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Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
PUTS AND CALLS.
One Grain Man Calls Another Liar an'
the Other Puts Knife Into Him.


the Other Puts Knife Into Him.
From the Kansas City Journal
81 guess Webb Withers got the worst
of it."
"Got the worst of what?" inquired the
JomHdl man.
SCOT the worst of the Latshaw-Kearney
fracas," replied one of the gentlemen ad-
dressed, the group being composed of
grain men on change.
"Tcll us the story plainly, os to a little
child, murmured the Journal man, and
the grain men made answer thus:
"Messrs. II. J. LatShaw andC Il. kcar-
ncy, two well-known grain merchants, got
at loggerheads the other day about a
transaction in corn. Lathaw claimed that
Kearney had been a detauter in the mat
ter of an unfulflled contract. The case
was taken to the committee Of arbitration
day before yesterday but was not con-
cluded and was still on the docket yes.
terday. At about 8 o'clock yesterday
morning Mr.. Webb Withers and Mr. Lat
shaw were standing together at the head
of the front steps of the exchange build
ing when Mr.. Keamey came up, and the
conversation at once took u frisky turn
toward the case in arbitration. kearney
suggested rather emphatically that MIR.
Latshaw was a good deal Of galoot to
take such case into court, and Mr.. Lat
shaw in turn urged that Mr.. kearney
must he good deal of galoot to make
such case necessary. The words grew
warm and then hot, and finally the two
iratc citizens went for each other in fine
style. Mr.. Withers thrust himself be-
tween the pugilists, and, as is usually tine
case with volunteer peace-makers, he got
the ''hot end of the poker" in the shape
of a good square whack IN the eye. The
men were finally parted, however and Mr..
Latshaw went to his office, supposing that
the smoke of battle had all cleared away.
Perhaps it had; but little of the blood
was left. Mr.. Latshaw when he got
ready to pull down his vest, discovered an
undue moisture in the vicinity Of the
eighth rib on the left side. Investigation
was at once made and he found that he
had been stabbed with small penknife
blade, the wound being very slight be-
cause the blade struck the rib. Keamey
was noticed to have knife in his hands
cleaning his nails when he approached
Latshaw and Withers on the steps" This
was tbs story as told by a grOupc of grain
mpn
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
give Years OF Good Times"-A "Shark-
Proof System.

From the Chicago Express.
"With magnificent crops, while those
of the rest of the world are failure, 1t
must be apparent to every one that the
country is on the eve of great commercial
prosperity. For the next five years the
United States will enjoy the long looked
for good times. For those who have some
means, there never was Il better time to
embark in active business. " Hardmon
paper, Sept. 5, 1879.
At this time every allusion to the times
means an argument for or against the
Greenback party, there being no other
question up which is of any consequence.
Hence it is fair to presume that no Green
back party is necessary, because the
disasters of the rest of the world tavors
us.
1t seems that FIVE years is the outside
limit of the expected good times, and that
It is only those of ''some means" who can
take advantage thereof. | should say it
is rather sorry prosperity which is pre-
dicted upon the disaster of the rest Of the
world; that it is rather short one that is
to be limited to five years; that is an un-
Just one if confined to men Of some
MEANS" and that it was most cruel and
criminal in the money manipulatOrs to
make the industrial heart sick waiting fo"
the ''long looked for good times" whlcu
indeed would not have dawned yet if the
money men could have cut off our crops as
well as our currency.
This hard pan paper shows the size and
color of the cat which had well nigh es-
capped from the bag, when it places the
duration of prosperity at five years. The
money sharks will want what money has
been made, and will by that time reach
forth and gather it in by means Of pan
ic of their own producing, as they have
been dong for century, and as they will
continue to do, unless the people learn
common sense in the way Of finance, and
turn them out Of power.
The money sharks could have brought
the people little nearer to destruction,
and would have done so if God had not
taken compassion upon us, and in His
goodness given us almost n miracle in the
way of crops. As God has stepped in in
our defense, and has made it impossible
for the sharks to get the whole of our
property this year, their newspapers are
now advertising that the sharks will
give the people further lenity Of five
years before the final swallowing comes.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
Real Estate Feeling the Boom.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Real Estate agents and real estate re-
porters, whose business is to watch the
market, can read the signs of a coming
"boom" in real estate, like that which
has added $500, 900, 900 to the valuation,
if not the value, of stocks in the past year,
and has enhanced the price OF labor, and,
in fact, almost everything, except, as said
before, Of real estate and coal. Now the
same causes that operate to put up the
price of these other things that are certain
to act in the same way on real estate. II
the country grows, there is more demand
for real estate, and if capital accumulates
and seeks for investmentit it must overflow
into real estate. Real estate, it is bust
ness proverb, moves last. True to its his
tory, it is beginning to become active
only now, when everything else has had a
considerable rise. There are now more
chances in real estate for speculation than
in anything else. 1t has been depressed
more severely than anything else. AT
the same time it has more prominence and
inherent value than any other exchange
able commodity. It is tie only thing we
buy and sell that may be transmitted with
growing values from one purchaser to an
other for Thousand years.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

From the Chlcago THOuhe,
As the physician is often obliged to trace
disease back to ante-natal causes before
he can arrive at correct diagnosis, so
many of the ills of society have to be
traced back to their root in order to to ar
rive at the correct cause of their existence
and origin.
Away back in ancient times human na-
ture was about the same as now.
There was class Of aspirants, ambi-
tiOus, proud, and avaricious.
The could not, or would not, earn and
produce by honest labor the amount they
desired to consume and expcnd. They
had to resort to device to obtain without
consideration the products of others la
Dor. After resorting to all other meas
ures they lit upon usury and the monopoly
Of money. A writer about the l4th CEN
tury says:
"The manners of the people were rude.
A man and his wife ate off of one plate,
There were no wooden handled knives,
nor more than one or two drinking cupt
in the house. Candles were unknown-a
servant held torch during supper. The
clothes of men were of leather and nm
ined. The common people ate flesh but
Two or three times a week. A small stock
of coin seemed riches. But some began
to want fine houses and lofty towers
Things exquisite and sumptuous were
sought for. Gold, silver, pearls, rich furs
and foreign wines and rich meats wert
required. Hence, Usury, Fraud and Ty
ranny."
Here is the solution, the root and cause
of the whole debt and interest curst
which to-day rests like a mildcw of death
upon the hearts and hopes of humanity
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
LEGAL TENDER MONEY.

When the Greenback party shall have
consummated its desires, the national
debt will have been paid, the national
bonds destroyed, and the money of the
nation, Of whatever material, will be coin
ed by the government, and supplied di-
rectly to the people without the aid OF
the middle man." the national banker.
The government will see that the poo
pie have a sufficienCy Of full legal tender
money to transact the business ofthe coun-
try without resorting to credit.
The volume of the circulating medium
will have to be increased yearly to keep
place with the increase Of population and
wealth.
Now, if it should turn out that the ex.
penscs of running the government could
be so reduced that the public expenses
each year should not exceed the amount
of necessary increase in the circulating
medium would it not be nice for the gov.
ernmcnt to pay off its officers all with q
new issue of greenbacks, and thus save
all the expense and annoyance to the peo
pie of collecting taxes each year2
We know the expenses of the govern
ment are twice as great as they should
be. They must be reduced. If individ.
uals wish to run wild after aristocratiC
and monarchical customs let them do so,
but we as a republican nation, one Of
whose missions is to establish anobility Of
labor, must not, while so many of our
fellow beings are destitute, attempt To
mimic such shallow, senselcss customs.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
1oqirg
NOBODY'S CAT.

He comes again, that sncaking scamp,
That vile, disreputable tramp,
That yellow cat, with one eye out
And minus half his tail-thc lout!
His scanty hair torn out in fight
A wretch forlorn, a sorry sight.
mind me well not long ago
He paced these fields full-hedgcd beau,
His whiskercd head his dainty paw,
Ills glossy coat without flaw,
His well-curied tail, his high-bred stare,
Proclaimed him frvOred Of the fair.
Ah! then his food was creamy milk,
His bed lounge Of down and silk;
A darling mistress sought his veal,
No grief her petted puss might feel,
by night, by day he went his ways,
Well surfoited with love and praise.
But now, you beast, you wretched wight,
Cegone from decent peoples sight.
GO steal from swine your moldy bit,
Make haste my premises to quit,
Or else be pelted well with stones.
There now, jog on, old crazy bones.
But what is this that dims my eyes'
What STRINGS of my soul arise'
There's something human in Your look,
A something tina. cannot brook.
That boy of mine in foreign lands,
Afar from reach of loving hands.
Tolled on by Fortunes tickle beams,
Only to sec their fading CLEANS,
(For some get wealth and some get pain,
A.l NJ a,,I ~ rruip l
In life's hard race, oh! what If he
A fricndless, homeless wOndrer be!
Come back, GrimRlkin, wretched thief,
For all your pains now here's relief;
A kindly hand to stroke your fur,
a bed whero you may dream and purr,
No more on winter nights to roam,
For here arc friends, and here home.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
Tho Value of Money,

From the Chicago Express.
The grcenback, or full tender note, ha,
but one value-its money or exchange
value. Gold has two values-its money
or exchange value, and commodity Or
commercial value. The value OF the
grccnback dollar is measured by the gen
eral prices of commodities. When prices
are higher in this country than in other
countries, the purchasing, or exchange,
value of the grecnback must OF course fall
below the gold standard. The grcenback
dollar may be at par for all debt-paying
purposes, but when it takes two Of them
to buy a bushel Of wheat in America, and
wheat is worth but one dollar in gold in
England, gold will command premium
in the United States.
Another thing, gold possessing tluct-
uatlng commodity value, there may be
times when 25.S grains of that metal will
bring dollar and half. Congress has
no power to keep the price OF gold down
to any certain point. The law gives the
grccnback all the value it possesses. That
value is fixed at its face, and cannot riSC
above it or below it as II legal tender in
payment. The law also gives the gold
dollar that fixed amount of exchange val.
ue, and it cannot fall below its face, for
the law holds it there. But it has another
value over which the law has no control.
Europe may be willing to give much more
for it than the value of IL grcenback of the
same denomination. The value of money
is measured by commodities. Suppose
steel rails are worth in America 800 a ton
in greenbacks, England will deliver them
here for $50 per ton in gold, Has con-
gress any power to compel Vanderbilt ia
pay 800 in gold, or English manutactur-
ers to take $50 in greenbacksp The value
of gold in the old country regulates its
price here, not congress. Congress can
only regulate the value of the greenback.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
How the New York Sub-Treasury
Guarded
the Correspondence Troy IN. " Times.

From the Correspondence Troy IN. ~ Times.
The sub-treasury contains at present
1854, 1000, ,OOO-$ll, 100000 in silver, $780,
700 in gold and $23,0OO,OOOin greenbacks.
The new silver vault, which has been in
use some months, will store S400OO,0OO,
and the prospects are that it will soon be
hlled. The silver is placed in bags con-
tanning $1,000 each, and the different
issues of coin are kept separate. Gold is
held in bags containing 5000, land
greenbacks in packages containing one
thousand notes. In addition to the silver
vault there are two other vaults on the
main floor, each Of which is built on the
plan of first class safe. They contain
the gold and greenbacks, the lock COM
bination being held by Mr.. Ashley, the
specie clerk, and Mr.. Britain, the cashier,
and once month the surveyor OF the port
makes an examination of the treasure on
hand At night four men, suitably
armed, are put on guard and patrol the
main hall. Eight men are engaged in
this service, their tour being alternate
nights. During the day there are two
policemen in uniform in the hall, two de-
tectives in ordinary citizens dress also
keeping watch. One of these (lhomas
Sampson) is an expert Of high order OF
skill, and commands salary of 1880 a
year. The watchmen receive $75 per
month. They come in at ) o'clock in the
afternoon (when the detectives leave) and
lock up and remain until rolicycd in the
morning. In addition to this the treas
ury has lately been put in a condition of
defense against the attack of a mob. The
windows are protected by steel bars and
the inside shutters are perforated with
loop-holes. The entire clerical force is
seventy, for each of which musket is
kept in the armory. In addition to this,
Gatling guns will be stationed on the
root, which will insure the safety of the
place against popular violence This vast
institution is under the general care of
Thomas llillhouse, assistant treasurer.
He was bred in the western part of tie
State, but has held lis present office for
several years. His salary is $4,000, a
small sum for one who must give bonds
to the amount of "a half million. Next
in official Importance is Cashier Britain,
whose salary is $4,000. The pay is gem
orally small, and an immense business is
done in a very economical manner.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

From the Nat Live Stock Journal.
Beauty in dairy COW, unac:ompanicd
by a capacity to yield good milk, has no
value; and it is the giving of such promi-
nence to those collateral and more or less
fanciful points, while the actual milk and
butter yield is ignored, that we object to.
First determine whether you have a COW
worthy of consideration before you turn
attention to the athletic points of beauty.
A COW that yields 800 or more pounds Of
golden Jersey butter will be a model, and
altogether beautiful in the eyes Of dairy
man. Without this performance, the
symmetry of the little Jersey is not worth
thought. Utility first-then beanty
may come in to complete the picture.
We have high appreciation of the ca
pacity and value of the Jerseys as butter
yielders, and should like to see the Amer
lean Jersey bred to much higher prac-
tical standard than this breed has yet been
on its native island; and we think the
time has arrived for the American Jersey
Cattle Club, as the most influential body
of Jersey breeders, to take the necessary
new departure OF introducing test recOrd
into the pedigree. The real value of this
breed can never be sustained except upon
| actual performance; and when this shall
| be the mark towards which breeders shall
aim, solid progress will at once begin,
When performance, after purity of blood,
shall be made the practical basis of the
pedigree, the skillful breeder may safely
weave into the pattern, on this founda'
tion, all the real points of beauty, fol-
utility is not opposed to beauty. 1t is the
breeding to some frivolous non-essential
points, regardless of practical merit rs
mixers, that has let down the character
of the Jersey, and produced, as the Bul.
Teton of the Club says, many carload
| of worthless brutes" that "can be bought
for song" 1t now behoves the Club to
set itself against this "chaff Of pedigree"
and start upon the solid foundation Of
performance at the pail.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

Sir Henry Thompson, in Popular Science Monthly for
September,
Unquestionably tobacco IS an ally to
temperance; certainly it is so in the Csti'
nation of the gourmet. A relationship
for him of the most perfect order is that
which subsists between coffee and frag-
rent smoke. While wine and tobacco are
antipathetic, the one affecting injuriously
all that is grateful in the other, the aroma
coffee "marries" perfectly with the per-
fume of the finest leaf. Among the Mus
sulmans this relationship is recognized to
the fullest extent; and also throughout
the Continent the use of coffee, which is
almost symbolical of temperate habits, is
intimately associated with the cigarette or
cigar. Only by the uncultured classes of
Great Britain and of other northern
nations. who appear to possess the most
insensitive palates in Europe, have smoke
and alcoholic drinks been closely asso-
ciated. BY such, tobacco and spirit have
been sought chiefly as drugs, and are
takon mainly for their effects on the nerv-
GUS systematic easy but disastrous means
of becoming stupid, besotted or drunk.
People of cultivated tastes, on the other
hand, select their tobacco or their wines,
not for their qualities as drugs, but for
those subtler attributes Of flavor and per-
fume, which exists often in inverse pro-
portion to the injurious narcotic ingredl-
ents; which latter are as much as possi'
BILE avoided, or are accepted chiefly for the
sake of the former.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
Buffalo BIlI's writ of Replovin." )"

From his Autobiography
One morning man came rushing up
to my house and stated that he wanted n
writ of replcvin to recover possession of a
horse which stranger was taking out OF
the county. had no blank forms, and
had not yet received the statutes Of
Nebraska to copy from, so asked the
man;
Where is the fellow who has got your
horseP"
"Hc is going up the road and is about
two miles away" he replied.
Every WE'LL" said |, 81 will get the
writ ready in minute or two.
saddled up my horse, and then taking
up my old reliable rife, "Lucretia,"
said to the man: That's the best writ
of replevin that | can think of; come
along, and well get that horse or know the
reason why"
We soon overlook the stranger, who was
driving u herd Of horses, and as we came
up to him said:
Hello, sir; | am an officer and have an
attachment for that horse" and at the
same time pointed out the animal. +.
"Well, sir, what are you going to do
about it?" he inquired.
81 propose to take you and the horse
back to the post, " said ].
"You can take the horse, but haven't
the time to return with you"
"You'll have to take the time, or pay
the costs here and now" said |.
'liow much are the costs?"
Twenty dollars"
Here's the money!" said he, as he
handed me the greenbacks. gave him Il
little friendly advice, and told him that he
was released from custody. He went on
his way a wiser and poorer man, while
the owner of the horse and myself re-
turned to the fort. | pocketcd the $50 of
course. Some people might think it was
not a square way Of doing business, but !
didn't know any better just then. | had
several little cases of this kind, and be-
came better posted on law in the course
of time.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

From the Virginia City Chronicle,
During the past two seasons Sierra Val
ley has been subjected to the devastations
Of the Unsuitable grasshoppcr. The far
mers, however, have not been discOur-
aged but have maintained their unequal
fight against the pests, unwilling to lose
land so productive and valuable as long
as there is the slightest hope of deliver
ance, A dew ally has come to the farm
ers assistance in the shape of a white
worm. Millions of little eggs are laid
along side the grasshoppers eggs, and the
worms coming out first proceed to feast
upon the unincubated egg of the grass
hopper. If any Of the hoppers survive the
attack of the worms, u little red bug darts
into the fray and proceeds to business at
once. The first active work he does is to
eat the grasshopper's head off. He quietly
fastens himself behind the grasshoppers'
ear and burrows into his brain, which he
devours in a few hours, leaving the grass.
hopper physically and mentally IN bad
| fix. The hopper does not always die, but
his mental faculties being affected he loses
his fine sense OF discrimination and is just
as liable to eat one of his numerous rela-
tiyes or patch of weeds as to banquet
upon the farmers wheat, and finally he
perishes miserably. The red bug mean
while dies in the grasshopper's head for
want of nourishment, and the white worm,
having accomplished his mission on earth
| winds up its business affairs and is gath
cred to its fathers, while the hilarious far
mer, happily rid of the multifarious in
sectiverous pests, takes down his fiddle
and his bow and dashes off familiar hoe
down on his back stoop, and the hired
help "pat iuba," while the children dance
merrily until the moon rises in the eastern
sky, and all hands go to bed.