Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-08-02
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A Syracuse negro has sued two
white men for alternating the affections
of his wife.
There is an old couple residing in
Montreal, the husband being l0S and
the wife lO2 years of age.
The sale of the revised New Testa-
mcnt has fallen tremendously, and
publishers have lost money on it.
The japanese are teaching about
100000 children in their public
schools the American and British sys-
| tens.
About seven thousand packages of
adulterated tea / ave been discarded in
New York since the new law went into
effect.
The Amersterdam boy, not having
the taste of his American cousin for
candy, fruit or peanuts, spends his odd
penies for picked onions.
Nine ocean steamers have been
stranded on the bar which obstructs
the entrance to the Bay of New York
since the first OF January.
The chief secretary for Ireland seems
to think that putting five dollars into
the pocket of n pauper makes him q
sclf-supporting emigrant
1t costs Turkey over $l5,000,000
yearly TO run the sultan and his harem.
1t does not take that much to run all
our national harems, in Salt Lake and
Washington.
An elephant bigger than Jumbo has
just arrived at Liverpool from his ma
tive Jungle. He weighs nearly flve
tons and has Il trunk 3 1-2 feet in cir
cumferencc-a regular Saratoga.
A contract has been made by tho
Pullman Car company with Messrs.
Huntington and Pierce, of the Southern
Pacific to run Pullman sleepcrs through
from New Orleans to San Francisco
without change.
At the inquest into the recent disas-
ter at Victoria Hall, by which 1872 chill
dren lost their lives, several children
testified that they saw man bolt tho
door as they descended the stairs, but
they varied in their description of the
man.
Some of the Boston merchants are
making determined onslaught upon
the drivers of hacks and herdic coaches
who keep their vehicles standing more
than twenty minutes in one place, and
are compelling their punishment in the
police courts.
One day last week an Italian
gathered twelve hundred watcr.lilies
from Black pond, near Highland, and
shipped them to New York. He also
shipped eight hundred few days pre-.
vious. One lily and fern-leaf sol.
Tor cents in the city.
NJ. Victor Hugo, who is now n hale
old man, rides every afternoon on the
top of an omnibus through Paris. He
likes TO view the city and to converse
with fellow passengers. A few years
ago he presented about $4,000 as a
New Yaar's gift among the omnibus
conductors of Paris.
It is stated that the Red Sea is to be
dragged by n party of Frcnchmen in
search of Pharaoh'S chariots and treas
urcs. The Abbe Moigne of Paris is the
protector Of the scheme, and has sue
ceedcd in raising $l50,000 to meet the
expenses of the work. The expedition,
composed OF Il number of scientists and
experienced divers, is said to be al.
ready on its way to the scene of opera
tions. lngersoll started all this trouble.
A Charleston, S. c., church steeple
finds itself suddenly in commercial de-
mand. The owners of q few tug boats
in the harbor learned that an incoming
bark could be sighted from its summit
while yet afar off Business prospered
with them while their rivals. despite
cruising of the bar, could
get no vessels. Al last the secret of
he lookout was discovered, and now
he steeplc 10 TO rent to the highest
bidder.
One of the most exciting athletic con-
ests of the season to those who wit
lessed it occurred in Louisville, KY,
n the dead of night recently. Two
men ran race from the
to tho Commercial office.
Rogers, champion from Memphis,
md Cook, loyal son of Louisville,
we're the contestants, and it would
lavo been dead-heat if Rogers, al
most in the last jump, had not
truck his crutch against a treacher-
'us rock, which completely upset him
nd his calculations. As it was, he
anne near rolling under the string
head of his rival, With admirable
luck he Immediately issued the follow
ng challenge: "I hereby challenge
lr. Cook, or any other one-legged rum
er in Louisville, to race of three
undred yards or less, for any sum
rom 10 cents up to $3.50" Mr.. Cook
accepted the challege.
Jay Gould's tomb is to cost SS5,
nd will have room for sixteen persons.
n design this "mortuary chapel" as
he builders are proud to call it, is
miniature Greek temple Of polished
ranite. 1t is to be twenty feet wide,
lirty feet long and flanked with col.
mns, eight on each side, and four on
10 ends. No stone IN the construc-
on is to be less than six feet square in
&c, and the roof-stones arc to be six
'et wide by fifteen feet long, weighing
wen tons apiece. The doors OF tho
lapel are to be of bronze modelled by
ugustus ST. Gaudens, whose bill for
lis service is to be S2,500 Inside the
'iginal plan was to close each of the
xteen compartments with slab of
Ilished marble to be cemented in
ace. The latest intention, however,
to finish the inside of the chapel in
'onze as being more durable than
arble. Facing the door of the chapel
to be a window of stained glass,
obably by Lafarge, representing the
In Sumter county Is. C.), above
lllatin, has lived for many years
mily, consisting of man and wife,
med Caldwell. The couple had lived
gether until each was beginning to
ter on the verge of the grave. Re-
ntly, from some cause not known,
. wife expressed wish for a separa-
N from her husband. The persua-
o powers of her friends were Of no
all. She threatened to appeal to the
v. When this fact was communicat-
to her husband, who has an econ
tic turn of mind, he suggested that
, costs of lawsuit might be obviated
n mutual apreement. The suQpes-