The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-08-01

SOMEBODY mentions Ben Butler and |
Mrs. jerks as "beauty and the beast.
Now the person who calls Mrs. jerks Il
beast is no gentleman.
THE Graphic informs us that the
American Indian is the most treNcher-
Gus creature on earth, excepting the
American white man.
The Chicago Tribune admits that its
city has more or less cases of sunstroke
but it is half inclined to insist that sun
troke in Chicago is luxury.
NEosHo FALLS Post: Kansas will
be almost one vast orchard if people
continue to put out fruit trees as they
have been doing for year or two
past.
The protecting game laws OF nearly
all the States, together with the favor
able winter and spring, have made the
game of all kinds more abundant than
for many years.
AMONG the discharged female en-
ployes of the Patent Office, at Washing
ton Tuesday, was Mrs, Oliver, the lady
sueing ex-senator Simon Cameron for
breach of promise.
The Cincinnati Times exults that
Cincinnati is getting in "a great deal
more wheat" than Chicago, although
Chicago boasts of being the wheat mar
ket of the continent"
THE English House of Commons
numbers $50 members. OF these $50
are Conservatives, Or supporters of Bea-
consfeld. The Liberal have 243 voters
and the Home Rulers Sc.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS will stump
his district in a canvas colored two
horse wagon. All this expense could
be saved if they would do him up in q
package and send him by mail.
The Kentucky papers announce that
the song of the Katydid is now heard
They begin to sing just six weeks be
fore frost. If it should be true this yeal
corn-stalks will need ulsters badly.
Those contonding police factions o
st. Louis are at it again. One woult
think that St. Louis had experienced
natural warmth enough of late not t.
need any of an artificial character.
REPORTS from Montgomery, Ala, ar
favorable TO the cotton crop, but tn
worms have appeared in some districts
and the planters arovery nervous, The
often in day blight the fairest pros
poets.
ALL that ails the sensational stor
now going the rounds about nephe'
of Senator Sumner who married an act
ress old enough to be his mother,
that Senator Sumner never had
nephew.
A MINNESOTA man seems to undeI
stand the law of self-protection. II
caught couple of tramps setting fiji
to his harvesting machine, and by I'll
aid of shotgun made the transfer
population Of the State less by two.
Two weeks ago Mississippi edit
made stirring appeal to 1000 person
who had not paid him for their pape
Cup to this time" he says, "six ha,
responded" There's some virtue lie
in the people, after all,
BY "the sad sea waves" The Pott
committee on Tuesday recommended
investigation at Atlantic City, and Ge
Butler was on hand as usual, with
eye cooked, like Micawber, waiting
something to turn up"
THERE is loud demand in the pre-
for some means to suppress the pers
ent wretch who makes warm wealth
still more uncomfortable by rushing
every body with the thrcadbare que1
We'll, is this hot enough for you?"
a CURIOUS effect of the heat was L
ted in Jersey City, where sober MT
who had worked hard all day, we
home to supper, undresscd as for bt
and then went out into the street q
wandered around with crowd at
heels until a policeman took him to t
station house.
MEXICAN dispatches report the C!
ture OF General Escobedo, the head a
front OF the Lerdo reactionists, and v
unteer the information that he will
shot without ceremony, Escobedo V
one OF the most skillful and experienc
officers of the old Juarist army u
accomplished the fall of the short-li,
empire under Maximilian.
The subject of the exodus of
blacks from tho south is beginning
attract the serious attention of
thinking and considerate white reside
of that section of the country. Besi
the damage in business and comm
cial way-the loss of the produc
class, fears are entertained that UNI
the emigration of the colored people
the west and Liberia is stopped,