Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-12-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Tench, French food fish, have been
introduced in the Central park ponds
in New York.
1t is now certain that the culture of
cane in southern Oregon will soon be
most important industry.
The assessors valuation of Portland,
Oregon, foots up trihe over I'll, ,000,-
600, an increase of s1,500,0O0 over last
year.
An enterprising microscope man is
showing Cleveland people drawings of
1872 different living creatures found in
the city water.
The mayor of Norfolk, Va, has pro-
hibited rattle for the benefit of the
orphan asylums of that city, as being
contrary to law.
A Massachusetts state prison con-
vic. has just been granted pension of
81, 100 for war services, and has made
the money over to his family.
The New Jersey constitutional COM
mission has proposed several amend
ments to the judiciary system of the
state, materially simplifying it.
Easton, Pa, counts up twenty-five
boys who have been rendered perma
nent cripples by attempting to jump on
railroad trains while in motion.
At the first sale this season in Natal,
Africa, Of native grown ostrich feath-
els, three pounds and nine ounces of
long white feathers brought 800.
simultaneously with the washing
ashore Of large numbers of dead fishes
near Vera Cruz, the people of that city
were affected with a troublesome
cough,
Australia imported English spar
rows to kill worms, but 1t is found that
the birds are the worst pest of the two,
and bounties are offered for their des-
tTuction.
Within three years New York has
doubled her commerce with southern
ports. The Savannah line alone runs
two passenger and four freight steam
cts each week.
4 dealer in one of the Massachusetts,
manufacturing towns, where large
number Of girls are employed, laid in
last year q stock Of chewing gum val
ned al 81, 400.
The annual revenue to the United
States from appleiack alone is in the
neighbolhood Of $4,000, and about
tw0-thirds of that is from Sussex
county New Jersey.
About 1900 visitors registered at
the Yosemite valley hotels during the
summer, but it is said that the amount
Of money spent by them was less than
in previous seasons.
The fifteenth new Episcopal church
built in West Verginia through the
active efforts Of Bishop George w.
Petcrkin is at Ansted, near Hawks
Nest, Fayette county.
4 Virginia natural bridge has got
into the hands Of company, of which
GOV. Cornell, of New York, is presi-
dent, and railroad is to be built to it
and other improvements made.
At the old center of the town of
Newlanc, VT, where, forty years ago,
there were several thriving stores, nu-
merOus houses, hotel, the court
house, jail, church and school.hOuses
there is now not the yestige of build
ing.
The Madison county New York. su-
peryisols make skunk-killing an offence
punishable with fine. The reason is
that skunks live on grub which dew
astates hopyines, and hop.growing is
one of Madison county's chief indus
tries.
In a case involving patent for an
improvement in corset springs, the
United States supreme court holds that
by allowing it to be generally used for
two years the inventor abandoned it to
the public, and can not complain of in
fringement.
The plans for a new hospital in
Brooklyn, n. Y, to cost 100000, and
to be in charge of the Methodist Epis-
copalians, have been adopted. About
half of the estimated cost Of the build
ing has been contributed by one man,
Mr.. George |. Seney.
The Baltimore and Ohio road has re-
duced the rates on grain and provisions
to the seaboard to twelve cents per
hundred pounds, and the Pennsylvania
has cut to fifteen cents on provisions.
The trunk-line representatives met at
New York and resolved to advance
western freights in January.
Says the Chicago Times: There are
two congressman now serving who
commenced life as pages in the nation
al house, and a senator whose start in
life was as a page in the senate. The
congressman are Townshend Of Illinois,
and Wise of Virginia. The senator is
German, of Maryland. Let the fact
be recorded in the Sunday. y.school books
and incorporated in Fourth of July
orations.
The men employed in the tunnel
now being constructed under the bed
of the Hudson river have Of late be-
come subject to a peculiar and painful
ailment that is thought to result from
the compressed air, by the aid of which
the tunnel is being constructed. The
COMPLAINTS sort of curvature Of the
spine, and those attacked with it are
bent up like half-open jackknife, and
suffer excruciating pain.
A Philadelphia court has decided
that bequest to fit young man for
the ministry is gift for religious
purpose, and to be valid must be made
at least thirty days before the testator's
death. The law requiring this lapse Of
time in gifts Of the kind was intended
to prevent persons from doing injus-
tice to those having natural claims up
on them by disposing of their property
when at the point Of death in a man
ner intended to propitiate Deity.
The Chicago Times says: The presi-
dent is called upon to write great
many letters which are merely incl
dental to his position. For instance,
some kindly old soul in Vermont sent
him box of butternut candy Of her
! own making, which arrived in time
for the presidents Thanksgiving din