The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-10

ALL the prisoners confined in the Frankfort, |
~, Jail recently escaped by cutting through
he roof. -. Alexandra, Va, had q 100000
laze on New Years eve.
WASHINGTON.
THE President has signed the bill to reduce
he Offices and expenses of the Internal heve-
lue Bureau, and the work Of putting the new
aw into practical operation will be commenced
It once.
IT is stated that the Government will decide
n favor of Council Bluffs as the terminus of
he Union Pacific railroad 1T is believed
here is no hope for the admission Of Colorado
ls q State during the present session of Con-
yress. The Washington Republican says a
will shortly be brought forward in the
House for the annexation of San Domingo.
Gen. Francis A. Walker has resigned the Com
m~issionership of Indian Affairs.
JUDGE MACARTHUR, Of the Supreme Court OF
the District of Columbia. decides that dogs are
not property, but that at common law they are
nuisances. 1t is rumored that Judge
Settle, Of North Carolina. will succeed Mr..
SI6bNtI1 . . L O6kuidbtOl n
is now in course of preparation, intended to be
laid before members of Congress, which re-
views the workings of the telegraph lines in
the Territories and elsewhere, constructed by
the Government, and which are worked under
Government control. The animus of the doc
ument will tend to sustain the project of bring
ing all the telegraphs of the country under the
control of the National Government. $50. The
Secretary Of the Treasury has authorized the
Assistant Treasurer at New York to buy 81
900, 900 in bonds and sell $1,000 900 in coin
each week during the month Of January.
The receipts from the internal revenue dur
ing the present fiscal year to Jan. l, are over
sixty-one millions. Gen. Thomas o. o.
borne, of Chicago, will be appointed q member
of the Commission to investigate the Mexican
depredations on the Rio Grande ....A Wash
ington dispatch says there will undoubtedly be
March-the State, Treasury, and Attorney
Generalship.
FOREIGN.
BY the terms Of the bill introduced into the
Spanish Cortes for the emancipation Of slavery
in Porto Rico, all slaves are to be free within
four months from the passage of the measure
and their owners are to be remunerated for the
human property thus confiscated The Kins
of the Sandwich Islands died Dec. H.. Thu
horse disease, which has Of late been ravagine
the United States with such havoc, has nov
reached the West Indies, and made its appear
ance recently in Havana. Correspondence
writing from that city state that the mortalit.
is much greater there than in the United
States, owing to the miserable stables, even
the wealthiest residents having but very poorl,
ventilated places for the keeping Of horses.
THE cable announces that hostilities hav,
commenced between Russia and Khiya, an
that 5000 Khivese troops are besieging tn
Russian forts on the Euerba river. Anothe
force of 10,00O Khivese are depredating on tn
Russian fisheries at the mouth of the Euerba
80. Diplomatic relations between the Swis,
Government and the Vatican have beer
broken of.
FRANCE will pay Germany 200. 000, 900 franc,
of her war indemnify on the 18th Of January
e'A "a eoihthhN't w Pes hhS 1ehiO AL
til May next. During the counting of thu
votes for municipal officers at Tampico. Mexico
recently, q row occurred, resulting in the kill
ing Of five or six persons. Tho French Min
lister to the Papal Court has resigned. 80. tn,
Austrian, French, and Prussian newspapers ar,
engaged in q lively controversy over the dis
closures made by Duke de Grammont in re
gard to the origin Of the late war. The Duk,
brings documentary evidence to support thu
truth Of his assertion That Austria promised t.
assist France in case Of war with Prussia. II,
publishes an Austrian dispatch to the Frencl
Government, in which q pledge is given in tn
following words: Your cause lis ours. w
will contribute to the success Of The Frencl
arms"
A RUMoR comes from London that 0 larg,
Russian loan is about to be placed upon tn,
market. This information will tend to confirm
the belief that the Gar has determined t.
prosecute an aggressive policy in Asia upon
formidable scale. The revenue receipts o
Great Britain for the year ending Dec. 8
amounted to S7S, 600, 600. -. Prosecutions hav,
been instituted in Germany against the Romal
Catholic journals which published the recen
Papal allocution. The excitement on this sub
ject is increasing throughout the empire.
Gen. Won Room has been specially appointe,
as President of the Prussian Council of Minis
ters.
GENERAL.
JOE J~EfFERsoS's eye-sight is permanently re
stored. 80. Minister Washburne has sailed TO
France. IA. H. Stephens has been made tn,
hero Of q Southern novel. The word
Pounded by Horace Greeley" in black, ex
tended letter, now appear permanently at thu
head of the New York Tribune's editoria
columns. Ezra Comfort, aged 80, married
Eliza Carr, aged 16, at Chester, Pa, last week
and now thinks there is nothing like q sleep
ing-Carr for Comfort. g. The only change
which will take place in the New York TriJun
Office, after all, will be a complete renovation
and substitution Of the Office furniture. 80,
Two nor cadets have been dismissed from
the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, for being
concerned in the hazing of the colored cadet
One was from Michigan, the other was from
Massachusetts.
CHRISTMAS week was unusually prolific o.
railroad smashups and the slaughter Of human
life. A train on the Buffalo, Cory and Pitts
burgh railroad was thrown down an embank
ment. The cars falling upside down, they i'm
mediately took fire, and, there being no means
of egress, twenty-one persons were LITERAL,
roasted to death. Many others were s~eriousl,
wounded. A train on the Indianapolis, PERI
and Chicago railroad was thrown from the
track by a broken rail and twenty persons in
jured, Of which at least three will die. A sim
liar accident occurred to a passenger train neal
Cincinnati, resulting in the death of several
persons. At Newton, Kansas, a train imbed,
ded in q snow-drift was run into by a freight
train, by which two lives were lost. by an &c.
cident To the through train from Washington