Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-28

more than 700 schooners and pongies
form its Chesapeake oyster fleet. Some
experts will open % gallons day OF
oysters, earning 20 cents per gallon
men, women, girls (mostly of German
parentage), and boys, are engaged in
the packing and shipping rooms where
the measuring, washing, asserting and
canning 60 on necessarily.
We were shown yesterday, says the
Columbus .(Ga.) Times, beautiful
specimen of homemade silk, the same
being the product of lot of worms be-
longing to Miss jamie Prichard, of Ham.
ilton, Harris County. Miss Prichard
has 10000 silk worms, and she has sue.
ceeded most admirably in securing from
them full yield of silk. The specimen
shown us will equal in richness of color
and firmness of texture the finest speci.
mems from those sections which make
silk culture specially.
Corn loses one-fifth by drying, and
wheat one-fourteenth. From this the
estimate is made that it is more profita
BILE for the farmer to sell unshelled corn
in the fall at 20 cents than at 81 a bushel
in the following summer, and that wheat
at S1.25 in December is equal to Sl.5C
in the succeeding June. In cases of po.
tatoes-taking those that rot and are
otherwise lost-together with the
shrinkage, there is little doubt that be-
tween October and 5ap the loss to ths
owner who holds them is not less than
33 per cent.
Haps and Mishaps.
Robert Carvella, trapeze perform
er,fell 80 feet from q balloon, while max
ing an ascension at Phonix, N. Y, and
was instantly killed.
Miss Matte Rogers of Dallas, Tex
as, was fatally burned by her clothes
taking fire while preparing dinner.
AT Blossom Prairie, Texas, a farmer
named Oglesby, while fixing the lock OF
rife, accidentally shot his little 4-year-
old boy, instantly killing him.
Samuel Powell, aged %, of Clifton,
West Va, was Instantly killed by the
accidental discharge of his own gun
while out hunting with party oi
friends along the Ohio River.
"A man was recently literally cook.
ed in a steam bath in San Francisco,
into which he went without the knowl.
edge of the attendants. He turned the
steam on ignorantly and was first suf
focated and then boiled.
A young girl of Charleston, Lee
County, Iowa, attempted suicide BY
taking pounded glass. The girl became
infatuated with a young man whom hel
parents refused to allow her to marry
j. L. Gressenbach, young drug
gist of Marysville, o, committed sui
eide by taking prussic acid. He left &
letter, stating that he was without 9
home, and could not live without hi
afRancsd, who died very suddenly 8
short time since.
Mr.. Fred. r. Simmons, a promi
nent citizen of Pamela, Va, met hi.
death recently in remarkable manner
He was in his room bathing in small
tin tub, when he had an attack of epi
lepsy, and his head became jammed il
the tub, and so he drowned.
The daughter of George Compton
proprietor of summer boarding -hOus
near the Delaware Water Gap in Penn
sylvania, while on a trip to Big Bush
kill Falls, with her father, mother, an
other friends, leaned too far over tn
edge of the precipice, and, uttering
shrek, fell 120 feet to the water below
She was taken out fatally injured.
"A sad and fatal case of somnan
bulism occurred recently near Cente
Church, Pittsylvania County, Va. Mis-
Texana Garrett, beautiful young bell
of the county, rose in her sleep an
walked to the head of the steps in he
fathers mansion, and fell down the Ell
tire flight. The other occupants of th
house, walked up by the noise, rusbe
into the passage aad found the beautifl
girl in the throes of death. She died i
few hours