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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-27
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.

At the Methodist church Sunday morn
ing, three persons were baptised as mem
bers of the chuach.
Bishop L. r. Atwill, of the diocese Of
West Missouri, occupied the pulpit Of
Calvary church, Sedalia, Sunday morning
and evening.
The protracted meeting at the Metho-
dist church closed Sunday evening, after
seven weeks of erysinteresting services.
There were some fifty conversions.
Elder Goode, the pastor, will preach
morning n evening at the Christian
church. Morning subject, "Sundry Chris
tian Duties;" evening subject, t'The ar.
gument Of Results"
Mrs. CIoudsley, who died late Frifas
evening, In this city, assisted In the or
ganization of the Methodist church when
Lexington consisted OF one store and 9
blacksmith shop. The meeting to organ
iZe was held IN the latter building.
The revival meeting at the Baptist
church, conducted by Rev. Thomas L
Powell, assisted by Rev. w. 3. Walker, ii
daily growing in interest. On Monda,
there We're ten additions to the church
four at the morning service and six in tn,
evening.
Bishop E. r. AtwiIl, of the diocese o
West Missouri, preached o very able ser
mon at Christ church Tuesday evening
to a crowded auditorium, from the text
John XIV. II, cart the consultations of Coz
small with thee?" At the conclusion of tn,
sermon Misses Katie Farrar and Mimi,
Neale and Walter Farrar and Joe Lauri
were confirmed as members OF the con
gregation. An informal reception wa
tsndered Bishop and Mrs. Atwill at tn,
guild room during the afternoon.
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UNDER ONE HEAD.
The POntOn Bridge and Ferry Com
panies Consolidated.

A meeting of the directors of the Pom
ton Bridge Company was held at 10 o'clock
Thursday, at the Office OF Secretary
Loomis, when an agreement to CONSOLE
date the Ponton Bride Company with the
Lexington Ferry Company was signed,
and will be submitted to the stockholders
for ratification. The ferry company alb
serbs the bridge company. The stock OF
the latter company will be taken up and
Cancelled, and stock of the ferry company
issued in lieu thereof. The bridge will
be kept across the river as much as posi-
BILE, and when, for any cause, 1t cannot be
operated, the ferry boat, Roy Lynds, will
ply between the two ends OF the bridge.
This consolidation, it is said, is much
to the advantage of both companies, as
the constant changing OF the current
and shifting Of sandbars makes it extreme
ly difficult to maintain a permanent land
ing for the boat. The bridge approaches
will be used, the boat using the two parts
of the bridge as landing stages.
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REVOLUTIONS.

CIRCUIT COURT Room, MAR
SHALL, SALINE COUNTY, Mo-,
February 18th, 1892.
WHEREAS, The members Of tbs Saline
County Bar, having assembled for the
purpose OF giving expression to their SEN
timents, with reference to the proposed
Legislation In redistricting the judicial cir
cults OF the state. and fixing the salaries
oil the Judges OF said circuits, and,
We find that the Sixth Judi
ciai Circuit, composed Of the counties OF
Lafayette, Pettis and Saline. O contains.
by h late census, q population of e5 O07
omitting the city OF st. Louis and .Iack-
son county, where there are various courts
with more than one Judge, we find tina,
the average population Of the other TWEEN
ty-sight circuits is 7s,7s2; that the sixth
circuit has q population OF q. 315 In exces.
Of said average. That the Sixth Judicial
Circuit and Johnson county, COMPOSING
Especial criminal circuit has a popuIa
ton Of 123,229, and,
WHEREAS, We fine that separate courts
for the transaction of criminal business
insure, In . greater degree, the constitu
tional guaranty and inalisnable RICH
shat justice should be administered with
out delay" and that the accused have :"
speedy trial" Besides, the separate court
save thousands of dollars In loss Of tim
and money to litigants, jurors and wit
nesses. Parties having business in th
civil courts are not detained for days, an
perhaps weeks, awaiting the Termination
Of some complicated criminal case, whicl
is granted the fright Of way" in court
having mixed jurisdiction, under the con
stitutional provisions above mentioned.
WHEREAS, We find that the salarie
paid the judges of the said courts are no
only too small, but extremely parsimoni
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Lawyers James and Viyion were up from
Higginsville Tuesday.
Miss sallie Taylor was the guest OF
Alma friends this week.
County Attorney Aull went to Concor-
dia Wednesday evening.
Miss Maggie Benton returned this week
from a visit to Kansas City.
Captain A. A. Lesueur, secretary oi
state, was up from Jefferson City Sunday.
Miss Sadie McClelland, OF Wellington.
has been the guest of friends here this
week.
Miss Pearl Reeder is visiting relatives
in Kansas City, and will be absent severaI
weeks.
IA. j. Shultz, the owner of Linwood
Lawn, arrived from st. Louis Monday
forenoon.
Tao Ryland left yesterday morning Tor
Kansas City, where he has a lucrative
position. d.
Miss Amanda Steininger, of Jefferson
City, is the guest of the family of George
Guenther.
Gus hellbeck, who has been visiting his
wife for a few days, returned to Denver
Saturday night.
Mrs. James M. Withers, of Mayview, has
been the guest OF her daughter, Mrs. John
@. Worthington.
w. b. Weedin, a student at Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tenn, is at home
for n short time.
Joe Long, of Long & Becker, went to
Norborne Monday, to the bedside of his
father, who is ill.
s. l. Drysdale, of Sweet Springs, was the
guest of his daughter, Mrs. Ed. Zeiler, in
this city. Sunday and Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burton, of the Bates CITY
neighborhood, attended the funeral of
their relative, Mrs. Cloudsley, on Sunday.
Mrs. John Morrison and Mrs. Mary En-
glish after a short visit at Kansas CITY
and Independence, returned home Mon
day.
Ernest Hays, who has beer attending
the Chillicothe Normal and Business In
stitute since September, arrived home
Tuesday.
Walter Eckle, who is practicing deniis-
try at Fulton, was here Sunday to attend
the funeral Of his grandmother, Mrs.
Cloudsley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Catron went to
Marshall Monday night, as witnesses in
the Catron will case. George Catron went
on Tuesday.
Miss Lucie FindIey, OF Des Moines, Ia,
is the guest Of her aunts, Mrs. w. Il.
Shultz and Miss Sue FindIey, Twentieth
and South streets.
Miss Emma Wilson, who has been the
guest of the family of her uncle, Upton
Wilson, returned to her home at Louis
vile, KY, Tuesday.
Miss Minnie Arnold, OF Windsor, n stu
dent of the Baptist Female college at Lex
ington, is the guest of Mrs. Jos. NJ. Jones,
She is one Of the brightest and most win
some young aides attending the college
and her many friends in Sedalia will re-
gret that her stay here must OF necessity
be 80 shOrt.-Sedalia Gazette.
Mrs. Emma Taubman went To Sweet
Springs yesterday morning to attend the
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Gus, and evince an incorrect idea of public
economy. That the present fixed salaries
are not abreast of the times, and are no
compensation for the time, labor and
study bestowed in order to attain so high
and responsible a position, Therefore,
be it
Resolved, That it is the sense OF the
members of this bar that the Sixth Judi
cial Civil Circuit should remain as it 10y
EXITS.
Resolved, That no change or alteration
of the Sixth Judicial Circuit and Johnson
county, embracing the criminal circuit,
should be made.
Resolved, That the salaries OF the Judges
should be increased to such an extent as
Will be a compensation for the arduous
labors and duties of n trial Judge, and
secure the best talent therefor.
Resolved, Ina we earnestly recommend
TO tine representatives of Saline county
and the state senator from this district in
honorable means to accomplish the results
above indicated, and we pledge them our
support and cooperation in the attain
ment of such ends
Resoled, That copies of these resolutions
be given Hon. t.. ii. Richardson, state
senator, and Hon. Abram Neff and Hon
I'D. Eubank the representatives OF Saline
county, and that copies be sent the bars
OF the several counties in the circuits
aforesaid.
CHAs. NJ. HAwIEY,
JOHN A. RICH,
ID. ID. DUGaINs,
A. j. HAYNES,
SAM'L DAVIS,
Committee.
hi above resolutions were unanimous
ly adopted by the Saline County Bar, at
meeting held on February 10th, 1892.
SAM'L DAVIS, Chairman.
A. Il. RECTOR Secretary.
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ACQUITTED BY JURY.
A Case OF MOmentOus Import DispOs'
ed of by Justice Price and a Jury.

Ben Lakewood. colored. was accused by
Julins Yokam, also colored, with the
theft OF half a gallon OF whisky, which
had been purchased by Yokum for his
fathers private use. The whisky was
valued at two dollars, but Yokum fills took
the jug with him to u party, and the par
Elephants at the party participated in a
raid on the jug, and Yokum pere had to
drink water for his nightcap. The inn
portance of the case as a degree of crime
was second, and n slow second, at that, to
the Importance OF the case as a vent for
the erudition and wit of the attorneys for
the commonwealth and the dusky defen-
dant, Col. 9erson Siiverman Inc Judge
Harry Wallace, Jr., respectively. Both
young gentlemen were at their best, and
sharp and brilliant repartee kept the
large crowd of spectators in a good humor,
even when the cold hard walls of the
penitentiary were looming up by turns
before the defendant for stealing the
whisky and the prosecuting witness for
wrongfully accusing him. Even the MEM
bers of the jury, sedate and middle-aged
gentlemen, saw times to smile, and Justice
John Price held his lordly sides in the
attempt to suppress an occasional risible
uprising "interiorily." The jury, after a
short, sharp wr.stle with the evidence pre-
and con, and the arguments of the learn
ed counsel for and against, returned a YER
dict OF not guilty, the defendant escaping
%unnoticed in the general storm OF applause
and hearty congratulations for the two
brilliant young attorneys. The statute
denies the state the right TO appeal the
case to the supreme court.
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DEATHS.

David Parker, colored, died Tuesday
forenoon, at his home on Blue Ridge, OF
general debility, and was buried Wednes-
day afternoon in the colored cemetery.
lie was AZ years old, and leaves a young
wife and several grown sons.
Died, Thursday, February IS, 1892, at his
home at Bastrop, Texas, of la grippe, j.
II. Washington, aged 40 years. He was a
brother OF Mrs. j. V. Dysart, of this city,
and formerly lived in this county, where
he was we'll known and liked by all.
Died, Thursday, February %, 1892, of a
complication OF diseases, after an Illness
of several months, at her home on Main
street, East Lexington, Mrs. Ann Malissa
Davis, wife of II. w. Davis, aged 40 years.
The remains were inferred at Machpelah
at 10,a. m. yesterday.
Willie Dreyer, aged Is years, son oI
Rudolph Dreyer, who lives five miles
southwest of Lexington, died Monday
February %, 1892, of dropsy. Funeral
services were held at the German Metho.
dist church Wednesday afternoon, by the
pastor, Rev. j. q. Mueller, and the remain.
were Inferred in Machpelah cemetery.
Died, Sunday, February 81, 1892, at 4 a
M, at her home at Dover, Lafayette coun
ty, Mrs. Laura &. Plattenburg, widow o
the late Judge James =. Plattenburg, age(
70 years. The funeral was held Tuesday
from the Dover Methodist church, o
"hINh uONcdotu hdu DttI II IltIIlDtT since
1859, when she joined under the pastoral,
OF Rev. Robert A. Young. Mrs. Platten
burg was the mother of j. O., Harvey anC
Miss Euia ~Plattenburg, of this county
and Mrs. John N. Edwards, of st. Joseph
Judge Plattenburg, her late husband, die
about two years ago.
Died, Friday, February 10, 1892, at 6 p
M, at the residence OF Miss Lucy Davis
Main street, Mrs. Ann Cloudsley, widow
of the late James Cloudsley, aged ~ year
and Is days.
Mrs. ~Cloudsley was one of the organ
izers of the Lexington Methodist church
and the last of that body. She was mar
ried at her home in Baltimore, Md, il
1896, and two years later came with ne
husband to this city. She has lived nea
Lexington since then, and has Away
been true and loyal to her church. Sh
was attending the protracted meeting a
the Methodist church when the ia tai III
ness overlook her. A true womsn-tru
to every Grscd fiS''rieffts .ii6w rs TIi
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-27
AN EASY GRADE.
The Completion of the River Route
Fully Determined Upon.
. LONG HARD HILL OVERCOME.
The Missouri Paeific's Ownership OF
the Right of Way Around the
Worst Grade from st. Louis
to Kansas City-Rail-
way Notes.

The INTELLIaENCER believes that the
Jefferson City, Boonville and Lexington
division OF the Missouri Pacific will be
completed this summer, from its present
terminus at Boonville to SCOTS, the point
at which it will join the main line, and
that, furthermore, the terrible grade at
Independence, which has been the one
source of trouble since the Missouri Pa
ciic was made the fast mail line, will be
overcome by the building of a road on an
almost level grade to the north of Inde-
pendeace. These two measures are fully
determined pom by the company, the
lETEILIaENcER sincerely believes. aud
will be carried out, Notwithstanding the
backset sought to be given Lexington and
her future bright prospects by a green
eyed newspaper which got scooped on the
information.
IN official of the company, in CONVEX
sation with an lNTRLLIaENoER reporter
Friday night, fully confirmed the report
of the completion of the Dad IRON Boon
Vile to SCOTS, and said work would begin
as soon as the frost Is out Of the ground.
He also stated that the company had
secured the right OF way for a line Begin
ming in the neighborhood of Lake City
and running to the north of Independence,
fully e~ncompassing the steep grade into
that city. The new line, when thus COM
pleted, would make IN almost level road
from st. Louis to Kansas City, and several
minutes shorter, under the same condition
OF roadbed, than the main line.
"Will Lexington be made q divisional
point?" was asked.
pm not so sure of that" the official
replied. "But Lexington Ii about the
right divisional distance from SCOTS and
Kansas City, and may be made the end OF
the two divisions"
"Will the road from Lake City to hide
pendence be a~bandoned?"
"Why not?"
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MORNING GLORY TN BLOOM.

A lady on West South street has a win
dow shelf upon which are a number OF
pots of flowers. The plant in one of these
POTS died and about the middleo OF January,
just for her own amusement, the house
wife planted some morning glory seed in
the pot. The seeds terminated, the plants
grew, their tiny tendrils reached out and
twined about the other plants, until there
was a bright green over all the plants,
Tuesday morning the first blossom an
folded its pale blue and purple petals to
the light, and now there are dozens OF
other blooms bursting forth. 1t is a pretty
and novel sight. Little attention was
paid to the vines at first.
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A sEDALIA

Charles l.. Taylor and wife attended a
party in Sedalia one night this week, and
as they went home about IL o'clock, a
masked highwayman robbed them OF
jewelry and money. He then marched
them to the open prairie In the southern
suburbs, tied Taylor hand and fooU, and,
taking Mrs. Taylor a few yards further on
brutally outraged her. After cutting Tay-
lor's bonds and telling the two to go home,
the fiend escaped into the darkness. Tay-
Tor and his wife walked to Fourth and
Ohio streets, more than a mile from the
scene OF the outrage, before giving an
alarm. A mass meeting of citizens was
held the next day, when posses We're or
ganized and a reward of $500 was offered
for the capture of the highwayman. Tay-
Tor is being justly criticised for making
no show of resistance. He allowed him
self to be robbed in a thickly inhabited
portion of the city, marched out past the
residences OF a thousand citizens and tied
hand and foot without n sound, and upon
his return passed perhaps two hundred
houses without giving an alarm. Mrs.
Taylor was almost overcome with a merry
Gus complaint.
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A aIDDY GIRLS.

Manager Hagen's next attraction will
be Rush q Pickett's Paris Gaiety Girls
Buriesque Company tonight, n it is
already given out that every lodge in town
will hold a special session. h Milwau-
kee Evening Wisconsin says OF the COM
pany:
The Paris Gaiety Girls Burlesque Com
pany IL giving an enjoyable performance
at the Peoples. The engagement was
inaugurated last evening under favorable
auspices. The bill abounds in vaudeville
features, burlesque and extravaganza,
varied and amusing.
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GOES TO THE FULL BENCH,

In the suit of Dixon against the Chicago
and Alton railroad, in the supreme court
on Monday, the motion of the defendant
TO transfer the case to the our in banc
was sustained and the ransfer made. A
msn named Dixon was killed on the Alton
road, and his friends brought suit for
damages in the Lafayette county circuit
court. Judge Field sustained the defen-
dant's demurrer to evidence, and instruct
ed the jury to find for the plaintiff. The
defendants attorneys, Messrs. Graves and
Aull, of this city, appealed the case to the
supreme court, which tribunal reversed
the finding of the jury in the circuit court,
the motion to transfer from division No.
l to court i'm banc following.
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THE nATRnN WILL non

y special from Marshall to the Kansas
ciIy Times says that in the circuit court
there on Tuesday the case transferred from
Lafayette county of Mrs. Francis McFsd-
den against her brother, J. II. Catron, and
Others, to set aside the will of Mrs. Martha
Catron' the mother of the parties con
eerned, was called. The plaintiff claims
.hat catron obtained the will by undue
i9nuenee, In which all was bequeathed TO
MN except 5000 for the plaintiff. The
will was made in 1890 and Mrs. Catron
died the year following.
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A IT Nuisance

The city marshal should make an effort
to suppress the nuisance almost of nightly
occurrence on the pavement at the corner
Of Tenth and Main streets. Small colored
boys copgregate there to the number OF q
score or more, and when they are not
dancing they are quarreling and fighting
Last Sunday evening there We're two fights
upside OF ten minutes, end the vilest AN
sqage fought with cigarette smoke fol-
mastery In the atmosphere. A lady is
helpless against the nuisance
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Conductor Frank Mount, OF the ''river
route" spent sunday with his family at
Sedaiia-
George b.. Gordon shipped one car OF
cattle and one Of hogs from Waverly to
Kansas City Monday afternoon.
me Jeiferson City, Boonyiile and Lex
~ frs1n was an hour and q half late
e5}ernoon, caused by delay at
bile some stock was loaded.
E6@ E~<1ssouri Pacific and Santa Fe have
made rates Of one fare for the round trip
to the Department Encampment Of the
Grand Army of the Republic at Chilli
cothe, March %, % and "A, tickets good to
return March %.
The completion OF the road from Jeffer-
son City to Boonville, a distance of about
thirty-two miles, will give the Missouri
Pacific q grade of not over fifteen feet ia
the mile from Jefferson City TO Kansas
City.-Kansas City Star.
Tom Jones, the popular Lexington
branch postal clerk, who has been laying
off while raising q set of whiskers such al
John Kehn used to wear, came in from
Versailles yesterday and will resume
work to-morrow.-Sedalia Gazette, Oath.
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Do VOC LOVE PL0WIRs2

One of the handsomest plants for con-
seryatory, window or out door decoration
is the begonia. Begonias are almost un-
limited in variety and each INT is equally
satisfactory. 1t Is a plant that is easily
kept, needs but little attention, and is
always responsive to proper attention
The well known green house firm OF
Good, Reese & Co., Springfield, Ohio, has
made q speciality OF begonias and cultivate
the largest and best assortment in the
union. If you are interested in flowers,
by all means send to this firm for one OF
their catalogues and hasten to make up
your orders for begonias or any other
plant or bulb YOU may want.
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GARD.

/ desire to notify II patrons and the
public that the insurance, real estate and
loan business of r.. Wiusor Il Son, will
be continued at the old stand i'm Lexing-
ton, and we ask q continuation of youl
patronage and good will.
27-2t II. w. WINsoR.
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bedside of her sister, Mrs. George Math-
ews, who is very low.
Mann Chinn, who has been ut home
with his family for a few days, left We'd
nesday fora siN-weeks selling tour through
Kansas and Nebraska.
Joseph Afford viii leave this morning
for ColiaX, Wash, where he goes 10 ac-
cept a splendid position with Il lea aiding
dry goods firm of that city.
II. IT. Smith, the new staff man OF the
iNTELLIGENoER, dropped in yesterday,
but Immediately departed again to look
mp outside business for the boss paper of
the county
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A ORGANIZE HERE.

Cadet Boyce, OF the Salvation Army at
Richmond, was in the city Tuesday, and
informed a representative of the INTEL
LIaENCER that it was h intention of
Staff Captain Brown, OF st. Joseph, who
has charge of the territory in which is
included Lexington, to establish a corps
of the army here in q few weeks. In view
of this event some of the boys about town
have already laid in II supply of tam
bourines, and will early don the uniform
of the "blood-washed warriors" Ed.
Burrowes, OF the SedaIia Gazette, has
written for enlistment blanks and neces-
sary information.
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SPEED STEPHENS CONFIDENT.
He Looks for Work to Commence at
Any Time on the BOOnville Gap

Col. Speed Stephens, of ~Boonville, was
In Jefferson City q few days ago, and is
thus quoted bya reporter for h Tribune:
"Boonville is as much interested in the
completion OF the river route as Jefferson
City. It will put us on q trunk line, for
there is no doubt whatever that when the
line is In operation all the through trains
and the fast mail of the Missouri Pacific
will go to Kansas City via Boonville and
Lexington. l look for work to commence
r. 81 al as l understand that the
Missouri Pacific at this city
at Boonville have received
zFe13 headquarters to make reduce
"a rates 20 the contractors for shipping
supplies. was in st. Louis some days
since aud was about the railroad offices a
good deal. You know, of course, that
railroad officials talk a good deal and
don't say much, as q rule; but / gathered
from some little things heard that work
on the road Is to be pushed as rapidly as
possible when it is commenced"
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We have now in stock q liberal supply
of those books and offer them at b rates
made under the new school book law:
list Book 49,. &c; Exchange 80. 10c
End Book $50. SOC; Exchange. TIC
VIII be pleased to correspond with the
teachers of the county for the purpose OF
replacing the grammars now in use.
Where the classes are making change 1t
would be advisable to make the change.
Il. g. LOOMS, Main street,
@. w. LOOMS, Franklin avenue.
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WHERE Ip GOES

Emil i,udwigs is a single man, cut ht
has - talking machine that can keeT
women listening when it gets started
Mr.. Ludwigs took his monograph t.
Wellington Thursday, where it will re-
main until tonight. lie goes to Aullvillt
March /; Concordia, 2, 3, a and 8; May.
view, :. and Odessa, 8, 9, 10, IL and u.