Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1882-04-08
ODDS AND ENDS.


ODDS AND ENDS.
The Straits of Mackinaw are so
clogged with floating ice that no boat
can pass through.
Mrs. Vanderbilt says there is not a
shadow Of truth in the statement
that she ia to marry DR.. Bozeman.
James Patton, judge Of the supreme
court of appeals of West Virginia,
died OF heart disease in Wheeling.
The governor of Maryland has
signed bill which fixes the punish
memt of wife-beaters at forty lashes.
In the Chicago district, for March,
the receipts from internal revenue
were $748,O0O, aud from customs
$685., 900.
Lorillsrd's Iroquois, Gerald, and
Aranzs have been cratched from all
engagements at spring meetings in
England.
Indian Commissioner Price has
grown sick OF savage delegations at
Washington, aud will tolerate no
more of the nonsense.
Two nominations to Missouri post
offices were rejected by the senate
those of John Ham at Mary vile, and
Joseph ii. Harris at Moberly.
John Russell Young, of New York.
has been nominated Envoy Extraord.
mary and Minister 'Pienipotentiary
of the United States to China.
ro,nt ,,,;l.o nf NJ,
Antonio, on Wednesday night of last
week, the Ell Paso stages bound east
and west were robbed by two men.
The czar ordered the communication
of the death sentences of the nihilists
recently convicted, except Lieutenant
Sucharotf, who was shot by soldiers.
William Burke, the bank-robDer
who was captured i'll Minneapolis and
taken to Albany. has been convicted
of rObbing the Cohoes bank and of
breaking Jail. I7
Eme. Ko. the widow Of the Chinese
professor, thus signed the letters OF
administration upon her husband's
small estate of $4,000: "Ko; before
marriage, Yas."
About midnight, Thursday of last
week, the base of the monument
erected on the Hudson to Major
Andre by Cyrus w. Field was COM
pietely ruined by blast of dynamite.
Moses TAYLOR, of New York, has
given S270, 600 to erect aud maintain .
hospital at uton, Pa, for disabled
employees of the Lackawanna railroad
and coal companies. A good Moses,
he. st
Antonio Gaspari, of Now York,
sailed for Italy on Saturday, to in
duce his cOuMtrymen to settle Oh q
tract of forty thousand acres near
Little Rock, Ark, which he will sell
them tor $6 per acre. t"t'
The failures throughout the United
States last week are reported at 129,
/ but they were generally Of minor lIn-
portance. The pork packing firm Of
Lincoln, Cham berlaim u Co, of Bos-
ton, is reported in financial trouble.
Robert Mckinley, who murdered
q fellow prisoner tu the Tennessee
penltentiary. and was convicted on
tie Testimony of convicts. has been
granted n new trial. Governor Haw-
kins recommends that the legislature
take action on this legal point.
The queen has autographed to arch
bishop McCabe. of Dublin, thanking
him for the reference to her Majesty
in his recent pastoral letter. MIR.
Gladstone has written to the arch
bishop expressing his deep sense of
the patriotism shown in the pastoral.
i Mr.. Charles James Faulkner. OF
West Virginia, who has been a men,
ber OF five congresses and was Mr..
Buchanan's Minister to France, is not
entirely ont of public life. He has
just been Reelected 10 the presidency
Of the Berkeley County Agricultural
Society.
| Tho south isn't the onlv section OF
the country that goes in for an apprO-
priation from the general purse. The
complaint is common the land over.
As a small illustration. there is Mont
peler, VT, with population OF 3 900.
and yearning desire for q $3.50, 600
federal building.
i LII excavating for n drain in cellar
on Collins street, ST. Louis, work
men came upon nearly bushel ol
gold, silver, and paper money, esti-
mated at $l7 900. The house was for
many ye Irs occupied by Montgomery
Blair, bat is now rented by ex. Alder
man John E. Hagerty.
The Legislature Of New Jersey took
no action on the veto of the Jersey
City Waterfront Job. Certain mem.
beas shouted and Missed until the
hour of final adjournment, in order
TO prevent the clerk from reading the
report OH the bribery charges. Sweet.
scented lot of radical bummers, the Sc,
While driving OH the boulevard q,
Odessa. General Streeln eko of the pub.
lie prosecutor of the KieG military
tribunal, was shot through tho head
by two men in a carriage. Three
persons were wounded in an attempt
to arrest the assassins, but they were
finally conveyed 10 the police station
Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt, a,
] his father called him, or Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Jr., as he insisted he
should rightly be called the third sou
of Commodore Vanderbilt, shot him
self dead in a New York hotel at
o'clock on Sunday evening. His
, friends assert that no reason except
!, ill-health could have prompted the
suicide. ..-..5
Iu stockade erected in the rear o.
Live Oak cemetery, at Selma, Ala, il
presence of eighty persons, last Fri
i, day. AL Weisinger aud Bill Ludlow
c0l0red, were hanged for murder. Al
immense crowd OF negroes were KEEP
in order by the, Selma guards. A
: Chatham Courthouse, Va. Docl
, Wright was privately executed fo
killing Cole Arthur.
The readjusters of Virginia are H.,
ting President Arthur know that the,
, do not consider that they have beei
: paid in full for their alliance with re
. pubiicans last fall. They are max Ing
drafts on the administration larse
8 than it is possible it should honor
. The consequence is great deal o
= unpleasan:ness, which the admins
I tration would fain alIay, but can not
Rear-Admiral James ii. Spotta, il
command of the South Atlantic sta
: ton, is dead and buried ut Stanley
: Falkland Islands. He was appoimte,
: to the navy from Kentucky in 1887
and during the war took part i,
both engagements with Fort Fisher