Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-06-04
Southern News.

The Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad will toon build q new depot
Mt Murfreesboro.
II. s. McComb has been reelected
President of the New Orleans, Jack
son and Great Northern Railroad.
The city of Richmond realizes about
six thousand five hundred dollars per
annum from license tax IN dogs.
An advertisement in q Savannah pa
per a few days ago, for . clerk,
brought thirty-six applicants in one
day.
The Cleveland Banner says the fly |
has made its appearance in the fields,
and the crop is badly Injured.
A few families in GAINESVILLE, Al
bany and Macon, Ca, have been lux
uriating upon Irish potatoes-this
years growth.
Negro lodges Of the Enow+Nothing
order are forming in the West aud
South. Their motto is "No whiet
man for Office"
The Jonesboro Herald and Tribune
estimates the loss TO Washington
county by the destruction ofthe fruit
crop, at $4,000.
The Texas Legislature has effectu-
ally abolished the State police, which
had become an engine of tyranny in
the hands of Governor Davis.
The Austin (Tex.) Gazette of the
Sd nit. contains seven advertisements,
offering rewards for the apprehension
of as many murderers.
The Conservative Executive Com
mittee of Virginia, have adopted
/ Richmond as the place and the 9th of
An:rust as the day for holding the
Conservative State Convention.
For the benefit Of members of the
Georgia Legislature We will state
that the farmers, are preparing to put
in large crop o; peanuts, says the
Northeast Georgian.
The city council of Atiarta declined
to appropriate $4,000 for the enter
tainmcnt of the Convention of Gov
errors on the Goth inst, IS th>y
would be compelled to borrow the
money at heavy interest.
1t is estimated that 2,5OO,0 900 bask-
cts Of peaches will be shipped from
the Pc linsula- between the Chcsa-
peakc and Delaware bays this season
The crop in New. Castle county, hith-
erto the most productive, is a failure.
Aiken. South Carolina, has had
only about its usual quota of four
hundred Northern residents during
the winter, whereas, considering the
Increased number of such visitors in
other parts of the South, it ought to
have had twice as many.
John D. Mordccai, a principal in a
recent duel at Richmond, Va, who
was fatally wounded, died after great
agony. McCarty,t the other principal,
who is amenablc, under a State law,
for murder in the first degree, will be
're-arrested, together with the Sec
ouds, and they will probably be CON-
mitted without bail.
Gov. Smith, Of Georgia, has adj
dressed q letter to the farmers of the
West and Northwest in regardito the
great advantages presented by the
Atlantic end Great Western Canal.
Gov. Smith, in invitingth the governors
of the above States to send delegates
to the convention at Atlanta, May
Goth, assures them that they will
meet with hearty welcome. |,
The Richmond Wing says it is the
intention of a few intimate friends of
of the late John r. Thompson to Sc
cure a fine portrait Of the lamented
dead. The order for its execution
has been placed in the hands of our
well-known artist, Elder. The por-
trait, when finished, will be hung
upon the walls Of the State Library.
1t is also proposed to erect q monu-
ment to Mr.. Thompson.
George Lea, colored, was hung at
Y~anceyville, N. G., on Monday, May
18th, for the crime of rape. When
the first drop fell the rope broke,
without breaking the neck of the
criminal, but a new rope was procur-
ed and he was hung in a few minutes
afterward. He warned all against
the use of whisky, saying that it had
caused his death.
A Missouri bootblack, son of a SOL
der who was executed for desertion
at Fort Leavenworth a few years ago,
recently found a kettle containing
about $1,000 in gold and silver coin
while he was digging for ~sassafras
root in the vicinity of ST. Joseph and
the Gazette of that place, which tells
the story, says he proposes to edu-
cate himself with a part Of the treas
ure. i
The Charlottesville, Va, Jefferso-
man Republican says: Miletus JAR
main, Esq, informed us on Monday,
May 18th, that he had foundsthe
sword which his son captured during
the late civil contest. The sword was
presented to the late General Meade,
of the United States army, for gal
LIANT conduct and meritoriousservices
during the Mexican war. The fami-
ly Of General Meade, by addressing q
letter to the Mayor of this place. Nv.
Il. Cochran, Esq,) can have the
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