Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-02-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

an icy sidewalk and broke her back.
The West Virginia legislature has
defeated bill to tax commercial tray-
elers.
Several ice.gorges have occurred in
the Susquehanna river during the past
week.
Rochester and Utica are the only
claimants for the New York state fair
this year.
The oldest charcoal furnaces in the
United States are at Cornwall, Leba-
non county, Pa.
The total number of coke-oyens To-
Gated on New river, West Virginia, is
over a thousand.
Erie, Pa, expects to have return
of 100000 from ice stored there, dur
ing the coming summer.
\ 10000 hub and spoke factory
employing one hundred men, Will be
erected at Tullahoma, Ala.
A four-foot vein of excellent camel
coal has just been opened on the GuyaE-
uOlle river, NtsJ Virginia
Diphthera of an uncomfortable type
is raging in Franklin, Orleans, and
Caledonia counties, Vermont.
The rabbits are stumping the state
in Alabama. The overilowed bottoms
are responsible for the innovation.
Eighty.fve acres of Washington
county coal lying near M0nongahela
City, Pa, sold last week for $4,000.
1t is estimated that the Alabama
Great Southern railway has sustained
$4,000 damages by the recent floods.
A Robertson county. Kentucky, mar.
ried woman is only fifteen years Old,
ard measures six feet five inches in
height.
A farmer at Wethersteld, Conn,
gathered $40 eggs in January from
twenty-three pullets of last years
raising.
Forty acres of land at Portage Ia
Prairie, Manitoba, purchased a while
ago for $4,000, could now be sold for
$40, 300.
In 1881 there were 81 scholars at
tending the colored public school at
Covington, Ky; this year there are
only l9l.
To replace the high school building
at Hartford, Conn, recently burned, IA
hre.proof structure costing 100000 is
proposed.
The Boston and Albany Railroad
company has borght two hundred Bah
cock fire extinguishers for its passen-
ger-Cals.
Land in Fleming county, Kentucky
sold last week for $40 per acre, the
Ii ghest price that has been paid since
the war
Six soft maple and two white elm
bodies were cut from the same stump
on W. Patterson's farm, neal Warren,
o., last week.
The census of 1880 showed that
there were in Pennsylvania l46, l3S
children over 10 years OF aSe who
could not read.
A firm in Daricn, y. Y, have evapo-
rated at their dryer 24U,UUO pounds of
apples the past season, which they
sold for l2li cents per pound.
This seasons ice crop on the Kenne.
bee river is estimated at 100000
tons-not an insignificant addition to
the prodgious harvest Of the fields and
orchards Of Maine,
The ice at the base of Yosemite
falls has formed in cone that extends
upward some two hundred feet and
with the falling water forms scene OF
surprising brilliapcy.
A dentist in Molganstown, W. W.
has made from India rubber and gutta
percha an entire face for Elias
Cartwright, of Marshall county, who
had his lips, eyelids, and nose burned
off
A corporation has been formed to
build an underground railroad in Phil
adelphia. The tunnel will be ventil-
ated by air shafts communicating with
the surface, or by the system of sue
ton ventilation employed in mines.
The Roane Iron company of Chat
tanooga is now receiving an order of
5 steel blooms from England. They are
arriving in carload lots every day.
This order will amount TO about f53,-
600, the duty on which will be S22OOo.
l. The richest man in Wyoming coun-
y ty, New York, lives in the plainest
!, manner and fights his taxes. He has
been a voter in the same county hfty-
/. i've years, but has never voted for
legislative candidate who was elected.
! Santa Fe New Mexican: Eastern
people would be surprised by the an
2 nouncement that there is in Santa Fe
blanket, made by Navajo indians,
valued at 300. Valuable blankets are
frequently brought into the city for
sale.
: A Connecticut concern is making
J large quantities of vaccine points OF
ivory. Orders from 10000 to lOO,OOo
, are coming in, which shows that the
, spread of smallpox is waking people
: up to the necessity of vaccination as a
( preventive.
{ A Sullivan county, New York. tar
} ner recently purchased $3.50 diamond
shirt.stud, and also its exact counter
, part in paste for $3.50. They after
! ward became mixed, and he has been
Obliged to take them to jeweler to
have them identified.
/ The fish commissioners of New
: York have planted 77,667030 young
. fish and 595, l56 mature fish in the
lakes and streams of that state during
: the last ten years. There is good fish
ing in many waters now where there
r was none before they were restocked'
A drove of thirty-ive hogs drank
long and deep of barrel of strip
skimmings near Buena Vista. Ca, and
in few hours every big and little
! porker was drunk as lord. They Gus
, up all manner of didoes, and finally
/ the whole gang got weak in the knees
and dropped off to sleep.
3 The circulation of camels is prohibit
) ed in the streets of Paris. OF late sew