The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1871-12-06
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.

I In regard to the resignation of Secretary
/ Fish, it can now be stated authOritatively
that he may go out of the cabinet by the
! lst of January next, or he may rot. This
vexed question is to be considered then as
settled at last.
| The New York Times intmaics that some
capitalists of that city have been favored. in
| the matter of taxation by the Tammany
Ring.
In 1915 very smart Chnaman, Yung
| Wing, graduated at \ ale College. lie was
educated there with view of becoming q
missionary Of the Christian religion in his
native country; but in the course of his
studies his theological opinions became un-
settled and he abandoned his proposed call
ing in order to devote himself to commerce.
He has nOw been employed by the Chinese
government TO bring over thirty other young
Cinnamon who are to be educated at y ale
College at the public expense.
The advocates of postal telegraph sys-
TEN take encouragement from tile official
report of the practical working of that sys-
TEN in Great Britain. In the first instance,
when the government of Great Britain took
charge of the telegraph lines for public uses,
the showing was greatly against the postal
telegraph, especially In financial results.
Now, after more than years experience,
official data show over q million and a quar-
ter dollars expenses, while the receipts have
amounted to nearly five million dollars.
GROWTH by ANNExATIoN.-Boston is cx-
tremely anxious 10 increase her size by ab-
sorbing all the towns and villages in the
neighborhood; but thus far she has been un-
able, by any Establishments, to induce the
largest of these, CharicstOwn. to join her
fortunes. At present, the proposal to an
rex Charlestown to Boston is being once
more revived, and it may be presented to
the next session of the Massachusetts Leg.
islaturc. If this is consumsted, Boston will
secure population Of half million.
Thanksgiving day has been named by the
President, and turkeys may prepare for
their beheading for the feast that will come
of without tail on November 3Oth.
1t is stated that the amount Of quinine
sent from Philadelphia to the West this year
is immense. and greater than ever before.
In California, during the early emigration,
men would squander vast deal of money
in qlinine, which was not to be had for
song. prescribing for themselves, and turn
ing medicine taking into kind OF self-in-
diligence. Undoubtedly, quinine, if it does
no more, aleylates fever and aguc; but
man who goes on taking it all his life and
neglecting natural and ordinary precau-
tions, will ruin his physical constitution and
misspend his money.
The New York Evening Post says: "llli-
nois has forty-three cities, Indiana twenty
seyen, and Iowa twenty-six. In the Eastern
States. Massachusetts, has fifteen cities.
Connecticut six, and New York twenty-one.
In Lincoln county, Nevada, there Is q
mountain of salt, pure, solid and transpar-
cnt. In early days, when the MormOns had
TO RELY solely on their own resources.
they used fllics from this mountain for
window pancs. inste al of glass,
Robert G. Winthrop o. Boston has lately
got possession OF an old English clock made
in London about 1879. expressly tor Cover
nor John Winthrop, and sent 10 him while
he was Colonial Governor Of Massachusetts,.
Il is still in running order, and has been
p'a,sd "m""p MANY other yduahla r3,i"I.
family portraits which oate oach
TO 1850.
Parties a. Buffalo are having four iron
steamers built at that city, having an aggre-
cate freight CAPACITY OF two hundred thoil-
md bushels OF wheat. Each steamer with
machinery and all complete will cost about
one hundred and seventy.iivc thousand dol
lars, and will have freight capacity Oh Two
thousand tons. Two of them Will Dc
launched next April and the others IN July.
There are at present abou. twelve hun
drcd paper mills in the United States, which
produce annually half n million tons OF pa
rcr, and yet the supply Is never equai 10
the demand.
The total product OF gold and silver in
the United States for the year lSiO as rs.
timated BY Mr.. Il. W. Raymond, nlted
States commissioner of mining statistics,
reaches sec, coo, California contributing
ST.. 900 600, and N,ya!a Si2O0o.OcO To TINS
aIGoun..