The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-11-08

Who wears IL dish-brimmed hat? The
style is said to be very suggestive oftho
dishes in which calves brains are served
up at a table.
d. r. V. Pierce, the noble advertiser,
is candidate for State Senator, from
Buffalo, N. Y, and he L--T-1SG0-X
poets to be elected.
Doctors are getting 80 designate all
kinds of attack that fellow has as
rheumatism. And the doctors are
right nine times out of ten.
The breach between the cigar-makcrs
and the manufacturers seems to be get
ting wider, and the chances of COM
promise appear at present to be very
slight.
New York City is dealing roughly
with its gamblers. Two experts of the
professional sort were sentenccdor Fri
day last to six months on the Island and
fine of $3.50.
General Sherman thinks that General
Miles defeat of the Nez Perces will do
more toward settling the Indian trouble
than hundred treaties or a thous9nd
talks with the Great Father.
Joaquin Miller tells of IL heroine who
Swept the lonesome sea with her tam
glcd hair" He ought to have had her
sprinkle it first with her cross-cyed
tears, so as not to laisc the dust.
The sca-serpent comes to the front
again. This time the monster is seen
off the Maine coast, and is seventy five
feet long, with head like whales and
two fiippcrs that strike the water with Il
loud noise.
1t figures up this way, says the Salt
Lake TriJ,ne: Fourteen prophets,
with six families each, and each family
containing five persons; total, 426. This
is the lnzy outfit the Saints are compcll-
ed to feed for Christ's sake.
The people of Southern Colorado
want to be divorced from the State and
organized into territory. The greater
part of the population and wealth is in
the north half of the State and as the
area of Colorado is 1O5,575 square miles
quite good sized territory could be
formed of the southern half
The new directory of Charleston S. G..
contains l2706 names, against S,2l0 in
1875. A census compiled from informa'
ton obtained in making the Directory
shows that Charleston has $3.50 inhab
itants, of whom 25,9S2 are white ant
26,5S7 colorcd, but the white adul
males outnumbcr the black adult males
nearly 700
The accident to the daughter of Sen
ator Blaine is only another of the nu
mcrous instances af serious injuries rc
sulting from foolish and criminal care
lessncss in handling firearms or usinl
petroleum. The newspapers are file,
day after day with such instances, IN,
yet the warnings seem to be unhccdcd
and accidents quite as common AS even
Tho Grand Duke Nicholas, Com
mandcr-in-chicf of tho Russian force
in Bulgaria, is said to be snilcring froI
violent disease of the liver Thus doc
the liver continue to vindicatc its rigll
to place among the factors of ever
problem of war Perhaps if the Gran
Duke had possessed II sound liver h
might have won skirmish or two.
"John Chinaman" is, after all, an NJ
scholar, and becomes Americanizcd +
rapidly rs the representative of any otl
er nationality. A Chinese compan
sent Chin III Chong to San Francisc
as an agent, selecting him because i
had been in America long enough
loarn the business ways of the coutr
He has proved his knowledge on TIN
subject by absconding with $4,000
the concerns money.
The religious sentiment in San A,
tonic, Texas, overwhelmingly is orthodt
so that we would advise Bob Ingc
soil, III his pcrambulations, to give til
town wide berth. An infdel deli
cred lecture before the people of til
town one evening last week. On Il
following night he was whipped by
mob, and warned that ii he ever aga
attempted to teach mfdelity in til
community he would he hanged.
The account of the capture of t
President of the Revolutionary Cub
Republic, Thomas Estrada, and t
Secretary of the Revolutionary Cha
bcr by Spanish columo under G
Mazovieio, near Holguin, is oflicia
confirmed, with the additional inform
tion that several members of the Cha
Der were included in the capture. L
loss will probably not discourage t
patriots but may add new bitterness
the conflict.
4 FrancO-TOpeIta Sensation.
Core 'pondencc Atchson Champion.
Thousands in Kansas have been in
rslrl In lhc lnln of Minnin nnals