The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-09-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The East

The East.
GA East
The National Association OF Iron Manu-
facturers was in session in New York last
week. They adjourned to meet at Philadel-
phia in Jsnusry next. The meeting was
largely attended,. . Edmund Yates, the
author, arrived at New York from England
the ether day---.Newark, N. j., has had a
destructive FIRE. Loss, S100, 000.....Justice
Henry Hogeboom, ofthe New York Supreme
Court, and an eminent jurist, is dead, aged
64...... Bishop Manton Eastburn, of the Epis-
copal Church, died at Boston last week..
Horace Greeley visited st. Johnsbury, VT,
last week, during the State Fair, and deliv-
cred an address upon agriculture.....A null
titude of foreign musical celebrities lave ar
rived at New York, including Pauline Luccs
and Clara Louise Kellogg. Mdme. Lucca
speaks English fuently, and is said to be
the most vivacious of all the prims donnas
who have visited our shores.
THERE have been q number of heavy fail
ures in New York and Baltimore, within a
few days, aggregating between three and
four millions of dollars. The suspended
firms were principally engaged in the sugar,
coffee and tea trades......A. T. Stewart, the
dry goods king, is promently mentioned in
connection with the Mayorality eff New York.
THE efforts of the producers, in Pennsyl-
vania, to decrease the production of oil, has
proven a probable failure, all interest hav-
ing been generally lost in the matter......
Joseph Jefferson, the comedian, in a note
says: Ny eyes are completely cured, but
deem it prudent to retire from the stage
until next season."
GEN. SHERMAN, accompanied by his son,
arrived at New York from Europe the other
day, and proceeded at once to Washington.
.-..Matt Morgan, the artist, was the vic
tim of a rather unpleasant mistake, at New
York, a few mis- hts ago. While calling upon
a friend in Nassau street, at q late hour, the
famous caricaturist was arrested by q police
man, who mistook him for a burglar, taken
to the station-house and locked up......An
iron church, worth $3.50, 900, was recently
shipped from New York to Ancon, Peru.
A large number of medical and other scien-
tifc gentlemen met in New York, the other
day, and organized a society to be known as
the American Public Health Association.
Stephen Smith, of New York, was elected
President.
A MAN has just been pardoned out of the
Maine Penitentiary after serving twenty
five years, having been sentenced for life.
."..Another installment of GOD Mormon re-
cruits arrived at New York from Europe,
the other day-all single men and women.
....Gen. Sherman has been interviewed BY
the irrepressible reporter. He expresses the
opinion that the French Republic will sur
vive Theirs, whom he regards as an earnest
patriot, and that the Republic will attain q
high degree of prosperity under his admin.
IQfYafrAn TIKI G.no- " -.
OF the efficiency Of the Prussian army, and
thinks United Germany is destined long 10
exert a controlling influence in Europe. He
hints, however, at the possibility of it's fall
ing to pieces on the withdrawal Of the single
hand by which the combination is held TO.
gether-an event which may happen at any
moment.
JAMES /. JOHNSTON, Superintendent of the
Stamp Department of the Sub-Treasury a,
New York, is a defaulter to the amount O,
100000, and has fed the country.
The West.
By the explosion of a boiler in a foundry
at Cincinnati, the other day, three persons
were killed and nine badly injured Chi
cago is going TO build a grand opera house.
10 COST one million dollars.
The man Kennedy, who was some time
ago pardoned out of the Illinois Peniten.
tiary and re-arrested on suspicion of beine
the murderer of Hon. Sharon Tyndall, al
Springfield, has been discharged from Gus.
tody, the Grand Jury failing to elicit apy
evidence implicating him in the crime.
TIE Utah exploring expedition, under
Lieut.. Wheeler, is not having the mos
peaceful time of it. The military escort has
had several fights with the Ute indians. II
one of which nine savages bit the duat. sni
many were impeded in their locomotion
Desert City, in Central Utah, a town con
tanning lao houses, was found deserted b,
the party, the inhabitan Is having fed 70
sfety.
THE late Rev. Samuel J. Browne, of Gin
%cinnati, whose shooting of a boy in hi
orchard some weeks ago created such an ex
CT emsnt in that city, bequeaths in his will
$3.50 900 for the establishment of a universit,
to bear his name, and also the land wbereo;
TO erect the university building, and an adj
ditional sum for the endowment of profes
orshlps....W VIM. Sweigart, the murderer o
Kane Higgins, near Chicago, has been SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life.
TIE value of all the property in Illinois
as liked by the Board of Equalization, !
S'lo, 600 ooo.-..Quincy, ILL.,, has been api
tated by the mysterious disappearance a
two young girls--.. Forty-two Chinese chill
dren, from to 20 years old, recently left sa,
francisco for New Haven, Ct, to be edu
cated---.The steamer s. S. Merrill has bee
burned on the Mississippi river, at Warsaw
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