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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-28
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| Washington Cor. Of the Chicago Tribuue.1
The late Consul General of the United
States at Cairo-George Butler-is in
Washington, and have derived some
fresh and interesting information from
him. Said Pasha is described by Mr..
Butler as person of culture, speaking
French with ease and English little
fully educated at the Polytechnic School
in Paris, and wearing the dress of Chris
tian people He is shrewd and rich
merchant, and not a soldier by propen-
sity 4; and his income and the Injury of
his court exceed the tales of Haroun al
Raschids splendor. He has an income
of Sl1O, 900, 900 per annum, or more
than half as much as the whole annual
expense of the United States Govern
ment, inclusive of the cost of the public
debt. To keep our $4,000 or $4,000
oficeholders, our army, our navy, do the
public buildings, etc, etc, require S17,
NO, 600 month, And Said Pasha, who
has no more subjects than there are
citizens of New York State, has, by Mr..
Buffers careful estimate, between So
OOO, 900 and SIC, ,0O0, 900 month, ,orabove
S300,0OO a day. He has twenty-seven
palaces, all the corporate property-or
that which with us would be controlled
by corporatiOns-in the country, and no
laws whatever but what he can think of
wives and a vast harem, and, being an
unwise husband, does not know all his
own children vet he is temperate and
prudent, and still he is not happy. He
wants to be King but the domina-
ton of Turkey sits upon his dreams like
a gobbler on the full boy after Christ
mas dinner
He is building an iron bridge across
the Nile, English work, which will cost
S12, 10000. The Suez canal cost him
800, 900, 900, and is only a. partial sue
cess, as it fills mp as soon as neglected,
and the screw fleet to pass through it is
yet small. Lesseps, its executor, Mr.. !
Butler believes to be one of the ablest |
men in the world, and never with |
less than from half million |
up on deposit. The Viceroy is the |
owner of Darrow-gauge railroad from |
Cairo to Suez, ssventy-six miles, and /
from Alexandria to Cairo, 130 miles. !
He is now building up the Nile from |
Cairo two or three hundred miles. He |
has a navy, but his people are wretched
sailors. He and his father have made
vast sums OF money in the slave trade,
and his eunuchs for the harem come
from the Blue Nile. Sugar, indigo,
tobacco, and cotton are great staples of
Egypt, and the people have no concep-
ton of the right of property, liberty,
or life.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-28

THE PARIS FIGHTING EpIroR.
Cassagnac is very conspicuous person
age in the street. He is very tall and
broad-shouldered, and he wears a very
large and peculiar looking hat, which he
cocks over upon his left car. So much
does he incline his hat that sometimes
one wonders that it does not fall of.
Monster Cassagnac walks in bold, de-
fiant manner, and carries huge walking
stick, which he from time to time swings
ominnnsly from side to side, as though
just preparing to smash the head Of
some imaginary foe, and at such times
the passe rs-by do not fail to point him
ont very adrniringly. As for the ladies,
they admire Monsieur de Csssagnac very
openly.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-28

IVORY PAPER.-Ivory paper is thus
manufactured Paste together three
sheets of vellum drawing paper with
liquid glue, and cover with piece of
slate; bend the borders of the paper
ever and fasten to the same. Then
paste three other sheets on the former
and leave dry; afterward polish with
fine glass paper, and to give a gloss
lay on powdered plaster of Paris in So
luton. which on hardening must be
smoothed with glass paper. The ivory
paper is now unfastened from the slate
and cut up according to requirements.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-28

ABOUT two millions more of the ordi-
nary postage stamps were issued to
postmasters during the month of Octo-
Der than during any previous month in
the history of the Postofice Depart
ment
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-28
The Vanderbilt Old Friend in a
New Rig

The steamer Vanderbilt, which was
presented to the Government, was sold
at auction in 1872 for $40, ,000, the pur-
chasers being George Howes & Co., of
San Francisco, who have since trans
formed her into splendid sailing ship,
notwithstanding her with the name of
Three Brothers" She is an immense
vessel, being 800 feet in length, IS feet
s inches in breadth, and 81 feet inches
in depth of hold, with an aggregate
tonnage of 1912 I7-100 t,ns. Her spars
are OF corresponding dimensions, the
main-mast being 80 feet 10 inches in
length and 49, inches in diameter at the
deck. When full spread she Will carry
10000 yards of canvas, the main-sail
alone carrying l,010 yards. The ship
has been newly finished in fine style, her
cabin, drniHg room, and other apart
ments being elegantly fitted up with
Brussels carpets and handsome furni-
ture. Since her purchase the owners
have expended Sl75,090 in alterations
and general outfit, and the result is one
Of the most beautiful and capacious
vessels in the world. Her magnificent
proportions and great size have recently
attracted the admiration of thousands
at san Francisco, where she has been
loading the largest cargo ever carried by
any ship, snd her departure from that
port on the oath of October, bound on
her voyage to Havre, was made the
occasion of grand display.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-28
Hard Times.

All of our best Eastern exchanges
predict hard times ahead. 1t behooves
our farmers not only to get out of
debt, but to keep out. The shrinkage of
values has been terrific. A noted
financier told us a few days ago that the
shrinkage in stocks had absorbed al
ready more than all the paid up cash
capital of the Pennsylvania Central.
The Spragues, of Rhode Island, went
by the board for the want of So. 1000, ,O0O
Their total Indebtedness was less than
81, 900, 900, and they showed a surplus
of $4,000, 900, or more than 50 for one
In the cities and t"wns and manufac-
turing villages, it is estimated that there
will be from 1000, 900 to 4, ,00O, 900 of
men Out of employment or working at
half-time before the first of February.
These are the times that the farmer,
while he may sympathise with the arti-
san and laborer who is out of employ
ment and suffering, can feel the indie
pendence and superiority of his own
position. A New York paper says ::
" From every part of the country we
have reports of the stoppage ef mills
and. workshops, and the discharge of
workmen. Hundreds and thousands of
able, industrious people, skilled in their
avocations, are thus deprived of en-
ployment. Instead of adding to the
wealth of the community, and providing
for their own comfort and for the educa-
tion of their children, they are suddenly
converted into useless members OF socie-
ty, and compelled to subsist upon their
former savings or upon the charity of
others. 1t is evident that winter of
misery and suffering for a vast number
of excellent people, who only demand
the opportunity of being useful, is now
to be expected"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-28

THERE are now 36 oranges in Penn
sylvania.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09

The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
says: ave learn that two Of the female
operatives in the rag room Of the Bath
Paper Mills, South Carolina, recently
contracted the smallpox, evidently from
contact with the rags handled by them.
The rags from which the disease is sup.
posed to have been communicated were
brought from st. Louis
Thus says the Camden Journal: The
engine which took out the train on
Monday morning played out completely
about Olaremont depot. All the worn
out engines on the road are put on this
branch, and are expected to do double
duty. as freight and passenger engines.
The mail did not reach here at all on
Monday night.
A Chicago magistrate has decided that
reporters are valuable public servants,
q privileged class, having the right to go
where they please in search Of know
ledge. and must be INDUCED in the
largest liberty" This may lead to over.
providing the profession out West.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09

A surgical operation for cancer of the
eeyelids was recently skillfully performed
BY DR.. Chisolm, at the Baltimore In
Urinary. The cancer, which twenty five
years ago first appeared as pimple on
the under eyelid Of the patient, slowly
grew in size. When the operation was
performed it was half an inch in width
and depth. extending all along the under
lid, around the corner OF the eye to the
bridge OF the nose, and over half the
upper lid. The capoerous growth was
removed in two operations. the first upon
the upper lid and the other On the lower
lid, ut an interval Of about six weeks.
Ihe 'plastic" operation was also in
vo!yed in the main operation; that is,
covering the spaces from which the
diseased flesh was removed with pieces of
the sound skin next to the diseased part.
Ihe name OF the patient is John Rhine:
man. He resides on Dolphin street, is
over fifty years old, and has been thirty-
five yenrs sailor.-BaAimore Sun,
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09

'HoNoRADLE THE New York Conn.,
nerciat Adoeytisersu suggests that it is about
time that little discrimination should
be exercised in the prefix of tho title
honorable" to men in public positions.
Mr. Jefferson was opposed to all such
handles even to the names of Presidents,
but now it is applied not only to mem
bers Of Congress-, but of State Legisla-
lures, and even to municipal dignitaries.
The grievance might be borne with if
the "honor" of those who bear the de.
signation was always truly represented
by tue title.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09
A young man named Billson nt cree

A young man named Billson, nt Grass
hopper, KY, lately returned from an
Eastern town, filed with romance and
Chesterieldian airs. He saw a pretty,
weil-dressed young lady standing ankle
deep in the mud beside her epizootical
palfrey, and evidently waiting for assist
ance to mount. He sprang to her relief.
made temporary stirrup of his two
hands, and was rewarded by a kick in
the mouth, which knocked eight dollars
worth Of gold plate down his throat,
while the gentle one murmured, "I'Ii
learn, you to insult me, you pig-eyed
slonch OF q nasty man, you. For q
nickel, I'd put head on you that would
make you wear shirts slit down the back
for month"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09

~ AHokRIBLR SToRz. z.-Ona ct the many
recalled stories, which are borne upon
the very wind, the following was told q
night or two ago: Some years ago there
was well-known engineer, whose name
Is not given for good and sufficient rea
Sons. ran passenger train on one Of the
most popular and most travelled roads
thHtrnns oat ofIndisnapolis. OF Alta certain
place on the road, every night for about
week, as the passenger train ran by
this engineer came laundering along, it
was certain to be thrown from the track
by obstructions placed there. Several
OF these mishaps to the train caused loss
OF lie, and the company was becoming
considerably alarmed. aud the ability Of
the engineer was being seriously ques-
toned. One night as the unfortunate
train Was nearing the fatal spot, the
engineer, who had been sitting grum
and silent at the throttle, turned to his
fireman and said: IF this train jumps
the track at that place tonight, you fol
low nae; don't stop for anything, but
keep close after me. Somebody has been
throwing this train off the track. and
I'm going to catch him." When the
train arrived ct the usual place it struck
q misplaced rail and was banked. The
engineer, closely followed by the fire.
man, jumped from the engine and ran
into corn-field, and started up man
that lay concealed there. Upon bring
ing tho culprit back to the wreck the en-
ragged passengers wanted to Lynch him.
but the engineer, stern, pold, deter
mined man, prevented them, saying that
he would take charge of him, and
through the intercession of the con.
ductor the trembling wretch was left in
charge OF the engineer. The train WAS
righted, and was soon speeding on it's
way. The prisoner, who had confessed
his fiendishness, had been seated on the
engine, and the fireman placed beside
him as a guard. When the train was on
smooth piece OF track, bowling along
at speed of twenty-five miles ON hour,
the engineer beckoned tho fireman to
stand out of the way. The fireman
stepped aside, and the engineer picked
up round stick of wood and struck the
criminal such blow upon tho head that
it stunned him. He then caught the
quivering form Of the poor wretch, and,
opening the furnace doors, threw his
body into the hot, seething hell of fame.
The doors were shut, the train ratified
along, and never, until upon his death
bed the engineer confessed the act, was
it ascertained what had been the fate of
the fend who had been in the habit of
throwing the train off the track.
Indianapolis Sentinel.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09

Representative DeLarge, of South Ca
rolina, states that he has returned to
Washington TO stay until the end of the
session, and that he does not intend to
retire from the Bowen contest. He says
he would look as if he came here only
for his pay as o member, and he will
fight the contest to a final decision. At
the same imo he has no i'll feeling
against his opponent. Bowen expresses
himself as confident OF being able to
successfully contest DeLarge's. claim to
the seat.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09

NEw VIEWS OF THE MoDoc WAR.-It
almost always happens that thieving
Indian agent. is found at the bottom of
an Indian war. There have been one or
two versions of the .Modoc Indian diff.
nulties, and now the Alta Californian
furnishes another. It says:
Some years ago these same red men
gave serious trouble. and Gen. Crook,
then in command there, went after them
in earnest. In short tirae they begged
for paace, and he granted it, on condition
that they should be allowed tc roam over
the country and support them selves, and
the chiefs should be held responsible for
the surrender of any of their subjects
who should murder white men, or steal
the property of the whites. They kept
the peace Loyalty, because they had
learned that they could not make any
thing by fighting against Crook. After
a time, an Indian agent attempted to
drive them into reservation, where they
could go to Sunday School, and could
be used to justify the payment of vari-
Gus salaries and the handling of goods,
on, which profit could be made in various
ways. A war was threatened, but Crook
lnterfered, and protected the red men
against the agent. Now Crook has been
~SeSAs AVA ooAo tiuoi uuu, uCCOEulu& 10
report, these same Indians had been
driven upon reservation where they
were starved and robbed. We do not
admit that, because the Indians have
been robbed by the agents, the whito
settlers in the vicinity should be left un-
protected, and the crimes committed by
the red men should be left unpuniehed.
That is the policy of the Indian Com
missioners, and they are welcome to all
the infamy which it will fasten upon
their memories.
The reservation system as O whole has
been disgraceful failure throughout the
Pacific slope. The Indians have not
been civilized or placed in the way to
learn the useful arts. Those who live
by their labor honestly are generally
those who have never been on reserva.
ton or under charge of Indian agents.
The trader at the reservations may get
r,ich, bnt the aborigines, with oil :he
large payments made for buildings,
tools and animals, remain in a condition
OF beggarly poverty. The Commission
ers try to convince the public that it is
all right, but the corruption Of many OF
the Indian agencies is as gross as tits
notorious.
That there has been some dreadful
blunder in the treatment of the Modocs
is evident; and, as is above indicated, it
is suspicious fact that the war begins
so soon after the departure of General
Crook, who defended the Indians from
the agents.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09

good ordinary 1s; low ,middlipgs 1897;
middling 191z@19H; receipts. q. ass
bales; sales 300; stock 4.052.,
NoRFoLK, January 8.-Cotton easy-
low middlfng 1875; receipts 1902 bales;
sales 200; stock l,699. -0
W1MNaToN, January 8.-Cotton firm
1914; receipts 140 bales;
sales a.; stock 8,205.
BALTIMORE, Jsnua1y 8.-Cotton dali
middling 201l; receipts A9S bales; sales
ITO; stock 9,77z
PHILADELPHIA, January 8.-Cotton
quiet -middling 2Oaz.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09

The Memphis appeal tells OF an Irish.
nan who got laughed at for making
faces over some persimmons, and who
retoIted thus: Eye may grin. ye muttor.
neaoed Idiots; but can lather the soWI
eI guy OF the man that split vinegar on
Zouave jacob, whose magnetic cures
IN France were the sensation of the Con
tinent few years ago, has sunk into OBJ
sourity and poverty. - -
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09

A few days ago, the coroner of Jeffer-
son County, Florida, was summoned to q
grave, where the body of John Jones.
who was murdered in March last by
Marshal Morris, was found. The mur-
derer and all tho family of the deceased
have Just been arrested and lodged in
Jail. They had stated that the murdered
man had gone to South Carolina, but O
family difficulty occurred, and ono of
the women mado known the awful deed
done by them. When the coroner ar
rived at the grave, this scene met his
view: A human skull stuck out of the
dirt far enough to expose the teeth and
front part of tho head; a thigh bone,
broken ut the knee, stuck ont of the
grave, one leg was missing, the skull
fractured aad the jaw bono crushed.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09

Don't "Go West We most ear.
nestly call upon those in power to devise
some means to check this tide Of North
Carolina's yeomanry which is thus daily
going from our midst. There is but lit.
tie use in inviting immigration into tho
State, when we indifferently allow our
own sons and daughters, who should feel
kindly towards their mother State, to go
forth to other sections Of the country, to
seek that which could aud should DO
given them here with unstinting hand.
This is matter for serious oonsidera.
ton, and shonld be looked into by our
Governor and our Legislature. Let
politics be forgotten in this effort to save
North Carolina that bone and sincw
which could add greatly to the develop:
ment OF the immense stores of wealth
which to-day lie dormant in her bosom.
Ruieigh NeaS.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09

UNITED STATES CoURT-CHARLEsroN
January THE grand jury vas formed
as follows: Artemas J. Burke, foreman;
VIM. q. Berney, Henry G. Burie, Moses
G. Camplin, J. b. Dacosta, Patrick
Dolan, W. NJ. Drifle, James Fuller,
Warren r. Heston, Primus Green, Luke
Ct. Maddox, Frank Moses, Warren Min
ton, Thomas Waring Mikell, Christopher
Moultrie, John Nj. Nunan, Carston II.
Peters. Abram Smith, Stephen Thomas,
M. W. Venning, Frederick Wienb oltz-
10 colored and II whites.
The petit and pleas jurors were formed
as follows:
JURY No. 1.-Dr. David Geiger, fore
man; John A. Alston, George ". Allen,
Charles NJ. Browning, Augustus Stell-
ing, Lawrence Campbell. j. r. E. Cou-
sart, James H. Colburn, Patrick Dorap,
John G. Driscoll, Behrens Dosher, Thos.
". Davis.
JURY No. 2-P. P. Locke, foreman
Benz. Z. Holloway, james Hogan, Moses
Langley, James Leby, Samuel Mears, O.
Miller, H. @. Minott, Mack Mahin, J. Fl.
Ostendorff, Charles P. Pelham, Jr., d.
Capers Rainey.
SUPERNUMERARIEs. j. p. Kirkland,
Isaac b. Hertz, Henry Hogarth, David
Wilbur, Edward Horlbeck, Richard VIII
bur.
The petition of Charles Kerrison, .Tr., ,
to establish lien against ChaGes ker-
! rison, bankrupt, was referred 70 Regis
trar Carpenter to report.
The grand jury made the following re-.
turn: Stephen Smith, voting under age;
Adam Cross, selling liquor and tobacco
without paying special tax-true bills.
Edward Drake, illegal yoting--no bill.
The Court adjourned until 10 o'clock
4. NJ, tomorrow.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09

Reports to the Internal Revenue Blu.
reau show the number of distileries in
the United States on the 1st instant to
be 2G0, With daily capacity of 230, ,63S
gallons. During the month of Decem-
Der there was an increase of 33 dstile-
ries, and decrease in the daily capacity
of %, GAS gallons.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09

DEATH FROM STARVATION IN Brook
LYN.-The death from cold and starva.
ton of q young married woman named
Fanny Patten, in Brooklyn, is q case
shocking enough, certainly. but by no
means sui generis. The other night the
Brooklyn police were notified Of the
sudden death of this poor creature, and
going to her squalid abode found her
body reduced almost to skeleton. Not
80 much as crust was to be found in
the cupboard nor coal in tho CRATE.
When the neighbors had first found out
the state of things there, they found The
husband, George Patten, holding the
corpse in his arms and crying over it,
while his child, almost as emaciated as
its dead mother, was crying also. Pat
ten is q laboring man, who has lately
taken to drinking, leaving his wife to
care for herself and child. The poor
woman worked, until from lack OF pro-
per nourishment, she became too weak
to continue, and sank under her bur-
dens. A night or two after her death he
became sober enough to realize the fact
as we'll as that he was in great measure
the cause OF it. By the timely discovery
Of the child's condition she was saved
from sharing the dead woman's fate.