Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-07-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Atlanta's (rcnn.) death rate for the
thrce months past is 394, over lS0 per
month.
a Spanish mackerel was caught in
Beaufort river, South Carolina, last
Thursday.
Samuel Stoddard, of Hallowell, Me-,
was choked 10 death recently with a
piece of tripe.
1t is estimated that twenty-five thou
sand people pass in and out at the union
station at Pittsburgh, daily.
Florida has n hen that has made RCst
and Matched n brood of chickens in a
tree twenty-four feet from the ground.
A Florida gopher lived more than a
year without food, between the inside
planking and the outer shell of boat.
The remnant of the Ncz Perce In
dians, thirty in number, are on their
way from the Indian nation to their
old reservation in Idaho.
The hog cholera prevails in the .
Beaver creek district, Washington
county, Pennsylvania. The farmers
have suffered severe losses.
Tho demolition of Booths theater in
New York is nearly complete, and the
work of erecting the new building
which is TO occupy the site has begun.
The Misses Caldwell, of Watertown,
n. Y, nieces of r. =. Flower, of New
York, have presented Sl5,0 memo
rial chapel to the Watertown cemetery.
Ralph Hill caught fish off Guilford,
Conn, recently, which Prof. Verrill, of
Yale college, pronounced fish of the
tarpum variety, usually found in the
Gulf of Mexico.
Mariana Largo, the oldest of the Car
mel Indians, died at Monterey, Cal,
last week from the effects of drunken
debauch. He was in the neighborhood
of 100 years old.
The number of cases of shoes shipped
from Lewiston, Me-, the past week has
been 1904, the week previous 2,279,
and the corresponding week CT last
year l,3jS cases.
A strcet-car conductor carelessly car
ried his bellpunch home and allowed
his children TO play with it. The next
day the company informed him that he
was 9,0O0,99S fares short.
Knox county, Tennessee, boasts Eof
two United States judges, congress-
man, n pension agent, salaried post
master, revenue collector, and several
other lesser federal officers.
Citizens of Baltimore, Md, are cir
cuating a petition for the employment
of colOred teachers in the cOlored pub
lie schools, as 'many of the race are
qualified to fill the positions.
a young man living near Kingston,
Tenn, was attacked one day last week
by fox, which showed great fierce
ness. 1t kept up the attack until he
stabbed it to death with his knife.
Up in Clackamas county, Oregon,
when the school teacher wants the boys
and girls to come to school she blows n
horn, and they come piling out of the
canyons toward the temple of learning
A negro near Bristol, Tenn, came in
from harvesting, drank freely of ice
water and ate u gallon of beans"
He was noted for his strength, but was
not strong enough for that, and so
died.
The hotel at Mammoth Hot Springs
in Yellowstone park will be completed
| by July 20. 1t is il4 feet in front and
60 feet deep. The furniture cost
$50, 900. 1t will accommodate eight
hundred guests.
Since recent Investigations in Mon
troal have pronounced cheap soda
water to be often mixture of almost
anything but soda, people are advised
to refrain from the poisoness substance
and try other refreshing compounds
still uninvestigated.
Miss Augusta A. Wells, of Belfast,
Me-, is the pOssesSor of silverplate over
two hundred years old, it having been
the possession of the family since the
landing of the pilgrims at Plymouth.
1t is handed down from one generation
to another as an heirloom.
During heavy thunderstorm at
Taunton, Mass, the other morning,
lightning struck the house occupied by
Peter Fitzpatrick, Court street, running
in on wire clothes-line attached to the
corner of the house, doing considerable
damage and stunning Mrs. Fitzpatrick.
The English people of the Rugby
colony celebrated the Fourth, with
much enthusiasm. They had sports,
games, fireworks, and took great in
terest in the day. The mother of Hon.
Tom Huges, of England, who is sc
years of age, rode to the celebration on
horseback
From surveys and calculations made
by civil engineer, the famous Wash
ington bowlder, near Conway Corner,
N. H., is found to be so feet in height,
i6 feet in length, S5 feet in width, and
to weigh 3,S67 tons. This is the lar
gest known insulated piece of granite
in the world.
1t has been discovered that the ex-
tract of the yellow jasmine of the south
is an effective remedy for poison oak.
The extract is employed as wash by
mixing n half drachm of carbolic acid,
two drachms of the fluid extract of
gelsemium, one-half ounce of glycerine,
and four ounces of water.
Two young men have located upon
n farm they have purchased neal
Knoxville, Tenn, for stock-raising
purposes and have named their place
"Dude's Rest" Employees are en-
gagged in beautifying the place, and, in
the words of another, "giving the sur
rOundings an air of aesthetic loveliness."
A stone of purplish brown COLO
has been found in inexhaustible quaint
ties near Summitville, in Coffee county,
Tennessee. 1t is susceptible of fine
finish. Samples of another kind have
also been shown which are claimed tc
be of the kind used for lithographing.
Specimens of both have been sent to
the state agricultural commissioner.
II is stated that sand bars which, be-
fore the construction of the jetties In
the Savannah river, we're barriers to
the passage Of ofsteamboats atlow water,
now lie deep beneath the surface and
no longer an obstacle. This has
strengthened the hope of having suf-
ficient water all the year round from
Augusta, Ca, to the mouth Of the river.
For ten years past, says The Truckee
(Nev. } Republican, the pine tree which
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