Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-05-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

= of the young lady teachers at Dun
f kirk IN. W school.
The richest man in the navy is Com
modore Baldwin, who has spechated
in real estate in San Francisco.
There are about 1900 locomotives
running on the railroads of the United
> States, and 100000 cars of all kinds.
Senator Fair told his Nevada friends
that "Mahone is no bigger than
giant cartridge, but spry as a lizard
Bishop Seymour has gone to Pitts
burg to perform the duties of Bishop
Kerfoot, who is sick and expected to
! die.
Bonnat, the artist, according to a
Paris newspaper, is engaged to be mar
ried TO the daughter of President
Glevy.
The average condition of wheat in
Ohio 200 being the basis is IS. The
yield this year is put down at 44,895,-
653 bushels.
Montpelier, the home of President
James Madison, in Orange county,
Virginia, is advertised to be sold at
auction in July next.
The state of Texas has accepted
the plans of L. Z. Meyers, of Detroit,
for a new capitol building at Austin, to
cost about 100000.
Gen. b. +. Butler will present to
the city of Newburyport, Mass, a mas
svc granite fountain, to be placed in
one of the public squares.
Prof. Fishers article reviewing the
"Revised New Testament" will appear
in Scribner's Monthly on the same day
that the book is issued in America
namely, May Goth.
There are nearly two hundred and
ten thousand colOrcd people in
Maryland, or one to three and One-half
whites. Tie negroes have slightly
decreased in ten years.
Knoxville fixes her beer licenses at
$500 per annun, payable semi-annually
in advance No billiard or other bust
ness 20 he connected with the beer bar,
and nothing but beer TO he sold.
Baltimore has quite Il congregation
of NIcnnOnitcs who meet regularly.
They practice the ceremony of feet
washing, the minister waiting on the
men, and the oldest woman on the
women.
Secretary of the Treasury Window
has sold his house m Washington for
$3O, 600 to Senator P'att, of New York.
1t cost him $4,000. He will build an
other and finer o. on the corner of
Sixteenth street and Massachusetts,
avenue.
There are tlirty-cight Roman Catho-
lie noblcmcn with seats in the lpuse
of lords, and seventeen without seats;
thrty-srvcn Roman Catholic baronets,
six Roman Catholic priyy councillors,
and hlty-iyc members of the house If
commons.
Srribncl's Monthly, it is said, will,
in the June number, pay an unprece-
drnlrd compliment To oayoung Western
poet. by reprinting from the ncwspa-
pers nine of her poems, The name of
the poet is Miss Edith Thomas, of
Geneva, Ohio.
At Virginia City, Ncvada's cOntribu-
tiCn to the Washington monument is
being prepared 1t consists of piece
of polished porphyry, two by three
feet in size and six inches thick, con-
tanning the arms of the state and the
motto, "All for Our Country the let
ters being ovcrlaid with solid silver.
One of the most remarkable instan-
ces of sacrifice and perseverance is that
of the Beal street colOred Baptist
church at Memphis, which, out of the
very small daily earnings of its poor
members has contributed since 1865
$4,000 to buy ground and build and
pay for its fine church edilice
The largest cotton row in South
Carolina was laid off recently by Mr.. f.
b. Huff near Spartansburg. 1t is
90,760 yards long and, the rows being
81 feet wide, this row contains frac-
tiOn over "a acres. Its length is
little more than 81 miles. 1t would
require about six hours to run round
this one row of cotton.
While a party Of men were clearing
ground in De Soto parish, Texas, for
the Pacific railroad, they unearthed
five muskets which had lain there
since the battle of Mansfield in 1864.
One of the party was federal soldier
who Hj fought ia hat battle, and he
10y = mark upon it one of
the u"-., l, having been used by
him in that action
In the year 1850 there were in the
United States 40 miles of tele-
graphic line, and during that year 49,
''7."sN messages were sent. The miles
- Ei. lwele about 100000. This does
ude the lines used exclusively for
p..uv business. The other countries
the greatest length of lines are
ws: Russia, 56,170 miles; Ger
o ror Il ,43I france, $500; Austria
.r A, " S0,403; Australia, 26,S42;
Britain, 25,156 British India,
Turkey, 1905, and Italy, 15,-
'A shad catch of this spring has
uusually large. The Delaware
nd bay fisheries have taken as
ao as 125,000 shad in one creek,
oN0 sell on the market wharves of
D.. l elphia at from IS to SIG, accord
GRs The supply. Shad are increasing
ns tn owing to both culture and pro-
r,.,s. The annual increase of the
4 -aIe river fisheries yield has been
q year for several years. AS
as 900 shad are sometimes
. ord at one gill-net haul, and single
Of I of herring often yield $4,000.
in the Potomac, Susque-
hanna, Delaware, Hudson, and some
more northern rivers has been good and
this year.
The weekly returns of pauperism in
London shows that at the end Of the
hird week in April the total number
If paupers in the metropolitan district
vas 9l,246, Of whom 50,632 were in
he workhouse and 40,723 received
'utdoor relief. II is alittle dishearten-
ng to read that these figures show an
Increase over those for the correspond