Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-08-04
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lawyer and only one physician.
The intense heat in Paris, and the
scarcity of water, give rise to fears of
serious sickness if continued much
longer.
The city of San Antonio, Tex, com
plains of flood of mutilated silver
coins, and the store keepers are re-
fusing to take them except at half value.
The Lyons Paper company is turn.
ing out 100000 paper butter plates
daily. 1t ships them all to Chicago,
100000 being the number put in one
ca.
Veins of anthracite and bituminous
coal have been discovered in South
Africa A railroad is to be built to
connect the coal fields with the towns
on the coast.
A saloOn-kccpcr in New London,
Conn.,, whose lost pocket book, contain
ing nearly $iOO was returned to him
by the finder, impulsively exclaimed:
"You pees Won honest poy; ! will
shake nit you for de drinks
The postal.card contractors at Castle
ton, N. Y. WoOlworth and Graham,
have been asked their terms for ten
million Canadian pOstal-carls. They
have also received orders from Aus
tralia and the Argentine Republic,
Postmaster General james having
consented TO Their doing foreign work.
Prof. L. 4. Quimby, of Dartmouth
college, has patented an electric clock
for use in mills and factories to take
the place of the common watchman's
clock. A company with $4,000 capital
has been formed in Boston to manu-
facture the clocks. which are already
used at Litt'eton, Manchester, and
Great Falls.
At one of the Long Branch hotels a
lady appeared the other day in an al
legged Paris costume, made entirely of
squares of pink and blue satin, her
bonnet being trimmed with huge pink
and blue feathers. "If you tell Inc
what that is," said one lady who saw
her to another, 'yoa can have it,"
Both gave it up.
Day light exhibitions of japanese
| fireworks are Il very attractive feature
of Manhattan Beach. These day fire.
works appear in all sorts of colors, just
as those intended for evening illumi-
nation do. They range from pure
white through gray, yellow, pink, and
blue to black. There are BIRDS snakes,
dragons. and lizards, and I'LL manner of
other things.
The editor of The Banner, of Nash
vile, Tenn, has a clock made by one of
the Guiteau family, which he has
threatened to destroy. Hearing of his
| intention an aunt of the assassin wrote
him letter, giving a brief account of
the history of the family, and threaten
ing against the destruction Of the time
piece, W liCh was. she said, made hy her
husband. Calvin Guiteau.
The savings banks of Connecticut
have $l2,097,434 d posts, the largest
ever reported, except in 1877. The in.
crease over 1880 is $}.S3S, l2b, and the
number Of drpositors 9,6O2 more than
last ear. The Manchester bank re-
potts f3,4SL99j the Cheshire Provi-
dent ins itu ,on $2,0532 2j9, Amoskeag
b nix $2.iS2S52, the Keene Five Cents
bank $l,lOS,74i, and the Portsmouth
bank $2,6Oj,8i9.
Lord Beaconsield's will has Just
been proved, and the net amount dis
posed of, after deiucting debts and
funer i expenses, is shown to be s3lG,-
ST. All the late lords real estate
goes to his nephew, Coningsby Ralph
Dsraeli, and is to be entailed for the
benefit of the latter's male descendants.
The rest of the personal estate is to be
used in purchasing more land to be
settled in Il similar manner.
A big fandango of five days dura-
ton is now in progress at tile Duck
Valley Indian reservation, Nevada,
and all the redskins for scores of miles
around have gathered to take part in
the festivities. Several of the savages
who live at Winnemucca have been
practicing the racquet under the di-
rection of Il white dancing master,
and expect to win the perfect adora-
ton of their entire tribe with this new
and sensational performance.
The Atlanta Constitution is doing
the people of Georgia cOmmendable
service in warning them against the
insiduous wies of the Mormon agents
who are travelling through that state
for the purpose of making converts
a purpose in which they are untortu-
nately succeeding to surprising de-
gree. A conference Of Georgia Nor
mons has been called, and no doubt
every effort will he made to strengthen
its members in the shameless creed
which they confess.
Partisan journals are famous for
their comical blunders, and one OF the
most brilliant of these was printed Il
few weeks ago in the Moniteur Univer-
sci. A writer in this paper was strug.
Cling hard to give Il clear account of
the complications at Albany, and found
the chief cause of our legislative
trouble in the corruption of the calf
: breeders The calf.brecders are, IN
the eyes of this imaginative journalist,
sort of idyllic aristocracy, who in
fluence the butchers and thence the
elections. &c
About six miles above the DallesS
Oregon, is large slough, which at
this season of the yeai is filled with
water. The salmon, in going up the
Columbia to spawn, take to the
slough in preference to the swift
, channel of the river, and they
, gather in such numbers that they
, seem solid mass. A firm OF
! ! packers have established a house on
the banks of the slough, and employ
. only one Indian to catch the fish in a
net. while twelve men are required TO
a dispose of them after they are landed.
3 Prof. Unthank, of Tucson, Arizona,
r is alleged to have in his possession q
t brick taken from the great wall OF
J. China The treasure is 4xl2xl6 inch
Q es. is composed of gray clay, and is as
hard as granite. There are said to be
a several similar bricks yet remaining In
Q the wall for any hardy antiquarian who
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