The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-06-27
CURRENT ITEMS.
A 1871 cent fetches IS.

A 1891 cent fetches IS.
MARX TWAIN has a lame leg.
CATERPMLARs are poisonous. FgF.
The Khedive has eighty children.
LACED shoes are again the fashion.
New YORK doctors recommend figs for
dyspepsia.
A CALIFORNIA man advertises to make
darkies white.
SOME women carry four pounds of
hair on their heads.
BRUSHES with the Modocs are not the
kind good for the hair.
Six young ladies acted as pall-bearers
at funeral in New York, recently.
A. Hoss edits Kansas pepper, and
enables his readers to keep up with the
time.
HENRY OssIAN FLIPPER PHGBus, an
American citizen of African descent, has
been appointed to cadetship' at West
Point. tks st ~
Col. TOM ScorT is going abroad '.to
connteract the prejudices existing in
Europe against American railroad in
tesests. = < if I'll
AN Alabama Congressman has given
his back pay to his wife. He prefers
domestic peace to the favor of his con-
stituents.
EMANUEL, in his work on diamonds
and precious stones, tells us that in Or
der to ascertain when any defect of color
exists in u stone, it is sufficient to
breathe upon it. Prof. Orton says that
the imperfections may be readily detect
ed by putting itinto Oil of cassia.
THE Pension Bureau rules that in
eases Of expiration of pensions and sur
render of certificates of minors, upon
by guardians, or by the
minors, if of competent age, a certiii-
cate granting the additional pension
provided for by section ., act of March
3, 1873, should be issued.
ANOTHER recent ruling of the Pension
Bureau provides that the application of
a widow for the increase of pension pro-
vided by section .. act of March 3, 1873,
will be allowed whether the application
for such increase be made before or
after her marriage.
DIR. ANDERSON, who accompanied the
British expedition in 1868 to the Valley
Of Tapeng, mentions a very singular
method by which the natives OF Sanda
Valley contrive to conceal gold and
precious stones. Sits are made through
the skin of their necks Or chests, and
the coins or stones forced beneath, the
wound being allowed to heal. When
the valuable objects are wanted, q sec
ond cut is made upon the spot, and they
are extracted.
WILLIAM ETcHELLs, fiend and black
smith, at Dunkinfeld, England, having
lately first murdered his wife and nearly
murdered one of his children, saved fur
ther trouble by killing himself. He is
as having been q man of q
most savage disposition, who took de-
light.in torturing his children and NAL
treating his wife. One of his favorite
was to drop hot tallow on
the bare skins of his children, dancing
for Joy at their cries of agony.
d DEER-HUNTING EXTRAORDINARY.
Texas is a remarkablecountry, and her
people have been credited with many re-
markable achievements, some of which
people are disposed to re-
gard as decidedly apocryphal. The latest
of the Lone Star State of
this character, and which surpasses any
thing of the kind we remember to have
read of, is the story of the extraordinary
deer-hunt of modern Nimrod by the
name of Zack Holden. It comes to us
in the shape of a letter to the Clarks-
vile Times, dated DaIby Springs, Bowie
Texas, May 20. 1870 i "The
visitors at Dalby Springs had, few days
since, some rare entertainments in the
sporting line. Mr.. Zack Holden, the
famous hunter who supplies the hotel
and visitors with venison, turkeys, etc,
being in the hunt, discovered herd Of
deer, and firing, he dropped down one
wounded; the herd wa
mosed, but seeing the struggles of their
wounded companion, soon returned. Mr..
Holden had by this time reloaded his
rife, and selectinganother, shot it down !;
the herd again disappeared, but in q
moment returned; this they repeated
until he had killed six and wounded the
seventh, in the space of half an hour,
without having moved from his position.
"Some days previous, Mr.. B-h,
having killed large doe that was en-
ciente, performed the C@sarianoperation,
reversed, with perfect success, and
brought the fawns home, where they
have lived and thrived for more than two
weeks. These are facts, and can be veri-
fled by the testimony Of amy number of
the best citizens. az well as' the visitors
at the springs. 49,
In the gold valued at $3.50, 900. 900
which is being gradually melted and
coined in Germany, there are 1913, 1874
ounces of American eagles and 273, l59
ounces Of gold NapcleonB The
American eagles were obtained in En-