Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-12
GENERAL AND POLITICAL.

atives yesterday, by a vote OF 81 ayes
to IS nays, defeated a bill a%pproprla-
ting $25, 900 to the purpose OF the
Centennial display.
Senior Rubi, the Royal Spanish
Commissioner TO Cuba, finding the
task disentangliug the financial
meshes at Havana a hopeless one
will return to Madrid in March.
The President of the United States
has made his first appearance III
Washington society for the winter.
The occasion he selected was al
"erand ball" at Boss Shepherds.
Late advices received by the Span
ish government from the North, state
that the Carlists are demoralized at
all points. The Cariists i'll the prov
ince of Navarro amt Biscay have i'll
formed Don Carlos that they are an-
able to render him any futher assist
ance.
Senator Sharon, of Nevada, has
written that he will be in Washing
ton in a short time to take his scat.
1t is said that Mr. Sharon would re-
sign, but for the fact that the Gov
ernor of Nevada is a democrat, and
would of course appoint a democrat
ic Senator.
Chief Justice White, i'll charging
the Grand Jury in Salt Lake City,
onlast Monday, con corning 2olygamy,
said: "We had better look it square
in the face, distasteful as it may be to
some, aud govern ourselves by right,
reason, and manly discretion in deal
ing with it. Polygamy must DE sup
pressed III this Territory"
The Westliche Post, of the 9TH inst,
contains the following: "The Times
of yesterday states that United States
Attorney Dyer has charged United
| States Marshal Leffingwell with
having packed the jury in favor of
Babcock.' Nothing will astonish US
so much in this trial as a conviction.
Any other result we deem possible,
but, in the face of all the forces that
arc operating, a conviction hardly"
= Mr.. Morrison, chairman of the COM
mittee on Ways and Means, says that
in tho course Of eight or ten days,
he will ask the committee to formal
ly consider his tariff bill; he is in no
hurry to press it, wishing first toielici'
public discussion of the subject
He has every aso to believe the
committee will endorse the bill sub.
stantially and that the house will
pass it.
A love match OIL one side, sure
Senator Christiancy, of Michigan
was married in Washington, OH Tues
day to Miss Lulerbeel, a clerk in thu
bureau Of Printing and Engrossing
and the happy couple left at once TO.
a bridal tour to New York. Th'
= bride is scarcely nineteen, while Judg,
: Christiancy, formerly of the Supreme
Bench of Michigan, is sixty-four, AM
has six children by his first wife
who has only been dead some hin
months. p
1t was resolved, a. the annual Con
vcntion of the Massachusetts, WOma
Suffrage Association, held at Bosto
on the 18th ult., that Gov. Rice, i
failing to recommend to the Legisls
ture the enfranchisement of the Toys
women of the Commonwealth, ha,
' violated his pledge publicly given o
the eve of election, forfeited the cor
fdence of the friends OF reform, an
I proved himself unfit for the high pr
sition to which he has been called h
the suffrage of his too-confiding col
st%ituents.
e The appropriation committee al
j. still occupied with the legislative, c,
1t ecutive and judicial bills, going graz
E. ually through the different depar
It ments. So far, they have carrie
" out the agreement to cut down sal
1t ries ten per cent. and reduce fore,
lie twenty per cent. The result is tn
rs moiI and tempest among the army
)r clerks. II is the first touch of The pre-
T. alent hard times that has struck tn
gentry, and they are consequently al
st palled at the blow. Their saiari
ne have been substantially unchange
d. during the whole time of busine
e, depression aud they have been al
g. to live better than ave owing to Il
10, decline in prices. Now that they a
IS to be brought down to everybo'
he else's level they + unable to undo
e. stand 1t, and protest that the count
an will not submit to such a scandalo
nd outrage. They will find, though, tn
k the country will submit to it We
ed complscently, and never dream
ed looking at the thing as all outra.
nt, Henry c. Bowen gives Henry Wa
us Beecher q blightiug blast i'll a let
as to an examing committee Of Plymol
as church, before which he has BIZ
Of called to account for his condl
toward the pastor and the chur
He says: 81 felt at first as l do nc
ed that Mr.. White and the Examini
'ed Committee, and Plymouth chul
nj could be better employed in inve;
cd eating the direct charges against
nee pastor made in the plainest langua
ND charges which embrace the crimes
'ad adultery and perjury, rather than
'et- skirmishiug about in new fields
haI sec if a few more persons could
m be scared or in some way drawn
hat driven into the difficulty" Al
to reciting the various charges III
we against him and abiding to the
ots that he had long ago been told it
mn the secret intention of PIvmo
en- church to destroy him if possible,
Oh that in any event he was to be dri
Aeu from its cOmniunlOn, he goes on
ielf tell of his intimate association "
the Mi. Beecher and the church for III;
seq years, and concludes thus: Il h
uch seen him with all this cloud of d.
ICY ness gathering about him, apparer