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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
ALECE !STEPHENS-AN INTEREST
ING SCENE IN THE HOUSE.

Warrington Dec. IL Cor. Chicago Times.l
The most noteworthy incident of the
debate and one of the most interesting
and dramatic occurrences in the House
Of Representatives since the war, was
the speech OF Mr. Stephens, of Georgia,
on the salary question. this afternoon.
1t had been generally known that he was
to address the House, and the galleries
were crowded. After a short speech by
Judge Poland, of Vermont, Mr..
Stephens took the floor, speaking from
his own seat, directly in front of the
Speakers chair. He leaned on
crutch, which was placed under his left
shoulder, and gesticulated with his
right arm vehemently He spoke with
all his old time fire and eloquence, and
the members gathered around him in
scores, so that the remotcst parts of the
hall were quite deserted. Numbers of
members sat in the centre aisle, and
entire stiffness reigued. His remarks
were made with evident care, and
showed careful preparation. He argued
in favor Of an increased rate of pay,
both for members of Congress and all
other prominent officers of the Govern
ment, calling attention to the fact that
in one of the last speeches he made in
the House fourteen years ago, when he
had no expectation of returning, he
took grounds III favor of salaries
of Sl00,0 for the President;
$4,000 for members of Congress, and
other officers Of the Government III
proportion. He believed that this in
crease, made last year, WAS right, both
On moral and constitutional grounds
Whether it was cxpedient was another
natter. He argued that members of
Congress ought to have rs much us the
highest class of skilled and professional
laborers.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
DiNIEL DADDLE.
A CHRISTMAS LEGEND FOR BAD CHILDREN

A CHRISTMAS LEGEND FOR BAD CHILDREN.
Daniel Daddle was boy of a wicked
and cruel disposition. He used to spin
bugs .on a pin, and pull the legs and
wings of flies Off, and throw spiders into
the waterpail. He used to pelt cats,
and he would also throw stones at dogs,
when he could do so with safety.
But one day he was entirely cured of
these bad habits. He used especially
to pride himself upon the skill with
which he could capture flies and blue
bottles, as they reposed on a sunny
wall, with one sweep of his hand. If
any OF my young readers are desirous
Of trying this rort, let me advise them
to select particularly rough brick wall,
and remember that they must dash their
hands very rapidly and violently toward
the fly, and close enough to the wall to
touch it.
One night when Daniel was in bed he
had a dreadful dream. He dreamed
that he was walking on the sunny side
of the road when very horrible giant
came along Daniel stood still, struck
motionlsss by terror. The monster
crept gently toward him, and raising
his enormous hand, made swoop at
Daniel as if lie had been a basking blue
bottle. Daniel tried to run away, but
1t was too late. He found himself
tightly squeezed in the giants fist, and
could feel his bones cracking with the
pressure. At this moment lie woke. and
found he had tumbled down between
the bed and wall, where he was so tightly
pinched that it was only after long
struggle he could extricate himself.
He then ran down, just as lie was, in
his nightgown, into tine parlor where
his parents were at supper, and told
them he had had a bad dream so they
pitied him and gave him some scalloped
oysters, which / think impaired his
digestion, for he often had bad dreams
afterward-about supper-time.
One day he thought he was going to
catch a very big blue-bottle, but his
knowledge of entomology was scanty,
and what he caught happened to be
bee-and it stung him SO severely that
his arm swelled till his eyes nearly |
dropped out of his head.
hope this will be warning to my
young friends not to be cruel, and when
they catch flies, to be quite sure they
are not bees.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
OLD TDRPSF.S.

The following is summary of the
more important attempts which have yet
been made TO determine the antiquity
of human remains or works of art ::
From observation at the delta of the
Tiniere and on the lakes of Neufchatel
and Bienne, the bronze age IL Europe
has been determined with approximate
accuracy to have been from 5000 to
1000 years ago, and the stone age of
the Swiss Lake dwellings, at from 5000
to 1000 years and an indefinite anterior
period The burnt brick found sixty
feet deep i'll the Nile alluvium indicates
an antiquity of about 10000 years, TAX
ing from calculation by Mr.. Horner,
the estimate OF ~ inches per century as
the rate of deposit of the mud. Another
fragment found at Y feet deep is esti-
mated by N. ROsiere to be $4,000 years
old. Some human bones found
in a lacustrine formation in Florida
have been considered by Agas-
siz, after careful examination of the
locality, to he Mt least 10000 years old.
A human skeleton found at depth of
16 feet below four buried forests super
posed upon each other, has been calcu-
lated by DR.. Dowier to have an an
tiquity of $1,000 years"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19

were smoothed into smiles of pure re
solve nd noble joy; and all, l trust,
were touched deep down where the eye
of no man could pierce.
But Robert did not come. As. one
by one, her children" gave her ''good-
by, " God bless you," and the like
grateful greetings, she scrutinized, with
intense, eager expectation, each face ;
but no remembered lineaments were
there.
/" He will not come !" she sighed,
when the last guest had departed.
Z" If ye PLACE, ma a'am, I'll take We to
him y broke in Kate, unable to find an
easier way of telling her story.
Filled with astonishment and incredu-
lily, they all followed her down the
dreary street, where the bleak wind
shifted to earth its burden of snow; I'D
the creaking stairs of the house our lit
tie beggar had mentioned into the
desolate garnet where he lay, "poor
papa, on few wisps of straw scat
tered over the bare floor, little Hetty's
ragged bit of shawl spread over him,
her frail arms clasping him tenderly,
her fair, golden hair mingled with his
black, matted curls, her baby face, pure
and white as the snow drifting in
through the paneless window, pressed
to his wrinkled, emaciated and no less
pallid cheek. There We're tears on that
cheek-hcr tears-frozen drops more
precious in the eyes of God than your
diamonds to yOu, madam There Iav
the pennies Kate had given, flung away
because of no avail Dead in that
lonely room she found him-dead, and
she could call back no warmth to the
stiff fingers, or sight to the CLASSY eyes,
or smile 20 the shriveled lips with pal
try money or precious kiss
Dead since yesterday-both Of them,
Robert and Hetty frozen stiff in that
agonlZlng last embrace, and arc decking
our Christmas tree the while and pre-
pairing our costly gifts and dinners.
God forgive us! Not hand, of all the
happy millions in the great city. to
come and close those staring eyes Not
an arm to lift them from the floor, and
prepare them for the grave. Not a grave
to receive their deserted bodies no
coffin, no mourners-nothiug! Nothing
but God 5 mercilul love for them; and
for us-the miilstones hanged about
our necks aud the everlasting moan of
the sea OF Regret which surges over us
Looking upon those dead faces. we,
one and all, vowed deeply aEd truly that
Gods little ones should never again
ask from us bread and receive stone
but that with open arms and purses We
would receive and succor them in His
name, and for dear Roberts sake.
And so--onc and alive are working
and waiting for the next great Feast.
Some Uf us will undoubtedly have it in
tins same house Of Hetty's, but many
VIII be sitting there inside those man
sIons mot made with hands, eternal in
the heavens" God grant that none of
them go upward TO Il through the period
OF starvation, whose gates 'cc may un-
Willingly nave left aiar
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
VARIETIES.

RULED paper-The French press.
DRAWING paper-The dentists bill.
ARTIFICIAL butter-A battering- ram.
\ TAKING paper-The sheriff swar-
rant.
IT costs only about 81 900 to make
lady fashionable this winter. A set of
Russian furs does it.
Nor O patriotic smoker in the land
but is in favor Of reducing Havana to
ashes"
SOME young chap thinks it easy to en-
ter an old mans house, because his gait
is broken and his locks are few.
If you wish to travel cheaply, patron
ize those railroads which advertise to
carry their passengers through with
out change"
els the Colonel here?'' shouted
man, sticking his head into Kansas
City street-car. " He is" answered
thirteen men as they rose up.
THE CongregGtiOnotist, after eTowl
ing at printers blunders, says: "It is
as much as sentiments life is worth:.to
travel from New York to Chicago"
THE man with that shotgun should
start Immediately for Pittsburgh, where
a 14-year old boy has perpetrated d nine
stanzas beginning as follows:
Oh, those cruel spaniards at their bloody work
again,
%, rise up Young America and put head on
Spain
-CiGreidnd LeddGr.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
IyPoland, and elsewhere, it is believed

ISPoland, and elsewhere, it is believed
that on Christmas night the heavens are
opened, and the scene of Jacobs ladder
is enacted, but it is only permitted to
the saints to see it. Throughout North
ern Germany the tables are spread and
lights left burning during the entire
night, that the Virgin Mary, and the
angel who passes when every body
sleeps, may find something to eat. In
certain parts of Austria they put candles
in the windows, that The Christ-child
may not stumble in passing through the
village. There is also widespread
opinion that IA pack of wolves, which
were no other than wicked men trans
formed into wolves, committed great
havoc upon Christman night. Taking
advantage OF this superstition, it was
not unusual for rogues disguised in
wolfskins to attack honest people. rifle
their houses, sack their cellars, and
drink or steal all their beer. As
specific charm, no doubt, against these
wolfish depredations, it was customary
in Austria, up to a recent date, after
high mass on Christmas night, to sing
in particular tone, to the sound of the
large bell, the chapter of the generation
of Jesus Christ.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
0. L. PAUL, Publisher.
CHRISTMAS ODE.

' HAass' A-A-i" VIZ
Hlest day Of all the calendar!
Into our trCth-inspired ken
Thou riscst row as Iair as when
First rose DER Bethlehem the star
That lit tbs JEdean hills ssar.
While angels sang GOOD Will to men,"
0 hailowed day. to thee allied
Is all that most this life endears,
OF faith and hope--cf doub: and tears,
Ana love of One for love that died,
Yet lives again, and glorifed
In thee, through twice thousand years.
Der leagues OF sncw-enmartled earth
Thy merry bells are ringing clear;
Thrice welcome hour. though bleak and drear,
And hartugcr Of storm and dearth;
In loving smiles and glowing hearth
Thou brirgest more than summer cheer.
To-day shall Absence and Regret
Their iron scsrter yield 10 you;
For friends TO old affection true
Across the stormy years have rnet,
And eye, with joys suftusion wet
Drink light from kindred eyes anew.
To-day the sire tina. felbly bows
And careless G.r!Eood's happy smile
Rr-bghis lis glow on matrons brows;
While blisstul dreams and loving VOWS
Shall many = maiden care beguile.
Today shall grief, in anguish prone,
From Isin 4 respite gladly win;
And b who OWLS 10 bosonl-kir,
Who threads Times wiEtry maze alone,
Shall star; q: oft-eudearisE tone
Brief murmur from the life within;
And musing sad, his heart shall lean
To olion me-lories, hope-em5ossed
The latest loved, the early lest,
Perchancc are with him, all unseen,
Prom Paradise of summer green.
To soothe his spirit. tempest-tossed:
Or On his deeply-yisioped eye
Rise fairest forms may not Soc
Loom ether landscapes, blooming free
As, with ! trus; that may not die,
He pondsrs long each sIndercd tie,
Or bond more beautiful 10 be.
Lakeside IoHthiy.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
VOL.UI.- mo. 8.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL.

In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan;
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
Our God, heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign;
In the bleak mid-wlnter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty
Jesus Christ.
Enough for Him whom CheIubim
Worship night and day,
\ breastfUl of milk
And mangerful Of hay;
Enough for Him whom Angels
Fall down before,
The OK and ass and camel
Which adore.
Angels and Archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and Seraphim
Thronged the air;
But only His Mother
In her maiden bliss
Worshiped the Beloved
With kiss.
What can 1 give Him,
Poor As I am,
II were Shepherd
would bring lamb.
If were Wise Man
would do my part
Yet what can 1 give Him
Give my heart. -ChTisfiaa Rossstii
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19

Iowa is the only State that runs
ahead i'll oranges and membership of
Missouri. 1t has 1888 oranges organ
lied, and besides has the first member
of Congress from its own numbers
Mr. james Wilson, of the Fifth District,
who is working farmer.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
GROWTH OF THE ORANGES.

The National Grange issues a weekly
bulletin of the number of subordinate
oranges, &c, which is quite eagerly
scanned by its members. From the
last number it appears that there are
900 local oranges, with reported
membership of 67S,675. The number
organized during November was 974,
and for the first week of the present
month, 269. The largest growth is in
the South, rs witness the following
Eu,,raS
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

CAPT. JOHN T. DREW remarks that
the Rutland (Vt.) GIoGe is edited by
"cynical, sore-headed buzzards," and
has made an "ccstatic ass" of itself.
A PENNSYLVANIA auctioneer sold n
muff worth about SO for $50, and
dropped dead while taking the money.
The doctors try to make out that he
had heart disease.
An ingenious mechanic has brought
out a combination Of steaa-gauge, try
cocks, and water-level glass, all in one
piece, so that only two holes need be
made III the boiler, instead of six.
IT is stated that London actually
drinks pure milk. Under the Adultera-
ton act of 1872, the least addition of
water to milk sold as pure subjects the
offender to a fine of $50, and, if the
offense is repeated, his name and crime
are printed in one of the local papers in
addition. 1t is reported that "the
children are growing fat and healthy"
THE supers' ition that cattle kneel at
midnight on Christmas Eve, i'll recogni-
ton of the anniversary of the Savior's
birth, is still said to exist even in some
parts of England while the belief that
water drawn at twelve o'clock on Christ
mas night is miraculously turned into
wine is no less widely diffused. In
Mecklenburg it is not allowable to call
certain animals by their right names,
and he who does not say "long TAIL"
for example, for fox, pays forfeit.
CHRISTMAS BILLS.
There's ringing of bells,
And bringing of bills.
There's the gf;-Suying sTelis.
The earnings of tills.
For Christmas is here.
Tis the end of the year,
And the time of good cheer.
There's n.ir;lI and there's foIly,
And punch-bowls TO brew.
There's mis.letoe, holly,
Bright ivy and yew
For Christmas comes in
With laughter and din,
And must all wag chin
Then give friends welcome rare,
And pardon Ill foes.
Let the poor have 4 share
In the com;or: that flows;
So shall Christmas pass best.
And your heart shall be biest
With peace gladEess and rest.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19

LITTLE Tommy didn't disobey
mamma and go in swimming, did he ?"
"No, mamma Jimmy Brown and the
rest of the boys went III, but | remem-
bered. and would not disobey you. "
.. And Tommy never tells lies, does he?'
:" No. mamma couldn't go TO heaven. y
Then how does Tommy happen TO
have ON Jimmy Browns shirt ?"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
CHRISTMAS IN RUSSIA.


The leveling hand of civilization has
in most countries in Europe set aside
the Joyous merrymaking common at
Christmas in earlier periods; in Russia,
however, the good olden times still in a
great measure prevail; for, though in
st. Petersburg and Moscow, and other
places where the influence Of European
fashions extends, the ancient manners
and customs are wearing out, III the re-
moter provinces of the empire they
sway. There the Christian festival is
still celebrated according TO the forms
which prevailed on the first introduction
of Christianity into the land. The an
cient ceremonies are considered of such
Importance by the majority of the Rus
sian population that early il the month
of November all minds become busy
with thoughts of them About this
period the fathers of families begin to
reflect, and to calculate how many sau-
sages, what quantity Of salted meat,
how many bottles of kirsch and other
liquors they ought to provide for the
coming festival while the women pom
der upon the chances OF spending n
right merry Christmas; they arrange
among themselves whose house shall be
selected for the entertainments, whom
they shall invite to while away the long
evenings with them, and what girls
would be the most welcome guests to
their own daughters, should it be their
lot to celebrate the maiden festival.
This last point, III particular, is matter
for deep consideration Tor the young
ladies III Russia are the heroines OF the
Christmas festivities, which seem in
ings Of friends and relatives are held
every day during the Philipowki, or
time Of Advent, to discuss these i'm
portant matters, when bitter contests
often ensue, to appease which many
propitiatory gift and many sugared
word from the lips of nurses and tire
women, who are the diplomatists of
every Russian family, have 10 be given.
THE common custom of decking the
houses and churches at Christmas with
evergreens is derived from ancient
Druid practi, es. Ii WAS an old belief
that sylvan spirits might flock to the
evergreens, and remain unnipped by
frost until milder season. The holly,
ivy, rosemary, barry, laurel, and mis-
tletoe, furnishcdt the favorite trimmings,
which were not removed till Candlcmas.
Chaplets of these were also worn about
the head, practice to which the
phrases to 'kiss under the rose, to
Z" whisper under the mistletoe," are
illusions. In old church-calendars
Christmas-eve is marked "Templa
exornatur (adorn the temples). Holly
and ivy still remain in England the most
esteemed Christmas evergreens, though
at the two universities the windows
of the college-chapels are decked with
laurel.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
CHIEF-JTSTYCE UILLTiFS.


! give you an exact physical sketch of
Judge Williams, taken from measure
ments in the year 1866 and, as he is in
all essentials unchanged, you can get
good avoirdupois and linear notion OF
the man, He was born March 26.
1898, and is of the age Of John Sher-
man He is & feet / inch, and weighs
l1S pounds, measures 40l inches around
the chest, and -, inches around the
hcad-or more than Trumbull, less than
Sumner, and the same as Edmunds.
Chief-Justice Williams ancestry is
wholly Welsh, and his name is so com
mon i'll Wales that il stands third in the
list of common surn Imes for England
and Wales, and is nearly az common as
Smith and jones. This Welsh clement
has been very common in our public
life. Jefferson had it in the name as
well aS the blood Senator Anthony is
half Welsh, ex-senator Morgan the
same, Garrett Davis the same, ex-Sena-
tor Pomeroy ditto, and Sprague ditto.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
TTNNELTNG FROV FRANCE TO EN-
GLAND.

The tunnel under Dover Straits is
again under consideration by the French
Government 4 public inquest has
been ordered by the Minister of Public
Works into the project of Messrs. Low,
De Gamond and others. A working
model of their plan was on view at the
grand exhibition of 1867. 1t received
at that time the sanction of Napoleon
Ill, who proposed to help it by a Gov
ernment subsidy. The Prussian war
prevented this plan from being carried
out, but the company are now willing
to build the tunnel at their own ex-
pense, proTided the Government will
make their grant a perpetual monopoly.
This the Government will not accede to-
1t is probable, however, that limited
monopoly will be granted.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19

A CRATE game-Plsying poker.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-10-04

parish jail. A preliminary examina
ton of this case will take place before
Judge Cheevers at the Court House
to-day.
A mulatto who sports a frock coat
and gives his name as Charles Ray
mond ran off with another mans
horse in the parish of East Baton
last week, and though the news of his
misdemeanor was soon extensively
circulated and the people in all por-
tons of the neighborhood were on tho
lookout for him, he succeeded in get
ting across the Manchac ferry and in
to this parish. He was discovered
just as he reached the Ascension shore
by citizen who lives few rods from
the ferry, and in about as short time
as it requires to tell it a shotgun was
brought to bear upon the thief7s car
cass, but the astute rascal clapped
spurs to the horse and was off like a
streak of Jersey lightning creased for
the occasion. Constable Dixon set
out in pursuit and overhauled the fell
low after he reached the river, but he
related such plausible tale and re-
ferred to so many well known resi-
dents of this parish for proof of his
good character, that the constable
began seriously to doubt the proba-
bility of his prisoner being horse
thief after all. A compromise was eff
fected by the horse being placed in
care of Mr.. John D. Cantey, Raymond
agreeing to stop at that gentleman's
place all night and meet the consta-
BILE at the river ferry in the morning
and cross with him to Donaldsonville.
Early in the morning the slippery
thief arose from his couch and speed
lily stole away. Hiring colored man
to row him across the river, he struck
a bee line down the Bayou Lafourche
road. If any of our neighbors in As
sumption or Lafourche parishes meet
him they are requested to invite him
to return here as our Sheriff yearns
for his society. The stolen horse is
in good hands awaiting claimant.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-10-04
st. .Ioseph.s Academy.

This Institution is gradually filling up.
The organization Of new classes is thus me-
eessitated. Parents ought to reflect en- the
disadvantages to which their children arc
subjected by entering after the classes are
organized. An early application is of the
utmost Importance. There are two separ-
ate departments--a High School and Paro-
chial School. In both, English is taught in
its purity. In the Paroehia1 School, the in
struetion is elementary In the High School,
mar rules and principles, construction of
sentences. epistolary correspondence, rhet-
oric and English literature generally Math-
ematics, comprising Arithmetic, Algebra,
Geometry, Trigonometry, Mensuration. Sur
veying Navigation, Comic Sections. Spher-
les, eta.; Commercial Science and practical
bookkeeping, including an easy method of
balancing the Ledger, and preparing gen.
eral Balance Sheet exhibiting the Assets
and Liabilities at one view, and the gains
and losses in trade.
Thus may be had all the advantages of
the best Commercial Colleges without the
disadvantages incident to young men located
in large cities.
Classes in French, German, Latin, &c.,
will be formed forthwith, and it will be
the constant aim both of the teachers and
the director, to make the Academy an Insti-
tuition of the highest utility, and thus impart
to its pupils, all the preparatory knowledge
for q fir5t-class college course.
Terms low. See prospectus; or apply to
Prof. Heating, at the Academy.