The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-11-21

proposition to issue bonds in the
sum of $4,000, to improve the
county court house, December 8.
A grandson was born at Hannibal
last week to A. w. Pettibone, the
millionaire lumberman of La Crosse
and received check for $1,000
from the grandparent.
1t is current gossip that at the
ninsA nf lis present term President
Cleveland, Secretary Carlisle and
Secretary Olney will form a law
partnership in New York and Boston.
Mr.. Cleveland will act as Office
adviser in New York and Mr.. Olney
In Boston, while Mr.. Carlisle will
attend to the public duties and the
court arguments.
The Y. w. @. A. of Avalon Col
lege sprung q new thing in the way
Of a "weight social" Each young
man was required to pay twenty
cents for each hundred pounds his
lady weighed. Nothing is said about
the boys whose girls weighed les,
than one hundred pounds, but it is
supposed they came in on the "frac-
ton thereof'' scale.
The principal action taken
by the South Carolina constitu-
tonal convention Saturday was
the passage of an anti -lynching
provision. 1t provides that If any
prisoner in charge of sheriff or
other state, county or municipal
officer, is seized and taken from such
officer through his negligence, per-
mission or connivance and suffer
bodily harm or death, such officer
shall be removed from Office, and
shall be ineligible to hold another il
upon trial he is convicted.
Robert Brown, the scientist, has
just died in London at the age of 80.
Besides being perhaps the "greatest
original botanist of our generation,
he was recognized authority in
zo-ology, geology and physics. His
published works fill more than thirty
volumes, and besides these there are
several thousands of articles and
reviews which have been published
in various countries, and have not
been collected. Mr.. Brown was an
indefatigable explorer, and his name
is connected with a number OF
famous expeditions.
Abe Lewis, "the acknowledged
mems outfitter," of Belle Vernon,
Penn, has an idea. He asks every
body in town to act as his agent,
and he offers solid gold (flled)
watch "to the person who will in the
next ninety days send TO our store
customers whose purchases will
aggregate the largest amount"
Prizes are also offered to the agents
who are second, third and fourth on
the list. Coupons published in Mr.
Lewis advertisement are handed in
by purchasers, and the blanks are
flled with the names of agent and
buyer, and with the amount of tho
purchase.
At every change OF ministry 10
France, the prediction is renewed l.
certain quarters that the republi
will not survive the shock. 1t 4.
notable, however, that the defeat OF
the Ribot ministry has not called
forth 80 much doleful propheying OF
this sort as has usually been heard
on such occasions in the past. The
pol tical elements in control of the
French government change from
time to tine, but the republic goes
on; and it g difficult to discover any
c ear indications of a desire on the
part OF the French people for change
their form Of government, or any
substantial ground for fearing that
the enc les of the republic will be
a le to overthrow it.
The thirtieth annual convention
of the State Sunday School Associa-
tion is ended. The following off,
GERS were unanimously elected:
= resident, D. R. Wolfe, st. Louis;
secretary. Robert Rutledge, st.
ouis; treasurer, William Randolph,
st. Louis; vice -presidents-L. L.
Allen, fierce City; A. F. slawson,
De Soto; M. D. Dudley, Paynesville;
Rev. Q. B. McAfee, Parkville; exec
utive committee Duncan
Brown, d. D., Tarkio; o. O. Starh-
man; President, W. H. Pritchett,
Albany; W. H. McClain, st. Louis;
L. Hazard, Cabool. The report Of
tho Rev. 81. r. Bond, president OF
the Bible Society, showed that in
the seventy nine years OF the socis-
ty's existence there had been 59,-
$50, ,63S Bibles, and that the Bibles
had been printed in ninety five Ian
guages and dialects. There three
periods Of comparison of TWEEN e.
i've years each, which would show
The progress of the society's work.
During the first twenty Ave years
the total issue was 2,OOo, 900 copies;
'or the second, 100000, and for
she third, S2,o0O,oOo. In the past
'our years there had been distributed
',6oo,0o0. In the foreign work they