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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

The King of Burmah is going to start
a newspaper.
W. W. BAILEY, a Waverly Qowa) man,
has fallen heir to 100000 DOC.
THEY have had ice-boat sailing upon
the Niagara river this winter.
HENRY F. DICKENS is publicly reading
his fathers novels in London.
Man and wife in Russia own their
property separately and can u each
other at law.
YUSG WING, of the Chinese Edu-
c~ational Commission, has married a New
England lady.
GARIBALDI is idtOl look and dress like
the b'hoys that used to wear soap-locks
and run wild der mercheen."
LORD DERBY will deliver his inaugu-
raj address rs Lord Rector of the UNI
ersity of Edinburgh early next No
vember,
ADEI1NA PATTI has a passion for
poodles. She has a flock of them, seven
in number, all in an unnatural state OF
whiteneSs.
AMEMpHIs doctor treated a patient for
asthma, when his disease was kidney
complaint. A jury has put a $500
plaster on these fortunate glands.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Coke said, i'll a
recent lecture, that "Adam has been
happier for six thousand years than If
he had remained in the garden OF
Eden"
The Rev. John Parkhurst, a widely
known and highly-esteemed Baptist
clergyman of Massachusetts, recently
died at Chelmsford, i'll that State,
aged Sc.
AMOS CLARK, of Tennessee, upon his
death-bed expressed a wish that twelve
fiddlers should stand around his grave
and play "Old Dog Tray" The Widow
Clark saw it done.
d. r. LOCKE petroleum Y. Nasby)
has disposed of his interest in the 10
ledo BI0dc to his former partner, D..
P. Jones. He Will continue to edit
the Weekly BladC.
The Rev. Mr.. Dexter, OF Taunton,
Mass, recently besought his cOngrega-
ton to reduce his salary 10 per cent, as
many of his parishioners had suffered a
diminution Of wages.
4 MEMBER of the North Carolina Leg
~islature has been expelled for not belev-
ing in a personal God. The member who
moved his expulsion is named Patton. Is
there anything III Il name?
The English custom of afternoon teas
has been adopted III Paris, and the hour
is fixed at ) D.. N. Tea is not served on
a silver waiter by a servant, but a neat
little table or "etagere' stands before
each guest. On the top is a place for the
cup, and under the first shelf Is another
for biscuits or sandwiches.
ALGERIA, it appears, stands first
among countries noted for their mineral
waters, i'll respect of the number, varie-
ty, and hygienic properties of her
springs. In most cases ruins in the I'M
mediate vicinity attest the fact OF the old
Romans having appreciated the curative
qualities of the waters quite as much as
the Arabs of the present day do.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19

WASH SetllnS III.
When they were tired of that, Rob
bic rugged himself up as III oyster ped
der, taking the tin pail and two little
tumblers with handles, for measures, and
Eddy's mammals gravy ladle for Il dip
per, tying Eddy's table bib around his
waist for a white apron, and stalking all
around the room crying, "Oy-ee-sh'"
as the big peddlers DO, while Chester
pretended to buy a quart every time he
came around, and Eddy looked on with
delight.
When that play was worn out, Ches-
ter, standing by the window, and seeing
large branches Of a tree that a man was
trimming lying on the ground, suggest
ed that they should play Christmas tree.
SO a branch was dragged up the back
stairs, and the boys went to work.
They made it stand up by putting 1t In
a pail and stuffing lots of blocks and
things around it, till it was pretty steady,
though not remarkably straight, and
then they ornamented it with all of Ed
dy's toys that were small enough to hang
on it, and stuck chestnuts into every
corner where one would stay.
Meantime, Eddy's mamma had given
a private order to the nursery maid, and
all this time she had been doing some
thing mysterious in the next room, max
ing journeys to the kitchen, and coming
back with something under her apron,
which she wouldn't let the boys see.
Just as the tree began to lose its attrac-
tons, Eddy's mamma opened the door,
and invited the boys out to tea.
OF course they went out, and there, III
the next room, was a sight to please boys,
I can tell you. Eddy's little table, spread
with his little dishes, and loaded with
nice things to eat. None of your stupid
old bread and butter, and such dry
things, but cake, with ~raisins, and frost
ing, and candy-a big dish full-and
cookies with holes in, and sugar plums
on top, Il tea-real tel' 'l"' ""oi .
! white ea"-and grapes, and-and-
dear ne. can't think OF half the NICE
things that were spread u on the table
Didn't they have fine times passing
around the dishes, and pretending to be
Mr.. and Mrs. Somebody, anu thelr il''le
son and didn't they swallow dozens OF
cups of tea, and stuff themselves with
cake and jam, till they couldn't eat any
more; and when at last +" $ mamma
sent for them, didn't they promise Eddy
to come again soon, and rush home with
I'D hand full OF candy, and III the o'ilef
Il great chunk OF CAKE 'I"' LUCY "
mamma had pressed upon them as 'hey
left.
"Nell, boys, dld Fon HIVE " ll'e
time e. asked mamma
"Oh, SPl"ndld' sal" l'"oni'; I'LL l
can't eat another bit I'm just S'''lea
with dinner; but L can drink some water
it'll go III the racks lou i'i'S n"'e
this cake. -.
What "id You 90 'hele' - M
-N "' ;,
ION, played the noiSc-cii. D'Ll l
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19

Az old lady called on us "Wednesday
to advertise her house for rent. We
offered to write it ont for her, but she
said she had it with her. She took a seat,
laid her muff on a table, then picked it
I'D again and placed it on her lap by the
side of her r~eticulc. She opened the
retic5lle to get at the advertisement, when
the muif rolled OFF on the floor. We re-
stored it. and she then arose and carried
4 across the room to a desk where she de
posted it very carefully. Then she re-
sumed her seat and reopenad the retl-
cuIe. and after a patient search among It's
contents, brought out q folded handker-
chief. After %unwinding the handker-
chief with extreme caution, she produced
a package of newspapers. This she
slowly unfolded, layer after layer, until
she came to q half page OF note paper.
That was the announcement OF rent.
There were only three lines Of it, but 1t
was there, Just as perfect and u~nimpaired,
&c when she started from home with it,
half IN hour before. In this age of reck-
l~essness and shiftlessness, such an in
stance Of c~arefulness deserves more than
n passing notice. -Dan6my NeWs.
In all England, Ireland and Scotland
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19

\ YOUNG dandy sang two mortal hours
under the boudoir of his lady-love, when
ne was electrified by a "thank you"
from her window by her "other fellow
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19
THE POLITE BORE.

The polite bore is not the person you
can get rid of easily, and yet he or she
is the one you are most anxious to see
depart. The polite bore comes to you
at your most important moment, inter
rupts your most important labors. You
tell him that you are busy; he smiles
blandiy, and says he will not keep you
long. Minutes lengthen into portions OF
hours, and hours are completed and
multiplied ; your polite bore sits mmov
able, still smiling and saying he IS Oh
the point of going. You take him at his
word. and rise for the leave-taking. He
rises too, and begins another chapter,
OF his interminable discourse. He keeps
you standing till You are sick and g1ddy,
when YOU are forced to sit down again =;
on which he sits down with you, and
vorr deliverance is rs far off as ever.
The dinner-bell sounds, and he prlchs
up his ears. He has been with you since
before ltjIltil llIlt, dli't W ''H' VII
Won feed him. You had been inhospitable
because wary, and had let the midday
meal pass unnoticed, without an invita-
ton to your welcome guest or refresh
ment for yourself. Now you are brought
I'D standing. You cannot Ignore your
dinner, and your polite bore does not
mean to let you ignore it. You are
forced by the law of hospitality and gen
tlehood to say, "Wil you join u.s."
And you might as well do the thing with
good grace for if You did not ask him
he will ask himself and thus you will
lose all the value to your soul which
comes from virtue, and have none OF the
relief to your body which is sometimes
wrought out by vice. And whenit comes
to dinner, and your bore still not dis
lodged, you may fold your hands III re-
sienation, and look only to the small
hours for year release.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19

In all England, Ireland and Scotland
there are only 1877 daily papers.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31

Shreveport Times; ''rhe 81. Louis
Times says that the vote against
further subsidies II Is claimed by the
friends Of the Texas Pacific, does not
really mean hostility to this improve
ment--that Congress viii not lend the
enterprise any encouragement what
ever. On the contrary, by recent ad-
vices from Washington, we learn that
the committee selected by Mr.. Kerr
the majority OF whom are from the
South, are, with but few exceptions,
warm friends Of the Texas Pacific rail-
way enterprise, and that the project
will receive the individual votes Of the
majority of the committeeman, and
the influence ofther respective official
positions. Our own private advices
from Washington Indicate that the
friends Of the bill did not at the time
OF iIs passage, and do not now regard
the vote on the Holman resolution rs
an indication of the strength of the
bill whatever were H0lman's inten-
tions. ..'..
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31

the arts of the cuisine, And all thlS,
too, In u country whore due provision,
ut marriage IL rlgldIy insisted on, so
that no prospect Of penury looms IN
the distance, and where fortune IL lllr
less nuctu0tlng thnn here. For surely,
II to-day we look around, we SEQ such u
fall in values as no city In Europe
could show In the like time. We have
been for years in condition OF pro-
found peace, yet IN the city OF New
York real estate has In two years
fallen Mt lenst thirly-three per cent,
while in Brooklyn the depreciation
has been nearer fifty per cent, IN
fact, property there Is scarcely saIaple
to-day.
The great need Of our Southern pco-
pie IL like education oI tho daughters
of our luud. Let US teach them to be
bookkeepers, artists, mislresses not
only of the most important nrL OF cHl'
sine, but Of the arts OF biography,
printing, etc
The advice of Mrs Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, in this regard, were wei
worth our attention, and the following
OF IL would save much heart burning
much of that misery entoiled by living
upon the bounty OF friends or rela
lt,,u
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31
DALLAS AND GREENyILLE-A MAR.
H ROW.GAUGE RAILROAD,

We are in receipt of Il cOmmunica-
ton from gentleman who resides in
Dallas, last week, on the subject of
building q narrow-gauge railroad be-
tween this place and that city. 1t is
unnecessary to state the advantages
such road would be to both points,
for every business man will admit it ut
once. We are in the midst of a section
o. country, the richest in North Texas,
and are surrounded at distance of
thirty miles by railroads on three sides.
Ihould a road ntersect this territory,
II will be the outlet for an immense
lot of produce, besides altording trans
portatiou for many of the thousands Of
immigrants flowing into Texas who
would visit this part of the State were
there any railroad communication
with it. East of us lay Hopkins and
Delta counties, and II road from here
TO Dallas would make this the nearest
market for sulphur Springs and Coop
er, besides the country tributary to
those cities. Our correspondent states
that the cost of grading and bridging
the road would be only Sl2S,00 an
amount that Dallas alone could easily
eXpend to get the road, and, when
that is done, the iron and rolling stock
could be obtained without any trouble.
We would be glad to hear the matter
aeitated by the business men and press
of both places, so if there should be
any chance to secure such an enter
plise, it may be begun in good faith.
HINT COlultU IDQeDenIent
We are pleased to see that our re-
marks respecting narrow-guage roads
are already having happy effect.
Would that all of Northern Texas
would awake to the Importance of this
mode of transportation.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31

Globe-Democrat The I[hedive il
no fool. lie offered portion Of his
Suez canal stock at private sale, know.
ing that the Nation which bought 1t
must become measurably responsible
for the whole. England invested aud
the stock barometer went up rapidly.
Now when the shares have reached n
quoted price which they never before
had, he proposes to unload the balance
in fact, all he has and has got Eng
land and France to bidding with each
other In fine style. The former Is
bound to have those shares, no matter
what they cost they are life or death
to her Eastern Empire, aud so, in her
necessity, she will be made to pay
richly for them. How Ismial must
chuckle over the successes of his little
game. ..
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31
Important to Bankers.
TFrom tho Chicago Tribune


The liability of a bank for check
on itself drawn by one customer and
accepted in the deposit of another is
now oontradictorily regarded by the
courts. Until recently, the law stood
pnquestioned that II bank accepting
such check certified to its genuine
ness so far rs to stop itself from sub
sequently raising any question with
regard to its validity. The supreme
court of California has recently given
decision aLtagonistic to this princi.
pie, N has been done previously by
the supreme court of Pennsylvania.
These decisions are believed to indi-
cate the drift of political opinion. This
foreshadOws the general acceptance OF
the doctrine that u bank receiving
deposit of a check drawn upon itself
receives ii not rs cash deposit, but for
the purposes of collection, and that the
b INK, by receiving 1t and entering it
in the passbo0k of the deposition, does
not deprive itself of the right subse-
quently to question the check and re-
Turn it, if it be not made good, before
the close of banking hours. The Penn
NNiNuhth CusU was budb VI thC Union
National Bank VS.. 2. s. Peterson & Co.,
aud that in California was that of the
National Gold Bank VS.. M'Donald.
The cases are sufficiently described by
the references above made to the point
at issue. The variance between the
established law and the new decisions
will he readily understood and justified
when the variance of the old and new
usage is pointed out. In the old days
the cashier of the bank was the repre-
sentative Of the bank to its customers;
he received the deposits, paid the
checks, and kept himself fully inform
ed of the condition of the bank. |
the cashier attends to
more important but less active
duties. There are receiving. tellers aud |
to discharge functions
once united in the cashier. Custom
has limited the duties and RESPONSE
bilities of the receiving-teller. He
passes only on the manner and form |
Of a deposit; its essential genuineness
he does not have to decide. AS an ex-
treme case Of this we may cite this
practice: II is the custom in large
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31

They have already scorched the
White House, and if the prosecuting
attorneys use all the evidence that will
he brought to them in the Babcock
trial. they will play hell with every
man in the Executive Mansion.-JOia
Il. Joyce, Misso,rj Ftl'itentia,y
The language of Joyce would seem
to indicate that Grant may yet be im-
plcated in the frauds of the whisky
ring; but we imagine that this bonn
bastical criminal feels somewhat ven
omous because of his own conviction,
and would covertly blaoken the Presi-
dent from his quarters in the Peniten-
tiary. Better testimony than that of
Joyce must be adduced.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31

banks, during busy hours, when large
amount Of small bills Is offered by y
depOsItor to take II at the amount he
names, place n strap around II with his
name on IL, enter the amount To his
credit, and II any deficit Is found, or bad
bills discovered In It, upon n moro lels-
urely count, TO call upon him TO make
the deposit good, In It's later decls-
ions, therefore, ON the question Of the
liability Of banks for checks deposited,
the law has simply yielded, rs II did
generations ago IN the case Of bills Of
exchange, to the change in CONNER
clal usage.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31

THE butchers of the city are protest
ing against their contemplated remov-
al to the city market building IL is a
great convenience for many of our
citizens to have these very
necessary institutions near their
houses, and it would be espe-
cially inconvenient for the Knights
of the Cleaver to tear down the fixtures
and appurtences of their well-arranged
balls. and be packed like sardines into
the market house. AS long as butch
ers' shops are kept clearly and neat,
we know Of no reason for breaking
them up.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31

Messrs Blaine and Morton ARE de-
veloping an ambition as constitution
members and, without the rudiments
of necessary knowledge or the past
record, seek TO make themselves con-
spicuous In pandering to some tempo
rary passion or current ianaliclsm,
with the ultimate object Of riding into
position to which they have 10 title.
No man, or set of men, connected as
these two were with the reconstruction
acts, should arrogate to themselves
the duty of amending organic law for
II free people. The pretended states
man who can bring himself to sophis-
ticnte the constitution Of his country,
debauch her Institutions, and plant
the seeds Of permanent anarchy
M society, polite and domestic, for
selfish and oitimes vindictive party
purposes, is too base for such work.
This exalted labor requires n man con-
versant with human nature, SO learned
in political history and so endowed
with genius rs to be able to compre-
bend and forcibly illustrate the defects
in our Federal Constitution, and to
formulate and recommend to the en-
lightened understanding of people
the vital changes necessary to be
wrought.
Blaine and Morton, the one why
and cunning, the other vindictive and
insolent, are not competent to perform
this work, and their efforts in that
line will hardly prove successful.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31

THE Representatives of Texas stood
by the interests of their State most
manfully on the Holman resolutions.
While acknowledged Democrats, true
ntheir fealty to party and to princi-
pie, they nevertheless refused to be
gagged by n resolution that sought to
strike down one of the grandest works
of the country. That roll of honor
should be preserved for future refer
ence. 1t is as follows:
Cabell, Darnell, Douglas, Dunnell,
Ferry, Goode, Hancock, Harris, Va,
House, Horton, Hyman, Jones, KY,
Kelly, Lamar, Miss, Mills, Morey,
ONeill, Parsons, Reagan, John Reilly,
Pa, Slemons, Smalls, Strait, Stone,
Tlrockniorton, Tucker, Vance, N. c.,
Wallace, Pa, Wells, Mo-, Wells, Miss,
White, Yeates, Young.
80, against 223; Messrs. Culbertson
and Schleicher not recorded as voting.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31

WE have received u communication
signed Voter" discussing the merits
of the new Constitution. From the
sample of writing and composition be-
fore us, "Votern has intelligence
enough to know that the invariable
rule of papers like THE HERALD is,
that the writer's real name should be
given, not for publication, but as o
guarantee Of good faith. When this Is
done, we will take pleasure in insert,
ing the article, for our columns are
ever open to the free discussion OF
questions OF this moment. ttI %.
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q
AN ancient citizen of the Old Do
minion, DR.. Paul c. Venable, now in
Dallas, calls our attention to an error
in the article taken from the Phlladel-
phia Times, in THE HERALD of the
Goth. The Times article, in speaking
of the most prominent committeeman
of the present Congress, says that
John Randolph Tucker, tborn "a, 1928
is grandson of John Randolph, of
Roanoke, and a brother of Beverly
Tucker. Both statements are wrong.
He is son of Henry S. George Tuck
er, who was a half-brother of Ran
dolph, and full brother of Beverly
Tucker Sr., the father of the present
Beverly. The father of the Tucker
brothers, was st. George Tucker, ma
tive Of the Bermuda Islands, who was
the second husband of John Ran
dolph's mother, originally Miss Bland.
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SOME fellow who has not yet 10

SOME fellow who has not yet lost
confidence in lottery gambling, has
at last leen made happy. On
the eth instant in New Orleans,
number $50 drew the capital prize of
100000 currency. A very comfort
able sum wherewith to spend the holt
days. If he is sensible the lucky tick
ct holder will eschew such question
able enterprises for the future, for he
will in all probability, spend the $780,
0)O ere he happens again upon such
good fortune.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31
DALLAS, TEX AS.
FRIDAY MORNING ,;:i; DEC. 81
T,,p Denjson Doiy Ne,Ds hoists Ill

THE Denison Daily Ntws HOSTS the
tho name of Sidney Il. Fontaine for
County Judge. We have known sgd.
for nearly ten years we have eaten
many an oyster supper and smoked
variousand sunday llavannns together.
Major Fontninc IL II courteous and most
agreeable gentleman his CONVERSE
tional powers are rarely surpassed.
We beg to tender him our best wishes
for his success.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31

John NJ, hlemmons, Attorn.. a., ,-,.-
ncl2O-dtf 'F'''N'Ih'
Courthouse, '"''ti near
Carleton J, H., over Chlnn It,,, g,
Main 3reoh Win lcign q Cmnrs, w. @
Clerks office, ''"''' opposite
Mc,ny a. ,,,C,,, ,o,--.-., II
house square, VI Noqll'
Thnrnond y Ray, office corner Main 49,.
JHHVlaoh hlletlsi near Courthouse. 1ll
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Dental Surgeons.

Dr. j, " McGee, Dentist graduated II, a..
Baltimore Dental College in ISli' ua, ,n lhe
moved 10 auut beast corner Elm md Tx NY, 10,
streets, over Knlufs clothing store ''inAr
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31
CHEAP ADVERTISING COLUMN
AltorneAa niInu.

hr91pae NO. Olo l1lu street, corner ' Sl iin
uOvIItf
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rnysIelans aud snrrnnnu

n, u, Kennedy, NJ, d., office over uosb,n.
a howells drug store, elm street, wheTe 6s
at his residence, No, 5l5 YoalaireeC ''S''
j. II, Gibbs, NJ, d., II. n. Bosw.lI A, -
Physicians aud Surgeons. Spcclul ntt,' ,pn
given 10 diseases aud dolmmilles of eve e. n,i
eur. 0ilige over Wohl's store, Oh Elm slreei 1
Munday j, g., NJ, D, Office oyer wheop,
store Mmp hnoeti oiiice hours, 0 am toS
pm ..I 10. ~
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Heal Estate.

paugherty, Connellce x zimmerman, oiBco
Dvar Postotlice. IL
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This policy 1.-THE Republican, as far
as can be learned, may be condensed
into few plain and simple rules,
which every member OF the minority
would do well TO cut out and paste on
the under side of his desk lid for FREE
quent reference:
First-Bear in mind that the party