Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-03-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Gov. Tabor, OF Colorado, ma uaily
income from his mine during January
of about $4,000.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is writing his.
tory of the campaigns of the army of
northern Virginia.
Nearly all the farmers in the lower
foothills of Placer county, California,
are setting out grape vines this sea-
son.
The "oldest inhabitant" says that so
far this has been the mildest winter in
Washington territory within his me-
mory.
During January 2.jO9 immigrants
entered the United States at Port HUI
ron, Mich. They were mostly Cana
dians.
Joaqgin Miller lives hermits life
in New York city, occupying rooms at
the top of house and doing his own
cooking.
Little Rock has within ten days lost
money enough on cotton futures to
erect finer ediiice than can be found
in that city.
Over one hundred horses have died
from pink.eye in the trans-Pee-Dee
section of Marion county, South Car
olina, within the past three weeks.
A golden eagle was killed on the
Reavls ranch, near Chico, Cal, lately,
while trying to carry off a dog. 1t
measured seven feet from tip to tip of
the wings.
IL has cost twice as much to take
care Of the criminals as to educate the
children of Nevada, the figures since
1865 being for state prison, S9jIO9O;
for schools, $l68,32
A servant maid named Angel Sibie,
living with a lady in the Avenue de
Friedland, Paris, has just Inherited
iG)0,009 from rowing and long-for-
gotten brother in America.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer will visit Amer
lea, but with no Oscarwildeish intent.
He will travel as far us California
merely to see the country and The peo-
pie, but he won't lecture once. Mr..
s. encer is worthy philosopher.
The coronation of Alexander Ill, if
ever it takes place, which seems still
doubtfll, will cost the pretty little sum
If 2l.OOO,0O0 rubles. The coronation
of the Gar Nicolas cost 6,O0O,OOO
rubles, and that of Alexander II. H.
| 0OO,0Ol.
1t was reported in Knoxville, Tenn,
one day last week, that Perham
Adams, a young cadet attending the
university at that place, Was dying
f,om nicotine poisoning, He smoked
forty cgUetts on wager, and was at
once taken cick.
The Vienna managers are still curs-
ing and gnashing their teeth over the
barbarity of the theauicl inspection
committee, which has been reforming
their houses so radically that they are
likely to be converted into churches
ere long or closed altogether.
A corporation has been formed at San
Francisco for the purpose of acquiring
property necessary for the erection and
maintenance of cremation hall,
wherein to cremate the dead, and by
actual trial to seek to popularize ere.
nation, and so hasten its universal
adoption.
Senator Davis boards at the National
hotel in Washington, where his sitting
room reminds one Of an Illinois law
office. There is no carpet on the floor,
large wood fire crackles and blazes on
the hearth, the chairs are capacious,
with rush seats, and at night candles
supply the light.
Capt. Joe, the local chief of the
Washoe Indians, informed reporter
of the Carson City New Appeal that
there is a squaw living in the outskirts
of Carson who is nearly $50 year old.
Her grandson, at the age of 6O, was
one of Gen. Fremonts guides when
he crossed the plains.
Within radius of twenty miles Of
Heppner, Umatilla county, Oregon,
there are over 100000 sheep. 1t is
safe to assume that these will average
at least six pounds of wool apiece or
100000 pounds, which at an average
price of twenty cents per pound yields
the handsome sum OF $24O, 600 a year.
There is a large field of grain near
the town of Williams, CAL, which is
kept fed off completely to the ground
by ducks, AMI no one ever saw duck
upon it. They come on dark nights.
Great numbers of them come about IL
o'clock aud 90 away about four o'clock
in the morning, feeding some four or
five hours.
President Arthur appears to be al
ways ready with courteous and gallant
speeches. George Bancroft met him,
after sending an invitation to him, and
expressed the hope that he would ac-
cept it. 81 believe" said the president,
81 am allowed to accept invitations
from the cabinet, the supreme court
and-Mr. George Bancroft"
A golden chalice, valued, until last
month"; al from O,uOU W t,uOV hH"'hS
has cen sold by the parish Catholic
church at Carlsruhe to Baron Roth
schild, of Frankfort, for l60, 900 marks.
Recent repairs to the church edllce'
causing an expenditure of several hun
dred thousand marks, brought the par
ish into need, hence the sale.
After examination of more than
| $4,000 persons by the London Ophthal-
mological society, its secretary publish
es some curious information about
color blindness. One of the most singu-
lar facts recorded is that this defect
in vision is far more common among
men than among women, the exact
percentage being respectively 416 and
04.
Miss Louise M. Alcott is lady in
middle life, with broad, high brow
like that of Charlotte Cushman, and
sensitive, intellectual face, with black
eyes and ebon hair. She is by no
means one of the ''little women" being
FIVE feet seven in height, and large in
proportion. Miss Alcott will shortly
publish volume Of Theodore Parkers
prayers.