The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-07-13

flower and Is cut down. He heeth also
rs n shadow, and continueth not" Peace
be with them.
The county officers Mt its first organ
ization were Upton Rohrer, President |;
Samuel Crowley and William Deakin.
Andrew 5. Hughes, Clerk of the Cir
cult and County Courts, served but one
day, and resigned, when Edwin Toolc
many years, and was regarded as one
OF the most efficient clerks in the State
He is still among the living.
Ezekiel Smith, Sheriff, and Jonathan
Earls, Treasurer, died many years
since.
AS shown by the returns of Henry
Eppler, tho Assessor, the county reve-
nue. Separate from town lots and COM
mun school, fund) amounted to s420 n.
JolnrB. Collier, ..e County Surveyor.
is also numbered with the dead,
Benjamin X Dyer was the first COM
missioner of the seat ofjustice.
Andrew county was attached to the
Twelfth Judicial Circuit. with David
Il. Atchison, Judge, and Peter II. Bur-
nett. Circuit Attorney, appointed by
Governor "Tom" Reynolds. both OF
whom altcrward became eminent IN
political iilc-the ilrst United States
Senator and the latter Governor OF Cali,
fornia.
The lirst session OF the Circuit Court
in Andrew county was held March s.
1871, ut the dwelling house Of Gallaat
Rains, the place designated by the Gen.
eral Assembly in the law organizing
the county. The attorneys admitted to
ihe bar at the term were Andrew >
Hughes, John w. Kelley, Theodore d.
wheaton, Prince L.. liudSens, and Pe
ter IL. Burnett. The grand Jurors FOL
the term were James Davidson, fore
man ;Jona.han Earls, William l. Rush.
Elilah RULER, Hiram smith, George
Walters, Joel Guppy, William A. Price,
Elijah Walters, James w. Wood, James
Irvine, Abraham Dillon, David David
son. Mitchell Gillian. Robert Elliott,
Benjamin Williams, benjamin X. Holt
and James Herring, four of whom are
yet citizens of this county. They pre-
sented ten indictments for gaming. one
for hog stealing, one Tor obtaining
goods under false pretenscs, and two for
assault with intent to kill. The gam
piers plead guilty and were each fined
by the Judge one dollar and costs. The
first civil case on the docket was Tin
Mosicr VS.. Coonrod Cliaield and others
The first habcas corpus was issued in
iayor of Monroe Hayward.
When the weather would permit,
court was held under large elm tree
which stood about where now stands j.
I. Waterman's fine brick dwelling
house, his honor, Dave" rs he was
tamillarly called, seated ina chair on
"a huge pine box, presiding with the dig
nifty of Il Jay, Livingston or Marshall.
The attorneys, when engaged in the
,rial OF case. used the crown OF their
hats rs substitutes for tables. Ball
crown hats were then in fashion, and
swallow-tail coats, with collars striking
the wearer about The amatiye organ OF
the oc'iput.
The places FOR the deliberations of the
grand and petit Jurors We're places cut
out IN the hazel patch, sufficiently ca
pacious to hold comfortably their occu-
pants. A narraw path led to them, at
the entrance to which sentinels were
placed to protect the juries from dis
turbance.
The following attorneys were subse.
quentIy admitted to the bar: ). L..
Leonard, W.B. Almond, l.. n. Jones,
James IL. Baldwin, Z: L. brown, Law;
renee Archer, FRED. GreenOugh, Be:j.
hayes, w. A. Owsley, Samuel X. Camp
bell, Booth Athcrton, {. +. Holley,
Willard L. Hall, +. Z. West. John VIII
son, j.. w. Hastings. j. NJ. Young.
James Is. Gardenhire, a. w. Doni-
plan, X. NJ. Stewart. Ben Stiles, C. C..
Ellis, NJ. IL. Singleton. Henry Nj. Vo-
rless, James Craig, benjamin F. Loan,
Beia NJ. Hughes, j. NJ. Bassett, Elijah
III. Norton and James NJ. DaviS-truly
fearful list to ravage on new coun-
ty..
Henderson Young succeeded David
Is. Atchison as Judge of the Circuit. the
latter being appointed United States
senator to succeed Hon. Lewis +. Linn,
deceased:
Henry Patterson, now Of Holt county.
was the frst foreigner naturalizcd in
.no oo"n'y' anu Alexander McAiistcr
NH. ~
uas "o o,.n nISt ,S SESSION oi tme .onh.y Court
In" Ins n T,so ,pIu ~ naliaht haihs, tue
90. ~ S .ne u.,''" VI inc circuit
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ia's ", ~ w. "os'y .no commissioners 10 So
n,oa, e. w., Ta,,na, PetaInt scar OF Justice 10
du,v Two LnnJrad III Ill pe',o,nt .n' 'na'
and nIaced in ,ha ~ hauas "ps
Eswin Toole ~ have Tho ,and . an.onaS a.
and the com,n;ss;"ners 80 u ;e, en.e.u;
I, Law off the I,nd into lo,s ana snnI 49, I.ou
The first sale of lots VS. @ % aSrar,;nS @ 'a's' u,
the Far WcsI and % ,ts 'o..'eS Wes,n,', S,l. ~
published in Platte % and
Clay counties The nnarss, " -, ,na, ,;n,a anu
10 Savannah Suhsonnsn,iS "as THo M" ne
tryn Emn;rc w,s s,,r,1.S ~ S "
bv Loren.o n Nash " :" CAV a'n"n
ON Tho adnntion hr tho Co,r, =, ,o
Commissioners, renort seian,;nm W , ,ho
county seat, Prince L Hudyens 5u ,he I
mart of William IT RndrerI anS o,hor" I ,n0
hIed mo,ion oh;er,inS :" n" ,hn o.no, as,
and location as c9n,rnrS " ~ "Io I'u ''po.t
aslino tbr CONT 10 sst ;,o Saw law, anu
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