The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-06-13

The coffee crop in Costa Rica was
never larger or better than this year.
SENATOR DAVID DAVIS says that "pol-
itics sit easy upon him." But does he
sit easy on politics?
The Pope has telegraphed to Emper-
or William his regret at the atrocious
attempt on his life.
The Judges of the St. Louis courts
are going to take four months vdca-
ton to visit the Paris Exposition and
fish for trout in Colorado.
SMOKED whitefish is having Il great
run into the garbage carts at st. Louis,
several families having been made death
ly sick by eating the stuff.
THE communists say that on certain
day this summer, at - o'clock precisely,
every locomotive in the United States
will stop and the engineers will quit
work.
SIMON CAMERON began life as q prin-
ter. The first time he went to Wash
lngton he walked there. Since that
time Mr.. Cameron has seen others do
the walking.
EMPEROR WILLIAM seems to bear a
charmed life. Four attempts have been
made upon his life during the past
thirty years, neither one Of which has
proved successful.
A son of Brigham Young took his de-
parture the other day for West Point, to
be educated at the governments ex-
pense, making the third thus honored
in the past six years.
y. GORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND believes
that Grant will be the Republican can
didate for the Presidency IN 1880, and
has announced his intention to oppose
him. The GRANTEES may well trem-
BILE.
Mr.. EDISON says that the phono-
graph talks Latin better than anything
else. This was to be expected. For
the phonograph is designed for talking
dead language, Or at least for repeating
the language of the dead
He has turned up once more, and in
the Black Hills, of all places in the
world. His name is James B. Sheri-
dan. He was o cook in the Welsh
house. He inherits seven million francs
exactly seven millions-from rela-
tive.in France.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION has compli-
mented Dick Thompson's marines on
exhibition at Paris, saying that they
were fine, brave, and soldierly-looking
men, and that an army composed of such
material would preserve the liberties of
their country.
The Americans in Paris, and their
number is legion, propose to have a
grand time of it on the 4th of July next.
A meeting has been held atthe legation,
and it has been decided that fete shall
be held ut the Pre- Catelan, where cham
pagne and firc-crackers may be popped
with all proper patriotism.
SITTING BULL is again on the rampage
He has held a grand pow-wow, and
threatens to make somebody weep. "
The usual cry at the Indian post is "no
troops to spare, yet the idiotic congress
reduces the army. Some people need
killing and could be spared as well as
Sitting Bull and his cut-throats.
JAMES GoRDEN BENNET is SO disgust
D ed with the contradictory accounts OF
his little affair with May that he will
consent that the truth according to him
should be published. And he says, too
that if the people think he ought to be
tried in the courts for the crime of du-
cling. he will come home and submit.
The issue of bulletins about the EN-.
peror William was discontinued by the
court physicians at Berlin, ON the 4th
The condition of the patient was so fa
vorable that special reports were nc
longer considered necessary. At the
same time there SCENE d to be some ap
prehensions that the shock of this sec
ond attempt on the Emperor's life may
break down his constitution. already en-