The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-02-13
CURRENT ITEMS.

president WILSON will remain
some weeks in Boston.
VICTOR HUGO intends to devote his
time, in future, to literature.
Stoves have proved hardware for
dealers to handle this winter.
Troy has a ~"praying band; ;" but New
York has many preying ones.
STANLEY has not been heard from
since the death of Livingston.
CHIEF-JUsr1cE WAITE is a communi-
cant of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
The English press is at present bus
lily discussing the succession to the
Papacy.
SARToRIs, the English Baronet whom
Nellie Grant has captured, is a nephew
of the late Fanny Kemble.
CARL ScHURz is the only n of the
fifteen foreigners in the Senate who has
any trace of foreign accent.
FRANCE has now five Cardinals-Mon-
signors Donnet, Matthew, De Bonne-
chose, Reguier, and Guibert. .
THE brewers of New York and New
Jersey have resolved to advance the
price of ales and beer after Feb. 1.
DISPATCHES from Arizona report that
the Indians in that Territory are kept
very quiet-if not by hook, at least by
| Gen. Crook.
SENATOR BoUTwELL's daughter is
said to be almost as much of a politician
as her father, and thoroughly Gin" for
woman's rights.
THE hundred charitable organizations
in New York raised some 50, 500, 900 last
year, but how much of it fell to the lot
of the really deserving poor is not as
certained.
THE champion wife-beater turned up
in a New York court recently. His bet
ter-half testified that he beat her sys-
tematically every day, and very often
twice on Sunday.
WITHIN the past few years the wines
of Italy have become an important arti-
Gle of commerce. All over Europe
Italian wines form a feature of the wine
list of every hotel and restaurant.
DIR. SToRRs says Brooklyn beats the
world for young people. And he might
have added for churches and ministers
and such things. Brooklyn people
have the habit of being born young.
THE yearly statement of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company shows its as
sests to be 1925, 221. 0S, and the liabil-
tiles $40, CAT, 400. 30, leaving a balance of
Sl3,422, 1927 to the debit of profit and
loss account.
THE Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of New York had an income of
SS,3S1.S9 over its expenses last year.
That shows good management, and is
an example that some other institutions
might protitably initiate.
S~nAKoMBAU, King Of the Cansibal
Islands, proposes to send ENJOYS to
Washington and Europe, for the pur-
pose of pressing upon the great powers
the claims Of his kingdom to the fullest
recognition.
THEY are trying to amend the consti-
tuition in Massachusetts,, so hat Sena-
tors and Representatives need not be
residents Of the districts for which they
are elected. This is the English sys-
TEN, and has some good features.
STILL another claim is before Con.
gress for payment for servicas rendered
during the war. A Miss Carroll, in
this instance, claims to have planned
the campaign of the Tennessee. She
wants 5000 for her trouble. Quite
modest, when compared with the corn
doctors bill of $40, 900 for imaginary
services.
The Postofice Department is picking
up. At the present rate of increase
the revenue from this source will amount
to g, 800, 900 more than last year. But
the members of Congress who way elo-
quent on the subject Of economy mean
to restore the franking privilege, and
there is no telling what TINT will cost.
Some of those fellows would pawn the
nations old clothes for n three-cent
stamp.