The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-23
~TELEGRAPHlC NOTES.

pbc price Of gold in New York, on July
-, was ia.
4 recent dispatch from Raleigh. y. c..
say a most inhuman murder, committed in that
vicinity in March last, has just come to light.
Scott POrtin, a white man, cut his wife's throat,
then cut her head of, unjOinted her at every
joint, then cut the flesh off her bones and at
tempted to burn her body, but did not succeed.
Then he murdered his little boy, a child eight
months Old, in the same manner, and buried the
two bodies in a marsh where they were found by
the neighbors. Circumstances show that POrtin's
father and one of his brothers were accessory to
the murder.
The University boat race, which took
place on Saratoga Lake on the 18th, was won by
the Cornell ~crew-time, l6 Following is
the order in viii h the boats came in: Cornell
Columbia, Harvard, Dartmouth, Wesleyan,
Yale, Amherst, Brown, Williams, BOwdOin
Hamilton, Union.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Or the
lfth, made a call for SO, 900, 900 coupon $50
bonds of the loan of 1862. This is the twenty
second call made for the syndicate.
The counting of the cash in the reserve
vaults of the United States Treasury was COM
pleted on the 18th, and every thing found cor
rect.
The steamship Idaho, from Liverpool,
on the llth inst, landed $50 Mormons at New
York, under charge of seven agents appointed
by Brigham Young to conduct them from Europe
to Utah. There were between 500 and 600 adults,
including a number of young women, and all but
six are SCandinayians.
4 dispatch from Red Cloud Agency.
18th, reports the killing of two Indians and the
Wounding of three others by soldiers on Little
White Earth River. This being on the reserva-
ton, the Indians were intensely excited over the
occurrence, and all negotiations and work of the
Commissioners had been entirely suspended.
The first bale OF new Texas cotton was
received at Galveston on the 18th. 1t was classed
as good middling, and sold for Is cents per
pound.
The steamer Champlain, from Fort Ii
cOnderoga for Rou$e's Point, ran ashore near
Sawmin Point on the night of the 18th, and sank
in - minutes. There were so passengers on
board, who We're taken off by the steamer Adiron-
dack.
The Roman Catholic clergy of Law
renee, Mass, have issued a card condemning
the riot in that city on the day of the Orange
mems celebration, and expressing the hope that
the rinslealers may be made 10 feel the enormity
of their crime.
At Red Oak, Iowa, on the 18th, Fred.
Ncwhericr, Il prominent citizen, shot and fatally
wounded DIR. Halton, a well known physician.
The doctor had attended Mrs. Newherder pro-
fcssionally, and her husband charged him with
seriously ~injurinS her by malpractice. New
herder fled Immediately after the shooting.
Rev. :. ID. liinman, of the Special Sioux
Commission, telegraphed the following to the
Indian Bureau from Red Cloud Agency on the
18th: 1--WE met the Brules and Ogallallas in
council to-day. They desire a general council to
be held at Shadrock Greek, midway between
Spotted Tail and Red Cloud Agencies on Septem-
Der |, and positively refuse to go to the Missouri
River. They will aid in bringing i'll the Northern
Sioux and Cheyennes. We have assented to the
place and time designated by them, subject to
your approval"
The Yacht Effort under Is tons,
which left Fleetwood, England, May > tn, ar
rived ut st. Johns, y. t., on the 10Th inst, af-
ter a voyage of - days, remarkable for heavy
weather. The crew consisted of the captain,
mate and two boys.
News has been received from Bow River
Valley, Cellar County, Neb., that an emigrant
family has been recently murdered by Ponca In
dams.
The permanent agency for the five civil
lied tribes of Indians has been finally located at
MuskegO, l. T., by Agent Ingalls,. \ building
will be Immediately erected ut Il cost of $40 900
and a model farm in connection Herewith be laid
out and put in order and ndercultivatiOn for the
purpose of instructing the Indians in farming
operations.
VIM. Bridgcton, supposed tt be n of
the men implicated in the attempted express rob
berry and murder at Long Point, ILL.,. was arrest
ed on the night of the 10Th. He was taken TO
Terrc Haute and lodged in Jail. 1t is believed
that Bridgeton is the man who killed Engineer
ElImpS.