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

MOultOn Record, Oct. 2l.: We have
better news from the b & 5. w. railway
this week than for some time. \ new
receiver has been appointed in the per-
son of Elijah Smith. Of Boston, and work
is to commence at once upon the gap
south of here. The work will all be
done and the cars running through by
the first Of January. Then it will be one
of the best paying roads in the country.
So mote it be.
Rev. j. ID. Vincil has removed from
louisiana to Mexico. \ large number
of friends bade him Il sorrow!ul adicu
when he left the former place. The cit
liens of Mexico will find in Bro. NincI
an eloquent and genial gentleman.
Rev. 4. p. Foreman. Il wcll-known
Presbyterian minister of Missouri, died
in Courtl:,nd, Alabama, last week. His
remains were Inferred in ST. Louis on
Sunday.
y st. Joseph correspondent of the st.
Louis Times, mentions Charles II. Uar-
din, William II. Hatch, Geo. &. Vest.
Elijah II. Norton, Waldo p john
son, John Is. Hale, j. II. Shanklin,
Norman J. Coleman, John s. Phelps.
James Shields, Erastus Wells. Jos. L.
Stephens, Thos. l.. Anderson. NJ. V l..
Mcclellan and John Reid as probable
candidates for gubernatorial honors next
year. OF the latter two gentlemen he
says:
NV. l.. MCCLELLAN
is another gentleman who should be
mentioned III connection with the arri-
cultural interests of the state He rep
resented Lafayette county most accpta-
bly, in the last legislature. Laboring
zealously in behalf of the people, and
the author of an extremely valuable
bond bill-a bill which enables counties
oppressed by heavy local debts to buy
in their outstanding obligations at what
ever advantageous figures they may be
able to secure-he showed by the prac-
teal manner in which he grappled with
the difficulty that he was not only
thoroughly acquainted with the real
he was statesman enough to propose ut
least partial remedy. In other debates
upon other subjects, somewhat akin TO
the main one already explained, he eX-
hibted marked ability and much practi-
cal acquaintance with the pressing needs
Of the whole people. Personally popu-
lar also, and of extended acquaintance,
he will enter the race with many elc-
ments in his favor from the very begin
ming
the present chairman of the State Execu-
tive Committee, has been put forward
by his friends in various localities ,s a
probable candidate. Or himself it is
very likely that he has never considered
the question of his own candidacy. Yet
he is in every way qualified for the posi-
tiou. Coming comparatively q stranger
into the post bellum politics of the state,
and called To Al office that required the
very highest oi der of ability and execu-
tive capacity, he conducted with bril-
lance and remarkable facility one ot the
most complicated and exciting local
campaigns ever known in Missouri. He
created an aggressive organization out
Of widely-Sc;ittered and incoicrent ma
terial, otficered it and equipped it as
though it were an army, and hurled it
upon the opposition SO vigorously and
SO unrelentingly, that the combined
forces Of radicalism and tadpoleism
scarcely awaited the first shock In ad-
dition to this splendid executive ability
SO opportunely manifested. Col. Reid is
also an eloquent speaker, an accom-
plished scholar, and Il literary gent e.
lnan Of varied and cultivated tastes. As
to his democracy, it is of the old-fash-
ioned, states rights sort, and always true
to fundamental principles.