The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-05-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.

j., on the lotn lnst., iof WIG wv
snd on the following day Michael Nixon
suffered a like penalty in New York city for the
killing of Charles Pfeifer. Rev. DR.. Ben1a-
min r. Paddock has been elected Episcopal
Bishop for the diocese Of Massachusetts,.
GEoneE WILLIAM CURTIS. the editor Of
Ha,per's Weekly, and late member Of the liz
Service Commission, is filling the pulpit OF the
Unitarian Church at New Brighton, Staten
Island. during the absence Of the regular pas
tor. The ffty-seventh anniversary OF the
American Bible Society was held in Philadel-
mia last week. From an address made by
Rev. DR.. Fellows, of Madison, Wis.,, it appears
that there are $500 auxiliary bodies in the
United States that more h SO, 100000 OF
Bibles have been distributed through the
agency Of the society, and it is now sending
out daily 5000 Bibles. In the match game
of billiards at New York, between Maurice
DAILY and grille Dion, for the championship
of America, the former won by 2l points,.
LIQUOR is sold ut S,403- places in New York
city, Charles Francis Adams il-judged en-
~aItation of Mr.. Seward at the expense Of
President Lincoln, in his recent eulogy, has
called forth another protest. Montgomery
Blair, who was Postmaster-G General under Mr..
Lincoln. Gays that gross injustice has been
done Mr.. Lincoln by Mr.. Adams, and that
Secretary welles shares the same opinion.
SERIOUS charges are made by New York mer-
chants and shippers against Consul. General
Archibald. and petitions have been sent to the
London Board of Trade asking his recall.
A negro barber named jackson the other day
murdered his white mistress, in New York, by
beating her in . shocking manner with q club.
1t is said Hon. William NJ. Evarts, while
not seeking the Chief Justiceship, would
gladly accept if it should be rendered him..
There seems to be some feeling in the Nerth-
ern Presbyterian Assembly, in session at Balti-
more. against the Board of Publication of the
Church. No such charges of dishonesty and
fraud are preferred against it as have made
the Methodist Book Concern an object Of at
tention. 1t is accused only Of expanding the
church moneys and rendering NO account
plausibility, no body Of men, however respect
able, have a right to pursue.
OAxEs AMEs left large requests for educa-
tionAl proposes. A @ronaut named Donald
son recently made an ascension from Reading,
Pa, in q balloon made Of brown paper, AND
landed safely. Nearly eight Thousand emf
grants arrived ct New York from Europe il
one day, recently. They were nearly all bound
for the West.
AT New York, the other day, George Francis
Train was tried on the charge of publishing
obscene literature. The jury acquitted hin
on the ground of insanity, and no sooner wa
the verdict pronounced than the presiding
Judge issued an order committing him to tn,
insane asylum. -. Gov. Dix thinks that to in
clude beer and cider in prohibitory laws cal
have no other effect than to increase the use
of stronger drinks, and thereby swell the very
evils of intemperance which such Legislation
seeks to lessen. For this reason he has
vetoed the Local Option bill lately passed by
the New FORK Legislature. IA great struggle
is prevailing in Shamokin, Penn, tor the pos
session of over IL, 600 acres of land in the
anthracite coal regions, valued at go, 900, 900.
One party has burned three houses which the
other side had erected, and retaliation is now
threatened.
III e
CHAALEs MORTIMER, recently hung at Sacra-
mento, Cal, was the murderer Of eight
women. 49,. Joseph O'Neil was hung at Mt.
Carroll, H., on Friday, the 18th, for the MUIR
der Of Hiram Rexford. AT Oskaloosa, Iowa,
recently, q little two-year-old child was At
tackled and frightfully mutilated by a rooster.
Eighteen buildings were destroyed by the
recent fire at Joliet, Ill. The loss is about
$4,000. William Mcdonald, Of Cincinnati,
the other day fell across 3 "a inch circular saw
operating at full speed. The saw took of his
left arm and heel, sawed into his body. cutting
his heart half in two. He extricated himself,
ran so yards, and fell dead. IA new railroad
imbroglio Of . rather fierce description has
been started in Wisconsin by the refusal Of the
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad Company to
accept the st. Croix Immigrant on the terms of
the recent act of the Legislature. The reason
assigned for the refusal is, that the title of the
State to the lands is in litigation. 80. .Advices
from the lava beds state that the Modocs are
intrenched in the Crater Butte. Capt. Has
brouck is camped within watching distance OF
the enemy with a force Of 210 men, where he
awaits the arrival Of Col. Mason. II is in
tended that the two commands shall amalga-
mate under Col. Mason, and hold the Indians
at bay until mortars are forwarded and q scout
is made around the southern boundary Of the
beds. At last accounts the Indians we're for.
tifying their present position, with the evident
intention Of giving battle the first oppor.
tunity. H
Mrs. ELLEN LARSEN and her husband quar-
relied about some family matter, and the wife
ended the wrangle by knocking her liege down
with an iron poker and then stabbing him with
a dirk knife, from the effects Of which he
died. All this in Chicago.
TIL Yellowstone river has been found TO be
navigable for 4 large part Of it's course. An
exploring expedition under Gen. George A.
Forsyth recently assembled the river in one OF
the largest Of the Upper Missouri steamers.
MARY Jane Hart died at Troy, Ohio, last
week, at the age of ITO years. The Wabash
Elevator, at Toledo. was recently destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000. Several hundred
Apsches have fed from the Camp Verde
(Arizona) reservation, and gone on the war
path again.
81. JOSEPH, Mo-, is happy over the compile
ton Of the new railroad bridge across the
Missouri river at that point. Gov. Booth, of
California, is raising q company Of sharp
shooters to hunt the Modocs.
THE SOUTH
THE leaders of the recent movement at st.
Martinsville, La, to resist the installation Of
the Kellogg officials, have been arrested and
taken to New Orleans, where they had q grand
ovation from the citizens, thousands turning
out to do them honor.