Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-11-06
STATE NEWS.


Even Wa-Keeney is building large OPP
era house.
The Harvey County Medical Society is
progressing.
Adam Hogg is candidate for treasurer
of Nemaha county.
Troubeis brewing about the ventilation
Of the Lincoln school.
The average daily attendance of the
schools of Kanses City, Kansas, is over
275.
Empora proposes to bond the city for
$4,000 for the purpose of putting IN
water works.
Shadrach Price, former resident of Gil
rard, was killed by the Utes at the White
River agency.
p. B. Groat, general passenger agent Of
the Kansas Pacific, is going to Europe In
short time.
Mr.. Robert Keiser has started from Os-
borne City for Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
on horseback.
The found master of Topeka is captur-
ing stock feeding in the front yards OF
sensitive widows
The Methodist church at Fort Scott u to
be enlarged so that it will seat three hun
drcd more people.
Contractors find it impossible to find
men enough 10 work on the railroads now
building in Kansas.
There is a paper published in Topeka
which advocates an opening to the poll
by behring's straight.
A fine monument has been erected at
the grave of the late Col. Peter McFar-
land, of Leavenworth.
Twenty.four gentlemen from Ohio, re-
Gently arrived at Winfield, with the inten-
tion of locating in Cowley county.
Dickinson County has no bonded debt
except that incurred in the erection of ten
IRON bridges for the convenience Of her
citizens.
When the Norton county census man
goes around he won't find George May
nard. He blew down shotgun to see if
it was loaded.
Maryvlle News: Major Downs writes
us that his company will build a line OF
road from Frankfort to Marysyi 'jccSSN Npr
$4,000 in bonds. satp
Another indication that winter is'GHse
upon us. Beavers, corn husks. musk'rats,
and weddings, combine to make pretty
reliable weather indicator.
A Baptist clergyman in Topeka was
chased by goat last Saturday, and he
sought refuge By shining up telegraph
pole. A genuine 'scape goat.
There is woman in Fort Scott who has
a heavy moustache on her lip. There are
many Lawrence women who have nous
tache on their lip but it don't grow there.
Last Monday evening the body of a
Young man named Thomas Morgan was
found in thr Walnut river. about one
mile below the south bridge Of Winfield
THERE was yonug Indy in Atehison,
Who once set her cap 20 catch son
OF 4 rich old nabob neighbor,
So that she might live without labor,
But he shook the young lady in Atchison.
The directors of the Salina, Southwes-
tern & Sterling railway met Jay Gould
at Kansas City last week, and made final
arrangements to build the road to Ster-
ling.
Topeka lawyers have presented bill of
Sc, 600 for rcinstating Stafford Commits
sloners refuse TO countenarce the claim,
and the matter will likely go t. the cours
for adjustment
There was time when the Atchison
Champion and Patriot dwelt tcgnher IN
unity; but if one can believe what he
reads in their columns they row dwell %
gcther in iniquity.
Senator Ingalls, has deposited with the
II..Io.;,,1 G,,;nt,. a opr,y nl btlO-
grarhed birds-eye view Of the city OF SUM
ner Kansas, in lS57-one OF the ''perished
cities of Kansas"
Atchison girls have large ears which
are said to denote an amiable disposition
and comprehensive thought. If this is
true what a mistaken and much abused
animal an Atchison mule is.
The young officers at Fort Leavenworth
complain of the severe routine of duties.
Yet at night they will hold a Leavenworth
belle from seven p. NJ. until midnight
and consider it dn easy task.
Policeman Lewis Chew, of Atchison, at
tempted to arrest negro named Monroe
Amos when the latter shot the officer
through the abdomen. Chew fell, but
shot the negro, who fell and died in a few
moments. The officer died later.
All the indications point to a very large
hog crop IN Kansas this fall, There is
plenty of corn to make pork and it is
a question rs to what the price of hogs
will be. The dependence for good prices
Is based more on competition between
buyers than anything else.
On Monday prairie FIRE, which had
been burning southwest Of Mission Creek
on Sunday, came near burning up the en-
tire property of L. G. Moon, on Mission
Creek. The fire was undoubtedly set, sew
eral miles from Mr.. Moons and was no.
ticed by persons in that part OF the county
on Sunday.
An accident on the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad opposite At.
Gibson, caused the severe scalding of
N. N. Holmes, Superintendent Of Bridges,
and ]. G.. Null, brakeman, and the
death of D. A. Adams, a telegraph oper-
ator. Adams was from Altoona, Pa, and
Null from Cooperstown, N. Y.
A few days ago while Mrs. Elizabeth
Guthrie, of Wellington, Sumner county
was standing on the platform of a twelve
foot cistern, it gave way and she fell.
Simultaneously with the fall, the walls
caved in, and she was buried with her
mouth Just above water level. Assistance
was at hand and she was rescued with no
little difficulty from a living tomb.
A young man in Lawrence is contem.
plating marriage. Saturday he thawed
out in the following inteiTogatory appeal
to his darling;
Can my darling wash the dishes?
Can she scrub the kitchen floor?
will she keep on mending stockings
When she hears the baby roar2
Does her nose detect bad butter,
with ,yb;cb grocerv Htorea abound2