The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30
VIEWS IN BRIER
personal.

VII ~ xAv L1l IT.
personal.
1t Is announced that President Grant has
purchased ground in Washington upon which
to build q permanent residence.
-Cflarles Aster Bristed DIETER known to
the literary world as g Carl B~enson") died in
Washington, the other day, aged So.
SCineinnatf's Chief Of Police has been dis
charged for being in league with the gam
blers. ,H r-' tas -". H-l 4
President Grant, on the 10Th inst, nomi-
mated to the Senate MORRISON r. Waite. of
Toledo, Ohio, to be Chief-Justice. Mr.. Waite
is represented as aa good lawyer, who has
Meier held any Judicial position or public
office beyond beinglone Of the counsel of the
United States before the Geneva arbitration,
and the present President of the Ohio Con-
stitusionsl Convention. He is about IS years
Of age, a moderate Republican, a fine scholar,
and b man Of fine physical presence"
The death of Chang and Eng, the Siamese
twins, is announced. They died within two
hours of each other on the 18th Of January, at
their home in North Crrolina. Each leaves a
wife and 3 large family Of children, several Of
whom are deaf mutes. Chang and Eng were
born in 1911.
1t is asserted that the eloquent speech re-
Gently delivered in Congress by Elliott, of
South Carolina, was written by Representative
George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts.
1t is stated that the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs in the National House Of Repre-
sentatives has agreed to report a resolution
requesting the President to convene a mill
tsry court of inquiry to try Gen. Howard.
-Ex-President Baez, Of San Domingo, has
arrived in New York.
The preliminary trial of John Z. Corwin,
for killing Col. Thomas N. Stillwell, at Ander-
SOD, Ind, has resulted in his acquittal, on the
ground of justifisble homicide.
GENERAL.
1t is given out from Washington that the
Senate Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds have decided that it will be inexpe-
dient 10 consider any new propositions for
erecting Government buildings this year, and
that work should be confined to those now in
progress which are strictly indispensable.
Cheaper transportation is to be got. ac-
tu4hLiS tuS l4dli Va IN 1lauSpOl Wv WI
vention at Washington, which has just ad-
journed, by State laws egulating the railroads,
but not fixing their rates by throwing the
roads open to all who are willing to pay for
the use of the tracks, By improving the water
ways from the interior to the ocean, and by
the construction of roads and canals by the
Federal Government, to be used by citizens
ON tho payn,apt of fo1lS A National Ruraaf,
is to be established, the members of which are
to look after the passage of State laws pre-
venting excessive charges and unjust dis.
ordinations. The abolition of thefree-psss
system and the subsidy swindle are other
means to the same end.
Several cases of trichina spiralis have oc-
Cured in St. Louis. They were caused by
eating fresh pork and sausage.
Charleston, the capital of West Virginia,
has been visited by q destructive fire. Loss,
$4,000. ..r
The Union Depot, in Chicago, owned by
the Illinois Central, Michigan Central, and
Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railways, has
been destroyed by fire. A large number Of
fine passenger coaches were burned. LOSS
about 500, coo. s
The Wisconsin Senate has adopted a reso-
luton requiring all members to at once return
their free passes to the railroad companies,
and ~forbidding them TO accept amy other favcrs
of like character. The Kansas Legislature has
adopted a similar resolution.
The Committee on Railroads in the Ma
tional House Of Representatives have reported
fayorably on Mr.. McCrary's bill for the APP
pointment of q Government Board of Rail-
road Commissioners, and for the prohibition
of unreasonable charges by Interstate rail-
roads.
The Ways and Means Committee of the
National House of Representatives has di-
rected it's Chairman to report q bin fixing the
volume4of legaltender circulation at $780,
0O0,0 900. This bill proposes to legalize the
Issue OF S44 600, 900 reserve, the present min
imum of circulation being e3J6, 600, 900.
A meeting was held at Reading, Pa, a few
days ago, which will doubtless have an i'm
portsnt bearing upon the existing coal miners
strike. The European owners of the Reading
railroad, who also " and operate most of the
c~ollieries in the Schuylkill district, submitted
a proposition to the American managers,
which was accepted, to supply the places of
the strikers with laborers from Europe. They
propose to fit out two ships in England, set
sail for Scandinavian waters, where laborers
are to be engaged for a stipulated pricefo tho
period of ten years. These are to take the
place Of the striking miners on the first of
April, when it is supposed at least five thou
sand can be ready to go to work.
"A secret conference Of representatives,
from every district of the northern coal fields
of Pennsylvania was held ct Wilkesbarre a few
days ago, at which the mooted question of a
strike was thoroughly discussed. It was re-
solved that it would be disastrous to the
miners to oppose the combination of the
operators at present, as organization has not
been effected sufficiently to offer a solid and
compact opposition. The strike is regarded
as practically over, and thai the miners will
either accep: the 1926 basis or signify their
Willingness to compromise.
EThe recent Canadian elections resulted in
q decided Ministerial victory.
The Ohio Senate has passed 4 bill regu-
latinS railroad freight and passenger charges.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Nine ~workngmen were killed and many
others seriously injured by an explosion in a
mill at Bennington. Vt, on the Goth of Jam
uary. The explosion was caused by the acct
dental ignition Of gasoline, which had escaped
from a pipe that leaked, probably for the
want of a little attention or some trifing re-
pairs.