Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-20
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Al hlngSlOn lncTe 10 hn oiu cihi w
e tanning more than two hundred birds
= nests.
u Las. week 22,777 barrels of Irish p
; tatoes were shipped from Norfolk, Va
i to northern ports.
n A statue of Theodore Parker IL soon
a to be placed in public square at the
/ south end of Boston.
t The wife of Senator Lamar is report
ed 10 be in seriously falling health
with few chances of recovery. -
G Far more building of costly struc-
5 lures is going on in Buffalo than in any
5 previous year in the city's history
A tract of ten thousand acres of land
2 has been purchased in the James river
valley, Virginia, for n Hungarian col
: ony. ....
The subscription started last week in
Boston for the benefit of the widow OF
John Brown was headed by Mrs, X. W.
Emerson with 800.
For 81 George Graham, Of Rome.
Ga, climbed ilag-pole one hundred
feet and adjusted the rope by which the
flag is managed.
The death of Jayman Taylor, guide
) and fisherman on Lake George, is ac-
counted for by finding four whisky
bottles in his boat with only n single
drink left.
Col. Bagley, of Covington, Ga, owns
amulc eighty years of age, and will soon
publish his pedigree in order to con-
vince people that the age of the animal
is not exaggerated.
Large droves of cattle continue
move past Boise City to eastern ma
kets The estimate thus far is 100000
head, nearly equally divided from Or
egon, Washington, and Idaho.
A New Hampshire man, resident in
Boston, has given Milmore an order for
bronze statue Of Webster, TO be placed
in the Capitol yard at Concord, provid-
ed that New Hampshire furnishes the
pedestal. ........
1t is estimated that the South has
this season paid to the North S55,OOO,-
600 for wheat, S50,OOO,OOO for corn,
S72, 900, 600 for meats, and about s25,-
100000 for hay, butter cheese, oats,
apples, potatoes, etc.
In blasting rock on the railroad, near
Old Cayuse Station, Umatilla county
Oregon, n nest of snakes was disturbed
After one blast no less than 450 rattle
snakes were counted among the debris
not counting detached pieces.
There have been ninety-four deaths
of persons over seventy years OF age,
in New Haven, Conn, since Jan. l,
and of this number thirty-seven were
over 50 and four over 80. The two old
est were " and 9S respectively.
The Umatilla Indians are becoming
more self-reliant every year. At pres
ent they have twelve thousand acres OF
land under cultivation. They have
flour and saw mill, thrashers, reapers.
and other agricultural implements,
At the San Jose packing factory 176
hands are employed canning cherries,
Of which nearly 100000 cans have been
put up there during the season. AT
the Golden Gate factory nearly 800
hands are employed on the same fruit.
Alanson Townshend, of Phpnix, N.
Y, age %, and q veteran of 1912, cell
ebratcd the Fourth of July this year by
repeating from memory the entire
text ofthe Declaration of Independence.
This has been his annual custom for
three-quarters of n century.
The mammoth bed of hard clans re-
Gently discovered in Long Island sound,
of Hampstead harbor, still furnishes n
rich field of labor for bay men. Over
one hundred vessels are working daily
upon the bed, averaging $3.50 week
each vessel Upward OF 800, 900 bushels
of clans have been shipped to New
York caught on this bed.
In digging a foundation for new
store near the Richmond and Danyille
depot, in Richmond, Va, on Thursday,
the rails of narrow-gauge road were
discovered six or seven feet below the
surface. 1t is supposed to have been
used in loading and unloading hogs
heads of tobacco, but no one remem-
bers the existence of such road.
Albert Chase, living near Manchester,
n. H., aflirms that he has new ally in
Kidding his potato field of the potato
bug pest. His new friend is black
snake at least six feet in length, which
has been repeatedly observed to go
along between the rows and pluck the
bugs clean from the hills. This the
snake continues until his appetite is
satisfied, and he does his work so thor
oughly that Mr.. Chase has not had to
pick the bugs at all. The snake can be
seen at his work nearly every day.
As one of the clerks in the Sacrament
to, Cal, postofiice was stamping the
dates upon letters collected from the
boxes, the other day, there was an ex-
plosion as loud as that made by pistol,
a letter and envelope were torn to
pieces and scattered over the floor, and
the hand that held the metallic stamp
was injured. Investigation showed
that quantity of wafer-life caps, in
tended for use on toy pistol, had been
placed loose in an envelope, and it
was the explosion of these that hap
pened
A Maine paper relates that q maiden
lady now residing in the town of Ly-
man. that state, at the age of 9S years.
was in her youth engaged to be mar.
ried to respectable young man, and
was making her wedding dress. Her
father, entering the room, forbade the
marriage. She answered: "Well faith
er, then you must maintain me as long
as | live" She stuck the needle into
the unfinished dress, arose and put II
into the drawer, and there it has re-
mained to the present time seventy
five years. How long the father sur
vived such treatment is not told. a
Georgia has recently been manufact-
uring miraculous stories similar to those
formerly owing their origin to the
boundless west, Within the limits ofa
single week mans body disappeared
after his clothes had been
torn of by revolving shaft, boy fell
headiirst into an almost dry well sixty
five feet deep and was presently drawn
up in the bucket unscratched, and
man who had been bitten by rattle
snake was snatched out Of the jaws Of
death by celebrated mad stone whose
owner values it at $1,000. These are
not precisely the events which make up
henation's history, but they serve to
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