Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-11
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population of 5000, has not single
lawyer and only one physician.
The intense heat in Paris, and the
scarcity of water, give rise to fears of
serious sickness if continued much
longer.
The city of San Antonio. Tex. com.
plains of flood of mutilated silver
coins, and the store keepers are re.
fusing to take them except at half value.
The Lyons Paper company is turn.
ing out 100000 paper butter plates
daily. 1t ships them all to Chicago.
100000 being the number put i'm one
ca.
Veins of anthracite and bituminous
coal have been discovered in South
Africa. A railroad is to be built TO
connect the coal fields with the towns
on the coast.
A saloon-keeper in New London.
Conn.,, whose lost pocket book, contain.
ing nearly $400 was returned to him
by the finder, impulsively exclaimed:
"You pees Won honest poy; will
shake nit YOU for de drinks"
The post;,l-card contractors at Castle
ton, n. Y, WoolwOrth and Graham.
have been asked their terms for ten
million Canadian postal-cards. They
have also received orders from Aus
tralia and the Argentine Republic,
Postmaster General James having
consented to their doing foreign work.
Prof. E. T. Quimby, of Dartmouth
college, has patented an electric clock
for use in mills and factories to take
the place of the common watchman's
clock. a company with $4,000 capital
has been formed in Boston to manu-
facture the clocks, which are already
used at Littleton, Manchester, and
Great Falls.
At one of the Long Branch hotels
lady appeared the other day in an al.
legged Paris costume, made entirely Of
squares of pink and blue satin, her
bonnet being trimmed with huge pink
and blue feathers. "If you tell me
what that is" said one lady who saw
her to another, "yoa can have it."
Both gave it up.
Day light exhibitions of Japanese
fireworks are very attractive feature
of Manhattan Beach. These day fire.
works appear in all sorts of colors, Just
us those intended for evening illumi-
nation do. They range from pure
white through gray, yellow, pink, and
blue to black. There are birds, snakes,
dragons, and lizards, and all manner Of
ether things.
The editor of The Banner, of Nash
vile, Tenn, has clock made by one Of
the Guiteau family, which he has
threatened to destroy. Hearing of his
intention an aunt of the assassin wrote
him letter, giving brief account of
the history of the family, and threaten
ing against the destruction of the time
piece, which was, she said, made by her
husband, Calvin 'Grtitt III.
The savings banks of Connecticut
have $l2.097.434 deposits, the largest
ever reported, except in 1877. The in.
crease over 1880 is $685. and the
number of depositors 9,GC2 more than
last year. The Manchester bank re-
potts $3,4S4,996, the Cheshire Provi-
dent institution $2,053,259, Amoskeag
bank $2,1S2,S82, the Keene Five Cents
bank $1,108,744, and the Portsmouth
bank 81, ,605,849.
Lord Beaconslield's will has just
been proved, and the net amount dis
posed of, after de1ucting debts and
funeral expenses, is shown to be 1885,
562. All the late lords real estate
goes to his nephew, Coningsby Ralph
Disraeli, and is TO be entailed for the
benefit of the latter's male descendants.
The rest of the personal estate is to be
used in purchasing more land To be
settled i'm similar manner.
A big f9ndangO of five days dura-
ton is now in progress at the Duck
Valley Indian reservation, Nevada,
and all the redskins for scores OF miles
around have gathered to take part in
the festivities. Several Of the savages
who live at Winnemucca have been
practicing the racquet under the di-
rection of white dancing master,
and expect to win the perfect adOra-
ton of their entire tribe with this new
and sensational performance.
The Atlanta Constitution is doing
the people of Georgia commendable
service i'm warning them against the
insiduous wiles of the Mormon agents
who are travelling through that state
for the purpose of making converts
a purpose in which they are unfortu-
nately succeeding to surprising de
gree. A conference of Georgia Nor
mons has been called, and no doubt
every effort will be made TO strengthen
| its members in the shameless creed
which they confess.
Partisan journals are famous for
their comical blunders, and one of the
most brilliant of these was printed
| few weeks ago in the MOniteur Univer.
sci. A writer in this paper was strug
Cling hard to give a clear account of
the complications at Albany, and found
the chief cause of our legislative
trouble in the corruption of the calf
breeders" The calf-breeders are, IN
the eyes of this imaginative journalist,
a sort Of idyllic aristocracy, who in
fluence the butchers and thence the
elections.
About six miles above the Dalles.
Oregon, is large slough, which at
this season of the yeai is filled with
water. The salmon, i'm going up the
Columbia to spawn, take to the
slough in preference to the swift
channel of the river, and they
/ gather in such numbers th.st they
seem solid mass. A firm Of
packers have established a house on
the banks of the slough, and employ
only one Indian to catch the fish in q
net, while twelve men are required to
dispose of them after they are landed.
Prof. Unthank, of Tucson, Arizona,
is alleged to have in his possession a
brick taken from the great wall of
China. The treasure is 4xl2xI6 inch
es, is composed of gray clay, and Is as