Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1878-09-26
GENERAL NOTES.
The gold Weld in North Carolina last
,.,,, ,,,,ou,tod 10 $40 OOO

The gold Weld in North Carolina last
year amounted to 100000.
New York has Just shipped three line
locomotives to New South Wales
Chambers is epizootic and very fatal
among the horses Of San Francisco.
A recent death has increased the Wal
lingford tornado victims to thirty'two'
A thousand-pound cinnamon bear was
killed near Centreville, Utah, last week.
A son of the late Siamese twins is stu
dent at Chapel Hill institute, N. I.
The British parliament has passed law
mhicting Il fine of fifty dollars ON any per-
son in Ireland who holds a wake over
person who has died Of an infections dis
order -,
There are one hundred cases of typhoid
fever, of malignant type, in Bradford,
Mexican county, Pa, said to have resulted
from bad drainage and filthy living
A Mexican officer serving on the front,
Ter says that peace between the United
States and Mexico depends upon an mn
possible prudence on the part OF the Mex
lean officers stationed on the Rio Grande'
A young woman in West Virginia
eloped the other night She threw her
clothes out of a back window, but they
lodged in the branches Of an apple tree,
and her lover had toshin up and get them
down.
The superintendency of one of the lead
| ing Nevada mines is better position
than the presidency of the United STATES
| The holder of the position can make
all the money he wants, and 50 can all his
friends.
The Cambria Iron company m Pennsyl'
vania has ordered the removal from their
mines of all children under twelve years
of age, and directed the superintendent
not to employ any person so young mere
after. r.
The enemies of Diaz in the state Of
Jalapa, Mexico, have issued Il pronuncla-
mento. taken to the field, and levied the
customary forced loan Of $4,000 on the
city of Jalapa. They are in favor of the
restoration of Lerdo to the Presidency.
Two British soldiers in Ceylon recently
died of cholera-theirs being the only
deaths in the regiment. The dead men
happened to be teetotallers, and tins fact
so impressed their comrades that OF one
hundred and eighty-eight temperance
men in the regiment one hundred and
thirty-six Immediately broke the pledge.
The largest cotton-mills in the world are
those at Narva, in Russia, on the Gull OF
Finland, eighty-one miles from st. Peters
burg. One company there own four hund-
red thousand Spindles. The Harmony
mills, Cohoes, n. Y, having two hundred
and seventy-fve thousand spindles, are the
largest in the United States.
robustness offattcnng geese and chick
ems is amusingly illustrated at the Pans
exhibition. A many-storcd machine con
tains stalls for geese, so narrow that they
must eat or die, the goose shepherd being
represented as putting corn down their
throats by means of u funnel. Fowls are
treated to cruel after the same fashion.
A suit of the National Bank Of the Re
public. of Washington, discloses the fact
that Mcssls Rives a. Co., former owners OF
the Congressional Giobc, had tOpay ST 900
to get I'm item in the sundIy appropna-
ton bill giving them Sl0O, 600 torthc prop
erty of the old Congressional Globe, and
that Boss Shepherd was one oil the beneh-
Charles to the extent of $4,000.
A somnambulst IN Herkimer county
New York, rose from his bed and walked a
mile in undress with lampin his hand to
call upon his sweetheart. She and her
mother were about retiring for the night
when they answered his knock. In aston
ishment they conducted him to chamber,
receiving his explanations in the morning,
and procuring more suitable clothing for
him.
Mr.. George Lewis, a very successful Lon
/, don solicitor, has just leased three enor-
nous houses near thenew law courts iorhis
business. The magnitude of this business
; can be coniectured when his staff of clerks
and employees numbers two hundred and
fifty. Mr. Lewis has grand mansion IN
Portland place, between the Langham and
Rcgents park. His Office receipts are
said to reach $4,000 yearly.
The cost of the Paris exhibition building
is set down ut 5000O,0O0 francs, and the
receipts for the entire show are estimated
at q 800, 900 but it is calculated that the
govern mt and the municipality will In
directly derive q revcnnn oF about lM om',-
600 from it .. 'r.un autis.,
taxes on rli .. u... Mi c4''
stamps for . nr and .N-
: else duties on N