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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-08-01

TIE empress of ltussia and her chill
drcu will make IL tom of the Holy Land
ncXt winter.
IT has been estimated that Sarah
Bernhardt has saved more than 81 ,OO0,-
900 in the course of her successful ca
rcer on the stage.
THE Countess ~Clancarty, "Iirllc Bill
ton" is the owner of five fast horses. of
which her favoritc is Cream Tartar. But
zone of them has as yet cqualcd Bellies
own record for rapidity.
MRS. TIMOTHY j. kEEFE, wife of the
well-known pitcher of the New York
club, is foremost in the list of American
sculptreSScS. She has gone abroad III
the interest of her art and the worlds
fair.
Mrs. L. T. BAENUM, before she sailed
for Europe, sent the comfortable roll
ing chair used by Mr.. Iiarnum during
the last few months of his life to the
bridgeport hospital for use III that in
stitution.
THE wife of u wcll-known naval of
ficer in Washington wears II very hand
some gold necklace that once adorned
the neck of Il Peruvian princess. The
lady's husband took it from the pril-
cess, whose mumiiicd body he found in
Il Peruvian grave.
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A FUR buyer of Lewiston says that on
an average five hundred bears are killed
yearly in Maine.
A CONNECTICUT man has gone into the
business of propagating rats. He
sells their skins to "kid' glove manu-
facturers.
A SHIPMENT of sea island ~cottonseed
has been made from Savannah to the
island of Borneo for planting, at the re-
quest of the governor of North British
Borneo and Lebuan.
THE Gillian war has had Il very seri-
GUS effect on the English hat makers,
who supply the majority of Chilians.
The latter have been SO busy fighting
that they have had no time to attend to
their sombreros.
A New YORK hotel, about to be built,
will have six hundred living rooms and
two hundred and sixty-five bathrooms.
1t will be big enough to take the head
of the list of mammoth American hotels
and will cost n round three million dol
lars.
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SEEN AND HEARD OF LATE.

AL.ETTER carrier ut Wheeling, w. Va,
successfully delivered Il letter to IL man
with the name Of George Schwifferwitz-
ernontherheim.
A DETERMINED fisherman of Gre YER
vile, Ga, catches alligators with Il hook
not an ordinary hook, however,
but al iron affair attached to u strong
pole.
A CONNECTICUT hunter shot up into L
tree at what he thought to be an empty
crows nest, and was very much sur
prised when a twenty-five pound coon
came crashing through the branches.
A WEST POINT cadet in full uniform
and a Vassar college girl wearing the
regulation square college cap are two
noticeable people on the Asbury park
promenade and seem to enjoy the curl
osity they excite.
JOHN PITTS, Il cripple, his wife, and
their seven-weeks'-old baby are living
in a dry-goods box in an open field near
Worcester, Mass. There is a brick fire.
place outside the box, where the woman
does the cooking.
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SCHOOL AND COLLEGE.

THERE are no less than SAC young men
taking examinations for entrance to
Harvard.
HOLMAN HUNTS Light of the World"
bought for $50, 900, has been presented
by the purchaser to Keble college.
PROF. ARNOLD GUYoT, of the Miami
(O.) university, has been appointed
professor of French in the Yale scien-
titic school.
KENTUCKY is waking up to the impor-
tance of public education, and the num-
Der of new schools and school buildings
is rapidly increasing.
THE gifts of the late =. n. Barnum to
the Tufts college aggregated 800, 900.
DIR. A. A. Miner, of Boston, rave $4O,-
900 for a theological school building.
A sYsTEM of free education is main
tanned in Chilli. There are $50 public
schools in the country. The branches
taught include law, medicine and the
fine arts,
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THESE eRUTES OF HUSBANDS.

Mrs. BUNHERToN-''I do SO admire
your husband, Mrs. Higgins. He is 20
amiable." Mrs. IIiggins-''You must
have met some other Mr.. Higgins -
Epoch.
Young WIFE-''We are told to cast
our bread upon the waters" The
Brute-"But don't you do it. A vessel
might run against it and get wrecked"
n. Y. Herald.
DoCTOR-"Your wife is Il very sick
woman, sir, and is likely to die" Hus-
band-'You needn't worry about her,
doc. She got n new dress the other day
and hasn't tried it on yct."-Cloak Re
view.
DO BRUTEs have Il l~anguage?" asked
the president of the Millville literary
circle ut n recent meeting. ''Do they?"
replied the secretary; you ought to
near my husband when he loses his
"-EXchanre.
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AMONG THE

In Tacoma, Wash, the First Presby-
terrain church has received 1853 mem-
bers during the past five months.
REV. DIR. FREEMAN, of Haverstraw,
n. Y, preached his 5,O0Oth sermon on
Sunday. He has held his p~astorate
forty-five years.
JOHN ID. ROCKEFELLER has given S.
600 for a new building for the Superior
Street Baptist church of Cleveland, O.,
and the congregation has raised as much
more.
The commission appointed by the
general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church has decided to hold
the next quadrennial in Omaha in May,
1892.
AT the Woodland Avenue Presby-
terrain church, Cleveland, O., the pastor,
Rev. Paul +. S%utphen, received 21O per-
sons on u recent Sabbath, 1913 Of whom
were on profession Of faith.
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BEAR THE MARKS OF AGE.

SAVANNAH claims the oldest Amer
lean thcatcr.
y SPANISH millrd dollar of 1878 was
found i'll the dirt under Il house in West
Paris, Me. The coin wa in excellent
condition, the design and lettering be
ing very clear.
A MEXICO tMn.) man has Il tax re-
ccipt in his possession acknowledging
the payment of fnrty-thrcc cents on
forty acres of land in Boone county.
The receipt i dated ISI;.
w. |. M%ATrnN, of Cuthbcrt, Ga, has
Il small child'S chair which has done
service for three generations of The
family. The chair is known to he
over half u century old, brrt 50 well pre-
served is it that it looks almost as good
aS new.
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JUDGE PORTER is charged at Pitts
burgh, Pa, by Anthony O'Brien with
taking Doodle while district attorney.
THERE was n collision between a
freight and II passenger train Mt Elmira,
N. V, at midnight on the ED. Freight
cars were piled thirty feet in the air.
Fireman NJ. w. Tillman was killed and
two other trainmen badly injured.
JUDGE WALLACE, of New York, has
granted an order ~suspending the writ
of injunction obtained by the Edison
Electric Light Co. against the United
States Electric Light Co. for a term of
six months by the fling by the United
States company of a sufficient bond to
protect the Edison company.
THE steamer George Law, which runs
from Philadelphia to Gloucester, col
lided with the Lincoln park steamer
Georginna at the mouth of the Schuyl-
kill river. One man was fatally in
jured and the Georgiana was laid up
for repairs.
REV. PHILLIPs Brooks will be conse-
Grated bishop of Massachusetts in Trim
ity church, Boston, October II.
KNIGHTS of Pythias on an excursion
boat from Gr~eenbush, N. Y, had n mar
row escape, being run down by the
Peoples line steamer Drew. Fortunate
the boat sank in shallow water and the
eXcursionists were all safely taken off.
THE prisoners in the Jail at Mauch
Chunk, Pa, struck against cleaning
their cells. They were put on bread
and water for two days and succumbed.
ALEXANDER CHAMBERS and wife, of
Larimer, Pa, were struck by n train
while walking on the Pennsylvania
tracks INK were thrown down an en-
bankment. Mrs. Chambers was killed,
but her husband was only slightly
hurt.
THE strike at the Allegheny BESSIE
mer steel works, Duquesne, Pa, has
been declared off, the men giving up
the fight
THE master plumbers of Boston have
decided not to increase the wages of
~journcymen. and n strike is expected.
THE first heavy ordnance t~welve-inch
rifle gun designed for coast defense and
made in New York state, was fred at
Sandy Hook for the first time with sat
i~sfactory results. With $50 pounds of
powder it hurled n ., 900 pound shot five
miles. The gun will use 44O pounds of
powder and throw a 1000 pound shot
twelve miles.
THE immense wooden mill of Campbell
& Elliott, Philadelphia, was recently
destroyed by fire. The loss was about
500, 900.
THE boiler at Lees sawmill at MIN
eveh Junction, ear Binghamton, N. Y,
exploded recently. Three men, james
Shaw, Fred Wheeling and NJ. Markham
were instantly killed.
The dairy cows in Sussex county, N.
j., are dying from a disease which has
puzzled every one.
FRED c. HAvEMEYER, who established
the great Havemeyer sugar r~efineries,
is dying at Throggs Neck, L. l. He is
the father of Henry O.. and Theodore
Havemeyer, the leading spirits in the
sugar trust. lie is So years old.
RICHARD NEwcoMBE, the well-known
New York lawyer, is dead.
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Weekly I~ntelligencer.
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTEs

a STATEMENT prepared at the treas
'ury department shows that the receipts
from customs at the port of New York
during the first twenty days of July
were So, T95, IS7, or SO, 2S5, SOL less than
the receipts at the same time during
the corresponding period of last year.
The citizens of Washington are in the
field for the grand army encampment
in 1892
THE agents of the Gillian congress
sional party in Washington discredit
the report of recent engagements off
Huasco and also the report that the
Esmeralda fired on the French vessel
Volta.
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE RUsK
denies that he has issued any quaran-
tine laws discriminating against Ten
nessec, as was alleged.
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The undersigned, public administration
of Lafayette county, will on Monday Au-
gust 3, 1891, during the August term OF
county court, sell in front Of the court
house door, 10y authority of an order of
the probate cour made june 30, 1891, all
the store accounts belonging To the estate
of ). ). lterdcr, deceased, which now re
main unpaid. Sale 10 take place at half
past one O'Clock. Terms cash,
STEPHEN n. WILSON,
7-4t4 Public Administrator.
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REMARKABLE ColNCIDEnTS.

A CURIOUS fact in connection with the
deaths in u Pottstown pa family is
that all the children-nine in number
passed away in their twenty-sccond
year.
A VERY curious coincidence happened
at Kawanda Falls, Pa, on the Fourth.
Five men, all strangers, met, and on
being introduced each was found to be
John A. Libson.
THERE are i'll Louisville, Ky, two
Lillian Johnsons, both Young girls, who
are trying to ascertain the whereabouts
in Cincinnati of their fathers, each of
whom is named ID. +. Johnson and is Il
carpenter.
Two BROTHERS,, who were born at one
birth and who were greatly attached to
each other, were killed by one bolt Of
lightning near Admission, Ala, u few
DAYS ago,
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n DISTINCT shock OF earthquake was
felt at Evansville, Ind, on the night of
the Goth, extending into kentucky.
Much alarm was caused.
RAINS have fallen in northwest India,
averting the famine that was feared.
Two excursion cars on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton d Dayton were wrecked by
a freight train crashing into them ut
Middletown, neal Dayton, O., on the
night of the 25th. Three persons were
instantly killed and a large number
wounded.
mense plant at ~ to 81 Erie street, Chi
cago, and with branches at Memphis
and Owatonna, Mimi, after n brief ex-
istence of six weeks has collapsed. The
three plants were worth 81, coo, 600.
THE SOUTH
News of the assassination of Rev. p.
Il. Williams, a Methodist clergyman,
near Ileber, Ark, has been received.
He was shot from ambush while riding
along the country road. A man named
Johnson, known to have been Williams
bitter enemy, was arrested and held for
the crime.
Gov. STONE and Adj.-Gen. Henry
went to Vicksburg to see if they could
do anything toward settling the labor
troubles agitating the people of that
city.
YELLOW fever has broken out among
the crew of the British ship Nigretia,
which arrived at Pensacola, Fla, July
IA from Vera Cruz. One death is re-
ported, that of George Rowan, an en-
gineer of London, Eng.
THE Atlanta (Ga.) federation of
trades passed resolutions of sympathy
with the striking miners of Tennessee,
also condcmning the Georgia convict
system.
THE strike of skilled laborers at
Vicksburg, Miss, is evidently over,
though not yet formally declared off.
The strike was maintained for eight
weeks on slender resources, and the
men now find themselves compelled to
resume work on such terms as the
bosses may dictate.
EDITOR Ii. C. Brown, of the Southern
Alliance Farmer Of Atlanta, Ga, has
been arrested for reprinting an edi-
torial from u San Francisco paper
which is alleged to be n lottery adver-
tisement.
TENNESSEE cattle growers are wildly
indignant over the quarantine order of
Secretary Rusk. They positively deny
that disease of any kind exists in the
Tennessee herds.
A thrcsher explosion oc-
Cured recently On James Durbin's farm
near Litchfield, Ky. Three men were
killed and five dangerously injured.
EX-Gov. DAVID s. WALKER, of Flor
ida, is dead.
AT Morehead, Ky, Deputy United
States Marshal George Armstrong was
shot and killed by Constable Simms, of
that place. Armstrong was passing
through Morehead with a party of
~moonshine prisoners, and while stop
ping Over night became involved in a
quarrel with Simms.
THE troubles at Briceville and Coal
Creek, Tenn, ended amicably on the
cath, the miners agreeing not to modest
the convicts and to await relief through
a special session of the legislature.
CHARLES OZBURN, a wholesale COM
mission merchant, was hanged at At
lanta, Ga, for the murder of a man
named Bradley. Great efforts were
made to save Ozburn from the gallows
without effect.
Mrs. SUSAN NJ. KEY, wife of Bishop
J. S. Key of the Methodist Episcopal
church south, died at Eureka Springs,
Ark, recently of heart trouble. She
had been an invalid for several years.
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A splendid work horse, double or single.
Full of life and spirit, but perfectly kind
and gentle. Sound as a silver dollar. In
quire at Green 81 Dysart's livery stable or
of JOHN y. BLACK ELL
The Tennessee militia are expected
to defend the stripes, if not the stars. .
/ Louisville Courier-,JOurnal.
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The one ih'aE Lacked.
She Is versed in iCthya.ugy,
Psychology.
Biology,
And can hold her own with any ph. d.;
She can discourse on astronomy,
GaStrOnnmy,
PhlcbOtOmy,
And on physics she can talk most perfectly.
She's accomplished on the banjo.
Piano.
Dbu,
And can MARBLE a. the nightingale sings;
She exactly knows what are p~ucumatics,
Dalmatics.
~Emphatic5,
And numerous other dainty little things.
She has studied thc latest fashion,
Poems Of passion,
Arts OF mashin',
And giddy youth consider her quito u catch;
But she lacks one little quality.
Not Grivolity,
Neither iulllty,
She merely doesn't know how to wind her watcl
jewelers. Circular.
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"What Is IIcavcn!'
Child, how can / tell
OF the beauty that rests on the city of Godr'
Mine eyes have not seen ii, my feet have not
trod
worth
Out-shinc and out value the Jewels of earth.
And what is Heaven know only this:
'Tis the birthplace of glory; the essence OF
bliss"
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POETICAL EFFUSIONS.

He I.nyird il.
y pretty girl with Il hUrrid cold
Spoke To- hurrid man
And said: y cnlda "a h"rrid thing
And then to cough bcRan-
~"Sumclimc thiuk-iu fact, | fear
This said between each cough
THAT by thi5 hurrid cold some day
will be carried on
The horrid man then told anew
The story thai H. old
81 wish" said he, that | might be
That hurrid, hurrid cold"
-WhitCSidc Herald.
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h Is Heaven"

Dear, how do | know?
We gaze into space through the blue. throbbing
air,
Sun crowned and star gemmcd, ana we say. 1t
is there.
Above, and beyond us, more high and more
high,
Gods palace whose floor is our beautiful sky.
And where Is Heaven ! know only this:
IT'S the hope of all ages wherever it is"
Rose Hartwick Thorpe, in N. Y. Observer.
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4 FarinG Song.
o tired little mariner,
cO-ho Eco hot
Unto the strand Of Sunderland
ASailirg W. must go.
This is the time when children fare
Away from home;
So Wen seek the good ship ~Rochdngchair.
Affair To roam.
yco-ho!
o sleepy little vOyaGcr,
Seo-hO! NCOlhol
The pleasant breeze OF drowsiness
Beginning Is Ia blow;
And now the isles of NiduOd are
All safely passed;
And now over Drcamlaud's harbor bar
We steer ut last,
yco-ho!
Portland Transcript.
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Wear" prepared 4" make leans at Money for
ANY amount small ~ lirur. tor ANY length of
iiin" from ON" inirn years, ~ low rates of i'll
lrrtSl with lIlNIic"U L. pay pan ar whole al
any interest pay iIN. Ali tt land as security
OF desirable ,,iN property. n" delay.
T.. WiNSuH y SON,
opp. Courthouse, Lexington, Mo.
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INV $500
Sweet partner OF my cares and joys,
To whom my sacred vow were plIghted,
| bless thr day one year l"0-
We were with trembling hearts unitcdI
| bless the daY an angel came
Twas in delightful summer weather.
From heaven to earth hc sped his way
And brought two loving souls together.
! bless the day that fortune smiled
The landscape with new beauty painted
When, sending thee across my path.
She made us happily acquainted.
l bless the day that |av" thee birth,
For in thy birth my future slumbcr"d.
The promise OF this happy time
Was there. and present joys unnumbcred.
l bless there! I've said enough
To show my love il undated,
Although Il year has passed away
Since we, my little wife, were mated.
N. Y. Mill aud Express
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EN- PLOYMENT
FINAL

FINAL ENT.
Notice is hereby given to all creditors and
others persons Interested in the estate of Noah
J.. Adams. deceased, that the undersigned. adj
ministIatrlN viii apply To make II final settle
mcnt oi said estate, at the August term, 1891. of
the probate court of Lafayette county, Mis-
SQUIRT to he begun and held ut the probate court
room, IN the city "f Lexington, ON the second
Monday in August. ls9I.
MARY IL. ADAMS,
'lS't ADMINISTRATIVE