Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-08-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The king of Siam rides a bicycle,

/, costs 81 800
The apple crop of North Carolina is
) unprecedentedly large.
Pincapples weighing six pounds each
> are common in Corley Island, Fla.
Lorne and Louise are two Of the most
faithful church-goers in the Domin-
ion.
Miss Emma Thursby has loft Paris
and is spending the summer in the Py-
fences. ..
An eggplant weighing two and three
quarter pounds is exhibited at Live
Oak, Fla. ID.
Peach and apple brandies will be
distilled in large quantities this season
in Arkasas.
There are about twenty-four thousand
registered colored voters in the state Of
Pennsylvania.
Twoyoungladies of Sandcrsville, Ga.
wear each belt made from the skin Of
a rattleSnakc.
improvements that will cost more
than 81 100000 are now in course Of
construction at Birmingham, Ala,
Mr.. Parncll, it is said, may not re-
turn to the English parliament this
season, owing to the death of his sister,
which was Il severe blow 10 him.
The tea brought by the Arabic on her
late voyage was the largest shipment
that has ever arrived at San Francisco
at any one time on any one vessel.
James r. Lowell was referred to by
Canon Farrar recently in London as
zone who is at once the American min
ister and the first of the living Ameri-
can poets.
A party of Minnesotians have entered
I 800 acres of land in Sumter county,
Florida, between lakes Minnehaha and
Minneoa, upon which they intend to
build Il city.
Queen Elizabeth, of Roumania, who
writes under the pseudOnyme of Car
men SYLVIA has recently been elected
member of the Roumania Academy
of Sciences,
Prof. Boycsen, who has just returned
from visit to NORWAY, says that the
country is almost ready to throw off
the allegiance to King Oscar II. and
become Il republic,
The Rev. IL. II. Jcssup, d. D., the
distinguished minister Of Syria, has re-
turned to this country with his four
mothcrlcss children, and has gone to
his early home in Montrose, Pa
An Austin (TcX.) man three years
ago planted some seed OF Malaga grapes.
A few days ago he cut II bunch OF grapes
from the vines that grew from the seed
The bunch weighed nearly four pounds.
The British ship Wallacetown, has
just finished loading at Astoria, for Liy-
erpool. She takes cargo Of flour and
salmon, valued at Sj0S,00 the most
valuable ever shipped from the Column
bia river.
A flock of fourteen thousand sheep
has recently arrived in Reese River val
ley from Bakersfield, Cal. They are to
be driven TO Wyoming, whittier the
Kcogh brothers have preceded them
with Il flock of thirty thousand,
Eliot Gregory, whose painting, 1.-The
Satin Dress received honorable men
ton at the Paris salon, has just re-
turned to New York, where, in the au-
tumn, he designs placing on exhibition
Il collection of his own works.
The Lehigh valley is overrun by
IIungarans, Polanders, Russians, and
Italians, ana now the Turks are putting
in an appearance. The foreign cheap
labor element is rapidly increasing,
and crowding out American working
men.
1t is stated on good authority that
Prince Nicholai, eldest son of the Duke
Constantine, and cousin of the ear, to-
gcthcr with several eminent members
of the Russian nobility, are implicated
in the confessions of the nihilist Kyrill-
of.
The Aberdeen Miss cocoOnery has
large orders for mulberry trees and
silk-worm eggs, receiving on an aver
age fifty letters day from all parts of
the south, and showing the practical
interest the southern people are taking
in the silk industry.
A new and strange disease now af-
ilicts cattle in the eastern counties OF
PENNSYLVANIA. 1t attacks the animals
in the right eye, and, although they do
not seem to be otherwise sick, it grad
ually spreads until both eyes are sore,
and the animal goes blind.
The whole country in Albany county,
New York, within distance of fully a
mile each side of the West Shore rail
road, is stripped Of all kinds of weeds,
some of which the lower order of ami
mails will not eat, which the Italian la
borers gather and boil for greens"
Cotton planters in the Mississippi
bottoms, says The Vicksburg Herald,
are determined to fight the worm that
has now appeared in full force, and
have ordered from one firm in Vicks-
burg seventeen thousand pounds of
London purple with which to wage
war.
A year ago q Laramie Plains cattle
man was offered Utah herd and ranch
for $4,000, which offer was rejected.
Since that the Utah man sold $4,000
worth out of the herd, then sold the
rlnCH lOT Gt,OoU, ullcl Ndlu pun IJiOOV
more into the herd, and then sold it for
$4,000.
The people Of Nantachie, Colfax
parish, Louisiana, have gone largely
into the cultivation of sunaowers The .
stems they use when dried for kindling
wood, the seeds they give to the poultry
and to sick horses-they claim that the
flowers adorn their premises and ward 4
off malaria.
The Fort Smith Elevator says about
three miles north of old Fort Wichita,
in the Chickasaw nation, the body of a
man hangs from the limb of tree,
about eight feet from the ground, where
it has been nearly three years. No !.
one appears to know who he was, who
hanged him, or what he was hanged
for. 'F@
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