Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1876-04-08
Robesop is being gradually hedgcd
in. He will "squeal" before long.

Robesop is being gradually hedgcd
in. He will "squeal" before long.
DR.. Buckiugham, formerly of this
place was recently elected Mayor of
Denver, Col, over his republican
opponent.
Nineteen towns in Ohio went dem
ocratic and twenty-five republican Mt
| the recent election and one OF the
democratic towns was q little vill'ge
called Cincinnati.
The steamship HeveliuS, with the
emperor of Brazil OH board, left fara
on the 5th inst. direct for the
United States, where it is expected
to arrive on the 18th inst.
Belknap has been formally impeach-
ed, and the necessary oath admins
tered to the senators by Chief-Justice
Waite. The 18th day OF the present
month has been fixed. tor the trial.
The election in st. LOUIS was SUD-
stantially democratic victory. Mr..
Hagerty, the renegade democrat, was
allowed to stay at home where he
ought to have been long ago. The
new council will be more decent
body than the last.
Little Rhody went republican as
usual last Wednesday. When we saw
her governors name we took it TO be
Liliput, bnt found that it was Lip
pitt. The former would have been
more appropriate. The democratic
candidate got larger vote than his
Liliputian majesty. but there being
no election by the people, the legisla-
ture. which is republican, will put
the little man in as it did last year.
We once heard of jury Of twelve
men who failed to agree upon ver-
dict, the vote standing every time
eleven for and one against acquittal.
After long time the jury was dis
charged and the lone one declared
that never before in his life had he
met with eleven such obstinate men.
The Kansas City Times seems to be
in this individuals prcdicamcnt. The
democrats of that city are certainly
very obstinate, when they give Gill
I 4f fnto1 nj 1S2
q majority of S71, contrary to the
very strenuous advice of the Times.
The ST. Joseph Gazette insists that
r. L. Van Horn was i'll the crooked
whisky business. And specifically
prefers an Indictment against him
half a column long, with eleven
counts in it, charging that he was in
q clandes meeting in st. Joseph
with A. c. Dawes, Bittenger, Wilkin-
son and Feineman, which met TOR the
purpose Of raising S., ,000 with which
to bribe Revenue Agent Brown to
prevent the seizure of Sheehan's dis
tillery. The Gazette names the wit
nesses and makes plain case, and
winds up by saying that the grand
jury at jefferson City which examined
into the matter failed to do its duty.
The Washington Star gives what is
called ga list Of robberies perpetrated
by high officials during the long time
of democratic rule. In this list are
| FIVE names of defaulters, ''during this
long time of democratic rule" And
allowing that the statements concern
ing them are true, which is not by
any means certain, as the false ac-
cusations against Messrs. Thurman,
| Tilden and Hendricks ,anu the garbled
Ben. Hill speech show that party TO
be capable of any distortion of truth
which is necessary to their purpose,
and even then a republican paper
should be ashamed 10 publish such an
Insignificant list. when there is not a
large city i'll the Union i'll which
radical official corruption can not be
shown in greater number of rob-
berries and in larger amounts stolen.
The worst part Of the business is that
the half of the thievery will never
be known. What ha, come to light
is bad enough, but could all the
swimdling be discovered which has
been going on for the last few years
it would be astounding.
THE DUTY OF THE CONVENTION.
To the ST. Louis convention, which
meets on June 9th, the country looks
for relief from the domination of q
party which has debauched the civil
service, stolen hundreds of millions
of dollars from the public treasury,
ruiued trade, ,paralyzed industry, Gre
ated mountain Of national indebted