The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-11-17
Good, stiff ice Yesterday morning.

Geyer 81 Harding's minstrel show next
Tuesday night.
Over three hundred ducks were killed
within II mile of town, on the river. last Sat-
urday, by local sportsmen. Mr.. Joseph Utt
killed 81 as his share.
Wayerly Times:-Mrs. j. Lee Carter, Of
Dover, has typhoid fever. Messrs. Bella
my, Galloway, Croswhite and G.. b. Hall,
went to Lexington Wednesday. hrs. Jennie
IL. Tucker and sister, Miss Mary E.. Webb,
visited LIE yIngton Wednesday. Little Flossie
Fry met with Il painful accident in the break
ing of one of her fingers last Saturday. Miss
Maggie Zoll, sister Of Mrs. 5. M. Galloway,
of Saline, left for Lexington Monday to spend
q week before goirg home. Rev. MIR. Wilson,
of the Baptist Female College, preached at
the Baptist church in this place on Sunday,
al which time two deaeons were OrdaIned,
We learned that Miss Dora Asher, who has
been quite i'll for some time at Laddonia, is
able TO rnsume her duties OF teaching the
young idea how to Shoot We learn from
Mr..N. b. Owens that her husband has had his
eyes treated and the operation has been u
complete success. Mr.. Givens is with DR..
Owens. his brother, in Gallatin. Mo. The
presiding elder, Rev. ThOs. Cobb, sccOmpan-
led by Rev. Wagner, assisted Rev. w. Ii.
Winton and held holy communion and SER
vices at the M. L. Church Sunday.
Waverly:-Mr. VIM. Walton was in Mar
shall the first Of the week. Ben. ii. Brown,
of Wentworth Academy, spent Sunday and
Monday at home. Mrs. Howard, OF Peters,
burg, Va, Is visiting her sister, Mrs. j. X.
Thomas of this vicinity. Miss Yula Platten-
burg, of Dover, who has been visiting Mis-
Ethel Corder, returned home the first OF the
week. MIR. Andy Francisco lost Il valuable
COW last week. The ladies of the Methodist
church met, Thursday, to organize an aid
society. Mr.. Fl. l.. Tucker and wife are now
installed in their beautiful home on CONNER
cial street. Mr.. Thomas Landrum has de-
cided to take a vacation from business this win
ter having turned the carriage factory over TO
his brother, William, who has re GENTLY re-
turned from Kansas. A company of enter
prising citizens is talking OF building a large
roller mill, provided it can get the buildrn g
lots and 81, 600 donated. This will surely be
promptly given. Our cemetery, during the
DhSb LiLuC hab oSCh
the cows having been allowed to brOwze over
the graves of our departed friends and a lux
uriant crop of weeds to grow unmolested.
DR.. j. w. Tucker has sold his interest in the
firm Of Tucker 4 Son to DIR. Chas. Smith after
being In the drug business in this city about
forty years. Services at the Methodist
| church, led by Rev. W. II. Winton. last Sun
| day morning and evening, we've well attend
ed. The church is to be congratulated on
securing the services of such an able pastor.
| Miss Maggie Cauthorn, who has been sick for
the past week, has now resumed her duties
as teacher of the Three Groves school.
Even the "rickety' negroes were marched
| up TO the polls here to vote for Mr.. Harrison
| and high taxes. One case was too bad, the
Judges couldn't quite stand it. The poor
| creature was so evidently an idiot that they
refused to let him vote. He could neither
| tell where he lived or where he was born, and
| yet two very respectable republican gentle.
| men stood ut the polls and urged that he
ought to be sllowed to vote. The bitter feel
ing engendered in the minds of the negroes
was illustrated very fore bly, once during the
day. A group of democrats was standing
lust In the street opposite the courthouse
gate. A very good looking negro woman,
about thirty years OF age, and well dressed,
came along and saw them. Casting upon
them a look of lofty scorn and disdain. she
seized her clothing and whisked 1t about, al
the same time Kissing out: IL wish l could
vote. o, l wish l could vote. I'd show
'em! / wish 1 could disguise myself ant
vote. I'd do it If | could. ] just wish
could vote ~ She glanced back to see if any
democrat would open his mouth, IN which
case 10 doubt he would have received 4 sloI
bucket full OF B~illingsgate, but no one said
word and she went on with her heart full o.
hatred for the white people among whom sh'
lives. An idea of the yarns the republican,
tell The negroes may be gathered from this
A gentleman in town, an intelligent mecaan
&c, asked a negro, on election day, why h,
had voted for Harrison. The negro replie'
that 3 white republican had told him that |
Cleveland was elected this time he wonlt
take the right Of suffrage from people of hi
race, and he could not vote for u man TIA
would do that. A negro woman on the nigh
of the democratic parade was heard TO ga.
she would like TO poison the whole lot o
them. 1t Is out or this hatred, engendered II
their hearts by miserable lies told to them 70
political effect, that come such oulrages a
stoning democratic professions, as WAS don
at Sedalia aud here. A party that resorts I
sucb means ia mt WORTHY of success. eve,
$500
thouRh IL may occas'oia'i' Ataa'h n
Here Is what the LOUISVILLE I!mes say
about the goose bone predictions Tor tn
om,o yin,ar win UneIe Strod RenicI
'o"'"h "" VIZ -
please eAamlhe IL cioseiJ anu Iet us hoo'
how Ii agrees with his reading of the bone
Tho ,o~ro.b.dox,ng of the anproacbipg win
-..s - 49,, 80 ar - -
ler'a y II uot' Z II ''"es =
the goose Done, Is not d cneeriuI storY' In
promise given forth of sleet, snow and cold 1
a gIoomy pictl1re for the moor 10 look upou
ap1 the MANY whose short purse will no
hermit them TO Law IN a bountiful supply O
fneI will shIyer at the Thought of the kind O
weather that the little bone ~foretelIs for tn
ne yt four months. There will be more col,
and wet weather than the peOpIe of this latj
Inde have experienced for MANY n winter
and the cold spells will be longer and NOR
severe than usual. Tn bone is dark at boil
ends. which indicates a longer winter. Win
ter weather we will baye In November, an,
The ice and snow will be familiar sights ia
along into March. The goose from who's
bone this study was taken was Matched il
April and killed after the ides OF september
The bone il wonderfully marked, the dot
and breyes and lines mingle all along th
keel. tim. Indicating very chaugesbIe we, th
err. hut the breyes mostly turn down and ar
heavy. showipg that the general character q
the winter will be falling, cold weather. A
will be seen by the table given, the DANCE
neriOd Ia longer for November than anV Othe
, month, running from the 10th to the end
with the most severe weather falling betwee