Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-06-05
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Eva Long, of Gainesville, ia, whllo
ont riding with her father, turned and
rode away with Thomas Mcconnell,
whom she married.
Justice Jette has rendered deci-
sion at Montreal upholding the Quebec
governments right to impose tax on
insurance companies.
The royal ponceana, the famous Key
West towering tree, is beginning to
bloom. Its variegated flowers are the
most attractive on the island.
The drop-curtain of the new public
hall in San Bucnaventura, Cal, will be
made to pay for itself being taken by
merchants as an advertising sheet.
A consignment of seven thousand
cases of linsccd oil from Brazil, the
first ever sent from there, passed the
New York custom-housc Wednesday.
1t is proposed to increase the Brook
lyn police force by one hundred ad-
ditional patrolmen, provided authority
can be obtained for the additional cX-
pensc.
Last Saturday was the hottest day
of the season at New York city, The
thermometer registered 81 degrees in
the shade. Four eases Of sunstroke
were reported.
A poor man, who in his lifetime had
followed the calling of Il steyedorc,
died in New York city a few days ago,
and siXty-liyc coaches followed his re-
mains TO the grave.
L,,.,,tn n v f,rn,nr with IOn
bushels of potatoes on hand, after
vainly waiting for several months for
u rise in price, fed the whole lot to his
horses, cattle and hogs
The Columbia river fishing season is
now in its seventh week, and thus far
there has not been paying run, The
pack to date is As per cent Of the pack
for corresponding time last year.
A brakeman, when the train arrived
at Yuma, where the state prison of
Arizona is located, the other day, an
nounccd to the passengers: Yuma!
Change clothes; ten years for refresh
mCnt.
Two young ladies of Sards, Miss,
had lots of fun one day last week.
They dressed themselves up in the
guisc of bcggars and scoopcd the town
for 50 in cash and something to eat
and drink
A Santa Barbara, Cal, man realized
81, 100 from an acre and a hall of
Strawberries last season. This year he
has been selling about $50 worth daily,
ut wholesale prices, from the same
patch.
Pacific coast papers complain of ir
Irregularities and delays in transconti-
mental mails. When some changes are
made, it is said that letters will 20
from New York to San Francisco in
five days.
The Chain lake monster, which it
is claimed was seen in the Schoodic
lakes in eastern Maine two OF three
years ago, has again put in IN appear
ancc. 1t was recently seen in Big
lake by an Indian and two squaws.
They were very much frightened, and
Immediately padded ashore when the
serpent came in view. They declare
it TO be of enormous size.
There was recently on exhibition in
Virginia maturcd COW with three I'M
mcnSc horns and three eyes. In shape
the COW rcscmblcd Il horse. having Il
long body, sway back, and an archcd
neck. The hoof terminated in high
pieces of bone that curved ont several
inches. In company with the cow
was Il pretty COW calf, which was
born without eyes or tail,
A 2-ycar-old child of James Dunn,
J of Middlctown, Conn, recently picked
up dippcr of boiling-hot water lying
on the table at which he was placed
and drank part Of it. The remainder
was spilled on his face, neck, and
chest. His tongue was dcnuded, and
the internal injuries are frightful. A
, doctor was called, but could do nothing
toward saving the boys life.
The Spurlock Hill, Virginia, Jesse
; James gang of thugs and thieves,
whose score of murders and unnum-
, bcred thcfts We're made known by the
confession of one of their band last
week, are at their old tricks again.
The other night three men, supposed
| to be members of the party, went to
, the house Of John Carlos, on Little
Mud river, and called Carlos to the
: door. He was seized, gagged, and
bound. The men then went through
Q the house, taking all they could find,
2 and then set fire to the building. One
I of the thieves became enraged ut Car
., los and shot him to death. The thieves
got $500. The same gang killed n
G man named Horley on the Guyon river
last Saturday. This makes twenty
, three known murders for the gang.
c There is wonderful petriiied forest
: at Corrizo, in New Mexico. The petri-
}. fed stumps, limbs, and, in fact, whole
@ trees, lie about on all sides. The ac-
4 ton of the waters for hundreds of
- years has gradually washed away the
high hills round about, and the trees
that once covered the high tablelands
now lie in the valley beneath I'm.
e mense trunks, some of which will
- measure five feet in diameter, are
/; broken and scattered over surface of
three hundred acres. Limbs and twigs
a cover the sand in every direction.
II There are numerous blocks or trunks
y of this pctried wood that have the
y appearance of having been just cut
, down by the woodman's AK, and the
=, chips are thrown around on the ground
n % so that one instinctively picks them up
as he would in the log camps of Mlchi-
y gan and Pennsylvania. Every colorof
v the rainbow is duplicated in the crys-
i tails, and those of an amethyst color
h would pass the eye of novice for real
i stone.
r. One of the most singular cases which
n has come to the observation of the To-
l. cal medical fraternity of Leominster,
If Mass, is that of young man named
y Arthur Silver, who has for the past
70 week been slowly but surely bleeding
r. to death. The efforts of the physicians
70 have thus far proved unavailing, and
= so great is the loss of blood that the
recovery of the unfortunate young
man is despaired Of About week
ago Mr. Silver went to a dentist to have
- five teeth extracted. He was placed
~ ~ under the influence of gas, and the
y doctor proceeded, but, it is asserted,
- only one tooth was extracted, though
y why the operation should have stopped
:, :, there is the question the friends OF Mr..
y Silver vainly ask. immediately after
:, the dental operation profuse bleeding