Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-22

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death OF Americas great poet, William
Cullen Bryant. Mr.. Bryant was more
than 4 poet, he was an earnest citizen,
an able and conscientious editor. and 8
plilanthropist. He was not only a man
OF large brain. but OF large heart, and
when the sad news of his death was
made known. the press. the forum and
the pulpit, from one end OF the country tc
the other. joined in words OF sorrow and
OF praise. From the tender lines Bless
ed are they that mourn" to the everlast,
inc monument which he erected to
himself. the T~hanatopsis, his verse was
~eleyating and ennobling. No grander
piece Of English composition is to be
found in all the range OF the rich liter.
ature of our language than his exalted
picture Of death and when at last the
untiring destroyer called him to that
undiscovered country, from whose
bourn no traveller returns" vino car
doubt that his brave heart met the re-
quirement OF the words:
$50 live, that when thy summons comes to join
The Innumerable caravan that moves
10 the pale realms uf shade. where each shall take
Iii- chamber in the silent malls of death
itnu 20 not, Ike the quarry-slave ut night.
sc.urs.d 10 his dungeon, but. sustained and
.oothed
Be- an Unia;triins trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps III. irapery of hi. couch
About him, and lies down to pheasant dreams. :
Bryant is dead. But SO long as thu
English language lives, so long will live
his memory and his verse. devoted te
his God. his country and humanity.
4 Keokuk. Iowa, dispatch, dated
June 10th, says: The most daring
Jail delivery ever attempted here was
effected about O'Clock tonight by per
sons confined in the jail. As Sheriff
Higgins was locking up, the prisoners
| eight in number, were in the cage
where they are kept during thu
day, and rs the sheriff stepped to the
rear to unlock the door leading tc
the cells. the prisoners stepped GU,
of the door he had entered and LOCKED
hun in, and making a break ina body
succeeded in escaping. Two OF then
were recaptured.
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Mr.. Chouteau, Of st. Louis, proposes
to run a line of iron barges between St
Louis and New Orleans. so secure from
ordinary dangers of navigation tina
the company a carry its own insur
ance, and so economical in manage
ment that grain can be delivered from
st. Louis into the ocean steamer at ) l.:
cents per bushel. Thus the ~jetties are
beginning to revolution,ze the grail
trade, as was perdicted for them.
The Jefferson City correspondent @
the st. Louis Times. in writing OF som
criminal matters. says Criminal cost
are about to bankrupt the state any
how" 1t there is any subject upon whIc.
vigorous and practical legislation l
needed, it is this one The costs 10
crime already amount to over a hal
million dollars per annum iI thi
state. and are constantly growing. j..
change must be wrought in some way.
:
:. The crowned heads of Europe al
: seem to be in q bad way. The Pop
is sick, the Car is sick. the Czarowit
rs sick, Prince William is sick. Biz
marck is sick. G~ortschakoff IS sick
the Sultan is sick, and the rest Of theI
patching up a peace. Let them try
Y dose of republican,. 1t would work o
5 their biliouSness.
Meetings to send delegates to count
convention. at the various precinct
where the primary election is bein