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


Milk is 35 cents a gallon at Leadville.
Chickens at Quincy, Fla, at A cents
each.
Harvesting is in progress throughout
! Manitoba.
1t has not rained in Grimes county, Tex,
for four months.
A negro woman, s. years old, is going
to school at Carsonville, Ga.
There are $4,000 more men at work
in Pennsylvania than there were a year
ago.
One hundred and FIVE pounds is the
weight Of champion Florida water mel
on.
Wine made from Florida oranges
three years ago is now said to taste like
sherry.
The mackerel fishing in the Bay of
Funda this season is reported to be COM
plete failure.
A French version (the frst) of Charles
Lambs Essays Of Ella" is soon TO appear
in PARIS.
Thus far this year l,476 miles of rail-
road have been made in the United States,
against 6l4 in 1875.
The shipments of boots from Boston last
week were larger than they have ever
been in one week in the history Of the
trade.
There are in Great Britain eight socie-
ties laboring for the conversion OF the Jews,
and on the continent Of Europe II dozen
more.
April %, 1880 will be the centennial
date of the settlement Of Nashville, Tenn,
and grand celebration Of the event is
actively canyassed.
Extensive saltpeter beds have recently
been found near the track of the Pleasant
Valley Railroad, few miles from Spring
vile, Utah Territory.
A maiden living in Wurtsboro, Sulli-
van county, N. Y. picked up small cub
the other day while looking for COW,
but let it drop when the old bear growled
behind u stump.
West of Red river IN Manitoba, the
proposed track Of the Canada Pacific Rail-
way is being surveyed, but, though the
contracts are actually let, the line is not
yet located.
philadelphia papers tell of the arrival in
that city of party of ltali IN children, all
Of whom had been purposely manned by
the loss of an eye or a limb, in order to lit
them for begging.
When handsome Baltimore lady asked
a pedestrian to knock man down who
had been following her, he swiftly obeyed,
and was much astonished to learn that it
was her husband.
A merchant sitting in his Office in New
York recently received an answer to dis
patch sent to Shanghai, China, six hours
Shanghai is $4,000 miles
distant from New York by telegraph.
The people of one of the suburbs of
are protesting against the
placing of one-horse cars on their street
railway, protesting that the substitution
will be an 'indignity to their community.
Statistics OF the anthracite coal trade for
the seven months of 1879 show that H.
100000 tons have been mined and for
warded to market, nearly 100000 tons
in excess of the production for the same
period in 1873.
The forest near Dillon, Kan, has an un-
common hermit in the person of young
and not ugly woman who lodges in Il rude
hut eats vegetables and game of her own
getting, and will not say word TO per-
sons who intrude upon her.
The Mennonite settlers IN Manitoba
wade the operation of the national pol
cy" by purchasing their machinery to the
outh of the international boundary line,
md taking it home without consulting the
'tiicers of her Majesty's customs.
The Whitehall gold mine on the narrow
yauge railroad near Fredericksburg, Va,
ormerly owned by Commodore Stockton,
las been purchased by Boston capitalists,
md operations will be resumed in 0cto-
'er. Some years ago this mine yielded
'l46,OOO in seven months.
Dogs commonly accompany their mas
crs to the Winnipeg theater, and recent
Y, in the midst of the most fearful scene
n Lady Audley's Secret" two of the
rutes got into fight close to the stage.
he audience transferred its attention to
he interpOlated show, and the play was
uspended for ten minutes.
A man with 5000 diamond in his shirt
osom leaned over hen coop in Gin
innati market and a hungry hen picked
# the jewel and swallowed it. The
lief was soon lost among the hundreds,
nd there was no way Of identifying him.
o the man bargained to have them killed,
ne after another, until the right one was
,und. To recover the diamond cost him
%.
The principal industry of the town of
Vest Falmouth, Mass, is tying business
lgs with bits of strings, by which the
lgs may be attached to articles which re-
lire to be labeled A correspondent,
riting from that village, says ''ThOse
Igs are cut elsewhere and sent in bulk to
Vest Falmouth. The string is also sent
skeins. The business here is to cut the
ring in suitable lengths, tie one to each
lg and return it to the manufacturer in
oston. This sounds simple enough and
nall enough, and yet it furnishes occu-
alton to between 300 and 400 persons"