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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-01
4 FLORAL ORNAMENT.

Since a little taste and ingenuity viii
convert an ordinary room into a perfect
bower, we never fail to throw out q hint
on this subject for the benefit of u
lady readers who are admirers OF beau
tiful things. The following description
of a floral ornament is a pleasing II {:
Take a goblet with the foot and stem
broken or cut off, so that the bowl will
be perfect take coarse red flannel, the
redder the better, stitch it neatly around
the bowl, or goblet, so as to cover it
completely on the outside; dip it in
water, so as to wet it thoroughly, then
roll it in faxseed !; the seed will stick in
ana on the flannel be sure that the
seed is distributed even, then stand it
on its mouth, or large end, in q saucer
or small plate {; put water in the small
plate, or saucer, and renew or add to 1t
as it absorbs. Never let the vessel ge
dry, nor suffer it to chill or freeze. 1t
can and will grow in any part of the
room, and will be a deep green with red
ground.
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THE SPANISH CHRISTMAS.

1.-The associations of Christmas in
SPAIN" writes John Hay in st.
Nicholas for January. care all of the
gospel. There is no Northern st. Nick
there to stuff the stockings of good
children with rewards of merit. Why,
then, on Christmas Eve do You see the
little shoes exposed by the windows and
doors? The wise Kings of the East are
supposed to be journeying by night to
Bethlehem, bearing gifts and homage
to the Heavenly Child, and out OF their
abundance, when they pass by the
houses where good children sleep, they
will drop into their shoes some of the
treasures they are bearing to the Baby
Prince in Judea. This thought is never
absent from the rejoicings of Christmas
tide in Spain. Every hour of the time
is sacred to Him who came to bring
peace and goodwill to the world. The
favorite toy of the season is called The
Nativity 1t is sometimes very elabo-
rate and costly, representing a land
scape under a starry night !; the shep-
herds watching their focks the magi
coming with wonder and awe, and the
Child in the stable, shedding upon the
darkness that living light which was to
oversprea6 the world
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through the whole year-yes, and I'm
just as full of 'em in the morning, too.
But, after a spell-like enough, before
the day is done-my mad gets up, and
away fly the good resolutions. They
don't stay by they are gone, slick and
clean, before I've fairly got a good grip
of 'em. So I've made up my mind not
TO make any more promises bout being
good, but just put in, and try the very
best l know how, to behave myself, and
ask the Lord to help me do it. guess
he will, for Grandpa says, 1.-The Lord
helps those who help themselves
There's one resolution I'm going to
make, and that's got to stick, anyhow &:
I sha'n't keep a diary again I; that's
played out, entirely. Last year [
started off, grand as could be, with
GOOD printed in big letters under Jan.
l. Then next day it was good, but in
small print. The next day "ditto."
Then came "middle" Chats short for
middling); then naughty and then,
sad to say, bad. So it went or clear
through the year, the same old story
over and over. Most of the Mondays
are "bads." You see, Sundays
I had to keep the GesOna all
inside, and when it did come out
it come with a rush, and made the
Mondays the blacklist days on record.
/ get a little comfort, though, in look
ing over the back part OF the diary for
[ kept a strict cash account. I've set
up in business-the boOt-blacking pro
fession; got one customer, regular
Uncle Jim-he pays re one cent a
shine. It's cheap, [ know ; but I like
him first rate. He pays me every Sat
urday night. Why, l bought lots O
things with that money: [ got a jack
knife the first thing, a real Jonathan
Crook" and lost it the next day. but
not till I'd slashed my jacket and, most
cut off one finger. I've bought pencils
and chewing gum treated the boys to
peanuts lots O times !; gave ten cents
for turkey for the poor folks Thanks
giving ; sent five cents TO the heather,
and had enough left to buy a jumping
jack for mammals Christmas present,
beside a pile O fish hooks. One Of
EN- got into my thumb, and hurt, too,
awful. But, what Of it? I guess it
my thumb, and my money paid fer
the fish hook, though it didn't for the
doctors cutting it ont. Well, that cash
account is all right, and [ take a heap
D comfort Ii looking it over. But the
other part amt of any account, for TIE
g bads" are thick, and more "middies"
than anything else while the "goods"
are scarcer than birds in winter. Well,
it cant be helped now; and III wish
you a "happy new year." and hope, if
you do make any good resolutions,
you'll stick to 'em as long as I shall to
mine-about keeping a diary.
Good bye. Roy HAMMOND.
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The Board of Managers unanimously
approved the report, and recommended
for this machine the Gold Medal of the
Institute.
The Board of Direction unanimously
approved this recommendation, and
awarded the Gotd Medai to Wheeler &c
Wilson, the only gold medal awarded
for a sewing-machine by the American
Institute for many wears.
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Roy RammOnd's Ideas About New
lPnr'S.

Nh. EDITOR: When you was a small
chap, and New Years com along, did
you use TO make good resolutions But,
what's more to the purpose, did they
stick? Every time the new year ONE
on We DO have a dreadful solemn time
ut our house, cause mamma takes ali
Us children into her room, and talks
pretty sober to us, bout our lost oppor-
tunities and trying to be better chill
dren, and she gets us to make good
resolutions that we 3OiH behave our,
selves. Why. it seems just as easy to
do right while she is talking to us and
Igo to bed full OF good thoughts and re-
solves 20 do just the square thing
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a Nrw-Scaf'S Verse.
CiOTES.

Learn these lines, my boys and girls.
on New-Year's Day, and carry them
with you all the rest of yourlives. They
are very, very old, but not SO old as the
truth they tell:
"DevOUtly look, and naught
But wonders shall pass by thee;
DeyOutly read, and then
All books shall edifv thee;
Devoutly speak, and men
Devcutly listen to thee;
DevOutly act, and then
The strength of God acts through thee"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-01

The horse butchers OF Paris sold
$780, 600 pounds of horse flesh during
the three months ending Oct. l. OF
the 1850 animals which yielded this
tempting total, about one-third wore
cultivated ears and carried paint brush
tails.
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III OCN FOLKN
viii rhe New Year Come Tonight.
Mamma:

tired Of waiting so;
My STOCKINGS hung by the chimney-side full three
!oIg days ago;
I raa 70 peep within the door at early morning
iic.:-
It's en- y s;.l-O say, mamma, Will the New Year
co2-e tonight?
VIII the ISaw Year come tonight, mamma The
FLOW IS on the hill,
And IL .e must be two inches thick upon the
meadows rill;
hear yol teii papa, last night, his son must have
-.eG--
I dim mean to hear, mammal, and a pair of
sG4:es. you said.
/ PRAYED Tor just these very things, mamma o.
sE.I. be full of glee,
And tke orphan boys in the village school will all
b. enTying me;
But i! give them toys, and lend them books, and
make their New Year glad,
For Goa. you say, takes back his gift when little
:u.Es ere bad.
And woL': you let me go, mamma, upon the New
Tears day,
And carry something warm and nice to poor old
Wow Gray?
II leave the basket near the door, within the
49,
VIII III "" lear come Tonight mamma II
SENS 50 long to wait
=
The Nv Yea- comes tonight, mammal saw it in
My stola.r-Lupg 50 full. I thought-mamma, what
mahes y"u weep?
But i only he'd a little shroud-a shroud and Meth
M mere;
And a. ogeE coffin, made for me, was standing on
lie MOOR:
~ 80 m.,,os no, .no ..,u, ,,,,s
Bus We : wondered what It meant, you came with
And sad. "TAouGt find the New Year frss-God
Ii = T.; =. : cream, mammal Know II must ne
t'ae;
Buy nave 'een 80 pad 4 noy' Goa taAeth me IRON
don; know what papa will do, when I am laid to
And yoa MI have no WiIlie's head to hold upon
.o-c breast.
~
,a
An" '1--e Iy -is'1 " HUN ~ore-' seems 90 h"f''
You lee'sI; ii my stocking now, Icannot go and
=,
"s-T@I.
III r roo
80 I'd;
But NJ: &c. give them both TO Blake, who hurt
1e :! ne Aead?
1 49, so Lite -hy DOOhS away. aAU d tlt ~
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led people to trust me, and gave me a
character. I owe all l have and am TO
this motto: "Stick to your bush"
Little .JOhnny's COrlp positions.
GOTES.
There is nannigotes and billigotes,
and the little young ones is a kid. Gotes
is good to give milk, and they will pull
a fOur-wheeler If its made to there me-
| sure. Wen a cote has ben tot to ware
a saddle and be rode by a monkey it
thinks hissef better than the others,
and stomps It's feet Ike it wasent salts
fde not to be hevyier on the groun.
Wen we was mOvin out Of the other
house to this I'M Billy had took a big
lookin glns to the truck and leaned it
again the weel vile he handed up some
thing els, and vile nobody was a look
in a big he cote come up and saw his
SET in the glas, and that was more than
he would stan. so he backed of and TOOK
a run and jump with his he'd down. The
glas was bust al to pieces, but the cote
was cot between the spOkes of the weel
and hel fas. Wen it was TUX out it ran
roun t 0 The other side OF the truck, and
lOokt a eros the fiels, and shook it's he'd
like sayin yOu got away this time, but
you wuldent if it wasentfo or the Wagon
bein in the way, and you better not let
me cetch you in these parts agin, mis-
ter.
Gotes has beerds, but if I was q cote
Ide shave, COS I think beerds and no
mustach looks jest sick. They chews
cuds like COWS, wich issert a nice thing
to do, they may say wot they like. The
kind of cote skin my mother keeps for
clenin the silver with is shammy, but
if / was her Ide have the real if II cud
be got.
THE SWOLLER.
This IS bird which needs o deal of
exercise to keep it helthy, for it is fun
ny to think it all ways takes it at meal
time, wich is like it wud be if I was to
box with Billy Il cross the table at din
ner, and I know that wuddent be
helthv for rs II my father was to dinner
that day. The swollcr has q forked
tale like a fish but no scales. Wen it
comes on cole in the winter the swollers
git to gather, and roll up in balls, and
lies at the bottom of the brooks, under
the ice till spring, but uncle Ned says
no, that's only fit for ole womens butt
don't think its as fit for them as the
swollers o they haint no fethers to
keep out the wet.
The business of swollers is mostly to
atten the funerals of flying insects. It
is estimated by competin othOrities
that a average swoller eats five hundred
million of inseks before it dies, and the
books which [ coppid this from says
that shows how bounty full nature is
in providin for the support of life.
Il swoller likes to skim along the sur
face of the water, and my mother she
likes to skim over the surfice Of the
milk. Billy says its all very we'll to
tolk about skimmin milk, but she don't,
she skins it. He says swollers is the sea
gulIs Of q fish pond. If he's a goin in
for mattel hisory line game for jog
raphy, that's how it is.
I've see it some were that one swoller
ont make Il summer, but my father he
says that summer makes one swolIer. I
spose he means drink, but he won't wait
for summer [ can tell you.
a NrvS-Gcat'S Verse.
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The Plymouth Brethren.

: 1t seems that Brother Tracy did not
write all his opening address in the
scandal case, but was assisted by Joe
Howard, the forger of a proclamation
purporting to be by President Lincoln
and author of the bogus letter to Judge
Nelson which was attributed to Mrs.
Tilton until the genuine letter was pro-
duced.
If, says the Cincinnati Commercial,
Brother Bowen had been as reticent of
wha: he knew or didn't know concerning
Beecher as he is now when the mischief
is out, the country might have been
spared sensation and scandal.
Brother Shearman, says the New York
Sun, is as we'll as could be expected.
Fears are entertained, however, by Oh
serving friends, that his sudden cessation
from crying may have bad effect on his
sensitive nature. 1t is now more than a
week since he has cried in public! At
one time our fears were aroused lest
Brother Sherman might be crying too
much, dissolving in tears, in fact. Now,
on the contrary, we arein alarm because
the flood gates are so long closed. When
they do open, what freshet there will
be?
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ise immense good to the crops, and prices for
grain have weakened. TIT
The Pope's s4th birthday, the 18th inst,
was celebrated with extraordinary rejoicings.
OF all the Popes Mono is the first to surpass St.
Peters years. '@' ~ -" az -" ca VI = ~
The great: English trotting match between
Steel Gray and Peeping Tom, two of the best
animals in England, took place in Leaning
ton, Yorkshire, April 18th. The match was
made to trot 10 miles for 81 900 side. The
betting was nine to four on Steel Gray who
won by over fifty yards after trott,ng the dis
lance without break in 27m. 66xs. Peeping
Tom broke several times
A special from London says that about one
hundred and thirty bodies have been recov-
cred from the wreck of the Schiller, including
those Of VIM. Frahm of Davenport, Ia, Mi
chael Hureman Of Highland, Ill.,, and the Leon
hardt family of Augusta. Ga.
A dispatch from Peshawer of Khoristan re-
ports that place visited by avery destructive
conflagration. Halt the ctywas laid waste.
one time the powder magazine was in peril,
but the fire was happily stopped before reach.
ing it.
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The Pennsylvania Coal REGIONS.

Reports from the upper coal regions of
Pennsylvania show constantly increasing
outrages where miners have shown dis:
position to resume work. In the vicinity
of Pottsville threats and coffin notices
have been posted about the mines. We'd
nesday night the fends attempted to
wreck the Pottsville passenger train by
placing distractions on the track, but for
tunately the engineer made the discoye-
~ IN time to prevent the catastrophe.
The same night the telegraph office at
Locust Summit was burned.
A Wilkesbarre telegram says that the
miners at Sugar Notch having
refused to 60 to work the pumps are to be
removed and allow the mines to fill ub.
There is no prospect Of the strike ending
soon. The miners are as determined as
ever, and are every day receiving aid
from other sections. During the week
they received 108 barrels Of -four and
quantities of groceries from miners of the
small companies at Pittston, and have the
promise Of 200 barrels more. In the
meantime not night passes but what
some Waterman, or miner who has gone
to work, is assaulted and beaten often to
his death.
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An Adulterer Murders the Man Who
Knows Too Much.

On Monday night, May 10th, Dick
Jones, farmer, IS years of age, and liv-
ing two miles south of Taylorsville, Ind
on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indi.
annapolis railroad, beat Henry sternberg-
er over the head with club, inflicting in.
juries which resulted in his death yester-
day. Jones Immediately gave himself up
to the authorities and was afterward re.
arrested on $25,0OO. He states that
sternberger had been reporting stories
affecting his character and that of his
two sisters-in.law, and had attempted
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COMMERCIAL MATTERS.
St. Paul Wholesale Ma

st. Paul Wholesale Markets, May Is.
Business continues good, with a liberal de-
mand from the country trade.
Wheat 80 to 95c.
Co n in light demand at 70 to 75c.
Oats weak, with downward tendency;
quotable at 64c on track and 66@67c in store.
Flour firm at 60. C0@5. % tor xxx; s3.57@4.25
for XXX; patent process $7@9.
Provisions active and firm We quote:
Pork 225O@23.O0. Hams, plain 14Hc; can
vassed l5xc. Shoulders lO@lOKc. Lard II
@l7kc. Bacon, clear ribbed, l4c; clear AK
@l4Hc; breakfast 14k@15c. Mess beef $lO@
1850.
Potatoes, mixed zoe; straight peach blows
Eggs in about equal supply to the demand
at l2(@l2Hc.
Choice roll butter in demand and firm at %
@25c; second selections l3@lsc; common
shipping grades 10, 1905.
Grass seed-Timothy, by Wholesale $3.50
$50; retail s2.5o@2.75. Clover, wholesale,
s6.50@7; retail $7@7.50
Dried apples, choice New York State 10 @
10Kc; prime 9@loc; Michigan 8@e1c for
prime to choice.
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Come West, Young Man.

An exchange says that s:since their
tnermometer has attained the height of
Zero the citizens of st. Paul and upper
minnesota are congratulatirg themselves
upon the rapid approach of gentle
springs ETHEREAL .1ildness.''' We don't
think we can consistently make much fun
OF our Minnesota friends on the score of
cold weather. They cannot excel us in
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to have him (Jones) indicted for
adultery w. before i. the grand
jury. That he did not intend to kill
him, but attacked him for the purpose of
giving him sound thrashing. On meet
ing him, he seized single-tree lying in
the bottom of his wagon, and in his anger
did not realize how hard he was striking
him. Mr.. Sternberger was about IS years
old, and leaves wife. He was peace.
,bie fellow, and it is generally thought
that Jones purposely murdered him in
this most brutal manner for the purpose
OF forever closing the mouth of one who
was knowing of his guilt.
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plague is to be far more wide thu yesry
than last. Already they are devouring every
thing. Their course up to the 18th was SOUTH
easterly. r>tsyf - l,NT.4tfs
A fire at Rutland, VT, on the 18th inst, burn
ed the opera house and the stores of Dunn Il
Cropton, stanby g. Co., and others. Loss s76,-
600; partly insured.
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All the Distillerfes Of Chicago Closed
...Other Localities to be Vf.fled.

.."Other Localities to be Visited.
The distilleries of Chicago are in pos.
session of the government officials who
are making inventories. In Milwaukee
the work Of seizure progressed quietly on
Tuesday, when the following additional
seizures were made: The rectifying
houses of Christian Valentine. Phillips
Werner and the Milwaukee redistilling
and rectifying company, and the distil.
leries of F. Bergenthal and Chas. Grau.
ALI the establishments are in the hands
OF appraisers, to report the value Of each
to the United States district attorney.
Thos. O'Niell, one of the parties ar.
rested, applied to the U. S. circuit court
of Milwaukee, Judge Drummond presid.
ing, and asked that an appraisal of his
distillery be made, which was granted.
In the course of his remarke the Judge
characterized the law under which the
seizures are made as a severe one, which
Dug ht to be carefully executed.
Five storekeepers in Milwaukee have
already been suspended, and it is ex-
pected that other revenue officers of the
district will suffer the same fate.
Commissioner Douglas telegraped from
Washington Tuesday, to the various SUI
pervisors who are experimenting the
work of selling the illicit stills to send
the names of all revenue officers en-.
ployed at any of the establishments seized,
in order that they may be Immediately
dismissed and reported to the several
United States district attorneys for pros
ecution, in every case where there is
evidence of said collision.
Additional instructions were also sent
to collectors at various points east and
west where the department is satisfied
fraudulent whisky has been shipped, to
seize all such supplies. The establish.
ment of Bingham & Co., of Evansville,
Ind, was seized Tuesday, and other seiz-
ures have been ordered at Pekin, ILL.,,
Cincinnati and elsewhere. The officers
have already ascertained that great guam.
titles of this ''crooked whisky have been
distributed throughout the country, es-
pecially in the South; but the form of
package in which it was originally shipped
has been changed in many instances, and
it will now be impossible to detect it.
The orders for seizures sent from Wash
ington for Monday embraced the follow.
ing named dlstilleries at st. Louis:
Teuscher's, Ulirici's, Bevis & Frazer,
Bingham Brothers, and the following rec.
tifying houses: G. Bensberg, S. G. Fed.
erer, Bevis, Frazer & Co., Quinlan Bros,
Bollman & O'Hara.
Also the following disti'leries at Chi
cago: Union Copper Distilling Company,
G. G. Russell, R. G. Mesereau, Lake Shore
Distilling Company, William Cooper, and
the following rectifying houses: Roell,
Junker & Co., Golsen & Eastman, Parker
R. Mason.
The orders Cor seizure at Milwaukee
embraced the following distillcries: Henry
Schoenield, Charles Grau, Louis Kinds
kopf, Menomonee Company, Kinnikinnick
Company, F. Bergothal, and the follow.
ing rcctifying houses S. Meyer & Co.,
A. Schoenfeld & Co., A. Laser, Milwau-
kee Sedistilling and Rectifying Company,
J. Herstein, William Misnoy, Carl Pulls.
key.
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that regard to an alarming extent. The
climate in this region is fast becoming a
purely arctic climate-only two seasons,
winter and summer, and the summer a
short one. t' ~ '.-c
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Casualties.

A tornado passed over the town of Green
Springs, O., on the 10th inst, killing two
persons.
"A scaffold Tell from the Central Presbyterian
Church St. Louis, on the 10th inst, and two
men were killed.
Nearly hundred bodies of victims of the
Schiller disaster have been recovered. -,
A terrific gale on Lake Ontario drove ashore
six vessels, on the 18th. No lives were lost.
Late statements of crop prospects in Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa indicate thatthe in
creased acreage will fully compensate for the
damage per acre, in the total yield.
Advices from Western Missouri and Kansas
leave NO room for doubt that the grosshopper
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Chicago Produce Market, May IL.
1:2O P. M.--Wheat steady at s1.O4A for June
and 81 .O7 IS for July. Pork quiet at s2l.Nh
@2l.5O for Jane; s2l.75 tor July and 500. 90 for
August. Lard quiet at 1851 E@I5.4o for June
and 5.55 for July.
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From Abroad.

The Gar of Russia arrived in the German
capital on the 10th inst. He was received at
the railway station by Emperor William and
all his Princes
1t is officially announced that the visit of the
Gear Of Russia to the Emperor Of Germany is
to insure the m "a OF peace III Europe.
A piece of cheering information.
Beneficial rains in England and France prom.
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Milwaukee Produce Market, May 10.
l:1O P. M.-Board closes with wheat unset
tied; No. l S1O5x; No. 2s1.O3; June 81 .04'4;
July sl.06 q; No. hard ,0SX.
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New York Produce

New York Produce Market, May'5.
1880 p M-Flour firm and quiet at s5l5@
5.35. Wheat nominal but more firmly held;
fair Sl.20@l.23; offerings light and few buyers
at present. Corn, old, quiet; new SIC old, Soc
asked; dull. Oats firm at 77@77kc.