The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-01-03

who went into the fight with vim at
the very start, and has fought like a
Trojan ever since, ought to make the
Serbs little more modest.
The Cuban insurrection continues to
come to an end, and $50 insurgents daily
are reported as laying down their arms
They have been doing this for eight
years, and the strangest part of it is that
there are more insurgents now than
there were at the start.
The physicians of public institu
tion at Jersey City have been instructed
to make their reports in plain English
A director complained that they charged
twenty-three cents pound for CASTLE
soap, calling it "sapo hespano," but il
they called it CASTLE soap the price would
only be eleven cents.
Mrs. Dudley of New York City, en-
ployed model servant a few days ago.
On Sunday the model servant left the
house with $4,000 worth of property in
her possession, and then it was discov-
cred that the woman was Mary Marks,
notorious English thief, whose por-
trait adorned the Rogues' Gallery.
If England insists on neglecting her
manufactures and her growing fields to
strengthen tho broken lines of the Turk,
America will gracefully submit, and set
about furnishing hog and hominy and
all the little luxuries they need. 1t
may aid in solving the problem of hard
times.
The Adiutant General of Pennsyl-
vania estimates that the July riots cost
the State nearly halfa million of dollars.
Among the expenditures is $4,000
which the Reading Railroad charges for
carrying troops to save the railroads IS
property. Other railroad companies
will present bills of the same character.
There is nothing which surprises an
American so much on first going to
Paris as to see the pains taken and the
expense incurred in keeping the streets
clean. And there is nothing which sur
prises Partisan so much on first com
ing to America as to see the lack of
pains and expense incurred innot keep
ing the streets clean.
The plucky and irrepressible Monte
negrins have gained another victory
These bold patriots of the mountains
did not, like the Servians, wait until
their tyrannical suzcrain had been Grip,
pied by a powerful foe to strike for free,
dom, but went in at the beginning and
bore share of the hardships and bur.
thcns Of q hard-fought war.
Captain Robert H. Parrott, the invent
or of the Parrot guns, died suddenly Of
heart disease at Cold Spring, N. Y, OF
the oath. He graduated from West
Point in 1920, and was promoted tc
Captain i'll 1886. He resigned soor
afterward, and since that time ha sheer
Superintendent of the West Point Iror
and Cannon Foundry at Cold Spring
The correspondent of the New Yorl
World ut the city of Mexico says one
faction of Mexico diplomatists, or poll
ticians, favor general Spanish Ameri
can alliance against the United States
and that they have taken steps to inhu
ence the Central and South American
republics in that direction. This is tn
new dream of the ambitious and Yankee
hating Mexican, but it will never b.
realized.
The official army register for 1877
shows that the militia of the Unite,
States available for militia duty but un
organized number 3,734,G93. Thrt
States are reported as having militia OF
ganizations. The general officers nun
ber 1877; general staff officers, 1,0l7
regimental, field and staff officers, /, ,24C
company officers, A, AGO; total non-com
missioned officers, musicians, privat,
etc, S6,SF3, or an aggregate force {
organized militia of 93,607.
nj. De Lesseps has new plan for I'll
much-talked-of Darien Canal. Accor,
ing to his plan the canal ascends j
river Tuyra from the Pacific to the Is
of Alligators; then connects that strea
with the Chucunaque near the mout
of the Tupisa; continues up the CHI
cunaquc and Tiati, and by canal
tunnel reaches to the Acant and Tol
flowing to deep waters at Port Gant
The tunnel is expected to cost $12O,00C
600; and Lieutenant Wyse, who explc
ed last year, is returning to compile
the work,
A Woman's Sublime HerOisn.
Sister s., of the Order of Troy
domcled in French convent, had tax
some sick children out for walk in [