Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-08-14
GLEANINGS.

The harvest reaper this season seems to
q be reaping more human lives than usual.
Q Lorne and Louise are now at st. John,
!. N. b., receiving the plaudits of the popu-
{ lace.
y The question with the oil men in Penn
d sylvania now is how to stop productive
2 ness.
o An attempt Is being made by some IA
z natics IN Connecticut to revive the old "blue
8 laws"
F; The trial trip of the steerable balloon in
! Canada the other day was only a partial
success.
: The Newport season has been more sue
y. ceSsful and more marked by display than
, for many years.
The Catholic churches ore still besought
to help poor Archbishop Purcell out Of his
: financial difficulties.
The perfection of lazy ease has at last
been attained by the invention of new
self-operating swing.
Persons who go to Coney island to escape
New York heat, are said to jump out OF
the frylng-pan, ct cetera.
Fechter, the actor, died in straitened cir
cumstances. His disease was combma-
tion OF jaundice and dropsy.
The wine made from Florida oranges
comes, IN the course Of two or three years,
to taste somewhat like sherry.
Mrs. Governor Cullum and the Misses
Cullum have returned to Springfield from
a visit Of several weeks at Geneva lake.
George Bancroft will send his eleventh
volume to press by the holidays, bringing
his "History of the United States" down
to 1890
Mr.. Donald G. Mitchell eek Marvel'0
has so far recovered from recent serious
sickness as to be able to walk about his
grounds at Westvile, Conn.
Mr. A. P. Burbank, the reader, after
giving successful entertainments IN Lon
don, has visited Paris, and will return to
New York about the end of August.
General Raum, commissioner of inter-
nal revenue, will take his vacation in
Maine, where he will make ten speeches.
commencing at Bangor, Tuesday next.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is staying at
the Bay View House, Ferry Beach, Me.
| Her son Charles Is now supplying the pull
pit Of the Congregational church at Saco,
in that State.
Mollie Mccarthy has gone lame again
under training, at Saratoga. She will now
retire from the turf. Moliie's last race
and last victory will henceforward date
from Chicago.
There is no misfortune without some
compensating advantages. Thus a tramp
who rode 600 miles in locked car in com
pany with 400 green hides was completely
cured of a bad case of catarrh.
Mr.. Frederick Paulding's repertoire for
the coming season will contain-in addi-
ton to Tom Tayor's powerful play of the
"Bar Sinister =" Macbeth" D." "Hamlet,"
"The Wlfe's Secret" "The FOOLS Re-
venge' and Lady of Lyons"
Covert, the veteran balladist, who sang
with 0ssian +. Dodge more than thirty
years ago. called on the Oneida Commun-
lists, the other day, and treated them to
''The Sword of Bunker Hill" He is rs
years old, and wears Continental cos
tune.
Michelets widow has published in Paris
the first of her husbands posthumous
works, lie Banquet" which wildly de-
scrlbes Genoa and the cherries country
around it, its impoverished inhabitants
and III own experience as an invalid
among them.
Dagmar, czarevna of Russia, is deeply
respected aad esteemed for her fine quail
ties, and the quiet power for good which
she exercises as widely as does her kind
aud wise sister the Princess of Wales She
is the center and handspring Of remark
ably happy family life.
The season at the Standard theater,
New York, will be begun with series of
performances by Mr.. Bandmann. "Nar-
cisse" is to be the opening piece, and new
and elaborate scenery is being prepared.
The interior of the house is to be freshly
decorated, and the exterior will be bright
ened.
Nine. Di Murska is to sing in series
concerts in London, with an
of 100 musicians, under the lead
ership of Arditl. The floor of Her Maj
esty's theater is to be boarded over and
the house decorated. The season will be-
gin about the middle of August and last
some six weeks.
Mrs. Caroline S. Brooks, who carved a
bust of Iolanthe in butter and exhibited it
at the Centennial. Is working obscurely in
New York modelling busts in clay and OBJ
tanning n precarious livelihood by selling
OF her first effort. She is
some designs which will eth
er establish her work or put an end to ii.
Miss Mary Anderson, during the season.
will appear in a new character, for which
she is actively preparing. 1t will be COM
panion piece to her Julia. Her engage
ments are nearly all filed. Mr. John Nc
Cullough who is excellent authority,
tlot ,, lipto o,,t 1r,ba, thtc
Young lady will be our second Charlotte
Cushman.
Vice President Wheeler will spend the
rest of the summer at home in Malone,
save for possible trip to the White Noun
tains for few days. He has given up his
proposed journey to Colorado, as divers
friends having the same catarrhal COM
plant from which Mr.. Wheeler suffers have
told him that they were not benefited by
Colorado air.
A Texas editor, r. w. Loughery, of the
Marshall Herald, writes to friend north
that many of the crimes committed in
Texas are done by men who have lived a
very little while in the State, and in fact
cannot be said to belong to Texas" Cur
rie, he says, twas armed because he was
a special railway detective" Score one to
the credit Of the native Texans.
We learn that Miss Ella Sturgis, daugh-
ter of General Sturgis, of the army, and
sister of Lieutenant Sturgs, who was kill
ed with General Custer, is about to make
her debut as an actress, and assume the
leading character in a new drama. Gem
eral Sturgis and his family are recent con-
verts to the church Of Rome, and, with the
zeal Of new converts, Miss Sturgs, it is
stated, has offered the entire proceeds of
her engagement to assist Archbishop Pur-
,ell, of Cincinnati.
The father Of Chastine Cox, or more
Cooke, was formerly slave on
he plantation Of General Phillip s. Cooke,
Virginia, who afterward committed sui
,ide. He sold his bondsman, Cooke, pere,
% Col. White. Cooke named his children
utter members Of General Cookies family,
md Chastine himself was once slave in
he family of Colonel S. Percy Ellis, broth
n of Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey, whose recent
oequest Of all her property to jeff Davis is
low exciting so much interest.
Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson gave his lee
ure on Memory" to the Concord School