Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-12-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dakota territory this year yields g.
$4,000 bushels of wheat against 2
$4,000 in 1879.
President Arthur will find in. the
outfit of plate at the White house 800
solid silver teaspoons.
The price Of Pittsburg coal in Cincin-
natl is 19 cents per bushel, willie at
Louisplle it is Is cents.
The late Stephen W. Phoenix, Of
New York, left SJ00OO0 and a large
library to Columbia college.
The actor Mccullough is ahead of
his last years business up to this time
about $4,000. He made $6O,OOO last
year.
1t is estimated that fifty tons Of
blueberries were shipped from Bath,
Me-, last season, and the pickers made
$4,000
An old soldier from Connecticut,
who had a foot frozen in the Virginia
campaign, has just received S5,lOO back
pension.
a negro man and white woman
were convicted in Greenyille, >. c., last
week, and sentenced to the penitentiary
for intermarrying.
Henry Probasco has sent from Paris
Four bronze esplanade seats, TO be placed
about the fountain which he gave TO
the city of Cincinnati.
Gordon Wilcox, a printer in Norwich
Conn, has lost his eyesight. The dis
ease was communicated to his eyes
from an liberated tooth.
Gen. Burnside's effects were recent
ly sold at Bristol, II. l., at prices in
excess of their real value, many having
been purchased rs keepsakes.
\ suit has been brought in tho United
State court at Paduoai, ny, to test
the cors'ifutioraily Of the colored and
common 3ch0Ol law of the state.
The large black swan, for the past
summer one Uf the attractions Of Pros
pect parh, Niagara Falls, committed
suicide the other day, by jumping over
tine falls.
Good dogs come high, but the sports
men must have them. John Higgins.
who lives at Delaware City, Del, last
week sold a lot Of six young setter dogs
for $1,000.
Maine papers tell it solemnly that
Belfast man fell seventy feet from the
rigging to the deck of a vessel The other
day, landed on his feet, and wasn't
much hurt.
The town of Leadvile now mum.
bcrs 10000 people, and $l5,OUO,OOO
out of Colorado's $23,00O,OCO worth of
ore mined last year were from the
Leadville district.
Two San Jose journals have been
fined $50 each by California Judge foJ
contempt of court in nisTepresentipg
and commenting on the late Ale
Dixon libel suit while il was being
tried.
The profits of the leading London
dailies are estimated as follows;
Times, IL, ,03G,000 year: Daily Tele-
graph, el2O,OO0; Standard, f55,OOO;
Daily News, 100000; Morning Post,
100000.
The Lykens Pa.) Register says diplr'
iberia has been doing its fatal work ip
Uniontown for some time past. NOT
less than fifteen children have met their
deaths in the little borough with this
terrible disease.
Selma (Ala.) Times: The confeder-
ate bond boom has at last apparently
collapsed. Parties here who are hold
ing a few of the really worthless agree
ments to pay have been unable to get
any offer whatever.
Josh Billings disposes of Bob Inger-
soil in the following quaint manner:
al wouldn't give five cents to hear BOB
Ingersoll on THE Mistakes of Noses
but would give $500 to hear Moses ON
the Mistakes of Bob. "
The congress in session in France to-
consider the ravages of phyli01era
recommended the introduction Of for
eign vines, but the French minister of
agriculture has issued decree iniwhich
it is specially stated that vines and
slips are not permitted TO be imported
into France.
The furniture manufacturers Of Gin
cinnati propose to become an inslr-
ance unto themselves. The insurance
companies suffered heavy losses at the
fires among furniture men during the
past season, and propose raising rates
The mutual proposition originated in
the proposed advance.
The fact is patent that all over the
states of Ohio and Indiana lands in the
rural districts have enhanced in value
from 10 to 20 per cent, and this with
in a period of twelve months. Farms
that last year were slow of sale at s'o
and 500 per acre now find ready pur-
chasers at fIom SS5 to 1920 per acre.
The Wheeling Intelligencer notices,
as a curious feature Of the mortality
statistics of this year, the large num-
ber of deaths from what are known as
zymotic, or filth diseases. The last
quarterly report of the health officer OF
that city shows that out of a total OF
2l2 deaths from all causes, l09 came
under the head Of zymotic diseases
Cash boys have been superseded N
a Boston store by a mechanical ar
rangement for conveying the purchase
money from the sales-olerk TO the cash'
ier's desk and returning the change,
The device Ia essentially a dupleS 0ys'
TEN of inclined grooves connecting lhR
various stations Of the clerks at thl
counters with the cashiers desk, which
Is centrally located, and hollow balls
In which the money Is placed, the balls
traversing the grooves by force OF
gravity.
Washington (Ga.) Gazettel Within
the last week or two very large vein
Of pure lead has been found in the
Magruder mine. The first large piece
taken out weighed 260 pounds, and
was sent to the cotton exposition as q
, fine specimen. But day or two
after another solid piece was taken out
, which weighed 356 pounds. This was
shipped to Augusta to the president OF
the company. Since then another
large piece which will weigh not less
1 u