The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-06-20

our people But sucA things are so
common as to be SCI .rcely worth men.
tioning.
NEAL DOW S" -ys liquor has absolutely
vanished IT. IN three-fourths of the
country .stricts of Maine. Powerful
urlnherF4 up that way.
'.hE National Typographical Union
mas adopted a resolution declaring the
Union has no interest in or desire for
the success of socialism or communism.
MINISTER MOVES has been summoned
home from Paris to give testimony be-
fore the Potter committee, and is now
on his way. As if the committee wasn't |
making noise enough now.
The seven hundred strikers who pa
raded the streets of Quebec on Satr r
day could not let the opportunity 20 bv
unimproved, but proceeded to break
windows and destroy property,
THE New York JForld mas boon writ.
ing up the graves of .no Presidents, and
the editor seems q take os much intor.
est in them as. though he expected to
occupy one. Of them some day.
l AE festive cyclone is still prosecut-
g its "spring compaign, though sum
mer is upon us. The aggregate amount
of property destroyed and lives lost this
year will exceed that of any of many
iformer years.
The international copyright congress
is nowin session in Paris. Victor Hugo
is booked for speech, and may be ex-
pected to place the brotherhood of
authors before the world in forcible
manner.
THE prospects now are that Russia
will get about all she asks out of the
European Congress, unless she includes
Constantinople in her demands. Her
Britanic Majesty would never, never
agree to that.
POPE LEO NH has already begun to
fail IN health, according to report. If
the present pope only succeeds in living
through as many such reports as his
successor did, the phpal poweris assured
for long while to come.
IHE eighteerrLundredth anniversary
OF the destruc sion OF Pompeii and Her.
culaneam wi Il be celebrated with n
jubilee nex'l simmer. The fireworks
Tor the oc' ,asion will be furnished grat-
Is by the surrounding districts.
INF. Louisville CO1uierJournal ex-
pres .ses the opinion that Stanley Mat
I'd ews hit the nail on the head once, any
low. That was in letter that he wrote
in 1872, in which he said: II candidly
acknowledge that am not asuccess as
politician"
Mrs. SARAH Hess CoRwIN, widow of
Governor Tom Corwin, died at Lebanon,
Ohio, on Monday morning, She was
born at Westchester, Pa, in 1895, and
her father removed to Ohio in 1919.
She was married in 1922, in the room
where she died on Monday.
THE monarchical parties of France
are determined to make what capital
they can out of the recent stroke at the
life of Emperor William by the Social,
lists, 1t is card in their favor, and
they propose to play it where it will do
them the most good.
JOHN JASPER, the colored divine who
insists the world do move" boasts that
he ran baptize more converts in day
than any other preacher living. He
baptized four hundred and ten in six
hours last Sunday. The feat caused
more excitement in Richmond than did
all his astronomical sermons.
BEN HILL says the only bargain made
among Southerners as to the Presiden.
tial question was simply an agreement
among forty-two Southern members oi
Congress, who honorably pledge them
selves to each other that they would op
pose all efforts to defeat the count OF
to prevent the decision of the electora
commission FROM taking full effect.
A WASHINGTON special to the Cleve
land Herald says Alex. H. Stephens hai
addressed letter to the Chairman O
the Democratic committee in his dis
trict telling him he intends to stand TO
reelection whether the Democrats re
nominate him or not. The letter i
called out by attacks made on him TO
his position in regard to the Potter res
olution,
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New Jerseys Big Tree.
From the Monmouth Democrat
The largest chestnut tree in the Stat
of New Jersey was cut down recently q
Sicklertown, Camden county. The tire
stood on the farm Of Washington Sicl
ler. The land on which this tree stoo
was first cleared by John Sichler abou
the year 1774, and the tree was lei
standing for shade. 1t was large on
at that time, more than 100 years age
and perhaps the Indian boys and girl
gathered nuts from it as they roame