The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-08-06
HERE AND THERE.

DoAfoKD, MISS, mas no nOltl OF drink
ing saloon; no drunkarl or lOafer. no law
yer or doctor. The inhabitants lumber
over LOCO, and the deaths average about 4
Il year.
AN invading army of thousands OF peli-
cans disturbed the ~equanimity of the
armers OF Butte County, Cal, the other
day. Pistols, shot-guns, and rifles we're
used in ridding the community of the in
vaders.
WILLIAM WHITE sued a New York rail-
road II years ago for 81 900 damages for
killing his wife, but getting tired out he
took 500 the other day and called it square.
His third wife used the money to get her
a silk dress.
RECENT estimates Of the estate of the
late Robert IL. Ives, of Providence, place
it at more than $4,000 900. His will gives
his estate mainly to his daughter, the wife
of Professor VIM. Gammell.
Mr.. BLANTON DUNCAN has temporarily
resisted the enticementS of politics to en-
gage in a contest with the managers of the
Kentucky Library lottery scheme. He
has just taken the legal preliminaries for
enforcing full payment of the prizes re-
duced by the managers, and has in hand
cases involving several hundred thousand
dollars.
The initiation of prices and wages in
Germany, consequent upon the wal of
1870, is having its legitimate effect in a
%stagnatiOn OF business and increase of
rents. Many men are out of work, and
Berlin has become a more expensive city
than London, while many large manutac-
turing establishments are shutting down
and others closing altogether.
IL Ancona, an old woman of IS UNI
merS, named Maria PignOcchi, is exciting
some public curiosity in the very near
prospect of her giving birth TO her four
teenth child. Her present and third hus-
band is 80, and treads the air with delight,
although she herself is reported as taking
the matter easy-in fact, as the most ma
tural thing in the world.
Mr.. CONWAY says that a picture by
BrOug'ttOn in the British Royal Academy,
called The Bearers of the Burden" rep
resentS j big, brawny fellow sauntering
with his hands in his pockets, and behind
him three weary women are Overladen
with his household property. Two men
were looking at the picture, and one of
them said, without any intention of joking,
"That's the way the poor workingman is
burdened with women"
THE late expedition up the Yellowstone
River must have been extremely inter-
esting. The following is from the ae-
count of n of the party: "ArOund Us
everywhere game abOunds, principally
elk, antelope, deer and mountain sheep;
the latter is a delicious vensiOn, more de-
licaIe and richer than the finest black
tailed deer or antelope; they bound with
ease and agility over the steep cliffs, where
the suspicion of a misstep would plunge
them hundreds of feet to destruction
but then they don't make missteps. The
immense herds of buffalo are farther
north and west. Catfish abound, with an
occasional genuine mOuntain-tr" 1T. The
water becomes pure and clear and free
from sediment, a pleasant relief from the
muddy and turbid Missouri"
1T is not generally known, says the
Chicago Lter-Ocean, that the fair song
stress, Miss Annie Louise Cary, was a few
years ago engaged to be married to a
wealthy gentleman in Philadelphia.
Every thing seemed prOpitious until a
small cloud began TO lower on the horizon
of the lovers. Miss Cary's voice being
cOntraltO she took the pages part in the
opera. and Mr.. H found his %faStidiOus
taste shocked thereby. He demanded of
the lady that she give up the distasteful
role, but she, having made her engage
ments for the winter, considered it i'm
possible to comply with his wishes. He
was Obdurate. He would not have a wife
who appeared in public in masculine
h~abilimenis; and size, thinking doubtless
of the well-knoWn prOverb concerning the
fish in the sea, came to the conclusion that
it was better to give up her private than
her public engagement-which, accord
ingly. she did. Mr.. H is still unmar-
ried. He has influential relatives residing
in this city.