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

The following is an extract from. John G..
Whittier,s new poem, The Pennsylvania Pill
grim" The scene is laid two hundred years ago,
efore the followers of William Penn had built
meeting houses:l
There through the gath hered stiffness multiplied,
And made intense bysympathy. outside
The sparrow sang and the gold robin cried,
Aswiny upon his elm. A faint perfume
Brcathcd through the open windows Of the room
From locust trees. heavy with clustered bloom.
Thither. perchance. sore tired professors came,
Whose fsrvor Jail nor pillory could tame.
Proud of their cropped ears meant 10 be their
shame.
Men who hal eaten slavery's bitter bread
In Indian Isles; women who had bled
Under the hang gman's lash, and bravcy said
Gods message through the iron prison bars;
Ant gray old soldier converts scanned with scars
From every stricken field of England's wars.
L0wiy before G Unseen Presence knclt
Each waiting heart, till haply some one felt
On his moved lips the seal of silence melt.
Or, without spoken words. low breathing stole
Ot a divine life from soul TO soul.
Baptiz;ng in one tender thought the whole.
Unvexed the sweet air seemed. Without
wound
The ear of silence heard, and every sound
Its place In natures life accordance found,
And solemn meeting. summer sky and wood,
Old kindly faces. youth and maidenhoed, +
Seemed, like Ged's creation. very good.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01
Mr.. Bonner on Trotting Records.

Is it not a very effective mode of
promoting gambling which the Ameri-
can Trotting Congress has adopted inI
establishing the rule that horse must
trot for money, in order to get what is
technically called record? Is mott
speed the same, absiractIy and relatively, Il
whether horse trots for money or not 2;
One horse trots for money, and gets1
what is called the record. Joe Elliott
has trotted mile in 2:l5l. This is ins
disputable and undeniable. He made
this une9ualled performances in the
presence Of good men, who are ready to
substantiate their statements by their
affidavits. Yet Joe Elliott does not, ac-
cording to the rules, get a"record," !" o,
it is called, simply because he did not
trot for money. Startle, on the 10th
day of May last, four days before he was
FIVE years old, trotted at Prospect Park
one mile in 2:l93. 1t was announced
beforehand in the Turf Field and Farm
that he would get trial on that day,
and three good men, Commodore Dodge,
Mr.. Robert Fletcher, and Mr.. Simeon
Hoagland, were, put in the stand and
requested to act rs timers. They timed
him in 2:I93, and yet, according to the
rules, Static does not get record of
his marvellous performance. MOI matter
how fast any OF Mr.. Bonner's horses
trot, they never get the technical
!, record" because they never trot for
money. What does " recordn amount
to, as evidence of the comparative speed
of horses, if it be given for any other
consideration than speed, pure and
simple? Now, we wish to know what
in truth and reality the significance
and advantage can be of what is termed
technically "a record over we'll.
established performance about which
there has been no gambling? Would
betting about any other fact make it
more fact than than if there were no
betting in reference TO it? Would
betting on Trinity Church steeple make
its height greater or less than it now is?
Weuld betting on the sunrise or sunset
change the time-the hour, the minute,
the second, or the quarter of a second
of either? All we demand is to have
things called by their right names.
Why not substitute "trotted for gam
bling purposes" instead of "a record"
if that is what the Trotting Congress
mean and require Do not connect in
extricably innocent amusement with
gambling. Will the President of the
Trotting Congress-, Amasa Sprague-a
sound and capable man-consi Ter these
views? If he will we have confidence
that he will adopt them, for we consider
them unanswerable. If gambling is to
be harnessed inseparably TO trotting, it
will make steadily deterioratins and
despised double team.-Neo York
Lcdgcy. .s .I
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01
GOV. HAWLEY.
A Summary Of His magnificent
Speech at Chicago.
One Of the Finest Efforts Of the Cam.
paign. .ttijL "a

Gen. Hawley, of Connecticut, de-
livered lately at Chicago one of tho
most stirring speeches OF the campaign,
and we regret that we have room for
only few extracts from it. He com.
mcnced his speech with q brief reci-
tation Of political history, and dealt
with Republican institutions in this
country as viewed from the European
standpoint. Referring to the great re-
bellion, he said: .E
"This was great danger very great
danger, as someof our best men proph-
es;ed from time TO time and Andrer
Jackson gave you good warning u II.
lie said the nulliiiers made the tariff
their first pretext; and, sud he, they
will make the slavery question their
next one. Auof sudden, before any
man expected it, we were plunged into
the most terrible civil war of modern
times he could not dream that we
could raise up our great armies by the
hundred marshal our hosts
by the million. Wasn't it a great day
Wasn't it a great crisis? Wasn't it o
time that called for patriotism, for states
manship, for high resolve-the time to
test the American people-to see wheth.
er there was enough central coherent
power in their government-to see
whether they had in their hearts the
spirit of selfsacrifce to load themselves
with those millions of debt, and raise
armies by the hundred thousand-lay
everything on the altsr rather than
abar don the great principles they advo-
Gated and believed in? Indeed it was
a great time; and the Old World halted
to see what we would do with it AMI
then was the time to test parties. What
then became Of this great, this boasted
Democratic party in that crisis? You
compelled us, my Democratic friends
you compelled US to save this country.
We would rather not have done it. You
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01
In few days the inhabitants of that

In few days the inhabitants of that
village were astonished by the appear
ance Of splendid new barber shop, far
surprising the other in elegance or APP
pointments, and in which, with new
mugs, soaps, razors and perfumes, stood
q barber and assistant ready to do duty
on the heads and boards of the people.
Over the door was inscribed: "William
Harrington, Shaving and Hair Dressing
Saloon" ...
The people were not long in ascer.
tanning or slow in availing themselves
of the privileges of this establishment,
and it was not to b. wondered at that
it was crowded and the other deserted.
The other held out for some weeks, sus-
pecting this free shaving-for Bill kept
his secret well-was but a dodge to en-
tice customers away, who would soon be
charged as usual; but when, at the end
of six weeks, he found Billy working
away as usual, charging not a cent for
his labor, he came to the conclusion
that he must have drawn a prize in the
lottery, or stumbled upon good mine,
and was keeping a barber shop for fun,
SO he closed his shop in despair, andleft
the place.
Meantime Bill Harrington kept on
busy as a bee, and one fine morning his
employer stepped in without word,
sat down and was shaved. On rising
from his chair he asked to see the score
for the six months past. The barber
exhibited it, and after careful calcula-
ton, the old man said:
"Plenty of customers, ebs'
"Lots of 'em," said the barber; "never
did such business in my life."
"Well," replied Money Bags, "you
have kept the account we'll. / see I've
paid you one hundred and twenty dol
lsss for services-all right, and there are
three hundred and thirty charged for
shaving, all that applied. Now, this
furniture cost one hundred and eight
dollars. Here it is. Now you own this
furniture, and are to have this shop,
rent free, six months longer, and after
to-day you are to charge the regular
price for work, for your pay from me
stops to day."
This of course the barber gladly as
sented to.
"But," said the old man, on leaving,
"take care you never cheat man by
charging ten times the usual price for
shave, for it may be another 'old Billy;
Gibbons.''i
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01
Personaf..

BoUCIcAULr.m makes 81 600 a night.
LuccA's wardrobe is insured for $685.
600. CIT u. " ~
Mas JACOB FooLlsH edits a paper at
Searcy, Ark. ~ 4'' '''''l
EDsuND YArEs has sixty engagements
at $l25 per night. 500 l9''a 7i'-' u
The late Wm. II. Seward owned
about 500, 600 worth of property around
Auburn, N. Y. ~ t--i-l' .7,' '1f = n
IA GERxAN biography of the late
James Fisk has been confiscated by the
Austrian Government .ua:iaa,g -if
SYLvANus CoBs, JK., after some ninety
odd novels, now expresses great disgust
at blood-and.thunder fiction. ..-I s,i
MR. Jxo.B=rxrr,of Boston, has pre-
sented Horace Greeley with a beautiful
AK, inclosed in rosewood case. ..f.
ALIx. II. H. STUART, . member of
Eulmorais Cabinet, has been elected to
the City Council OF otannton, Va.
EUREKA JONES, widow of the late jailer
of Hudson connty.-Y.-Y., has been
elected to fill tie unexpired term of her
departed spouse. ''i' ..-i u Ea.' '<'u
JACOB II. Ten EYcr, formerly Presi-
dent of the old Bank of Albany, N. W
and, in his day, one of the most active
men Of that city, died recently, aged 80.
Mr.. JNo. E. OWENS ia one of the
wealthiest actors in the world. He
owns, it is said, more than q million of
dollars. Mr.. Forrest also, we believe, is
one Of the millionaires. 5'.' '''
wRIrEk in the Springfield Republican
says OF George Eliot. the novelist: '..She
is feminine Bacon Of The. present age,
and many of her aphorisms are assgood
as Bacon's in their way.'
TnE season for pdlling shot-guns
through fences, and getting carried
home on q stretcher, with a handful of
duck-shot in your diaphragm, is Just be-
ginning. Experimental efforts in that
line have been very successful. i''E'sI
'THE father Of Writ Sykes died in
Watertown, N. Y, the other day, in the
chamber he had slept in every night for
forty y-one years-a sad warning of the
danger of sleeping too long in one place.
He was seyenty.one years old.
LIEUT.. SINGLETON, of the signal service,
while taking observations in q thunder
storm, on the roof Of building where
the signal station was located, in. WASH
ington, was knocked over by the elec-
trio shock, and, rolling to the caves, was
only prevented from falling to the pave
ment by a wide-spreading gutter. AZ
terward he said he felt as if thousand
poniards were piercing him, and then
he became unconscious.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01
Shocking Death.

Oneof the most horrible and fatal ac-
cidents on record occurred at Manches-
ter, Iowa, recently, to the young and
only son of A! W. Stevens, prominent
citizen of the place. The lad, in COM
pany with a playmate, noticed a large
boar, which had broken from an inclos-
ure and attempted to drive it with sticks,
which SO enraged the animal that it
turned ana attacked The boys, one of
whom escapedby jumping into a wagon.
The other, young Stevens, was unable to
avoid the injurious brute, and had his
bowels actually cut out, SO that on un-
loosing his pants they fell to the ground.
He commenced running with his intes-
tines gathered in his, hands and arms.
A lady passing along witnessed the scene
with horror, and attempted in vain to
help the lad. She secured his bowels
properly, but inflammation and morti6ca-
ton having set in, resulted in the death
OF the boy. gf.!gs 445s, - I--
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01
. CORRESPONDENCE Of the New Yor

A CORRESPONDENCE Of the New York
Herald, who lately called on Senator
''Parson" Brownlow, says he found him
al his home, in Knoxville, PROSTATE on
q lounge, while at his feet sat his daugh-
ter, the ministeripg angel of the house
hold-a patient, pale-faoed girl of about
twenty years, The Parson was in his
shirt-sleeves, propped up by . pillow,
his hands and arms shaking violently,
a if urged by seme invisible electric
battery. The volume Of his once pow.
srful Voice was reduced to the merest
whisper, 50 iovsthat his visitor had to
stoop to his pillow tn hear him; but over
his stubborn soul no palsy or tremor
had come, and through his eyes flashed,
at intervals, CLEANS of the same old fire
that made his foes tremble in the days
gone by.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01
Venerable Victims Of Old Rye.

A good story is told us Of reverend
gentleman of some reputation, who was
good ihater of can't. Born and reared
q farmer, he took to the church natur-
ally, and undoubtedly his sincerity was
the electrical effect by which he pro
duced so many converts from "the ways
that are dark" He was an original wit,
and when the purpose served him, q
cynic. He left his native town at the
commencement Of his religious career.
On returning to his former home. 0ue
time, his old neighbors having heard of
his fame IS "sower of the. gospel ss-
sembled TO meet him, and one sancti-
monious fellow, who carried q winning
air about him, on all occasions, was enc
of the first TO come fxwning about him.
sIBy the way" said the clergyman,
"what. has become of old Smithers3"
Dead" said Uriah Heap, with 'ag-
ony. ~ '7' -'-'' A..'
Yes--whisky killed him." (, ;.s;,7.,
"How old was he?" ......-
"Seventy.four." s.-...
Unfortunate man! And old Sla-
ter?n f''t 6 "''T -..t.i-'ss .ut4 ...RGg.i
"Dead," another groan. rul
q" Poor old Slater What did he die
off" , -
"Whisky."
"How old was herr 4E.-aeE4
Eighty-one." as -s-~ .I.m
Deluded wretch And Daddy
Wood ~ .,.- -. ....azs.
"He too has gone the way Of all flesh.
~ a A l. -
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01
A v.aIrABLs sensation was caused .

A vERIrABLE sensation was caused .
few weeks ago in France by n. Decaine's
communication to the Academy Of Med
icine, wherein the fact was shown that
in France the proportion Of births TO
marriages was unusually low-so low,
indeed, that it will be difficult for
France ever to find men wherewith to
"avenge Sedan" In Prussia 100 msr
riages return 400 children; in France
only 800. In Prussia the percentage of
births to population is 3 9S; in France
it is 2.55. In the former the annual
excess of births over deaths is Is, 800 in
every million; in the latter II is only
2,4o0. According to these statistics it
would take the population of France
l70 years to double itself; that of Prus.
sia, AZ that of Russia, 60; and that Of
Great Britain, SO years.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01
Salt as q Fertilizer.

The Office Of salt as an agent IN, the
culture of the soil is to make the earth
moist and cool. Hence its effects more
clearly seen on light, sandy soils. On
wet, heavy clays' and in damp season
it will do no perceptible good. The pro
portion to apply is about one pound per
rod, or about one hundred and sixty
pounds per acre. This is the substance
of the Gardeners Sfonthiy's reply to .
correspondent on the subject.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01
Varieties.

VsIi0thoSe s@ts
"FLE., thou obnoxiops insect " isths
latest for Shoe Fly" <tSif TAI
No woNDEl time Is 20 often killed
when it is struck every hour.
A pEs1sABLE secpnd. Hand srtiaeleI
young, rich, and smisbfel lH5dSR. oEiSE
How to make good. pues- Sand a
publisher fifty cents . line forthsm%
A YREs class for the isstfu5tisA Of
women in short hand reporting has been
opened in Cooper Institute' New York:
A YOUNG man being asked if he; was =
professional tobacco smoker, repIieds
".No afff.a chewer.n = !.lhJ q kHt,t
AN Alabama young lady, who was
caught smoking a cigar, gave as her fear
on that /. it, made it smell % though
here was man Ground" --',yass,E TsS
A YOUNG gentleman recently created
quite a sensation, while reading TO .
circle of yonng ladies . poetical efu.
sion "To q Beautiful Belle,p by pro-
nouncing tine last word in two sylls'
bles. ~ -..,
--Psr--3Mamma,- -I-want- to -mAkA-A
leetle bargain with YOU" Mamma
q Whist it,-my- -dess7n Pet II you
will give me a paper Of sugar plums
every day, won't teff anybody you
take your hair out of adrawer." -
TIE Gsrier-Jognat il hard on Susan
when it says "Wc shall never know
the age of Niagara Falls, because Susan
B. Anthony is the only person now
living who was alive when tho fslls
were built, and she has forgotten gshs
date" - ~ t-., = {
Poor but dishonest young boys fassen
wrought nails to the end of strings, and
harpoon sweet potatoes and apples from
their abiding places in front OF stores.
This may be sport, but it il the first
step in the downward road to Congress.
|-D1nbury NSsos,.---.-..--..--- -
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01

nous ISLANDERS thst have been poured
out over the lind for the past few weeks
against Henry wilson, for bowas one of
the purest men of the land Colfax and
Boutwell, were also free frem connection
with the Credit Mobilicy. The reports
were lies, and showed that the 0pposi-
ton knew Of no ether way oftarryine
on the campaign" a1,s s.jt te ofei.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01
The Warm Ground.

"She died." said Polly, "and never
was seen again, for she was buried in
the ground where the trees grow"
"The cold ground" said the child
shudderiDg. "No, the warm ground,''
said Polly, "where tho ugly little seeds
are turned into beautiful flowers, and
where good people turn into angels and
fly away to Heaven."-David CspperftM.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01

Tu-; Dalles, Oregon, salmon fisheries
are estimated to be worth at least
81 ,0O0, 900.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01

IT lie estimated that at least 100000
horses are owned in the city of New
York, about one-fourth of which are
kept as means of enjoyment. In some
portions of the country, especially in
the Southern States, the stock Of horses
of all sorts has, for evident reasons, de-
cllned, or not advanced SO rapidly as
might have been expected from the
natural increase but the whole coun-
try in 1870 had about one million more
horses than IL had in 1860-IIlinois
heading the list, and New York coming
in second.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01

A CORRESPONDENT of Vienna newg.
paper warns the public that the at
tempts oil newspaper correspondents TO
fathom the meaning of the Imperial
meetings by trying to discover what the
three Emperors have said are vain.
The Portland daily press., 1872-03-06
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, '7s.
No Ogdensburg.

Our municipal election, Monday, makes it
certain that no political combinations can
at present be made in this city that will en-
danger Republican ascendency. The vote of
Monday indicates majority for Grant next
November larger than he received in 1868.
We may regard it properly as party tri-
umph of great significance.
The election also has another significance
that is equally obvious. We hold now, just
as before election, that the opinions OF the
Mayor and members of the City Council on
the Ogdensburg question can make no differ
ence as to the fate of that scheme, except in
so far as they are voters. But the selection
of men for those offices who are almost unan-
imously opposed to the loan, shows conclr-
siyely that an Overwhelming majority OF the
people are opposed to 1t. The members OF
both parties, resisting logic and the earnest
discussions of this and other journals, had
Ogdensburg as well as politics in view when
they made their nominations and when they
threw their votes. The result is that hardly
man can be found in the city government
from Mayor down, who is not opposed to the
loan. Democrats and Republicans are in
harmony on this question. The bare suspi
cion-and it amounts to no more-that the
Republican candidate for alderman in the
seventh ward, is inclined to favor the loan
was almost sufficient to defeat him, while il
the fourth ward, one of the ablest of the Dem
ocratic nominees for the Council was actually
beaten, while the rest of his ticket, which
was "sound" on the Ogdensburg question
was elected. 1t cannot be doubted that tn
vote of Monday is just as indicative of tn
attitude of the people toward the loan as
they had voted directly on that question, ant
nineteen-twentieths of them had voted "no.
The Portland daily press., 1872-03-06

The paroxysmal maladies which are characterized
by heat and cold prevail extensively at this season,
and it is curious fact that in many parts Of the
country where they are prevalent, other diseases,
that bear resemblance to fever and ague, or re-
mittent fever, assume periodic type Thus, in
many sections infested with chiis and fever rheuma-
tism, neuralgia, hysteria, diarrhGs, &C.. sometimes
have been engendered by the same poisonous exhala-
tons which produce the first named disease.
In all these masked cases Of ague-for such they
areas well as in the regular nermttents the most
safe and reliable remedy that be administered is
Hostetters Stomach Bitters Neither quinine nor
arsenic are needed. Both are in the highest degree
dangerous and to leave sad traces of their
poisonous action in thesystem, whether they arrest
the paroxysms or not. In many instances all the
so-called specifics Of the regular" materia medica
utterly fail to 'break up" intermittent and remit
tent disorders. But the great vegetable Tonic
fails. The spasm Of the minute blood vessels which
causes the chill, Is the result Of nervous weakness
produced by the facilitating operation Of an I'M
wholesome atmosphere and the tone and yigor given
to the nervous system by the Bitters enable it to
throw off the disease. The wiser policy, however, is
to anticipate attacks Of this nature by arousng all
the latent energies Of the body at the commence
ment Of the moist and chilly season. with this in
comparable antidote. By pursuing this course, in
termittents, remittents, rheumatism, collie bilious
ness, dyspepsia and pulmonary affections may al
WAYS he nrevented