The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-05-23
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Mark Twain is in Paris.

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The Cincinnati authorities are trying to
close the theatres on Sunday.
Owosso, Mich, plays telegraphic chess
with Detroit, and beats her, too
Ohio has voted by a large majority
against taxing church property.
The Florida hotel keepers complain of
short season and poor business.
Sir Gilbert Scott, the great English arch
itect, has been buried in Westminster Alb
hey.
The other evening fifty thousand trout
were deposited in Lake Winnebago at Fond
du Lac.
Senator Withers, of Virginia, who was
partially blind for time, is recovering his
eyesight.
1t is stated that Pope Leo has expressed
an intention to create second Cardinalate
in Ireland.
A sturgeon weighing 315 pounds was
caught in the Hudson River, near Troy,
few days ago.
Mr.. John Roach is short, sandy com.
plexioned man, and though quite deaf,
talks necessarily.
The report that Mr.. Joseph Millmore
was making statue of Gen. Lee, for Rich.
mond, was untrue.
DR.. Storrs is reported to have received
the sum of 81 200 for two lectures which
he recently gave in Boston.
A new biography of the Marquis O.
Montcalm, who fell at the battle Of Quebec.
has recently been published in Paris.
Mabel Leonard, Clara Morris former
protege, is playing in Boston play called
katy, the Hot Corn Girl"
March 1st the St. Gothard tunnel had
been pierced for length of 33,Ol2 feet, or
six miles and a-half.
Pentecost, the evangelist, has been very
successful in Mtidletown, CT. A convert
has given him purse full of money.
Dom Pedro has given to Mr.. James r,
Partridge, lately Minister to Brazil, the
Grand Cross and Order of the Rose.
The Earl of Duferin has much Of tho
exquisite chinaware which once adorned
the boudoir of ex-Empress Eugene.
Sankey is spending a little time in New
York, where he will hold services of song
in the Young Mems Christian Association
rooms.
A professor of Bologna claims 10 have
invented chemically prepared bank-note
paper which cannot possibly be counter.
ieited.
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett the tragedian, has
slight body, big head, a powerful voice,
a knack at writing, and handsome in-
come.
A man in Somerville, Mass, nailed up
all the outer doors Of his house so as not to
be disturbed by visitors while whipping
his wife.
A tramp was rescued from watery
grave at Portland, Mich, just in time to be
proven q thief and sent TO the workhouse
for year.
Three alleged conspirators have been ar.
rested at East Saginaw, Mich, charged
with the heinous oitense of trying to bribe
an alderman.
The comic paper of Rome tells Salvini
and Rossi to go hang themselves, if they so
desire, as the phonograph can fill their
places through all time.
The comic paper of Rome tells Salvini
and Rossi to 60 hang themselves, if they so
DESIRE as the phonograph can fill their
places through all time.
Prof. Baird expects to stock all the mud.
dy.bottomed island waters Of the United
States with carp, which is hardy fish and
always remains in the place where raised.
In Kane county, ILL.,, it has been found
difficult 10 induce farmers to sit on the
jury, as they are afraid to leave home on
account of the many tramps that infest the
county
Miss Viola Rand of Maple Grove, Mich,
put cartridge on hot stove to see what
it would do. 1t operated quicker than
dentist, TO say nothing of hole through
the cheek.
Pope Leo, since his accession, has given
sittings TO two photographers, expressing
himself dissatisfied at the likenesses taken
from his old portraits thrown on the world
since February 20.
A rhinoceros started out of Pittsburg
on a railroad track. He saw locomotive
coming; probably mistook it for hostile
beast, and boldly confronted it. He was
extensively damaged, and astonished,
The Diamond 10 steamer Josephine and
the Northern line Alex. Mitchell, had a
race on the Mississippi from Davenport
down, last Wednesday. The Mitchell run
ashore near Buffalo with burnt boiler
A little colored girl, living with her
aunt, Milly Patrick, in Pitt county, North
Carolina, was beaten to death by her aunt
in the most cruel and barbarous manner.
The murderess has been committed to jail.
A Davenport saloon man refused to pay
Milwaukee firm for liquor, taking ad-
vantage of the State law, and now the at
torney of the Milwaukee house is prose-
cutting the saloon.keeper for selling liquor
contrary to law.
A lady passenger lost the train at Fond
du Lac, Wis, because of the contrariness
of her poodle. The canine left the car and
could not be induced to enter it again.
The train pulled out while the lady stayed
behind to humor her pet.
1t is predicted that some rare horse sports
will be provided at Coldwater, Mich. dur
ing the races, which begin on the 10Th.
Several noted horses are already on the
ground and Mat Colvin of st. Louis is to be
present with four of his noted trotters.
II. Seward, colored man, formerly a
resident of Muscatipe, is creating quite a
ttlror in Moline Ill., shooting circles by the
proficiency with which he cracks the glass
balls. Az a recent match he broke seven
ty.nine balls out of one hundred thrown
from trap eighteen yards distant He is
to shoot in Iowa.
A shoplifter was lately arrested in Paris
who bore under his arm very innocent
looking box, seemingly done up in paper
and tied with cord; but this box had
false bottom, opening and closing with a
spring. 1t owner would set 1t down on
two or three small articles while pretend.
ing to examine something else, and when
he took up the box again the articles that
had been under it were inside 1t.
A man named Fraser is in custody at
Glasgow on the charge Of having, while In
a state of somnambulism, killed his infant
eon Ahoi,t n m he not nm in he'd nm.