The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-02-14
TOPICS OF THE TIME.

lOt iSGO oT
Mr.. McVicker, of Chicago, refuses to
rent his theater for Sunday evening
performances.
The State of Tennessee is opposed to
paying the interest or principal on its
public debt, but the city of Memphis
has $4,000 to spend on the coming
Mardi Gras.
Nothing is so certain in its results as
advertising" and yet it shakes our faith
in this adage to see n man with two
wooden legs reading the circular of
corn doctor.
P. 7. Barnum has been fined $4,000
for libel by Cincinnati jury. In the
matter of libel it does not appear to be
a aqueston Of iustice-it is simply how
much the defendant is able to pay.
Be careful and do not shock the nerv-
Gus system by getting too many teeth
pulled at the same time. A staten Island
dentist draws six teeth and ;the life
from Sarah Wilson, domestic, aged
twenty-one,
1t is announced that the building for
the display of American agricultural
products at the Paris Exposition is to
be star-shaped, with a cupola for hold
ing poultry set on top. Albeit, why
should the Gallo cock instead of the
American eagle thus lie set over up?
A bill has been offered in the Cali
fornia Senate prohibiting any person to
dispose of more than one square mile of
land, $50 acres, by will. The object is
to break up the immense grain and cattle
ranches held in that State by a few pro-
prietors, and secure their subdivision
into smaller farms.
The father of Charlie Ross said TO a
reporter, "This makes 375 boys have
been called to see, or have been written
about, and my hundreds of failures to
identify each waif as my own has taught
me to entertain no sanguine hope. /
suppose 1 shall continue going to see
boys till die, but don't expect to find
Charlie in any of them"
The most gigantic forgeries of mod
ern tines in England at least, have
been punished, Frederic Dimsdale, n
London solicitor, and Charles Burrell
Moore, clerk, having pleaded guilty.
By means of forged leases and docu-
ments purporting to dispose of the
rights" of servant girl Dimsdale's
sons mistress, in valuable property in
London, about 100000 were obtained
from capitalists.
The Investigation of the causes Of the
Metropolis disaster, at Philadelphia, re-
veals clearly enough that she was in sucl
condition that it was Il crime to senC
her to sea at ALL The physician of the
ship VINO was witness, and who CAV,
his testimony on Thursday. said The
vessel was unfit for service, in supper
of which he produced fragments of rot
ten timber brought from the wreck.
The Hero of Plevna is to be court
martialed soon on the charge of horribl,
inhumanity and cruelties in violation o
the rules of warfare. 1t is asserted
that, during the awful carnage OF tn
succession of attacks in which tn
Grand Duke Nicholas was engaged il
the hopeless and insane attempts t.
carry the works by storm, the Russian
wounded falling into the hands of til
Turks were buried alive by order O
Osman Pashn.
1t is probable that the two ships whic
have been selected to carry America
exhibits to France for the Paris expos
will sail on the 25th f this month---on
from Brooklyn and the other fror
Philadelphia. Commissioner Gencri
Mccormick is sure that this country
display will be very creditOble on,
especially in the department {
machinery and agricultural implement
OF the latter more than four time
as many have been offered as could /
received.