The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-30

Ond of the Albert prizes, by Col. Gildersleeve.
The American cup was also won by Fulton.
THE President has selected Senator
Morrill, of Maine, Senator How of Wisconsin,
and Hon. Wayne McVeigh of Pennsylvania as
additional Commissioners to investigate the al
Legged Indian frauds.
ISAAC NJ. SINGER, inventor Of the Singer
sewing machine, died in London on the oath
aged "a.
STATE AUDITOR CLINTON Of Louisiana
has sent in his resignation to GOV. Kellogg, to
take effect Dec. Is.
@. \. RADErzKY, Tax Collector OF
Grant Parish, La, was shot and killed recently
in ColfaX. by ex-Sherin John b. Mccoy.
PAUL BOYTON has been presented with Il
medal commemorative of his landing on the coast
Of Ireland in October last, by his admirers in
Dublin. At the request of the International Mar
itime Exhibition in Paris, Capt. B0yton will go
over to France with the Lord Mayor of LOndon's
party on August l.. subsequently he will swim
in his dress up the Rhine and the Danube, and
later on will initiate Lord Byron by crossing the
liellespOnt without his dress.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has declined to accept
the Presidency of the Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical College at Bryan, on the ground that
he feels unable to perform satisfactorily the
duties of the position.
The indianapolis Sentinel has been pur-
chased by Hon. John c. Shoemaker, and Lucien
j.. Matthews installed as general manager. 1t
will he Il straight-0ut Democratic organ.
WILLARD RICHARDSON, editor OF the
Galveston (Texas} NewS, died on the 26th ult.
tyrpr ,l;.. ,I,,l- -, rh. I'v.n-IlrN- Ia
partment, who was indicted by the Grand jury
at st. Louis for completely in the whisky frauds,
has rendered his resignation and it has been ac-
cepted.
JUDGE FISHER, United States District
Attorney for the District of Columbia, has lin
ally resigned, and will retire upon the qualifica =
ton of eX-Gov. Wells, of Virginia, who has &C
cepted the office.
Miss SEELYE. daughter Ot DR.. Seelye,
OF Cleveland, Ohio, died on June 3, at Mus
sOorie, Northern India. She was connected with
the Womcn's Union African Mission in Cal
cutta.
An invitation has been sent to MesSrs.
Moody and Sankey by Il conference of mission
aries in india to visit that part of the British
Empire.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT P~IERREPONT has
decided that the Government is under no obliga-
ton and has no right to pay the ChOrpenning
claim for half a million dollars. He is OF the
opinion that the allowance of the claim by Post
master General Creswell does not affect its
status; that it is an unjust claim for which the
Government is not liable, and should not be paid.
CHARLES LEE CARROLL, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Maryland, is a grand
son Of Carroll who signed the Declaration of In
dependence. He is a gentleman of aristocratic
tastes and tendencies, and the poasessOr of great
wealth.
y MEETING was held in London Il few
days ago at which it was resolved 10 open 4 pub
lie subscription for the erection OF a statue of
Lord Byron III some conspicuous place III that
city. Disraeli presided, and speeches in favor
of the project were made by the Earl of Mayo,
Earl StanhOpe, and Mr.. G.. ~. Sala. General
Wilson stated on behalf Of the Americans that
they claimed Il share in Byron, and the right 10
contribute to his memorial. He was sure his
would gladly furnish at least a guar
ter of the : 10 900 which it was estimated the
statue would cost.
IN ISL the French Assembly voted
30 Ofrancs for a bronze statue of Lafayette,
to he presented to the City of New York as an
expression of gratitude for the kind feelings of
New Workers toward France throughout the
Franco-G German war. The statue, which repre-
SCENTS Lafayette in his twentieth year, was ready
long ago, but no one volunteered to pay the eX-
pense OF boxing and shipping it. President a..
salmon, of the Cercle franchise de rIIarmonie,
having ascertained these facts, took the duty of
shipment upon himself, and the bronze has re-
Gently arrived in New York. 1t is to have q CON
spicuous place in Central Park.
DIR. HORACE WELLS, who is by some
claimed to have been the discOverer OF an2sthesia,
has been honored by the erection of a bronze
statue in Hartford, Conn. 1t was executed by
7. II. Bartlett, sculptor, by order of the state Of
Connecticut and the City of Hartford.
GEORGE II. M%UMFoRD, Vice-PreSidcnt of
the Western Union Telegraph Company, died in
Paris on the Doth ult.
VICOMPrE DE BEAUMONT NASSY, a we'll
known French political writer, is dead.