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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-30
TIE BATTLE CRY or REBELLION.
"Anybody to Beat Grant''-Rehections up-
on the Appropriateness OF the Democratic
Malta. '-.s.

" "Anyb0dy to beat Granty-Re6ections up
ON the Appropriateness. or the Democratic
Motto.
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
The rallying cry of the Greeleyocracy
is appropriate-but not new. In sub
stance always, and for long periods, and
many critical hours, in very words, it
rang constantly from rebel battle line,
and fort, and pirate ship" Anything
to beat Grant"
1t sounded over the South from Cor
inth when Beuregard was organizing to
move on Shiloh, and brought in regi-
ments from New Orleans, middle aged
gentlemen in broadcloth, and old men
who left their homes and offices for a
few days, only enlisting for the battle.
The Southwest was drained of material;
and the limits of the cradle and the
grave invaded literally to meet the re-
uuirements of the rebel necessity. AID
the one command that covered all prep
arations was "Anythipg and every
thing to beat Grant"
Guerrillas swarmed everywhere in
rear of the Union forces, shootingstrag-
glers, robbing, killing sick and wound.
ed often, and violating every rule OF
warfare except that Of the outlaw, cheer
ed on constantly by citizens, tolerated
and aided by the authorities, and pro.
tected Ly all. And this whole system,
with all its attendantoutrages, was based
upon the one sentiment, Anything
TO beat Grant"
The horrors Of Fort Pillow and it.
butchsfles, when summed up In a sin
gle phrase, read Anything to bea
GrsAt.n And 80 Of Plymouth, and !,
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-30

babby," he said.
A great and exceeding bitter cry burs
from Bessie's lips.
Doant gay that. oh! fayther, yo'
KILN IL must tell yo'-I maun tel
yo', or my heart will break. Kit di,
it-fayther-n aE
The old man sprang to his feet h,
had been kneeling beside the seat sh,
was on. !fi. 10.
r He did it, fayther; | seed him ?
and seizing the arm that, with hanc
clenched, hung by her, she told hin
the story of her husbands crime anc
her misery. 1dt
| When she had done he stood still
his hands clenched, his head dropping
Suddenly he turned, and lifting hei
up in his arms, held her to his heart as
he had done when, as motherless
child, she had come to him for comfort
in her childish trials. ta
Bessie, my darling, We are done right
in telling me. can die happy when
know why l die. No, my dear, you've
not 10 fret; it is you Pm thinking for.
not Kit. God III have to think for him.
It's yo', darling-you'll find it hard to
hold your tongue, but you must, dear.
I'm your fay ther, and God has given me
right tocommand my child. Ny COM
mand is t'yo go back to Kit, and help
the Lori to make him a better man. |
hadn't many years to live, Bessie. It's
not much whether GO this year or FIVE
wears later; and allow ! won't be
hardly judged in the other world for
what Pm doing now"
Kit was sitting at the table writing
when she got out of bed. She went
over TO him and put her arms around
him. He looked up in her face.
God knows what he saw there per-
haps the shadow of her doom or his.
Whatever it was, it made him lay his
head upon the table, and sob in the
very bitterness of a mans despairing
passion. le.t. -
Bessie did not try to comfort him.
She had her work to do. Kit sobbed
on then, turning, he came over to his
wife and laid his hand on her shoulder.
," You are right, Bessie; only you are
not TO do it. I'll do it myself"
And he left her.
Bessie ran after him-he was gone.
Rushing back to her room, she began
dressing; life and death depended upon
it-ay, indeed, life and death for even
as she hurried down stairs, crowd
came to the door--a crowd with white,
frightened faees-bearing in their midst
a body! +
Kit had shot himself. The paper he
had been writing when Bessie gave him
her last kiss was a full confession of the
crime. ss.,
Harry Walters was released, but never
showed his face in Luiworth. When
Bessie was able TO move they emigraied,
and no tidings of them, veal OF wo, have
ever reached their old home.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-30
The FOrty.Acre Farm.


I'm: ,hinhin,: wife Of neishbor Jones. that ma,
He lives in peace and plenty. on /. fostsaer,
While men are an around us. sitk hands and
Who own two hundred acres. and still an
wanting more. 'Ta =
He as . loving wife within. as quiet as mouse;
His children play around the door. their fathers
Looking as neat and tidy as the tidy little farm.
Noweeds are in the corn-6elds. no thistles in the
oats: al = s.---lt5 : :
The horses show good keeping by their fne and
The COWS within the meadow. resting meath the
Learn ali Their gentle manners of the gentle
Within the fields. on Saturday. he leaves no
Graded grain
To be gathered on the morrow for fear of coming
He keeps the Sabbath holy. his children learn
And plenty fills his barn and bin after the harvest
days. -
He never has a lawsuit to take him to the town,
rof tsn rne vsay Simple reason there arc no line
The 6ar-room in the village does not have for
can always find my neighbor on his forty. acre
farm.
His acres are so very few he plows them very
deep;
'Tis bis hands that turn the sod. tits his own
hands that reap:
He has place for everything. and things are in
their place;
The sunshine smiles upon his fields contentment
on his face.
May We not learn lesson, wife. from prudent
neighbor Jones.
And not for what We haven't got-give vent to
signs and moans?
The rich aren't always happy. nor free from life's
alarms; -
But blest are they who live content, though
small may be their farms.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-30
A Persian Horror.

Many narrowing facts have been given
Of the late dreadful famine in Persia,
but one incident is now related so in
tensely horrible as almest to surpass all
belief, although seriously mentioned in
the Leuant Times. In the Persian city
of Flamatan, two famishing women,
aided by seven others, stole three chill
dren and ate them. They were arrest.
ed, and the bones Of the dead children
fourd partially concealed in their
clothes. The Grand Vizier condemned
the two women to the gibbet, and thei,
companions in guilt to be starved tc
death in prison. At the end of d week
five Of these seven wretches were fount
dead In the prison, after having de-
! voure] the other two
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-30
Varieties.

Men of letters-Sign-painters. -
bad thing to keep-Late hours.
THE line of q lady's love is supposed
to be the Masculine.
JOE JErrEnsoN's eyesight is nearly re-
stored.
A NAN who trumpets his own fame
usually has brass countsnance.e
A CONNECTICUT man k.s named q
rooster Crusoe, becsnse Robinson Cru
soc.
ABour the commonest social vice,
snd the one which is most abhorred, IL
advice. e
AN editor, commenting upon the i'm
portance of small things, says he does
not even slight straw if it has sherry
cobbler at one end.
"THIs insurance policy is queer
things" saio Dobbs, refectively. "f1
can't sell it, cancel it: and if can
eel it, can't sell it." 81, p rf4
Why is the Emperor of Russia like
greedy school-boy on Chr:stmasday ?
Because he's confounded Hung(alry,
and songs for Turkey!
7 A THIEF was lately caught breaking
into a song. He. had already got
through the first two barn, when q
policeman came up and hit him with
stave. 20
CONNECTICUT is credited with the lazi-
est fisherman. The individual in ques-
ton is ".Fifteenth Amendment" who
ties his fish line to his dog, and when he
gets q bite kicks the dog. 'sa-ease
An Illinois editor sent TO another,
who had refused to exchange with him,
a paper bearing this inscription: Tex
change, or 60 to h. The editor
thus addressed, replied: al will do
neither, for don't want your paper
in this world, nor your company in the
next
A LADY who loved Bulwer entered q
book store Just as one of the clerks had
killed q large rlt I" wish TO see
What He Will Do With IT," said she
to boy behind the counter. Well"
said the boy, "if you'll step out to the
window you will probably see him sling
it into the back lot" 'n5af'i
DURING thuDoer-st0fm INQUIRER
told little girl that the thunder WAS
Gods voice. BY and by it thundered
again, when the child exclaimed,
" There, he's hollering again n Another
little girl was out on the piazza, when,
for the first time, she saw it lightning.
She came running in, exclaiming,
I" Mother, the moon just came by, all
broken to pieces" '
AN Irish gentleman in, the poetic
line has given the following version OF
the Kilkenny cats in Greek. Translated
it runs thus:
There wonst Was two cats at Kilkenny.
Each thought there Was one cat too many;
So thsy Quarreled and ht,
They scratched and they bit.
Till excepting their nails
And the tips OF their tails.
Instead Of two cars. there wasn't any. '---.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-30
Important Fact in Grape Culture.

We would mention fact which has
come within our observation and expe-
rience, which, if generally true, is of
some importance. Itis this: That the
&uit bud from the base of the past
years cane throws out larger and better
developed grapes than either the first
or the second. The grapes from these
buds seau, also better favored, and gen
orally superior to those on the first and
second. In accordance with this hint
we have adopted the plan Of cutting
the cane at such length - to leave the
third bud, generally, and sometimes the
fourth, when q good strong one, and
then rubbing off the FIRST and second
buds, and leaving the third and fourth
for fruit. The number Of fruit buds
left on the vine must depend on the
age and strength of the vine. If the
vines are strong and vigorous at three
years. from two to three punches oi
grapes may be allowed to mature on
each without injury.-Paeife Rara'
Press.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-30
The Founder Of . City.

scranton, now the third city in Penn
sylvania, was founded only thirty years
ago by Joseph II. Scranton, who lived
TO see populous and wealthy manu-
featuring city arise in that short period,
mainly through his own efforts, from
what was at first not even hamlet He
dle,l, on the 9Th Of 5arA n Tho s1e
of bs.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-30

Australia is quite country. 1t is
2,4OO miles in length and 800 miles in
width. The first settlement was made
there in l789-6OO male and $50 female
convicts, 1853 soldiers, 40 women their
wives), and 81 officers. 1t is now
divided into seven States. OF these
Victoria is the most remarkable. 1t
has three.quarters of a million of in
habitants Melbourne, the capital, has
10000. Victoria has $1,000 square
miles of territory. Her ssvings banks
contain $4,000 900, and the assets Of
her various building associations are
over $s,0O0,OO0. A good many of the
laws Of Victoria are modelled after those
of the United States. and her people
are sometimes styled the Yankees Of
Australia. Mining is the principal in
dustry, and the proceeds Of the mines
are increasing yearly. a..
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-30
Current Items.
BUFFALO has Il4,000 people.

| puffAIc Has ifiUD peopit.
NEWARK, n. j., has 10000 people.
CONNECTICUT has ljoCO Freemasons.
The public debt of Texas is s23,36l
600.
AuRuRx, Me-. turns out 1000 pairs OF
shoes per hour.
COTTON factories are springins up all
over the South.
NICKEL Plated Aat-irons are coming
into general use. ,r
EIGaTY palace CARS arrive and depart
from Chicago daily. ....
IS 1895, Cleveland had population
Of only three persons.
THERE are i2.OO0 professional musi-
clans in New York city.
AN Ohio hurricane lately carried a
bolt of flannel nine miles. u. 81
r. NEWARK, Nj, is to have Catholic
cathedral, to cost 81, 100000.
THE health of New Orleans has been
remarkably good this summer.
BEN BUTLER withdraws from the Cub
ernatoriAl field in Massachusetts,.
ExcEfLEsr whisky is manufactured
in Cincinnati from potato peelings and
cigar stun H. 1.
STRAUSS Aronounces the American
pianos the best in the world, and ne
ought to know.
THERE will be enough wild grapes IN
Texas this season to make more wine
than WAS ever manufactured in France
in one year. ustr. 7f.a
The new Manhattan Market, in New
York city. covers an entire square, and
cost 81, $4,000. 1t is the largest market
in the world. .....
An English pressman from the Lon.
don Times office, now in the employ OF
the st. Louis Republican, says the Times
has q circulation of only $1,000.
IT REQUIRES Sc steam presses and over
600 employees to do the Government
printing; and at least so per cent. OF
the printing that is done is utterly
yalueless to the country. There IS no
department of the Government which
admits 80 largely of retrenchment and
reform.
DIR. JOHN MURRAY is a brave man.
DIR. John Murray is also distinguished
English physician, who has the amazing
effrontery TO discover and declare that
tobacco is not wholly injurious, and
that common snuff will, in many cases,
arrest the progress of pulmonary con
sumption.
THERE is colored woman in Louis
vile who was bitten by mad dog thirty
wears ago, and has had periodic parox-
ysms of catalspsy ever since. These
paroxysms seize her regularly about
twice q month, and during their preva
Ience she barks like dog and wrestle:
| around the floor in lively manner, but
touches no one. She is entirely harEi'
less, and has raised family OF children.
Tas Sioux are very obseryant. One
of Spotted Tails followers. who speaks
a little English, seeing one OF the ser
want pirI. at hotel take of her CHG
non, the other day, exclaimed, How
White ssoinsn raisr her nv" scaip u"
disu no good herep
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-11-08
An EmbarrassIug situation.

Max Adeler says That little affair of
Needham's that some of the papers have
been telling about was certainly unpleas-
ant-at least to Needlam. Needham
owned a deep-mouthed watch dog, which
always bayed him welcome home, and
snatched mouthfuls Of chops out of the
legs of strangers. Needham took that
faithful animal along with him one day to
guard his clothes while he went in swim
ming. Needham bathed for an hour, and
meanwhile the dog went to sleep on Need
hams garments. When Needham came
out the dog did net recognize him in
his nude condition, and stOutly refused
to let him come near his own gar
ments. Every time that said Needh am
would grab for suspender or sock the dog
would bite mouthful out of his arm or
leg, and whenever Needham would make
a dive for a boot or undershirt, that animal
would seize him by the calf and shake him.
So Needham stood there in the SUN pretty
nearly roasted, and he spent the afternoon
lodging in and out of the water to avoid
the DO cas- societies and female students at
the boarding school and the factory girls
coming down the road. At last, when the
dog went to sleep, Needham crept up be-
hind him, caught him suddenly by the tail,
and flung him across the stream. Before
the dog could swim back, Needham got
most of his clothes upon his bleeding body
and limbs, and the dog came siding up to
him, looking as if he expected to be re-
warded for his extraordinary vigilance.
And yet they say that the dog is mans
best friend.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-11-08

Of Jackson county, Fla. Its prospects for
future growth and Improvement are brjebter
than any city this side of Savannah. 0Tbo
line Of the cambridge, Cuthbert and 10
lumbus railroad has been surveyed. and tLo
grading completed for the greater port nr
the distance, and although work is nov
stopped until the frauds of Bullock. Kim.
ball 81 Co. can be thoroughly investigated
yet 1t VIII ere long be complot ted and ope,,
up new source OF trade and wealth TO the
city, aud then, too, the extension Of ,ho
Atlantic and Gulf raj road, ii ON its ,resa,t
terminus in cambridge TO lolerd. in Al
bama, Will open direct communication viii
the Gulf, and lend its aid in increasing tIn
wealth and developing the resources OF tlio
port Of the State. The last Leeislat,'roo
voted $4,000, State aid, per mile :,
assist in completing this extension and
under the able management Of Colonoi
Screven, the present President of ,La
Company, have 10 doubt but that w,,l,
VIII be commenced at no dist ant dAv. Tl.
lines OF both these roads will run fLr,,'I
finely tiInbered pine country. VII
| steam saw-mllls and timber men can raaI;.
handsome incomes from All energeti, -"
vOtlon to business, and il IS a well-kno,",,
fact that Georgia and Florida Lun,L''
| under the general name Of +" FIorid, ,,i., :,
commands higher price i'm the ma,i'a
than the similar products Of any nI'
State. The mills of Apilichicola and rnr
| sacOl@, in Florida, are said TO furnish
east sevcn-eighths Of all the lumber no"
used for building purposes in Texas
TIMBER Is cheap and can he now bouoI,
Tor twenty-five cents per tree. There is
one resource Of this part Of Georgia which
has never been developed, and 1 calnnI
! close this letter without calling the ,tta,,-
| tn, H..
la@"s II ole. for realizing fortunes [ refer
to turpentine. A little over twelve months
ago came overland from Ellfaula. Ala
! uoWh the ChattahOoci e. Ii,cr to Balm
bridge, passing through Fort Gaines
Blakely and Colquit, and have never Ln.
fore heheld a finer timbered pine country
ana 1t las never yet had The axe Ct
| the tnrpentine hand in it, all ,iu,.
100 within short distance Of th,.
Chattahoochee or the Flint rivers, aud
all along the line Of the A. Il &. X. X. the
timber is equally as fine. Pine land j,
! cheap, and can be bought for less than fin.
rents now paid by turpenLine makers in
| North Carolina. There is no market f.
naval stores here now, nearer than Sayap-
nah, bat once he way was opened and a
demand created, supply would certainly
| follow, aud ihc buyer, as Well AS tn,
maker, would soon reap rich harvest q,
| gain. | am asonished that the farinir,
for making money from turpenlne Lrl,.
have not long ago attracted the attention
| Of the tuTpentiue men OF North Caloliua
and other States, where it has been made.
1t would certainly pay them 10 examin
the advantages ofl;ied here before eneag-
| ing elsewhere.
But / have already trcspasseh npon
your time, space and patience farther than
| I ILL -. A
for which beg your own and your readers
indulgence for the presumption and pro
| SineSs Of former
North CAI;oIINIAN,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-11-08
Mother EYES servant Girl.

"Can any one tell why, wien Eve was
manufactured from one of Adams ibis, a
hired girl wasn't made at The same time to
wait on her ?'
Because Adam never came whining to
Eve with ragged stockings to be darned, a
collar string to be sewed on, or glove to be
mended "right away, quick, now" Be
cause he never read the newspaper until
the sun goes down behind the palm trees,
and then, stretching himself, yawned out.
CANT supper most ready, dear ?f Not he
He made the fire and hung over the tea
kettle himself, we'll venture, and pulled the
radishes, peeled the bananas, and did eve
rything else that he'd ought to. He MIXED
the COW, fed the chickens and looked
after the pigs himself. He never
brought home half a dozen friends
to dinner, whom Eve hadn't any fresh
pomegranates, and the mango season was
over. He never stayed out until eleven
O'Clock TO a "ward meeting" hurrahing for
an Out-and-out candidate, and then scolded
because poor dear Fave was sitting up and
crying inside the gates. lie never PLAYED
billiards, nor drove fast horses, nor cnoKed
Eve with cigar smoke. He never loaft,d
around groceries, while solitary Eve was
rocking little Gains cradle at home. In
short, he didn't think she was specially
created for the purpose of waiting on him,
and wasn't under the impression that +
disgraced pan to tighten his wife's cares
a little.
That's the reason that Eve did not need
hired girl, and we wish it was the reason
that none of her fair descendants did.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-11-08
Is there Need Reform.

The New York Financier, an able and
Independent commercial journal, not po-
liticaI, thus graphically sketches the evils
that possess our political and business
systems, and make revolutionary reform
q necessity:
Ii the country was never so prosperous
as now let us waste no breath in talk about
reform, for no reform is needed if the
contrary is the fact, a knowledge Of the
disease must preccde the remedy. That
there is less honor and ability expected in
legislation, and certainly less realized than
ever before that offcr-hOldeIs are more
generally GO OH the make - that monopoly
s more fixed, more ambitious, more pow
erful, more deeply and confidently plan
ming that rings control almost every large
enterprise, and are reaching after the rest,
that great offenders are more secure
against justice; that party politics are
more completely a matter of bargain and
sale, in which the consent Of the people is
not even asked that, in short, the general
standard Of integrity is lower, and the
public conscience as to morality less SEN
sitive than fOrmerly-are these things
true? Far too much so; the dark-toned
picture is less pleasant to draw and
contemplate than the rosy one, but of
the two it is the truer to facts. Expert
ence has shown that all public affairs move
from ring to ring, and from one step in
corruption to another, year by year, until
a general rising in public sentiment is COM
PEELED, and this breaks the rings, clears the
air, and produces temporary reform, which
gives way again to gradual return of the
old evil. If no reform at all were had. the
socIal system would go to pieces; if man
kind We're better than is the reality, the re-
form might stay; but as things are, these
temporary returnings Of honesty and ability
in public affairs are the lest of which there
is reasonable hope. The defeat of Grant
may not bring such return; Lis reelection
is quite as likely to precipitate it, but it is
certainly time for 4 cleansing to come
Old fashioned honesty, ability and Justice
a trio OF blessings too short and far between
are sorely needed at present, and they
never had more work before them than
now. TO face facts sqaarely, in clear
light, and to realize what is the reed of re-
form, is the first step toward getting it, let
disihterested politicians protest as they
may.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-11-08
The Fair.

We are glad to be able to say that the
prospects for the Fair are most promising.
The Grounds and Buildings are in good
order, and the articles already entered ana
promised are superior in number and quail
inv to those heretofore entered thus early.
The President and General Secretary
are daily receiving letters from all parts Cf
the country making inquiries and promis-
inc articles for exhibition. The Fourth
Annual Fair promises to be the best yet
held under the auspices of the Association.
We hope our home people will not for
get their own Fair. We hope the exhibi-
ton, as we'll rs the attendance, will be
ahead of any yet made by the citizens of
Wilmington. We trust that we shall not
he disaDDOintrd