The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-02-20
GENPRAL

WOrklnGmen mere as compared Win the same
class in Great Britain.
GENERAL.
A Washington dispatch states that the
House Committee on Indian Affairs are matur-
ing measures which look to q change in the
management of Indian affairs, dispensing with
the present Board of Indian Commissioners,
andeestoring the management of the Indians
tothe War Department. Agenersl reform in
Indian agencies will be recommended.
The National Crop Reporter, of the 9th
inst; publishes estimates of the percentage of
the last crop of barley and rye in the hands of
producers Jan Is, in the States of ILL
nois, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin. Tn
percentage of barley on hand at the date
named in the five States, which produced in
1873 some $780, 600 bushels, is placed at 81
$40 per cent. The rate of consumption, by
which is meant both shipments and home con-
sumption, is highest in Kansas and lowest in
Wisconsin, being respectively rs and &C per
cent. The percentage Of rye on hand averages
&c 6 10 per cent, which, with a total produc-
ton last year of about 1900, 600 bushels, indi-
Gates an amount now on hand equal to a trifie
less than ], 14S, 900 bushels. Tho consumption
is heaviest in Kaasas-S0 per cent.-and
lightest in Wisconsin-70 per cent.
"A bill has been introduced in Congress
reducing letter postage to two cents.
-Advices from the plains represent that the
Indians are becoming troublesome, and a gen.
oral outbreak in the spring is threatened.
-Adispatch from Ripley, Ohio, dated Feb.9,
"A Washington telegram Gays: "The Re-
publicans of Texas are considering a plan to
divide that State into two States-Eastern and
Western Texas. This would make a Republi-
can and Democratic State. some of the Rep
resentativesp propose to introduce an enabling
act in Congress for this purpose, in accord
ance with the precedent in the State of West
Virginia"
There is much alarm among the frontier
settlers Of Nebraska over the threatened In
dian outbreak. Large numbers Of them are
preparing to take the warpath, and several
depredations are already reported. An Omaha
telegram says: "Tbere is intense feeling here
at the outrageous condition of affairs in the
Indian Bureau, which permits agents to with
hold ratioRs from the Indians on the plains.
This drives them, through hunger, from their
reservations, and several bands are now known
to be wandering in search of plumber, west of
Sidney, Neb. They threaten to enter the Re
publican valley, a region fast filling with white
settlements"
The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill,
in Committee of the Whole. fixing the rates of
taxes on the railroads of that State at five per
cent. on their net earnings.
There is trouble in British Columbia. The
Ministry recently tried to force an alteration
in the terms of confederation through the
House, but the people thought they had some
thing to say about the matter, and demanded
The submission of the question to a vote. This
was refused, when a mob of q thousand men
broke up the sitting, and took possession of
the legislative halls.
A Cincinnati dispatch of the 18th inst. re-
ports the temperance movement rolling brisk-
ly on, and is even spreading across the river
into Kentucky. Nineteen liquor-seilers in
Lexington have been indicted for ceiling rum
end. The movement has been fairly inaug-
urated in Springfield, Ohio, where the saloon
keepers maintain a defiant attitude, and even
threaten violence. The women, however.
are : ~undaunted, and will labor all
the moro earnestly. At New Hol-
land, Ohio, they were driven
from a saloon by a man armed with a poker.
He was arrested and fined 800. At Ripley,
Ohio, the reformers are still at work on the
few stubborn CAGES that refuse to surrender.
AT Greenville, Shelby, West Jefferson, Ma
rietta, and Columbus the war is being prose-
cuted with undated zeal, and with every
prospect Of success. In Shelbyville, Ind, the
saloor-keepers served a written notice on
the ladies that they would hold them re-
sponsible for loss Of businesn. The next
day an immense meeting was held, and in
corporated a company, organized with
S300,Q 900 capital, to fight the lbuor traffic
legally if ether means fail. The ladies' then
prepared a reply to the paper OF the saloon
keepers, charging them with destroying the
business Of the community, exhausting its re-
sources, adding to the taxes, increasing crime,
and defending their right to pray for the re-
moval OF such an evil. In New York and Now
Jersey the temperance societies are preparing
for a crusade agains. the rum-sellers.
"A Cheyenne dispatch Of the 18th inst.
gives the following exciting Indian news
1.-The Sioux, Arraphoes and Chcyennes NAV
be considered on the war-path, a step long
contemplated by them, and discussed in their
councils for q year past. Their line Of opera
tions extends from Laramie peak in the north
to the Republican valley in the south, hus
exposing our frontier to their attacks and
depredstions for over 800 miles. They COM
menced their deeds Of blood simultaneously
along this entire line, which prove preconcert-
ed action on their part. The Government will
need 10000 more soldiers here soon, to pro
tect the lives aud property Of our citizens"
E.A Howard, OF the whitestons Agency, has
10 the Commissioner Of Indian
Affairs ct Washington for military protection.
Gen. Smith telegrsphs from Fort Laramie