Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Wild pigeons have appeared at
Pointe Coupee, La.
Artificial stone for building is manu-
featured at Tampa, Fla.
Nearly 100000 oranges have been
shipped from Tampa, Fla, this season.
The Anaheim (Cal.) Gazette sums up
the wine yield of that district at 662,-
900 gallons.
A Grenada Miss man claims to have
found 81 500 in following the dicta-
tions of dream.
An enterprising merchant Of
Thomasville, Ga, offers from 81 to So
per pound for alligator teeth.
An inventory of the property in
Paris belonging to the city estimates
its value at about $2O0,0O0,000.
The blackleg, or mountain fever, has
made its appearance among the cattle
of Chewaucan, Oregon. A few have
died.
In the year 1880 the total loss by
fires in Boston was $l,173,594, while
up to Dec. l, 1881, the losses footed up
s435,585.
The state of Pennsylvania has re.
covered $4,000 from ex-treas lrers
who withheld money received for
liquor licenses.
A scourge seems to have seized the
Visalia country, Tulare county, Cali
fornia. The mortality for the past two
months has been awful,
Thirty thousand pounds of powder
are now stored in the magazine at Mul-
lan's Tunnel, Montana, and 10000
pounds more will soon arrive.
The total cost to Whitman county,
Washington territory, for fitting up a
pst-house, and caring for smallpox
patients therein up to Dec. |, was $0jS.
Laboring men are in great demand
at Apalachicola, Fla. One man re-
Gently offered 25 cents an hour or $3.50
per day and board for laborers, without
effect.
The Los Angeles chamber Of COM
merce has addressed a circular to the
farmers of southern California, in
which they estimate the orange CfcH
at$l 100000.
A resident of Belfast, o., has been
put under bonds of $500 to appear be-
fore the grand jury on the charge of
opening a letter written by his wife to
her father.
A Norristown (Pa.) junk-dealer has
shipped 225 old-fashioned (grandfath-
er's) clocks, that he succeeded in gath
ering up in the neighborhood, to New
York during the last year.
The so called Sopori Mexican land
grant, which covers 250 miles of land,
has been declared by the surveyor gen.
eral of Arizona to be fraudulent and
invalid. The land included in this
claim extends from the San Xavier to
Tubac.
A man near Hammond, st. Lawrence
county, N. Y, caught seal in net
near Oak Island the other day. II
weighed seventy.six pounds, and meas
ured four feet in length and three feet
in girth. This is probably the first seal
ever caught in the upper st. Lawrence
river.
An organized band of horse-thieves
is operating in eastern Washington ter
ritory, in the Yakima and Klickitat
sections, from which over l,500 horses
have been stolen within ayear. About
twenty of them are encamped in val
ley near the British line, which they
The impression that no fish can be
caught from the famous Silver spring
of Marion county, Florida, is erro-
neous. A Mr.. Westerville, of South
Carolina, who has been stopping there
for a time, has taken thirty-seven diff.
ferent varieties OF fish from the spring,
and reports hayins seen several other
kinds,
A list of the streets Of Paris com
piled by order of the municiple council,
shows that there are $3.50 of them,
with total length of abort 600 miles.
No fewer than 1,439 of the streets have
had their names changed within the
last thirty years, and most of the
changes have been made for political
reasons.
Someone who has looked up the re-
cord denies that 1.-The twenty-five pat
ents issued to Edison on Dec, q con
stituted the largest number ever is
sued at one time to one individual by
any government, and says that on Sept
IA, 1872, twenty-nine patents, under
the single title of steam vacuum
pumps, were issued by the United
States to G. II. Hall, Of New York
city.
A capture of wild Arizona camels
has been made by Indians in the vi
cinity of Gila Bend. A carload has
been sent east. 1t consisted of seven
large and two small camels, and was
consigned to circus manager of Kan
sas City. They were in charge of an
Egyptian, who had been sent out ex-
pressly to get them. They do not diff
fer from ordinary camels, excepting
that they exceed in size any yet ex-
hibited.