The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-08-08
NEWS IN BRIEF
THE EAST.

" oouN II Adh6CAoubAy i..
A wrestling match for g, 900 and the cham
pionship of the world, took place at Troy, N.
Y, the other day, between John Mcmahon, of
Rutland, VT. and Thomas Copeland, of
Canada, and was won by the Vermonter. %.
Glione, the Italian slave-driver of New Haven,
has been held in a, 900 bail to answer for his
treatment of fou little italian boys whom he
held as slaves. They had been sold to him for
four years by their parents, who were to re-
ceive $40 a year, and were bound to pay all ex-
penses for medical attention, and were to for
felt all their earnings and $50 if the children
ran away. Glione was declared by the little
boys to have brutally maltreated them, and to
have instructed them to steal if they could
not otherwise obtain the daily sum he exacted
from them.
THE Warden of Sing Sing Prison Indignantly
denies the stories that Frank Walworth re-
ceived special favors at his hands. He receives
the same fare and treatment as other c~onvicts.
IA report comes from New York that one
of the most powerful combinations ever FORM
ed in Wall street, headed by the notorious
Jay Gould, has been organized for the pur-
lOoo u puiih6 ehO SOiu ulbi net. Lie CAPITAL
represented by its members is estimated at
over 800, DOC, 900. and they propose to put
gold above Is. They assert that the Treasury
Department, being short of gold, will be pow
erless to interfere. 1t is asserted, on the con-
trary, that Secretary Richardson, on being in
formed of the schemes of the clique, said if
they imagined the Treasury was not able to
protect itself, they would find themselves
sadly mistaken.
TIL story concerning the great Wall street
gold-bull clique is denied. Ia meeting of
prominent Massachusetts Republicans opposed
to the nomination of Ben Butler for Governor.
was held in Boston the other day. Judge
Hoar, Congressman Dawes, and other men of
note, were present, and pledged themselves to
do all in their power to defeat the aspirations
of the Essex statesman"
The two guano dealers in New York city are
charged with selling an article SO adulterated
as to contain only 8 or 6 per cent. of ammonia,
the most valuable element of that fertilizer.
and about GO per cent. of other matter, mainly
earth, and unknown in genuine guano. They
are said to have succeeded in swindling the
farmers into buying their spurious stuff by
counterfeiting the trademark of the Peruvian
Government and reflling old bags which bore
the real brand. Suits have been brought
against them by the agents Of the Peruvian
Government, who ask for an Injunction to
stop the fraud, and claim heavy damages.
A NEW lori telegram says The managers
of trunk lines to the West have made the fol
lowing reductions in freight charges on first
class merchandise, which includes dry goods
boots and shoes, clothing, etc.: From New
York to Chicago, per cwt., 75c, formerly 81
Cleveland, 49c, formerly Csc; Cincinnati. Zoe
formerly 92c: iSt. Louis, SIC, ormerly 81. %
Louisville, SEC, formerly s1.23; Memphis,
Sl.35, formerly Sl.62... Several young and
accomplished Russian women, who were driven
from Zurich by order of the Car, while DUR.
suing their medical studies, have arrived at
New York nearly penniless.
WHEN the officers went to the New York
Tombs, the other dRy, to escort Yves Allen. a
noted desperate, to his future quarters at
Auburn State Prison, he quietly told them he
preferred the Tombs fare to that of Auburn.
and significantly pointed to q can of nitro
glycerine lying beside him. At last accounts
Yves still occupied his little cell unmolested
NEARLY 200, 900 immigrants have arrived Mt
New York since the LIST of January.
HE Apportionment Committee in The Ohio
constitutional Convention has reported in
FAVOR OF adopting the cumulative system of
voting at elections in that State, as now prac-
ticea In Illinois. ..An the parties engaged in
the kidnapping of Lord Gordon have been
committed for trial by the Manitoban court.
IA horrible tragedy was recently enacted at
Pleasant Hill, Neb. A German named Scholtz
beheaded his sister with an ak, and then end
ed bis W life by cutting his throat. The
1exas cattle fever lis spreading in North Mis-
sour. Over 200 head of native cattle have
died of it in one cornty-Caldwell The
grasshoppers are ravaging the grain fields of
Nebraska. Eight convicts escaped from the
Missouri Penitentiary last week. One was
recaptured and another shot. IA balIoonist
az Princeton. ILL.,, the other day, made an
ascension to the clouds head downward. ON a
single trapeze. The local paper pronounces it
the most daredevil sight ever Witnessed
Inc hickapoo Indians are to be removed
from Mexico to Kansas, under the auspices of
the Indian Commissioners 49, Three persons
were killed near Knightstown, Ind. a few
DAYS ago, by the bursting of q thrashing ma
CHIME The steamboat interests of ST. Louis
have forwarded to Washington a remonstrauce
against the further construction OF the bridge
now being built across the Mississippi river at
that city, on the ground that if it is finished
according to the original plan it will be a great
obstruction to navigation. 80. Minnesota agri-
cultural authorities calculate that the wheat
crop of the State will yield a surplus of 30
0oo,oOO bushels for export. The st. Paul
O1spdtch correspondent describes the closing
scenes in the Manitoban court, in the case of
the Gordon kidnappers, as very exciting. The
prosecuting officer, Clark, inveighed bitterly
against the prisoners, the blackguards
In brown cloth who allotted them. and
the newspaper correspondents. Cornish.
ms assistant, vulgarly abused eyery-
thing American, including our courts.
which he declared are influenced bv
brides. Finally, he threatened the Judge with
popular vengeance if he dared to admit the
to bail. The Judge would not allow
counsel to threaten him, but would perform
ms duty without reference to the counseI's
Then" said Cornish, ait is your
auty to refuse bail. You dare not do other
WISE. Judge| shall do as 1 think proper,
dictation from you. Cornish-Of
You will, but still 1 don't think Won will
iare to do this. Here Judge Betourney inter-
cred and reprimanded Cornish, saying he was
ringing contempt on the Court by the man
Ter Of his address to Judge McKeagny, not
outstanding which, Cornish, who was evil