The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-10-01
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL BREvlTlEs.

bia, has been arrested on 4 charge of stealing
appeal bonds and papers in forty District
cases, which had been appealed from the PO-
lice Court to the Criminal Court, for the pur.
pose of raising money upon them. The pa
pers We're all recovered, and Fisher was
committed to jail.
TIE case of Tilton VS.. Beecher was
called in the Brooklyn City Court on the Goth.
but by consent of counsel was postponed un-
Ill the January term.
THE monument in honor of Edgar \.
Poe, which will soon be dedicated, is describ-
ed as of white marble, eight feet high, resting
on a granite base six feet square. On the
granite slab are two other bases of marble.
IN these rests the die-block, three feet two
inches square, surmounted by a heavy cap,
carved with an ornamental Tyre in the center
of each face. On the front of the die-blOCk Is
Il beautifully chiSeled medallion of the poet,
carved in the purest Italian s~tatuary marble,
after a plaster cast by Voik, the sculptor,
from a photograph in the possession of 4
member of Poe'> family.
DAVID f.. PORTER, 4 son of the late
Admiral Porter, has gone to Egypt, where
he will accept Il position on the stall OF the
khedive.
Mrs. j. f. Il. STUART, widow Of the
noted Confederate General, has become a
teacher in the Southern Female College of
Richmond, Va.
SECRETARY BRIsTOw has stopped the
issue of ten-cent scrip and WILSON begin the
issue of silver dimes.
JUDGE NAT. HARRISON died of apo
pleXy at Denver. Col, on the 22d. He
formerly resided in West Virginia, and was
at one time prominently identified with the
politics of that State.
PRINCE ADELBERT, uncle Of the King
of Bavaria. is dead.
"BRICK" POMEROY is making 4 lee
ture tour through Virginia.
HORATIO STONE, the distinguished
American sculptor, died in Italy or the 11th.
SIXTY-ONE ministers of Chicago and
vicinity have signed an invitation to MeSsrs.
Moody and Sankey to their evan
gelical labors in that city.
PRESIDENT GRANT and family arrived
in st. Louis on the Goth. where they spent
days. They then continued their
trip Westward.
GEORGE w. GAGE, 4 prominent hotel
proprietor, Of Chicago. died onthe oath ut.
APARIS special says the Prince I'M
perial is to make a tour of the world ostensi-
bly, for health, but really for political reasons.
TIE President has appointed ChaS.
Darling, of Minnesota. Agent for the Indians
of Fort Berthold Agency. Dakota Territory,
and Alex. G. Irvine. of Illinois, Agent for
the Indians of the Navajo Agency, in New
Mexico.
TIE vacant C~ollcctorShip of the port
of Chicago ha, been rendered to The Hon. j.
Jones, late Minister to Belgium.
GENERAL FITZIIUGH LEE, the cX-COn-
General, has received a very ~tl1tter-
ing letter from the khedive of Egypt, who.
after paying General Lee a high personal
says that he is DESTROYS of forming a
body Of household troops, to constitute his
g body guard and that he wishes II To cor
of veteran soldiers. and also that they
shall be picked men from The whole Ameri-
can cavalry in the late civil war. He sI@-
geSts that General Lee make an effort 20 re
organize for this purpose the noted Black
Horse Cavalry" Of Virginia.
MR. JOHN SARTIN. the veteran Phila-
engraver, has been appointed chief Of
the Fine Arts Department of The Centennial
Exhibition.
TIE Savannah NCWS cOntradicts the
ro,,or+ th,t Io,,r,l I,.n,I l. TNhn-np has
the position of COMMANDMENTS in
Chief of the army of the Khedive of Egypt.
a PROPOSITION to bury the bodies of
Presidents Jackson. Polk and johnson in the
grounds at Nashville, Tenn, and to
1ave the State erect over them a costly mon
Iment, has been frustrated at its outset BY
he discovery of a clause in the will of Presi-
lent Polk ordering that his body, with that
IF his wife, shall remain in their graves on
he Polk homestead.
THE monument which his friends and
are erecting TO the memory of the
ate John X. Thompson is to be of the finest
of the Italian marbles-the Carraran
and will stand l. feet high. The a%nniver-
;ary of the birth of the poet.jOurnalist-the
Sd of OctOber-has been selected As the day
or the erection of the monument over the
rave in Richmond, Va.
The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
lave sanctioned the proposed visit of the
emperor to Europe and the United States.
Col. THOMAS MCCARTNEY, cX-Audi-
or of Indiana, and a prominent citizen of
indianapolis, died on the 23d ult.
STANLEY, the African explorer, has
'een heard from by letter dated May 10.
Two of his white companions, Edward
and Frederick Barker, had died of
everS.
TIE wife Of Judge A. B. Norton, of
he Dallas (Texas) InteUigencer, who lost
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