The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-08-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THEEAST.

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indicate adecided Improvement in the prodnc-
ton of postal cards, although it is said the
contractors have not come fully up to their re-
pested promises. Two Hoe presses are run
ming day and night, and printing from SOo,o0O
to 1000. 900 cards daily.....The first bale OF
cotton of this years crop was sold in New
York at SEC per pound. The cotton was grown
In Cameron county, Texas.
In the great college regatta on the Connee-
ticut river, at Springfield, Mass, on the 18th
inst, both the University and Freshman races
were won by Yale. The foot-race for the
Bennett challenge cup was won by Bowie, OF
McGill (Canada) University. He made two
miles in II minutes 1s4 seconds. The Court
of Inquiry into the loss of the steamer City OF
Washington, sitting at Halifax, has censured
Capt. Phillips for "imprudence," and sns-
pended him for one year.
E. S. MILLS, President Of the brooklyn
Trust Company, who was recently drowned
has been discovered to have been a defaulter
to the amount Of some $3.50, 900, and it is sur
missed that he committed suicide.
The losses of the Brooklyn Trust Company
by the dishonesty Of the late President, Mr..
Mills, are now stated to be no less than $780,
Oe9. That Mr.. Mills committed suicide seems
to be beyond doubt.
Ex-Gov. COLBY, of New Hampshire, is dead,
aged 80 years. He was the only Wing that
ever sat in the gubernatorial chair of that
State.
THE Trustees of Plymouth Church are stated
to be awaiting only the return of Mr.. Beecher
and the leading members of his church from
their summer vacation to begin an invertiga-
ton of the scandal connected with his name.
The inquiry, it is said, will be secret. Hall
a dozen heavy failures have occurred in the
tea trade of New York, for eums rising from
$50, 900 to $500, 600. The house of A. A
Low & Co. have also lost a million dollars
The total losses of the trade are stated a
sc, 900, 600. 1t is said that a movement is OF
foot in New York to remove all the Catholi,
children from the public schools, avowedly t.
cripple them Similar movements are report
ed in Massachusetts and Connecticut .Th'
irresponsible DIR. Mary Walker was ARRESTED
for the twentieth time, in Baltimore, the othel
day, for wearing male apparel, but was re
leased.
Two more Modocs-the last of Capt. Jark'l
band-have been captured. 49,. Mormon circle,
in Utah are greatly scandalIzed by the deser
tien of Brigham Young by one of his wives
She is his seventeenth wife, and has left him
taking with her a large amount of furniture
and personal property. She has retained emf
nent counsel, and intends to sue for divorce
and alimony. The suit may be expected t.
give glimpses never before revealed Of tn
harem-life of Salt Lake City.
The Chicago Tribune prints crop report
from various points in Iowa, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, Kansas, and Illinois. Grains of al
kinds generally promise favorably. Corn
which some time ago promised almost a tota
failure, has vastly improved under the favora
BILE weather of The last few weeks, and viii
yield at least an average crop in most sec
tons. Minnesota and Kansas promise an i'm.
mense wheat yield, and crops of all kinds are
reported good....M Mt Vernon, Ind, a town OF
5000 inhabitants on the Ohio river, has been
terribly scourged by cholera. The mortality
was frightful, business was almost entirely
suspended, and the owl fairly d~epopulated
Under the new railroad rates. D. N.
Haight, dry goods and grocery dealer of Os-
wego, H., finds it cheapest to send his butter,
eggs, ETC., to Chicago by team. He has,
therefore, put two teams on the road between
Oswego and Chicago, a distance of forty-six
miles. In q careful estimate made Of q late
trip by his two teams he found that he had
saved S21.. Mrs. Samuel Kesler, living near
Richmond, Ind, the other day gave birth to 9
hsns natur6-two males, united face to face
by q muscular formation as large as the
bodies, extending from the apex Of the breast
to the pit of the abdomen. They were per.
fectly developed, save a minor malformation
on one, which was minus an ear. They
were born dead, and will be preserved.
The National Congress of Workingmen closed
its Sc ssion at Cleveland on the 18th inst, afte1
having adopted q platform. The resolutions
set forth that unless the aggressions of aggre-
gated wealth are checked, they will lead to the
pauperization and degradation Of the telling
masses that a-system should be adopted that
would seoure to the lsborer the fruits of his
toll; that this object could only be attained
through union of labor and united efforts OF
laborers; recognizing in the ballot-box al
agency for the redress of wrongs, yet at thif
hour the greet consideration in the organiza,
ton and cooperation of tie producing masses
resolving to submit to the people of the
United States the objects sought TO be &C.
compished by the industrial Congress: tc
make knowledge a standpoint for indus.
trial, social aud moral worth, the true
standard OF greatness to secure to the toilei
IN equitable share Of the wealth which he
helps to create, more leisure time, and more
social advantages demanding from the State
and National Governments the establishment
of bureaus of labor statistics, to arrive at the
true moral, educational, and financial condi.
ton of the producing masses ; the reserving
of public lands for actual settlers the aiop-
ton of measures providing for the health and
safety of those engaged in mining and manu-
featuring pursuits the substitution of arbi.
traticn for strikes when practicable the pro-
hibition of the importation of all servile races,
and the discontinuance Of contracting convict
labor; the reduction to eight hours per day of
q days labor, and providing for a national cir
culating medium based on the faith and re-
sources Of the nation, and issued directly to
the people.
The st. Paul Dispatch depounces the sale of
the Fort Smelling property as one of the big
gist swindles Of the day. 1t claims that by
this transaction the Government has been
chiseled out Of "a, 900, 600. =. The system of
cooperative stores is being abandoned by the
Iowa Grangers.....A reunion of the veterans
Of the Mexican war lis to be held at st. Louis
on the Sth Of October next.
TIE Des Moines Register of the 22d gives
the particulars of one Of the boldest opera
tons by highwaymen ever executed in the