The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-07-04

TURKEY protests against some of the
terms of the settlement proposed by the
Berlin congress. But it may be doubt
full if she can do anything more than
protest.
THE plenipotentiaries in the peace
congress have about decided to leave
Greece and Turkey to fight out their
troubles between themselves within GER
tain limits.
New gold diggings have been discov-
cred in the upper Sweetwater, South
Pass. Miners are said to make con-
gressmen's wages, IS per day-probably
II few of them.
THE net earnings of the Pennsylvania
railroad company for the first five
months of the current year show an in
crease over the corresponding period
last year of SGOO,GO0.
A VERY important commercial COLI
vention is to be held in Paris in Au-
gust, the object of which is to agree up.
on the terms of a new commercial treaty
. between the United States and France.
The bulls and bears of the New York
Stock Exchange have human hearts in
them. They appropriated $3.50 to de-
fray the expenses of the funeral of the
suicide Whcelock, and have undertaken
to raise $4,000 for the benefit of his
family.
ABOUT 400 Texas excursionists came
to grief on the eMissouri Pacific the 9th
er day, between Scdalia and st Louis
being compelled to pay full local fare
between those points, owing to misun-
dcrstanding between the managers of
the railroad company.
THE exposition inflated Philadelphia
enormously. Itstimulated buildingand
created the impression that the growth
of population, which was temporary,
would, in large part, be permanent,
The result is, Philadelphia is an over
grown city, with 10000 vacant houses
THE Indian troops at Malta, who ex-
pected trip to London as some COM
pensation for their disappointment at
the peace which saved them a thrashing
from the Russians, are to be returned
Immediately to Bombay. Troop-ships
have bceu ordered to Malta to take
them home.
A GENTLEMAN desired the Cincinnati
Gazette to say that Chicago is not now
heavily mortgaged. 1t used to be so,
he says, but all that is changed. Cred,
itors scooped the property, and debtors
took the benefit of the bankrupt act,
and thus the mortgages have been
wiped out. Fortunate Chicago.
ORDERS have been issued to the
Portsmouth navy yards, in England, to
reduce the force and cut down the ex-
penditurcs. This is tolerably reliable
sign of peace. 1t indicates that the pro.
ceedings of the Berlin congress are
agreeable to Great Britain and that
Russia continues to come out handsome
ly.
The tramps eem to have commenced
the work of burning reaping machines
1t is not possible the incendiaries
would condescend to the toll OF har
vest field. Their destructiveness is
therefore, entirely on principle. There
will be war among the farmers
and the tramps presently, and ther
there will be scarcity of tramps.
st. Louis contributes bloodhound
ling horror, in the shape of a street as
sassination, in which a teacher in the
public schools was the victim, and {
party of boys who bore him grudgc
the perpetrators. The unfortunate mai
was horribly cut with razor, and onl.
retained consciousness long enough tC
locate the bloody deed upon one of hi
youthful assailants.
THERE seems to be every prospect TO
general Indian war this summer
Nearly all the Indian tribes of tn
northwest are in arms, and from Mon
tana and Idaho there also come alarm
ing rumors. The dispatch with refer
ence to the resistance offered mar
shal's posse in the Indian territory
also alarming, and looks as if the mos
peaceful tribes may yet rise.
PERSONS entering saloons to orde
beer should he careful not to alfron
the dignity of the man who keeps th
place. At Roanoke, in Huntingto
County, Ind, young man disregarde
the etiquette OF a barroom so far O
to tell the proprietor to "hurry up wit
that beer" whereupon the latter Dire
revolver and shot the impolite cu
toner through the head, inficting
fatal wound.