The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-08-27
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL BRsvlTlES.

EX-TREASURER PARKER, of South
Carolina. who was arrested upon charges of
embezzlement. who escaped from Jail and
was recaptured, has finally been released on
$1,000 bail and has left the State. His re-
lease excited great Indignation, and some of
the papers denOunce it as Il gross judicial
outrage.
PRIVATE adviccS received in New
York on the 18th announce the assassination
Of Senior Gabriel Garcia Moreno, President OF
the Republic of Ecuador.
REAR-.tpMIEAL NAPOLEON COLLINS,
commanding the South Pacific 1leet.' died at
Callao on the 9th inst. R~ear-Admiral Reed
Wordcn has been ordered to the command of
the South Pacific station.
II. +. liELMBoLn, the famous ''Bu-
chu" man, who recently returned from Eu-
rope. has been pronounced insane, and
removed to an asylum in Philadelphia.
PRESIDENT GRANT was entertained at
Il clam bake, 1t Providence, X. L., on the 18Th.
lie was the guest of Gen. Burnside.
CHANCELLOR II. NJ. KEY, of Chat
tanooga, has been appointed by Gov. Porter
of Tennessee a> successor to Andrew John
son in the United States Senate. Mr.. Key is
about - wears of age. not much of IA politi-
elan. but said to he very popular in East Ten
ne>See.
CoKIE Y. FISCHER, a colorcd school,
teacher of Mississippi, has brought suit in
the supreme Court of the District of CoIuA-
bia urojnSt tho p,IImon p,I,ca T,r Gam
pany, claiming $4,000 damages for refusal
to allow her to travel on a palace ear from
Cincinnati to Washington.
MRS. LINCOLN'S mental condition IS
so much improved that she is about to leave
the asylum on a visit to her sister in SPRING
field, III.
EDWIN BOoTH, who WAS injured re-
Gently by being thrown from a wagon. is
rapidly recovering, and 10 further danger is
apprehended. He is at his country house in
Cos Cob, Conn.
BESSIE TvENER is said to be writings
novel.
Coy. SMITH Of Georgia made Il
speech at Augusta, on the 23d. in response to
a Serenade. in which he said there had been
serious cause for apprehension of in>urrec-
ton in the disturbed counties, bus owing TO
the timely and prudent action of the whites
the danger was past. The great mass of
cOIored people. he said, really knew nothing
of tue gravity and danger Of the plot into
which they were being led by Il few bad
negroes.
w. 3. G~REENLAw, President Of the
Memphis and LIttle Rock Railroad, and of
the Peoples Insurance Company of Mem
phis, died of dropsy on the 23d.
REV. CYRUS MUTT, ID. d., l.. l.. D.,
for fifteen years President of the Indiana
State University, at Bloomington, Ind, died
on the 23d.
JEFFERSGE DAVIS has received inyi-
tationS from Dcs MOineS. Iowa: Kansas City,
Mo-: Charleston, H.. and a number of other
points in the West. to deliver the annUtl adj
dress at the meetings of the various agricui-
tural societies in these counties.
GEN. SHERIDAN is visiting the paci-
fc coast,tand IN the 33d I grand public re
ception was given him in san Francisco.
1t i, said.that the Directory of the
Chicago, Rock Island AMI Pacific Railroad
have. finally decided TO change the westcrn
terminus OF that road from L~cavenworth TO
Kansas City early during the fall.
4 NEW National Union party, with
Gen. \. p. Banks for President. and L.. -. c.
Lamar, of Mississippi, as Nicc-President, has
been organized at Boston. Gen. Banks,
however, has declined.