Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-02

found in the word congress.
Kansas City Times:-"There is war
to the knife in the republican party in
Colorado. Mr.. Chaffes charges Senator
Hill with being the cause of the defeat
of the republican. candidate for govern
or. As usual the bosses ignore the
people. They think the people will for
ever let such men as Chaffee rule. The
press don't think the people
did it," q 30 ss
The Thalbote, this week, denies DR..
Barten's charge that the Concordia
postmaster o%bstructed, SO far as he we'll
could without %criminality, the delivery
of democratic documents. 1t did not,
SO far as we saw, do 80 before. We
give it the benefit OF its denial.
The Odessa Herald halt way dissents
from our advice to the county judges.
We are always willing TO- learn. Will
our contemporary devise q better means
of resistance 2. We pause to hear and
iii does We are with 1t. But evidently
1t is time to map OF Q course. SID
d ... ---
u Francis C. Nesbit, OF st. Clair, and
VIM. H. Mayo, OF St. Louis, are candi--
dates for secretary of the senate. Both
worthy gentlemen, who would make
competent officers, and both men who
deserve we'll at the hands Of the demo-
cratic majority III the senate.
We shonld like to know who wrote
thu. article from the Thalbote which we
reprint elsewhere. The editor. did not,
We think, as despite its toploftical non
sense it is written in fair English,
whereas other articles printed in Eng
lish in that paper are not.
Official heads have been falling at
Washington pretty lively of late. So
far as the decapitation of the gentry
who interfered with the star route
trials are concerned the president
has the general approval of the
country. as
Those Germans in Lafayette county
who choose to exercise their liberty b
citizens in voting the democratic ticket
must not feel entirely overwhelmed
when they find that the Thalbote speaks
of them as ''political monstrosities."
The Missouri supreme court affirmed
the decision of the lower court in the case
of Howard Underwood. charged with
murder and he was sentenced to be
exc .uted December 80.
Official returns show that there 10 .
democratic plurality on the congress.
sional vote in Wisconsin Of 1874, to.
= republican plurality at the last
election of II,
There is q scandal in high life in St.
Louis, with no doubt of the guilt Of .
vile, and her paramour shot In the arm
by her husband. 1t is the talk of the
town.
Ex.Gov. Chas. H. Hardin says that he
is opposed to prohibition because it
does not prohibit. never has prohibit
ed and never will prohibit.
80
Some fellow recently returned from
Mexico gives it out that that country 10
about to set up a claim to Galveston
island. Humbug.
The republicans tried opposition
to free rum in Ohie and lost, then
they tried free rum in North Carolina
and lost again.
Mr.. Halstead's paper beautifully said:
Thanksgiving day approaches. Re-
publicans cau this year s%ympathize with
the turkeys" -
The grand jury at st. Louis Ignored
the bill against Col. John A. Cooke ril).
for the killing OF Col. A. w. Slayback.
AN EMPHATIC DENIAL.
BATES CITY. Mo-, Nov. 30, 1882.
EDITOR INTELLlGENcER:-In the
Odessa Herald of the Path inst. in
fBates City ltems," the correspondent
Gays. that rebel flags were seen floating
from two houses in this place. Now sir ]
take it on myself to brand the author as
an unmitig gated falsifier.
CHARLES WARD.
Don't BE Faint-Hearted.
II you are in trouble look up, hold on, Civ,
the blues good BY. II YOU are In pain. have