The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-10-17
Illinois has confirmed the constitutionality of
the new liquor law of the State.

Chicago police made a raid on tho low variety
them up, captured all the inmates, 165 in
number, and marched them to the cala5oose-
AN immense multitude, variously esti.
mated at from 40. eco to G,000, assesnbled at
Lansing, Mich. on the I'd inst, to witness the
ceremonies of laying the cornerstone OF the
new State-House.. The Cheyenne Indians in
Colorado are slaughtering the cattle OF the
settlers by the wholesale, and committing
other depredations. These Indians Fay the
white men killed the buffalo last winter, and
let them rot on the plains, and now they are
going 70 kill all tile cattle of The whites. There
is great excitement, and the whites are organ
izing for defense.
THE statement of the condition of the Union
National (Coolbaughis) Bank, of Chicago Gin
liquidation), is a most gratifying one to its
creditors. Their total assets are So. 46S, 504. "a
liabilities, -, 2G3, 326. G2; excess Of assets,
Il, 265, 17S. 80. l.. Over SIG, OI0, 600 in currency
was received at Chicago by express between
the 18th of September and I'd of October.
The new Michigan Statc-House will be one of
the finest public edifces in the country. AN
unsophisticated gentleman mailing from New
York city was swindlcd out OF Sc, 600 in Chi
cago, last week. by two gamblers. The
Chicago Board of Trade gave $1,000 to the
Shreveport sufferers. . The amount of bull
ion received at San Francisco from the mines
Turing tho past quarter was nearly Sl0,GOo,-
001, and for the past nine months S2i,O 0 900.
ALGErLE boy named Jacob Stripe, whose
parents reside ut Van Vert. Ohio, the other
day vomited up a garter snake eighteen inches
long and half an inch thick. The Cincinnati
Exposition proved a brilliant success. The
total number of admissions was sos, Co.,.
| Near Schuyler, Neb., a few days ago, a young
wretch named Fahey murdered his father by
beating his brains out with the butt Of a gun,
and knocked his sister senseless, leaving her
for dead. The murderer was arrested.
THE st. Joseph CMo.) Gdzite has been sold
at auction to Joseph A. Corby for $4,000.
THE Third National Bank of Chicago, which
suspended during the late financial unrleas-
antness, has resumed business. The survi-
vors of Capt. Jacks tribe have been sent to
Fort Russell, Wyoming Territory. Exon
| gresham john Law, of Evansville. Ind. is
dead, aged 77.....Mrs. Horton, of Van Vert.
O.. the other day left her infant in a cradle
near the fireplace, and went out to witness a
circus procession. When she returned her
child was burned 10 a crisp.
THE SOUTH.
YELLOW FEVER is raging as badly as ever at
Shreveport, La. and Memphis. Tenn. At the
former place the scourSc is abated, If at all,
only by the frightful dopopulation it has
already caused. The citizens Of Memphis
have issued an appeal for aid, addressed to
the whole country. and begging for the coop
Grafton CT the mayors of the various cities to
secure it. Money il most needed to buy food.
bury the dead, aud shelter the Orphans.
The town Of Lamrasas. Texas, was recently
inundated by the overflow of acreek which
runs through the village. Twenty houses. in
Gliding the postofiicc AID several stores, to-
g~etlier with their contents, were swept away,
and six or eight persons drowned. "A horse
ran away with q street-car in st. Louis. last
week. and. c~ollidinS with another car. killed
one of the passengers. and seriously injured
four or five others. Joseph II. Fore. OF st.
Louisville some time ago murdered his
b-other-in-law, who has made three unsuc-
cessful attempts to kill bis wife, and who the
OTHER day came near numbering an attorney III
court-lias been sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary.
The tobacco crop now being secured is the
best that has been raised in Virginia fer years
past President Grant has ordered 5000
army rations for the suffering and starving
people Of shreveport. The De Soto Bank,
of Memphis has resumed.
TIE rayaGcs OF the yellow fever at Memphis
are f%righttui to ~contcin; late. \ dispatch of
the 9Th inst. says: The number of deaths in
the infected district yesterday was 30 great
That the undertaken wcro unable to bury the
bodies. and to-day i'll two or three instances
whole families were carried to the burying-
ground at one load. Scenes in that part of the
city are beyond description. Those not aft
ed are 80 dcmoralizcd that they can be Of no
assistance to the sick, but seem chained to the
locality, ard make no effort to get away.
The South was visited by the fire: frost of
the season on the It'll inst $3.50. During the
height OF the yellow fever scare n number of
citizens Of Little Rock, Ark, chartered sleep
inG-coaches on the railroads. in which they
slept, going out several miles on the railroad
III the evening, and returning next morning.
An old Italian padrone, with fourteen boys,
who arrived at Little Rock 4 few days ago, was
taken in charge by the Italians, his money
talisn away from him and divided between the
children. and he was ordered to leave the city.
The bagSing factory Of Richardson, Henry
* Co, of Louisvillc, haa been burned. Loss,
$4,000.
R~dSHIEGT0H.
SECRETARY RICHARDSON says that the Gov
eminent will lose nothing by tho SUSPENSION of
Clcws & Co., i'll New York, or Ciews, Habicht
& Co, III London also, that if Jay Cooke d
Co. pay B per cent, the Government will be
no loser by the failure Of the First Nationa
Bank. lie thinks that the country will be
gratitied to find in the public debt statement
that the reserve" las not yet been touched,
though he rcitcrates his purpose of using it
whenever he judges it to be necessary .... The
public debt statement for September shows n
reduction Of 81, 901, 4G7. The following are
the figures:
Six per cent. bonds. 81, 235. OOO, 900
Five per cent. bonds. 49,. SCI, 500
Total coin bonds ....... 81, 723. 557, 800
Lawful money debt 1880
Aatnred debt. 1850, 1870
Legal tender notes. $50, 079,7 42
Certificates Of deposit. .............. ll,25O, 900
Fractional currency...., .........-. G,22J, 39l
Coin certificates. ~3,3g3,5i5