The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-05-01
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Bald Mountain, i'll Western North Caro-
lima, continues TO tremble and groan, the
noise and shocks Being heard for z hundred
miles around. Il is firmly believed by
scientists i'll that region that an eruption is
imminent.
The Hon. Alexander Mitchell, President
of the Milwaukee and 81. Paul r~ailwar. is
represented rs saving that his road cannot run
under the law passed at the last ses. ion Of the
Wisconsin Legislature. He further says that
the company will first test the constitutional
ity of the &c: i'll the com ,.aad failing there,
VII take OF all is train
tine Mayor of New Orleans has telc-
era2hei 20 ali the large cities of the United
States. asking for aid for the poor people in
New Orleans drowned out by the Mississippi
overflow.
TIE President has sent the report OF the
Civ:l Service Commission to Congress. with =
special meosaGe inviting p~ar;icuia. attention
thereto. He expresses the heliet that the rules
can be 80 improved and enforced ~ to
stil. ino-e materially benef: TIE public
service.
bS Il 'IAt.is vi -ApIIIaI'Alt At hdfi-
inStcu has received very full information con-
corning the appearance Of the Wheat through
ont tie cauutrv. The returns cover a large
proportion OF tie w~inter-Nheat area in each
State. TIE winter has keen extremely favor
able il al sections. No previous season has
been more generally 70 sliice the Inauguration
Of the crop reports.
"A bill las been introduced III the New
York General Assembly. Incorporating AZ liz
cremation society for the burning of the
Ge2d-capi.al, $50. OG0.
II bill TO eGualize the hourtics OF soldiers
Who served in the late WAY has been reported
to the United States Senate from the Military
Committee. Il gives to each soldier the Elm
of 1891 for ali LIS time of service between
April II, 1861, and Nay 8, 1860.
Tile Commissioner of Internal Revenue
gives notice that unless parties liable to the
payment Of 4 special tax License" uuder the
internal revenue laws make their return Oh
Form Ii. before the 3lst OF Nay, they will be
liable to a penalty Of 30 per cent.
Congress has held out some hope to the
country OF al adjournment by tie lst Of June.
BIZ. present indications are that it will not be
ready at that time to take final action on the
Appropriation bill. 1t is with the greatest DIFF
fculty that L quorum is held together in Com
mittee Of the Whole. and, though the bill has
been under consideration for four or five
weeks, only twenty-five out Of seventy pages
have been passed.
The people of the Southwes: are in a la
mentable condition. especially i'll Louisiana,
where there i almost a wholesale drowning
ont Of the population by the great owe: low.
A New Orleans dispatch states that Tie whole
country from Monroe to the mouth Of the
Red River is under water. and that 10. 900 poo
pie in that district will soon be on the verge
of starvation. Reports from the lower hr-
kansas and White rivers give gloomy reports
of the inundation. Immense numbers Of
stock have been drowned, and actual dcstitu-
ton prevails in many places. The whole
Amite valley, i'll southern Louisiana, is
flooded. Houses, farm implements and rtDck
have been swept away, and the inhabitants
have fed to the highlands, where :hcy abide
in a destitute condition.