The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-04-04
NUBS.

The Colorado beetle has created great
havoc among the potatoesin New Zealand.
All Shu, a Council Bluffs laundryman,
was found dead in his bea the other day.
A Georgia paper reports that there is
manifest increase of insanity in that State.
A dog Saved the Beverly (Mass) Nation
al bank from being robbed few nights ago.
A Colorado man has started for Texas on
velocIIcde which is arranged so as to
run on railroad tracks.
A female somnambulist at St. Paul,
walked the streets at midnight clad only in
her night dress a few nights ago.
The principal OF the public schools at
Ouro, Wis, was fined SlGO and costs for
Furnishing boy in charge of subordi.
nate teacher.
The Quincy, ILL.,, city council proposes
to abolish the board of public works and
reduce the salaries Of all the officials, in
Guiding aldermen.
Wisconsin does not want militia law,
but the assembly appropriated 81 ,4S3 to
pay said militia for services during the
riots last summer.
A hog belonging to L. A. Dunn, Of Ben
son, Mimi, committed suicide by getting
his head in between two boards and fail.
ing to get it out again.
A young woman of Woolwich, Me- aged
90, married man aged 50 on payment Of
81 900, which was the price he offered and
she was sold for.
A rattesnakc six feet seven inches in
length, and measuring fifteen inches
around the body, was killed in Emanuel
county. Georgia, recently.
A hidCous fashion has lately sprung up
in London: habcrdashcrs are now selling
shirts that are perfectly black, with white
spots here and there
The city council OF Mount Pleasant
| Iowa, has ordered the marshal Of that
place to put tramps to breaking stones at
thirty cents per cubic yard, and 10 enforce
| the vagrant act against those refusing TO
work.
Sam Watson, Of Houston county Mime
sofa, was leading two horses across the
street when the animals suddenly SHE'D
apart, pulling WatsOn's arms to an unnatu-
raj height, straining him so badly he died
in tlrtysiX hours.
ATcxas newspaper says; "Thc jury in
the Dill murder case failed to agree that
calling a negro out Of his house, tying
| him, and cutting his throat is murder in
the first degree. Experience alone can
teach them,n
a young man named Benjamin Manly,
about % years old, of Liberty, Iowa, died
few days ago from the effects of hurt
received while turning under fork handle
on a barn floor, when he received Il sprain
which resulted in his death
Patrick Bryan has been arrested, charged
with putting distractions on the railroad
track near Ncnia the other day. lie was
put off freight train, on which he was en-
dcavoring to steal ride,which is supposed
to have been the cause.
A man named Porter, who has been lee.
turing in the vicinity of Montague and
Whitehall, Michigan, has been arrested at
IOnia on charge Of stealing a pair OF
horses belonging to f. Sturteyant Of White.
hall. He now gives the name Of Van
Deusen.
Peter Lewis, merchant of Lewiston,
Mimi, has failed Lewis was arrested at
Dodge Centre, Mimi, for obtaining goods
under false pretcnses and for having repre-
scntcd to a Chicago firm that he was worth
81 600 over and above his liabilities.
Isaac Adams died at Sandwich, n. H.,
Wednesday, leaving fortune estimated
at from $4,OO0,OOO TO SG0OO,0OO, lie bought
what is known as the Adams printing
press from the inventor for M old gun, ai-
icrward receiving $4,000 in gold for the
use of it in England.
The Germans are making large addi-
tions to their war navy Nine small YES
sells are to be commenced on April /, and
will he llSpl nrnCiDally MS training ShiDS
etc, and three large lron.clads and the
splendid new imperial yacht, the Hohcn.
zollern, early in May.
Dr. f. X. Jaques and Prof. Il, \. Parks,
both of st. Cloud, Mimi, have been cXplor.
ing mounds near Little Falls, and obtained
the skull, one thigh bone, and other bones
of man supposed to have been at least
six feet tall Part of the bones were very
badly dccayed, but the thigh bone was in II
good state of preservation.