The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-04-02
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other clue to Charlie Ross, which promises
good results.
Miss LovEJoY, niece of the martyr, is
a teacher of elocution at Knox College,
Galesburg, Ill
The appropriation for the Maine State
College has been cut down to S1O,0 900
by the Legislature.
Miss BELLE RICHARDSON, daughter of
the ex-Secretary of the Treasury, is an
accomplished horsewoman.
THE Maine Legislature was in session
fifty days, passed 254 bills, and then adj
journed in u sensible manner.
The Rev. Leonard Bacon, of Center
Church, New Haven, preached his fifieth
anniversary sermon last Tuesday.
MISS FLORENCE MARRYAT, the novelist,
is giving Il series of readings in Ireland,
and is meeting with great success.
WITHIN the last few days nearly all the
tobacco factories of Louisville have re-
sumed work, and some are operating at
night.
THE St. Louis woman who recently
sued a dentist, asking so, 900 damages
for breaking her jaw, has recovered
50, 800.
THE three most beautiful women on
the lyceum stage are Louise Woodwork
FOss, Mrs. Scott SiddOns, and Lillian
Edgarton.
A NATIONAL convention of representa-
tive men is to be called by the Anti
Monopoly Convention, to assemble about
the first Of July.
OWING to a scarcity of water, it was
found necessary in Newton, \. H., the
other day, to put out a fire with several
barrels of cider.
YOU'VE man, go East. Good farms in
AroostOok county, Me-, may be bought
of the State at 80 cents an acre, payment
to be made in labor on the public high
ways.
On the plains of Texas is found a little
flower called the compass flower"
which i'll all changes of wind and wealth
er points its leaves invariably to the
north.
THERE were in 1873, 1913 universities
and colleges in the United States, with
81, 053 students. Ohio has the largest
number of institutions New York the
next largest.
The crown jewels of France were val
ued during the reign of Louis XVIII.
at 1887, 900, and since that time precious
stones have risen in price, and addi-
tons have rendered them much more
valuable.
The report of the Department of Ag-
riculture for January, 1875, in an article
on "Price Of Corn Crops" says: "The
lowest average anywhere Estate average)
in the price of corn in 1874 was in Iowa
-43 cents"
SOME men employed in cutting ice at
Maynard, Mass, some days ago, let a
t~hirty-pound crow-bar fall into the water,
and for 81 a man named Hogan took off
his clothing, dove to the bottom, ten
feet, and recovered the bar.
AN ambitious Texan, having read some
where about the "Pope's bull" an
nounces in II of the papers published
in'the interior of the State that he has a
~three-year-old brindle steer, blind of one
eye, that he will match to whip any bull
the Pope can produce.
a CORRESPONDENT of a London news
paper, writing from Penrith, states that
about three weeks ago an easterly wind
blew down a large fir tree. The last gale
from the west, however, blew it up again,
and it is ''now standing quite stately and
majestic as if nothing had ever happened
to it."
JUDGE Ito intelligent juryman):
"WOuld you convict a man on circum-
~stantial ~evidence?" 81 dunno wot dat
is, Jedge." "Wel what do you think
it is! well, 'cordin to my Judgment,
sarcumstanshil is bout dis: Eff one man
shoots anudder an kills him, he orter be
hung for it. Eff he don't kill him, he
orter to go to the plenipotentiary."
SAILING vessels having been decreas-
ing in number for the last fOur wears. I'm