Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-09-08
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years, is insured for $l64,OOO on the
speculative plan.
A distemper has broken out among
the canaries at Montreal. Several hun.
dred birds are said to have died.
The trustees of the University of
Tennessee, at Knoxville, have finally
decided not to admit negroes as stu
dents.
Some $1,000 have been added to
the wealth of the nation by the mines
of North Carolina within the past five
years.
The New York ice companies, an.
ticipating a light ice harvest next win
ter, will hold their stock until another
season.
Thre larks were captured near
Sing Sling, on the Hudson river, the
other day, the largest of which was
nine feet long and the others seven
feet.
A man recently sold the timber-right
on tract of land in Cambria county.
Pennsylvania for*45. .00O He bought
the land and trees a few years ago for
$1,000.
The income from taxes in England
is about $50, 900, 900, ($4O0, ,OOO,O O,OOO). OF
this sum, about a26,000,00O or $140,-
600, 1000, goes to pay the interest ON the
national debt.
A new oil field is anticipated in Elk
county, Pennsylvania, where the oil
bearing rock is found in abundance.
Fifty thousand acres have been leased
for oil purposes.
E. S. Cobb, of Cobb's mountain,
Georgia, will make twenty thousand
quart bottles of fine claret wine from
eleven acres, this season, which will
bring him $4,000.
Two Iowa farmers have been at law
for long while over the ownership of
some calves that long since became
beef. The costs already incurred
amount to $4,000, and the end is not
yet.
The production of canned fruits and
vegetables for the state of Maryland
during the year 1870 amounted to 81
587, ,23O, while in 1880, for the city of
Baltimore alone, the amount was S.
201 1868.
Improvements now in progress at
Union college, Schenectady, N. Y, will
involve an outlay of $45.00O, and in
clude new library building, he rem
ovation of the gymnasium, and new
ball-feld.
The California extension of the Un-
ion Pacific from Nephi is now giving
employment to five hundred graders.
The road runs through Tintic, and
other rich mineral districts of Utah
and Nevada.
An instance of faithfulness i'm the
management of an estate is revealed i'm
the estate of the late Catharine E. Har-
ris, of Troy, N. Y. In twenty-five
years il had increased from $24 900 to
over $4,000.
James Gordon BENEFITS income is
100000 a year. Although lie has
immense establishments at London,
Paris and Pau, as well as Newport, and
maintains each regardless of expense,
he does not spend all his income.
Bartlett pears from the vicinity of
Suisun, SOlano county, Cal, are being
shipped to Chicago. The freight
charges ON twenty carloads recently
shipped were $4,000. The fruit re-
allies about 81. 500 on each carload.
Out of the eighty-five distilleries in
the Nashville (Tenn.) revenue district
all but twenty-six have ceased opera
tions. 1t is believed all the distilleiies
in the upper country, save two in Moore
county, will have to cease for lack of
corn.
The Denver and Rio Grande COM
pany contemplate building three thous-
and niles of railroad in Utah within
the next five years. They will give
employment to at least fifteen thOus-
and people, and Salt Lake will be their
headquarters.
An American cheese bore away the
prize of silver medal at the late
great cattle and dairy shlAw at Bir-
mingham, England. The prize cheese
was one of the largest ever made,
weighing three-fourths of a ton. 1t
came from Iowa.
Last week piece of bone was dug
up by the men grading on the San
Luis Obispo and Santa Maria railroad
extension, in California. The bone
was sixteen feet long and two feet
thick, and, when exposed to the air,
crumbled into small pieces.
Col. Mansfield, who has been in
specting the government works on
the west coast of Texas, has made esti-
mates for the continuation of improve
ments on the Texan coast from Sabine
westward for the fiscal year ending
June 20, 1888, amounting to $1,228,-
SAL.
The Augusta Republican says: "The
shipments of peaches from this city to
Colorado and New Mexico might be-
come an important business il the ship
pers would advertise through the
newspapers that they wanted the fruit
and would pay good price for it.
Hundreds of bushels of peaches will
rot in the orchards of this county this
season unless shipped away"
At Baptist church in London, Ont.
the two kinds of wine are used. Those
who partake of the fermented wine sit
in the area, those who prefer the un-
iremented sit under the galleries.
There is no discussion of the subject:
but there is steadily and quietly in
creasing migration frem the area to
the side seats-which foreshadows that
by-and by the area Will be required for
the abstainer5.
A sharper is now visiting some parts
of the country and swindling farmers
by selling them package guaranteed
to kill potato bugs. The directions
are not to open the package until the
lcontents are to be used, by which time
the seller has skipped. On opening
the package it is found to contain two
blocks Of wood, with instructions to
place bug on one block and mash 1t
with the other.