The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-06-27
NUBS.

Smallpox Baseball club.
A porcupine weighing eighteen pounds
was shot in Utica, N. Y, Monday.
The Cornell university owns a million
acres of land in northern Wisconsin.
A girl in Hamilton N. Y, advertises for
a young man 10 take her TO picnics.
The mint at San Francisco has closed for
the annual settlement and repairs.
Five women in one ward of Easton, Pa,
weigh fifteen hundred and sixty pounds
Hastings and Sutton, Neb., received eight
carloads of Mennonites the first of last
week
The enthusiasm in Georgia for the full
pardon of Kate Southern has abated some
what.
Grand Haven, Mich, hotel.keepers are
advertising their houses this year by magni-
ticent fish stories.
The natural bridge of Virginia can be
bought for $l4,0O0 the present proprietor
having gone into bankruptcy.
A walking match of one hundred miles
between man and q woman is TO take
place shortly al La crosse.
Frank Bliss has graduated from the
Michigan university and will catch for the
Milwaukee Baseball club.
Sidney, Neb., is full of freighters, and
vast quantities of goods and machinery arc
being shipped daily for the Black Hills.
At Madison, Wis, ground is being brok.
en- for the erection of the observatory which
is to be built by ex.Gov G. c. Washburn.
A villain climbed through o second.
story window and tried to outrage ayoung
woman, at Charlton, Iowa, few days
ago.
A Neapolitan priest lately won 100000
francs in the government lottery, thereby
giving great impetus to the demand for
tickets.
The population of Lyons county, Iowa,
was increased the other day by the arrival
of nineteen families direct from Norway.
DR.. lie Moyne, the Pennsylvania who
so seriously believes in cremation, has just
given 100000 to colored school in len
nessee.
Two prominent Albany physicians are
Steenburg, the negro murderer who was
recently hanged at Fonda, N. Y.
During the month of May there were
four thousand two hundred and twenty
three gopher scalps presented to the audit
or of Dodge county, Minnesota, for bounty.
Three Mexicans, lately, in Lost Gulch,
Pinal county, Arizoua, prospecting for gold,
struck lead from which, in a pocket
they took between S4OO and $500 in coarse
gold.
There was lately meeting of leading
silk merchants in China TO protest against
the introduction of the telegraph, as they
apprehend that ii will be injurious to their
trade.
Mr.. P. Derr, living near Corunna, Mich,
is raising couple of young mink with
cat whose kittens have disappeared. The
whole family are contented and doing
finely.
John Quigley, aged IS years, reached
Mcchanicsville, Iowa, last week, from
county Ross, Ireland, making the trip in
eleven days, and meeting his father for the
first time in his life.
During the first four months OF the pres.
ent year, the Grand Rapids and Indiana
Railroad company has sold fifteen thous.
and, seven hundred and tifty-four acres of
land for $3.50, ,743, an average Of $l4 rs per
acre.
Large fish are found in Saratoga lake
dead and dying. 1t is believed by many
old fishermen TO be attributable to the aka
Ii thrown into the stream by the paper
at Balliston Spa and Rock
City Falls.
A company has been formed TO build
narrow.guage road from Lakin, in Web.
ster county, Iowa, and the route will be sur
veyed next month. The people along the
route propose to vote 5pcr,cent. tax to aid
the road
A Bridgeport Comm lover sang and
played before his sweetheart's house two
hours the other night and then his hated
rival appeared at the window and thanked
him IN behalf of the girl and himself for
the entertainment.
A startling case Of wholesale poisoning
is reported from Pittstop, Pa, where sever.
al families have been Frustrated by drink.
ing milk from COW whose udder had been
bitten by a snake. Eighteen persons were
sickened by partaking of the milk.
A colorcd man in London (Ont) mistook
the rising moon for fire. He gave the
alarm, and while on the way to the sup.
posed fire the new steam fire.engine got up
set in a ditch and was badly damaged. Two
fremen were severely hurt by the fall.
Vigilantes are securing Marion county,
Iowa, for horse.theves. AS usual when
law is executed without judge or jury in.
nocent men are suffering. Two innocent
young men were badly peppered with
Shot by some enthusiastic thiefhunterS last
week.
A boy 1Syears ofage was lately sentenced
to prison in London for 1S months, who
had served two terms before, and was well.
known as the captain of "The Nine Elms
Pirates" and organizer of gang of boys
engaged in robbing barges and other craft
on the river.
A call has been published addressed 10
The colored citizens of Kansas, Missouri,
Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, and Colorado, for
a meeting in Kansas City, Mo, on Tues.
day, the 22d day of July, at O'Clock q.
M, with view to the organization of an
industrial and business league