Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-11-03

There are 175,00O hogs in Western
Texas.
There are 10000 Masons in this
country.
The present season shows that grapes
stand the drouth better than any kind
of fruit.
The total tax levied upon the city of
New York for the year are $31 .O7l.-
$40, the rate being 262 per cent.
Ranchmen living in the vicinity Of
Yellowstone valley have turned their
attention largely to the culture of
fruit trees and vines.
The Garfield monument committee
estimate the cost of the marble az
100000, of which Cleveland will be-
asked to contribute $4,000.
Two hundred and fifty dollars has
been raised among students and pro-
fessors for the Garfield professorship to
be established at Williams college.
The apple crop In England this year
is said to be an exceptionally good
one, so that it will not be necessary
to import any from the United States.
Marquis De Rochambeau, in an ad-
dress at Yorktown, said: ave say to
you that what our fathers did in 1881,
we their sons, would be willing to do
to-day"
Six hundred snags and logs have
been pulled out of the upper part of
Red river of Louisiana by the snag-
boat Wagner since the middle Of
August.
A piece of slate rock engraved with
unknown characters has been found in
Arizona. 1t was dug out of some old
mines in the Maricopa villages, six
miles below Phenix, on Salt river.
According to a Georgia paper, the
physician attending lady in Macon,
that state, reports that she has been
paralyzed and is loosing the power of
speech from the free use of canned
fruits and vegetables.
A young man of San Antonio, Tex,
fractured his jaw bone so completely
the other day that his attending physi-
clans drilled holes through the bones
and bound them back into pl by
means of thread wire.
The supervisors of Rockbridgt 3oun-
ty. Virginia, have requested tn dis
tiilers to suspend operations, in order
that the short crop of grain IN the
country may be used for food stead
of being turned into whisky.
A young man in San Antonio Tex.
has been punished severely for defam-
ing yourg lady of that city. Tie vic
tim of his evil tongue went for the
scandal monger on the street ;orner
and horse-whipped him severely.
The first quartz mill that will De put
in operation in Alaska on tn lately
discovered rich mines there will be u
rocking mill of four stamps and a du-
plex movement rock-breaker, which
were shipped the 3Oth of September.
A deposit of iron ore has been found
near Williamson, Va, which is be-
lieved TO be the most extensive yet dis
covered in Allegheny cOunty-"enough
to run half dozen furnaces like Long
dale and Lowmoor for thousand
years"
Over 40 per cent of the imports at
San Francisco in August is credited TO
China and Japan. A large portion Of
these imports, however, is in transit
for markets in the Atlantic states, and
San Francisco gets very little benefit
from the movement.
At Liege, in Belgium. one may ar
range with the telephone company to
be reused at any particular hour of the
night or morning; when the hour
comes the bell begins to ring, and it
continues ringing till the person is an
swered by telephone.
The gas company of New Bedford,
Mass, encourages the use of gas stoves
in that city by leasing the stoves and
making connection with the pipes with
out cost. In four years they in this
manner let over four hundred stoves
from June to November.
In one day last week there was de-
posted in the San Francisco mint, for
coinage, 2,061 ounces of fine and 54,-
7O8 ounces Of crude gold bullion, rep
resenting total value of more than
81, 100000. This is the largest deposit
Of gold bullion ever made in one day at
the mint.
Mammoth City, Inyo county, Cal,
with the country about, had 5000 in
habitants in July, 1879 1t now has
not ten. The buildings have been
burned or moved away to Bishop creek.
where there are some ranches. The
big mill, with the mammoth mine, sold
at sheriff's sale for $26, 600. 1t cost
$500000.
The shearing of the $4,000 head of
sheep on the Callaghan ranch, in La
Sale county, Texas, has been delayed
by the mortality among the Mexican
shearers. Seventeen men died in a few
DAYS and the remainder stampeded.
The cause of death is said to have been
too free use of mutton, the hands not
being accustomed it.
} The disbursements by the Texas
! state treasurer for the fiscal year which
expired August 81, amounted to q, ,044,-
J 613. The actual expenses were
) $1,415,991, and the balance consisted
r in expenditures for the public school,
, university and asylum funds, the sup
,,ort of one school and the purchase OF
e $500, 900 in bonds for the retirement OF
J, the state debt.
The imagination seems to have full
play in the Catskills, where it is said
b Garfield's face is as clearly and dis
a tinctly drawn against the blue sky by
0 the irregularly undulating boundary
e of the Catskills, as if faithful artist
: had traced it. A number of people is
Q said to have seen the apparition. while
passing the "Reclining Giant" ar the
"Man in the Mountains" the other day
on the river.
Two covered wagon loads of movers
? arrived at San Antonio, Tex, th' other
] day. The occupants were two Irish