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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-05-21

OF all the poor fools who inhabit this earth
Fools By misfortune, or fools from their birth,
Rich fools and poor fools, and great fools and
small
The man who gets drunk is the greatest of all.
The spendthrift who revels in riotous living,
In spending, or losing, or lending, or giving,
I.foOlish enough; but has not yet sunk
To the level OF him who is constantly drunk.
The miser, eternally starving and shaving,
For what he is earning, or stealing, or saving,
May be reckoned a fool. but he is not quite
SO foolish as he who will get on a d" tight
The man who will wager, and dickcr. and lie
On the toss Of a cent or the cast Of a die,
You would think IA foolish as foolish could be
Blu; the drunkard is even more foolish than nc.
Investments in " wildcat" are mostly a curse,
But Investments i'll whisky are something still
worse,
For stocks DO not always their faTors refuse.
But whisky inve stments are certain TO lose.
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REVOLUTIONARY B1TTI ES.

Below we give a list of all the impor-
tant battles of the Revolution. They
began April 10, 17s5. They closed Oct.
10, 17Sl-six years and six months. The
British sent 134, 900 soldiers and sailors
to this war. The ~colonists met them
with 100000 C~ontinentals and so, 900
militia. The leading battles of the war,
those particularly worthy of celebration,
are Concord and Lexington, Bunker's
Hill, Long Island, White Plains, Tren-
ton, Princeton, Bennington, Saratoga,
Monmouth, Kings Mountain, Cowpen,
Eutaw Springs, Yorktown. These are
Of national interest. Many Of the others
are more especially local. The DISPOSE
ton is to celebrate them all-yictOricS
and defeats-to recall the deeds of our
ancestors, and have a good time gener-
ally. Our readers Will do we'll to pre-
serve the following list of revolutionary
battles
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GEN. SPINNER, believing in the justice
of the claim that Mecklenberg, n. c.,
was the original declarist of American
independence, has contributed to the
fund for celebrating the event there. In
his letter to the committee there is some
vanity, which is surely pardonable: "I
have resigned my place here, and leave
the Office a poor man; that is the reason
why I cannot send you a mor suitable
amount than that of so in the check
herewith enclosed"
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tn RON

Say. Doctor, may I not have rum,
10 qucnch this burning thirst within?
Here on this cursed bed I lie,
And cannot get c1c drop of gin.
! ask not health, nor even life
Life. what a curse its been TO ne,
"a rather sink il deepest hell
Than drink again rs misery.
Bat. doctor, may ! nC: have rum?
one drop alone Is ali 1 ciavr;
Gran: this Sma" buon-I ask no moro
Then I'll drfy-ycs cen the grave:
Then. without fear, III fold my arms,
sad hid the monster strike his dart,
haste me from this world Of Woo,
And claim his own-this ruined heart.
= Thousand curses on lis head
Who gave me first the poisoned bowl,
WAC taught me first t1is hanc to drink
or!n5-irath ana ruin 70 my soul.
NJ soul. oh cruel. hoTr,i thought.
FuiI wei l know thy certain fate;
a}lth what instructive horror shrink
The spirit from that awful state.
'L"s,-loStI know forever lost.
ro ne To ray Of hope can come;
Ny fate = sealed; my doom is
B,t give ire rum: | viii have Il
iiut, doctor, don't you see him there:
IN that dark corner low he sits;
Sec! how he spurtshis fiery tongue,
md II Mo burning birthstone splits,
sly. don't vow see this demon fierce!
Does no one hear? Will no come:
.)I save m"-sayc mel viii give
But rum, Imust havc-wiu have rum!
in, now he's Eoa1: once more I'm free;
-Ie-the h~oast.ng kuayc and liar
l. said That h" would take me off
Down to But thoro q. my beds on fire.
Fire, water. help. come, haste-I!I die;
.'omc, take mo from this burning bed;
Ehe sruoko-I'm choking-cannot cry;
There now-itS catching al my head.
.iut see, again that demons come;
look: there he peeps through yonder crack,
Mark how his burning cycha!ls flash
-iow fierce he sriHs. what brought him back {,
There stands Ms burning coach of fire;
lie smiles ana heckons me 10 come
What are those words he's written there:
In he'll. we never want for rum -"
One load. one piercing shrek was heard;
Dne ysII rang on. upon the ar;
~}ne sound. and one a;one. came forth
'IE9 victims cry Of Wild despair.
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FINISHE ENTS.

Bengal, Slowly recovering from a ter
rible famine, is now suffering from an
other scourge not quite so fatal, but still
much to be dreaded and far more singu-
lar. This scourge is a plague of rats.
Hosts of the rodents sweep over the
country, destroying the crops, and by
their depredations forcing the desertion
of entire villages. They cross rivers and
turn aside for no ordinary obstacle, de
stroying the crops wherever they pass,
preserving something like a military or
der in the advance. The rats are of a
large field species, usually inhabiting the
hills, but supposed to be now driven to
the plains from the failure in supply of
the fruit and nuts which form their ordi-
nary food. 1t is asserted that unless
something can be done to exterminate
the myriads of these creatures the coun-
try will soon be reduced to a most de
plorable condition. The account is given
in q letter to the London Times. midas
salvation would seem to lie in the kid
glove industry.
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TIE TEIL-TLiIE KEY.

"MUrdcr. murder..' screamed Il young
Cirl q about eighteen, as she was run
ming, shortly before daybrcak, on the
I2th ot May, 1851, through the streets
Of Cumberland, Maryland.
\ number Of persons, attracted by her
cries, r.s@Ard from their houses, and
soon she was surrounded by Il crowd, one
81 whom said to her, as she wrang her
BANDS and cried p~itcously:
"WIat is the matter, Bessie Shcats 2"
Ny grandmother has been muir
Jcrcd::" she replied, painting and sob
bing.
when, and by whom?" asked the
crowd.
"UnIy fifteen minutes ago." replied
the ciri. "Thieves had broken into the
back DON Ny grandmother slept in
tle front room and / III the attic. Half
an hour ago / was awakened by noise
down stairs. I listened in terror for a
few minutes. Then I heard a door open
ed: several shots were fired, Il loud
scream resoundod, 4 heavy fall on the
floor. / rushed down stairs: the door
between the front and the back room
was open. and on the floor lay my poor
grandmother, with Il frightful wound in
the forohead-she was dead"
The crowd, headed by the girl, then
hurried to the scene of the horrible muir
der. They found the corpse Of the old
lady, Mrs. Louisa Crowley, us her grand
daughter had described. Two bullets
had struck her forehead. \ part of the
skull bad been torn of. Death must
have been almost instantaneous. While
BESSIE Sheats WIS bending ovcr the
corpse, moaning and waiiing, the citi-
zenS who had entered with her examined
the condition Of the premises. It was
easy to see that the burglars had broken
into the house for piunder. The win
dows il the back room, opening upon
the garden, had been broken. Undoubt-
edly the burglars had entered the house
in that way.
The drawers OF the old lady's bureau
IN the back room had been opened.
Wearing apparel, taken from them, had
been scattered all over the floor, and a
tin-box, in which Mrs. Crowley had kept
q considerable sum Of money III bank
bills, stood open and empty.
1t had meanwhile become daylight,
and the Sheriff and the Coroner made
their appearance. After examining the
condition of the premises thoroughly,
the Coroner impanelled a jury and began
the inquest. Bessie Sheats was the only
witness. She repeated her statement as
above related. Her grief as she related
the painful circumstances became at
times uncomfortable. No wonder: the
poor girl stood 10Y alone in the world.
Her murdered grandmother had been
her last surviving relative.
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TIE WORLD,S POPULATION.

4 paper was read before the Man
chester Statistical Society, a short time
ago, calling attention to the researches
of the German statisticians Benin and
Wagner, with respect to the population
of the world. OF the many estimates of
the number of inhabitants of our globe,
none are accounted trrstworth. In 1855
VOrsils estimated that there were 500,-
900, 900. Benin and Wagner set down
the number at the present time as l,
391, O3O, 900. The subjects of Victoria
are rated at 300, O0O, 600. Russia has a
population of 81, 200, OG0. India, sup
posed to be the most pOpulous country
on the globe, has probably 300, 000, 900
inhabitants. China is said to have 400
OO0, 900 inhabitants, but the estimate is
undoubtedly grossly exaggerated. The
population of South America has been
checked by internal discord. In Para
quay there is said to have been an actual
loss of 3:37, 600. An estimate based
upon the past growth of Great Britain
and the United States, gives to the for
mer country in the year 1000 a popula-
ton of 81, 200, 900, and to the latter of
SAG, 900, 900.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-05-21

CARL SCHURz has resolved to settle
permanently in st. Louis, become an
editor, and try to live down the fact that
he was once in the United States Senate.
Every truly charitable man will wish him
success, reach out a helping hand to him,
and encourage him to persevere in his
good resolution.
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TLE1S1tTRTES.

HEAD waitcrs-Barbers.
\ EEVOLyER-Thc earth.
WHAT holds all the snuff in the worldl
No one nose.
MANY editors are of such q peaceful
nature that they will not put a head on
their editorials.
A CORN whisk will take anything off
your coat, and corn whisky viii take off
the coat Of your stomach.
WHY are the days IL summer longer
than the days in winter? Because it is
hotter in summer, and heat expands.
TwOHUNDRED andtwenty-one Thousand
school teachers make life a burden to
1000, 600 children in these United
States.
"PLEAsE DON'T" said Augustine Bro
han to a person who touched her foot
under the table, "My heart is old and
my boots are new"
Traveller Ito landlord): "Show me
a room with a good fire in it, for I am
very wet and send me In a tankard of
ale, for I'm very dry"
ILLINOIS grasshoppers are creeping
out from under the barn to see if the
farmers have any more fence rails ready
for them to lunch or.
4 CANDIDATE for Office in Mississippi
informs his fellOw-citizens that, cat the
earnest solicitation of my wife and
daughters, L have consented to becomes
candidate for County Treasurer"
"IS 1917 As potatoes formed the
only sUstenance Of the Irish ~peasantry."
The Intelligent compositor puts it thus &:
"In 1917 forty-eight potatoes formed
the only s~ustenance of the Irish peasan-
try"
\ Boston woman, gazing on Mead's
statue of Ethan Allen on the portico of
the State House at Montpelier, exclaimed:
"Well, I declare, that's about the
meanest picture Of George Washington
ever see."
4 DUBUQUE printer received the fol-
lowing note from his girl "May | git
yanked out of bed at midnite every mite
by a cuss like Theydore Tilton, an car
ried upp a million pare of s%tares, if ever
l sese to luv you, jim"
The Pittsburgh Chronicle says that
Johnny Steele, the coal oil Prince, is
now living on a farm between there.and
Cooperst own, working like a full-blown
Granger and looking as happy as a pretty
girl with a new spring bonnet.
SUNDAY-sCHoOL teacher "What do
You understand by suffering for
righteousness sake? Boy (prompt-
ly): "Practicing hymns in the morn
ing, teacher, and Sunday-school in the
afternoon, and Biblc-class in the even
I'M"
a WESTERN editor appeals to his de-
linquent subscribers by saying "This
week we have taken potatoes and pickles
on subscription. Now, if you will bring
in SOM vinegar for the pickles and wood
to roast the potatoes, We can live till
artichOkes get big enough to dig"
\ PALLID and excited individual
dashed into q saloon the other morning,
and in an agitated voice gasped the fol-
ga glass of liquor quick? A
man has fallen outside and cut his head
shockingly?" The bartender promptly
turned out the liquor into a tumbler,
which the stranger clutched n~ervously
and emptied at once. Then he drew his
hand across his eyes, sighed heavily,
into the face of the amazed deal
er, and apologetically said "The sight
of blood alters did make me sick 2" And
then walked away, leaving the bartender
at the door.
GEN. SPINNER, believing in the justice
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grand jury had indicted him for murder,
gave way TO despair. On the morning
of the fourth day of his incarceration he
was found hanging to the door of his
cell. He had committed suicide.
Everybody in Cumberland took this
act of desperation as confession Of guilt.
Not so the bereayed wife of the prisoner.
depressing her grief, she went on the
day after he funeral of her Inflated
husband to the Coroner, to whom she
said:
"Did yoI not find at Mrs. Crowlcy's
house, hanging to the window-shutter, a
piece of bhck string with a watch-key
to it?"
The coroner showed it to her, and at
her urgent :equcst let her have it.
"What do you want it for!' he asked.
81 want It to prove, with Gods help,
that my poor William is innocent of the
terrible charge that made him take his
own life"
The next few days Mrs. Stairords spent
in going to every man i'll Cumberland
that had Il watch, and asking them to
try the watcl-key the Coroner had1et her
have. The gladly hWnored her, but,
strangely enough, the key was too large
for any of the watches worn iii Cumber-
bcrland. The only matchmaker in the
place told her that it must be the key to
Il Of the large, heavy old English
watches worn many years ago.
The widow did not despair notwith-
standing her fruitlcss search in Cnmber-
land. Close to it is the village Of Craw-
fordston. There she found also a watch
maker. When she showed the watch-kcy
to him, he uttered a cry Of surprise.
81 know whose key this is he said.
at belongs to this watch" He took
down a thick old silver watch.
Look here" he said, %unraycling a
piece of black string which had been
wound round the stem. This string was
torn-the piece to which your watch-kcy
is tied belongs to it.
"But how did you get the watch?"
asked Mrs. Stafford.
cit belongs to Il Young fellow from
Wheeling. He left the watch with me
for repairs, and to make him q new key
to- it. He said he had lost the Old one,
and lie could not buy any at the stores,
as they had none large enough. He will
be here tomorrow morning between nine
and ten O'Clock"
Mrs. Stafford hurried back to Cum
berland, where she informed the Coroner
of her discovery at Crawfordston. Next
day the Coroner and al officer arrested
the owner o: the silver watch as soon
as he entered the watchmaker's shop
at C~rawfordst0n.
"Do you know this watch-key!' said
the Coroner to him.
The young man turned very pale, and
stammcred a Jew ncohcrent words. He
was searched, and in his pocket was
found a large sum in ten dollar bills,
bearing Bessie Sheats' marks, Also a
revolver, two of whose chambers were
empty.
The prisoner, who gave his name as
Barnard Floyd, WAS taken in irons to
Cumberland. The bullets found i'll Mrs.
Crowley's skull were found to fit the
prisoners revolver. His shoe soles were
of the same size as those Of the unfor-
trmate Stafford.
So the latter was innocent after all.
Floyd confessed his crime, and was hung
for it on the md of November, 1851.
Mrs. Stafford became an object Of
universal sympathy in Cumberland. The
citizens bought her a farm in the neigh
borhood, and saw to il that her two chill
dren We're properly educated.
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member that she had a quarrel day before
Yesterday with William Stafford, the
piasterer. Stafford had an old account
against grandmother, who refused to pay
it. because she said his bill was exOrbi-
tant. Day before yesterday he called
again, and demanded payment. Grand
mother told him she would give him the
money if he would deduct two dollars
from his bill. He refused to do so and
became very abusive. Mrs. Cowley,'
he said to her, i know you are we'll off,
and you can pay me. | am poor. My
bill is correct, and I won't take a cent
less than the full amount. If you don't
pay me | will get the money in Il way
that won't please you. You are a mean
woman, and if you We're a MAJ l would
break your neck SO saying, he left"
"Now, Miss Sheats," said the Coro-
ncr, ".you know this empty tin box"
"Ies; grandmother kept her money
in it."
Did you know how much she had in
it,"
"About thirteen hundred dollars,
mostly in tcn-lollar bills"
Would you recognize any of the bills
if You should see them!'
Most assrTedly," replied Bessie.
Grandmother made me put a cross on
the back of each bill, iii the left corner,
before she put them in the box"
An order for the arrest of William
Stafford, the plasterer, was issued. Stat
ford was known as a man OF violent pas
si0ns. RHmors that he had been guilty
of a murder in Wheeling, where he had
formerly lived, were current in Cumber-
land, and so people in general stunned
him. He lived with his wife and two
children in a small frame building on the
outskirts of the town.
When the officer whom the Coroner
had sent after Stafford knocked at the
~latter's door, he found Stafford still in
bed.
III coroner waits So"' H'tt 'l'
ollierr 10 mn is he "i1Pe ouS oi "'''
"n"' !or: "'ln"I'''" o''iloI"'
"Old MIS- crowley mas o3eh muir
cef"" TWO hoi'f" ago
"lhey con suspect me. ln'effoPte"
ot"llofu.
Lr r- ~
Colhe along F"lo me oi'lcef'
Upon appearing oelof" me coroner"
JnrT, STAFFORD declared elHpi''lcaIF 'iaI
he dld not kh"| anything aoouV Iile "ur-
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ITEMS.

The Nail City Insurance Com
pauy, established in Wheeling, West
Virginia, a few months ago by outside
parties, was closed on Saturday by the
City Sergent on account of their ina
bilty to settle a judgement for $1,000
tor an insurance loss.
President Elliot says that of the
young men received into Harvard Col
lege during the last eight years less
than one third have come from public
schools. That speaks poorly for our
educational system.
The Arkansas Senate, in a substi.
tute resolution for the one passed by
the House, denounces Sheridan and
says that his charges against the
White League in Arkansas are uu-
true.
Another Brooklyn heart is bro
ken. It's owner is widow of 40, and
the person who broke it is a youth OF
10. Suit for breach Of promise; dam
ages claimed, $4,000.
The joint resolution authorizing
Thos. w. Fitch, Engine er in the U
nlted States Navy, to accept a wed
ding present of jewelry sent by the
Khedive of Egypt to Miss Minnie
Sherman Fitch, his wife, has passed,
and so ends that celebrated wedding.
There's a good time coming and
it's almost here, Tweuty-one Demo.
cratic Governors and a Democratic
House of Representatives after the
fourth Of March. ....a..
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Talking of doctors bills, the Med.

Talking of doctors bills, the Med.
ical Times urges that they be present
ed monthly, in as much as they would
be paid more willingly when they
memory of the recent peril and the
physicians skill is still fresh than
when time has worn away the vivid
ness of the impression,
THE Grand Jury have found a
true bill against John Gerdemann, ex.
priest of st. Boniface Church, Phila-
delphia, charging him with embezzle-
ment.
An English sporting clergyman
won $4,000 during the last turf sea-
son. That's more than he could have
made in the pulpit
The Commission appointed to in
spect the condition OF dams IN MasSa
chusetts has reported that there are
twenty-seven dams and reservoirs in
that State which are unsafe. One
more-the dam Radicals.
Ii is believed the Government
will need forty Or fifty millions more
this year than present taxes will yield.
Hard news for hard times.
New Hampshire, Vermont, Mass,
achusetts, Kentucky, Rhode Island,
New jersey, Michigan, Kansas, Tex,
as, Nevada, California and New
York have adopted compulsory educa-
ton.
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Remove the Army from the
SONfh.

The States lately in rebellion have
been harvest field for Grant. He
reaped with his sword two terms as
President from the bloody giound
Since the war he has CLEANED the
South with an army of robbers. The
aftergrowth of hate, rivalry, and jeal.
ousy which the war sowed between
the white and black races he is now
cleaning for third term. He feels in
his stolid and unforgiving nature that
the animosities of the war survive the
peace, and may everywhere yield a
perpetual political crop to the indus
trious sabres of oldiers as lucky as
himself.
The evidence that he cannot be
trusted with the control of military
force is overwhelming. He is bound
to use it for his own ambition, and to
further the interests Of his family,
friends, and flatterers. Within q
week he has in conversation threaten
ed to strip the border Of troops and
leave it defenceless against the say
ages, and concentrate the regular army
in New Orleans to sustain hi, brother
in-law and Kellogg in their robbery of
a State Government from the hands
of its voters. In over one-third of
the United States his subversion of
the republican institutions of the coun-
try has existed for years in his mill
tary police Of the Southern States.
Strange to say, the people of the North
have witnessed and permitted this vio-
lation OF the Federal Constitution
without any of the alarm that his
monstrous usurpatlon OF authority
and disregard of law ought to have ex
cited.
But his browning outrage on popu-
lar sovereignty III Louisiana has final.
ly startled the whole couu try to a
sense of the peril of permitting the
President to use the army as. a politi :
cal machine, and ofhaving an army in
a time of peace that can be so used.
And the people now call on Con-
gress to remove every soldier from
the Southern States. Nothing short
of this will satisfy them.--( IN. Y.
Sun.
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Mr.. E. W. Stoughton, a native of

Mr.. E. W, Stoughton, a native of
Vermont, asummer resident in Wind
sor, and one Of the few most eminent
members of the New York Bar, has
written q letter tax ing the Grant view
of Louisiana matters, whereupon the
Rutland postotfice organ styles him
"a we'll known Democratic lawyer
The truth is that Mr.. Stoughton was
for long time a Republican, during
the earlier days of that party, beng
Numerically opposed to his brother,
the late Hon. II. E. Sto ughton, in
matters political, but since 1862 has
generally sympathzed with the Dem,
ocrats, having been forced to that by
the corruption and dishonesty Of the
Republicans. But he has not taken
interest enough in politics to vote very
often, and cannot be called Demo
craft Montpelier Argus and Patri-
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AT Democratic primary meet
ing recently held at Henniker N. H.,
the following resolution was adopt
ed -
RESOLVED, That we are opposed to
all sorts of monopolics that benefit
the few at the expense of the many +;
10 a rag currency forthe laborer, while
the rich bondholder is paid in gold I;
to taxing the poor mans COW, while
the rich mans bonds are exempt; and
to every form of unjust legislation
which makes the rich man richer and
the poor man poorer.
Sound Democratic doctrine.
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TERRITORIAL HOME FOR NEGROES.
Three hundred negroes of various
parts of the South have petitioned
Congress to have a portion of the
South or southwestern Territority
set apart exclusively for their use,
with protection by the Government.
The petitioners state that they are de.
sirous of having fair chance in the
great race Of life, and are satisfied
that neither themselves or children
can have it so long as they are in the
midst of the dominant race OF the peo-
pie who are far their superiors in
point Of education and many other ad.
yantages.