Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-07-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A turtle was brought into Cedar Key,
Fla, n few days ago, that weighed 425
pounds.
Mrs. Katherine Chase, formerly Mrs.
Sprague, has gone TO Europe for the
summer.
The salmon angling on the Resti-
gOuchc, New Brunswick, is the finest
known for years.
EX-GOv. Brown, of Georgia, is to bo
paid S2j, coo Il year rs president of the
Florida ship canal.
The Gloycrsville IN. W business
directory contains the names Of l22
glOvU manufacturers.
NJ. G. Butler Jr., son of the senator
from South Carolina, has been appoint
ed Il cadet at West Point.
Mrs. j. &. Fair, the divorced wife Of
the senator, may be seen daily driving
with her family on tho beach at Santa
Cruz, Cal.
Lord Randolph Churchill now has
his house lighted throughout by elec.
tricity, supplied by n small gas engine
in tho cellar.
Mrs. VIM. Gammcl, wife OF o
Brown university professor, is the lar
gcst taxpayer in Newport. She is
assessed at SiO2, 900.
Charles A. Dana has hobby of col
lccting great trees, and he has trans
planted some enormous and majestic
trees on his island Dosoris.
Libel suits aggrcgating $4,000 have
been brought against The Cincinnati
Nows.JOurnal by the proprietorS and
two boardcrs at the Madison hsusc.
The city council of Erie, Pa, have
decided to levy upon telephone COM
panicS tax of - for each pole. There
are three hundred poles in the city.
The Digger Indians played game
Of baseball at Rancho Chico, Butte
county, CAL, last Sunday. They un-
derstood the game pretty thoroughly.
Bullalo's new city directory con
tains j7,l46 names, an increase of
5000 over last years book. The popu
lation Of the city is estimated at 2ll,-
600.
In Il tight between four robins and a
chicken, i'll Edcnsburg, Pa, recently
the chicken was so badly whipped that
it lived only an hour after being res
cued by boy.
The directory of Providence, Il. l.,
Just issued, contains i6,76i names, an
increase Of 3,2il over last years. The
compilcrs estimate the city's popula-
ton ut l2l, 600
The Fulton (N. " Times says
telegram was sent from that village TO
Sidney, Australia, the other evening
and an answer received in fOrty.iive
minutes.
A citizen of Gallatin county, Ken
lucky, has Il watermelon patch con
tanning 2,70O hills. A few years ago
he sold $500 worth of melOns-the
product Of one acre.
An old miner is reported TO have
struck a pocket in Butte creek, CalifOr-
mia, and washed out $4,000. He got
the whole amount in u day or two, the
pocket being exhausted.
Scmiahmoo, in Whatcom county,
Washington territory, the particular
point that marks the extreme north
western corner Of the United States, is
just now enjoying Il boom.
A single apple orchard of eleven
acres, near Seneca Falls, N Y. has
produced in the past twelve years Sl2,-
.SlS. One half the orchard was planted
in 1916 and the other in 1856.
Francis Murphy, who has for u long
time been holding successful temper.
ancc meetings IN England, will sail for
home with his son and daughter on
Sept, b, ON the steamship City of
Rome.
The convent of Villa Maria, at Monk.
lands, Canada, tho interior Of which is
rapidly approaching completion, will it
is said, cost about 81, 100000, and will
be one of the finest buildings of the kind
on the continent.
The wife of Armstead Vance, of the
Oakford precinct, Owcnsboro, Ky,
has given birth TO three children, all of
whom are living, IN nine months and
twelve days-onC on the first occasion
and two ON the last.
A Brooklyn Heights girl, diguised as
Il maid-scrvant, washed the sidewalk
of her fathers residence with the hose
for the sake of getting u chance TO turn
the water on dude who insisted ON
making love TO her.
Not only does the timber of Puget
sound rank foremost among manufac-
turors of large vessels, but tho number
and great superiority of ship-knees OBJ
tanned there arc very generally rccog-
nizcd among builders.
Ex-senator Davis, of West Virginia,
is hard at work building up his Deer
Park, Md, property. He owns almost
all the land, ten thousand acres or more,
around the place, in Tie midst of which
is q costly observatory.
Prince Lucien Bonaparte, nephew of
the great Napoleon, is to be given
E250 pension by Queen Victoria, be-
cause he is very poor and has done
some very remarkable pathological
work. He is 70 years old
A son of Garrett Dingman, of East
Evans, near Buffalo, N. Y, aged IS,
while out hunting tried to kill chip
munk by striking it with the but end of
his gun. The blow caused the gun to
explode, the charge entering young
Dingman's thigh, making an ugly
wound.
The Women's association formed in
Troy, N. Y. some time ago proves to
be highly successful enterprise. 1t is
designed for the benefit of working
women, and provides for their instruc-
ton in embroidery and in other arts,
and offers opportunities for refined
social enjoyments.
Precisely why Mrs. Garfield should
be called a changed woman" | don't
understand, says a correspondent.
The Miss Nancies of journalism created
an ideal Garfield. Insiders knew the
absurdity of both pictures. Mrs. Gar
field is exactly as she always was
differing only from the ideal, which
was made up for the occasion.
John Foley, New York gentleman.
and his nine children reached Lake
George the other day on their way to
the Adirondacks. They will remain in
the mountain three months. Each OF
the five boys has a rifle, a shotgun and
a good supply of fishing tackle, while