Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-06-19
NUMBER #.
NOTES OF THE DAY.

badly hurt by frost.
Railway, N. j.. compromises $4,000
600 Of debt to SjjO,OOO.
Fauquicr, Va, foxes are cmulating
the dogs in killing sheep.
The experiment of ostrich-farming
in Florida has proved failure,
Milk was sold on the streets Of Waco,
Tex, last week at | cent quart.
Large watermclons are selling in
Jacksonville, Fla, at from 81 to Sl.5O
The passenger elevators in London
can almost he counted on ones fling
crs.
Several bands Of wild horses are re-
ported in the mountains near Los An
gelcs.
The Billings, Montana, street rail
way has passed into the hands Of Il re-
ccivcr.
The extraordinary run OF ,9S9 points
was lately made by Il billiard player in
London.
Electric clocks will soon be- placed
in all of the government buildings in
New York.
There is danger that the prosperous
town of Grcenyillc, Miss, will slip in
to the river.
Eleven clergymcn sailed from New
York for Europe in one steamer one
day last week.
School-tcachcrs and schoo-childrcn
in Vermont are not allowed to use to-
bacco in any form,
Three and four pound Irish potatoes
is what the ncighborhood of Tallahas-
see, Fla, is raising,
European travel has decreased II or
20 per cent this year, but travel in the
United States is ON the increase.
Jordan river is flooding Salt Lake
City. The church has set three hun
drcd men working to dam the over
flow.
Steps are being taken to stop all
communication between lcrmosilIu
and GuaymaS ON account Of the yellow
fever.
The phosphate boom has struck
northwest Georgia. and il is said near
| ly every man one meets has pocket
ful of rocks.
A new paper, called The Foreigners
putty. printed in Spanish, French, Ger
man, and English, has appeared in the
City Of Mexico.
A process has been discovered by
which artificial ivory can be made
from the bones of sheep and goats and
the waste Of white skins.
Six bushels of cherries from one tree
is what NJ. ID. Roper. in Davidson
county, North Carolina gathered. He
sold them ut SO per huShcl.
Carpets manufactured IN New York
for country house ON the Hudson,
recently, have in the center the Chris
tian name of the person who will uccu-
py the room.
1t is now said that the substitution
Of iron for wooden slccpcrS on rail-
ways is only Il question of time, The
change has already made considerable
progress in Germany.
Merchants in those parts of Cuba
where silver is in circulation refuse to
receive perforated American and McNi-
can silver half and quarter dollars for
more than 40 and 22l cents respect
lively.
A spotted seal. five feet six inches
long. which had been shot in the jaw,
came ashore at Santa Cruz, Call, the
other day. The species is It stranger
to Monterey bay, aud this one must
have drftcd ont of its usual course,
and was shot by someone on board of
n vessel.
Cincinnati courts are diSpoSing of
murdcrcrs with Il rapidity unknown
before the riots. A prominent crimi-
nal lawyer is so discouraged that he
SAYS that he will take no more crimi-
nal cases He predicts that some day
an innocent man will be hanged, and
then II reaction will follow,
Mexico's national election takes
place June 10, the third Sunday of the
month, and on the second Sunday Of
July the electoral colleges of the vari-
Gus states will meet and elect a prcsi-
dent of the republic, Il deputy-at-large
to congress and substitute, and mag
istratcs of the supreme court to fill
vacancies.
There is large rock in the twin
lakes near Salisbury, Conn, which is
called the knowing rock from the
fact that within the last twenty years
il has moved a quarter of u mile. 1t
weighs more than thirty tons, is of
porous formation. and the channel it
has made for itself along the bottom of
} the lake clearly indicates the progress
it has made.
Columbus, o., has II large manu-
facturcr who objects to baseball play
ing on Sundays, which has become one
of the evils of the city To assist in
breaking it up he has promised half
holiday on Saturday to his nine hun
D dred operatives if each workman would
, refuse to attend baseball games on
Sunday. The workmcn assented with
cheers to the generous proposition.
There has been received in collec-
tions and donations from all parts OF
the world over 4, 800, 900 francs for the
rclif of the sufferers by the terrible
earthquakes on the island of Ischia,
near Naples. This, it is believed, is
, SUlHClcHl W luill LSpail ui NhS nv
terial damage done, though the eS-
timated loss was double the amount.
There was natural tendency to cX-
, aggerate in the matter.
Medical men declare that poor health
is more common among women than
among men. but add that it would be
very easy for the majority of women
by regularity of habits, proper exer-
else of body, and wholesome employ
ment of mind to secure the enjoyment
, of better health. The "wholesome
, employment of mind" is especially
, needed, and can only be obtained by
/ variety and pleasant interchange of
! work and recreation.
/ 1t is proposed to enact law pro-
' hibiting fishing with nets in the Po-
! tomac for five years, in the hope of re-
! storing the ancient piscatorial glory Of
! the river. Three hundred thousand
4 shad were often caught at one good
a landing on the Potomac during the
1 spring fishing, beginning about the
middle of March and terminating carly
in May, and halfa million herring were