The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01

The President had a very narrow escape
from serious injury, if not death, tho other
day. While driving a span of colts the ami
mails became unmanageable, one of them
SHE'D and broke the pole of the buggy. Gen.
Grant, to save himself, leaped from the We
hicle, aud net a moment too soon, for he had
scarcely touched the ground when the un-
ruly horses kicked in the dashboard with
great violence--..1t is rumored that the
President is about TO change his Indian pol
icy, that the military arm is to be brought
10 bear upon ye gentle savage, and that the
policy of csjeiing and coaxing is TO be aban.
doned. In other word, that he has slowly
and reluctantly arrived at the conclusion
that the Quaker plan Of dealing with Mr..
Lo is q sad failure, if not a downright farce.
1.-THE Deseret National Bank, of Salt Lake
City, with Brigham Young as President, and
a capital of 5000, 900, has been authorized by
the Treasury Department.
THE Acting Secretary of the Navy has Of
dered the dismissal from the Navy Academy
at Annapolis Of Cadet Midshipman Robert
D. Diggs, of Maryland, for maltreatment of
the colored cadet, Conyers....It 10 announced
that Secretary Boutwell, has no intent on Of
issuing one dollar of the S44 900 600 reserve,
which it is claimed he has a right TO do, if
he so chooses......It is understood that ca rly
in the coming session Of Congress, a COM
mission will be appointed 10 arrange for the
distribution of the Geneva award among
those who suffered by the Arglo-Confeder-
ate cruisers during the war.
Foreign.
A PASSENGER train Of ten cars on the East.
ern railway ran off the track near Chelms-
ford, England, precipitatcd the coaches down
a high ~embankment and dashed them to
pieces. Three or four passengers were killed,
and about twenty seriously injured. ..... The
exodus from Alsace and Lorraine is without
n parallel in modern times. Whole districts
are already dePopulated. OF the 5000 in
habltants of Otserman, an Alsatisn town,
at the time of the surrender of Sedan, only
three persons remain. At Metz the able
bodied population is 80 reduced taat
only seventeen subject TO military duty
remain, and the whole seventeen are
said to be unfit for service. Eighteen thou
sand people left that city in the last two
weeks OF September. So deep seated is the
hatred of German rule, and go determined
are the people 10 escape it, that in instances
almost innumerable they have abandoned
their homes and, with what personal ef-
fects could be swung on their shoulders on
a walking stick, have set out on foot 20 quit
the annexed territory. The movement
seems to be on the increase, and unless
checked will leave both provinces desolate,
10 be populated and restored to prosperity,
II at all, by the Germans tbemselves....,A
Paris Communist has surrendered himself to
the authorities at Brussels, and confessed to
having been an accomplice of T%rauppmann,
who murdered an entire family near Paris.
A TERRIBLE epidemic RACES among tho
horses in Canada, seriously interrupting the
business Of the country. In the street-car
of Montreal more than 800 horses are
with the disease, and the cars have
stopped running. Farmers are unable 10 |
take their grain TO markat.~...Sir Roundcll |
has been appointed Lord Chancellor |
Of England..~..The postal treaty b:twecn |
France and the United States will soon be
RAILROAD accidents are pecolning alarm
Ingly frequent in England. Tho latest one
near Sheffield the other day, by
which two persons were killed and several
!nlured.--..Scnator Sumner recently visited
and it is stated that the Frence
statesman WIS deeply impressed with the
nterview.....Mr. A. B. Henderson, Of Phil
ideiphia, who accompanied his wife to Ha-
Gana for the benefit of her health, has been
'rrested by the Spanish authorities on some
rival charge and thrown into a dungeon.
Ia Madrid letter says it will REQUIRE
100000 TO repair the damages 10 the
The idea Of q national suoscriu-
ion was started, but King Amadeus has
'noeked it on the head by insisting on de-
The whole csst out of his W pri-
ate purse..-..It is announced from Paris
hat the Government has resolved 10 sun-
ort, in the approaching session of the AL
emily, 8 motion for the appointment of a
ommission 10 investigate the acts of
llivier and Palikao, preparatory TO the i'm
eachment OF the imperial ministers, on :
barge of having provoked war with Prus.
a.
The gallery of a circus in s .efield, En-
and, recently gave way while crowded ,
it'll spectators, and in the panic that en-
led a great rumber Of people were injured, /,
me of whom, it is feared, will not recover. :
There IS much excitement in France !
'er the coming investigation concerning S
q war with Germany. 1t is believed the G
ct will be developed that the war was the I