Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-11-30

Monday tor killing one Alien, 4 tramp
in Apri. last, has mad his sentence COM
uutet TO imprisonment for life.
The Vernon, house Of representa-
tives has passed 4 joint resolution in
]strncting the congressman from that
.;ate 10 use al honorable means to pre-
vent the repeal Of the resumption act.
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In addition 20 the bloody shirt IT de
serves the name OF the bloody lie. ltde
from day to day the Chicago Inter-Ocean
and New York Tribune, with Tray,
Blanche aud Sweetheart yelpins in the
resT.
Tenuie Matthews was elected official
reporter OF the house Of representatives
two years ago without opposition. and
he seems to rave a wa.s-Oger for the
Place now. No truer or more competent
man could be selected.
Henry Boswell, sentenced to be exc
cuted at Eiil.sboro, y c, tor murder.
has been respited until February !. 1879
TO be used as 3 witness against = tema'e
accomplice. al i specia. term OF the
court, to be he'd in January.
We published last week = LIST OF the
members elect 10 the thirtieth genera.
assembly. excepting from the counties
o. Oregon and Pulaski. Capt Greer.
democrat. ! he member from Oregon.
and B. b. Dodson. democrat, the men'-
Der from PULASKI.
The It. Louis Post takes back : libel
OF Hon. T. I. Critten!en to the effect
that ne was . favored ~depositor, and
drew out his money before the failure
The fact was that when the bank tailed
it had al his available money. about
5000, in It's vaults.
Louisville CUuTier-Jouruai:-'W hen
Satan took Simon Cameron up into the
Allegheny mountains and there offered
him the state Of Pennsylvania, Simon
took the old boy st his word. Ever
since the state OF Pennsylvania has oeen
N ths Cameron family"
The farmers OF this county think, and
the IutelIigencer agrees with them,
that il was Inconsistent in the last gen
ers! assembly to authorize I reward Tor
rat scalps, and at the same time impose
q tax upon terriers. The ratters do not
Injure sheep and should not be taxed.
The president and secretary OF the
treasury are said to be at loggerheads
about the silver question, Mr., Hayes
thinking it best not TO interfere and Mr..
Sherman urging that the message should
insist on either an increase Of silver in
the dollar or q decrease in the amount
Of coinage.
\ special telegram from Washington
Civ 10 the 81. Louis Republican says
that, with hardly an exception, the dem
ocrats who have arrived at the capital
are in favor OF 3. political resolution
beng offered IN the house. declaring
in favor OF the divorce of the govern
ment from national banks.
The steamer P~omerania, OF the Ham
burg American line, collided with the
iron barque Noel Ethan. in q dense fog
in the straits Of Dover, on the night OF
the 2+th inst. and sank. The captain
who was thought TO be among the drown,
ed was picked up inseusible. floating on
par. of the wreck. Some fifty passen'
gers were lost.
The Kansas City Journal ia mistaken
In asserting that the democratic press OF
the state altcd until after election to
say that convicts were used in Goa,
mines. A number of democratic papers
assailed the system when the twenty
ninth general assembly was in session,
and have never ceased to denounce it
and give reasons tor their opposition
more forcible :han partisan appeals
against either men or parties.
"a war democrat WIN writes as :
friend of Gen. James Shields, to the St
Louis Republican. objects to the election
of the old veteran rs senatnr tor tn,
shor, term. on the ground t at the mex
congress will p ace him on the retired
list OF the army. thereby making suitabl,
provision for him for life. We can SEE
no good reason why congress should re
fuse to do him this act OF justice, merely
because the state Of Missouri had con
ferred upon him the honor of adding hi.
name TO the roll of her senator's.
As will be seen by extracts from thu
columns of our contemporaries. printed
In this issue. the subject of convict labor
TO which the Intelligencer has called at
t%en,ion. is eliciting considerable interes
throughout the state. Under 8 para
graph taken from the Warrensburl
acknowledgements. we reprint, upon GU
first page, in answer to several inquiries
part Of an editorial article which ap
peared in these columns VI weeks ago
We hope that the entire press OF tn
state will give this subject the investiga
ton which it deserves.
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Prime Minister Carroll has addresse
the following dispatch to the secretar,
for foreign affairs Il have handed t
his majesty the message Of felicitatio
and sympathy which Mr.. George
Marsh, minister from the United State
to Italy has transmitted to me in til
name of the president OF the Unite
States and the American people. H
majesty the king wishes to inform NJ
Marsh how agreeable and precious
him Is this fresh manifestation OF II
friendship which unites Italy to the n
gle American confederation"