Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-01-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

(Ga.) circuit, assesses fine OF 81 per
minute on tardy jurors.
A party of Mercer county gentlemen
killed eight deer on a recent hunt in
the mountains of Tennessee.
A company has been organized to
operate newly discovered silver mine
in Greene county, Pennsylvania.
Rural guards have been stationed
along the Vera Cruz railroad to pre-
vent people from putting stones on th
track.
The total of the gifts Of the la
Miss Sarah Gage, of Boston, to tn
Universalist church, it is said, will con
siderably exceed 100000.
The loss on the reading England
sewage farm the past year was $3.50
but as a set off it is admitted that the
town was never so healthy.
A portrait of President Garfield,
painted on porcelain by Herr Sturm, a
Dresden artist, has been sent from
Germany as a Christmas gift for Mrs.
Garfield.
The fine span of horses which be
lOnged to President Garfield were pre-
sented, after bis death, to Representa-
tive Updegralf of Ohio, at the request
OF Mrs. Garfield.
A rivalr' is growing up among som
of the Pennsylvania towns to get
silk mill that is TO be erected in one Of
them. Easton, Reading, and Pottsville
are the most prominent and ambitious.
The bootblacks of London are di-
vided into societies. One of them,
known as the Saffron Hill, numbering
siXty-six members, has earned in the
last twelve months between $4,000 and
e4,OO0.
Among the many diseases which
render the live stock industry hazard
GUS in England is diphtheria,which gen.
orally proves fatal. 1t seems to be un-
know in America outside of the human
species.
The Montgomery Advertiser esti-
mates that the amount spent by the
people of Alabama in gong and re-
turning from Atlanta, and during their
stay in Atlanta, will not fail short of
| $4,000.
Since the beginning of Novem
| twenty-five earthquake shocks hay
been observed in various parts
Switzerland. They seemed TO hav
been most numerous in the neighbor-
hood of Schaiihausen.
Raimond de Bourbon, Marquis de
/ NaIcarlOs, a nephew of Queen Isabella,
! is, like many other titled pcrsonages in
/ these days, about TO take an untitled
wife. His bride is Mile. Albert, the
daughter Of Spanish banker.
At Easton, Pa, one day last week,
the Glendon Iron company touched off
blast to charge which required ten
tons Of powder. Forty thousand tons
of solid rock limestone were broken in
to fragments by the explosion.
In 1878 freight rates on cattle to
England were in the neghborhood of
fifteen dollars per head; now they are
from six to eight dollars less, and the
exporting business is less profitable
than when the high freights were rul-
ing,
The timber culture act has had the
effect of doubling the timber area in
Nebraska and Kansas during the past
twelve years. At present nearly every
well ordered farm has an outlaying
timber tract of from thirty to forty
acres.
Sixty million sheep and twenty mil
lion cattle roam the pampas of the Ar
gentine Republics; nearly all, it is said,
the descendants of one bull and eight
cows taken there from Europe in 1868,
by two Portuguese brothers named
Goes.
Atlanta Constitution: Florida is
rapidly developing. A dredge is being
taken up the Catoosahatchee to Lake
Hickapooche to make connection with
Lake Okechobee. The next progress
i've step should be to abolish the
names.
Franz Winkler, of Canal Fulton, O,
is believed to be the only heir to an
immense fortune in diamonds and
money deposited in lS45 in the Bank
of England at the death of the owner,
who is supposed to be Winklers
brother.
For the ten months ending October
81. there was exported from the United
States 423000,0U0 gallons of petroleum,
valued at $40,000,000, against 1885,
100000 gallons, valued at $29,OOO,O00,
for the corresponding ten months OF
last year.
Mrs, Brewster, the wife of the at
torney-general and the daughter OF the
late Robert J.. Walker, is described asa
tall and stately woman, with dark eyes
and Spanish air, often heightened by
lace draperies and fan managed with
perfect grace.
Production of potatoes for 1881 is as
follows: United Kingdom, 5.00O,O0O
tons: United States, 100000 tons;
Germany, 24,0OO,0O0 tons; France, ~
100000; Russia, 100000; Austria
Hungary, 100000; other countries,
12,250,000 tons.
The fog was so dense, at Boston, the
other morning, that objects could not
be distinguished ten feet away, and
gaslight could not be discerned from
its next post. Pedestrians frequently
lost their way, and the police were
often at a loss how to direct them.
A certificate of incorporation was
issued by the secretary of state at
Wheeling, w. Va, last week to num-
ber of gentlemen who have uni ed for
the purpose of purchasing the salt
sulphur springs in Monroe county, and
operating the same as a summer resort.
Gov. Winslow's chair and table have
lately been placed for safe keeping in
Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, by their own
er. Mr.. Isaac Winslow. The hall has
Just been made flre.proof, and the
trustees hope to collect everything in
the way Of relics ef the pilgrims into
this museum.
President Hinsdale, of Hiram col