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HlRM FOR SALE,

THIS farm II located about six miles <t:sa
due south Of Wav-riy, In the very E3.1
beat portion OF 1, hy,ftr county. Il con. 68W,i
pine plank fence, and In > high state Of cult.
Walton. Thr improvements nrc. a large two.
story frame dwelilnE, suitable trnant houses
venirners or = well regulated farm.
The farm Is In . good nsiEhlsorhood, convenient
TO .ehool,. has On u . thriving younx oreiisrt
land has been 10 cultivation only . few years, 4
rich, frrsh, and we'll adapted to the growth o
hemp and ali the staple products.
TERNs-One third cssh, and the balance u
one and two years, Wlus ten lrr cent. tllet
| ED-for tuil isartlrulavs apply ~ tn. Once.
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A correspondent, writing fromonc o.

Acorrespondent writing fromonc OF
the summer resorts, tells the follow
ing story: A p%atcvnai, the other da!
shortly after His return to the
Springs, was approached by q youth.
who requested a few minutes con-
versstion in private, and begun: 81
was requested to see You, sir.by your
lovely daughter. Our attachment
-" "Young man." interrupted the
parent briskly, II don't know tina,
that girl of mine is about. You are
the fourth gentleman who las ap-
preached me, this morning, on that
subject. have given my consent to
the others, and l give il to yon. God
bless you"
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NOTICE,

r ETTERS testsmentAry upon the estate OF
Rsbecca Graham, deceased, were granted to
The under signed by the Probate court. Of Lafay-
rtt- county, on the 18th day Of June, ls!2.
All persons having claims against said estate,
are required to exhibit them for allowance to the
Executor, within one year after the date OF said
letters, or they may be prccluded from amy ben
rnt OF such estate, and II such claims be not tx.
hibitcl within three years from the date OF said
letters, they " iil he forever barred.
BENJAMIN MARSHALL, Executor.
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First.rate Chance.

The Pittsburgh Post is responsible
for the story that Henry Wilson, the
Grant X ow-Nothin. candidate fol
the Nicc-Prcsidencv, recently refused
to ride in the anne car, from Titus
vile to Cory, with Cameron and
Hartranft, the master and the man OF
the great political "ring" in Pennsyl-
vania. We shall no doubt now have
a letter from Fl. W., not only stoutly
denying tho allegation, but, it ma!
be, asserting that he is not acquainted
with the parties in question, and
never was, ind that ever sincche was
'.bOrn in extreme poverty" he has
been very careful about the company
lie has kept. The Baltimore Gazette
says Henry is never SO happy a.
when lie is denying something, and
he will now have q tirst-ratc chance tt
indulge his chronic passion.
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NOTICE.

T ETTERS ltestamentsry upon the estate oil
II Emily Reeves, decd, were granted to the un-
lersignel by the Probate cturt Of Lafayette
county, ON the 18th day Of June, lsI2. All
persons having claims against said estate are
required to present them 10 said court FOL
allowance within one year from this date or they
.uay be precluded, and II said claims are moi
presented within three years they will be forever
barred. THOMAS h. BAYLlsS, Executor.
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ADMINIsTRATOR,s NOTICE.

ADMlNIsTRATOR's NOTICE.
ETrERS OF administration upon the estate oil
IL VIM. j. Huford, decd. were granted to the
undersigned by the Probate court Of Lafayette
county, ON the 9Th day Of September, lsl2. All
persons having claims against said estate are
required TO- present them TO said court for ~.
lowsncc within one year from this date, or the!
may he prccludcd, aud II said claims are not pre-
vented within three years they will be forever
oarrd.
THOMAS McCLEARY. Administrator
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES NOTICE.

,AOM1NISIIKATOH'S NUA1CLs
John II isadfurd deceased were granted TO
Inc undersigned on the 5rd day Of October, 1872.
by the Probate court Of Lafayette. county. NO.
are required TO exhibit them for allowance to the
| uimInistratofs within one year amer the date oi
.nid letters, or they may be prrcludcd from an!
benefit Of such estate; and If such claims BE- mol
| exhibited within three years from the date Of said
letters, they will b. FOREVER barred.
ALpliECS l.. HERRING, Administrator.
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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-10-30

An old chap who lad come In to
zee the parade yesterday, thought the
war must be over, because he found
Q piaeeIn town " hero lie could get two
cigars for Gvc cents. After smoking
one lie retired behind o board fence
ana came out ten minutes later pnlc
IN tie face, hat ready for another
war.-fTitusvi,le Prrss.
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The Titusvilie Press: "Titnsvillc
was not the birthplace of tho Father
Of his Country but VIC have q man
residing here who slipped up on u
muddy crossing this forenoon and
sat down on a roll Of butter which he
was carrying home, aud instead OF
swearing, he simply arose, scrspcd
the butter from Ills pants into the
paper again, and went Oh again as II
nothing had happened"
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TRUSTEES SALE.

ID i virture of u deed Of trust made by Charles
ID Williams, to me in trust to secure the pay
lnent at y certain prUInissory. note dated Jul!
il,t, 1872, and recorded in book No. ii, at paE,
10 OF the records of Lafayette county. l Will
1t the request OF the holder OF said not, on
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ., 1872
ut public vendue, to the highest bidder for cash
IN front Of the court house door. in the co''ntf
Of Lafayette, State of Missouri, proceed to sci
the following personal property. One barber
chair, one looking glass, q wooden bottomee
chairs, = lrmps and refectors, one washst;id;
one small table. and one ct of raZors ant
straps, to satisfy said note and interest and cosi
Of The trust. WM. II. CHlLES, Trustee.
OcI23-iX
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NOTICE.

soras u.Ims' J.crssedi were Granted to
he undersigned by the Probate court, Of Lsfsy-
tie county, on the It'll day Of October, 1872.
All persons having claims against said state,
are required to exhibit them for allowance to the
Executor, within one year alter the date of said
letters, or they may be precludetl from any ben-
rilt OF such estate; and II such claims be not ex-
| nibited within three yssrs from the date Of said
| letter., they will be forever barred.
octl3-iw WM. II. BRUINS, Executor.
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NOTICE.

r ETTERS testsmentary upon the estate OF
IL Jesse Dean, deceased. were granted to- the
undersigned on the 18th day of September,
Missouri.
AIlpersons having claims against said estate are
required 10 exhibit them, for allowance, to the
Executor, within one year after the date oil
! SAID Letters, or they may be precluded from any
Jeneft of such estate; and If such clxims be MOI
! Exhibited within three years from the date Of sale
! letters, they will be forever barred.
uct2j- lw WILLIAM CURSE, Executor.
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CONNECTIONS
Atst. Louis with all rail uud river lines Eas,
North and south; nj Mexico with Louisiana NrN
with Toledo, Wabash and Western hallway ~
Macon with Hannibal aud SainiJoscph Raiiioan'
NJ Moulion with burlington aud South.W .s'eri
Railroad, for Durllagton, ~, hnuinon 40,
hcOkuk ; at Oftumwa with C.ntrsi itaiifonN" ~
Iowa, Dies Molnrs Valley, anu butiinsun ehe
Missouri River RRilroadi Tor ~, Pam, MinneapS,
lis, Mason City, Des Moinrs, ~. i,cnse. anu Al
Hannibal and ~. Joseph RailrYau /, NJ htafi'h
with Kansas City, ". Joseph and Council Btnh
Railroad for L~ravcnworth, Atchison, Nebratkn
Civ. Council Dluis and t,ninka ! l.athrup va,
| HANNIBAL nnd -. Joseph kailrurd. SanssrU,,
Iiranch ; NJ Piatts5urr with Chicago, u. j. nns
| Pacific Il aiitoad, south. Wrsi.rn Branch J AZ ~
~.Iascii, with st, Josylh aud prp,cr .iiy AM
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Law rcncr, Tol1ka, Denver, II. Scottr, OTTAWA,
/ kmtnrin, and all patnts In nAasas, Colornxlo
/ New ~, Nico and taliforniA.
RULLMANsB PALACE CARS
Ron shrvuRh h,tw,sn ~. l. 'ls and kup,s. city
OtiuSu "a and NJ. Josel,h, sud lslW, ru kanss.
City and Chicago. without cisanrrr.
pe.rhruagh uckets for sale 10 all importaa
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LANDs.

GARDENING LANDS.
on ACRES Gardening Lands for sals, u
such lots and on such terms ~ wiu nos
mill. ,.,u,n oil lrNingtuu, oil easy acccss TO CITY,
market, 80. For darticalars, apply to
sr,laff EAtV V. Ms's HILL
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-02-23
MiSChiPHONS.

We published, on the morning of the 18th
inst, in common with every other paper in
the United States which receives the Press
Dispatches, the following telegram from
Raleigh:
at is claimed here that Il technical in
:. formality voicls Ransom election to the
"Senate of the United States
We searched our Raleigh exchanges of
all political complexions with great care to
see what this ''techncal informality," which
was thought worthy of such Widespread
circulation, but We found that the Press
Agent was more euterprising than the edi-
tors, for all were silent upon the important
discovery of the wide-awake agent.
Now what is this = technical informality"
which was worthy of fbeingpublishedin lin every
pa,cr in thc United States, except those
issued in the city where it is claimed to
have been discovered? Was there mis-
count Oh the part Of the clerks and tellers,
and it has been discovered that MADISON,
Dick Badger, Yankee Sam Tillery, Colonel
Hargrove, or some other person, received
RANsoM's certificate improperly drawn up?
The telegram fails to tell in what tn: fatal
s.inforInality'' consists. And, what is more
important, who sets up the = claim"
If the agent desired to convey the intor-
nation that Governor Caldwell wishes the
Senate to declare the seat vacant, admitting
neither RANSOM nor ABBOTT, so that he
can buy off dangerous rival for the Gu
bernatorial nomination, he should have
been more explicit. If he is the political
enemy of General RANSOM and the political
friend of Governor Caldwell, the dispatch can
be easily understood. With equal propri-
etv can the agent in this city telegraph to
the world that it is claimed here that
Abbott is e,ected-the claim here being
made by the few Radical admirers of the
New Hampshire carpet-bagger, as this
claim is made in Raleigh by the few Rad
ical admirers Of Governor Caldwell.
We have often thought that Press Agents
did not sufficiently feel the responsibility Of
their positions. They can do an infinite
amount of mischief, thou8htlessly. This
entire Raleigh telegram seems to have been
written under the immediate dictation OF
Governor CALDWELL as just such information
as he desired to go before the world was
contained III il.
We suppose, in case the scat is refused to
General RANSOM, the Radical party can
Justify its conduct before the northern
masses IN the strength of this mysterious
but fatal ''technical informalIty," giving to
it an explanation as will best subserve their
purpose. We expect yet to see it stated
that mistake has been discovered in the
count, and that RANSOM did not really
receive a majority of the votes cast.
Such kilograms, to say tho least, are mis-
chievoIS.
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LIT would Hurt the party.

His Accidency, Governor Caldwell, the
little man with big office in Raleigh
writes letter, which is published in the
Era, in reply to an application for the
pardon of some ''loyal' criminal. His
reasons for refusing to grant pardOns by
the wholesale are Conmendable, upon the
whole, but he neutralizes all the praise to
which they might otherwise entitle him,
and shows his real dIain,GS in the premises,
by the eliminating objection which he as
signs, viz that such a course of action
would ''ruin the Republican party"
Which is about as much as to say, that, if
it will help the Republican party, the peni-
tentary and jails should be emptied Of
their loyal contents Was there ever any
thing so cOntemptible
When Wells was Governor Of Virginia,
he pardOned every criminal that came to
him with a petition, provided that he was
of the right color and politics. Ditto with
Bullock i'll Georgia. Holden, during his
brief and in9lorious reign, was equally
lenient to ''loyal' thieves and barn-burn-
ers. Caldwell, arguing from the fate Of
these illustrious eXemplarS of KadicaliSm,
evidently thinks that the thing wont pay.
His conclusions are good, but his motives,
in this respect, at least, are as deteStable as
they are characteristic.
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FOr The journal
ARO III LII rs KITLE

And so, Mr.. bocal, you saw ''two men
and beautiful little place, just on the line
of the Road, and about one mile from its
present terminus If you'd acdthed, as
two dignifed potentates did, on the evening
in question, to that ''little place. you'd
have thought that mile a long one, and if
you'd stopped long enough to see the
''place" and try those Norfolk oysters, and
learn all about its surroundings, prospects,
adjuncts and aspirations, maybe you
wouldn't have thought it so enthusiastically
small. l tell you, sir, it's a big e'place,' -
when you come TO know it'll See the prices
we pay for cotton; hear us talk about totcle
lots note the prices paid for little quarter
acres to build upon; observe our move
ments generally, from selling salt 80 cents
per sack cheaper than they do in Wades-
boro' (where they have ''two papers''), to
holding grand tournaments and wearing
standing collars-look upon us, and no
more call ours s'iittle place." Joshua,
if you told us to ''stand still'' we wouldn't
.. $3.50 ONE OF 1EM.
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0ollmingtoll Yollrlal
WILMINGTON. n. a.:
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1872.
Sublime Impudemce.

In recent number + the Washington
Chronicle, speaking Of General HANCOCK
in connection with the possibility of a Pres
idential nomination, Holden has the impu-
dence To say: BE t6be II for gTdHfed that
General HANCOCK, though Il Democrat, is
IA ioyM man. That is saying good deal
The concession is amazing, and the impu-
dencc uncquaIed! To make UuythiRg per-
feet, there must be Il congruity of all the
parts. And so to- make iHpHdcItce complete,
all the qualities that constitute it must be
present in their entirety. And surely, here
we have them:
Holden, who was for twenty years the
most violent advocate of secession in North
North Carolna,-who pledged ''the last
man and the last dollar" i'll support Of the
North Goods holy cause who thought a
reward should be offered for tie head of
Lincoln,-who wanted negroes whipped
well and fed we'll, WHO, as i;.tc rs 1867,
pronounced his unconditional opposition to
negro suffrage gc,-IIoldcn, gruttiRg gra-
ciously, that General HANCOCK, who was
IA tower of might in the Federal army, and
who covered himself all over with gallant
soldiers fame, is lOyGl'!'
We have nothing to do with it, but still
it strikes us that the picture thus presented
is not very attractive one tothe soldiers
who fought against us, and under General
HANCOCK during the late unplea-
Snntnncc -
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Cotton and TurDemtine, Vs. Bread and
MRRf-

There is, we think, much reason to fear
that bread and meat will be kings next
year, and not cotton and turpentine, as is
now the case. The recent rise in these
prime products of our section seems to
have affected the public Imagination to such
an extent that everything else is TO be
dropped, and every turpentine tree rs large
as a mans leg, and every acre of available
ground, are to be forced to yield the great
est amount possible OF cotton and tllrpentine.
Were there any certainty, or even Il proba
bility, that the present high prices would
prevail for year to come, our producers
would do well, perhaps, to lend every en-
ergy TO the cultivation Of these two articles.
But there is too much uncertainty for the
next season, to allow a man to depend too
much upon tickle market, controlled, as it
! is, by foreign spectators, and so neglect
the more important necessalies of life. The
experience of the past should prove suffi-
cient warning, Of itself, and, guided by its
light, too much dependence must not be
placed on the future. The farmer is gen.
orally considered and classed as one whose
independence is his own. Let him be so,
in truth, and, by raising a sufficiency Of
meat and grain for his own consumption,
not place himself in the hands Of northern
speculators, or Western producers.
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aep the bail moving.

MEssRs. STONE & UZZELI., the very en-
terprising proprietors Of the Weldon -NctcS,
are the parties who have purchased The
who will hereafter conduct that paper
These gentlemen have spent five years in
the publication of the Ne,r&, and have sue
ceeded in making up paper that has been,
in every way, practical illustration of its
name. The Nei"s is to be discontinued,
and their every energy will be devoted to
the CdroIi1i0n. Ii is needless TO say that
we wish them the best that Damr Fortune
has in her shop.
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made up, it needs no prophet to tell which
will occupy the prouder niche,-the sub
dued or the sllbducrs,
And SO it is, that we feel but little con-
Germ about the recent defeat OF amnesty i'll
the Senate of the United States,-con-
vinced, as we are, that the stain, the black
and damning stain, which attaches TO this
negatiOn of a great act of justice will never
"out," however speedy or persistent the
effort to Obliterate it. The measure was
not defeated when the Democratic Senators
refused to support it, coupled with an un-
natural and degrading amendment; it re-
ceived its death-blow when that amend
ment, designed TO humiliate the people of
the South, to force upon them revolving
conditions, to stab social security and to
undermine the foundations Of social con-
servatism, was incorporated. We rejoice
at its defeat, so coupled and thus prcmc-
ditated
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INK SPOTS.

Mere matter of folm-Fitting a dress.
small thing to beware of-smallpoX.
If a small boy is lad, is big boy a
ladder?
The library of the British Museum has
now over 100000 books.
Fourteen per cent. of our population
above the age of ten cannot write, including
Horace Greeley.
What is that which has Il mouth and
never speaks, and a bed in which it never
sleeps? A river
An old batchelcr who edits paper in
the west, puts 'Gielancholy Accidents" rs
head for marriages, in his paper.
Masks and other DISCUSSES are said to be
the most reliable disseminatols cf small
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- That saints may claim a dispensation
To swear and fOrswear on occasion,
! doubt not but it will appear

doubt not but it will appear
With pregnant light the point is clear.
Oaths are but words and words but wind
Too feeble instruments TO bind"
So wrote quaint and honest old Butler
in that trenchant satire, HudidrGS, which
contains much of truth and human nature.
The extract has been forcibly suggested by
the testimony of one Of the witnesses be-
fore the Custom House Congressional In
vestigating Committee, lately in session in
House Oath, though taken with all the
formalities and sOlemnitieS of law, was not
thought particularly imperative, and that its
violation was not considered as a thing of
much moment. In other and fewer words,
that the oath itself was license to defraud
and steal.
What a precious condition Of " loyal "
and moral sentiment does this shameless
and unwilling admission disclose If
there be any one safeguard of official re-
sponsibility and fidelity, it is that which
attaches to the sanctity of an oath, AMI if
there be any one evidence, stronger than
another, which marks 9. moral decline, it
is that which ignores the sacrednesS of an
ohjuration thus taken.
And yet we do not know that the loyal
men in the Custom House are one whit
worse than
The loyal man in the White House,
who, swearing to discharge the duties Of
his high office, without fear, favor or
affection, retcGrd or the hope of reward" }"
and to do justice equally, has urged unre-
lenting war upon the people of one section,
and has both his policy and his favorS
shaped by reward and the hope of reward !;
or than
The loyal men in Congress, who, swear
ing to support the Constitution of the coun-
try, daily violate it, in obedience to the
higher law of party policy and sectional
hate ; or than
The loyal United States Marshals and
Attorneys, who, swearing the impartial dis
charge of duty, pack jurjeS to insure con-
viction on political or personal grounds or
than
The loyal Judges who shield loyal thieves
and Union Leaguers, but are so severely
righteous when they can make out case
of Ku-KllXism or than
The thousands Of other loyal otiice-hold-
ers, in subordinate station, who :. feather
their nests at the peoples expense and
under sanction Of oaths Of Office
1t is, therefore, no wonder, with the shin
ing examples before them in I" high life, -
that a moral laxity has crept into the Gus
tom House, where loyalty :" pre-eminently
predominated, and where, on account of
the exceedingly choice pickings and steal
ings, party service seeks its fattest rewards.
Addison puts into the mouth of that no
BILE old Roman, Cato, the exclamation,
that
| When vice prevails and INrIoUs men bear
sway,
The post of honor is the private station.'
| The truth would seem to be peculiarly
| applicable to our own times; for, with cor
ruption, venality and official immortality
rampant, it really appearsas if integrity and
honesty in Federal office were the excep.
ton, and the deplorablc reverse the rule