The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-03-14
NEWS IN BRIEF
THE Else

Dlstrlct OF connecticut have nominated eX.
Gov. James E. English for Congress. 1T il
rumored that Alden B. Stockwell, President OF
the Pacific Mail Company, and for several
years one of the heaviest and boldest operators
on the New York Stock Exchange, has failed
to meet his contracts, and that his failure il
inevitable.
TIL celebrated Jumel will case will be car.
ried into the United States Supreme Court.
The widow of James Fisk, Jr., has sued the
Credit Mobilier for 90, 900 shares of its stock.
The Supply sailed from New York for Triste,
the other day, having on board q cargo of every
variety of American products and machinery
for the Vienna Exposition. The Guard is now
being loaded at Brooklyn, and will sail in a few
days. No American locomotives, billiard tables
orlight carriages will be sent to the Exposition.
America will appear to the greatest advantage
IN the department Of fine arts.
A COMMITTEE of the constitutional Commits
sion of New York charged with the duty of
investigating the city, county and town debts
in the State have reported that these local
debts reach the enormous sum of s214. 600, 900.
exclusive of the State debt proper.
The New York Senate, by a vote of Z to 15'
has refused to declare the seat of Boss Tweed
vacant. The Committee on Female Suf-
frage in the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives have reported in favor of granting
to M the right to vote and hold office go.
The first number of the new illustrated daily
paper, the Graphic, was issued in New York
on the 5th inst, and a large edition was sold.
1t is believed the enterprise will prove a sue
cess....A brutal prize-fght at Golfers Station.
w. Va, the other day, between the bruisers
Hicken and Campbell, was broken upin a row.
after % rounds had been fought. Several
pistol-shots were fired, but unfortunately none
of the brutes were hit by the flying balls.
THE WEST.
J. b. MCCORMICK, a member of the cele-
brated reaper manufacturing firm, died at
Dayton, Ohio, recently, aged SO. -. A singular
accident happened at a coal mine near Des
Moines, Iowa, last week. A miners drill. four
feet long and an inch in diameter, fell from
the mouth of the shaft, and struck Benjamin
Couch, 12S feet below, in the back at the right
of the spine, just above the hips. and passing
through his body came out near the rec
tum. The drill made a terrible wound, but it
was withdrawn by fellow-workman at COUGHS
request. Medical aid was summoned at once.
and the sufferer will probably recover.
SIX women have just received their diplomas
as graduates of the Woman's Hospital Medi-
cal College, of ~Chicago....A new line of ten
first-class propellers is to be engaged this year
in the lake traffic between Montreal and Chi
cago....Th lower house of the Kansas Legis-
lature resolves that Pomeroy is unworthy the
confidence and respect of the people of the
State. George l.. Wedgewood, the rascally
school superintendent of La Sale county. ILL.,,
was arrested at Quincy, the other day. -. Raj
fertv, the Chicago murderer, who has been
twice tried and sentenced to death, has OBJ
tanned a surersededs, and will probably be
granted a new trial. The troops in Arizona
have had two more encounters with the duskv
Apaches. in which twenty-five of the latter
were sent to their happy hunting grounds"
Only one soldier was killed.
The action of the Senate on the Louisiana
muddle leaves the question in precisely the
same condition it was before the Committee
on Elections made their report. The House
on Appropriations considered the
Senate amendments to the Postofice Appro-
rriation bill, and agreed to non-concur in the
amendment forbidding the transmission of all
free matter, SO far as the same effects ex-
changes arlong newspapers.
ADvIcEs from Arizona report Gen. Crooks
army in excellent condition. Crook considers
the backbone Of the Indian war broken, but
has no faith in Cochise's promises to keep the
peace.
The Chicago, Alton and st. Louis railroad
has brought suit for S10.0 900 damages against
some of the persons who detained its trains in
the attempt to ride for the legal fare of three
cents .Advices from Oregon repor. that
there is a prospect of the peace negotiations
with the Modoc Indians coming to a favorable
termination Capt. Oscar C.. Pratt, a we'll
known Journalist, recently cammitted suicide
at Omaha
N SOUTH.
ALEXANDER H.. STEPHENS has been elected to
Congress from the Eighth District of Georgia
without opposition =. Members of the Legis-
lature of South Carolina, and other citizens of
that State. have signed a memorial to the
United States Senate charging Senator Patter-
son with bribery, and petitioning that he be
refused his seat.
Z. W. LOWELL, Postmaster at New Orleans.
Is a defaulter to the extent of about 500. 900.
He was arrested and bailed in SO. 900.
SEVERAL hundred families have been rem
dered homeless and much suffering caused by
the recent destructive confiagration in New
Orleans, which destroyed some 200 buildings.
Tn Mayor of the city has sent forth an appeal
for aid. Gen. W. J.. Mcmillan has been
elected United States Senator from Louisiana,
for the long term, by the McEnery Legislature,
The election in Arkansas has resulted in the
ratification Of the constitutional amendment
doing away with Acknowledgement.
WASHINGTON.
The President has sent the following uomi
nations to the Senate Charles Stephan Col
lector of Internal Revenue. Twelfth Illinois
District. Postmasters-Leonard Wilson, Mar
shall, Mo. David A.. Ryers, Kit Carson. Col.
The aggregate of appropriations. by the |
time all the appropriation bills shall have been
passed, will probably be $3.50, 900, 600. 80. Ought
the United States Government to build a first
class double-track railroad, from the Atlantic
to the Mississippi or Missouri, for the purpose
of cheapening freights and fares? The Senate
has directed the Committee on Transportation
to answer this question.
Mr.. INGALLS, '0ld Pom's" successor. is
described as the youngest looking man in the
Senate. The following is the public debt
tatement for F ebruary:
Six per cent 81 ,339, 245, 700
rive per cent. bonds 414,5 800
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Lawful money debt. 15,9sS,O m
siatured debt. 1908, 24O