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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-02-12
4 PETRJEIED CITE.
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ron.

Charles Warren Stoddard, writing to
the San Francisco Chronicle, says, III de
scribing a visit to the ruins of Pompell =:
81 cannot understand how a people who
are s11pposed to have been luxurious III
their tastes ever lived in such ridlculOusly
small houses rs are those of POmpen.
The bedrooms are like state-rOOms, and
the stone beds, like berths, fill the longest
side of the apartment. There are no
garden spots ; even the baths, the crown
ing luxury of the time, are small. The
forum and some of the temples are OF
more respectable dimensions, but the
resorts of 30, 900 people could hardly be
less. The private life of the Pompenans
must have been narrow, meagre, and I'M
healthy. The gardens without the city
probably afforded their only means of
recreation, and l wonder how any one
who has once breathed pure air can have
returned to sleep In such miserable
quarters as the Pompeiian bedrooms.
Single partitions between all the houses,
no gardens, no open courts, save in the
mansions of the wealthy, and the glare OF
the southern sun streaming on walls
| glowing with red and yellow paint-such
was Pompeii in its best days. No doubt
it was u brilliant and lively spectacle,
| and Bulwer has made the most Of it. 1t
| seemed to me to be the correct thing to
! loaf about the place with q copy Of Bul-
wer's Last Days in my pocket. This
! | did at a later date. / frightened the
| lizards in the forum, and chased the
| butterflies in the Temple of Isis, and
| langrlished in the house of the wounded
| Adonis, for it WAS awfully hot. l sat the
sole spectator in the well-preserved
amphitheater, and walked III the Street OF
| the Tombs. The House of the Tragic
| Poet received me, and | explored fol-
myself some dark passages that led under
certain houses, where l met with an odol
of sulphur that was almost overpower
ing"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-02-12
THE LITTLE PEOPLE.
ROguiSh Harry.

IN passing the library door one day,
found L it open about halfway,
And guessed at once whose little feet
Had strayed within that loved retreat.
Yes, there he sat in the great armchair,
our roguish Harry, with curly hair;
His grandpa's specs his nose astride-
4 few days since they were laid aside.
To see the grave lines about his mouth,
One would think to hear sage words come forth;
so l quietly listened, and not in vain,
To learn what thoughts had stirred his brain.
Mamma say dran'pa's done to Heaven,
Where MilIie went when sc was seven;
dess sc stood by the window to sing,
When the anzels told her who zey'd bring.
An when SIC seed him tum in at the door,
Sc c,apsed her hands an cied, DRAM pa Moore"
Zen SO yunned an kissed him, an took him away
To the big. big Dom where the chil'ens play.
:. Such funny tories dran'pa II tell
Bout the Old oman an Bessie Bell"
Do zey ever have bedtime ?-Wis'I knew.
I'll dus' yum up tairs an ask Auntie Sue"
Two loving arms then clasPed the boy,
And the question answered, to his great joy:
No bedtime disturbs the children's play,
For where grandpa's gone tbs always day."
and Home.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-02-12
THE GREATEST FIRMER or CILf-
COKNII.

A California paper publishes the fol
lowing respecting the farming opera
tons of Il man whom it denominates
the largest farmer in the world" and,
considering that DR.. Glenn "runs his
farm of 80, 900 acres himself, personally
experimenting it all, the a%ppellation Is
correct {:
"The great farmer of the world, DIR.
Hugh j. Glenn, of Jacinto, Colusa coun-
ty. Cal, has raised and harvested the
past season, on his own farm, SOC, 900
bushels of wheat. This would load
eighteen 1,OOO-ton ships or three hun
bred canal boats. All this wheat he has
now in his own warehouses, ready for
shipment when the water III the Sacra-
mento river rises sufficiently. The doc
tor pays 800, 900 freight to put his wheat
in San Francisco. The doctor is a Won
der to the agricultural world and to him
self. He can mend & trace and make a
kew to an Ox-bow with his jacknife, Just
as easy as drawing his check for $780,
600. which he can do every day N the
week. DR.. Glenn has only experienced
one surprise during the year, and that
was when a friend informed him that a
panic had entered the land. Glenn is a big
hearted man a; was born in Augusta coun-
tv, Va, and does honor to the 'Old
Dominion Send the medal to Glenn. y
It is said Glenn has an mconquerable
weakness for draw poker. He bets with
the same impetuosity that he does every
thing else. He has been known to stand
pat without a pair, and raise
SO, 900 on several occasions he has lost
immensely. He is not always unlucky,
however, and his nerve has driven out
many players holding better hands.
DIR. Glenn is one of the most remarkable
characters that California has developed,
and deserves to rank with the great hero
of mining stock notoriety, Bonanza Sha-
ron"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-02-12
IN UNPLEASANT MISTAKE.

A late President of Harvard College,
saws the Boston Transcript, whose heart
WIS quite too large to permit him to feel
much interest in petty details of college
discipline, summoned before him two
students, to one of whom an ~admonition
was due for some grave academic irregu-
arity, while with the other a business
arrangement Was to be made about some
room rent. As ill-luck would have it,
being in haste to discharge his mind of a
most unpleasant burden, the fine old
man fell afoul of the student whose er-
rand was business, and administered to
him as severe q verbal castigation as his
noble nature was capable OF.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-02-12
Ep WORDS URONGLI USED.

The French words constantly used in
English are often used wrongly. 1t
would be interesting to know the origin
of our habit of calling out encore when
we wish to hear o piece of music over
again. 1t is just possible that IN som
bygone e the French may have done
this, but certainly no living being ever
heard a Frenchman call out anything but
ssbis" on these occasions. Then we
have adopted the French word mordie;
but it is never used by Englishmen,
never even by the most learned hlsto-
rians, without q blunder. The learned
historians say, for example, "Welllng-
ton was now determined to carry on the
wal q I'Outrance, and the MOr0{e of his
army was excellent" Both these ex-
pressions are blunders. 4 tOutrdnce Is
bad French; it ought to be a %Outroncc;;
but morale used in this sense IL still
worse. 1t is hardly possible to imagine
a more absurd mistake, and yet it is
universally prevalent among English
writer's. The historians mean to say
1.-THE nlOral Of the army Was excellent,
or, in plain English, that the men were IN
| cheerfully resolute temper; whereas, to
| say that the mOrdtc of an army Ii good Is
to affirm that it's theories of morality are
sound, or in plain words That the soldiers
are convinced that they ought not to
commit adultery, etc. lie moral, used
in this way, means mental tirmness,
[ cheerfulness, courage to face difficulties
and bear privations without being cast
, down into low spirits; Ia morale of q
| body of men means their theory, more or
less severe, of moral duty and obligation.
Thus a lofty morale may exist at the
same time and in the same person with a
low moral.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-02-12

Sc, 200. He lived there with his bride
until the time for the farmers return,
when he told his wife that his mother,
who lived in Elizabeth, was sick, and he
should have to go and see her. He went.
That day the farmer returned, and the
deserted wife found herself homeless.
Her r~ascally husband has not been heard
from since. She hns gone home to
Brooklyn to repent at leisure over the
marriage she made III haste.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-02-12
BOLD

New Jersey has produced q scoundrel
who might, with experience, rival the
Tichborne claimant. A farmer living
there had occasion to visit his paternal
home at the East for Thanksgiving, with
his family, and so he hired a man to live
in his house and look after the farm and
stock in his absence. No sooner had the
family departed than the fellow selected
q fine, large hog, killed and dressed It.,
and sent it to market, where he sold it.
He then went to Brooklyn, where he
married a girl, whom he took to the farm,
telling her he had just bought it Tor
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-02-12
MEMORY.

MEMORY.
The loss of memory during illness or
from some sudden shock has, no doubt,
been observed by every one but some
curious phases of it, not generally known,
can be found in the books and Journals
of physicians. A Scotch Highland woman,
long accustomed 10 use the English
language, was placed under the care of
DIR. Macintosh, at Edinburgh, during an
attack of apoplexy. She SO far recovered
as to look around her with an appear
ance of intelligence but the doctor
could not make her understand a word
he said. At last it occurred to him to
have one of the attendants speak to her
in Gaelic, her long unused native tongue :
and to that she Immediately and readily
responded. When she recovered her
health more perfectly, her English came
back to her.
DIR. Rush mentions the case of an Ital-
ian gentleman, who died of yellow fever
in New York, and who underwent, dur
ing the malady, a series of curious men-
tai changes. During the first part OF his
illness, he spoke English, which had for
some time been his familiar language III
this country during the middle period,
English was driven from his mind by
French. which he had learned earlier
and on the day of his death he spoke only
his native Italian. Abernethy, the great
surgeon, told a similar story of a MAJ
whom he attended, who was born III
France, but had spent the greater part
of his life in England, and had for many
Years lost the habit of speaking French.
An injury to his head brought him under
the care of Abernethy, who observed
that during his illness the man spoke
only French, going back to his English
as he recovered. We all know how, to
the very old and the dying, the language
old scenes rise before the dying eyes like
pictures-so that from the recovery of
childish peace they go out across the
tide to the unknown new life beyond.
Concerning memory, it is doubtful II
| there ever lived a man who possessed
that quality in SO remarkable a degree as
the historian Niebuhr. When only
twelve years of age he astonished all by
his knowledge of history, statistics, and
geography. He acquired twenty Ian
guages. His memory never gave up
what he had once made his own. His
wife and sister tried him in GibbOn, and
questioned him, according to the index,
on the most trivial points but they soon
gave up the hope Of finding him ignorant
on any point of history, however unlm-
portant. Yet, with all his learning, he
| delighted in lively and witty CONVERSE
tons, and the joyous games of children.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-02-12

You may whip him as often as you
please"
81 should not strike q child, except IN
a most extreme case"
"Then you can do nothing with him. y
She was gone. The next morning after
breakfast Willie asked
"May I go and play in the yardI"
cit rained last night and it's too wet
now. You may go at ten"
at isn't damp scarcely a bit"
81 think it is. You may go at ten
not before"
"Boo, WHO'D, whoo!" rest. [ kept on
quietly sewing. "Boo, WHO'D, WHO'D"
bass. "Boo, WHO'D, whoo," tenor. l
sewed on. "Boo, WHO'D, WHO'D! !" double
bass. "Boo, WHO'D, whoo!" falsetto-
"Now may 1 go?"
"You may go at 10 o'clock.
Concert repeated, l silently sewing the
while.
"Ain't your head ready to split"
ono"
"Mayn't l go out now?"
"NOt until 10 o'clock"
Concert resumed-rest.
CANT you most crazy"
"No, not at all"
Concert resumed, with the addition Of
throwing himself on the floor and knock
ing his feet up and down. After a
little
"Ain't you most crazy now? Why
don't Won shake me and call me the bad
dest boy ever was, and send me out of
doors?"
because you are not going until 10
O'clock"
Concert resumed, with the addition of
4 pause. Then, picking himself up, he
stood erect before me with his hands in
his pockets.
"Why don't you whip me and send
me off to get rid of my noise!
because You are not going out until
10 o'clock"
He stood a moment.
eff [ bump my head, amt you afraid
it will kill me?"
"Not in the least"
"But it does hurt me awfully."
clam happy to hear it."
He drew a long breath.
"What can 1 do next? rs done all
knows how"
"See if you cannot think of some
thing else"
INLAY [ take my blocks?"
"Certainly."
At 9 he started up. CHOW may / go?"
"That's O." He went back to his
blocks without a murmur. At 10 he
went ont.
The story goes on to say that Master
Willie soon yielded to strong govern
ment, got sick of crying and knocking
his W head, and became one of the
best boys in the world.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-02-12

PRoF. PRocroR has been putting our
cold Probabilities" in the London
papers.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-02-12
4 THOROUGH

Paris has recently lost n of its best
known Bohemians. Charles Coligny was
q man of letters rs well as a night-walker,
who thought that gas had advantageously
replaced the sun. He therefore went to
bed in the morning and got up at night.
He has just died with q waist like a bar
rel, gained, as he said, by "effacing"
some fifty glasses of beer nightly. Be
fore devoting himself to beer be had
made a prelude with absinthe and sacer-
CHEN. At night when he wandered
through Paris with his friends, the night
walkers, he frightened the passer-by and
walked the sleepors with the cry, which
has become famous : "Oh, he! Bourgeois
of Paris, Hide your wives, Charles
Coligny is passing." He was once very
handsome, with his black curls, his large
! eyes, brilliant and gentle.
A FELLOW who had been hooked by an
unruly COW imped in his gait. A lady
remarked that the man appeared to be
intoxicated. EYES," replied her beau,
"the fellow has been taking a couple of
horns"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-02-12
The story of the Little Red Hen.

time 4; but / have never heard it since.
SO I shall try to tell it to you now from
memory:
There was once q little red hen. She
was scratching near the barn one day,
when she found a grain of wheat. She
said, "Who will plant this wheat ?" The
rat said, 81 WON'T" the cat said, 81
WON'T" the dog said, 81 won't ;" the
duck said, 81 won't ;" and the pig said,
81 won't" The little red hen said, 81
will, then" So she planted the grain of
wheat. After the wheat grew up and
was ripe, the little red hen said, "Who
will reap this wheat 2" The rat said, 81
won't ;" the cat said, 81 won't )" the dog
said, 81 won't; ;" the duck said, 81
won't" and the pig said, 81 won't. -
The little red hen said, a will, then. y
| So she reaped the wheat. Then she
said, "Who will take this wheat to mill
to be ground into fiour?" The rat said,
81 won't ;" the cat said, 81 won't ) the
dog said, 81 won't ;" the duck said, 81
won't ;" and the pig said, 81 won't"
The little red hen said, 81 will, then"
SO she took the wheat to mill. When
she came back with the -four, she said,
"Who will make this into bread2" The
rat said, 81 won't" the cat said, 81
won't )" the dog said, 81 WON'T the
duck said, 81 won't )" and the pig said,
81 won't" The little red hen said, 81
will, then" So she made it into bread
Then she said, "Who will bake this
bread2" The rat said, 81 won't" the
cat said, 81 WON'T" the dog said, 81
WON'T" the duck said, 81 WON'T anc
the pig said, 81 won't" The little rec
hen said, 81 will, then" When the
bread Was baked, the little red hen said
"Who will eat this bread?" The IA
said, 81 WILL" the cat said, 81 will;
the dog said, " Iwill;" the duck said, g.
WILL" and the pig said, 81 will" Ih'
little red hen said, Ono, you won't, for
am going to do that myself" And sh'
picked up the bread and ran off with II
st. Nicholas.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-10-08
POLITICAL NOTICES,

1ee1s State Central Executive Commit.
tee o. the Republican Party, state Of Louisiaas,
New 0rissns septem ,sr 9, is7s-To the end Of il.
aod iocsa eontests q 1876 iustructions have bson
Rspublicen Party Of Louisiana for . reoreaniss
ton q SAID party upon the following declaration
former psrty a6iietions, are respectfully Invited
lo 70 suoscnbe thereto aud organise to the ends re-
DECLARATION OF PRrNcrPLEa
!: The equality. civil and political, Of all men
1efore the law, and their especial protection in
the rghts Of labor. suffrage and public steward.
z The republic 10 . nation, one and inseparable
Inc maintenance and enforcement Of the
to the constitution ana laws snsctsd thereundsr.
:: An honest economical aud efficient admins.
tIation Of the public trusts and the election to that
s. Continued reduction Of taxation
8. Opposition to all lsgslsticn In the interest Of
=. The prompt punishment for all pillage in pub.
nc :.tation, and for all assaults upon personal
& Free education for eli the children Of the State
in her public schools.
Q: To Inning, alton 10 extended hearty welcome
under their development await labor IN Louisiana.
,p;, ~ we amrn the cardinal principles Of the Re.
policy ps haze S s.
cltlsenehip, enfrAnch sement civil rights, and TO
the Internal improvements already. Proiec ted in
DehAlf Of our present commercial and agricultural
needs, to wit In river outlet and the rebuilding
OF the leveea by national aid and to promote that
Policy and bring about . perfect amity betwee
deavors. ~
IL. The earliest practicable attainment Of cur
rency convertible with coin, and to that end sur
continuous and unfaltering steps toward resump-
tion as may not embarrsss our material interests
IL. That in this declaration We dissvow all par
tisan prejudices, and welcome all citizens who
shall desire to unite with US In earnest effort to
secure the best measures and servants to Louis.
lana.
By order of the Committee.
s. B. PACKARD, President
J.R. @. PrrKrs, Corresponding Secretary
sel0 I'm
New Orleans Republican., 1875-10-08
PROPOSALS FOR CARRYING UNITED
STATES MAILS.


Posr OppcR DEPARTMENT. ,
Washington, September l, 1875. !
pROPOSALS WILL BIZ RECEIvED AT THE CON
l. tract office of this department. until 3 p NJ
of October 20 1875 ito b. d. cided by November II
for carrying the mails of the Uuit d States from
January l. 1876, TO June 3d. 1873, on the 'ollowips
routes In the State OF Louis ana and by the schei
nle OF depai tures and arrivals herein specified VIZ
and Bon Fouca in.oj, t. Indian Villast In
o., thiity-tive miies and back, once a
Leave Vaudeville TUT sday at M;
Arrive at Indian Village BY 6 P. NJ;
Leave Indian Village Wednesday at A. Nj
Arrive at Mandeville by p N.
Bond required with bid, $500.
so'izS From Winnsborougb, BY Beuff Prairie In.
GG., Ga,d,na rTaris f1 Lspding tn s;l; and Starts
miles and back, once week.
Leave Winnsboropgh FRIDAY at NJ;
Arrivs at HarrisOnburg by 7P. NJ;
Leave Harrisonburg SATURDAY. at s A, NJ:
Arrive at WinnsbOroueh w by 7 p. N.
Bond required with bid, $780,
BsSoa aAGsSs%t 5Ssns e. chioe. qssse pass
sixty miles and back. once a week.
Leave Plsquemine Monday at A. NJ;
Arrive at Charent0n next day by 6 p M;
Leave Charenton Wednesday al IN;
Bond required with bid, $500.
3o,SO7 From Cameron to Grand Chenier, thirty
miles and back, once a week.
Arrive at Grand Ohenier BY 6 P. M;
Leave Grand CheRier Saturday at sam;
Arrive at Cameron by r. N.
Bond required with bid $5O1
FOR forms of proposal, bond, and certisca and
also f0r instructions as to the conditions to BIZ EN-
braced in the contract, etc.. see advertisement of
this date in pamphlet form, inviting proposals. for
mail Louisiana, to be found ct the termi.
pication to the Second Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral. 49,
scribed Mail proposals, State of Louisiana :" and
addressed to the Second Assistant Postmaster
General.
MARSHALL JEWELL,
seS III IL ~ oclo Postmaster General.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-10-08
SHERIFF,S SALES.


Mrs. Mary Clancy VS.. Philip nIarsoudet.
= Orleans No. 579l.-By virtue of aa alias writ of
ner1 fsclas to me directed by the honorable the
Firth District Court for the parish of Orleans, in
public auction, at the Merchants and Auctioneers'
exchange Royal street. between Canal aud Gus
tomhouse streets in the Second District of this city
NJ, the following described property, to wit
ALL ThB RIGHT OF USUFhUU1 OF the defend.
PRP N and tS
STREET, between Claiborne and Robertson streets
measuring, French measure ninety feet on is,
planade street by two hundred and ninety five
on which street said property measures one hun,
dred and forty-se feet six inches, to Commence
rom SpoIs property and extending to the corner
one hundred and seventy five feet six inches' ex.
tending on the side toward Esplanade street ac-
cording to plan made by Brngier. surveyor gem
nexed 10 an act passed before e. POLLOCK, on the
tenth or November, 1885, together with all the
oriidings and improvements thereon.
SrkkkF, between Bsplanade and Kerlerec streets
measuring, more or less, one hundred and twenty
hve feet two inches front on Claiborne street. and
the line dividing said property from the property
or Julia Riley Oh the side OF Esplanade street and
from there running on disgobal line to the prop
sghtytwo feet nine inches three lines in depth on
the side OF Kerlerec street, said diagonal line d-
vldiag said property in all IT'S length from the
estate, according to plan made BY Bourgerol,
city surveyor, on the tenth of April 1889 and de.
posited on the eighteenth Of May, ls46. in the
Thereon.
Seized in the above suit I'D. t........
Terms Cash on the spot.
kUGBNR wAGGAMAN.
oc6 II "a NOT Civil Sheriff Of the Parish Of Orleans
New Orleans Republican., 1875-10-08

EIFTH DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH
H of Orleans, No 6787.- By virtue of a writ of
seizure and sale to me directed by the honorable
the Firth District Court for the parish of Orleans,
In the above entitled cause wilt proceed to sell at
publid auction, at the herchants and Auctioneers'
Exchange, Royal street, between Canal and Gus
tombouse streets, In the second District of this
city on SATURDAY, November 6, 1915. at twelve
O'clock NJ, the following described property, 10
cERrAm LOT OF eRO6ND, situated in the
Third district Of this city, in the square comprised
within Craps, Rsplanade, Kerlerec or History and
6reatmen strsete, and making Part Of lot nlnber
one hundred and thirty three. and measnring
thirty teet front on Crsps atreet. BY. about QUE
hundred and twebtv feet in depth. bounded on
one eide BY the property formerly belonging 70
NJ Pranpin. and or TIE he other sids y the proper.
together With ~ the buildlngs end inprevsnents
therecn. without exception Of fsservaxion. Being
The 49, proPH9 aoa1irea ~ The deGs.aaat
herein byPurchaso ffon 4 9ewlstt, ~ act passed
s:,cts 9; DScus eetssy Reh'lc e thiA , On ths
Seized IN the above suit H,Nr
K66kNR wA0eAMAu,
ocs II nos civn Sheriff Of the Pariah of Orleans