The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-20

Evan Evan Evans is q Student In
Wisconsin college. Evans, what name
The pope is paralyzed in the legs
but he is still able to receive visitors
and is considered good for half 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 e. Ellsworth's old bay
horse was stolen by a tramp from pas
ture in Mechanicsville fortnight since,
but was abandoned on the highway and
recovered.
In the Island of Sardinia, long neg
lectcd by modern civilization, water and
gas works were recently introduced in
several small towns amid an cnthusias-
tic display of flags and fireworks.
A colonization convention of 1000 or
5000 colored people WIS 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
"Cleopatra's needle" has een'dropped
into the Mediterranean. An enormous
caisson of timber has been built around
the great shaft, sufficiently buoynnt to
float it, and in this condition it i. to be
towed to England.
The porte has sent a note to the
Khedive convention with England Civ
ing the latter right of search. The porte
contests the Khedivesauthority to grant
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 loan of al
most any sum for say a fortnight, at the
rate of l Is Der 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 $32,-
300 the statue of Faith" was completed
and placed in its position on the MI
tional monument to the pilgrims at
Plymouth, Mass Mr.. Ames was ma
tive OF that town.
The reason why Hobart Pasha has not
bombarded Sevastopol 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 torpcdoes.
The injunction of secresy, has at
length been removed from the agent of
the Pilgrim Society of Massachusetts,
and he announces that the gentleman
whose gift of s32,3 300 purchased the i'm
mense statue of Faith" which is to
crown the national monument of Ply
mouth is the late Hon. Oliver Ames.
The postolfice department. has receiv-
ed 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. l, 1878,
to June 80, 1879, at the rate allowed by
law, which is forty cents for the first
hundred, and twenty cents for each sub
sequent hundred words.
1t is reported that the cabinets of
Lopdon, Berlin, and Vienna have agreed
that the time has not arrived for an at
tempt to settle the eastern question by
negotiation The neutral powers be-
lieve that defnitive settlement, prom
Using permanent peace, cannot be OBJ
tanned until Turkey is subjugated or
Russia becomes thoroughly exhausted
by the protracted struggle, and is ready
to seek some other means of adjustment
than the arbitrament of force to which
she has appealed.
A Sad Story.
A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post, writing from Long Is