Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-22
GENERAL AYD POLITICAL.


er clear and cool; Everybody healthy.
LAFAYETTE.
GENERAL AYD POLITICAL.
The widow of ex-president John
son is dead.
S. j. Kirkwood was elected soma
tor from Iowa, OF the 28th inst.
The son of the late Andrew john
son is the editor of the Greenvills
(Tenn.) Inteilgencer.
Ex-Governor McClurg is building
a steamboat to navigate the Usage
river from Linn Greek to its mouth.
. Hon. Robert A. Hatcher, of the
fourth congressional district of Mis-.
souri,, was married on the goth lust,
in Washington, to a lady of that city.
All the large and respectable dis
~tilleries in Chicago, thirteen in man,
Der. have pleaded guilty to the charge
of conspiring to defraud the govern
ment.
Henry Atkins, a farmer living near
Clinton, in Henry county, committed
suicide by cutting his throat at his
home on the 10Th inst. He was
thought to have been insane
By recent fire in Audrain county,
caused by a spark from a locomotive,
Mrs. Pogue lost 10 stacks Of hay. 525
barrels Of corn, aud $500 rails, aud
r. NJ. Allen lost one mile Of fencing.
John Q. Hartranft was inaugurs-
ted governor Of Pennsylvania at Har-
risburg OH the 18th lust. After the
administration Of the oath of Office,
he delivered an address. A review
of troops followed.
The Boston Transcript appears to
be of the opinion that Blaine dropped
down upon Cox and Hill 80 hard
that he hurt himself. 1t is our opin-
ion that Blaine is tho Centennial
pancake. -(St. l.. T.
The trial of Forrest D. Reed for
the killing of Geo. w. Davis at New
Hartford, In this state, an account Of
which was given in the Intelli-
gencer, took place in the circuit court
of Pike county last week. The jury
hung, aud the prisoner was admitted
to bail.
The house Of representatives has
adopted u resolution reducing the
number of committee clerks on its
pay roll from thirty-five to twenty
five, making a saving of the small
but respectable sum of about fifty
dollars a day, or perhaps $4,000 for
the session.
The time for judicial severity was
allowed to go by default, aud to at
tempt to revive it in AL impotent
negative way, by excluding Davis
from al amnesty bill looks . little
like clap-trsp,even if MIR. Blaine does
champion the policy.-[Chicsgo Post
and Mail. (Rep.)
1t is to be regretted, says the Al
lanta Constitution, that the radical
minority in the Mississippi lsgisls-
ture will be still further decreased
by the unavoidable absence Of Hon.
Jefferson Walker, the colored men-
Der from Monroe county. He is in
jail for hog stealing.
The New York Grspic an independ.
ent paper with strong republican
proclivities, sums up the result of tho
amnesty debate as follows: "The gen.
eral feeling of the country as reflect
ed by the press, is that Mr.. Blaine
has ruined himself a. a Presidential
candidate, and has reduced his chan
ces of ever obtaining the nomin alton
to about zero."
The New York World thinks that,
it was but natural, perhaps, that q
southern man, like Mr.. Hill, of
Georgia, should have imprudently
picked up the firebrsnd discharged
by Blaine and should have hurled it
back blazing with the anger Of q man
who suddenly finds himself smitten
in tue cheek while extending the
open palm TO his antagonist, whom
he has mistaken for q friend"
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House
of Representatives, received q letter
on the 18th inst, from Aug ustus
Schell, chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee saying he would
issue a call, next day, for the demo-
cratic National Committee to meet at
Washington OH the 22d of Feb, to fix
the place and time for holding the
convention fer nominating candidates
for President and Vice-P President.
The Louisville Courier-Journal In
abiding to Mr.. Reck's election a.
Senator from Kentucky, alludes to
his being a Scotchman, aud continues:
ale has now reached the highest
point to which, under the constitu.
ton OF ms adopted country, his am
bition can tend. He is an American
senator. The nantes of Clay, Crit.
tenden and h%reckinridge have de-
scended upon him /; the South looks
to him ; Kentucky il proud of him."
The st. Louis Globe is a bitterRad-
ical paper. but it has some brains, and
speaking FROM lts standpoint in an
artioal headed why not Ieff.' it says:
If we are going to Indulge In Gen.
tennial sentiments, and wipe out the
past, and all that sort of thing, we
cannot do better than begin with
jeff. He would cut q very sorry figure
all by himself, but the people who
would leave him in the isolation of
outlawry would cut a still sorrier
figure.
The Kansas City Times Washing.
ton correspondent in yesterday MORN
ing's paper says: Some little
stir was created to-day by the re-
port that Everest, the prin-
cipal witness in the whisky ring
cases. mas hoWn. He knew too much