The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-06-27


at 10 and l2 cents per pound, which is q
hard competition for the creameries to
contend against
The members of the Congress at
Berlin converse with each other in
French. But each one swears to him
self in his own language.
PROFESSOR VAIL, of St. Louis, de-
fines Socialism as division of the
means of production of wealth, and
Communism as division of property.
IT seems strange to read of city elec-
tions in old Rome, and stranger yet to
read that the Catholics elected only
two out of the twelve municipal coun-
sellors.
BEACoNsFIELD, it is SAID, is to be GRE
ated Duke if he makes peace in Eu-
rope. What then should he be created
if he succeeds in making peace in the
English royal family.
The tobacco tax was not reduced
but a great effort will be made to push
the matter this summer and fall, SO that
the reduction may be accomplished as
soon as Congress comes together
lin.
The deliberations of the European
Congress in Berlin are conducted in
secret. But that will amount to moth
ing unless all the correspondents of
American papers are driven out of the
city and kept out.
The New England Quakers held a
meeting at Newport, Rhode Island, on
Wednesday and accorded to women the
right to vote for officers of the annual
meeting, and in real estate transactions
their signatures are to be required.
The Mormons are charged with being
the chief instigators of the Indian dep
relations in the west, whose object it is
to keep the white settlers out of the fine
valleys of Camas prairie, until the Nor
mons shall have time to take possession
of them.
GENERAL FREMoNTis greatly gratifed
at his appointment as Governor of Ari-
zona, He proposes to begin life anew
in the distant territory to which he has
been commissioned. He may turn up
as one of the first Senators from Cali
fornia.
ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS regards the
backdown of the House Democrats, on
the question of the Presidents title, in
the light of personal triumph, or
rather as an Endorsement by the house
of his personal views regarding the in
vestigation.
The Commissioner OF Internal Reve-
nue. declares that the agitation in Con-
gress over the reduction of the tax on
whisky and tobacco has caused falling
off in the internal revenue receipts for
the present fiscal year to the amount
of $10,O000O0.
The labor riots are not likely to be
repeated at Montreal. The authorities
are very active. Meetings of the dis
turbeis of the public peace on Wcdnes-
day were very promptly dispersed no
time was given for the strikers to make
demonstration.
THERE is said to be running wild in
the woods of Texas a man who was
made insane by the study of the curren-
cy question. The only difference be-
tween this man and many other men
in various parts of the country is the
locality in which he is running.
A NUMBER Of Deadwood merchants
lately pre- jented bills to the Bismarck
stage and transportation company to q
considerable amount for merchandise
raided upon by Indians en- route to the
Black Hills. The goods are now sup
posed to be in Sitting Bulls camp.
A ROTTEN bridge, over which the
Cherokee, Ga, railroad crosses the
Etowah river, gave way, and precipitat-
ed an engine and six freight cars into
the water, twenty-five feet below. A
coach containing fifteen passengers was
left standing just on the verge of des-
truction.
A New York exchange says "Thur.
low Weed never saw the face of VIM. c.
Bryant, until he looked upon it in the
burial casket; and yet these two men
were contemporaries in public OR liter.
ary work for three-quarters of q century
in the same State, and most of the time
in the same city,"
IF Gen. Mackenzie did cross into
Mexico thintentto capture Escobedo
it may be assumed that such a venture
would do Escobedo more good thar
harm (providing always that he was no
captured), as it would enlist in his favol
all those excessively royal Mexican,
whose principal business in life is tc
hate Americans.
VALLEY FORGE is inseparably associ
ated with the story of the revolution
When WASHINGTON with his heroic arm,