The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-04-18
TOPICS OF THE TIME.


has ordered the appointment of a
Board to take the new evidence claimed
to be in possession of Gen. Porter and
to report what action is necessary to be
taken. The Board is composed of
Maj. Gen. Schofeld, Brig Gen. Terry,
Col. G. W. Getty, and Maj. A. B. Gard
ner, and is to convene at West Point
June 20.
The Salt Lake Tribune says that
after giving the dead mans estate the
benefit of all possible doubts, Brigham
Young's heirs owe the church about
$l,5O0,OO0 The Mormons supposed
that at his death he would turn over to
the church all that he held as trustee,
but, instead, he bequeathed it to his
heirs. Now the faithful insist on resti-
tuition; but the heirs object.
Vice President Wheeler keeps nc
cquipage at the Capital, but has re.
course to that popular means of trans,
poltation, the horse car or walks, as the
case may be. He believes that unless
this country practices greater economy
in its style of living the "overhowing
scourge" will cover it from stem tostern
and leave nothing but the ragged edges
fluttering in the breeze.
Dom Piatt alleges that he was il
the army and drew salary for mum
Der of years, but he shamelessly con
fesses that he didn't kill anybody. The
Graphic would like to know how he
justiiies himself for thus obtaining mon
ey under false pretenses.
!. The candor and frankness of the st
Louis Journal is simply beautiful wher
it tells a correspondent they don't need
Paris correspondent this year, adding
I'VE pay young man in the office SIT
a week to write European letters"
The New-York Medical College fol
Women last week turned ont twenty-si1
new graduates. There are so many o.
these doctresses that the gallant mar
will find himself in duty bound, direct
ly, to keep sick all the while.
James A. Whalen is suing Gen. Sheri
dan in the Federal Court at New Yorl
to recover about half million dollars
for the seizure during the War of thC
stock and products of his plantation o
Killona, st Chmles, La.
General Grant says that if "he WA
not an American he would be an En-
|. glishman." And it is possible that il
the present emergency, the members o
the British cabinet wish that he was al
Englishman.
When the Princess of Wales bows t,
multitude, she has way of making
every man and woman feel that he o
she alone is the proud recipient of tn
salutation. She would make q goo,
dco ks FER.
The Chicago Inter- ocean speaks o
of the new st. Louis directory as tn
great romance Of the nineteenth centu
ry. 1t is composed of 5000 pages, ant
seems to be gotten upregardless of trutl
and expense.
A very formidable meeting was hel,
in Cooper's institute, New York, ol
Wednesday; the prime object of whicl
was to cut down salaries, abolish useles
Offices and give idle workmen employ
ment
The Berlin bankers who act as th
financial agents of Russia have made Al
unsuccessful attempt in the Paris MAJ
ket to negotiate about sixty millions @
dollars of new bonds for the Gar.
An exchange remarks England ha
good standing army. and the still
er it stands, says the Gar, the better
will be for it. And perhaps the bel
ter it will be for the Car too.
Upon the theory. probably, that it
II long lane that has no turning, til
Rev, j. W. Lane, of Wisconsin, assure
a waiting and weary world that 1888
will usher in the millennium.
The Tribune insists that Congres
shall break up and go home. 1t ma
not be. The devil has some mischie
we are quite convinced, for Congre'
still to do.
Savings banks on the American pla
are being established in Japan. Ill
arrivals in this country of fleeing pres
4 b.dents will probably commence in abol
six months.
/ Now that there is prospect of peaC
in Europe, what is England going to 4
with her purchase of American horses
She evidently commenced hostiiti,
too soon.
Walker Darian, a negro, abductt
Fanny Mcclure, white girl, from Ri
erside Tex, for which offense party
citizens riddled him with buckshot.
MIR. Jennings writes from London
the New York World that England
now better prepared for war than
any preyious period in her history