Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-07-24
GLEANINGS.

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boy since the Fourth.
The prospect of fine crop of corn was
never better IN Alabama.
Out Of the nineteen window glass factor
les in Pittsburg, fifteen are in operation.
The apple crop of western North Carroll
ma was almost wholly destroyed by severe
rosts.
A pen may be driven, but the pencil
does best when it is lead.-BOStOH Tran
script.
The total exports from Wilmington, N.
c., for the year ending June 80, were Si,-
67l, ,33l.
Agricultural implement manufacturers
report large sales and Il brighter outlook
than for years before.
Baseball players never mind losing one
finger, because nine can play a game
Nev Orleans Picay'de.
American coal is selling at Geneva,
Switzerland, slightly cheaper than French
and German coal, and is regarded as much
superior.
All agricultural interests in Louisiana
are in a healthy condition, and farmers
were never in more prosperous condition
than now.
A lover will often take whole year to
press his suit, when any smart tailor would
do it for him in less than an hOur.-Ncc
York NewS.
j. II. Riley, of Philadelphia, has just
completed u contract with the govern
ment for 1000 army tents, delivered III
Jeiiersonvlllc, Ind.
The employees at the Westinghouse ar
brake works, PttsErrg, are and have for
some time past been working over time
thirteen hours day
The Whitaker iron works, Wheeling,
resumed Il few days ago. and will run, pro-
vided no accident occurs, for nine months.
The mill is running full.
1t has been customary among glass
manufacturers to shut down every year for
a couple OF weeks in July, but so far none
have shut down this year.
Nothing surprises young man more
than the shape of his head as he sees it for
the first time after his hair has been crop
ped loscd,-BoSton GlOJe.
A poet in the Whitehall Times cxcaims:
81 am haunted weirdly haunted, by the
dripping of the rain" We would advise
new shingles as rcmedy.-BOStOn Post.
An old miser, having listened to pow
crful discourse on charity, said; THAT
sermon so strongly proves the necessity of
alms-giving that I've almost mind to
beg"
Little boys can afford to go bathing i'll
the river now. The water is nice and
warm, and collins are cheaper than they
have been since the war.-St. Louis Times
Journal.
A Georgia farmer uses novel fertilizer.
lie kills snakes, lays them in the iurrow,
snakes are made to produce corn, which
produces whisky, which in turn produces
snakes again.
An old-fasmoned minister passing
fashionable church not long ago on which
II new spire was going up was asked how
much higher it was to be. mot much,"
he answered; that congregation don't
own much higher in that direction"
The crop year for coffee begins the 1st
of July that being the date at which sup
plies Of new coffee begin to arrive in guam
tity at Rio JancrO and Santos. The last
crop is estimated at 100000 bags, and
the new one at from 2 300, 600 to 100000
bags.
The hardest trial of the heart is whether
we can bear a rivals failure without tri-
umph." Wrong again. The hardest trial
OF the heart is TO see rivals success in
the matter of cuchering you out ofyour best
girl and not feel like punching his head
oil city Derrick.
The farmers caravan employed by the
Dominion government for the purpose of
instructing the Indians IN agriculture were
to leave for their destination on Thursday
last. They take with them thirteen COM
plete farming sets, including thirteen spans
of horses and Il like number OF plows, har-
rows, stoves, etc.
A very cheering indication of the i'm
proved condition of busines in the West
is given in the fact that the clearings of
the Chicago banks for the first six months
of this year amounted to S5S3 100000 an
increase of nearly $S0000 900, Or more
than 10 per cent over the corresponding
six months Of last year.
"What are you worth?" asked u rich
old miser of young man who was court
ing his only daughter. "Not much now,
but I'm coming into large fortune in
few years." was the reply. The marriage
took place, and then the old miser learned
that The large fortune which the young
man was coming into was his father-in-
laws.
According to the monthly oil statement
of the Oil City Derrick, there were 327
wells completed in the month of June, in
creasing the daily production S,205 barrels,
an average Of 25Ss barrels per well.
There are 744 wells commenced and in
various stages of advancement, showing
slight decline in operations. Only ten un-
productive wells were drilled.
The grain trade of Boston is more than
holding its own. Though the receipts of
wheat during the month of June were only
$1,000 bushels, against 334 900 bushels dur
ing the same month last year, the receipts
ofcorn increased from $4,000 TO 1,556,000
bushels. Since the first of January the re-
ceipts of corn have been 6,662,000 bushels,
against ), 5,l29,000 bushels. The flour trade
is also increasing rapidly.
Atlanta, Ca, has cotton mill capable
of working $4,000 bales Of cotton per an
mum. When it is in full operation it will
give employment to nearly LOO persons.
II is equipped with the best machinery
tnat nOrtnern mechanics COulu put up. III
is the first mill of the kind that Atlanta
ever had, and commenced running few
days ago amid great rejoicing, and in the
presence of the governor OF the State and
other prominent officials.
The steady improvement in the iron
market which has been noticeable for some
weeks, really looks as if it we're TO be per-
manent, and the trade is looking for
brisk and active fall. There has been
general advance in prices all along the
line. The old material in the city and vi
cinity has nearly all been worked off, and
is scarce and high. The mills continue TO
be busy, and many of them are unable TO
keep up their orders.-North 4merica.
The Litchfeld coal company, of Litch-
field, ILL.,, while prospecting for q deeper
vein Of coal, have, during the past week,
had good indications Of coal oil. On We'd
nesday morning oil came spouting up, and
mas continued 10 flow at the rate Of ten
barrels per day or more. An expert has
it good article of crude oil.
AZ the time the oil began TO flow the work.
men had bored 200 feet below the bottom
,f the shaft, or 700 feet below the surface