Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


r books are taken every month.
a Bangs, it is reported, are going out
IS of style, and are now worn only by
ladies with corrugated forheads.
n The potato crop is about lGO,00O,00(
e bushels, or 45,000,000 bushels more
IS than that of 1881. This ought to take
: the starch out of prices.
= The cost of the war in Egypt is esti
y mated at about G4,000,000, exclusive
. of the expenses of the army of oocu-
= patton and the Indian contingent
n A San Francisco club has been
V organized which has as its aim the
G nomination Of Robert T. Lincoln for
S the presidency of the United States in
D 1884.
,l Fhe cotton trade of Augusta amounts
n annually to about Sl0,000,000, or 200,-
5 900 bales. There are ten cotton facto-
T. ries, eight of them large ones, in and
: near the city,
A grasshOpper can be frozen solid In
the fall and laid away, and about the
frs OF May he will yawn, turn over and
hop away as ii nothing had happened
in his routine.
Mrs. Theodore Tilton desires to pass
the remainder of her days in her native
village Of Cranbury, N. j., and is ne
gotiating for the purchase of home
in.that place,
Postmaster Clary, of Sidney, Neb.,
was charged with l06 specific offenses
against the laws and pleaded guilty to
one. Mr.. Clary's score is believed to
be the Boston record.
The death is reported of DR.. John j.
Brown the oldest apothecary in Boston.
He was ninety-two years old, and was
actively engaged in his profession for
nearly sixty-hve years.
The death is announced from the
western coast of Africa OF King 0mOra.
He leaves 700 widows Of his ninety
five children seventy-seven are still
alive. His oldest son has 400 wives.
During the past six months 9,Os5
horses have been used for food in Ber-
lin. The poor are the chief buyers,
but there are many goprmands who
look upon horse flesh as delicacy.
Chief Engineer Gen. Wright esti-
mates that nearly Sl,000,000 will be
required this year on the Ohio river
dykes and dams. Let him attend to
the dykes and the taX-paperS will fur
nish the dams.
The estimated value of real and per-
sonal property in the United States in
1880 was s3j. .SOj. 600. 900 against S2i,-
1863, 100000 in 1860. That is, the gain
in twenty years has been Sl,32O,0
day or nearly 81 900 minute.
pv brddirr +ho oo,tor rlont in tho
ol,rS which Sroys @ % Wild in % EIorido ia '
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iint t" All ro",iriSo V NV o,ipn;nm os ~ i aS SaS
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49, Wv ., aUoUs onNo a,,an a;, ouiio"s '.S"
,o'Hn" L ,,t. SS,v, 81 % ,r" I1v , hne5s e MI NO.
sil;os so u1 oI Wv" o osor;hod o o hin,soit vi 'no
an iiot Snr tn hmjr' any "o,U.J" ,,ariod a Lo did
rr Tra ir'o ohins, iO r"hi Fon, as &C n U u."'
iIor .' gu . ino''sl tn.,nU ,i,o I, I " So,I'"
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Seventeen per cent of the population
OF the United States OF ten years OF ago
and upward, Is unable to read and
write. VI the native whlte persons
ten years OF age and upward. the per
centage IS s." vi inc ioreiSn born
whites, the percentage Is IL. VI the
colorcd people, ~ per cent is unable to
read anu WRITE
The general postoilice in London is
now Illuminated by Edison's lamps.
The lamp itself is perfectly free from
Hanger, anu Is cnP"olG i pi peius ~
ioNou "il'U p''i ms, Ti'n. v'tIn a s?P,, It
tSG ian caf IT, w. '"tmou .Lon or d "u III III an,I ,
VI ti,e t olnors, ~ anu | an oTTiu Tl
oG SWiscncu on from In .no un,,.n IlliL, IN nne
I T.ItS "re i"iu vi HUN iio'Oorh Via
'uo',
1t IS Sald that ihe uniteu G states YES cen,
'uS OF lSSo viii cost s1,oVo,V0o' ana
ylll not be hnlShed untll 1909, Inc
English census cost only Sl4Z'VvV' ana
honrs pr;ntod lists w.ro
off Cne night ot every housc in tbe
-rni,od KinTdom IN bn flied in nv tbo
.nsidcnts md were Gathered mn the
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M NIL .',L ea.i C1JpJ,' Ip"o "1S o9 ,aSm s T on
,ireo MONTHS nSo VI 'c'N oH y1aiS , VI ~,
lui'c u Sa,iai', Sa,iar c,.za "A i1w E uaSS *" ~
,al,eu Oh MIso Oiai" i,., houtso so iAe'."ES,
'hu sahS l1I Tel T; nelSc iSGiii SIn ~ w w
lallau callGI ., ne iortoisc m' ono,. GaI'
n one SO olu @ i,,is Is rcaily IN g. eA'[''ol ,hro
llnary procedure, osPcc.allI "s sneio
Ire Il" :" snst;SSo IS y"f of MIS- Kn,lncg;S SMILES
II. .-Nlx9,o'
At Corwln' o'' Ira Jobes, while
drunk, met II man OF noted piety in
saloon, and requested to be prayed for
The man refused, when Jobes drew
pistol and compelled him to pray five
minutes by the watch, frequently
him. he was especially de-
sirous that the prayer should be direct
ed to the salvation of his SOUL On the
following day he was shot in a street
brawl and will probably die.
Rooont,v n number of Texas canital.
sts soid 70 renresent a combined live
,tock and hankinc interest Of AZ OO0-
1N0 have been visitino north and east
Tor tho nurnose of deyeloninc n scheme
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