Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ sl2285,345.
The establishment of a new pension
Office at Augusta, Me-, with ex.Gov,
t COnnOr as pension agent, may be re-
= garded as fixed fact.
There were 66 vessels cleared from
t San Francisco with wheat and flour for
: December, and 800 vessels in the six
v months ending Dec. 81.
J. A Concord IN. H. man guessed that
9 tenpot contained 43 999 beans,
e whereas the exact number was 1894,
I and he won an overcoat.
During the past year, 1852 persons
died in London Of the small pox. OF
these 325 had been vaccinated, and
637 neglected that precaution, the re.
naming $40 being doubtful.
Boston contains 1000 Swedes, ac.
cording to directory which has been
especially prepared to contain their
name, sex, age, native place and date
of arrival in this country.
Leon ChOtteau, the indefatigable
French political economist, is Just now
devoting his attention to the establish
ment Of new line of steamers to run
between Baltimore and Havre.
Not single bushel of 72000,000 Of
grain sent to Europe from New York
last year went in an American ship.
In 1880 about per cent of the ship
ments was by American vessels.
Four thousand barrels of petroleum
a year was too much for the worlds
consumption twenty-five years ago.
They are using it up now at the rate Of
about fifty thousand barrels day.
A careful estimate of the acreage
sowed to wheat in west Tennessee
places the area at fully rs per cent
greater than the breadth of lard given
to the production of this cereal in 1881.
The drafted men of 1868 are organ.
zing by counties, in New York, to en-
force by the legislature the passage of
law making it obligatory on towns
and counties to refund the 1900 which
they paid individually for substitue es.
The standing committee of the Prot
estant Episcopal diocese of Maryland
has refused to recommend for Ordina-
tion II. G. Bishop, cOlored, not on ac-
count of his color, but because he was
educated by the Mount Calvary church,
Baltimore, who are ritualstic to an ex.
treme.
An analy sis of the census of New
York city shows that the foreign-born
residents are 47S,670, or a little over
one-third of the whole. The Irish ex-
coed any other nationalities. their mum.
ber, if the figures are accurate, being
l9S j95, Germany comes next, with
3,4S2.
The supreme court of Maine sustain
"a the will of Horatio n. Foste an uned.
ucated deaf mute, rs years old, who
could neither read, write, nor use the
alphabet. The will was made
by pantomime dividing $1,000 Only
one SIMILAR case was ever tried by the
courts in the United States, and that in
North Carolina.
On the 10Th of December. at Mid.
llCtOwn, Conn, two orphan boys, Al
,ert s. and Osborne NJ. Atkins. aged re-
pectively IL and 10 years, were acci-
lentally drowned. On the very day
# their death sult in their favor was
ecided in New York, by which they
we're TO receive $50, 900, which now re.
erts to their fathers brother.
Jacob Tesch died near Jacksonville.
DIegOn, last month. He was about 81
e lrs old and was herding sheep when
e became unconscious, and in few
ours passed away. He at one time
ad owned a large portion of the town
lie of Cincinnati. He had been in
le employ of one man as sheep-herder
'r twenty years, and living in almost
ltire seclusion.
The late New Hampshire legislature
lacted that no child under sixteen
ears shall be hired for any work unless
attends school twelve weeks in the
,ar and is able to write legibly and
IN make easy work with the Third
eader," and now the French people at
anchester are stirred up heca lse the
hool board of that city have voted
at only ability to read English shall
regarded.
During the past season the soft-clam
avn has been so prolific in the
river, New Jersey, that
e bottom of the river could not hold
The consequence is an immense
owth of small clans, varying from
If an inch to an inch in length, lying
close to the surface that they have
en- washed ashore in immense guam
les, and lie along the beach between
gh and low water mark in such guam
les as to threaten disease, as they
pidly decompose. Thousands Of
shes have been carted off the shore
farmers for fertilizing purposes.
Some idea of the match trade may
gained by glance at the figures
id for stamps. The government ex-
Is revenue of l cent per hun
ed on matches manufactured. Dur
J the year ending May, 1881. one
mpany paid for stamps S4,500,000.
lis year the amount paid will be in
,ased $4,000 There are two hun
I'd matches in box. The tax is 2
It's; they are sold to the grocer for
ITS, and retailed at 5. Four million
a hundred thousand dollars represent
100000 cent stamps. AS each
mp represents one hundred matches,
grand tot Il Of matches manufactur
is 4550O, 100000 matches, or 277,-
1000 scent boxes.
rhe public school of the village Of
It Ann, near Albany. N. Y, is sue
sfully managed by L. W. Barrett
Ose spare hours are devoted to the
Il profession and to the performance
lis duties as justice oil the peace.
The 10th inst someo Of his mischiev-
masculine pupils formed the con-
acy to put cayenne on the stove.
then persist in denying the job, or
knowledge Of it. They succeeded
loing 1t to the letter, but Mr.. Bar
proved himself master of the situ-
n. He promptly dism ssed 4 'em-
Q portion of the pupils, a.
tilated the room by lett
windows, Then to co
, that the sin of lying