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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24

The following comes with the spring
time. 1t sounds like Danbury, but
Danbury has gone to see Naples and to
die: "To those who are going to move
We would say, if you have to get up
and change your local habitations, just
go off without cleaning house, and leave
it, if possible, in q nastier condition
than when you first went in. Throw
all the broken old bones, shoes, hoop
skirts and broken lamp-chimneys just
where they can be raked in a pile-but
don't do any raking. The incoming
family won't know what it is to make
garden. If o door or gate is nearly off
hinges give it a kick and help it to go :
it pleases the proprietor to fix such
things up at this time of the year. Tell
your oldest hopeful to throw the old
dead cat in the well, because it imparts
a delicious taste to the water, and you
know the doctors can't always be idle.
If you have a surfeit Of rusty stove
pipe, broken bottles, and cabbage in
the cellar, leave it. 1t shows a neigh
borly spirit.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24
OLD LETTERS.

Never burn kindly-written letters /; it
is so pleasant to read them over when
the ink is brown, the paper is yellow
with age, and the hands that traced the
friendly words are folded ever the hearts
that prompted them, under the green
sod. Above all, never burn love letters.
To read them in after years is like a
resurrection to ones youth. The elder
ly spinster finds, in the impassioned
offer she foolishly rejected twenty years
ago, a fountain Of reiuvenescence.
CHANGING over it, she realizes that she
was once a belle and a beauty, and be-
holds her former self in O mirror much
more congenial to her tastes than the
one that confronts her in her dressing
room. The "widow indeed" derives O
sweet and solemn consolation from the
letters of the beloved one who has jour
neyed before her to the far-off land,
from which there comes no message,
and where she hopes one day to join
him. No photographs can 80 wildly
recall to the memory of the mother the
tenderness and devotion of the children
who have left at the call of heaven as
the epistolary outpourings of their love.
The letter of a true son or daughter to
a true mother is something better than
an image of the f~eatures-it is a reflex
of the writer's soul. Keep all loving
letters /; burn only the harsh one, and in
burning forgive and forget them.
In France the Pope alone can grant a
divorce.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24

EVEN during peace the armies of Eu-
rope withdraw 5000, 900 of men from
industrial pursuits, and deprive the
commercial world. counting their actual
cost and nonproductiveness, of the
enormous sum of 81, 500, 600, 900 annu-
ally. A stronger argument against war
than these figures present could not be
offered.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24
BRIEF NEWTON.
In 1912 a paper Of pins cost 81.

BfnEfs -
In 1912 a paper Of pinscost 81. =,
THE world is q great mystery, with
creation at one end of it and cremation
at the other.
The average number of misdirected
letters sent to the New York postofice,
weekly, is $50.
Chicago has got twenty million dol
lars invested in hotels, and considers
herself SO much inn. W I'D
IT need only cost about 1925 to be
cremated. How much cheaper than
even a fifth class burial.
A YOUNG lady in Orleans county, N.
Y, is six feet seven inches high, and
she isn't stuck up, either.
Our of the total population of &c.
000, 900, the last French census shows a
total OF. 10, 900, 600 who can neither read
nor write.
THE railroad across the chain of the
Andes, in South America, rum several
miles above the clouds. Freights are
correspondingly high.
YOU do not need to black -FOUR boots
IN Pittsburgh. You hang them out Of
the window at night, and they are black
enough in the morning.
THERE are over 5000 mines and pros
poets within o circuit of twenty-five
miles of Salt Lake, most of which will
be actively worked this season.
PHILADELPHIA claims to have 200, OOO
houses-5O,O 600 more than any other
city on this continent. She has 80, 600
stores, shops and business houses.
The fee of Mr.. Hawkins, Q. c., who
defended the Tichborne estate, amount
ed to $40, 600. II received n retainer of
1000 guineas and a refresher Of 100
g%uineas for each of the 1S9 days of the
trial.
AMAN will die for want of air in five
minutes, for want Of sleep in ten days,
for want OF water in a week, for want
of food at varying intervals, depending
on constitution, habits of life, and the
| circumstances of the occasion.
STATISTICS Of hog-packing for the
season of 1873 show That Chicago leads
the world, with indianapolis second,
st. Louis a bad third, with Cleveland
and Cincinnati neck and neck, bringing
up the rear, but almost out of sight.
IT appears from the last returns that
the aggregate income of the English
life insurance offices is more than fl5,-
DOC, 900, that their total accumulated
funds are over el13, 900, 900, and that
the assurances in force represent nearly
f352, 600, 900.
s. Il. SMITH, of Springfield, Erie
county, n. T., is the champion cheese
man. During the past year he has been
sole proprietor of eleven factories,
which have received the milk of 400
cows, made 5000 cheeses, or 1900 900
pounds, which sold for SlS5, $50.
A SHIPS cook in New York was re-
Gently arrested for refusing to obey
orders. He, however, defended HIM
self by stating that he had TO make
clam chowder for twcnty-siy men out of
twenty-five clans and "A pint of clam
juice, and the task was too great for his
ability.
A MAN in q mill in Plumes, CAL, felt a
tug Mt his coat-tail. He looked around
and saw that it was being drawn in by
cog-wheels. He grabbed a post and
held on with ell his might while the
coat was slowly torn from him. The
struggle was a hard one, but the man
rpnu
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24

MARSHAL BAzAINE, in his " seclusion"
at Sainte Marguerite, only goes out for
two hours in the day, walking in the
court belonging to his prison, under
the surveillance Of two keepers. His
meals are furnished by the boatman of
the island, who is, at the same time,
sutler of the troops. His guard is COM
posed of ninety soldiers of the line and
five j~ailers.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24

fOriginL.l
FAITH
Br Il. II. NEwHALL.

In the dimly.ighted CHAMBER, ttGhif
rs Barely shsaisrsd from the sslss a~-
Like the erabers, slowly dying,
Lays fasherweak and pale. HAslD
Near the bedside satlhi daughter, g- rf
Poorly clad and poorly fed,
But her ear was ever wakeful
, To attend whate'er he said, TiCtf ayt'1
"Mary, darling, bring the Bible ''' 30"
Came in Whispers faint and low; iTm-g.E
me hear the old, old story I'm, .m
Once again before I 60.
Read me where the Savior tells them,
In His Fathers house above
There are builded many mansions
For the steadfast in His love-" -Ilt-ls
Closer bent the tender daughter,
And the wondrous story read
How the Giver Of those mansions
Had not where to lay His head.
Gently closed the dropping eyelids
While she read the story DER, .fI'
And before the tale was ended,
He had reached the further shore.
Thus, within the hovel lowly,
As within the gilded hall,
Some partake the Water freely,
Flowing freely unto all. 49, H
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24

HENCEFoRTH, the words laughter"
applause" Sensation" and other
parenthetical remarks indicative of the
hilarious or appreciative demonstrations
of The House, are to be omitted from
the official report of the Congressional
debates, which will now be drier read
ing than ever. The intelligent con-
stituent, while perusing the dreary
efforts Of his member to be witty, will
have to Judge for himself where the
laugh comes in, aud be thrown back
upon his unaided imagination for a
picture of the applause which greeted
flights of eloquence. The important
decision was made a few days ago at the
instance of Representative George F
Hoar, who asked by what rule or au.
thority the words in question we're put
in. The Speaker said there was no rule
for it, and that as the words only put on
record the fact that the members had
violated the rules which forbade ap.
plause or other demonstrations, they had
better be omitted, and he would direct
the reporters to cease putting them in.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24

GOING TO PAINT THE MOUNTAINS.
Max Adeler, the Philadelphia humor-
list, writes:
1--WE met our friend, Daubs, the ar
fist, the other day, and asked him
what he was going to do this summer.
"'I Think said he, I'll take a run
up into the interior of the State, and
paint the Alleghanies.'
"Daubs has n big job on hand for
the warm weather. We should think it
would take him all summer to paint the
Alleghanies, even if he did it with a
whitewash brush. We don't exactly per-
ceive the use of painting them they
look very well as they are. And sup
pose Daubs takes it into his head to
paint that whole range of mountains
pink, or cream color, or to fresco them ?
We never say a cream-cOlored mountain !;
but somehow we feel as if it would be
az interesting as a light-blue horse, or
brown moonlight. But if Daubs paints
those majestic hills pink, we shall emf
CRATE from the State. We should rather
live in q humble brown-stone house on
eight or ten thousand dollars n year in
some part OF New Jersey, than to dwell
in the most gorgeous frame residence
on less money in a State with pink hills.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24
THE SEWING MI CHINE AGENT.

an.H#.- T
The most tenacious flea upon the
bare back of the body polite is the
sewing machine agent. There is no
shaking him of. No specific has ever
been invented that has proved effectual
in Graduating him from society. You
may chain him under a pile-driver;
throw a load Of stone on the top of him;
fire him out of a 24-inch colurhbiad
lock him up in a powder magazine and
blow up the institution with a fuse;
drop him out of a balloon ; consign him
to Oshkosh; compel him to subsist on
clearinghouse hash and fish balls; ad-
minister to him a barrel of fea-bane O
month, or poison him, but it's no use /;
you cant kill him. He never wa born
to die ; for, no matter what treatment
you subject him to, he invariably turns
up in front of your door, with his horse
tied to the hitching post, and a ma
chine on the stoop, and before you have
any settled opinion as to whether you
are yourself or somebody else, he has
dragged that machine into your sitting
room, worked up the cold lady" into
the belief that she is totally incapable
of surviving another day without this
greatest Of all l~abor-saving, health-pre-
serving, back-action, self-oiling, nom
explosive, understanding, patent
spool-pin, self-adjusting, lock stitch
ing, love-promoting and indispensable
household utensil-a sewing machine.
Henry Ward Beecher, or some other
logical fellow, has said thatnothing was
ever created in vain. 1t may be true.
If so, the sewing machine agent has his
part to perform in accomplishing the
great ends intended by the Creator of
the universe. Perhaps without him
the earth could not revolve around its
orbits. Should he sink into oblivion,
the motive power which drives the
worlds machinery might collapse a
flue, and general disarrangement of
cogs, belts, eccentrics, pistons, ETC.,
ensue, which naught could repair but
his immediate reinstatement. Had the
sewing machine agent ceased to exist,
undoubtedly that glorious Magma
Charta-that salary-grab law, and the
declaration of independence, as pro-
mulgated by Susan B. Anthony, would
never have been tackled to the nations
escutcheon.
Seriously speaking, the sewing ma
chine agent is a tenacious flea-a most
interchangeable, indispensable and intel
ligent member of the genus puter,
without whom society would retrograde;
and the easy dispatch with which the
family are kept clothed, the means by
which want has been driven from the
door, care lightened, faces frightened,
and hope awakened, would be subvert-
ed by drudgery, want and wretched-
ness. "God spare the sewing machine
agent" is the prayer of thousands who
have experienced the blessings bestowed
through his agency, and God spare
the sewing machine agent" say We
GaIcna Gazette.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24

THE New York World has figured up
the weight of a lady's toilet, from her
hair to her shoes, and the sum total is
eleven pounds thirteen ounces and eight
drachms.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24

VARIETIES. .
BRoTHERs-IN-LAw-The judges.
ADEAD failure. An undertaken in st.
Louis has called q meeting Of his cred
itors. .t Et t 'H
One lead pencil, according to a con,
temporary, lasts a Dubuque editor
three months, but he has to have q
new rivet in his shears every three
weeks. i
An Illinois editor returns thanks for
a centipede sent to him by mail from
Texas, "it being" he says, "the..frst
cent of any kind that we've received for
several weeks"
The editor of the Detroit Free Press,
says q rival country editor, is n of the
few journalists who can put an enemy
into his mouth without fear of its steal
ing anything. d., ., .ai., g. '-,l
A LANTERN-JAwRD Vermonter got
aboard O steamer for the fret time, and
fell through the hatchway into the hold,
when, being unhurt, he was heard to e1-
press his surprise Well, if the darned
thing Amt holler! !"
A coUpLEof gentlemen, strolling along
a turnpike, came to a toll-bridge, and
one of them said, "I wonder when that
bridge was erected, and who built it ?"
81 don't know" replied the other,
"but let's go over and we shall be
toIled."
A SINGULAR instance of skepticism is
recorded in the case of the man who
said the Bible was "too good to be
true"
KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE.
knowledge makes humble,
Ignorance makes proud;
knowledge talks lowly,
Ignorance talks loud: -
knowledge is modest,
knowledge is pure,
Ignorance boastful,
Conceited and sure.
SPECIMEN Of heavy writing on the
Danbury Ne,os: Thursday evening
Of last week was q spring evening. For
ty thousand screaming demons rode the
winds that surged through the streets,
crumbling up the hard snow and frozen
mud, and binding pedestrians with the
powder. All night long the demons
howled, shutters ratified, signs creaked,
branches groaued, and shed-doors
slammed. All night long the beautiful
birds of spring hung their heads and
hushed their carols, and all night long
the sweet flowers of the gladstone
springtime shrank within their petals,
and smothered their fragrance in their
palpitating bosoms, and boarders
screamed for more quilts"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24

IT wa in C~ollinsville, Conn.,, that a
mighty economical old gentleman wrote
twenty seven lines 1858 words) on a sim
gle postal card.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24

more is given the stock than they would
eat up clean in the stable. Cattle in
the main have good appetites, and will
lap up almost every spear given them
by a careful manager. The great loss
from outdoor feeding comes from an
oyer supply, and tramping the fodder
into the mud. g
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-24

In France the Pope alone can grant a
divorce.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-02-04
Stationery .nO 53ise@';ss:a.
NE|i' S'Ii1I0NERI HOiySE.
e E. S ! OK IS


HAS Just opened, in tho ncw and hand
some bnii,iu. Immediately opposite The
PEcp3iN Office, Cl Main street, L complete
stuck Ci
STATIONERY.
Comprising Letter, Cap and Note Paper, Of
nil sizes, qualities ami of every description;
Flat Papers oil Cap, Deny, DoGbIc-Cap, Me-
dum, Royal, Supcr-RovaI, and Imperial
sizes, which will he sold in any quantity, or
mHn;rf::c Grcd n:o Blank Eoo;S OF any size,
and ruled TO any pattern, and bound in any
style, Al short notice.
ENVELOPES
In endless yaricfy-aIl sizes, coIorS anI quail
ties.
BLANK BOOKS
OF every variety. Mcmorandmra anil Pas:
Bucks, Pocket Books, Invoice and Letter
Books. Receipt i;uo,:S. Note Books.
ARCHITECTS and DHAUGufSMEN will
find :. complete stock Of materials for their
use. Drawing p;ircr, in sheets and rolls,
Bristol Boards, Postal Paper and boards, Oil
Paper, Pencils, Water Col"rS, in cakes and
boxes, Brushes, Canyons, Drawing Pens.
SCHOOL STATIONERY
Of every description; 4 great variety Of con-
venient and useful articles for both Teachers
and Pupils.
ALSO,
Photograh Albums, Writing Desks, Port
lo!ios, CabA>, with boxes, and countless
variety of
FANCY ARTICLES.
Also. most elegant stock Of Gold Pens
anu Pencil Cases, Superbiy Rubber
Goods.
INKS.
Black, Blue, Violet and Carminc, IndeihIe
and Copying: Muclagc: Chess and BACK
cam;aou Mcn anA Boards: Visiting and We'd
ding Cards, and everything usually kept in Il
First Glass Stationery House,
Which the subscriber intends this shall be.
lie will still conduct his BINDERI and
BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORI and PA
PEls-LULGNG ESTABLISHMENT, which
Las been in. successful operation for over
thirty wears in this State, and to which he
will continue to devote lis own personal at
tention. His stock will be kept up full AMI
complete, and his prices will be found always
reasonable, and he hopes 70 have share OF
patronage.
Nov. Is, ij-tf Opposite PhGNix Office.
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IMPORTANCE OF WATER
; g. FOR SHEEP. =

It is great mistake. and the cause
Of much suffering and loss, not to sup
ply sheep with water, especially milk
giving ewes. During the drouth OF
1868 many locks were ruined by want
Of water. I know Of a striking In
stance where the animals wasted and
were sent to Chelmsford market in evil
condition, the owner being ignorant
of the cause. The dealer, who bought
them "for song," first examined the
whites of their eyes, thinking they
must have the rot or jaundice, but,
seeing all right 50 far, he found that a
supply of water was the only restora-
tive required.
Grass in succulent state contains
seventy per cent. Of moisture, but
when dried very much less. The
same remark holds good for cloVers,
etc. When We give cake, corn, malt
combs, bran, &C., which we always do,
it becomes absolutely necessary to pro-
vide water or the animals will not
thrive.
Give them the opportunity of judg-
ing for themselves by an always avail
able supply, and they will exercise a
proper discretion in the matter
An iron water-cart is on most farms
an indispensable requisite. When
feed is too wet and sloppy, dry cotton
cake or grain is a good and profitable
regulator. Turnips and mangold are
disproportionately watery as food for
animals; hence the losses occasioned
by them, especially with breeding
sheep. They contain fully nine plnts
of water to one pint of dry food
Ninety per cent. of water is too much.
Sixty-6ve to sesenty,six per cent. IL
pasture grass is the more natural and
proper proportion. The human or AMI
nal frame has seventy,fye per cent.
of water, just as good grass has
Meat is dear as food, because it con-
: 5, n the lean portions, seventy
SIX per cent. of water. No wonder
that bread and cheese are found far
more economical.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-02-04
FLOWER GARDEN HINTS.

So many people say that their flow
ers, which once did well, donot thrive
any more, and the reason is incompre-
hensible to them. In many cases,
the trouble is from worn-out soil and,
if little manure or 4 little fresh dirt
be added occasionally, it is wonderful
what an effect it will have on the, re-
newed growth of half worn-out root
stocks. Some kinds of flowers soon
grow surly and bad-tempered unless
they have contemplated change of
earth once in a while. The verbena
is of this character. In perfectly
fresh soil-that is, earth which has
never grown verbena beforc-lt
grows like. weed, but, the next year,
it is not quite 50 we'll, and: in a few
years, it absolutely refuses to creep,
run, or DO anything; and we are fore
ed to confess that the verbena won't
do for US as it used to do, years
ago. .-..-.
Other flowers are not so stubbornly
fastidious as the verbena; but still,
all. more or less, like to feel rejuvena-
ted by an addition of some kind, occa-
sionally, to the carth-blessings they
have already been treated to. Almost
all our best hardy flowers arc native
of woods. or low: undiSturbcd lands,
where the decaying leaves from the
trees. o. the washines Of higher sur
face lands. makes new annual enter
tsinmcnt for them; and it has found
by experiment that nothing is SO
good for these pretty little flowers as
wcll-lecayvd lc af- N ould from the
woods, spread around the root stocks,
lust oboyc the ground. But where
this cannot be had, any other wcl!-de-
cayed vegetable refuse that may be
laying aronrd loose" will do very
well. Strong, rich manure barnyard
.nanurc-has not been found very
good for garden flowers. 1t makes
the hcrbagc too strong, and the How
ers less in proportion. But if moth
ing more natural eau be got at to help
the flowers along, and the soil. seems
exhausted and poor, this will be found
much better than leaving the plants to
struggle along as best they can. This
is the tine Of the year to think OF
these things.
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AdministratriX's Notice.

All Notes and Accounts due the Estate
0: D. Mowar, deceased, must be seilled on
Or before ISt Of January, 1874. All those
who wish a>eompromise Oh OLD NOTES must
apply Immediately. -,
C. MOWER, Adm'x.
=, az ;f
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THE SHORT LINE SCHEDULE. -;
Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta z. &
GENERAL TICKET DEPARTMENT.
GOING NORTH.

The lowing Passenger Schedule will be cpe-
rated OF. and after Sunday, 26th instant:
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atlanta and Richmond Air Line
Railway.

NE ESSW e5zs-7-.--, szz.ze. s==zz.-.===e.7.=.ss.--7.
IN W z g 5Asg q: IISA ~ ~
On and after MONDAY, December s. 1873,
the Passenger. Accommodation aud Freight
Trains or the Atlanta and Richmond Airline
Railway will run as follows. 80
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-02-04
EaederfNklseg.
@. MI. HARRIS,
Fsk's Metallic Burial Cases

THE SUBSCRIBER has constantly OF
hand fullassortmcn: Of the above app ovcG
cases, of different patterns, besides coffin:
of his own make, ,eal of which he is prepared
to furnish at very reasonable rates, with
promp;ncss and despatch.
Persons dcsirous ofa,aving cases sent by
railroad will have them sent free Of charge
4 Ifearsc is always on hand and will be
furnished at the rate Of $40 per day.
Thankful for past patronage, the sub
scribcr respectfully asks for a confirmation
of the same, and assures the pn6ic that
no effort on his part will 3c spar TO rcnde1
the utmost satisfaction.
r. 3. CHAPMAN.
Newberry s. e., july 81.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-02-04
sYg&sce5seg3seoesS.
TIE GREAT REMEDY FOR
CONSUMPTION

y y EE y u EEEa EsG Ea
which can be cured by a
timely resort to this stand
ard preparation, as has been
proved by the hundreds of
testimonials received by the
proprictors. It is aclnoWl-
edged by many prominent
physicians to be the most
reliable preparation ever in
troduccd for the relief and
cure Of all Lung complaints,
and is offered to the public,
sanctioned by the experience
Of over forty years. When
resorted to in season it sell
dom fails to effect a speedy
cure in the. most severe
cases Of Coughs, BRONCHITIS,
Group, Whooping Cough,
Influenza, Asthma, Colds,
Sore Throat, Pains OF Sore
ness in the Chest and Side,
Liver Complaint, Bleeding
at the Lungs, &c. Wistar's
Balsam does not dry up a
Cough, and leave the cause
behind, as is the case with
most preparations, but it
loosens and cleanses the
lungs, and allays irritation,
thus removing the cause OF
the complaint.
PREPARED ~
SETH ". F0WLE & SONS, Boston, &ass.s
And sold by Druggists and Dealers generally.
Oct. !, 3g-ly.