The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-10-05
HERE AND THERE.

THE Emperor of Germany VISITED
Leipsic on August 8 for the first tim,
since 1873, after the great battle, whel
he came as Prince William, with hi
brother, the young Crown Prince, Fred
erick William, and their father, Fred
erick William III.
The indemnity Of 3OO,0OOf. paid b,
the Ottoman Government to that O
Germany on account Of the Salonici
outrage has been handed over to Mrs
Abbot, the widow of the German Con
sui, who was murdered. That lady ha.
expressed her thanks in n letter to tn,
Imperial Chancellor.
III Philadelphia Exhibition is mo-
to be extended beyond Nov. 10,the time
originally set for closing 1t. The man.
ayers expect that the chilly weather OF
October will make the unwarmed build.
ings uncomfortable for visitors, and
consequently, that the present large at.
tendance will end with this month.
THE miners of South Yorkshire were
dissatisfied with their wages, and at.
tempted to become colliery owners
themselves. An association bought O
colliery, the profits of which were to be
shared among them. The capital rails,
ed was about $4,000 The enter.
prise has proved unsuccessful, and the
the money is lost.
TIE colony of Punta Arenas, or San.
dy Point, in the Straits of Magellan, is
noticed in this years report from Mr..
Horace Rumbold, British Minister al
Santiago de Chill, as being the most
southern civilized community on the
globe. The population, which was but
1875 in 1868, is given in the census OF
1875 as Liza.
A PRINTER named Humphreys took
of the first prize at the recent type.set-
ting tournament in Montreal, Canada.
He is a compositor ON the Montreal
Star, and ''slings up" n "stickful" OF
type from editorial copy in ~ minutes
and fifteen seconds. The type passing
from the ''case" to his ''stick" look
like a visitation of grasshoppers or a
storm of shingle-nails firing at a mark.
GEORGE II. RUSSELL, before killing
himself in San Francisco, wrote this
"Dear Wife, prefer death to seeing
you and our children in want for the
necessaries of life. If | could support
you and them | would like to live; but
for several years we have been in want
most Of the time" Preferring death to
seeing his wife and children destitute,
and therefore leaving them to shift for
themselves, seems like bad logic.
ACCORDING to the British Medical
RevieW there is reported from Storno-
way the death of a woman at the age
of 115 years, and it is said that the age
can be authenticated. 1t is noteworthy
that she resided all her lifetime in a lit
tie matched hovel. She was never mar
ried, and until the last few years en-
joyed pretty good health, and was able
to be out of bed occasionally.
IT is the custom in Lima when any
religious question is debated in Parlia-
ment for the ladies to go to the House
of Assembly, carefully watch the pro-
ceedings, and, after a way of their own.
take part in them. For example, dur
ing the last debate on liberty of wor-
ship, each speaker who defended the
proposal to separate the Church from
me State had a garland of weeds flung
at his head from the ladies' gallery,
and the defenders of the Church were
honored with g%arlands.
AMONG the Partisan houses now I'M
dergoing demolition in the Bastile quar-
ter for the opening of the Boulevard
Henri w., is that of the celebrated
Marchioness De Brinvilliers, the beauti-
full prisoner, who was executed in 1876.
| Underneath the cellar have been found
the skeletons of two tall men and a
woman. They are thought to be those
of the brothers and sister of the Mar
chioness, who mysteriously disappear
ed, and were considered to have been
among her many victims.
CHINESE immigration appears to
be rapidly decreasing on the Pacific
coast. Several steamers which have
arrived there lately have not averaged
two hundred each. Not long ago steam
ers brought from eight hundred to fif-
teen hundred each. Up to last May,
when the anti Chinese agitation began,
the arrivals amounted to nearly three
thousand a month. Various measures
have been adopted by many of the citi-
zens of San Francisco to discourage the
employment of the Chinese, and the
Chinese companies there have warned
their countrymen that the country is
unhealthy for them, and these things
have well nigh stayed the tide of immi.
grafton.
SUCH incidents as the following are
still common in s~tage-coach travelling
in California: The coach contained
eight men and four women, all unarmed.
When the coach reached a part of the
road lined by a thick growth of brush,
into which it is impossible to turn a
loaded wagon, or even a light one, two
men sprang up and commanded the
driver to stop and throw out the express
boxes. Both men wore white cloths un.
der their hats, one end being thrown up
over the hat, and the other, with eye.
holes, covering the face. One man,
with a double-barreled shotgun, aimed
at the driver, and the other at the body
of the coach where the passengers most.
ly were. After a short parley two
boxes of treasure were thrown out, ant
the driver was compelled to drive on
the shotgun covering him until he wa: