The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-09-19
T the State, died recently at Little Rock

children were last week burned to death in a
cabin in Fayette county. Tenn. Australian
Kelley, the once noted prizc-iighter, died re-
Gently, mt Fulton, Ark. 800. Christian Roselius,
a prominent citizen and eminent iurist OF
Louisiana. is dead.
JUDGE T. CRAWFORD and District-Attorney
Arthur II. Harris, OF the Twelfth Judicial DIS
trict of Louisiana, were assassliiated recently
near Winnsaoro. in Franklin parish, While on
their way tcii1ld court at that place They were
shot seven times. and their brains blown out.
The murderers are not known, but 1t Is
thought that personal, and not political, differ
ences led to the assassination, as Crawford
WAS a Radical and Harris a Democrat. The
Louisville C~Ourier-JournnL, commenting on
the Ku-Klux outragcs in the State, proposes,
if the Governor has not the means or power at
his command to equip a company of men to
proceed againt the Ku-kluX, that the Courier
Journal will Jay the expenses necessary to
the organization of an efficient company for
that purpose.
WASHINGTON.
IT is stated that the Secretary of the Treas
ury is maturing a plan by which banks may be
detected and punished for aiding gold con-
spirators 49,. The Postmaster-Genera states
that the revenue of his department has largely
increased since the abolition OF the franking
privilege. and thinks that it will be self-sus-
tanning by the close of the year. The Post
Office Department has great trouble with the
contractors who supply the postal cards. They
have utterly failed to comply with the con-
ditions of the contract, and constantly furnish
cardSbelow the standard. The contract calls
for paper that costs the makers % cents a
pound, but they furnish paper that really costs
them but 16 cents a pound. II is said the
mill owners and contractors are in collision in
the fraud.
IT is stated that the attempt will be renewed
in the next Congress to repeal the Bankrupt
act. or to obtain such amendment to the same
as shall render its operations more favorable
to commercial interests There is consider
able talk in some of the departments of asking
Congress to amend the law passed last session
abolishing the franking privilege, 30 that let
tiers on puclic business, addressed to Govern
ment officials, may go through the mails with
pht tltIdN ANI VI IOssaSS--.-H "~cihSeoh
dispatch SAYS: The police are looking for
the persons who mutilated the body of Beau
Hickman. When the undertaken went to the
potter's-field to remove the body to the Con-
gressional burial-grounds, lie found the legs
disjointed L at the hips. the head severed from
the trunk and skinned, the viscera taken out
and removed, with the exception Of the heart,
which was found in the bushes near by, wrap
ped in a newspaper. What could be gathered
was inferred in the cemetery"
The Acknowledgement most alphabetically
denies the published statement that the Gov
eminent has determined to abandon the prose-
cution of the Credit Mnbilier suits. The ST.
pervisinS Inspector of Steamboats, has hit
upon a plan for more eTcctually bringing to
grief such owners of steam vessels a. fail TO
conform to the law for the protection OF hu-
man life. The plan is, without previous
notification or warning. to send special agents
of the Bureau into the regular Inspection
Districts. so that not only the steamboat COM
panies shall be taken by surprise, bu; the
Inspectors also.
QUARTEEMAsTER-GENERAL MEIGs opened
bids last week for furnishing tombstones for
the national cemeteries. There was a large
attendance of bidders from different parts Of
! the country, and the bids ranged from $780,
600 to 81 1909, 900.
The secret agents sent abroad By the Treas
ury Department, some time ago, to test by ex-
p~eTience tine treatment immigrants received
from the ocean steamship companies, have r5-
turned to Washington. They claim to have
detected a number of serious abuses, and will
recommend to Congress. i'll December, the
following important changes:
First-The establishment Of a treaty with En-
gland, Germany and France for the joint appoint
ment Of Il Government agent to travel on every
steamship plying between the United States and
Europe, and carrying 800 passengers and upward.
The agent To be known as such, aud TO act as media
tor when necessary between She captain of the
steamer and the emigrants.
ScoyRi-Thatt the various Lines If railway in this
country shall he compelled to run emigrant trains
on schedule time, Ike regular trains, instead of as
extra, az at present.
Tird-That for every c~Inigrant killed on 4 rail-
way the company snail pay to the Government for
his heirs the sum of 3 1900, and in case of manning,
a propor,ionate sum.
LIE -lJ. oJD- UUJ hNdIuSl cDur tOFefDultnl
at Geneva, Switzerland, was paid into the
United States Treasury on the 9th inst, by
Secretary Fish. in one bond. The bond was
skillfuily printed with a pen. being a fac
simlle of a printed form. Upon being duly
executed, it was photographed, and then sent
to Secretary Fish. who is its present custodian.
The certificate Of deposit. retained by the
Secretary of the Treasury, will be framed and
preserved among the archives Of the Govern
Inent az a memorial of the amicable settlement
Of the difference between the two countries.
Secretary Richardson invested the money in 5
per cent. registered bonds, to await further
action by Congress.
FOREIGN.
A FIGHT lately occurred on the Lima and
OrOyo railroad. in PERI. between CHILEAN and