Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-11-06

has at last received 'Ht C'iS'''oi'
of relatives and friends.
The briars and brambles which COW
cred it have been cleared away. and
a great transformation has been
wrought i'll the sepnlchre. The in
scriptior, which was almost effaccd,
has been restored, and now appears
boldly reading:
z. TAYLOR,
BORN, NOVEMBER, Oath, IVA.
DIED, JULY 9th, 1850.
Singer, the sewing machine man,
seems to have been muchly married.
One of his five wives ia now sueing
for her dowry in the Surrogate
court at White Plains, Westchester
county, New York. The evidence is
rare, rich and racy.
Michele Bellette, Sylvester Cam
payne and Deodato, concerned in the
atrocious murder of all old Italian
and several Italian boys, i'll Colora-
do, recently, were captured by de
tectives aud incarcerated i'll Jail nj
Denver. %Ieoamardi Lesandri, VIII"
says the fiends compelled him 10 play
loudly on the harp while they cut
the thrOais of their victims, is also
i'll durance vile.
A fire at Herman. Texas, on the
night of Nov list, destroyed three
blocks i'll the business portion of the
town.
VIM. and Frank Scott, (colorcd),
convicted of murder in the first de-
gree, will hang on December 9th.
So says the Supreme court of Ten
nessce.
Mr.. Moody, the great r%cvivalist,
appointed Friday, the 18th inst, as a
day of fasting and prayer, and re-
quests the congregations of the whole
nation to DIN.
A meeting was held at the Fifth
<AtCiuc .lOtci III NC" YIN VI Npt.
LIST, between the county Treasurer
of st. Louis county and f. j. Bow
man, attorney of said county, on the
one part, and Col. Clinton Il. Fisk,
treasurer of the a. e =. r.. II. OH the
other. Mr.. Bowman desired to
know ~ what authority mortgages
to the extent of 81, 900, 600 had been
placed upon the Missouri Pacific Rail
Road, claiming that such mortgages
were a virtual sell out ofthe stock
holders and unsecured creditors of
the road. The Mo. Z. e. r. being
indebted to st. Louis county in the
sum Of $4,000 Mr.. Bowman's
question seems to be pertinent, and
Col. Fisk promises to answer it, OF
at any rate to Try.
The Iron-clad Magenta, flag ship o:
the Ficc-Admiral commanding the
French squadron off Toulon, was de-
stroyed by fire October 30th. No
lives lost.
1t is estimated that fully two hum
dred mariners, and others were
drowned in the North sea during the
recent gales.
The English are Furnishing the
natives of the Congo river for their
piratical expeditions, and for killing
sailors. Many Of the natives nave
been killed.
The revolution in Uruguay is vir-
tually at an end. The government
is victorious.
Steamships leaving New York are
loaded to their utmost capacity with
provisions for the Spanish troops
in Cuba.
A quarryman by the name of Fritz
living in the town of Sau-
gerlies. New York. recently fell heir
to a nice little fortune Of $50, zoo, his
uur'e, Conrad Schmidt having died
i'll Germany and remembered him to
that amount.
The National Gold Bank and Trust
company, Of San Francisco. did not
open on the morning of Nov. LIST. A
crowd assembled before the opening
hour with every indication of a con
of n rum, and the officers, as
a measure OF safety, refused to pay
checks. The officers voucksafed but
little information, claiming that the
bank can pay everything in full, and
Will esuin as soon as possible. The
Bank of California is paying small
deposits only in full, and obtaining
extension on larger ones. No ex-
citement apparent at the other
banks.
The Arkansas legislature is in sps-
sion.
Mrs. Mary Walton, of Mercer. Me-.
was pretty, tidy aud trusting.
.tireenleaf Tracy was handsome and
susceptible. They were both mar
ried, but they forgot all about that
for a while. Mary was divorced
from her husband, but finally con
that she loved him better
Tracy, and went hack 10 him.
Tracy became enraged, and shot
Mary in that breast that had betray-
ed another for him, and then shot
himself. Tho people of the place pro-
posed to crematc his remains but his
old white haired fathers c%utreaties
succeeded in causing them TO foresO
'ir-- aaaign
La Page, who was indicted for the
murder OF Josie Langmadc, was iucn-
titled Oct. 3Oth, as the man seen in
the bushes near the roud when the
girl passed over.
A dispatch from Virginia City says
that building is going on rapidly and
that the burnt district is dotted over
with shanties.
On Wednesday last, Chas. Patter-
son shot and killed r. w. Porter, a
cattle driver, on the North Platte,
thirty miles north of Sidney, Neb.,
where Patterson was taken under
arrest. Last evening The jail was