Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Inc nallOnul lTcdNuly hds Hh cANOoo VI
gold.
The Philadelphia tax rate is ~ a hun
dred.
Swiss peasanty have purchased 5000
acres of land in Nebraska.
Ohio papers complain that the forests
are disappearing in that State.
Elizabeth, N. j., with population of
10000, has debt Of $6,OOO,OOO.
The main building Of the Centennial
exposition is shortly to be sold.
The rats which infested the Deccan DIS
tricts in India are being rapidly killed.
A bit of bitummous coal has been dis
covered near Mountain view, Stone county
Ala.
Sixteen quartz mining companies are
operating in the California; Nevada dis
trct.
Building lots in upper New York city
have advanced % per cent. from 1875
prices.
Thirteen gray foxes have been caught
in Newton county, Ga, within the past
two weeks.
A negro at Murireesborough, Tenn,
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wife who is 80.
Knoxville, Tenn Jail contains l04 in
mates, about eighty OF whom are United
States prisoners.
A colony of sixty persons Is forming at
Port Huron with view to settling IN Santa
Clara county, Cal.
The chivalry of South Carolina propose
to make it capital otiense for colored
man to run post Office
In New Jersey it is proposed to sell off
l,230, 900 acres Of wild land, at the same
price of land out West.
| In several of the PensvlvaniD iron dis
tricts wages have been increased 10 per
cent. without solicitation.
A very beautiful tiger lily, snow white,
with delicate maroon spots, Is found on the
mountain tops in Nevada.
| A bill has been passed in the Georgia
Legislature to furnish limbs and arms to
disabled Confederate soldiers.
There are now about 700 white and col
ored children in Atlanta to whom the
schools can offer no accommodation.
The old court house bell at Springfield,
Mass. cast in London l27 years ago, has
been smashed by fall from the belfry.
The report ffOm the Commissioners OF
Lunacy in England show that insanity and
idiocy in that country is largely on the in
crease.
1t is wonderful how silent man can be
when he knows his cause is Just, and how
boisterous he becomes when he knows he
is in the wrong.
Crime and drunkenness have increased in
| London during the past year, according to
the police reports. The number of arrests
for drunkenness was Al ,SO6.
A former Chinese student has presented
to the seminary at Easthampton, Mass,
history of China, written by Contucius,
ind printed in Chinese characters.
Estimates of the crop deficiencies in
England place the amount of wheat tnat
must be imported at l2S, 100000 bushels.
This is about 3j,000,000 bushels in excess
of an average yield.
So great have been the changes since
the establishment Of the Republic IN
France that many ladies of high family
are studying in converts to qualify
themselves for governess.
| A German medical writer, in work
published in 1877 says that there are but
two authentic cases known Of FIVE children
being born at one birth third case is
now reported from kettwig on the Rhine.
During the past six years ninety-threc
monasteriCs and iOrty-Onc converts have
been suppressed in Rome, and their in.
mates, 2,SSS in number. cast adritt. The
net proceeds of the cvnfiscation and sale
of church property in the city were S5,-
100000.
Joe Pentz took a rifle to his wedding,
at Marks Gap, Tex. The sexton tried to
persuade him to leave it at the door on
entering the church, but he persisted in
carrying it across his shoulder as he walk
ed with the bride up the aisle to the altar
rail. His explanation was that rival
suitor had threatened to shoot him on this
occasion, and he meant to be prepared.
Students do not seem to behave much
better in China than in our own land. At
Nanking lately the Preiect had the au-
dacity to issue proclamation, the pur-
port of which was that the Mantchoo
students were constantly misbehaving
themselves. The consequence of this was
that at the next reelection there was
Irregular shindy between the Mantchoo
candidates and some Of their rivals.
Brickbats flew freely about, and one un-
fortunate youth had his front teeth knock
ed out. Then there was q regular hail
storm of bricks; fractured heads became
numerous and the police lnterposed to
stop the exercises.