Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-12-24
ODDS AND ENDS.

street, has been sentenced to one years
The steamship Anchoria brought 70
New York an invoice OF three hundred
tons OF Scotch potatoes.
:. The steamship Cliutonia, loaded with
cotton for Liverpool, struck the Veiietto
NJ New Orleans, damaging
to the amount Of $4,000.
Dillon has been indirectly informed
that he could at once obi ain freedom oy
promising to leave Ireland, but ne re-
fuses to give . pledge.
An attempt was made at Delta, u.
by laying tie across the track. TO
wr, OK a Lake Shore passenger train but
the engineer saw the obstruction In tune
to prevent slaughter.
Chicago Times There seems to be
a pretty general disposition IN the press
of the country to declare that Blaine
was good fellow enough, aud bril-
liant, but that his retirement from
post in which his aggressiveness, his
desire to pose, his eagerness 70 be up
aud dong, was calculated to get the
country into more serious comPlications
than were gathering In the Chili-fera
matter, can hardly be regarded -
public calamity. The United States
likes nothing quite SO much as mindinG
its own business"
Mrs Langtry made her debut in the
Haymarket theatre IN London last week
and astonished the oldest play-goers by
her ease and grace.
Tho frigate Constitution has been
finally put out Of commission ut the
Brooklyn navy-yard.
The nerthern Pacific road has finished
Its track on tho Wisconsin division Into
Superior City two weeks In advance of
the contract, thus securing title TO two
miles of river-front property.
August Arndt, an Omaha crank. whe
tas been suspected of the assassinatton
of Colonel Smith, was arrested foe
threatening the lite Of Judge Dundy.
Queen Caroline, OF Saxony, 10 suffer-
| ing from an illness which 10 attributed
to u cause unusual In royal households.
Her majesty has mania for cooking
in which she excels. especially IL the
preparation of fruit preserves. The
crop Of fruit in Saxony this year was -
abundant that the queen labored nighe
and day in the composition OF her JaAs
and jellies. which she was, Of courso.
Obliged to taste constantly. Tho conoe-
quent fatigue and indigestion bronsht
on q serious illness
A surveyor while in Shasta county.
California. lately found . fine lot Of foo-;
sils. Among them are blemnrtes. otho.
csrites, and ammonites of the cretA-
ceous geological period. The most inter-
esting specimen 10 an ammonito ovog
two feet In diameter, nesrly entire
showing the large corrugataons OF The
outer she'll.
Pennsylvania courts do net recognize
the great truth that man who 10 rus
piug tor Office may be libeled with im-'
punity by the opposition crowd, and
one Of them has given judgment Tor
So 500 damages against . newspaper
which called recent candidate for con.s
I gress thief.
Jacob N. Yoder. wealthy fArmsr
residing lew miles from Millersburgs
. O., went out on . porch, the otner
morning, and while leaning against IT,
lance Of about five feet. His neck Was.
. broken, and he died instantly.
The Bibliotheque de pAcademls d
I Medicine, which was created 10 1884,
. aud which 10 one OF the most beautiful
| and important of ito class. has been 81.
, ,horized to accept legacy Of sevecal
. thousand volumes left to: i by Dr.
e Mathel, who recently died in Paris.
After q career" of more than htty
3 years, the New York stages are rapidly
disappearing before surface and elsvae
o ted railway cars. The first stage eoen
> in the city was that which began Oh
Il June 8, 1880, to make hourly trips ~
i tween Wall and Bleeker streets.
y Two juniors Of Yale college were NJ
). rested in New Haven, the other day, for
u assaulting two clerks III Edward 0ei-
J. ley's store. A crowd OF students gath.
cred to rescue their chums. but the cnl.
= prits were hustled out through haok
way. s
1 In Holyoke, Mass. are twenty-Aye
mills, with 36 ,O0O, 900 capital, and en-
ploying $500 men engaged in making
. writing paper. Their product 10 100 t0no
n q day, more than ono half Of the entire
It American production of writing papers.
vi NJ. Dalcu's fine bas-relief repre-
IS senting M,rabeau in the act Of answer.
ing the Marquis dc Dreux-Breze at tha
u national assembly, Paris, in 1889 will II
east in bronze, and placed 10 the hall q
the chamber OF deputies.
, William Harris. who pleaded guilty
to selling q 20.cent lottery ticket 10. Z
policeman In New York, was sentenced
y to ten days In the penitentlary and . dne
u OF 500. or an additional day for each
q dollar If the fine is not paid.
. Uncle Jack Hill, Of Macon county,
:, Georgia, died last week at the advanced
~ age OF 1O7. He was the father OF eWon-
Y ty-two children. He never took doso a
= medicine IN his lite, but was always ford
= OF his toddy.
K From accounts published BY the JsE>
Or din des Plantes. it apPsars that the cos.
d rent price for an elephant ID l2,1oo
,. francs; Tor q royal tiger, 1000 iranes;
II tor rhinoceros. $1,000 france; fog {
= camel. 1000 francs.
10 A hunter in Mariposa county. Califor.
=; MIA, is said to have shot deer last
Of month which had two pairs Of horns -
10 its head.
l. There have been 2ls days OF Erie
!: canal navigation during the season jus(
d olssed. ~
:. A marble quarry of vast extent haa
II been discovered in Spokane, Oregon.
r. Troy capitalists are considering II
D. projsct OF building $3.50, 900 hotel.
J, In his sermon of last Sunday, Tal
~ mage, remarked. Again, Guiteauism
Ne stands tor those who employ the cloa1
u cf religion to cover up their turpitude
The assassin was quite succesefu
y prayer-meeting exhorter. He was q
y 81 usher at revival meetings, hs quotel
~ scripture glibly. he has been member o.
the Methodist church, the Presbytsrial
church. the Baptist church. He tried
J. to take advantage Of one OF the leading
y doctrines OF each church. The Metho
~ dists believe man can fall from grace
q and he fell from grace. The Presbyte.
T, a. riaus believe in predestnation, and hl
r hoped that through train to reach hssv.
= Ell. He joined two Baptist churches.
: !. but they did not wash him clean. Id
ef has honored pretty much all our Do
~ !. nominations, exc. pt the Episcopaliau
p but. as the apostle Judas was hnne,
y Guiteau may yet. in one sense, be In the
I; line Of apostolic successions.
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