Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-06-03
GENERAL AND POLITICAL.
Nellie Sartoris' baby is dead.

= Nellie Sartoris' baby is dead.
II Sedalia has Il mad dog sensation.
Decoration Day was observed wit
more than usual ceremony.
Commodore Vanderbilt is again yer.
i low and not expected to live.
Prince Arthur will shortly marry TIL
daughter of the ex-King of Hanover.
A COW in Illinois gave birth to ST,
calves the other day, or else somebody
lies.
1t is now the generally accepted opin.
ion that congress will not be able to adj
journ before the 1st of August. ~
The grasShoppers are numerous in
Cooper county, and the farmers, conse.
quently, very much discouraged.
The extensive grocery house of Jack
son, Pfouts & Douglas, st. Louis, sus,
pended on the 9th. Liabilities $400, 900
assets unknown.
An Ohio scientist predicts that between
May % and June 6 a heavy frost will
kill all the fruit and vegetation north of
latitude forty degrees. .,,,
# Avessel sailed from New Haven, Conn.,,
on Saturday, loaded with more than
$500. 900 worth of arms and munitions,
purchased for the Turkish government.
The friends of Mr.. Blaine claim that
he now lacks only fifteen votes of a
majority of the convention, and that he
will be nominated on the first or second
ballot. .-. , r..
The Senate has decided that it has
Jurisdiction in the Belknap'c case, and the
trial will be had, although it is probable
that it will be postponed until November.
The grasshoppers are Matching out in
the southwestern counties of Minnesota
in swarms, and fears are entertained OF
general destruction to the growing
crops.
Mr.. Parton and his step-daughter left
Boston the other night for New York,
but on arriving there next morning his
step-daughter had disappeared and he
was accompanied by his wife.-[New
York World. " '.''' "
In Paris there is an attempt to revive
the old Greek costume for ladies-a
picturesque garment, without very much
of a waist, bare armed and looking like
an oat bag falling loose from the breast
to the instep. rz |
District attorney Dyer has made the
whiskey prosecutions pay in St Louis.
He has obtained judgment for one mil
lion dollars against all the bondsmen of
the crooked distillers. Now let us hear
from Chicago.
The rebellion in Cuba is still progress
sing favorabIy for the Independents. |
All the troops that Spain can send over
do not seem to be able to resist the
progress of the men who cry for indie
pendent Cuba.
There is a lady living in Richmond.
Ind, who was married when twelve
years of age. When fifteen years old
she was the mother of two children. and
when thirty her children numbered ten.
Eight of her children are now living.
One hundred and twenty railroads
have agreed to issue excursion tickets at
half rates, or one fare for the round trip, |
to all who desire to attend the democratic
national convention in St. Louis, on
the 9th of June. The tickets are to be
good for fifteen DAYS.
Simon Cameron's cup is full, ~igura-
lively speaking, and probably literally.
The whirligig of time has placed in the
war department-which he was request
ed by Mr.. Lincoln to leave, in part be-
cause his son was getting too many fat
contracts the son himself-Simon' S own
Don.
The Pittsburg Post thinks Grant is
to be heard from in one way or
another, at the national convention
''Those who could fain believe that
Grant intends to act a disinterested part
in this presidential game, do not know
the man as well as Gen. Blair knew him.
He will die hard"
Mrs. Mella Dodd, of Bowling Green,
KY, is going to the Centennial soon, TO
that she has been pasturing in this
world n hundred and sixteen years,
and exhibit her two daughters, both of
whom are between eighty and ninety.
She has probable designs on the matri-
monlal market for t EN-, and might
herself give age and affection to some
young man OF fortune. i
An eastern paper having had consid-
to say about "raising chickens by
the Galveston News responds.
'Such Information is not needed at the
South. The whole colored population
know how to do it, and an enterprising .
freedman can raise more pullets in a sin i
gle night, on his way home from prayer
meeting, that the eastern editor could !
in a year with all his science" {
Another monarch has been dethroned f,
this time without the usual aecompan- S
lment of blood-shed. The Sultan of l
Turkey, Abdulaziz Kahn. has been =
.aken from his high place by the unan- /
wish of the people-as the grand t
tersely expresses it-anI the heir q
Murad Effendi. proclaimed +
The Turkish minister, at Wash t
ngton, has been officially notified by :
telegraph in regard to the matter. 9
Jefferson City, May 29.-The United :.
marshal received official notice to-
from Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont that the c
for Communication of the SEN Il
ence of John l.. Bittinger was rejected. .
No further steps will be taken IN the /
till the 9Th of June, when the stay Il
Mr.. Bittinger by the court will g
This action of the ~attorney-gen- :
'ral is considered by the prosecution to v
final, but Rittinger's friends are still +
N hope that on Judge Talt's accession to t
he office the matter will be reconsid- :
cred. a
Of all mean swlndles that have disgra- t
ed the country the meanest, not except !:
NC the cheating by the sale Of post !.
raderships, is the fraud practiced upon G
he colored people by means of the k
srcedmen's Bank in Washington. Pick il