Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-11

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OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
There is nothing new from the |
war.
The Hancock feeling is strong in t
south.
Capt. Payne's commands reported
be safe.
The Dutch arctic expedition has
turned to Norway.
The St. Joseph exposition was mo
erately successful.
The. Upton fair is reported to ha
been quite successful.
Lexington buyers are paying 81 =
bushel for No. 3 wheat.
Courier = Journals announcement
s.The Gyascutis Have Arrove."
The OHIO and Iowa elections will Ia
place next Tuesday, October IA.
Postmaster-General Kew and Secret
~ Schurz are again at their desks.
Saratoga claims to have had 2O,O
more visitors this eason than ever L
fore.
The state supreme court docket I
November is published, and compris
126 cases.
The Hanlan-C Courtney scul:ing mate
on Chautauqua lake. will take pla
October 16.
Boyd, the English oarsman, is con
ing across the Atlantic to try to win IL
championship here.
The pope issues the first number
his newspaper next month Starting wi
42, 900 subscribers.
The annual meeting OF the Nilsson
state grange will be held at Sedalia, b
ginning October 81.
Mount Vernon, Ind, has given up
city government In order to avoid t
payment OF its debt.
The walking business is becoming a
most as great a nuisance as base b,
was a few years ago.
Joe Kemp was hanged at Evenir
Shade, Ark. Oct. 8, for the murder
Marion Hulsey IN 1869.
There is a sort of famine IN Chlhu
hau, Mexico. Corn is worth 50 to So p
bushel, and hard to get.
Mr.. Vanderbilt is SAID to have sent
agent to Europe to expend for him
600 900 francs in pictures.
The Grand Lodge of the Independe
order of Good Templars for Missouri
to meet at Paris. October 81.
Even the hop crop OF Europe is
failure, which will have to be repairt
by importations from America.
The Lawrence Standard says of Ora
that he is ''the center of a complicate
system of fiunkyism." Well said.
Fred Douglass said, in his speech
Cumberland, Nd: My advice to tt
eolored man is. stay where you are"
The C. & A.. railroad company offe
q reward of fifteen thousand dollars fl
the apprehension of the express robber
President Hayes was presented, at Il
Kansas state fair. with a chair made e
tlrely OF polished steers horns, exceI
the seat.
The republicans couldn't stand Hem
L. PIerce's honest expressions about tt
last presidential election, so they slaug
tered him.
The immediate future OF Europe seen
to depend on the attitude which Russ
and England will assume on the Asiat
question.
Gen. Franz Sigel is said to be ''fgt
ing NIT Ewing and Rice" He was a
vertised to speak IN their behalf at Ca
ton, last Thursday.
1t is stated that a number OF Americ;
capitalists will establish a line of stear
ers between Montreal and Cape vi
cent, N. Y, next season.
Sedalia Democrat :"When the Ute u
rising took place there was neither Il
president, q cabinet officer or lieut.
general at his post OF duty.
If some of our exchanges would p'
. little more attention to their .mal
up" they would improve the appearan
OF their papers very materially.
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1t is rumored that Gen. Grant is 4
gotiating for the purchase of the earn
mansion on Staten island, with a vie
OF becoming a citizen OF the Empi
state.
Boss Conkling and Boss Kelly dol
seem to be getting on very we'll wi
their Cornell trade. The decent repu
licans say they will scratch Cornell. a
the democracy is every day getting
be more solid for Robinson.
Though MIR. Hayes kicked Cornell 9
OF the custom house, in New York cit