Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-04
GENERAL NEWS.

II Lax
on last Wednesday.
The democratic majority i'll Missis-
sippi will reach 10000.
Turnips sell at s~eveity-five cents
in some parts of Texss. They go
begging here at 10 cents.
Owing to the scsrcityof potatoes.
they are selling inssoms portions-of
Pennsylvania at eighty cents per
bushel. :,
The Trinidad Pioneer says: Our
streets are constantly crowded with
freight trains loaded with wool and
hides from New Mexico, bound for
Las Animas. .~i s- 10 -tun1e-
An Indian canoe that will hold one
hundred mel easily isto be sent to
the centennial from British Colum-
bia. 1t is sixty feet lorg, eight wide
and four high. @
The Supreme Courto of Maine has
recently decided thai if a person
buys a railroad ticketfor a passage
between two given points, he has a
right to ride an equal distance any
where on the road, and in any direc-
ton.
Editor Carruth's body lies a moul-
dering in the grave, bat his railway
pass goes marching or. His remains
were forwarded from Vineland to
Camden on the pass he had held dur
ing his life. Clear case Of dead'beat.
list. Louis Dispatch.
Col. Robert Des Anges, an officer
in the Appraisers Department. ofthe
custom-house, in New York, vas
found guilty of completely in
smuggling goods, and was sentenced
last week to two years. imprlson-
ment, and to pay a fine of$1O,OOO
There is a Mexican gentleman resid-
ing ear Trinidad, Santiago Fernan-
dez by name, who is over one hun
dred and five years old, aud yet he
can get over the ground nimb Ter
than his grand nephews.twoo of whom
are attaches of the pioneer. :
John Brown, colored, was arrested
near Fort Valley, GA, in attempting
to rape q highly respectable young
lady. He knocked out some of her
teeth and filled her mouth and eyes
with dirt. He was taken from the
custody of the sheriff and hanged.
The two great express, companies
of the United States, the Adams
and the American, employ about
1000 men, 1900 horses, 1900 wagons,
and use 5000 iron safes. Their agents
travel more than 100000 miles daily,
or more than $4,000, 600 miles yearly.
G A telegram recently received at
Quebec by Hon. p. Fontin states that
four vessels bound for the Magdelen
Islands, with supplies, r lost with
many lives, and it is feared the rest
of the fleet has suffered the same fate.
The telegram asks the government to
dispatch q steamer Immediately for
Picton, with provisions, otherwise a
large portion of the inhabitants will
be in a state of starvation.
Mr.. Nathaniel Gaskill, of Newborn,
N. c., received a letter from a relia-
BILE gentleman living OH the straits
IN which is terrible account of the
ravages of a destructive water-spout
at Harker's Island, about forty miles
below that city, on the 10th instant.
FAe-vofuiiHn e~t--atrnek-t the
dwelling of Mrs. Gaskill, a respect
able widow lady, and totally destroy
ed the building, instantly killing
four children and mortally wounding
Mason Gaskill, son of the lady al
luded to, besides slightly wounding
several others. A young baby which
vas in the upper story of the build
ing at the time of the accident, has
never been seen or heard of since.
The Richmond Enquirer gives
the following touching sceue:
AS soon as the funeral services
at the new-made grave of. Colonel
Thomas Jefferson Randolph were
concluded, and before the grave
was filled up, a veteran negro stepped
forward and asked If there was any
objection to a service by his people.
He was told that such a tribute
would be acceptable to the family,
and then a scene that should go down
in history was enacted: Quietly Mr..
Randolph's former slaves assembled
around him, and then swelled up
from a hundred negro voices that
most pathetic of hymns;
"Am I q sold Ter Of the Cross,
A follower of the Lamb2'' .
A gentleman who was present says
that in his whole life, extending over
seventy years, he never witnessed
anything so touching. When the last
notes died away amid the oaks of
Monticello, there was not a dry eye
in the vast assemblage.
The London Times, in its financial
article OH November Goth, says, in re-
latlon to the purchase by Great
Britain of 81, 5000 bonds Of the
Suez Canal Co.: Approaching most
essential to Egypt is secured. The
value Of the purchase to England is
great and probably will be taken by
the public to mean the buying of the
rest of the shares and the paying two
loans raised by the company amount
ing to 94,800, 000, whereby England
would be possessed of the entire
property. The advantage of the
bargain lisa secondary question. The
purchase was made for political
reasons; therefore the Importance of
the step is hardly to be overrated.
For considerable time it cannot be
pecuniarily profitable unless England
also redeems the nineteen year
coupons, which the khedive hereto
fore sold.
The Indian situation at Cimmaron,
N. NJ, is still serious. The govern
ment has demanded the delivery
to the civil authorities If Indians