The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-10-26
ABOUT M~IsS0URIANS.

ABOuT MlSSOURlANS.
CONGRESSMAN WALKER has jus
built himself a handsome house a
Dexter.
FRANK II. O'NEILL, formerly editor
of the Missouri Republican. is taking
an active interest in the state school fol
the blind.
DIR. Z. Ii. FRANKLIN, of Marshall, il
a cousin of the now tamous Col. Nc
Kinney, the democratic nominee fol
governor of Virginia.
CHAMP CLARK, the eloquent states
man from Pike, is being talked of by
his friends as a candidate for congress
lie delivered a fine address before the
Masons at ST. Louis last week.
JAMES MCCAFFREY, of ST. Louis, is
being urged by many democrats of that
city for appointment as recorder OF
votes. His principal opponent in Jas.
N. Carlisle, chairman of tue city dem.
ocratic committee, who also has strong
backing.
JUDGES w. L. WALLACE, j. p. Nixon
aud James Il. Moore are mentioned in
Lebanon as the probable republican
nominee tor congress against Dick
Bland. Either, or all of them, will do.
1t will make little difference TO the
people of the eleventh district, or to the
able congressman himself.
HARRIsONvILLE DemOcrat:-"John
q. Herndon, one of the most expert
mail clerks in the railroad mail service,
and who for the last eleven years had
charge of the mail car on the fast mail
train between Kansas City and ST.
Louis, has been dismissed from the
service. He was a democrat.
THE Gallatin Democrat contains this
interesting paragraph:-"Hon. j. w.
Alexander didn't get the addition TO
his house done any too soon, as his
family was increased last Wednesday
by a fine boy baby. Grand street will
never be a bowling wilderness as long
as the ex-speaker resides there"
SENATOR MACKAY, of Charlton
county, occupied a front seat at the
meeting of Baptists in Jefferson City
last week, and was often mistaken for
various clerical d~ignitaries. The n
tor appeared as young, handsome and
graceful as he did at his first entrance
upon the senate, twelve years ago.
THE Fayette Advertiser says
"Harry McCulloch, who went to Old
Mexico several weeks since, with a car
load of cattle, sheep and poultry, re-
turned home Friday last and reports
He and his brother, Charlie,
will leave next Monday for the same
country, with six car loads of stock.
VIM. S. BRorHERToN,. one of the
and talented young book
keepers of State Auditor Seibert's office,
was married last week, at Columbia, TO
the charming Miss Agnes E. Walker,
VI ~ <AuultOI "dIkeT. |
Billy and his bride will be sat home,"
at Jefferson City, along with the re-
vlsed statutes, on and after November
first.
The Platte City Argus says:-
esquire 7. l.. Turner has a. captains
commission issued to his father, Thos.
Turner, in 1921, by Missouri's first
governor and in the first year of the
Independence of our state. The gov
was then located at St. Charles,
md used his private seal, as the state
lid not then have an official one"
SENATOR K%ETCHUM, of st. Louis, is
'eing overwhelmed with persons ask
ny his recommendation tor their
as nOtaries. All this
he was the author of the bill
epealing the law limiting the number
II notaries in that city TO 100. The
enator almost wishes he hadn't done
but such is the fate OF all great
tetesmen.
JOHN MCCREE. the third oldest citi-
en- in Pike county, II years old, mar
led the first white child born in Pike
ounty, shipped the first boat load of
pples TO GaleDa from Pike county,
nd made the first flour barrel ever
manufactured in the county. He has
cen a very successful business man,
as plenty of this worlds goods aud {
njoys his old age" ]
l.. G. KRAUTHoFF, of Kansas City, is
candidate OF Missouri for the presi- s
ency of the base ball association of ;
le United States. AS a legal umpire, :
'ouis would have no equal in that :
and neither Brooklyn nor St. l
'ouis would be able TO call any games
n account of darkness while he occu-
led the presidential chair. They
'ould all have to stand right out in the
lnshine and play ball. n
w. A. HATTON. of Columbia, wears
charm that is a curiosity. 1t
a truncated prism of agate, engraved
18th a shield, the word "Sinceritas,DJ
nd a-esatvtsarms. II was used forsl4
erly as s sea-, aud has been in the
alton family sf6ce isties
VS. his family also have a curionsfTs :
instructed to toise shell cabinet which
as handed down in the same way
ON the same remote date,
THE Nevada Noticer has the follow.
compliment: "CharIey
organ attended the tariff reform
Getting, and 1t was a pleasure to his
sion OF friends in Vernon to welcome
IN. lie is popular wherever known.
d nowhere more 80. than in Vernon
unity. Should he make the race ter
ngress next term, and we believe he
ii since Col. Stone is not a candidate,
will be almost in the nature Of a
racle if he is defeated"
MEXICO Intelligencer:-"Maj. Law
r did not get the internal revenue
Ilectorsbip, bat unlike most disap.
lnted office seekers the major can
urn home to one of the finest farms S
the universe, located in the banner
lnty of grand old Missouri, where,
lallng the invigorating air of stall
'rt democracy That 50 completely en-
cies MIN, he can enjoy the richest