Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-06-08
ITEMS or INTEREST.

Montana is making large shipments
of potatoes to the east.
There will be thirty steamers on
Lake George this summer.
A single ,bbit of fancy breed was
recently sold in England for 5000.
More than 3OO,000.000 postal cards
are used every year in this country.
Copper ore can be shipped from
Arizona to Baltimore for SlS,25 per
ton.
The Carson mint rate for fine silver
has been reduced to $l.l4 $40 per
ounce fine.
Within the year the mines of Ari-
zona territory have paid nearly Sl,OOO,-
600 in dividends.
A century plant eighteen years old is
preparing to blossom in flower garden
at Watsonville, Cal.
1t is proposed to have an old fashioned
celebration at Winchester, Va, the
coming Fourth of July.
Seth Green found 1900 blackfes in
The stomach of the first North woods
trout he caught this year.
A party of prospectors who recently
passed through Robinson, New Mexico,
had three cubs tied on one horse.
Salt Lake City has about twelve
miles of street car track, with the
prospect Of about two miles more.
1t costs New York city seventy cents
night for each electric light used III
Illuminating the streets and parks.
The oyster beds on Indian River,
Florida, are said to be inexhaustible,
and canning establishment is in pros
pect,
Ii is rumored that s20,000,000 Of
English capital will seon be invested
in the mineral lands of Arkansas and
Missouri.
A l2.year.od girl named Rice died
at Poughkeepse few days ago after
jumping rope i've hundred times in
succession.
This is a freak of commerce: Buff
falo killed in Montana and shipped TO
New York are canned there and re-
shipped to Montana.
New Switzerland on the Georgia
Airline railroad, is settled by Swiss
co!onists. Each family brought with
them to Georgia from $1,000 to $4,000
Theie are 1000 Indians in the Ever.
glades of Florida, speaking their own
language. They are said TO be friend
ily and honest in their dealings with
the Whites
There is boy in Columbia county,
New York, who has living great
graat-grandmotber, three great-grand-
mothers, two granGmothers, and two
grandfather.
The emperor of Russia has given
20 COO roubles to the ST. Petersburg
Geographical Society towards meeting
the expense of another Polar station at
Nova Zembla.
Dir. Lyford, of Tuseon, Arizona, has
an image carved from copper ore,
which represents a god. 1t was found
near Clifton, and was probably made
by the Aztecs.
The state debt of New Hampshire
is triRe over 100000. 1t was re-
duced $4,000 last year, and the re-
duction for the present year, it is
estimated will reach Sl6O,OUO.
A vein of hot water has been tapped
near st. Etienne, France, at depth of
about 1900 meters. This new geyser
sends volume of hot water and caf-
bonic acid to height OF 26 meters.
The statistics of the Patterson, New
Jersey, silk manufacture for last year
will show that $1,000 persons were
employed in the mills, and that Sl6,-
600 900 worth of silk was produced.
A marsh horseshoe has been invent
ed On Padilla bay, Washington terrific
ry. 1t is now in satisfactory use, and
consists simply of a large hattened cir
Gle of iron fastened to the ordinary
horseshoe by riveted cross'bars'
Over 100000 is said to have been
spent in improvements at Bar Harbor,
Me-. the past year. Several s50,OOO
cottages have been built, and w. S.
Gurney, of New York, is now building
one that will cost about $250,O0O.
The Northern Pacific is going to
build at Portland, Oregon, one of the
largest and finest depots in the world.
1t is to be built of stone, granite, and
iron, and will cover twelve full blocks
, of ground. 1t will cost $l,5OO,0OO.
: The results of the vote on the con-
: stitution of Utah are coming in grad
3 ually, It will be some time before
t complete returns are obtainaole. Ey-
erythng indicates a very large and
| practically unanimous vote in favor OF
F.; the constitution.
There are in Douglas county, Ore
) gon, about $50 orchards that produce
= on an average, 1000 bushels of apples
annually, and some Of them as much as
5000 bushels. BY reason Of the late
ness of the spring, apple trees have not
!, bloomed as early this year as COM
: : monty.
!, The whole of the French coast is 10
= be lighted by electricity. As early as
|. 1875 the electric light was employed in
C the light houses near Havre. The new
!. light will he placed in forty two light
n houses, with steam trumpets for fog.
e signals, at a first cost of 81, 100000, and
t an annual expenditure of 100000 for
}. maintaining the same.
A Salado correspondent of The Bel
9 ton Journal writes: / will venture to
J assert that one of the most novel we'd
: dings that ever took place in Texas
was the marriage, on May 4, of Mr.. 5.
Gentry, of Burleson county, to Miss
= Rachel Watson, near Salado The
groom was six feet high and weighed
Il 100 pounds, while the bride was only
Il two feet eleven inches and weighed
/. only sixty-fve pounds. Miss Watson
l was 26 years old, and well known as
% the dwarf Of Bell county"
y Two years ago Oscar Parker, Of
u. n.aovilla VT uhila drinkinO from n