The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-08-24
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quis OF Butte gets $4,000 a day. It's o
| beautiful income.
THE val widows, Mrs. General Gus
ter, Mrs. Colonel G. W. Yates, and Mrs.
Calhoun, will henceforth reside in Mon
roe, Mich.
A SOCIETY for the education of nurses
at Bremen has erected n hospital, and
placed it in charge of a daughter Of the
late well known journalist, Wolfgang
| Mentzel.
LAST year, during q comparatively
cool summer, there was n continuous
cutlery about mad dogs; during the
present unusually hot term hardly q
case Of hydrophobia has occurred.
In the cemeteries adjacent to Brook
lyn, and embraced within its limits,
there lie to-day Mt least 100000 more
dead than are living within the limits
of that city of 100000 people. =
OK one Of the bodies found on Gus
ter's battle field--that of n German SOL
! dier named Ackermau-there were no
fewer than IS wounds. All the limbs
had likewise been hacked OF.
HUNDREDS of Canadian French milf
hands Of Fall River, Mass, are taking
| refuge in The State Almshouse at Tewks-
bury, where many Of them are given
| tickets to return to their old homes in
Canada. J
THEY have big farms in Australia.
The sale, on the 18th of May, Of Mr.. c..
b. Fishers stock farm al Hill River,
about 90 miles from Adelaide, lasted III
days, and realized nearly $4,000. The
farm comprised $4,000 acres.
THE firm of A. +. Stewart & Co. has
lately made $1,000 900 by the rise in
| the value of raw silk. Before the death
of Mr.. Stewart he was induced To buy
up large quantities Of silk in anticipa-
ton of Il ris', and the wisdom of his
purchases is now apparent. y
JOHN WHITE and Alice Agar started
for Il c~lergynau's house Mt Scar
borough, Eng, to get married. They
were poor and out of work. On the
way they seem to have decided not to
strive together for prosperity and hap
! piness, for they committed suicide by
drowning.
NJ. TRIQuEt and his sons, %aeronauts,
assembled on the 18th in II balloon from
the environs of Paris. The balloon was
torn by a contact with trees and fell
rapidly to the ground. One of the
young men was instantly killed and the
father fatally injured.
THE latest curiosity Mt the Centennial
is y boy without arms OF legs. he
weighs 81 pounds, is IL years old, and
in spite of HI, deformity is able, by
| means of two fingers on "a stump sup.
posed to be leg, to feed himself, write,
and even .ln mechanical work, having
made a small secretary before leaving
home.
TIE occupants of the prison of Basle,
Switzerland, concerted to escape. One,
IN Italian, murdered two ~jailers and -
comradc with whom he had a quarrel,
then, finding that flight was impossible,
blew out his brains with u pistol taken
from one of the turkeys he had killed.
Another prisoner killed one of the at
PENDANTS, and then sealed II wall. Be-
ing pursued, he also attempted to COM
init suicide.
TIE progress of taste and fashion in
our women's bathing costumes is IN the
direction of French freedom and Greek
simplicity. Instead of long trousers,
the ladies wear drawers to the knee,
supplemented by striped stockings,
which reveal the contour of the leg and
foot; and now and then one sees Il young
lady, who boasts beauty of figure, en-
tering the salt water with legs bare be-
low the knees, and arms entirely eSr
posed to the rays of the sun and the adj
miring eyes of the o~n-lookers.
NEVADA has again been visited with
the meteorologic phenomenon of cloud
bursts. Heavy rains have prevailed all
over Nevada, but the cloud bursts, rs
two years ago, seem to have been con-
fined to the eastern portion of the State.
The recent calamity near Eureka has
been the more destructive, and it is a
little singular that the phenomenon
should have occurred within n few min
utes of the same time as that which,
two years ago, on the same day OF the
month, caused such n destruction Of
property.
ONE of Brigham Young's sons is
known as Prince Briggy. The Gentiles
explain that the title was acquired sew
eral years ago, during his %sojourn in
England. He rode in a coach behind
six gray horses, and on n occasion
his coachman, while driving through
the streets of London, disregarded the
commands of the Queens guards to
give the road to her Royal Highness and
attendants. This led the officer in
charge of the cavalcade to ask the
name of the distinguished stranger.
The reply was, sim Prince Brigham,
a,r 90 ITtah ~