Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-05-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A king fish weighing eight hundred
!" pounds was recently caught near New.
; bern, N. G.
= Two hundred thousand tons of coal
. were mined in Somerset county, Penn
. sylvania, last year.
{ Cattle on the flats along the Carson
river, Nevada, find little food, and
. many are perishing.
e There is hardly a complaint this year
c about the Louisville city assessment.
1t is about 100000.
The Lodi (Cal) Review counts up
1000 acres in that city that have been
: planted in watermelons this season.
A colored female preacher from
Spartanburg is carrying on revival
! in the colored Baptist church at An
derson, S. G.
A small girl at Rochester, N. Y, has
become affected with st. Vitus' dance,
result, it is thought, of excessive
rOpe-jumping.
Switzerland has had to pass law to
protect the Alpine flower, and the
country around London cries for one
to save the wild primroses and cow
slips.
In the Pincate district, San Bernar-
dino county, California, the San Jacin-
to mine is said to be producing from
$4,000 to $4,000 worth Of gold per
menth.
The Chinese of San Francisco pay
about 100000 annually in licenses,
while it costs the city 100000 year
to maintain the law in the Chinese
quarter.
An old bachelor, aged so, died in
Brooklyn last fall, leaving an estate
valued at s250,000. Now there are
278 cousins and other relatives trying
to break the will.
The new Catholic theological build
ing on the old Stanwood estate at
Brighton, Mass, is to cost half mil
lion dollars 1t will be ready for oc-
cupancy in the fall of 1883.
The New York state board of audit
have disallowed the claim of the execu-
tors of William C. Conner for sheriffs
fees and poundage in the Tweed case,
amounting to $Sl,7l7.
The secretary of war having de.
clined to send a team to shoot at Creed
moor, the National Rifle association
have voted to appeal directly to Presi-
dent Arthur in the matter.
The trustees of Lane seminary
Cincinnati have rendered theprofessor-
ship of church history, made vacant
by the death of DR.. Humphreys, to
Rev. Thomas Dewitt, of Philadelphia.
The restoration Of the celebrated
Byzantine cathedral at st. Front, at
Perigueux, in the south of France, dat
ing from the eleventh century, has just
been completed, after thirty years Ia
Dor.
Oysters have been discovered in
large quantities in Bass river Burling-
ton county, n. j., twenty-five miles
from its mouth, requiring the oyster
men to use thirtyfoot tongs to raise
them.
Female candidates for the study Of
medicines in Russia are constantly in
creasing. The total number admitted
within ten years is 959. OF these, 28l
have finished their studies, and l52 are
now practicing.
There is an epidemic prevailing
among the cattle in Wilcoy county,
Alabama, similar to the black tongue.
They are taken with swelling Of the
tongue, are sick two or three days and
then pine away and die.
Some of the finest walnut trees in
the mountains of North Carolina have
been sold at $40 each just as they
stand in the woods, the purchasers re-
serving the privilege to take them
away within a certain number of years.
The tin mines southeast of Riverdale,
CAL, are being gradually developed by
the sinking of shaft and the running
of tunnel. The character of the rock
will soon be tested for gold, silver and
tin, as it is known to contain all these
metals.
An octogenarian hermit is causing a
good deal of comment in Cincinnati.
He is business man worth $3.50, 900,
exceedingly charitable, who secluded
himself twenty years ago in subur-
ban house, in consequence OF a quarrel
with his wife, and has lived there ever
since, reading the newspapers, but see
ing no one.
A Naples correspondent writes on
the 21st: "The central crater Of Mount
Etna has been throwing up ashes for
the last two or three days, covering
the pure new snow lately fallen with
stratum of black ashes on the east side.
The mud eruption at Paterna contin-
ues, but is limited to one crater, from
which flows hot and liquid mud"
One of the most extensive riceplant-
ers near Georgetown, S. c., has planted
his entire crop this year by machinery.
So rapid has been the termination and
growth of the rice that 1t is now being
heed. This is said to be perhaps the
first instance in South Carolina, If not
in the entire south, in which whole
rice crop has been planted with ma
chimes.
A Trojan, in lighting a cigar, set fire
to the cord attached to his eye glasses.
The flame darted up, and in a moment
the frame of the glasses was all ablaze.
He dashed them to the floor quickly
and saved his eyesight from injury.
The secret of the mystery is that the
frame Of the glasses was made Of cell
luloid, a preparation Of gun-cotton and
very inaammable.
The old willow tree at the corner Of
Uhauncy street and Exeter place, Bos-
ton, which grew from twig taken
from tree growing near the grave OF
Napoleon Bonaparte, was cut dowpi
last week, on account Of the changes
in that vicinity, caused by the extension
Of Harrison avenue. As fast as each
branch reached the ground, the small
twigs were torn from it and carried on
as souvenirs by those who were pass
ing.