Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-03-15
Haps and NIishaps.

Haps and NIishaps.
"A farmer named George Morrison,
living near Wilmington, H., was gored
to death by an infuriated bull.
Josie McHugh, young girl en-
ployed at the Patty House, Fond du
Lac, Wis, was burned to death by the
explosion of kerosene lamp.
The young son of Lawrence Wat
ers, aged IL years, of Dixon, ILL.,, COM
mitted suicide because he failed to pass
the examination for admission to the
West Point Military Academy.
"A verandah fell from the weight of
snow at Morrisonville, VT, burying sew
eral persons beneath. Leonard Walker
was killed and all the others more or
less injured.
"A young man, 21years old, named
Oscar Boyd, accidentally shot himself
while hunting muskrats near Washing
ton, o. His body was found in the
creek, with bullet-hole through his
head.
AT Quincy, H., Willie Williams,
aged IL, son of Silas Williams, engin-
eer on the c. B. & Q. Railroad, in at
tempting to jump upon a moving train
missed his footing and fell beneath the
cars, the whole train passing over him.
He lived only three hours.
Emma Messenheimer, ,ag ged 12 years,
residing near Alliance, O., was fatally
burned by her clothes catching fire from
the stove while she was sitting in
chair asleep, the rest of the family hav-
ing retired. Her parents were also Sc
verely burned while smothering the
flames.
Foreign Notes.
The Householders' Association of
Berlin, a cooperative society, employs
a chemist of eminence in its laboratory
to analyze the articles it sells, so that
their quality may be guaranteed.
The beautiful castle of Miramar,
near Trieste, which Maximilian built
and lived in before his departure for
Mexico, is still splendidly kept up by
the Emperor Francis Joseph's orders as
souvenir of his unfortunate brother.
Mime. Grevy, the wife of the French
President, has for many years been an
invalid, and has therefore lived in the
closest seclusion. She very reluctantly
quilted her own home to go to the
Elysee, the rooms of which appear to
her uncomfortably large and stately.
She is the daughter of NJ. Fraisse, one
of the richest merchants of Nancy, and
at the time of her marriage, it is said,
her relations thought she might havs
done better than to marry the man who
is now the ruler of a great country.
Nothing can exceed the popularity
of the German Emperor. He can hard
ly enter any theater without the au-
dience rising to their feet to hurrah and
chant the NATIONAL hymn; and such is
the ceaseless stream of gifts kept pour
ing into the palace by his affectionate
subjects that the aged monarch has at
last been compelled to remind the pub
lie of half-forgotten order in council
! forbidding the presentation of books,
music, objects of art and industry, ETC.
without leave being previously asked for
and obtained.
The Munich foundry has been CON-
missioned to cast the German national
monument which it is proposed to erect
in the Niederwald, close to Bingen on
the Rhine. The work is designed by
Prof. Schilling of Dresden. On a pc
destal stands figure of Germania,
pointing with uplifted hand to the SYM
boil of German unity, the imperial
crown. The figure is considered tri-
ump of German plastic art. The model
is shortly to be transported to Munich
in special train, and will there be put
together before casting.