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Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24

In Rome last year there was a model
girl named Guglia Setacca, who was a
wonder of beauty among all the painters
and sculptors Two noted scul ptOrs, who
were brothcrs-ErnestO and Gabriel Bag.
nagettl-fell desperately in love with the
siren, who was as COquettish as she was
beautiful, and the result was fierce
quarrel, in which Enesto was killed;
after which the beautiful cause Of the
fratricide He'd With young brigand, while
the murderer escaped the law, only to fall
a victim to the most racking andmadden-
ing rcmorse. The image of the dead
brother returned to him in the guise of
love, as he had been before the beautiful
Guglia had estrangcd them, and his love
for the woman turned to bitter hate. He
conceived what the Italians believe in as a
sort of superstition and duty-a rendettd A.;
that is Il sworn vengeance. He disguised
himself, and, upon the report Of a visit to
Paris, trequcnted the haunts of thieves
and brigands of Rome, where Guglia
habituaIly went He was not long in
finding her but it took six months to
persuade her into his residence and win
her confidence; which he did, however,
at last and under so perfect, Il disguise
that she never suspected who he was. In
carrying out his rcRdcttd, he had become
poor, and was obliged to work at wood
carving to make Il livelihood. He carved
figures of saints, and the work was
so beautiful that the saints never
waited long for purchasers One day
Gulia disappeared, suddenly, and
three days aiterward her mangled corpse
was found in the Iibcr; but who the muir.
dcrcr was nobody could ever suspect. The
woodcaryer disappeared ten days after.
ward, and in his room the landlord found
the blOOd-staincd garments of the beauti.
ful model girl and keen scuptors tool,
with evidences on it of the crime; so that
1t was plain that Guglia's last triend-the
wood.carvcr-had done it. But where to
find him was the question which no detec-
tive could answer. In the meantime the
sculptor, who had been supposed to have
been visiting Paris, appeared in Rome
again. A month ago, long after the crime
had ceased to interest anybody, an artist
happened to be in the police headquarters
and noticed a figure in wood Of st. Sebas.
tian, and was so much struck by its beauty
that he inquired why and how it came in
such place
"Why," said an officer, that saint was
made by the wood-caryer who murdered
the pretty model girl He left it when he
ran off.
Then" exclaimed the artist, 81 can
tell you who the murderer is; for I'll
swear that that figure Is the work of Ca
briel Bagnagctti. No other sculptor in
Rome could have done it,"
Gabriel's remorse had been wiped out
by the accomplishment Of his rendettd ;
but no sooner did the officers confront him
with the figure of st. Sebastian, and the
opinion of the artist, than he burst into a
frantic fit of rage and confessed the crime.
His artistic skill had betrayed him through
all his precautions and by means of his
patron saint.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24

hand, a check for $500 In her silver port
monnaie, and many useful and ornamen-
tai farewell gifts from the ladies of the
Spooner household The ladies felt all
their old interest in her revive, now that
she had gone away indeed, as Mrs. Dusen-
berry informed the eighty-year-old grand
father of the youth who famed her on
the afternoon Of Mrs. Montague's arriv-
al. "She was much too lovely, and made
me quite jealous of you, you false man. "
And Miss Isabella Spooner hung the
picture Of young Montgomery, that babe
let fair, in the parlor, and wreathed it
with daisies. Heaven grant that we
may see the darling himself soon;" she
said with piteous emphasis.
But they never did. For couple of
weeks after the widows departure, Wei
lington Octoper burst in upon them all
as they were playing croquet on the lawn,
scattering the balls in all directions.
Sold, by gracious" shouted he.
WHAT" asked Miss Spooner dropping
her mallet.
"A million tierces of lard and twice as
many pigs, suppose murmurcd Mrs
Dusenberry, leaning in an unconscious
manner against the shoulder of her part
ner
"She's fraud! Yes,s," continued the
pork merchant.
"Who?" they all cried this time.
"lhe widow, Mrs. Montgomery Mon.
tague, that is, Mrs. Maria J. Thompson.
Yes.s."
Maria J.-Jane suppose. A sweet
name, said Mrs. Dusenberry.
"A fraud, sir! What do you mean, sir?
what do you mcan?' beloved Capt. Hot
top, as though through speaking trum-
pet, a flush oyerspreading his weather
bronzed face.
Just what say, Captain. Yes-s, an.
swered the pork merchant. at ought to
be the lst of April-it ought-for, by
,iingo, there never was such sell! The
only truth she told was when she said she
was Il widow. So she is. Yes.s. The
widow of Jack Thompson, celebrated
mince and pumpkin pie maker in Chica-
90. met his brother on the street to-
day He's a pork merchant. And she
never had any children" J."
Not bIue-eycd boy?' gasped the
Captain,
mot even blue-ycd boy, Yes-s!"
said Wellington OctOper.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24

THE assassins Of Europe are making it
warm for the autocrats. 1t will come to
pass, within the time of men now living,
that no man will dare to be a king.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24

RESUMPTION on gold basis and pros
perity, are incompatible, inconsistent, an
tagonistic. A resumption that is not on a
gold basis, amounts to nothing.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24

The law now in force, ifpermitted to
act, will, in time, drive us to the silver
standard. If silver continues to increase,
in short time it will equal in amount the
gold, then if it be given free circulation the
gold standard will be lost.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24

SoLoN CHASE has retired from ChaSe's
Chronicle, of Auburn, Maine. Buthe will
be in the Greenback fight until the Green
back cause shall win.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24

MONEY is merely tool of exchange, as
the plow is a tool of production; and COM
merce, like production, is endeavoring to
secure the use of cheap tools.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24
POLITICAL MENTION,

The handwriting is on the wall. No
party that is half horse and half alligator
can win IN this country.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24

MONEY is drug at four per cent; but
the best real estate in Chicago sells for one
half its appraised value, and the apprNlse-
ment was low The great wave Of return
ing prosperity does not seem to be lashlng
and splashing things in the ncighborhood
of Chicago.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24

The New York Worldis is doing good
thing in exposing the tricks of the bogus
divorce lawyerA
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24

THE Rag Baby is'of age. He has put
off the garments of infancy, and clothed
himself in the full habiliments of man
hood. Born in obscurity, and Graded in
the manger of poverty, want , nd destitu-
tion, he has become peer of the realm,
and to-day stands in the temple of liberty
to overthrow the tables of money charges,
and the seats of them that sold innocence;
and to cast out with the scourgc of the
land. all the M that bought and sold in
the temple.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24

"Oh, how do wish my skin was as clear
and soft as yours" said a lady, to her friend.
"You can easily make it so" answered the
friend. "How?" inquired the first lady. by
using Hop Bittcrs that makes pure rich blood
and blooming health. 1t done 1t for me, as
you observe"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24

A FEW years ago a poor pawn broker
took it into his head that the surest road
to fortune was to get possession Of what
other people earned, so he armed himself
with usury and took to the highways of
kingdoms and empires. He succeeded in
placing every nation of the world under
bonds to pay him tribute. Henever earn
ed an honest dollar, but by virtue of his
bonds, he absorbs the product of three
millions Of labOrers every day of his life,
and at recent ball in honor of the En-
press of Austria, the Baroness Rothchild
wore $S00,000 worth of diamonds.
THE Money Power, the bond holders,
and interest harvesters' policy is to keep
the interest paying money of the country
at par with gold. This can not be done
with any material increase in the circuIat-
ing volume of either silver or legal ten
ders. Gold is advancing in value all over
the civilized world and prices are cor
responingly declining. The moment the
volume of circulating money is increased,
prices will advance, and the moment
prices advance in this country, above the
gold prices of Europe, u breach will be
made in the equivalency of gold, and the
money of account in this country
THE producers of the United States
must make up their minds to one of two
things; ~ To maintain the resumption
policy now being inaugurated, on gold
basis, and allow their property to shrink
from under them, their debts and taxes
to rob them, or 90 unpaid, mortgages to
coniiscate their farms and the prices of
products, now less than the cost of pro-
ducing, to shrink lower and lower; or o.
to abandon the destructive and ruinous
farce called resumption; create and widen
the gap between gold and circulating
money, so as to increase values, stimulate
production, give employment to labor, and
life and activity to business.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24

Lord BescOnsRsld is looking aged and
very frail.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-24
SECTIONAL ANIMosITIEs.

1t is greatly to be regretted. 1t proves
to my mind that the old parties are power
less to give relief to this country. 1t is q
fact, sir, that it takes ten or fifteen years
to develop the leaders Of great party,
and fully as long to shake them loose
again; and it is never done, and history
will bear me out in that statement, except
by movement from without that crushes
the organizations over which they DOM
mate. This is the only method through
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-08-16
THE ROTHSCHILD.S.

Since the death of Baron Rothschild
nearly all the newspapers of Europe
have been guessing at the wealth of the
great house. Nobody outside of its
members and their confidential en-
pleyees has, we suppose, any actual
knowledge of the subject, although
many persons claim to be informed as to
its resources and operations. A writer
in Paris journal claims to be in a
position to know that the present capital
of the different Rothschild houses is at
least 100000, 900, and that they can
control rs much more. Stories of the
Rothschilds will always be told, as they
will be about any and everybody
thought to be enormously rich. More
idle tales are told of the celebrated
Jewish bankers (they, by the by, call
themselves merchants, which they really
are) than of any other bankers, prob
ably because they are the wealthiest of
their class. One of these tales is that
the Rothschilds almost never lose any
idering the prodigious extent of their
operations. They lose good deal; but
their profits are doubtless always in ad-
vance of their losses. There seem to be
authority for the statement, often made,
that their losses from depreciation in the
funds and securities which followed the
disturbances brought about in various
European capitals by the French revo-
luton of 184S reached some $40, 900, 900
They afterwards made up the loss, it is
asserted, which they would be very
likely to do. A great advantage such
houses haveis in their colossal capital.
The interests of the Rothschilds are
we'll nigh universal, and their secrecy,
save in open transactions, is invariably
profound. Nathan Rothschild is re-
puted to have said: Zone great reason
of our success is that we know how to
hold our tongues" They are as reticent
as the grave touching their business.
After Baron Lionel had been dead a
week, London wag remarked: "The
old Baron is just as communicative as
ever" The recollection that the
founder of the house, Meyer Anselm Che
took the name Rothschild from the
sign of red shield placed over his small
shop in Frankford), entered Hanover in
1863 barefoot with bundle of rags on
his back, is enough to prevent any poor
man from despair. But it is not every
one who has the brain of Meyer
Anselm
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-08-16
Frankincense.

The common frankincense of COM
merce, also known as gum Thus, is a
resin which exudes from the assures in
the bark of the Norway Spruce-Abies
excelsa. When melted in hot water
and strained, it constitutes Burgundy
pitch. The turpentine obtained by
making incisions in the trunk of a
species of our Southern Pines-Pinus
austrslis--when old and bard, ia often
called by that name; though CONNER.
cially known as scrape."
The true franklncense of the ancients,
however, is the fragrant gun resin
known in medicine as olibanum, the
product of certain species of trees of the
genus Boswellia, which grow among the
mountains of Central India, upon the
Coromandel Coast, and also in the in.
terror of Arabia. The members of the
genus have the following characters
tics; Bark often papyrus-lke; leaves
deciduous, compound, alternate, impair
pinnate, with leafet separate or entire
flowers in racemes or panicles, white,
green, yellowish or pink. The trees are
described rs growing on the coast of
Abel, without soil out of polished mar
BILE rocks to which they are attached by
thick oval mass of substance re
sembling mixture of lime and mortar
The purer the marble the finek appear
be The growth of the tree. The young
trees furnish the most valuable gum.
The older yielding merely clear glu.
tinous fluid resembling copal varnish
To obtain the frankipcense deep in.
cision is made in the trunk of
the tree and below it narrow strip of
bark is peeled off, When the exuded
milk jucie has hardened by exposure to
the atmosphere, the incision is deepened.
In about three months the resin has at.
tanned the desired degree of consistency
The season for gathering lasts from
May until the first rains in September
The clear globules are scraped off into
baskets, and the inferior quality that
has run down, is gathered separately.
Bombay and Calcutta are the chief
markets for frankincense. 1t is in the
form of roundish Jumps or tears, semi
opaque, of a pale yellow color and COW
cred with whitish powder, produced
by friction. 1t has an agreeable bal
samic odor, but its taste is acid and bit
ter; it softens when chewed, adheres to
to the teeth and whitens the Saliva. 1t
burns with bright white flame, diflus-
ing fragrant odor. 1t was this prop
erty which made it so highly esteemed
by the ancients, VINO used IL largely to
conceal the smell arising from animals
at their religious sacrifices. 1t was
thought the smoke of its burning was an
acceptable offering to the Deity, as
typical of prayer and interior wrship.o
At present the Roman Catholic Church
largely uses it at religions services, and
it is also, to some extent, employed
incidentally as an ingredient in plasters
and for fulnigation.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-08-16
The History o. Wheat.

1t is difficult in the present day to
realize the fact that wheat was at one
time unknown in America; yet prior to
the discovery of this continent by
Columbus there was no cereal in Amer
lea approaching in nature to the wheat
plant. 1t was not. observes. the Amer
lean Miller, until 1880 that wheat found
its way into Mexico, and then only by
chance. A slave of Cortez found few
grains of wheat i'll parcel of rice and
showed them to his master, who ordered
them to be planted. the result showed
that wheat would thrive we'll on Mex
lean soil, and to-day one of the finest
wheat valleys in the world is near the
Mexican capital. From Mexico the
cereal found its way to Peru. Marie
D'Escobar, wife of Don Diego de
Chauves, carried few grains to Lima,
which were planted, the entire product
being used for seed for several success
sive crops. At Quito, Ecuador, monk
of the order of St. Francis, by the name
of Fray Jodosi Bixi, introduced new
cereal: and it is said that the jar which
contained the seeds is still preserved
by the monks of Quito. Wheat was in
troduced into the present limits of the
United States contemporaneously with
the settlement of the country by the
English and Dutch.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-08-16
A Yellow Fever Romance.


Last year when the epidemic was
raging in Memphis, among the Cincin-
natl physicians who rendered their
services and lives to Health Officer Minor
was young DIR. Collins, of this city, an
unusually bright and intellectual man,
who was making precarious living at
his practice, not through lack of ability,
for of that he had abundance, but from
the lack of patients.
His services, together with those of
five others, were accepted, and on a
certain evening they all went to the
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad depot to
take the $3.50 train for the South.
Young Collins, in taking leave of the
Health officers, who had gone down to
see the little band off, said doctor,
/ will either make a reputation in
Memphis or never come home again"
He arrived in that city, and reporting to
the Howard Association for duty, was
given an assignment in a part of the
town where the disease was carrying
people off by the scores.
Among others that he attended was
the family of wealthy planter. He
was successful in bringing the children
through the sickness, one of whom was a
beautiful and intelligent young lady.
Within short time the doctor himself,
worn down by unceasing labor, was smit-
ten with the scourge, and lay tossing
feverishly in his small room. The young
lady, hearing of the circumstance, went
to the house and nursed him tenderly
through his illness.
1t is almost needless to say that by
this time the youthful pair became
mutually attached, proposal and ac-
ceptance followed, to which consent was
unhesitatingly given by the parents
They we're afterward married, the father
investing his new son-in-law with a
handsome interest in his large plantation.
DIR. Collins is now one of the rising
young physicians of Memphis, and is the
efficient secretary of its Board of Health.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-08-16
A Barefoot Scientist.

Major de Serpa Pinto, the Portuguese
explorer, recounts the following incident
of his journey in South Africa:
The whole of the country that / trav-
ersed is well peopled, with the exception
of the region of the cataracts. To the
southeast live the terrible Macalacas,"
a fighting race, but which when van
pushed supplies slaves to all the other
peoples of Africa. Exhausted, without
resources, / look forward with hope to
reach the junction of the Chando with
the Zambesi, for | expected to find an
English mission there of which | had
heard speak.
Unfortunately | discovered that the
missionaries had persisted on the way,
and instead of Christians | found chief
who wished to fay me alive. 1t was at
this spot that met with an English nat
uralist named DIR. Bradshaw, who was
reduced to the greatest misery, He had
for covering nothing but tattered
shirt and pair of trowsers in most
ruinous condition. He walked barefoot,
though he always carried in one of his
hands pair of shoes, of which he was
very saving, though / never succeeded in
pretending the motive of such
economy. DR.. Bradshaw, who had come
from the Cape of Good Hope to that
distant region, was engaged in shooting
birds and in collecting animals for the
English museums. DIR. Bradshaw made
my acquaintance like a true English
man, with the greatest sang froid, by
making his appearance in his drawers,
and, in the center of Africa, gravely pre-
senting me with carte de visite printed
in London. 1t was at this spot that
passed one of the most terrible nights of
the whole of my Journey was in the
tent of DIR. Bradshaw, separated from my
companions, when the natives, who are
of bad disposition, surrounded the doc
tors habitation. We at once placed
table against the door, our loaded rifles
upon it, and during the whole night long
did nothing but watch the movements of
our numerous enemies At daybreak we
learned that the savages had decamped
with the rest of my baggage. Being in
formed that there was French mission
AIRY few miles off, resolved to set out
at once and visit him; but on the way a
violent fever seized me, and entirely
lost consciousness. When regained my
senses, twelve days afterward, / found
two ladies at my bedside, one aged forty,
the other eighteen, who spoke to me in
French. They were the wife and niece
of clergyman named Coillard. / owe
my life to the kindness and attention Of
these ladies. No sooner, however, had
recovered than the idea of my dis
coveries became more intense than
ever,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-08-16
A Reporters Clever Ruse.

At the opening of the electioneering
campaign that resulted in Abraham
Lincoln's elevation to the Preidency of
the United States, the Hon. w. l.. Yam
cey, then on his way to the Baltimore
Convention, accepted an invitation to
address the electors at an agricultural
fair in a small town. The Baltimore
newspapers determined to furnish their
readers with verbatim reports of Mr.
Yancey's speech, and five reporters left
that city together by the morning train
for junction station, where they hoped
to catch another train bound for the
fair ground As they travelled along
they entered into an agreement not to
take any unfair advantage of one another,
no matter what opportunity for doing SO
might present itself. They arrived at
the junction too late for the connecting
train, and were in difficulty as to get
ting over the intervening half-dozen
miles of country. They went prospect
ing, four thin scribes hurrying in advance
of veritable Falstafr. At last they
espied an old-fashioned wagon drawn by
lean horse, and in very few minutes
the treacherous four were ensconced in
the vehicle, filling it completely. In
vain did the man of fat remind them of
the agreement; his expostulations we're
received with derision, and the driver
ordered to start. The cheated reporter
appealed to the countryman, offering to
give five dollars for seat on the dash
board. The offer was accepted, and the
man slipped down to help him up.
"Stop" whispered he; "Pll buy your
horse for twenty-five dollars, cash down"
"Donel" said the man; and the dollars
were handed over.
"Now," said the new owner of the
horse, "take him out of the traces, and
help me on his back"
1t was done; and horse and rider
were soon lost to view. Next day, only
one Baltimore paper contained full re-
port of the speechifying at the fair; and
four belated journalists had bad time
of it with their respective editors.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-08-16
A Hummlng Birds Nest.
Elizabeth IN. - Journal

Recently humming birds nest was
found by some person who had sufficient
natural curiosity to overcome their
compassion, and who captured the nest,
two young hummers and the old one,
took them home and had them stuffed.
They are to be sent to a museum of
natural curiosities in London. The nest
is built on little twig, and scarcely the
size of half an English walnut. Both
nest and twig are covered with little
patches of lichen until it is almost i'm
possible to tell one from the other, and
the nest looks like kind Of natural ex-
crescence on the twig. The nest is plia-
BILE, like a tiny cup of velvet. and the
inside is lined with white substance,
as rich and soft as white silk. The
little birds are about the size of humble
bees, very pretty, and they sit on little
perch just outside the nest, with OPEN
bills, while the old bird hovers over
them to feed them.