Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-12-01
NO. 26.
ITEMS OF urtatsr.
Blaine is said 10 be worth $1,0OO,OOO.
Baron Rothschild left 100000, 900
The Yorktown celebration cost the

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government $4,000.
The new crop of pecans is selling for
$3.50 to $2.75 bushel at Victoria,
Texas.
The Jewish residents of Boston are
moving toward the establishment of
Hebrew school.
NJ. Gambetta reached his forty
fourth birthday on October 80. Bis
marck is sixty-six.
The total losses by fire in the state
Of Vermont during September were
81, 300; insurance company losses $9,-
600.
The October crop report of the Mem
phis cotton exchange puts the cotton
yield at SO per cent less than last
year.
The esiEte of the ae, Judge John C.
Gray, Of Massachusetts, is appraised
at 81, ,215, ,299, of which 1906, 100 is real
estate.
The California supreme court has
just decided that no employe can en-
gage in any business detrimental to his
employers interests.
One of the Russian journals relates
to its readers that President Arthur is
an Irishman who was driven from his
country by English misrule.
The little house on st. Louis street
Quebec, in which Gen. Montgomery
was laid out LOG years ago, is receiving
sundry plasterings to prevent it from
falling over into the street.
The increase in the internal revenue
receipts is surprising, net receipts for
the past four months being $7,299, 900.
At this ratio, the receipts of the pres
ent year amount to hundred and fifty
imilliOns.
The Antioch (Cal.) Ledger states
| that cancer upon the lips of man in
that vicinity who died from that disease
was caused by holding nails in his
mouth when shingling and doing other
carpenter work.
:. The net profits of the cotton factory
at Nashville, Tenn. for the year were
$4,000. The company declared a
dividend Of 10 per cent. Arrangements
have been made for the erection of an
other mill at cost of $250,000.
Eureka Springs, Ark, by the author
ity of the governor, is now declared
city of the first class. Within two
years and three months from the build
ing of the first cabin, it has become
second in population in the state.
Official reports of county assessors in
Nevada, to the state comptroller, show
bullion yield for the first half of the
year 1881 of 1882 .607. against S., $780,
323 for the corresponding first half of
1880; and the full return for the year
will doubtless show a decrease of
$2,000,000.
While digging well near Mechanics
Grove, Lancaster county, Pa, few
weeks ago, vein of fine ochre was
struck. A paint mill has been erected
on the premises, and the material is
being turned out in large quantities.
One firm has contracted for 10000 tons
of the article.
The Delaware Beet sugar company
has commenced the making of sugar
at the rate of about 120 tons daily.
The crop raised this year for this COM
pany will not exceed 5000 tons, the
protracted drought having not only re-
tarded the growth of the beets, but re-
duced the value of those gathered.
The prevalence of diphtheria at
Frederick, Md, is truly alarming. 1t is
said that there are as many as us
cases, and that five funerals Of chill
dren have taken place there in single
day. A number of children have been
sent away from the town until cold
weather arrests the spread of the dis
ease.
San Francisco harbor has seldom
been so full of ships as now. All the
wharf room is occupied, and scores of
ships are anchored in the stream. The
view off Vallejo street wharf is very
fine; over fifty ships can be counted
from single point, and there are
more than that number elsewhere in
the bay.
Ogden Herald: We havebeen shown
some beautiful specimens of white
marble, obtained from quarry in
southern Utah. The ledge is said to
be 125 feet in width, all of uniform
solidity and purity. The rock excels
Vermont or any other American kind
heretofore worked, and equals the finest
Carrara marble.
Tie people of Marcellus, n. Y, are
excited over a subterranean cavern
which was discovered by workmen
who were blasting last week. 1t has
been penetrated about $50 feet, but
none have dared to 60 further. The
biologists are now at work at it and
expect to reveal rival to Howe's or
the Mammoth cave.
Baltimore has a new ordinance,
making it unlawful for any person to
sell, give away, or dispose in any man.
ner of what is known as the "toy car
fridge pistol" within the limits Of the
city, under a penalty of $40; and any
person who shall fire off any such
pistol within The limits of the city will
be subject to a fine of 81.
The six healthiest cities in the United
States are said to be in the order fol-
lowing: Knoxville, New Haven, Port
land, San Francisco, Cleveland and
! Lawrence. The unhealthiest are
Charleston, Memphis, Lynn, New
York. aud st. Louis. st. Petersburg
is the unhealthiest city in the world.
In New York the deaths exceeds the
births by 1900 year.
The Chico (Cal.) Record tells this
story: A couple of Cinnamon, while
fishing in the Sacramento river, near
Chico Landing, were attacked by
large snake, which coiled about one Of
them. The other Chinaman seized
Matched and cut the monster to pieces.
They proceeded to measure it, and,
placing together the parts severed, it
measured forty-three feet and seven