The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-06-06
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De Pere, Wis, has man, named Houle,
105 years old.
Columbia College, New York City, is to
have new building,
A large beaver, weighing 371s pounds,
was killed last week at Wells, Mich.
A man in the northern part of Iowa is
said to live entirely on uncooked beef.
A large black bear was captured in the
woods near Wausau, Wis, a few days ago.
The Des Moines, Iowa. militia are going
TO have sham battle on the Fourth Of
July.
A Morristown, Mimi, policeman was
fined 800 for striking rough who re-
sisted arrest.
There is famine in Sinaloa, Mexico,
and several persons have already perished
of starvation.
Prominent Pittsburg Irishmen are rails.
ing funds to defend the alleged assassins of
Lord Leirim.
A San Francisco clergyman advertises
a sermon on the "Boss Devil of America"
intemperance.
The Northern Wisconsin Spiritual con.
ference will be held in Omro on the 14th,
18th and 10th of June.
Mr.. Christian X. Ross has been very
successful in lecturing in the western coun.
ties of Pennsylvania
1t costs about $1,000 week to feed the
animals, birds and reptiles at the Philadel.
phia geological gardens.
The telephone is now successfully used
between Keokuk and Council Bluffs, dis.
tance OF three hundred miles.
The Jews of Fayetteville, N. c., have
presented Gov Vance with a fine suit of
clothes. 1t fits him like de baber on do
vail
A Dallas county, Iowa, justice recently
married couple that had been living to.
gether number of years and had four
children.
Several young ladies in Harlem are
forming boat club, for which they have
adopted the motto, "We paddle our own
canoe"
The new census gives the population of
Auckland, New Zealand, and suburbs, as
24,442, an increase of 5,Gi0 during the past
four years.
San Antonio, Tex, is in sackcloth and
ashes. Tige, the famous bull which con.
quered and nearly killed two menagerie
lions, is dead.
Two young men in Lancaster, Pa, rolled
ten.pins thirteen hours on stretch. In
that time they finished one hundred and
eighty'eight games.
There has been demonstration at Mel.
bourne, Australia, in favor Of the eight.
hour system, including large procession
of labor societies.
Twenty-Five locomotives have Just been
laid off at Columbia, Pa. This puts the
men on that division of the Pennsylvania
railroad on half time.
Keokuk, Iowa, protests against running
the slops from the penitentiary at Fort
Madison into the Mississippi. Keokuk's
water.wOrks are interested.
1t is ascertained that 3,74S,000 sheep
perished in New South Wales, last year,
from want of food and water, caused by
the drouths, involving loss of e2,250,000.
At Sault Ste Marie, Mich, few days
ago, an infant child of a Mr. Gregg blew
into the muzzlc of gun, and the gun, in
reply, blew off the infants head.
Rev. James Ballard, the poet of Iowa,
has just finished writing up poem on
President Hayes, which he has sent to that
gentleman in box of new potatoes.
Cod and haddock have been so plentiful
on the Rhode Island coast towns that some
Of them, weighing as much as ten pounds
have sold at ten cents apiece.
Dudley Zelph, the best marksman of the
Crescent City Rifle club of New Orleans,
has met with an accident from his rifle
which it is feared will destroy the sight of
his right eye.
Mrs. Young, wife of j. A. Young the as.
sistant cashier of the national bank at
Iowa, chased three well.
dressed burglars out of her house with
revolver that wouldn't shoot.
Different members of many emigrant
amilies bound for the same place are sold
tickets via different routes from New York
City, and upon reaching Rochester are
obliged TO separate, greatly to their dis.
'omtiture.
The oftquoted adage that 'lightning
lever strikes twice in the same place" was
exploded last week at iceland,
Mich, as the residence of G. Vyne was
truck twice within five days, and stands
'et, although considerably damaged the
lrst and set on fire the last time.
Some very rich strikes of gold and silver
re y nave recently been made In the santa
Iatarlha . tr MOUNTAINS norm ana northeast
u luscan, Arizona, by James Lee and
Jharles franklin Lee made his discover.
es IN building road to the pine timber in
nose mountains The ore he discovered
lull OF free gold and is reported to be
ects.
Texas contains an estimated nonplot;on