The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-02-25
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SO confident are the directors of the
Northampton Bank that the greater part
of the stolen securities are secreted in
the town that they propose to employ
one hundred men to search for them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN introduced
broom corn into this country. While
examining an imported corr whisk he
found a single seed, which he planted
in his garden. From that seed the corn
was p%ropagated.
THERE were literally more persons
killed and injured each year in Massa-
chusetts fifty years ago through acci-
dents to stage coaches than there are
now through accidents to railroad trains.
Such is the conclusion of Mr.. Charles
Francis Adams in the February atlantic.
ANOTHER one of the original chairs
used by the First Congress has come
into the possession of the Restoration
Committee of Philadelphia, and will be
placed in the Museum. 1t was former
ly owned by Simon Snyder, once Gov
ernor OF Pennsylvania.
4 LITTLE Kentucky girl utterly re-
fused to weep ut her mothers funeral
unless she was furnished with q new
black dress and black vail. When the
articles were furnished she pitched in
and did che best job Of crying that was
done that day.
SHE stood in Il wagon, in LOrctto, ky.,
and he was on II high doorstep. They
tried to kiss each other, and leaned
recklessly out Of plumb. His nose was
broken on the pavement, disliguring
him for life, and her head got SO hard -
thump that she was dclirious for sever
al days.
OVER one hundred young ladies will
be in attendance in the building Of the
Dairymen's Association during the
Philadelphia Exposition, dressed in the
costume of Normandy dairy-maids, to
deal out milk, cream, butter-milk, curds
and whey, pastry and berries.
PAsCuAL LLOYD, Of Raleigh, N. c.,
who died the other day, aged ~ years,
WAS buried, according to his dying re-
quest, with his everyday shoes and hat
on, his cane by his side, and with the
coiin-lid unscrewed. The old gentle
man wished to be all ready for the last
trump.
THIS is how the circle of events was
| completed: A Maine woman last year
= lost u gold ring in q straw bed; the
' straw was emptied into the b%arn-yard,
D and, with the manure, was spread upon
a field. In the fall the woman found
her ring in % boiled potato that came
| from the field.
/, THEY have had an a%uction-sale Of
"relics Of Moody and Sankey' at Phil
adelphia. The platform on which
!, Moody stood brought s125, the cane
seat chair in which he satS100, Sankey's
chair $50, and four towels upon which
the evangelists had wiped their heated
brows o. apiece.
A WEDDING occurred at a Boston
church the other evening, and at the
conclusion Of the ceremony the bride
groom's grown-up daughters. salutea
their new step-mother by making o
charge in full force, and were only pre-
vented from tearing all the clothes OF
from her back by the interference of o
policeman.
CONGRESSMAN WILSON, of Iowa, sends
this word to a constituent: "No steps
whatever have been taken by the Gov
eminent in relation to the Black Hills.
The Sioux hold the hills by treaty. Still,
I am of opinion that settlers will be per-
mitted to protect themselves, if they
are not prevented from going there"
THE young man who leads the Ger
mans in Washington this winter is in
variably selected for four great q%ualif-
cations-his thorough lack of knowl-
edge of any thing else but dancing, the
smallness of his foot, the good clothes
he wears, and the unvarying regularity
with which he parts his hair in the mid
die.
FURTHER intelligence of the revolu-
tionary movements recently begun in
Mexico indicates that lively times are
indeed ahead. Gems. Diaz and Guerra
have both issued manifestoes, and are
enlisting partisans to defeat Lerdo de
Tejada and place Porfirio Diaz in the
Presidency. Gen. Marquee is also lead
ing a revolution of the Church party
against Lerdo, and may possibly unite
with Diaz.