The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-07-03
ANDREW COUNTY REPUBLICAN,.
SAVANNAH,
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Personal.

-lseSeut ucdtNs. -hIe. Auuupoh, "" y"
the celebrated naturalist, aged SO. at Shelby
vile, ky., June IS; Mrs. Cameron, wife OF
Senator Cameron, at Harrisburg, Pa, June
10: ]. G. NJ. Bellew, the distinguished elo-
cutionist, at London. June 10; Jules Janin.
the author. aged 20. at Paris. June 10.
The United States Senate has confirmed
Gen. McCook as Governor of Colorado Ter
ritory.
Mr.. Bluford Wilson, nominated by the
President to be Solicitor of the Treasury rice
Bsnfeld, resigned. is at present United States
District Attorney for the Southern District of
Illinois.
Lyman H. Bass, Of Buffalo, succeeds
SAWYER as Assistant Secretary Of the Treas
ury.
Samuel Myers, an old and popular thest-
rical manager, is dead.
President Grant, on the last day of the
session, sent to the senate the names OF Alex
ander Il. Shepherd. late Governor Of the Dis
trict OF Columbia William A. Denison, Of
Ohio, administrations and Henry L.
Blow. of Missouri, formerly member of Con-
gress. and afterward Minister to Brazil. a. a
Commission to govern the District until the
new form Of government shall have beeE pre-
pared and adopted. Denison and B.ow were
immediately confirmed, but Shepherds name
was rejected by a vote Of sc against G. Sub
sequently the President named ex-senator A.
G. Cattell, of New Jersey. who was confirmed.
The bill providing for the distribution Of
Al, ,,. avail lov,,p rasaad C.pr,ass
the President has appointed the following
named gentlemen TO be judges of the court
to make the awards: HeZekiah Wells, Of
Michigan Martin Ryerson, of New Jersey /:
Kenneth Raynor. of Mississippi George w.
Woodward. of Pennsylvania. and Caleb Bald
win of Ohio; also John Davis of MASSACRE
sets. to be clerk of the commission. The
insurance companies are not allowed to par
ticipate.
Senator Logan and Supervising Architect
Mullett INDUCED in a duel of words, which
came near ending in blows, in the office OF the
Secretary of the Treasury, at Washington. the
other day. Mullett became SO outrageously
NOISY and profane that Secretary Bristow
called a halt, and informed him that he weuld
not allow such language in the Treasury
Building; and also added that his insolence
to visitors had become intolerable, and a
repetition of such conduct would lie followed
by his removal.
Lyman h. Bass declines the post of As
sistant Secretary Of the Treasury, rendered
him by the President.
Theodore Tilton has published a counter
blast to the recent action of Plymouth Church
and the Congregational Council, by which he
was refused a hearing in defense of his con
duct in the Beecher case. Mr.. Tilton sub
stantially corroborstes the testimony Of
Woodruff as to Mr.. Beecher's criminality. and
publishes the following as an extract from a
document signed by the latter:
"BRooKLYN, Jan. /, 1S7l.-I ask Theodore Til
toms forgiveness, and humble myself before him,
as / do before my God. He would have been a
better man in my circumstance than ! have been.
! can ask nothing except that he will remember all
the other breasts that would ache. / will not plead
for myself ; / even wish that I wers dead.
oh W. BEEcHER."
A. C. Buell.. the Washington correspond
ent of the Detroit FREE Press, has been ill.,
dicted by the grand jury of the District Of
Columbia for defaming the character of Sena-
tor Zach. Chandler.
Hon. John A. J. Creswell, for the past
five years Postmaster-General has resigned,
and Congressman Eugene Hale, OF Maine. has
been designated by theP President as his sue
cessor.
Senator Morton is in better health than
for some time past.
1t is said that Postmaster General Cries.
well resigned because Of the disregard that
Congress paid to his recommendations. 1t is
also reported that he will be appointed Minis
ter to Austria.