The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-02-19
CURRENT ITEMS,

DETROIT is suffering from an epidemic
diphtheria.
W. B. AsToR's tax on real estate last
year was S24O,O OO.
The new Arctic expedition fitted out
II Germany will leave in June.
CALIFORNIA is being supplied with
dressed poultry from Chicago.
IT is rumored in Canada that Lord
Dufferin will resign the Governor
Generalship to become Ticeroy Of India.
The construction of the Panama rail
road cost 81, 900 human lives from deaths
by malaria.
The hair of Miss Mary G.. Haskins, of
Danbury, n. H, is fifty-two and a half
inches long.
"SALLY, what time do your folks
dine Z" .'Soon as YOU go away-that'
missus' orders"
Rev. W. Fl. H. MURRAY has been pre-
scented with a gold watch and chain,
valued at 800, by several members of
his former congregation in Boston.
An Illinois debater chad EN-" when
he arose and said. eyes, gentlemen,
Waterloo was the biggest kind Of a fight,
but Washington whipped EN- like a
wink"
An appeal has been made for the adj
mission into an asylum for idiots of
Frederick William De Foe, great-great-
grandson OF Daniel De Foe, the author
of Robinson Crusoe-"
A NEW HAMPSHIRE antiquary has a
trunk made in 1724, which was in con-
slant use for over 125 years. Such a
trunk as this must have seen the elephant
many times, but not a baGGgage-smasher.
THOMAS JEFFERsoS's own copy of his
"Notes on the State OF Virginia" Lon
don, 1877, which was annotated by his
; own hand, and contained other manu-
script additions, was recently sold at
Chicago for $3.50.
The cattle pest continues to rage i'll
Russia, not less than 100000 animals
having persisted from it last year. The
last opinion seems to be that the rail-
/ roads are among the causes of harm, and
that veterinary inspection is not to be
relied on.
The Nashville Banner co~ngratulates
the State of Tennessee upon the effective
! ness of its school system. According to
it's estimate, there are 4 ,059 schoolsor organ
lied in the State, with 173, I31 pupils en-
rolled. This is certainly an improved
showing.
The three-card monte men of Nevada
have invented a new game, similar to the
old one, except that it is played with
four instead of three cards. They hope
by this means to evade the law recently
introduced in the Legislature, prohibit
ing three-card monte.
Mr.. MARK ALEXANDER, of Mecklen-
burg county, Va, has deposited with the
Virginia Historical Society q pair of
silver spurs which We're worn by John
Randolph, of Roanoke. One of the
rowels Is broken out, possibly the result
of one of Mr.. Randolph's sudden i'm
pulses when his horse did not go to suit
him.
The poor rates in England have in
creased alarmingly for the last eight
years, although the country has been
very prosperous for the latter part of
this time. In 1S645 the poor relief in
all England cost about s3S, 25O, 900, while
in 1928 it had swollen to S31 ,16O, 900
being nearly $1,000, 900 greater, or about
% per cent.
A WOMAN died at Pittstown, Rensselaer,
county, the other day at the great age of
los years, after a life which had in it
something of romance. Mrs. Manchester
was married when a young woman, and
was deserted by her husband, who went
off to Canada. Several years after, when
she sought him there, she found him
married again. As he begged %piteously,
the mean fellow, not to be exposed, she
calmly left him, and returning home, sent
one of his Sons to hive with his father.
Another son, now 20 years old, has lived
at Pittstown, and has cared for his injured
mother faithfully. He promised to re-
main single and live with his mother 50