Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-11-13
STATE ITEMS.

will be held in Sedalia Oh Ihe seco"u
Tuesday of December.
A Roanoke correspondent of the
Glasgow Journal says that j.. Sim
mons, of that vicinity, found q box
containing one thousand dollars in
gold, under q log, where it is thought
to have been secreted by guerillas du-
ring the war.
There was q negro row in Boon
Vile last Sunday, in which q woman
was quite seriously cut about the
face, and several others were bruised
and beaten. The city marshal fired
twice at the leader Of the party, but
secured him without bloodshed.
The Russian consul, at San Fran
cisco, Count Wellesley, was a visitor
ON 'Change in St. Louis, last Satur-
day. He reports that there is no fam
inc imminent in Russia. That though
the crops have been injured by drouth,
a great scarcity of food is not appre-
hended.
Judge Hill has ordered a grand
jury for the special term of the Saline
! Criminal court OF the 18th inst, to
inquire into ~offensss for which par
ties are now confined in Jail. The
Judges object is to hasten investiga-
ton and trials SO as to relieve the
county of unnecessary expense in
boarding prisoners.
On last Monday q fire broke out in
| the second story of the State Journal
| Office, in Jefferson City, damaging
the building aud the stock to the
amount of about fifteen hundred dol
lars. Fully insured. By prompt &C.
ton on the part of the fire depart
ment, and citizens, the surrounding
property wal saved. The governors
mansion would have been endanger-
ed had the whole block burned.
1t is now definitely decided that
st. Louis Is to have her big hotel. 1t
| will contain two thousand rooms, at q
| cost, with furniture, of two million
dollars. 1t will cover about four
acres, will be called the Hotel
| Grande, and will be larger than the
new Palace Hotel in San Francisco,
which is now unsurpassed in the
world in size. Construction will
begin next spring, Boston capitalists
providing the money. Until the erec-
ton Of the Palace Hotel, the Grand
| Hotel, in Paris, was without a ri val.
Messrs. Happele aud Diemer, of
PALMYRA, long established aud well
known butchers of that place, have
gone largely into the packing of
hogs. Their establishment 10 fitted
up with all the modern appliances of
steam and machinery. Their boiler,
furnace, elevator rollers, groove
knife and saw are all of the latest
patterns and they Are prepared to do
work with Lightning rapidity. They
began killing q few days aimee. The
establishment is a credit to the town.
Why can we not have q similar u
here. "a 1880"
Capt. Joseph Cooper,o of B~oonsboro,
died at his residence on the 9th ult.
He was born in Madison county,Ky.,
in 1898, and was therefore in the SD
year Of his age. He emigrated to
Howard county in 1909, and passed
all the privations of an Indian FROM
tier life. He was 3 highly honorable
gentleman, and full of the milk of hui
man kindness, as attested by the fact
that, for many years, one or more Or
phans of the neighborhsod were kept
under his roof ; fed, clothed and edu-
Gated as if they had been his own
children.
The officers elect Of Tancred Com
mandry, No. 25, were publicly in-
stalled on the evening of the 9th inst.
at the Rollins street Baptist church,
in Moberly, Past Grand Comman-
der, j. D.. Vincil, officiating. A large
audience was present, aud the cere-
monies were of q very imposing char
acter. Tancred Commandry was or.
gained in October, 1874, aud now
numbers over forty Knights, among
them Hon. J. B. Clark, Jr., aud Maj
Finks, OF Howard; Capt. Joe Stevens,
of Boonville Capt. j. w. Allen, Of
Charlton, and Division Superinten-
dent Vaughan, of the st. Louis, Kan.
sas City and Northern railroad.
In Springfield. last Saturday, 9
mulstto named Jim Collins abused
, his wife because she had not finished
q shirt she wal making for him, and
, in the course of HE remarks said that
he would "fx her for . slow ride to
the next world" with q Stick o.
stovewood which he had in his hand
Re did not strike her however, and
as he turned to lay down the stick
she picked up IN Ak aud buried it il
the back of his skull. To make sur,
work of it, she chopped his head VI
into several pieces. The woman il
+ now in Jail. 1t he had fixed her. sh,
would not have been able to fix him
+ The parties had only been married
few months.
A day or two since q young maj
in st. Louis tried to convert q dir
wagon into q juggernaut by throwing
: himself under the wheels. The dri
yer succeeded in stopping his team
: before he waa hnrt-bIsRpp6lnted q
+ his failure he walked over to the Pa
cific railroad track and placed hi
neck OH the rail in front of an ap
3 preaching switch engine. His actio,
was go sudden that before the Ell
3 gineer could stop he had passed owe
and neatly decspitated him. Thu
cone more unfortunate rashly i'm
Fortunate, went to his DEATH" H
was apparently about twenty-seveI
z years of age. He had letters in hi
e pocket addressed to Anderson Scott
care of A. Beck, st. Louis.
The perils to morals aud manner
incident to large city were recent
exemplified in the case of a youn