Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-23

N"A'SNaA go
was acquitted, at WaynesYille. last
Wednesday.
Mr.. ChaS. f. Hasbrook is making a
number one paper of the Kansas City
Price Current.
Uu<poken speeches in congress are
receiving much ridicu.e and censure
from the press.
The republicans. of Rhode Island. re-
nominated all the present state officers,
last Thursday.
Gen. Grant Will return home next fall
and be trotted out as the candidate of
the republican party.
The single standard men say hat Sec
retarv Sherman has ''hopped.' Well
i, Is not the first time
The Soda ia papers tell a story TO the
effect that Daniels body was stolen and
couveved 10 M ArbOr.
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candidate for supreme Judge, and writes
= very complimentary letter OF Judge
Merton.
Theron Barnum. for 80 many years
the genia, host of Barnum's Hotel, St.
Louis. died last Sunday. He was nearly
seventy-five years otage-
Ihe Liberia FEVER has broken cut again
among the coiored to.ks down south. 1t
Is stated that over one hundred thousand
OF them viii sail in 4 few days.
Hon. L. d. Shannon is 40 generally
endorsed for reelection as state super
~iaten,ient OF public schools, that It Is
likely that he will have Nc opposition.
The whipping post idea is growing in
favor. and viii be adopted. unless some
such change is made in the criminal
code IL has been suggested 10y the In
te.Ige.Cer.
= conscience stricken individual sends.
from >m Francisco. TO Treasurer Gates.
one hundred dollars which he says that
he wroug:a.ly kept while s. county Off
Ger IN Missouri.
Prof. { V. Riley. chiet OF the United
States observation-disclosures thinks
that the people OF the western states need
entertain no fears OF any serious ravages
by g~vas-hoppers, this year.
John Durbin plead guilty and was
sentenced 70 ten years Imprisonment in
the peniteutiary. at Butler, Bates county
one dav last week. tor the murder ct a
man named White, last spring
! letter from Assistant Englaeer
Schmidt states that but fifteen thousand
cubic yards of earth remain TO be re-
moved before Capt. Eads will be entitled
to another payment on the %jetties-
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Parker. Russell & Co, ST. Louis. an
nouuce that they have perfected q smoke
consuming furnace. which does away
entirely with smoke and gases from the
chimners Of steam generating furnaces
Washington correspondents say thai
the system OF sending circulars to con
gres-men, asking them to name men
for office. will be revived and that Mr.
HAYES i anxious to reconcile the stal
wart republicans.
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The management OF the extension o
the Chicago aud Alton railroad is vigor
Gus and pushing the business along
rapidly. We may expect to see tina
part OF the road from Marshall to kan
sas City under contract within slxt
days,
The republican papers are guilty
making capital against Hayes by pub
fishing 4 paragraph to the effect hat n
has appointed the son of a rebe! colon'
to West Point. The horrible rebel cole
ne! is chief OF all the loyal postmaster
too. which is very shocking indeed.
Mi Tom Park has leased Mr.. Ne
bit. interest in the Platte City Ian
mark. and will hereafter conduct 1t aio
Mai. Park is a sterling democrat and
able editor, and he will make the Ian
mark. in the future as IN the past. o.
OF the most influential country pape
in the state.
The proposition to lease Hot sprin
To 4 monopoly, engineered through
senate by Mr.. Dorsey, is creating a sc
sation~ throughout the country. The gre
American male mind is shocked at
idea OF putting a price upon hot wat
10 which each adult citizen feels he |
i'm ina!Ienable right.
Little Rock Gazette The democra
party in Arkansas will have no diss
s;ons and no wrauglings. We recogn
no privileged individuals, no p~rivileE
sections. We know what democr'
has done Tor the state. and underst;
fully that the continued supremacy
the party can be assured only by harI
nv and unity.
The Jefferson City correspondent
the Sedalia Democrat says that du
This month sixty-ive prisoners VIII
discharged from the penitentiary, VI
the ,hree-tourths rule. The nun
thus decreased will not long remain
and the Intelligencer's idea that Il
must be a revision OF our criminal G.
to lessen the number of prisoners IN
penitentiary will, we think, have t.
worked ont to some sort OF u reolutlo
Recent dispatches seem to ind
that England is temporlzing in ord
gain time, and that she is vigorc
preparing tor war. April 2nt
thought to be the day which Will be
for the meeting of the congress.
s,a is said to be willing to make col
sions; and it Is thought that no"
bitter such concessions may be, tina
will be unable to raise money for a
with England, and will be force