Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-04-01
oar Agents.
ODDS AND ENDS.

John p. Ardingef
@. @. Parent. AVERY
ODDS AND ENDS.
w. T. Thompson, q veteran journ-
alist of Savannah, Ca. 10 dead.
The Emperor William. ruling, as
he fancies, by divine right, is getting
decidedly on in years. Eighty-dve is
. green old age.
By . lease of the American COM
pany's cables the Western Union will
extend itself to London, where three
Offices have been secured.
It 10 easy enough to make sacrifices
for those We love but for our enemy.
va have to struggle, aud overcome
self. Such q victory is noble.
The Law of the harvest 10 to reap
more than you SOW. Sow an act aud
resps AFhsbit s. SOW = habit and you
reap q character SOW o character and
you reap 4 destiny. !.
England and France have instructed
their representatives in Egypt to re-
quest Of the khedive the hyDotheca-
SIOu Vi tu0 TovCuuC o0S 0oI0O ~ Ioy
the international debt.
Henry e.. Rodgers, United States
minister to Sardinia under President
YanBuren, aud one of three surviving
members Of the Pennsylvania con-
stitutional convention of 1886, died IN
the county poor house at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. . few days ago.
A farmers boy signaled q Wabash
passenger train. last Friday morning,
near Wabash, Ind, just in time to
prevent it's striking q stick of timber
fastened into . bridge by wreckers.
This ls the third desperate attempt
Of miscreants in that region within
six weeks.
The Chicago cattle market enjoyed
. veritable boom last week, g0od-to
first quality steers having sold readily
at 6 to u cents per pound, being an
advance of from to ! cent. over the
previous weeks figures. These are
the highest average prices that have
prevailed since the war.
Grow Dog, the Indian chief who
killed Spotted Tail, has been convict
cd in the federal court at Deadwood.
aud sentenced to death. The people
Of the Black Hills charge that the re-
suit vas reached by perjured testi-
mony. aud they propose to appeal to
the supreme court.
Paris, Mo-, Mercury = "Several
weeks ago an item was going the
rounds of the press, TO the effect that
the cashier OF the First National
Bank of Paris, through mistake, had
paid out = 81 900 bill for a 500 bill.
Now, the cashier of the above men-
toned bank wishes it distinctly un-
derstood that he did no such thing"
Berlin newspapers are not satisfied
with the appointment of Sargent as
u. S.. minister to Germany. The
Tagsblatt sharply reproves Everett,
secretary Of the United States legla-
tion 1t Berlin, for neglecting to point
out to his government the impro-
priety OF appointing such a successor
70 men like George Bancroft, Bayard
Taylor aud Andrew D.. White.
Marshall Democrat :-"Our repub.
1ican neighbor wants to know why
thousands of Missouri's bravest,
staunchest and best citizens were dis
franchised' under radical rule ? In
our opinion 1t was done q that the
radicals might control the politics Of
the state, and elect disreputable men
to oMce,-men who could not be
elected if the taxpayers were allowed
: to vote"
The vacancy caused in the Office Of
Grand Receiver Of the A. GU. w. in
Missouri, by the death Of Hon. Sam.
81. Owens, has been rendered to aud
accepted by Rev. Jno. ID. Vincil, a
Grand Trustee. The Office Of Grand
Trustee becoming vacant by the res
igpstion OF Rev. John D. Vincil, Maj.
Geo. r. Clark, of Cape Girardeau,
has been appointed to fill the unex-
pired term a years) of said Office.
Marshall Democrat :-."rhe Sedalis
Eagle says the confederate armies
were made up of democrats Prob
ably true; but our neighbor might
have correctly added that the princi-
pal part of the union army consisted
Of democrats also. The late war was,
- Q considerable extent, u of dem.
ocrats against democrats, while the
bitterest republicans are those who
staid 1t home aud got rich off of tat
government contracts"
After all, this will be quite an i'm.
portant political year. There ls au
entirely new house of representatives
to be elected, with thirty-two addi.
tional members. Beside this the fol.
lowing nineteen states elect govern.
ors and state oficers: Alabama,
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Con.
necticut, Delaw are. Kansas, Kentucky,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire
New York, Pennsylvania, South Car
olinia, Tennessee and Texas.
The hangman had q lively day OF
Friday of last week. He disposed Of
William Heilwagon, who murdered
his daughter-in-law at Hampton, Ill.
Frank aud Henry Rumbeager, o
Uniontown, Pa, who killed DAME
Troutman; Edgar F. Small, of Pitts
burgh, who shot Nicholas Jacoby
Jonathan Mayer. of M%iddleburg, Pa.
n Of the party who took the life o
the Kintzlers; Jack Neverling, o
Clearheld, Pa, the murderer o
Samuel Pennington, and John c. Nc
Carthy, of Richburg, n. Y, for stab
bling to death Patrick Marley.
The wind and the waves may bea
against q rock, planted III q trouble
sea, but it remains unmoved. Be 70
like that rock, young man. Vice ma
entice, and the song and the cup ma
invite. Bewsre-stand firmly at YOU
post. = Let your principles shin
forth unobscured. There ia glory j
the thought that you have resiste
temptation aud conquered. You
bright example will be to the worl
what the lighthouse is to the marine
upon the sea-shore. 1t will guild
hundreds to points Of virtue all
safety.
Marshall Democrat: -"One Of Il
most ridiculous mistakes eur republ
can contemporaries make in referen,
to this state Is that the majority
the immigrants coming to Missouri a
republicans. Now the fact is tn,
these immigrats are average represel
tatives of the white people Of Il
United States, and as a large majorl
OF the people are democrats. it follow
that q majority of the immigrants a