The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-10-25


who wore it at Washington.
The Association of Hay Fever Suffer
ers in Philadelphia numbers 800 active
members. The object of the association
is to gather information which will re-
lieve its members from hay fever.
Private Dalzell the newspaper waste
baskets old friend, is said to have rcen
reelected to the Ohio Legislature by
one majority. Ina moment of patriotic
ardor he probably voted for himself.
Preston S. Hampton, alias Emmer-
son, now in the Kentucky penitcNtiary,
Gays he came to grief by spending all his
money trying to get n clerkship in
Washington, and then resorting to con-
tidence games for livelihood.
The amount necessary to procure the
transportation from Egypt of the ODE
lisk presented by the khedive to the
city of New York has been subscribed.
The monument is the companion and
counterpart of Cleopatra's Needle, and
will cost 100000 to bring over.
Beecher remarked at his prayer meet
ing on Friday night thai the sentence
of the forger Gilman has thrust him,
Beecher, under cloud" 1t apprars
that Gilman married daughter of Mrs.
Perkins, Mr.. Beecher's sister, and he
regards it as almost family disgrace.
A contemporary commenting on the
prevalence of dishonesty, originates the
fresh and impressive remark, "Where
shall we fnd an honest MANI" The
Norristown Herald says: "You will find
us in the Office from 7 a. M to s p. m
provided you don't want to borrow
money
The State Of Sonora Mexico, is now
the seat Of secession feeling which an
nounces itself in threats of cutting loose
from the Republic and setting up on its
own account. Sonora is one of the
largest State of Mexico and dadioins the
United Stotes boundary at Arizona.
The disintcgration of Mexico is fore
doomed.
A house in Passaic, n. j., fell and
killed several persons, and the New
York World charged the builder with
"rascality" for putting up such build
ing. He sued the newspaper for libel,
claiming $4,000, and jury awarded
him six cents. If this builder has any
stomach for libel suits left he will suo
that jury.
Miss Charlotte Thornton, of Wood
ford, Ind, has an old black horse which
goes straight to the blacksmith shop
and deliberately walks in, unattended,
every time he loses shoe. A ncgroboy
usually rides him to drive cows to and
from the pasture. The other day the
darky didn't come to time, and the in
telligent horse drove tho COWS to the
pasture; at another time he went to the
pasture alone and drove the cows home.
Frenchmen have queer notions OF Re
publican simplicity. president of the
Republic and Duke of Magenta" is the
style which Monsieur MacMahon up
pends to his official signature Think
of an American President signingan Of
fetal document "R. b. Hayes, President
of the Republic and Duke of Ohio!"
But all American Presidents are Repub-
licans rather than Presidents of Re-
public, whereas the Duke of Magenta,
though President of Republic, is not
in any possible senss Republican.
We are told that the subterranean tele-
graph wiles in Germany have proved
highly satisfactory. The conductibility
of the buried wire, instead of decreasing,
has, on the contrary, somewhat increas
cd, and no fault in the insulation has
made itself apparent. 1t is believed
that in the long run the buried wires
will prove the cheapest Posts and
insuators, constantly demanding re-
newal, are thus dispensed with. We
should suppose that an experiment that
has proved SO successful in Germany
might be prohtably tried in this coun-
try.
The RoumaniNn authorities, having
protested to the Hungarian government
about band of raiders who have cross
ed the border into their country, have
been informed that the greatest service
they can render to the Hungarian ma
tion will be to capture and hang the
raiders us brigands. The party which
has crossed is probably about as large
as John Browns army of invasion in
Virginia, and the raiders have no doubt
taken the precaution to keep their COM
munications with the frontier well open,
ready for bold dash on their native
country i'll case an armed forced of
Roumanians should appear.
Mary O'Connor was widow, young,
plump, and pretty. Charles Nelligan
was husband, and fifty years of age.
They were neighbors in North Cam
bridge, Mass Mrs. Nelligan fell sick.
Mrs. O'Connor attended her, and Nelli-
gan fell in love with the fair nurse.
Courtship went on briskly while Mrs.