The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-06-13
NUBS.

200 per acre.
Four steamers sailed for New York, Fri
day, taking out five hundred and twenty
two passengers.
Fon du Lac and Oshkosh, Wis, had an
oratorical match between their debating
clubs the other evening
Marshal Shirer has heen held in 81 900
at Lawrence, Mass, for attempting TO out
rage IA year old girl.
A young man from neighboring town
broke off an engagement because his girl
named her pet calf after him.
The people of Louisiana think the Louis
lana State lottery is exercising bad intu'
enCe over the cOlored people.
The st. Louis directory is to be revised
at once. A colored woman gave birth to
four children in st. Louis last week.
The Buffalo customs officials have ar
rested T. j. Beach and George Fiske for
smuggling nitro glycerine from Canada.
In the way of experiment the millers of
St. Louis have shipped twelve hundred
barrels of flour direct to Rio dc Janiero.
A large tract of land adjoining the Fort
Larned reservation has been sold to large
colony of Quakers, who will settle upon it.
A gold vein has been discovered in the
mountains at East Litchfield, Conn, which
sanguine persons think will pan out well.
Johnny Franey, of Fond du Lac, Wis,
had his nose broken by catching hot ball
Thursday, while practicing the national
game
White bass are running now. The Osh.
kosh, Wis, papers tell of one fortunate
boy who caught one hundred and ninety
one day last week,
During the month of May ninetyive
failures were reported in New York, in
which the gross liabilities amounted to
$j,GSG,30G, and the assets $Ojj4S3.
On confederate Memorial day at Nor
folk, Va, fraternal messages were read and
floral offerings received from the New
York posts Of the Grand Army of the Re.
public.
An Ithaca, N. Y, boy found railroad
torpedo on the track in that village, and in
exploding it, to hear the report, had one
thumb and part of the calf of one leg
blown off.
Francis Cawows treatment Of a Pitts
field, Mass, girl was outrageous. He mar
ried her in April, and hanged himself in
May, leaving his six children by former
wife on her hands.
The sale of eight thousand acres of land
to a Canadian colony has just been accom-.
plished at Little Rock, Ark. The land is
prairie, lying between White river and
Little Rock, Ark
There is said 10 be living in Harrison
county, Texas, man so years of age, who
never spoke word TO anybody in his life
excepting his mother and sister. He ought
to be sent to Congress
Original joke of facetious Texas pa
per: They formed a military company in
Bgenham the other day, and the captain
innocently bestowed the name of Black
guards upon them"
A Choctaw Indian girl is learning to set
type in Kansas newspaper office When
she graduates she will 90 to New York and
work on Indian tales-the hair-lifting
dime novel species, We prcSume.-Norris-
town Herald.
A new bible was found the other day
floating in the Niagara river near Grand
island. The Bible, il is thought reveals
the fate of an unfortunate young girl, as it
is stated that when this should be found
she would be dead
An Austin woman, whose husband has
made aud broken numberless promises to
abstain from the flowing bowl says she
wishes he was like that man Potter that
the newspapers are talking about, and then
he would have some resolution"
There are now more than six thousand
imperial troops in South Africa and col.
Onial force Of double that number. They
are all needed, however, as the frontier
swarms with hostile Kanlrs, who won't
stay whipped any more readily than
North American Indian. In Capetown
there is now a volunteer force of thirteen
hundred men.
The excessive mortality of negroes as
compared with whites in most southern
cities is nowhere more striking than at
Chattanooga, where there were $50 colored
deaths last year to 74S white, though the
colorcd population is but 3,047 TO 754l
whites-making the death-rate among the
negroes four times rs large as that among
the whites.
Andrew Porter, sentenced to prison for
murderous assault, committed suicide in
the Jail at Eagle Pass, Tex, the other day,
by taking strychnine. Previous TO his
death he endeavorcd to rival Lucretia Bor.
gia Sherman by poisoning the water drank
by the court and Jail attendants. He pour.
cd bottle of strychnine INTO a barrel con
tanning the water.
A man in New Orleans has invented
process of manufacturing mirrors which
it is claimed, is destined TO take the place
of the quicksilver process In only
ten or fifteen minutes the substance used in
place of quicksilver is made to adhere to
the glass, and the cost of the substance is
not more than onetenth that of quicksilver.
Any one can convert an ordinary piece Of
glass into mirror after acquainting him
self with the process.
"Extravagance is the cause of hard
times" said q Nevada capitalist. "We
must be more economical. Ten years ago
commenced working in mill in Gold
Hill at small salary, and in less than
year l owned the mill and had some
money in bank" you are right" re-
turned listener, with great earnestness,
at is possible for man TO lay up $4,000
or $4,000 month on salary of So a day,
but he must be very economical and have
the handling of the amalgam."
Speaking Of remarkable feats with rife,
The YazoO Herald says: ave have seen
Maj. Lamar Fontaine strike in the bottom
number, perhaps twenty, ale bottles
which were thrown, consecutively, revolv-
ing lengthwise, into the air at distance
of thirty feet from him, without missing
single one or striking it in any other part.
A tive'cent nickle being tripped up before
him ten or fifteen feet high was SO square
ly struck with rifle ball from his gun as
to forever deprive the circulating medium
of the country of the nickle."
A circumstance worthy of note was the
decoration of the grave of Charles Martin,
who was confederate captain during the
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