Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-09-04
FACT AND FANCY.
Many wild boars infest Santa Rosa
island, California.

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Mill men in Washington territory
propose to advance the price of lum-
Der.
Rockfork, Washington territory,
farmers complain of injuries to crops
by prairie chickens.
New Orleans has an artesian well
$50 feet deep from which issues q
steady flow of clear cold water
Scvcnty-nine fires have been caused
in New York city during twelve years
by rats and mice nibbling matches.
The Chautauqua Literary society, Of
New York, has enrolled over sixty
thousand names since its organization
in 1873.
A young Piute, dressed in suit
made from a cast-away American flag,
caused II sensation in Bodie, Cal, the
other day.
Twcnty-nine bear and four cougar
scalps have been brought into Olym-
pia, Washington territory, this season
for bounty.
A Philadelphia gentleman has thir-
teen rooms in Il Catskill hotel for his
party of fifteen, for which he pays ST.
$50 per week.
San Francisco has girls union, the
object of which is to furnish board and
lodging 10 the workinggirl at the low
est possible expense.
Drumlish are creating havoc among
the oystcr-beds of Princes bay, New
York. Large schools of drumiish root
up in single night and dcvour whole
acres Of oysters.
The great cathedral in the City of
Mexico is the largest in America. and
cost nearly S2,000,0O0. 1t was COM
menced by the Spaniards in 1873, on
the site of the old Aztec temple, or
pyramid, and finished in 1867.
Mrs. Jennings, a very old lady living
near Athens, Ga, lately had couple
of bushels Of wheat of different kinds
that she wanted to save for seed. The
two bushels got mixed together, and
she separated it by picking out grain
ut time.
The anomalies of mining-camp life
are wonderful to eastern eyes. In Eu-
rcka, New, there is a curfew law, re-
quiring all minors to be at home by
o'clock. Boys who went home at or
Z before the law went into effect now
stay out punctiliously untilS.
On the Alabama line, near Fort
Gaines, Ga, Il negro while cleaning
out n well recently had all the skin of
| his forehead knocked lown over his
face by plank which broke loose
from the curbing and struck him
| glancing lick. 1t was miraculous
thing that the negro was not killed in
stantly.
An American Philistine has built
himself a house on the topmOst peak
of biblical Mt. Carmel. He went to dig
n cistern, and found one already hewn
in the living rock fourteen feet deep,
and two feet three inches square. He
needed wine cellar, and found an old
tomb under his hou sc in the loculi or
collins, in which the irreverent wretch
slowed his bottles.
Sam Small, of Atlanta, Ga, has
eighty odd scrap-books, running back
| forty years, and which he adds to daily.
He has the record of every public man
who has ever figured in Georgia poll
tics, correctly indexcd. One of his
books shows that Senator Colquitt6
father voted for and approved two
bills that his son voted against in the
United States senate.
An cnterprising Frcnchman at tLiver-
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near his place, and is rearing these
fcatherless but musical birds for the
San Francisco market. He shipped
box of big fat fellows just right to broil
last week, and expects hereafter to
turn out two or three boxes per week.
Progressing is said to be a profitable
business. 1t is certainly n new one in
that valley.
Lightning recently unearthed the
traces of n murder near Butte, Mon
tana. A tree standing in the neighbor-
hood was, one day last week, cleft in
two by u bolt of lightning. The next
morning farmer near by discovered
the remains of skeleton firmly i'm
bcdded in the heart of the tree. No one
in the vicinity was able to recall any
murder, and it is probable that the
mystery will never be explained,
A certain Pares, rather noted ban
dit and the last of his race, was re-
Gently shot by party of soldiers about
eighty miles from Durango, Mexico.
Pares defended himself to the bitter
end and tried to sell his life as dearly
as possible, continued firing on his
pursucrs even after he had been
wounded in the leg and stomach, until
overcome by sickness, when pistol
ball, fired by one of the soldiers, put
an end to his suflerings, his career
and his crimes.
The grasshoppers are slowly extend
ing their operations. They started in
Tabasco, and passed thence to Yucca
tan, Campeche, and Chiapas. They
afterwards camped in the states Of
Vera Cruz and Oaxaca. At present
they are committing depredations in
Morelos, Tamaulipas, Guerrero, and
Michoacan. Nine states have thus far
surrendered unconditicnally to the
insect insurgents, upon whose wings
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their wholesale slaughter, for they
have been buried by the ton.
Probably the most cheerless light
station on the California coast is the
Farallon light. Thomas Owen, w. H.
Rugg, David r. Splain, Philip Savage,
and an army mule are the accredited
government forces at that place. The
following story is told about the mule;
'He has been at Farallon several years,
J All his work consists in hoisting up
} twice year the provisions brought
} over by the lighthouse inspector in q
steamer. He has learned the sound Of
the whistle, and when he hears it,
hides to shirk work. At the last visit
} of the inspector the mule hid and had
to be hunted for wohours In the rocks
| before be could be found.
John Connors, Of Split Rock, deliy-
ers himself of the following to The
Syracuse On. W Herald: "a few
days ago was hunting woodcock in
the vicinity of Mud lake. On nearing
clump Of bushes near the edge OF
! the lake my pointer.dog, Lulu, came
tn n noipt on what | thought was