The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-05-30

ClAMMEllNt lS cause VI eAemptlou
from military services in France. Mill
tary service in this country during the
war was the cause of stammering.
The sale Of lands during the month of
April to actual settlers on the line of the
Northern Pacific in Minnesota and Da-
kota foots up45 l57 acres railroad lands,
aud 162,4OO government lands; in all,
207, ,457 acres.
THE National board of fire under
writers declare that forty per cent. of
fires are of incendiary origin. The
rewards for detection might proftably
be increased and the punishment made
still more severe.
ANOTHER war has broken out on the
Hudson river steamboat lines, and pas
sengers are carried between New York
and Albany cheaper than they can stay
at home. The beauties of the Hudson
have taken new hold upon the public
under these favorable conditions.
EX-GOVERNOR PACKARD is mentioned
by writer in the Philadelphia Times as
without occupation andpoor in purse.
These are not his worst misfortunes.
During the last three months he has
lost two children by death, and now the
intelligence comes that his mother is
dead.
THE Washington Post thinks that the
Communists ought to be more cnthu-
siastic just now for lexicons than rifles,
or any other sort of carnal weapons.
One paper calls them "iconoclasts, "
another, heterogeneous elements, and
still another comes at them with "pesti-
lent excresence.
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, boasts of
strawberries six inches in circumference,
Now, how much regenerating power is
there in one of those strawberries? For
the luscious strawberry is pre-eminenty
the church berry. 1t is at once the re-
lance and the attraction of the church
festival.
THE London Figaro reports that two
well known Boston singers who have for
several years been members of Carl
Rossa's English Opera company-Miss
Julia Gaylord daughter of the late Rev.
N. NJ. Gaylord,) and Mr.. Frederick
Packard-are to be married at the close
of their present professional tour.
The late Charles Morgan, of New
York, disposed of ten millions of prop
erty by a will of only four lines, in ac-
cordance with the laws of the State; and
at last accounts no one contests. 1t will
be strange if several women do not
claim that at some period of his life
they were his lawfully welded wives.
MARY CRoLY, the daughter of Mr..
David G.. Croly, of the Graphic, and of
Jenny June" his wife, has made sue
cessful debut upon the stage. She
accompanied Miss Clara Morris to the
West, and has been playing Jane in
Miss Mutton" Miss Croly, who is
said to be but sixteen, appears under the
stage name of Esther Herndon."
REFERRING to the meteorological
eccentricities this year and this May,
the New York Tribune quotes Rufus
; Choate, who, in brilliant harangue on
the uncertain character of the New Eng
land climate, mentioned Connecticut
man who was struck by lightning in
January, and New Hampshire man
who was frozen to death in July.
MERCHANTS say business is gradually
improving--not rapidly, but strongly
and surely. Freights by the Northern
lakes and railways are unusually heavy
for the season. Reports from Buffalo
state that there is more freight in the
warehouses of that city awaiting trans
portation by that line of conveyance
than there are boats on the Erie canal to
carry it off.
THE present owner of the house in
which President Lincoln died denies
the report that he or his father endeav-
ored to sell it to the government at q
high price. He says: II was a small
boy at the time of Mr.. Lincoln's death,
andwas offered $40 for very little piece
of towel which was stained with some
of his blood, and well remember faith
er's indignation at the mere idea."
JAMES B. HosMER, the Oldest person
living in Hartford, Conn, citizen dis
tinguished for generosity, has given the
Trustees of the Hartford Theological
Seminary leave to build q new building
at his expense, probably to cost not less
than $4,000. The structure will stand
on Broad steet, and be called Hosmei
Institute or some other name commem.
Grating the benefactor.
The Berlin Gazette says that Miss
Henrietta Dana, the youngest daugh
ter of tie Hon. r. Fl. Dana, jr., has re-
Gently been converted to Catholicism
Miss Dana was educated at convent
in Paris with the present Queen ol
Snnin. She WIS tho nnthor of the ar