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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-28
WHO DISCO VERED AMERICA?

Accepting the theory that it was Left
Erickson who discovered America, the
Boston Post lauds him above Column
bus:
cit must not be forgotten that it
was an Icelander, and not an italian,
who discovered America; and that
European eyes first deserted our coast,
not, as was thought until within q de-
cade, in the year 1892, when Henry the
Seventh was English King, but very
nearly five centuries before; they were
not the eyes of heroic Columbus, but
those of the yet more heroic Left
Erickson. An Iceland ship had an
chored In western waters q full half-cen-
fury before William the Norman con-
quered Harold at Hastings for Left
was in Provincetown harbor in the year
1000, and William only became "con-
queror" in 1865. Asea trip of an hour
or two from the Boston wharves will
bring us upon the very strand where
Left, the real d%iscoverer, trod on the
solid ground. His brother lay en-
tombed near Fall river for a matter of
eight centuries ; he had lain there in
his rude Scandinavian armor, nearly
five hundred years when Columbus
pointed out the Bermuda trees to his
disheartened sailors"
Admitting that Erickson did stumble,
as many another sea vagrant might
have stumbled, upon the Western con-
tinent, there is no evidence by which
anyone is authorized to call him a
greater ~discoverer, O more heroic man,
than Columbus. Erickson was driven
on q coast which he abandoned. Co.
lumbus, certain that another continent
existed, sailed for and found it. Left
was a rough sailor; Columbus was an
educated The one in his
ignorance abandoned what the other
in~telligently opened up to the CON-.
merce and immigration of the world.
The man who discovered steam was he
who first saw boiling water, but the
credit of Watts and Stevenson, and
Fulton, who applied.steam as a motive
power, is not ieopardized. Many a
viking may have seen this continent.
1t was Columbus who gave it to the
civilized world.-Chicago Times.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-28
4 T. SLEEPER.

On Sunday night one of the most
astonishing cases of somnambuism con
ceivable occurred in Allegheny. 1t is
not altogether unprecedented that q
sleep-walker should walk out of a Sec
ond-story window, but that he should
continue his unconscious walk for some
distance on the ground is something
well-nigh without precedent. But this
was the experience of Mr.. James Hen
derson, of Allegheny, on Sunday night.
Mr.. Henderson resides on Rebecca
street, nearly opposite the Allegheny
Gas Works. On Sunday night he had
al attack of somnambulism, and started
out for a walk without knowing any
thing about it. He walked out of the
second-story front window, and fell to
the pavement below. Just under the
window is a little "stoop," surrounded
by a railing. How the sleep-walker
avoided falling on this railing, and
thereby breaking his ribs, at least,
passes comprehension but he did
avoid it, and the worst injuries he re-
ceived were several severe bruises and
n ~lacerated foot. The most wonderful
par. of the transaction, however, was
the fact that the fall did not awaken
Mr.. Henderson, and he got up and on
tinued his walk in a state of uncon-
sciousness. After going a short dis
lance, however, he was awakened either
by the pain of his injuries or ONE other
cause, and returned to the house, where
he was properly cared for.-Pihs5urgh
Commercial.
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~POSTOFFICE RULINGS

Among recent rulings by the Post
master General are the following:
Dry goods may be mailed, packages
limited to four pounds, wrapped SO as
to admit of examination without de-
stroying the wrapper, and unaccom-
panied by any writing in addition to
the address, postage n cent for each
two ounces or fraction thereof.
United States postal cards, when adj
dressed to Canada, must have n one
cent United States postage stamp af-
fixed, in addition to the stamp i'm
pressed on the card.
From and after July l, 1874, news
papers, n copy to each actual sub
scriber residing within the county
where the same are printed, in whole OF
in part, and published, shall go free
through the mails but the same shall
not be delivered at letter-carrier offices
or delivered by carriers, unless postage
is paid thereon as by law provided.
The FASTING or cumming of a printed
address on a postal-card, renders it I'M
mailable as a postal-card and subjects
it to letter postage.
The postals laws do not exempt post
masters from working on the public
road.
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AN OBSTINATE Y T

The people of a Vermont village are
excited, and it all happened in this way:
A deacon of their church died the other
day, and the sexton dug the grave all
right, but demanded the sum of So for
the job. This was deemed exorbitant
by the friends of the deceased, and they
objected to paying it, whereupon the
sexton locked up the tools used in the
cemetery, and went home. In the
meantime a new sexton was appointed
for the occasion, and as sexton number
one refused to give up the keys, num-
Der two broke open the Toulouse and
the tools were secured. On Sunday, the
time of the funeral, the "bier" was
missing. Search was made and it was
nowhere to be found. Some n got an
idea hat it might be locked up in the
tomb, and went for it with a sledge-
hammer, or some other ponderous weap
on. The bier was secured, and the
remains were carried to their final rest
ing place.
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Two PICTURES.
BY HOWARD sLYSDON.

THE MEANING OF A SIGH. (HIs.)
My soul is invaded by many thoughts
OF thee, of thee!
Like the sweet white buds that fall in spring
From the citron tree.
All If my arm were under thy head,
On thy lips my lips,
What should We care for the cruel past,
Its cheats and slips
UNTIL THEN. (sHE.)
We shall meet no more-no more
In all the pleasant places Of the earth ;
And yet thy seal is on me, and thy feet
Shall hardly keep from following after mine,.
We shall meet no moreno more!
But in the silent watches of the night
Thy heart shall hear the calling Of my heart,
Aud in my sleep my face shall be toward thee.
We shall meet Lo moreno more
And l shall Only speak thy name to God ;
But in my memory thy face shall wax
More beautiful and dearer, year by year.
We shall meet no mOre-no more
Till some glad day I fall upon thy neck
The world being past-and tell thee, without tears,
How life was but a cropping after thee.
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A PHILANTHROPIC COW.

Mr.. d. Mccormick. of Sonora, has a
little COW which will weigh about 800
pounds, but her motherly instinct is
largely developed, as the following will
show
Last week Mr.. Mccormick had &C.
casion to ean a pig from its mother,
and it was about this time it was no.
ticed it nursed the cow-and they both
seemed to take up with each other in
the most affectionate manner-the little
fellow standing on his hind legs to get
his regular meals. A few days after a
litter of pigs were weaned, and they too
fell in for. their Misunderstanding seven
that never missed a meal, although
they cannot all eat at the first table.
This is recorded rs being one of the
many singular things in nature.-7uol-
,Dinie (Cak.) Independent.
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4 MURDERER WHO BECAME !. CAPT
TiLIST.

Long years ago, say 1896 or there
abouts, John Morgan lived in the
windmill house" in this city. Mr..
Morgan was a fisherman, a large muscu-
lar man, and his wife was a very hand
some woman. In n of the frequent
absences of the husband, the wife left
their home. On returning at one time
he found her absent. He took his fish
knife, went to a neighbours and ground
it to a keen edge, responding to the in
quirer as to what he was going to do
with it, that he was going to kill a hog.
He then went in search of his wife and
demanded of her that she should re-
turn. This the wife refused, replying
that she was going to do as she pleased.
High words passed, when he drew his
knife and give her a stab in the breast,
killing her instantly. He then went to
his own house and attempted to kill
himself, inflicting fearful injuries. DIR.
Stephen Cummins, when called, said
they would prove fatal in two hours,
and hat it was hardly worth while to
press the wounds. 1t was done, how
ever, and the MAI removed to the poor
house to be cared for. He was con-
stantly attended. One night, two or
three weeks afterwards, he sent the at
tendant ont of the room on some pre-
text, and when he returned John Nor
gan was gone. The window was up and
there was the ladder on which he de-
scended or was carried down. 1t was
reported that some men from West
brook, Masons, carried him off. From
that day nothing was heard of the
departed dying man until a few days
since, when n letter was received from
a lawyer in New York inquiling for the
heirs of the said John Morgan. 1t now
appears that after the escape he found
his way to New York, where he mar
ried and accumulated quite a property.
1t was in relation TO this property that
the letter was written, and the heirs in
this city and vicinity are now preparing
to get possession of it.-Portldnd Ne.
Argus.
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ARIETIE

To THE prematurely gray-See Venice
and dye!
HOSPITAL wail-"Days of abcess,
long and dreary!"
THE best method OF constructing a
dam-Without an "n."
THE new dictionary will define delir-
ium tremens as a tight fit.
WHY is a parish bell like a good
story? Because it is often tolled.
PIcS1c-Joy and hope in the norm
ing, gloom and disappointment at
night.
A FLIPPAST Atlanta paper calls the
State Medical Board a doctor fac
tory"
THE boat-builders at Salisbury Point,
Mass, have made about twenty-three
hundred dories this season.
TILToS had 4 little lamb
Whose soul was white as snow,
And wheresoever Tilton vent
That lamb refused to go.
"Roy o."-You are right about that.
Love is a monster of such vigorous
growth that the propinquity of a cheese
factory is impotent to crush it.
WILKINS says his girl waved her hand
kerchief at him a. he passed her house
last evening. In response he waved his
coat-sleeve, which he 1895 as a hand
kerchief.
KEEP doing, always doing-remem-
bering that wishing, dreaming, intend
ing, murmuring, talking. signing and
repining are all idle and protitless en-
pigments.
"THEY say a woman can't keep a
secret" remarked a Division street
woman to her husband, but Martha
Jones told me in confidence last night
that she is to be married soon, and 1
haven't even told you"
"DoN'T ~prevaricate, sir!' Numbered
a California Judge to a witness from the
mines. "Can't help it, Judge" An
swered the miner. "Ever since 1 got q
kick from a mule, that knocked my
teeth out, 1 prevaricate a good DEAL"
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even then the fairies so pinched and
hindered them that the Sheriff was
obliged to call upon the jailer to put
his arms about his waist, who persuad.
ed the chaplain to add his strength
to the string.
But as ill-Iuck would have it, just as
they were getting off one of the fairies
picked up Limping Tins fiddle, which
had fallen in the s%cufhe, and began to
play. And as he began to play every
one began to dance-the fiddler, and
the Judge, and tine Sheriff, and the
%jailer, and even the chaplain.
"Hangman! Hangman!" screamed
the Judge, as he lifted first one leg and
then the other to the tune, "come down
and catch hold of his reverence the
chaplain. The prisoner is pardoned,
and he can lay hold too"
The hangman knew the Judges voice,
and ran toward it; but as they were
now quite within the ring, he could see
nothing, either of him or his compan-
ions.
The farmers son followed, and war
ming the hangman not to touch the
ring, he directed him to stretch his
hands forward in hopes of catching
hold of some one. In a few minutes
the wind blew the chaplain's cassock
against the hangman's fingers, and he
caught the parson round the waist.
The farmers son then seized him in
like fashion, and each holding firmly
by the other, the fiddler, the Judge, the
Sheriff, the %jailor, the parson, the hang
man, and the farmers son all got safely
ont of the charmed circle"
ooh, You scoundrel!" cried the judge
to the fiddler al have a very good
mind to hang you up on the gallows
without further ado"
But the fiddler only looked like one
possessed, and upbraided the farmers
son for not having the patience to wait
three minutes for him.
"Three minutes !" cried he why,
you've been here three months and a
day."
This the fiddler would not believe,
and as he seemed in every way beside
himself, they led him home, still up
braiding his companion, and crying
continually for his fiddle.
His neighbors watched him closely,
but n day he escaped from their care
and wandered away over the hills to
seek his fiddle, and came back no more.
His dead body was found upon the
downs, face downward, with the fiddle
in his arms. Some said he had really
found the fiddle where he had left it,
and had been lost in a mist, and died of
exposure. But others held that he had
persisted differently, and laid his death
at the door of the fairy dancers.
As to the farmers son it is said that
henceforward he went home from mar
ket by the high-road, and spoke the
truth straight out, and was more careful
of his company.
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A Fiddler in the Fairy Ring.

A Fiddler in the Fairy Ring.
There was once, in days gone by, a
armer's son, who had no great harm in
him, and no great good either. He
always meant well, but he had a poor
spirit and was too fond of idle company.
One day his father sent him to mar
ket with some sheep to sell, and when
business was over for the day the rest
of the country folk made ready to go
home, and more than one of them
offered the lad a lift-in his cart.
"Thank You kindly, all the same
said he, shut I'm going back across the
downs with Limping Tim"
Now, Limping Tim was an idle,
graceless sort of fellow, who tiddled for
his livelihood, and what else he did for
the money he got no one knew.
More than one steady old farmer now
babe the lad come home with the whole
party, and by the high road, which,
it stands to reason, it is better
TO go by, after sunset, than over
the downs, which is no such very
short cut and has a large fairy ring on
it just as you turn the hill.
But the farmers son would go his
own way, and that was with Limping
Tim and across the downs. So they
started, and the fiddler had his fiddle
in his hand and a bundle of marketings
under his arm, and he sang snatches of
strange songs, the like of which the
lad had never heard before. And the
moon drew out their shadows over the
short grass till they were as long as the
great stones of S~tonehenge.
At last they turned the hill, and the
fairy ring looked dark under the moon,
and the farmers son blessed himself
that they were passing it quietly, when
Limping Tim suddenly pulled his cloak
from his back, and handing it to his
companion, cried:
"Hold this awhile, will You? I'm
wanted. They're calling for me-"
81 hear nothing" said the farmers
son. But before he had got the words
well out of his mouth, the fiddler had
completely disappeared.
He shouted aloud, but in vain, and
was even thinking of proceeding on his
way, when the fddler's voice cried,
"Catch! :" and there came flying at
him from the direction of the fairy ring
the bundle of marketings which the
fiddler had been carrying.
cts in my way" he then heard the
fiddler cry. "Ah! this is dancing!
Come in, my lad, come in :"
But the farmers son was not totally
without prudence, and he took good
care to keep at a safe distance from the
fairy ring.
After calling for some little time
longer to no purpose, he again heard
the fiddler's voice, crying aloud:
"Look out, Take care of it for me.
The money dances out of my pocket"
And Herewith the fiddler's purse was
hurled at his feet, where it fell with a
heavy thinking OF gold within.
He picked it up, and renewed his
warnings and e~ntreaties to the fiddler to
com away. But it was all in vain and
after waiting for a long time, he made
the best of his way home alone, hoping
that the fiddler would follow, and come
to reclaim his property.
But the fiddler neve came. And
when, at last, there was q fuss about his
disappearance, the farmers son, who.
had but a poor spirit, began to be afraid
to tell the truth of the matter.
Who knows but they may accuse me
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THE LITTLE FOLKS.
ow the Little Bird Went to Sea.

How the Little Bird Went to Sea-.
Two little birds sat in a nest,
All on a summers day.
Said one, 81 think it's far too warm,
You'd better fly away,
Away, away, away,
You'd better fly away
This tiny nest, it is so snug
There's only room for me;
And as for you, I really think
You'd better go to sea.
To sea, to sea, to sea,
You'd better go to sea :"
OF flew the other in a milf
At least so runs the tale
And coming TO q tender ship,
be lit upon the sail,
The sail, the sail, the sail,
He lit upon the sail.
Now, sailors of a tender ship
Are always very kind;
They said, "You little bird, stay there,
So bet you have y mind.
Amind, a mind, a mind,
So bet you have 4 mind"
said he, "Full thankful swe!ls my heart
To hear such friendly tones;
This ship III ne'er forsake until
I. goes to Davy Jones.
D. Jones, D.. Jones, D. Jones,
It goes to Davy Jones."
"Good-by, good-by, my faithless friend!
Then sang he loud and long;
And folded both his little wings
The ship sailed on and on.
And on, and on, and on,
The ship sailed on and on!
And that it may be sailing yet,
Nobody can deny;
The sailors singing with the bird:
MY faithless friend, good-by,
Good-by, good-by, good-dy,
My fsithless friend, good-by"
Z. Nicholas for -iuGUSt.
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T. o. O. a j.
SATURDAY, JAN. 8, 1874.
bATUKDAY, > AN. 1914.
DR.. Butler, t the Eaterprisa Saloon
has; as he, always has, % fne stock, Of
cigars on hand dainty aud delicious.

Mssssss: q M 4 ranstass ; 4 Brig smaan & 60.
wish MI their friends Ond patrons q
HAPPY New Year itf another column.
That peaniaj bpailRe9ssa Gu on them at
bnce. * .ssslf4 sst
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An Iowa, matron occupies tho posi-
tion of mother in law to sixteen nbjec I
men. And people talk of slavery away
off in Cuball
\ Aman was boasting that he had been
married twenty years, and had never
given his wife across word. Those who
knew her say he didn't dare TO.
Politeness pays Anew York, street :
car conductor who recently said, eyes,
Mndam," to lady, has been presented
with new oyercoat, and they talk Of a
statue to him.
A disconsolate husband, describing
his runaway wife, describes her as fol-
lows: "Blue eyes, red hair, prominent
nose, dressed in yellow kids, bronze
boots and blue SASH"
The excitement of getting married
threw an Indiana young lady into con-
vulsous and she died, and yet people
will persist in getting married. 1t beats
all how reckless they can be.
A veterinary surgeon VIII, lives at
Buffalo, N. Y, tried to "founder" his
mother.in- law by dancing polka will
her until she warmed up and then Civ
ing her all the iced lemonade she could
drink.
John Church told Kcntuckian tho
other day that Daniel Boone was only a
zone horse whiskey distiller;" instead of
a great hunter, aud the family of Mr..
Church can secu re his effects by writing
to the Coroner of Maysville.
"If some of our druggists" says an
Illinois paper, "would fill bottle With
bed bug poison, place it,in the back room
and label it cold rye" there would be
Sc many inquests in the next twenty
four hours that all the apcrs would
have to issue supplements.
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NOTICE.
OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR,
ORANGIDURa County,
Orangcburg, S. c., Nov. 1st, 1873.

90 - 49, less4iH HsE ~ - ~.
To all ,chom /! may Concern:
Pursuant to Title 8, chap. 1S, Revised
Statutes s. c. Section 5s requires:
SEQ 58.. If any person, compan.' or cor
poration shall commence any business in
any County of this State after the first day
of September in any year, the capital or
property employed in which shall not have
been previously listed for taxation in said
County, and shall net within thirty days
thereafter make such report to the Auditor
of said County as is required in the fifty
sixth Section of this Act, he or they shall
forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dol
lars, which shall bo collected by civil action
in the name of the County Commissioners,
and paid into the County Treasury for the
exclusive benefit. of the County, And pro-
cess in such case may issue ont Of thosC Court
OF Common Pleas Of tho. County in which
such business was commenced, directed TO.
the proper officer, and bo served in any
County Of this State.
JAS. VAN TASSEL,
i nov e-f Co. Auditor.
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SOUTH CAROLINA.
ORANGEBURG COUNTY.


William G. ITane and John X. Hanc plaintiffs
against George Bolivcr as administrator,
of the Estate Of William e. Cofer, de-
ceased, John j. Jackson, Mary A. Weeks,
wife of II. Weeks, Anna Cofer. Sarah
Friy, wife of Jacob Friy, Martha Wealth
ersbic, wife of James w. Wcathersbie,
Thomas L. Cofer and Nj. X Cofer, defend
ants .r
Copy Summons for Relief Complaint not
servedD
TO THE defendants Thomas L. Cofer and
NJ. X. Cofcr
" on are hereby summoned and required to
II. answer the complaint i'm this action, which
is filed in the Office Of the Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas for the said County, and to
serve Copy Of your answer on the subscri--
bcrs, at their Office at OrnngGburg Court
house So. Ca. within twenty days after the
service of this summons on you exclusive Of
theday of service, and if you fail to answer
the complaint within the time aforesaid, the
plaintiffs will apply to the Court for the Re-
liefdemanded in the Complaint.
Dated at Orangeburg October 21st ! S73.
DE'rrevillc & Whaley
PLAINTIFF Attorneys
To Thomas l.. Golfer and NJ. X. Cofer. de.
PENDANTS above named:
Take notice That the summons and Com
plant, herein, were filed in the Office of the
Clerk of the Conrt Of Common Pleas for Or
aneeburg County, at Orangeburg South Cur
'olina on the 21st day Of October 1873.
DETREVILLE & WHALEY
.as1a'i1f Plaintiffs Attorneys
Obotoer 22st 1873. 38-6t
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Whereas, our Pastor; Rev. I. D.
Durham haa resigned the Pastoral
care of our Church And Whereas, we
arc dcsirous of expressing the estimation
in which he is held by us, be it,
Resolred, That VIC regard him as an
able, Jealous advocate and expounder of
Bible truths and that dGring his
Ministry among us, the Lord has grea
ley blessed his labors to our Church.
hesoIretl, That we regret tho necessity
which occasioncd the resignation of Bro
L. ID. Durham, aud we most chearfMily
aud cordially recommend him to any
Church as an earnest Minister, and
faithful defender Of the "iaith once
delivered to the Saints"
Pesolrctl, That our prayers and best
wishes attend our beloved pas or for his
spiritual and temporal Welt r., aud his
success assa Minister.
ReD.ged, That these pg1ceeding be
published, and that a cnpy of the same
be furnished our Beloved Brother.
w. 4. EDWARDS,
B. WILLIAMSON,
j. a. ZEIGLER,
G. w. WILSON,
Comm ittec
Oranscburg Baptist Church, o
Orangeburg G. H., S. c.,
december 81, 1873.
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Me- ;sDsIIrFlAa; Al FIiseher, the enterprise gro
cory man, will please accept our thanks
. f"r a bag Of prepared ham. 1t was the
best we ever tried. We CON ncal our
friend to the public az first class yroo cr
lie has some more Of the same, besides
the many articles that the hou-ekccpcr
Cannot do without. Call on friend L.
ard ,en win br made happy.