Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-08-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Agitation for cheaper gas is in prog
ress at Cincinnati.
An Allegheny saloon keeper was
fined s. for trying to hang himself.
Fruit is so plentiful in Dallas, Tex,
that farmers can not find sale for il in
the local mearkct.
Syracuse had Siamese-twin kitten,
but it died from the efforts Of the moth
cr cat to separate it.
There is much excitement at Trap
Springs, Parker county, Tex, over
ncwly-discovered silver mine.
There is tannery in Reading, Pa,
which has been in active and generally
successful operation since 1852
The peach crop Of the Delaware and
Chesapeake peninsula will this season,
it is expected, amount to 100000 BUSH
els.
&. W. Johnston, proprietor of hotel
at FoStOria, o., struck a nOn-paying
boarder so hard that he broke his own
| arm
York and Lancaster counties, Penn
OF all the cigars made in the United
States.
Some malicious persons have been
wantonly damaging the instruments at
the meteorological station on Ben Nevis,
Scotland.
A SharpSburg (Pa,) man, who used
the telephone during 4 recent storm, is
now at his home recovering from the
shock, which caught him on the ear.
The new school building partially
constructed in San Antonio, Tex, will
cost 100000 when completed, and bc
the finest school building in the state.
A flock of buzzards attacked a large
rattle-snakc at Brady, Tex, and killed
it. II. c. Fisher measured the snake
and it made eleven feet long, with sin
teen rattlcS.
A new observatory has been erected
ON the top of Slide mountain, the
highest peak of the CatskilS, and visi-
tors there can now look out from an
elevation Of 4,2iO feet above the sea
level.
Anthony Comstock. of New York,
while passing through Buffalo, the
other day, caused the arrest of saloon
keeper on the charge of exhibiting
obscene images attached 10 4 bogus
telephone.
Tourists in the Yosemite valley COM
plain that they are subjected to gross
cXtortion by public guardians who
claim the exclusive right of supplying
guides and furnishing other accommo-
dationS to travellers.
Eleven school-bOyS in GencScc walk
ed to Niagara Falls, Aug. 4, 1882, and
agreed 10 meet there again, if living,
in fifty years. Last Friday seven Of
them kept the promise, coming with
their wives and children.
4 fish of the Shccpshcad species,
W 'ighing seven and 4 half pounds, was
caught in the Susquchanna river at
Flies eddy, Lancaster county. Pa, the
other day. II is probably the only one
of the species ever caught in fresh
water so far from the sea,
Rev. |. George. Uniycrsalist clergy
man of Frcdonia, n. Y. is suffering
great agony from malignant cpuluS
tumor ON his upper jaw bone, II is
stated that radical cure is impossible,
and all that medical skill can accom-
plish is to relieve the pain until death
shall end it,
A large cave has been discovered in
the mountain side two miles north of
Glen Haven, Cayuga county. n. Y.
An exploration party penetrated to the
depth Of forty feet, where Il large
was found The indications
are that the cavern extends for long
distance under the hill.
A new use for glass has recently been
developed in its substitution for marble
tops OF tables and dressing cases. A
firm has turned out slabs of
glass that are said to be perfect imi-
iation of the latter material, while they
admit of decorations of various designs,
both in form and color.
All the lands in the state of Texas
owned and controlled by the Interna-
.ional Railroad company have been
sold to an English syndicate, and the
holders of International lands have been
notified that their leases will be annulled
1t the end of the contracts. The lands
amount to 100000 acres in all.
Lucas county, Ohio is constructing
more bitches now than at any time
during the past five years. The Wolf
creek ditch, now in process of construc-
lion, will cost about $4,000. II is five
miles long, eight feet wide on top at
lis head and twenty feet wide at its
mouth. The bottom width is four feet,
A Boston paper is responsible for the
statement that the disgusting habit of
has spread among the fe-
male operators in Massachusetts fac
tories to such an extent that fifteen tons
of snuff are annually consumed by them.
A wear ago the Catholic bishop of the
state publicly forbade this use of the
weed, and for time there was consid-
rable falling off in the sales of snuff,
ut the prohibition has now become
ractically a dead letter
Jacob Kipheart died near Blossburg
Pa, last week, in the l03d year of his
age. Among the curiosities of Bloss-
burg is petition to the governor of
bearing date 1872, among
the signers of which was Mr.. Kipheart,
praying relief and protection from the
Indians, who were at that time in the
pay and employ of the British and
the destruction ofthe "thin-
ly-scattered" population between this
county and the lakes.
Among the applicants for relief at the
Albany On. W almshouse, last week,
was an elderly woman, whose attire
and appearance spoke of better days.
She bore letter of introduction from
Supt, Cassin, of Troy, which requested
that the bearer Catherine Taney, who
claims to be sister of the late Hon.
Roger B. Taney, chief justice of the
United States supreme court, be pro-
vided with apartments, and that every
be bestowed upon her. The
lady is SO years of age.
The English hop crop is reported TO
be in an unsatisfactory condition. The
yards have, according to one report,
"been visited with an attack of fly so
virulent and general that there is rca-
son to fear the destruction of the crop
unless the parasites depart soon. Small
numbers had been seen a fortnight be-
fore hut last week thev had arrived in =.