The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-21
CURRENT ITEMS.

A MEMPHIS woman, AFRAID OF yellow
fever, sold a piano for S25, to get means
to leave town.
By annexation Boston has now four
"First Churches" that have been estab-
hshed more than two centuries.
THE debt of the District of Columbia
is S16,OOO,OO0, or S1S2 to each man,
woman and child in the District.
THE Grangers are steadily increasing
in numbers throughout Maine, and, in
fact, throughout all New England.
A NUMBER of small sewing-machine
companies have consolidated, and are
about commencing monster manufac-
tory in Jersey City.
THIRTY miles an hour, including stop
pages, is to be the order ON the North
western railway, between Chicago and
Green Bay, ria Milwaukee.
A BosroN man dropped five cents in a
public cistern under the street, and
fire-steamer generously pumped out 100
barrels of water that he might recover
the nickel.
AJUNCTIoN CITY (Kan. girl swallowed
a pin about year ago, which recently
made its appearance, coming out
through the left eye, entirely destroy
ing her sight.
Ii is estimated that New Hampshire
has furnished more money for Western
railroads during the last twenty years
than the whole manufacturing interests
of the State are worth.
THE Shah has recalled his Grand
Vizier to ofavor again, and banished those
who sought his ruin. The Vizier's only
fault in the eyes of these prim Persian
persons was his exceeding iollity.
AT the Carlton Club, London, the
head cook receives salary of fl, 400 a
year. Like Worth, who never sews
himself, the cook merely superintends
and "tastes things" before they are
served.
An enterprising newspaper in San
Francisco secured the services of some
carrier-pigeons to bring ii report OF
the Modoc executions. They flew off n
few miles in good order, and have not
been heard of since.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HENRY CURTIS, of
Bridgeport, Conn.,, who celebrated their
golden wedding last Monday week, had
all their children and grandchildren
present. No death has occurred in the
family for half century.
FouR years ago England imported
from Australia G30O worth of preserved
meats last year it was million in
value, and is expected to increase rap
idly in amount as the prejudice against
preserved meats wears off.
NOT long ago two gentlemen started
from London on bicycle trip to Land S
End, distance of 300 miles. Their
trip occupied Just one week. They were
forty-two hours and twenty-five minutes
actually upon their vehicles.
A NEW way of preserving autumn
leaves is given as follows: Iron them
fresh with warm (not hoD iron, on
which some spermaceti has been lightly
rubbed. This method preserves per-
fectly their lovely tints, and gives a
waxy gloss which no other one Sc
cures.
THE New Orleans Times says &:
Louisiana is favored the present year
with fair sugar crop, fair as to quality
and more than fair as to quality. From
all the sugar parishes We have pretty
much the same report, and that grind
ing has commenced.
| IL the State of Illinois there are 97S
Baptist churches and 4S5 preachers, or
about half as many preachers as
churches. In the Southern part of the
State especially, it is very common
practice for one man to serve four
churches on the "once a month plan.
The st. Louis Globe has deliberately
! come to the conclusion that the number
of women who would rather not
marry than become the wives q
poor men is much smaller than
the number of men who would rather
not marry than become the husbands
of poor women.
SAYS the London Spectator of re.
cent date at has been a superstition
for generations that marriage per
formed by captain of man-of-war OF
his own quarterback was legal. Hel
Majesty's law-officers, however, having
informed the Admiralty that all sncl
marriages are Illegal, they have for the
future been prohibited. "
Il LOST POPULATION.