The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-23
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TIE total value of all property in the
United States, accord ng 70 the last
census, was something over thirty bill
lion dollars. -l-st- =. - - -
| STEWART COUNTY (Ga. hen has got
ierseif into no end Of trouble BY setting
on fourteen eggs and Matching out
tweuty-four chickens, with seven eggs
TO spare. t-.,-,....s. ..-1sS
THE death.warrauts read 10 cufpfits
on the gallows in New Jersey coyer
eleven pages, and the performance usually
takes place in the hottest part OF the
day. As the Sheriffs have TO "speil
out" all the hard words, the oporati6n
is rather tedious to the gentleman vsit-
ing to be hanged, .s...,sl s.ltls J ~
TIE man who docs not suppost 9
swallow.tailed coat in watering place
ball room stands . poor chance of
dancing with the elite, while drummer
on salary of ten dollars a week, If hiss
tails are bifurcated and he can waltz,
mingles with the good and beautiful -
he chooses.
THERE are hot and cold springs at the.
Sulphur Springs of Virginia. It is said
that rheumatic patients find the hot
springs as beneficial as the baths 1t
Wiesbaden, in Germany. At the GreeD-f
briar White Sulphur, consecutive SER :
vices are held on Sunday by the Roman
Catholics, the Episcopalians, and the
Presby terians in the same hall. isit@tFi
NEW YoRk cI1Y is pursued by new
pestilential horror, which the doctors
call mucedines. 1t arises from the
putrefying paste which bill-posters in
dustriously smear over all the bill
boards, dead walls, curb-stones, and
awning-p posts Of the city, and Yields
pestilent germ not unlike the cholera.
germ of Asia.
STRANGE stories. about wild OK hsv-
ing been seen by several citizens If
Stoningham, Conn.,, are freely circuls-
ted. He is said te be of extraordinary
size, exceedingly feet, springing over
the highest fences without difficulty,
luxuriating in the most tempting fields
at leisure, and Immediately disappear
ing in dense cover when aware of being
discovered, when all attempts at pursuit
are useless. z,
AAAEoaiAS COUNIf, MASSEY 10 . 81 io4Aes :
educational center, with population Of J
$4,000. 1t has more developed sources
Of education than any other county in {
the United States. Besides the numer-
GUS free schools, there is Amherst Col
lege, with fund OF half million, and
land and buildings worth nearly as
much more, with twenty professors;
seminary at Holyoke, one at Easthamp-
ton, the Smith College at Northampton,
and an institution for deaf mutes. pfi
Is THERE no way of utilizing thunder
storms The recent giving away Of q
stone-9uarry in Troy, N. Y, shows that
genuine thunder shower can do in =
few moments what it would take y ton
of powder and great many VS. hard
labor to accomplish. In the quarry
spoken of, a ledge of rock had been
pretty we'll undermined, and one night
last week, when storm was raging over
the city. just after terrific crash Of
thunder, the whole ledge came down
''with ruin and rout," awakening the
slumbering city, and making its inhab-
itants think nothing less than an earth
quake had overtaken them. 1t is esti-
mated that about sixty thousand feet of
stone fell, covering an area Of one hum
dIed square feet. If the accident had
happened during the day, not work.
man could have escaped from sudden
death.