Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-05

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The northwest has had a blizzard.
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Garfield went In on haugman's day.
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Memphis had a big crowd on Mardi-
Gras.
Honolulu is being ravaged with
small pox.
John vonderheid was hanged at
Sh%elbyville, KY.
Belknap attended the recent reception
at the white house.
The Irish coercion bill has passed tue
house OF commons.
Dubuque, Iowa, had a foot OF snow to
fall Tuesday night.
Gen. Garfield lett Mentor for Wash
ington last Monday.
Kelly says Fernando Woods success
sor will be a democrat.
The DsYoung murder trial is IN pro-
gress in San Francisco.
A fire at Chatsworth, Ills, destroyed
ten mercantile houses.
Well all know in a day or two OF
what stuff Malone is made.
A negro boy at Columbus. S. c.. has
terrible case of hydrophobia.
nPrendent Hayes called an extra ses-
sion of the senate to meet yesterday.
There is talk OF the legislature ad-
iourning on the 18th inst, its full term.
No sailor will bet on G~arield-they
don't like to begin a voyage on Friday.
Mr.. Blain Q will not resign his seat in
the senate until that body is organized.
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E. C. Hayden was hanged, last Fri
day, at Windsor, VT, tor numbering his
vile.
The British have suffered another Sc
we're defeat at the hands of the Dutch
Beers.
Thomas Carlyle bequeathed his Dunn
irissshire estate to the university OF Ed
inburgh.
The aggregate OF legal tenders depos-
tied for retiring bank circulation, was
el7.lse.7 Z
Superstitlous people will regard Nj.
GarHeid's entrance upon his duties on
Friday as mlnou
The bosses have agreed to an advance
Of fifty cents q day to journeymen brick
layers, in st. Louis.
Eleven spans oi the bridge across the
Arkansas river. ut Kin!ey, Kan, were
cut away by floating ice.
Jay Gould was IN st. Louis a day or
two ago. He reorganised two or three
railroads, and went south.
The bill to provide a commission to
aid the supreme court does not seem to
meet with tavor at jefferson.
The national banks have knocked
the chip off of Uncle Sans shoulder.
and he is not likely to forget it.
There is talk of q cut in passenger
rates, reducing the fare from Indianapo-
liz to Kansas City to one dollar.
Sara Bernhardt had a large audience
ct st. Joseph. Monday evening. among
others the governor of the state.
The senate judiciary committee deci-
ded not to report the nominations Of
Matthew'S. Billings and Shepard.
The molders of the Excelsior manu-.
tacturing company are on a strike. be-
q four nom %unionists are employed.
Tho O~rphanage at Scranton, Penn,
burned down last Sunday, IL children
lostng their lives in the fearful holo-
caust.
Seven persons we're killed and sever
n severely injured IN a wreck of cars
nsa B%rook6eld, on the h. & St. 10. B.
T.. Tuesday.
Tho gambling bill'' has passed the
senate with two amendments which its
author. MI. johnson. thinks will
strengthen it.
The explosion of an oil lamp started
are which destroyed hall the town OF
Franklin, Virginia. the estimated loss
being s16o. 600.
The funding bill passed the house,
Wednesday. just as it had passed the
senate, the republicans under Congo,
hlibustering against it.
The superintendent of schools at Lit.
tie Rock, Arkansas, reports that many
pupils carry loaded pistols and danger.
Gus knives. How is it hereP
The republicans who led in the OBJ
structive measures In the house, were
Aessrs. Conger, Robson. Keller, Has
kell, Price, Morton and Reed.
Nj. Richardson, of Stoddard county
has introduced a bill in the lower hous,
to tax railroads 10 cents on the hundred
dollars Of their gross earnings.
The house Of representatives, last Fri
day, indefinitely postponed the capita
removal resolution. Under the rules i
cannot be revived this session.
Yesterday was u portentous day, bi
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