The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-03-14
NUBS.

Mrs. Ann Rlsdel, of Battle Creek, Mich,
died the other day from being poisoned by
ivy. a.
An Iowa debating society is discussing
the question; rs Hayes Democrat oil II
Republican,"
The California floods have caused losses
in Sacramento county alone amounting to
$200O,0OO.
Marshal, Mich, is playing checkers with
Jackson by tclegrapl-and getting beaten
handsomely.
Iankton has been holding Indignation
meetings over the proposed division of
Dakota territory.
\ farmer drove fourteen hundred tur.
keys into Concordia, Neb., the other day,
to be shipped to Chicago
The number of persons of nearly all ma
tionalitics who have tLis year taken part
in the pilgrimage to Mecca is 1872, ,450.
The Michigan Southern railway pays
Mrs. John Wentlautt, of Coldwater, Mich,
$3.50 for having killed that ladys hus.
band.
Mrs. Hannah Graham, of Paw Paw,
Mich, aged IS, has just recovered 81, ,246
pension for the loss Of son killed in the
late war.
1t is charged that the genuine Kansas
misrepresentation of them-have
hatched out in Dundee, Mich, and other
places thereabouts.
The Missouri papers are mourning that
their State gets so little Of the vast tide of
immigration which is sweeping through it
and filling up Kansas.
Mrs. Alex. Larochc, of West Bay City,
Mich, has valuable dog, She dropped
roll of bills containing $lG0, and the dog
picked it up and took it home-in his
stomach. Only $50 of it is rcdeemable.
A pedestrian named Davis is at Des
Moins, Iowa, trying to arrange for walk
across the continent from San Francisco TO
New York in eighty days. This would be
an average of over forty miles per day.
A paper devoted to the cause of temper
ancc has appeared at Davenport, Iowa. 1t
is called the Blue RiJJ0n Ne,cS, and is
much more pcrtcntious and ncwsy sheet
than are such special organs usually.
Mrs. Shelton Allen, of Bogard township
Dayiess county, Ind, was sitting by the
fire nursing her child, when she was seized
with an cpileptic fit, and fell forward into
the fire, burning herself and child fatally.
4 japanese man.oCwar, of 1 ,O33 tons and
IL guns, has left for Australia, and another
native war vessel, Of $50 tons and ) guns.
the SelkLKan, has left for Europe. Both
: vessels are oiiicercd and manncdby Japan.
csc.
) Henry NJ. Stanlcy's "IIow Found Liv-
! ingstonu' has been translated into French,
and the Parisians are buying 1t by the
thousands, under the impression that it
means, "lIow found the Congo
| In Newport, r. /, church, u few days
ago, coiorcd miss was detected in putting
peanut shells into the contribution box,
which 50 dlsplcascd the parson that he tie
nounccd the act and called the miss by
name.
/ John Bunker lives near Colona, Mich.
He has lost an eye by cancer is crippled
by rheumatism, one knee pan is gone, the
other leg has no calf to it-and the other
day an old SOW got at john and nearly ate
, up what was left of him.
whats your occupation, bub" asked
visitor at the capitol of a bright boy whom
he met in the corridor. The boy happened
to re q page in the house. 81 am running
for Congress, sir" he replied.-Ncw York
Commercial.
4 French Count who was in reduced cir
,, cumstanccs, fell from a scatlold where he
! was carrying mortar, the other day, and
was killed. The moral is that n count
, shouldn't carry mortar unless he can keep
, his balance
, "Neycr be critical upon the ladies'" was
+ the maxim Of an old Irish peer, remark.
able for his homage to the sex; "the only
way in the world that true gentleman
ever will attempt to look at the faults Of n
pretty woman is to shut his eyes.
Eaton Rapids Mich, claims TO be the
banner town in the temperance business.
Out of a total population of twenty. five
r hundred fully one thousand persons are
} enrolled as members of the temperance or
ganizaions
Z A Newton county, Georgia, negro car.
S ried three twohundrcd pound sacks dis,
1 tancc of six hundred yards. He took a
t sack in each hand, and took the third sack
< between his teeth. The same negro can
e hold any mule in the county by the hind
n legs.
| A tramp has been practising new
: dodge at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He takes
t an envelope, and placing in it piece OF
/. folded paper, Qnters the business houses
n asking for Il stamp TO put on it. He sue
& ccedCd in getting quite number before he
p was arrested.
= You can teach boy that if he plays the
= three and four domino on three, leaving
!. six exposed TO the other end, it counts ten,
o in about five minutes; but it will take him
i all day at school TO learn that four units and
=, six units make ten unitS. home Sentinel.
e The question in dispute at n debating
o society in Wampaw last evening was: "ls
=. there any place like hoWe?' Jones, who
h was Judge, decided thus: Gentlemen,
your arguments are very pretty, but Bob
Z lngersoll says there is no hell The mega.
u u tive has it,
=. A Tom cat is more Independent ami
9 nal than man. When man comes home
- at or O'Clock in the morning he slips in
as quietly as possible, but Tom cat don't
seem to care. The later the hour, and the
nearer the house it approaches, the louder
ii will yell.
~ ~ The Detroit NeHS publishes the follow
~ ing: "Erratum-ln the case of the sigma
VI ture to the communication on Senatog
" Conklng, on our inside page today, for a
e. Quiet ASS read ,Equitas' Typographi.
to cal errors will occur in the most carefully
It. managed papers"
ID A convict from the penitentiary at JEFF
~ fersonville, Ind, who was on his way 10
u Terre Haute, 10 testify TT , trial pending
re there, jumped from the ndow of the car
~ near Brazil, and escaped. He was hand
bit cuiled and in crossing cattle-guard fell
q. broke his leg and was recaptured.
ne The day of lawlessness is over in Dead
wood and the streets are as safe at any
as hour of the day or night as those of New
We York. 1t has school-houses, two churches,
le two daily pnpers and five weeklies, well