Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-08-13

Mrs 0CuuTA III CElttClotuk 0on"s
Dawes letter on civil service reform
among other things says:-"We can re-
member an executive department the
head OF which vas known to be some-
what 'unaccommodatlng.' There men,
bers of congress would address them
selves to bureau chiefs expecting to OBJ
tain through their recommendation the
appointments which they could not OBJ
tain from the secretary himself; some
recommendations to the secretary. infor.
ming him privately that they were una
BILE to resist the urgency Of the members
of congress, which sometimes went even
to the length of threatening l~nsolence,
and against which they asked the secre-
tary Tor: protection. Things can, there
fore, not be mended by merely transfer.
ring pressure. We must e%xtinguish ii
altogether by doing away with the sys-
tenn which admits the making of ap-
pointments on the ground of mere favor.
AS a friend of civil-service reform Sena.
tor Dawes will therefore do well to push
Mr.. Pendleton's BILL" This is q frank
and manly admission and should
be needed by more republicans than
Mr.. Dawes.
The presidents surgeons, last Mon
day, finding indications of new accumu-
lations of pus. placed him under the in
fluence of ether and made . second and
deeper incision into the track of the
bullet. He has been dong pretty we'll
since, the doctors say, and signed his
name to some sort of q document We'd
nesday. There is a good deal of appre-
henson regarding the patient, many
people, professional and otherwise,
thinking the reports OF the attending
physicians dislngenuous.
, William Gale. the English pedestrian.
finished 5000 quarter miles In 5000
consecutive ten minutes, and continued
on the track for fourteen additional
quarters. He then said that he would
bet $500 to $1,000 that he could COM
mence at once and cover five hundred
miles within W. days.
William G. Fargo, OF Buffalo. the
great express man, who died a lew days
ago, left his widow their elegant
residence and an annuity of $15. 900.
The remainder of his estate is divided
into thirds. for two daughters and .
bevy OF grandchildren.
: A flood at Central City, Col. caused
BY the bursting OF a rain-cloud, did
damage of $4,000. One man was
killed. A volume Of water five feet
high ran through the streets, and at
some points the debris was piled up
twenty-five feet.
Tie steamer Handy while approach
ing Portsmouth,, o., Monday, was fired
on from the shore, fourteen shots being
fred into her from a wagon. One bullet
barely missed a lady passenger. The
pilot was compelled to lie fiat during
the shooting.
A son of John A. Scott and q team
of mules were drowned Wednesday
in a coal pit at the Bedford mine
north of Rich Hill. The team a
into an abandoned pit where the
water was ten feet deep.
King Alfonzo has issued All order
that Cuba abstain from participating
III the cotton congress at Atlanta,
GA, because of the poverty of the
Cuban treasury, aud the scarcity Of
cotton in that country.
Dillon was. congratulated upon HE
release by o coucourse of 1000 peo.
pie, which gathered about his resi-
deuce.
The democratic state convention
'ot Pennsylvania, will meet IT. Viii
Transport, September %.
Eli Dickey, N old man, was badly
stabbed at Richmond, last Saturday. by
his iather-ln-la law, Hogan.
TIFF DEATH nj w W WRITE