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Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27

A correspondent of the New IIamp-
shire Patriot, says: In two cases We
have known of loss by early shearing,
but in both cases the sheep were not
in prime condition and the shearng
was followed by a cold snow storm
and very chilly air. Sheep will usually
draw the feet little nearer together
if cold weather Immediately follows
shearing, but who has not seen them
lie and pant in hot May sun when
unshorn, suffering with heat2 One of
the benefits of early shcaring is that it
is the best way to destroy lice. Fowls
will clean them all off if allowed to 90
where the sheep are-both sheep and
fowls enjoy it. Another-The neces-
sity for washing is obviated. Sheep
having heavy leeces sometimes do not
dry off well after washing. Some.
times the farmer may suffer in selling
unwashed wool. But not washing at
all is better for the conscience than
washing slightly and shearing after the
grease has started again. On the 9TH
er hand don't shear early unless the
weather is fine or superior protection
can be given, and do not shear weakly
sheep unless very ticky; when thus
they may improve under such treat.
ment. Shear before the lambs are
dropped if possible, having none but
men experienced in the business to
handle them. A sheep a few days well
over shearing is all right, if not allow
ed to stay out over night or through
stormy weather. 1t is important that
slearers should learn to leave One-third
to one-half inch of wool on the sheep
for protection, which they may easily
learn to do with coarse wooled and me-
dium sheep, without seriously affect
ing the appearance of the animal, after
a little time. 1t is not a good practice
TO shear too close in June, Us the hot
sun may cause the shedding of wool to
the skin.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27

AT the second annual meeting of the
Womans' Silk Culture association of
the United States, held at Philadelphia,
Tuesday, the 18th inst, twenty yards
of brocaded satin, intended to be pre-
sented to Mrs. Garfield for dress, was
exhibited, and it was stated that it
took fifty pounds of cocoons, making
fourteen pounds of real silk to make
the dress pattern. Some silk was al
50 exhibited made from cocoons in
which the silk worms had been fed on
Usage oranges. This experiment was
pronounced a success. Three pounds
of Usage oranges to cocoon make one
pound of real silk. By the annual
report silk has been raised in this coun-
try the equal, If not superior, to the
best Italian product, and that the ex-
tent of American silk culture WAS
shown by the contributions to the dress
II. Mrs. Garfield, representing as they
DO, fourteen states.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
Sure Death TO Lice.

Take common bar of soft soap; place
in a pan containing alittle water; then
heat until melted down; then add car
Dolic acid crystals (carbOlic acid crystals
can be had of druggist in one-pound
bottles at seventy.fve cents each), at
least one ounce of acid to each pound
of soap used; there is no danger if
used stronger. To reduce the crystals
to a fluid Atate, remove the cork from
the bottle, place in water, and heat the
water, when it may be easily poured
out and mixed with the soap. When
cool, strong suds made with this soap
will be a sure death to all insects that
live on domestic animals. 1t will cure
mango, barn itch, and all cutaneous
diseases, and make a cheap and effectu-
al sheep dip. When cattle are hide
bound, or the hair does not appear
healthy, a wash of the suds will prove
a benefit, as it is cleansing and heal
ing in cases of sores. 1t is valuable
in the poultry house, 1t is a good and
sure disinfectant; is cheap, safe and
etfectual, and will be found useful for
great variety of purposes.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27

and constancy was born in his mind,
and never left it. More loving hus.
band never lived than was Stephen
Appleton from that moment.
1t was not Gods will that he should
drag all his days out in blindness and
helplesshess. Sight and strength re.
turned to him al last; but ere that
time Tilly had often been eyes for him,
and right hand also, and he was cured
of many things besides bodily ailments.
His theory of loves weakning power
his fancy that woman was a frail,
tickle, foolish, unreasoning thing, to he
sternly kept in hand like an unbroken
colt, and his shame of yielding to any
gcntleness or softness, had quite left
HIM. He saw in his fair young wife
the helpmeet Heaven had given him,
thanked it for the gift, and refused
her nothing of that need of tender.
ness and love which all good women
long for, without which married life
is to them more miserable than any
lonely lot with dreams of what might
have been in it..
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
LOVE AND MARRIAGE,
Old Maids Make the Best Boarding
iiouse Keepers.

Rouse keepers.
Prof. A. L. Willis deliver d Lecture
in st. Louis last week on the subject
of Love and Marriage" Acco ding
to the Republican, before commen'iDg
his remarks he exhibited skull and
pointed out phrenologically all the pc
culiar characteristics of the person
who carried it around. He endeavored
TO show where the love part of The
brain was, and then commencing his
lecture proper he said he wanted to
speak of the power of love. No such
man as Brigham Young, in his
opinion, had any love in him. He had
too many wives.
To fall in love people must feel as
if they could caress and embrace each
other. Some girls like to hug and
kiss, and others didn't care a cent
about it. 1t all depends upon the
organ Of cOnjuality. Some married
people never kiss each other, while
some were very fond of kissing.
Couples often got along well enough,
but there was not that cOngenialtiy
between them that should exist be-
tween man and wife. Love, he con.
tended, WAS in its very nature attrac-
tion or magnetism.
"LOve-what is love?
lis the striving Of two spirits to be On..'
Many people, he added, were apt to
be mistaken in their affections. There
We're lots of it in the United States
which he attributed 10 novel reading,
the latter producing too much senti-
mentalism. He then described the
average young couple going through a
siege of counting, and said there was
Just rs much difference between black
and white. Love blinded most folks. If
a girl was in love to man she became
blind to his faults. A second test of
love was that lovers were always un-
happy if not in each others presence.
TIE third test was if you were in love
with person you would die for him.
Such facts were good evidences. Love
lie regarded as a boon of happiness
Let an old maid fall in love and her
eyes would sparkle and she would look
ten years younger. She would become
a changed being. lie was just a little
severe on old maids, for he said the
most of them were sour. They made
the best boarding house keepers,
though, in the world.
The great object of modern court
ship, he continued, was to get &C.
quainted, marry and fool each other
lie pointed out the deception practiced
in order to win a wife or
husband, and spoke of commercial
marriage.
He claimed, in conclusion, that in
all questions Of marriage the facial
expressions should be studied Men
and women ought TO know about
human nature.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
A Hint to Lovers OF Flowers.

A most beautiful and easily attained
show of evergreens may be had by q
very simple plan, which has been
found to answer remarkably well on q
small scale. If geranium branches,
taken from luxuriant and healthy
trees, just before the winter sets in, be
cut as for slips, and immersed in soap
water, they will, after dropping for n
few days, shed their leaves, put forth
fresh ones, and continue in the finest
vigor all the winter. By placing a
number of bottles, thus filled in a flow
er basket, with moss to conceal the
bottles, show of evergreen is easily
ensured for the whole winter. All the
different varieties of the plant being
used. the various shapes and colors OF
the leaves blend into a beautiful effect.
They require no fresh water,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
MISSOURI NEWS.

4 mammoth temperance convention
is to be held in Hannibal.
Three horse thiev,s were lynched by
a mob near Kirbyvllle, the other day.
Recently one hundred dogs have been
poisoned in the vicinity of Belleview
Iron county.
Gold has been discovered within six
miles of Springfield, but the extent of
the discovery is not yet known.
The Journal is troubled because the
chinch bugs are playing havoc with
the wheat in the vicinity of Appleton
City.
The Springfield Express warns its
readers to be on the lookout for horse
thieves, as they are lurking in that
neighborhood.
Rrookfeld Chronicle: The barn of
G. A. Reed, living about six miles
south of Laclede, was blown down last
Thursday night.
William Jones, living near West
Plairs, Howell county, accidentally
shot himself one day last week, and
died almost instantly.
The Clinton Democrat has discovered
that sheep killing dogs are too abund-
ant in the vicinity Of Leesville, and
should be exterminated.
Chinch bugs in the neighborhoed Of
Carthage are declared nuisance by
the Patriot. They are making sad
havoc with the young wheat crop.
William Andrews has been sentenced
to the penitentiary for fifteen years for
the murder of Sampson Maggard, his
mother.in-law, in Douglas county,
June %, 1880.
Governor Crlttenden offers 5000
reward for the capture of William q.
Fox of Staddard county, indicted for
the murder of Charles Jones on De-
cember 2l, 1880.
A shooting affray occurred at Kan
sas City, Saturday night last, in which
a Jealous husband, T. r. Witham, was
shot down by his wife's suspected
lover, Heniy Wilson.
Savannah Democrat: Frank Noland
pleaded guilty to an attempt to commit
rape on Minnie Leneir, colored, aged
ten years, and was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary.
At Richmond, Ray county, man
had the roof of his house blown oil
during a heavy rain.storm. Early in
the morning he was put under arrest
for obstructing the street by his roof.
Scotland county has refused to COM
promise the outstanding bonds, amount
ing to s174,000, issued by that county
to aid in the construction of the Mis-
souri,, Iowa and Nebraska road, now y
part Of the Wabash.
The Chillicothe Beacon states that
James Broadrick, who, while intoxi-
Gated, sold hand of tobacco, was, in
default of $50 bail, committed to jail
to await trial in the United States
supreme court at Kansas City in Octo-
Der next.
AT the bar Of saloon in st. Louis,
Charles H. Allen, whose father WAS
wholesale dry.goods merchant shot
himself through the brain on being re-
preached for his worthlessness. Not
| less than $4,000 had been wasted In,
the endeavor to establish him In busi-
ness,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
GOING HOME

In the dusty light
or the coming night,
Under twillghts purple dome,
see the crowd go past
:, With fOOtstep fast,
For the City, going home.
Faces young and gay,
Faces old and gray,
Faces dim with the rust Cf care,
Faces hope has kissed,
Faces hope has missed
ruined them homeward everywhere.
To the mansion new
On the Avenue,
10 the lodgings cramped and low,
70 the dusty street,
To the country sweet,
Human birds with the nightfall 90.
VIII Il loved ono wait
By an open gait
yer yOnder rivers side?
Of shall some one sigh
AS the feet draw nigh.
And Tho children fearful hide?
Burdens each one bears:
SOME are S0fdid cares;
Sumc are GrlcfS from the stranger hid
Here cankered rose,
That may not unclOse
Underneath a cOiIin lid.
There love unSOurlt,
Here love unbOught
BY a gold that has won the name;
There the seeming curse
OF q lanky purse,
Here a weak and weary frame.
Yet, o waiting Home!
As the wanderers come
+ ON the hard worlds toll and din,
With patient love
We'll approved above,
Kiss ihnn, and tllie them in.
--EthCI LllI1l,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
Canadian Independence,

Montreal Special to Boston Herald.
At the annual dinner of the Club
Nationale," composed of young French
Canadians in that city, President Can
non, in proposing the toast, Canada:
Our Country" dwelt upon the subject
of Canadian independence. lie said
their position today was a very de-
pendent one, as they were not only
subjects Of the queen, but subjects Of
her subjects. They aspired higher
than that, and hoped to found repub.
lie and a Canadian nationality. Cir
cumstances were in their favor, and
they were confident they would sue
ceed.
The toast was responded to by Hon
Mr.. Mercer, member of the Provincial
legislature and formerly a member of
the liberal cabinet Of Mr.. Jolly. In the
course of an able speech he said he had
come to the conclusion that it was his
duty TO go even as far as independence.
Their duty to Canada was fourfold
"First, to maintain English constitu-
tional government; second, to spread
public education; third, to develop the
country's material resources, and fourth,
to create a national sentiment so great
as to obtain their full rights. He had
the greatestIespect for Victoria both as
woman, wife and mother, and as a con-
stitutional sovereign; but the child can
not always remain dependent on the
parent, and the time was now come
when Canada had become man, and
the separating hour had arrived. The
speeches were nearly all in similar tone.
There were no merchants or persons
of influence present belonging to the
city. Still, the event is entirely a new
departure in Canada.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
The American Suspects" T"

N"'s"h' AiA'Ns
MI, Lowell has made demand, in
the name of the American govern
ment. for the immediate trial or re
lease of the American suspects"
The result is that the British govern.
ment Can not now try or release any
of them without appearing to back
down before the American eagle, a
thing that is inconsistent with its
amour propre, and that is eminently
calculated to make it unpopular at
home, especially as the liberal party in
England is suspected Of being to sub
seryient to the wishes of fOreigM ma
tons and not sufficiently spirited in its
foreign policy. When Mr.. Lowell
asked, as an international courtesy
that these men be tried or discharged,
the British government could have &C.
cOmmodated him without any sacrifice
of ltJ self.respect. Whether it did pay
any attention to him is disputed
point, but what Is not disputed is that
it did release several Of the American
suspects" The result of demanding
the trial or release of the rest will be
watched with good deal of interest
on both sides of the ocean. The de-
mand puts the British government in
position where it must either do,
under sort of compulsion exercised
by a foreign power, what it had re.
fused to do Of its own accord or in
response to requests, which will not
be a pleasant thing for it to do, or it
must fatty refuse to release the
suspects" and perhaps Keep men in
Jail whom 1t would release but for the
danger of miscOnstructOn, and that
would be very likely toput us in an EN-.
barrassing position. If we demand
The trial or release of the American
suspects" and England refuses to try
them or release them, then we must
do something, or our demand will ap-
pear ridiculous, what are we TO dOp
The Gladstone government made itself
unpopular by conceding the Geneva
tribunal to our demands, and by pay
ing the reward. 1t is now confronted
by several opposing elements, and |
needs every bit of popularity it can
get. Can it afford TO yield to our re-
questp That is the question for the
queens ministers to determine. If
they determine that they can not,
then there will be an interesting
question for the Washington authori-
ties to determine, and that is the
answer they will frame to "Boss"
Tweed's famous old cOnundrum;
"What are you going to do about itH'
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
A Bulgarian Wake.

Climbers Journal.
When the father of the family feels
his end approaching, he sends for the
priest and begins to bargain with him
about his funeral, and settles the de-
tails of his "wake." Having arranged
all this and his other worldly affairs, he
feels comfortably prepared TO leave the
world, and when his agony commences
to have lighted taper placed in bis
hand, his jaws bound up with a cloth,
and his eyelids closed. The moment
his pulse has stopped all the pots, pans,
jars, kettles, ETC., in the house are
turned upside down to prevent his soul
from taking refuge in one of them, and
great care is taken to prevent either
man or animal-especially a cat or dog
from stepping across his body, as
otherwise he would turn into a vampire
and be a continual nuisance and Il
danger to his family and the whole
community. Within few hours of
death the body is buried, without any
coffin, in shallow grave, eighteen to
twenty-four inches deep, and left there
for three years, during which time
many offerings of food and wine are
placed upon it. At the end of the third
year the bones Of the dead man are
dug up, carefully washed, put into a
linen bag, laid before the episcopal
throne, of which there is one in every
village, blessed by the POPE, and then
finally buried for good. Thus the
Bulgarian is well taken care of after
his death, unless, indeed, there is any
reason to believe that he has become
vampire. In that case the grave is
opened and the body transilxed by a
stake, or nail is driven into his breast.
If the body is very well preserved, then
1t is riddled with pistol.shots, and the
earth stamped down firmly upon it, or
sometimes it is burnt to ashes by a fire
made of thorn.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
Forcing Strawberries,

A correspondent of the South and
West says: 81 procured balf.hogs.
head, filed it with rain water and put
into it one'quarter pound of ammonia
and one.quarter of common nitre,
When the strawberry plants were
blossoming l gave them sprinkling
of the solution at evening, twice a
week, until the fruit was nearly of
size. The result was double the
amount of fruit"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
Electricity in Agriculture.

Prairie Farmer.
The part that electricity is TO per.
form in the agriculture of the future
is not easily foretold, but that it will
he an important one seems more than
probable. Its influence in orwarding
the growth Of vegetation has haen
demonstrated by DR.. SicLaens of Eng
land, NJ. Deherain Of France, and
others. 1t has been available in pro-
tecting against the action of frost, and
in preventing the putrefaction of
meat. AS motive power for plowing,
threshnr, Diilling, saving, pumping
and many more, If not all the things
for which steam is generally used, its
adaptahilily is being rapidly developed.
Light, heat and power seem to be com
hiued in this wonderful and subtle
fluid. 1t is not t. be doubted that
human ingenuity now that it is being
enlisted all over the world can fail to
produce the most important results in
the application of electricity to the
Uses of the various branches of in.
dustry, and to none In greater degree
than to that of agriculture.
In regard to the use of electricity in
plowing, until quite recently the pow.
er has been transmitted but a short
distapce-from quarter of mile to
two miles-only six or eight horse
power having been used at distance
of over three miles. But now a
Frenchman, Mr.. Marcel Dupres has
pretty conclusively demonstrated that
the conducting cable may be made
longer, indeed he claims that the
power may be transmitted fifty miles
with losing but rs per cent. on the
way. 1t would be a novel thing to see
plows turning over the sod without
team or visible machinery, the source
of power being miles away. Yet the
near future may bring about such a
revolution in plowing, and other farm
work requiring considerable power.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
Uses OF The Surf ,wer.

Tribune and Farmer.
In Southwestern Russia. between
the Baltic and the Black S a', the sun
flower is universally cultivated III
lelds, gardens and borders, and every
part is turned to practical account. a
hundred pounds of the seeds yield
forty pounds Of oil, and the pressed
residue forms a Wholesome food fnI
cattle, as also do the leaves aud thr
green stalks, cut up small, all being
eagerly eaten. The fresh flowers, when
Il little short of full bloom, furnish II
dish for the table which bears favora-
bic comparison with the artichokc,
They contain large quantity of hon
ey, and so prove an attraction to bees.
The see Is are valuable food for poul-
try; ground into flour, pastry and
cakes Can be made from them; and
boiled in alum water, they yield blue
coloring matter. The carefully dried
leaf is used as tobacco. The seed re.
ceptacles are made into blotting paper,
and the inner part of the stock into
fine writing paper; the woody portions
are consumed as fuel and from the re-
sulting ash valuable potash is obtained.
Large plantations of them in swampy
places are protection against interpit-
tent fever.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27

A Louisville milkman lost two cows, the
other day because, being of vicious dispo.
sition and for long tinio determined 10
fight, they accidentally had u chance q,
one another and went at it. The own,l
arrived too late. One Of the animals d,d
in half an hour, and the other. had to b,
killed,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27

The New Orleans P cayune characteriz
es ,ulRarity a. stlfishness In a crude form
rne Plcayune might fur her have added
that so i-ty manners are frequently selfish
ness in pol's1ed form.--Notp Yprk Com
mtrctalA
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
"a Good Thing ior Somebody"

The GunnisOn County Mining Co. Of COL,
offers an excellent chance TO : labOrlng
men, who have $500, TO pay their expenses,
to work one year in opening their rich silver
mines in COL, for a large interest in the
mines. The company will loan the money
needed on good security being given.
Write WA L. Hutchinson, Hutchinson,
Kan.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27

Judge j. 4. Booster, Of St. Tam
many parish, La, and of the State
Legislature, thus expressed his opinion
TO one of our repre-. entatlves: L have
found st. Jacobs Oh to BE- v,ry efli;a-
ciOus in spraius and bruises. In my
opinion there i5 no oil or liuimeul
equal to it,"-Nem Ode0nS (La) Times
Damorryt
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
She Reminded Him of the Chinese

They were seated on the sofa, where
they had been for four long hours.
Augustus, do you know why you
remind me of the ChineseP"
mo, dearest, whyp'
because you won't CO."
The meeting then adjourned sine die,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27

The result of my use of ST. Jacobs
Oil for rheumatism isl have been
r commencing it ever since, says the
Mayor of Chicago, Hon. Carter II,
Harrison, in the Chicago Times.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27

A respectable farmer of Augusta coun
ty, Virginia, has been committed to the
lunatic asylum at Staunton, having be.
come entirely crazed over the deyolping
mineral resources Of the state,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27
AS a Cure Tor Piles.

Kidney-WOrt acts first by overcoming in
the mildeSt manner all tendency 10 con;
stipatiOn then, by IFS great tonic and In.
vlgorating properties, II restore, 10 health
the de6iitatld and weakened parts. Try
H. t-IIp,n
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-04-27

From data collected from offclal sources
the Burlington Insur n C0npany o.
Burlington, Iowa, Is sh .wn to have The
largest amount Of assets IA Liabilities Of
any Fire Insurance Company In the United
States.