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Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
Getting Their Pay.

The Louisiana returning board of 1876,
which gave Hayes the presidency, was com.
posed Of fifteen members and attaches, all
of whom were, after Hayes Inauguration,
appointed to federal Offices, and their ag.
gregate salaries amount to $2S, $50 a year,
besides perquisites.
There were twelve visiting statesmen
sent down to New Orleans after the count
at public expense, to stay up the hearts
and courage of the returning board, Il
hold fast to the fraud they had reported
All Of these "visiting statesmen" excep
two, including John Sherman, hold feder
al offices whose aggregate yearly pay
amounts to $4,000.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
Found Their Match.

There is a Greeenback candidate run
nlng for state senator in Sparta, Missis-
sippi. He was notified by the bull-dozing
Democracy that in consequence Of his adj
vocating the Greenback ticket and plat
form, he must withdraw from the field.
He replied to the spartan bulldozers as
follows:
81 think great deal of my friends at
Sparta, and would like very much to COM
ply with theirrequest, and would certainly
do so If it were not for one thing-I will
see them damned first"
He is still candidate, and continues To
advocate Greenbackism.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
Another Scheme to Destroy Greenbacks

Washington Special to Chicago Times.
1t is not probable that any national
bank notes of the denominations of 81
and $2 will be in circulation three years
from date. On the lst of November last
there were in circulation $7,000,000, in
round numbers, of national bank notes Of
the denominations previously mentioned
According to the act of June 8, 1864, the
comptroller OF currency is required. if re,
quested by national banking associations,
to have printed notes of the denomination
of 50, as well as notes of smaller and
larger denominations. No plates have
ever been engraved for notes Of the unusu.
al denomination of SO. An attempt will
probably be made at the next session oI
Congress to retire from circulation legal
tender notes of the denominations of 81
and 50. There are in the neighborhooC
of $42, ,000,000 of these notes in circula
ton. Should they be retired silver woult
be substituted therefor, and SIS notel
would be the lowest denomination of pa
per money. Besides being a step in the di'
iection of the substitution Of coin for all
the government paper circulation, the re
tircment of all notes of lower denomina
ton than S. would greatly reduce the ex
pcnses of the treasury department.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
Higher Education for Women.
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FROM INC bptlnBnVIu HopuDHuHu'
Four women have taken the four years
and eighteen special courses at Harvard
under the new arrangement. Five ladies
take courses in Greek, six in Latin, one in
Sanscrit, FIVE in English, six in German,
SIX in French, three in philosophy, FIVE in
political economy, two in history, two in
music, FIVE in mathematics, two in phys
les, and three in botany.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
A Curious Fact About Yellowstone Trout.
From the Chicago Times.

A Curious Fact About Yellowstone Trout.
From the Chicago Times.
A curious thing about the fish in the
Yellowstone is related by General Whip
pie. Below the falls the trout are fine
fellows for table use, but above the falls
the fish are wormy. 1t is no trick at all
for fisherman to land three hundred
trout in three hours, provided his arm
doesn't become tired and the bait holds
out; but the fish are unfit for use after
they have been caught. No trout has
ever been caught above the falls that did
not carry worm somewhere under its
scales. The General examined large
number of trout, and every one contained
the worm. When examined it was found
to be in most cases about eight inches in
length, and resembling piece Of white
tape. This reptile, when freed from its
bed in the meat, would wriggle and
wnithe as if suffering from an attack Of
collie. Some think the worms breed In
the fish and then eat their way into the
flesh. Millions Of these fish die OF the
worms and float over the falls, and
the gulls can be seen feeding upon them
almost any minute in the day.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
The Ohio areenback Editors.

1t is proposed to have meeting of the
editors of Greenback papers in the state
Of Ohio shortly after the election.
The idea is to 20 TO work ut once in the
presidential campaign. In word to pool
our issues and pull together.
This state can be carried for the Green
back candidate for president next year il
we do our work systematically.
We all know how to do it, but no one
of US can spread over the state and be
thick enough to cover it.
We shall correspond with the editori
and fx upon time and place soon.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
Spanish Living and Dying.

The Spanish father is absolute king and
lord by his own hcarthstone, but his sway
is so mild that it is hardly felt. A light
word between husband and wife some
times goes unexplained, and the rift be-
tween them widens through life. They
cannot be divorced-they will not incur
the scandal of public separltion-and,
as they pass lives of lonely isolation in ad-
joining apartments, both think better Of
each other and themselves for this devil
ish persistence.
If men are never hcnpecked except by
learned wives Spain would be the place of
all others for timid men to marry in. The
girls are bright and vivacious, but they
have never crossed, even in schOOl'dhy
excursion, the border lines OF the ologies.
They have an old prOvcrb which cOarsely
conveys this idea: That "a Christian wo-
man in good society ought not to know
anything beyond her cookery book and
her missal.
An ordinary Spaniard is sick but once
in his life, and the old traditions which
represent the doctor and death as always
hunting IN couples still survive IN SPAN.
In all wcll-to.do families the house OF
death Is always deserted Immediately
after the funeral, and tic stricken ones
retire and pass eight days in inviolable
seclusion. Children mc buried in coiiins
of gray color pink or blue, and carried
open to the grave.
A luxury of grief consists in'shutting up
the house where death mas taken place
and never suffering 1t to be opened again.
once saw beautiful house and wide
garden thus abandoned in one of the most
fashionable streets of Madrid. The wife
of certain Duke had died there many
years before. The Duke lived in Paris,
leading rattling life, but he would never
sell or let that Madrid home, Perhaps in
his heart, that battered thoroughfare,
there was silent spot, where, through
the gloom of dead days, he could catch a
glimpse of white hand, the rustic Of
trailing robe, and feel swprping over him
the magic of loves dfGunie se4sening his
fancy to tender regret.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
Should Gold and Silver be Demonetized ?

The National Tribune quotes the follow
ing from an exchange: There are well
meaning men who think that gold and
silver should be used exclusively as mon
ey, but that rs these metals are so scarce
we should always have paper money
which should always be at par with gold
and silyer-absolute paper money. Some
of the men who talk this way also affirm
that they, as well as the "hard money"
advocates, would be i'll favor Of hard
money if gold and silver were sufficiently
abundant. 1t is a mistake to suppose
that it would be profitable to use gold and
silver as money, even if these metals could
be mined in sufficient quantity to supply
our whole circulation, for the labor ex.
pended in mining and moulding them is
more than is necessary in medium Of
exchange. Gold and silver are useful in
many ways. All metals are more or less
useful, but it does not follow that any
metal should be used in an arbrtary
measure sof the value Of every other
commodity; and then makes the.ol-
lowing editorial remarks: 'As an il
lustration of the ioOlishness of using gold
duu nllNCl io HlOllCyi IuhO wv NVivliiVo W
fifty families each, place them on two is
lands with no other inhabitants. One
colony uses paper money which takes lit
lie labor to manufacture, consequently the
whole fifty families are producing houses,
food and clothing and having no rich
idlers among them, they can produce all
they want, including luxurics, by work
ing five or six hours n day. The other
colony uses gold and silver as money, and
much of the labor of the fifty families
must be expended in mining this gold and
silver. Hence, all must work more hours
day than the people of the colony which
uses paper money. Can any argument be
stronger than this against the use of gold
and silver as mediums of exchange or
measures of valuc2 Is there any possible
way of showing that the fifty families
using paper money would be benefited by
abolishing their paper money, cxpending
part OF their labor in mining gold for q
currency and working more hours day
under the change?
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

The main cause Of nervousness Is indiges-
ton, and that is caused by weakness of the
stomach. No one can have sound nerves and
good health without using Hop Bitters to
strengthen the stomach, purify the blood, and
keep the kidneys active, to carry off the pois-
onous and waste matter Of the system. Bee
other column.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

IT is easy to forcsee the end of this po-
litical fight, when you reflect that error is
the only thing that can destroyed, and
that truth is the only thing that can
eventually come out ahead.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
POLITICAL MENTION,

The celebrated anti-fat is said to be
nothing more nor less than Beccher's
bread and water diet somewhat dis
pnised.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

THE fellow who tried to put out the
Greenback fire is the same fellow who
tried breaking the third day ague by eat
ing a green pawpaw down on the Wa
bash.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

IT isn't much trouble to start hell to
roaring and blazing If there is plenty Of
birthstone lying around, and few loose
matches on hands.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

DON'T ever go a.soldiering unless you
have got rich foe, and can whip him,
for if the enemy Is poor, you'll have to
foot your own bills of war expenses after
You have dore the tighting.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

GREENDAcKERs who have cut their eye
teeth won't be deceived when republicans
tell them that resumption caused the big
crops of wheat to grow in the West this
year. Nor will they be so green as to
take any stock in the republican soft soap
that resumption Is bringing the gold over
from Europe, when they know it is the
wheat we are sending there that does it.
Resumption has about as much to do with
all this as little boys jcwsharp in a
side show has to do with one of Thomas
one-hundred instrument grand concerts
under the big canvass.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

If the public credit is a safe basis for
the issue of bank currency, which costs
the people $2O,OOO,C0O annually in inter-
est on such credit, why Is it not good
enough to base greCnbacks on which cost
no interest?
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

The only lasting solution of the Indian
difficulty seems to be 10 have much
larger army and no Indians at all.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

No wonder the bank stock of the First
national bank of New York is worth $3.50
per share and cannot be bought at that
1t cost 500: but Sherman gives it a place
at the head of the stealing trough, where
it has the first and best chance of all the
nthnr thinuns
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

THERE are two things that are an abso-
Lutte necessity for any platform that claims
to be entitled to the name of greenback.
There are: |, An absolute paper money
full legal tender for all debts, public and
private; 2, The immediate payment Of
the bonds in this money. There are other
essentials, but these are absolute.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

TnoUGu the rag baby is dead again
as usual, we haven't heard of anybody
ordering set of tombStones. 1t is not
certain that the grave will be dug till the
corps buys it a bigger pair of brccches to
he buried in.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

THERE is one important fact of
which many greenbackers seem to lose
sight, when they claim that the great is
sue before the people is whether the banks
or the government shall issue the money
of the country. The industrial prosperity
or adversely does not so much depend on
what kind of money we have, but on the
quantity of it. If there were thousand
millions of counterfeit greenbacks in cir
culation, so that they circulated, they
would perform all the Offices and function
thata thousand millions of genuine dol
lars could perform, even if they were gold
dollars. Here is the key to a very import
ant financial fact, into which it would be
well for all greenbackcrS to inquire most
seriously.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

To our friends in Iowa and Ohio we bid
God-speed. However the wind may blow
stick to your colors. Very much depends
upon your efforts the next few weeks. We
know whereof We speak when we assure
you that so soon as the National Green.
back party shall develop u winning stride
at the north, the south will come horse,
foot and dragon. The sympathy is al
ready with you. Our people are tired of
sectlonalism, and will Join with Il hearty
good will to recover the government from
the clutches Of the corrupt Money Power.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

WHEN money was plenty the banks
couldn't loan their deposits. The people
did cash business. This didn't suit
Shylock. He had money made scarce and
got everybody in debt to him, and now he
takes all the people earn and more too, to
pay his interest. He is satisfied and don't
want things disturbed. But the green.
back party is on his tqail. 1t will come
up with him and spoil his nice arrange.
ment in 1880.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16

IT will be remembered that the legal
tender act Of February, 1862, provided for
the issue of $500, 100000 of bonds, into
which the surplus war greenbacks could
be converted at par, at the option OF the
holder. 1t was supposed that the intended
large volume of grecnbacks, made only a
partial legal tender, would depreciate so
that one dollar of gold would purchase
two or three of greenbacks. But the de-
mand for money, created by the stimulus
given to business by the enlarged volume
of greenbacks, and their convertibility
into s per cent. bonds, kept them up
nearly to par. Gold gamblers couldn't
get enough OF them for coin. They had
arranged to get the bonds at about SOL
cents on the dollar, and refused to invest
their gold in greenbacks until the latter
had been deprecated still lower.
The banks have in their hands, unpaid
for, about $45, 100000 of the per cent
bonds for which, under the terms of the
agreement, the payment in full should
have been made on the 2lst of July. By
aprivate arrangement between the banks
and the Secretary, the obligation has been
so arranged, that, prior to the LIST of 0cto-
Der, they will be asked for no more money
than may be required by the Treasury;
and they are otherwise TO be accommodate
ed on their bond account. The immediate
net result is, that they have the use of
$45,OO0,0O0 which should have been paid
into the Treasury twenty-eight days since.
Moreover it is evident that If the secretary
and the few banks interested in this nice
little arrangement can at pleasure change
the terms Of formal contract, the extern
sion may be renewed as long as Mr.. Sher-
man remains at the head of the treasury.
As the case stands, Mr.. Sherman, cannot,
unchallenged, repeat in Ohio the an
nouncement he dwelt upon in Maine"
The New York herald., 1879-03-29

atty was abolished, and Switzerland has
been for several years in the enjoyment
Of n season in which murder was compara-
lively free. The guillotine was ''played
ont" Naturally the experience of this
period has inspired very active move-
ment for the re-enactment of that penalty.
They find that the assassinating classes
take it too seriously. But there is hitch
between the two parts of the federal Assem-
bly,, and the Council OF States and the Ma
tional Council cannot agree to recommend
the revision of the constitution, so the sub
ject must be submitted to popular vote.
As the class of possible victims is more
numerous than that of actual assassins it is
highly probable that the popular vote will
decide to have life for life whenever 1t is
possible to get it.
The New York herald., 1879-03-29

with persons who allow themselves to
be gullei by such shallow impostures.
Such queries ut this late day as those OF
Messrs. Powell and Atmore emphasize the
impossibility OF conveying warning to men
who are predestined to be cheated. How
often have We conspicuously stated that the
HERALD never allows its representatives to
accept railroad or other passes. hotel hospi-
talities or extraneous pecuniary compensa-
tion of any kind for the performance OF
their commissions? The experience OF
many years ought to have satisfied all who
come into contact with the genuine repre-
sentatives of the HERALD that they are
neither to be bought nor bribed. Persons
who will not take the trouble to ascertain
the code Of conduct observed by all reputa-
BILE journals have only themselves to
blame. for they certainly would not lavish
hospitality and bank checks upon persons
from whom they expected no puffery in re-
turn.
The New York herald., 1879-03-29

them as the Zulus were to Colonel Glyns
column. Russia has apparently never shut
out from the Afghans till now all hope tor
aid to their cause, but now the final word
has apparently been given, and this is GER
tainly the result of an agreement with Eng
land as to Roumelia.
England is famous for betraying treaties
to which she is q party by secret agree
ments with some one or another OF the
Powers with which she negotiates. Imme-
diately after the Treaty OF Paris she made
secret treaty in regard to that document,
and while negotiating the treaty at Berlin
she agreed secretly with two of the Powers
present against all the others respectively,
and it need not astonish the world to hear
one of these days that, by new secret
agreement, she has gone further in regard
to Roumelia than the mere relinquishment
of her objections to mixed occupation.
The New York herald., 1879-03-29
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Roscoe uonkline is flfty.one.

Roscoe Conking Is hfty-one.
Tramps have Gorgeous times. says Pack.
Captain Williams believes in thud and blunder.
When Washington lobbyists cannot raise money
they raise street rows.
Texas kills strangers with revolvers and avenges
them with chin-music.
wearcrs OF carly and loud spring overcoats look
like proud checkcrboards.
Both tho United States Senators-Butler and Hamp-
ton--of South Carolina have lost a leg. 4.
Englishmen in tho streets OF London are much
more charitable toward beggars than people In
American streets arc.
You can tell by tho way man walks into the cabin
of ferrybost whether no 10 deciding which side Of
tho ferryboat he will buy.
sitting Bull threatens to break away from Canada
and attack the Eastern States At least he promises
to clean out several beer saloons In tho Bowery.
In tho heaven of John of Patmos. author Of the
"Revelations." there was h sea of glass. The Com
munists. however, fancy that thdir heavon contains
. sea of beer.
John Morley, editor Of tho ForiniOhty Reviec, is
onlv foryone Years old. He should be distinguished
The New York herald., 1879-03-29
osittOn for Revtston I
French Consultation.

RTemcn COmbthtUtlOms
On the project for the revision of the
French constitution with regard to the seat
of government the Paris correspondent of
the London Times says, in one Of tho
dispatches we give to-day :-''In the event
of the Chamber of Deputies attempting to
dispense with the concurrence of the
Senate the government would be bound to
prevent such violation Of the constitu-
ton" We presume there is no ground
whatever for the imputation thus put forth
that some important section of the Deputies
have entertained this revolutionary project,
and we suppose this to be mere gratuitous
piece of injustice from o man who loses no
opportunity to show his inalignity toward
the Republic, On the point as to one
house dispensing with tho other for the
labor Of changing the constitution there is
no room for doubt. Tho law declares that
the chambers shall have tho right to de-
clare separately that there is occasion to
revise the constitution, and that "nftcr
each ono of the chambers" has so declared
the two shall form national convention,
which shall net upon the constitution and
change IL in one way or another by vote of
the majority. There is no revision without
the convention, and no convention unless
both houses are agreed that thefe shall be
one, md we do not believe that the repub-
licans have even thought of any violation
Of the law on this point.
The New York herald., 1879-03-29
More Lambs Led to the Slaughter.

More Lambs Led TO the Slaughter.
A letter addressed to the HERALD Office
from the Exchange Hotel at Montgomery,
self by the grandiloquent name of Hamlet S.
FELTON, has been spending some weeks in
that city and other neighboring towns, trav-
elling with free passes and exhibiting cre-
dentials on parchment purporting to be
from tho HERALD, which accredit him as
travelling correspondent ofthisj journal. The
letter, which is signed j. r. Powell, coolly
inquiries whether tho said Feiton is really
connected with the HEBALD. and intimates
that draft upon this Office apparently in
dorsed by tho writer of the letter had been
protested at bank in Birmingham, Ala.
This would seem TO be enough in week,
but now we receive q telegram from Louis
Vile, KY, signed G. p. Atmore, stating
that the day before he had ''issued passes
to j. w. Murrell. representing himself as
correspondent Of the NHw YoRK HERALD"
The passes issued show that j. w. Murrell
had laid out quite route at the expense Of
Mr. Atmore, for the latter says that j. w.
Murrell has been authorized to travel free
'sirom Louisville to Memphis, from Mem
phis TO Bowling Green, from Bowling Green
to Montgomery and from Montgomery
back again to Louisville" The innocent
query which the supplemented Mr.. At
more asks after giving as the above in
formation is, ''Will you please say if he is
all right2" It is curious Mr.. Atmore did
not think Of asking the question before
issuing his passes.
We have neither sympathy nor patience
The New York herald., 1879-03-29

from Henry Morley. the lecturer on literature who
is an older man.
rumor that the Canadian government have de-
cided dismiss Lieutenant Governor LetelIier is
again current at Ottawa. Nothing Official however
has been made public.
From al parts of the country the news comes to
us that spring chickens Matching out in great
quantities. About eleven years from some
boarding house keepers viii serve up those spring
chickens for breakfast.
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton. of Boston. who
ought during the past twelve months to have been
proud of the praises she has received from English
critical journals for her poems. will spend the sum
mer in England, whittier she will sail April 5.