Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-13
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n Wnlte snake mas Deen killed near
Danville, Va.
J A large jute factory will be put in
, operation in New Orleans.
Cameron, Tex, boasts of rattlesnake
nine feet long and with twenty-seven
rattles.
The onion crop in Clackamas county,
Oregon, has been stricken by blight
this year,
Large deposits of gold have been
found in the bed of Little river, Blount
county, Tenn.
Near Baker City, Oregon, a miner
with an arastra took l,60O from one
ton Of quartz.
Six valuable marble quarries are now
giving employment to many hands in
Hawkins county, Tennessee.
Farmers say larger acreage Of small
grain will be sown in Georgia this
season than for many years previous.
Work is steadily progressing on sew
eral Of the leading mines at Lone
Mountain, New, and by the time snow
flies at least one thousand tons Of ore
of sufficiently high grade to pay
for extraction and reduction will be
on the several dumps in that district.
Copyright laws are so inexorable in
Great Britain that no one can sing any
selection from a composers works
without paying royalty. Even the or
gan grinders are subject TO the law.
The heirs and assigns of Offenbach de-
mand royalty from those who sing any
Of the tunes Of that great composer un-
til 1880.
A grOcer's assistant named Spencer,
who is captain" in the salvation
army, has just come to grief in London
for embezzling money and leading a
tender lamb of the fold very far astray.
The magistrate who committed him
for trial kindly remarked that he was
"a dissolute, impious, hypocrtical
scOundrel."
Paper currency is regarded with es-
pecial favor by the people of Japan.
1t no doubt possesses many advantages,
but immunity from fraud is not one of
them. Counterfeit notes are very
plentiful in Osaka, where as many as
fifty and sixty day have lately been
detected. Many have also been circu-
lated in Toxic, but, in spite of extra
precautiOn and vigilance, the source or
sources whence they emanate have not
yet been discovered.
John Bunt and Annie Peters were
to have been married in Pulaski county,
Virginia, last week. The preacher
and invited guests had arrived. There
was storm coming. During a pause
in the wind the eXpectant bride went
TO the door to welcome the groom.
She gave a laugh of recognition, and
ra4' TO meet him at the gate, but at
that moment Il bolt of thunder shook
the hills and the bride fell dead from
a stroke of lightning.
Leo XIII. has issued hull of con-
siderable Importance, addressed to the
Roman Catholic church in England,
on the much-veXed question of the po-
sition Of the regular clergy-Domini-
cans, Franciscans, Jesuits, Benedictines,
etc.-hold toward the bishops and the
latter toward the former OF late
years the regular orders have so much
increased their temporal means that
they bid fair to have more churches,
schools, colleges, ETC., than their secu-
lar brethren; and as their property is
out Of episcopal control the bishops
do not like the state of affairs at all.
The pope has decided that in spiritual
matters the monks will be, as hereto
fore, under episcopal control; but as
regards their temporalities they are to
remain quite independent.
The shares of the Chemical bank,
New York, have reached 1880, the
highest quotation of any banking
house in the world. This is not to be
wondered at, since the bank declares
an average quarterly dividend of 25
per cent. The name of the bank,
which is queer one, really tells the
history of the institution. A gen.
tleman in New York got a charter
from the legislature, many years ago,
to establish u chemical manufacturing
lie was also granted
for this purpose, certain banking priv
ileges The manufacture of chemicals
fell through after large fortune had
been sunk in it. The banking priv.
leges, however, were used, and the re.
suit was the Chemical bank, which
now annually returns to its original
a dollar 10 every dollar
they invested in it.
The track of the Northern Pacific IS
now completed to Lake Prescott, twen-
ty miles west of Lake Pen d'0reille,
two hundred and eight miles from
and daily trains run regular
ly to Lake Prescott. The grade is
ten miles further, and
large force is at work on a trestle 1900
feet long and sixty feet high in some
portions. The trestle requires $780,
900 feet of lumber. 1t will be finished
within two weeks. Pile-driving for
the bridge over the head of Pen
TOreille lake is being pushed, and it
will be crossed before Dec. l. The
piles are ITO feet long and
2 feet in diameter. Four pile-drivers
are at work. The line is located sixty
miles beyond the lake, and grading will
be vigorously crowded until spring.
The company has only two hundred /.
men, and was never able to get any
more during the season. If two thou
sand able-bodied men, whatever their
race or color, will apply, every one will
get employment for the winter.