The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13


convicts of the Texas Penitentiary or
ganized into military corps and turn
cd loose on Mexico.
The pope is paralyTsl in the legs,
but he is still able to receive visitors,
and is considered good for half Il dozen
years yet, more or less.
The condition of peace for Sitting
Bull seem to be that he shall give up
his stolen or captured guns and ponies,
and go upon reservation.
A Calcutta dispatch says the weather
reports for the last week are decidedly
cheering. All the Madras districts have
had some rain. In many parts it was
heavy.
The Salt Lake Herald predicts that
the people of Utah will see that she full
fills the fair promises made to the world
by her great founder and leader, Brig
ham Young.
Col. Elmer T.. Ellsworth's old bay
horse was stolen by tramp from pas
ture in Mechanicsville fortnight since,
but was abandoned on the highway and
recovered.
In the Island of Sardinia, long neg
lccted by modern civilization, water and
gas works were recently introduced in
several small towns amid an enthusias-
tic display of flags and fireworks,
A colonization convention of 1000 or
5000 colorcd people was lately held in
Corinth, Miss. The African scheme
was not favored, but New Mexico, Ari-
zona and northern Texas were consider
ed.
1t is Unlimited that the scandalous
Mitchell divorce case, at Milwaukee, has
been taken out of the courts. The child
is to remain in the custody of its grand
parents, Congressman Alexander Mitch
ell and wife.
!. "Clcopatra's needle" has been dropped
into the Mediterranean. An enormous
caisson of timber has been built around
the great shaft, sufficiently buoyant to
float it, and i'll this condition it is to be
towcd to England.
The porte has sent a note to the
Khedivc convention with England Civ
ing the latter right of search. The porte
contests the Khcdivc' authority to giant
such privilege to foreign power, par
ticularly in the Ottoman waters in the
Red sea.
Such is the glut of money on the
London stock exchange that any man in
good credit can obtain the load of al
most any sum for, say II fortnight at the
rate of IL per cent, per annum. Yet
even on these terms there is scarcely
any demand.
The late Oliver Ames was the liberal
gentleman through whose gift of $780,
300 the statue of Faith" was completed
and placed in its position on the ma
tional monument to the pilgrims at
Plymouth, Mass. Mr.. Amcs wns a ma
tive of that town.
The reason why Hobart Pasha has not
bombardcd Scvastopol is known at last.
He has discovered that the new fortif-
cations of the place are strong enough
to destroy any fleet that might come
within range of their guns, even with
out the help of the torpcdocs.
The injunction of secrecy, has ut
lcnthy been removed from the agent of
the Pilgrim Society Of Massachusetts,
and he announces that the gentleman
whose gift of $4,000 purchased the inl-
monso statue of Faith" which is to
crown the national monument of Ply
mouth is the late Hon. Oliver Ames.
The postofiicc department has receiv-
cd number of letters from the princi-
pal newspapers throughout the country
refusing to publish the advertisement
soliciting proposals for carrying mails
in the several States from Jan. |, 1878
to June 30, 1879, at the rate allowed by
law, which is forty cents for the first
hundred, and twenty cents for each sub
sequcnt hundred words.
1t is reported that the cabinets o
London, Berlin, and Vienna have agreed
that the time has not arrived for an at
tempt to s,tle tie eastern question hl
negotiation. The neutral powers be
licvc that Il defnitive settlement, prom
ising permanent peace, cannot be oh
tanned until Turkey is subiugated
Russia becomes thoroughly exhausto,
by the protracted struggle, and is Sready
to seek some other means of adjustmen
than the arbitrament of force to whicl
she has appealed
An Illinois Camp Meeting.
From the Chicago Times
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