Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-09-04
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Alabama constitutional Conven-
ton is composed As follows: Dem
ocrats, 70; Independent Democrat,
4; Radicals, II; not known, B. 10
tai 9S.
The coroner's jury has cleared
DR.. Howard, resident physician of
the ST. Louis insane asylum, OF any
blame in connection with the recent
poisoning of patients by administer
ing excessive doses of conium.
DIR. Adds, Of London, says: 81
am perfectly convinced, as the result
of many years practice, that what
ever tends to develop the minds Of
women will have the best effect on
their moral and physical, as we'll as
intellectual health"
There we're 4,29S, 900 postal cards
issued by the Post-Office Depart
ment during the month of July on
the requisition of postmasters. This
is the largest number ever issued IN
any month so far. At the above
raie nearly 100000 postal cards
will be used this year.
Carruth, the Vlneland editor, who
carries a bullet in his head, has set
tied his EAST with Lands by agree
ing to accept $4,000 not to appear
against him on the trial. And now
he thinks OF having an eye taken
out, the bullet removed and the eye
replaced. Carruth will get the best
of this matter yet.
Robert NJ. Longan, once a success
full Journalist of Detroit, and well
known under tae soubriquet Of
"Free Press Bob," was found dead
on Monday mo, ming in aroom where
he had lain after q drunken debaucb
He was about thirty-six years OF age,
and possessed talents OF a very tiue
order, but drink had made All utter
wreck of him.
A young man of Wilmington. N.
c., having q short leave of absence
from his employer, remained away
SO long at a fashionable summer re
sort that the employer telegrapted
for him to return, or he would lose
his place. "Don't want the place ;
have a 100000 girl in love with
me-" was the nswer But he came
back in a week and took a place at
$50 a month.
A complaint is made in the st.
James Magazine that instead OF
studying her own maritime interests,
England has created five naval pow
ers, Germany, Turkey, Spain, Brazil,
and Peru, by permitting the con-
struction, on the Thames and Clyde,
of ironclads superior to any in her
navy for these countries. 1t is urged
that the Lords of the Admiralty
should take immediate steps to have
this business broken up.
A child was brought before a hu-
name magistrate, according to d
Japanese story, charged with the
capital crime of killing a wild duck
in the immense preserves of the
Shogoup. The magistrate expressed
the opinion that the duck was only
stunned, and gave the parents a day
to cure it, in which case the child
would be acquitted. This comforted
the father but little, but the mother
sensibly went and bought the finest
live duck she could find, which the
magistrate accepted with a smile.
The last new Partisan note paper
is very wonderful. 1t is a single
page of what we call letter paper,
viz, twice the size Of the paper u.s.
ually used for writing notes, and The
border is exactly like a pocket band
kerchief, having q broad band of
color, and small dots and devices be-
yond the envelopes match, and the
sheet is folded in a peculiar manner
difficult to describe,..b but evidently ill.,
tended to recall the turr-down col
lars. !
The longer [ live the more | am
certain that the great difference be-
tween men, between the feeble and
the powerful, the great and the i'll
significant, is energy-invincible de-
termination-a purpose once fixed,
and then death or victory! Tha,
quality will do anything that a be
done in this world; and no talents,
no circumstances, no opportunities,
will make a two.legged creature a
man without it.-[Powell Buxton.
State Senator Finney, of Califor-
mia, was some years ago witness
against or the prosecutor of three or
four ~desperadoes who resided in San
Mateo county, but they escaped the
gallows and the state prison, and it
was said at the time that they would
one day kill him. So Impressed was
his wife with the idea that she ad-
vised him to sell his property and
leave; but be declined, saying that
ii they were determined to kill him
they would follow him wherever be
went. Very recently he was found
dead, pierced by a bullet.
The Art of Conversation FIRST
participating COMMEMORATIVE
you card as Jim Bates's father says
he'll give i'm the sack z" Second
ditto CATER pause)-"Whose father 2"
First ditto-"Why, jim Bates's !"
Second ditto (after pause)-"Jlm
Bates's who?" First ditto-"Why,
Jim Bates's father" Second ditto
CATER pause)-"Jim Bates's father!
Well, what does he say?" First
ditto-"Says he'll give i'm the sack y
Second ditto CATER pause)-"Give
i'm the what? First ditto-"G,ve
i'm the sack2' Second ditto CATER
pause)-"Give who the sack 2" First
ditto-"Why, Jim Bates" Second
ditto CATER long pause)-"Ah. l
'eard that the day before yesterday"
This is a Louisville love story
Christopher Best began to love a
girl when he was only seventeen
years old. This vas IN 1874. He
was a barber, and although the girl
loved him, his calling seemed to her
a barrier TO their union. Therefore
he decided to die. After listening
to her final refusal to wed, he sent
an uncommonly large bullet into his
brain. But he did not die. In great
agony he survived, and endured
many painful surgical operations.
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