Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-19
THE GEAR AssAssINATED.

st. Petersburg, last Sunday afternoon.
He was riding with Grand Duke Michael
in a closed carriage, guarded by eight
Cossacks. A bomb al thrown. which
tore out the back part of the vehicle. The
car and his brother sprang out, when 3
bystander drew a revolver, but was pre-
vented from discharging it. At this in
slant a second bomb fell near the car,
SCATTERING both his legs. With q cry for
help he tell, and was taken to the winter
palace. The sacrament wal administer
ed to the sufferer. who survived his in
lures an hour. The two assassins stood
on opposite sides of the roadway. dls-
guised as peasants. One was so rough
ly handled that he died. The other gives
the name of Roussakoff.
The emperor was born in 1878. and as
cended the throne while Russia was en-
gagged in the Crimean war. While all
the reforms asked tor during his reign
were not accomplished, he was not by
any mea unprogressive as to popular
liberty. The chief event of his lite was
the emancipation of twenty-three mil
lion ssrfs In 1861. He was of gentle
manners. and was generally beloved by
those about him. He did much toward
u~nshackling the press, and was so gen.
orally considered o llberalist and re-
former that he won for himself and his
country the especial good will of the
United States. This tendency OF his
character. which accomplished a great
deal for Russia, if not all that might be
desired. was checked OF late years by the
license and incendiarism OF communists
and socialists. and was frozen up by the
frequent efforts to murder him. Karak-
soft tried to kill him at Moscow; Berez-
owski at Paris; a NinRlst fred at him
in the streets OF st. Petersburg; a de-
~structive mine was exploded in the win
ter palace, an Internal machine was ex-
ploded under q railway train in which
he was travelling. and, at last, bya nj
tro- glycerine bomb he has been killed.
Alexander. the heir to the throne, was
born in 1915, and Is the husband Of the
Princess Dagmar, OF Denmark.
kilograms Of coincidence have been
received from almost every civilized
country in the world. Among tn. first
to respond to the generous impulse of
sympathy was the United States.
Whatever may be said of Siberian
punishments. of monarchical privileges,
OF aristocratic prerogatives, OF llliberal
government, nothing IA be urged, by
christian people, in favor OF assasslna-
ton. II Alexander erred in some things
he vas also virtuous in many. Ii he re-
fused representative government, he
liberated millions Of slaves; if he did
not grant license to the press he very
largely increased its liberty; if he did
not make everybody rich he very mate
rally ameliorated the condition OF his
people by building railroads, and by en-
couraging the arts and sciences. II he
could not satisfy the men whom he set
free, he succeeded in the wars which
were popular with them in extending
the confines of their country from the
Caspian to the verge of China and India.
and on the south into the heart of Tur-
key. There have been worse monarchs
in Russia than Alexander II. He had
his faults, no doubt, but he did much
for his country which Reussakof, his
assassin failed to remember to his credit.
/ "
As Mr.. James G. Blaine of Maine is
now premier of the administration, and
Mr.. Roscoe Conkling the acknowledged
leader of tha rapnhlioan majority in con-
gress, upon whom the secretary must
depend for legislative support, it is in.
teresting to recall the estimation IN
which the two gentlemen hold each
other. In 1856, when they were both
members OF the house, Mr.. Conkling on
a certain memorable occasion, in his
supercllious manner refused to give way
to Mr.. Blaine saying:-"No Sir. l dc
not wish to have anything to do with
the member from Maine, not even so
much As to yield him the floor" Tc
w~hich..the Plumed Knight replied :-"A.
to the gentleman's cruel sarcasm,
hope he will not be too severe. The
contempt OF that large minded gentle
man is SO willing; his naughty disdaiu,
his graudiloquent swell, his majestic
superemlnent. overpowsring, turkey
gobbler strut, has been so crushing tt
myself and all the members of thil
house, that ] know it was an act of tn,
greatest temerity tor me to venture up
on q %centrovsrsy with him. But, Sir, 1 know
who Is responsible for all this. 1 know
that within the last five weeks, as mem
bers of this house will recollect, an extr,
strut has characterized the gentleman's
bearing. 1t is not his fault. 1t is tn,
fault Of another. That gifted and satir
ical writer. Theodore Tilton OF the New
York Independent. spent some week
recently in this city. His letters pub
llshed in that paper, embraced witt
many serious statements, a little jocos
satire, a part of which was the state
ment that the mantle OF the late White
Davis had fallen upon the membe
from New York. The gentleman tool
it seriously, and it has given his strut q
additional pomposity. The resemblance
is great; it is striking. Hyperion to
satyr, Thersites to Hercules, mud I
marble, dunghill to diamond, a SINCE
cat to a Bengal tiger,a whining puppyt
q roaring lion. Shade of the might
DavisI forgive the almost proclamation c
( that jocose SATIRE" The statesme
! have forgiven each other. Ho,
could they? As things look now Their
! will very likely be many a row betwee
them, as nothing is more certain tina
u they both mean to boss the ADMINISTERS
ton or bre ak a hame string.
The St. Louis grain market, Thur
q day, ruled as follows:-Wheat higher
No. 2 red, 81 o. 34 cash 81 O3 7-s
l o. IA April; 81 O5 8 May; SO l
d July CSC year; No. 3 do, SO s-4c to S