Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-08-19

At last, after much suffering. th
great Georgia senator Is dead. Abou
2 O'Clock. Wednesday morning. he wa
found to be sinking, and at 6 O'Clock hi
death occurred without II struggle
There may have been saier statesmen
than Ben Hill, but there never was
bigger heart or a more loyal one to til
south. Scorning hypocrisy aud cam
with the eye OF an eagle and q tongue q
flame, he was ever ready to strike in de
tense of his beloved people, come to hin
veal or roe In his grand manhoo'
he was worth q Thousand sycophants
and alter all is said his utterances wer
not SO much out OF the way, as trut
was his guiding star, but their cuttin'
sarcasm often caused them to be dis
iorted; sometimes beyond all semblanc
to what he had really said. Ben Hill
was a patriot. He loved his country
his whole country. north and south. II
loved his people, his family and hi
God; and he dearly loved the state q
Georgia. 1t will be long before th
people there can find his peer to replac
him in The senate He will be burie
to-day. Forgetting for the time all dill
~ferences OF opinion a nation will tear
fully lay upon the grave of her eloqueu
son a wreath of immortelles.
Col. b. j. Waters, of the Fort Scot,
st. Louis and Chicago railroad. is in tn
City to consult the citizens OF Lexingto
in regard TO building his road by tn
way OF Odessa and TO this point. ii
says he is here with a positive PROPOSE
ton to make. which it accepted vii
secure the road 10 Lexington, and tina
within a specified time. lie will be a
the city hotel to-day, where he woul,
like to See US many Of our people a
possible, aud some time on Monday h
desires to have a meeting to fully di.
cuss the matter, and to take definit
steps regarding 1t. 1t is a question G
Importance. and should not be neglect
ed.
AT the congressional convention i
St. Joseph, Thursday, Hon. Il. p. {
Wilson, of Platte, who had bee
placed in nomination. arose, Withdrew
his name aud moved that Hon. Jane
N: Burnes be nominated by acclamu
ton. which was done. Col. Burne
was called and made an eloqueil
speech of acceptance. He will Ger
tainly he elected, ss the greatest hal
mony prevailed, aud there was un
usual unanimity of opion in favor q
Col. Burmese nomination. He is
silver tongued orator whom Col
Ford will not dare to meet upon til,
stump, aud he promises to make
thorough canvass of the district.
st. Louis grain market, Thursday
Wheat opened strong but closed a shad
off; No. 2 red Sc IA to Sc 1 &c cash an
August, sc $40 September. 81 7-Sc Os
tober. 99c November, sc 7-8c the year
No. 3 red 81 to 92c; No. 4 do 8Sc. Cor
lower and slow; II to " 1-4c cash, z
! &c August, "a 7-8c September, 70 81
October, 81 lac November, GO lac tn
year. Oats opened better but close
weaker; Al 1-2c cash. SO l &c Angus
"a 3-8c September. 81 1-8 to "a lac o.
tober, 50 $50 the year. Rye slow, &c
-~
Live stock market, St. Louis, Thurs
day:-"Cattle-R Receipts 1900; shir
ments l,lOO; steady and unchanged
canning Texans range SO 40 to 4 90
good to best steers 81 25 to 4 Is; gras
native range 81 so to 6 90; good to es
ira heavy native shipping steers Sc s
to Z SO; native cows 80 Is to 4 90. wei
tern half.hreeds 81 so to- %. Sheep
Receipts 2.lO0; shipments 1,1OO; all dc
sirable grades in good demand; fair I
fancy native muttons SO Is to 4 z!
Texans So IS to 4. so.
The democrats of Missouri have, thu
far, made the following nominations fo
congress:-A. M. Dockery in the THU
district; Alexander Graves in the tiftf
A. II. Buckner in the seventh;
w. Fyan In the thirteenth Martin /
Clardv in the tenth; Charles Fl. Morgu
in the twelfth I; James N. Burnes in IL
fourth and John Cosgrove in The sixth
Frank H. Hall, the greenback nom
nee for slate superintendent OF publ
instruction of Illinois, Is receiving assn
! ances from democratic politicians til
he will be nominated by the democrat
! party. If he is a democrat, all RICH
II he is not and the democrats nomina
| him for eEpedieucy they ought to
beaten.
The greenbackers and republican
: having declined to nominate, &c
Singleton. Of Illinois. recently
democratic candidate for re-cleclio
will. it is said, run Independent. /
> ought to be. and likely will be. as h
opponent is All able man. snowe
under in November.
Dick Little, who gave In formali
4 against the James gang, to which he
one time belonged, was arrested
o Kansas City, Tuesday, for completely
tho robbary OF a United States payms
r ter at Mussel Shoals, Ala, in Mare
1881. and was taken there to be tried.
PInkerton's detectives captured
y Nsw York George b. Hamilton, t
" young man who. a week ago. robb
. the Farmers bank of Wyoming,
. which he vas cashier, OF over So, O(
. liz Is o en- route for the scene of
exploit.
" y destructive rain storm and lorna
visited the neighborhoud of Bangt
n Me-. last Tuesd,y night. blowing dov
buildings, unroofing Others, and pr,
trating trees, chimneys. etc. The da,
q age is estiaatei ut about $lOO, 200.
% The New York anti-monoDOlis
" will nominate II ticket in advance
. the republicans and democrats,
y order to give either of them a chan
u I" take 1t GP all or In part. Colon
Frederick a. Conkling is Went,om