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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-18
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FURNITURE

HAVING opened anew FURNITURE STORE
in : savannah, / take this method Of inform
ing the public that | am ready I" promptly fill
all orders for Furniture 1t rates in keeping with
hard times. All who need anything in my line
are invited to call at ny store, on Main street,
north west public square, IN Nat"rnlan'S build
ing, and cNamzae the NV STOCK OF FUR
NiTUI'E for sale.
have the ncatcst and best assortment in the
city, all Of which will be sold on reasonable
terms. Don't forge the place, and when you
urs in town cell ~ the new furniture store.
LOUIS FALKE.
savannah, April Q. 6n
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DOOM e d.

On handsome lawn fronting an
old ivy-grown mansion in the State
of Virginia, one pleasant afternoon,
not many years ago, group of
young people of both sexes were
gathered. Standing in their midst
was an old woman, bent down with
age, looking as if she stood on the
brink of the grave; but her dark,
restless eyes showed that there was
vigorous life in her mind, if not in
her body.
She had been "telling fortunes"
for the youn. people gathered
around her, and to all but one she
had foretold a bright aud happy flu
ture. The exception of this rule Of
blessedness through life was hand
some boy Of nineteen, with dark,
passionate face, and an expression
which indicated perfect fearlessuess.
Five years before the opening of
this story an old gentleman aud his
nephew had moved to Virginia, and
buying a farm, had made it their
home. Mr.. Mercer and his nephew,
Frank, were treated with Kindness
by the gentlemen of the neighbor
hood, and they received invitations
to visit the plantation near them.
Frank soon became acqua inted
with all in the country; but his un.
Gle never left his farm, and seemed
to shun society. For this many
reasons were given but the true
one was that he had lost his whole
family, and Franks parents having
left him to MIR. Mercer's charge he
determined to devote himself to the
boy, and found sufficient enjoyment
in his company, and in cultivating
his farm. Though reported very
wealthy, and that he always kept a
large sum of gold in the house, Mr..
Mercer and Frank lived in a quiet
way. and made no display.
Thus passed Franks early youth
from his fourteenth until his nine
teenth year, when our story opens.
A min of superior education, Mr..
Mercer had been his nephew's teach.
er, and had impaired to him much
knowledge of the world, of letters,
and people. SO that Frank, at nine.
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If We KNEW?

IT We knew the WOO and heartache
Waiting for us down the road,
II our lips could taste tho wormwood,
flour backs could feel the load,
Would we waste today in wishing
For time that nc'er can bel
Would we wait in such impatience
For our ships to come from seal
II We know the baby's fingers
Pressed agsinst tho window pane,
Would be stiff and still tomorrow,
Never trouble us again,
Would the bright eyes OF our darling
Catch the frown upon our browl
Would the prints Of rosy fingers
Vex us then rs they do nowi
All, those little. ice.cold fngers,
How they point our memories back,
70 te nasty s TcTas %S aaSA%H ana sss19pS tracE
How those little hands remind us,
A in snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thornes but roses,
Fer our reaping by and by.
lie, US gather up the sunbeams
Lying all along the path;
let us keep the wheat and roses,
Casting out the thorns and ch1tf;
Let us find the sweetest comfort
In the blessings Of to-day:
With n patient hand removing
All the briars fiom our way.
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HE LEADETH.

Not alone by waving, meadows,
Or through soft and pleasant places,
BY quiet water coursss,
Where the lilies lift their faces;
But whether through green pastures,
Or in the desert drear,
Ills hand upholds our going.
His presence quells our fear.
And always with tenderness,
Proprtloncd to our need,
lie chooses we'll the pastures
Where His wayward lambs may feed.
Not Increasingly the sunshine
Lights with joy the path before us,
Lest We miss the dearer glory
OF Hi. smile, which shineth DER us.
But always Ill tho darkest cloud
10 His bsw Of promise set
A covauant of boundless love
Our Lord will not forget,
And with . gracious watchfnlncss,
Foretelling oil alarms,
lie shields us from the tempest
In the shelter of His arms.
And NC know, what e'er befalleth,
That His love Sbideth sure,
Through all desolate waste places
That His presence shall endure.
And his potent branch Of healing
Turns the bitter into sweet,
While the pleasant water courses
Follow gladly at His feet
For the Lord Himself Is sunshine,-
Fragrant meadows where We feed
And the rock from which there fOwsth
Pursst water for our heed.
Thou Thy self, oh gracious Shepherd,
Art the pastures cool and sweet
Though the Otilly water courses,
Where the lilies Hiss Thy feet 4:
Thou the strong and fearless leader,
Brave to conquer every foe.
And the Hiding place and Refuge
Which we turn to in our woe.
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tNAlTS RIVER GRANGE meets at Ehep
W srdsoH1 Hall, every Tuesday evening
ct 3 O'Clock,

BREACH Of good mannsrs-TOr
ruin to stare you in the face.
A NEW YORK lady says the lat
est thing out is-her husband.
WHAT'S the proper age of par
son' The parsonage, of course.
A LITTLE Girl, being asked what
dust was, replied that it was "mud"
with the juice squeezed out.
AN ALABAMA editor mildly al
ludes to his rival as "a reservoir of
falsehood and an aqueduct of NELL
dacity."
The enterprising individual who
is organizing . brass band Of TWEEN
ty women says, that if they learn
half AZ many "airs" az they put on,
the experiment cannot fail of being
q success.
SOMEBODY has written a book en-.
titled "What Shall My Son Be p
Upon which some one replies: "If
the boy is as bad as the book, the
chances are that he will be hanged"
"Now, my little boys and girls"
said teacher, IL want you to be
very still-so still that you can hear
n pin drop" In q minute all was
silent, when a little boy shrieked
out, "Let her dropw
"How shameful it is that you
should fall asleep" said a dull
preacher to q drowsy audience,
"while the poor idiot is awake and
attentive" ~ would have been
asleep, too," said the fool, eff had
not been an IDIOT"
JONATHAN and Paddy were rid
ing together one day when they
camo III sight OF an Old gallOwS.
This suggested to the American the
idea Of being witty at the expense
Of his Irish companion. "YOu see
that, calculate" said he; "and
now where would you be if the gal.
lows had its due I" "Riding alone,"
,OOlly replied Paddy.
Mrs. y. II. Curtis will now sell
her remaining stock Of millinery
goods for cash less than cost or any
way to suit. Call aud see for your
self.
Hamburg, corsets, hosiery, sci.
ling cheap for CASH at Mrs. Q. II.
Curtis.
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man, confessed just before his deatl
that he had murdered your uncle
and you arriving when you did hat
prevented him from getting the gold
but made him escape from the house
lie knew your uncle kept q large
amount Of money, and you being
away, as he thought, he took your
knife and committed the fatal deed
Frank listened to Mr.. Dewes al.
most brcathless, and then, bowling
his face in his hands, hc wept like
Il child.
"But come in" said Dewes, at
length ; 1--WE are hungry and need
breakfast; and are dying to know
how you became captain in the
"My story y5isy is easily rola, my uva.
friends; for, after escaping from
prison through your kindness, l
went to Mexico, entered the navy,
and, having rendered. some service,
rose to my present command, which
has been the means of saving your
lives"
Little more can be added. Frank
resi- gned his commission and return
ed home, when he was lionized by
the whole community. He came in
possession of his estates, which
were greatly increased in value;
and, six months afterwards, in the
very town where he was to have
had the hangman's halter placed
around his neck for death, he had
the moose of matrimony around him
for life, and the bride was Mary
Dewes. Thus his life had been both
dark and bright.
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GrandmOther's Thanks
giving.
by RosE PORTER.

Tired of play are you, children
And so you have come to talk will
the old grandmother. WHAT'S thai
you ask 7 Did they have Thanks
giving day when 1 was youngf IL
be sure we did. Tell you about one
What begsars you children are fol
stories. Well you see things were
different then. Thanksgiving.day
meant Thanksgivins-day, even to
the least child among us, and not
only a grand dinner, with ever SC
many courses E; though to be sure
we had q dinner then, such a din.
her! over thirty our family number
ed when all were counted up. A
row of happier faces than those on
either side Of the long table never
did l see.
But, will tell you of one special
day; looking back, it do MT seem
longer ago than a short week, when
in fact, it is fifty years since. Fifty
years that looks like lifetime to
you young folks, but when you come
to my age, you will find years do MT
seem much in the passing. Now
these days, the flowers hardly APP
pear to go to sleep for their winters
nap, before they wake up again for
their spriug-time blossoming.
My fathers house was up on a
hill, a hill so high, you could look
from it down into the valley where
the village was, and you could see
other hills, "way off hills" with a
shining line of silvery light beyond.
that was the ocean; you could look
up too, with never a thing between,
right into the bread blue sky; you
could see the sun rise and set, the
moon come up, and the stars twin
kle.
The governor appointed Thanks
giving late the year ] am telling you
of; I remember the day before, how
the first snowfakes of the winter
came dancing down, and at night
the wind blew so hard it shook the
doors and window.panes. In the
morning the front steps were piled
a foot high with dead leaves that
had blown round the corner.
Thought I to myself, there will be
no Thanksgiving for me to day
for But, dear me! the children
have gone to sleep. You older girls
want to hear the rest. Well, as ]
was saying, 1 was young then, and
youth was youth, just as it is now;
girls dreamed then, too, pretty much
the same, it's my opinion, as they
do in these days, and you see, there
was a ship expected in, with q sail
or lad. whose coming was to make
my Thanksgiving. Was it Your
grandpa, do you ask 7 Why OF
course it was.
1t was o clear morning, spite the
stormy night. l remember stand.
| ing by the window, looking out, and
wondering, did storms always die
away when the sun rosei I knew
! one kind of storm did, you know
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CHAS. II. HOSFORD.
nEPUTY SHERIFF AND ATCTIONEER.
~ Business iptrusted to me will receive
prompt attention.
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zHE OPINION
Published every Saturday,
by ID FL NJ II. STANTO ON.

Tho subscription prico sf the OPINION 10 @2 ;
but If paid strictly in advance $3.50 will pay
for Y year, postage free.
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L. u. LIVINGSTON,
MERCHANT TAILOR. ALL WORK
NJ warranted to give satisfaction. Cutting
done for others to make.
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RELIGIOUS MEETINGS.
SOCIETY MEETINGS,

NHARITY LODGE, NO. 43. REGULAR
~ Communications en- Wednesday Of the
week in which the moon fu.ls. Mr.. LKBANoS
X. A. CHAPTER. Aeetipgs Oh Tuesday
evening of the week in which the moon full,.
BaADroRD CoUNCII. No. II. Meetings Ut
Masonic Hall on Tuesday evening Of the
week iu which the NEON fulls, in the months
Of September. December. March aud June.
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DIR. O. II. STEVENS.

9 URGEON DENTIST, HAS ALL THE
- Modern improvements. Also owns the
Folsonl Patent for Orange County, which is
Oue Of the greatest Improvements in Dentist
~. All work warranted equal ts any done
in the State Oaice over Printing Ofhcs.
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BUSINESS GA Il DIS.
BRADFORD.

MISS CHARLOTTE NELSON.
TI1EACHER OF PAINTING AND DRAW
i ing. Room in Academy Building.
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J. H. GILMAN,
A UCTIONEER, WILL ATTEND TO ALL
n orders promptly. Will write auction bill
and get them printed if desired.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

WIN. 4. GEORGE,
A UCTIONEER AND APPRAISER. TOPS
"a ham. Vt. Orders promptly attended,.
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b. 7. pILLSBURY.
STOVES, TIN WARE, IRON WARE.
OWo"den Ware. &c. Main St.,
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G. II. CURTIS.
OYSTERS AND ICE CREAM SALOON
~ Fruit. Confectionery. Soda, Light Grocer.
les &c.
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G. G. DOTY, ACT. f..
AEANUFACTURER OF DIR. DOTY'S
WI Celebrated Mandrake Bitters, Flavoring
Extracts and Essences. &C., at Wholesale
and Retail
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J. II. JONES, NJ. D.
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND
II Surgeon. Office ut Residence. lst Door
South of Bank,
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j. A. WARREN.
7 AIDES, MISSES AND CHILDREN'S
IL Boots, Shoes, Slippers, and Rubbers.
Mep's Thick Kip aud Calf Boots. Best quail
ty.Low prices. Book Store. Main St.,
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MRS. ]. N. CLARK.
DOOK STORE. FIRST DOOR NORTH
ID of Post Office. School Books, Blank Books,
Miscellaneous Books, Stationery, Toys. Con-
foctivuery &c,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-03
A Curious Association.

The recent death in New York of one
| OF the seven survivors of the Tontine
Association of that city draws attention
| to that organization, which was in many
particulars a most curious one. 1t was
founded in 1892, the incorporates being
all knickerbocker merchants who met
daily in a cOtfee-house on Broad street
for reflection and intercourse In time,
| as 1t ceased to furnish the necessary &C
commodations, it was abandoned for a
new site at Wall and Water streets,
where was erected the building famous
in the history of old New York as the
Tontine coffee-house, at which gathered
all the distinguished lawyers, writer's,
actors and merchants of that day. The
association took its name from Lorenzo
Tonti, Neapolitine, who flourished about
1858, and introduced among capitalists a
system of, betting on human life. The
property was divided into 2O3 shares,
which were sold at 5000 each. The
shareholder chose nominee during
whose life he was to receive his equal
proportion of the net proceeds of the in
come from the property, but on the death
of any nominee the members interest in
the capital stock was forfeited to the
ether shareholders whose nominees sur
wed. The lives of the nominees thus
se precious and were solicitously
81 a For many years the interest
Tho nn,n mare has averaged 81 per cent.
Ill ano of the nominees was orig
s shay 10 TO- Gs same as the number Of
h' 80, ~. IN .ss9 it had been reduced
49, ~ GI Ia W ninesy three. The recent
whom are over eighty saars IF aoe ono
of them being in his hSaaredtI The
property is now worth a milAoa If dnI-
lars, to which, eventually, one ., IN. CIV
shareholders must succeed, on an invest-
ment by his ancestor of 5000.
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in the flesh or in such organs as the liver
or the brain. The creatures are so
minute that they are able to accomplish
their migrations in the body without oc-
casioning serious harm. When first lib
Grated from the shell the embryo has the
appearance of a resicle, or little bladder
like body, furnished with six microscopic
hooks. When it has established itself in
a satisfactory locality it grows rapidly,
attaining at maturity the size of pea,
or even of kidney-bean. In this state
1t develops a head and neck, while the
bag-!ike portion constitutes the caudal
extremity. 1t does not seem to have the
power of multiplying during this stage
of its existence, and it must be trans
ferred into the alimentaIy canal of a
human being, or of some other animal,
in order to pass into the adult form in
which it is recognized as the tape-worm
In DIR. Cohbold's work on the Ent0s0d a
case is cited of man inflicted with
these mischievous parasites in the en-
bryronIc form. After his death no less
than 1000 of the cysticari were found in
his body, and IL of them had established
themselves in the nervous centers.
The adult tape-worm is generally soli-
tary in the human body. hence its name,
solium. Instances have been known,
however, where two or three have been
found together; and, very rarely, even
thirty or forty have been expelled from
a patient. Four of the species of tape
worm that occur in the human body
have been found in the barbary ape.
Various species are common in the dog,
in the sheep, in rats and mice and in
the waterfowl.
They are also found occasionally in
horses and cattle, and rarely in reptiles.
Only the embryonic form appears to be
known in swine.-Chicogo Tribune.
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knee or hook to the hoofs, and fastened
with straps at top and bottom. When
the horses are brought into the stable at
night they should he immediately washed
and rubbed with IA wisp of hay until the
circulation is active. Then put on the
lcggings, feed the teams, and you may go
to supper with consciousness that the
teams are not suffering. Your supper
eaten YOU will have but little difficulty
in rendering the teams comfortable for
the night by little additional rubbing
If this plan were adopted we should
advise by all means not shearing the
heels as closely as though they had been
shaved, but thinning the long hair of the
fetlocks fully onehalf and shortening
the remainder in the same proportion.
The reason is simple: it will save much
time in cleaning.
There is one thing more in this con-
ncction to be mentioned: In winter and
during the spring no teams should be al
lowed TO stand with seven legs wet and
unprotected while one is being cleaned.
If the hair be long, while six are being
dried the other two will have dried
themselves or nearly so. This team will
have received all the injury possible and
TIE others proportionatc amount. If,
on The other hand, the hair is short they
will have become more quickly chilled
30 tncrc Is DANGER III any event. Hence,
after considerable experiment, we decid-
ed upon leggings for our own stable
many years since and found the plan to
work well, especially for the heels of
horses the hair of which was rather
short.
y vicious practice, and one that
will be remembered in the hereafter
if there is a horse heaven" is the
plan, still persisted in by many, of giving
the horses continued doses of salts, or
other medicines, under the notion that
humors generate during the winter and
must be purged out. Some, whose hairs
are gray enough, probably remember the
spring dosing that they as children had
to undergo, to the same supposed end
to get the humors out of the blood. 1t
pretty etfectually contracted an ill-humor
in the poor, heart broken urchins and
lassies who were obliged to swallow the
nauseous doses. And for what end were
they given? Well, we used to think, to
crafty the malignancy or stupidity of
some snuffy old medical granny. How
ever, intelligence is progressive, and
men and women are better for it; and SO,
pray, don't dose your horse because his
coat looks a little rough in the spring
1t is the natural consequence of the
season. Remember, a horse may carry
much robust health under rough eX-
tie Farm and Garden" in
Chicago Tribune.
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Remarkable Adventure OF a COlOred
Child.

A CURIOUS story is told of the wonder
| full experience of a colored boy, aged six
years, who, with his father and mother
| and home, were Sunday night suddenly
| swept out upon the broad bosom of the
| raging Tennessee. Their log cabin hap
pened to be located near the mouth of a
small stream which had never been
| known in any previous freshet to reach
| the height of its site. The family, there
fore, went to bed feeling the utmost
security and soon fell into peaceful
slumbers. About midnight they were
suddenly awakened and greatly startled
by loud noise, and by the time they
had fairly gotten their eyes open the
whole building was swept off into the
flood and commenced to rapidly float
down stream. As it shot out of the
mouth of the stream into the Tennessee
it went to pieces against some logs which
were floating down the river, leaving the
frightened trio on the floor portion of
the cabin, holding fast to a central post
which had supported thin, loose roof.
the boards of which fell thickly all
around them. The husband, fearing the
remaining portion might separate, made
two RATS out of the fallen logs, which
had continued to float down alongside
the remains of the house. These were
composed of four logs and of two logs
tied together with strips torn from blank
cts. He placed and tied his six-year-
old boy on the latter, while himself and
wife took the former. Determined to
reach the shore, if possible, he drew the
two RATS together and started out from
the house, padding as best he could with
board, his wife in the meantime at
tempting to hold the RATS in position,
but in this her strength failed her, and,
being already benumbed with cold, she
helplessly permitted the boy to swing
loose and to drift Immediately out of her
reach The husband attempted TO paddle
toward the boy, but to no purpose. Civ
ing up all hope of ever again seeing him,
he worked most laboriously, finally get
ting out of the current and into the back
waters and thence to land. He dis
covered next morning that he had
within the short space of about two
and half hours drifted down
about twenty miles from the site
of his hoD.e. The boy was found float
ing down amid the drift by two white
men who were crossing the river about
a" dug-out." When they discovered him
he was lying at full length on his little
raft with one foot in the water, in an in
sensible condition. 1t was found that
the water had washed upon him con-
stantly, and had he not have been
tied on the logs he would have sunk into
a watery grave. They took him off and
to the shore, stripped him, rubbed him,
whisky to him freely, and
did everything else calculated to restore
him to consciousness, in which work they
finally succeeded, but the lad was SO |
weak and exhausted that he could |
raise limb. The father having |
obtained a canoe came down the river |
that afternoon, making inquiries as to |
whether his SON had been seen by any
one, and wept freely when he saw his
child restored to him once more.-Nash-
Vi Is (Tenn.) Banner.