Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-03-17
MISSOURI NEWS.

OF NafIentOn Is ucdu'
Fifty new buildings will go up at
Sedala when spring opens.
j.. j. Smith is going to establish
large creamery at Maryyille.
Mrs. Mary Keissett, living near jeff
erson city, cut her throat Sunday.
The st. Louis bricklayers' pay has
been advanced fifty cents per day.
A telegraph office has been opened
at Libcarl, on the TT. Scott n Men,
phis railroad.
Molders at Excelsior works, st Louis,
on strike because of the employment
of non-mion men.
A hotel capable Of accommodating
nearly 100 guests has been started at
Excelsior Springs.
A boy 13 years old WIS brought to
PotOsi, last week, and 9um.'ted to llil
for stealing a mule.
Fred Diehl, Marion county ueaur-
er, has skipped for California Tie is
short about $1,000.
The senate at jefferson city has
passed house bill No. 2O6, regIiating
the shipping of livestock.
Van Pollandt, a Charleston photo
grapher, i going to travel over Arkan-
sas this summer taking views.
The gambling bill amended to make
the minimum penalty i 6mOnths' impris-
0nment passed the Missouri senate.
Mr. Watts will soon submit TO the
Columbia common council PROPOSE
tion TO build water works in that place.
st. Joseph is to erect 100000
Chamber of Commerce building if il
can raise the money on + per cent bonds.
Dogs raided the sheep of A. j. Rob
erts, near IIallsville, Boone county,
killing sixteen out of Il flock of twen-
ty-two.
Iron Mountain Railroad stock will
be increased to S35,0000OO. Henry b.
Plant, New York stakeholder, has
entered protest.
William Coleman and Charles Syp-
per at Hannibal, quarreled. Coleman
stabbed his antagonist below the heart
though not fatally.
Owing TO the prevalence of small
pUX at Clinton, the session of st. Louis
conference to meet in that place March
3lst will be held in Carthage.
Gould. Dillon and party, now ira
versing the southwestern system OF
railroads. have been rendered IA banquet
by the board of trade of st. Joseph.
Over 1000 bills have been intro
duced in the legislature and only eigh.
teen have passed both houses. 1t is
thought the session may extend to the
first of April.
The gamblers of st. Joseph are con-
sidcrably exercised over the utterances
of the newly elected criminal Judge.
He proposes to give them the full bene-
fit of the law.
The Carollton Record has published
list of the leading herds of cattle
now feeding in its county. The totals
are: Beef cattle 6,S75 and stockew
3,47I: hogs Hop.
Professor Richard \. Proctor is AT
st. Joseph, recovering from injuries re-
ceived in Il wreck on the Wabash road.
He is soon to wed a handsome and cul-
! 80 ,.;t
Last week the Boone county court
sold the $25,O0Oof stock held by Rocky
fork township in the dcfunct Louisi-
ana Il Missouri river railroad for $3,-
$50, or Is cents OH the dollar
1t is said Governor Crittenden will
appoint Web. VI. Samuel and X. NJ.
Scruggs police commissioners at st.
Louis: also that he will he mandamus-
mused to show cause for the removal
of Finney and MofGett.
The defunct Mastin Bank is worth
something after all. Col. Coates, as
signee of the bank, reports to the city
assessor that the valuation of its per-
sonal property in Kansas City is $780,
900. Outside of the city it claims $780,,
600.
Missouri patents; Churning attach
ment TO washing machines, r. II.
Bolts, Coloma; burglar alarm, G. Dim
ick and r. 5. Sawyer, st. Louis; drilling
device, p. y. Dixon, Cahoka; drive
chain, y. b. Fassett, st. Louis; doctor
engine, &. J. Fritz, st. Louis; attach.
ment for brick molds. q. Logan, as
signor of One-half to Union press brick
works, st. Louis.
Up to the present time twenty-one
gentlemen have represented Missouri
in the United States senate. Their
names are David Barton, Thomas II.
Benton, Alexander Buckner, Lewis F.
Linn, David r. Atchison, Henry 5.
Geyer, James $. Green, Trusten Polk,
Waldo p. johnson, Robert Wilson,
John b. Henderson, B. Gratz Brown,
Chas. ID. Drake, Carl Schurz, Daniel t.
Jewett, Francis NJ. Cockrell, ID. II.
Armstrong, Jas. Shields, Geo. G. Vest.
Of these, Atchison, Wilson, Henderson,
Jewett and Armstrong were appointed
to office by the governor. Atchison
and Henderson were elected subsequent
ly by the legislature. The senatorship
has been distributed to the counties of
the state as follows: st. Louis IL; Ste.
Genevieve, l I; Cape Girardeau, l Platte,
|: Pike, |; Andrew, /; Lewis, l; st.
Clair, |; Carroll, /; johnson, l ;Pettis, ];
Benton served five terms,
Barton nearly two, Atchison for
ten years and Henderson for seven
years.
Marriage.
Marriage, says Jeremy Taylor, has
in it less of beauty, but more safety
than single life; it has more ease, but
less danger; it is more merry and
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