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Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

New 1Ork TeeEraul'
Frogs legs arc coming in in large
numbers, nsaid Iishman at one of the
largo markets to-day. at is very hard
to Keep them during the summer, but
the present cool weather has been very
favorable for this branch of our bust
ness. They sell for fifty cents Il pound
now, but the price will steadily de-
crease to twenty or thirty cents. a few
years ago men would have laughed at
YOU and ladies turned their heads away
in disgust ut tho mere mention of frogs
as an article for the table. Now, how
ever, they are considered the greatest
delieacy in the market. GastrOnomers
prefer them TO chicken, plover or quail.
You will frequently find them on the
tables of the residents ON Fifth avenue,
and in many of our fashionable hotels.
AT any rate frogs legs not only find u
good market in this country, but we
frequently have orders for them from
London and Paris. OF course we have
to send the frogs alive. Many of them
die OH the way over, and although they
cost the purchaser there, taking every
thing into consideration, about fifty
cents apiece, there are plenty of cpl
cures who will pay double that price
for q dish of large and fat frogs legs"
"lIow many pair would it take 10
satisfy one personP"
"Well, an ordinary eater would make
q good meal on two pair, 1t takes four
or five ordinary sized pair to make q
pound. | have seen some that would
weigh over half pound, but they are
very scarce and bring high prices. The
small frogs which are caught around
the ponds and lakes of this country are
seldom used for eating. We get few
from Ohio, but they are not in much
demand. Most of the frogs legs come
from Canada, where men make regu-
lar business of raising them and sending
them to the different markets. They
catch them with q piece of red flannel
for bait and with net. The legs are
cut off and stripped of their pants,
after which they are placed in n keg in
which there is cake of ice. In warm
weather they frequently spoil before
they reach the market. When bad they
will be dark colored and havo an un-
pleasant odor. The proper color is q
light yellow or delicate pink. There
are not many people engaged at pres
ent in raising frogs, but it is business
that is increasing every year and one
that will pay a person to 60 into.
The demand for frogs legs will be
far greater this year than it was
last, The meat has a rather pe-
culiar taste, resembling somewhat Q
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27
value of u Big Hotels Refuse

Albany Journal
81 have Just let the contract for the
swll of my house for next season at
$780," said the manager of large
summer hotel to II Journal reporter
this morning. "The price is very low,
and there seems to be no reason why
the contractor should not make 1000
clear out of the deal.
GLOW can he treble his money!"
because the swill itself is worth nj
least $1,000, and then the dishes he
picks out, besides the marked ones,
are good for $500 more. Why, do you
know that at one of tho Coney Island
hotels, where was formerly employed,
man was hired for the express pur.
pose of sorting over TIE swill and
picking out the dishesP"
"How do so many dishes get into
the swill?"
"You should get into the kitchen
of large hotel when a rush comes.
Everything goes-spoons, forks,
knives, and dishes. Generally the
silverware is marked, and so is
returned by the contractor. The
walters are very Indifferent. Why,
do you know once saw waiter with
a salver full of clean goblets, which
cost S1.90 n dozen, actually slide
them into the broken glass barrel tt
save him the trouble of setting then
on a shelf. The destruction in {
watering place kitchen during rusf
il terrible.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27
An Intelligent servant.

Texas sinlnRs.
A gentleman in Austin has new
servant, and the other day he under.
took to coach him in regard to certain
creditors, who invariably bounded him
the first of each month with aggravat-
ing bills.
Now" said he to his servant, ''if a
man calls for me to-day, you tell him
! am not at home"
"Yis, sor," replied the man.
Fearing II misunderstanding in some
way, he again said:
"Now, Pat, what will you tell the
man when he calls?"
"rel him | am not at home, sor."
mo, no, blockhead, tell him that |,
myself, am not at home"
"All roight, sor,"
Now, what will you say to him?"
II, myself, am not Mt home"
"Pshaw! Tell him your boss is not
in. Understand that, donkeyF Now,
what will you say?'
"Your boss is not in. Understand
that, donkeyP"
Fool! That'snot right Say to him,
Il am out. Cgn you do that?'
"Yis, sOr.'
"Nell, let's hear YOU"
IL nm out"
"Thundcration! Can't you under
stand? Tell Elm your master is out.
Now what will you say?"
"Your master is out
mo, You don't say anything Of the
kind, You ignoramus. Tell the man
that | have left the house"
"Crrtainly, I'll TIL him have left
the house, but he won't behave me
when he sees me in the house
"Pshaw! Can't you simply say !
have gone out for Il walk"
Thin he'll be thinking I'm lying,
sor.'
How so?'
"Why, whin tell him | have gone
out for walk
"Great P1tipher! You are the stup-
idcS fool | ever knew. Sea here, |
don't want TO see any of the people
that will call to-day, and want them
to understand that there's no use of
them calling, as they won't find ms at
home. Can you give them an ambig-
uouS answer in your own words?"
is it an ambiguous answer |
should say could, il you jst lave it to
mo-
"Well, what will you say?"
"I'll say, when they aX me if you are
in: 'YiS, the boss is in, but hc has
committed bigamy, an gone off on II
wcddis' tour wild u WILDLY woman, an
if they don't arrest him for the ambig-
gilty, gez ill niycr sec the color nv his
hair agin. That'l fetch EN-"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

Washington LcltI'
The baggage which President Ar.
thur brought home with him from
the west did not make Il very impOS-
ing array, but there was plenty of va
riety. The effects were contained in
trunk and three boxes. In the
trunk were blue flannel shirts, other
knock-about apparel and some good
and fashionable clothes. The boxes
contained specimens of almost every
thing the wild west affords. Indian
moccasins, beads, buffalo robes, blank
cts, etc. An address, presented to the
president by the Spokan Indians, was
among the relics. 1t is blocked out in
Spokan characters and symbols, done
with the juice of the ink ball, which
comes from the oak tree.
Many other curioSities were found in
in the boxes by tho presidents SER
want when he opened them. The col.
lection which President Arthur packed
up himself was not arranged in any
order or labeled, hut every present
that he had received from the Indians
was carefully marked with the date
and name of the place where it was
presented, together with mention by
whom it was given. The president
gave orders that they be carefully
preserved. The only gifts received by
the president which he did not bring
back with him were the ponies pre-
sented by the ShoshOncS. They were
intended for the presidents little
daughter, Miss Nellie, but he made
arrangements before he left "his chill
dren to have the ponies shipped tc
Washington.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27
The Proposed Jordan valley Canal,

Itit ATDpbSth bDThhn Ndlltl Nhuhls
81, ,James'sGsEettc.
The Standard observes that it has
been calculated that e222, 7O5, 900 is
the minimum cost which the promoters
of q Jordan canal, who ask "Her Maj
csty's Prime Minister for eight mil
lions, must be prepared to face, while
the shareholders will be wise if they in
dulgc in no sanguine expectations of
dividends during their lives or the lives
of their children. The scheme is un-
uunSiinnphly - magnificent one, attrac-
tive to the Imagination, and, if only 1t
would pay, of vast national impor-
tancc. But iii is to be undertaken rs n
commercial speculation it must be
gone about in business-like way. The
entire route must be minutely surveyed
by competent engineers and the cost
calculated in an accurate manner before
any one is asked to sink his money in
it, far less for the public credit to be
pledged by the promoters, The Sui
tan is, possibly, in its favOr-we are
told he is-though the Sultan is no
engineer; but it is very questionable
whether he will make any concession
to Il foreign company which may in the
end produce complications calculated
to lessen his hold on Palestine in the
some way that the Suez Canal has re-
laxed his rule in Egypt. At all events
up to date he has not done so. To
bring NJ. de Losseps to his senses" is
unquestionably most laudable ambi-
ton. But the chairman of the Suez
Canal Company is neither the great
engineer nor the great diplomatist one
takes him to be il he is scared into act
ing against his convictions by the
threat of Jordan Canal, the feasibility
of which he fully examined more than
twenty Tears ago.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

Two packages of mutilated money
were received at the redemption bureau
of the treasury department on Sept. 10.
One package contained what was said
to be $3.50. 1t came from Montana.
Two brothers were engaged in mining
ont there. Ono of them saved money
unbeknown to the other, and deposited
il in an old stove for safe-keeping.
Later ON his brother brought the stove
into their cabin and started fire in it.
This was not discovered by the owner
of the money until it was almost too
late. The second package contained
pieces of several 800 bills. They
were accidentally dropped into some
hay, A calf was eating it. The calf
was killed and the money extracted.
Both packages will be made good, as
enough remains Of the money to denote
Its denomination and the name Of the
bank issuing II,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27
Getting Rid of National Debts,

Democrats Monthly for October,
The rapid liquidation of the national
debt of the United States oxcites the
establishment OF tho world. 1t seems
incredible to foreign nations that in the
comparatively short interval between
the close of the war and the present
time we should have voluntarily paid
the greater part of our indebtedness
long before it was due. Great Britain
is now maturing scheme TO follow
our example. A bill has been passed
through the commons which, if sane.
toned by the lords, will in twenty
years reduce the British debt SS65, ,000,-
900. In its present shape the debt is
q perpetual one, as no timo is fixed for
its payment. 1t is now proposed to
sell annuties to the holders of consols
as they are called, Of course as the
annuitants die the national obligations
are so far discharged. Mr.. Gladstone
holds to the belief that when the pre-
sent deposits of coal and iron are
worked out the industrial supremacy Of
Great Britain will be at an end. At the
present rate of consumption this will
come about in less than three hundred
years. In the meantime, the civilized
nations which are least in debt are
those which seem to have the advan.
tage over theirr rivals. France is handi,
capped by debt which is beyond its
power to pay. Germany has small
debt, but the United States, with its
rapid growth of wealth and population,
has fower fiscal burdens relatively than
any of the leading commercial nations
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27
THE SUMMER is DEAD.

"The summer is dead!m
A soaring lark said
Singing up In the blue afar,
ppm chanting her dirge
Where golden clouds surge
In the wake OF the morning starr
"The summer is dcldn
A damssk rose said
'ln the light of her smiles grew,
And warm with the bliss
or her parting kiss
shall glory in dying, too
"The summer is dcadw
4 honcy-bcc said
To the red roses still aglOw,
But her honey is mine,
need not repinc
When your beauty lies uNlcr the snow.
THE summer is dead"
A butterfly said
Let the honey-bees hivc-I suppose
They are prudent and wise,
But work despsc;
Let me die on the heart Of the rose
"ThC summer is dead ~
a fair maiden said
As she hied to the trysting tree,
"But where autumn leaves lie
Comcth one, by aud by,
Whose love is lfc's summer to mc,n
"Thc summer is dead ~
A sad woman said
"Yet mourn not its vanished glow,
For time cannot bring
The joy Of youths spring
Or the summers OF long ago"
"The summer is dead !"
An aged man said
''But what is one summer to me.
A shining drop, cast
In the stream OF the past,
While | stand by Eternity's sea-
-RoM Htrber JcBrcy, in Home JOWWdi.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27
4 Snake with Two Feet.

Port jervIs Gazette
MIR. Richard Decker, resident of
Waikiki Valley, while working in his
oat-iield recently, was surprised by n
black snake, which came at him open
mouth, its head elevated from the
ground twelve or fourteen inches. He
succeeded in killing it with his pitch
fork and in measurement found it to
be 5 feet I inches in length, with
diameter of an inch and half at the
largest part, The extraordinary feat
ure of the creature, however, was the
presence of two well-formed legs, with
feet attached to the body at point
about twelve inches from its tail. The
legs were of bright pink or flesh
color, without bone, and so elastic that
when drawn to their full length and
suddenly released they would spring
back to their normal position at the
reptiles side. The feet were about the
size of hazel-nut and were hoot-like
in appearance and of q darker color
than the limbs to which they were at
tached. Upon each one of these feet
or hoots were sixty-three small claws,
white and of horny substance. The
body of the snake, with legs attached,
was seen by most of the inhabitants OF
the village before it was put into alco-
hol and forwarded to the National mu-
scum at Washington.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

A MAsTODoN buck deer, known TO the
nimrods of Madison, Fla, and vicinity
rs "Jesso James," was killed recently
by Lucius Henderson and Henry Pap
pell, of Madison. This buck has been
hunted and chased for the last four
years, but mono ever succeeded in
downing him.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

Mr.. @. S. Hollis, Veterinary Surgeon,
Boston, Mass, certifies that he has
made the great pain-cure, st. Jacobs
Oil, the sole remedy in his practice for
horse ailments and considers It supe-
rior to any cure he has known in forty
years. He tried the same great pain
banisher on himself for rheumatism
and by which he was completely cured.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

In defending himself against the
scullions of defamation, rs he calls
them, who have criticised his liberal
exercise of the pardouing power, ex-
Gov. Blackburn, of Kentucky, said
that when he entered office he found
the state peniteutiary miserable hole
of filth, n fit place for disease, pes
thence, and death. There wero, he
said, over three hundred miserable hui
man beings immured two and two in
cells three feet nine inches wide, six
feet three inches high, and six feet
eight inches long.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

spring chicken, but much moro
delicate. hope that it will not be
many years before the price of frogs
logs will not be more than any kind of
meat, when they may be found on the
table of the laborer as well as on the
menu of our miliiOnaires.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

A NMIRoD aged Il years, living in
Manitoba, went on his usual hunt the
other day with his son, and before sun
down ho had killed seycnty-two ducks
to bis sons thrty-nine.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

A CHILD 7 years old was arrested in
Portland, Oregon, recently,on charge
of assault and battery preferred by an
aged colored person. The brute"
was placed under S25 bonds to appear
at the neXt torn Of count.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

A LADY of Pottstown, Pa, eXcites
the envy of her neighbors by Boosting
of the fact that pitcher has not been
broken in her family during the twenty
nine years of her married life.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

PoRTLAND, Oregon, had only about
three thousand population twenty years
ago. At the Willard celebration the
other day she had procession two
miles long.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

CHARLES r. KING, of Hartford Il
Wan of seventy, has in his lifcmaslcred
twenty-five distinct trades and has
made himself u frst-cass workman at
each of them.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

DURING the past year over third OF
million dollars was received at the
United States land Office at Gainesville,
Fla, and nearly half million acres of
land were disposed of. There We're
also 1,655 homestead entries. and the
number of cash entries was 2,lSl.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

A BEGGAR-wOMAN, of Helena, Mon
tana, realizes sometimes as much as
$50 day from her mendicancy.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

SIR A. BASS rents $4,000 acres of
ground for shooting purposes in Inver,
ness-Shire.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

WILLIAM HARRIS, Il native of Harbor
Keys, died recently in Key West, Fla,
at tho advanced age of l0j years.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

E, B. WAsnBuRNEis is telling tho peo-
pie of Illinois what he knows about
farming.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

THE Louisiana lcyeo system has
Oeen restored TO high state of
efficiency during the past year
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

A NURSERY at Beeboe, Ark, has
shipped 5000 umbrella china trees to
Atlanta, Ga, where they will be set
out on the streets for shade trees.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

BEES taken TO Florida become lazy,
and make only as much honey as they
need from day to day.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

THE cider Dumas is leading an agi
tation in Paris against the luxury of
stage scenery.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

PARIS bonueta will have square, am
pie crowns to accommodate the hair,
which is in coil on the top of the
head.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

A GouRMAND of Caaenovia, N. Y,
INDUCED in one of his pastimes of eat
ing lO6 raw clans in twenty-five
minutes recently.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

FIFTY years ago the West Indies cx-
ported at tho rate of $50 a head; now
the rate is S25.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

AT the Newark IN. Y J nurseries two
men budded 6,92l trees in day.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

Mr.. LOUIS &. NAoUIzA, of Mexico,
died recently at the "ripo old age" of
l25 years.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

BLUEBERRIEs are still quite abundant
among the high lodges of the White
mountains.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

IL boring an artesian well in Monroe
county, Miss, petrilied logwas struck
ut u depth Of 2ll feet.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

A FIRE started by careless hunters swept
ever 5000 acres OF the San Juan grant, near
Sacramento, Cal.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

Fresno county, CAL, is making canal 100
feet wide from Kings River to irrIgate 30.
100000 screA Of dry and worthless desert,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

BRICK masons are getting Sc a day
n some parts of the south.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

In Chicago from $50 TO 900 marriage
licenses are now issued In one woek.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

vigor, strength and health, al found in
one bottle Of Browns Iron Hltters,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27

OF Victor Hugo, when he is feted, 1t is said
that he seems moved and satisfed.h
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-06
D0DGEEILLE.

Thomas, aged Z years, son of Mr..
Isaac Ellwood, died on the evening
of Friday, June %, from the effects
OF having drank to much wine. 1t
appears that he had secured the
liquor without the knowledge of
his parents and after drinking a
quantity was thrown into convul-
sions, from which he never re-
covered.
Two thousand five hundred
dollars were appropriated for edu-
cational purposes at the school meet
ing July 2, in this village-s1. 500
for teachers, and $1,000 for contin-
gent fund. Mr.. Joel Whitman d.
rector, was superseded by Richard
Coates, Esq, Mr.. Whitman's term
having expired.
Mr.. J. Y. Rodgers made it inter
esting for the boys on the Fourth
of July. Our band went to Blue
Mounds to help them celebrate al
that place.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-06
MiscegenatiOn and Murder.

A few weeks ago a colored child
was born to daughter of Patrick
Judge, an Irish farmer living four
miles southwest of Lancaster. The
girl would not confess as to its pater-
nifty. Justice Baldwing, accompani
ed by Deputy Sheriff Richards,
went to Judges place on the after
noon of June 26, and after consider
able questioning obtained the sigma
ture of the girl to an affidavit that
Samuel Gatlin, a colored laborer in
the employ of Judge, was the father
of the child. Deputy Richards ar
rested Gatlin, and with his prisoner
started toward the wagon to come to
town. AS they passed the door
Patrick Judge called Gatlin in and
began using abusive language to-
wards him. He picked up an axe
and ATTEMPTED to strike Gatlin with
it, but was prevented by Richards,
who called to Gatlin to run. By
this time they had got outside of the
door. At the corner of the house
Gatlin started to run, when some one
fired a shot which whistled past
Richards and took effect in Gatlin's
back. Besides Patrick Judge and
his family there were present his
brother John Judge, Patrick Battle,
and two or three boys, The negro
was at once taken to the county Jail
where the wound was dressed. On
examination it was found that ten
buckshot had taken effect within a
circumference of an inch and half,
one of which was extracted.
The negro died within a short
time from the effect of the wound.
At last accounts no arrests were
made.