Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1881-01-20
his Imprisonment for some months in the
old capitol at Washington.

Ously signed by the business men of New
York and Boston, for the appointment OF
to prepare treaty OF re- |
ciprOcity between the United States and
the British provinces.
Gabriel White. living near Anchor City, |
in the Black Hills, had his feet so badly |
frozen few nights ago, that both will
have to be amputated. He says they were
frozen while he was in bed and covered up
with two blankets.
The Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Chicago
railroad company has been organized and
has acquired the Baltimore and Chicago
road. It is intended to complete the line
to Fort Wayne, to connect with the Wa
bash system.
The city council of st. Joseph, Mo-, after
testing the fire pressure OF the water
works, and finding that a stream could be
thrown from 100 to l75 feet In height, con-
cluded they were a complete protection
from fire.
The presidents OF several narrOw-gauge
railroads in the west and southwest are
moving for consolidation of their inter
ests, with the intention Of making a con-
tinuous line from Toledo TO the Rio
Grande
The list regiment Of the New York Ma
tiOnal guard will leave that city on Feb
ruary p, accompanied by the cadets and
lanccrs of Boston, to witness the Mardi-
Gras festivities at New Orleans.
First in the field for st. Patrcks day
are the Irish societies Of Boston and yicin-
ity, who have voted TO listen 10 lecture
ON that anniversary, and remit the pro-
cceds to the land league.
Farmers wives are now summing up the
results of their efforts during the past year.
Mrs. William Hatcher of YOlO cOunty,Cal.,
steps to the front with 5000 received for
eggs and butter.
Twelve American Union Telegraph men
were arrested, Tuesday, at Elizabeth, n.
j., for interfering with the Western Union
wires, and held In $500 bail each to appear
for examination.
The Consolidated Street Railroad COM
pany, Of Cincinnati, has cided TO oper-
ate It's lines on the cable system. and will
experiment on the Gilbert avenue line.
Bernhardt attended a select minstrel en-
tertainmcnt IN Philadelphia, yesterday,
and flooded her fair eyes with tears in
laughter at seeing herself caricaturcd.
Mrs. Jane \. Long, who was known rs
"The Mother Of Texas" because Of her
great age and state pride, died at Rich
lllbli'ls III AilAA 0lNANs Il l'N uhN hS's
The st. Louis Central Railroad company,
which proposes TO build line from Muir
physbOro, ILL.,, to the Mississippi river, has
been incorporated at Springfield.
Twenty Of the Oklahoma colonists have
entered the service of the government
with their teams for trip from Caldwell
to some of the Indian stations.
Bemhardts manager hus been given
fOur-ifths Of the S20,03G received from the
sale Of tickets to her performances at
Philadelphia for the past week.
Major Gen. Shaler, Of New York, has is
sued an order requesting any regiment in
tending TO 90 to Washington in March to
notify division headquarters.
Colonel William Marshall Anderson,
brother Of Major Robert Anderson, of Fort
sumter fame, died Friday, at Circlcyille,
o., aged scvcuty-thrcc years.
Gov. Seymour has been confined 10 his
house for two months, having, ii Is said,
OycrtaXed himself making speeches during
the presidential campaign.
During the year 1880 i9,966J79 bushels
of grain were shipped to Europe in steam
| vessels and G3,S1G,5Sl bushels in sailing
vessels from New York.
/ Senator Kellogg has secured the appoint.
mcnt Of Judge Billings TO the judicial
vacancy created by the promotion of Judge
Woods, OF Alabama.
| 4 party of Boston capitalists have ST.
cured 4 plat of ten thousand feet Of the
Back bay park lands, and are erecting fifty
dwelling-houscs.
Stock on the prairics Of Texas suffered
drcadfully, last week. for water The
ponds We're frozen 50 hard cattle could not
break the ice.
The engineers Of GOuld'- projected rail-
way to the CITY Of Mexico have received
| their instructions from General Dodge, at
San Antonio.
There is in Boston an organization for
the relief of the poor named the "Stoncwall
! Jackson Association after the COnfedcr-
ate chieftain.
The names of all the Spanish residents
of New England are being enrolled by the
Spanish consul at Boston, by order of his
government.
Five out of six members OF the family Of
Samuel Krump, a wcll-kn own printer Of
Orange, \. j., have died of diphthcria with
in six days.
The annual production of tobacco in the
counties of Rock, Dane, Jefferson, and
Green, in Wisconsin, amounts TO nearly
S2,0J0,000
NJ. Rcyeilaud and NJ. Dodds have re
turned to France, carrying with then
about $4,000 raised for cvangeli1ation il
France.
Mrs. Ann Wood, who resided in Hamp
ton, Va, when the British troops enteret
it, in lSl2, has passed away from carthl!
scenes.
The tobacco outlook has increased tn
value of timbcrcd land in BuncOmbc coun
ty, North Carolina, 30 per cent in thrc
{ years.
E \ company has been organized IN Indi
q ana to construct a railroad from Evans
vile to Dayton, Ohio, distance of "a
, miles.
h Isaac Farwcll, an active and intclliger
Il farmer, residing near the boundary line Q
Dorset, VT, has entered upon his 1884 yea
v Phillip 4. Goddard, auditor.elect {
e Wabasha county, Mimi, suiciLed by shoe
) ing himself through the temple, Tuc5da.
Il The scarcity of water is affecting III
o flOuring-mills at Minneapolis, nearly 4
I Of them running only half their capacit.
e 4 New Orleans merchant says that tn
i loss TO the orange interests caused by III
cold weather will probably reach S250OO
p The German steamship Nurnbcrg hi
'- reached the iet,es below New Orleal
with Il cargo Of emigrantS and small-po
! II is announced that the Western Ma
i Association of Pittsburgh have decide
not to raise the card rate for the presen
!; The Rochester and State Line road,
Il western New York, was sold at auction fl
SG0,OO0, to w. II. Browne, of New York.
IT The Baptist denomination intends
- erect church in Brooklyn which sha
equal Surgeons tabernacle in London.
E, During the late cold weather the Cata'
II ba river in North Carolina was frozen OYt
for the first time in twenty.seycn years.
ID The principal mill and mining comp
IS MES of Utah and Montana are having the
works Illuminated by the electric light.
H. Eighteen Sioux chief are in MilwaukC
i'll arranging with the st. Paul road for Il
right of way through their reservation.
N EX-Sccrctary Of the treasury Boutwc
III has joined q law firm IN Boston, and W
again enter into active law practice.
r. New Orleans celebrated the anniversa
ls of General JaCkson's Victory by q salu
and parade Of volunteer soldlery.
e. Real estate of the value of threc-Quarte
rs of a million has changed hands In Pc
land, Oregon, within q year past.
1t, Mr.. James G. Fair, of Nevada, the pr,
III pcctive United States senator, though
low stature, weighs $50 pounds.
OF Bonanza City promises to be tile livcll,
&c mining camp In Idaho this spring. III
-. new mills are already promised.
III The wife of DR.. York, of Shelby cOun
Hc Ill.,, is becoming deranged OH account
the abduction of her little boy.