The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-07-11

DR.. j. G. AVER, who died at Winch.
endon, Massachusetts, on Wednesday,
was worth from fifteen to twenty mill.
ions.
ST JOSEPH, Missouri, at last has
something to boast of. 1t has citi-
zen who is a relative of Mrs. jerks. of
Louisiana.
AS Lord Dufferin is to be made
marquis on his return from Canada to
England, the World suggests calling
him the marquis of Canada.
The Turk is moderate-very mo3er-
ate. All he asks now is that Constanti-
nople be left him. He doesn't even
ask for money to pay back taxes.
KENTUCKY isn't much on ucating
the masses. Her school system is badly
down at the heel, but when it comes to
horse racing-well, think of Ten
Brock.
The Empress Eugene has become
far reconciled to the DEGREES and the
dispensations of Divine Providence that
she has commenced to declare she will
never marry again.
The st. Louis Exposition and Fair
will continue five weeks. The Ex-
position will commence Sept. 8 and
: hold four weeks, and the Fair will fol-
low for one week ending Oct. 12.
A BOOK was issued by New York
publisher the other day, which was so
full Of italics that the first edition had
to ba suppressed, and another printed,
in which italic letters were tabooed.
Italics are relic of barbarism, at best.
ST. LOUIS now proposes 10 pay only
$25 per year for lighting, cleaning and
repairing each lamp post This is a
move in the right direction. The clean
ing and repairing will cost the amount
named, and the gas isn't worth much
anyhow.
EDGAR 7. WELEEs, son of the late
Gideon Welles, replies to what General
Grant said about his father. He pub
fishes extracts from his fathers diary
which show that Mr.. Welles shared the
!, ill feeling of President johnson toward
Grant.
IT is said that the meeting OF the
Silver Conference has been postponed
from July 25 to August 10; that Eng
land has signiied her willingness to
participate, and that there is hkeli-
hood that Germany will reconsider her
refusal to be represented
The neighborhood of ttsburgh
seems peculiarly liable to cratic met
eorology. The storm there on the
Fourth seems to have been quite as
sudden and severe, though not as fatal
in its results as the water spout that
created such havoc year or two ago.
The East st. Louis political tragedy
is perhaps the most disgraceful affair of
its kind on record. The struggling in
significant village can hardly support q
respectable municipal government, and
yet two factions are fighting over the
petty offices and killing each other
from motives of mere jealousy.
| The old camp meeting grounds at
Shawnee, the finest grove accessible to
Kansas City, is to be put in order for
out of door gatherings. A resort of
this kind within reasonable distance,
has long been needed by the churches
and Sunday schools of Kansas City, and
the grove will no doubt at once become
popular.
THERE is cure for almost every ill,
whether physical or moral. Many evils
lead to the discovery of a remedy. The
tramp nuisance is one of these. Since
the lazy vagabonds have commenced
committing depredations upon barns
and agricultural machinery the country
will prove hot place for them.
JAMES S. BEDLow, superintendent Of
the Western Union Telegraph company
OF Portland, Maine, whose death by
drowning in the attempt to rescue his
!, three children from danger was lately
! reported, did not drown, it appears
from the Boston papers. He was at
tackled with heart disease, and died
when he had been only moment OF
two in the water, not even sinking.
KANSAS CRY Journal: The value o.
the Kansas crop this year is estimated
at $45, 100000. This will be the larges
yield.ever known in single State. II
is big figure, but it can fall severa
million and then beat California's bes
crop, which was 3O,OOO,OOO. When W,
reflect on the facts connected with Kan
sas, it tells of-a future that eludes ever
imagination. Kansas is yet q nev
State, and not third of her area ha
even beer touched by the pillow. 1t il
the marvel Of the century. And next
\ can any body discount the future of