The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-10-11
The West.

TIE venerable Rev. Peter Cartwright, one
of the oldest warriors of the church mill
tant, died recently at his residence in
sargamon county, ILL.,, at the age of ss years.
He was Frustrated by a stroke of paralysis
several months since, and remained in an
almost helpless and speechless condition,
though with his mental faculties clear until
death came to his relief. This venerable
and wonderful man of God was for more
than sixty years an incessant and most ar
duous laborer in the cause of his Master,
and few divines of America were so widely
known, and none whose death will be more
universally mourned THE Northern Ohio
Insane Asylum, near Cleveland, was de-
stroyed by fire last week. The institution
contained about 900 insane persons, all of
whom escaped, and ONE of them are at
large. Loss about $3.50 ,O00.......A wonderful
discovery is represented to have been made
recently in Colorado of an enormous silver
ledge or system of lodges so locked and
woven together as to be practically one lode.
1t is said to measure sixty-three feet in
width and caa be clearly traced over five
miles, carrying ore the entire distance that
assays from $75 to $1,000 per ton. 1t is the
sensation of the whole mining region.
TEE barge Iron City, bound from Cleve-
land for Buffalo, foundered and sunk re-
Gently, near Sturgeon Bay. All on board,
six pc. sons, it is thought, are lost......P Philip
K. Smith, the Mormon ex- Bishop who re-
Gently made the revelations concerning the
Mountain Meadow massacre, has signifed
his readiness to go to Utah and give testi-
nony in person relative to the horrid
butchery-.-..More Indian murders are re-
ported from Utah.--..Near Terre Haute,
Ind, recently, Andrew J. Miller murdered
his father-in-law, over 50 years old. The
weapon used was an axe.
SIX of the inmates of the Northern Ohio
Insane Asylum lost their lives by the recent
burning of that institution ......T The crew of
the wrecked barge Iron City, supposed to
have been lost, nave arrived safely at
Buffalo.
WILLIAM FORESTER, the notorious bur
glar ana bank robber, and who was until
recently thought to be implicated in the
Nathan murder, at New York, has been
safely Gagged in the Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary,
to which institution he owes thirteen years
penal servitude......Tower Grove Park, at st.
Louis, containing 200 acres, donated to the
city by Henry Shaw, proprietor of the
famous Botanical Gardens there, has been
formally thrown open to the public......M. C
Mitchell, Republican, has been elected Uni
ted States Senator from Oregon.
SAN FRANCISCO is justly indignant at the
acquittal and liberation of the notorious Mrs.
Laura D.. Fair. 1t is stated that no such ex-
citement has existed in that city since the
days of the Vigilance Committees opera
tions. The feeling very naturally is that
the jury was bribed and that Justice has been
outraged. The circumstances of this case
are well remembered. Mrs. Fair, whe, it is
alleged, was the mistress Of Hon. A. p.
Crittenden, met him in the presence of his
own wife and deliberately shot him dead.
She was tried in the summer Ct 1871, con
victed and sentenced to be hanged. A new
trial was granted, the plea of emotional
INSANITY" set up, and she is now acquitted. |
and gees forth to entrap som other man in |
her meshes.