The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-08-08

800 railroad accidents, in which 225
persons were killed and 800 injured.
JOHN Doe was lately sent to the pen
itentiary by a Cincinnati court. Gone
to meet Richard Roe, in all probability.
BEN BUTLER thinks Grant should be
retired from politics and made Field
Marshal of the Union at life salary Of
$4,000 per annum.
BEACoNsFIELD has brother who is
the second officer OF the House OF
Lords, or Clerk Assistant of Parlia-
ment-a permanent Office worth $4,000
ayear.
GENERAL JOSEPH L JOHNSTON has
begun an active canvass for Congress
in the Richmond, Va, district. 1t is
believed that he will secure the ncmina-
tion and will be elected.
TIMES are very hard in Chicago, but
she has one consolation base ball
clubs leads the score Of league clubs for
the season. The world may be hollow
but it isn't stuffed with sawdust.
SEVERAL newspapers are greatly
worried as to whether there was "a sur
prise at the battle Of Shiloh" The fel-
lows most agltated over this historical
event were never nearer than hun
dred miles OF battle.
THERE is Turkey in Europe and
Turkey in Ashland there will be a
lot of turkies in California soon. An
exchange says: "There is turkey
raiser in Napa County, Cal, who is
setting over 800 eggs.
CHICAGO is having a terrible time of
it this summer. First the long list Of
sunstrokes, then the flood, which des-
troyed immense amounts of property,
and now the strike among the tugmen,
which fattens out their commerce.
A SALE OF three hundred and sixty
thousand acres of white oak timber and
mineral lands was recently made in
West Virginia, which averaged only one
cent per acre. Lawyers do not appear
to be the only cheap things which West
Virginia offers to the nation.
CAPT. JAMES B. EADs has been forced
into protracted controversy about the
jetties recently, which brings out some
encouraging facts not heretofore gen.
orally known. In a recent letter to
Congressman Crittenden of this state
he says, "the jetties channel at New
Orleans is almo3t as good as the en-
trance of the New York harbor."
THE Wisconsin commissioners on
steam road-wagons report that no ma
chine submitted to their inspection full
fills the description given in the law
creating the commission, and conse-
quently none is entitled to the $4,000
offered for "a cheap and practical sub
stitute for the use of horses and other
animals on highways and farms"
CHIN Ian PIN, the Chinese ambassa-
dor to this country, is an official of high
rank, and skilled diplomatist. He
comes to this country clothed with au-
thority, it is said, to discuss and remedy
whatever difficulties there may be in
the Chinese problem, and to perfect ar
rangements as to commercial inter-
course.
CORRECTED maps in the English pa
pers indicate clearly the territorial
changes made by the Treaty of Berlin.
Bulgaria is $4,000 square miles in ex-
tent and has population of 100000.
The addition to the territory of Monte
negro is 1,500 square miles; to Servia
5000 square miles; to Roumania 5000
square miles. Russia gains in Bessara.
bia $500 square miles and in Asia 5000
square miles of territory, without count
ing Eastern Roumelia. Turkey loses
by the Treaty of Berlin 1880 square
miles of territory and three and half
millions of people.
CONSIDERABLE alarm has been excited
in the cities of Ohio and Mississippi
valleys by the outbreak of virulent vel
low fever at New Orleans. Stringent
quarantine regulations have been estab-
lished at the larger places, and there
have been few cases north of Vicksburg
The extraordinary heat of the summer
greatly increased the danger of the
spread of the pestilence, but hitherto
the river towns generally have escaped
through good luck or careful manage
ment.
KEELEY's motor has a rival in New
York, where Francis Winters, Jr,, has
invented a machine with two chambers
o few pumps and valves, into one cylin.
der of which water is poured and ap-
pears in another cylinder as q gas, in
whose odorless flame the hand can be
. held without burning it, which neither
explodes nor generates friction, heat or
moisture, and while costing only half
. as much as steam, it is claimed will do