Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-06-15
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While digging well near Lake City,
Fla, the petrified jawbone of croco-
dile was found at depth of fifty.three
feet.
Preparations are being made to re-
build most of the burnt district of
Olympia, Washington territory, with
brick.
Southern papers point to the i'm
mense amount of farming machinery
being sold as evidence of the prosperity
of the south.
A big strike of almost virgin copper
was made in the Apache mine, in the
Santa Catalina mountains, Arizona, last
week.
A few small California carp placed
in a pond in Woodford county, Ky,
eighteen months ago were recently
caught, and weighed from six to eight
and half pounds each.
While the profits of Sing Sing prison
for May were $1,000, the deficiency at
Auburn was $500 and at Clinton
~, 400, leaving a net profit of only
81 800 for the prisons Of the state OF
New York.
AT this season the gulls deposit great
numbers of eggs on the islands of
Mono lake, California. Last week
some men went upon the islands and
gathered over fifty dozen eggs in
short time.
The Bristol (Nev) Times says:
Topaz, garnets, and moss agates are
picked up hereabouts. Several speci-
mems were sent to Chicago lapidaries
and were pronounced genuine. Bristol
may yet boom as producer of precious
stones.
Within radius of five miles from a
place on the Skagit, Washington terri
tory, there is estimated to be at least
200 GOO 900 feet of fir saw timber. This
exclusive of the maple, spruce and
cedar, which is also an item of no
mean Importance.
A shipment of lumber from Shreve-
port, La, was made on the 3Oth ult.
for the state of chihuahua, Mexico,
40 miles south of FL Paso. The cars
were loaded in the saw-mill grounds,
and will not be unloaded till their desti-
nation is reached.
1t is calculated that not less than
twenty thousand boxes of oranges have
been shipped from Santa Anna valley,
California, during the season just clos
ing. These oranges have generally
been marketed at good figures, and 1t
is estimated that about $4,000 have
been received hy orchardists of that
valley.
Saratoga's Grand Union hotel has
been painted anew in such an extremi-
ty of astheticism as throws The Sara
togian into an "early English rapture.
The prevailing shades, it announces,
are olive, bronze. green, gold-bronze,
purple-brown, tmquoise-blue, and old
gold, and all blend into what might be
styled a symphony of color.
Az emigrant train, comprising five
wagons, occupied by twelve men and
women, passed through Walla Walla
last week, en- route to Texas. This
party has been living near Moscow,
Idaho territory, for ten years, and
having made fortunes are going back
to their old homes to enjoy them. They
had fine outfit of stock and wagons.
A geologst, who has just completed
an investigation of the mineral depos-
its along the line of the Selma, Rome
and Dalton railroad, between Rome,
Georgia, and Calera, Ala, reports that
there is more brown hematite iron ore
contiguous to this road than can be
found in any other iron-feld in the
United States.
At Victoria, British Columbia, Gus
toms officers seized a diamond ring,
valued at sl,2U0 to 81, 500. and gold
watch, chain, and locket, valued at
1900, from the person of recent arii-
val in the province. The loser says he
wore the articles at the time, and that
the ring was taken from his finger and
the other articles from his vest. He is
diamond broker.
The receiver of the United States
land Office at Gainesville. Fla, has sent
to Washington over $4,000 fc" land
purchases in Florida since closing the
business of the last fiscal year. This
shows that there has been land boom
in the state, and the purchases of COM
mon school-land from the state, If they
have been in the same proportion, have
largely replenished the state treasury.
There has been left in Umatilla
county, Oregon, this spring, between
100000 and $5O0,0O0 by the different
buyers of cattle, sheep and horses. It's
estimated that 100000 sheep have been
driven out of the county. The prices
paid for these sheep were from $3.50
to 1925 each. 1t is thought 5000 head
of horses have been sold at an average
price of $3.50 per head. From 2O,O00
to 10000 cattle have been sold at $40
to $50 per animal.
The Salt Lake and Western railroad
has reached a point forty-three miles
west of Lehi, and by June Is the road
will be at the Mammoth smelter, fifty
three miles from Lehi. At point
three miles this side of the smelter
there will be a station and town, to
be known as Ironton, from which iron
for the smelters will be shipped. Near
Ironton there are very extensive bodies
of iron Ore Of fine quality, which is
being mined and shipped to the smell
ters at Sandy and other places.
Benjamin Weil,'a Hebrew saloonist,
was arrested at Dayton, o., for violat-
ing the Sunday law. His defense was
that, being a Hebrew, he religiously
kept Saturday as his Sabbath, and,
therefore, had right to do business on
Sunday. The judge held that his sale
of beer on Sunday was violation Of
the law. We'll will take the case to
the supreme court He was fined $40
and costs, and. ordered to beimprisoned
one day, but sentence was suspended,
pending poceedipgs in the supreme
court.
Saline valley, Inyo county, Cal, is
one of the most remarkable places in
the state. If the lofty Inyo range