Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-18
GENERAL AND POLITICAL.

Grant commands our fullest conf
dence aud approbation."-Plank from
the Indiana platform.
The radicals of Alabama ara hope
lessly divided, and it is war to the
hilt between tue Spencerites and the
anti-Spencerites. The headquarters
of he-latter~a are in Mobile Both
have issued calls for g state conven-
ton, one for May 10th and the other
for May Path. .a. .a- -t,
A resolution has been offered and
adopted III the house, by Nj. Willis,
directing the committee on civil
service reform to inquire into the
alleged conspiracy on the part of
j. w. Wright and others to defraud
Indian claims.
A Jackson, Miss, special of the
18th inst. says: The senate, by a vote
of 80 to 4, found Lieutenant Cover
nor Davis guilty as charged in the
articles of impeachment. One col
ored and five white republican sena-
tors voted i'll the affirmative ; four
colored in the negative.
A London dispatch dated the 18th
inst. says. Weston is waking another
match, and up to quarter TO twelve
last night he had made $50 miles. He
will attempt his 500 luile feat in a
few weeks. The dispatch also men
tons that Il pedestrian match is being
arranged between Lords Chas- Kerr
| and Marcus Benesford to walk Que
hundred miles for five thousand
dollars. nod f
An inquisitive but badly-posted
Briton went down to visit Mount
Vernon not long since, and after
making many inquiries, and noting
down the answers, he said to the gu
perintendent: "Ah! may 1 hask you
if General Washington was i'll the
harmy 2"' Gle was, SIR" replied the
superintendent. e"And on which
side, Union or rebel 2" "Rebel, SIR"
was the reply, which was carefully
noted down. ar.a r~eHe.lua|
A recent London dispatch says that
Lord Aylesford's wife has eloped
with the Marquis of Blandford, eldest
son of the Duke of Marlborough.
The Marquis Of Blandford is notori-
GUS for his several cscapades, and the
Marlborough gems have been, it is
said, sold to Fay his debts. Ec ia a
brother of Lord Randolph Churchill.
Lord Aylesford, the unfortunate hus-
band, was called home from India on
urgent affairs one time ago. The
elopement is the absorbing topic in
the clubs. -.
The Courier-Journal says:, There
is a man living in Wilson, NC, fifty
four years Of age, who never owed
cent to a living soul i'll his life, aud,
as the records will show, was the
first man for the past thirty years to
pay his taxes to the sheriff. Though
q blacksmith and plough-maker by
trade he cuts and makes his own
clothing, and when engaged at his
work if there is a call at the shop his
wife goes to the anvil and will shoe
q. horse, brace " plough, upset an ak,
or perform any other job in the line
with as much skill as her husband.
The net profits OF the Union Pucific
railroad. last year, according to the
annual report, was over million
dollars. That is sufficient to- pay the
interest Oh ali its bonds and leave
something handsome for dividends
OH the stock, On which ROT Il dollar
was ever paid. Through the tscor-
venient" construction of the law
granting the vast subsidy to the Pa
clHc railways, the people must con-
tinue for 80 years paying interest ON
the hundreds of millions OF dollars
loaned them, and finally be swindled
out of the principal by the second
mortgage on the roads, which ii Re-
publican congress authorized. This
steal was the great steal OF the age.
Tie New York Sun of the 18th
inst. says Daniel Drew has fled a
petition i'll bankruptcy. Mr.. Drew
states that his liabilities would prob
ably amount to 5000, 900. The II
dowment of the Drew Theological
Seminary. at Madison, n. j., for $780,
600, and that of the Wesleyan Uni.
v%ersity at Middleton, Conn.,, for
800 200, were secured by mortgages
on his farms. This was soon after
his first trouble, when he felt the
need of perfecting them. AS eXecu-
tor of the estate of his grandchildren,
Mr.. Drew is liable for $500, 900 addi-
tional. but this, he says, is secured
by mortgages. Mr.. Drew has been
in Wall street for the past 30 years.
He dates the beginning of his finan-
Gal misfortune to the loss of 81 ,000.-
900 on a corne i'll Northwestern two
or three years ago.
New York World: Here is a plain
aud practical device for u grand ma
tional banner which should be hung
cut in front Of the grand entrance of
the Centennial Exhibition at Phila-
delphia, to mark the exact progress
which we have male i'll Que hundred
years of existence as a united people {:
The Spirit of I776-s.I am not a rich
man. but, poor as L am, the King of
Great Britain is not rich. enough to
buy me."-Josepn Reed, of Pennsyl-
vania, to the British Commissioners.
The Spirit of iS76-"My wife must
have diamonds and la,es enough to
shine at Long Branch and Washing
ton. Pay me, therefore, $1O,O 600 down
and $4,000 a year., and you shall have
the exclusive right 10 sell supplies to
the soldiers of the United States on
the frontier at your own ratcs."-
William W. Belknap, Secretary of
Wal under Graut, to ii "post-trader''
} At Fort Sill.
Mr.. Blackburn, of Kentucky, struck
the nail square on the head when
Messrs. Blaine, Garfield aud kasson
u