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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15


The shocking reports We had a short
time ago, about the cruelty of the Turks
in Bulgaria, are confirmed by more re-
cent advices from the regions they are
ravaging. According to Bulgarian let
tiers, not less than $4,000 people of all
ages and both sexes were butchered ny
their irregular troops in the operations
of last month, and scores of towns were
burned after all their inhabitants had
been put to the sword. A correspon-
dent of the London News asserts that
many women were burned alive, while
the younger ones were carried off to a
worse fate. In this war the Turk has
appeared in all his historical terocity.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

Gen. Custer went to Washington at
the call of the committee of the house to
testify as to the selling of post trader
ships, the %swindling of the soldiers and
Indians, and the corrupt condition of the
Indian service generally. He told the
truth and as the truth disgracetully im-
plicated Orvil Grant and his brother, the
president, the last sent him back insult
ed. Gen. Custer took pains to call on
Grant before leaving Washington, and
Grant let him for hours cool his heels in
an ante room, and finally refused to see
him. This was a fine way in which to
treat a gallant soldier and former com
panion in arms. Now that Custer lies
dead, a victim to u corrupt, stupid,
and inefficient Indian policy and ad'
ministration, the people will not soor
forget the indignities Grant put upol
him.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

The thermometer at Philadelphia. on
the 10th, stood at 1O2 degrees in the
shade at Washington it registered 1O3,
and in New York the same. Sixty fatal
cases of sun stroke occurred in New
York alone onthat day.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

All the old passenger conductors up
on the Missouri Pacific railroad were
discharged last Monday and their places
filed by the freight conductors. No
reason is known for this wholesale de-
a. nitation
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

All the old and musty charges brought
up against Tilden in the New York cleo
ton of two years since, are reproduced
by the despairing radicals in this cam
paign. The entire and combined as
saults of Tilden's enemies in that e,ec-
ton resulted in giving HIM a majority
of SO, 300 over John A. Dix, and if the
radicals can find any encouragement in
that fact they are welcome to it.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

NEW YORK, July 12.-The Emperor
of Brazil and party sailed to-day fol-
Europe in the steamship Russia. The
men-of-war in the harbor a up the
Russian flag, manned the yards and fired
q salute as the Russia steamed past.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

President Grant, now that all his
hopes of a third term have been finally
destroyed by the action of the Cincinnati
convention, is pursuing with his ven
geance those officers of the government
who where most active in the prosecution
of the whisky ring, and in bringing to
punishment other plunderers of the
treasury. The latest exhibition of his
revengetul nature is the removal of Col.
Dyer, of Missouri, the efficient district
attorney who represented the govern
ment in the whiskey trials in st. Louis,
which resulted in sending several per-
sonal friends of the president to the
~pen1tentiary, and gave Babcock a close
chance OF accompanying them.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15
straight, artin

Governor Hardin still adheres to his
resolution not to be a candidate for
g~ubernatorial honors before the state
convention, but says s'there might con-
tineencies arise under which a mar
would have to become a candidate, al
though he had previously announced he
would not be''-which is in plain Eng
lish, 81 will take the this Office if it is
offerod men
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

Dick Oglesby, John A. Logan, Ben
Butler and James G. Blaine, all speech
flying for Hayes and Wheeler. 'Rah for
reform (within the party).-Boston
Poet
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

The Indians on the upper Missouri are
becoming very uneasy, and many are
leaving the reservations. A general
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15
NOTICE.

R1Ow is the time to have your Feather BEDS,
IN Hair and Moss Mattresses Renovated. For
health and comfort you should have your bed
renovated every five years. Work will be done
at the Emmett House. on Pine street. satisiac-
tiou guaranteed. Farmers bring in your Deus.
H.. KYTON. Manager.
Anunts wanted IerrIInries for sale. luSt4
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

The senate has killed the bill trans
ferring the Indian bureau from 'he
+er,or to the war department.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15
STRAY NOTICE.

TAKEN up by q. W. Shull, living in Lexing-
J. ton township. in Lafayette county. Missouri,
and posted before the undersigned, justice OF ths
aforesaid, on the 9Th day of June. 1876. one
stray mare. described as follows; ' Owl. ni Uhel
right hind foot white, star in forehead, saddle
and collar marks. Appraised to Sc;
im,vI5.3ws ii. SMITH, j. r.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

n. s. Uncle Sam. It's on all the mail
bags and letter boxes and the Delts anu
caps OF the soldier boys. There is nothing
ssunhuman'' about it.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

Rlaine of course accepts the senator
shin made vacant by Morrilrs transfer
to the treasury department.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

And even in republican Michigan they
begin to speculate as to how much ma.
ijority that state will give Tilden and
Hendricks,
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

A candidate with ga barrel OF none"
can Get along without stealing from the
government, Hurrah for Uncle SAM
,1olf
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

And ven In republican Michigan they
begin to speculate as to how much ma
jority that state will give Tilden and
Hendricks,
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

Mckee and Mcguire are allowed y
their Tailor to visit the neighboring ST.
Icons and beer houses for refreshments
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

There is not a word in Hayes letter
of acceptance that will hurt the feelings
Of whisky thieves. They will all vote
for him.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

General Banks writes that i WASH
ington ssall is excitement on one SIDE
and CONSERVATION on the other" SO
glad that the CONSERVATION is not on cur
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

The train-robbers have successfully
eluded their pursuers, and will not be
heard from again until they get short OF
money, when they will politely ask the
express company for another contrlbu-
tion to their exhausted e%xchequer.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

Gov. Hayes will find it hard to write
his letter of acceptance. He will be
overwhelmed with advice, and as he is
not a man OF decided views Of his own,
and is in the hands of his political train
ers, he will have to write something that
will please them all around and say as
little positively as possible. 1t will be
practically the signing of the name OF
Rutherford B. Hayes to a document
prepared by the men who put him up.
But we hazard the confident opinion that
the duty of writing his letter of accep-
lance gives Mr.. Tilden no uneasiness,
and that he will not have anybody at his
elbow while he performs the task. He
knows just what to say, and that is, that
we need and must have reform, and he
will see that we get it if he is elected.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

And now Bristow is enacting the role
of the recalcitrant witness. He says he
will go to Jail before he will give away
the ..boss" of the whisky ring, the great
and good Ulysses.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

The propeller St. Clare was burned
while five miles from land. on Lake Su-
perior, last Sunday, 9th, and twenty
six persons persisted in the flames OF
woro drowned.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

The Servians, under Gen. Benitan' de-
faotea the Turks at Kruscheva, on the
9TH, after fighting seven hours, and oc-
cupied several villages. The Turks
1o,+ heavily
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

Belknap is for Hayes; so is Babcock,
Joyce, Mcdonald, Mcguire, Mckee and
Avery. Are all for reform within the
nar1N2
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

1t sounds strangely, but it is a fact,
that Fred. Grant has been promoted
to a frst-lieutenancy by his affectionate
father, over the heads of thirty or more
who we're entitled to the promotion by
the army regulations.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

H. Martin Williams eats his dish OF
crew second-handed. The Criterion
now floats the T1lden and Hendricks
FLAG, with James w. Johnston as ed
itor. Before the convention, Williams
was editor and Johnston foreman. Now
it is Johnston editor and Williams fore
-Wouldn't IL DO boeeor to e"lro- 1T
. Nlo
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

Lieutenant Fred. Grant, an ohcer oi
c,,4n,s sevrntn cavalry, happened 10
be IN Washington when the slaughter Oh
that brave regiment took place.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

..Uncle SAM is a good name for a
Centennial president.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

Lapp1n, the defaulting radical state
+rea snrer of Kansas, escaped from jail
at Topeka on the 18th. A reward OF
ssOO ia offered for his capture.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15
We, the undersigned. heartily concur in the

A.A.xJ. O. Lesueur, dealers in Groceries,
Provisions, Wines, Liquors, Tobacco and
Cigars. Corner Main and Pine Streets. Lex
ington, Mo. sbr!
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

First Henderson went. then Bristow.
then Yaryan, then Meyer then Dyer, and
then the thieves were happy.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15
PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTICE.

A PUBLICATIONS. will be received. by the Pub
n lie School Board, ut Waverly, Mo-, until
the 9Th day of August, for three white teachers
and one .olored teacher, School to commence
MONDAY, the ith DAY or SEPTEMBER. and will
continue seven months.
jull6w3 II. j. GALBRAlIH, Clerk.
NAyERLY, No., July IL, 1876.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

The position and influence of Carl
Schurz have all been due to the belief
that he vas really an independent man,
and earnestly in favor of reform. If
now, in order to get back again into
the republican party, he should go
against reform in going against Gov.
Tilden, his position and his influence
will be destroyed by his own act. How
ever, there is no law against political
suicide.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

Fighting 10 Hooker is for Tilden and
Hendricks.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

The weather is fine, and the dark, watery
clouds that have overhung us for several weeks,
threatening to a.at"aI- tho he--~'
ward nf labor and toll, have all disappeared anu
now, instead Of gloom, is sunshine, and all ma
ture seems CAV and lovely.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

Cook & ScammOn ant
plaintiffa' attorneys.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-15

1776-Revolution.
1S76-Reform.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-02-26

\ NEW STROKE OF ECoNoMY.-The or
der of Treasurer New, issued recently, is
bold stroke of economy, and will save
the Government annually half a million
of dollars, if it is not interfered with bV
parties interested in the manufacture of
fbre paper. The order, in effect, is to
prevent the return to the Treasury, atthe
expense Of the Government, of Treasury
notes and fractional currency not defaced
mutilated or worn out, and, in case Gov
ernment notes are returned, the cost of
counting and returning will be deducted
from the amount at haud. All notes sent
here for redemption the United States
Treasurer is compelled TO burn to secure
proper vouchers for the Redemption Bu-
reau. The annual destruction of so much
paper money requires the purchase of
larger lot of the expensive fibre paper,
increased expenses in the Printing Bu-
reau, as well as the necessity of employ
ing a larger force in the Redemption Bu-
reau. The saving proposed, with the
cutting down of extraordinary expenses
for worthless patents used in the manu-
facture of our paper currency, promises
an annual reduction of over million of
dollars.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-02-26

The PASSIONS THAT INDUCE DISEASE
The passions which act most severely on
the physical life are anger, fear hatred,
and grief. The other passions are, COM
paratively, innOCueus. What is called
the passion of love is not injurious until
it lapScs into grief and anxiety on the
contrary it sustains the physical power.
What is called ambition is of itself harm
less; for ambition, when it exists purely,
is a nobility lifting its owner entirely
from himself into the exalted service of
mankind. IL Injuries when it is debased
by its meaner ally, pride or when stimu-
lating a man 10 too strenuous efforts after
some great object, il leads him TO the per-
formanCe of excessive mental or physical
labor and to the consequences that follow
such effort.
The passion called avarice, according
to my experience, tends rather to the
preservation of the body than to its dete-
riOration. The avariCiOus man, who
seems to the luxurious world TO be de-
barring himself of all the pleasure of the
world, and even to be exposing himself
to the fangS of poverty, is generally pl2c-
ing himself in the precise conditions IA
vOrable to long and healthy existence.
By his economy he is saving himself from
all the risks incident TO penury; by his
caution he IS screening himself from all
the risks incident TO speculation, or the
attempt 10 amass wealth by hazardous
means; by his regularity Of hours and
perfect appropriation of the sunlight, in
preference TO artificial illumination, he
rests and works in periods that precisely
accord with the periOdicity of nature; by
his abstemiousness in living, he takes just
enough to live, which is precisely the
right thing TO do according 10 the rigid
natural law. Thus. in almost every par
rfarr11r La his than
other men from the external causes of all
the induced diseases and better protected
than most men from the worst consequent
ces Of those diseases which spring from
causes that are uncoutrclable.-TPo Popular
Science Monthly.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-02-26
NORTH CAROLINA ITEMS.

The Masonic Lodge building at Pleas
ant Hill, Alamance county, was destroy
ed by fire last week.
The AsheviIle Citizen runs up the
names of L. b. Vance and w. r. Cox, for
Governor aud Lieutenant Governor.
The life of Mr.. A. G. Moore, whom Mr..
Swepsou killed recently, was insured for
$40, 900. He made will before dying.
The Raleigh News says, ''the public
eve seems 10 turn 10 GreenbOro as the
place for holding the Democratic State
Convention
1t is stated that red-hot weekly Dom
ocratic paper will soon make its appear
ance in Raleigh. Ii will be made a cam
paign paper this year, and family and
political paper after the canvass.
The Wilson Advance says: Maj. Wea-
yer, of the firm OF A. G. Davis q Co.,
purchased from a customer on Friday
last, a ''yaller'' hen, and stored her away
in a box of old rags under the counter.
Saturday morning he went for his hen
and was surprised TO find her sitting on
six fresh laid eggs, the prolific work OF
that old "yaller'' hen in twenty -four
hours. This is fact.
The Portsmouth Enterprise says: The
fisheries on the Albemarle sound are ex-
pected from indications 10 do well this
season. The gillers have commenced TO
take shad and rock very briskly, and the
chances of a good yield a very favorable.
Some fifteen or twenty boxes of the fine
fish reached hero from Edenton yester-
day
The Goldsbsro Messenger learns that
two negroes, one of whom is named
Abraham Rouse, had ar alteration on
the premises of John Rouse, few miles
kan la Grange, LenOir county, on the
inst. resulting in both being serious
q \ stabbed, from the effects Of which one
4iaa already died aud the other was hard
ZpecisfLto HyeSShen last heard from.
On Satisfdsg LAST Sheriff Griffith of this
county. accompanied by Mr.. y. 2. DIV
err, CT Yaacayville, went over into HALF
fax. Ia, 7to arrest Leven Brandon and
son, ON a requisition from the Governor.
arising at fheir aomisile, sLsyen ieveied
a gan al the Shsrif, who nOlAiRE daunt-
Rd ser - a - IN ,sRd wrestling the
- .si.4.lslL !. -it1siee; In the
scufIie the darkey slipped out OF the Sher-
iff7s grasp, lin consequences OF having on
heavy gloves, } and made his escape bare
headed, barefOoted and coatless. During
the Sheriff-s scuflle with the father, Oil
yer tangled with the son, "a stout buck
who resisted, when Oliver drew a pistO!
to shoot him, but the darkey managed TO
knock it ont of his hand with shovel
Oliver now closed on him and wrestling
the shovel ont of his hand dealt him a
few blows that quieted him, and they
marched him Off to Yanceyville jail.
These negroes are charged with robbing
VIM. Longs factory of tobacco.-Milton
Chronicle.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-02-26

MEASURING BY THE EYE.-Years ago,
SAYS a correspondent of the Boston Trans
Crlpt, when we went to school in a little
weather-beaten schOOl-hOuse, what eX-
citing contests there used TO be owe: the
teachers favOrite exercise Of having the
scholars estimate with the eye the size
and weight of different objects in the
room. He would hold up his cane, and
have each one tell how long he thought
it was, and it was a lucky child that
could come within half a foot of the right
length, He would measure an urchin
and then have the scholars try to repro
duce the measure on the wall. He would
mark of an inch or a foot or a yard in
some conspicuous place, and then see
how near anybody could come to chalk
ing the same length on blackboard.
The fact is, our eyes deceive us ridicu-
lously even upon the commOnest things.
At first thought, which should You say
was the taller, 4 three-year-Old child or
a flour barrel? and could anything but
actual measurement convince you that
the same child is half as tall as a six
footer? There is an old saying that a
child two years old is half as tall as he
ever will be; and after q few experiments
in measuring one can easily believe it,
but not before.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-02-26

The YoUNG CoUPLE's FRIEND.-At the
best, love is fatal to friendship; the most
that friendship can do is 10 listen 70 loves
talk of itself and be the confident Of its
raptuous joys, its transports Of despair.
The lover fancies himself all the fonder
of his friend because of the passion or his
mistress, bnt in reality he has no longer
any need Of the old cOmrade. They can
not talk sanely and frankly any more;
there is something now that they cannot
share: even is the lover desired to main
tain the old affectionate relation the
mistress would not suffer il. The spectre
Of friendship is something invited 70
haunt the home of the lovers after mar
riage, but when their happiness has been
Haunted in its face, when il has been
shown the new house, the new china,
the new carpets, the new garden, il is
tacitly exercised and is not always called
back again except TO be shown the new
baby. The young SpOuses are ever so
willing TO have the poor ghost remain;
the wife learns whether it takes two or
three Jumps Of sugar in its tea; the hus-
band bids it smoke anywhere il likes, and
the wife smiles menacing acquaintance;
but all the same they turn it out of doors.
They praise it when il is gone, and they
feel so much more comfortable 10 be
alone.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-02-26
Charles Summers Description OF a Battle
nt Sea.


The scene changes. Far away on tho
distant pathway Of the ocean two ships
approach each other, with white canvass
| broadly spread to receive the flying gales
They are proudly built. All Of human
art has been lavished in their well COM
pac:ed sides, while they look in dimen-
sions like floating happy islands of the
sea. A numerous crew, with costly ap-
pliances of comfort, live in their secure
shelter. Surely these two travellers shall
meet in joy and friendship; the flag at the
masthead shall give the signal of fellow
ship; the happy sailors shall cluster in
the rigging, and even on the yard-arms
70 look each other In the face, while the
eXhilarating voices OF both crews shall
mingle in accents of gladnesS uncontrOl-
able. IL is not so. Not as brothers, not
as friends, not as wayfarers of the comnon
ocean, do they come together, but as enc
mics. The gentle vessels now bristle.
flercely with death dealing Instruments
On their spacious decks, aloft on all theirr
masts, flashes, the deag4fys'.eafIE -
From their sides spout catara Il ert ne,
amidst the thunders of a fat.d aftdfcf.y.
They who had escaped the 0realfH
touch of merChant-arring rocks.n " no
had sped on their long and solitary way
unharmed by wind or wave, Wholh the
hurricane had spared, in whose favor
storms and seas had intermitted their Inn
mitigable war-nOw at last fall by tho
hand of each other.
The same spectacle of horror greets us
from both ships. On their decks red
dened with blood, the murderers OF ST.
Bartholomew and of the Sicilian Vespers
with the fl Of Smithfeld, seem to
break forth anew, and to concentrate
their rage. Each has now ~becOmc a
swimming Golgotha. At length these
vessels, such pageants of the sea, once so
stately, so proudly built, but now rudely
shattered by cannon balls, with shivered
masts and ragged sails, exist only as un-
manageable wrecks, weltering on tho un-
certain waves whose temporary lull of
peace is now their only safety. In a
mazement at this strange, unnatural con-
test, away from country and home, where
there is no country or home TO defend,
we ask again, wherefore this dismal duel?
Again the melancholy but truthful an
swer promptly comes, that this Is the es-
tablished method Of determining justice
between nations.