Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-12-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ant pOStmaSler-Seneral was uIulllneI
boy during the war.
Refined cotton-seed oil is supplant-
ing lard for culinary purposes in sew
eral cities in Alabama,
The Prince of Wales rifles, Montreal,
intend TO try marching on sn0w.shoes
during the coming winter.
The Boston Courier has rendered a
new version of an old song: "I know
a bank wherein a cashier lies
According to statistics just issued,
the import of grain into Germany has
far exceeded the export during the
first nine months Of the current year
The state of Mississippi has sold to
the Georgia Pacific Railroad company
100000 acres of Mississippi river
swamp land.
The Carson Appeal boasts Of young
Chinaman known as "Charlcy," who
has accumulated $4,000 by peddling
vegetables in that place.
BY the end of the present year the
Mexican Central railroad will reach
QueretarO The rails are laid 10 Ven!a
HermosO, and the grading is well
under way.
When Mrs. Heed Of Laona, Chautau-
qua county, n. y, was elected school
trustee, she immedi.tely drew on her
husband for money to paint and carpet
the schoOl-housCs.
The owners of the quauies at
Medina, Orleans county, N. Y, have
nearly four hundred men employed,
and still want more. They are iIliug
a Chicago contract at present.
Dead horses are reported 10 be ad-
vancing in price in Philadelphia, which
is due to the increased price Of glue.
They are scarce and wanted now at S.
each, instead of S. as heretofore
Oranges, lemons lines, citrons,
grape fruit, guayes, peaches, plums,
grapes, apIicots, figs, pomcglana!es,
olives, pears, peacans, and berries, all
flourish in fernando county Fla
The Tyne has been greatly deepened
of late years, and the effect has been to
increase the shipping until Newcastle
ranks third among EngIand's ports,
l5,7l7 vessels having entered last year
1t is said that the fund being raised
for Kate Shelly, the heroine Of a
Chicago and Northwestern railroad
accident, amounts to nearly $1,000,
and also that most of this has been
contributed by commercial travellers.
1t will cost $7lOOOO to insulate the
national library Of Paris. The work
/ IS expected to be completed 10y next
summer and the danger to the library
will be proportionately iossaned. The
British museum is entirely insulated
The father of a hazed freshman at
Bowdon college has brought suit for
$4,000 from each Of styen sophomores
and juniors, who, in the course of their
sport, threw a piece Of coal through the
freshman's window and injured his
sight.
The Wesson cotton mills, OF Mlssis-
sippi, consume annually l,5OOOO)
pounds Of cotton and 100000 pounds
of wool manufacturing - varieties
of wooden in l26 different patterns,
and Al varieties Of cotton fabrics in
15j patterns.
The old appellation dead letter office
has been changed to returned letter
office in London, owing to the fact that
multitude of people misunderstood its
significance. The comptroller was
besieged with demands for intmma-
ton about missing people AID letters
addressed TO dead ones.
Many cases of typhoid fever are
allicting the people Of Hartford county,
Maryland, between IIopewell and
IIavre de Grace. The disease is COM
monty known as the canning-house
fever because it originates flom the
refuse matter left TO rot in the vicinity
of the canning establishments,
a colony of veteran soldiers from
Philadelpl J., Norristown, and Con
shohocken, with their families, mum.
bering folty-six persons in all, will
shortly sail from the former port for
Texas, to settle on the Mexican side of
the Rio Grande, where fine tract Of
land has been secured for them.
A Mexican laborer has dug up an
important archaeological curiosity near
San Antonio. Tex. Itisa church Orna-
ment consisting of two curces ansatH,
surrounded by biblical pictures not un.
like those seen on the marble ambOnes
and upon the walls Of the primitive
churches, such as the Matenee in Mad
rid.
The remnants of the Philadelphia
centennial exhibition have been sold at
auction. The great organ which cost
$4,000 went for $1,000, and is to be
removed to a Boston fair building.
The largest mirror in the world, eleven
by eighteen feet, in one plate, originally
costing $1,000, was bought by saloon
keeper for 5000.
President Arthur's door keeper in
New York says: "Mr. Arthur sees
every one that calls, it does not mat
ter who; even in his house in Lexing-
ton avenue evey one who called
was admitted. The presidents orders
have always been: If people will
take the trouble to call upon me, |
shall always see them
There il considerable satisfaction,
even if reason and conscience do not
approve il. in hearing that a couple of
Mormon missionaries who have been
engaged in the nasty business of max
ing converts in Hackney, England,
were recently pelted with rotten eggs
and eventually driven out by an in
dignant crowd who had been listening
to their harangues.
The farmers of Maine ought to put
up monument in honor of the cater
pillars which devasted their apple or
chards a few years ago; for since that
time the trees have regularly borne in
what are elsewhere 'off years." This
years crop of apples is enormous, the
quality is superb, and the farmers are
getting So barrel at their own doors,
owing to the scarcity everywhere else
The year 1911 was proliac in the
births Of notable Americans A wri-
ter in the New York Tribune says