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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-10-11
Tn. Gonx1NcEp.-Eyery ad.

The SkEPTIcALC oNvINcED.=Eyery az
vance in Medicine, every new remedy
has encountered an opposition. which
is the test Of truth. Galen and Jenner
only were believed when they had
p,oved their discoveries against oppo,
sition. But men are observing, ana
benefits always make believers. No IN,
credulity can stand the silent argument
of good results. When DR.. Walker pro-
claimed that he had produced from a
medicinal herbs of California an Elixir
that would regenerate the sinking sys-
| tenn and cure diseases not organic, the
| incredulous shook their heads. Yet his
| VINEGAR BIrTERs is now the Standard
| Restorative of the Western World. The
| truth could not be resisted. Under the opera,
| tion of the new remedy, Dyspeptics regained
their health, appetite and strength !; the Bill
| ious and Constructed were relieved OF every
| distressing SYMPTOM; the Consumptive and
\ Rheumatic rapidly recovered; Intermittent
and Rsmittent Fevers were broken up the
faint of Scrofula WAS eradicated! Who could
gainsay facts like thesef Not oven the
Faculty. Skepticism was routed. AL doubts
as to the claims of the Bitters to the first
place in the first rank of modern medicines
we're sflenced, and this wonderful preparation
is to-day the most popular Tonic, Alternative,
and Blood Depurent ever advertised in Amer
lea. In common with other journalists, we
are free to add our testimony to this remedy:
1t ia q domestic medicine, and no household
should be without it. iCom.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-10-11
Forei1u GOSSIP.

TURIN, Italy, has so women over lVO
years old.
LORD LYrroN has a new novel nearly
ready for the printer.
in England the price of gas by meter
is only 81 per 1000 feet.
SpUReEoN is talked of asa member OF
Parliament for Lambeth.
THERE are nine American students IN
the Strasbourg University.
KossUrH declines to serve as a repre-
sentative in the Hungarian Diet.
Ten common cart horses were re-
| Gently sold in London for $500.
HENRY M~oREHousE, the Chicago boy
preacher, has been evangelizing in Eu-
rope.
The Sultan is about the only Turk in
the Ottoman Empire who does not
smoke.
The attempt to stock English waters
with black bass has signally failed, the
young fry having all perished.
AUSTRALIA seems ~ oo having ~"
attack of the gold fever, and people
from all nations are crowding to the
~diggings. ,s--.
ACCORDING to the Food journal the
great natio al vegetable of the Chinese
IS the white cabbage of Shatung, which
is crow all over the northern part of the
Empire. 1t is eaten raw as salad, and
said to be equal to the best lettuce, OF
boiled, in which condition the flavor re
minds one of the finest ASPARAGUS. II
is both hardy and prolific, surviving the
severe winters of the North. Specimens
are occasionally met with weighing al
much as twenty pounds.
THERE is a pretty patriotic moral at
tached to a drama now performing al
Vincennes. 1t is called Vengeance anC
the Wooden Leg" The Marquis d.
Solanncs, who lost his leg at Solferino
{ finds a stranger at the feet of his fiancee
The stranger draws his sword. "Nt
matter" exclaimed the Marquis, MINI
was left in the body of an Austrian
General. No matter |" And he IN
screws his wooden leg, with which h
strikes his adversary dead, crying" Wv
la France |" while the orchestra strike
up the Morseillaise," and the fiancee
touched by this act of heroism, substl
tutes the support of her arin for that o
the missing limb, and leads the Maj
qub back to the chateau.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-10-11
Big Farm.

A small party of us left the little
town of Loda, on the Illinois Central
railroad, this morning, and, after .
pleasant drive of three hours over
prairie road, passing thousands upon
thousands Of acres of corn ready o
the harvest, we entered upon the out
skirts of this immense estate OF forty
thousand acres, which is forty miles IN
circumference. To an Eastern man,
whose acres are counted by the hun
dred. and often less than that, the farm
| seems almost too large for conception.
In driving toward the OF the
| proprietor, we pass upon our right M
left through eight miles OF corn heid
containing seventeen thousand acres
Indeed, the sight becomes wearisome.
We drive on through beautiful mead.
ows of red clover, pass the residence OF
Mr.. NJ. L. Sullivant. the proprietor, and
a large number of o%utbuildings, and
enter - Burr Grove to the vest, where
we were soon joined by Mr.. Sullivant
in person, a very genial and companion
able man, who gave a pleasant account
of his emigration from Ohio and settle
ment upon this farm.
In 1871, 5000 acres were planted with
corn ; this year 1900. From this farm
he sends daily to Gibson Station, or
the Gilman and Springfield railroad
5000 bushels of sh-lled corn to com
plete a shipment (as we understood) o
some 3OO, 900 bushels. About 700 hes.
OF stock are upon the place, anu 25'
hands are employed in all the depart
ments $50 miles of Usage hedge adorI
this goodly domain, and the number o
miles is onstantly increaeing.-Cor
Nev York Posi-. D..
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Home Amusement.

Many very pretty little chemical eA.
periments may be made by the young
people, which will amuse and astonish
those around them. As for instance,
with SO simple an article as red cabbage,
a very beautiful effect Can be rendered
in the following manner: Cut three
leaves of cabbage into small pieces, and
after placing them in a basin, pour a
pint of boiling water over them, letting
them stand an hour; then pour off the
liquid into a decanter. 1t will be of a
fine blue color. Then take four wine
glasses; into one put six drops of strong
vinegar; into another six drops of solu.
ton of soda; into a third the same
quantity of a strong solution of alum;
and let the fourth glass remain empty.
Fill up the glasses from the decanter,
and the liquid poured into the glass
containing the acid will quickly become
a beautiful red; that in the glass con.
tanning the soda will be a fine green;
that poured into the empty one will re-.
main unchanged.
BY adding a little vinegar to the
green, it will Immediately change to
red; and on adding a little of solution
of soda to the red it will assume a fine
green; thus showing the action of acids
and alkalis on vegetable hues.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-10-11
Insurance Losses.

The large majority of loss payments
made by fire insurance companies are the
outgrowth of incendiarism The exist.
enc of SO bold and persistent an enemy
to insurs nee capital has neutralized all
hope of making underwriting q profit
able field for the continuous employ
ment of capital. A careful analysis of
the of fires in London, New York,
or Philadelphia, shows that nine.tenths
of the fires originate by carelessness or
crime.
In a London Police Court the startling
disclosure was recently made that more
than one hundred arson ~offenses had
been committed by one individual, and
in another case the fires ceased in a
district when a certain individual was
arrested. This person had set fire to
sixty or more houses merely to obtain
the informer's fee OF half a crown or so.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-10-11

Tho human body 10 . machine. and therefore can
not endure forever; but. like . watch or . sewing
machine. IL will last much longer IL properly regu.
lated and duly repaired. than IL no pains were taken
to keep IL In order. The great object of every ono
who desires q long and healthy life should be to put
his body In q condition to resist the life threatening
influences by which We are all more or less surround.
cd; and no invigorant and corrective ct present
known 80 effectively answers this purpose a. the
vitalizing elixir which. under the unpretendins
name OF Hestetter's Stomach Bitters, has been for
more than twenty Year, the standard tonic Of Amor
lea In crowded cities. whore the atmosphere IL con-
taminated with the efluvia inseparable from large
populations; In marshy regions, where tho soesy
soil reeks with miasms; on the ~prsiries and In the
forests. where every fall the air 10 tainted with ex.
halstions from rottiug weeds and grasses. or decom-
posing lsaves-in short, In every locality where ma
iaris exists. this powerful vegetable antidote 10
urgently needed. Fever and ague, bilious fevers,
dysentery. congestion Of the liver. ~jaundice. rhsums-
tism. and all diseases which are generated by infect
Cd sir. impure water, or sudden changes Of tempera-
ture. may be sverted by Strengthening and regulating
the system in advance with Hostettsr's Bitten.
Autumn 10 always . season Of peril. especially to
weak. susceptible organizations. Even the more viz.
orous are apt to be In some measure depressed BY
the humid atmosphere. loaded with deietsrious CASA.
produced by vegetable decay. The fall 10 Q period Of
the year when the renovation and regulation Of the
living machine 10 peculiarly important. and the
Bitters should therefore se tax en- daily ct this critical
season.
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The Sage,s ReprOOf.

Alhakem, the sage, whom all people
honored for his great wisdom and his
many virtues, sat in the market.place
giving instruction. A youth named
Seyd, who had recently inherited vast
wealth, passed that way. and shared
with the old teacher the attention OF
the multitude. =,
"See," cried Seyd, show my good
fortune has lifted me up in q day to
claim a public attention which Alba.
ken has been long years in gaining"
And he smiled proudly as he spoke.
Alhakem had heard his words, and
motioned for him to draw ear
"My son." said the sage, "let me
speak unto thee a fable. Once upon a
time a pourd wound itself around a lofty
palm, and in a few weeks climbed to its
very top.
"Hew old mayest thou be ? inquired
the gourd.
"FA hundred years. answered the
palm.
"A hundred yearsr cried the gourd,
in derision. 'Only look; l have grown
as tall as thou art in fewer days than
thou CONTEST yearsr
al know that very WE'LL the palm
made answer. Every summer of my
life a gourd has climbed up around me
as proud as thou art, and rs short-lived
as thou wilt be!'"
Seyd heard, and then went away with
head lowered.
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The

81 noticed" said Franklin, "a me.
chan;c, among a number of others, at
work on a house being erected but a
little way from my Office, who always
appeared TO be in a m"rry humor. who
had a kind word and cheerful smile for
every one he met. Let the day be ever
SO cold, gloomy or sunless, a happy
smile danced like a sunbeam on his
cheerful ~countenance. Meeting him
one morning, l asked him to tell me
the secret of his constant flow OF
spirits"
"No secret, DOCTOR" he replied. 81
have got one Of the best wives, and
when | 60 to work she always has n
kind word of encouragement for me
and when / 20 home she meets me with
a smile and a kiss, and then tea is sure
to be ready and she has done so many
little things through the day to please
me, that l cannot find it in my heart
to speak an unkind word to anybody"
What influence, then, has woman
over the heart OF man, to soften it and
make it the foundation Of cheerful and
pure emotions. Speak gently, then
greetings after the tolls oil the day are
over cost nothing, and go far toward
making home happy and peaceful.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-10-11
Old Plaster.

A correspondent of the Maine Farme,
speaks of a man who had some old plas.
ter which he had removed from the
walls of his house, and pounded it as
fine as he could, then sifted it and
sowed it on his rye field. The result
was a very large crop of grain, and the
next year a heavy growth Of grass. His
argument was that the plastering OF
the walls of dwellings absorbed the
gases and steam which were giving of
from the Kitchen sleeping rooms, etc,
and that IL thus acquired fertilizing
properties of great value, in addition to
whatever benefit might accrue from the
lime, hair, ETC., of which it was com.
posed. He also alluded to that state.
ment that in China people would put on
new plastering fer the old which they
took off, so highly was old clustering
priced there for agricultural purposes.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-10-11

THERE is a story told of a certain
Chinese scholar who stood appalled,
when, in his freshman year, the page of
possible knowledge was unrolled before
him. He went out of his COLLEGE for his
constitutional walk in despair, meditat.
ing a return to the paternal roof and the
uncongenial task of tea. culture. During
his walk he met an old woman rubbing
a crowbar upon u stone. He asked her
what she Was dong. She replied that
she had broken her only needle, and
was employed in converting the crow
bar, by patient friction, into a new one.
Tsien-Chu retn' ned 10 his college a
wiser and NOT hopeful man, AMI re.
sumed the study of Chinese litera.
ture, and, report says, died an eminent
scholar.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-10-11
Personal.
BAYARD TAYLOR is in Germany.

BAYARD TAYLOR is in Germany.
4 HousE.rAINTER has been elected TO
the Canadian Parliament.
ALEXIS was, al last accounts, enjoying
himself with the Don ton of Hong Kong.
Gov. WARxoTn has sold his one. fourth
interest in the New Orleans Repubf an
john SMITH recently died in Georgia,
leaving 81 grandchildren and 100000
namesakes.
GEN. SHERMAN says the Prussian SOL
diers are the best drilled troops that
ever marched.
WILL S. HAYES, the poet, is at the
helm Of Blanton Duncan's "straight.
OUT organ at Louisville.
The young Emperor of China is re
ported ss very childish, setting his
affections only On dress aud theatricals.
The Catholic Telegraph remands Pere
Hyacintbe 10 his secular name of 10y
son, and pleasantly suggests that Loyson
means " cabbage.head."
A YOUNG idiot of the fashionable
female persuasion attracts the attention
Of Newport by the atfability with which
she wears nine diamond rings on one
finger.
PRINCE BIsxARcK has got a gigantic
s~crap-book, in which he treasures away
everything written or printed about
himself. He is now writing an auto
biography.
JOSEPHINE MCCARTHY, editor of the
Truth Teller, thinks that, if the whole
truth about women could be known,
every virtuous man in the world would
run bowling to the nearest water and
drown himself.
A New YORK paper records the mar.
riage at Leghorn, Italy, to an American
lady, of Count Cesare Gianotti, Major of
the Second Grenadiers of Italy, ex.
Officer of Ordnance TO Fl. X. III. Prince
ilumbert, commander of Charles Ill.
of Spain, Tower and Sword of Portugal,
Chevalier Of the Military Order of
Savoy, Legion of Honor of France, and
Crown Of Prussia, ETC., etc.
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Magnificent Piano.

There was on exhibition in Paris, not
long since, a magnificent piano, sent as
q wedding gift to the future Empress OF
China. 1t is completely covered with
gold and lacquer, and the keys are
composed of mother-of.pearl. 1t is as
useless as it is elegant, however, owing
to the fact that the young lad, g must
cal education has been entirely neglect.
ed, and it will have to be played by
machinery, an attachment accompany.
ing it which works on the plan of a
hand-organ, and beyond half . dezen
tunes will be silent.
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
The East.

TEE committee appointed by the Harvard
College overseers to consider and report on
the admission of females to that institution
have recommended that no action be taken
ON the subject at present.....The official re-
port of the Investigation in the Metis dIsas-
ter has resulted in the revoking of the
licens 8 of the captain and the first and
second pilots.....The second trial of Edward
Stokes, the slayer of James Fisk, Jr., will
commence shortly in New York.
ENocH L. FANcaER succeeds the infamous
Barnard as Judge of the New York Supreme
Court.......A number Of oreide watch swind-
lers rave been arrested in New York..
Michael Gering, of Jersey City, recently
murdered his wife by stabbing her, and then
cut his W throat from ear to ear.
TIE trial of Tweed and others of the
Tammany thieves will shortly
in New York. Connolly is yet missing, and
it is pretty certain that he has fed the
country.....The wool warehouse of John
McInnes, in Boston, was burned last week
involving q loss of $4,000.
JOHNNY O'KEEFE, the New York newsboy.
who won the appointment of midshipman
in a competitive examination, has success
fully passed his examinations, and been
sworn in as a cadet midshipman at Annapo-
lis..-.Gov. Geary, of Pennsylvania, has par
doned out of the Penitentiary the notorious
Mercur, late City Treasurer of Philadelphia
and the infamous broker, Charles A. Yerkes
who were convicted last winter of embezzlip
the city funds..-.1he propeller Dalhousie
from Montreal to Chicago, was recently de-
stroyed by fire in Lake Ontario. The pas.
sengers and crew were taken off by TIE
propeller City of Concord. ..... The suspension
of Spencer, Villa q Co., the we'll known Bos.
ton bankers, is announced......At midnight
en- Saturday, Sept. IS, three-fourths of al
the oil wells in the country were stopped, il
accordance with the plan of the oil produ,
GERS to raise the price of petroleum by dimin
fishing its quantity......The official vote fol
Governor of Vermont stands: Converse. Re
publican, Al 1916; Gardner, Democrat, 1858
scattering, IA. Majority for Converse, 25,Sl9
The movement in the oil producing region
OF Pennsylvania to stop the pumping we'll
in order to raise the price of petroleum ha
met with very general success. Advice
from the oil districts represent that nearl,
all the wells have stopped. In some local.
ties violence was resorted to in carrying gu
the order, well rigs being burned, engine
destroyed and oil tanks Bridge
port, CT, has been visited by q destructiv
fire, involving the loss of $3.50, 900 worth @
property.
SENATOR SUMNER has written a letter de
clining the Liberal Democratic nomination
for Governor of Massachusetts......Dr. Aver
the pill man, came within a few votes of re
ceiving the Republican nomination for Con
gress in the Seventh District of Massachu
sets, over Mr.. Hoar, the sitting member.
La Grave, who some time ago defraude'
various New York merchants to the extern
OF some $500, 900, and fed the country, ha
been arrestai in Franco
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The South.

A FIRE at Jefferson, Texas, recently de-
stroyed over $4,000 worth of propery.....
State Auditor Graham, of Louisiana, has
agsin been imprisoned for contempt of court.
the Governors pardon having Deen decided
unconstitutional.
TsIRrr miles of the Alabama and Chatta-
nooga railroad have been seized by order of
the Governor of Georgia, the telegraph
wires cut down, and the road is being oper-
ated BY two receivers, under a decree of the
United States Supreme Court.
The town of osceo'a, Ark, has been almost
totally destroyed by a hurricane....The
commission appointed to investigate the
Mexican outrsges on the Rio Graude has
completed its labors, and left Brow usyiIle
for Washington.
HORACE GREELEY will attend the North
Carolina State Fair, at Goldsboro, on the
23d inst.....George Reed and John Sims.
" colored gentlemen, got into q dispute at
Q church in Little Rock, over the question
- to which put the most money in the hat
when IL was handed around. MIR. Reed nut
an end to the dispute by drawing a pistol
shooting Mr.. Sims dead.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-10-11

A WIFE of Detroit, seeing a paragraph
in the papers to the effect that " matri
monial couples in Illinois get divorced
just in order to have the pleasure of
fresh counting and a new honeymoon"
induced her husband, after much per.
suasion, to consent to n divorce "iust
for the fun of the thing" When the
divorce was obtained, the ex~-husband
was astonished 10 find that the "court.
ing" and "honeymooning" we're to be
done with another fellow. He doesn't
think divorcing for fun very funny after
all. His wife sees where the laugh
comes in, but he never did have an ap-
probation of humor.
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TO THE PUBLIC.
v N AGUEl
GREAT CHOLERA, REMEDY,
PERRY DAVIS
PAIN.KILLER

Has won for itselfa reputation unsurpassed In medH
cal preparatious: The snirersatty Of the demand fol
The Killer isa novel. interesting. aud surprising
Killer Is now regularly sold in large and steadily is
syeasino quantities. not only to general agenisin ever
STATE and Territory Of the Uni.n. and every Province
m British America. but TO Buenos Ayres, Brazil
Uruguay. Peru, Chill. and other South American
States ; to the Sandwich Islands. to Cuba and other
Europe: to Mozambique, Madagascar, Zanzibar and
other African lands: TO Australia and Calcutta. Rem.
goon and other places in India. 1t has also been
port or inland city IN Africa or Asia. which Is fire.
Quented BY American and European missionaries,
travellers or traders; into which the Pain. Killer has
II, erfsnte n &. n~sefslaess is another great feature
o. this remarkable medicine. 1t 10 not only the best
bruises. cuts. buriis, etc, but for dysentery or cbsl.
era. or any sort Of bowel complaint, it isa remedy
unsurpassed for Efficiency and rapidify Of action. In
Islands and o.her hot climates. 1t has become the
,.fdadard medicine for all such complaints. as we'll as
dyspepsia; liver complaints. and other kindred dis
rheumatic difficulties II has been proved, BY Inc most
abundant and convincing trials and testimony, to be
an invaluabls medicine. The proprietors are In pos
ter and responsibility tes;itins in uneQ1ivocalt term,
to the cures effected, and the satisfactory results pro-
great great nsdieie esa'i That ss the P S.S.i HiI Sy the :. use Of ,hi.
Of sll its proprietors claim for u 10 amply proved by
the unparalleled . ,pularity IL has attained. IL is Z
country n the world. and 10 beeomine more ana
have been fully tested all over the world. ana h neei
only to be known to be priced.
~ Directions accompany each bottle.
Price Is cts. so eta. and 81 Per bottle.
J. N. HARRIS e. CO., Cincinnati. Ob,..
Proprietors for the Southern and Western States
Sold ny ALL MEDICINE DrAlEss GExrssIIY.
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srresent members tex.members.

The "prInter's boy' who was EN-.
ployed in the Office of the Baltimore
American at the time of the publication
of the "Star Spangled Banner" and
put this famous song in type, still sur.
wives, in full vigor, being the editor and
proprietor Of the American Farmer
Samuel Sands.
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The JUSTICE OF THE VERDICT rendered by
the public years ago In favor OF th- MsXIcAN Mus
TANG LISINtNT must be apparent to AL who have
used that famous preparation or seen il used. Its
healing iufuci &c = irresistibie. The most obstinate
forms Of Deuralgie or Rheumatic disease are totally
cured by u. and that in an ineonceivahiy short space
Of time. External Injuries or sores. whether of man
or beast, as well rs all equine or human maladies for
which . liniment MAJ be used. are speedily remediei
BY its use. Remember IL Is not merely . palliative
but an erRdicant Of disease.-tCom.
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cpNsu,%f!rIxRs,

the advertiser. having hcen permanently cured Of
II aaxioss to make known TO his f-llow-suisrcrs the
means % cure. Toali who dessire II, he Will send 4
the directions for preparing and using the same.
which they Will Md q sUks Quar- ron CossUnPTIon'
cuities. ""'
PARTIES Wishing the prescription will please ndarrs.
Rev. .EDwARDA A. WILSON,
1874 Penn street, WILLIAMSBURG. N. v.