The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-02-18
HERE AND THERE.

hscnue, NEW 1OTK, Will COST, Wnen com-
pleted, about So, OOO, 900. The malachite
mantels in the drawing-room come to
$4,000.
THERE is q family in Newburyport,
Mass, occupying a house so situated
that when dining at the same table the
father eats in one town and the mother
in another.
SOME persons in Fort Valley, Geor-
gia, tired of being barked at, placed a
piece of poisoned meat in the yard of
nearly every ~dog-owner in town a few
nights ago. Next morning thirty-seven
dead dogs were found.
THE United States Courts have just
decided, in a case in bankruptcy, that a
bachelor, though he keeps house with
an adopted son and servants, is not the
head of q family, so as to be entitled to
the homestead exemption.
AGENTLEMAN of Castleton, y. T., has
in his possession the dinner-bell which
used to call Horace Greeley to his meals
when he was learning the printers trade
at Poultney, Vt.sIt viii be placed among
the relics OF the Centennial.
THERE are nearly 800 men employed
in the hemp-packing rooms of the Ken
lucky Penitentiary, and the heavy dust
has such a tendency to produce blind
ness and consumption that the authori-
ties are talking of abolishing the indus
try.
A SPANISH medical journal says the
tallest living specimen of the human
race is a young man from Alcocer, 26
years OF age and nine feet two and one
fifth inches in height, named Augustin
Luengo Capilla, who has lately been
presented to his Majesty the King Of
Spain.
In France the postal-cards appear in
great variety, because it is legal for any
man to make his own, the payment be-
ing by an adhesive stamp. The result
is that some are ornamented with elab-
crate designs on c~ardboards of various
colors and materials.
AcOllEh Dlullllllotb NtNc uuo DCCh
discovered near Columbia, Ky, which
rivals in awful grandeur the original
Mammoth. In it were found three hui
man skeletons of extraordinary proper
tons. The cave has plenty of galleries,
and many varieties of stalactites and
~Stdlagmites.
DURING the'past year there have boen
All murders in France, besides twenty
! five attempts at murder. In connection
; with these crimes twenty-five persons
: were condemned to death, of whom
l eight were pardoned. Thus, for each
execution which has taken place, there
-. have been twenty-four persons muir
!, dered.
! The Japanese Minister at Washing
: ton, and his wife, gave a reception a
, few nights ago. Mrs. Yoshida wore a
l dress of heavy white silk with a train,
trimmed with point lace and flowers.
= Her knowledge of English is limited,
but it is said that "she curtesied, and
. bowed, and smiled in the ~pleasantest
way"
: AT a point about ninety miles south
, east of Tucson, near the Sonora line, in
Arizona, a silver mine has been discov-
cred, which is supposed to be thefamous
Planchas La Plata mentioned in Span
ish history 200 years ago as yielding
7 such immense blocks of the pure metal
I that the crown confiscated it for its own
enrichment.
: 4 NAP and wife in EastOnton, Ga,
I were remarked after two years of matri-
mony. The first ceremony having been
in some way informal, and the inherit
ance of a large amount of property
depending upon the validity of their
marital relations, they called their
} friends together, had a brilliant we'd
ding, and went off on a honeymoon
) tour.
REvIvALIsT HAMMOND took as a
helper in evangelism a young man from
Lancaster, Pa, named William Moore
an eloquent exhorter, and apparently
pious. Moore wanted a new suit of
: clothes to preach in, and obtained them
on a forged order. Brother Hammond
paid the bill, and forgave the scamp;
but other sins came to light, and Moore
is now in Jail.
SLEEP produced by narcotics or So
called se~dativcs, says the London Ian.
Get, is poisoned. Their use gives the
persons employing them an attack of
cerebral congestion, only differing in
amount, not in kind, from the condition
which naturally issues in death. There