The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-08-29
NEWS IN BRIEF
THE EAST.

. VCAoOy "SAS oN
storm on the 18th inst. Many miles of railroad
track were washed away, or so covered with
land-slides or floods as to be almost impassa-
BILE. Pittsburgh reports that 30 violent a rainfall
has never before occurred there, and through
out the country bridges, c~ulverts, dams and
roadways have been destroyed, and a great
deal of private property devastated.
THERE is ne truth in the report that a large
number Of New York Custom-House officials
had been removed for fraudulent practices.
DISPATCHES from New York represent that a
bitter onfict between gold spectators is be-
lieyed to be imminent ; that the gold clique is
manipulating the market for a currency lock-
up and that a strong combination exists to
repeat the experiences of the memorable Black
Friday. The bears have urgently petitioned
the President to interfere IA singular con-
fict between Federal and State authority is
threatened in Massachusetts. 1t seems that
as soon as the part which the Federal Govern
ment performs with reference to the beer that
is manufactured in that State-which is to tax
it's completed, the State Government per-
forms its part-which is to destroy it. I h
manufacturer feel that there is something in
this which is net strictly equitable, and will
therefore appeal to the authorities at Wash
ington either to be protected against the State
constabulary, or to be reimbursed as to taxes
paid on beer destroyed under the State law.
The seventh annual reunion of the Army of
the Cumberland will be held in Pittsburgh on
the 18th and 18th of September.
A FARMERS GRANGE has been established in
Boston. j.. The New York Sub-Treasury con-
tains more than $50, 900, 600 in gold coin, be-
sides $40, 900, 900 in gold bars, $500, 900 in
silver, and S2s, 900, 600 in currency.
THE WEST
IT is reported that cholera has broken out
i'm q terrible form in Williamson county, ILL.,,
on the Illinois Central railroad. IA man be-
lieved to DO old man Bender, the Kansas
butcher, passed through Dubuque the other
day.
JULIUS MEYER, Indian interpreter, returned
to Omaha, last week. from a visit to the Paw
nees. He found the whole tribe in great grief,
the warriors painted black. One of the chiefs
said that the Sioux had burned Pawnee babes
on fires made Of buffalo carcasses; that the
Pawnees would mourn till the full moon, and
that they will then go to fight the Sioux, and
nobody, not even the Government, shall pre-
vent them. They are gathering their friends,
and say they can muster from 900 to 1000
men,. Col. Cobb, member of Congress from
the Wyandotte District, Kansas, has sued r.
X. Taylor, of the Wyandotte Gazette, for de-
famation Of character, claiming $40, 600 lam
oDao Tv,o Gr,t hale % aa@tor ovar ;,,n,rtoJ
into Cedar Rapids, Iowa, arrived there last
week, for the new knitting-factory which is
now in operation there. ..The Iowa State
Board of Equalization has completed
the valuation Of the State, which is
1864, 1886, $50, including the railroad valua-
ton of $1S, $40, 9sS. This is an increase
in the valuation of 50, 149, 1876 over 1s71....
Col. A. B. Durfee and Mr.. P. G. Morgan, two
old, wealthy and respected citizens of Atchison
county, Mo-, got into an alteration at Rock
port, a few days ago., which ended by the
former striking the latter on the head with a
notary seal, from the effects of which he died
in a few hours. .Paine's saw mill and steam
salt works at Saginaw, Mich, we're destroyed
by fire last week. Loss about 800, 600. ...A
new witness in the famous Tichborne case
turns up at Springfield, Ill. He was the real
Sir Rogers riding teacher and daily COM
panion when Sir Roger, then a young Kan, was
stationed with his regiment at Calm Barracks,
Ireland, and feels sure he can tell whether the
claimant is what he pretends to be. His name
is John Crowley, and he is a well-known vet
Urinary surgeon Of Springfield, and is vouched
for as a man Of high character and intelli-
gence.
QUINCY, ILL.,. has been greatly excited over
the arrest of several young men, SONS of some
of its best known citizens, on q charge that
they belonged to q regularly organized band
Of burglars and counterfeiters. An investiga-
ton proved, however, that the police mistook
q little private club for a band of desperadoes,
and captured q lot of amateur actors and
negro minstrels. TIL arrests were made with
such unnecessary violence that the affair is
likely to result in trouble to the laundering
police authorities. The Chicago Times
which is nothing if not sensational-is labor
ing to get mp a cholera excitement in that
city. Every other Chicago newspaper main
tains that there ia no cholera in the city.
As an indication of the strength and mag
tude Of the Grange movement in Indiana,
the Indianapolis Sentinel publishes a corrected
list of organizations and officers. There are
279 Oranges in the State, 5 general deputies,
and a3 county deputies. Indiana now stands
sixth in the list of States. Largo meet
ings are being held in various sections,
which are attended by multidudes. The
order lis rapidly growing in all directions
The Farmers Harvest Home Picnic. at Gin
ton, Ill, on the 18th inst, which was largely
attended, was addressed by Gov. Palmer and
Gen. ]. G. Black. Gov. Palmer took the
ground that the Dartmouth College decision
is the law of the land, and cannot be upset
short Of upsetting or amending the Constitu.
ton that railroad charters are contracts be-
tween the corporators and the State, and can
not be amended in any material respect with
out the consent of the corporators that rail-
road companies are common carriers, and are
subject to the obligations imposed by the
common law; that the common law is ample
in its powers to correct all abuses of railroads
and other carriers, If enforced ard, finally,
that We have more laws on the statute book,
additional to the common law, than we can en-
force.
Col. BABcocK, of the Fifth Cavalry. reports
another fight with Tonic Apaches in Arizona,
in which fourteen Of the "noble" red men
were sent to their happy hunting grounds
....At Tucson, Arizona, on Aug. 9, Pedro
Negras and wife, pawnbrokers, were muir
dered. Three men who were implicated in
the murder were arrested, but were subse-
quently taken from the Jail and hung by a
mob....A mar named Mahaffey met a terri
BILE death in Seward county, Neb., recently. In
atfemntinp To run After his son thrnuob a