The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-01-24
TOPICS OF THE TIME.

TOPICS OF THE TIME.
Extra endeavors have been made in
Germany to overcome the growing de-
mand for American machinery.
Four thousand subscribers to the
Centennial stock, of which there is q
dividend OF II per cent, cannot be
found.
Sirloin beef steak at five cents per
pound and fine fat turkeys at twenty
five cents each are among the latest
market quotations in Macon county,
Texas.
The London Globe says that nation
al debt is an indispensable sign of civil
ization, and that there is not single
State in the Old and New World with
out one.
Senator Sargent, of California, is in
favor of putting $3.50 tax on every
Chinese immigrant, with Imprisonment
for five years for bringing Cinnamon to
the country.
A bill will be presented in Congress
by Representative Norcross prohibiting
the importation, manufacture and sale
of intoxicating drinks in the District of
Columbia.
The Washington correspondent of
the Louisville Comier-Journal says
ut is now regarded as certain that a
majority of the Ways and Means Com
mittee will favor the imposition of the
income tax. All the Democrats on the
Committee, save Mr.. Wood, are in fa-
vor of it, and also Mr.. Burchard, of Hi
nois. Good judges predict a majority
for it of at least thirty Or forty"
The Louisville Comier-JoounaI tells
OF negro who is the envy of all the
negoes around. He was once very black
all over, but white spot appeared on
his body some yearsago that has increas-
ed its size until he has gradually turned
from Ethiopian to Caucasian color.
His face and hands have undergone the
change, and there is a prospect that he
will be white man soon. A tough
story.
Colonel Robert Ingersoll answered
thus reporter who had asked him, the
other day, if he believed in no hereaf-
ter: Il do not know. am aboard a
great ship. / do not know what port
she left, or whittier she is bound. She
may go down with all on board or she
may reach some sunny port. do not
know. 1t is more strange that men
should live again than that they have
lived"
Russia has given Turkey very com
plete humping, but she has been COM
PEELED to pay dearly for her amusement
On the 1st of last December her war ex-
penditures had reached $4O0,00O,O00
and $4,000 of her citizens has been
knocked in the head. The Govern
ment has $75O,00O0O in paper roubles
floating around the country, and the
presses are still knocking out the seduc-
I've currency as rapidly as they can
be fed.
Gov. Bedle, of New Jersey, in his
last message, recommends stricter laws
with regard to savings banks. The Sc,
verest blow which the hard times have
given to the mass OF the people is the
general tumbling to ruin of savings,
banks, Closed mills and reduced wages
mean temporary distress, but the fail.
ure of a savings bank knocks away the
well-laid foundation of future prosperi-
ty from the very class who have worked
for it the hardest and deserve it the
most.
Tariffville, n small place on the Con
neticut Western Railroad, twelve miles
from Hartford, was the scene of a very
serious railroad smash-up. An excursion
train returning from Moody and Sank
ky meeting at Hartford on last Tues
day evening broke through the trestlt
bridge into the Pennington River
Two engines one baggage and three
passenger cars went through the bridge
Some twelve or fifteen persons were
killed and LARGO number wounded
The Railroad Commissioners had ashor
time before, examined the bridge ant
pronounced it safe. An Investigation
will be held to ascertain the cause of the
disaster.
The four per cent. bonds of the
United States may be offered for pop
Mar subscriptions, in sums of $50, 800
$500, and 1000. This will be a sor
of test of patriotism of the people. The
French people promptly invested theil
savings in such bonds, after the Franco
German war, and lifted the burden o
debt from the shoulders of the govern
ment. There are nearly four and hal
millions of holders of French bonds
which aggregate about nineteen thous
and million francs, or an average O
about 1864 to each holder There ar,
only five and half millions of land pro
prietors in France, and four-ffths O
them are creditors of their government