The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-01-17
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.

, college in China. Its projectors claim tina
, the education of Interpreters for the diplo
matte and commercial services of both na
tiOns, and the exploration and develop
ment OF the rich mines and other natura
resources of China, are sufficient ground
for the formation of such an institution il
Pekin. Ii is proposed that the "Chinese In
demnity Fund" debt contracted by Oul
! tea growing friends duriag the rebellion
, which AZ present amounts to more thar
100000, should be devoted to founding thi'
college.
Preparations of the most extensive char.
acter are making for starting the expert
ment of cotton growing on the Pacific
slope. A company composed of Califor
mans and Englishmen, have decided upon
the Kern river valley as the seat of their Ope
rations, and purchased ten thousand acres
of land upon which to test the plan One
thousand acres are to be planted in ihs
spring. and the rest from time TO time. as
experience shall show economical. With
the tract is purchased canal, that, it is
said, will serve TO irrigate the entire area to
be put in cultivttion. The results of the
experiment will be looked for with csnsid-
cradle interest.
The white squatters on the Usage Indian
lands have had full sixty days notice to re-
move, and now the War Department is
about to see that the notice is Obeved. 1t is
claimed that there are 800 OF 500 of these
squatters. and that their removal will can Sc
great hardship and suffering.
The authorship of the phrase "mast, rly
inactivity" has recently been made the sub
ject of investigation in England. 1t has
been discovered that these words were first
used by Sir James Macintosh, in 1891, in
| his defense of the French revolution. con-
tained in his work entitled "Vendicine Gal
lic8." This phrase was also used with
great effect by John G. Calhoun, when Sec
retary of State. in lS43, in reference to the
annexation of Texas, and has sometimes
been considered as original with him.
| Some idea of the rapidty with which our
China and Japan trade is growing, NAV be
gathered from the fact that last year 100
600 pound, of tea were received at San
| Francisco from Pacific steamers, aud this
year IL, 900 600 pounds.
A Kentucky girl says that when she dies
she desires to have tobacco planted over her
grave. that the weed nOurished by her dust
| may be cheHed by her bereaved lovers
There is poetry in the idea.
The office OF Collector of the Port of New
| York, even in legitimate f.es, j. very nice
thing for poor man. The amount of fines,
| tOrfeitures and penalties collected during No
vember was 1863 52l 62 One-twelirh of which
goes into the p, cket OF the Collector, to say
nothing of his salary.
| The Bonapartist organ, Ordre, makes
| the following comment upon the decree
suspendng irs two contemporaries, I'm
der the Empire OF 1852 journal could not
bp suspended until il had received three
warnings: under the Empire since 1868 a
| journal could only be condemned BY a Court
of justice; under the EHpire in 1870 the
Chamber pissed law which, renitted all
| pres offenses tn the decision OF n Jury :;
under the Republic, the government has the
| right 10 suppress = Journal without pre-
limuary warning. The liberty of the press
exists in fact no longer
| A number ot Joint stock associations are
forming in England and Germany. The
mania for >peculation would seem
to be almost equal to the oil and
mining fevers which RACED in this
country a few years ago. In the single
month of October, there Were incorporated
in London alone. sixty-eight companies
representing a nominal capital aggrtgating
more than S24 100000. and aiming to carry
on all sorts of enterprises in all parts of the
world, under prospectuseS promising every
thing except financial failure.
News come from Jamaica that represen-
tativrs rom Guatemala San Salvador, aud
Honduras will meet at Aspinwall, during
| the present month, loT tile purpose OF Iprin-
ing / Central American Confederation. The
wonderful resources ot those trOpic States
| have hardly r"mnf nCed developing, an, any
arrangement whi"h gives trmneSs to their
position, and Il voice in the national cuun
els of the world, will be OF great advan-
tage, not only to them but to us.
.c;entitc writer i'm the London .Sn,c.o =
,o,. sne,kino of our great fires. SAYS.
p" When the truth is known about these
fires in America, it will be found that they
resulted from the passage of a great mys,e-
rioHs atmospheric steam, which arose in
| longitude 81 degrees, swept with a cyclone
Antigua and the Virgin Isles on the 2lst OF
| August, the Bahamas on the 23rd, and then
moved slowly to the northwest. striking
Chicago and the forests"
Tbo .musing discovery has been made
tbarN EmiIr 0liyier's famous nbrasa nro.
taSS;n'. Ia r. rmhark upon the war nf IszO
,,i,h ~ .Ii,hr b,.,rt was. ,ft,r all = MIRA,
On June 20, 1866 on the eve nt the war
with Austria. King Victor Emanuel wrote
| to NAPOLEON lii: Italy has m army ot
| two hundred and fifty thousand men and a
| reserve OF fifty tlIorsanI. Tomorrow |
| shall put myself at the head of INV soldiers.
NV heart is light" (,aon coeur est leger), the
very words OF Olivier.
| ~, ,bo ,,;rtv.s,x N.x;cop E.dsrol oac,r,
,,,h,, ravoIrea ,r,tpst .Jnarez .t Guavn,a.
even had formerly been condemned In
Jcath for treason 80 IN. Mexican govern
ment, hut D'n Benito. as President of the
Repuhlic, in his clemency anu mercy re-
yokcd their sentences. Gratitude does not
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