Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-20
GENERAL AND POLITICAL.
The pope is "a years old.

W ldll.
The total disbursement of silver coin
up to Saturday, was 5 4,421 900.
The republican convention of Ken
lucky instructed for Bristow for president
The Morrison tariff bill will not be
reached in the house for several wee ks
The Toledo Blade thinks Hayes is the
only republican who can certainly carry
Ohio.
Boys and girls under ten years of age
are not hereafter to be be permitted to
work in the factories of Massachusetts,
Although Blaine and Conkling have
been personal enemies for ten J ears, they
are ready to unite to defeat Bristow's
Misunderstanding Post.
The ''sick man. will soon be a dead
man. Mohammedans are numbering
Christians, and the retaliation will be a
complete subjugation. of the crescent.
The Democratic National Convention
will probably sit for three days, and the
cards of admission will be changed each
day. The colors will be red, white and
blue.
The steamship Hudson, of the Crom-
we'll line, passed back, through the
south pass %jetties, bound for New York,
drawing fifteen feet ten inches. and had
no difficulty.
The Maryland Republican convention
eulogized Grant administration, declar-
ing that it REFLECTED credit on the nation
at home and abroad" How IS that for
reform?-[N. Y. Express.
Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, was at
the capitol in Washington severalhours.
OIL the 18th inst., occupying the Speakers
room, when many friends of both parties
called to pay their respects.
Bates county has elected her delegates
to the Jefferson City conventions. The
delegates t o the convention to nominate
state officials are instructed to vote for
Luther Strobe for state treasurer.
Whipper, the notorious South Caro-
lima negro politician, has attained the
place he coveted-the Office of a judge
in a State court, but he finds it a barren
honor; he sits on a bench with no bar
to support it.
Gen. Escobedo, on the part ofthe Mex
lean government, is marching upon
Matamoras with three thousand troops.
Many families of all nationalities are
leaving the city in anticipation of its
bombardment.
Advices from Salonica state that q bat
tie was fought on the 18th inst, near
Bosses, in which 700 Turks and 100 in
surgents were killed. The Turks and
Scutari had celebration over the murder
of the German and French consuls at
Salonica.
The Pekin, ILL.,, Times nomlnates C.
H. Mccormick for governor. Mr..
Mccormick is a sound democrat, and a
first class business man. If every man
in the state who runs a Mccormick
reaper will vote for him he may be sure
of his election.
We have thrown aside all considerations
Of less moment and look only to the de-
sirableness of having democratic pres
ident. If there be any other 81 stronger
than Tilden, let us nominate him: But
Tilden and Hendricks both-would that
not be a strong ticket ?-Richmond Dis
patch.
A young minister, named Rev. A. Ed
mons, last Saturday, was thrown from q
mule, near Coloma, in Carroll county.
into a pond of water. No n was near
at the time, and the fall having stunned
| Mr.. Edmons, he was drowned. He was
found dead in the pond the next
morning.
The Cincinnati Times gives to Presi
dent Grant the credit of stirring up these
assaults on corruption. Yes. The man
ner In which he has pursued Belknap
Babcock, Boss Shepherd, Mullet, thee Cat
tells, Brother Orvil, Robson. Schenck
and the rest OF 'em, is wonderful tc
rehabilitation Herald.
Kansas is a good republican state
where law and morality OF the higher
order must necessarily prevail. but :
vigilance committee. more stupid than
such organizations have proven them
selves to be IN Missouri, hung two inno
cent men near Fort Dodge, recently
upon a charge of horse stealing. Tn
hangers should in turn be hanged.
There is an unmistakable threat in thi
paragraph from the Cincinnati CONNER
cial: 1.-The republican managers, Nigh
as well understand it. The kind of cat
tie that crowded Charles Sumner out o
the party are not to win this time. |
they prevail in the Cincinnati convention
wo must do the best we can with tn.
democratic party"
We see by dispatches that Mr.. Thoma
Taylor, son Of the late Matthew Taylo
of this county, was murdered in johnson
county, near Knob Noster, by a ma
named McMahon for whom he wa
working: Mr.. Taylor was shot as he
was entering the door of his house an
fell dead at the feet ofhis wife. Pursui
was made but at last advices the mur
derer had not been arrested.
Secretary Chandler is said to be inves
tigating the land office. with some hint
that the examination promises s~tartlin;
results. We had almost said that tn
most startling result would be to fin
that it had been honestly conducted hu
a more startling result than even thai
} would be a publication OF official frau
on the part Of republicans by such
man as Chandler.
Everything points to a complet
understanding having been arrived q
by the representatives of Germany
Austria and Russia. In connection wit
l the Turkish question they are clearl
! amounted by the pacific policy. Tn
decisions arrived ut have been commu
nlcated to the English, French an,
Italian ambassadors. One result of til
conference is that Turkey has been +,
t quested to grant insurgents an extensio
Of armistice for the purpose of execu.in
the promised reform and aiding furthe
/ l DarotiationS Tho nouorS olSo inland