Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-02-02
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The taxable property of Oregon,l as
per assessment just completed, is $780,
256,l75.
A plan is on foot in Elmira, N. Y,
to introduce savings banks in the pub
lie schools.
Offers are numerous and many Of
them are being shot in Bradford county,
Pennsylvania.
There is said to be valuable petro-
leum oil region or belt in the vicinity
Of Gilroy, Cal.
Gas has been struck at Newton
Trumbull county, o., in sufficient guam
tity to light the town.
A mountain, which is almost a solid
mass of antimony, is located near
Lovelock's Station, New.
A correspondent of The Portland
(Me) p ess urges the erection in that
city of a statue ef Longfellow.
There is talk at Brockton, Mass,
about toothpck factory, TO make
seventy thousand picks an hour.
There are now more visitors in st.
Augustine, Fla, than there were last
year month later in the season.
Pat McGinnis drew his fortune of
$1,000 from a Bridgeport, Conn bank,
and spent it all in a weeks spree.
The report that 100000 had been
subscribed for new dOrmitories fer
Williams college proves to be untrue.
On account of the scarcity of brush
mattresses, the harbor improvements
at Galveston are at standstill tenn
porarily.
New York state produces about one.
third of the petroleum of America, and
Allegheny county produces two thirds
of that One-third.
1t is reported that several more
deaths will occur from the Shanesville
(O) disaster. The neigbboring towns
are raising funds for the sufferers.
A religious revival is so attractive
at Madison, O that all the stores and
factories are closed during the after
noon while the employees go to meet
ing.
A movement is on foot for the imme-
diate division of the Episcopal dioceset
of central Pennsylvania, and the erec-
tion of new diocese oHt Of the COnvO-
cation of Williamsport.
A considerable part of the ice in the
PenObscot is rendered unmerchantable
this year by shlngle hair which was in
the water in considerable quantities
when the river froze over.
The new capitol building at Austin,
Tex, is to be 366 feet high, sec feet
long, and 2S5 in depth, the seventh
highest building in the world, and the
second in the United States.
One of the objects of the convention
of colored men at Macon, Ga, next
month will be TO organize and hold
grand southern fair, at which the pro-
ducts of col0red men will be exhibited.
During the year 1881 the Connpcti-
cut Mutual Life Insurance company
sold for 1868 81 real estate costing
1889, ,S59O2, and valued by the COM
missioner in 1879 at only S76i33l92.
A rattlesnake. measuring Is inches
in diameter and III feet in length, and
having 10 rattlts, was killed in
Natchez, Miss, recently. When shot
the snake had large rabbit in its
mouth.
A review of the progress of Rich.
mond, Va, in manufactures and com
merce during 1881 repOr 675 manu-
featuring establishments in the city,
embracing l7,64S operatives, with over
81 100000 capital.
There is a picture of President Lin
coin in possession of the state of New
York, and the governor suggests that
the senate place it over the main en-
trance to its chamber, as it does not fit
conveniently into any of the handsome
panels of the executive room.
An Idaho stock .herder has discover
ed an undrnund river. He found
funnel-shaped orifce, fifteen or twenty
feet deep by ten or twelve, at its rim,
in diameter. At the bottom OF this
funnel-the soil giving out there-was
a rift in the rock, two or three feet in
width by four or five in length which
seemed to open into the very bowels of
the earth. Through this aperture
came up from the depths be ow a terri
reble roaring, as of leaning cataract,
a mighty rush of waters, tumbling over
rocks. The ground trembled, and the
subterranean noise continued uninter.
Vermont has to-day one of the most
stringent laws against the sale Of
liquors ever devised by the "wisdom
and viltue' of any legislative body.
In all but the larger towns the letter Of
the law is lived up to, and the sale Of
alcoholic stimulants is restricted toa
town agent, who is authorized to sell
only for medicinal purposes, and then
only on a physicians prescription.
Breweries have been closed and saloon
keepers driven into other states. In
st. Albans, the Wei ION, the American,
and two other hotels have gone out Of
the business because without the prof
its of the bar they could not pay ex-
penses.
The railway up Vesuvius known as
the Funicolare, is French undertake
ing, 1t was started from capital of
f72,000, and costs ga, 900 year to
maintain it. In fifteen years the CON-
pany expect TO realize the entire capi-
tai, and as the lease from the govern
ment runs thirty years, there will re-
main fifteen years for profits, which