Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04
GLEANINGS.
Jenny Lind is So years old.

Secretary Schurz is booming westward.
Andrassy and Bismarck are at Gasteins
Il taking counsel.
Four more cardinals will be created at
= the conslstory next month.
n Justice Field, of the United States su-
: preme court, is in Oregon.
e The American cricket team won the in
tematlonal match at Ottawa.
4 The Custer monument at West Point is
| to be unveiled on the 30th instant.
r Lady Lonsdale is said to be the hand
S soonest woman of the London season.
, One of the best advertised men in the
country is the wounded San Francisco
minister.
Attorney General Devens and Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury French are back
in Washington.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has filed anoth-
er bill against New Orleans. This is hard
on New Orleans.
Stanley's present visit to Africa is for
/ the purpose Of opening up the Congo river
, from the west coast.
The Augusta Chronicle says that the in
huence of Gen. Gordon, of Georgia, at the
w ullC Ntll SlCNIs
Capt. Webb the big swimmer, was not
web-footed unough to last out his twenty
mile match with Capt. Boyton.
Won't some other public man shave off
his whiskers or mustache soon, so that
a paragraph can be made of it?
The clerk of the weather must have an
old grudge against England, that he is
trying to pay off in overmuch rain.
Judge Noah Davis. of New York, has
had another relapse in Colorado, and his
condition Is regardeda as dangerous.
The heavy financial troubles of Turkey
will put quietus on the grasping ambition
Of that empire, if nothing else does.
Ex- Coy. Seymour was once a private in
Il fire company in Utica, New York. He
will attend the picnic of the exempt fire.
men.
Commander Thomas 0. Selfrige, of the
l'nhra States steamer Enterprise, was
lately presented to Queen Victoria at Os-
borne.
Garibaldi Is losing his popularity in
Italy. Most OF the journals are against
him. He threatens unwisely TO write
pamphlet.
Edward King has been decorated by the
French government for the interest he
manifested In the recent literary congress
at London.
Rev. Mr.. Hcpworth is in London en-
route for the Holy Land. He writes to
friends that the sea voyage materially ben
efts his health.
Archibald Forbes, the British war cor
respondent, whose long and quick rides
have excited so much comment, used to
serve in cavalry regiment.
A letter was recently sent to the Chicago
postotlice addressed to 30. He'll" The
man who says it was addressed to the
whole city will be shot at sight
General 0. o. Howard has gone from
Oregon to army headquarters in San Fran
cisco. His son Chauncey will 60 to And
over, Massachusetts, to study for the min
istry.
DR.. Schlemann, the explorer, speaks
Russian, English, French, Spanish, Italian,
Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Swedish,
Arabic, and ancient as well as modern
Greek.
Bartholdi's colossal statue of Liberty,
for New York harbor, is making rapid
progress toward completion. The public
will shortly be permitted to visit its in
terror.
Rear Admiral Balch, superintendent Of
the Naval academy, has left Annapolis
for Newport, where he will Join the Con
and witness the workings of the
cruise.
Senator and Mrs Don Cameron have
left the White Sulphur Springs for Sara
toga Mrs. Cameron was said to be the
handsomest lady at White Sulphur this
summer.
The wife of the confederate General j.
B. Hood died at New Orleans yesterday.
She leaves large family of children,
having borne twins three times and trip
lets once.
Mrs. Harriet Beccher Stowe has never
received a cent from the adaptation of
. Uncle Toms Cabin for dramatic pur-
poses, although no modern play has been
icted greater number of times.
The New York Herald says: dances
n the surf are advocated at Long Branch,
md every one expresses willingness to
ook on, the only unanswered question
being, Who will do the dancing?"
The Duke of Beaufort and Sir John Rae
Reid were in New London, Conn.,, last
week, where they were for two days the
.uests of Mr.. Henry +. Vail, president OF
he New York National Bank of Com
nerce, at his villa.
Gov. Trumbull's "war office" at Leba-
ION, Conn, has just been partly repaired.
t served at first as his store and after
wards as his office, was the place of meet
ng of the council Of safety, and the station
wherein Washington's messengers be-
ween Philadelphia and Boston stopped to
est.
Miss Marie Van Zandt goes for six
months to Italy, while Miss Minnie Hauk
md Miss Clara Louise Kellogg return to
he United States on the 25th of Septem-
Der, the day on which the whole OF Her
Haiesty's theater, with the exception of
Nine. Nilsson, Mile ANDRE and Miss Van
iandt, will sail for New York.
One day last week while Ex-Governor
Sprague was walking on the beach near
Narragansett Pier, his attention was
urned to sail boat containing two men
which ran too near in shore and got
,aught in the breakers, finally overturn-
ng. One man was caught in the ropes
md was under the boat. Mr.. Sprague
umping into the water, succeeded in
lighting the boat and rescuing the man
rom drowning,