The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-02-21
PERSONAL,

| Inc dOn- udllsHd n. UTOW, la0G mem De
of Congress and Speaker, has become Presi
dent OF the Houston and Great Northern
RailrOad," destined TO connect the $, aboart
of Texas with New York direct via Fulton
Arkansas, and Cairo, Illinois. His home i
| Houston.
Dean Stanley has been studying the Ath
anasian creed. and gives it as his opinion
| that the English copy was not made from
the o. iginal Latin, but from faulty Greel
translation. which the compilers OF thu
Prayer-b0Ok mistOOk for an original worl
of Athanasius.
The Leavenworth Commercial s9ys thai
Kansas has had her share of Bills. There
were Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Apache Bill
Comanche Bill, Buckskin Bill. Bill Mat
thews, and now we have Temperance Bill
before the Legislature, which threatens tC
raise the deuce with the politicians Of the
State.
+ Gen. N. p. Banks sent contribution to
the Greely statue fund the other day, ac-
companied by letter in ~hich he said sit
gives me very great pleasure to contribute
10 this patriotic object. In every respect
Mr.. Greeley deserves the honor paid him, g,
the more especi lily that his great fame has
been achieved without the advsntitious aid
of public Office"
Professor Joseph Henry, Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institute, was authorized at the
late meeting of its regents to take meas-
ures for communicating to European
astronomers and receiving from them by the
ocean cable telegraphic accounts Of discOv-
cries of new planets. Under the present
custom the place of a planet may be lost if
discovered in Europe before i. is known
where to look for it here.
Joaquin Miller's disincination to meet
Mrs. Miller is explained by the announce
ment that he is engaged to lady of the
Scottish nobility. Mrs. Miller has been a
most torbearing wife, but if such thing
should transpire as a Mr.. Miller No. 2. it
strikes IL that flying from prairie afirc on
Kit G srsOn's horse would he small potatoes
and few in a heap, compared to Joaquin's
flight from the pursuing Nemesis OF Mrs.
Miller No. IN Y. Commercial Aduertiser.
Mrs. Greeley, who has been an invalid for
q number Of years, and who was suffering,
az was supposed, from serious pulmonary
affection. has almost entirely recovered her
health by her residence on TIE Isle of Wight.
She expects to return soon 10 her native
land, at least for visit. and will remain
here. unless the severity OF the climate
should again drive her TO Europe. Three
years since none of her friends believed that
=
their surprise thereat is only exceeded by
their enjoyment.
Mrs. Eliza Bancroft Davis widow OF John
Davis and sister of George Bancroft, died in
Worcester. at au advanced age. She WAS
the daughter of tn Rev. Avon Bancroft.
who settled in Worcester in 1875 and re-
maincd in tie same pastoral come ction till
his death. in 1888. Her marriage with Mr..
Davis took place in 1927. \: Washington
Mrs. Davis found cOngenial pa with Mrs.
Hamilton and Mrs. Madison. Henry clay
once said of Mrs. l'avis that. all hing, con
she was the toreIiu-l woman at
But her career 1T the capital
did not unfit her far priva:e he. AMI she
WAS always conspicuous Tor tn lcrio -mancr
of every family and household duty.
81 am the ugiest woman in Paris" said
the Princess Mctternich, when she 2oI there;
- but it will not hinder my beins one of tn
most in fashion," And she kept ier word
so well tha. her mental qualities alone were
noticed. Her uglintss even. If she WAS
ugly. became only an additional originality.
They say that while she was leaving, this
good Pauline. AS they called her NJ the Tul-
cries. said. M. Thiers is like .jeannot, the
lover in the song, always going IRON the
brunette To the blonde, without ever pos
scssinn either. Under king he courts the
republic. To-day, when there is repub-
lie, he coquets with royalty"
The L.ndon Spectator says of Thomas
Mast, that there i something of Hogarth's
power about his sketches" end ability for
portraiture equal to III. BIS with '.many
signs of an Imagination which can grow hot
with righteous wrath" On the other hand
il THINKS his humorous designs are COM
parativcly weak in idea;" sketches Of an
imals are atrociously bad, and bis sentiment
alties are unpardGnab!y feeble" ut is
only when Mr.. Mast gives the gloomy
side of his imagination It's swing that
he rises TO MS iull power.
While France was trying to fight Ger
many, Victor Place, French Consul General
at New York city, was busy in forwarding
arms and ammunition, and buster in char
giny commissions ana taking hribes for dc
ing his duty. The disprOportiOn between
the sums he drew for and the cargoeS he
sent, Joined with the complaints of mer-
chants whose bribes had been taken and no
return given therefor, caused NJ. Victo-
Place to be summoned to Paris. which
place ne left, for prison, where he is to
spend the next two wears, and to pay the
State two thousand francs for his support.
r . ,no co,., o-,
ueor2G nea,er Eee. Xs,. T,s,nn t,1 In, unr oroer
,na,, man II, tlio We. to ss,na, 49, nf a'' IN
employed in the telegraph office in Pitts
buroh AS a message boy. He earned barely
en-. ugh to clothe himself. and with his
widowed mother lived in an humble abode.
He was good penman, which secured him
A positiOn as clerk in railroad office In that
,ity. From 1857 he clerked in freight
HI @ at Chicago until the war be gan. Then
h.. ;,;,a,l thu Mercantile R.ttpry nf Chicap,