Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-10-23
FACT AND FANCY.

Inc lanuS 10 DC taken by new 1Ork
around Niagara falls are valued at 81.
435, ,429.jO
James II. Cone, dock night watch
manin San Francisco, in the past four
years has saved tifty.seven persons
from drowning.
Bishop Kccner, of New Orleans, will
hold the annual session of the North
Alabama conference at Talladega on
the 10th of November.
A California fruit-erower has sue
ceeded in growing clingstonc peaches
so large that but fifteen can be packed
in twenty-five pound box.
1t is reported that half dozen New
England girls are taking tramp
through the Adirondacks. 1t is to be
hoped that they will leave him there.
ALcwiston, Me, lady was married
at 9A. NJ. Friday. and was dead in her
bridal dress at noon the same day. She
had been hopelessly i'll for long time.
A curiosity exhibited in Fulton mar
ket, New York, the other day, was n
decp-sea eel, seven feet lJng, which
was caught in 4 cod-scine off New
foundand.
While Scott Helms, of Barbour
county, Alabama, was dressing for his
marriage, last week, he was bitten by
rattIcsnakc. Although quite sick
from the bite, the marriage took place.
1t is stated that by the sale of some
unproductyc property the state gov
ernment of North Carolina has been
run for one year without drawing
dollar from the pockets of the people.
G. W. T. Carter, of Byron, Cal, with
three thrashing outfits, has thrashed
10000 bushels of wheat this season
about Modesto and near Turlock, the
pay for viii, is in the vicinity of S2i,-
QUO.
Charles = nogg, prominent Bufla-
10 bridge or, has just closed con-
tract for 81, $50 600 worth of steel pipe
made according to Il patent process of
his own. Nobody knows what he
wants it for.
Even little New Jersey boasts in
names of places suggestive Of the I'M
agination Of the boundlcSS west. In
one county it has places which bear
the names respectively OF Pigs Eye
and Bu2hard'S Glory.
Seventy Normandy horses of the
finest class were recently imported,
and the steamship transporting them
was obliged to run at such slow speed
that rumOr arose that she had met
with an accident to her machinery.
One of the luxurcs for sale in the
New York market is New England
mince-mcat, the Thanksgiving brand,
comprising everything that should com
pose u generous pie. 1t is put up in
live-pOund wooden buckets, and costs
from Il to IL cents apound.
Buffalo proposes aS soon as Niagara
falls shall have become 4 public park
to make driveway along the river
from the city to the falls. a cOntinu-
Gus avenue from Delaware avenue,
the finest boulevard of Buffalo, for
about twenty miles will then make one
of the most beautiful drives in the
country.
A stockton, Cal, lady, while visitin.
in Oakland, six weeks ago, opened
palent-stoppcred soda-bottle by strik
ing it with the palm of the hand. Th
result was Il bruiSc, swollen hand
and at last black-and- arm whicl
the doctors have laid open to the bone
from wrist TO elbow. Beware of tn
fatal soda-bottle; it bteth like ser
pent and stingeth like an adder.
A neat bit of financicrng was done
by Palaika (Fla.) citizen. He was
indebted to a railroad, and was pro.
ceeding tOpay the bill, when he learned
that the bonds of the road could be
bought for 80 cents on the dollar, and
that the road would take them at par
He therefore invested in the bonds and
discharged his debt with them, netting
n considerable sum by the operation.
The old adagc that "therc is more
ways than one to kill cat" was fully
illustrated on the PARROT grant last
Friday, says The Chico (Cal.) Record.
joseph Leaguna, in the employ of
Hamilton Il Rice, freed large Wild
cat, and, having no firearms, brought
his wits to bear how to kill it. He
went to camp and got n rope, found
forked limb that would serve as pull
ley, passed the rope over it, lassoed
the cat and lowered him within q few
feet of the gaound, and then dispatch.
ed it with club.
1t is stated that billions of insects
have been killed by the electric lights
in the capitol at Washington, and their
skeletons are either hanging on the
walls or are piled up in heaps all over
the rccesses of the roof. They COM
prise May flies, beetles, crickets, ear
wigs, dragon flies, grasshoppers, cad.
dis flies. honey bees, wasps, ants, hor-
nets, butterflies, moth, cicadas, frog
hoppers, plant lice, water beetles,
whirlgigs, skippers, horned midgets,
gnats, mosquitoes, and every species
of insectoria known TO the surround.
ing swamps and woods of Washington.
Last Saturday a party of colored
men stood around crap-table in Lit
tie Rock, Ark, betting against each
| pitch. Sam Yates, an ex-convict, bet
a colored roustabout % cents that the
pitcher would "pass." Each laid his
coin on the table. "Uh, huh!n grunted
the pitcher, as the dice left his hand,
come 10 me, seven, anu auueu, rs
they stopped rolling: "Dey come;
dere's the seven" II take de cash."
said Yates, reaching for the two coins.
mot dat cash." said the rouster.
"You bet he wuddent pass" ~ done
no such thing" said Yates. A quar-
rel followed, and the rouster's head
fell meditatively on his chest as he
murmured: Mus go to the pen for
five dimesP Mus kill de nigger for
four bitsP" The next instant keen
dagger entered Yates lungs, and the
rouster walked away unconcerned and
unmolested.
A recent dispatch states that tho
board of aldermen, mayor, and judge
of Columbia, S. c. were all broken up
over the legal question as to when
puppy becomes a dog. Judge Smell,
of the Washington police court, cut
the Gordian knot the other day by de-
Gliding that a puppy becomes dog at
the age of year. This question came
up in the case of an aged colored man
charged with the crime of keeping
dog without paying license. The
aged colored man pleaded that he did
not keep dog-it was only puppy