Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-11-06
Weeklv gnteli9enter.

Weekly s%gntflh9enfer,
The New Constitution carried by
about six to two.
All the state officers at Jefferson
City favored the New Constitution
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Connecticut cut the connections IL
429 divorce cases within the past
year. The state seems to be vel
named.
MIR. John W. Galwitb. aged 9;
years, and the Oldest man in Gala
way county. died on the 22d ult. He
had lived in that county 80 years.
France Is taking more interest il
the centennial than any foreign couh'
try, and will probably have the mex
largest display to that of the United
States.
I1OII. +. 1 w ''s
Republican to correct the false re
port that he had Withdrawn from the
race for the clernship of the forty
fourth congress.
Count Won Arnim is to be cashier
ed. His original sentence was nine
months imprisonment, but was com
muted to a fine. The counts OF
tense was %concealing diplomatic pa
pers.
Centennial work goes bravcly on,
Missouri is doing her full share oi
the work, and will be represented III
all her varied interests : mining, me-
ehanics, agricultural, manufacturing
and commercial.
RedCloud wanted the government
to pay him S7O,O Goo for the Black
Hills. lie has at last come down 81
and thinks there should now be no
trouble on the part of the govern
ment in closing the bargain.
The Boonville Advertiser made lis
appearance las; week il the quart"
form, and somewhat enlarged. Last
Monday the publication Ola daily
was commenced. We are pleased
to see some evidence of progress i'll
that sleepy old burg.
Plaukiugtou & Armour, of Kansas
City, do all immense packing busl-
ness, their establishment being a
credit to the place and a great con-
venience to southwestern stockmen.
From five hundred to one thousand
beeves are slaughtered there daily.
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Work on. the %jetties. at the mouth
of the Mississippi, is progressing IA
vorably. a recent dispatch amour
ces that pile driving OIL the west jetty
is completed that mattress sinking
is going on rapidly and that i'll twen-
ty working days all the waters now
allowed to pass through the opening
at the end of the west jetty will be
closed.
The Uuited States grand jury for
the eastern district of Missouri, late
on the evening of the 3rd lust,
brought i'll indictments against VIM.
NJ. Mckee, senior proprietor of the
St. Louis Globe, and Colonel Con
stantine Mcguire, for completely i'll
the late whisky frauds. If these
charges prove true it will explain
another source of radical campaign
funds. This will be nuts for Bris-
tow, but it is hard on Grant.
The society of Confederate sur-
geons elected DR.. Hunter Mcclure,
of Richmond, Va, President, and DR..
Henry Z. Campbell, of Augusta, Ga.
fret Nice-President. A committee
was appointed 'to collect the facts
in regard to the medical sanitary
history of Andersonville prison, aud
of all prisons and hospitals estab-
lished by the Confederate authori-
ties for the safe keeping and treat
ment Of Federal prisoners"
49,
There is a strong effort being made
by the members of the common
council, friends of Mr.. OverstolZ, to
GUST Mayor Britton. Mr.. OvCrsto!Z
is known to be a skilful manipulator
of political wires, and had not his in
ordinate desire to become Mayor of
st. Louis caused him to run against
Mr.. Barrett, he would no doubt now
be in the enjoyment of the homors
and emoluments OF that office. Vault
ing ambition sometimes outstrips
itself, and the best motto for Mr..
Overstolz just now, is, go slow.
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A New York Sun correspondent,
having limited in letter to his pa
per that the Hon. B. Gratz Brown
had a silent interest in a firm which
is supplying the stone for the sub
basement of the new courthouse i'll
st. Louis, Mr.. Brown, in a letter to
the Sun, denies having any such in
%terest, either directly or Indirectly.
in the way Of moiety or percentage,
and states-that while he is the own
er of large quarries, he is not supply
ing stone for any government COLI
tract whatever.
There are now in the pe~nitentiary,
st Jefferson City, twelve hundred and
fifty-two convicts. Four hundred of
these are negroes, and sixty-two OF
the number are The males
r pretty comfortably situated,
though their quarters + becoming
somewhat crowded. The females are
in a much worse condition-four OF
five being compelled to occupy one
cell intended for two. Gov. Hardin
is doing all i'll his power to hurry
the completion of the new cell build