Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-09-24

@eeklg gate1ligenfet
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
President Arthur!
Missouri SKIES 10.
Who said Roscoe Conkling was dead
p Guiteau must be punished, but by tn
law.
Confederate reunion. Moberly, Wed
nesday. September %.
A ~frightful epidemic OF typhoid feve
is now raging at Athens.
ALI the world sends sy sympathetic greet
ing to stricken America.
A dollar fund has been started TO
Mrs: Garfield in st. Louis.
If Malone mahones the Virginia deb
he will want to malone the nationa
i. debt.
A party of 1l6 Russian Jews embark
ed at Antwerp last Saturday for New
York.
Indictments for forgery, larceny, ano
bigamy have been found against Marvin
at Richmond, Va.
A train flew the track "a Salntes.
France. inJuring forty persons, halt o.
whom were soldiers.
James Garfield, the presidents son, is
so Ill with malarial fever That he cannoi
attend his fathers funeral.
Garfield when Lincoln was assassina-
ted :-"God reigns and the government
at Washington still lives"
The Guards band Is improving every
day. It covered itself with honors at
i. the grange meeting, Tuesday.
% Read Jud. Armstrong; letter on the
"Bates City Robbery co" He sizes
sensational lies at their true value.
Don't throw any tones at Bliss. He
has done his duty faithfully and we'll
1t Is cowardly and mean to assail him.
The gross earnings of the Erie road
dor tent months have been $l7, POS, 511, u
Z gain OF 81. 90s. sos over the previous year.
Mr.. Robnet was on hand as usual at
the grange meeting with his omnibuses,
politely facilitating passing to and tro.
The Apaches are causing q great deal
z ofpalarm at stations ON the Southern Pa
ciic railway between Deming and Viii
cox.
Forest fires III California have burned
over 16, 200 acres in Marion county and
&C, 900 acres on the summit of the Yves
tern Pacific road.
Il The relief committee at Port Huron,
Mich, acknowledges the receipt Of over
/. $3.50, 000. A ton Of clothing arrived
there from Chicago.
Reports based upon actual thrashing
place the wheat crop of Michigan at 49,
OO0, 900 bushels, n the yield OF corn at
Sc. SOC, 900 bushels.
An autopsy was performed Oil the
body of the president Tuesday, an OIL
cial account of which may be found else
where in this issue.
y ~ -
Aubrey Winslow, a confidential agent
of a Cincinnati pork merchant. has los,
$4,000 of his employers money In
!. speculation, and absconded.
A track twenty miles in diameter has
been burned over by forest fires near
= Carthage, N. Y, the estimated loss Of
timber lands beng 100000.
Col. John I. Crisp has gone to Texas
to surrender himself for trial on an In
6 dictment for murder. Gen. Cockrell
accompanied him as his counsel.
Our Pleasant Prairie correspondent
says: "Two hogs for every barrel Of
corn" He is mistaken ; the proportion
is as it should be just the other way.
Senator johnston says Daniel will be
elected by 10000 majority. o, good
senator, shake; shake hard. We like
you, we love you; may you prove to be
q prophet.
A reward of $3.50 has been offered by
the governor for the arrest and convic.
ton Of Asa Horton charged with the
murder Of George Wright, on the 9th OF
last August.
Gen. Garfield died on the anniversary
OF the second day OF the battle of Cblcka-
manga, in which he served on the staff
first of Gen. Rosecranz and later oil
Gen. Thomas.
~ "
The purchase OF 100000 in Dutch
gold IN the open market, in London,
) caused q decline in consols. Like Gree.
ley's young man it is coming west te
grow up with the country.
In ITS reply to the democratic state
committee the republican committee Of
Ohio descends to the arts of the com
mon demagogue, and is brutally IN.
civil. 1t is a vl]lainous paper.
Another attempt at highway robbery
took place at Champion. N. H., las,
Sunday. No arrests. Here, we sup.
pose, is another instance of the evi
teaching of the republican party.
Gen. Peylon Wise, of Richmond, Va.
and District ATTORNEY Lewis fought q