Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-09-15
ITEMS or INTEREST.
Selma, Ala, has no less than fifty.
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II IHe SllhNOIIllS Ol llaly nave ylelueC
a very large crop of cocOOns this sea
" son.
If Fifty cents Il bushel is what the
Vt Augusta (Ga) boys get for peach
5, kernels.
u The peach cropin Massachusetts the
i present season will be larger than fol
t. many years past.
a Disastrous clOul-bursts appear 10 be
: frequent in the southwestern part Of
/, Arizona territory.
/, The scuppernOng crop of Talbot
: county, Georgia, is immense, and much
I wine will be made.
Y Sharks are numerous in Red river,
. Louisiana. One recently shot meas.
]. ured twelve feet in length.
One hundred and fifty thousand
S cocoanuts have been planted in Mon
roe county, Florida, this season.
-Four members Of one family, two sons
and two daughters. were married al
the same time in Montreal the other
day
Twenty or thirty alligators in u
drove went up the Cumberland as far
as Nashville latcly-m unheard of in
cdcnt.
Bogus silver dollars are in circula.
tion in San Francisco. They are of a
darker color than the genuine, and
somewhat less in weight
a census agent estimates that 7,000,-
600 people are interested in the United
States fisheries, and that the annual
product is worth about $l00,000,000.
The vineyards in Gabriel valley,
Los Angeles county, California, some
Of the vines of which are nearly 100
years old, are yet very prolific bear.
crs.
On the Colorado desert a species f
tortoise grows TO weight of twenty.
five pounds, and the meat of this is
considered great delicacy among the
Indians.
A water monster is said TO inhabit
the MOkelumne river above Jackson,
Cal. The Chinese are in mortal terror
over it, and say that the creature has
killed one of their number.
A $4,000 fountain has been pre-
sented by =. Y. Barnum to the town
of Bethel, Conn, his native place. 1t
stands fifteen feet high, is of bronze,
and was executed in Germany.
Recently Il number of the beautiful
little shell fish called Portuguese men,
Of-war' -Hduti'uS-have been blown
ashore on the Ventura beach, Califor-
mia, to the great delight of amateur
collectors.
There was a heavy frost at Liwiston
Trinity county, California, lately, the
thermometer standing at AZ degrees
early in the morning. At Weaver
vile it stood 80 and 50 degrees in the
morning, and 60 and 81 in the after
noon.
The last few days have witnessed a
great exodus from Saratoga, but still
the large hotels by no means have a
deserted appearance. With the excep-
tion of the Grand Union, all the car
avansaries will remain open until
Octoberl.
Arizona has Il waterfall. 1t is at Box
Canon, about fifteen miles from
Florence. The wall on one side of the
canon is Of solid rock, perpendicular
to a height of 500 feet. Over the top
of this wall peurs a sheet of water at
least sixty feet wide.
In Nevada the cattle owners nearly
kill their critters by numerous brands,
and the loss in the value of hides by so
much branding, is estimated at $780,
600 Il year. An old brand spoils
hide foUr-bits' worth, and a new one
81. Some bands of cattle are so much
marked and branded as to make their
hides worthless.
The marble quarries of Vermont
have become enormous excavations,
several being $50 feet deep, and the
opening are only slightly protected, if
at all, while rude stairways down thu
sides of the shat afford the only
means of descent, get there is hardly
ever an accident, and it is several
years since fatal fall has taken
place.
The law of Alabama in regard to
the collection of vital statistics, passed
by the last legislature, has peculiar
effect upon thenegro female population.
They believe that the mother Of every
illegitimate child will be taken up and
sent to the coal mines, and infanticides
which have occurred in north Alabama
are believed to have been caused by
this belief.
Andrew Miner, of Salem, Conn.,,
raises many potatoes, and the Obliging
skunks dig them. In one large field,
Mr.. Miner says, every hill has been
opened. The skunks do not eat the
potatoes. They look for worms, mice,
and moles which they find in the hills.
and throw out the potatoes when they
come across them. The owner goes
over the lot each morning and picks up
the tubers tossed out on the preceding
night.
A New York woman at the United
States hotel at Saratoga is credited
with having brought three hundred
dresses with her, and six maids to take
care of them. She wears three differ
ent dresses every day, and never while
at the place is seen to wear the same
one twice. Her diamonds are numer-
GUS and gorgeous, and she keeps
woman constantly employed embroid-
ering her stockings, as well as dresses
and parasols.
Little Rock Gazette: "a ridiculous
story has been going the rounds Of the
press to the effect that Hot Springs
physician recently attached the corpse
of one of his patients, to compel the
payment of his bill. 1t originated, per-
haps, from the statement your cores
pondent made, upon information re-
ceived from the gentleman who ad.
vanced the money to pay the physi-
clans bill, that an attachment was Is
sued against the casket." not the
corpse.
The descendants of Capt. Ebenezer
Eastman, who was one Of the early
settlers of Penacook, now Concord, eel
citrate his 200th anniversary soon. He
was n brave man who. when only l9,