Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-10

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Gen. Grant was honored by 4 great
oil crowd at Kansas City last Friday and
=. Saturday.
he Col. Pelton, nephew of Ex.-Gov. I'LL
den, died at the Everett House, New
OIL York, Thursday.
ue It is exceedingly small ammunition
he which the republican press Is using
he against Gen. Hancock.
so- People who insist that Garfield IS an
honest man must leave a fine opinion on
400 others of their ideas of honesty.
mt Mr.. Geo. w. Childs. OF the Phila-
to delphia Ledger, Grants friend, has very
ost stronp SYMPTOMS of the Hancock fever.
nd The reports of Chinese victories on
=. the Russian frontier are described in
30, official circles IN St. Petersburg as mere
v;u gossip OF eastern bazaars.
tn Atlanta Constitution THE attempt
OF the Republican newspapers to white
-; wash Garfield with a backing brush has
been measurably successful thus far"
emit New York Sun "A president OF the
nal United States should be above suspicion.
es- If the people elect Hancock-as they are
M going to do-they will have that kind OF
ace a president"
ny Messrs. Tilden, Bayard and Hem
bricks nave all come out in strong sup
" port OF Gen. Hancock, but the country
'.' has yet to hear from Messrs. Grant,
"e Blaine and Sherman on Mr.. Garfield.
OF -
rtv Gen. Trevlno, the Mexican comman-
to der on the Rio Grande. is in San Anto-
du- MO to wed Miss BERTHE, the eldest daugh-
ure ter of Gen. Ord, of the United States
the army. Trevino is As and cannot speak
he English.
A yacht containing fourteen persons
tel capsized III White Bear lake, Minnesota,
ose Monday. Seven of the party, chivalrous
,ati single men, swan ashore. leaving the
an. remainder, women and children, to
her drown.
ons Another break IN the Sny levee in H.
mes linois took place last Sunday, ten miles
he above the first one. No lives were lost
1t is estimated that the property loss
old will be at least one million dollars from
her this crevasse alone.
'ck, "
Enr,r otopG- n in a 1sQ SpaQ cOnOfv
and rouf S'''A .ne :" ~
Texas, quarreled over a business settle
az ment. Two drew their revolvers and
shot each other dead, and the remaining
two MORALLY wounded each other a mo
ment afterward. Such nice. clever fel
lows, these COW boys.
With all that has thus far been saif
against Gen. Hancock by the republican
,ha press, there has not been uttered On,
word which impeaches his honesty as
man, his bravery as a soldier. his patri
otism as a citizen, or his devotion to thu
unlon-nor can there be.
IL The Globe-Democrat says:-"Fifteer
Col years after the close of the war the dem
llch ccrats have concluded TO forgive the sill
will of fighting on the union side" AM
even then. according to YOU, It is no
e is sincerely done. But what is the odds
Col. No one believes you.
em- ..
!, to Clay county has appointed a membe
of a new executive committee for tn
hoir congressional district, and asks jackson
.h. Platte and Cass to do the same. 1t Ger
tainly seems that no gentleman shout
stand in the way of the pacificatlon Q
sad the party there, by a fair organization
nes- -
I'D A DIR. Tanner is trying to live in Ne,
mol York, forty days without eating @
Ill drinking. He had been about pine day
.,d under way, and had lost twelve or fl
rinn teen pounds when we heard from hir
last. and still persisted that he woul
zens 'e'pi'" n's a'A =
- h. a corps OF doctors.
tand Gen. j. B. Weaver has written a Ion
t of letter of acceptance OF the g%reenbac
SO. nomination for president. With ol
,stta Peter Cooper and Sam Cary for liar
ance cock. he can hardly expect to carr
not enough states to elect him-stlll it
to- something to he even a candidate fe
president.
did The Pittsburg republicans are vel
mill. sore over the removal OF Hon. IL. |
Re. Mccormick as district attorney. Nj
God Cook one OF MS assistants mas reslghe
q Of for lear of a similar late, and Mr.. Davi
Ha the collector, who was also an acti,
,ton Grant man, is looking for his walkir
!, ut papers.
g de- The cabinet has decided to dole o
Cling the appropriation for rivers and harbo
at its own sweet will. We would lii
to remind 1t that the small sum appr
~ priated to keep the Missouri river fro
1891, leaving this point is really needed. al
m. should be used as soon as the waters l
a 400 cede sufficiently to permit the necessa
work to be done.
Born, on a Union Pacific railro;
eces. train. near Cheyenne, July 18th. twin
with u boy and 4 girl, to the wife OF l..
of a Mosselman, of California. The ba
Shl ulC III uCAl III ~ a. u
on the plains by the side of the tra'
. an- The little boy only lived until the Z
oo" but was brought t" Council Bluffs
~ 10 burial. The father of the children "
oon' also born on an express train, in Cal
Il 'no da. some twenty-five years ago.
COM --
e will The Globe Democrat, a few days a
e has said :-s.Don is a little sore over the
resent treatment he received at Chicago, WI
the anti Grant men combined in an
> Con tempt to force him from the CHARM
ederal n'p VI u " VIZ "'p'
ion Of Will '''o NV pe 'e ~
h.,,,s case, and accept a position in which
rm.uy can be of vast service to the republl
.o,,h party and the country Ths stalv