The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-01-31
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Improved Transportation.
OF the movement in Kansas City to
establish barge line to carry produce to-
ward the new-mado outlet made by the
ietties, the Lawrence Journal says:
We take 1t that this movement means
business on the part of Kansas City, and 1t
is certainly one which will command the
hearty sympathy of the people Of Kansas.
The present enormous cost of carrying
grain to the Atlantic seaboard is leaving
our farmers comparatively nothing for rails
ing 1t. Corn in Kansas ranges from twenty
cents per bushel down to ten cents. This
does not pay, and If these rates are to con-
tinuc, production will inevitably fall off.
Our crop of corn last year exceeded hun
dred million bushels. Assure our farmers
Of twenty-five cents per bushel, and they
! can easily double that immense amount
| II the business men Of Kansas City shall
| succeed in their proposed scheme-and ii
appears feasibie--they will have the salts
faction Of seeing their town become the
market of the State of Kansas. Every rail
road in Kansas will be loaded down with
grain seeking an outlet by way Of the river.
Kansas City will receive from this trade an
impetus such as she has never yet known.
| And If she shall establish the barge line and
make herself the head of cheap transport
tation for the State Of Kansas, she will de-
| serve the good fortune, for it will be due to
the union, the perseverance and the iHdo-
mitable entcrprie Of her far-sightcd and
resOlute business men.
A Silver Bill In the Senate.
The following is the finance bill which
was introduced in the Senate by Mr. Cam
eron of Pennsylvania
A bill authorizing the coinage of the
standard silver dollar, and providing that
gold and silver jointly, and not otherwise.
shall be full legal tenders. Be 1t enacted,
etc, There shall be coined from time to time
at the mints of the United States, standard
silver dollars as provided for in the act Of
January 18th, 1887, and any owner of silver
bullion may deposit the same ut any U. S.
mint or at any I. S. assay office Of the city
Of New York and receive in return therefor
full commercial value of said bullion in
standard silver dollars and from and after
passage OF this act, said silver dollars and
standard gold coinage shall jointly be full
legal tender each to the extent of 50 per cent |
Of all debts, public and private. except as
provided by law or express contract.
A Thankless Business.
The Massachusetts, Senate refused to
concur in the House resolutions thanking
Senators Dawes and Hoar for their response
to the so-called imputatiOn on the honor of
Massachusetts,, made by Mr.. Blaine in the |
United States Senate In the House the
resolution was introduced that the legisla-
ton of Massachusetts Is opposed to the |
revival of any State or sectional anmosity
lis being opposed to the best interest of the
country.
Kansas Invests In tho -Four Per Cent. Loan.
The following dispatch was sent from
Topeka last week.
Topeka, Jan. 90, 1S7S-To the Secretary
of the Treasury, Washington. D. G: The
commissioners Of the State school and sink
ing funds wish to subscribe for two hun
dred thousand. dollars of United States
four per cent funded loan We desire to
deal direct with youand secure the COM
mission. Can this be done? Signed by the
commission.
Mrs. Gaines Going for More Lands,
Mrs. Myra Clarke Gaines has been at
the General Land Office to ascertain to
whom were issued patents for upwards of
1900 arpents of land granted and conced-
ed TO her father, Gen. Clarke, in 1901 by the
old board of land commissioners. The
grants are in Missouri, within 73 miles of st.
Louis, and aggregate between 10000 and
l7GO0 acres,
Fire Record.
Pattee block, two-story frame build
ing on Sixteenth street, Omaha, owned by
James W, Pattee, of New York, was burned
on the 22d by an incendiary, probably.
There were five stores on the first floor and
dwellings, on the second floor. Loss. about
$4,000; insurance, about $4,000.
Tailors Strike,
About 500 tailors, belonging to the
tailors union, in Chicago, quit work on the
21st, on strike for increase in wages of ,
from 25 to 40 per cent. Most of the whole
sale clothing Establishments are involved in {
the strike, but the proprietors express the !
opinion that it will not be serious In extent |
)r effect. I
Oriental Horrors, s
A dispatch from the United States
consulate at Shanghai, asking for funds,
says: An appalling famine is raging
throughout four provinces of Northern
China. 100000 of people are reported desti-
ute. Children are daily sold in the mar I
iets for food.
Encouraged. |
The vote on the Matthews resolution l
mas encouraged the silver men in the belief
hat they will be able to secure the passage !
# n cilvnr hill of liharol nrn,,iuions h,, n ,,,f
lcient vote to overcome the veto of the /,
President should 1t be lnterposed. :
Tweed's Troubles. .
Tweed has made an application to d,
he supreme court for his discharge under c
he poor debtor act. He was taken to d
court, but the hearing Of the case was post G
loned 7
The Four Per Cents.
Up to date the popular subscriptions !
o the four per cent. loan, of which the de- i
has been advised, amount to two
million and TWENTY-FIVE thousand dollars.
Merciful Blue Jeans. /
Governor Williams committed the 7
sentence of Gillooly, who was to be hung i
IN Wednesday, at Kahomo, Ind. to impris- I
nent for life.
Fatal Carriage Ride. !
Frank Folk and Misses Helen and :
Emma Jacobs. while carriage riding in Mil U
yaukee, were run over by train of cars c
md all we're killed. /
Oshkosh Scorched. l
Oshkosh, Wis, WAS singed to the tune I
If $4,000 last week. The sufferers were '
Mostly small residence owners. 3
THE MARKETS. \
WEEKLY GRAIN REVIEW.
We are indebted to Messrs. Powers =