The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-01-31

uduu-enBlneS curing nfe at Honolulu
The stoc kholders of the New Yor
Tribune have unanimously re-electe,
MIR. Whitelaw Reid to the managing ed
itorship of that paper for period O
five years.
They have caught an alligator in ALE
gheny City. 1t is ten inches long an,
was found in the service pipe of a hous
in that city. He stopped the supply O
water entirely.
Mrs. Nellie Mcclellan, wife of tn
governor of New Jersey, charms tn
Jersey men and women, as Mrs. Have
does the people of the United State
who visit the White House.
Twenty yearsago ayoung man named
Jewell disappeared from the town O
Gambia, N, H., and it was thought thai
he had been murdered, although nc
proof was found to implicate any one
in the deed. Last Friday John H
Robinson, while on his death-bed, con
fessed to having killed Jewell by chop
ping him to pieces with an ax.
The aged inhabitant has turned III
again to inform Boston paper that the
winter of 1S42-43 was even milder than
this. The farmers were plowing every
month, and there was no sleighing foi
one half day, yet the spring was not
earlier than usual. The apple trees
were in full bloom on the Goth of May,
but white frosts appeared until the 23d
King Alfonso has married a clear for
tune of five million dollars, with a young
lady called Mercedes thrown in. Mer-
cedes is said to be "the most beautiful
woman in Europe" but possibly some
allowance should be made for the extray-
agance in adjectives which the glitter of
the royalty inspires. If Mercedes was n
washwoman's daughter her charms
might not be rated so high.
The New York Herald publishes the
statement of a scout who accompanied
General Custer to the Little Big Horn
river, where the awful slaughter took
place. The scout was attached to the
force under command of Major Reno,
and charges that not more than two
hundred warriors were in front of Reno's
command, and that a retreat, which be.
came an ignominious tout before an in
ferior enemy, was ordered before man
was killed.
Col. FOrney writes from London of
the exceptionally mild winter weather.
He says If the damp could be kept out
coal fires in the houses would hardly be
required. A little fringe of snow has
fallen only to melt away; the grass is as
green as in our early spring; crowds
are at the watering places, and people
are digging their gardens as they do
with us in May. All this has been a
wonderful providence for the poor, es-
pecially in the dull times and absence
of employment.
As land-grabber Mrs. Myra Clark
Gaines bids fair to rival the great rail
road corporations. Final success in her
New Orleans suits has given her leisure
to look for new fields of enterprise. Ac-
cordingly she has been skirmishine
around the land-ofice at Washington
"to ascertain to whom were issued pat
ents OF upwards of 10000 arpents of
land granted and conceded to her father,
Gen. Clarke, in 1901, by the old board
of land commissioners" These lands,
it is stated, are in Missouri, within
seventy-three miles of st. Louis.
The Colorado stone giant turns out
to be fraud, manufactured in Elkland,
Pennsylvania, by George Hull, the au-
thor of the Cardiff humbug. The
Christian Snowman and statesman,
Phineas I. Barnum, engaged in the en-
terprise, furnishing part of the capital
and offering suggestions, which were
adopted. The figure was taken to Col
orado, buried there, and finally dug up,
in accordance with carefully arranged
plan. An adrion deception was prac-
ticed in regard to the results of the
scientific test, which it was claimed was
made. Ground stone, ground bones,
clay, plaster, blood, eggs and other..ma-
terials were used in forming the image,
which was then baked for weeks in
kiln. Hull had intended for a long
time to deceive the public with this
pretended petrifaction, and had spent
much time and several thousand dollars
in experiments.
The secretary of war has called the
attention of the House to the record of
the rebellion, now partly prepared for
publication. The secretary says large
mass Of material has been put in type
and carefully corrected, covering nearly
all the history of the rebellion to the
end of 1861. On the union side the re-
ports of battles, arranged by compaigns
in chronological order, have been
brought down TO 1862. The secretary
thinks these should be published entire,
as they are not voluminous. He asks