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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23
VARIETIES.

A CIRCUIT Court-The longest way
home from singing-school.
Why is a newsboy like cucumber ?
Because the older he grows the more of
a yeller he'll be.
WHAT word is that composed of five
letters from which if you take two one
remains Stone.
Mrs. SMITH says her husband is like
a tallow candle, because he always will
smoke when he is going out.
WHAT is the difference betweena gauze
dress and a drawn tooth? One is too
thin and the other is tooth out.
A TERRE HAUTE man, who has been
trying to make both ends meet, is living
on head-cheese and ox-tail soup.
WHAT is the difference between
sleigh and locomotive? One drives
on runners, and the other runs on
drivers.
An Iowa matron occupies the position
of mother-in-law to sixteen abject men.
And people talk of slavery away OH in
Cuba ?-Nep York World.
THE old lady who used to dry her
clothes on the equinoctical line has
gone to Greenland to get the north pole
to draw eistern water with.
The reason that men are taken to the
station-house when they are found in
the street full of liquor, is to give their
friends chance to bail them out.
GRANDMA, why don't you keep a
servant any longer?' "Well, you see,
child, I'm getting old now, and can't
take care of one as | used to, you
know"
WHEN Boss Tweed's occupation was
asked by the penitentiary officials he
correctly replied, Statesman )" for
isn't he the States man for the next
twelve years.-Nemphis Aratanche.
A COMPANY consisting of thirteen Gen
erats, sevsn Colonels, four Captains,
nineteen Paymasters, twenty-sevenQ Quar-
termasters and one private was lately
organized in Georgia for the conquest
of Cuba.
A YOUNG lady says that gentleman
ought never to feel discouraged when
the momentous question" is negatived
by the object of his choice, " for in life,
as in grammar, we always decline before
we coniugate."
An imaginative Irishman gave utter
ance to this lamentation " I returned
to the halls of my fathers by night and
found them in ruinsl Icried out aloud,
My fathers, where are they?' An
echo responded, Is that you, Pat Nc
Carthy?'"
SID WALLACE, an Arkansas desperate
who has been sentenced to death, thus
describes the lively scene of his latest
exploit:
The time, they say, is drawing nigh
That must prepare my soul to die.
But / will tell you of the night
When 1 fought them fellows my last fight.
They did in great clouds come to my view,
Their number WAS great. my friends were few.
But my liberty in danger tried.
Was in my hands and by my side,
For eight long hours buckshot were flying all
around,
And three Of them lay bleeding on the ground.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23

Boston has been Mortified by the dis
covery of a corpse in barrel found in
an express office. The said barrel being
pretty roughly handled, the head came
out, and the dead body of man came
after it. This merchandise was brought
from New York it was consigned to
"parties of the highest responsibility, }"
and also of the medical persuasion, being
a "subiect" for dissection. We sup
pose that doctors must dissect, but We
think they owe it to the public to TRIMS
mort their raw material without scandal
and with reasonable privacy.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23

THE Omaha Herald says that in 1860
the entire population of the Territory of
Nebraska, which then embraced large
portion ..of what Es now Dakota, Wyo-
ming and Colorado, was %, ,SH. Then
there was only three-eighths of human
being to each square mile of land
rather thin settlement. But in 1870
the State of Nebraska contaened 122, 9O3
inhabitants, making for its 20, 600 square
miles of land one soul and fiye-eighths
of soul of population to the square
mile, not thickly settled country yet,
when We consider that the five-eighths
generally held some localnfh or went
to Congress. To-day it thinks that the
State has a population of at least Soo, ,00o.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23
HIS LUCKY NUMBER.

Everyone has a lucky number" )"
said the old gentleman. "Mine is
twenty-one. Twenty-nine might have
been, would have been, an uRlucky
number for me. Yet didn't know it;
both were painted in black letters on
white oval. Twenty-one-twenty-nine.
Not much difference, you see-2l, %;
very like indeed; and yet because |
chose the number without flourish and
long leg, am here to-day, and have
had a long and happy life. should
have been the occupant of a suicides
grave ever so many years ago had 1
chosen twenty-nine.
"I really can't understand" said l.
"Was it lottery or draft, conscrip-
ton, or what? Was it a game-was
it?"
1t was the number on door," said
the old gentleman. "Wait a minute
I'll tell you all about it.
az was very much in love everybody
u NJ Scult llLlt lilS. NJ t"thtJ
FIVE was desperate. Talk about Ro-
meo He was nothing to be compared
with me.
"Tm not ashamed of it. She was a
worthy object. Not only because she
was beautiful, but she was good and
amiable, and such singer. She sang
soprano in the church choir. And I've
heard strangers whisper to each other,
Is there really an angel up there 2
When she sang her part alone, clear and
sweet and iute-llke her voice was. I've
never heard its equal.
swell, I loved her, and / thouhgt she
liked me ; but wasn't sure. / courted
her good while, but she was as shy as
any bird, and I couldn't satisfy myself
as to her feeling. So / made up my
mind to ask and know for certain. Some
old poet says:
He either fears his fate too much
Or his deserts are small,
Who fears to put it to the touch,
And win or lose it all
81 agreed with him; and one even
ing, as I walked home from little
party where we had met, with her on
my arm, / stopped under a great willow
tree, and took her hand in mine, and
said
Jessie, love you better than life; !;
will you marry me 2
"I waited for an answer.
"She gave none.
Jessie ] said, won't you speak
to me?'
Then she did speak.
Mo- dear, no"
&c offered her my arm again, and
took her home, without word. She
did not speak either She had told me
before that she should start with the
dawn to visit an aunt in New York, but
did not even say good-by at the door.
l bowed that was all. Then when she
was out of sight, and 1 stood alone in
the village street, I felt desperate
enough to kill myself.
What had i done to have so cold a
refusal? Why should she scorn me so !?
% dear, no = I grew furious as re-
peated the words. g -.-
Yet it stnng me all the same. /
tossed from side to side of my bed all
night, and / thought / could endure it
no longer. But would not pain and
disgrace my respectable relatives by
committing suicide in the place wherein
they dwelt and were well known and
thought Of, j would 60 TO New York.
even then very large city-and, seek
ing some hotel, register an assumed
name. and retiring at night, with a bot
TIC Of Iaudannm and brace Of pistols,
awake no more, and so be rid Of my
misery. / arranged my affairs to the
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23
CURRENT ITEMS.

EIGHTY million dollars worth of real
estate changed hands in Chicago last
year.
AN Alabama editor offers to name his
baby after the patron who will pay his
subscription the longest time in ad-
vance.
THE origin of the phrase high
feather" is supposed to be the fact that
ostrich feathers are two hundred and
fifty dollars a pound.
GEN. WILLIAM O. BUTLER, who was
candidate for the Vice-Presidencv on the
ticket with Gen. Cass, is President of
bible society in Kentucky.
FIFTEEN hundred thousand head of
cattle have been driven from Texas to
Kansas this season, which is at least
100, 600 more than last year.
LOUIS KossuTH, revolutionary Gov
ernor of Hungary in 1919, and now old
and poor, gives lessons IN German, En-
glish and Hungarian in Turin.
A WESTERN journal, upon learning
that Rhode Island is crowded, suggests
tkat the Governor of the State be au-
thorized to hire one or two families to
go West.
is THE duration Of life increasing !?
Numerous statistics seem to indicate
that it is, and the .late mortuary report
of Philadelphia adds to these. Within
the past six months 27S people have died
there who were over 80 years Of age.
OF these ia were males and l64 females.
Seven were past 80 years, two over 100;
one had tapped the century and scored
IOl, while another had started out on a
fresh decade, and had only given up at JOG.
A WITTY Cincinnati lady, writing from
Washington, says: Boston draws her
self up severely, scans ycur cerebral
developments through her eyeglass, and
coolly asks ''What do you know q
New York displays her silks and dia-
monds, and pertly asks: "What are
you worth ?" Philadelphia, with prim
hands and pursed-up lips, asks; "Who
was your grandfather ?' While Wash
ington stops between the waltz and the
| german to inquire, Can you dance 2
! WHILE rowing on the river near Sa-
vannah, Ga, two men saw the body OF
negro at the bottom. They drew it
up, put it in their boat, and started for
the shore. They had gone but short
distance when they found another body,
and still another, until the boat was
loaded. They took the ghastly cargo to
the shore and returned for another load.
Altogether thirteen corpses were recov-
cred. 1t was afterward learned that a
boat full of negroes had overturned
further up the river and all the occu-
parts drowned.
THE power and rapid growth of the
love of fashion is illustrated by the story
that Boston lady discovered that her
Swedish servant girl was staying at
home from church because the shade of
her necktie was not becoming. "When
you consider" says the lady, that up
to six months ago she had never worn
anything on her head but the cotton
handkerchief of the peasantry of Ger
many and Sweden, and rever possessed
at one time but two gowns, you must
allow that the love of finery is of rapid
growth"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23

SOMEBODY with turn for statistics
has computed that man of average To-
auacity talks three hours per diem, at
the rate of 100 words per minute, or
enough in one hour to fill 80 octave
pages, in one week 600 pages, in one
wear % volumes.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23

JOHN BRIGHT has written a letter on
the liquor question in which he holds
that the only solution of the problem
lies in duly regulated license system,
governed by public opinion and the
control exercised through municipal
representatives.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23

A MAN may die worth $4,000, 600, be-
queathing it entirely to charity, and yet
have his name misspelled by all but two
or three of the obituaries written. Such
has been the case of the late Johns Hop
kins. of Baltimore. With all his wealth
and benevoIence he was never able to
make the American press grasp that "s'
in his Christian name.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23
o. Z. PAUL, Publisher.
LOVE.

Lo6 H.
Come here, fond youth. whoe'er thou be,
That boasts to love well as me-
Aud IL thy breast have felt 80 wide wound,
Come hither, and thy fame approve;
I'll teach thee what it is to love,
And BY what marks true passion may be found.
Ills TO he all bathed in tears
To live upon smile for years;
To lie whole ages at a beauty's feet;
To kneel, to languish, and implore;
And still, though she disdain, adore.
Ills to do all this, and think thy sufferings sweet
II is TO gaze upon her eyes
With eager JOY and fond surprise;
Vet tempered with such chaste and awful fear
As wretches feel who wait their doom;
Nor must one ruder thought presume,
Though but in whispers breathed, to meet her ear
IT to hope. though hope were lost;
Though heaven and earth thy passion crossed;
Though she were bright as sainted queens above,
And though the least and meanest swain
That folds his flock upon the plain
Yet if thou darst not hope. thou dost not love.
Itis to quench thy Joy in tears,
To nurse strange OGuDts ana grouldiess Tears F.
Upangs of jealousy thou hast not proved
Though she were fonder and more true
Than any nymph old poets drew
o. never dream again that thou hast loved.
If, when the darling maid is gone,
Thou dost not seek to be alone,
wrapt in pleasing trance Of tender woe,
And muse. and fold thy languid arms,
Feeding thy fancy en- her charms
Thou dost not love-for love is uourished so
II any hopes thy bosom share
But those which Love has planted there,
Or any cares but his thy breast enthrall-
Thou never yet his power hast known;
Love sits on a despotic throne,
And reigrs tyrant, if he reigns at all.
Vow IL thou art SO lost thing,
Here all thy tender sorrows bring,
And prove whose patience longest can endure;
Well strive whose fancy shall be lost
In dreams of fondest passion most:
For il thou thus hast loved, o, never hope cure
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23

AsToRY comes from Marenge, Iowa,
of a girl who is marked by the figures
of two mathematics. "On the front of
her neck" continued the description,
s are the rattles, completing q perfec.
picture, and shedding regularly every
wear. It should have been added that
the snakes hiss whenever anybody ap-
proaches. No story should besellowed
to stop aheytof a COED climax.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23

The British railroads do q smashing
business. In 1872 they killed not less
than ], ,145 persons. 1t is not wonderful
that they are unwilling to make full re-
turns Wonder how our railroads would
figure under the deaths head
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23
THE VIRGINIUy NEGOTIATIONS.

| A statement from Gen. Sickles con-
cerning the negotiations between Spain
and the United States ON the Virginius
affair has just been made public, which
throws some light on that matter, and
satisfies public curiosity as to the pre-
else reasons which impelled the late
Minister to Madrid to resign his post.
According to Gen. Sickles' history of
these negotiations, it appears that from
the 7th of November, when he was official
lyapprised bySecretary Fish of the cap
ture of the Virginius, until the 14th of
that month, he acted mainly on his own
judgment. On the 14th of November,
he received by cable Secretary Fish's
elaborate instructions of the 18th.
From the tone of these instructions,
Gen. Sickles supposed that the United
States Government had assumed posi-
tive attitude. He read the greater por-
tion of them to Carvajal, the Spanish
Minister for Foreign Affairs. That Of
fetal communicated to the Ministry, and
the Spanish Government came to the
conclusion that the United States Gov
ernment was in earnest. Sickles gave
the Spanish Government to understand
the inevitable consequences it might ex-
pect if it failed to make immediate and
ample reparation for the past, and to
give security for the future. He man
aged his case so that ON the night of the
9th of November he succeededin bring
ing the Spanish Government to terms.
A protocol was drawn by himself and
Carvajal, which was to have been signed
on the morning of the 2Sth. 1t had
been submitted to the Ministry, and ap-
proved. On the morning of the 2Sth,
the Spanish Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs informed Gen. Sickles that he had
received more favorable offer of settle
ment directly from the Government at
Washington, which the Ministry had at
once accepted, and negotiations with
the American Minister were considered
at an end. Two days afterward, on
the Both of November, Mr.. Fish in
formed Mr.. Sickles that he had signed
the protocol of the 18th. Sickles re-
garded this as an affront to him by the
home Government, because it discred-
tied him with the Spanish Government.
1t induced the Spanish Government to
think that Mr.. Sickles was in his in
dividual capacity pressing it for terms
which his Own Government did not de-
mand nor require. This view of the
matter was Immediately put forth
through the press OF Madrid on the 29th
and 30th of November. Mr.. Fish did not
inform Gen. Sickles of the particulars
of his arrangement with Admiral Polo,
but said he would send them by mail
But on the same day the particulars
were made public in New York and Lon
don. Gen. Sickles, finding himself
abandoned by his Government, consid-
cred his usefulness at an end, and i'm
mediately resigned. He claims that he
was successfully pursuing the line of
policy marked ont by Mr.. Fish, when
the latter suddenly forsook him and
chose to make less advantageous and
honorable settlement of the difficulty
with Admiral Polo at Washington.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23

Or twenty-five men, Speakers OF t6e
House since Congress first organiTd,
only one-James X. Polk, of TenZessee
ever reached the White House.
Henry Clay was Speaker twelve years.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23
BAZiINES PLACE OF EXILE.

Marshal Bazaine has enteredupOn the
"seclusion" prescribed for him, on the
island of Ste. Marguerite, which, de-
scribed as a series of jagged rocks,
which lift their cliffs and ledges above
the waters of the Mediterranean, in full
sight of the lovely watering place OF
Cannes, has been crowned for centuries
with rather grim and gloomy castle
fortress, one of the lonely towers of
which is celebrated in many a true his
toric romance. 1t is to be hoped and
credited that the veteran Marshal will
be treated with more leniency than the
most famous and mysterious of all the
inmates of the donjon of Ste. Margue-
rite for it was there that the unknown
Iron Mask, whose identity, after two
centuries discussion, has not yet been
satisfactorily established, was confined
for eleven years Q669-S0). The Iron
Mask-whose mask, by the way, was of
velvet and not of metal-passed this
dreary space under the watchful eye of
the pitiless ST. Marc, who was called the
watch dog of Louis the Great" and
who seldom lost sight of his prisoner.
They ate together and walked together,
but no one but st. Marc was allowed on
any account to speak to the prisoner,
nor did anyone else ever hear the sound
of the Masks voice. Bazaine goes to
linger ont the rest of humiiated ex-
istence ON the scene of the somber and
tragic romance.
WHALES have been pretty nearly ex-
terminated, and SO that noble animal,
the buffalo, promises soon to be. "We
are all buffalo, says Greeley Tribune
of last month. Teams come i'll loaded
with meat, which sells readily at three
cents pound, some of it bringing only
two. Greeley is becoming point foi
the sale of buffalo robes, one tanner
alone i'll that town expecting to cure
1000 this season.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23

SIR SAMUEL BAKER recently delivered
an address upon the subject of the slave
trade in Africa, in which he said that
on one occasion, after having lectured a
chief at great length upon the horrible
nature OF the slave trade. the chief con-
cluded the interview by offering to sell
his son to Sir Samuel.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23

The organization of an immense
trades union of English capitalists and
employers, to fight the trades-unions of
workmen, excites great interest in En-
gland. 1t was at first reported that this
organization represented the employers
of ., 900, 900 of workmen I; but, although
this was said to have been an exaggera-
ton, it now appears to have been an
under-es estimate.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1874-01-07
From the Boston Herald.I
A Woman Born July A, H76.

Miss Lucy Langdon Novel;,
was born in Alfred, July 4,
l776, on the day and very near
the hour Of the signing of the
Declaration Of Independence,
When eight years of age, she
united with the Alfred Shakers,
and has since lived with them.
When eighty-four years of age
she wove thirty-four yards Of
cloth, and atninety-six knit ten
pairs of mitttens. She has never
been in a railroad-car, and is in
excellent health. If she lives
until 1876 a Pullman palace
car will be despatched to her
native town to transport her to
Boston. From thence she will
be carried direct to the Quaker
City, where herpresence will be
enc of the features of the grand
centennial.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1874-01-07
legal Notices.
EGALs NOTICE.

A.
Francis shades, IN the State of Missouri,
will take notice that Edward ID. Dodge, of
the county of VintOn, in the State Of OHIO, did
on the 23rJl lday OF December, a. D. 1918, ME
his petition in the Court OF Common Pleas,
within aud for the County Of Vinton' IN said
State of Ohio, against the said Francis
Shades and James w. Sands, defendants, set
ting forth that the said Francis Shades gave q
mortgage to the said Edward ID. Dodge on
certain lands situate in Vmton County, ONO,
and being part OF the southwest corner Oh
the southwest quarter of section number
thirty (3O), of Township No. ten lOl, Of Range
No. sixteen q6), and bounded and described
rs follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the north east corner of Geo.
w. Wilson's lot; thence North 10 degrees,
East ninety mine 1907 feet to stake; thence
South SIX degrees, East one hundred and
twenty -four 1e4) feet to a stake; thence South
1917 degrees, East one hundred and twenty
four 12G feet to stake; thence south 6H de-
grees, West two hundred and twenty (2S0l feet
TO staRW thence South 12A degrees, West
one hundred and eighteen QiS) feet to astake;
thence West two hundred and eighty -tour
(2SD feet to stake; thence North ~ degrees,
East four hundred (lO0 feet to the place OF be,
ginning, containing in all two acres ana
twenty -mlndreths OF an acre. And that SAID
mortgage was given to secure the payment OF
5000, according to certain promissory note
referred to in said mortgage, and, that since
the giving of the said mortgage, the said de,
fendant, James w. Sands, claims an interest
in said lands under the said Francis Shades,
and praying that said Francis Shades may
pay said sum now claimed to be due, with in
terest, amounting to $206 55, or that said prem.
lees may be sold to pay the same; and the said
Francis Shades is notified thai he Is required
to appear and answer said petition on or be-
fore third Saturday after the 2Sth day Of Jan
uary, A. ID. 1874.
Dated this oath day of December, A. D. 1873.
EDWARD ID. DODGE.
By U. $. CLAYPooLE,.
his Attorney.
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