Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-09-10
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OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
The president is much better.
The state grange will meet at JEFF
ferson City. October ls.
The new paper in St. Louis, the
morning News, will appear about
September II.
Mr.. Mason, of New York, leads in the
number OF games won at the Berlin
chess tournament.
The French minister Of Wal has Or
dered another brigade of fou thou
sand men to Africa.
The loss of life by The laundering
of the Teuton off the Cape of Good
Hope is now stated at 236.
Nearly 800 in stamps. cash and
bonds was obtained by burglars i'll the
p~ostofice at Champaign. Ill.
A uihilist newspaper. 'sThe Will OF
The People," has made its appearance
ON the streets of st. Petersburg.
The trial OF James and Walter Malley,
for the murder of Jennie Cramer, COM
menced in New Haven Monday. Both
pleaded not guilty.
The New York Times, the leading re-
publican newspaper OF the country, ex-
presses the fear that the star route in
iamies are being covered up.
A church was burned aud two
cemeteries desecrated nea Bryan,
o., by Richmond Bennett, for whom
q reward of $3.50 10 offered.
Trains from Marseilles and Montar-
gis came in collision at Clarendon,
France. Nineteen persons were Instant
ly killed, and twenty-five injured.
A writer in the New York Sun
asserts that coIored people cannot
take hydrophobis. and says there
never has been q case in that race.
The officers of the Ohio p%enltentia-
ry have discovered that within its
walls, che manufacture of bogus nick
els has been carried on for some time.
Edward Kelley, who shot Officer
Crowley in Chicago, last mouth. was
caught at St. Louis, while taking let
ters from the p~ostofice under an as
sumed name. CO.'S
David Lilies, a desperate character
Of Wildwood, ILL.,, undertook to kill
Albert Gates for aiding the officers
in arresting hin, and was shot through
what brains he had.
Seven inmates of the Jail at Hender-
con, KY, broke through the ceiling into
che attioand out throughthe brick walls.
descending thirty feet by means, of a rope
made from blankets.
We haven't the best opinion in the
world Of Mr.. Chester A. Arthur, but
we do not think he is fool enough to
try to force himself into the presi-
dency while Mr.. Garfield lives.
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There are $50 cases Of diphtheria at
Hastings, Mich. and eighteen deaths &C.
Cured in three days. The schools are
closed. Impure drinking water is be-
aieved to be- the cause OF the epidemic. {
The results OF twenty-one second bal
lots taken in France Sunday. show that ,
twenty republicans and one C@onserva- ,
tive have been elected. The monarch
lists lose two seats and the bonapartlsts ,
one. :
MI. Beck disclaims having made
the statement attributed to him re- t
garding the election Of a conservative
republican as president pro tenn. of
the senate in case of the presidents |
death.
The governors of Ohio, Vermont, .
Illinois. Indiana and Wisconsin fol- I
lowed the chief magistrate of Penn :
sylvania in designating Tuesday last l
for prayers for the recovery of the {
president.
ThezMexican government is about to ,
proceed clvilly and criminally against
the railroad and government officials
who have been found to be responsible
for the recent terrible accident on the
Moreles Railroad. l,
Michigan has been suffering from
forest and field fires. A num-
Der of towns have been swept away,
and many lives have been lest. Over
one hundred persons were burned to
death in II county.
1t was rumored on the street last
night that Sheriff Timberlake, OF Clay
county, had captured two more of the
train robbers, beside those captured by
Sheriff Cason. of Saline county, making
five in all. Ne trust the report may be
well founded. L
The republican politicians of Indi-
ana are loudly ,oufsing Major Gordon,
clerk of the supreme court, for writ
ing to Attorney General MacVeagh
that the keeping of Guiteau in soli-
tary confinement was not in ~accor-
dance with law.
Lieutenant Flipper, the only negro
graduate of West point, will be arralgn-
ed before a court-martlal al San Antonio.
September Is, for the embezzlement OF
$l,700. An account of the manner OF
the discovery Of his CRIME will be found
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