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Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25
Poverty and Suffering.

81 was dragged down with debt poverty and
suffering for years, caused by sick family
and large bills for doctoring, which did them
no good. was completely discouraged, until
one year ago, by the advice Of my pastor,
procured Hop Bitters and commenced their
use, and In one month we were all we'll, and
none Of us have seen a sick day since, and
want to say TO all poor men, you can keep
your family we'll year with Hop Bitters fol
less than one doctors visit will cost, know IL
A Workingman.r
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25
Pure-Bred and Common Fowls.

The views of the POMrV IVOrM on this
subject are expressed as iollows
A certain writer discredits the claim
that pure-bred fowls are better flesh and
egg producers than common stock While
admitting that they do usually furnish
more meat and eggs than are furnished
by the farmers flock, he thinks this is due
to superior care aud feeding. He says
that person who pays two to three dol
lars per dozen for eggs, or a high price for
fowls, will be very apt to give them extra
care,
There is, no doubt, much truth in the
saying that 'the breed is in the feed, "
but it is only the statement OF half truth.
Good feeding and care will compel any
flock of fowls to do their best; bnt after
all, the characteristic differences of the
varieties remain, anl cannot be changed
by feeding. These differences are, in
many cases, constitutional; that is, by a
long course Of selection and local inhu.
ences, certain traits have become perma-
nently fixed. The blood of certain varie-
ties is very strong, and will show itself for
generations in each successive cross. The
game cock will transmit his game quail
ties, his proud carriage and closcncss of
Icathering; the Leghorn his sprightly dis
position and wonderful productivcncss;
the Asiatic indolcnt habits and tendency
to lay on flesh and tat; all these being
marked features of the breed mentioned
Now, feeding will not effect these diStinc-
tive tcndencles-at least not to any extent.
They were formed by climatic influences,
operating for thousands of years, aided by
Il long process of selection, sometimes
natural and sometimes guided by man.
In late years We have taken in hand the
several families of domestic fowls, and by
careful selection and breeding have exag.
gcrated, as it were, their peculiar traits;
until they have become very strongly
marked. To say, therefore, that the aver
age dunghill fowl will lay as many eggs
as a well-bred Leg.horn, or will produce
as much flesh as Il Brahma will dol in eight
or nine months, is to affirm what fair
trial will show to be false.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

WELL, now, what do the Massachusetts
Greenbackers propose doing this fall The
active fellows in the two old parties, in
cluding Butlerism, are fishing for place
and power; but our workers are supposed
to be fishers of men only. How do they
intend going to their workp Will they
fasten themselves TO the Butler yacht, OF
will they paddle their own canoep
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

THE civil and miscellaneous expenses
of the government amounted to Sl3 3,000,-
900 more this year than last. During the
four years Of the war, the civil and mis-
cellaneous expenses averaged but fraction
over S28,OO0,0OO a year. This year of pre-
found peace and prosperity, the amount
reported is S6j, TAI, 5.49. and now Sher-
man has placed Il censorship over infor-
nation hereafter going out from the treas
ury department..
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

According to the laws of ornament all
art work about the garden should follow
the style of the architecture OF the resi-.
dence-that is, flower beds, seats, walks,
vases or other works of man should har-
monize with the main building. 0rna-
ment consists of a series of repetitions.
Whether it is done by painting, flower
planting, fencing, trees, plants, walks,
roads, ETC., all should harmonize. A
landscape garden is garden made into a
picture with many changes Of view, and it
is best when it can be done on large
scale, so that as many objects of interest
can be put into it or as many hid from
view as is desirable. A lot of twenty-five
feet front can be made interesting without
following either the laws of ornament or
attempting to make landscape garden Of
1t, as in ninety.nine cases out Of every
hundred it would be next to impossible to
make such piece of land what might be
strictly termed landscape garden.
Many small yards are made very pretty by
the exhibition of simple taste, and are
pleasant to look at any time of the
year when the adaptability OF the effect
to be produced has been taken into con.
sideratiOn.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

ZACH CHANDLER says that the laboriHg
men are cheated out of $lS0,0OO,OO an
nually because of the coinage act, put
ting but IS cents worth of silver in dol
lar.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

THE real test whether per cent is low
er now than per cent. was in 1S69is how
much labor did it take to pay six dollars
then, and how much does it take to pay
four dollars now?
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

THAT is not so bad as the coinage act
of 1873, which abolished the silver dollar,
and authorized the coinage of half.dollars,
two OF which contained less that so cents
worth of silver.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

JOHN SHERMAN rcpudiates the silver
dollar by refusing to receive it at the treas
ury from the banks. Good ground for i'm
parchment.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

THE officials of the treasury depart
ment begin to bo crowded for room to
store the accumulations Of gold and silver
that no one wants. Wouldn't It's apro-
priation in payment Of the pubic debt
save more interest than refundingp
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

RESUMPTION must be weak structure
If it requires so many administrative props
to hold it up as constantly keep their
shoulders under it. If it is reality, dis
pensing all the blessings attributed to it,
why is it necessary for cabinet officers to
vacate their seats and tramp the length
and breadth of the land 10 convince the
public of the fact?
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25
coniurnl nllss IN 81 LouI.

From tho Pueblo (ool) chieftain.
There are seven wife murderers now
confined in the st. Louis Jail. The air Of
st. Louis don't seem to be favorable to
copjugal bliss.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

GOVERNMENT is not n trade, which
any man Or body of men has a right t
set up and exercise for his own cmolu
ment, but is altogether trust, in right
of those by whom that trust is delegated
and by whom it is always resumable. II
has Of itself no rights; they are altogether
duties. In framing the constitution, oul
of which the government grew, or by
which its form was changed, it had nc
right to make itself a party in any debate
respecting the principle or mode of form,
ing or changing the constitution.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

DEER JIM-The old lady has bin readin
the proseedins ov the konyenshun of the
Nasnunal Bankers.
The teers rold down her cheeks as she
read Ov the trials and tribulashuns endur.
ed by them.
She said, Obidiah BeeswaCks, beg n
to feel ashamed ov you to think that you
kin put the paper down and take up the
pipe, and 90 to smok IN as if there want
any suffer n in The land.
Says !, "Ef you allude to the suferin
among the poor, the good book says the
moor ye have with yoa always, and they
nav suffered ontil it has bekum sekond M
ture with item.
Prov idunce Furnishes the poor for their
improyidunce,
The curse CT the poor is their poverty"
"Obidla Beeswacks, what on ealth are
you drivin at2 You no aint aludrn to
the sutlel ms of the poor workin people;
but | allude 10 the suiferins endured by
Nashunal Bankers. They maik their an-
nal pillgrmidge to Mrs. Sarah Togy and
lay their greeva1sis befour her"
MY deer wife, don't you know that
Sarah Togy Is the name of q selibratid
waterin place"
Nancy Jane (agustn herspecks)-"Ho
shud no there was any similarity be-
tween woman and watGrin placeY But
yu hav read the proseedins ov the Nashun-
al Bankers. And yu needn't let on that
yu don't understand what | meen. If
there is one sin crater than another its in-
gratitude. And | do think its ongrateful
in yu to show stitch indifference to sufIerins
ov those as has dun SO much for yu and
yurs.
Where wood we bin to-day if Jeems
Bewill hadn't put our little stockin ov
gold where it wood do the most good.
Scitin aside our Cristian paytryotism, it
has returned us 5 dollars for one. Like
kastin bread on the water, il has returned
after many days.
And Jim Bewill says planely that those
who aided the nashun in her diaree ncces-
sity prospered, and them what didn't Al
it didn prosper, shown that the hand
ov Providence was in the cause"
"But Mrs. Smith says she gave her hus-
band To the Governments and Providence.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

"WE now see all over Europe, and par
ticulary in England, the curious pheno-
mena Of a nation looking one way and the
government the other; the one looking
forward and the other backward"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

TIE widows and orphans of one class,
who gave their lives to defend the gov
crnment, are paid in currency worth fifty
cents on the dollar in gold, and the heirs
Of another class, who furnish the gov
ernment with the deprecated currency,
receive bonds worth more than gold, and
generous interest pension for all time to
come
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

THE demonetization of silver in Eng
land occasions an annual loss of $20,0OO,-
900 alone in the exchange of that king
dom with India. One thousand rupees in
India dwindle.down to 500 when they reach
England.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

Ten years ago wheat was worth Sl.60
per bushel, now it is worth 81 cents. Ten
years ago 60pounds of wheat would pay G
per cent. interest on S27, now 1t takes Is
pounds to pay per cent. on the same
amount, so instead of lessening the inter
est burden it has actually been increased
20 per cent.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25
Cattle in Northwestern Texas

The Henrietta (Texas) Journal gives
some figures relating to the herds of cat.
tlein that part ofTexls west of the Indian
Territory, known as the Pan Handle. The
principal cattle men and herdsmen are;
d. T. Beas & Co., 10000 head; Capt.
Goodnight, 1850; Cresswell, 10, 100 head;
Tory, 5000; Littlefcld, 5000; McNuly,
5000; Baker, 1000; Carrek, 1000; Bug
by, S,000 Snowder, 5000; Pollard, 5000;
Coleman, 5000; Dickinson, 1000. There
are also several small herds Of from 100 to
/ 1000 head. This makes total of about
10000, head. Of these about $1,000
beeves will be shipped during the season,
through some estimate that $1,000 will
bp ready for the market, 1t is fair to cal
culate that the increase this year from
the present herds will average not less
than 80 per cent of the entire number.
This will give 10000 calves; the number
that will stop this season from the Texas
drive will be about 10000 head, and from
Colorado about 10000 head. This will
leave in the Pan Handle for next years
round ups about 20S,00O head, and yet
this does not begin to fill up the country,
as it is estimated that it will hold mil
lion head. The present average prices
for mixed herds, per head, are: Texas
stock, $3.50; domestic stock, Is; beeves
alone, 800
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

bonds brawt in 5 times as much money as
their farm brawt. Misses Beeswacks
kudn't furnish the desired informashun,
and she told Misses Beenpole that a wo-
man was out ov her speer when she tried
to pry into fnanshull and perlitical af-
fairs.
But | must close this hoping that you
will yunite as one man in defense ov the
Banks, flote your flag to the breeze with
letters as large as life. Down with tacks-
ashun.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

THE Greenback r., o. Nn5st. county
Kas. helda grand picnic i'm grove hata "a
Erie and Usage NJ sion The crowd wa
variously estimate at hcm zoo TO 2gl
which was very Ell 2rmgjng, rouiieua.
that the gathering occurred IN the ull.
of castor bean and IY haryost. uni .u'
the morning presea.gd strong il..p!toa
of rain. Hon. G. W Surgeon, Hon. j.
M. Allen and DR.. R. Brogan, all stalwart
We ,icrs of our country, delivered able ant
convincing speeches.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

OVER $4,000 miles of railroads, with
stock and bond liabilities of $0G0,S03, ,i7C
in the eleven states OF Ohio, Michigan,
Indiara. Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky,
Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa and
Kansas, are in default of interest Add
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

THE relative arnu 'E cola m ia
United States tr, g 90 Wl,ln',an
and the amount of .HiHCf 1..
be kept in ciGcula' nj pat ...
little to do with ea 'tncs jf.
ask the governmcnr u keep ..
money on hand lyii idle ia ,.'.....
to demonstrate the nhI'y OF t. n. .,.
to make is tpostagc stamps e'u in..
use they are made, or cha. Il
deem each of then ly mrgint .,.g
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-11

and killed VIM. H. Jenkins in the wo.
where the latter had been telling timhev
The bodies of two women and a IT'LL -,
were found in q house at Wsynesv;n.
Ohio, q station on the Little Miami rsiI,oas
on the Sd inst. They were all eyidsn,1
murdered some days ago, as the STEM
from the bodies was dreadful. Tbev 49,.
supposed to be Mrs. Hattie and her sists, a. =
sisters child. The bodies were covered -
bed clothing and had been sprinkled viii
lime.
George Schwartz, well-known pol;t;o.,
manipulation and proprietor of cigar sto,s
in San Francisco, Cal, was shot in his nlsoa
of business on the I'd instant, by DndIsr
Haskell. Cause, vile language on the no.,
of Schwartz, which he refuses to detract
The Eureka stage coach was s,onnaa
ebove Nevada city on the I'd inst, by two
masked men, the express bag taken and
passengers made to stand and deliver. W.,
F. Cummings, banker of Moore's Flat 20,
sisted the robbers, when they ATTEMPTED 70
take gold bar belonging to him and was
shot through the head and instantly killed
Bud Oliver was murdered in the mos,
cowardly and unprovoked manner nv
Robert Mosely, town marshal, at Camden.
vile, Anderson county, KY, on the 3Otb nil
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-11
S0alied to Death.

The excursion steamer Alaska of the De-
troit and Put.in-Bay line, while one mile
from the mouth of the river in lake Erie on
the down trip, on the 9Th instant, exploded
the dome of her boiler, instantly killing
both engineers-the brothers Stevens-and a
fireman famed John Boyd. Ten other deck
hands were badly scalded, two fatally. CT
the large number of passengers on board
only one was severely scaided. TIE steamer
City of Detroit, but short distance from
the Alaska at the time OF the accident, inn
mediately went to her assistance and took
off the passenger. and crew, and towed the
wrecked steamer to Annie .stburg, near the
mouth of the river. Only the upper works
of the steamer suffered.
The steamer France, plying between Bor-
deaux and Koyan, exploded her boiler on
the 9Th instant, killing one, MORALLY
wounding three and seriously injuring
twenty-five.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-11
The Patal ScaffOldfnR.

On the 9Th inst, while several workmen
on the new bridge over Jones' Falls, at the
intersection of Calvert street, Baltimore,
Md, were at work, the scafolding gave
way, causing the death of Thomas McCarty
and James McNally. John Walsh had his
back broken, and Christian Hesserhotf and
John King, received internal injuries, sup
posed to be serious. VIM. Durkin was also
hurt and taken to the city hospital.
By falling of the scaffolding on the new
Opera House building, at Leavenworth,
Kansas, on the 4th inst, four men were
precipitated to the basement floor, sixty
feet below. Charles Brown and William
Yodkum, the latter the contractor for the
building, was probably fatally injured and
will die. Archie Turner had his leg broken
and shoulder dislocated; Hugh Muloaney, a
boy of sixteen, was only slightly injured.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-11
Killed by the Cars.

A freight on the Wabash road, owing to a
mistake in signals, plunged off the end of a
side track into twenty feet deep gulley, on
the It'll instant, while going at the rate of
sixteen miles an hour. The wreck was COM
plete. John Coch,ane, engineer, and Chas.
Niemeyer, brakeman, were killed. James
Fitzsimmons, fireman, was dangerously
hurt.
Charles A. Van Setback, lieutenant of
company F, First regiment, Illinois state
militia, while attempting to jump from a
moving train at the camp grounds, near
Chicago, on the 4th inst, was instantly
killed.
George Raymond, a Missouri Pacific
brakeman, was caught between bumpers
and almost instantly killed at st. Louis, on
the 4th inst.
An old man named Charles Morris, was
run over by the cars at Indianapolis on the
4th instant and killed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-11

The Brooklyn courts have been fur
nished an opportunity to test the act
which gives the wife of drunken hus-
band an action against those who sell
him liquors. A Mrs. Lucas has begun
suit against two ssloon-keepers and the
landlord of one of them to recover
damages in the sum of $4,000 for the
loss of her husbands improving society
and his services as q bread.winner, alleg-
ing that the loss is due to inhibition of
intoxicating drinks furnished him by
the defendants.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-11

A DENTIST in Augusta mitigates the
sufferings of his patients in warm wealth
rby the use of fan of his own inven-
ton, which runs by water. The inven-
ton consists of tin dish, about eighteen
inches in diameter, cut in four sections,
the ends of which are turned up some
hat in the shape of a child's whirligig.
The motive power is supplied by small
wheel, operated by tiny stream of
water not larger than match. BY turn
ing small faucet the water is thrown
on and the fan Immediately revolves
with tremendous velocity, casting
strong current Of cool mir, which i'm this
instance is directed upon the dental chair,
keeping the operator and the patient
cool.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-11
Financial Disaster.

All the property of Jefferson Borden,
one of the founders of the Fall River man.
ufacturing industries and an officer in many
banks and other corporations, has been at
tached at the instance of the Fall River
Savings bank, his largest creditor. The at
tachment has been made in consequence
of complications growing out of the down
fall of Borden's sons.in.law, Walter Paine
and George +. Durfee. The Metacomet
bank, though sufferer, will not be ruined.
The loss to the Fall River Savings bank is
serious, but not fatal. The books of the
banks are selling at Is per cent. less than a
month ago.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-11

AN English journal gives credit to
American genius for at least fifteen inven.
tions and discoveries which, it says, have
been adopted sll over the world. These
triumphs of American genius are thus
enumerated: First, the cotton gin; sec.
ond, the planning machine; third, the
grass mower aud grain reaper; fourth,
the rotary printing press; fifth, nsvigs-
ton by steam; sixth, hot air or caloric
engine; seventh, the sewing machine !;
eighth, the India rubber industry I;
ninth, the machine for manufacture of
horse shoes; tenth, the sand blast for
carving; eleventh, the gauge lathe
twelfth, the grain elevator; thirteenth,
artificial ice manufacture on a large
sesle; fourteenth, the electro-magnet and
its practical application; fifteenth, the
composing machine for printers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-11
Boston W0Ol Market.

Our detailed report of sales shows falr
business, and there has been a good healthy
trade, with hardening tendency on hne
fleece and medium and No. woods. The
advance in metals, hides, leather and many
raw materials should lead to an anticipation
of higher prices for wool, especially as man
ufactu,ers are doing better to-day than al
any previous time in the past seven years
The public sales in London are doing as
well as was anticipated, and 1t is only no"
and then Email lot can be bought at price
low enough to compete with domestic WOOL
There is q stronger market for tine fleece,
and prices are fully Nc y ID dearer than
last week, while holders are stronger at tne
advance than they were at the rates current
a week ago. There have been sales OF cholce
Xxx and above at 800, and a choice \ mas sou
at 3S@39c, and the market for good conol'
toned lots of Ohio and Pennsylvania Is MN
at $3.50. No. fleece has been IN brlsk re-
quest and sells at 40G42c. There is no
change in the price of Michigan and WIS VIE
consin X, and the sales have been small.
No. has been taken at 38G39c, ana tneie
are buyers for this grade at full prices
Combing and delaines show no improve
ment in price, but there has been conslueia'
BILE more doing, and the sales are very iati,
California fleece has ruled quiet anu Wv
sales have been limited to few small io:o,
There has also been very little done ~
Georgia, Missouri and Kentucky Woois, u
there is light stock here. Territory anJ
Oregon woods have ruled steady, put g4os
lots of medium are held firmly. There n .ss
not been much done in fine Texas ana INC
inquiry is light. Pulled woods are eager!
sought for and full prices obtained. sup siS
are sold up closely, and everything Is s ,bs
almost as soon as it touches the hoor u 'N'
Observation-Disclosures September ON
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-11

THE German African Society are do
ing their work thoroughly and preparing
the way for good results. They are
making arrangements now to establish a
school in Morocco, in which the African
travellers of the future will be trained.
The student travellers will there be partly
acclimatized while becoming acquainted
with Mohammedan life and the customs
and manners CT the natives of northern
Africa, and will consequently be better
able to pursue the work of exploration
in the central districts of the dark CONT
nent.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-11

The amount of gold in existence a
the beginning of the Christian era is esti-
mated to have been ES5, ACC, 900; at the
time of the discovery of America it had
fallen to Ell, AGO. 900; it then gradually
increased till in 1000 it reached f2l,-
100000; in 1900, E7O,000,ooo; IL 1860,
f225, 900, 900; in lS43, f4OO, coo, 900, and
in 1853, $500. O00,OO At the present
time it is estimated at FL 1905 900, 900,
which welded into one mass could be
contained in cube of twenty-six feet.
OF this amount fS0O,OOO,0OO are
reckoned to be coin and bullion, $780,
600 in watches, and the remainder in
jewelry, plate, etc. A cubic inch OF
gold at fS It's l0Ad per ounce is worth
f42; q cubic foot, 972, 1862; a cubic yard
fl,959,552.