Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-10

V1lQen 0n0 Or0nG! lnAI WOulu
tnuts" for the old nan
Old Brewster is tor Arthur, but "
O, who is for old Brewster
Was 1t RandaIl's revenge for be
beaten for speaker? If 30, what is
Fifty square miles of forest shrive
before an all deveuring fire near A
land, Pa.
Three English officers have been
dered to ascend the Nile to make rec
nOissance.
Pekin is quiet, but active defens
preparations are being made threui
out the provinces.
The Missouri delegation voted SOLE
against striking out the enacting cla'
of the Morrison bill.
"No more protection, and Carl
for president" is the platform of.
Kentucky democracy.
Well, Pennsylvania is happy. She
to enjoy the collection Of tribute ft
her vassals for a little longer.
How would it do, Mr.. Randall,
swap our chances of Pennsylvania I
our prospect of carry Minnesota ?.
1t is now declared in England til
nitro glycerine has been brought in
that country in American spirit lasl
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The man who offered the motion
strike out the enacting clause of L
Morrison bill is the Converse of dem
cracy.
How is the democratic party to o
ganize for the contest since the prime
pie is asserted that the majority shs
no longer govern?
The 80 democrats who voted to X
the Morrison bill must have been edifie
by the republican cheers which they r.
ceived as a reward.
Edmunds' friends say Blaine trade
on his position as speaker, and Blaine
friends say that Edmunds traded OH hi
position in the senate.
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A negro who eloped with q whit
woman at Beemerville, N. Y, wa
arrested and with the greatest Difficult
ty saved from lynching.
The defeat of the Morrison bill In n
way changes the attitude Of parties
Democrats still demand tariff reform
republicans still oppose it.
The call of the Russian government
for a loan of SIS 900 900 has been re
sponded to by subscriptions amountin,
to more than seventeen times that sum
Webb Flanagan, Of Texas, the what
are we-here- for but-the- Offices man
will be a delegate-at-large once NOR
to the National Republican Conven
ton.
In Minnesota it is not necessary t.
be a citizen in order to have the priv.
lege to vote. An alien resident has the
right of suffrage, as much as the oldesl
citizen.
The national democratic convention
will be a very different body from the
present house Of representatives.. Pro-
tective tariff democrats will do we'll ia
make a note on It.
Two empty fe-boats belonging to
the State of Florida have been picked
up at sea. The vessel was lost by col.
lision with q bark, and OF 1877 persons
on board only A were saved.
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"And I'm TO be queen of the May,
Mother, I'm to be queen of the May!"
Well, it has looked for two days as if a
May party might be in order. Until
then the weather was uncommonly
Marchy.
N. Y. World:-"The land is filled
with hurricanes, cyclones, forest fires
and the contentious OF republican pol
iticians." The three first may be en-
dured if they only encourage the last.
Let 'em fight.
A case Of genuine leprosy has been
discovered in a family of Norwegians
at st. Paul, MINI. The disease is in
an advanced stage, 80 that the hands of
the leper are cramped and the body
covered with ulcers.
N. Y. World:-"Perhaps the repub-
hcan party could. strengthen itself in
the south by nominating William Pitt
Kellogg for vice-president. There seems
to be something due him in the way OF
additional ~vindication."
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Who is to definitely assure the dem
ocratic party that Messrs. Randall and
Converse will accept the verdict of the
majority in the convention, any more
than they respected the declarations of
the majority in the caucus?
The republicans are very generally
growing over what they claim is the
defeat of democracy in the defeat of
the Morrison bill. Mr.. Randall who
claims to love the democratic party
must like that kind of music.
"The Wages Of Sin" will soon be
produced in New York. 1t has not vet
transpired out west whether or not this
is a comedy travestying Filley's charge
OF $4,000 to Pill-bag Mclean to put
his name on the election tickets.
A gentleman in our hearing the other
day remarked, well, the two wings
OF the democratic party can now advo-
cate both sides of the tariff question"
We protest! There is but one wing /;
the other thing is merely a pen feather.
France wants the right of first pur-
chase in the Congo as a reward for re-
cognizing the flag of the International
African Association. She bases the
demand upon the fact that all the set
Element of the valley has been French.
The Methodist church at Wichita,