Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-05-25
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Europe on Ine ISL OF July.
Fanny Kemble's "Records of Later
Life" will be published shortly in Lon
don.
President Arthur's face has lost the
gray look of last fall, and has fresh,
ruddy hue.
Mark Twain will pass the summer
at Elmira, writing his book on the Mis-
sissippi river.
The cultivation of cork is receiving
great attention in the southern states,
especially in Georgia.
Stonewall Jackson's eyeglasses are
for sale in a show.window on Market
street, Louisville, Ky.
The national government is to be
asked to cede old Fort Hale to the town
of New Haven, Conn.
The official records of the Grand
Army of the Republic now show
membership of $4,000 men.
The home of Henry Clay in Lexing.
ton, KY, has been sold for 100000. 1t
includes 324 acres of choice land.
In 1856 Chester A. Arthur went to
Kansas to settle, but got tired Of the
country and returned to New York.
The death of Admiral Rodgers places
Amiral Worden, of Mon tor fame, at
the head of the list of rear admirals,
| Alexander II. Stephens says Attorney
General Brewster is the ablest man
who has filled the office since William
Writ held it.
Leon county, Florida, tomatoes are
nearly as Large as cocOanuts, some of
them measuring fourteen inches in
circumference.
Two acres of landin Brockton, Mass.
which were decided eighteen years sgo
for 5000, have been sold recently TO.
nearly $4,000.
The Norwegian ship Friga, now at
Pensacola, Fla, is the Oldest vessel that
ever entered that port, being eighty
four years of age.
Two Alabama university boys had
an eating match the other day. One
chambered thirty-six biscuits and the
other thirty-seven.
John Mccullough, Lawrence Barrett,
and Mary Anderson have consented to
take part in the forthcoming dramatic
festival in Cincinnati.
Eight bales of alligator hides were
shipped from Savannah to New York
one day last week. They are to be
manufactured into shoes.
A cannery for string beans, sweet
corn, and tomatoes, at Vacaville, Cal,
is expected to turn out one million cans
this season for the Chicago market.
Concealed in . carload of kindling
wood billed for Chelsea, Mass, custom
officials at Bangor, Me-, have found
five hundred pounds Of Canadian but
ter.
An 0gdersburg florist has solitaire
rosebush which has over five hundred
feet of branches trained in three green.
houses, 1t yields about twenty buds
day.
The bee keepers in Los Angeles and
San BernaIdina counties, California,
say there has never been better pros
pect for large yield of honey than
now exists.
The saloons on the line of the Mexi-
can Central road through Chihuahua
where pulque is sold have been sup
pressed, as there was much drunken.
ness among the railroad laborers.
A hnback whale was shot at Prov
incetown, Mass, last week, while feed
ing. The whale was hugely enjoying
his lunch of shrimp, with mouth wide
open, and the bomb was fired directly
into the opening.
Hiram Sibley, the wealthy scotsman
CT Rochester, has sent $4,000 worth of
seeds to the sufferers by the Mississippi
floods. Their distribution will be
made by the Red Cross society, or by
special agents.
Potatoes are now being shipped from
Winnemucca, New, to points on the
Southern Pacific railroad in California.
As the freight is from $3.50 to $175 per
carload, there is not much profit in the
business for the shipper.
Archibald Forbes, the English war
correspondent, is reported in Washing
ton to be engaged to the daughter of
ex.Quartermaster General Meigs. Mr.,
Forbes is on his way to Australia,
where he expects to lecture.
In 1880 a report was made to the
Massachusetts, house Of representatives
against Sunday mails. A copy of this
report, about eighteen inches square,
printed on white satin, is in the hands
of gentleman in Plymouth, Mass.
Two women, who we're girls together
in Washington, in 1865, have not only
exchanged names with each other, but
official rank also. The daughter Of
Secretary Zachariah Chandler is the
wife of Senator Eugene Hale, and the
daughter of Senator John P. Hale is
the wife of Secretary William E.
Chandler.
A Washington correspondent des.
cribes Mrs. Blaine as having the best
possible manners for the wife Of
public man-just enough cordiality,
just enough dignity. She knows what
the ex.Empress Eugenie never learned
in the French court-namely, how to
show the exactly proper degree Of
recognition to each person she greets.
The Winnemucca Silver State says
that Humboldt lake, or sink, as it is
frequently called, is higher than it has
been for some time. The lake is about
twenty miles long by about twelve to
sixteen miles wide. Its size has been
increased by a dam at the foot of the
lake, where there is an outlet for the
waters to the alkali deserts, which ex-
tend to the sink of Carson river. This
dam was built by the Oneida Mill
company several years ago, for the
purpose of utilizing the water in run
ming quartzmill. 1t is estimated
that the back water caused by the
dam overhows twenty thousand acres
of land.
Charles NJ. Wheatley, well-known
oeoloQist. died at Ph9nixville, Pa, last