The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-09-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The East.


The East.
HELM JOSEPHINE MASsYIELD's furniture
,as sold at auction in New York, the other
az, and attracted q large crowd. The
urpiture and trinkets, which originally
,ost $40, 900. realized only $6,eO0-."The
York Herald vehemently denies the
of fraud cast upon Stanleys
discovery of Livingstone, and gives the ev-
idence of former correspondents of the great
explorer, who testify TO their belief in the
renuineness of the letters purporting to
from him ...... Michael Sanford, of
Madison, N. j., while beating his wife, was
shot and killed by his son Melvin, q few
DAYS apo....Francis W. Moroney, q poor
stone-cutter of New York city, has just fall
len heir to an estate valued at $500 600, in
county Clare, Irela-d.....The buffalo hunt
by Indians, at Niagara Falls, last week,
commenced with a war dance by the Indi-
ans. Four buffaloes were then chased
around the Park, the Indians firing showers
of arrows, many of which landed among the
crowd OF spectators. A number OF roughs
broke down the enclosure, when the buna-
loes were recaptured and housed for an
other exhibition.
BIZ q collision in Long Island Sound be-
tween the steamer Metis, from New York
for Providence, and an unknown sailing
vessel, the steamer was badly stove, and
sunk Immediately, causing the loss of nearly
one hundred lives. The Inflated vessel had
on board, including officers an" crew, about
$50 p rsons......W William Schaffer, recently
of Chicago, who lost his fortune oy the great
October FIRE, committed suicide in Jersey
City, a few DAYS ego. A brother Of the de-
CEASED destroyed himself from the same
cause, q short time ago--.-The attempt of
the New York Sun to prove Stanley e fraud
LAS signally failed. The rredibility of the
Eerald's e%nterprisipg correspondent is still
further fortified by the testimony of Prof:
E. r. 6~trasnicky, Recording Secretary Of
the American Geographical Society, Who
has addressed a letter o the Herald, in
which &c saws: a. lave compared the orig
inal letter of DR.. David Livingstone, ad-
dressed to James Gordon Bennett, Ess, Jr.,
with an original letter of DR.. Livingstone,
dated River Shire, in Africa, Jan. 6, 1862,
and addressed to the President of the Amer
lean Geographical Society, and l do not hes
itate to pronounce the handwriting of those
two letters to be identical."....From the
following not, picked up on the beach at
Marblehead, Mass, it would seem t at
James Gordon Bennett, Jr.'s celebrated
yacht Dauntless has been lost, together with
On board: t.SinkIrg, and all on board
likely to be lost. Longitude Z deg. 20 min,
latitude AZ deg. AZ min. Yacht Dauntless,
Aug. TO-"
HUNTERS PolNr, L. l., has had another de-
structive fire, involving a loss of $500, 900
worth of property-.-.New York had 63s
deaths for the week ending Sept. I......Ad-
vices have been received at New York of
the burning Of the steamship Bienville, en-
route from that city to Aspinwall, with 127
persons on board, the most of whom escaped
in boats and RATS, and were picked up by
vessels. One of the boats, with
nine persons on board, capsized, and all
were drowned. Thirty of the passengers
as yet unaccounted for, the majority
whom, it is feared, are lost..-..Albert
Thake, a well-known baseball player, and
a member of the Brooklyn Atlantic Club,
was drowned, the other day, at Fort Hamil-
ton, \. Y, while fshing......The loss of lie
by the steamer Metis disaster, in Long
Island Sound, was not so great as at first re-
ported, the number now being reduced to
5s.--.The reported loss of the yacht Daunt-
loss was q New York Sun canard ...... Manton
Marble, of the New York World, who has
been reported hopelsssly i'll, is fast recover
ing, and will shortly resume his editorial
labors.
ABOUT thirty lives were lost by the burn
ing of the steamship Bienville, between
Aspinwall and New Melville
Sanford, the young man who, q few DAYS
ago, at Madison, N. j., shot and killed his
father, while in the act of ~assaulting his
neither with a knife, has been honorably &C.
quilted by the Ceroner's jury, on the ground
of excusable homicide......John Livingstone,
of Canada, brother of the African traveller,
adds his testimony to the g~enuineness Of the
stone, and explains the presence of the
curious expressions in those letters by the
fact that the explorer was always foRd of
Indulging in humorous and quaint sayings.
......Leepold Keemski, an exilsd Polish
nobleman, committed suicide at New York,
the other day......Henry Quackenbush, of
Hackensack, N. w boy Of II years, fell in
love with a girl several years his junior,
and, because the child refused to marry
him, on the ground of their extreme youth,
the Respondent lover committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head.
A WELsB paper printed in New York says
Stanley's real name is John Rowland, and
that he is a native of Denbigh, North Wales.
......senatcr Sumner sailed from Boston for
Europe last week......A whole family, con-
sisting Of five persons, while crossing the
the track Of the Long Island IN. " rail-
road in a carriage, recently, were run over
by . train and instantly killed.
The West.
MRS. HENRY KEEP, of Chicago, is having
erected over the grave of her late husband
formerly President of the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad) a splendid msuso-
leum, to cost $50 900. ....T rack-laying has
been commenced on the Dakota Southern
raiload, between Sioux City and Yankton,
and will be pushed forward at the rate of
mile q day.
A MAN named William swager has Tee
arrested on a charge of numbering Kane
HIGGINS, near Chicago. There is strong v
idence tending to show his guilt.....A num-
Der OF diamond expeditions are being organ
lied in q Francisco......A San Francisco
telegram announces that the subscriptions
10 the Atlantic and Pacific railroad have
reached $l,62S,000. .....John B. Lyon, the
manipulation in the late wheat corner,
has been summarily expelled from the Chi
CASo DoAIu VI lfdue. Inc univeruel YER
dict is, Served him right" Near CO.
lumbus, Ohio, the other day, Michael
Monk, in q at Of insanity, superinduced by
whisky and jealousy, murdered his vile by
shooting her three times with q pistol, and
then blew bis own brains out......A slight
frost-the first u the season-visited some
of Northern Illinois on the night of
Aug. 80.
A MODERN Borgia by the name of Mrs.
Charlotte Lamb has been arrested in Pierce
county, Wis, on q charge of poisoning Eve
,ersons......A Pittsburgh telegram announces
hat the Western Nail and Iron Associations |
asxa doaidnd u xaiaa H. a; L. ~ |