Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-01-04

| 1ho W" III bedl biles
A nlcc young woman of Dooly
county. Ga, was milking COW few
days ago, when n young man bounded
over the cow-pcn fence. The lad kissed
the lass. and off they ran acrossa field
to the Office of 4 Justice, who married
them.
One of the Atlantic City papers
makes it known that Thomas Col
lins, of Bakersyille, is the posscssor OF
a calf that when months old weighed
iOi pounds and measured feet and G
inches in the girth and stands feet G
inches" "
Sheriff Nickel, of Lincoln county,
Miss, met 4 COW in the road the other
day. The Sheriff said "Shoom but in
stead Of allowing him TO pass, the cow
tossed him at least twenty feet upward.
so that he was 4 High Sheriilindccd. -
He will pass his Christmas in bed.
This is the kind of an item one finds
in the agricultural papers: "a Han
cock county CGa.) farmer has sold
during seven months Of this year $3.50
worth of butter from eight common
cows Or an item such as this "Thcrc
are II, 2,li3,j93 milch cows in the United
States one TO every four persons"
A farmer at Gridlcy, CAL, hunts
geese with COW. 1t is said that he
has trained the animal to walk out to
where flock of geese have settled
down on the grain, browsing all the
way along, he walking alongside on
the of side from the geese, and when
rear enough the COW lies down and he
shoots into the lock and captures
thirty or forty.
The COW in Colorado, as the Denver
Republican reports; "A trial which has
excited great interest and much feeling
has been before the county court of
Jefferson countyfor the past three days.
The parties 10 the cause were John Ry-
an, plaintiff, vs.. &. II. llarick, dcfcnd-
ant, and grew out of the disputed own
cr,hip of u certain COW, the value of
which probably does not exceed 80.
II. n. SoleS appeared for plaintiff and
A. ii. DeFrancc for defendant The
witnesses, of whom there were between
forty and fifty, embraced most of the
leading farmers and stock men of the
southern part of Jefferson county, in
cluding experts in brands, marks, etc.
The case went TO the jury this morning
at II o'clock. They returned Il verdict
in half an hour for the plaintiff. There
is still much feeling and the case will
probably be carried up
Two COWS and detected calf stood
tied in front of the court house in Os-
wcgo, n. Y, all Monday morning,
while within Justice Case was cndcay-
oring to decide TO which of two claim
ants TIE calf belonged. Each brought
a crowd of witnesses to prove his own
crShip and each had driven his COW to
court, hoping that family likeness and
maternal Soiciludc would furnish tri-
umphant testimony. But the evidence
was so conflicting that if solomon him
self had been ON the bench justice
might have miScarricd. II would not
have avilcd him to Introduce his ccle-
bratcd sword act for both COWS were
50 Indifferent 10 the privileges and obli-
cations of motherhood that evidently
neither would have offered the slight
est rcmonStrancc if the calf had been
cut in two before her eyes. The calf,
moreover. was singUlarly ObliviouS TO
her usual lactcal facilities and failed to
indicate which Of the rival dairics She
was accustomed TO patroniHc. At last
accounts neither claimant had obtained
the least advantage.
Here Is COW story from the Rich
mond Wing. "RoborL Jennings, OF
Louisa county, who was employed on