The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-02-28
TOPICS OF THE TIME,

TOPICS OF THE TIME.
The Globe Democrat says, the gener-
al public will be astonished to learn,
this morning, that Mr.. j. Fred. Thorn
ton is a defaulter, as Circuit clerk,
to an amount as high as 100000; but
those who are in any degree intimate
with the personal habits of a majority
OF our local officers will not be at all as
tonished, but will rather be on the look
out for more of the same sort. The
truth OF the matter is that one-half of
the men in public positions similar to
that of Mr.. Thornton in this city are
chronic gamblers, and that the vice of
gambling is encouraged and protected
in st. Louis, instead of being punished
or prevented.
Now that the silver bill has been
practically disposed of, it would be well
for Congress to give its attention to the
present bankrupt law. 1t is safe to say
to say that no existing statute is so I'M
satisfactory to the honest merchants of
the country, or so well calculated to
promote dishonesty among business
men. Many of its provisions are no
more or no less than direct premiums
on fraud, and their disastrous workings
are to be seen on every hand.
Dispatches received from every lum-
boring point in Michigan show no snow,
and log hauling dragging slowly. Not
to exceed 20 per cent of the expected
product has been banked in the state at
large. Of the 6OO,OO0,OOO feet expected
in the Saginaw district, only 2O,OOO,OOO
has been banked, while the cost of lum-
boring has been increased fully 81 per
thousand. Fully 10 per cent of the cut
is still on the skids.
The duke Of Wellington didn't know
everything, but this is what he said fifty
years ago: "There is no doubt it
would have been more fortunate and
better for the world if the treaty of Adj
rianople had not been signed, and if
the Russians had entered Constantine
pie, and if the Turkish Empire had
been dissolved"
The reconciliation of silver will not
revolutionizc trade-it will not, as the
Graphic says, bring about good times
at once; but it will serve as brake on
the trainof disasters it will probably stop
any further shrinkagc, substitute hope
for despair, revive credit and turn us
from the darkness toward better time.
AS father jumped from n buggy il
Dallas, Tex, his pair of high-mettle.,
horses dashed away with his little ten
year old daughter. None but n Texas
paper would venture to tell how she
gathered the rcins, and stood 'em up on
the ends of their tQils
J. P, Wall, of New York, has been
sentenced to fifteen years imprison-
ment for kicking his wife to death.
Hanging would appear better thing
for brute with so much murder in his
soul. Then the question comes up
again, if hell is not a necessity?
The debating society of the district
school in the most obscure corner of
Clark county, Ky, after an exhaustive
discussion have definitely decided that
there is hell. The society is soon to
settle the question of the nature of cter-
nal punishment.
Notwithstanding the immense grain
trade of Odessa, Revel, and st. Peters
burg, there is not an elevator at either
of those centres. But an American
firm has just made n contract to build
!, one at st. Petersburg as soon as peace
is declared.
According to the Moffet register, the
people of Richmond, Va, average about
100000 drinks year. The popula-
tion of Richmond is about $4,000.
MemphisS has fined man $50 for
putting on the petticoats. They are
afraid to tackle the woman who wears
the brecches.
About one-half of California is flood
cd with water from a twenty-four hours
rain. II never "rains but it pours in
California"
1t is said that Senator Jones, of Ne
vada, has lost the greater part of his
immense fortune by bad investments.
There is prevailing apprehension of
trouble in London and the stock mar
ket is correspondingly dull and flat.
Il The western Review of Science and
Industry" published at Kansas City,
has completed its first volume. Col.
Theo. S. Case, editor and publisher,
made bold venture in7attempting to
establish journal of this character so
far west of the centers of wealth and
culture, but in science as well as indus
try the West will soon be abreast of the
East, and We will no longer look to
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