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

All reports from the Northwestern pine.
ries give very encouraging accounts of the
progress Of the winters campaign. The
sleighiug is good. and immense piles OF
logs are being banked. More logs will be
got cut than ever before. Prospects are
good for favorable season as soon as the
spring trade opens.
A tourist travelling continuously without
any stoppages can now go around the world
in eighty days, making the entire journey
by railway and steamship, and going by
Singapor,., Hong Kong, IOkohams, San
Francisco, and the Pacific Railway.
Within the past four years the Missouri
river at a point about eight miles below AL
ton Illinois. has cut into the bank distance
f nearly a thousand feet, and the abrasion
still continues. The former stone levee of
the town of Madison is now an island in the
river, nearly quarter oi mile from shore.
The abrasion is caused by d swift current
striking the bank at right angle.
Mother Goose has got after the Chinese
students for Yale. thus
Thirty Heather Chinee
Riding on a rail
Thirty g-tailed Freshmen
Coming down 10 Yale.
Should they read COnfucu5
instead of morning prayers,
We'll take them by tn" hind legs
And throw them down stairs.
The tobacco crop OF last year in the Con-
necticut valley Is sail To have been most
remarkable ono. The raiSers have discov-
cred that stable manure is the best fertil-
izer. The result is that this article has been
in demand, and instead o: being sold, as it
used 10 b.. for fifty cents Il load, il now
brings ten and twelve dollars cord. IL is
brought IN large quantities from out of the
State.
y correspondent OF Mr.. Vick's at Fort
McRac. New Mexico. writes. "Gardeuin 2
is an uphill bu ,iness here compared with
Penns ylvania, but with proper culture and
irrigation the results are most astonishing.
Beets grow enormously. sometimes to five
pounds; GniOns from one to three pounds,
of a very superior quality, which the beets
are no: Cauliflowers, | was told, in FL
Paso, reach thirty pounds, and sweet pota-
toes fifteen pounds.
There is a German lager beer vender in
New York who has not been outside of his
place of business for several years. He has
grown so enormously stout from beer and
Incidence that he could not possibly be got
through the doorway, and, rs he will he
compelled Ia leave the place in May, the
question with his friends now is whether 10
reduce him by draining or to enlarge the
doorway. Our plan wOald be to tap him,
and carry him away on bier.
The supreme court OF one of the Swiss
CantorS recently set aside q marriage on
the ground that it had been contracted in
America without the consent of the Com
mune, 10 which the husband belonged. hav-
ing been previously obtained. Ii therefore
hehoovcs Young ladies in this country to be
careful to see that they have every formal
iiy attended to when allying themselves
with Swiss admirers.
An English clergyman recently preached
n sermon from the text, Man Is born unto
trouble as the sparks fly upward" The
following is Il verbatim report of it:
"l. a mans ingrcss into the world ID naked and
bare;
, HIS progress through the world is trouble and
). And his egress out OF the world is-nobedy
knows where ~
TO conclude:
''If we do well here; We shall do well there
I can tell you no more II preach whole year.
A German residing in New Jersey has
two wives, who have lived happily in the
same house tor three years. One speaks
only German, the other only English. He
had told the second that the first was his
mother. and the first that the second was n
servant. The other day a woman who
spoke both English and German visited the
house, and when the duplex husband
reached home the hair flew. He tried an
escape movement, but was wound up in
Jail.
Referring to the late "cold snap" with
which the Cult States were visited. the New
Orleans Republican of January 2Sth says:
:. During all day yesterday, and until mid
night last night, there was silver covering
on every branch and twig of trees and
shrubbery. on the telegraph wires, and
roofs and galleries of public and private
buildings. Many trees were broken down
by the weight of their crystal adOrnments,
ynd many others. especially of the spruce
and fir species. were uproOted. The sight
was beautiful, but the damage fearful
Governor Caldwell has issued an address
to the cOlored people OF Nerth Carolina, ad-
vising them not to leave the State to go to
other States under delusive and false prom
ises. The Charlotte Democrat adds: "And
we do not hesitate to adj that t'c no
better place for white men who are willing
to work and economise, AMI live within
their means. II the young men who are
moving away would use the same energy
here they are compell' to use in their new
homes, they would make more money and
enioy life better"