The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-10-26
HERE AND
GEN. BRAxToN BRACES life was in
sured for $40, 600.

oEN. bhhAIoN Dnhuu . lhO Voo hh
sured for $4,000.
THE heirs Of VIM. Penn still receive
from the British Government $4,000 a
year, in compensation for their propri-
etary rights to Pennsylvania.
The New England apple crop is I'm
mensely heavy this year, and trees will
suffer from breaking branches. Mer-
chants are buying heavily Of green APP
pies at 81 a barrel for shipment.
FRANK AUCKLAND, the English nat
%uralist, tells Of finding q trout lying dead
on its back with adace fixed tight in one
of its gills. The big fish had tried to
swallow the little one, and both had
persisted in the attempt.
THE Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Children in New York is do
ing good work. During the last three
months it has investigated nearly 800
cases, and sent over 100 children to in
stitutiOns or homes.
LARGE fires are raging in the Alps.
All that part Of the mountains called
the Esterel Alps is covered with dry fir
brushwood and other inflammable veg
citation, which is burning. Formerly
this part of the mountains was covered
with AT oak forest, but it was all de-
stroyed by fire in 1888. o.
THERE is great poverty among the
former owners of emancipated serfs in
Russia. In the Transcaulasian Govern
ment Of Lutais the last census gives 106
mobiles to every 1000 other persons of
the population, or in all 10000 men,
bers Of the nobility, Of whum $4,000
are without means Of support.
IT is said that when the locusts swarm
ed in Central China last summer the
mandarins offered prayers in the tenn
pies; and the peasants in their igno-
rance thought them a blessing in dis
guise, and, gathering them a Ia mama,
fried and ate them, no doubt thinking
them an improvement on their old diet
Of rats and mice.
A MISSIONARY from the English Good
Templars, Rev H. w. Parsons, will sail
for the Southern States shortly, with
the object of organizing Good Templar
lodges among the colored people, who
were formerly excluded from the order
by the white Good Templars on account
of color.
o. +. MosER, a young New Yorker OF
10, was SO charmed by the appearance
Of a lady whom he met at his fathers
residence for the first time ON Friday,
that he became temporarily insane from
love, and behaved with so much VIC.
lence that he had to be sent to the
lunatic asylum on Saturday.
BICYCLE accidents are becoming fire.
quent in England. A few days ago a
lad, while riding down an incline, was
thrown over the front of his machine,
On rising to his feet, he remarked to q
companion: "That's a funny topple,
isn't itP I can't draw my breath" lie
then lay down and died within Is min.
utes.
JAPAN indicates her progress in the
march Of civilization by adding q new
railroad, 80 miles in length, just opened
between Osaba and Kioto, making SOM
rs miles now in operation. With hel
area of 10000 square miles, and hel
population of over 33, ZOO, 200, she viii
undoubtedly, in a few years, have
great system Of railroads, and show
corresponding advancement, increas,
and prosperity.
IT has been believed for generation
that n Capt. Mason and the fla
COMA Company were the earliest set
tiers in New Hampshire. A documen
found not long ago among the Winthrop
papers shows that David Thompson
(for whom Thompson's Island, in Bos
ton harbor, was named) made a per
manent settlement at the mouth of tn,
Piscataqua River at least six years be
fore the organization Of the Laconi,
Company.
Too fast speed is complained Of il
England, and proposals have been mad
t to limit by law the speed of expires
trains, some putting the limit at A
, miles an hour. The occasion is q re
r cent accident to the train known as tn,
"Flying Dutchman," on the Grea
, Western Railway. The Directors O
that Line have announced that hereafte
: the speed Of that train shall be reduces
: to 40 miles an hour on "the more dan
gerous parts Of the line"
In the London Divorce Court, lately
a woman prayed for dissolution of he
marriage on the ground that she wa
insane at the time it took place. Sh
was then so Frustrated with grief at tn
4 loss of her husband as to lose he
reason, and a man in a much humble
station of life than herself persuade
her to marry him. She had since bee
t in an asylum, but was now sane. TIL
evidence being perfectly satisfactory
the marriage was dissolved.
MISS DNEED WTitCo ~ luC i<ouioNiii
!. Courier-Journal al saw one man
q Saratoga who disapproved of 'odiou
monopoly and his protest took tn
, form actually, oh, yes, indeed it did, c
/, !, . hustle. He wore one in the bottor
a of his pantaloons. These same unmer
= tionables were cut very large and Ion
q at the bottom, a demi-train, l think
> and, to hold out the fullness over tn
I instep, and alss, ! suppose, to increas
the height of said instep, a hustle wa
!, worn in the pantaloons, just below tn
I ankle. I felt sure 1t was n hustle, bt
cause I saw it bob up and down an
> wriggle, for all the world like the gem
q inc article. With this new style, SIX
. blue silk stockings and low shoes wer
worm"