Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-20

A white snake has been killed near
Danville, Va.
/ A large jute factory will be put in
operation in New Orleans.
Cameron, Tex, boasts of arattlesnake
nine feet long and with twenty seven
rattles.
The public debt has been reduced
over $30,000,000 during the past three
months.
The onion crop in Clackamas county,
Oregon, has been stricken by blight
this year.
Large deposits of gold have been
found in the bed of Little river, Blount
county, Tenn.
Near Baker City, Oregon, miner
with an arastra took $1,000 from one
ton of quartz.
Fifty-two national banks have been
organized during the last six months,
with capital of $5,685,OOO.
Six valuable marble quarries are now
giving employment to many hands in
Hawkins county, Tennessee.
Farmers say a larger acreage of small
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season than for many years previous.
Jersey Queen" famous Vermont
COW, owned in Peacham, gave 4,403
pounds of milk during the first one
hurdred days of her yearly test, making
PSI pounds of butter.
In Humboldt county, California.
there are many sheep ranges of from
1000 to 5000 acres. The county
contains over 100000 acres of land
and nearly 250,000 sheep are owned
therein.
At cattle show at Milan, which
was opened by the king of Italy, the
the management attempted to exhibit
camelS as well, but their presence so
alarmed the horses that they had to be
sent away.
The wheat crop of DIR. Glenn, of
ColuSa, Cal, this year was only 100000
sacks, against 100000 sacks last year.
Of this years corp the doctor will have
to save $4,000 sacks for seed, SO that
he has only $4,000 sacks to market.
Work is steadily progressing on sew
eral of the leading mines at Lone
Mountain, New, and by the time snow
flies at least one thousand tons of ore
of sufficiently high grade to pay
for extraction and reduction will be
on the several dumps in that district.
Copyright laws are so inexorable in
Great Britain that no one can sing any
selection from composers works
without paying royalty. Even the Or
gan grinders are subject to the law.
The heirs and assigns of Offenbach de-
mand royalty from those who sing any
of the tunes of that great composer un-
til 1880.
A grocer's assistant named Spencer,
who is captain" in the salvation
army, has just come to grief in London
for embezzling money and leading a
tender lamb of the fold very far astray.
The magistrate who committed him
for trial kindly remarked that he was
ga dissolute, impious, hypocritical
scoundrel"
Paper currency is regarded with eS-
pecial favor by the people of Japan.
1t no doubt possesses many advantages,
but immunity from fraud is not one of
them. Counterfeit notes are very
plentiful in Osaka, where as many as
fifty and sixty day have lately been
detected. Many have also been circu-
lated in Toxic, but, in spite of extra
precaution and vigilance, the source or
sources whence they emanate have not
Yet been discovered.
John Bunt and Annie Peters were
to have been married in Pulaski county,
Virginia, last week. The preacher
and invited guests had arrived. There
was storm coming. During pause
in the wind the expectant bride went
to the door to welcome the groom.
She gave a laugh of recognition, and
ran to meet him at the gate, but at
that moment bolt of thunder shook
the hills and the bride fell dead from
stroke of lightning.
Leo XIII. has issued bull of con-
siderable Importance, addressed to the
Roman Catholic church in England,
on the much-veXed question of the pO-
sition Of the regular clergy-Domini-
cans, Franciscans, Jesuits, Benedictines,
etc.-hold toward the bishops and the
latter toward the former. OF late
years the regular orders have so much
increased their temporal means that
they bid fair to have more churches,
schools, colleges, ETC., than their secu-
lar brethren; and as their property is
out of episcopal control the bishops
do not like the state of affairs at ALL
The pope has decided that in spiritual
matters the monks will be, as hereto
fore, under episcopal control; but as
regards their temporalities they are TO
remain quite independent.
The shares of the Chemical bank,
New York, have reached 1,780, the
highest quotation of any banking
house in the world. This is not to be
wondered at, since the bank declares
an average quarterly dividend of 25
per cent. The name of the bank,
which is queer one, really tells the
history of the institution. A gen.
tleman in New York got charter
from the legislature, many years ago,
to establish a chemical manufacturing
establishment. He was also granted
for this purpose, certain banking priv
ileges. The manufacture of chemicals
fell through after large fortune had
; been sunk in it. The banking privi-
/ leges, however, were used, and the re-
suit was the Chemical bank, which
now annually returns to its original
l stockholders dollar to every dollar
they invested in it.
The track of the Northern Pacific is
! now completed to Lake Prescott, twen-
ty miles west of Lake Pen d'Oreille,
two hundred and eight miles from
Wallula, and daily trains run regular
: Iy to Lake Prescott. The grade is
completed ten miles further, and a
large force is at work on trestle 2, 200
feet long and sixty feet high in some
portions. The trestle requires $780,
600 feet of lumber. 1t will be finished
within two weeks. Pile-driviDg for
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