Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-12-29
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the present time the Western
Union operates $4,000 miles of wire
in the United States.
A farmer in plowing recently over
the site of granary burned by Indians
in 1855, in Douglas county, Oregon,
found quantity Of wheat in good
state of preservation.
Virginia in the last year produced in
her twenty.one iron.ore establishments
lS2,326 tons, worth $439,S2i, giving
employment to 939 men and boys, who
earned $lS6,279 in wages.
The project of elevating the princi-
pality OF Servia to the rank of a king
dom has been revived, and it is expect
ed that Prince Milan will be proclaim
ed king early in the new year
Thousands of fish, it is said, were
tossed on the beach of the North Is.
land of Arran, by the trembling of the
earth, the other day, thus saving to the
Irish fishermen hours of painful toll
ing on the sea.
According to some experiments
which were mentioned at a late meet.
ing of the French Academy of Sciences,
one can cause an unusual number Of
tadpOles to turn into male frogs by
supplying them a special diet.
The cost of cleaning the streets of
the city Of London proper, for the
year ending at the beginning of Octo-
Der last, was $l10,770, and the expense
of paving was us follows. Granite,
$54 ,265, wood, SIS. 100; asphalt, $685.
235.
Patrick DOwney died in Castleton,
VT, the other day, after living the life
of a hermit for a quarter of a century.
In his bed was found a roll of $4,000
in bills from the CastletOn Mutual
bank. The bank discontinued business
in 1859.
Women in Brooklyn have formed
a society whose avowed object is to urge
congressional legislation agaiDt polyga.-
my in Utah. They have already OBJ
tanned three thousand signatures to Il
petition praying for the enactment of
laws for the prevention and punish
ment of polygamous marriages.
The weekly story papers are dying
out of the land. Ten or fifteen years
ago they had circulations of 100000,
and up to 100000 for the most popular.
At the present they have not half, and
some not quarter of the distribution.
The cause Of their decay began with
the issue of novels complete in pamph'
let form, sold at 5, 10, and 20 cents.
In l775 there were but three post.
Offices established in Maine one Of
which was at Kennebunk, kept by
Nathaniel Kimble, another in Portland,
by samuel Freeman, and the third in
Georgetown, of which John Wood was
postmaster At the present time the
whole number of postoillces in Maine
is 9i6, and the whole number in the
United States is 4i,79I
A Washington paper says that on IA
winter night, when the sleet was driv-
ing and poor Irish woman was strug-
Cling along the icy pavement with
heavy bundle in her arms, Secretary
Frelinghuysen came out of his house
on his way to a state dinner, and with
courtesy invited her to take his carriage
and tell the driver where 10 take her.
A lady at New Market, Va, entered
one of the bar-rooms in that place the
other night, between Z and o'clock,
found her husband present, and, de.
termining that her rights should be
protected-if not by the law by her
own hand-threw over bGgatelle ta-
bic, knocked the legs off, and took her
husband home with her. The specta-
tors and players surrendered at the first
assault, beat hasty retreat and left
the field to the viCtrix.
In Japan, with more than 3O,OOO,0OO
people, there are only 100000 head of
cattle, of which only 100000 are fit for
food, or two head for every 100 people,
against 73 head per 100 in the United
States. Mutton and pork are unknown
in the interior, fish being largely the
food of the people, many varieties be-
ing eaten raw. Monin plants are ex-
tensively eaten, as is also an acron which
grows on bush three or four feet high,
A preparation from matted barley and
rice is also much eaten.
An extraordinary amount of capital
is being invested in sheep and cattle
raising in Cuba. Including horses and
mules owned by the planters, it is cal.
culated that the value of the cattle of
all sorts in the Trinidad valley amounts
to 100000. Great care is being be-
slowed upon the breeding, and the i'm
portation of sheep, cows, and bulls IS
increasing largely, no less than thou
sand head having been delivered from
England and the United State at Glen
fuegos alone in single week.
Since the war between France and
Germany ended, the growth of the two
countries in population has been curl
Gus in its contrasts. Germany has in
creased by 4,500000 souls, but France
by only $4,000, In 1867 the excess
of births over deaths in France was
100000. In 1873 it was only 9S,l75'
Germany, on the other hand, shows an
excess for 1869 of 429,000 and for 1878
of 556,506. With these figures as
startling point it is estimated that at
the end of the century, providing emil
grafton and immigration do not inter-
| fere with conditions as they are now,
France will scarcely have 100000 to
the 60,000000 which Germany will
have.
In recent speech Lord Randolph
Churchill compared the English cabinet
to the pig that cuts its throat when 1t
tries to swim; its policy he called
'Quaker quackery," and declared that
its "foreign policy is snothing more than
an alternate succession of insults and
apologies" The land court he de-
nominated "the star chamber of spoila-
tion;' its members he described as "Sir
Dick Turpin, Sir Claude Duval, and
Sir Jack Sheppard" and its proceed
ings as "a narrative Of shameful plum
der, of prostitution of justice. of de-
liance of law" The Pail Mall Gazette
savs. uThat is the way in which the