The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-11-12
HERE A ND THERE.

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THE last Indiana Legislature made 4
law, ''that every person who shall
cruelty beat or torture, or overdrive any
horse or other animal, whether belong
ING to himSclfOr another, shall be Deem
eft guilty Of Il mi>demeanor, and upon
conviction shall he fined in any sum not
exceeding one hundred dollars"
ELLEN STEVENS IS It San Francisco
woman who has achieved lOcalnOtOriety
as Il burglar. The other night she broke
into Il grocery store and stole there
from two lar@e sacks of assorted gro
ccricS and Il gallon of whisky. She
sampled the latter article so freely that
she was unable to get away with the
rst of the booty, and was arrested.
\ SUIT for the value of two hogs has
Just been settled in LoganSp0rt, Ind,
the cost amounting to over $4,000. The
animals were dragged the length oftwo
counties on several writS of replevin,
and it seems reasonable to infer that
costs include consequential damage for
the worry of mind which the hogs must
have endured.
Miss ROBINSON, teacher of n of the
lower grades in Il Baltimore school, de-
serves at least honorable m]entiOn.n
Fire broke out on m of the upper
floors, and the pupils came rushing
down in the widest panic, when she
ordered one of her assistant teachers to
play It march, and, going from to
ROOM, she had the children file out
quietly, without Neutrality-suspicious. limbs.
THE condition of the female iron
workers in England has lately been
shown by an inspectors report to be
distressing. Terrible social chaos pre-
walls in their communities, and educa-
ton, moral, physical, intellectual, and
spiritual life are al set at defiance. 1t
is pointed out that the only remedy for
the evil ! an extension to nail, chain,
and hrickworks of the principle Of the
act By which women We're removed alto
gcther from mines and coal pits; an act
which has, during the thirty years it has
been in operation, wrought nothing but
rood both to the workers in the indus
tries affected and to the community ut
large.
ACCORDING to statement in the Lon
don lire Stock ,Iouru0l, an attempt Is to
be made to establish Il pi@eOn-post be-
tween Europe and America. An ocean
homin@ bird of great docility, intelli-
@cnce, and spirit, is said to have been
found in Iceland which flies at the
enormous speed of $50 miles an hour,
and is able to find its home owe land or
sea from any part, however distant. a
pair of these birds carrying dispatches
are said to have recently travelled from
Paris to Il spot about ten miles from
London in the incredibly short time of
one hour and Il half. 1t is thought pos
siblc that the birds when properly
trainedwill be able totravel on the wing
from Europe to America between sun
rise in one hemisphere and sunset in the
other.
Two men were digging a we'll in Wa
tervliet, y. Y, and had sunk it to the.
depth of thirty feet. They had drilled
a hole in the rock ut the bottom, filled
it with powder. and lighted the fuse.
Then they shouted to a hey who had
been stationed ut Il MINDLESS to draw
them out, but he had quit his post. The
! scared men shouted again and again,
while the fuse was steadily shortening,
soon burning into the drift hole so that
they could not eXtinguiSh it. They
plosion would occur, and were frantic
with terror. The boy came, just before
the fuse was burned out, and hurriedly
drew them up: but they had not been
raised more than half the height of the
well when the explosion came, knock
inc them out of the bucket and letting
them fall. nearly killed, among the bro
ken rock at the bottom.
THE announcement of the death of
Garibaldi's wife at Caprera brings to
the public mind the tragic fate of the
first conjugal partner of the great agi-
tator. In 1913 Garibaldi, being obliged
to hide himself, took refuge in the pal
ace of Prince John of Murat; but his
situation becoming critical, be fled, dis
guised as Il priest. His wife, being in
delicate health, Il contided to the care
of a peasants family in the neighbour