Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-08-14

New York will give Greeley $1,000
majority.
Blanton Duncan, the great Bourbon
disturber, has called n convention of
all ''truc Dcmnrrats.' at Louisville,
Oh the 3rd of September.
Great Radical frauds in North Car
olina elected Caldwell by Il small ma
jority.
That great political mosquito, Scn-
ator Wilson. bored the people of ST.
Louis last Monday.
Judge David Davis, the Labor Re-
form candidate, supports Greeley and
Brown.
One hundred and fifty old Rcpub-
licans in Rutland; Vermont, will go
for Greeley.
Vermont election. Tuesday, Sep
TENDER 3; Maine election, Monday,
September Q.
Butler says he wont decline any
party's nomination for the Governor
ship of Massachusetts.
Not less than $3.50, 90 were spent to
carry the n. &. election in favor of
Grant. Stolen money is easy spent.
The Corydon Republican ((irant)
rcjoiccs v three Indiana "Dcmo-
Gratis" who went to attend Colonel
Duncan BlantOm's Convention.
1t is the practice of some kentucky
orators to refer to Horace Greeley as
"the sage of Chapultepec." Chappa-
qua, Observation-Disclosures Com
Mercial.
The Milwaukee Herald, a German
Republican paper, has hOisted the
Greeley flag, aud nov all the German
papers Of that city are together.
One hundred and ten leading Re-
publicans of Cass county, Mich, have
forsaken Grant and called a v
ton in favor Of Greeley and Brown.
They do this not only in Michigan
but all over the North.
The Maysville Bulletin has q play
full allusiOn to a Grant editor: "Hc
was to weak to ecu crow but seven
columns of Government advertise
mcmts each week make him relish
bull pup wonderfully"
The editor of the Pittsburg Post
writes that there arc large defcctions
from the Grant party, in western
Pennsylvania, and the Democratic
state ticket will be elected by 10000
majority.
A German paper of Chicago has a
"straw" purporting to be direct from
heaven. TIL" apostles took Il vote on
the Presidential candidates at their
last supper, which resulted III IL
for Greeley and l for Grant. Judas
~Iscariot constituting the minority.
The receiver Of the United States
Land Office, at C%larksville, Neb.,
after a desperate effort to organize II
Grant club,1 succeeded in raliyins
two men to his call. out of a voting
populatiOn:of one hundred and fifty.
One bv ono tho .promincnt men who
think that GYeclev's election will kill
the financial prosperity of the coun-
try are being heard of. The last one
is MIR. Collins, pension agent at
Washington. His dcfalcation is near
" 500, 0OO.-lMissouri Republican.
Greelcy's Interpreter, who is chi
ployed to "set up" H"race's manu-
script in the Tribune Office, refuses
10 vote for his boss, ami triumphantly
holds His position, because it would
take seven years to break another
compositor in to fill his placc.-(St.
Louis. Globe.
Horace Greeley was born on Mon
day last at Decatur, his father still
living, and is an cx-alderman. HOr-
ace is noted for his baldheadedncss,
and other bawls, and what he knows
about farming is confined strictly to
tho summer management of milk
(Chicago Times.
Elizur Wright, the venerable Mas
sachusctts Republican, puts n hard
conundrum to Secretary Boutwell,
when he asks him, in Q recent letter,
what "thc administration has given
the Southern States in compensation
for the 500, 100000 it has robbed
them Of by keeping swindlers in
power by The aid of Federal bayo-
nets" boutwell, might as we'll give
it up.
Fourteen Republican papers iu New
York have abandoned Grant for Gree.
ley. And most of them are papers
Of large circulation and influence.
How many lore would adopt the
same course bnt for the custom house,
postofice, internal revenue, and
other equally patriotic considera-
tons, It is impossible to tell. One
Democratic paper advocates Grant
and personal government. This In
dicates the DRIFT of New York jourl-
alism.-tAge.