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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26

George Willard put his son, 10 years
old. at work or the road near his house,
a lew miles fromFreeport, Ind. An hour
later the son was met in the door-yard
by Mr.. Willard. coming In to warm him.
self. The father ordered the boy back,
aod the latter refusing to obey. Willard
said, 81 will shoot you," and started
into the house, as if to get the gun. The
son followed. and seizing an Z crush.
ed bis fathers skull. The father survives
with no hope of recovery. and the son.
almost insane with grief, has never left
his side.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26

Gould has secured II controlling
in the New Jersey Central
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26

The associated press says that. sit is
learned upon good authority, though
not yet officially. that Secretary Sher-
man intends to pay out the So 1000, 900
of money received from the banks re-
firing their circulation, and all which
comes In from that source In the pur-
CHASE OF hopds.n
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26

Capt. Eads is going back to Mexico to
get the Mexican congress to ratiIy his
concession.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26

The Missouri Valley Bank at Kansas
City has suspended.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26

Chicago has fifty people down with
small pox.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26

Thomas Bailey Aldrich will become
editor of The Atlantic Monthly.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26

Commander Wyse has gone to
Panama.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26

The United States senate has passed
the bill repeating the tax on bank de-
posts.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26

Little OF interest has TRANSFERRED in the
legislature this week. Members are be-
ginning to ieel like getting home. and
few bills have been introduced, so from
now until the end of the session, we may
look for llvelier work. Our members
are always at their post of duty, and are
spoken OF by everybody as useful and
influential Legislators.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26
PUBLIC SALE
Horses, Farming Utensils, &C.

sod my tarm, l VIII 0ner -
II for sale, to the highest bidder. at
my farm. 3 miles southeast of Lexing- HH
ton, on -
TUESDAY. MARCH lsr, 1881,
the following personal property, to-wit -
Work Horses, l four-year-old Mule. l two-year-
OLD Filly. l onT.year;eld percheron DRAFT
one of them fresh; 2 two-year-old Heifers, 2
spring Calves, u head of Sheep, / Cotswold
! two-horse Wheat Drill, ! Combined Reaper
and Mower, lSs Bushels Of Oats. Hay, Corn,
Harness, Farming Utensils, Household and
Kitchen Furniture. aud other articles too tedi-
GUS to mention.
Terms:-Six months time, without interest.
purchaser to give bond and approved security.
on sums or $lU or more.
z. S.-The Sheep will be sold in lots of ten or
less.
febss-lt T. w. SHOCKLEY.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26

Small pox is increasing in New York
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26
Rseklg gatflliafafer.

Greece has stripped tor a fight.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-17
An Invention for Sleepy Heads.
Richmond tVa) Wing


The engineer of the Richmond City
Almshouse, young man named VIM.
FL. Thompson, has exhibited cutie an
inventive genius in the management of
his business. Mr.. Thompson, some time
ago, experienced great difficulty in
waking up in the morning at the right
hour; sometimes he would awake at two
o'clock, and thinking it was time for him
to get up, he would arise and find out
that he had gotten up two hours before
it was necessary; occasionally he would
oyersleep himself, and this led him
TO invent a machine, called by him
IAN electrical machine, for lighting
fires, turning on gas, and at the same
time answer as an alarm bell" The
machine has just been completed, and
would do honor to an Edison. 1t is of
simple construction and is in successful
operation. It is worked by common
clock, and is placed upon the side of the
wall in the engine house few inches
below the clock. The clock can be set
so as to cause the machine TO strike
small gong at any given hour. The gong
is, in fac,, a part of the machine; and
when it is struck q bell is caused
to be rung in the engineers bed
room, in the upper story of the build
ing (three stories above the engine room;
the door leading to the engine house is
opened for the fireman, who is also awak-
ened by another bell in his bedroom; the
gas in the engine room is turned on and
the fire in the engine is set to burning.
All of this is done by electricity and as
quick as a flash. No lock is needed on
the door The electric current pushes
the bolt back and spring pulls it wide
open. The young inventors electric ma
chine was successfully used several days
before it was generally known about the
building that such thing had been in
vented by him.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-17
sn's SONG.

49,. .--r.i I5--. tEe Jay was nearly ended,
.rv..-.d 70 l-aft ami all slone'
...i- elrl pain ana sorro" 50 were
..e.i-rtiairl q heart-wrung groan
a4W sar-e through small soft
T- T-l.-..l r..s.5 its lovely liquid strain
s-.r Z vailfy ~ 'r trying
-.-, r.g slu-- through rain that always
'a winds bleak that never stay
sIe4 Z strife that siI my soul ap-
.- rom for re, shy should 1 try
,.-a,.f when surely must die,
- ,re., ca. anI through bis stream Of
--t e. hear him tell Of summer time;
...4--t.lt pale spring is surely bringing
l....ry wi b its Toy perfumed Cline.
,4.ftfi forget m5 present woe
f-s..l.a- chat this cu.l gray time VIII go.
-..s- -i,..a-. and no NOR, forever
..tT -f.r-ii-h him from all the rest;
e..E.-I. are a-I siise. hp~ could sever
e- .-. tHf S5uzster with the speckled
vrta5,tast tria- whose songs are sung at
u..-g.,I.. II. li-s. and Inourners sadly grieve?
ur.-f.s.- matter. 'tis the song that lipgers
T'f f..H- p.sc- that memory claims as his
.-ir... .lty t5II ahen Times cold, withered
ur--r-
vtr..- The shrine vh@re that song surely Is.
rs. .r.a-.i.s. iut leaves behind the song.
-1.r..t {. .az that to Lim doth belong,
tra 0LHr when thou art sad and tired,
.n- tly songs Parchance when thou
lr- .r--.
G-- ..a rs rf hone one thought inspired,
Wt. ..ll i-- oH. cen though thyself RI fled.
trf .fa.. 1rs Fs, hast -hau done thy best,
fl.ls i.-. earned al everlasting rest
al ne Year Round.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-17
The Ghetto at Rome.
London Telegraph.

1t has at length been resolved by the
Municipality of Rome that the venerable
Ghetto shall be leveled with the ground,
in order that number of stately houses
may be erected upon its site. The huge
group of sordid buildings thus sentenced
to destruction is the most ancient of its
kind in Southern Europe. 1t existed
long before the reign of Julius Caesar,
and during that of the Emperor Angus
tus was occupied by nearly 5000 i'm.
mates. The originator of the
Ghetto is stated to have been
King Herod, who caused a pal
ace to be built near the Pons Janiculen.
sis, for the accommodation of his sons
and diplomatic ENJOYS when visiting
Rome. When the Apostles Peter and
Paul came to The Eternal City, there to
preach the Gospel, they abode in the
Ghetto. Ten centuries later it was the
residence of the celebrated Israelitish
jeweler, Elkanan Diodato, who became
Christian, and whose grandson, under
the name of Anaclete H., occupied the
Papal throne from 1130 to 1138. The
Ghetto has long been physical as well
as historical reproach to the Italian CAPT
tai, and its demolition is one of the many
modern reforms and improvements in
that magnificent city upon which its
municipal rulers may unreservedlY be
congratulated.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-17
That Monetary Conference.


This country has found it very difficult
to keep its monetary balance since 1t ad-
mitted the silver dollar to the dignity of
a standard, and the invitation to an in
ternational monetary conference which
this country has joined France in ex-
tending to the leading commercial ma
tions is virtual confession of the fact.
Were our monetary basis satisfactory to
the best financial sense of the country
it would need no modification or change,
but it is not satisfactory, and hence
we ask those who are better off than
ourselves in this respect to meet our rep
resentatives and permit themselves to
be persuaded to enter into an arrange
ment that shall be for our advantage, if
not for theirs. The delegation from the
United States has already been chosen;
and that it will maintain the dignity and
represent the highest interest of this
country we do not doubt. England and
Germany have their single gold stand
ard, and they are SO well satisfied with
it that we can conceive no reason, unless
it may be an artificial one, why they
should complicate 1t by the adoption of
silver. France is finding her fnan-
cial way fer from smooth, with
her silver stock clogging her opera
tions. In January, 1879, soon after the
last monetary conference, the Bank
of France had in bullion about $780,.
600. 900. Since then it has lost about
500, ,OOO. 600, the bulk of which loss has
fallen upon its stock in gold OF the
S34O. .OO0, 600 of coin in its vaults last
December, only about $110, 900, 900 were
v.oarlxY GO00 A0n 0nn -,
gold two years before The difficulty in
keeping the standard upon a. common
plane of value is as positive
there as here, and perhaps more def
mite on account of the greater COM
pactness of the French system. VIII
England and Germany agree to the
terms which will doubtless be proposed?
1t is to be a kind Of diplomatic affair
after all, for we can hardly see how the
condition of each one of the parties TO it
is to be sensibly improved. Even if
general agreement could dam the flow of
silver there would continue to be
distrust of the means employed,
and a brooding fear that the
reservoirs might at any time give way.
We are told that probably nothing
would so soon bring England to consent
to use of silver as preparations by this
country and France TO go back to gold;
but England probably knows US well
enough not to believe that this is likely
to happen as long as Ohio is the politi-
cal centre of the country, or while man
like Window is the American Minister Of
Finance. SO Germany and England will
be likely to cling to the gold and leave
France and the United States where
they are.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-17
THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE
BOER TROUBLE.
The Record of Crime I'm Kerry
Canon FIeming's Troubles A
strong Force OF Police En- Route
for His ReIIef-The Afghan War
Expenses Voted.

LONDON, March 16.-Justice Fitzgerald
in opening the Kerry assizes to-day said
that four hundred aud sixty-three crimes
have been reported during the last seven
months, which was seven fold the record
during the same period in the previous
year. There was, however. he said, some
decrease In the record of crime for the past
week.
In the House of Commons to-day, Mr..
Gladstone, in committee of supply, moved
vote Of 95oo, 900 for the Afghan war ex-
penses. Mr.. Gladstone explained that the
vote would not involve any question Of AT
CHAN policy.
Sir Stafford Northcote assented to the
vote of the money asked for, reserying the
right TO discuss the principle involved at a
later stage Of the proceedings. The vote OF
&500, 900 was then carried without q
division, as was also a vote on account OF
two months supplies for the civil service,
to be included in next years budget.
The Dublin correspondent of the Times
says; GAS an evidence Of the change which
has come over5the minds Of the people In
the west OF Ireland, since the repressive
action Of the government, when the relief
party Of Orange laborers arrived at Ballina-
kill to work for Canon Fleming, the Protest
ant rector, the laborers who had previously
refused to work asked to be reinstated."
A telegram from Longhrea states that two
hundred policemen have been dispatched by
a special train In all haste to Cliffden dis
trict where disturbance has arisen between
the Catholics and the Fleming relief expe-
dition. 1t is reported that one man has
been killed. There is very bitter feeling
in the district because of the large number
Of processes which have been served.
A dispatch from Durham to the Times saws
that General Sir Evelyn Wood had an inter
view with Joubert, the Boer commander,
on. Monday, at which it was agreed to
extend the armistice four days, the condi-
tions Of the armistice to remain unaltcred,
except that Gen raj Wood shall have the
option of sending four days more pro-
visions to those garrisons which have al
ready received eight days. provisions, and
twelve days provisions to those which have
not received any.
Paul Kruger, in a letter to President
Brand Of the Orange Free State, carefully
distinguishes between the Royal Commis.
sion to investigate the grievances of the
Beers and the commission settling the basis
Of peace. He says: ga Royal Commission
is not to be thought Of An arbitration is
necessary, not jury which can give YER
dict Of guilty or not gpilty."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-17

MRS. GARFIELD IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Mrs. Garfield promptly began her du-
ties in Washington, for from soon after
her arrival on Tuesday morning
she had many visitors, and saw
all who called Her friend, Mrs
Sheldon, of Ohio, has been with
her and assisted her. Mrs. Garfield is a
petite lady, with quite slender figure
and small features. Her face wears a
look of patience, as of a thoughtful
woman who has profted by life,s disci.
pline and learned patience. She appears
as one rather resigned to her present DO
sition than elated by it. During her long
residence in Washington she has never
cared much for society, and has rarely
gone to large parties. Her tastes are
more for books than for people, which
causes her manner, which is ma
turaly reserved. to appear that of a
preoccupied person to those who do not
know her well I think she has quite
dreaded from the first the publicity of
life which necessarily belongs to the
wife of the President, and shrinks from
being made central figure and minute
ly described. don't wonder, for having
lived here so long, she knows full well
how impossible it is, even for those who
take most pains to please others, to avoid
all harsh criticism Wastingt0aa Letter
to Philadelphia Times.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-17
ESTABLISHED 1850.
How to Bargain with a Moor.

1t was very amusing, says a writer in
Temple Bar, to 60 about from shop to
shop here, bargaining, with Simon as
dragoman. The shops in the Tangier
bazaar, as through the East in general,
are of about the same size as the ware
house of the melancholy Dir. Knaggs in
They are square wooden boxes raised
two or three feet above the ground, and
the customer, mounting couple of
steps. seats himself at the threshold on a
round hassock, placed for him by the
proprietor, and proceeds TO transact busi-
ness, If he be wise, on the assumption
that bazaar prices are so per centum too
high. Curious phials of altar of roses, old
pogniards and swords In quantity
chased scabbards, rich silk scarfs,
burnouseS fine and coarse. fez
caps, mems slippers made of
the famous soft yellow leather of the
country, more dainty women's ehaussure
OF light blue velvet embroidered in silver
and gold, snuff boxes made from oval
palm nuts, deep piled carpets soft as a
fleece; these are the wares with which
the grave Moorish shopkeeper strives,
not unsuccessfully, to tighten the stran-
gers purse. There is peculiar piquancy
in bargaining this way through an inter-
prefer. Seller and buyer, being totally
ignorant of each others language, can
vent their bad blood on the innocent
medium without wounding each others
feelings. When Mustapha with the un-
blushing etfrontery demands two dollars
for pair of slippers, can turn flercely
on Simon. call him shameless swindler
in French and make scornful offer
of six pesetas Simon's astute mind
acts chemically on this plain state
ment of mine. precipitating the grosser
defamatory portion aud vaporizing the
remainder for Mustapha's ear into a mild
suggestion that the slippers, in the opin-
ion of a Western miscreant, are worth
half the price asked for them. Then it
is Mustapha's turn to explode on Simon
with what are evidently fierce revilings in
Arabic, which the Jew distills for my ear
into the uitimatum, Monsieur, the slip
pers cannot go for less than seven and a
half pesetas." When the bargain is
struck at last, you receive in the change
for your Spanish dollars some handfuls
of the rude old bronze coins of Morocco,
stamped with date running back six
centuries to the palmy days of the Moors
when Mohammed the Second reigned in
Granada.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-17

POPULATION OF THE EARTH. -Herren
Behm and Wagner, in the last edition
of their book on the population of the
earth, estimate the entire population of
the inhabited globe at / ,456. 600, 900 per-
sons. Europe, without counting Ice
land and Nova Zembla, is believed to
have 315. .929, 900 inhabitants on an area
of 176, ,349.9 German square miles, or at
the rate of 1, 791 persons to the German
square mile; Asia is put down as having
834, 707, 600 inhabitants on 8O9, ,478
square miles-that is, 1881 persons to
the square mile; Africa as having 205,-
677, 900 inhabitants on 443, 1877 square
miles, or 376 persons to the square mile;
America as having 50, 495, 500 on 697, :
1885 square miles, or 137 to the square
mile; Australasia as having ,031 900 on
162, ,6O2 square miles, that is "a persons
to the square mile; the Arctic regions
are assumed to have S2, 900 inhabitants
on &, ,O91 square miles, or about person
to every square mile The sum total, as
observed, is ], ,455, ,923, 500 persons on
2,470, 90S. 4 square miles, or at the rate Of
$50 persons to the German square mile.
The German empire comprises 9,815.6
square miles, with a population (n 1879
of A 210. .948 persens.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-17
THE NEW YORK STOCK MARKET
Opening Weak. but Closing at a Re-
cOVery.

New YORK, March 16.-The stock mar
ket was generally weak and lower at the
opening, but In the early dealings prices
advanced from u to "a per cent, Western
Union, Union Pacific, and the coal shares
leading in the Improvement. At the first
board speculation became weak, and the
early advance was lost, but toward midday
prices recovered fraction.
During the afternoon a rather free selling
movement was inaugurated, which resulted
in sharp decline of prices. The lowest
figures of the day were touched at the
second board, when the decline ranged from
"A to 5 per cent, the latter in Alton and
Terre Hsute common, Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western selling off 2%, Can
ada Southern 25S, Delaware and Hudson
~. Cincinnati, st. Louis and New
Orleans was an exception, and rose
314 per cent. In the final deal
iDgs the market became frmer, and
closed at a recovery of from to 11s per
cent, the latter in Delaware, LackaWanna
and Western and Western Union. The
transactions aggregated 328, 600 shares.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-17
Weather Indications.

OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OBSERVER, WASH
NGToN, March 16.-Indications for Thurs
day:
In the South Atlantic States, cloudy
weather, with rain, winds mostly southeast
erlY, nearly stationary temperature, and
stationary or lower barometer.
In the Middle States, cloudy weather,
rain, southwest to southeast winds, no de-
cided change OF temperature, and lower
barometer.
In the East Gulf States, cloudy weather,
with rain, southerly winds, becoming varia-
bic, stationary or higher barometer, and
lower temperature in the western part.
In the West Gulf States, occasional rain,
followed by clearing weather, northerly
winds, lower temperature, and higher
barometer in the eastern part.
In the Ohio valley and Tennessee,
occasional rain, followed by clearing wealth.
er, variable shifting to colder westerly
winds, rising, preceded in the eastern por-
ton BY falling barometer.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-17

cannon's mouth You see dey put me on de
fnl ierest post. an tell me not for let any one
come wi6in two hundred yards 'ceptin' dey
n40 q countersisD, for dey was spectin de
.'iailei IS 70 lack Us. You bet your last tater
Wu3 scared = De leff alone and worser when
-onght ner1 somethin' a comm When
lust herd &c noise, tried for to can Who 20
carr oJt jest couldn't cause nv legs trim
De 50 fought my kneepans would drap out.
EFen II ny legs was trimblin' / had
ny sense oout me, an I began TO
exvance backward To de mex post but
stopt cause | was 'fraid de sentinel would
shot me, so crambled into a bush and MADE
a stan. Prestly l called: Who gos dar Z
agaln, an woise say: "A friend Y Den /
near some on EN- say, Halt an den one OBJ
&c company exvance to me to gfb me de word
an WISn see oe blue coat an de brass but
TON tell you, niggers, 1 was mighty relieved
III ought 70 see how streifen up when de
sogger reproach to me. Why, feel as proud
a. psecock goboler, and when Represent my
gun ieei as 90 WSs de commandfn' gfnrfi
and den rur dem to say dey was fibe hundred
yard OF when furst cali. Tell you, dey was
close nr-misy close up . Wonder if this war
rlor has been placed on the pension list
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-17
Business on the Pacific Coast.


The annual supplement and trade re-
view of the San Francisco Journal o.
Commerce presents a record of very large
business operations during the year 1880.
California became part of the Union in
184S. In the thirty-two years which
have intervened the Pacific coast has
produced $2,217, 1886, 1856 worth of the
precious metals, equal to $44 20 per
capita for the present population of the
United States, and 81 300 per capita for
the present population of the whole
Pacific coast. This production of the
precious metals is still sustained, the
yield for 1880 being estimated at $79,-
422, 600, against an average OF $69, 600,
600 per annum for thirty-two years.
Last year the coast produced besides
So, 900, 900 in lead and 3d. 600 TASKS of
quicksilver. The imports of for.
eign merchandise at San Fran
cisco in 1880 were valued at $38, ,971, ,121
the exports Of merchandise were 500,
273,506 to foreign countries,
and 100000 by rail. The
wheat crop of California was 81, 900, 900
centals, equal to 81, 900, 900 bushels.
with IL, 600, 600 bushels of barley. The
wool clip aggregated 46, 074, 154 pounds,
the yield of wine is estimated at 10, ,OOO,-
900 gallons, the fruit crop is valued at
$3,750,0 900, the lumber receipts were
214, 1856, 166.: feet, and the clearinghouse
exchanges were 1886, 725, 1854. These
are only the rough outlines of a great
business which is still in its infancy.
With the completion of the Mexican
railroad system and of one or more inter
oceanic canals, San Francisco must be-
come the entrepot of the daily expand
ing commerce of the Pacific ocean, a
commerce which will continue to grow
and develop in proportion as the teeming
centres of population on the eastern
slopes Of ASIA become more civilized,
increase their transportation facilities,
and grow to be more and more imbued
with the moral and material needs and
desires which make the Western nations
such extensive purchasers.