Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-12-17
ODDS AND ENDS.
Christmas comes OH Sunday.

Christians comes OH SUNDAY.
Sixty-six persons were killed by :.
An explosion in the Cockeri2 coliiery' :,
IN Belgium. =
Tre trial of seven Mollie Maguires
charged with murder began at Unlou-
town, Pa, last week. y
He proDounces his name as though Y
it was spelled kifer. Ii is Randall c
who will prove 10 be his kuifer.
Al estimable young lady OF Salem,
Mass, because OF unreQuited love,
committed suicide by eating broken
glass.
The British steamer Saxon Monarch
is supposed to have fouudered ln the
bay Of Biscay, with forty persons Oh
board.
The first steamship OF new line
bearing the Chinese asg has reached
the Thames with three thousand
tons of tea.
Randall gave Keifer bouquet
when he was elected sp aker. lie
proposes TO give him h all COlum-
bia FROM this time Oh.
Three postmistresses are in WASH
ington seeking re-appointment. Mrs.
i lnOuUbOus VI A|ouloSsASS sAsS -
letter from Mrs. Garfield.
A. G. Jordan,a dry-goods merchant
of Marshalltown, Iowa, was Knocked
down at midnight on the street re-
ceivlug fracture Of the skull.
The decision in the Whitaker case
has been sent to Secretary Lincoln. |
Army officers assume that it will be
unfavorabie to the colored cadet.
memorial statue to Daniel O'Con.
nell. costing G12.500. has been COM
pleted in London and will soon De
erected in Sackville street. Dublin.
| The Boston banks have discovered
that in carting coin to settle balances
at the clearinghouse weekly loss OF
$500 takes place by reduction OF
weight.
Paddy Ryan, the heavyweight
champion, and John l.. Sullivan have
completed arrangements for prize
fight for 81, 500 side, the former TO
name the ground.
A boiler in the Keystone rolling
mill at Pittsburg exploded with such
force az 10 partially wreck the works.
One man was instantly killed, aud
nine more or less injured.
A committee of the republican eau
Gus has decided to give Senator VIM
dom the chalrmanship of the conf
mittee on foreign relations, Senator
Edmouds consentiDg to withdraw.
General Hancock aud Lieutenant
Commander Gorringe recently spent
An afternoon in al exhibition of the
Gardner duplex gun, which fired hve
:. hundred shots in sixty-eight seconds
!. President Arthur recently told s
a renu ublicau senator that, had not Sec
retary Blaine INSISTED upon resign
n ling, the Garfield cabinet might have
y reIWained Intact until March. And
a then, what? Conkling?
}. The death of General JudsOn Xii
}. patrick, United States minister. II
}. Chi,i, took place one day last weel
t. at his post Of duty. He was general
}; ly known as the person who first sug
= gested "a bloody shirt campaign will
money"
d George e. Gorham is authorized
B. to state that the president has no
j. iuterfered in the Virginia senatorial
8, contest, aud respectable republican,
1t want to know why Mr.. Arthu
lc makes such a man as GOrham hi
l' mouthpiece!
10 Frank Hall was banged, Dec. 9. 0
y Little Rock for the murder OF Eau
=, Sanders, q negro. III difficulty orig
d. iuatiug in the theft of some money
:, The doomad man recently embrace
a. the Catholic faith, and met his deaf
~ in tirmness aud silence.
IL The Burns brothers, convicted q
n. Clarion, Pa. of land frauds III Mi
na souri,, have been sentenced to seve
~. wears auu six months each in th
of lpeuitentiary. District Attorney Bills
n. of st Louis, has gone to Steubenvill'
n. TO-, to try Robert L. Lindsey al
SO John T. Moore on the same charge.
.r-i Mr.. Fred Pafamore, son Of u
u president of the Paramore marrow
OF gauge railroad system Of Missouri
he Arkansas aud Texas, anu MISS Nell
er Hazeltlne, who has been known
,se "the belle of st. Louis" were pr
CT. vately married at Philadelphia ol
day last week.
to At the cabinet meeting, Dec.
re some discussion took place i'll rega
ny to organizing better form OF 60
al. ernmen. for Alaska, ss to the be
ro- method of suppresslng the cowbo
in on the Mexican border, and as to &
to establishment of telegrsphic comm
IT'S mcation with Chilli aud Peru.
.od The health authorizes Of st. Lot
,n. are excited over what they pronoun
;,h malicious falsehoods In regard to I
.", prevalence of smallpox in that Gil
,hs aud claim that very few deaf
ns nave occurred there. Citizens Of NJ
om' York urge that . quarantine shor
5,h he established against Jersey City
,sn The New York World wisely q
.nt wittily says :-"Mr. Randall, \
Cox and the other democratic parl
meut3rians must regard Speak
ere Keifer with the same appreciative
nat terest with which in the good {
oc- days den of veteran lions greet
IN, the advent in the amphitheater o
'an 'aia portly martyr. He is meat
w. them.'"
'cts A Gentle journal of Salt Lake,
oI reviewing the presidents attitu
o!h toward the Mormons, advocates
III law allowing convictions for poly,
ih- my on clrcumstantial evidence. o
any special commission with authority
legislate for Utah. The News,
the Mormon organ, says polygamy is l
;ase the Cornerstone of the church,
i, IL all essential part of its creed.
de- Senator Pendleton has relntrod
late ed his civil service reform bill, q
;on- given notice to the senate that
af- will speedily call it up for conside
ac- ton, and will address the senate up
lble it, AT the proper time aud at
de- early date, Oh one day this week
rit- early next week, Senator Pendlei
e OF will make all elaborate speech W
rom the questions involved in his bill
t 1t most elaborate he has made since
the accession to the senate. 1t will
un- an effort creditable 10 himself aud
be- his party.
.,di- 1t is believed that the loss of
by the burning of tn. Ring theat
nch at Vienun, last week. will prove
p il be seven hundred. The origin of
,cen fire has no: yet been clearly asc
rase tanned, but its effects were redel
ippi ten-fold more destructive by
re- it cowardice Of the attendants in le
rely ing the iron screen raised for
ain- flames to spread. No less Il
ues- 400 bodies have already been tai
sus- from the rufus, many of which "
,nds little more than charred fragmei
goes The Vienna bourse has appfopria
ae- ten thousand Il ,rins tor the relief
and the families Of the victims.