The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-09-20

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Col. Bledsoe says he has never seen
the party in Cass county closely
and compactly in line. From Pleasant
Hill, Bolton, Freeman, Archie, Austin,
Garden City, Creighton,G Gum City and
East Lynne-irom every side aud cor
ner of the county in answer to the
question, what of the night2 the word
comes back, the party was never so
united and confident. All hail liar
%risonville Democrat.
O Frame, one of the best news
paper mel il Northwest Missouri, steps
down and out OF the Progress OF this
city, and is succeeded by Tom and
Malcomb Courtney. Tom Frame is a
democratic fighter of the right stripe
and Is needed by the press OF Missouri;
and we hope oon to see him battling
tor the right in more r~emnnerative
fields than he found here. His pen
will not be idle long. Liberty Ad.
vance.
Every citizen of PIERCE City knows
that II beautiful town has nothing 10
hope from Mr.. Underwood. We know
the sort of love he and his Mt. Vernon
crowd bear Peirce City by the way
they slaughtered Capt. Purdy. The
farmers have presented for their
suftrages MI. q. u. Cook, who will do
Justice by all sections of our county. II
is wisest and best to select him and do
away with the PIERCE City and Mt.
Vernon feud.-reirce City Dem rcrat.
Captain VIM. NJ. Price, formerly of
this county but now of st. Louis, was
in the city last week and acknowledged
being an applicant for the chief inspcc.
torship when that office should become
vacant. He was born and reared In
this county and Saline has yet to boast
of a o honorable son though manv
are noted far and wide for those ouali-
ties that bring lasting honor upon the
place of their birth .-Marshall Demo.
crat-News.
State Superintendent of Public
Schools Coleman has purchased the
interest OF Il. l.. Turnbull i'm the South
west Missouri Loan and Trust Com
pany, and will make Nevada his home
after the expiration Of his term nt
Office. Mr.. Coleman has also been
chosen president of the board of trus-
tees OF Christian University. The
Noticer, together with the people OF
Nevada, welcomes the distinguished
gentleman as a citizen of our beautiful
little city.-Nevada Noticer.
We were shown a peach last
Friday that takes the blue ribbon oyer
anything OF the species grown in this
section this year. Ii measured ten and
a half inches in circumference and
weighed ten ounce The tree is owned
by Frank Smith, and is on his residence
property in the northwest part of the
city. He informs ms that there were
five peaches like the one we viewed on
the tree. The name of the peach i,
unknown, but 1t is not u Seeding. Tht
flavor is very fine.-Butler Democrat
j. b. Phillips, who lives on Yves,
Walnut street. brought a peach 10 the
Democrat Monday that was the fines
we have @ II weighed three.auar
tiers of a pound and was III inches il
circumference. Ii grew on a youns
tree with about three dozen others
Last year the tree was loaded dowI
with iruit, but they were not SO larg,
as this s Mr.. Phillips little cir
got one of the peaches fastened in
pint cup yesterday, and the one h,
brought to this Office to-day wouldn'
go in a pint cup.-Nevada Democrat
Proi.C Palmer, Phi ID. of Kennebunk
port, Maine, a graduate OF the JOIN
Hopkins University, has been elected
to fill the chair OF analytical chemistr,
and metallurgy in the School of Mines
made vacant by the resignation of Prot
W. ii. Seamon. Prof. Palmer has file,
the chair of chemistry in the Massachu
sets Institute of Technology, an,
comes now from the Wabash College
Indiana, where he held the importan
chair Of organic chemistry. From wha
we IA learn Prof. Palmer stands higl
in the scientific world and come
recommended by the leading educator
OF the country. The selection, VIC al
confident, will give satisfaction to all
-Rolla Herald.
) MIR. Z.A.Eaton, the republican nomi
nee for treasurer OF Ripley county, ha
declined to run and in a published car,
thus gives his reasons, which should b
promptly adopted by other republican
nominees throughout the state: "Mr
Lackey, my opponent, is a splendi,
!, man, fully as honest and more capabl
than myself and think no great harm
will be done if he takes the office again
as ell that can be said against him j
that he is u democrat, but he will on
grow that some day, as he is quite
young man yet. What | fear more thal
: all things else in making a race agains
Mr.. Lackey is his good looks. lie j
one OF those peculiar men that we NEE
with only now and then, who can ge
on the good side of almost any lad
and with a gift like this he can beat th,
world.l an afraid to run against him.
Luke Kelly, democratic nominee fol
state senator, in the 18th district, wa
born in Virginia but went to Proyi
dence, IL. L., when quite young, ant
enlisted in the Union army in 1861
serving for three years in the army O
the Potomac. lie lost his right arm il
in the battle of the Wilderness ant
received all honorable discharge. Aftel
the war he took Horace Greeley
advice and went west, first to Wiscon
sin and then to Newton county, Mo.
in 1877. In 1880 Mr.. Kelley was ap.
pointed ensns e%numeratOr for Benton
township and soon afterward he re,
ceived the appointment of county
assessor from the county court t
fill out al X pred term. lie twice
received the democratic nomination
Tor assessor and was twice. elected by
good %majorities. Twice was he elected
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