The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-09-07
HERE AND THERE.

that when God was distributing stone
over the earth the bag that held then
burst and all fell there.
IT has been ascertained that a larg
organization Of beggars exists in New
York, presided over by a woman an,
having a treasurer and secretary.
AfALL RIVER woman begged none,
with which to buy her children bread
got drunk with it, and the children
were 4S hours without o mouthful :,
eat. :
DIAMONDS are dirt cheap in Soutl
Africa. The claim-holders have do
termined to submit no longer to tn,
prices ruling, but rather TO stop dig
ging and close their claims until dia
monds are higher.
Mrs. HENRI Hour, Of Nashua, Mass.
dropped dead in u fit while looking a
her husbands face in the coffin an houl
bdfore his funeral. They had beer
United in marriage nearly half u cen,
hiry, and in death were moi divided.
A BREMEN newspaper says that a live
potato bug has been captured at thai
port lately, having worked Its way ovel
to Europe in some empty corn sacks
The police got possession Of it, ant
placed it for exhibition under a closed
glass. ...r
A CURIOUS chart has been placed on
exhibition in the agricultural building
Of the Philadelphia Exposition. 1t /:
% feet long and % feet wide, and pre-.
sents in unbroken line the complete
history of man, including the record Of
every nation, from the Garden of Eden
to the present.
CTS JOHNSON shot and killed the fer.
ryman at the Coosa Ferry, Rome, Ga,
tho other day, because he wouldn't
''hurry up" The report of the gun
caused n horse to throw and fatally in
jure a daughter of Hon. C. p. Morton,
who was riding by at the time.
The Austrian Government has lately
passed Il law compelling all dealers in
beer at Vienna to mark on their glasses
a line below which the froth must not
subside. The glasses are gaugci by
government officials. What a paradise
for thu bctr.drinker'
A TwELvE-rEAR-oLD boy jumped in
to u river at R%oseburg, Oregon, to res
cue a younger brother. He was swim.
ming toward the shore with the little
n when his mother, who had in her
excitement gone too near the edge of
the bank, slipped into the strcain. He
instantly let go his hold, and went to
save the mother, and all three were
drowned.
The little parish of Watsdale, Eng
land, has a little church. The church
has but eight pews, and yet is capable
of accommodating double the popula-
ton of the parish. The rector opens
the church, rings the bell, puts on his
gown in the presence of the congrega-
ton, breaches little sermons, not over
ten minutes long, and leads in the sing
ing, all for the little salary of $500 u
year.
A NEW explosive, known by the name
of %tonite, is now being used in Cornish
mines, and, according to the directions
issued with it, ait can only be explod.
ed with the detonator." Three cxplo-
sions of tonite, have, however, occurred
at the West Bassett Mine, without, it is
said, any detonator being fired, and in
one of the explosions two men were Sc
injured, n of them SO badly
that he died shortly afterward.
A CONVICT who escaped from a North
Carolina Jail stopped at a farmhouse
and told the inmates that he was an Off
Ger in pursuit of Il fugitive, and had put
on the prison dress in order to deceive
He asked for a revolver, and got
1t. AT another place, by telling the
same lie, he borrowed a horse. Several
overlook him, but he shot
them. Yet, after all his.'good luck, he
was captured.
A PERSISTENT effort is being made to
secure the division of California into two
The proposed division is on the
line of Santa Cruz County, giving four
teen counties in the south for the new
State, with 10000 voters and a hundred
millions taxable property. Los Angeles
is mentioned for the capital. 1t is said
that several prominent citizens of San
have moved south to further
the project.
AT a recent performance in a Dublin
Lulu, the well-known gymnast,
met with a terrible accident. She is
propelled from Il sprinc platform about
80 feet into the air, and then catches n
On this occasion she missed
ME catch, and did not fall p~erpendicu-
larly on the net intended to receive her,
sideways against the gallery rail
and thence rebounded into the
arena. Her injuries are most fearful
and the doctors entertain no hope of her
recovery.
AT the Westminster Aquarium is the
original plate of the bank note of
Cruikshank which is said to
put a stop to hanging for passing
notes. He saw two women ex-
for that offense, and he made Il
promissory note, signed cd. Ketch,"
with CHASTITY accessories of letters, hal
ter, and gibbet, and Britannia, with
skulls and crossbones for q border.
Such a crowd surrounded the shop
where copies We're sold that the Lord
Mayor ordered the streets to be cleared.
Mrs. NICHOLAS S%TAEGER, the wife of
a German laborer Of Honesdale, Pa,
went blackberrying on the mountains
one day recently, and, after picking II