The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-05-02
NUBS.
Hartford has a baseball nine.

MankatO, Mlnn voted against tne lnr0
duction of water-works.
The latest official census gives Italy a
population of 26,S01, ,154 souls.
CLANS were sold at Newbern, N. c., last
week at forty cents per bushel.
Thirty miles of the Toledo and Ann Ar.
Dor railroad have been completed.
Colored people are leaving Mississippi
in considerable numbers for the West.
Crop reports from all parts of California,
with few exceptions, are most favorable.
Most of the schools at Princeton, Ind,
have been closed on account of the small.
poX scare.
The Mexican troops on the Rio Grande
are deserting in large numbers 10 the Tex
as side.
Thirty.five million hedge-plants have
been raised this year within a mile of Ha-
vana, III.
Six thousand live chickens were shipped
from Knoxville, Tenn, the other day to
New York.
There was no foundation for tie report
that the archbishop of Mexico had been
made cardinal.
The number OF hogs packed in the West
last winter was G,5Oj,OOO, Il gain OF ,4Oi,
600 over the previous year.
A child was killed lew days ago in the
church of San Jose, Mexico, by the falling
Of holy water lount.
The grand jury of Chickasaw county, Ia,
has indicted all the drug stores Of Hamil-
ton for selling liquor.
Hon. Bcnont S. Fuller, congressman of
the First Indiana district, declines 10 be q
candidate for re election.
Out of two thousand five hundred cases
of meases reported in Montgomery, Ala,
not single death has occurred.
There is forty acre asparagus planta.
tion in Upper Alton from which twenty
five boxes Of asparagus are shipped daily.
The silver product of Montana this year
will reach into the millions. The United
States assay office at Helena is very active.
The old Mansfield, Coldwater and Mich
igan railroad ghost will hereafter material
ize as "The Allegan and Southeastern rail.
road company"
1t is said that sliding down hill was the
direct cause of over six hundred deaths
during the last winter The obvious moral
is-alwayS slide up hill. q.
Hartford has not laid in its usual guam
.ity Of ice and next summers prices will
be raised 40 or 80 per cent
over those of last season.
A mandatory for making nitro.glyce-
rine is in operation at Saginaw City, Mich
and Saginaw farmers blow their big
jtnmps out Of the ground with it.
1t is claimed that thirty.fivc thousand
persons in Scott county, Iowa, have signed
he pledge since the inauguration of the
blue ribbon movement in Davenport.
The country has $45O,OOO,OOO invested in
100000 milch cows whose annual pro-
luct is worth $275, 142,j ,jS5, when the last
cotton crop was worth only S20O,0O0O0O.
The amendment to the Mexican Consti
ution prohibiting the reelection of the
president Of the republic has been ratified
by the legislature of the State Of Mexico.
Mr. Thomas Mechan, of Philadelphia,
las presented Vanderbilt university, at
Nashville Tenn, with four hundred and
ifty trees, as nucleus Of an arbOretum.
The Adrian Baptists are cropping along
m the brink Of a moral Niagara, and the
of the same place have Caus-
al wicked brother to step down and out.
A woman Of the town in Clinton, Iowa,
Iroke into the house of defenceless wild
,wer, and crawled into led. He had her
rrested, but the mayor SIMPLY gave her a
ecture and let her go.
-Four firms in Salisbury shipped during
he year 1877, thirty.two thousand two
hundred and two pounds of sassafras and
me thousand three hundred and fifty
pounds of pennyroyal oil.
The newspapers of Minnesota are be.
yaiing the fact that Kansas is receiving
en- emigrants to Minnesota's one. 1t is
doubtful, however, whether the
lisproporion is so large.
According to The Syracuse (N "
long buried treasures are being
Inearthcd on Onondaga reservation, and
mysterious hints of silver and lead mines
n the same locality are thrown out
Mrs Philas Glover of Hannibal, Oswe.
o county, New York, recently left her
husband and three children, the eldest 13
ears of age to elope with boy Is years
ears ofage, employed by her husband on
be farm.
Clinton, Iowa, has resolved to organize
company with $20O,0O9 capital to build
ailway and wagon bridge across the river
here The stock will be $40 per share,
lacing it within the reach of every prop.
rty,owncr,
A dry goods merchant in Troy, N. Y,
dvertises to pay the railroad fares of all
Tho come from Albany to trade in his
tore, and to pay for their dinner in the
est hotel in the city The rivalry between
roy and Albany is spirited.
Some Waterbury, Conn, men Clipped
l and bought of its owner an obnoxious
og, and had him killed. The owner
,und the carcass and got 81 bounty for it
18th which he bought another dog.
A Herttord England) letter-carrier has
cen sentenced to seven years imprison.
lent at hard labor for stealing money
tier. 1t came out during the trial that
is wages were Sl25 week, and that to
arm them he had TO walk twelve miles q
ay.
Probably the only person in the country
ho has observed every anniversary of Pres.
lent Llncoln's death is Mrs. Hume of
ortland, Me-, who draped her house in
de and out with Grape, and displays an
merican flag with each recurrence Of the
ny.
The strike at Lancashire, England, has
egun. All the operatives at Long.
dge have struck. At Blockburne, it is
fought, the strike will be long one, and
venly-two thousand operatives are now
lected there, At Padiham only one mill
working
The Madison, Wis, park commissioners
&c in correspondence with Philadelphia
lrties for the purchase of the large cen.
nnial fountain, which cost nearly $10.
10, but which can be bought for $500 or
| 900, 10 be placed in the Madison park,
Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne has
cen fined 60 and costs by a Westminster
Olice magistrate for being drunk, acting
a disgusting manner, and telling po-
ceman TO go to the place which lngersoll
lys doesn't exist. The prisoner said he