The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-15
ANDREW COUNTY REPUBLICAN,
SAVANNAH,
NEWS IN BRIEF
Personal.

LII - lN
Personal.
-9ice-Presidsnt Wilson has returned to
Washington, and intends 10 preside in the
Senate during tie remainder of the session.
y ate foreign advices announce the death
of the following distinguished people: Mrs.
j. Lothrop MOTLEY. wife of the American his
torian. and former United States Minister to
London. Ledru Rolin, the Communist leader,
and the Duke of MontrOse.
Capt. z. B. Ward. the millionaire, died
from a~popleKy at Detroit on the % inst. He
was "a years old, and it is thought his estate
is worth $40, 600, 900.
The investigation of the Pacific Mail
subsidy has disclosed the fact that a Wash
ington journalist now dead received 1925, 900
for the advocacy OF the subsidy in his news
paper.
The suit of Theodore Tilton against
Henry Ward Beecher has at length been COM
menced in the City Court of Brooklyn. before
Judge Nelson. The case had so far pro-
crossed that three Jurors had been chosen
jar. 5.
In the Pacific Mail inquiry, at Washing
ington, on the It'll, Messrs. Cooke and Riggs,
bankers, identified three checks paid to Con-
gresham Schumacher, amounting to $50, 900.
GENERAL.
/. The Bureau Of Indian Affairs has issued
instructions to Agents and Superintendent
that Indian tribes must not be allowed to leave
their reservations without written permits and
military escorts.
T so lots of California salmon, under the
charge of George H. Jerome, Superintendent
of State Fisheries of Michigan, parsed
through Chicago a few days ago-one los.
numbering from GO,G0J to 10 900, for Lake
Superior, ard another lot Of from II, 0C0 to
20. 900 for the State Of Louisiana.
Tho Ross and Downing factions III the
Cherokee Nation ara again engaged i'll the
pleasant psstimc Of shooting each other. and
serious troubles are foreshadowed in that neck
of woods. Already some half dozen half
breeds have been ssnt to the happy hunting
grounds. and at last sdyices a general battle
between the rival factions was anticipated.
1t il stated that President Grant and Sec
rotary Fish, now that Spain is no longer a
republic. will insist upon full satisfaction for
the many antiquities offered to American
citizens IL Cuba.
The iutrudi3g miners are to be driven out
Of the Black H;Ils.
A Washington dispatch Of the 4th inst.
says Instructions have already been sent
10 Minister Cushing, a. Madrid, regarding the
course to be pursued by the government in
the event of King Alfonso successfully es-
tabishing himself & ruler. When this is ac-
complished, Minister Gushing will recognize
the new government"
Roe Broth ars, a Chicago firm that has
been doing an extensive business in groceries.
principally with Changers, through travelling
agents, have suddenly disappeared, leaving
debts to the amount of about 5000. 900.
They fed to Canada, carrying with them
some 800, 900.
The Louisiana Legislature assembled in
the State-House at New Orleans on Monday,
the 4th inst. TIE singular scenes attending
that meeting are fully reported in the Asso-
ciated Press kilograms and special dispatches
to the daily papers, the publication of which
in these Columns would exclude matter Of
more interest to the general reader. 1t ap-
pears from the dispatches that ex-MayOr
Witt Democrat Was voted into the chair
temporarily. and. "a the Republicans
claim, ~irregularly: that t~hereupOn the
House at once seated tive members
who had not been given certificates by
the Returning Board. and also -four members
from contested parishes, leaving the con-
tests to be decided afterward. The Temporal
~ Speaker, Wilt, refused to entertain a mo-
ton for the yeas and nays on this question,
holding that the House was not sufti-
ciently organized to take a yea and nay
vote. A permanent organization was then
effected by the Democrats, the lepub-
licans refusingv to vote. Soon aftcrward
q file Of soldiers. under Gen. De Trobriand.
entered the hall. elected all the members who
could not eh0w certificate from the Return
ing Board. and seated Mr.. Tigers as Clerk of
the House, who proceeded to call the roll.
The Democratic members then left the hall.
after entering their protest a gainst the inter-
ference of the military, and the Republicans
proceeded to organize. Tn Governors mes
sage was receives and some other routine
business transac ed, after which they adj
iourned till next day.
The amount of grain in sight in the States
and Canada. Oh the Goth nit. was: II, 1913 277
bushels of wheat, 1898, Gas bushels of corn.
2.547. l45 bushels CT oats, and 1850, 066
bushels of barley.
Gov. Kellogg testified before the Con
gressiOnal Committee. ut New Orleans, that
he had information of a plot by the White