The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-08-30
TOPICS OF THE TIME.

TOPICS OF THE TIME.
The czar is said to be in terrible i'll
humor with his advisers, whom he
blames for inducing him to begin the
war.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin estimates
from reliable data that the wheatcrop of
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Kan
sas for 1877 will be 56,000,O00 bushels
larger than it WAS in 1876.
The oldest man in Arkansas, if not in
he Southwest, is Peter Mankins, now
in his 10Th year, and living in good
health and spirits on the middle fork of
White river, about eleven miles south
east of Fayetteville.
Before the Goth of September, more
than seven thousand men will be sent
from Spain to reinforce the useless army
engaged in the hopeless attempt to re-
duce the insurgcnt banditti of Cuba to
submission.
In the past scventy-two years, of q
653 persons condemned to death in
Austria, only 500 We're executed, the
reigning sovereigns having been averse
to capital punishment, and having par
doncd or committed the sentence of
the others.
Somehow story has got ont in North
Carolina that Gov. Zeb Vance is giving
So and IA chrome to every boy named
after him, and he is accordingly being
pestercd by exceedingly complimentary
letters from innumerablc namesakes in
all parts of the State.
The Bayarians are digging in an an
cicnt church yard of Munich for the
bones of their kings. The have opened
many graves and eXhumed the moulder-
ing skeletons without success They
hope to identify the remains by some
crown, sccptrc, or other relic of majesty
that may have been buried with them
A Washington dispatch states that in
Secretary Schurz' investigation of the
Indian ring enough has been already
developed to warrant the arrest of sew
crUl prominent merchants in New York,
st. Louis, Chicago and New Orleans, rs
well as several prominent Christian
statesmen who now figure promptly in
public life.
The Wabash railway has been found
guilty of the gricvous sin of carrying
freight for less than the schedule rates,
and the trunk-linc syndicate proposes to
sit down" on theWabash. Agents of
the trunk lines are commanded to send
no more freight over the Wabash route
until the managers of the latter have re-
pcntcd and doubled their rates.
1t is expected i'll Washington that
when the president returns some cncr-
getic measures will be taken for the set
tlcmcnt of the Rio Grandc disturbance.
The McXicms are profusc in promises
Of rrparation for the recent outrage, but
there is no faith in their ability to fur
nish indemnity for the past or security
for the future. Indeed, there is neither
fact nor reason on which to build such
faith.
\ correspondent ofthc Chicago Times,
who visited the scene of the Custer
massacre quite recently, gives shock
ing account of the condition in which
the bones of the butcherCd soldiers have
been left. The details are circumstan-
tial, and the description will provoke
feeling of Indignation at the abominable
negligence Of the persons whose duty it
has been to see that the remains of the
heroes of that terrible field were proper
ly buried.
Cable dispatches report that the Gar
OF Russia is in state of great anxiety,
desiring that an energetic and even dcs-
pcrate movement shall be made bv his
armies south of the Danube, and that if
successful he will be ready to treat for
comparatively moderate terms of peace
This report agrees with otherindications
of the approach of an effort intended to
be decisive, to regain lost ground by the
Russian forces.
Providence having blessed the Cali
fornia vineyard owners with animmense
grape crop this year-so large that they
are at Il loss to know what to do with it
the San Francisco newspapers are adj
vising them to turn their attention to
brandy-making. 1t is pointed out that,
while wine is drug in the market, the
ticricr tipplc can be readily disposed of
ut a good profit There is a fine field
for the Murphy movement in California.
The attachment laws of Connecticut
and other Eastern States are very re-
murkablc when contlasted with similar
procedure in other States. Any man
who chooses to bring Il suit against an
other can have the lattcr's property
seized-housc, horses, even parishable
property, such as fruit or meat-or can
take possession of his store and close il
up, without giving any security for the
Justice or even of the probability of the
ilrmncss of his suit.
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