Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27
ITEMS or INTEREST.

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Texas.
There are 100000 Masons in this
country.
The present season shows that grapes
stand the drouth better than any kind
of fruit.
The total tax levied upon the city of
New York for the year are $9l, OIL
$40, the rate being 2.62 per cent.
Ranchmen living in the vicinity Of
Yellowstone valley have turned their
attention largely to the culture Of
fruit trees and vines.
The Garfield monument committee
estimate the cost of the marble at
100000, of which Cleveland will be
asked to contribute $4,000.
Two hundred and fifty dollars has
been raised among students and pro-
fessors for the Garfield professorsh'p to
be established at Williams college.
The apple crop in England this year
IS said to be an exceptionally good
me- 50 that it will not be necef 5ary
TO import any from the United States.
Marquis De Rochambeau, in an ad-
Il ess at Yorktown, said: ave say to
that what our fathers did in l78l,
70 their sons, would be willing % do
+ day"
Six hundred snags and logs lave
cen pulled out Of the upper part of
Red river of Louisiana by the snag-
beat Wagner since the nit lie of
August.
4 piece of slate rock engrav' with
known characters has been f, Id in
a iona. 1t was dug out of so le old
.,as in the Maricopa village six
..e, below phenix, on Salt river.
According TO a Georgia pap ", the
lh sician attending lady in aeon,
that state, reports that she HI been
paralyzed and is loosing the po ier of
speech from the free use of canned
fruits and vegetables.
A young man of San Antonio, Tex,
fractured his jaw bone so completely
the other day that his attending physi-
clans drilled holes through the bones
and bound them back into p ace by
means of thread wire.
The supervisors of RUckbridge coun-
ty, Virginia, have requested the dis
tillers TO suspend operations, in order
that the short crop of grain in the
country may be used for food instead
of being turned into whisky.
A young man in San Antonio, Tex.
has been punished severely for defam-
ing a yOurg lady of that city. The vic
tim of his evil tongue went for the
scandal monger on the street corner
and horse whipped him severely.
The first quartz mill that will be put
in operation in Alaska on the lately
discovered rich mines there will be a
rocking mill of four stamps and du-
plex movement rOck-breaIier, which
were shipped the 30th of September
A deposit of iron ore has been found
near williamson, Va, which is be-
lieved to be the most extensive yet dis
covered in Allegheny county-"enough
to run half dozen furnaces like Long
dale and LowmOor for a thousand
years"
Over 40 per cent of the imports at
San Francisco in August is credited to
China and Japan. a large portion of
these imports, however, is in transit
for markets in the Atlantic states, and
San Francisco gets very little benefit
from the movement.
At Iiege, in Belgium, one may ar
range with the telephone company to
be reused at any particular hour of the
night or morning; when the hour
comes the bell begins to ring, and 1t
continues ringing till the person is an
swered by telephone.
The gas company of New Bedford,
Mass, encourages the use Of gas stoves
in that city by leasing the stoves and
making connection with the pipes with
out cost. In four years they in this
manner let over four hundred stoves
from June 10 NONeihuei'
In one day last week there was de-
posted in the San Francisco mint, for
coinage, 2,06l ounces of fine and 54,-
| 7O8 ounces of crude gold bullion, rep
resenting total value Of more than
s1,OOO,OO0. This is the largest deposit
of gold bullion ever made in one day at
the mint.
;, Mammoth City, Inyo county, Cal,
with the co ntry about, had 5000 in
habitants in July, 1879. 1t nov. has
not ten. The buildings have been
burned or moved away to Bishop creek,
where there are some ranches. The
,ir mill. with the mammoth mine, sold
ut sheriffs sale for $4,000. 1t cost
100000.
The sheariug of the $1,000 head Of
eep on the Callaghan ranch, n La
.5llle county, Texas, has been dc ayed
, the mortality among the Mexican
learers. Seventeen men died i'll few
avs and the remainder stampeded.
The cause of death is said to have been
too free use Of mutton, the ha IDS not
f aing accustomed toit.
+ The disbursements by the Hexas
!. stlte treasurer for the fiscal yeal 1hich
s expired August 81, amounted to s3,044,-
6l3 The actual expenses were
&l,415,99l, and the balance consisted
in expenditures for the public school,
university and asylum funds, sup
port of one school and the purcN ase Of
l. 100000 in bonds for the retirement OF
i the state debt.
The imagination seems to have full
l. play in the Catskills, where 1t is said
8 Garfield's face is as clearly and dis
I tinctly drawn against the blue sky by
g the iregularly undulating boundary
J, of the Catskills, as if faithful artist
, had traced it. A number of people Ia
a said to have seen the apparition, while
b passing the "Reclining Giant" or the
d "Man in the Mountains" the other day,
0 on the river.
Two covered wagon loads Of movers
; arrived at San Antonio, Tex, the other
: day. The occupants were two Irish
= widows with their children. They
. had come all their way from DeS