Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-03-20


ed, then suddenly he fell on his knees
and covered it with his hands.
My evidence was remarkable and
conclusive: and that day, for the first
time, Hercucsc Armstrong was com
'mittcd to prison. He had long been
the terror of the ncighhorhoOd, and no
one regretted the just punishment
which had fallen on him. What his
subsequent career may he know not ;
this is the present end Of Il strange and
perfectly true story. Ii. 7 NcWic, in
Ncw York TdJ'ct.
A Peace Maker.
The citizens nf Chicago are very
sorry to notice the feeling against that
rity that is exhibited by st. Louis citi-
Icns, and they would do anything to
put Il stop to the Sparring between the
two cities When number Of the
Chicago citizens get together they talk
it over, and all admit that il Il united
effort was made by citizens of both
places, and an understanding arrived
at, there would be no more hard feel
ing, as all realize that there should he
no antagoniSm between cities so near
together, and whose interests are so
nearly identical. The recent defeat Of
st. Louis by Chicago in securing the
democratic national convention has
brought the matter before the people,
and at recent gathering at Il club it
was suggested that whenever Chi
cagO citizen was in st. Louis it was his
duty to minglc pretty freely with the
people and try and overcome the pref
udcc, so that there might in future be
no antagoniSm One old fellow was
greatly taken with the idea. and he
said he was going down to st. Louis in
n day or two, and he should make Il
point Of doing all he could to heal up
the wounds. He returned on Tuesday.
but did not show up at the club till
Thursday evening, and rs his coach
man helped him up the steps, into the
reception room, and helped him of
with his coat. the club members
gathered around him. lie had one
arm in sling, one eye was bandagcd,
his nose looked aS though it had been
run into somebody clSc's business, one
ear hung by Il small piece, and was
stuck on by court plaster, several Of
his front teeth were gone, his chin
whiSkcrS were pulled out, and there
was lump on his head as big rs a
goose egg. Some one asked him if he
had been in u railroad accident, and
he looked up with the eve that was
whole, and said:
"Wuss n.r that, gentlemen. have
been to ST. Louis. Just lift my sprain-
ed leg up on that chair little. There,
that will do. You see. being down
there on business on the board of trade
| thought would try and say Il few
words that might tend to make people
there see that there was nothing mean
about Chicago, 50 when the boys went
ont to lunch near the board of trade, |
went along. and about forty of us were
standing up to the bar, 50 | Opcncd oil
'cm. told them | was from Chicago,
and we did not rs Il people have any
hard feelings toward st. Louis, because
our town was the biggest and did four
timns nc much business as they did
Inst ne I said that a lemon took me
right in this eye. locked around to-
ward where the lemon came from, and
| tnld thn fnllow ot fine end of thr bnr
tL,t ,Lnv nust pnt nvnnct that a LITTLE
nIacr lil;c ST Iouis with no hotel ac-
Communications, to sneak of. and no de-
,ir,l,I, rnsnrts for nnonlc I'm visit could
sncurn So importani a convention.
Saws / Years 5co Won could ret A con-
vnnt;nu hut vnm ara about forty wears
brhinL tbr aCc Inst then a fellow
bcbinJ me nnllcd nv plur hat rirht
down over NV nose and hit the top of
il with u Iish of crackers and cheese.
That /. What tont thc skin or my nose.
and loosnncd my oar. Then fellow.
th,t I will know If / ever see him. took
a m,ur of this vcllow stuff that looks
lilo cust,rd which tbnv make Tom
and Jnr,ry of and nourrd a lot of il
down my collar. and n chan pulled TN
NV nonfs.le~s and nourrd some more
of If in nv boots. I fell Won | was
mad If / could have hod about forty
Chicooo boys there we would have
tokcn thc town, They yelled TO me ia
give 'cm rest, and a chunck OF cheese
struck me in the mouth and the bar
tender squirted seltzer water INTO my
good eye with one of those Syhlon bot
ties, but told them that Chicago wa,
the greatest city in the world and
that St.Louis wouldn't make II good
door-yard for us, and that they didn
any of them know enough to keep out
of the hands of bunco steerers' and
that their bridge didn't amount to as
much as II viaduct in Chicago. Well,
YOU ought to have seen me. ! think
they threw me up in blanket, but
don't know, for there was lemon juice