Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-06-01
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a mate Of an almhOuse in Glasgow.
Il School lands in Texas are being sold
D at the rate of $1,000 acres per day.
A Strawberry shippers of Gadsden
= Tenn, realize about 81 900 per day.
r The snow is yet four feet deep
: around the base of Jay peak, Vermont
t Printing has been introduced as a
5 study into the high school Of San Jose,
+ Cal.
Offers are abundant about Tallahas,
sa, Fla.
Jacksonville. Fla. claims to have
shipped about 29,O00,0OO oranges this
season.
Some of the finest iron-ore in Ten.
nesser has been found in Hickman
, county.
Quincy, Fla, has produced straw
berry measuring five and half inches
in circumference.
The mill villages in eastern Con-
necticut are replemishing their list of
workingmen with Polish immigrants.
A fifth Catholic chuch edifice is to be
built at once in Manchester. N. H.,
where the Catholic population numbers
$4,000.
Trees in East Tennessee are bend
ing with apples, peaches, and cherries,
and grapes promise an extraordinary
success.
Albany is to pay $500 a year the
coming five years for being supplied
with correct time from the Dudley
observatory.
Corn in lower East Tennessee has
been powed second time, and
throughout this division the prospect
is encouraging.
The cOlored troops of Georgia are to
into encampment at Macon in June.
About fifteen companies are expected
go report to the camp.
The Roman Catholic schools in New
York city and its neighbOrhood num-
ber over one hundred, and teach more
than $4,000 children.
An Alderney heifer in Twiggs
county, Kentucky, gives twenty.one
gallons of milk week, from which is
obtained eleven pounds Of butter.
The aggregate value of the property
of colored people throughout Tennes-
see is set down at $6,47S,95l, being al
increase of $67l, ,l79 over the preceding
year.
The Texas and Pacific railway has
contracted for the transportation of
seven hundred carloads of California
wheat to go to Europe by way of New
Orleans.
Of about on hundred immigrants
who arrived in Troy, N. Y, one day
last week, each man carried a black
thorn stick and each woman baby.
They ere lrish.
Mr.. Noyes has been obliged on ac-
count of his health to give up his work
at Dartmouth college. EX.Pnesident
Brown, of Hamilton college, takes his
place with the seniors.
The Galveston News gives estimates
of acreage from 56 railway stations,
showing an acreage this year Of cotton,
S43 Az; corn. 459,Sl2. Increase over
l9Sl-cotton, 80 459; corn, 40 $50.
A cargo of 3.35O,OOO pounds raw
sugar is on its way from Honolulu TO
New York, to conciliate retiners who
were opposing a renewal of the free
trade treaty with the Sandwich islands.
Among the "ove1fOw sufferers"
who drew government rations in Tel
rebonne parish, Louisiana, were
number of "fioaters," who are making
81 and IS per day by getting logs out
of the swamps.
Plairle and wood fires have been
raging in southern Arizona and western
New Mexico recently. The territory
burned is reported 10 cover forty miles
square, aud the damage done is i'm
lnense. The origin of the fire is at
tributed to the Indians.
A sympathetic 5.year.old boy found
A colt lying on some straw and shiver-
ing with cold in a barn. in CRANKY, Os-
wego county. n. Y, few days ago,
and set the straw on fire to make the
congenial for the animal.
AS result both barn and colt were
burned up, the loss being $500.
A Chinaman recently died at Eure-
IA, New, and was buried with the usu'
Al formalities. The night after the
burial some Indian squaws robbed the
yrave of the roast pig and were erjoy-
ng it very much. But the heather,
,uspecting that this might occur, had
ioctored the pig beforehand, and short
" after eating it the squaws were at
lacked with violent fits of vomiting.
Quite romantic marriage took
place at Keeseville, Essex county, N.
Y, one day last week. Luther Lang
Ion, of Solon, Iowa, and Miss Maria
Mosher, of Keeseville, were the inter-
,sted parties. They are each 70 years
Did. 1t is reported that they are old
overs. Mr.. Langdon went west many
years ago ami amassed fortune, and
ately returned to claim his early love.
They will start for the west soon.
The city of Texarkana is phenom-
snal city. 1t lies in the two states OF
Texas and Arkansas; hence its name.
The state line runs through the center
If its chief street, and on each side is
|, population of three thousand. Itis
considered the gateway of the south
vest 1t is only eight years old, but
las all the airs Of city Of twenty-five
ears -Four railroad lines center there.
L has an Italian.like climate, tramps
ire not tolerated, the Sunday law is
money is plenty, and the peo.
Die are prosperous.
Mrs. Dainty and Horse Talk.
Burlington Hawkeye
Mrs. Laura Dainty was reading out