The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-06-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
THE various canal projects ask Gov
ernment aid to the extent of $500, ,000,-
600.
PEACE COMMISSIONER MEACHAM, who
was shot with Candy, will never recover
his sight.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has eight hundred and eleven locomo-
tives on the road.
ST. LOUIS is to have a new paper, to
be called the Tribune, and to start with
a capital of 100000.
THE Bank of England covers five
acres of ground, employs five hundred
clerks, and has capital of 800, ,OOO, 600.
BISMARCK thinks that Spain and Italy
will, in less than fifteen years, be eaten
up by other powers and lose their
identity.
An English member of Parliament,
who has been unaccountably missing for
some time, is said to be leader among
the Carlists.
PHILADELPHIA manufactures 81 900,
600 worth of carpets per annum, more
than the rest of the United States and
Great Britain combined.
SENATOR FENToN revived old memories
the other day by ride on a raft down
the Allegheny river, where he was a
lumberman twenty years ago.
THE oldest furnace in the country is
that standing in Chester county, Penn. ;,
which was successfully worked for 1876
years, ending with 1868, and since then
has been waiting for purchaser.
IT is asserted that the body of negro
woman, who was burned in Virginia a
few days ago, was entirely consumed,
even to the bones, but that the heart
remained intact, and was scarcely char
red at all.
A PAIR of mocking birds, which have
built their nest in a honeysuckle vine
near dwelling house in Wilmington,
N. c., recently put cat ingloriously to
flight by attacking her boldly when she
came too near their home.
ROBERT ATWOOD, the Louisville, KY,
forger, plead guilty to ten indictments
for illicit penmanship, and was sentenced
to twenty years imprisonment on each.
Further charges will be preferred when
he has served his two century term.
Amo PARpEE, of Luzerne county, Pa,
was quite poor in 1888. He is now worth
about 500, ,OOO, 900, rs also is the Hon.
Asa Packer, who forty years ago arrived
at Mauch Chunk with hand-saw and q
jack-plane as the sum total Of his world
ly possessions.
A LETTER from the FIJI Islands states
that the mountain savnges killed fami.
ly of whites named Burns, and some
Polynesian laborers, altogether sixteen
whites, whose bodies were found horri'
bly, mutilated. Some of the bodies were
carried away for cannibal feast.
PAREPA sang a Greek song at Cairo
recently. There was to be concert il
half dozen languages, and the Greel
basso fell sick, and Madame Parepa
though knowing nothing of the language
mastered it sufficiently in twelve hours
to give the song SO well that the public
"nearly went mad over her"
Noah WEBSTER used to spread his ia
vorite ideas of the spelling reform by
travelling about from printing office te
printing Office and handing printed slipi
containing the word "theater, "center,
ETC., to persuade people to spell as he
did. This was before the ravenous de
mand of the great American people fol
dictionaries furnished him with more
effective propaganda than peripatetit
one.
"A RAT ran up tHe uCoIIcf VI nn CLIO
plants trunk in Paris. The elephant
made frantic efforts to relieve himself o.
his unwelcome visitor, but in vain
Suddenly he paused and seemed to re
fleet then he went to his basin, fillet
his trunk with water, and amid the grea
excitement of the lookers-on, ejectet
the water and the unfortunate rat will
one sublime effort.