Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-12

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OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
Read Voorhees, speech on the outsid
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There is a yellow few err stampede
Memphis.
New York city's expenses are abo'
S27. 500, 900 per year.
The French are trying to plow I
electricity. What next?
1t Is reported that Eugene inten'
entering a Spanish convent.
DeLesseps wants to make Grant hol
orary president Of his company.
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1t costs II cents per pound to car
meats from Chicago to Liverpool.
The St. Louis Republican speaks
Gen. Ewing as the next governor
Ohio.
Dr. Preetorlus says that he and Schu
would not support Grant if he were moi
mated.
Sherman and Blaine are announced
speak at Portland, Maine, on the z;
instant.
The steamer Faraday, engaged in Ia
ing the new French cable, has returnt
sto Gravesend.
The wheat crop Of southern Russia
reported to be a failure. America ii
enough for all.
Secretary McCrary will, in all pro'
ability, be appointed and confirmed
Judge Dillon's successor.
The Standards Madrid dispatch sa.
the marriage of King Alfonso with IL
Archduchess of Austria is talked of.
The government employees at Wasf
ington are being assessed for campals
purposes. Where are schurz and Gu
It's?
The Fourth was a big day in Sedali
and Carroll,on. Both places had lart
crowds. patriotic speeches and a goo
time.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis says very pos
lively that he will not permit his nan
to be presented to the Mississippi legl
lature for the senate.
The Missouri Republican, the able
newspaper of the Mississippi valley, We
founded just II years ago to-day. Ma
it live long and prosper.
Senator Bruce told a Chicago inte
viewer tho other day that he had alwal
been fairly treated" and ''never insul
ed" in any town he had visited in Mi
sissippi.
Our contemporaries were misinforme
when they reported the writer as saying
ut Odessa, that "Gates was guilty, az
ought to have been imppssched." q
did not make that remark, nor anythin
like it.
The Paris National says that in th
coancil of ministers, NJ. Lepere, mini
ter of the interior, estimated that,
consequence OF a bad crop, the purchas
OF foreign grain would amount to EGO
0O0, 600 sterling.
Gen. George G. Bingham, who wa
well known to vi people as having bel
important state offices. as the painter
the picture known as "Order No. H." a
asa vigorous and caustic writer, died
his home, near Kansas City, last Nor
day morning, OF cholera morbus.
The Wachusett, which has bee
aground, has got off the bar where 81
was last, and has returned to VicksburI
She is drawing seventeen feet. A 4
publican correspondent attributes b.
grounding to incompetent plotting, ar
Capt. Scudder, OF St. Louis, has offere
to furnish, gratuitously, two well posts
pilots to bring her on up the river.
A telegram to the st. Louis Repub.
can from Jefferson City, dated July st
says: The revising commission will
ready to furnish the printer with col
for the revised statutes on Monday mex
The commission and their clerks a
working like beavers. If the revision
not out at the time indicated in the az
it will not be the fault of the commi
sion. The compilation, references al
indexing will be models of excellen
and perfection.
The state elections this year will b
Kentucky, August 4. state officers al
legislature; California, September
state and judicial officers, four congress
men and legislature; Ohio and low
October z. state officers in part and lie
islature; Maryland. Massachusetts. Mi
nesota, Mississippi. New Jersey. NJ
York. Pennsylvania. Virginia and w:
consih. November 3. Governors q
elected in all the states named exec
Mississippi. New Jersey, Pennsylvar
and Wisconsin.
Frank Davidson was hanged at W,
r%ensburg. last Wednesday, for the mi
der of a man named Haggerty, at a p
mic last fall. The murder is said to ha
been a bruta! one, and the govern
who was applied to, could see no cat
for a Communication of his sentence.
was executed on the same scaffold US
tor Daniels. a few months since. 7
frequent executions in Missouri, DUR
the past year or two, would indie.
that iuries are realizing the necessity
enforcing the law even to the del
penalty.
A San Francisco dispatch, dated ],