The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-09-10
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL EREviTiES.

THE Rcpublicn B4nncr and the
Union and .hmcricdn of Nashville, Tenn.
have been consolidated under the naHae Of
the AmerjcaR.
JAMES Is. MCCEEARY, Governor
elect of Kentucky. was ~inauGur&ted or tn"
3l>t nit, with impo>ing:ccromonies.
GEORGE \. SMITH, Appointment Nor
mon, died on the 1st.
AT the recent soldiers reunion, at
! Caldwell, Ohio, Gen. Cockrell, of Missouri,
was the guest of the camp, and made 4 short
address which was loudly applauded.
IT is estimated that 10000 people
from abroad participated in the great bridge
celebration at AtchiSon, Kansas, on the 2d.
The procession was three and Il half miles
long.
TIE anniversary of the battle of
Sedan, September >, was observed through
out Germany as a general holiday.
Coz. WILLIAM DAWSON, who COM
m4nded an Indiana regiment during the war,
was aSSaSSinated at Cincinnati, by = n0tO-
rious Young rough named James Murphy. on
the night of the 31st ult. Murphy and anuln-
Der of his companions created 3 disturbance
at a wedding party where Col. Dawson was
n attendance, and the Colonel went out 10
demonstrate with them, when Murphy
plunged Il b~Owie-knite into hi abdomen,
locked up.
Cor. ANTHONY, Of the LcavcnWurth
Times. who was shot down in the Lcayen-
worth o?era-hOU>e over three months Ego,
has so far recovered from his wound Is 20 be
able to travel. He has gone East for further
treatment and to visit his friends.
TIE Texas Press Association left
Jefferson, Texas, on the 1>t, for trip to It.
Louis. Springfield H., Pittsburgh, New York.
ana New England. They return by the way
Of Washington, Richmond, Memphis, and
! Little Rock.
TIE late VIM. {. Ral>ton had paid
up life insurance policies upon his life TO the
amount Of So, 900. He left a wife and sew
eral children. Mrs. RalStOn il a niece and
adopted daughter of Col. J. d.. Fry. promi-
nent San Franciscan, and IS said to be a
woman of beauty, accomplishments, and
character.
TIE Coroncr'$ Jury have returned p
verdict that VIM. c. Ral>ton came to his
death by accidental death from congestion Of
the vital organs and drowning.
IT is au~thoritatiyely stated that the
defalcation Of VIM. c. I;alston, the late
President of the Bank of California, amounts
to between three and four million dollars,
and that an oyer-isSue of stock has been dis
covered.
\ DUEL was fought in Winncbago
County, ILL.,, a few miles north of Rockford,
on the 4th, by Major John n. Edwards, Of
the st. Louis Times, and Major Emory ;.
Foster. of the st. Lou JONrnGl. The diff
Guilty grew out of Il newspaper controversy,
and Major Edwards was the challenging
party. The weapons used were Colts navy
revolyers, distance twenty PAGES. Only one
shot was exchanged, and neither party was
injured.
AT Chicago, on the 9TH, Mrs. \. b.
Norton. wife of the editor of the Dallas
Texas) HteLigenceT', was accidentally
thrown under a moving car and had one other
arms severed above the elbow. The unfor-
tInate lady, accompanied by her husband,
WAS with Tic ltAdS tlliu al IdiIg anu la
lust arrived in Chicago when the sad accident
occurred.
TIE President has appointed cX-Rep-
resentative II. Holland Duell, of New York,
COMMISSIONS of Patents, Cicc Thatcher re-
signed. e
4 PARTY Of twenty-five gentlemen
from Virginia, headed by General Fitzhugh
Lee, have recently visited New York to at
tend a conference with the leading Northern
residents as to the best means of benetiting
the material interests of that section of Vir-
giniu which was the chief theater of active
operat on during the civil war, and has ever
since suffered owing to a want Of immigra-
ton.
GOUNOD, the eminent French COM
poser, having been rendered the direction of
the American College Of Music to be estab-