The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23

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Atchison, Kansas, is dead.
The reunion of veterans of the Mexican
war, at Washington, last week, was well at
tended. Gen. Negley delivered the address,
and Gen. Albert Pike recited a poem.
GENERAL.
Representative Hurlbut, of Illinois, has
introduced a bill into Congress providing for
a double-track freight railway from Underwater
on the Atlantic to the Missouri river, and to
limit the rates of freight thereon. The
termini of the road are to be at New York and
Council Bluffs, and Chicago and st. Louis are
each to be favored with branch lines. The
road is to be controlled by Government Com
missioners. 1t is estimated to cost S175, 000,-
600, and the Government is to guarantee the
interest ON $50. O00, 900 of this sum. 1t is to
be confined to the transportion Of cereals and
similar freight, and the rate is fixed at 5 mills
per ton a mile for distances greater than $50
miles. A little more will be charged for
shorter distances.
-Natick. Mass, was visited by a disastrous
c~onfiagration on the 18th inst. The whole of
the business portion of the town, with the ex-
ception of three stores, was burned, involving
a loss of about 81, 600, 600.
A fire at Alton, ILL.,, on the 14th inst, de-
stroyed 100000 worth of property in the
bushes part of the town.
That unfortunate Spanish frigate Arapiles
is again in trouble. She went ashore at the
foot of Bridge street, Brooklyn, while at
tempting to leave the navy-yard, the other
day.
There was a disgraceful scene in the
Memphis City Council the other evening,
growing out of charges of bribery brought
against an Alderman. The lie was given.
pistols drawn. and chairs and inkstands
hurled about the room in indiscriminate con-
fusion. Fortunately the police interfered and
quelled the fight before any one was seriously
injured.
The Philadelphia Centennial Commission
ers had an interview with the Select Commit
tee of the House of Representatives at Wash
ington, the other day, during which they an
nounced to the Committee that they wonld
require and exact from the Government a little
subsidy of ten millions of dollars.
Mr.. ". C. Flagg, President of the Illinois
Farmers Association. delivered an elaborate
address before the National Cheap Transpor-
tation Convention, at Washington, in the
course of which he gave his solution of the
transportation problem. His plan, in brief, is
to build eight grand trunk railway lines, con-
meeting the North. West, South and East. He
thinks they could be built for :25, 0O1 per mile,
which would be about SOS. 900, 900 for each
road, or 5000, 000.0 900 for the whole-about
1000, 900 on the average, for each State
through which they run, or an assessment of
$3.50 per acre on each acre of land within three
miles of a line. or two-thirds of / per cent. on
the total wealth of the country, which liz less
than one half the annual railroad charges of
the country.
A Washington dispatch says the House
Committee on Railroads and Canals have
agreed upon McCrary's bill to regulate COM
merce by railroad among the several States, |
and will report it to the House at the first OPP
portunity. together with a report on the sub
ject of the bill. which Mr.. McCrary is now
preparing.
The National Board of Trade, in session
at Baltimore last week, adopted q resolution
calling on Congress to redeem at least S10,-
600. 900 of the fractional currency, which it
regards as largely in excess of the public
needs. They also recommended that measures
to be taken to reintroduce silver into the cur
rency, and that the Comptroller of the Cur
rency be deprived of all discretionary power
over the currency. The Board thinks it not
worth while for Congress to spend any money
in building through railroads for the purpose
of solving the transportation problem, and
regards as rqually hopeless any attempt to
settle it by prescribing fares and rates bylaw.
They favor the passage Of laws by State
Legislatures to compel railroads transporting
grain In bulk to deliver the same quantity
they received.
The National Crop Rfpoyt1. OF the 10th
inst. publishes the final estimates of last
years crop of oats and hay in the States of
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Kansas, Minnesota,
Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
estimated total production Of oats in the
named in 1872 WAS, in round numbers.
192, 800, 900 bushels, and the falling OF from
this in 1873 is placed at 10 2-1O per cent. In
diana shows the heaviest loss. being over II
per cent, and Tennessee the largest gain. or
nearly Q per cent. The estimates of the hav
crop give an average falling of of the crop
of 1873 as compared with that of 1872 equal
to 81 per cent, and makes the total yield !
last year in the above States nearly 10, 900, 900
.ons.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
George Rebmann, a Observation-Disclosures
er, took an old out of a drawerth other !
lay, and. pointing it att deaf mute standing by t