Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-03-06
NUMBER 20.
NOTES OF THE DAY.

her asylums.
A fish storm recently occurred near
Lancaster, 5. {.
The housetops at Hickory, N. c., are
covered with snow.
Wheat looks little "sick" in some
parts of Tennessee.
California exports a large number Of
bees to France every year.
Gen. Bob" Toombs is to haye a
hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. named after
him.
A two-headed boy is being exhibited
throughout Georgia, the land of mon
strositics.
A lO-year-old boy who was helpless
ly intoxicated was recently arrested in
Athens, Ga,
A negro near Athens, Ga, dimes on
every fat puppy he can find Come up
north, "Sambo.'
Nothing of Importance was accom-
plished by the recent negro convention
at Gainesville, Fla.
The fifteenth annual reunion of the
Army Of the Potomac will be held in
Brooklyn, June II.
One firm at Marshall, Tenn, sold
forty thousand dozen of eggs last year,
for which they paid $1,000.
A convict in the Pennsylvania peni-
Tertiary worked his way into the usual
crowd Of visitors last Sunday and es-
capped.
Several children under IS years of
age were among the persons swindled
by the Fall River, Mass, insurance
frauds.
A woman recently bit the hand of
man at Athens, Ga. The wound began
to intlamc, and the man is now lying in
Il dangerous condition.
A Bethel, Me, grocer found the
other day that rats had bored into the
bottom of one Of his barrels of flour
and eaten all the contents.
Sam Sing, Of Louisville. Ky, has
brought suit against Chan Gee for the
recovery of 23j, The papers are drawn
up in Chinese hieroglyphics.
A young attorny Of Wadesboro, N.
c., offers a reward for the arrest and
conviction of the person who sent him
an 0flenSiye-looking valentine.
The combined weight of man and
wife at Gainesville, Ga, is less than
200 pounds. yet they consumed over
l.2OO pounds of flour last year.
Sixty-four counties in Texas did not
vote at the last presidential election.
Many of them have since been organ
lied. and will be heard from this
year.
Opium smoking will be the political
issue at the next election in Vallejo,
wv w. 7Tlgrs of that city pledges
its candidate for trustee to suppress
the evil
1t is said that rats are appearing in
large numbers in some parts OF New
Mexico, and cause great destruction to
property, especially to the old adobes.
which they undermine.
The Chinese court interpreter at Vic
toria, b. c., recently married white
woman. and Il few days after several
Chinese drove up to his residence and
forcibly abducted his wife.
A j-ycar-old boy in Oxford, Me, can
outplay any other boy in the state on a
cornet, He plays any tune correctly
after hearing it once, and has never
received musical instruction.
Railroad men on the Boston, Hoosac
Tunnel and Western railroad greatly
fear an engine on that road which
bears the unlucky number "13. ~ 1t
killed its fourth victim last week.
A bartender in Chicopee, Ne,
hotel, who is in the habit of taking an
aftcr-dinner nap in the office, woke up
the other day TO find his only comfort,
an elaborate mustache, shaved off.
A scorpion five inches in length was
recently discovered in a hard-boiled
egg by gentleman who had sat down
to dinner at Athens, Ga. The egg was
supposed to have been laid by a hen.
A wild man, described by one who
didn't see him as being "about nino
feet high, and weighing five hundred
pounds, with eyes giving light equal
to the moon, sun, or electricity, Is
reported to be in the vicinity of Look
out Mountain, Ga.
A farmer near Wadesboro, N. c..
guards his woodpile during the night
bv Il trusty sentinel in the shape of an
old goose, which he ties to one OF the
logs. When anyone enters the yard
the watch sets up vigorous squak-
ING, thereby arousing its master, who
secures shotgun and protects his
property.
The jury in the case of Leonardo
Thomasolo, of Buffalo, N. Y, on trial
for manslaughter brought in verdict
convicting the defendant OF careless
shooting. The court refused to receive
the verdict at first, but learning that
the Jury had deliberated for two hours
before they came to an agreement,
finally decided to accept it.
At the Catholic church in Troy, n.
Y, an infant which had been found in
the alleyway was recently christened
Joseph by the priest. Soon after
woman adopted the child, and discov-
cred it to be female, whereupon she
took the youngster to the mistaken
priest and the syllable "ine' was Of
fixed to the little ones name.
John Yeager is probably the most IA
nous fox hunter in Pennsylvania, and
his daring exploits form the theme OF
many A iireside tale. He takes the
widest leaps, springs the deepest ditch
es. and is unsurpassed in reckless dar-
ing. Three years ago, during great
hunt, he left eighty-tiye riders be-
hind, swan the Schuylkill near Potts
town, and caught the wet and pant
ing fox on the other side.
The tremendous list of words ending
in "dousn which has been started by
the finding of four of them by a Penn
sylyanian, has been heightened to a
stupendous size by an enterprising
school-teacher of Plymouth, N. H.,
who has discovered six other hazard
ous words. The record so far shows
the following interesting words, Ire
mendous, amplupodous, cephalopou-
dous, gastropodous, gasteropodouss'
apodous, hazardous, pteropodouss, SOL
pedous, and stupendous. 1t Will now
be in order for someone to send IN
translations of the above jaw-breakers.
Fanny Scott, the mulatto cook OF
Judge Hinton, of the Virginia supreme
court of appeals, after preparing the
morning meal, told the family TO eat