The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-05-23
CURRENT ITEMS.
JOAQUIN MILLER is said to be growing
sad, grave and despondent."

JOAQUIN MILLER is said to be growing
"sad, grave and Respondent"
A SCHOOL history of the United States
has been prepared by A. H. Stephens,
of Georgia.
A CoRoNER's FURY in Kentucky took
the liberty Of finding a man guilty Of
murder, and sentenced him to jail for
life.
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE has just been
elected chairman Of the Maine Repub-
lican State Committee, for the fifteenth
time.
CALIFORNIA anticipates a Chinese emf
grafton of 5000 this year, and on
siders it can alarming condition of
affairs"
A WESTERN paper that
board for the summer can be obtained
at q large and shady brick gentleman's
residence.
ACCORDING to the last census there
are in the United States 81, s5S male
physicians and surgeons, and 525 female
physicians.
THE wall around the city Of Khiva is
ten feet high, and has just been strength
ened with fianking towers and mounted
with sixty guns.
THE fisheries of the United States,
according to the census, employs 20,504
persons, and their products are valued
at 81, COG, 512.
Or the 1882, 400 acres of land in the
Pennsylvania oil region, drilled over and
accepted as oil territory. only 5.444 acres
have ever produced oil.
CINCINNATI talks again of a monument
to Gen. William Henry Harrison, and
proposes to erect it on the one hundredth
anniversary Of his birth.
MASSACHUSETTS produces goods to the
value Of 1858, 912, 500 annually, and four
counties alone produce 1896, 900, 600
worth Of the aggregate amount.
Gov. WooDsoN, of Missouri, has par
doned a convict with condition that if he
becomes intoxicated by the use Of strong
drink he shall be remanded to prison.
The Beecher family have written a
The collected works of Ly-
man, Charles, Edward. Henry, Catha-
rine and Harriet would fill an alcoye ut
Harvard or Yale.
IT is q curious fact that the farmer of
Illinois or Missouri must sell two BUSH
of ripe corn to get money enough to
buy a can of sweet corn put up green
and holding less than one quart.
GEN. JAMES SHIELDS is the only man
ever represented two States in the
United States Senate. At one time he
was Senator from Illinois, and subse-
Senator from Minnesota.
ONE of the corpses picked up at the
Atlantic wreck had on a quilted vest,
md in every diamond of the quilting
here was a sovereign, there being in all
bout eighty, equal to about $4O0.
A FATHER and two SON a few years
go, married three sisters in Iowa. The
lndutiful sons have driven their I'M
lappy parent to the verge Of insanity
y trying to explain the relationship of /.
heir children.
An inquiring man at Albany thrust
lis fingers into a horses mouth to see
ow many teeth the horse had. The
orse closed his mouth to see how many !
myers the man had. The curiosity of {
ach was fully satisfied. g.,
Mr.. GUNaLE, q butcher of Princeton, :
Wis.,, hung his rifle from the ceiling, I
luzzle downward, the other day, ex- {
'nded himself on the bed beneath and \
| the range Of the weapon, and then 4
orried the thing off with n stick. The :
INLET went through him beautifully. !
A VIRGINIA railroad conductor has in !
snted Q revolving signal-light, to be "
to the rear of trains. by which 7
10 engineers behind them can tell by 3
le speed Of their rotations, as shown N
? the succession of different colored
gifts, at what rate the trains are NOV 8
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