The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-06-28

sCHAsDLER 4 PoMERoY, of Chicago, who
have been running a big =" corner" in oats,
have come to grief. The corner collapsed
on Tuesday, June Is, and CD P. are out
some $500, 900. Immediately after their
failure oats receded from a cents to 80
cent? per bushel......T The Apaches in Arizona
are again on the war path, notwithstanding
the late peace pslaver-.-.Myron Bush, q
wealthy farmer of Antwerp, Ohio, shuffied
off his morta! coil, the other Day, BY hang
ing himself with q log-chain. Temporary
insanity did it.
ELDoRADo and Augusta, two rival Kansas
towns, are engaged in a fierce county-seat
war. Tho Augustians, the other day, armed
and equipped, marched over to Eldorado
with the avowed intention OF seizlng the
county records. But the Eldoradians we're
up in arms, and the valiant Augustian army
beat an inglorious retreat without securing
the coveted plumber. They threaten to re-
new the attack, and lively times are looked
or...... Norman B. Judd, ex-member of Com
gress, has been appointed Collector OF the
Port of Chicago-...The National Division OF
the Sons Of Temperance commenced It's
twenty-cighth annual session in Chicago on
June 10. A membership Of 1884 was re-
ported, being a decrease Of 4,623 for the
year.....Six cases Of sunstroke in Chicago on
June l9......A comet-the tail of which is
described by the telegraph as "a wavy, H.
by the San Franciscans on the night of
June Is. 1t moved rapidly, and soon disap-
peared.
The South.
The Agricultural Department reports an
increase in the cotton area in ever Southern
State.....An approximate statement of re-
| ceipts and expenditures of tic National
Saengerfest at st. Louis is as follows: Sub
scription to the building, 5000; receipts
from concerts, picnic, etc., 49, 900 total,
sos, 1000. Expended on building, $4,000;
music, $1,000; entertainment Of singers,
$l5, 200; incidental, "a 900; total, $S2, 900.
ApvIcEs from the northern frontier of
Texas represent thot the Indians, variously
estimated at from 1900 to 10000, had made
an incursion into that State, and were over
running Young, Jack, Denton and Parker
counties. The settlers were filled with con-
sternation and alarm, and were fleeing in
every direction. The Indians declare their
intention of marching to Huntsville, to
liberate the chiefs Saboula and Big Tree,
confined in the P~enitentiary there. Every
thing indicates that a big Indian war is at
hand. A Washington telegram announces
that the Secretary of the interior has under
adviscment a proposition submitted to Prcsi-
dent Grant by q delegation of Texan for
the Cancellation of these tribes depredating
on the Texas frontier-which is, in sub
1 otan,a that The Govorpmnpf ralooao npa of
the two chieis-Saboula and Big Tree-now
confined in the Texas Penitentiary for life,
and send him among the tribes 10 negotiate
terms Of peace-the Government 10 retain
the other chief as a hostage. This plan was
proposed by the Indians themselves, and it
is probable it will be adopted.-..An eight
hour league has been formed in st. Louis.
THE Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
road is finished, and trains arc running "
McAlister, los miles north Of Sherman, and
the grading and masonry are completed 80
miles further. Gamblers and desperadoes,
who had followed and given SO much trouble
to the railroad men, have been effectually
driven away BY the military.
gauge railroads convened in st. Louis on
June 10, and was largely attended...... The
captain Of q steamer has been fined by a
Baltimore court for refusing frst-class ac-
Communications to a colored passenger.
Washington.
The Secretary of the Interior has ap-
pointed a commission, consisting Of Gen D.
r. Cowan, John L. Delano and j. W. Wham,
to visit the hostile Indian tribes demon
s~trating against the Union Pacific Railroad.
..-..Thc War Department is reinforcing all
the Southern forts with the latest improved
ordnance, while the Navy Department is sc-
cumulating large supplies at all the naval
stations on the Southern and Gulf coasts.
So says a Washington telegram.
TIE War Department has ordered all avail
able troops to the plains, to look after the
hostile Indian tribes......T smallpox is on
the increase in Washington.
THE United States and Japan are nego-
tiating a new commercial treaty......Th in
ternal revenue receipts for the fiscal year
up to June Is were over 81, 900 ,000. ..... The
President and nearly all the Cabinet officers |
attended the Boston Jubilee.
TIE internal revenue officials say that
the increase Of the whisky tax in the last
three years over the the previous three
years, will foot up nearly 10000, 00O...... The
following item of interest TO tobacconists is |
autographed from Washington On and afler ,
.Imiy 4. 1879, every person who sells, or f.,
oiiefs Tor sale, manufacturer obaUvo, snuG, :
or cgars, except manufacturers of those .
articles, who sell only their own products at '
the place Of production, will be required to '
pay a special tax at the rate of S. per an. {
num, without regard TO the amount of his
annual sales. The exemption of persons
whose annual sales do not exceed SlsO ia
repealed by the new law.
TEE President returned to the capital on
june 10, and in the afternoon was in con-
sultation with his Cabinet Ministers. A
telegram announces that " the Indian situa-
tion was discussed, and much solicitude cx-
pressed concerning the unhappy condition
of affairs on the frontiers, the peace policy
being reluctantly regarded as a failure, aud
much anxiety being felt as to the necessity
existing for the Inauguration of vigorous
measures for the suppression of the Indian
outrages, which are ar%larmingly frequent"
Foreign.
ADvIcEs from Bagdad 8 tate that the Brit |
ish mail steamship Cashmere was boarded
by pirates at Bassorah. The buccaneers |
killed and wounded a number of persons on
board, and carried off Al, 600 rupees......A new
Spanish Cabinet has been formed, with
Gorilla at its head ......The Protestant Synod, |
in session at Paris, has just passed through
an animated discussion regarding the d.
vinity of the Scriptures, which has resulted |
in a schism of the Church......T The negotia- |
tions for the gradual evacuation of France |
by the Germans, as the installments Of the |
indemnity are paid, are proceeding salts
factorily.. ....M Marguerite Dixblanc has been |
aarfopccd in Landau IN 10 bar~od co.xI l