The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-07-27
ABOUT M%ISSOURIANs.

twenty fourth district.
Joe Edwards suggests that State
holland would make II good
candidate for governor.
Mr.. E. B. Ewing, editor of the
Jefferson City Tribune, is spending the
summer at Wagon Wheel Gap, Col.
j. G. Jamison, adiuiant- general
during Coy. Marmsduke s administra-
ton, is a citizen of Guthrie, Oklahoma
A. NJ. Sewer, editor of the Neosho
Times, is u grandson of the great
Sewer who hewed out the destInies
OF Tennessee.
State Senator Madison Il. Smith, OF
st. Francois county, has removed o
Paris, Texas, to become attorney tor a
railroad.
X. w. Thomas, OF the Plattsburg
Register, has been reinstated rs post
office Inspector by virtue of the civil
service rules.
1t is reported that Hon. Robert ii.
Bodine, OF Monroe county. has designs
upon the seat in congress now occupied
by Hon Chas. ii. Mansur.
Capt. John A. Groom, OF Liberty,
| Clay county, Mo-, desires that all
members of Col. A. w. Doniphan's
regiment in the Mexican war, CORE
spond with him.
State Treasurer holland has been in
| New York for the last two weeks
looking after the finances OF the state.
Governor Francis went to New
York last week.
Capt. George b. Harper, late chief
clerk of the Missouri penitentiary, an
old confederate who rode with
| McCulloch and Forrest during the
war, is now a mine operator in Jasper
county, Missouri.
There are announcements that both
Gov. Francis and Judge Sherwood
will be candidates for the United States
senate to succeed Vest, but the an
nouncements are unreliable and alto.
gether improbable.
Hon. o. Kochtitzky, late commits
sioner of labor statistics and inspection,
has recently been elected superintea-
dent of the Gulch mining and smelling
company's zinc and lead mines al
Lehigh, Jasper county.
Hon. Harry Shaw, representative
from st. Genevieve county in the thir
ty-fourth and thirty-fifth general assem-
blies, has resigned, and it is announced
will remove to St. Francois county
1t is rumored that he is Don to wed
Jefferson City belle.
| Mr.. George w. Norton, the wealth
les: man i'm Kentucky, who died a few
days ago, in Louisville, was the elder
brother of Judge E. H. Norton, late Of
the supreme court of Missouri, and
uncle of State Senator Norton B. An
derson, of Platte county.
Frank M. Posegate, the defeated
republican candidate for congress in
the fourth district, is supposed TO be
the coming man for postmaster at St
Joseph. Having been defeated for
office in Missouri appears to be the
open sesame to preierment at Wash
ington.
Jacob T. Child, the American minis
ter to Siam, is being mentioned as a
candidate for congress to succeed Alex
N. Dockery, provided Mr.. Dockery
should decide to become q candidate
for governor. 1t is quite probable that
the ambitions of both may have a tail
field for exercise.
Judge DeArmond, of Bates county,
is again being groomed by his many
friends as a candidate for supreme
Judge. The Judge made a gallant fight
at Springfield two years ago, and il
need surprise nc one if he should meeI
with success at the coming contest. HI
is a born jurist and an incorrupiiblt
man.
The twelfth congressional district il
evidently going to be very prolific o
candidates for congress aext year
The Harrisonvil!e Democrat mentions
the anne of Sim Francisco, Charlie
Morgan, Judges CAN'T, Daniel ant
Givan, and then Gale upon Cass coun'
~ to trot out u candidate. Where /
Congressman Stonef
Hon. Frank P. Sebree, who has jus
removed from his home at Marshall I,
Kansas City, ought to stand very nea
the tor. of the bar in that growing
town. There is no better lawyer
kindlier gentleman or more brillian
; campaigner than Frank P. Sebree, an
he will prove G winner wherever b
goes.
Gen. D.. II. Mcintyre, g weli.knowI
lawyer of Jefferson City, and * sttor
ney- general of Missouri, is in a hospits
In St. Louis, undergoing treatment G
the eyes at the hands OF the celebrate
%oculist, DIR. Green. Gen. Mclntyr
was shot through the face at the battI
of Wilson's Creek, resulting in the los
of cue eye. Now he is about to los
the other.
Mai. Thos. u. Towles, chief clerk {
the house OF representatives, Wash
, ington, ID. c., is spending the heate
term with his family at Jefferson City
The major expects to be retired froI
! the Office which he has so GRACEFUL
> filed, and only awaits the organize
ton of the house bv the republican,
! 1t is more than probable, however, tbs
an honorable place awaits him else
i where.
Thos. Z. Brawner, the veteran edi
tor of the Linneus Democrat, is dead
He was for years secretary of his cor
{ gressional committee and chairman {
bis county committee and as a den
y ocraiic leader and editor did faithf,
work for his party, Tom Brawner W,
an honest, courageous man, and he WI
q be missed by the people of his comm
nifty as well as by scores of lrient
q throughout the state.
1t Capt. C. w. Thomas, one of Il
Ie republican applicants for The postoffi
at Jefferson City, hes been fortuna
enough to secBr the endorsement
-, all the department officers OF the cal
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