gambling pays the
saloon. There is fascination to the Gus
TONER in playing for even small stakes, like
drinks, that will often hold him to the ta-
ble for hours, no matter whether the game
be one at cards OF time-kllling dominos.
The amount of beer drunk at one of these
sittings, and the number of wretchedly bad
cigars smoked, sometimes makes the enter
tainment little less than beastly. The
writer recently saw young mechanic rise
from saloon table, where he had spent
the greater part of aworking day, and reel
out into the street, with vest-pocket filled
with 'two-fers," and his diaphragm floating
eighteen glasses of beer.
Some saloons make considerable money
through kind of amiable sponging known
IFS the Agreeable Proprietor Dodge" The
Agreeable Proprietor is seldom seen behind
the bar He is we'll dressed and appears to
be enjoying perennial holiday. His hat
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08

ToTo, aged seven Ito his cousin, Helen:
INV eve! what q rich woman your mamma
must bel" "Why7" why, she even wears
gold RINGS on her teeth"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-26
An Advance Made For Transporting Cir
Gus Trains by the Transconti-
mental Lines.
Show Managers Will Petition the Railway
Companies to Reduce Their
Rates Somewhat.
1he Grand Trunk Company Makes a
Further Reduction in EN-
Ployes' Salaries
Report Made on the Union Pacific
Bill--Railway Earnings--Gen-
eraI Matters.
Rates for Hauling Circns Trains.

When the Transeontinental association
met in ST. Paul, a resolution was adopted
by all the lines members to the pool not TO
receive for transportation any circus cars
that were not equipped with the automatic
air brakes. This was all the information
that was given out at that time, though it
has since tranSpired that action was
taken on circus transportation rates. Circus
men are commencing 10 make contracts
Win the railroads for circus business next
summer, and find that rates are somewhat
different than what they We're last season.
In TACT there is 50 much difference that they
are complaining loudly about the excessive
charges the railroad companies are seeking
10 impose. They state that unless re-
auctions are made they will be unable to
exhibit at points further west than the east
ern terminus Of the tranScOntinental lines.
Previous seasons these lines took as much
LOT maui as they could get out of circus
contracting agents. there being no estab-
lished rate. This season, by the agreement
entered into at the tranScOntinental meet
Ing at st. Paul, rate of $3.50 will be i'm
posed for eacn haul of a train consisting of
twenty cars or less, cars measuring less
that forty feet in length. For cars exceed
ing forty feet and less than fifty an extra
charge of p per cent. is made and 50 per
cent. more for all cars over fifty feet in
length. This makes the cost for haul of
circus the size of Burnum's enormous.
His outfit consists of eighty cars. making
four trains, and as about sixty cars are
over fifty feet in length, the cash for each
haul amounts to Sl.315. The railroads.
seeking to be fair with the circus men. have
established mileage rate. which is even
more excessive than the regular rate. 1t
Is made so that haul will not amount to
less than 500. No matter how short the
maui Is Circus managers are now in cor
respOndence with each other. which will
likely result in a conference, when resolu-
tons will be adopted petitiOning the rail
road companies 10 lessen their rates, as it
will be utterly impossible to travel at 50
heavy an expense.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-26
HOW MANYf

When Gov. PATTTIsoN said in his Lock
Haven speech last Thursday that neither
he nor any Of his cabinet had travelled on
free railroad passes during the term that he
had been in Office, he was compelled to
stop by the tumult of appreciation. so en-
Unused were the people at seeing a real live
governor who didn't travel on free passes.
Gov. PATTIsON's administration is Dem
Ocratic. Now we would like 10 ask in how
many of the Republican states the officials
are in the habit Of declining free passes:
And without desire to be overly inquisi-
tive the GLOBE would like TO ask how
many of the Minnesota state officials deny
themselves this indulgence? Don't all
speak at once
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-26
THE IRISH ORATOR.

That was a great speech delivered in the
English parliament last Friday by Mr..
SEXTON, the Irish journalist and orator.
and member from Sligo. 1t has been a
long time since the walls of the old parlia-
ment house have resounded with more
finished Oratory and fOrclble defamation.
The speech was full of biting sarcasm and
statistical reasoning, and it is no surprise
that it was greeted with shouts of applause
from the Parnellites. and fell like a bomb
shell in the camp of the government forces
lie accused the government party of DELHI
erately exciting false hopes in the Irish
people while the elections proceeded, and
made home thrust when he reminded the
ministry that while they posed as guardians
of the constitution they had advised the
sovereign to depart from the constitutional
course of waiting upon the action of the
house and to declare in advance the opposi-
ton of the sovereign to a certain bill before
the houses have proceeded to consider such
bill. The insincerity of the English gov
eminent was exposed by recalling the fact
that a rising in arms by the rebel population
OF Roumelia was conclusive proof to the
royal mind of the justice of their cause.
while the election by fiye-sixths of the popu-
latiOn of Ireland. instead of beng dealt
with like rising in arms as an expression
OF the desires of the people. is to be treated
in the language of the queen. simply a re-
gretable and deplorable attempt to excite
hostility against legislative union. The
logic of which. according TO Mr.. SExroN's
reasoning. would be that in order to COM
mend the justice of their cause to the Brit
ish sovereign it would be necessary for
the Irish people TO resort to violence and
rise in arms against British authority. If
they are to be despised and condemned bv
the government for combining themselves to
orderly, legal and constitutional modes of
giving expression To their desires. then
they will be compelled to rise in arms i'm
order that the expression of their wishes
may be regarded as valid by the govern
ment. If there was any sincerity i'm the
course of the British government. Mr..
SEXToN'S line of reasoning would be cor
rect. He only designed TO show that the
government was not sincere and did not
intend TO encourage violence. On the con-
eA"'ss hS hhohVS ~ pam oS INC hOonudA
sun that the Irish agitatOrs are only desir-
Gus of presenting their grievances in a
legal and orderly manner. with the hope
that the government, with all its resources
of craftsmanship and knowledge of admin
istration, will find remedy. Mr..
SEXTON presents the whole question
of home rule for Ireland in this forcible
language: 1T is false and delusive to say
that the integrity of the empire. the SUI
premacy of the crown and the supremacy of
the imperial parliament is called into ques-
ton by the demands of the Irish people.
The supremacy of the crown has never been