Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-12-04
Here and There.

fifty six stage routes.
Scventy-one insurance companies
ost by the Boston fire..
Slcighs have already commenced
running in New Hampshire.
Patent tin car roofs arc attracting
attention in Pennsylvania.
The Michigan state senate will
have but one Democratic member.
The Baltimore mules have the dis
temper much worse than the. horses.
England's oldest hangman has rs.
sisted seventy-one parsons out of the
world.
Help is SO scarce in Germany that
the soldiers have to assist III gather
ing the crops.
There are seven hundred Japanese
students in the schools and colleges
of America. q.
The snow is deep in Northern
Maine, and active logging operations .
have b gun. {.
A bill for the abolition Of capital.
has failed in the Vermont
legislature.
The Democratic party, according.
the Danbury News, is the latest vie-
tim TO the Horace disease.
The Indians of Nebraska are allow
cd to ride free on all freight trains.
The Astor House, New York, as
soon rs its present lease expires, will
be converted into stores aud offices.
Thirty thousand Roumanian Jews
have packed up their household goods
and headed for this country.
Tho marketable value Of rough
diamonds has fallen within tho past
twelve MOI tls ne. fifty per cent.
California papers think they will
see the day when that state will raiso
enough cotton to supply the world.
Groupings of nickel ore are found
i'll Madison, Iron a::d Wayne coun-.
tics, Mo. The refined n,ctal is worth
$3 per pound.
A Kentuckian has finally settled .
vcXcd question. lie knows by cxpe-.
ricncc that it takes five shots to kill y
lightniny-rod man.
The voting season being over, 800
laborcrs have been dismissed from
the Philadelphia Navy-yard, and
about as many from Norfolk.
Tho wild animals in the caravans
Of this country are worth 81 SOC, 900.
No other nation can show as much in-
vested in fer0city.
OF 49, railroads in the United
States, 3O6 have a gauge of four feet
eight and one-half inches.
"Does not II young mothers heart
leap 4tli with joy when she beholds
her darling babes Isl 9TH -
An exchange announces, on tho
death of u lady, That she "lived fifty
years with her husband, and died In
! confident hopo OF q Dcttvi life"
An amateur editor in Iudiauapolia
has made 4 fortune by his pen. His
father died of grief after reading ono
of his editorials, and left him $50, 900.
The ladies of Wilkcsbarre are co.,
Letting cl, iii g for the Iacotah In.
] A. al. hot
are doing this in the interests Of
modestv.
"Il's forty years, my old frierd
John, since we were boys together"
"Isit Well, don't speak so loud;
there's that Young widow i'll the next
room
\ young lady Of this city has just
sent to Europe for an order fifty yards
of Brussels carpet, twenty-five feet
wide. She is gong TO work pair OF
slippers for the editor Of the St.Louis
Globe.
| The Louisville Couricr-Journal
POLITICALLY remarks: Tn Montgomery,
/ Alabama, the other day, four negroes
got on i spree; one took out his little
jack nifc, and now there amt bue
three"
The last mail for England by way
Of San Francisco, reached London
from Yokohama, in &c days, while the
Yokohama mail via the Suez canal
was 53 days reaching its destination.
Dubuque county. Iowa, still claims
to be the lone green spot in all the
wide waste And why. not? 1t
gave its usual Democratic majority,
While as many. more staid at home
and refused to vote at all.
The editor of Western paper
writes: my wife aud have sepa-
rated. As we both wanted TO be boss
and Us she was likely to beat me. left
her. She says slic will nail me yet,
and belize her.
a husband, whose wife has applied
for divorce, writes IL protest to TIM
Judge, in which he says: "This
plagued thing called u divorce has, in
my opinion, parted many man and
his wife,
RIPE WATERMELoNs.-An Irish
man, after enjoying " atermclon for
the first time in this country, passed
field of pumpkins and remarked
"If they were SO good when green,
how much better they must be when
ripe"
Fifteen milkmcn in ST. Louis, the
,, other day, were fined from S25 to
= 500 each for selling watered milk,
One man was in the habit of taking
off per cent. of cream aud adding to
the remainder 50 per cent. of water
, In his speech at Boston, made upon
= the eve of election day, Henry Wilson
said "thc principles OF tho Radical
party were born in heaven" Tho
same phenomenon presents itself ID
5 regard to the principles Of Beelzebuh
= or Lucifcr.
a Since railroads and Pacific steam