Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-27
POLITICAL.

1t is proposed, in Chicago, to erect a
monument to the memory of Col. Multi.
gan.
Recent official figures show st. Louis
to be the healthiest large city in the
world.
The Kansas democratic state conven.
ton declared in favor of Hendricks fol
President.
There is said to be a birth every five
minutes in London, and a death every
eight minutes.
Five fishing vessels and forty-seveu
lives have been lost in the Gloucester
fisheries this year.
Bret Harte will have a new comedy
brought out at the Union Square Thea.
tire about August 81.
Hon. Mortimer McIlhaney, ofAudrain
county, declines being q candidate for
railroad commissioner.
Ex-Gov. Woodson was selected as a
delegate to next Wednesdays conven-
ton from Buchanan county.
There was a three foot fall OF snow at
Central City, Col. on the Path inst.
Travel very much impeded.
Mr.. p. S. Gilmore has created 3 mar
ked sensation atthe centennial exhibition
by his military band concerts.
The Right Worthy Grand Lodge OF
Good Templars of the world commenced
its session in Louisville, Kentucky, on
the Esd instant.
The President has nominated Edward
F. Beale, of the District of Columbia,
envoy extraordinary and minister plen-
ip~otentiary to Austria.
The one hundred and twenty-sixth
birthday of Stephen Girard was celebra-
ted May 22d at Girard College, with ap-
propriate ceremonies.
Bowen offered to tell DIR. Taylor what
he knows about Beecher and the doctor
refused to listen to it; and now his wife
calls him an old fool and wants a divorce.
The Chinese are only sending to San
francisco one hundred of their fellow
countrymen in a ship, instead Of one
thousand, as they wered doing some weeks
ago.
Manton Marble has sold his controlling
interest in the New York World to VIM.
H. Hurlburt. who has long been ONT Of
the most brilliant writer's for its col
umns.
Two men, O'Brien and King, robbed a
German named Friedenburghouse. in q
saloon in Pleasant Hill, on last Thursday,
Of So, 900. The robbers were captured
and are now in custody.
The Boston Post hopes that ',hose
republican conventions which instruct
for Blaine" will specify whether they
mean James E., James G., John E.,
Blaine, OF t'other fellow.
Cass county has selected her delegates
to the state conventions. They will
support for president Thomas A. Hen
bricks, for secretary of state c. W. Sloan,
for congress Hon. N. M. Givan.
The st. Louis Browns beat the New
York Mutuals at base ball, in the latter
city, on the 23d inst, II to 8. The play
of the st. Louis club is said to have been
brilliant. eliciting frequent applause.
1t was an unfortunate display of
egotism for Doorkeeper Fitzhugh to
write himself down a digger man than
old Grant," but he grazed dangerously
near the actual facts.-[St. Louis Times.
Whatever the depth of Fitzhugh's
f%oolishness, they don't charge him with
accepting Pacific mail brides Dr. any
thing of that sort, as een among the
doorkeepers of the last congress.-[Utica
On. W Observer.
The planet Jupiter, which now rises
about 9o'clock p. H., is a conspicuous
object on clear nights. Viewed through
an ordinary field glass, its four satellites
are an interesting study, shifting about
as they do every evening in different
positions.
Mary McKener, aged seventeen, and
her nephewtwo years old, were drowned
in the Missouri river, at St. Joseph, on
Sunday evening. by falling from a skiff.
The little boy was a son ofJno. O'Rourke,
switchman in the K. c., St. Joe 4 G. B.
railroad yards. The bodies have not
been recovered.
The Brooklyn Argus aptly compares
Mr.. Blaine, of Maine, to the old Scotch
lady's kettle. When she had it soldered
at the bottom it leaked at the handle, and
when she had it soldered at the handle
it leaked below the spout. Finally she
got mad, kicked it out doors. exclaimin:
"It's a use to mend We, dom 1t; yell
leak ony how"
Three masked highwaymep robbed a
stage near Fort Worth. Texas, on
Thursday of last week. There were
seven or eight passengers in the coach,
but they offered no resistance. The rob-
bers shot their own horses and rode OF
on the animals belonging to the stage
They secured about $1,000 of booty. A
pursuit was instituted, but we have
heard of no results. OF course % il
was the James boys.