The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-08-30
NUBS OF NEWS,

Cranberry picking mas DeBuh Ill WIZ
consin.
A military post is to be established at
Henrietta Tex.
A new cricket club has been organic
ed in Milwaukee.
Excessive heat is killing off a good
many California sheep
Wolves are doing considerable in the
pork business in Kansas.
Fourteen lives were lost in Kansas
during July by lightning.
An angry COW trampled John Brady,
of Dandy, Mich, to death.
The street railroads OF New York city
use eleven thousand horses.
Nearly all of the Minnesota wheat
tests sixty pounds per bushel.
Burlington is to have a big rolling
mill, and now she wants an opera-house.
There are five lines of telephones now
in successful operation in New York
city.
The effect of the recent strikes in
checking immigration from Europe is
noticed already.
Kalamazoo has just been through a
terrible civil war of local nature. 1t
was all about the removal of city lamp
post.
John G. Schooler was arrested in
Bowie county, Texas the other day for
murder committed in Shelby county
in 1858.
"Gone to my husbands funeral
back in thirty minutes is the notice
found on the Office door of lady lawyer
in Oregon, recently.
A woman living near Cassopolis,
Mich, was spurred on one of her wrists
by barn-yard fowl, and died from the
effects of the slight wound.
1t cost Dakota $500 to send two lots
of prisoners, one from Bismark and the
other from Dcadwood, to the peniten-
tiary at Fort Madison, Iowa.
But two members of the Latta guards,
of Altoona Pa, having turned out upon
call during the riots, the company have
shamefacedly resolved to disband.
A young lady named McGovern died
suddenly near Bellevue, Iowa, few
days ago. Her death was caused by en-
tering cool cellar and working there
at butter-making, barefootcd.
A Paris gambler, whose luck is the
talk of the club, is known to carry II
medallion ON his breast containing a
piece of rope cut from the cord with
which suicide hanged himself.
An enthusiastic Texas newspaper as
serts that the census of 1880 will show
that Texas has a population of two
million, and will be entitled to eighteen
representatives at Washington.
SO many new vessels are building in
England, especially steamers, that the
English shipping brokers say that they
begin to fear the carrying trade of the
world is being largely overdone.
A New Orleans man who was assessed
upon S4OO has applied to have his as
sessmept raised to $1,000. He says his
property is worth that much. The New
Orleans papers call him queer duck,
Daniel Bissell, Esq, one of the oldest
citizens (72) of Anamosa, Jones county,
Iowa, was married last week to Mrs.
J, Hunter, II young widow of 40, and
said to be one of the first ladies of
Wyoming.
Lake City, COL, stands among the
Rocky mountains at an elevation of
cighty-iivc hundred feet above the sea
or more than twenty-five hundred feet
higher than the Tip-Top house on Mount
Washington.
A man named Monte, when being
conveyed from Fort Griffin to Brown
wood, Tex, Jail, was taken from the
deputy sheriff by party of masken med
and hung to a tree and placarded: BE
ware of horse-thieves."
The Indian squaw, Eliza Smith, known :
us Cherokee Lie, who shot white man
out in Dakota over year ago, complet-
ed her sentence tone year at Fort Madi-
son, Iowa. last week, and has gone
back to her wild forest life.
Texas is SO anxious to secure emigra-
tion that she is virtually giving away
her public land. The head of family
can get one hundred and sixty acres for
the expense of the survey and patent,
which is altogether about Sl5.
A child in Peppcrell Mass, who had
a sore on the lip caused by diphtheria
was kissed by two little girls recently,
one of whom died of the disease in n few
hours, while the other did not survive
n hasty passage to her home in New
York.
Jack Grant, horse-thief was shot
and killed by sheriff's posse near
Sherman, Texas, last week. He was
caught in the act, ordered to halt and
surrender, fired upon the sheriff and
several others, was fired upon by them
in return, and killed.
The county of Pembina, in Dakota
territory, is one fifth as large as the en-
tire province of Manitoba. Every foot
of the thiltcon hundred thousand acres
of land in it is of the finest quality, and
the populations of the entire county is
less than twenty-five hundred