Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-07-24
NUMBER 40.
FACT AND FANCY.

. Cincinnati is entrcating the govern
t mcnt to lay u pavement around the
n new postollice.
An Albany canOeist is vOyaging from
$ Vineyard sound around the coast on a
. two months trip.
], !, Galveston, with thirty miles of sea-
u beach, claims to be the most meritori-
II GUS of summer resorts.
Rowing excursions from New York
TO Albany are now the correct thing
g with eastern boat clubs.
4 Pike county, Alabama, will send a
r one-thousand pound block of gypsum
e to the Worlds exposition.
$ Three Cinnamon have opened up a
I bakery, restaurant, and laundry in
I Jamestown, Coahoma county, Miss.
Since the completion of the aqueduct
! of Huayapau, Oaxaca, Mexico, has
been abundantly supplied with water.
Detectives are trying to locate an
underground railway by which China
men are being brought into the coun-
try.
An eel, perfectly white, two feet
long, was spcarcd in the Susquchanna
river near Orienta, Pa, Tuesday night,
by William Hcnfcr.
Ulster county, New York, has such
a large raspberry crop boxes cannot be
made fast enough. Box factories are
running day and night.
Frank Montgomery, charged with
numbering Judge Rucks, was married
in jail at Grecnvillc, Miss, recently, to
Miss Lena Mccall, of that city.
Cleveland police courts are forbid
den to screen prominent men who
commit misdemeanors and attempt to
pay fines under assumed names.
North Carolina has 10000 acres of
tobacco this year in 81 of 9G counties.
There were $4,000 acres last year.
Farmers profits are 81 per cent.
A negro woman in Clark county,
South Carolina, gave birth to three
children Saturday. She is 50 years old,
and is the mother of twcnty-six chill
dren.
A rattlcsnakc was captured in
bucket of blackbcrricS at Grccnsburg
recently. 1t weighed thirteen pounds
and eleven ounces, and had nine rattlcs
and a button.
New York druggists, TO avoid water
tax, have used wells to supply their
soda-fountains. The health officers say
the wells are impure ard have prohibit
ed their use.
A large dcvil-lish that was shot at
some time ago by Il sportsman near
Galveston is now lying dead about five
miles down the gulf. 1t is supposed the
shot proved fatal.
A Clay county, Mississippi, farmer
has 100 acres planted in peppermint and
The Matches Democrat says he will go
into the manufacture of oil from the
plant on an extensive scale.
August Bcckcman told Washington
judge he had signed verdict not be-
cause he thought il right, but in order
TO get away and go home He paid
$50 fine for contempt of court
Gen. Norton is in London making
preliminary arrangements for an
American exhibition there in 1886. 1t
will include American products and
manufactures, practically displaying
all the processes which are Of Amcri-
can invention.
While wOrkmcn were recently
engaged in taking of the roof of the
old opcra-housc at Vicksburg, Miss,
they found twCnty-pound parrot
shell buried in the timbcrS and unex-
plodcd. 1t must have lodged there
during the siege of 1868.
The Salvation army folks do GER
tainly get up strange nicknames. At
a "hallelujah tca.tight" in Medina,
N. Y, the other day, there were pres
ent dumping Sambo," 1.-The Hallelu-
iah Canary Singer" Joyful Jcrc-
miah," Happy Sal, I" Smiling May"
and "Dick, the Devil-Tcasor."
The baseball mania in North Caro-
lima is rapidly reaching fever heat
In the town of Henderson the stores
close and all business is suspended on
the days when game is being played.
The mayor of the town is q member of
the local club, and takes as much in
terest in its success as any other boy.
When the city council of New Bed
ford, Mass, recently refused to audit
the bills for a street sewer, the mayor
promptly paid them himself. And at
another time when the same city
council failed to appropriate money
for fireworks on the Fourth of July, his
honor put his hand in his pocket and
disbursed all that was necessary for
sufficient illumination and explosion to
fifty characterize the patriotism of New
Bedford
A Wcstmorclahd county, Pennsyl-
vania, lady has clipper little Spanish
hen with seven little chicks. The other
day Il rat swan across the pond to
where the hen and her flock were feed
ing and pOunced upon one of her chicks.
The hen flew to tn. rescue of her young
one, pecked away at the rat till it had
to retreat, and each time it returned
so pluckily defended her offspring that
the rat at last had to take to the water
again, whittier it was pursued by the
hen, who pecked away at it as long as
it was within reach. The scene was
witnessed by several gentlemen, who
were very much pleased at the gallant
way in which the bird defended her lit
tie ones.
Owing to an ancient and well-estab-
lished regard for the sanctity of GER
tain burial rights that have been in
vogue among The Chinese in their ma
tive land ever since the days of Con-
fucius, the remains of wealthy Mon
golian gambler of Portland, Oregon,
who died the other day, will not be
embalmed for shipment across the
ocean. The statement that the body
would be so preserved was the result
of misunderstanding, Before his
death the gambler expressly instructed
some Ameaican friends that it was his
last wish that his bones should be re-
turned to his native land. Now, of
course, the American idea OF preserv-
ing corpses for long shipment is by
embalming, but 1t is not the Chinese
idea by a great deal, and nothing
could be more sacrilegious blow at
their holiest traditions. The correct
style, according to Confucius, is TO
bury the body as usual with all the at
tendant ritps and as much mapDifi