The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-02
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL BREvlTIES.

L. =. n, recently died in Germantown, Penn.
Mr.. Cassel was one of the officers of the navy
that entered temporarily the service of the Jap
anese Government in tits campaign against For
m0sa, and it is understood that it was in that
campaign that he contracted the disease which
finally terminated his life.
Mrs. JESSIE BENTON FREMONT. in a
letter to the surviving passengers of the steamer
Panama, who held & reunion in san Francisco in
honor of the first arrival of that ship at that port,
twenty six wears ago, says: MY father told
me he had lived Il long life, and his expert
ence was that there wis more good than evil
in people. Ny journey of 40 taught me the
Uncommon goodness of American men tGWar,
women and children, and ever since ! have con
tinucd to find how wise ami right my father was.
Honor and troops Of friends crowned his days,
and ] wish the same of those who SO kindly re
membered me after Il quarter of Il century
Among the passengers on that memorable trip
were General Joe Hooker, Admiral Porter, and
Ex-senator William McGwin. Mrs. Fremontwas
the only lady on board.
Mr.. MOTLEY, the historian, is reported
as still very feeble from the paralytc stroke
which disabled hi right side several months ago.
He is said to be so afflicted by his physical all
ments and the loss Of his wife, that it is feared
that he will never be able to resume his literary
pursuits.
GOV. WALKER. Of Virginia, and Gen.
Jubal Early have been appointed on Il committee
to receive the statue of Stonewall Jackson, which
will soon arrive at Richmond from England, and
be erected on the Capitol grounds.
fnE Missouri Democratic State Central
Committee have adopted a resolution inviting
the National Democratic Convention of 1876 to
assemble in st. Louis, and pledged themselves TO
make ample preparations for the reception and
accommodation of all who come to it. The place
proposed for holding the Convention will he the
hall Of the new Chamber of Commerce building,
which will be 235 feet long by 100 feet wide and
20 feet high, with galleries all around the hall
and Il capacity for seating Il 900 people.
REV. WILLIAM ARNOT, the eminent
Scottish Free Church divine, who was IN this
country q few years ago, as Z delegate to the
first Assembly If the Canadian Presbyterian
Church, Is dead. He was a native of Perth
shire, and was born in lSO7; studied at Glasgow,
and was licensed in 1879. He was settled for Il
long time in Glasgow, and afterwards removed
to Edinburg, where he died. Mr.. -Arnot was
better known a. an author than as Il preacher.
and many of his works have been very widely
circulated.
PtrI. SCHOEPPE, alias Count Schulcli-
burg, now sojourning 1T Joliet, H., for playing
with other peoples signatures, Is out OF luck
again. lie claimed to have been the husband of
a maiden lady in Maryland, after she died, and
showed her will, witch gave him all her estate,
which was large. The courts have just decided
that her name was also forged. and that the
Count was not legally married to the lady.
THE jeff Davis Homestead Association
of Texas are hoI1in. meetings IN various cities
and towns of that state. At 4 meeting in Hous-
ton the other night the Light Guard military ut
tended, and quite a large contribution was col
lccted to aid in building Il home for Mr.. Davis,
who j. now in that city.
THE funeral OF Miss Anna Eisner, a Vie
tim Of the schiller disaster. took place at Niles,
Mich. on the 10th. The Young lady was much
beloved in the village where she resided, and her
funeral was the largest ever witnessed in the
place.
TIE Summing-uo in the TiltOn-Beccher
trial was concluded on the 23d. vt the cOnclu-
sion Of MI. Beach's argument he requested the
court to appoint some time and place for hearing
of an application to reopen the case on the
ground Of newly discovered evidence. His Hon
or said he would examine the aflidavits in sup
port III tit dflIlNtii'i, dl'l SINt NE = 'i
the following day, before beginning his charge.
JACOB NJ. MCGREw. of Ohio, has been
appointed Sixth Auditor OF the Treasury, vice
Sheets.
The New York Herald. of the 2it!,, pub
lisIcd the aflidavite of Messrs Ley-, Loader and
Price, the new witnesses in the Elton BCecher
ease, on account of whose evidence TiltOn's cOun-
sci moved to have the case reopened. The first
of these is the druggist who claims to have sold
Mr.. BeeCher the poison, and the two others swear
to having seen Mr.. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton in
a delicate position, at TiIton's house, when
they were ut work there laying carpets. These
afidayits have elected from Mrs. TlltOn 4 coun-
ter afidavit, in which she swears that the stories
of Loader and Price are unqualitiedly false,
and that there was never the least improperly
between herself and MIR. Beecher. She also re
~iterates the statement that her own former
charges and so-called confessions Of imprOprie-
ties in connection with Mr.. Beecher were made
under the influence of her husband, which inlu
ence she found it impossible to resist so long rs
she lived with him.
THE Count Won Arnim has been con-
victei of abstracting state papers. entrusted 10
him, and sentcnced to nine months imprison-
ment, including one month already expired.
REAR-ADMIRAL john DECAMp, IN the
retired list, died at Burlington, y. J., on the
oath.
Mrs. GRANT rides ont in a fOur-in-hand
occasionally at Long Branch, accompanied usu-
ally by Mrs. Childs AMI Mrs. Sartoris. The
turn out is unostentatious, the coachman and
footman wearing plain livery, and the horses
having no gilded or gaudy trappings. So says
the Washington Chronicle.
PROFESSOR WHITNEY OF Yale College
has recently visited the London Anthropological
Society and presented photographs of the ruined
cities discovered by DR.. Hayden in Colorado last
wear. lie also gave 4 brief account of the dis
covery.
STORY. the sculptor, has completed the
model of his colossal statue of Liberty which is to