The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-07-25

Britain.
The case with Secretary Sherman as to
resumption seems to be that he has the
money to resume with but lacks the
authority.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION begins to feel
the hard times. He only gets 100000
ayear for pocket money, besides his
regular salary of 100000.
THERE are over one thousand regis
tered distilleries in Georgia, aud it is
estimated that at least six hundred are
manufacturing the crooked"
LORD SALISBURY says that the present
is the last chance that England will ev-
er give Turkey of making respectable
and civilized power OF herself.
The Greenback party in Wisconsin
have begun to make separate nomina-
tions for Congress, and the attempted
coalition with the Democrats has been
abandoned.
SOMETHING is the matter with the
courts of Massachusetts. They have
, sent a defaulting county treasury to the
penitentiary for five years. Is civiliza-
ton a failure?
The brutal personal attack of the
Oil City Derrick upon P. 7. Barnum is
deserving of the severest censure. 1t
says he can't stand on his head without
getting up against wall.
A PARTY of capitalists left st Louis
on the 9th for Tuscan, Arizona, where
they have invested largely in mining
property. They have little ranch of
1900 acres, with some forty mines,
and 10000 head of sheep.
AND now another volcano has been
discovered near Ashville, n. G. If this
thing goes on the skeptical will be
forced to believe that every time a
North Carolinian gets the jim-jams a
new volcano is set in motion.
1T seems piece Of foolish extrava-
gance to pay $50 for a bust of Shakes
peare, when by the judicious expendi-
ture of fifty cents or dollar almost any
man can get magnificent bust of his
OWE.
A LATE Chinese Masonic funeral in
Eureka New, was the most gorgeous
barbaric display ever seen in eastern
Nevada, in which brass bands, heathens
in their robes, and hired female mourn
ers were inextricably blended.
THE Detroit Free Press thinks it
rather funny that colonel should be
killed in an engagement with the Indi-
ans. If colonies are as numerous in
the army as in civil life, the wonder is
that more arc not killed.
The Boston Post has discovered that
"Deadwood is played out" This is
how it knows: The mammoth gamb-
ling halls and gilded concert and drink.
ing saloons are closed, and in their
stead ten cent games have been institut-
ed.
The Berlin congress has finished ITS
y work. 1t has concluded peace, created
demand for new maps of Europe, and
settled the Eastern question-untll such
time as Russia shall feel strong enough
to make another advance on Constants
nople.
The Boston Globe remarks: ave
have arrived at the third milestone oi
OF the second century in our journey
through life as nation" And one
serious trouble with us as people, il
hat like the Globe, we are too much
given to going on stills.
THE divine De Murska, the grea
songstress, accounts for her first mar
riage on the ground that she must hav,
been suffering from softening of thu
brain. Women often contract marriages
that can be satisfactorily accounted fo
only in a similar way.
The st. Louis Journal feelingly ex
presses the hope that the Indians won'
all run off to Canada before cold wealth
er sets in. 1t wants the government t,
have the pleasure of forgiving then
next fall, and feeding them up next win
ter, preparatory to more massacres mex
summer.
A FEW heavy men have produced
panic in the Pennsylvania oil trade by
combined movement to drive the smal
fry out of the business. The price O
petroleum has been forced down t.
ninety-fve cents a barrel, and hundred
OF moderate owners and operators hav
been ruined.
The forger aged eighteen years, VIII
presented q false check at one of til
New York city banks last Saturday, an
pointed pistol at the officer who al
rested him is ono of the illustrations Q
the remarkable progress OF crime anon
American youth.
UNDER direction Of the Secretary c
War q board of engineer officers ha