Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-07-24

Democratic party and against IT, with
the Whiw party aud against 1t. The
North Carolina election would exert
an immense influence on the vote OF
the country. The people are lookin"
on this vote of North Carolina rs Il
settlement ofthr Presidential contest.
If the Democrats carry it. it will give
more votes for Greeley than You
,tink but if You carry it. II Will give
more votes tor Grant than YOU have
rot in Your whole State. They say
we have stolen. but there has been
ic,, per crntagc under Grants adj
mimi>iratiol than any other within Il
quarter of II rrntarv by actual fig
urc>: less than one fifteenth OF one
per cent.
Miss Sarah J. Baker. the only female
principal ola Boston grammar school,
is paid S2.4UO salary.
y Young man generally gives a
lock Of his hair to his sweetheart be-
fore he marric> her. After marriage
>hc helps herself.
The dying gilt of Bennett, of the
New York Herald, WAS $3.50. C0oto-
ward completing the Catholic cathr-
dral in New York city.
y correspondent OF the Courier
journal at J~ack>onport, Ark, writes
that all the whites and onc-third Of
the negroes there are for Greeley.
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General Gid. Pillow Is said to have
pronounced against Greeley. Gid.
i always throwing up his cmbank-
ncn,> on the wrong side of the ditch.
JEWISH IIoTEL.-A Jewish hotel
mas been cstubli>heuiu Boston, where
iSraclitcs can find foo cooked after
The manner prescribed by their reli-
zion.
L Matricidc is almost too much for
T. New York state to swallow calmly,
:.nd Pat Norri>Scv. who killed his
mother at Buffalo about three weeks
ago. has already been convicted of
/ murder in the first degree.
\ ~Lcavcnworlh editor doesn't now
spend time i'll watching the little
busy wasp that gathered Int in his
>anctum to make its nest. He came
III one day and did not observe that
the wasp was sitting in his chair.
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! Tie National Liberal Republican
Executive Committee has elected
. Sen. Hurbridgc, ofkcntuck., George
W. Anderson. Of Missouri, and
lanes NJ. >c"villc. Of New Jersey.
! Committee OH Finance.
\ bell stolen from IL Louisiana
plantation by Gen. Butler, has recent
" been hung at n school-housc al
; West Brookii>ld. Mass. 1t was Gus,
IL Bremen. Germany, in Ills. Now
that is a nicc bell to call the pious
youth OF Brooktic!d to prayers.
Greeley, in declining to furnisl
money /" sustain 4 paper ut Wash
.ugton, SAYS: II do not consider
e that legitimate political expenditure
l. II The people will not support news
l. paper there %faVOring my election W.
e. must get on without it as best W,
&c nay"
=. \ Pike county paper claim, thai
Greeley is the almost unanimou,
choice of the Democracy of that sec
ton. Horace used to describe tina
q country "a the place where the,
used five gallons Of whisky to ever
-pclIing-bo"k." Misery makes tran"
companion, Observation-Disclosures
paper.
Z" Since DR.. McCosh has been prcsi
dent Of Princeton college it has rc
u ccivcd 81 ,oDo,Ort in gifts, 1890, 900 Il
!" the last commencement. To Dart
e mouth college, the new prcsidrn,
u DR.. smith. has brought about $500,
!" 800. At Hamilton college Il new hall
y costing Owe 5000, has been dcdicl
" ted this year TO tn:on college til
new president, Il Young man, In
brought $icO.COO.
, Gen. Dcn:aius Dent, X. E.. Il. an,
, t.. Il. and L. :. a.. while cscortin
Il number OF delegates to the Balti
>. more convention, through the Whit
:; House, said with that inimitabl
. sarcasm for which he is famous, =.
suppose when Greeley j. elected 70
y. " i'll fill ihi, place with manmot
bccts and gigantic cabbagcs::' "ics,
dryly responded one, 1--WE. prefer liv
bccts 10 dead beats, and mammoth
in vegetables to small po,atocs.'-
H. Wash. Capitol.
IL In the great two and a quartz
y mile race for the Saratoga cup. Ea'
Id se'' beat Lon.fcllow By one lenSt
Of III ih. 10 sec. On the second mil
he i'"hS'e!io~ broke Il plate and cut hi
"s ""' 'oos very badly. Much I
zee INC surprise OF all experienced horse
De- mcn present the noble animal he'll
"a out to tho very c4a and then wa
re-. only beaten by alengua. +, il. ,.,or,
"a, ed thai his injuries win ,c,u;.. l.;
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