The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-08-04
County court, Monday.

TUFTS Pills do not nauseate nor grippe.
Tim Kiezer is the Confederate Home
poet.
Refrigerators, best make, at Schawe q
Weis. 5-5tf
A fine rain Sunday morning assured a
large corn crop.
More people at the circus than you
could shake a stick at.
Circus day is more generally observed
than any other holiday.
The wife OF Ed Nelson, n negro, was ar
rested, Monday, for brutally whipping her
boy.
Petty thieves are too numerous. Keep
your shot gun loaded and ut a CO nvenient
place.
The new building of Mr.. Patsy Pagan,
is nearing completion. When completed
it will have cost q, 100. 1t will be heated
by steam.
What do you take medicine for?
Because you are sick and want to get
well, Of course. Then observation-disclosures
Sarsaparilla cures. Try it.
The children's praise service, held by
the Methodist and Baptist churches. at
Dover, last Sunday evening, drew a large
audience, and was a success in every par
ticular.
Harry Moffett, while loading a pistol,
last Saturday, shot himself in the leg,
just above the knee. The wound is not
serious, and the young man is getting
along very nicely.
"Uncle Billie" White, Of Dover, spent
Tuesday and Wednesday here. lie went
to see the circus, and stayed up a day to
speak to old friends. This was his first
visit in three years.
The man, who was arrested on charge
of breaking into the Missouri Pacific
depot, was given a preliminary Monday,
and is being held to await action on the
part of the grand jury.
Mr.. George Fain returned from Georgia,
Tuesday. He says that The crops through
out Illinois and Indiana are failures, and
that anything like an apple or corn crop
is not seen until you strike Missouri.
For Picking and Preserving-Mur-
docks o. p. r.. Extracts, Fruit Coloring
ard Strictly Pure Spices are the best. A
full line OF Mason's self-sealing fruit
jars. Go see them at Mullenix and
Co.'s 6-23-tf
Miss Ada Lamborn, while visiting at
Vermont, Illinois, has sustained n very
serious accident. While out riding, a few
days ago, she was thrown from the buggy
and in the fall her collar bone was
broken.
"Uncle 81" and all his neighbors and
his neighbors' children and grandchildren
were here Tuesday. At Young & Buford's
25l head of horses were taken care of.
This does not include eighty-five head
that belong to the stable.
Attorney James G.. Russell recently
purchased from a Mr.. Crisp a very fine
t~rotting horse, Barney" He was sired
by Merchant, and trots a mile in less than
three minutes. "Jim" puts in his spare
time taking his young lady friends out
driving.
Mr.. A. B. Mathews, republican nominee
for collector, of MAYHEM, was in the city
Tuesday. He said he wanted to read some
straight democracy, and consequently had
his name added to our subscription list.
May our friend profit by reading the In
TELLIGENCER.
TIL ladies are taking special interest in
the aoral hall, at Higginsville Fair. Let
everybody send in their exhibits, n see
how well old Lafayette can do. You can't
well miss seeing it, and II you have some-
thing in the show you will always feel
proud that you helped make such a dis
| play.
Messrs Ed. Taubman, Chas. Egle, Geo.
tSchawe, Frank Etherton, Ed. Brawner,
fWiiiiam Etherton, William Cavanaugh,
fJulius WInkler, Tom Goodwin, Fred
Meet, Pete Ward, Mike Conors, John
Watson, Jake Gavin, John Welborn, o.
]. Powell, Geo. Smith and Henry Russell
attended the republican convention at
Higginsville last Saturday.
Hogan's army, which has been encamp.
ed since Saturday in North st. Louis, at
the foot of Prairie avenue, is reported to
be in a most deplorable condition. There
are no rations in camp, and the men are
starving. The efforts OF the relief COM
mittee to secure food have proved un-
availing. Unless something is done for
them the men are likely to become des-
perate and make rouble. They will starve
before they will work.
Mr.. Robert Smith has resigned his posi-
ton as travelling salesman for Barton
Brothers, of Kansas City, and has accept
ed q like position with SeIz, Schwab &
Co., of Chicago, one of thu largest, II not
the largest, wholesale boot and shoe house
in the world. His territory will embrace
the state of Nebraska. Mr.. Smith is one
of the most successful statesmen on the
road, and is q genial, honorable and
popular gentleman. We congratulate.
Sheriff Wright has as many friends as
any other one man in the county. He
possesses the true southern hospitality,
and he and his esJimable wife enjoy the
visits of their friends as much as any one.
On last Tuesday the sherif's table was
filed with good things, and about thirty
of his friends took dinner with him. This
is quite q large number, but there was not
one that was not we'll cared for. There
are more voters that make Mr.. Wright's
their headquarters, when they are in the
city, than the republicans can muster to
vote for Patsy Pagan.
The county court room was crowded all
day Thursday, the occasion being the pre-
! liminary trial OF John Price and Edward
Nelson, on the charge Of having set fire to
Kelly's livery stable. The case was tried
before Squire Wallace with William Aull
for the prosecution and Welborn Il Hick-
lin for the defense. Many witnesses were
examined, and the case warmly contested.
After hearing the evidence on both sides,
and weighing it In the balance, Squire
Wallace decided that there was no evil
dence to show that Price was in any way
implicated, and he was turned loose. Ed
, Nelson was bound over to the grand jury
and his bond fixed at $500, which he gave.
} An Iowa exchange has the following:
"Mr. J. b. Silver, the genial representa-
tive OF the Clair, Scott Manufacturing
Company, transacted the business for
the firm here in a very satisfactory
manner, paying out about $4,000 for
material and labor to our citizens. He is
a pleasant gentleman, and ii is a pleasure
|, to do business with him.. The company
should feel fiattered to secure the services
q OF this gentleman, as he will make friends