Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-08
GENERAL AND POLITICAL.

The Legislature Of Minnesota met
on the 4th instant.
The Pennsylvania Legislature met
on the 4th instant.
The Legislature of New York met
on the 4th instant.
1t is said that the German govern
ment is quietly concllisting,the Cath
Ollie clergy.
The Mark Lane Express promises
an important rise in the price of wheat
in the spring.
Gas in Pittsburg is 81 per 1000 feet
in Chicago So 25 per 1000 feet III 81.
So rs per 1000 feet.
Americas begging note to France
Oh the Cuba question has been pre-
scented t. that government by Mr..
Washburne.
Babcock has engaged Emory S.
Storrs, of Chicago, aud Judge John
X. Porter, of Beecher trial nororiety,
to assist Judge Krum in his defense.
A member of the California Legis-
lature, in view of the cruelty of the
"sterner" towards the ''weaker'' sex,
has given notice of a bill to establish
a whipping-post for the punishment
of wife-beaters. We vote aye.
NJ. Ii. B., toned down I-
marriage, again makes her appear
ance in the decorous columns OF the
Republican. This time as M. II. F..
She is one of the sprightiiest corres-
pondents of the St. Louis press.
The execution Of VIM. Murray and
Frederick Myers, for the murder of
G. Wahl, November 18th, 1874, while
driving from Pittsburg, Pa, to his
home near %Perrysville, took place a
few minutes before twelve O'Clock i'll
the former city oil January 9th.
The Diario de la Marina, of Ha-
vana, in leading editorial says: The
Spanish government should proceed
with dignity TO preserving its indie
pendence, and giving Secretary Fish
the check he merits if he pretends to
meddle with our internal affairs.
The legislature of Louisiana met
in New Orleans Oh the Srd Instant.
Everything passed off quietly. Tho
house after receiving the governors
message, adjourned out of respect to
the memory Of l.. H. Southland and
+. l.. Piersen, deceased members.
Some of the convicts in the Ohio
~penitentiary have been Willing away
their leisure hours in the manufac-
ture of counterfeit nickels, which
they sent out to make purchases of
tobacco and other little things which
they were allowed to buy. Their
game was discovered and stopped.
Chas. b. Beckwith, former conf
dental clerk of Benjamin II. Rabbit,
the well-known soap manufacturer,
of New York, was committed to Jail
on the 3rd inst, without bail, to
answer the charge Of embeZzlement.
The amount Of the defalcation now
known is $500, 600, and may reach
$5OO,OOO
The amount of Bork's d%efalcation,
as treasurer of Buffalo, is, rs far as
can be CLEANED from the present state
of his books, $35O,OOO. Bork was at
Clifton, Ontario, last night. jus,
across the border. His property has
been attached by the sheriff, and the
banking Office of Leon, Bork 4 Co.,
closed.
Chicago's Hesing. the German tad
pole, Knownothing reformer, propri'
etor of tho Stats Zeitung; Jacol
Rhem, al ex-superintendent ofpolice
B. II. Miller, the retiring county
treasurer, and Jacob Minthy. ex-dep
uty collector, have all been indicted
aud placed under bonds to answer
the charge of conspiracy to defraut
the government-Whisky Ring.
John Stephenson & Co., AZ Eas
Twenty-seventh street, New York
we'll known Car manufacturers, have
asked their creditors for all extern
sion of time. Their liabilities amour
to about $1sO,0OO. The principal
portion of their assets consists o
real estate, which if disposed of nov
at a forced sale will be sacrificed fol
less than half it's value, which j
placed at 500, 0OO.
Lappin, the Kansas Stale Treas
urer, has got iuto the people deepe
than a, first supposed. In the tow
of Seneca, where he lived, he wa
> owing $4,000, which the people will
: he compelled to whistle for. TIL,
total mount of his Indebtedness /
not known. Lappin's b%rother-in
, law, Ssrofiord, who was implicated
, with him in the school frauds, lei
before the crash III
On the 31st ult., the French assem-
, bly, adjourned to meet the 8th o
March next, the deputies shouting
q "Vive la Republique. Mr.. Theirs
, being run for the assembly..and senat
, by two different departments III con
dition that he will take which sea
suits him best. There's al old ma
for you. Marshall Canrobert has de
clined several nominations to tn
senate.
9 Fashionable intelligence from Mil
4 waukee "The lovely and accom-
plished Mrs. Crokid Bourbon wa
the admiration of all the indicte,
d guests at the fancy last night. Sh
t wore 10000 gallons of the fines
e point lace, sent her by her HUSBAND
q when he fled to Europe and forfeite G,