The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-28
THE WORLD IN A WORD.
Personal AND GENERAL

creditors by paying them 10 per cent. III mohe.
and the remainder in Pacific railroad bonds
THERE are over 80, 900 unemployed working
men in Philadelphia.
dency of the Pennsylvania railroad, but the
Directors wouldn't let him.
BuLDINa in New York is seriously inter-
rupted by a strike of the bricklayers.
THE Indians on the northwestern frontier of
Texas are worse now than at any time since
the war.
The yellow fever has entirely died out in
the South
THE cause of the suicide of Hon. William
McGalliard, Representative in the Illinois
Legislature from Logan county, is said to have
been a case Of unrequited love.
EXCITING news comes from Alaska of rich
gold discoveries in that far-off portion OF our
national domain, and there is a likelihood of q
big rush of ~gold-hunters thitherward.
TIRE are fifty less Apache scoundrels to
harass the settlers in Arizona, Capt. Brown
having slain that number during a recent raid
into the Tonic Basin country.
STEPHEN S. MALLORY, of Florida, who was
Secretary of the Confederate States Navy. is
dead.
OVER 200, 600 emigrants arrived in the United
States during the last three months.
Is A man riding on a free railroad pass en-
titled to damages for injury? The United
States Circuit Court at indianapolis has just
decided that he is.
NAVIGATION on the Upper Mississippi river
is closed for the season.
Ir is stated that Secretary Richardson, in
his annual report. will recommend that the
:44.0 600, 90 reserve be brought into actual
service. and that the coffee and tea duty be
restored.
The officers of vessels leaving New York
for Germany are besieged with applications
from recently arrived immigrants for permits
sion to work their passage back to Father
land.
GEN. RYAN. one of the victims of the Span
ish butchery, is a native of Canada his
mother and a sister reside in Chicago. He is
a brother of the ex-Confederate Capt. Ryan,
who was mistaken for John H.. Surratt, and
Law for several weeks in the old Capitol Prison,
at Washington, in 1857.
The atrocious butcheries perpetrated by
Tie Spaniards in Cuba have caused intense ex-
cHcHent all over the country, and public
meetings are being held in many of the large
cities to express indignation at the outrage.
The desire for prompt and decisive measures
on the part of our Government is universal.
The affair forms the all-absorbing topic i'll
official circles at Washington, and the Govern
ment is manifesting q determination to be
prepared for the worst that may come. The
busy note of preparation is heard in the
hitherto quiet navy yards. and vessels of war
are being got ready for sea as rapidly as pos
sible. Thu Secretary of War has issued or
ders to Immediately put in repair tine gulf for
titications.
An event that will be apt to create consider
able excitement in religious circles is the with
drawal of Bishop Cummins, of Kentucky, from
the Episcopal church. Bishop Cummins is the
diocesan who attained some prominence dur
ing the recent session Of the Evangelical Alii-
ance by participating in the sacrament at a
Presbyterian chnrch.
The war steamer Kansas sailed on the 10Th
inst, with sealed orders, for Cuban waters.
Other vessels will follow immediately.
TIL engineer of the Spanish corvette Tor
aado, which chased the yirginius to herdoom,
is an American named Mackabee.
INTELLIGENCE that appears to be reliable
comes from Havana that the Virginius was
captured on the high seas, about twenty miles
from Jamaica.
MATTERS in the navy-yards are more lively
than at any time since the close of the war.
AT the PhiladelpLia yards 700 men are at work
at the monitors. Ajax and Quinnebaug. At
Brooklyn the Colorado and Minnesota are be-
ing got ready for sea with all possible haste.
At Charlestown the Franklin and Brooklyn
are being fitted up. aud will be ready to sail
in g few days. The Ossipee, after taking on
a supply of torpedoes at Providence, sailed
for Cuba Oh the 18th inst.
An immense mass meeting was held on
Saturday evening. in the Courthouse at
st. Louis, to express Indignation at the Span
ish outrages.
SEVERAL Germans were among he muir
dered Virginius passengers, and it is expected
Kaiser William will take q hand in furnishing
the Spanish devils.
SnNAToR WISDoM's Transportation Com
mittee is taking testimony in New Orleans
relative to the improvement of the Missis-
sippi.
GRANGE has been organized at Hampden,
Mass. with Hon, Amaea Walker as Master.
Others are to be instituted at once.
SENATOR RICHAnD ]. OGLEsBY was married
at Elkhart, Ind, on the 18th inst, to Mrs.
Emma Keys.
TIE charge for registering domestic letters
Will be reduced to cents after Jan. /.
A DISPATCH from Kingston, Jamaica, SAYS
that it is rumored that, Ryan and Verona not
dying easily, a Spanish officer thrust his sword
through Ryan's heart, and that q bloodthirsty
mob severed the heads from the bodies and
placed them on pixies and marched them
through the city.
ACCORDING to the Washington dispatches.
President Grant is decidedly bellicose in lis
conversation on Cuban affairs.
ANOTHER foray of Mexicans into Texas is
reported. The marauders crossed the river,
sacked a town, and escaped with their plumber
in security.
II Il ItpCflcu ludI Tie NlTRIInus mas DecL
sunk.
An immense Cuban meeting was held in New
York city a few evenings since. Speeches
were made by William N. Evarts, s. s. Cox and
other distinguished gentlemen, and the great
est enthusiasm prevailed.
TIE Mrs. Templeton who was shot in New
York the other day by her husband was not,
az stated in the dispatches, a daughter Of Gen
Babcock.
The President, in a conversation the othel
day relative to the Cuban difficulty. stated thai
the Government WAS engaged in collecting
concerning the capture OF the
flrginius and the particulars Of the revolving
executions which supplemented that event
He declared also that the Government would
be careful to act only npon facts, and not upoI
mere assumptions and unconfirmed reports
lie made the point that Spain never having
t-eated the island OF Cuba as in a state of war
aud there having been no proclamation by the
United States according belligerent rights t.
the insurgents, the Virginius. if regularly
cleared, had q right to enter Havana; and
hence that the United States did not recognise
any right on the part of Spain, in the present
state OF affairs, to interfere in any manner
with our merchantmen.
SECRETARY FISH, says a Washington tele.
gram, feels very buoyant and confident thai
there will be no war, and the Government viii
be acquitted Of honor and fortitude before the
world.
The President is busy on his message.
THERE is a very sad state of affairs in
Osceola country. Iowa. Its people arc desti.
tute of food, clothing, and fuel. Twisted hav
and seed-grass is all they have to burn. and
they appeal to the outside world for help.
SECRETARY Robcson expresses his deter.
minatiun to place the navy on a war footing
with all possible haste. and with this end il
view recruiting stations are being opened all