Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-11-24

Vermont raises less corn than any
other state in the union.

vermont raises less corn than any
other state in the union.
Lithographic stone is found in Clay
and Oyerton counties, Tennessee.
| Apples are being shipped in consider
able quantities from Erie to California.
| English advices report wool very
firm, and good Merine woods exceed
ingly scarce.
| This year the Texas cattle drive
north. via Fort Griffin. fosts up 900, 2,3lI
head.
The American company at Avery
island, Louisiana, are making about
LOO sacks Of salt day.
| The barge movement Of grain on the
Mississippi river next year will be
larger than ever before known.
The November interest and divi-
dends payable in Philadelphia aggre-
gate something over 100000.
| A waterspout passed over the coun-
j try just outside Of Orange, Tex, a few
days since. and twisted tree down
| The flrst car load Of new corn arrived
In Chicago last Saturday; it insIected
/ mo grade and sold at 54eents on track,
Business along the river front at AL
bany. N. Y, has not been 80 dull at
this season Of the year as it is at pres
emit in twenty years.
| The loss to the farmers Of Queens
and Suffolk counties, Long Island, by
the failure Of the cabbage crop is esti-
mated at over 100000.
The survey Of the canal route be.
tween Atlanta and Gainesville, Ca, has
been made, and the estimated cost of
the enterprise is $2,500,000.
| A Texas Lumberman says that it will
take 1000. 100000 feet Of lumber, in
ties alone. to finish building the rail.
roads now projected in that state.
1t is expected that the grading of
the Richmond and Allegheny road TO
Point Pleasant on the Ohio river will
be completed by the first of January
next.
There are men at Yale college from
Wales. India, Scotland, New Bruins
wick, Canada, Turkey, Chill, Japan,
Norway, Honolulu, and thirty six states
Of the union.
A trife over $4,000 is already
pledged for the Bennington (Vt) battle
monument, and further congressional
appropriation toward the needed $780,
600 viii be sought.
A curious phenomenon in Otsege
county, New York, recently, was q
rainbow, when the moon was shining.
| II vvoa q hy;uhk Irv,;pouo arob ocJ
lasted about fifteen minutes.
A grocsf at Adams, Jefferson county,
N. Y, to drive the rats from his cellar,
placed q cat in it on Saturday eve
ming, and on Monday found the tail
part Of the hide of the cat left.
The price Of horses for the lumber
woods will be high the coming season.
The range is reported at Saginaw,
Mich, to be $3.50 to $500 per span.
Three pairs were recently sold there at
$500 each.
Wild geese .'swarm like bees" around
Washoe lake, Nevada. The smoke
stack Of passenger engine, the other
evening, knocked three fat old ganders
out Of aock that was flying across
the track.
A lively ell excitement has broken
out in Concord, Erie county, Pa. A
party Of producers in the Bradford dis
trict have organized company for the
purpose Of developing the region which
was abandoned several years ago, and
have leased several thousand acres of
land.
The Liverpool Daily Post publishes
Of religious census-taker on Sunday
morning, Oct. Is, in the various
churches and chapels of that city:
There are 218 places of worship in
Liverpool. with sitting accommodation
for 169, 1872, ont Of population Of
$4,000.
A month ago several hundred citi-
zens Of Atlanta, Ga. couldn't sleep at
night-they were so busy figuring on
the number Of exposition boarders they
could entertain at $5 day. The same
parties are wide awake now trying to
run down q stray transient at 81 a day,
with cocktail thrown in before break.
fast.
The resurrection Of Confederate
bonds in England and the South is ex.
planned by an attempt on the part of
the confiding holders Of these securi-
ties to attach and endeavor to reduce
to possession $1,000, 600 which the Con.
federate government had on deposit in
the Bank Of England when the Con-
federacy suddenly collapsed in 1865.
European newspapers are talking Of
the possibility Of American wheat being
eventually driven out Of the markets
Of Europe by grain from Tunis. Land
can be bought In Tunis, it Is said, for
half the price it costs In the western
states Of the American union, and 1t is
50 fertile that it win yield two crops in
the year. The quality Of the grain,
moreover. is equal to the much-prized
Hungarian wheat
An Indian mound on the Texas
Pacific railroad was excavated few
weeks ago, and was found to contain a
great many rocks and the remains of q
human being about four feet high.
The forehead was not an inch high, but
, was very broad, and lay between fat
rocks covered with charcoal. In the
grave was also a spear Of red flint
! several inches long and several speck-
: led ones with fne edges.
Il The "world's fair" business doesn't
Ipay. The first, that at London, 1851,
]. made profit of $3.50. 900, but none Of
the others have come of whole. The
French one in 1855 lost 1890, 900; the
second English in 1862 lost $257 1850:
the second French in 1867 lost e1,S96;
that at Vienna In 1873 lost nearly &1O,-
100000; that at Philadelphia in 1876
sunk e4,286, ,280; that Of Sydney In
; 1880 lost about $1,000, 600; and the
one recently closed at Melbourne
comes out with deficit Of s1.445.O 900.
Our past years exports of wheat