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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

ST. PATRICK's DAY was celebrated
this year with the usual professions, ban
quets, ETC., in most of the large towns
and cities throughout the country. In
Boston the day was additionally cele,
brated as being the Tooth anniversary
of the evacuation of that city by the
British troops.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

Iris officially announced by the Post
Office Department, that OF and after
April 3 next the system of international
m~oney-order exchanges now in force
between the United States and Canada
will be extended to the province of New
Foundland.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

A SEVERE n o storm, accompanied
by an unusually low temperature, pre-
vailed throughout the West and North
west on the 18th and 10Th. At Sioux
City on the afternoon of the 10Th the
mercury fell from 80 degrees above to
4 degrees below zero. Hundreds of
Black Hills adventures were caught
between Yankton and the Hills, and it
is feared great suffering will ensue, as
many are beyond the reach of fuel and
feed for their stock, and unable to move
in any direction on account of the deep
snow.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

IT has been found that in nearly every
civilized country the tree that bears "'e
mos, fruit for market is the aXle-tree'
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

The Republican Senatorial Caucus
has agreed that the sweeping reduc-
tons in the customary annual appro-
priations proposed by the House COM
mitees will seriously impair the civil
service, and that the Senate shall there
fore insist upon passing upon each item
separately, and concurring only in those
reductions which seem to be compatible
with the efficiency of the service.
Mr.. c.. b. PECK, of the firm of Dur
fee e. Peck, who were post-traders at
Forts Sully, Rice, Stevenson, and Bu-
ford, testified before the Clymer Com
mittee on the 18th. All of these trader
ships were taken from this firm, that of
Fort Sully being given to a Mr.. Athey,
a former clerk for w. c. Babcock, Sur
veyor-General of Kansas, and a
brother of Gen. Babcock, late the
Presidents Private Secretary. Athey
had no means to purchase supplies, and
the firm entered into an arrangement
with him through w. C. Babcock, by
which they agreed to employ Athey at
a salary of $1,000 per year, until he
could raise the means to purchase the
stock and supplies owned by the firm
and in consideration of Babcock's
service in procuring the contract they
paid him the sum of S2,250 in three
quarterly installments. This post was
considered worth $10,000a year. The
witness further testified his belief that
various other traderships were taken
from his firm through the influence of
Orvil Grant, and given to other parties.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14
A Dying Lover Married.

An unusual marriage took place in
Omaha, Neb., the parties thereto being
Spencer Wright and Miss Bessie
Roberts, daughter of United States
Deputy Collector John Roberts. The
ceremony took place at the house where
the young man boarded, as he was too
i'll to be removed elsewhere. The Rev.
L. F. Britt, pastor of the First Metho-
dist church, performed the ceremony.
Mr.. Wright has been failing in health
very rapidly of late, and the physicians
here having given him up, his father,
who is merchant tailor in New York
city, arrived to take his son home to
die of consumption. Miss Roberts, to
whom young Wright has long been
affianced, decided to 60 East with her
dying lover, and give him all the care
and attention that her love could prompt
in his dying hours, and the better to
enable her to care for him, she decided
to have the marriage ceremony per-
formed before the journey to New York
was undertaken. While the wedding
was sad in its attendant circumstances,
it was ightened up with the great cheer
fulness manifested by the bride in tax
ing up her labor of love.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14
Presence of Mind.

"Dora" was being enacted in a
Western city where the choice of actors
is not great. and Mary Morrison, on
making her exit to bring on her little
Willie, of four years, was shocked to
find lubberly boy of at least fourteen,
who must go on, as no other was to be
had. The Farmer Allen of the play was
no doubt equally shocked to see Mary
coming upon the stage with boy near
IL as big as herself. Whist was worse,
the audience began to litter. But Farm
er Allen was equal to the emergency,
and instead of asking GLOW old are
you, my little boya" said: "How old
are you, my strapping fellow2" proba-
bly, hoping that the boy would have the
good sense to give an age more suitable
to his size. The boy, however, with
painful fidelity to the book, and in a
sepulchral voice that made the answer
all the more preposterous, said "Four
to five, grandpapa." "Forty-five -
exclaimed the other, cheerfully; "you
look it, my boy, you look it /" There
WAS laugh at the moment, but the
play was saved from shipwreck. 1t was
told of famous tragedian that at the
close of an act in which he had been the
prominent character, goose's head was
thrown upon the stage by some one who
had spite against him. The tragediau
picked it up, handed it to one of the
others to take away, and said, with per-
feet nonchalance: The gentleman
who has thrown his head upon the stage
can get it back at the close of the per
formance."
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14
New York Millionaires,

The New York correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune says: Commodore
Vanderbilt is easily reached. Any one
can get an interview with him who de-
sires it. h. B. Clafin, the great dry
goods king, occupies q small Office in
his great establishment, and customers
and clerks go in and out while he is
there with the utmost freedom. Mr..
Claflin often confers with his clerks and
junior partners at their desks, and is ap-
preached by the firms patrons as readily
as if he was one of the salsemen. VIM.
B, Astor was another man always ready
to see any one who called upon him in
his business Office on Prince street.
Commodore Garrison has an Office on
Bowling Green, where his steamship
business has long been done, and, pro-
vided he has no person with him at the
moment, can be seen for the asking.
Jay Gould is always busy, but visitors
by taking their turn can see him at any
time.
The leading bank presidents are &C.
cessible to anybody who may call upon
them.
The heads of the dry goods firms OF
Arnold & Constable and Lord & Taylor
can be seen at any time by sending in q
card or a name. Indeed, our busiest
men are real democrats, and as q cat
may look at king. 80 may the humblest
citizen secure an audience with the
richest without hindrance.
The nearest kin to A. T.. Stewart in
the Tycoon business is James Gordon
Bennett. He has corps of watchmen
and doorkeepers keeping off the rabble,
and after passing three or four waiting,
rooms he may be seen.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14
Centennial Notes.

France appropriates $4,000 to send
mechanics of every class to the Centen-
NAL. All French industries, including
agriculture, will be represented in the
delegation.
The Centennial commissioners are
very liberal with passes. Of the large
attendance on the first day only 6,216
paid their money, and since that time
this number has run down to 10, 900 and
$4,000.
The non-paying attendants are now
announced as IL, ,0O0 in number among
the exhibitors and their assistants, 1,511
among the general officials, 225 among
the judges, 100 more to the State boards,
and over 500 to the press.
A pretty pavilion has been built by
the Portuguese government nearly op-
posite the Pennsylvania educational
building. 1t is one story high within
and two without, and is surrounded by
wide piazzas. The Portuguese commits
sioners have their Offices here.
There ore two French restaurants on
the grounds. One of them goes on the
principle that nobody will be caught
in it the second time, and that it must
therefore get all the money it can out of
chance customers who have been drawn
to it by its famous name. The other is
obviously kept by an Americanized
Frenchman.
The partial relief to visitors to the
Exhibition which was given by the abo-
lition of the rule requiring two fifty
cent notes (or pieces) for two persons
instead of one dollar, has been receded
from by the managers. They still insist
upon the fifty cent fraction. They do
this, they say, because of the greater
facility in handling crowds and detect
ing counterfeits.
The parade of the Knights Templars
in June will, if the programme and
promise of numbers in attendance is
fulfilled, be the most gorgeous in the
annals of Masonry. Some rate the num-
Der of expected Knights at more than
twenty thousand, exclusive of the Phila-
delphia organizations. Minor vista
tions of military societies, press clubs,
etc., will greatly diversity the scene
until the great day on which Mr.. Evarts
is to enliven it with his Grafton.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14
The Cost of PIumage.

There is no lady deserving of the
name who could witness without feel
ing of horror the process of preparing
for use the feathered beauties which
form such conspicuous ornaments in the
present style of women's hats. If those
who wear such ornaments knew the
tortures to which these helpless little
creatures are subjected, and the heart
less cruelty with which the business is
carried on, they would shrink from even
indirect completely in it. Of course the
impression prevails that all birds used
for personal decoration are killed i'm
mediately when caught and prepared in
the ordinary way by taxidermists but
here is where the mistake is made. The
birds are taken alive, and while living
the skin is skillfully stripped from their
quivering, CHASTITY bodies. By this pro-
cess it is claimed the feathers retain a
firmer hold upon the skin. Such is the
method by WHICH all birds used in the
decoration of ladies' hats are prepared.
Think of the exquisite humminR bird,
the blue bird, the cardinal bird, the
oriole, and numberless others of beauti-
full plumage, struggling beneath the
knife of the heartless operator think of
this, tender hearted ladies, as your ad-
miring gaze rests on the latest novelties
in fashion by which our city bellies are
crownedl Hundreds of thousands of
birds of the brightest plumage are liter
ally fayed alive every year, and so long
as our ladies will consent to wear such
ornaments, just so long will this cruel
business continue. The Baroness Bur-
dette Ooutts has placed herself at the
head of q movement in England de-
signed to put an end to the brutal bust
ness, and it is to be hoped that she will
meet with cordial encouragement and
CO operation on this side of the Atlantic.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14
Advertising Patent Medicines.

Advertisements of patent medicines
furnish support to many so-called reli-
gious papers. Not few of them would
perish but for the aid they receive from
medical quaokery. Hence the impor-
tance of the movement in the Baltimore
conference to exclude these advertise
ments from the organs of the Methodist
denomination. OF the quacks who thus
advertise, there are some whose medi-
cines arc injurious to the men, women,
and children who use them; and we often
see, in the so called religious papers,
quack medicine advertisements which
are an outrage upon decency. II religion
be n matter of truth, show can its organs
sustain themselves by such falsehoods ?
-NeW York Sun.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14
UNTIL DEATH Do US PART.
A STORY FOR YOUNG WIVES.

Oh, auntie, I want to die now !
What is life worth without his love 9'
The warm light of the fire shed it's
bright glow upon the soft, fair, troubled
brow, the deep spiritual eyes, and per-
fectly formed crimson lips of q beautiful
young creature, as she threw herself
into chair, and addressed these words
to silver haired old lady at her side:
Hush. Mary, my poor child, you
must not speak thus. What is the
trouble? / have long feared you and
Charles were not living happily, but
refrained from asking questions, fearing
might wound your feelings"
And 30 yop would have done, Aunt
Agnes, had you mentioned the subject a
week ago; for, although have been
wretchedly miserable for the last six
months, would have gone to the stake
before L would have admitted it; but
now everybody knows it, and I have
come to You for comfort"
And the young wife wept bitterly.
Everybody knows it | I do not un-
Ssnnsned Ssrsssnd yyS yySou' my child. What has
Wiping the tears from her eyes, pretty
Mary Stanwood, the bride of only q
year, begun:
:" You know I have never pleased
Charles in anything since we went to
housekeeping. can't sew, can't cook,
nor do anything else; in word, am no
housekeeper. And he has perfect
mania for neatly kept house, q well set
table, we'll cooked dinner, and @ tidy
wife. know, auntie, it all seems very
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14
Sandwich islands Surf Bathing.

Says a writer: It is very exciting,
but the sea was not very rough. The
Surf board is o rough plank shaped like
a coffin lid, about two feet broad and
from six to nine feet long. The men,
dressed only in malos, carrying their
boards under their arms, waded out
from the rocks on which the surf was
breaking, and, pushing their boards be-
fore them, SWAN out to the first line Of
breakers, and then, diving down, were
seen no more till they reappeared as q
number of black heads bobbing about
like corks in the water. What they seek
is very high roller, on the top Of which
they leap from behind, diving face
downward ON their boards. As the
waves speed on and the bottom strikes
the ground the top breaks in q huge
comber. The swimmers appeared pos
ing themselves on its highest edge by
dexterous movements of their hands and
feet, keeping just at the top Of the curl,
but always apparently coming down hill
with slanting motion. 80 they rode IN
majestically, always just ahead OF she
breaker, carried shoreward by its mighty
impulse at the rate Of forty miles an
hour, yet seeming to have Q voliion OF
their own, as the more daring riders
knelt and even stood on their surf
boards, waving their arms and uttering
exultant cries. They were always ap-
psrently on the verge Of ingulfment by
the fierce breaker whose towering white
crest was ever above and just behind
him; but just as one expected to see
them dashed to pieces, they either waded
quietly ashore, or, aiding off their
Boards, dived under the surf, taking ad-
vantage Of the undertow, and were next
seen far out at sea, preparing for fresh
exploits. The great art seems to be to
mount the roller precisely at the right
time, and to keep exactly on its crest
lust before it breaks.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14
An Extensive Work.

Should O ship canal be cut across the
Isthmus of Darien at its narrowest
point. it would be thirty two miles long,
and would require a ship tunnel lZo
feet high and seven miles IN length
through solid rock. A vessel gong
from New York to San Francisco would
save ten thousand miles Of sailing, and
could afford to pay toll OF $1,000. In
the one item of wages, q clipper snip
of 1900 tons burden would save $2,Ooo
ut least. It is estimated that the WORK
would cost 800, 600, 900. a..
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14
That Little Lamb.
1 That Little Lamb.
Mary had . little lamb IHf'9
we've'heard is DER and DER, TT
Until that little lamb becomes
A perfect little bore.
80 propose to make . grave. 20
VS. And dig 1t deep and wide; 5~ai
That Mary's lamb and all its bards.
Be buried side by side.
Items OF Interest.

Kit Carson had 1O, 900 hair-breadth es-
capes, and then suffered the humilia-
ton Of dying at the heels Of Mexican
mule. rl5a $.
The boy who started from home to
walk to the Centennial is being picked
up hungry and repentant by policemen
in all parts of the country.
That was a pretty conceit of little
three year-old who, when gathering
flowers and finding one with an unusual
ly short stem, exclaimed that he "found
it sitting down."
ct narrowly escaped being cut off
with shilling" said solemn young
man. "How did you escape it ?" asked
bystander. "My father had no shil-
ling" was the solemn reply. ,r5
A conteiupory describing, a boat race,
alludes to the "fiashing of 1000 eyes
and the plaudits OF twice as many fair
hands," What lot of one-eyed women
there must have been at that racei,
"Why is it, my dear sir" said Waf-
fles' landlady to him the other day,
"that you newspaper men never get
rich ?" "I do not know was his re-
ply, "except il is that dollars and sense
do not always travel together"
The Philadelphia Inquirer, strongly
urges the reduction of the price Of ad-
mission to the Exposition from fifty to
twenty-five cents, on the ground that
the present charge will virtually close
the doors against hundreds Of thousands
of workingmen and their families.
The New Orleans Picastsne says that
the telegraph art has reached such
perfection that long courtships have
been maintained between persons hun
dreds of miles apart, and some love-
sick telegraphist has even invented q
telegraphic sign for loves first sweet
kiss. 5za'ESE
A clean tooth does not decay. Acids
and sour fruit always injure the teeth
instantly; sweets never do; without
them children would die, hence their
unsuitable instincts for sugar. III
tooth powder was never used the teeth
would not be 30 white; but, kept per-
fectly clean, would last for Life.
The editor of Western paper has
medical authority for stating that In
some cases If liquid food be applied to
the body, it will merely, by being alb
sorbed, sustain life. 4 The editor had
molasses jng forcibly applied to himself,
and his head not only increased In size,
but It has been sweet looking head
ever since. l.Has iT ns'sfT--
While barber of Niles, Mich, was
shaving o customer the other day, he be-
came tangled up in an epileptic .spasm.
After the customer had lost o slice of
the neck and narrowly escaped sever
ance of the 'jugular vein, he nodestly
suggested that he would wait for athe
next," as he never did like close shaw
ing.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14

ooh, auntie, I thank you SO for this
story, which know was so hard for you
to tell. will go home at once, and I
do not think Charley will ever have
cause to complain of me again. I feel
that can learn to keep house, and
make any and every sacrifice for his
happiness"
keep house." exclaimed Mrs. Allen,
in cheering tones, "of course you can.
Because you can paint, draw, and play
on the piano, that is no reason why you
cannot learn to manage your household
affairs with prudence and neatness. You
should not want any one to say that the
stupid servants OF the kitchen can
excel you. Surely, if they can &C
quire the mysteries of cooking, go can
you. And now I am going to send my
cook to stay with you a month. But
mind, you must not spoil her you must
manage and see to everything yourself,
aud assist her."
"Oh, dear, good auntie, how shall I
thank you?" exclaimed Mrs. Stanwood,
seemingly forgetful of all her trouble.
"By doing all you can for your hus-
bands comfort" solemnly replied the
old lady.
Two years had elapsed. In the pleas
ant little dining-room Of the Stanwoods
sat the young wife of Charley Stan
wood, upon whose fair brow rested an
expression of peace rarely seen. In the
center of the room was spread table
decorated with great taste and beauty.
| The damask cloth was snow white, the
silver and china were spotless, while
flowers decorated the glasses and shaded
the pretty cakes and abundance of
sweetmeats prepared by Mary Stan
woods own hands. Her own toilet was
faultless, while the smoothly brushed
that neatness and order ruled over this
happy household. Suddenly, where
the lady sat in the embrasure of the
window, a shadow fell athwart the sun
light, and. raising her bright love lit
eyes, she saw the object for which she
had SO long watched approaching.
Mary p
She arose and sprung toward the
open door, lifting her fair young face
to the speaker, while he stopped and
fondly kissed her. The soft hand closed
caressingly on his larger, darker palm,
her. lips were tremulous; her eyes, low
| ing in their earnestness, looked up win
"Oh, you have come at last, Charley,
and have waited so long and so impa-
tiently for you."
"You have missed me, then2"
"My heart misses you always, but
especially to-day, for you know it is the
anniversary of our wedding day"
"And are you happy on this our we'd
ding day, Marya" he asked, counting
back to the dreary days when their
welded happiness came we'll nigh being
lost.
All my life is happiness"
"Thank Godi And now, my perfect
little housekeeper, allow me to compli-
ment this pretty table and elegant din
ner. Mary, do you remember when you
once thought it impossible to learn to
manage your household affairs in the
manner then unreasonably demanded
of my child wifea What, darling, ever
changed you SO? Who taught you to
keep house?''
Glove" answered the proud young
matron, and with humbly bowed heads
and grateful hearts the fond young hus-
band and the faithful wife renewed the
VOWS of fidelity, to be kept until "death
do us part. ."-Housekeeper.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14

CHEWING SNUFF.-The Enterprise
(M,ss) Courier says The physicians
of this place are becoming seriously
alarmed over the prevalent use of snuff
among the ladies. The doctora say it is
creating havoc with the ladies and
destroying their offspring.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-14

KEEPING ACCOUNTS are
quiet and sweet tempered during the
year, but they keep accornt of their
husbands sins aud shortcomings, and
b we o grand settlement when house
cleaning time comes. During the few
days devoted to whitewash and soap
and water they inf1ict the necessary
amount of punishment and so start
square again.