Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-11-13
GENERAL NEWS.

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toga county, New York, is a defaulter
in the sum of about $4,000
Mra. Annie Rufin, relict of Chief
Justice Thomas Rufin. died in Hills
boro, N. C., on the 4th inst, IN the
SD year of her age.
A dispatch from Madrid, Spain,
dated Nov. 5, says that one thousand
more soldiers were to embark at
Satander on the 9Th, for Cuba.
20, 600 posta. cards were issued
by the postofice department last
month, the largest issue by at least
100000 ever made in the same time.
On the 5th inst. Miss Florence
Triton sent a communication to the
Plymouth church committee asking
for q letter Of DISMISSAL from the
church. =
A late Trinidad paper contains the
following: "The fall clip of wool is
really more extensive than we had
eason to anticipate, for there is hard
ly q day but team after team loads
with that staple for the east.
The Colorado convention for franz
ing q Constitution will meet at Dem
yer, December 20. The Constitution
will be submitted to the people in
July nsxt. If adopted, it will be
certified to by President Grant, and
Colorado will become . state.
The state of New York has pur-
chased the "Seth Green fish ponds"
at Caledonia, New York. They will
be in %theicenter of the state
for a system of fish culture, and will
be placed in the charge of Mr.. Monroe
A. Green, brother of Seth Green.
The case of Joseph Loader, indict-
ed for perjury in connection with
the Beecher trial, came up in the
court of sessions on the 9th
inst. The court denied the motion
to quash the indictment. The judge
has the case under advisement.
Ex-Judge Tourgee, of North Caro-
lima, has written a novel entitled
'tToinette," the heroine of which is a
negro girl, and the hero an ex-colonel
in the confederate army. The authors
aim is to popularize miscegenation.
ought to break his back.
A Kansas City special says that the
Uuited States troops, near Fort
we're twice attacked and twice
defeated by q wandering band of
Indians, last week. But
Gen. Cook is organizing a campaign
all these hostile Indians,
which, it is said, is sure to result in
their utter annihilation.
The N. o. Bulletin malicionsfy
says: "a Louisville girl was shot in
the foot, Q day Or two ago, and the
doctors are now engaged in mining
for the ball. One Of them has worked
his passage into the foot for SO great
9 distance that they are Obliged to let
his provisions down to him by a
A funeral was III progress at Brad
ford, Mass, the other day, when the
astonished her mourning
friends by asking to he turned on her
side. 1t was rather an unreasonable
request for the inmate of the coffiu,
and she was taken out and said to be
sdoing finely." Funerals ought to
be postponed untsl the deceased is
dead.
George Cottle, of Edenburg, Pa,
a rape on a young lady
named Eckert, near New Springfield,
in Ohio, last week. He was arrested
in Pennsylvania on the 9Th inst. and
taken to New Springfield, where he
was put in Jail. An effort was
made to take him u of Jail aud
lynch him, but it was frustrated by a
strong guard.
H. B. Clafin & Co., one of the
largest, if not the largest dry goods
house in the United States, filed a
motion before Judge Benedict, OF
New York, last week, to quash an
indictment which had been found
against them for completely in the
smuggling of silks. The Judge sns.
tained theindictment, and the parties
will have to so to trial.
The Shelby, Kentucky, Republican
tells q story of q young Kentucky
bride who was SO modest that it be,
came necessary to tie her to the bed
post during the marriage ceremony te
keep her from running away although
she was in love with the bridegroom
and was anxious to be married. The
paper does not state whether she
was united from the bed post after
the wedding was over.
At the pigeon tournament at Mem,
phis, last week, we note that Mr.. T
j. South and MIR. r. Church, of + rank
fort, KY, disting uished themselves q
among the very best shots assembled
there. On Monday Mr.. South carried
OF the largest prize of the day, $3.50
and came of second for the $500 purse
On Tuesday he took the third money
in the match for a purse of 81, OOO
and Mr.. R. Church, also of that city
carried off the fourth money.
Charles Jagau in bis dying declara
ton said that he was murdered b,
being thrown from a car wiudov
near Morrison, Illinois, while return
ing to Missouri to testify in til
whisky cases. after he had been pal,
to absent himself. The St. JOSEPH
Chronicle publishes a statement tina
Mrs. Jagau, 7after fully investigating
the facts, ia convinced that her hus
band was feully dealt with. Sh
AYERS that he was in possession c
important facts and was murdered O
that account.
A special dispatch to the Kansa
City Times, of Nov. 9th, from Ind,
pendence, Kansas, says: This cit
was thrown into q fever OF excit
ment about 2 O'Clock yesterday afte
moan hu tho 3;ooo-ov, xL N.