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

Yuma, Arizona, is supplied with grapes
grown on the desert" seven miles from
that town.
The catch of sardines in France this
season will be larger than il has been for
many years.
The recent frcshet in Wisconsin brought
down seventeen million feet of logs to the
Eau Claire booms
Two Chinese young men are preparing
for the Protestant Episcopal ministry at
San Francisco, Cal.
The Picdyune says that in New Orleans
a poor person may look at small piece OF
ice for ten cents.
Two farmers in Tioga, Pa, were attacked
by an infuriated bull, one Of whom has
died from his injuries.
Squirrels abound in unusual numbers at
Glens Falls, N. Y, promising rare sport for
hunters there this fall,
The Elgin watch factory has reduced the
wages of its employees from 10 to % per
cent. to take effect Aug. l.
"Evening sermon only twenty-five min,
utes long," is conspicuous in church no.
tice in the Ogdensburgh journal.
A London voter, travelling in Germany
years ago as "the elector Of London" re.
ceived marked Difference and attention.
Detroit is out with new city directory
1t contains 43,212 names, which are sup
posed to represent population OF l20,636
The richest club in New York, if not in
the United States, is the Union League,
which is said to have surplus Of $780,.
900 invested in government bonds.
The hot wave has struck Arizona, and it
is not known how hot ii is at Fort Yuma.
the hottest place in the world. The ther.
mometer aren't equal to it.
1t appears that the tbree-centbeer peo.
pie are about to get the upper hand Of the
nickel ones in Pittsburg. The brewers
have agreed to sell to the former
1t is estimated that the yield of wheat
in Marshall county, Indiana, the present
season will reach in the neighbOrhood of
eight hundred thousand bushels.
A handsome and accomplished woman
has just died in Brooklyn at the age of 81
who left a daughter of 1G and fourteen
other children. She died IN childbirth.
Bathing is becoming highly popular in
the st. Joseph river, near Fort Wayne, the
only drawback TO the respeCtabilitY Of the
pastime being that sexes mingle promis,
cuously.
A Paris ordinance placing restrictions
on the breeding and keeping OF dogs abso
lutely prohibits the taking about IN that
city of "any dog Of the race Of boulc-
dogues"
There are now at least thirteen cream.
cries in Delaware county in Iowa, which
is the largest butter county in Iowa, as
Delaware county, New York, is of the
Empire state
The bishop of Manchester says that
some of the English clergy are so poor
that they do not taste meat more than once
or twice week, and are glad to get the
castoff clothing of their parishioncrs.
The Chinese are capable of being civil.
lied. A couple of them had a lawsuit in
Salinas Cal, not long ago. The defendant
was convicted, but declared he would hire
more witnesses and try it again.
Another attempt to break down the law
of primOgeniture In England, has been
made 1t resulted, however, in failure,
as the bill, though supported by Sir vii.
liam Harcourt was defeated by thirty.six
votes.
All the postmasters of the country have
been ordered 10 send to Washington what
ever three cent pieces they may receive
in order that these coins may be with.
drawn from circulation.
NewburypOrt had an unpuritan Sabbath
last week. There were six excursion
steamers in the harbor; the farmers, to
save the tide we're moving in the marshes,
and the clergymen were away IN vaca,
tions.
The statement that the negroes are dying
out as an effect of freedom is denied from
South Carolina, where it is averred they
are rapidly increasing. The census Of
1880 will have to be awaited to settle the
dispute.
Capt. Webb, by way of exercise, has been
swimming for ten consecutive hours in the
Thames. He covered distance of forty
miles, and was fresh at the end of his task.
He is soon going to try to swim for thirty
six consecutive hours.
Prof. Hughes microphones, highly fin.
ished, are offered for sale in London at the
price of 81 each, and of course
they meet with ready sale. Together with
a battery, switch, and receiving telephone,
the instrument costs but s..
According to official returns the wheat
crop of France was 274S06,000 bushels in
1877, against 2G60OO,00O bushels in 1876.
Latest mail advices indicate favorable
for an average yield of the wheat
crop of 1878.
Mgr. Conroy, the papal abegate, was re.
,eived at st. Johns, Newfoundland with
he united courtesy of both Catholics and
Protestants. His arrival made general
holiday, on which all places of business
we're closed.
Philadelphia is working up the Brazil
an trade very energetically. A syndicate
If her manufacturers have sent agents of
Rio to induce the Brazilians to deal direct.
y with them, dispensing with the commits
ion houses.
Salt Lake Tribune: In passing by the
Id Washington house. where the Mormon
migrants are corraled, we noticed yester-
ay great many sad and fearful faces.
ion is not what the deceitful elders pic
IRE it, and when the deluded victims get
ere there is great disappointment
There is still much interest in Boston
oncerning Theophilus Young, whose wife
lys ne is dead, and has sued his brother
u her husbands share of a handsome
rCperty. But man has just turned up
tho says he knew Theophilus well, and
NV him on Court street in Boston less