Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-03-22

weeklg gatelligsnter.
.rU.cvAv, COUNTY PAPER.
The Maine constitution prohioi'S 'ne
negro from voting.
The supreme lodge OF the A. " -
". is in session at Nashville Aehn'
St. Patrick's Day was o genef
last Monday than Tor several
Iears. 49,.
A s.. Petersburg dispatch reports that
officers of the Imperial duaro
bsve b.en arrested at Nihilists.
An English company is about TO De
established at Flushing, Holland 'or tno
Imnortation OF American meats lot 'ne
market.
It rained sulphur at Reading Alien
and other places in Penns!ylvania
Sunday. In some instances it meas
prcd over a half inch IN depth.
An English paper says that a girls
vas started in Utah. and just
it got fairly under way Inc "ais
principal married the whole SCHOOL,
MANY .vaIanches have recently &C.
.,rrad in Austrian Tyrol. At ble'ourg
Ton hou,es were crushed. fourteen per-
,op, killed, eighteen seriously in)urea'
and fifteen missing.
Tn Massachusetts. there Is q Ia" w
the statute books which provides that II
/. negro ..strike any person of the Eng
1;sb or christian nation, he shall be pun
isbed by a severe whipping"
Klein. the tramp who committed an
outrage IN Mrs. Warsdale, near new
mort. Ky., a few days since, was hanged
nv q mob to q tree q short istanc
from the scene of the outrage.
One hundred and thirty thousand peo-
MIA are rendered homeless by the recent
overflow at Szegedln. Eight theusana
ont of ten thousand houses have iaiien
and nineteen hundred persons were
drowned.
The newspaper office Of the lndepen-
dent Calawegian. at Fulton, Mo- was
totally destroyed by fire last Sunday
NIGHT. Less 81, 800. Insurance $2,ooo'
The residence oil H. Baur, at the same
MACE. wa. also burned on Sunday
morning. 600
National bank notes of the denomlns'
ton of 81 and %, sent to the treasury
for redemption, are not reissueo' ou'
destroyed. The amount thus withdrawn
aimee January 1 is $250.0O0. for which
limited States notes have been supplied
in their place.
Farmers in Georgia find 1t extremely
difficult TO obtain colored help. This. ii
il said, Is not because 1.-THE negroes VII
NOT work." as some have claimed, but
because they are settling down on cheap
lands and going into farming on thei
own account.
The Kentucky supreme court has De
c,ded that the statute against gaming
which enables a person losing money a
q faro table to recover his losses iron
the proprietor, will not work the othe
way and allow the proprietor to recove
losses from fortunate players.
The breach of promise suit OF tn
widow Oliver against Simon Camera
IL now in progress of trial at Washing
ton. Rich developments are alread
made, and the promise is that more ar
Coming. One of Cameron's letters pre-
duced ends with ''you will 500 be m
wife," The damage claimed Is $50,oO
JEFF. Davis is now living at Mississil
nj City, a small station on the Mobl
and New Orleans railroad, near tt
coast, and is in circumstances who
make him entirely Independent OF tt
benefits resulting from the pension bill
and such special legislation. He is wor
Ing quietly on his book, with Major v
T. Walthall, formerly of Virginia,
his secretary.
Representative Sparks will submit
the house, at the first practicable m
ment, the army appropriation bill. a
call for its immediate considerable
The bill, as it will be reported
Sparks, is identical in its prcvisio
with that passed by the last house. a
which failed of enactment in consequen
of the incorporation therein of a clau
prohibiting the presence OF troops at I
polls.
The first utterance Of the Catho
Telegraph, the official organ Of Art
bishop Purcell. in regard to the dnanc
embarrassment of the archbish'
was in an article of the last issue. ]
debt will be paid. the article declar
to the last cent, though it may Il
q to do it. Reliance is placed
parently upon the plan Of general G
tributions proposed by Cardinal
Closkey.
Staid old Connecticut is IN debt,
about as far as she a comtorta
wade. The debts OF her towns. ci
and counties amount to owe sevent
millions. which added to the state {
of about FIVE millions. make a tota
public debts of S22. 118, 977 %, or al
per capita OF the population. The