The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-08-15
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Henry James, Jr.'s American" has
been highly praised by London critics.
Bayard Taylor's anti theological beliefs
are substantially the same as GOethes.
Lorin Brooks, for fifty.two years shoe.
maker in New York, died last week.
Five American Indians, in full war
paint and feathers, are astonishing visitors
at Paris.
Some of the cottonwood telegraph poles
on the Southern Pacific Railroad have
sprOuted.
Lieut.. Gladstone, of the British navy,
son Of ex.Premier Gladstone, is at Ottawa,
Ontario.
President Raymond, of Vassar College,
is seriously i'll with fever, and is in crit
cal condition.
DR.. SChleman will return to Athens soon
and renew excavations at Hissarlik, or
elsewhere.
Senator Thurman is this week the guest
r, 7. Merrick, at his country seat near
Washington.
During the administration Of Gov Rice
in Massachusetts,, he has visited every
county in the State.
Isaac Edge & Son, the great purvcyors
Of frecrackers and fireworks, have gone
into bankruptcy.
Olive Logan's husband is said to be com.
piling book on Welsh legends, myths,
fairy tales and folklore.
A wild punster wants Tennyson TO add
to his own time.honored bays by glorifying
the Queens new Cyprus.
Fifty thousand dollars to the lawyer and
$4,000 to the widow" is the way they di.
vide estates in New York City.
"We've Left the Barrel" and "Hurrah
for the Pump" arc the titles of two popular
English temperance songs.
Mr. Farjeon is in London correcting the
proofsheets of his Christmas story and
attending TO other literary work.
Many persons pronounce him "Karny"
with the "a' coming from away down
around the diaphragm somewhere.
A Clevelander refused to pay fare in the
horsecar the other day because he could
find no seat. Then he was brought into
Court and convicted.
Maurice Jolly, Paris politician, promi.
nent in the days of the Commune, shot
himself lately because his name had been
erased from the list of lawyers. .
Gen. Schenck and daughter are doing
Vermont in carriage, sensibly following
the old wagon roads among the beautiful
hills and valleys of that State.
Two weeks ago a Mississippi editor
made stirring appeal to 1000 people who
had not paid him for their paper, up to
this time" he says, "siX have responded"
The Australian cricketers will, it is esti
mated, net $500 each by their trip to
England, so large have been the audiences
at every match they have played.
Lord Derby has ponderous frame, and
his head resembles that fS a prizefghter's,
his enemies say. Whan he speaks his
manner is somewhat tidgety and nervous.
The E'rendeRJlaH of Vienna announces
the approaching betrothal of Count An.
drassys only daughter with Prince Alfred
of Montennava, a distant cousin Of the
Emperor Of Russia.
New imported opera cloaks are made of
gold embroidered India shawls. The
shawl is sewed into shape without being
cut, is faced with gold satin, and ornament
ed with gold passamenterie.
The use of steam on street railroads is
expressly provided for in several bills late.
ly passed by the British Legislature The
speed is limited to eight miles in towns,
and ten in the country.
DR.. Julius Woldemar Liebig has pub.
lishcd at Dresden second edition OF his
History and Literature of Shorthand"
This is regarded as the cOmpletest histor-
cal sketch of Shorthand eXtant.
The statistics of the Irish Methodist
church were reported at its recent confer
ence to be: 1850 members, 207 chapels,
2G6 Sunday schools with 2,4l7 teachers,
and 9O,SGS scholars.
One of Krupp's new guns 30 feet long,
and weighs 11i,000 pounds. The shells
for this monster weigh / 1,1jj pounds, and
2j3 pounds of powder are required for a
charge. To manage the gun easily IS men
are required,
The San Antonio ErpresS speCulates on
the chances of war with Mexico, and does
notregard such an event as at all unlikely.
The unusual reticence of General Ord and
other United States officers is regarded as
ominous.
A wealthy resident of Brooklyn, having
been informed by the spirits that if his
dead wife had lived few months longer
she would have borne him son, has
erected monument to his spirit son.
whom he has christened Charles,
An Alabama Court is called upon to de.
eide whether prisoner can legally be
worked outside of the walls of the Peniten.
tiary Gn chain gang or on the estate OF
lessee of convict labor, and whether pris-
oner thus employed can not claim his lib.
erty.
1t is certainly delicate way of calling
off crime when, as in the case Of Fond
du Lac deiaulter, ii is said that his bank
ruptcy absorbed" the funds belonging to
a lodge of Free Masons. 1t is almost equal
to Boston paper calling Tappan's robbery
ian irregularity."
The telephone has been brought into
use with the most satisfactory results at the
great annual rifleshoOting contest at VIM
bledon. 1t is no longer necessary to stop
the shooting when any communication be-
tween the points and the buttes is neces-
sary,
On the 18th day of January last Mrs,
Saline Dimmitt an old lady aged about
65 years, bargained with the livery firm of
Curtis & Duncan, to convey her TO the res
idence of her son.in-law, John Lingen-
felter, who lives at or near Norris Fork.
Five miles from Clinton, and between the
residences of David Owens and j. B. Col.
Inns, the vehicle "a drummer wagon, was
driven against a fence, and the seat on
which Mrs. Dimmitt was sitting was sud-
denly upset, throwing her violently to the
ground, as she alleges "a distance of ten
feet, alighting on her head" breaking
three of her ribs, bruising her head severe
ly, and sustaining other INJURIES which
have seriously disabled her, and for which
she sues Edward Curtis, one of the proprie.
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