Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-02-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are 2O7 chartered railroads in

on the Sd Of May.
The palace of the guicowar of Baro-
da is about to be lit up with the elec-
trio light.
A company has been formed at Win
nipeg, Manitoba, to supply eastern cit
les with canned frogs legs.
The elevators of Manitoba being full
of wheat, shipments are to be made at
once to Minneapolis and Duluth.
The Montreal Abattoir company is
in financial difficulties because of the
obstinacy of the butchers, who refuse
to patronize the slaughter-house.
Rev. Simeon Parmalee, d. d., who
celebrated his Tooth birthday the 10th
of January, died at Oswego, N. Y, st"
week. Mrs. Parmalee survives at the
age OF 50.
The number of postcards dispatched
in Germany during the year 1851 was
1913, 100000. In the pOstoIllce museum,
at Berlin, there are exhibited 4l0 diff
ferent kinds of postcards.
During the last four years Oregon
has exported to the eastern states not
less than 100000 head of beef cattle.
Most of these cattle were produced i'll
the counties east of the cascades.
The daily price paid for intoxicating
drinks in New York is estimated at
$4,000, or S93,5jOO0O every year.
There is said to be an alarming increase
of drunkenness among the women.
1t is reported in Japan that the gov
ernment is about to Teestablish Shin
toisln as the religion of the state, and
to combat, by all possible means, Budd-
hism and the progress made by Chris
tianity.
A little black-and.tan dog at Los
Angeles, Cal, has taken his place on
the grave of his master, who was buried
Jan. 90, and no persuasion can induce
him either to leave the spot or partake
of food.
Eating sausages imported from
France has been the cause of the death
of popular physician at San Antonio,
Tex. The sausages contained some lr-
ritant poison that produced a fatal
peritOnitis.
After a recent fire in Mobile, Ala,
catfish eight inches in length was
found in the pumps of a steam fire
engine. The engine received its water
from a hy drant, and the fish must have
come six miles through the pipes.
This years ice crop on the Hudson
river promises to be equal to that of
1879. which was 2,06l, 500 tons. The
quantity housed up to the present time
amounts to 100000 tons, including
100000 tons left over from last year.
Chinese capitalists have purchased
four thousand acres of land IN
san Mateo county, California, and
three hundred coolies will be employed
TO cultivate it. Similar schemes in
other counties cause much uneasiness
among white farmers.
A citizen of Dallas, Tex, while
walking in his yard the other day, was
startled by the falling at his feet CT
fish three inches long, and evidently OF
the salt water species. 1t was tlutter-
ing and rs full of life as though it had
lust come from an aquarium.
An old soldier died day or two ago
in Pittsburgh, Pa, and five days after
his death long delayed pension, dat
ing from March IS, 1868, w9s granted
him. He left no heirs, and this accu-
mutation of nineteen years will remain
in the United States treasury.
Three red.head ducks were shot last
week in the st. Lawrence river below
Ogdensburgh, N. Y. The red-heads
migrate from the Potomac to Labra-
dor in the spring and return in the fall,
stopping in the st. Lawrence both
ways, but it is said to be very unus-
nal thing fot them to remain through
the winter.
A Justice of the peace in Truckee,
New, sentenced DR.. j. r. Goss to pay a
fine of $40 and to imprisonment for one
day in the county Jail for contempt OF
court The doctor was taken to the
i.il in Nevada City at a cost of S4O
But. owing to delay of the train in
which he was taken, he did not arrive
at the jail till within thirty minutes OF
the expiration of his time of imprison-
ment. , o,
A patent medicine firm notified Sir
.John Macdonald of their willingness
to illuminate Parliament square, qua
, wa, by the electric light free of cost
during the session of the Canadian
parliament, provided they were permit
: led to place above the light a large
placard bearing the name OF thelr
medicine. Sir John politely declined
i TO allow the square to be used for ad'
vertising purposes.
A Texas couple stood up to be mar
e ried few days ago, and the officiating
y clergyman, noticing the butt of a pistol
k protruding from the pocket Of the
e groom, suggested that, out of respect
Is to the solemn ceremony about 10 TAKE
'f place, the weapon should be laid aside.
1rhe request being complied with, the
r, bride demurely drew an elght-lnc.n
n bowie from her bosom and tossed IL
y beside the other weapon.
p Nevada has about a million acres OF
!. salt land and could supply the whole
d earth if necessary. The Great basin
= has salt in dozen places. Near Silver
d peak, in Inyo county, there is one valley
with quarter of a million acres. Lone
d valley, between Silver peak and Oolum, !.
y bus, in Esmeralda county, has lO0,ooO
acres of salt. Columbus lies right IN
the center of a salt marsh. Fifteen
miles north of Columbus lies salt Ded
le of immense resources.
le A Troy IN. " bellfpunder has re-
is ceived an order for bell from Delhi,
st Iowa, upon which the following IN
le scriptioss are to be cast On one side;
~ "A voice has gone before every great
cool that has ever been achieved In
a this world" The above words were
le taken from President Gar6eld's last
public address. On the other side OF
g. the bell will be cast: "In memory OF
as servant of Jesus Christ, our loved
,e president, James A. Garfield. 1881"
The law giving to the women Of
a Massachusetts the right to vote for