The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-05-16
NUBS.

Eggs are selling for five cents dozen in
most Wisconsin towns.
Thirty.fve young wolves were captured
in Emmett county, Iowa, last week. The
bounty amounted to $1O5.
Forty dozen pairs of shears per day are
made at a factory at Elyria, o., where fif.
teen men are employed.
A regular line of steamers is in operation
between Atkin, MINI, and Pokegema Falls
on the upper Mississippi.
,, A further stimulus to coal mining in
New South Wales is given by the discov-
cry of veins of gold amid the coal.
Montague, Mich, has q church scandal,
and the Presbyterian church at that place
is without pastor in consequence.
A number of Oskaloosa, Iowa, butchers
have been compelled to close shop, not
being able 10 pay the high price for ice.
Colorado is to have two distileries-one
located sixteen miles west of Pueblo, and
the other in the Wet mountain valley
1t is said that five million bushels of
corn are in store along the line of the Chi.
cago & Rock Island railroad in Iowa.
A Sand Spring, Iowa, clergyman has in,
vented churn which is worked by sitting
down and rocking as In rocking chair.
A bedroom set valued at $50 is offered
TO the couple who will get married on the
Greenville, Michigan, fair grounds next
fall
Gold quarter eagles, which are just ap.
pearing in circulation in New York, are
frequently received and paid out for new
cents.
A bounty of one dollar head is paid
on dogs at the pound in Cincinnati, and
several enterprising dealers have already
gone into the business Of raising puppies
for the bounty.
Some American manufacturers have
discovered that they can avoid the disas
trous discriminating duties Of Cuba by
shipping their goods 10 Liverpool and
then trans.shipping in Spanish bottoms.
A paper butter plate mandatory al
Lyons, Iowa, now turns out 10000 plates
per day. The demand is so great, how.
ever, that facilities are to be added until
100000 per day can be manufactured.
Manitoba is exporting large quantities
of wheat this spring Some OF the steamers
have carried as much as one hundred tons
rope, and is shipped by way of New York.
A sick farmer in Jackson township,
Washington county, Iowa, was surprised
recently by nine neighboring farmers, with
teams and plows, who proceeded to plow
his fields. A relief society of the right
sort.
One single house at Neufchatel forwards
annually to Paris six million cheescs the
value of which is estimated at 100000
francs. The manufacture of these Cheeses
require the milk of five or six thousand
cows.
The Turks have discovered the secret OF
the Whitehead torpedo from two Russian
specimens which they captured at Batoum,
and are manufacturing them in great
quantities. Otherwise they would have had
to pay $l2j,0OO for the knowledge
The Shamrock, SO named in compliment
to Marshal MacMahon, is the largest vessel
ever built in private shipyard in France,
being more than three hundred feet long,
She has just been launched, and will be
nsed to carry troops TO and from Cochin
China.
Davenport, Iowa. has factory in opera
ton making sugar out of Indian corn.
The sugar is said to be of the best quality,
and much resembles maple sugar, and is as
pleasing TO the taste as honey. Syrup
made from corn has been in the market
for some time.
A large paper company, of Ypsilant,
Mich is talking of introducing electric
lights into its mills. The system under
consideration is that of Cleveland firm
As the mills are run night and day, cheap
ness combined with safety and good light
is the great desideratum.
The report of the Connecticut insurance
commissioner shows that the seven leading
fire insurance companies of Hartford have
paid $Oj ,3OO,5G 80 losses, $1G0O3,7l5 cash
dividends, and $404j,0O0 stock dividends
The total cash capital of the companies TO.
day is $7,4j0OOO.
In contribution TO the Austrian MOnat.
schrif f. d. ORIENT Baron Won RiChthoien
reckons the coal production of China at
100000 of tons annually. The anthracite
beds of Shansi represent 100000 tons, the
bituminOus coal of that province 100000;
the province of Human, 600 eco; ShaRtung,
100000, and Chilli, 100000.
A mysterious disease has appeared
among hogs in Mclean and Ford coun.
ties, Illinois. At Hudson some twenty-five
have died, and near Paxton nearly two
hundred. The disease is very rapid. Many
hogs apparently well at night are found
dead the next morning. Post mortems
show that the brain is affected.
During 1867 there were manufactured in
the United States 1884, ,5jS tons of iron rails
and 1850 tons of Bessemer steel rails
total, 4G2, ,10S From that time TO the end
of 1877 the production of steel rails stead.
lily increased so that at the end of the
latter year, of the 764700 tons rolled in
this country, 49,, 100 tons were of Bessemer
steel to 332, ,450 of iron.
Andrew j. Kellogg, of Detroit, was in
Milwaukee last week agitating the neces.
;ity of memorials to Congress requesting
mat laws tor the preservation of the white.
fish in the great lakes be Immediately en-.
lcted. An effort will be made TO induce
he Wisconsin legislature, at its session to
AXE place In June, to memoriallze Con-
yress in this matter.
The capacity of the furnaces in blast in
Pittsburg, Pa, is 4,205 tons per week, and
)t those out 1880 tons. The capacity Of
hose in blast in the Chenango valley is
1915 tons, and of those out 1000 TONS The
capacity of the Mahoning valley furnaces
n blast is 1850 tons; capacity of those
,ut, 2,935 tons. In the Allegheny valley
hose in blast have capacity of 405 tons,
while those out have capacity of only
I5O tons per week.
The New York Herald publishes state.
nent showing that in 1865 there were
hirty thousand more shoemakers in Mas.
achusetts than there are today although
he products of that branch of industry in
Massachusetts, exceed by the enormous
mount of $71, 100000 the production Of
S55. This extraordinary increase of pro.
lucts, with so great diminution in the
number of hands employed, is of course
to the introduction of the most
approved labor saying machinery, and by