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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-15
THE COAING AGE

A well-known speaker said in a recent
speech that the time was coming when
we might communicate instantly with
San Francisco without wire or operator.
The audience laughed at him. Per-
haps his statement is not so extrava-
CANT as it seemed. Had the ordinary
work now done by the magnetic tele-
graph been predicted forty years ago, it
would have been received with the same
~increduiity. The truth is that science,
like politics and love, always develops
in unexpected directions. Modern
science is a paradox. Water, which
was always considered the most incom-
bustible matter in nature, produces the
greatest heat known. Watch-springs
burn like pitch. The chemist prepares
delicate muslin so that il team be cleansed
by fire. Arsenic is prescribed for dan
gerous diseases. Frozen feet are saved
by plunging them into snow. Children
are told to keep away from iron during
a thunderstorm, yet hardware stores
are never struck by lightning. Per-
sons suffering from hydrophobia go
into commissions at the sight of water.
A French physician, Lo8ever, has cured
fifty cases of this awful malady with hot
baths. An editor of a New York news
paper lost his sight until a surgeon put
a knife into his eyeballs, whereupon
the man recovered and went about his
work. The widest imagination cannot
predict the discoveries of the future.
For all we know, families in the next
century may pump fuel from the river,
aud illuminate their houses with cleo
tricity. Iron vessels, properly magnet
lied, may sail through the air like bal
looms. An intelligent farmer may turn
the soil of a thousand acres in a day.
American grain may be shot into Liv-
erpool or Calcutta through iron pipes
laid under the sea. By means of con-
densed air and cold vapor engines, ex-
cursion parties may travel along the
floor of the ocean, sailing past ancient
and mountains of coral. In
these coming days our present mode OF
telegraphy will be classed with the
wooden plow of Egypt, and the people
will look back to steamships and loco
motives as we do now look back to sail
boats and s~tage-coaches.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-15
J. RACES.

NJ. Topinard concludes his paper ON
the a~nthropology of Algiers, by draw
ing attention to the five periods which
characterize the anthropological history
of the colony. and which are those of
the brown-skinned Kabyles; the light.
skinned Kabyles; the Numidians, to
whom we must refer the greater num-
Der of the Berber inscriptions hitherto
found the Romans, Arabs and Turks
and lastly. the Aryans. NJ. Topinard
is of the opinion that in the fair and
dark-skinned Berbers we have q kindred
~raceswith the oldest West-European
races, and that therefore, with due re-
gard to locality, we have evidence hat
European colonies could be made, like
those tribes, to flourish in various parts
of Algiers. In the meantime, however,
as General Faidherbe has remarked, it
becomes a question of political as we'll
chronological importance TO investigate,
and, if possible, arrest, the causes which
are diminishing the numbers of the
native population, whose existence is
the more important from their being
the best able to bear the climate and
cultivate the soil. NJ. Topinard con-
siders that the mortality among the ma
tive races is not to be referred with any
special prominence to diseases intro
duced by Europeans, but is due very
much more to a natural scrofulous di-
atheists a%ntecedent among them, than to
any important constitutional faint,
while famine, war, and many other
cause depending upon political condi-
tions, are probably the most important
agents In the process.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-15
TURNING

Firm twenty-five to thirty-fve is the
true time for all the enjoyment of a
mans best powers, when physical vigor
is at its highest. During the last of
this decade a man should be assiduous
to construct a system of philosophy by
which to rule his life, and to construct
a chain of habits inteiligently SO that
they should not sit too tightly upon
him, and yet cautiously, SO that he
should not become their slave nor too
easily cast them aside. The exact pro-
portion of physical and intellectual
strength should be gagged. and the
constitutional weakness, or, in other
words, the disease toward which a ten
dency exists, should be ascertained.
Preserve, if possible, the absolute ne
cessity for exercise !; have your place of
business two or three miles away, over
which let nothing tempt you to IN ON
nibus or carriage save rain. From
t~hirty-tive to fo~rty-fve a man should
arrange with his food and avoid hypo-
chonlria. He cannot, it is true, change
his diathesis, but he can manage it.
The habitual character of food, no less
than its quantity, begins to tell whether
it charges the system with fat, muscle,
sinew, fiber, or watery particles. From
forty-tive to fifty-tive the recuperative
powers should be encouraged and de-
veioped. There is nothing like work
to keep an old horse sound.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-15
COLORED MASONS.

A colored Freemason, belonging to a
Connecticut lodge, is in the lecture
field lecturing on Legitimacy of colored
Masons in the United States" Having
Investigated the record he finds that
Masonry was introduced among the
colored men of this country by the init
ating, passing, and raising of thirteen
colored men into a travelling lodge, at
tached to Gen. Cages army, stationed at
Boston, Oh March6, IT'S. In September,
1874, the Duke of Cumberland, Grand
Master of the Grand Lodge of England,
granted a warrant for the constituting
of African Lodge No. 459. In 1892 the
Master of this lodge instituted another
in Philadelphia. In 1927 the Grand
Lodge of Pennsylvania was called into
being, and in 1847 the National Grand
Lodge was formed. There are now over
one hundred thousand colOred men IN
the United States who are Masons.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-15

CORPORAL JOHN SMITHS TACTICS.
Corporal John Smith with four men
was employed lately on detail duty a
few miles from Fort Sill, Indian Terri
tory. 1t should be m entioHed that the
party was accompanied by a small and
unprepossessing dog of the famous
mongrel variety. Corporal John Smith
and party, in the pursuit of a short
journey across the prairie, were so I'M
fortunate as to suddenly find them
selves most intentionally situated.
Their discontinue arose solelyfrom the
fact that they were surprised and sur
rounded by about a hundred hostile
Indians. The demeanor of the sayages
indicated at once their bloodthirstiness
and the confidence that they were soon
to call the scalps of five United States
soldiers all fonGly their own. The red
skins underestimated the character of
Corporal John Smith. He directed his
men to avail themselves of the only
available retreat-an old buffalo wallow,
and there, most uncomfortably cramped,
they managed to keep the Indians at
bay for the day and night. Want of
food and water began then to tell on
the little band, and Corporal John
Smith played his last card. He tore off
a comparatively unimportant piece of
his shirt and upon it penciled an earn
est appeal for assistance. This he tied
about the neck of the disreputable
mongrel +; then battering up a canteen,
he attached it securely to the tail of the
animal, and with a vigorous kick sent
the u off yelping painfully. 1t is a
fact with which most people are familiar
that a dog With a tin can tied to his tail
makes good time, and the mongrel was
no exception. The corporal, describing
the occurrence afterward, said the deg
"just bumped himself" The Indians,
thinking the whole scene merely an act
of useless bravado, paid TO attention to
the dog, and within two hours he ar
rived at the fort with the canteen at one
end of him and the message at the
other. The message was read and Cor
poral John Smith and party speedily
relieved by company of soldiers, at
whose approach the Indians fled. Such
is the brief record of a Western advent
ure, and If Corporal John Smith does
not receive promotion, then republics
are ungrateful and no mistake. With
West Point education the corporal
would be invincible.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-15
CUPID AND TELEGRiPHS

Some two years ago Conductor
Morris Goodwin, of the Indianapolis
and ST. Louis road, became enamored
of a young lady at Malta, a station on
the line. She ~reciprocated the emotion,
but the young man didn't suit Mr..
Campbell, the father of the damsel,
and he would not listen to any matri-
monial propositions. The two at last,
becoming weary of their pleadings,
planned an elopement. Yesterday Anna
wanted to go to Fillmore, a station on
the Vandalia road. Shortly after
she had left with q friend in a buggy,
it popped into the old mans head that
she had matrimonial intentions and he
mounted q horse and pursued her. The
young man who had planned the elope-
ment was watching his maaeuvers, and
dispatched a messenger on a swift horse,
who informed her what was going on.
She then hired abuggy at Fillmore, and
made for Greencastle, her lover, who
had been informed by telegraph, taking
an indianapolis and st. Louis train, and
meeting her there. where the two were
made II flesh. Yesterday afternoon
they passed through this city en- route
for Cincinnati. The old gentleman is
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-15
TIE SHADOW DANCE song.

I dance in the pleesan! meadow,
In the fresh and waving grass,
Aud the arms of my own SHADOW
Clasp me tightly as I pass.
They tell me | am so agiy
Nc peasant will dance with me:
That I'm too bold aud naughty.
&nnw not if il b..
Bat my Shadows not 50 naughty
The moor is a ballroom free;
AL day, all night, my heart is light.
For the good God loveth me.
We trip it SO well together,
My still brown Shadow and I,
That up from the sweet wild heather
The bees and the birdiings ~.
Oh, nearer and nearer coming,
They hum and twittcr and wheel;
"Eit-zee :" laugh the bees. low humn.ug;
"Twit-tee what a jolly reel"
SKIP, skip (! comes Monsieur G~rasslopper:
Hop comes dear little Cricket:
Only drOwsy Will-o-the-uiSp
nrOueS in the dusky thickt..
Ever M Shadow awakes me
When the day is scarce begun;
C."se, close, round my waist he takes ne;
Come out TO our dance in the sun
Come oUt to our dance in the sun,
The dew liz lingering yet
Are you ugly or fair. a!i's one
To me. my FauChOn Fadet."
s. NY Shadow and l we Kiss,
IL Our veil of flying HAIR,
Or We dance or we float like tLis-
Il follows me everywhere.
-YGrpoT'S H9n'kLg.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-15

reported to have returned disguised
with ~telegraphy, railroads, and young
American hoods generally.-hndian.
DaoEts journal.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-15

the widow blended with the rich, manly
voice of the SOD, and every word of the
good old psalm sank deep into Rens-
salear's heart.
"Let not despair, nor fell revenge,
Be to my bosom kno wn;
o give NE tears for others woes,
And patience for my own
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-05-22
FIRST EDITION.
The Centennial Buildings.

THE ELEGANT BUILDING OF THE HoRTIcuLI uEAI.
DEPARfaiEsT-DEscRIP1Io OF THE EpiFICE.
Tho liberal appropriations OF the City OF
Philadelpha have provided the horticultural
Department of tho Exhibition with an extreme
ly ornate and commodIoms building, which il,
TO remain III pernlanence as All ornament OF
Fairinonnt Park. 1t il located on the Laus.
downe Terrace, short distance north of the Main
Building and Art Gallery. and has II command
ing view OF the Schuylkiil River aud the nertIi'
western portion OF the city. The design il i'll
twelfth century, the principal ma erias extern
ally being iron and glass. The length of the
building is 3s3 feet width, 103 feet, and height
to the top of the lantern ~ feet.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CENTENNIAL COMMISSION.
PARTIAL PROGRAMME FOR MAY 10TH, 1876.
There were delegates from 80 States and
Territories present at the sessions of the Com
mission yesterday. Delaware as nHual, was
not represented. The old officers, with General
Jos. II. Hawley, for President and Prof. Camp
bell for Secretary. were reelected, except few
changes in the Vice Presidents and Executive
Committee. Mr.. Mathews, of Illinois, from the
Committee oe Opening Ceremonies, presented a
report submitting partial programme for the
opening exercises
President of the Day-The President Of the
United States.
Chaplain--The Chaplain of the United States
Senate.
Orators Charles Francis Adams, of Massa-
chusetts, and Lucius Q. q. Lamar, of MISSISSIPPI
pi.
Poet-Henry W. Longfellow, of LMassachu-
setts.
Reader Of the Declaration of Independence
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Grand Marshal-den. W. T. Sherman, U. s.
Army.
Master of Ceremonies Jos. Fl. John
ston, of Georgia.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-05-22
JoaiGu GommereiaG.
COMMERCIAL PRINTING COMPANY.
Howard NJ. Jenkins, Wilmer Atkinson,
Francis G. Ferris.
,r- For 7srnts etc., see Second Page.
Am useBn ents.

fte no BoN ANZA--A DELIGHrfuL PERFORMANCE
Very seldom have we had in Wilmington SC
uniformity good II company as that which is now
,,,svina the Big Bonanza." The performance,
o.t evening, deserves to rank amongst halt
i5lrf. Of the best we have ever enjoyed since
f9 ,)pera House was built. To begin with the
uiay Itself is well constructed it has, il not a
t.mint at least coherent plan which is steadily
,re.etyed up to the satisfactory climax. 1t
lo1pds in amusing situations, and of these
,nli u4e ia made by the actors, whose profess
-nml rAill has brought out fully all their strong
pBllls.
,iiyql we'll last evening, would be only to run
nraiel, the whole cast in the uniform strength
,lf the Company, and tho succes5 winch each Of
ita members achieves i'll his part, lies u large
uart Of the pleasure which is conferred. There
Il no shabby work. no slurring, no incompe-
renee IN the cast. From Mr.. Hawkins, rs the
lInke,. down the list all play admirably, and
whether the unique old Professor, the jovial
n,I the bashful young Doctor, or the "scon,"
sVr N Hass, was on the stage, there was an
i an abundance OF genuine comedy i'll their act
5ns The female parts are all well filled, and
Si,4r charms of person, as well as their profess
tluns ability, were calculated to carry away the
ztyu.pathy OF a susceptible audience.
We say, very decidedly, that all of our people
8sl1 enjoy capital play well acted, should SEQ
HIM B5nal,za The audience, last night though
snot 10 be called small, was much less than the
Smers nf tho performance. deserved. We hear
sthe criticism that some OF tho performers
stlought eo and manifested some signs of petu-
4lAnce. We hope-indeed we think-not, yet it
Huay fairly be said to everybody who undertakes
7to entertain the public that their duty is to the
"A aliIenee who may be present, and that il but
5ftw have come they are neither to be ohidden
for the Abpence OF others, nor to have the enter
4talnment for which they have paid all that was
bsked of ii en-, one jot shortened or weakened
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-05-22
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The Forest Fires,

A BAD RECORD FOR SMILING MAY-THE EFFECr5 OF
THE SPRING DRoUaHT-DEsTnUcTIoN DIRE Al
oscEoLA AND ELsEwHRRE.
The latest particulars of the Osceola calamity
show that $50 houses were destroyed and foui
hundred families rendered homeless. Tho fire
still RACES in the woods near the town, and has
spread along the country for miles. 1t is re-
ported that Houtzdale, a village of 800 inbabi
tants, has BEEN entirely laid in ashes and that
the flames have reached Parsonsviile, six miles
from Houtzdale. The ties of the railroad be-
tween Houtzdale and Osceola have been burned
fire was raging yesterday in Snow Shoe City,
and it was stated that several houses, u number
OF cars, and the trestlo work Of tile railroad had
heen destroyed.
The forest fires in Scluylkill county were
abating yesterday, tho wind having gone down
Tho only serious destruction reported is that of
twelve miners houses, near Ellangowen Col
liery.
The town of Winslow, in New Jersey, was
threatened yesterday by fierce fire in the ad-
jacent woods, but was saved by change in the
wind. Some fine timber land has been burned
over, and three Thousand cords of wood be.
longing to Harris u Co., have been consumed.
A despatch from Wilkesbarre reports the des-
truction on Thursday night, by fire from the
burning woods, of the Stoddartsvllle Hotel and
ontbuildings. and two dwellings. Mrs. Cox aged
80, persisted in one of the houses.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-05-22
CENTENNIAL HORTICULTURAL BUILDING.

one name Pbiladephan in whom, from knowl-
edge or repute he has full CONFERENCE.-The.
Frys detection is no less startling than would
be the fall Of that example. He stood among
the first beyond suspicion. 1t is a terri
BILE blow to confidence and to the citys
credit. The grows worse it
is investigated and the loss 1t ia believed will
fall upon the Darby Road Stockholders, some of
transfer Of his property, but it amounts-apart
from the Emaus Iron Works. to only 100000,
most of it in mortgaged real estate. Unfavora-
Bile criticism has been directed to tho fact that
Fry made over to his brother, minister at Read
ing, portion OF the Emaus property, after the
defacation was discovered. 1t was at first be-
lieved this was but trick OF transfer to secure
something to himself out of tic wreck, but it
now appears that he YVES only repayiDg his
brother for property belonging to the rev.
erend gentleman which hal been sunk
in speculation without the others knowledge.
Even on this showing it is doubtful il the trans
fer WAS proper, as the assets belong to all the
creditors alike, But thus it is in all such vii
lainies-the innocent suffer with the guilty.
The fact is by this recalled that early next
week on Tuesday. believe-the Jay Cooke
estate at Chelten Hills is to be sold at auction.
There is subject for poem il any one has an
inclining that way. "Ogontz" at auction,-t
princely owner q bankrupt Unless ono has
been to "0gontz ne can hardly realize what
the announcement means. No nobleman of Eu-
rope lives i'll more splendid house or in more
lavish style than did Jay Cooke at Chelten Hills.
Perfection is the only word for it, Tho sale will
be without reserve, but even with that privilege
bidders will be scarce for such an establishment.
With the exception OF 'The Shaugbraun' at
tho "Walnut" amusements quite over for
the season. Readers who like good play pleas
antly acted will enjoy "The Shaughraun y it is
among the best of its kind. The base ball ma
tinees now begin to draw. The Athletic ia al
ready far behind tho Boston, in fact stands
third, the Hartford coming next to the champi-
one. Centennial theatricals excite the profess
zion. Several prominent managers have been
here this week canvassing the chances. They
fume in rejecting that the height of the show
will be at midsummer when nothing will drag a
reasonable person to the theatre. have heard
mammoth outdoor playhouse spoken of. Do
you think that would be too decided an innova-
tion? INDEX
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-05-22

The j. q IL. It. IL. system.

RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT REED-ITs sIGNIFf-
oANcE-TuE EXTENSION OF THE ROADS.
Mr.. Reed, late President of the Junction and
Breakwater Railroad Co., has, says the Milford
Ne,os, resigned, and Mr.. McCready, of tho Old
Dominion Co, has been elected in his place. The
true significance of this is we presume, that the
Junction and Breakwater Railroad has finally
passed into the full control of the Old Dominion
Steamship Company. The road from Selbyvile
to Berlin il now about completed. thus giving
which point it s intended to extend the line to
Cherrystone at an early day. We understand
that the Old Dominion Steamship Company Of
fer to build a road from Lewes to Rehobotb,
provided the Rehoboth Camp Meeting Associa-
tion will subscribe 525000 of the stock This
would be about onc-third of the cost of building
and equipping the road.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-05-22
Judge porler's Argument, Continued.


Judge Porter continued his argument for Mr..
Beecher, yesterday, leaving off, on account of
the extreme heat, at o'clock. The attendance
was not Ho large He will probably close on
Monday, when Mr.. Evarts will occupy several
days with his speech Judge Porter's argument,
yesterday, was full of repettions, and conse-
quently WAS rather unInteresting to spectators.
although the jurymen listened to it very atten-
lively and the care with which the points stated
were developed was calculated to fix them firmly
in their minds. Mr.. Bowens testimony was first
taken up and analysed. Judge Porter insisted
that OH the main point OF his evidence Mr.. Bow
en- had confirmed the testimony OF Mr.. Beecher.
He had admitted that Mr.. Beecher had told him
bad stories about Mr.. Titon. Judge Porter,
at considerable length, explained tho trans
actions between Mr.. Beecher and Messrs. Bow
en-, Iiton, and Moulton i'll the light in which
they were regarded by the defendants counsel.
Mrs. Tilton's letters of confession and retraction
wore taken up and commonted upon, and ex-
planned according to the theory of the defend
ant, Referring to the alleged letter of confess
sion, which had been destroyed, the orator ex-
hibited some of the cutting sarcasm for which his
argument had thus far been remarkable, and
bitterly denounced the acts of the plaintiff and
his friends. Mr.. Tilton has become accustomed
to the attacks of Judge Porter, and yesterday lie
met them with self possession, no longer ner-
'vously STARTING mp from his book or his notes
when assailed by the orator.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-05-22
Hoard OF Health,

aGariAR MEETINd-FEE BILL TO DE ovERHAULED,
THE REMOVAL OF GARBAGE.
4 Tho Board OF Health met in regular session
sla-t evening, President Eckel in the chair.
Halt L. j. Dougherty acted as secretary.
Aleported nuisance of water in u cellar in the
|Becond Ward was referred to the committee OF
ftlAt ward.
q committee consisting of Messrs. Buzine,
s1hatcer and Dougherty was appointed to re-
tot-tflict the fee bill for burying dead animals.
Il Mr.. Cummlns asked for information in rela-
|hon rs to the duties of members concerning gar
sbage carts. The President stated that an ordi-
Aauce was now pending before council to trans
1eT tile charge Of the removal of garbage, to
1le Board Of Health.
II ln consideration Of the pending ordinance the
u Jarl al journed TO meet next Friday evening,
stor It's consideration.
Il An order of sl377 was drawn for John Lun-
SSci, and :l2.40 for John Curry.