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Litchfield enquirer., 1874-04-30
NORTH coRSwAhb, April 26, 1874.

NORTH CoRNwAhh,, April 26, 1874.
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 house of Rev. Henry Upson. X.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30
TWAIN'S LATEST.

One of "Mark Twain's" latest Jokes
is that which he perpetrated at dinner
to which he was recently invited. He
had been notified that his health would
be drunk during the evening, and it
was. But Mark was armedand equipped.
He drew from his pocket large roll of
manuscript, and proceed to read to his
astomished auditors that he was entirely
taken by surprise, was wholly unpre-
pared to reply, and so on, as is custom
a, y with after dinner speakers. Such a
very Twainish joke could not, of course,
pass withoutappreciation, and as soon as
hemomentary perplexity had subsided,
roars of laughter testified to the success
Vi Iue NV. ii Uuiy an spoanero we're III
honest as Mark Twain e..s
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30
TRENENDOLY TONER.

The Tower Of Babel was pigmy to
what a company of enterprising Phila-
delphia bridge builders propose to con-
struct as toy to grace the approaching
centennial exhibition in that city. 1t is
to be of wrought iron, one thousand feet
in height, and beside it such structures
as the dome OF st. Peters, the pyramids
of Egypt and Bunker Hill Monument,
would be .dwarfed into insignifcance.
The tower is to be circular in section,
one hundred and fifty foot !" a;:---. a..
at the base, diminishing to thirty feet at
the top. 1t is proposed to have spiral
staircases winding around the center
tube for those ,preferring to walk up
bnt elevators Will be provided, which
are calculated to ascend to the top in
three minutes. This is one of the great
est engineering projects of the age, and
! it is in the hands of constructors capa-
BILE of completing whatever they under.
| take.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30
NATIONAL PROGRESS.

An exchange thus 'discourses on our
progress in one hundred years Only
think what hundrM years has wrought.
One hundred years ago our revolution
airy ancestors made the biggest " draw
ing" of tea in Boston harbor of which
there is any record. 1t took all the wa
ter in the harbor and three hundred and
forty-two chests of prime tea for the
drawing. What avsst amount of his
tory has been made on this side of the
Atlantic in that eventful one hundred
.years. Then the. entire white popula-
ton numbered scarcely three millions.
Now there are seventeen States with
over one million each. New York alone
Las population exceeding sthat Of all
the colonies by nearly a million and a
half. Pennsylvania exceeds it by half
-----s,sa -, ---A e,-A g. T'', 4 >
nearly equal the entire white population
of. the American colonies one hundred
years ago. III
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30
AMERICAN RAILROADS.
The MAGNITUDE of the railroad inter

Inc mtRlubuuc VI ehO &s1A.A S>>
=: ------l
greater than any persons suppose VINO
have not given the matter examination.
The total mileage is II ,564 but this IN
cludes 1852 miles of ,.double-track
roads, making the whole length of track
used 81, ,O76 miles. The capital stock
invested in these roads amounts to
s., OF, ,25l, ,954, which is about $29'0OO
per mile. The floating and funded
debts are almost equal to the capital
and the, estimated. cost OF all the
roads is SO, 72s, 416,95Q, little more
than fifty-two thousand dollars per
mile. 1t has been impossible to Obtain
the gross earnings of all the railroads
for the last year. For the latest year
for which reports were obtainable, the
railroads extending fifty -four thousand
miles earned $47s, 1856. .597. This is es-
timated to be nearly one hundred and
seyenty-fv million dollars above tbs
running expenses. The earnings for
the last year, so far-as ascertained, show
a gratifying increase over the year be-
fore, Notwithstanding the large falling
of in traffic on account Of the panic
during the fall months. There we're
| 4. 1870 miles Of new road built in the year
/ 1873. of which nearly one-haf we're In
the Western States. .,.-
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30
CURRENT ITEMS.

The liberal Jews talk of celebrating
their Sabbath on Sunday.
RUSSIA owns only 100 newspapers,
while Germany claims 1890.
A BosToN house is said to have al
most monopoly of the toothpick trade.
In sells annually about 500, 900, 900 of
toothpicks.
THE New York Times says quinine
and India rubber are two great boons
which the discovery Of America be-
slowed upon mankind. ~
A WESTERN genius has just invented
patent self-raking, stem-winding,
breech-loading, seven-octave, non-e1-
plosive automatic urclin chastiser and
combined hair comb, editorial protector
and hash-cutter. He expects to make a
colossal fortune.
A NEW HAVEN manufacturer recently
informed his book keeper that his sal
ary of 81 200 must be reduced $500,
and that the reduction would date back
twelve months, thus making the amount
due him for the next year $500. This
is the meanest yet.
MOST Frenchmen, when they commit
suicide, like to do it in way which will
render them celebrated in the papers,
such is the inherent vanity of their na-
ture. A coachman living at Montmartre
invited his friends to dinner recently,
and on arriving there, instead of finding
Their host at the head of the table, ruddy
and joyous, they discovered him dead,
hanging on the bedpost. He had taken
the precaution to provide bread, cheese,
and wine for his guests.
VICE PRESIDENT WILSON, who was at
the Woman Suffrage National Conven-
ton, in Washington, the other day, be-
ing called upon for word of encour-
agement, rose and said 81 wish
simply to say that 1 am under impera-
tive orders to make no speeches on any
subject. ! will add, however, that
twenty years ago l came to the con-
clusion that my wife, my mother, and
my sisters were as much entitled to the
right Of suffrage as myself, and have
not changed my mind since" Loud
applause.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30
w8Ar THE GRANeERs Want.

A prominent Eastern daily recently
printed the report of an interview with
an Iowa Congressman on the Cheap
Transportation movement, which has
attracted widespread attention. To the
question what practical steps the grange
organization would ask Congress to take
to secure the object Of the movement,
the Congressman stated that no large
appropriations were expected, to SUBJ
sidize railways or open new water lines
to the Atlantic; but that there were
three important things which the farm
.ers of the West would ask of Congress,
and he thought their request would be
conceded. The first is to remove all
distractions from the Mississippi river,
which is the natural highway of the
whole interior of the continent. The
second is, that the Mississippi valley
being opened, Congress shall enable
shippers of produce to ship by that
route, by such legislation as will pro-
hibit railways from making Disseminate
charges. The last step shall be such
legislation as will secure reasonable
rates on live stock from the West to
New York. To this end the oranges
demand that Congress shall provide
for such supervision and control by
national authority of the rates of freight
charged upon live stock as will make
them reasonably profitable to the rail
way companies, and at the same time
enable the stock raiser of the West to
live by his industry" .... fa-
1t will be observed that the forego-
ing plan involves no considerable ex-
penditure of Government funds, other
than for the opening of the mouth of
the Mississippi river; and for this pur-
pose the advocates of the plan argue,
with good sense and truth that sufficient
means can be raised by looping off the
regular yearly appropriations for dozens
of insignificant harbors, which benefit
only unimportant localities. While the
right to regulate rates on railways ira
versing more than one State has never
been asserted by Congress, many of the
ablest constitutional lawyers Of the
United States claim it, and protest
strongly in its favor. The same doc
trine WAS advanced in this recent speech
in Congress of Mr.. McCrary, in favor
establishing a commission to revise
freight and passenger rates ON all roads
running from one State to another, or
traversing a number of States. His
speech was concurred in by the West
ern members almost unanimously and
while We cannot expect all the evils of
our present transportation system to be
remedied at once, we can and do expect
to see strong beginning made at the
present session of Congress.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30
REMARE4BLE PETRgFICA TON OF A
BRIDE.

RENi Rh ABLE PETR!FICAIION or 4
BRIDE.
DIR. Jorsck, of Marksville, La, is re-
sponsible for a remarkable story which
would seem apocryphsl were it not that
similar cases have been previously re-
ported. Something over month since,
friend of his, lawyer and a man of
scientific tastes, was married to a beau-
tiful girl of sixteen. The afternoon fol-
lowing, being in her husbands Crock
study" with three or four intimate
friends, their attention was called to
some boulders from Arkansas. These
boulders on being broken open present,
in the central space, crystalline forma-
tion and sometimes contain water, or
rather a concentrated solution of silica
and water. This fact being known to
one of the young ladies, it was proposed
to break open the largest boulder, and
when the water ran out it was caught,
and the bride conceived the romantic
idea of pledging the health of her hus.
band and friends in this ock-imprisoned
fluid. She did so, and in a few mo.
fnents began to realize the rashness oi
the act. She complained of excessive
pains in her stomach, and her husbanG
....,. once Seiit loI
On their arrival, though but fifteeI
minutes had elapsed since she dranl
the fatal draught, she was dead. Sht
had already become rigid, and, thu
doctor says, In three quarters of a,
hour her entire body became as hart
and inaexible = bone." The friend
having consented, DEs Jolsck, assisted
by other medica1 mes made pos
morten, exanninatiqn bf which he says
"On more minute Elimination and in
! quily 1 found that he dissolved silic
she had taksn Ito her stonach ha'
been absorbed and transmitted by tn
chylopoistic .appaxatus and--baood yes
~ throushout the system, and tina
/ her 6ple bedy was a petrifaction. W
fo,s1f il ingessible to cut through an
I poraimxith oeRalpels. Ds, Ferguso
bioke Id .ssalptf in the first attempt
We VS. I'll, ,onlyto break through th
chest NTH D hatchet, finding dxtrem
di@ei3tysin entering the thoracic ca,
IT. 3bhe coutents being oil sohdifei
TlIs hea1t mas found as firm nnd I
q so6d as stone. resembling piece I
cornelian as to both color ana consis
| ancy"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30
THE MYSTERY OF RARD TINES.

THE A1S1kRl OF HihD TIMES.
A Dayton, Ohio, journal endeavors to
clear up this mystery little by pub
fishing some statistics that ought to be
impressive. 1t shows that in that city
OF 30, 900 inhabitants there are $40 bar
rooms, which consume daily nine bar
rels of common whisky, 400 kegs of lager
beer and as many of ale, TO say nothing
of the finer kinds of wines and liquors,
which are used to q considerable extent.
/ Besides the above, the local consump-
tion of tobacco amounts to II, 900 cigars,
200 pounds of smoking and 120 pounds
of chewing tobacco daily. The editor,
after a careful study of the figures,
ciphers out that bar-keeper at 10 cents
drink, gets 1909 for barrel of whisky
that costs 40. This does not mean hard
times for him, certainly, whatever may
be the case with those who give him the
profit of S260 per barrel. The expendi-
ture of Dayton for whisky, malt liquors
and tobacco is more than five times what
it lays out for bread. The figures of
our foreign trade balances are not SO
important as these, to a great many
people at least.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30

lis nothing uncommon for q young
lady to have dearest duck, but q dam
sci in Athol, Mass, has an unmetaphor-
ical feathered duck which follows her
just like that little lamb which was sure
to go wherever Mary did. At a recent
musical entertainment, instead Of abb
surdly going in and trying to sing, this
sensible duck waited below until the
concert was over. aud then escorted his
mistress home, to the great indignation,
no Doubt Of the featherless geese who
Fwouldihave been 1slaasy 'sumnasSeas 70
that sweet service.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30

In the course of the day her sister
spied the new ornament, and viewing it
with critics eye, Hoped she did not
give many cents for that sham cracked,
too, SO that it wouldn't hold water"
The glitter even was coming off her
gold. But the revealing of this base
metal was yet before her.
Sitting III the sunny kitchen, few
weeks later, when the increasing chill
rendered the cracking fire a need, two
ladies called upon her.
"We are getting up box to send to
city missionary for distribution this
frosty air makes one think of the poor, u
said Mrs. Morgan, drawing nearer the
| stove.
&" And we knew you would be glad to
| assist" added Mrs. Niles. "We only
came to tell you our plan to-day. Come
to our meeting next Friday and bring
whatever you can spare.
eff you only had that shawl, now, u
said Harry, when told of the plan,
chow warm it would keep some poor
body's shoulders. Harry did not
mean harm of course. He was only a
sad blunderer, like some other men,
and could not know this was Cassie S
first thought, or the tears she shed.
Friday afternoon came, and Cassie,
with bundle started for the meeting.
81 thought. perhaps, you would feel
disposed to give your old shawl, said
her sister, meeting her at the door
"but you have not got it, Isee, q.
Mrs. Niles was direotoress, and read
a letter from the city missionary who
had gone from their quiet town, and in
whom all felt an interest, telling Of such
suffering and want as brought many o
tear to the eye, closing with the ever
solemn words, "Inasmuch as We have
done it to these, ye have done it to
me-"
| "Miss Spear will put on the list the
gifts of each to be kept. Mrs. H.
Clewes, two aprons and flannel sack.
Ahem - called the active directories,
and Cassie felt as though she was the
lump sticking in the good woman't
throat. = - ..+ra -..--r
b. "Don't, don't, Cassie, said Harry
that evening as, after telling her story
through many tears. the impulsiye wife
took up the unoffending vase, to COM
NIT it to destruction. '.This shall be
its place." "and the young husband gent
ly placed it ON the kitchen mantel over
the little tin bank they had nailed up
for missionary money. 9 1t shall stay
there, to teach us both q lesson. that
! all gifts are talents for which We must
account to our own conscience and to
our Master" <'ta....
Years have passed since then. Cas-,
sic no longer sits in the kitchen alone
of an afternoon-but in the famil y-sit.
ting room of the tasteful home they
now call theirs. Visitors see a ruby
vase standing on a bracket alone, and
under 1t the tin mission box, and some.
times Ill the. twilight the little ones
gather about mammals chair to lister
to. the oft-repeated story of the shaw
that was lost, the lesson won.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30
LEE INSURANCE.

The life insurance of our country is
larger than in all the other nations of
the globe, which, in the aggregate
amount to 81, ,523, 900, 900, which is
$227, ,625, 900 less than the amount cred
tied to the United States. This is not a
bad test of the standard of our material
civilization. In this connection it may
be stated that the past year has been
a very prosperous one for fire insurance
companies. Losses have been compare
lively small since the Chicago and Bos.
ton fires. Furthermore, those disastrous
confagrstions warranted the companies
in advancing the rates, while, at the
same time, they stimulated property
owners generally to insure their build
ings. ,-is1.. ,I; - -,
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30
WOMANLY PLUCK.

That the qualities of nerve and down:
right pluck are not confined exclusively
to the heroic men Of creation, every
day adds fresh proof. Only the other
day an Eastern paper recorded the rad
venture of a young lady with o midnight
burglar, wherein the brave heroine,
armed with an iron poker, placed the
cracksman hors 0u combat, handed him
over to the minions Of the law, subse-
quently appeared in court, testified
against the culprit, and secured his in
carceration in the State Prison. A few
days ago, near Fort Wayne, Ind, a
bright young lassie from the country,
while leisurely trudging her way along
the road toward the city, unmindful of
danger, was suddenly confronted by q
hideous looking brute in human shape,
who approached her with an indecent
proposal. Instead of fainting outright,
or vainly shouting for help, as almost
any other girl similarity situated would
naturally have done, she seized stout
shillalah and smote the scoundrel over
the head with such force as to com
pletely knock him out of time, and con-
tinued to belabor him and shout for as
sistance, which soon came in the shape
Of burly policeman, to whom she sur
rendered, her prisoner. And now the
New Orleans Times narrates circum-
stance wherein young girl In that city
bore herself brayely under such trying
circumstances as would have severely
tested the most dogged determination
ever shown by the average genus homo.
The ether Sunday this young lady was
at church, when, during the delivery OF
the sermon, she suddenly became aware
that something of crawling nature was
making an expeditions journey up her
leg. Startled, as may well be believed,
she was the nonee bereft of power of
action, and there forthwith chased each
other through her mind extremely lively
and fearful apprehensions touching
snakes, rats, and a host of disgusting
creatures, but with determined effort
she recovered her presence of mind, and
by the time the thing" had got short
distance above her knee, she clutched it
through her dress with vise-like grip,
and held on like grim death. Since
the first revelation of the distressing
circumstance she had not uttered
sound, nor indeed given any outward
sign of the mental torture which she
must have suffered, but sat rigid and
composed, firmly grasping that '' hor-
rible thing" which she knew was some
living creature, when, upon being
clutched, it gave forth squealing
sound. For full three-quarters of an
hour the brave girl sat there, as COM
posed as ever, still retaining her hold to
the close of the service, when she de-
parted homeward, never relaxing her
grip until reaching home, when, giving
hurried explanations to her mother, she
faintcd dead away. A quick examina-
tion by la mere revealed the presence OF
rat, dead as door nail, as the cause
of the unhappy adventure, which for
lively interest, and the revealing OF a
remarkable spirit in the mind OF o
young girl, is not often matched in this
latter day. .-
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-30
BUYING 4 VASE.
A STORY FOB YoUSd WIVES.

A STORY FOR YoUSG WIVES.
Pretty little Cassie Clewes sat in her
kitchen, meditating. Six months be-
fore you would have been introduced to
her as Cassie Mills but she was wear
ing new dignities now, and, it must be
confessed, most worthily. 1t was not a
common kitchen, either. There was a
respectable air about it, as if it wore its
best clothes every day, that only be-
longs to kitchens in the beginning of
housekeeping. There were no defacing
nail-marks either, or circles like pale,
yellow moons, where the good mans
hat had adorned it many a year. 1t was
SO fresh and clean with the slanting rays
of the September sun cheering its new
ly-painted floor, or playing in the fam
tastic groups the leaf shadows made
over the polished surface.
And meditating, as we before re-
marked, amid the brightness and shsd-
ows, sat the little mistress. When Harry
Clewes first asked her to share his for
tunes, Cassie was aware that that article
was mostly to be found in the broad
hands that then trenbled in impatience
waiting for the answer. But when she
looked into the lovers brown eyes, and
read there the promise of peace, she did
not hesitate. What would be the world
full of bank stock to her If Harry had
no share? And she had never regretted
her answer. .......-...,,
But all the morning, as her voice kept
time TO the clatter of milk pans, or with
slower cadence followed the measure Of
her broom, her loving heart devised
some pleasant surprise for its liege lord.
Sometimes it was an apple pudding
again, pair of slippers made by hel
cunning fingers, and even soled by The
same workman. The same fingers, too
were aIways nnaIng ways Oh DeaurIy
ing, until their little home blOssomet
much more in the character of a rost
than did the rich Mrs. Broad's sumptu
Gus parlors.
1t was this last named apartment IL
Cassie's home that was the strain OF he
meditations just at present and as if K
assist herself to a clearer view of tn
case, she rose now and opened the doc
leading into that state-room. 1t wa
bright, like the other, but lacking th'
home air, of course. There was a greer
and oaken carpet, the six csne-bottomet
chairs and green lounge, the rount
table with its album and q feM book
uponzit, and taszApzsss1nair goslipg
chair That every ccurtry dame count
among Tie sssSAak Fekt Ok
base; sors @Ss sap1ef CtsAf tn
dDoE, thnERGr rDesnghle, heYy cas-
and cheenSf Nh : Means looked las
evening, when thr took tes there. to'
getting that Mrs. M had been puttin
shome air INTO hers for several year.
9u needs q picture, and curtains, an
amirror, -sad- that mantei wants fe'
fancy things, different from those stra
fransss asd's Bsas boqdSto 1flI ha
Mrs. Brosds money Z fsscy I woul
Show better tsste; but there is no US
Il isn't likely we shall ever have an.
faing except Rhat We earn; Harry isn
theflnd 70 - siehs ~ ssszSE
Dear, generous fellow, indeed !
wasn't And "earninQ it." Cassie hs