Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

8 This months half.yearly dividends
in Boston foot up $6,426,4O6.
In CandelaIia, New, the water com
pany sells water at five cents gallon
,, Cattle are high in Montana. A herd
, of 1900 in Chestnut Valley recently
! sold for $4,000
, President Arthur has the best known
, method for keeping secret. He trusts
himself with it.
Gen. Grant is arranging TO entertain
his friends in princely style at Long
Branch this season.
Foxes are reported to be very bold
aud rdyeAUus In parts VI Gambia and
Washington counties, Pennsylvania,
Large deposits of roofing slate have
been discovered in Berks county, Penn
sylvania, and will be opened imme-
diately.
No less than fifty-eight sailing ves-
sells with cargoes of refined petroleum
have been lost within the past four
months.
Hogs are being trained to work in
harness in some parts of Pennsylvania,
Armstrong county having several such
teams in service.
Broom factories of Los Angeles, CAL,
are forced to send east for broom.corn,
because the farmers in the vicinity neg
lect its cultivation.
1t is cOntended that NJ. Grevy's dis
like to inAicting capital punishment is
increasing crime in France. In Janu-
ary there were fifty-tbree murders.
Mr.. Longfellow was four times
tcnfered a foreign mission, and as
many times declined The honor, The
last offer came from President Hayes.
AT present on the rolls of the Albany
public schools there are l0,695 pupils,
with an average membership of 10,-
$50, and an average attendance of g.
407.
Miss Eleanor Ewing, daughter of
Gen, Hugh Ewing, Of Ohio, and niece
of Gen. Sherman, took the white veil
at the convent Of the sisters of mercy
at Pitt last week.
Gen. de Chanal, who was appointed
by the French government to watch
the operations of Gen. Grants army
during the civil war, hus just died at
the age of II years.
Fourteen counties in the state of
New York have contributed $500 to
the Garfield monument fund. Several
thousand dollars additional have been
collected in New York city,
All the various mines and coke.
works along the New river, West Vir-
ginia, are in full blast, with plenty of
orders for coal and coke. Business gen.
orally is going along finely, with appar-
ent prospects of continuing to do so for
some time.
Blanton Duncan estimates the area
of the overlowed districts in the
South at 100000 acres, and 100000
people will be compelled to seek other
lands and employment. He says 1t
will take $4,000 to relieve their
necessities.
Thomas Allen, Henry Shaw and
Mary L. Tyler are the only residents
of st. Louis who pay taxes on over
hundred and fiftv other persons are
assessed as worth more than 100000
in taxable property,
A statue of Lonprellow ia talked of
at Camhridoe Onnosite the home of
the noet there is n Iot which the poet
kent onen that he migbt command
from His windows tbe beantifnl view
over tba Charles river and If ia suggest.
ed that tba statue be nlaced there
The Oldest inhabitant OF Prince Ed
'',hn m%iu ,as no,o hor " ~ % CO hoad tos 10 naar,
mn' "rS TSiu OU,m nnoroSIo AZ Nv on'om n U as mar
aSJI Ga +m;oo o and ro;So% % twn famiiies lies
roost 100 go, of rhon, % ora Sead Che rotoina
r lilo,v VI ii,.; mnvn al, ,a ueau. Sno ,;res re
dill nei '"'u'''e' "ii'io'' uiii'iip"i'u'
1t is estimated that 100,000,0O0 feet
of logs were cut on the headwaters of
the Kennebec last winter, which, with
the l5,OO0,0C0 feet of old logs chung
up along the tributaries, will makea
drive of ll5,OOO,OOO feet to be hoated
down the river. Last year the drive
was the cleanest ever made, owing to
the cOpl0ls rains, and l5UOUO,UUU feet
VI 'i'ii''i 0""'o uo"h'
In tearing down the old postofiice
building in Cleveland, o., copper box
was taken from the cornerstone, but
the contents, with the exception of
few coins of 1850 and 1856, were so
decayed from mold and dampness as to
be entirely illegible, The box had.
however, not been properly sealed, and
the place where it was deposited was
nearer the roof than the ground
A few davs ago the ferryman at
Malls ferry on the Chattahoochie riv-
or while nuttinp some passengers over
in his aat discovered a box floating
down tbe river. After the flat had
landed its passengers the ferryman
saiyed n batteau and made his way to
the boy which he soon overhauled,
and was astonisbed TO find that it con.
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