Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-03-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Tucson, Arizona, is building S6O,-
coo court house.
Orange trees at Paradena, Cal, are
already blossoming.
OJerlin college has 1925 students,
but only Al of them studying theol'
ogy.
Three hundred men exercise in the
gymnasium of Harvard college every
day.
A big cast.iron dog in Sacramento
store frightened away three armed bur
glars.
It has cost $4,000 to contest the
i9,OOOwill of Elizabeth Snyder, of Troy,
n. Y.
The next state fair of New York
will be held September % and 70 at
Utica.
Buffalo gnats are causing much an
noy Ance to owners of live stock in west
Tennessee.
In West Tennessee, it is said, one
third of the farms are incumbered with
mortgages.
The charity population Of Richmond,
Va, amounts to fifteen thousand White
and cOlOred.
One hundred families have moved
into Birmingham, Ala, since the lst
of December.
Southwest Virginia is every year
rapidly increasing III Importance as a
! tobacco section.
One hundred men have been dis
charged from the locomotive-wolks at
Dunkirk, n. Y.
1t is estimated that more than 2OO,-
OOU cattle will be driven north from
Texas this spring
Since 1851 the Pennsylvania Rail-
road company has paid dividends to
the amount $SO,OOO,OOO,
The school attendance at Louisville,
Kentucky, is 14,j2S; the number of
teachers employed is $50.
Real estate transactions for the
north of February, in Los Angeles,
Cal, amounted to S434,913.
During the past two years FIVE ladies
have been elected to the Office of coun-
ty Superintendent in Nebraska.
South Florida is literally swarming
with landseeker5 and capitalists, where
they are investing large amounts.
LYDIA Congdon has just died at
Providence, r. l., within twenty-four
days of being one hundred years old.
A man in Livingstone county, New
York, has bought and shipped over
two tons of skunk skins this winter
1t is estimated that there are in
Philadelphia between $1,000 and 2S,-
600 children who are not attending
any school.
Boston's teachers are pctitioning
that female teachers who have served
Ten years shall receive salary OF not
less than $1,000.
There has been sl,S3O,0O0 actually
put into the Canadian Pacific railroad,
which is 80 per cent of the capital
stock subscribed for.
The drought in southern California
has sent many sheepmen into southern
end western Texas, and greet many
sheep have already arrived,
Judge James r. Brown, of the Blue
Ridge circuit, Georgia, recently SEN
fenced Il negro to the penitentiary for
natural life and thirty months over.
The Memphis board of health reports
seventyseven deaths occurring in
February. This is the smallest num-
ler that has been reported for four
years.
A young couple were baptized to-
gelher at TTousdale, Tenn, and imme-
diately afterward were married, in
their dripping garments, by the same
clergyman.
New York streets have 23.52l public
lights of an evening, 55 of which are
electric. The consumption of gas by
the street lights last year was II, l69,-
600 cubic feet.
The various waterfalls in the Yosem-
ite valley look grand just now. I'm
rnenso icebergs have formed, ana the
views are even more grand than dur
ing the summer months.
Three years ago firm in Texas in
vested $685. 900 in cattle; few weeks
ago this stock and its increase was sold
at SIS per head, and the sale amount
ed to more than $4,000.
Last summer the people of Green
vile, Miss, had to haul water from the
river at a cost of 25 cents a barrel.
Now the inhabitants are compelled 10
crawl out on the housetops in order TO
keep dry.
The oystermen of Oyster bay, L. /.
claim that they hold their fishing righ
under a patent or grant issued to Tn
town by Queen Anne, and that the
New York legislature has no right to
interfere with them.
From the old bronze and lead found
about the base of the obelisk now
standing in New York there have been
made twenty-five models of the monu-
ment, each fifteen lnches nlgn, an"
two of them were q month since pre-
sented to the khedive CT Egypt.
The bequest of $4,000 left by the
late Hon. Oakes Ames for the benefit
of the children of North Easton be
came available last August. Anon
other good things done by it is the
placing in every family Of school chill
dren there a copy of children's mag
azine.
Bank bills ranging in denomination
from 81 TO 500 have been accepted at
the banks in Troy, N. Y, which 1t is
discovered are an inch short of the
regular size. Persons engaged in the
fraud are unknown, and have reaped
rich harvest. The device consists of
cutting two and two-thirds from one
bill, then oneeighth is cut from anoth-
er bill of some denomination, and the
eighth and two-thirds are pasted to-
gether, making apparently a genuine
bank note.
A young farmer near Springfield,
nI1