Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-09-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

i nTtt ultITltN SlSltIS, Cdtll VI NhOhi
e has twin children, held reunion at
/, Allentown, Pa, Friday. The six chill
II dren were present.
y y Wild turkeys are reported as more
u numerous than usual this season OF the
: year throughout the west of Texas and
u on the line of the railroads.
= BY actual count of the Geneseo IN.
u Y.,) Republican, there are in that vii
: lage 207 unmarried ladies of marriage
y able age, and but 55 unmarried men.
o The lumber trade of Apalachicola,
Fla. is becoming enormous. 1t is expect
! that five hundred vessels will load
/ there during the coming commercial
: year.
+ A company of capitalists are putting
/ Il good deal of money into the zinc
{ mines of east Tennessee, and expect
. profitable returns from their invest
. munt.
/ 1t is proposed TO open the Tennessee
Southern railroad to New Orleans with
in n year. Three in mediate and
partly-built roads are to g consolidated
with it,
Large numbers of hogs have recently
been purchased in Ohio and Illinois to
to be sent to Georgia to be fattened.
There is something refreshingly novel
in this.
A fleet of forty vessels from Key
West are gathering sponges of Arclotc
and Clear Water harbor. On one day
of last week $4,000 worth of sponges
were bought at Key West.
Belle Boyd (now Mrs. Hammond).
famous as a rebel spy during the civil
war, was arrested at Philadelphia, the
other day, for having given a check up
on bank in which she had no deposit
At protracted meeting at Flat Creek,
Lancaster county, S. c., last Sunday
week, thirteen persons were converted
and eight or ten restored. The Flat
Creek church was established in l777,
and its pastor has presided for thirty
three years.
The best pleased men in Washington
territory are the hop.growers. To il
luStrate, The Intelligencer hears of one
in the Puyallup valley who expects this
year to clear S2S, 600 over all expenses,
and he isn't the principal producer in
the valley, either.
Cashier Craft, of the broken Frank
lin bank, of Pennsylvania, is said to be
chcrishing the reflection behind the
prison gratngs that he talked too much
when his crime was first discovered.
He gave himself away and does not
even get mercy in return.
The crown lands of Australia besides
the reserves for roads, bridges, ETC.,
comprise thirty-two million acres, clas-
iied as follows: Agricultural lands,
nine million acres; pastoral, twelve
million acres; inferior land, called the
"mallee scrub eleven million acres.
Prairie chickens and grouse have been
more plentiful in Washington territory
this season than for many years past.
The coveys are now large and well
grown and the prospect for sport when
the season opens is anXiously looked
forward to by the sportsmen of that
locality.
A gentleman, while working on
new building at San Jose, CAL, the
other day, discovered 4 tarantula hole
in the ground in which were three large
'ln,Uias and kind of shell or cocoon.
which was supposed to contain tarau-
tula eggs. The shell was broken and
he counted three hundred young ones.
The project of cultivating oysters in
Salt lake, Utah, is regarded thereabouts
as impracticable, as there is in the lake
no suitable food for oysters, and arti-
fetal feeding would be Improbable,
while there is danger that the mud and
silt that is carried into the lake each
T ing would smother the oysters.
'' ,lcie estimates the number
ol chi IN San Frrs ,is- .. thirty
thousand. A large number Of surplus
are reported looking for
work, the organized effort on the part
of the whites to stop the purchase OF
Chinese-made goods having had the
effect to throw many of them out of
The annual production of Canada
malt is about 6S GOO 900 pounds. OF
This nearly 90, ,0Oo, 900 hounds are ex-
ported to the United States. The I'M
ports-almost wholly confined to British
Columbia-barely exceed l5O,OOO
pounds In Toronto alone there are
100000 gallons of beer brewed, while
the capital employed amounts to s3,-
100000.
On the farm of Judge Bronson. of
Seymour, Allegany county, New
York. is natural curiosity. A maple
tree one foot in diameter , grows .I 9 ous 9f
solid rock, three feet from inc grounu'
and out OF this tree about loot from
the base OF the tree IS a ceoar hmo
about two inches in diameter which Is
as flourishing as any OF the branches oil
the parent tree.
Part of the tusk of mammoth, un-
earthed in Box Elder, is on exhibition
in Miles City, Montana. 1t is said the
entire tusk was about twenty feet in
length: on , f9wder r,. ri'et' !, aoou. .osta SKY
miles from Miles oity, IL ,b Is repGrteo, to,
whole skeleton Oh maihilo.n haS
been brought 10 hgh!, anu u parry oi
scientists are organizing 10 WISH 'ne
spot and secure H.
Four women were bathing in Cedar
o,ool. ,oo,. Rodd;np Gal last week