The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-27


terms. Apply at this Office. 2-2Ot
This will be our last issue under Mr.
Cleveland's administration.
A Texas railroad classed a car load o
tramps as vegetables, because they were
beats.
"Some how my watch don't go right
"Mine is alright, 1 had it repaired al
Veuable's." 2-13t4
Y. w. Poteet. of Warrensburg, will
preach at Edenview church, tomorrow at
IL o'clock a. m.
The sun didn't do a thing to the snow
lake. that attempted to whiten the
ground last Thursday.
The Rev. IrI Hicks, the distinguished
Missouri weather prophet, does not be-
lieve in the ground hog.
Rev. Thos. Trimble, late of Mexico,
Mo-, has accepted the pastorate. of the
Presbyterian church at Waverly.
At the point where the Mississippi
river flows out of Lake Itaska it is only
ten feet wide and eighteen Inches deep.
Don't bother your neighbors asking
what time 1t is. Take your clock or
watch down to Venable's and have it put
in good order. 2-l3t4
Capt. Bronaugh, of Henry county, is
still circulating a petition for the pardon
of the Youngers from the Minnesota PEN
itentiary. He expresses himself as san
guine of success.
MIR. Smith Benedict is hauling The
material for his new residence on the
corner of Twentieth and Main. 1t will he
erected on the site of the one destroyed
by fire some months ago.
". b. Shelton, well known as a breeder
of fine horses and owner OF many cele-
brated trotters, among them Theodore
Shelton, died at his home in Hughesville,
last Monday.
Soothing, and not irritating; strength
ening, and not w~eakening; small, but
effective-such are the qualities OF De-
Wits Little Early Risers, the famous
little pills. Crist q Day. I-25-1y
For SALE.-An imported Spanish Jack,
15h hands high; coal black; guaranteed
in first class condition in every respect.
Will sell cheap or trade for stock. Geo.
L.. Hackley, Wellington, Mo. 2-20tf
Changes of venue from Jackson to this
county, have been granted in three heavy
damage suits against the Kansas City
Metropolitan railway company. The
aggregate amount involved is $751;, 900.
Mr.. TiIton Davis had the pilot house of
the sunken ferry boat, Roy Lynds, re-
moved and taken to his residence. 1t was
hauled through the streets on a wagon,
and appeared about three times rs large
as 1t did on the boat.
The old lady was right when she said,
the child might die il they waited for the
doctor. She saved the little ones life
with a few doses of One Minute Cough
Cure. She had used # for roup before.
Crist & Day. 1-25-1y
An amateur poet writes of a main thor
oughfare in Hannibal, which would apply
equally as we'll to some of our streets:
'Oh, Market street, Market street, you
are a daisy, begad. Your slush makes me
eternaIly tired, and your mush Internally
mad"
Scaly eruptions on the head, chapped
hands and lips, cuts, bruises, scalds and
burns are quickly cured by DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. 1t is at present the
article most used for piles, and it always
cures them. Crist & Day. 1-25-1y
The Corbett-F itzsimmons fight, which
is to take place March 18th, at Carson,
Nevada, is the main topic at present in
sporting circles. The fight will settle a
long dispute as to the superior physical
power of these two big bruisers. 1t will
be a battle of giants.
A couple of photographers were going
through the streets Tuesday, taking pho
tographs of houses for all who would
stand at their front doors and look pleas
ant. Later they appeared with these pho
togrophs and offered to sell them for
twenty II We cents each.
Mrs. Almira Atkinson, formerly of this
city. was severely but not dangerously
burned at her residence in st. Joseph,
one day recently, by her clothing catching
fire from a stove while she was getting
breakfast. Her daughter, Miss Bette,
was also painfully burned In her efforts to
extinguish the flames.
The Quarterly Meeting OF the Lafayette
and Johnson Baptist Association will
meet with b First Baptist church of
H~igginsville, Friday aud Saturday, Feb
ruary 20 and q. Messengers from Lex
ington church who will attend are H. w.
Winsor, X. t. Jesse, II. C.. Wallace, Mrs.
H. W. Winsor, Miss Anna Worthington,
VIM. Gaffin.
The residence of Mr.. Chas. Mulheran,
situated on his farm about four miles east
of the city, caught fire in some manner
last Monday and was burned to the
ground. The flames had gained such
Roadway when discovered that 1t could
be entered and all 1t contained was
also destroyed. Th loss Will fall heavily
Mr.. Mulheran as there was no insur-
on the hous or furniture.
The published statement regarding
expressions by Rev. J. b. Culpepper at
City, affecting old bachelors, seems
to have caused considerable notice in
The reverend gentleman said
that all bachelors over thirty years OF G
hould be sent post haste to the peniten-
tIary. That's nothing. Old bachelors
themselves admit the justice of the attack
upon them and old maids rejoice to see it
In print.
The Wellington Qui Vive has been
enlarged and otherwise improved in APP
by It's skillful manager and able
young editor and 1t now compares favor
ably with n weekly paper published in
this part of the state. We congratulate
the Qui Vive upon this evidence OF finan-
cial prosperity and wish for it a contin-
uancs Of the generous patronage it
from the enterPrising citizens of
The senate passed Senator Yaudiger's
antitrust trust bill which sets forth that
all agreement or contracts that are in
to control the prices or restrict the
free importation, sale or manufacture OF
of commerce, or the sale OF manu-
facture of articles OF domestic growth or
domestic raw material, shall be unlawful
and void. The violation of any of the
provisions of the act Is punishable by a
fine OF not less than 500 or more than
5000 and by imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary not less than w OF more than
ten years, or, in the judgment Of the court,
by either such rne or imprisonment