Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-05

company mas been organized in
Jefferson City, to work the gold fields
OF Galloway county.
The assessment of real estate in Bos-
ton shows a falling off of nearly sixty
millions of dollars. and in personal
property more than half that amount.
This is contraction with a practical ap-
plication.
We see advertisements calling for fifty
men to work on the B. Il S. w. Ry. be-
tween Milan and Laclede. A few DAYS
ago workmen wen up to work on the
bridges, and everything is assuming a
business aspect Linneus Bulletin, July
21st.
The New York Financial Chronicle
advises business men to be very cautious
in purchases this summer and fall, and
on no account to Overstock themselves
as the great financial stress and dullness
in Europe cannot fail to act disastrously
ON the already depressed interests in
this country.
The senate committee on pension has
amended the bill granting a pension to
the vile of Gen. Custer SO as to reduce
the amount of fifty dollars a month to
thirty. Had the democratic house been
guilty Of such an act, a howl would have
been raised from n end of the land to
the other, but as the republican senate
did it, we suppose it is all right.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: The
g~rasshoppers are very bad around Allan
ia and as far west as Lagrange. They
are thick in certain parts of North Ala
bama. 1t is thought that their presence
is due to western hay, in which were
eggs which have since been Matched
out. Fortunately they can not injure the
corn, as it is too far advanced to be hurt,
What with the grim combination of
flood and famine. there is 4 bad outlook
for overcrowded humanity in China. Re-
cent foundations have resulted in the loss
OF $4,000 lives, while a protracted drought
IN other provinces, covering a district of
$40 square miles. and containing 3 pop-
ulation of about SO,OOO,O 900 souls, has
completely destroyed the crops, and a
terrible famine seems inevitable.
The Chicago Times is authority for
the statement that General HAYES wrote
President Grant an earnest letter, protest.
ing against extending the Executive
clemency to Avery. Tho letter was not
without effect. The President concluded
to withhold the pardon which he had de-
termlned to grant, at least for a season.
1t is unlikely now that any of the con-
victed whiskey ring men will regain
their freedom in season to vote at the
presidential election.
On the 9th of July a colored man
named Williams, aged forty-five, brutally
outraged a young married woman, q
Mrs. johnson, of Platte county, while
alone in the house. The negro was
promptly arrested and placed in Jail.
So incensed were the citizens of the
county at the criminal, that a vigilance
committee was formed, the Jail at Platte
City broken into Sunday morning at l
O'Clock, and the negro taken a short dis
lance and hung from a tree.
The Chicago Tribune has experienced
a change of opinion OF the silver ques-
ton. Two weeks ago it was violently
opposed to the enactment of a law that
would make it possible to pay debts in
silver and bring the old dollar into use
again it declares it would be repudia-
tion. Now, however, it is on the other
side of the question, and actively and
ably contending for the restoration OF
the old dollar to its former position in
the coinage.
Governor Chamberlain, of South Car
DINA, has denied that he made any ap-
plication to the government for troops
to be sent to South Carolina. He has
stated that he visited Washington at the
express request Of the president, for the
purpose of consultation. He has said
that he knew nothing of the sending of
troops to Aiken or Hamburg until they
actually arrived there. If these state
ments are true, the authorities at Wash
ington have lied, and have sent troops
into the interior of South Carolina un-
necessarily, except with the purpose of
establishing terrorism for a political
object.
The st. Louis Times, Washington cor
respondent says: With Belknap's ac-
quittal vanish all expectations that any
other OF Grants corrupt cabinet will be
impeached. In Robeson's case, it is
true, he has not seen fit to send in his
resignation. and the same plea of juris-
diction would not be available to save
him from disqualification, but among
candid republicans, as well as democrats,
the impression has gained a fixed hold
that again, as in the trial just closed, the
senate would be organized to acquit,
! and that none OF Grants ministers
would stand in danger, even if they
were caught in the very act of fraud,
! bribery of grand larceny.