Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-04-29
ODDS AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENDS.
All of Lorillard's horses are scratch
] ed Tor the EPSON spring meeting.
The Vienna hour-mills. at Peori,
} nave been damaged by flre 10 the amour
e of $4,000.
Z. NJ. Harwood, of Shelbyville. XIV
state senator and leading iawye,
} died last week,
Captain Robert Baldwin, the oldes
steamboat man on the Ohio river, died
few days ago at Albany.
The persecution @: Jews conun
ues IN Russia. and still Russians tall
about wanting to be free.
Joe Brown, Texas murderer. wa
killed by deputy sheriff of Ellis couu
ty while resisting arrest.
A wagon factory located In tn
grounds Of the West Virginia pen,tentia
ry burned few nights ago.
The Cult. Colorado and S ,nta Fe roa,
will this week be completed to Lam
pasas. 276 miles from Galveston.
Butter has tumbled every where thi
week. Consumers will not grumble u
this, rs 1t has been very high.
Michael Hannah, archbishop OF Hall
lax, died Monday morning. He wa.
born in Kilmallock, Ireland, in 1921.
General D. H. Hill, prominent con.
iederate leader, has resigned the presi
dency OF the Arkansas Industrial uni
versisy.
A party Of over one hundred Danes
and Nerwegians. converts to Mormon.
ism. have arrived al San Francisco from
Australia.
The house naval committee has made
q favorable report on the bill to sell the
navy.yard at Charleston, Mass, ior
Sc, ,00O.0 900.
Cap. Jno. w. Cannon, veteran
steamboatman, owner OF the famous
steamer, 4. E. Lee, died at Frankfort,
hy., tuesday afternoon, of last week.
aged 62 years.
Ex-senator Gordon. of Georgia, is
going to Europe on business connected
with the development of land IN the
southern states. - -
The receipts of the United States gov.
eanment from all sources, from 1860 to
1881. were, in round numbers
King Theebaw. of Burma has put to
death an inferior wife, two hall sisters
OF the chancellor Of the excheoue. and
dfty OF their relatives.
Twenty-one counties in Kansas report
crop prospects unsurpassed. Grass was
never 30 promising, ,and cattle have pass.
ed through the winter we'll.
The first shipment of strawberries
from Caro- is two days earlier than was
ever known. The iruit crop In that sec
lion promises to be very large.
The Lotus club of New York gave
John Russell Young y parting dinner
last week. He was married on SUNDAY
ana sailed Tor China the following day.
The French cabinet council has an
proved the SCENE OF De Lesseps to I'LL up
the desert of Sahara with salt water. and
separate Tunis and Algeria from Tripoli.
The democratic state central commit.
tee met at Jefferson City, April 90. and
decided to call q state nominating con
vention, to be held in Jefferson City,
July 26.
A gentleman living near Athens. Ga.
mas gourd that has been IN use to hold
pepper and spices over two hundred
years; The genealOgy of the goard is
clearly traced.
Edwin 4. Prescott, an ins ms citizen
OF Somervii!e, Mass. who Was about to
De taken to the asylum. killed his aoed
mother.in-law, Mrs. Russell, with a
knife and brick.
Elijah Buell., an octogenarian, who
has the finest residence and grounds in
Li ons, Iowa, was the first man to take
schooner.load of merchandise into the
harbor OF Chicago. -
The chief OF police at San Carlos aoen.
y mas been killed by Indians. Locus
band is on the war-path, and Colonel |
schoheld has marched with two compa.
nies OF tho 9th cavalry.
A del cation from New Albany called
1p0n James e. Blaine and ask ed HIM To
ielivcr an oration on decoration dav.
10 replied that he expected to be in
europe before that time,
A cyclone which ravaged the north.
'rn portion OF Fayette county, Pennsyl.
'ania, killed three persons. fatally in.
ured six others, and destro we'd proDertv
'aluedat nearly 100000.
The London World says that the arc.
ic expedition 10 search OF Leigh Smith.
VIII start, II possible. mex: month. III,
probable the Dundee, q whaling YES.
81, WILL DO chartered Tor the expedition.
The house committee on terri, ories
'as agreed to report favorably to the
.ouse bill providing for the orgauiza-
ION OF the Judicial district OF Alaska.
no the establishment OF civil govern
aent there. .>,-
Ihe case OF ltoderick Maclean, who
tempted the lie OF Queen Victoria. was ,
resented TO the grand jury at Reading |
' Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, and re- r
lited IN q verdict of acquittal on the I
round Of insanity.
The United States steamship Iroouoi. /
'ing at the Mara island navy-yard, In g
has been dispatched 20 the d
'iiet Of the officers and crew OF the &
rctic steamship Rodgers, which was y
recked of the Siberian coast. d
A loving couple in Preble county Il
hio, went to Eaton to procure a mar,
age license, and ON the way back met d
minister, who obligingly married 9
em in the road, be on horseback and 81
sy in their buggy. q
The Cincinnati Gazeatc's Lexington 81
y, special says: Weodard & Brass. a.
'ld sold ~ head of horses for S3l .8S5. =,
. =: Mcdowell bought Fanny Wilkes ~
70 OOO; another sold for $1,000; one a,
81, ,So0, aud enc for 81, 800. :.
Los Angeles county, California. pro. n,
iced last year 2,llS.5OO gallons Of il
inc, and 282.25O OF branay. As IT n
kes five gallons OF wine 10 make a M
lion of brandy, the total wine produc. n,
IN would be 8 .529, $50 gallons. r
c. b. Echelman, of Mount Pleasant. -,
wa. went to the central police station r.;
Chicago and asked to be locked up. 49, -,
stlng that he had been driven by ~
'ther in-law to debauch lasting sew no
weeks and costing thousands OF dol " Je
8. "e
d.. nj
budd D"ble and Hugh White OF A,
llt"rnia. have bought of Col. Conley tn
Chicago, the celebrated stallion Mon M
Chlei; record. 2:lS -; terms pri. tai
Le. lie will probably be trutted i'm ra
or three races this season, then 90 iie
'"o ''u"' hu
A Mormon church has been establish ou
IN Sewer county, Arkansas, with co
'erai members. among the most ig to
rant class OF people. One preacher "
8 run out OF the country, but two Nj
'ers have appeared. They profess to Il
opposed to polygamy. tn,
1t the SIKH annual bench show In slt
W I ork City last week Mr. r;,1o It.