Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-04-17
NOTES OF THE DAY.

u in the swampS near Adm, Cal, and
G hunters are slaughtcring them in large
: numbers.
The matriculation and library fees
! ! and the price of board in the commons
at the University Of Virginia have been
: reduced
According to The Rochester IN. W
Herdld, there is extreme need among
the Seneca Indians ON the Cattaraugus
reservation.
| Interesting news from Oregon: The
1 day of bovine jubilee has come, and
5 the cows roam the streets again, seek
, ing things to devour.
, Cough drops bought from peddler
= have made many Syracuse, n. Y.
| people sick. They are said to have
contained belladonna.
: Burlington, Vt, boasts a witty Irish
man who refused to pay Sl2, the regu-
lar price, for pasturing his COW because
she had only three tcats.
Apples sell at the rate Of three for
80 cents in the CGur d'Alcne mines,
and silver coin commands premium
WI ~ N'HNH WI INV u'iihl'
1t is reported that Chinese bank.
with capital of SiOO, 900, will shortly
he opened at Victoria, British Column
bia, by Hong Kong firm,
A negro soldier had his nose COM
plctely taken off by Il bullet at Fort
Stockton, Texas, and the same ball
striking German rendered amputa-
tion of his limb necessary.
A Mississippi man writes to Denton
county, Texas, for a runaway wife. and
describes her "with high cheek-bones,
upper front teeth out, crippled in one
foot, cross-eyed, and quick spoken
A Chinaman attempted to run res
taurant at LordsburS, New Mexico, re-
Gently, but had to give itup after three
days trial without giving single
meal. Even the "greascrs' are too sem
sitivc.
1t is said that the recent Georgia cy-
clone blew bible half-mile from Il
farmhouse. When first found it was
lying open, and the first thing that
greeted the finders eye was the sixth
eth psalm.
From the letters forming the word
''incomprchcnsiblity' Il Wcstport,
Me, woman has formod $50 intclligi-
bic words without the aid of printed
matter, and rival, Il man, has formed
81 | words.
A boy was convicted in Toronto,
Canada, last week of profane swearing
in English on the testimony of an ltal-
ian who did not understand "lnglise,'
and was compelled to testify through
an interpreter.
The NCW HdrCR NcWS has forbidden
its legislative reporter to accept the
rift of 1900 voted by the Connecticut
Legislature, and says it wants no sub
sidv from tho state for doing its duty
to the public rs newspaper.
A New York policeman admitted in
court that he was on the sick list for
six months because the night air did
not agree with him. He drew his pay
and also salary for day work in Il hat
store during the same period.
A ChinawOman recently applied for
admission to the Portland, Oregon, jail,
III DlutI W ut Sult llblll II ltllbN- -NpNlll-
tryman, who had threatened to kill
her. She has been there II week, and
still deems it unsafe to venture out.
At San Francisco, Emil Ncy, who
claims to be II distant relative of the
great French marshal, was recently
arrested in the free library on Il charge
of having destroyed public property,
He was cutting items referring to Mar
shal Ncy from one of the newspapers
on file.
Mctairc, the most fashionable ceme-
terry in New Orleans, was race-cOurse
Il few years ago. II then belonged to
an aristOcratic club which blackballed
the president of Il lottery company
when he made application for member
ship. BY way of revenge he bought
the grounds and gave them to the city
for u cemetery.
A Lawrence (Mass.) lrishman who
says he can prove that he is only %
years old is contesting the claim of
woman with two children, one II years
old. who claims that the man is her
husband and the father OF her chill
drcn. He has had the woman and her
aunt, who is backing her claim, arres-
ted for conspiracy.
A walking-cane made out Of nine
decks of old playing-cards, six thick
ncsses out of each deck pressed togeth-
cr by machinery, with steel rod run
ming through the middle, is owned by
William Gale, of Eureka, Nevada.
The cane is very heavy, smooth, and
supple, and is decidedly curiosity.
A little boy was buried in Meridian,
Miss, the other day, and behind the
hearse in the funeral procession walked
his pony, with its saddle drapcd with
Grape. Strangers even looked with
moistened eyes upon the little fellows
pet, upon which he had often been
seen to ride through the streets but
little while ago.
In Richmond, Va, the Cincinnati
riot caused great excitement. Many
kilograms were sent away, among them
the following important one toSenator
Sherman; at is suggested here tha
the Richmond Blues and detach-
ment of howitzers, who quelled the
Danvile riot, aid in suppressing the
riot in your state. Upon proper ap-
plication Gov. Cameron might order
them out"
Hail-stones recently fell in the vi
cinity of Daingerfeld, Texas, as large
as goose eggs or a mans two fists.
One eyewitness saw them piled up by
the wagon-load The storm tore limbs
from the trees, knocked through the
roofs of houses, killed calves, sheep,
and fowls, totally destroyed the fruit
and gardens, and forty-eight hours
after hail-stones were taken to town as
large as hens eggs.
A very aged man, clothed in rags
and with a long flowing beard, who car
ries bundle Of papers, which state
that he was born in 1901, fought with
the great Napoleon at Waterloo,
Austerlitz, and Leipzig, and took an
active part in the Polish war of 1881,
was captured and sentenced to Siberia,
but escaped and came to this country
with Carl Schurz in 1851, was recently
brought to the police station at Tren-
ton, N. j., charged with vagrancy. Al
though 20 years of age, he fought in