The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-02-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.

nail mills are on o general strike. Tn Sa-
mana Bay Company held a meeting at New
York, the other day, and ratified the contract
made with the San Domingo Government. The
following officers were elected for the ensuing
year: Alb. Stockwell, President; Paul N. Spot
ford, vice-President; Henry Clews, Treasurer;
r. R. Hazard, Secretary. The company intend
purchasing or building three steamers besides
the Tybee, which will run regularly between
New York and SANTANA Bay, establishing week
ly Communication .sanderson, a lawyer, has
sued the Brooklyn Union for $4,000 worth of
libel. "A New York dispatch of the 22d says:
1t was . painful scene when the sisters, Mrs.
Woodruff and Tennie C. Clafin, and Col. Blood
were for the fourth or fifth time taken tocourt
to-day to plead to the Indictment for the same
libel, this time for a repetition Of it. Strong
minded women and weak-minded men were
conspicuous by their absence, aud the prison.
ers, already under heavy bail, could not furnish
new bail, and were let out on parole. =
THE Hon. Vim. Cassidy. editor of the Albany
Evening Argus, and one of the famous Albany
Regency, is dead. /. The Pennsylvania Consti-
tutional Convention has decided that the State
elections shall be held on the Tuesday follow
ing the first Monday in November, and city
and township elections on the third Tuesday in
February.
Foster, the New York car-hook murderer, is
to be hanged March Z,
Maine has produced the latest meteorologi-
cal novelty. At waterville and wiscasset, in
that State, the other day, there was a severe
snow-storm, accompanied by thunder and
lightning, the thermometer marking at the
time s degrees above zero, or "a degrees below
the freezing point.
Bill Dennis (colored) has been hung at VIII
mington, Del, for rape.
The United States Grand Jury, at Albany,
has indicted Susan B. Anthony and fourteen
others for illegal voting at Rochester.
FOSTER, the New York car-hook murderer, il
to be hanged March IT,. Maine has produced
the latest meteorological novelty. At Water
vile and Wiscasset, in that State, the other
day, there was a severe snow-storm, accompa-
MED by thunder and lightning, the thermome-
er marking at the time 8 degrees above zero,
or "a degrees below the freezing point. Bill
Dennis (colored) has been hung at Whining
ton, Del, for rape. The United States Grand
Jury, at Albany, has indicted Susan b. An
thony and fourteen others for illegal voting at
Rochester.
THREE persons were swept from q bridge
over the Little Delaware river, near Hampton,
Del, and drowned, during the recent freshet.
THE smallpox rapidly decreasing in Bos-
ton. The Cashier of the National Granite
State Bank, at Exeter, n. H., has a~bsconded,
leaving a defalcation of 5000 900. .Pennsyl-
vania will give 81, OOO, 900, and the city of Phil
adelphia s50O, 600, to aid the Centennial cause.
THE YES
THE well-known druggist, P. C. Samson, one
of the oldest and most prominent citizens of
Dubuque, Iowa, died recently, after a linger-
ing illness, of consumption. John Crowder,
one of the pioneers of Dubuque county, Iowa,
was found dead in a field near his home,
where he had gone to cut wood. He died from
old age.
SIX persons were drowned at Evansville,
Ind, recently, while attempting to cross the
Ohio river in a skiff. 800. Hammond, the revival
list, is converting the Bloomington Qll.) sin
ners. The Grand Army of the Republic
meeting, at DAYTON, last week, WAS slimly at
tended. "A disease similar to the late cpl
zootic aflicts the Detroit horses.
The epizootic is ravaging the Pacific coast.
THE Modoc Indians, flushed with their
recent victory, threaten a raid on the white
settlements.
THE Lake County Qnd.) Infrmary was
burned last week. Two insane women were
devoured by the flames. 1t is stated that
sore LOO. quits Are about to be entered
zgafnst the Missouri Pacific and Atlantic
and Pacific railroads, of Missouri, for I'M
just discrimination in freight charges. These
suits involve over a million Of dollars.
Laura D.. Fair lectured at Sacramento, the
other night, in a lager-beer saloon, having been
unable to obtain any public hall, Her subject
was, Wolves in the Fold" Finding nobody
paid to enter the cellar, she ordered the door
thrown open for a free lecture. The place was
Immediately filed. She then vent on the plat
form and delivered her lecture.
THE Mayor of Detroit has been fined 200
by the Recorder for violating the smallpox
ordinance.
CAPT. JACK, the Modoc chief, recently at
tackled Col. Bernardo camp, and was repulsed.
The white settlers are getting ap~prehensiye of
raids by the savages, and many families are
leaving.
GEN. GoRDoN has been elected United States
Senat r from Georgia. The vote stood:
Gordon, liz; Alexander H. Stephens, Sc; cx-
Acknowledgement Alderman, A.. Alexander
Il. Stephens las been nominated to Congress-
in Georgia. and accepted. The Governor will
order the election soon.
KENTUCKY is agitating the project Of remov-
ing her State capital from Frankfort to Louis
ville....The people of Georgia, Alabama,
Florida, and other Southern States are serious
ly alarmed at the tide of emigration which has
set in from those States in Texas. In Texas
the computation is that the arrivals of settlers
from other States are equal to 5000 per day
this is during the present season, but in the
spring a greater number is expected.
WASHINGTON
The Senate has voted, two to one, to abolish
~frankling privilege after July 1. The fol-
is the vote: Yeas-Alcorn, Anthony. |
Foreman, Casserly, Chandler, Cole, Conkling,
.ragin, Ferry (Ct.), Ferry (Mich.), Flanagan,
Hamlin, Harlan, Hitchcock, Howe, johnson,
Kelly. Lewis. Pratt, Ramsey, Sawyer, Schurz, |
Scott. Sherman, West, Wilson, Window and
.right-Ss. N~dys-Ames, Bayard, Buckingham.
Carpenter, Corbet, Edmunds. ~Frelinghuysen.
Gilbert, Hill, Machen, Norwood, Pool, Robert
son, Spencer, Stevenson, and Tpton-l6....