The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-06-14
Current Items.

NEVADA newspapers take crude ore in
payment of subscriptions.
THOSE who possess tender skins can
laugh the mosquito to scorn after they
have bathed in coal oil.
"THE DOLLY VARDENn is the name of
q newspaper just started at Wilson, N.
C.-Miss Dolly Warden, editress.
HENRY MILLER, . convict in the Mich
igan State Prison, has, by the death of
his father, fallen heir to $3.50, 900 and a
valuable farm.
SonE of the oldest cotton planters in
the country state that cotton seed and
its product are gradually deteriOrasing
both in quality and quantity.
TIE Inspector of Police for the Bengal
Government reports that Of 939 cases of
snake bites in which ammonia was ad-
ministered by the police, 702 are said to
have recovered.
A HUNrKR in Northern New York has
killed, during the past winter, sixty
deer and thirty mink, beside two or
three each of bears and panthers. He
has also tapped three thousand i've
hundred maple trees, making about
five tons of sugar. He has made by
hunting and trapping alone over $500
month.
ON the oath of November, 1871, Mr..
T. A. Fogg, of Pulaski, Tenn, put in
the center of bale of cotton . note
Offering $50 to the finder on forwarding
it. On the 9th of Nay he received the
note from, and forwarded the $50 to,
Albert Chambers, q workman at the
Victoria Mill, Newton Moor, Chester
county, England.
AeAssIz has found fossil oysters foot
in diameter in Patagonia OF course
there must have been men in those
days with throats capacious enough TO
swallow them whole-for oysters are not
to be eaten otherwise. Perhaps the
Professor will now find the long looked
for fossil man, and of the needful size.
That would vindicate the old sailors
stories about giant Patagonians.
The third annual catalogue Of the
officers and students in the University
of Deseret (Utsh) is q curiosity. OF the
whole number of students, $50, cata-
logued in four classes as gentlemen.
ladies, ~boys, and girls, the larger pro-
portion come from Is or 20 families.
There are 81 Of the name of Young, 20
of the name of Wells, and from to Is
Of the same family name is . common
occurrence.
A cELEBRAIsD brigand named Ciccone
has just been identified in the person
of Neapolitan lawyer named Rspponc.
Ciccone, who disappeared many years
ago, had killed Rappone, taken pssses-
sion of his papers, and established him
self at Florence under his victims
name and style. He was shrevd enough
to be able TO maintain the decepti n for
several years, and was found out at last
by detective.
TIE New York Central Railroad Com.
pany has taken another expensive les.
son in the decent treatment of passen-
gers, and general hope is expressed
that the course of instruction will be
kept up. Mr.. Henry Peck having .
ticket over the road, and the ordinary
car being full, he took drawing-room
car. Refusing to pay extra compensa-
ton for the privilege of sitting down,
he was put off the train. A suit for
damages followed, and has resulted in
verdict for 5000 against the COM
pany.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Bowling
Green (Ky.) Demoerat, from Stone river,
says the graves Of the Confederate dead
in that historic graveyard are overgfown
with briars and entirely neglected. The
Federal cemetery contains some twenty
or thirty acres, in which are inferred
some $4,000 Federal dead. Il 10 beau
tifully laid of in squares, with hand
some drives, shaded with everereens.
Upon . hill in the center 10 Lincoln
square, at the four angles Of which u
erected cannon surrounded by mum.
Der Of balls, and in the center, from .
LOFTY HaRstaR fi0afa the Federal faS.