The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-04-30
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Presidential candidate for 1876.
GENERAL.
Another 500, 900 worth of the Tweed prop
erty has been attached III Westchester county.
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The discovery OF lead and silver in Sails
bury, Mass. is reported. A sale has Just been
made of a portion of the Chapman lode. New
buryp0rt, on the basis of a valuation of =. O00.-
coo for the mine.
The various departments al Washington
are making preparations for representation
in the Centennial. Among the novel
ties, that contributed by the Indian
bureau cannot fail of attracting ma. ked
attention. 1t il proposed to secure a
family from each Of the distinct Indian tribes
OF America, and provide for them quarters in
which they shall live exactly as they DO in their
Western wigwams.
-postmaster-G General Jewell has issued a
circular to postmasters forbidding them 10
furnish information IA to the weight Of news
papers forwarded through the mails.
Eight hundred CAeyennes are said to be on
tie war path.
The unstampei check smartness is about to
he stopped by the Secretary Of the Treasury.
Baltimore has driven from her gates all
fortune tellers, so-called clairvayant doctors.
etc. They were all arrested and punished in
Discriminatory. male and female. BIZ fine and
imprisonment. Among the dupes of these
frauds were ladies of tie wcaltiiest and most
respectable families.
-Adviees fron Omaha report that rich gold
mines have been discovered thirty miles west
of Laramie. Miners are said to be taking out
from so 70 $40 per day.
One party of Black Hills miners has already
come to grief, having been arrested by the
troops but by order of the President md
Secretaries of War and the Interior they have
been released on promise that they will not
agaiL invade that territory until permission is
given by the proper authorities.
News from the frontier is very exciting a.
to the Indian outrages. -Four soldiers were
surrounded near Grenada. Kan, last week, by
a band of Indians, and the fight lasted for sew
eral hours. 4 number of savages were killed
before they were repllsed. Gen. Pope il active
iii preparations for the approaching troubles
The centennial anniversary of the battles
of Lexington and Concord was celebrated april
18th with a grand pageant, in which thou-
sands of the most distinguished citizens Of the
United States participated. The day was usii-
cred in By the firing of 100 guns at sunrise,
one for each year Of American liberty. 4 pro
cession over two miles in length, composed of
over 5000 soldiers and citizens, passed through
the streets and over the historic road To the
battle ground, where the statue Of the Minute
Man" was unveiled, amid the firing Of cannon.
An address by Hon. Charles Hudson, q poem
By Julia Ward Howe, and a grand ball III the
evening, were among the features of the Occa-
sion. The President and Eice-Presidemt Of the
United States, members of the Cabinet United
States Senators, member of Congress, Gov
errors Of States, Judges. Generals, poets. ora
tors, and eminent men of the republic we're
present.
The Chicago Hter- Ocean prints special re-
ports from many towns in Pennsylvania, Ohio.
Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia and Mary
land, relative to grain and fruit prospects. The
reports as a whole indicate that the wheat crop
will be below the average yield. In some of
the most favored regions of Michigan, Indiana,
and Ohio, the late cold weather has seriously
damaged the growing grain, and many fields
are being plowed under i'll order to Plant
corn. Where the recent frosts did not pre-
vail the wheat appears tiourislinE, al
though in q few localities the dry weather
of last fall injured it. Spring wheat il reported
a. being in good condition. Barley as we'll a.
wheat has suffered. and Judging the advices.
the crop will be almost a total failure. Oats
and corn are not sufficiently covered by the re-
ports to determine what the yield will be.
Clover, both old and newly s0Nn, III many To-
c~aiities Is ID destroyed. The fruit prospects are
not fattering. Peaches are almost entirely
killed i'll the localities reporting, ais well as pears
and grapes. Apples will not afford more than
Eaif a crop. All small fruits are wholly or par
italy destroyed.
Tie Agricultural Department at Washing
ton reports the condition of the winter wheat
10 be much below the status of the crop of last
year in April.
FIRES IND CASUALTIES.
AT Charlotte, \. c., last week, a fire de-
strored about 3, 900 bales of cotton, the depots