The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-10-25
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The work OF building Int XXI "a
cifc railroad is being vigorously pushed.
Five hundred miles are slready under con-
tract, and a large force Of laborers hiss been
engaged. Negro labor is being mainly en-
ployed, but Gen. Dodge has arranged for q
force Of 1000 Chinese. The line under con-
tract is that part ofthe main stem from MAI
shall west TO Forth Worth, and the branch
north FROM Marshall to q point opposite u
ton, Ark, and thence westerly to the west
main stem near Forth Worth, will proceed
during the winter......At Louisville, the otne.
day, a negro named William Frey murdered
his wife and mother by stabbipg them with
a knife. The murderer gave himself up,
and said he vented to be hung Immediately.
THE 6rst frost of the season in the South
occurred at Nashville, Tenn, on the 14th OF
october.....Jsme Kenny, a prisoner at Nash
vile, has confessed to the 100000 diamond
robbery at New Orleans, in which, he says,
Forester, the alleged Nathan murderer, was
his aecomplice, and that the steamboats,
Thompson Dean, Magenta and others wore
fred to aid in the robbery. Kenny accuses
Forester of the Nathan murder.
Washington.
THERE was in the Treasury last week
So, 1851, 572 currency, s53,s99,65o coin, and
S24, 959 900 coin certificates.
IT is stated in a Washington dispatch that
the President has refused to obey the dictum
of Cameron to drive John W. Forney out Of
the Republican party, and said he looked
| upon their differences as of q local nature.
IT is announ ced that President Grant, in
| his forthcoming message TO Congress, will
| recommend that prompt and vigorous meas
| ures DO taken to protect the oitizens Of the
| Texan border from the incursions of Mex
| lean bandits and cattle-thieves. 49,. B:ds were
| opened at the Quartermaster Generals Office
last week for furnishing headstones for SOL
| dicrs' graves in the different national cemer
teries. There were in all liza bidders, u the
bids ranged from SO cents to SIS per stone.
......Ali the departments wero closed and
draped in mourning on the 14th Of October,
the day of Mr.. Stewards funeral..... Since the
adjournment of Congress the Government
printing office has been finishing the print
ing ordered during the last session. This
amounts to $50, 900 octave and quarto vol
umes, ranging from 800 to 900 pages each.
OF this number 255, 900 olumes are agricul-
tural and Ku-Klux reports, the latter being
Is volumes, and the printing of the census
reports is also in progress. -Four thousand
volumes in muslin are bound daily. Three
hundred compositors and 80 pressmen, and
400 females are in the Office, and the eggre'
gate of all the persons employed is ovel
1000.
Foreign.
IL the Spar ish Cortes, the amendment to tn,
address of the King asking for the abolition
of slavery was defeated by a large majority
1.-THE workingmen of Berlin are about
~inaugurating another general strike..-..A
number of the coal masters of Wales have
resolved 10 close their works, pending a re
duction of the wages Of their employees.
The startling announcement is made from
Constantinoplc that over three millions o
human beings have persisted by the famine
in Persia. 1t is doubtful whether there wa.
ever before a visitation of this kind attended
with such awful consequences, end the fac
is difficult to reconcile with the idea that thu
adjacent Christian nations performed theil
whole duty toward the suffering people.....
A London letter says that the publication o.
the ponderous judgment OF Sir Alex. Cock
burn, dissenting from the award OF tn,
Geneva arbitrators, had had the effect to ere
ate the belief that the award was l~agrantly
unjust to England. Tho language OF th'
Lord Chief Justice is very severe, and he j.
G.vernments...-.The London papers COM
ment at considerable length on our October
elections, and their probable effect on The
Presidential contest...-..Mr. Bentinck, mem
Der OF Parliament, in a public speech al
London, recently, denounced tho settle
ment of the Alabama claims as a dishono,
and a disgrace to England, and declared
that Great Britain deserved the scorn OF thu
whole world, and would cease 10 hold hel
position among the nations..-..Two NOR
Communists nave been sentenced TO death a
Paris.-..The Abolition Society OF Madrif
continue the agitation of the slavery que;
ton. They heve just sent TO the Cortes
petition for the manumission OF slaves !!
Cuba and Porto Rico.
A REPUBLICAN revolt Of alarming proper
tons has broken out in the Spanish PROVING
of The news of the death of MI
Seward was received in England with grea
surprise, no intimation Of his illness hsvin
reached there. The daily papers of Londol
contain elaborate biographies Of the distin
guished statesman. The Neles says: "Al
, though Mr.. Seward was unpopular here, b
reason of his rather peremptory bearing, b
leaves behind him a great example OF vigoi
/ energy and success.".....Another religion
' row is threatened in Lisburn, Ireland, an
an additional military force has boon son
.herc......It is reported that Theirs has re
quested Victor Emanuel to recall the Italia
: Minister to France, because he is a Bonapari
ist..... Prince Napoleon has been banishe
from France.-...The election for fresiden
I If the Republic OF Mexico occurred on Sat
-, urday, Oct. IL. There being no opposite
4 to tho present incumbent, Lerdo de Tejeds
the election passed off quietly.
PRINCE FREDEnIcK HENRY ALBERT, th
third and youngest brother of the Emperc
: William of Prussia, died recently in Berlin
!, at the age Of 62 years-.....The International
a are preparing for a great demonstration il
HYDE Park, London, on the Goth OF Noyem
ber...The German army of occupation ar
> evacuating the department of the Uppe
Marine, in France..... 1t is authoritative.
a announced that tho Pope will remain il
Rome...Under the new tax levy in Cuba
d tax Of S24 ia imposed upon each slave il
tho island, which will produce a revenue o
: 81, 900, 0o.......Quite a sensation has been ere
ated IN Paris by the discovery that tw'
thousand bombs had been sent TO the city
with come revolutionary design. The bomb
or grenadee, are similar to those that Orsin
threw from a house-top at the Emperor Ma
poleon in 1858, and the suspicion is that they
are to be used for a like pu: pose. with Thier.
substituted for Napoleon..-.The Republi-
cans of the Department of the Gironde, in
France, have adopted the American sys.
tenn" ofnomiDating candidates, and recently
held a convention 10 name q candidate for
tho National Assembly. This is the first in
st,nee of the kind in Europe.
Salt in Food.