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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE Emperor and Empress of Brazil
sailed from Rio Janeiro in the steamer
Heyeling, on the 9th, destined for the
United States.
HARRY HOLLOWAY, Superintendent
OF the indianapolis Po,t-oflice, who was in
dicted for corruption in office, has been tried
and acquitted by order of the Court, there
being no evidence to sustain the charges
brought against him.
SOME delay has occurred in securing
the e~xtradition Of Winslow, the Boston
forger, on account of the British Govern
ment's demanding, as a condition Of his
surrender, that he shall be prosecuted only
upon the charge named in the request for
the writ Of eXtradition, viz, that OF forgery.
Our Government has demurrcd to this rul-
ing, and it is not unlikely that a somewhat
lengthy diplomatic controversy may ensue
before the matter is settled.
IT is currently reported in Europe
that the Car Of Russia is about to retire
from the throne, and that the Czarowitch
will be appointed Regent.
PAHLMAN and Rush, two Chicago
''crooked' distillers, have been tried and
found guilty on four counts Of the indict-
mcnts brought against them.
The Mississippi Republican Conven-
ton, held at Jackson on the LIST, elected Il
delegation nearly unanimous for Morton for
President, and the colored convention gave
him its unanimous Endorsement.
JOHN l.. BITTENGER, of st Joseph,
Mo-, indicted for conspiracy in the whisky
ring frauds, has entered n plea Of guilty.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 1st
says: The President has recovered from the
direct effects OF his late illness. but still it has
left him exhausted and weak. He passed
a slccpless night last night and to-day was
unable to receive visitors or dispatch BUSH
ness.
A FATAL duel took place in Campbell
County, Va, on the 3D., between Lieut..
Thaxton u. Robinson and Mr.. Jesse Mitch
ell, both young men Of good families. The
difficulty is said to have been caused by q
woman. Robinson was shot in the alb
domen and died soon after; Mitchell wa,
shot in the head, and it was thought his
wound would also prove fatal.
TIE United States Grand Jury a,
Chicago, on the Sd, returned indictments
against the Hon. j. ID. Ward, cX-Congress'
man and eX-District Attorney; Daniel w
Mum, ex-Superyisor Of Internal Revenue
and f. Bridges, ex-Collector, for compli'
city in revenue frauds.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

sion Of the bill for regulating commerce and steam
navigation, but no vote was reached. a resolu.
ton was passed to investigate Horace Boynton,
Clerk OF the House Committee on Military Affairs,
who Is charged with having been gnilty of cor.
rupt practices while an officer Of the Internal
Revenue in Texas.
In the Senate, on the Sd, Mr.. Morton in
troduced a bill to amend certain sections of the
act to enforce the right Of citizens Of the
United States to vote in the several states which
was referred to the Judiciary Committee. In
introducing the bill Mr.. Morton said the oh.
ject of it was to bring the act within the late de.
cision of the Supreme Court. The Senate
bill providing for a uniform system of bank.
ruptcy throughout the United States was passed.
The senate then went into executive session,
pending which sr. Adams, Clerk Of the House
OF representatives, appeared and announced
that the House had adopted articles of impeach.
ment against W. W. Brlknap, late Secretary OF
War, and had appointed managers to
conduct the prosecution on the part of the
House Of Representatives go. In the
House. Mr.. Knott, Chairman Of the Judiciary
ment articles against W. ". %Iclknap, late Sec
rotary of War, and moved the previous question
on the adoption of the articles. Carried. Mr..
Ciymer then offered q resolution appointing az
managers on the part of the House, Messrs.
Knott, Lord. Lynde, Mcmahon, jerks, Wheeler
and Iioar. Adopted. Mr.. Wheeler asked to be
excused, on the plea OF i'll health, and MIR. Lap.
ham was appointed in his place.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

and railroad travel was more or less inter-
rupted.
During the sever storm on the night
Of the 2Sth, a frame building on the put
skirts Of Brooklyn, occupied by a colored
family, was blown down. The mother and
a little boy were killed, and the father and
another child badly injured. A steamerand
two barges were sunk in the Hudson River.
A doubly fatal shooting accident oc
Cured near Meadville, Pa, on the Goth.
While a man named Ferry was %dismounting
from his horse with a double barreled shot
gun, loaded with b~uckshot, in his hand, the
weapon was accidentally discharged, the
contents striking a lady named Wentworth,
and her cousin, n little boy aged six years,
who was looking out Of n window. killing
both Of them instantly.
During the terrific snow-storm on the
night Of the 9th, Mrs. George Holton and
her two little children, living near Wamcgo.
Kansas, on the line Of the Kansas Pacific
Railroad, started to go to a neighbours
house, only a quarter Of "A mile distant.
The snow blew SO hard in their faces that
they became bewildered, and wandered
about the prairie until exhausted. They
were found the following Wednesday frozen
to death, not twenty rods from the house
they were in search Of. The mother had
taken off nearly all her clothes to protect her
children. and was herself in an almost naked
condition.
The $1,000 premium offered by the
Memphis Cotton Exchange for the best bale
re ,nttap Fnr nyhihttipn at fhn (nptnnninl
has been awarded to VIM. Taylor, Of Lee
County, Ark.
Four of the sixteen boilers of Fletch-
er's Mill, at Providence, X. l., exploded
on the 3lst, killing two men and wounding,
more or less seriously, u number Of others.
An engine on the Tyrone and Clear
field Railroad exploded near sandridge,
Pa, on the 31st, killing three men, named
Miller, Campbell and Channon, and fatally
wounding another, named Waters.
Col. Edward p. Jones, of Canton,
Miss, a well know dealer in patent rights,
committed suicide on the 1st.
The office of the United States En-
press Company at Akron, o., was robbed
on the morning OF the 1st of Sl2 900 in cash
and several sealed bags of money, the aggre-
gate amount taken being not less than S25,-
900 or $50, 600.
The Security Bank of Washington
closed its doors on the 1st, and will 90 into
liquidation. Liabilities about Sl0O, 600, Of
which S53, 900 are due dcpositors.
At Gardner, Me-, on the morning of
the LIST, Isaac Page killed his wife, who had
just given birth to a child, and then killed
himself.
A Missouri River barge, in tow of the
steamer Fannie Lewis, was sunk by Il col
lision with Il bridge pier at Boonville, ON the
evening Of the Sd. Seven or eight men Of
the crew, all negroes, were drowned. The
barge was loaded with 10, 800 bushels Of
corn.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

DISPATCHES were received at Wash
ington on the 1st, from Brownsville,
Texas, stating that the forces besieging
Matamoras, Mexico, were ~endeavoring
to levy II second forced loan upon the
citizens, without regard to nationality.
The foreign residents solicited protec-
ton from our Government, and an order
was accordingly issued to Capt. John
son, commanding the gunboat Rio
Bravo, to support the American Consul
in his efforts to afford such protection.
A battle was considered imminent at
any hour.
The capture of Matamoras by the
rebel General Diaz was accomplished
on the Sd, after a brief and not very
sanguinary engagement. Diaz's army
numbered about 1000 men; General
Labarra, who commanded the garrison,
was nominally at the head of a much
larger force, but as his principal officer,
General Toledo, deserted him at the be.
ginning of the engagement, and the
Government troops, with few excep'
tons, refused to fire upon the
enemy when ordered, Labarra showed
his discretion by slipping across the
river to the American side, where he
took refuge in Fort Brown. Gen. Diaz,
it is said, was cordially welcomed by
the citizens of Matamoras. He has is
sued a proclamation requesting them tc
remain ut home and attend to theil
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07
Wise Heads That Didn't Agree.

Because a mar has lived in Il city all his
days nc one need imagine that he isn't
posted in all that pertains to agriculture
and horticulture, botany, etc. Such II
man is even better posted than he who
makes it his business to SOW and reap
and prune. Agentlcman living on Fort
Street yesterday employed u gardener
to trim up II shade tree u little. The
~gardenerhad justcommenced work wher
Il lawyer passed by and remarked:
ado you want to kill that tree? If
you don't you had better let it alone for
ut least two weeks longer"
The gardener fixed his ladder and put
the saw into 4 limb, and II doctor came
along and said:
"Youn kill that tree stone dead if
you cut a limb off! You ought to have
pruned it three weeks ago.
The gardener had severed two or three
limbs when Il banker haltedOhndcr the
tree and exclaimed:
"Good heavens! Are you insane! You
shouldn't touch that "tree.till June, when
the sap is warm! Any fool could tel
you better than to trim it now!''
The gardener expected such express
sions to be hurled at him, and he kept
at his work without needing them.
Pretty soon Il clergyman sauntered up,
saluted the tr~ee-trimmer with q pleas
ant ''good morning." and added that it
made his heart glad to see 4 maj trim
ming trees in the right season. He
said that the last few days Of March
were really the only days in the whole
year when limbs could be safely Topped
off.
The gardener was just finishing the
job when an insurance man, who neve
lived q day outside of a city, except to
take q vacation, came around the cor
ner, halted, scowled fiercely and said:
"See here! What kind of q gardener
are you, any way? If you don't tie a
rope around the body of that tree the
sap will all run into the roots and the
top will die!"
The tree is still in position to hear
further remarks .-DetroH Free Press.
"CAN you see me, dearest?" said a
Chicago man to his dying wife. "Tell
me, can you see meP" NO." she
family whispered, "but l a smell
your breath ."-Detroh Free Press.
The glass dome of the Art Gallery.
lighted with 1000 gas-jcts, will be bril-
liantly visible at night from all parts of
Philadelphia.
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THE

ST. LOUIS, April 4, 1875.
BEEvEs-Choice ,$5.0055.!5 Good to Prime
"a. 40 a4.9O; Cow and I~eifcIs, S4.2594.25i
Corn Fed Texans, SS.d0g+.55.
~HOGS-PaCkinE, SI.Ij5S.2J.
SHEEP-Common 10 Choice, 1920 so.
fLouR-Choice Country, sj.sa9o.5O; AAA,
y. WMEAr-Red, No, 2. sl.5lsl.5lH; No. 3.
CoKS9No. 9. Mixed, 45XsT.c.
OATs-No. 2, 34hs35.
RYE-So. ., G4e toe
.ToBAcco-shipping. Lngs,. s3.2O8i,25i Me-
dunn shipping Leaf, SG.5Oe $50
HAY-Choice Timothy, sla .50e $50.
B~UrTER-Choice Dairy, 30S3'c.
PoRK-standard Mess, as Sd % so.
L~ARD-Steam, 1872 a l3Ac.
washed. 30e 33hc.
CoTToN-Middling. l27sc.
HoGs-Dressed. . 10: cOs io.a5;'' Live, None.
sHEEr-Common to Choice, sG.?oe 500.
FLoUR-Good to Choice, s5.45d5.75.
WHEAT-So. 2 Chicago, Sl.2igl.2B.
CoRN-Western Mixed, $50 &c.
OATs-Western Mixed, Hgisc.
PoRK-Mess. s23. COG %. 20.
CorToN-Middling. lS'lc,.
BEEvEs-Common to Choice, - .?j3G.25;
HoGs-Common to Choice, sS.lOss.bo.
FLoUR-Choice Winter, Extra, 7.6oi,
Choice Spring, Extra, e6.O095.e5.
W~HEAr-Spring No.2, Sl.U29 l.O2Si spring.
No. 3, 9Oh 9A'Ac.
CoRN-No. 2, 47gI7Zc.
OArs-No. 9, 321
RYE-No. 2, 65e tic.
PoRK-New Mess, S22. 800 2! 80.
LARD-Per cwt. eL. z5g "a.
KANSAS CITY.
BEEvEs-Natve Steers. &3.50s6.0o; Native,
Cows. o.. 25a 3.25.
HoGs-S6.6 500 7. 80.
MEMPHIS.
FLoUR-Choice, . 7.2597. rs.
CoRN-No. 2 White, 52g 56c.
OATS 465 SOC.
CoTroN-Middling, l2hc.
NEW ORLEANS.
FLoUR-Choice, u. 6g6.25.
CORN-54g 60c.
~OATs-Galena, 42d 4Tc.
Y-P GIG. 5OCIE 90.
~PoRK-New Mess, S2t. COG "a, IS.
BACoN-l0I 1870.
~SUGAR-tair To Prime, T4G77ic.
COTTON Low Middling, Iac.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

SOME very sensational and very i'm
portant testimony, if it can be corrob-
Grated, was given before the Clymer
Committee on the 31st, by a witness
named C. S. Bell, who swore that he
was employed by Babcock to go to St.
Louis and destroy whatever document
airy evidence he could obtain which he
thought might implicate him in the
whisky frauds. He further swore that
the President also employed him to 60
to St. Louis and reports him privately
if Babcock were really guilty. He free
ly acquitted the President of any other
motive, but insists that he vas employ
ed by Babcock to prevent, if possible,
the conviction of the latter, and hat he
visited St. Louis for that purpose, saw
Dyer, and told him his mission, but
failed to accomplish much. Babcock
and his friends declare Bells story to
be q complete fabrication, and further
evidence will be elected by the COM
mittee.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

The Ohio Republican State Conven-
ton was held at Columbus on the Goth.
Governor Rutherford B. Hayes was re-
commended as the Republican nominee
for President. The platform "recognizes
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

Col. d. p. DYER, United States Dis
trict Attorney at st. Louis, appeared
before the Clymer Committee on the
LIST, and corroborated in its essential
facts the testimony of Detective Bell re-
garding his transactions with the Dis
trict Attorneys office. Col. Dyer also
went before the select committee in
vestigating the whisky frauds and
gave evidence in detail regarding the
prosecution of the Babcock case. The
most important disclosure made by him
was that one of the members of the St.
Louis Grand Jury, named Fox, had
given to the defense all the facts brought
out before the Jury. Fox subsequently
went to Washington, it is said, and
secured for his son an appointment rs
Consul.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

business, and promising them security
and the rights guaranteed by the Con-
stitution of 1859.
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE, jackson, Miss,
March 29.-To the people Of the State OF
Mississippi: l hereby respectfully resign
my office Of Governor of the State Of Missis.
sippi. ADELBERT AMEs
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CURRENT TOPICS.

land, appeared before the Committee
on Foreign Affairs on the 2Sth, and
made a lengthy statement concerning
his connection with the Emma Mine.
He said he was induced to purchase 500
shares from Park, upon the solicitation
of that gentleman and ex-senator Stew
art, upon the following terms, a copy
of the agreement being exhibited by
General Schenck to the committee:
Schenck gave his note to Park for
100000 in payment for the 500 shares,
Park guaranteeing Schenck 2 per
cent. a month on shares subsequently
reduced to IL per cent? while they
should be held by him, or agreeing to
take them back at par. There was no
suggestion made at this time that
Schenck should have any thing to do
with the management of the company,
and he only consented to do so subse-
quently, when urged by Park and Stew
art, who cited p%recedents for a member
of the diplomatic corps serving in such
a capacity. Gen. Schenck figures his
losses by outside speculations in the
stock at from $4,000 to 100000.
EVIDENCE was given before the ely
mer Committee on the 2Sth, as follows:
Alexander T. Gray, a clerk in the At
torney-G Generals office, testified that b.
II. Daniels promised him $1,000 if he
would secure for him the position of
post-trader at Fort Stanton. Gray Sc
cured the appointment through Sena-
tor Carpenter, but Daniels never paid
him the $1,000. First Lieut.. Robert G.
Carter, 4th Cavalry, testified as to Gen.
Reynolds ordering the purchase of dam
aged corn from Adams e. Wicks, con-
tractors at San Antonio, at from 10
to 90 cents above the market price Of
sound corn, against the protests of Gen.
Mckenzie. j. Z. Burrow testified that
he was appointed post-trader at Fort
Union, New Mexico, in 1868, through
the influence of w. ID. w. Barnard, u
relative of Mrs. Grant, in consideration
of paying Barnard one-third the profits
of the post. Edward Welsh, post-trad-
er at Fort Mcpherson, testified that X.
F. Bowers, wholesale grocer at Keokuk,
Iowa, and a brother-in-law of Gen. Bel.
KNAPP, was his partner.
ADDITIONAL particulars regarding the
loss of the emigrant ship Strathmore,
from London to New Zealand, have been
received. The Strathmore struck upon
rocks among the Crozet group of islands
in the South Pacific, OF July /, at half
past four in the morning, and was
wrecked Immediately, A persons be-
ing drowned. The survivors saved
nothing whatever, and were upon the
rocks for six months, subsisting upon
sea birds and their eggs. When they
were rescued they were much emaciated
and almost naked. Five had died there
from exposure and want. The Captain
of the American whaler, Young Phenix,
rescued them, supplied them with cloth
ing, and treated them with great kind
ness.
THE resignation of Governor Ames
of Mississippi, as announced in the fol-
lowing communications, is said to have
been a complete surprise to nearly ev-
cry body in the State except the few i'm
mediately engaged in concerning the ac-
ton. Immediately upon the reading in
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

THE Connecticut State election, held
on the Sd, resulted in the reelection of
Governor Ingersoll and the entire Dem
ocratic State ticket, by a reduced ma
jority as compared with that of last
year. The Legislature is also largely
Democratic.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

OWING to the exhaustion of the APP
preparation made for fuel, lights, etc,
for public buildings, Secretary Bris-
tow issued an order ON the Sd, di-
recting the custodians of all public
buildings throughout the country to
Immediately cut off these items of ex-
pense. The result was, that the vast
machinery of the larger p~ost-oflccs,
custom-houscs, ETC., vas brought very
nearly to a stand-still, the substitution
of candles for gas being the best that
could be done upon such short notice.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

THE public debt statement for April
l shows a decrease during the preced-
ing month of 1920, 500, and since
June 80 last of ST., 1863, 1856.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

THE resignation of Governor Ames
of Mississippi, as announced in the fol-
lowing communications, is said to have
been a complete surprise to nearly ev-
cry body in the State except the few i'm
mediately engaged in concerning the ac-
ton. Immediately upon the reading in
the House of the Governors letter to
his attorneys, Messrs. Durant and Pry-
or, the impeachment articles were dis
missed. Col. j. NJ. Stone, President
pro TEN. of the Senate, was subsequent
ly installed as Governor.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

The Lyndebrook reservoir, which
supplies the city of Worcester, Mass,
with water, gave way about 6 80 O'Clock
on the evening of the 30th, and its en-
tire contents of 0,OO0, 900 gallons
rushed forth in n tremendous flood
through the ravine below, sweeping
away every thing in its course. For
%tunately the disaster had been for some
hours anticipated and every prepara-
ton was made that could be TO await
the impending flood. No lives were lost,
but the damage to property is very great.
The immense flood rushed down through
the narrow ravine with u solid front
20 feet high, until it reached Kettle
Brook, where it swept across a pond,
struck q line beyond and was turned
down towards Cherry Valley, James
vile, Leesville, Stoneville and Worces-
ter. a number of valuable mills were
entirely demolished and swept away,
among them being Smith & Co.'S
wooden mills, the Bottomly Mill, Ash
worth Il Jones's mill, Albert Curtis's
satinet mills; besides a large number of
houses, barnes, bridges, culverts, etc.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

EXECUTIVE MANSION, JACKSON, MISS,
March 20, 1SIG.-Messrs. Durant and Pryor
Gentlemen: In reply to your suggestion l
beg leave to say that, in consequence of the
election Of last November, 1 found myself
confronted with a hostile Legislature, and
embarrassed and bafied in my endeavors to
carry out my plans for the welfare Of my
State and Of my party. l resolved, there
fore, to resign my Office as Governor of the
State Of Mississippi; but, meanwhile, arti-
cles of impeachment were instituted against
me, and Of course l could not and would
not retire from my position under the impu-
tation Of any charge affecting my honor or
integrity. For the reason indicated / still
desire to escape burdens which are compen-
stated by no public usefulness, and II the ar
ticles of impeachment presented against me
were dismissed, l should feel at liberty to
carry out my desire and purpose of resigna-
ton. l am very truly yours,
ADELBERT AMEs.
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gold as the true standard of values, and
the only steady and safe basis for a cir
culating medium, and declares that that
policy Of finance should be steadily pur-
sued which, without unnecessary injury
to the business Or trade, will ultimately
equalize the value of coin and paper
dollar" 1t is also ''in favor of a tariff
for revenue, with incidental protection
to American industry" A State ticket
was nominated, headed by Milton NJ.
Barnes for Secretary of State.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

II is officially announced that Cen
tennial railway excursion tickets will be
made good for 80 days, instead of 80,
as at first proposed; and also that half
rate tickets will be issued for children
between the ages of 5 and II years.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

The Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention was held at Harrisburg, on
the Goth, and elected delegates to the
Cincinnati Convention. Gov. John T.
Hartranft was recommended as the Re-
publican nominee for President. A
resolution was passed, favoring an in
creased tariff. The currency question
was not touched upon in the Platform.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07

The Chinese immigration question
has recently assumed a new phase in
California. In view of the determined
opposition of the people of the State to
a further acces of the Mongolian ele-
ment, as evinced by numerous hostile
acts of legislation, the Chinese compa-
MES and merchants resident in the
State have telegraphed to Hong Kong,
informing their brethren that it is advi-
sable for no more of them to come to
this country at present.
The Morning herald., 1876-10-12
FINANCIAL,
WILNIN0ToN

GOLD AND BOND oUOTATI0NGs II
Reported by Craige, Johnson 4 Co., Bank.
srs and Brokers, sixth and Market dts,