The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-07-03
BRIEF MENTION.

BhIEF HENIION.
VERMONT has a great maple-sugar
crop.
AN Iowa man has invented a cow
mixer.
NINE quarts OF milk make n pound
of butter.
CONNECTICUT has 81 savings-banks,
with $40, 900, 600 deposits.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN has been in public
office without cessation So years.
LIBERIA now has a navy. 1t consists
of a small steamer, which was built III
England.
At Flatbush, Long Island, there is a
conservatory covering an acre and
three-quarters of ground.
THE Detroit Free Press has advices
from the Indian country that the Paw
nee Indians want boots with red tops,
or they'll raise another fuss.
MRs. ANN PIERCE, who died at Sails
bury, Mass, May 1, aged 60 years, had
during her life assisted" at $50 births,
213 weddings and 3J funerals.
A CALIFORNIA letter says that this
year there will be produced there
II, 200, 600 gallons of wine, 1000, 900
pounds of grapes for table use, and
go, 900 pounds of ~raisins, besides the
brandy.
AGGREGATE sales in New York last
year: Butter, $40, 600, 900; cheese,
SIS, 000, 600; wheat, S24, 000, 600; flour,
S2G, OO0, 900; corn, SIG, 900, 900; petro-
leum, SO, 0O0, 900; cut meats, Sl2,-
GOO. 600.
AT Limoges, a gunsmith has invented
a breech self-loadirg carbine which dis
charges % bullets a minute. 1t has
been submitted TO the French military
authorities.
THE word grange is Roman by birth,
English by association, and American
by adoption. 1t signifies a "corn-iarm
where tithes and rents due religious
houses were kept.
A RUNAWAY team in Ogdensburgh, n.
Y, injured a boy. The horses were
frightened by the staggering OF a
drunken man, and it is proposed to
prosecute the dealer who sold the man
liquor.
ScoTT COUNTY, MINI, has the most
extensive mandatory of Limburger
cheese III tine country. This kind Of
cheese is said to be "ripe" when a
piece the size of a walnut will drive a
dog out of a lanyard.
JOIN CARTER Brown, of the great
firm of Brown d Ives, died in Provi-
dence, r. l., on the 10th inst, at the
advanced age of n years. He was the
second son of the Hon. Nicholas Brown,
the distinguished benefactor of Brown
University, from whom that institution
derived its name.
GREAT BRITAIN takes the lead with
her national debt, which, however, has
been reduced to f7S5, 972, 103. France
stands next; her debt is f74S, 100, 6S2.
Then follows the United States, and
after them come in successive order,
Russia, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Spain,
T,rlav on1 Germany
A SLAVE ship with 225 negroes aboard
from Mozambique, bound for NADIA
gascar, was captured by the English
man-of-war Daphne, March 10. The
slaves were put aboard with only two
days provisions, and the voyage was
prolonged to eight days. Their suffer
ings were indescribable, and many died
before they were returned to Africa.
SINGULAR story from the Macon
(Miss.) Beacon: "a negro woman
living on the Meshulaville road, not far
from this town, whose parents were
native Africans, and whose age is 60
years, gave birth to a child last week,
and what is remarkable, it was the first
child she ever bore. Here is a singular
fact for the medical societies TO investi.
gate.
A KENTUCKY farmer says that three