The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-01
NEWS In BRIEF.
The East.

AAS AAcN |
BEN. BUTLER has been renominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the Sixth
Massachusetts, District,-....The will of the
late William 81. Seward is n clear, s~uccinct
document, sipgularly free from legal techni-
~calities, and written entirely in his own
hand. He bequeaths his late home at Au-
burn to his three sons. His other property
he divides into four equal shares among his
sons, Augustus, Frederick, and William,
and his adopted daughter, Olive Risley
Seward. The property amounts to about
$200, 600.
IT is reported that James Gordon Bennett
will soon commence issuing German edition
of the New York Herald......Mr. Burroughs,
a we'll known New York hotel keeper, for
merly proprietor of the Continental Hotel at
Long Branch, and l~atterly of the Everett
House, New York, has eloped to England
with Ella Wesner, q male character vocalist
and variety actress. He leaves a wife and
family and numerous creditors TO mourn MS
flight.
GROUND has been broken on the new Con-
n~ecticut State House at Hartford
to the depth of four inches fell on the Pc
nobscot river, in Maine, on the 18th OF
October.,,,,.The horse disease which has
been raging in Canada has broken out in
New York, and causes much alarm among
horse wners......N New York merchants re-
port the trade with the South greater this
autumn than at any time since the war.
TIE Canada horse epidemic is prevailing
to an alarming extent among the horses of
Buffalo......The total vote of Pennsylvania,
at the October election, was $4,000, and
docs not vary much from the vote of 1868.
.....In the baseball tournament at New
York, the Athletic Club, of Philadelphia,
carried off the first prize, $500 ; the Boston
Club the second prize, $1,000 and the Mu-
tual Club, of New York, tho third prize,
5 LOCO. The Athletics won four games, the
Bostons three games, and the Mutuals one
game.
ARRANGEMENTS are making in New York
for a public debate between James Anthony
Froude and Father Burke on the Irish ques-
tion..--The following is the official vote OF
Pennsylvania at the October election, as
compared with that in October, 1868:
OCTOBER. 1865. OCTOBER. 1872
For Auditor General. Ior f;orsrnor.
Hartranft. Rep-.---33l AIS Hartranft, R.p...SI3 80,
Boyle, Den-~--.32l,73e Bsckalew. Lib..--3I7.S i
MP. M'Jority---.. 9.t11I Eep. maJorlty..... 55,5fs
There are twenty murderers confined in
the New York Tombs......The Cambria Iron
Company's rolling mills at Jamestown, Pa.
resumed work just one week after their de-.
struction by fire.
THREE hundred horses have died in Buff.
falo and Rochester, in twenty-four hours
from attacks of the Canadian h~orse-disease,
which was at first said not to be fatal. All
the stables in Western New York are affected;
the street-s&rs, the livery-stables, ami the
express companies, of Rochester, are ell a. a
stand-stlll. The disease exhibits no worse
symptoms than those of a bad cold, and the
great mortality is attributed to improper
treatment. The disease has also broken out at
Brooklyn and Boston. Importation of horses
from canada has been prohibited at Detroit.
ihere 10 much alarm in New York, lest
the epidemic should break out in that city.
me stables at Jerome Park and other places
nave oeen put IN quarantine, and the WE
ers OF valuable horses are sending their
stock to tho country. 1900 Three car loads of
emlgrants from Alsace and Lorraine left
New York for the West last ,Secrc-
tary Bore and Miss Nellie Grant arrived at
New York from Europe last week.
The West.
The great trot between Goldsmith Maid
and the California horse Occident, for a
purse Of $l0,eoo, at Sacramento, on the 10th
OF October, was witnessed by a crowd of over
ten thousand people, and created an i'm
mense sensation. The race was Won by tho
Maid easily, in three straight heats. Time,
2:2o3, 2:209, 2:22. The result was a sore dis
appointment to the Californians, as they had
iondly hoped their ~favorite horse would
wrest from Goldsmith Maid her we'll earned
need of I" queen Of the turf" Occident is
Is a sorrel gelding, about nine years of age,
who served his time in a vegetable wagon,
and was unknown to the public until pur-
chased by ex-Gov. Leland Stanford, Presi-
dent of the Central Pecifc Railroad Com
Pany, and trained by James Eoff, a we'll.
known DETERMINATIONS Oval met his
friend Michael Connors, at Grand Tower
H., The other day, and in shaking hands the
latter hurt a boil which Oval had on his
hand. From this trivial cause an alteration
arose, which culminated in Michael receiv-
ing a death stab from the amiable James,.
William Cluck has been sentenced to b,
hanged, at indianapolis, for the murder O
his wife in April last.
TIE Directors of the Colorado River rail
road, in view of the bitter hostility ~existin,
IN San Francisco to railroad subsidies
havc published a card withdrawing from tn,
vote of the people of that city the proposed
$4,000. 900 northumberland of tn,
81. Louis Eucning Dispatch has been sold b,
N. d. McHenry to d. Robert Barclay fol
SS6,n0).
a STAGE was recently stopped near Pleasan
Valley, Montana, by highwaymen, and tn,
passengers relieved of 81, 0Q0.....The Emm,
mine trial is proceeding at Salt Lake Civ
An army of lawyers is in attendance, ana
much excitement prevsils......Th The st. L,ui,
Globe, although but a few weeks old, has 9
hundred thousand dollar libel suit on its
haDds.-."Kate Boyington, of Chicago, at
tempted to shuttle off her mortal coil, the
other day, by swallowing two yards OF shoe-
strings.
The following are the names of the Con-
gressmen elect in the various districts Of
Ohio, and their respective msjorities:
I'"; Congressm 1n-etecf. Majority.
1. Milton Saylor. Democrat....--.......... 3 ga
z II. h; Banning. Liberal Republican,. i 5O5
gop0 " smith, Republican------.- -- ]. 1853
.. Gnas. n. L.amison. Democrat-m-..... 531s
o. TX. Sherseod. Repubiican---............ 3.O65
. Lawrence Neal, Dcmocrat-..-......... / Oh
9. mm. Lawrence, Republican..-..--.... 4 0i3
y. James W, Robinson. Republican. --.. Az
~. Enaries Foster; Republican .---.---. 7l6
4. H.J. Jewett. Democrat.-...-.... III
Is. NJ L. Southard, Democrat-.--.... 247i
~. John Berry, Democrat--....-...m...3 ga
10. WIN. L. SDrague. Republican---...... ggi