The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-03-20
NEWS IN BRIEF
PERSONAL.

-BaeZ has been discharged from arrest at
New York.
Robert X. Fleming. the pioneer printer
of Illinois. died recently at Belleville.
The railroad Commissioner of Michigan,
after thoroughly investigating the subject III
all its bearings, has come to the CONCLUSION
that it would be impossible to devise any
measure for the regulation of frelGhts that
would be Of just application to all OF the
roads. and that even separate rates OF tariff
on each road would be productive of great
injury to the material interests of the State.
He therefore asks to be relieved of the re-
sponsibility of fixing rates of fare.
The Rev. DIR. Porteous. an Irish Episco-
pal divine. who was granted temporary license
to preach by Bishop Potter. of the New York
Diocese. and by Bishop Littlejohn, of the
Diocese of Long Island. has had his license
revoked for delivering humorous lectures and
officiating in non-Episcopal pulpits.
A susceptible young saloon-keeper in Day
ton. Ohio, after being prayed with about ten
minutes by the ladies'. Internationally sur
rendered, and his captors at once poured his
whisky into the gutter. So overjoyed were
they with their victory that they proceeded
unanimously to smother their young convert
with kisses, and embraced him in the most
affectionate manner.
Minister Schenck arrived at New York
from Europe on the Sth inst, and on the same
day Caleb Gushing sailed for Madrid.
Hugh OBrien. for sixteen years a saloon
keeper in Richmond, Ind. has succumbed to
the voice of PRAYER. closed his doors, Joined
the crusaders, and pledged himself never to
engage in the business again.
-Ex-President Willard Fillmore died at his
residence in Buffalo. n. Y. on the night of
the 9Th inst, in the 18th year of his age.
-Stilson Hutchins. editor Of the 81. Louis
Dispatch, and late of the Times of that city,
has sued the publishers of the latter paper
for libel, laying damages at 800, 900.
Charles Summer, Senator from Massachu-
sets, died in Washington on Wednesday, the
18th c. narch. On the day before. in the
Senate. he had q slight attack affecting the
nerves of his heart, but when he returned
home he was sufficiently well to entertain two
friends at dinner, at the close of which he
made an allusion to the condition of his heart,
and between 9 and 10 o'clock he was taken so
sick as to require the attendance of a physi-
clan and an hour or more thereafter he had a
second attack of his old disease. angina pecto-
ris. He fingered until 10 minutes be-
fore 3 o'clock Of Wednesday. 1t was
not an easy or mild passing away.
He had several severe commissions
just before the dissolution. and it is the
opinion OF those who were present that a rup-
ture of the heart occurred. His sufferings
toward the last seemed to be intense, and he
several times exclaimed, Il want quiet l am
tired" He recognized friends who came into
his room. One of the last to whom he spoke
was ex-Attorney-General Hoar, of Massachu-
sets, to whom he said. Take care Of nv
Civil Rights bill The last words of the de-
ceased statesman. expressed to Judge Hoar,
We're: Tell Emers II l love him and
revere him. Senator Sumner was born
in Boston, Mass, January 6. 1911 :;
graduated at Harvard College, and afterward
at the Cambridge Law School: travelled in
Europe was the reporter of the United States
Circuit Court for the First Circuit lectured
at the Cambridge Law School, especially on
the Law of Nations" and the "Constitu-
ton :" edited the American JuriSt and several
legal works, including three volumes of re-
ports of decisions in the United States Circuit
Court was elected to the United States Sen
ate as a'Free-Soiier to succeed Daniel Webster.
Wing, and took his seat Dec. l, 1851 was re-
elected in 1857, again reelected in 1868. and
again reelected in 1863. His present tenn of
service would have expired March 8, 1875.
Oliver Ames has been chosen President,
and Z. II. Rollins Secretary, of the Union Pa
cific Railroad Company.
THE old man Bender, " the father of the
murderous Kansas family, is again reported
to have been captured-this time in Utah.