The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-09-19
VIEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.

port, lost ID lives anu S5U,oUU DS the ia'o b"o
on the Nova Scotia coast. Ten of the coun-
terfeit $500 notes have been received at the
New York Sub-Trcasury. 1t is thought that
it will be found necessary to call IN the whole
genuine issue of S35, 600, 900. There is a law
in Massachusetts, which permits the Governor
to grant conditional pardons that is, to pro-
vide that if the prisoner be convicted of n
crime committed after his release. he shall be
required to serve out the remainder of his
previous sentence. A prisoner who was de-
tanned under these circumstances recently ap-
piled to the supreme Judicial Court by a writ
of hdJods corpus for release and that tri-
bunal has just granted the application, hold
ing that the law is unconstitutional.
IT cost New York $50, 500, 600 to run her city
government last year. The Fashion stud
farm stables at Trenton, N j., were burned
the other day. Nine valuable horses we're
consumed, including two road-mares belonging
to President Grant. Total loss, $500
ANEW YoRK telegram says that the amount
of bogus securities which the railroad bond
forgers expected to negotiate in this country
and Europe was -, 600, 600, and that 81, 000, 900
are already on the New York market. Two of
the gang, it is said, left for Europe some time
since, with a large amount of forged bonds,
which are reported to have already been dis
posed of in the English market. A strange
tragedy has just been enacted at Williams
burgh, N. Y. A young lady called on another
whose school-mate and most intimate friend
she had been for years. This emale there
upon murdered her, and, after keeping the
body in her bedroom for two days, set fire to
the building to destroy the evidence of her
guilt. 1t appears that the motive of the
murderess was to obtain a sum of money
which she supposed her friend to have upon
her person. The murder. and the singular
circumstances surrounding it, have produced
Il profound sensation in Williamsburgh....
Titusville, Pa, was visited by a $50, 600 fire Oh
the It'll inst.
TIE VEST
THE Chicago Times, of the 5th inst, prints
special dispatches from over a hundred differ,
ent points relative to the condition and pros
poets of the corn crop. They embrace reports
from almost every county in the great corr
belt through Illinois, Iowa and Kansas, and
there is a general coincidence in the statement
that the corn has suffered severely from the
drought, and that the yield will be considera'
bly, below the average. Cincinnati has just
completed her new stock yards. They
cost, including the land, $500, 600, and
will accommodate $4,000 head of live
stock....At a meeting of the Western
Nail Association at Pittsburgh, on the 81
|. inst. a four and three-eighths card was adopt
n ed. The association unanimously resolved t.
Y make the agency price of nails in Chicago
S4.62ll, with an eighth off to the trade, while
the price in Cincinnati was fixed a
S4.35 net; at indianapolis, $3.50, and
at Kansas City, 5t.75 net.....A dis
patch from Sedalia, Mo-, says: The
Lafayette County Vigilance Committee, who
have been in pursuit of the Iowa railroad train
robbers, have returned here and ~disbanded,
They traced the robbers to st. Clair county,
and surrounded the house where they sup
posed they were hiding, but the birds had
flown. 1t is said they are making for Texas.
Rev. WI. Watkins, paster of the Water
loo Iowa) ". E. Church, committed suicide
the other day, by drowning himself. He was
thought to be temporarily insane, caused by
the dangerous illness of his wifo.
Col. JOIN T. HARPER, Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Eighth District of Illinois,
has resigned his position, leaving the ac-
counts of his Office at Springfield about
500, 900 short. Archibald Duncan, of st.
Louis, last week murdered his wife by shoot
ing her with a pistol, and then blew his own
brains out. The Toledo, Wabash and West
ern road is now laying new steel rails the
whole length of their line, from Toledo to st.
Louis. They have just received from Metz
France, the first steel rails ever brought here
from that country. The Union Pacific Rail-
road Company sold during the month of Au-
gust, 1873, %, 1873 65-10O acres of land, at an
average price of 1890 7-lO per acre, amount
ing to S157, 1894. The sales averaged
50 7-10 acres to each purchaser. Total sales to
Sept. l, 1873. 779. SIS 22-10O acres, at an aver
age price OF SAB per acre, amounting to
S3.46S. 49, II. The Kansas stallion, Snug
gler, has been sold to Col. Russell, of Milton,
Mass. at a price above $780, 600,
PEor. MARsH's Yale exploring party has re-
turned to Fort Dridger, after all absence of
six weeks in the Uintah Mountains. The trip
was eminently successful, many important
discoveries of extinct animals having been
made. Twelve months ago Peter Kiel, living
in Chicago, was bitten by a dog, and last week
was attacked with h~ydrophobia, and died in
the most horrible agony. Twelve men were
rn,aptIy s, ffocatsi in n pnitp NJ SItttar crack
Cal.
A WoMAS's Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals is the latest Chicago insti-
tuition. The Fulton Elevator, in Chicago,
was burned last week. LOSE, 800. 000....
The amount of the defalcation of Col. Harper.
Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eighth
District of Illinois, is now fixed at s1l0, 600.
Half a million cattle were driven from
Texas into Kansas during the past season..
The st. Louis Democrat prints a dispatch
from Sedalia, which says: 1.-The Iowa
railroad-train robbers, who have been fitting
about in some of the western counties OF this
State, are all together again except Mccoy,
and the detectives have information that an
other bank robbery is being planned by them,
and it will be carried out as soon az Mccoy
joins the gang. All the banks in that part Of
the State are being closely watchad by special
officers, and efforts are constantly being made
to capture these desperadoes."
CLOUD, the Philadelphia oarsmau, bound for
New Orleans, passed Cairo on the 9Th inst,
having been out Sc days. He is confident Of
winning the IS, 900. He is as hardy as a pine
knot, and as brown as a South American. The
skin on the back of his hands is almost as
tough as leather. John Irving, of San Fran
cisco, the self-accused murderer Of Benjamin
Nathan, of New York, insists Oh tine truth of
his story and liz very INDIGNANT at the press