Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-07-21
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to the ground. 1t woke him up.
Prof. Gather, a weather predictor of
Alabama, anticipates large number
of sunstrokes in July and August.
The total result of the famous
Double collection i'm Paris was $522, 600.
1t was formed by Mr.. Doubles father.
1t is said $l00,0OO,OOO will be re-
quired to pay the pensions next year.
This year SIC, 1000, 900 will be expended.
| A nugget or gold, weighing three
and one-half ounces, it is reported, has
been found in Putnam county, Ten
neSSee.
The national department of agri-
culture places the wheat crop at sc Der
cent of last years yield for spring and
76 for winter.
David Humphreys, of Carter's depot,
Tennessee, has been married twenty
six years, and is the father of twenty
two children.
During the summer the sun never
sets OH the territory of the United.
States. 1t is day in Maine before it iss
clark in Alaska.
J. Kennedy, a prominent sheep grower
i'm Ida county, Iowa, has lost upward
OF $1,000 worth of lambs this season
from throat disease.
Under the new French budget the
duty will be taken off paper, but tax
will be put on newspapers according
TO their circulation.
A San Francisco correspondent says
tho most noted Chinese opium den i'm
That city is owned by retired AmeFi-
can missionary to China.
In southern Dutchess county, New
York, the army worm is doing much
damage to vegetation, especially to to-
mato and cucumber plants.
"A mirage was seen from Towers hill
at BrOckton, Mass, the other day;
representing Il long stretch of sea and
the smoke of four steamers.
1t is an extraordinary cold season in
Russia; and in England, after some
very warm weather, they returned
three weeks ago to overcGats and furs.
Prof. Headly attempted a balloon
ascension from Vidalia, La, the other
day, but WAS emptied into the river.
He was fortunately saved by skiff.
A double yellow crested parrot on
exhibition in New York sings "In the
Morning by the Bright Light" "Lawdy
Dah," "Shoo Fly" await for the Wag-
on" and other songs.
The Auburn IN. W Advertiser says
that Col. L. B. Morgan. of Aurora, re-
Gently picked from his vines Sharp.
less Seeding strawberry, measuring
II inches i'm circumference.
Somebody writes to a Boston paper
that three ladies i'm his family distinct
ly saw the comet at o'clock on the
morning of Friday, June IL. But the
letter was not written until June 26.
A young lady in Holyoke, Mass,
where there are five women to- one
man, has come forward as mission
galaxy of one hundred maidens out
west.
; Two cows that had been missing
about ten days mt Blakely, Ga, were
discovered in the woods some three or
, four miles from home, with their
, horns so tightly locked that they could
mot be separated without cutting off
one cows horn.
A society in memory of the mur
dered Gar has just been established in
Russia. Its aim is to create in towns
and villages, industrial, agricultural.
and technical schools, museums and
savings banks. 1t is very powerfully
Supported, both by clergy and laity.
, A blue stone weighing twenty tons
, has been sent from Barryville, N. T.,
, to New York city for VIM. H. Van
, derbilt's new residence. The stone is
= fifteen by twenty-five feet and seven
, inches thick. II is the largest ever
, quarried in the state.
: A couple of Griffin, Ga, merchants
: endeavored to undersell each other IN
/; the kerosene trade. Finally one of
: them reduced the price of oil to five
t cents gallon, whereupOn the other
0 gave it away with small premium in
Q the shape of cigar or box of matches.
S The competition is still going on.
J. All the registered bonds of the nation
al government are held, it is said, by
J less than one hundred thousand per-
= sons, and $410, 100000 are held by pri-
= J, vate individuals in amounts exceeding
u $4,000 each, Mr.. William II. Wander
!. biIt alone holding not less than one
= : seventh of the registered bonds.
i The st. Petersburg correspondent OF
the Independence Beige says the Jew
!, ish troubles have been excessively ex
= aggerated. Where one hundred Jews
/, are reported massacred, one has beer
! so disposed of, and the loss of the
- Odessa Israelites instead of being mil
= lions has been few thousands.
m MI. b. Humbry, of New Hope, Va.
ly graduate Of the Staunton Institute
1t for the Blind, was born blind, but ha!
s. been given sight by a successful Oper
Of alton performed by Baltimore sur
f. geon. The Baltimore Gazette says h
E. can now read small type by sight, whil
as formerly he could read only by passing
no his fingers over raised letters. His de
n light upon seeing his aged mother TO
he the first time was naturally very great
n. An aged passenger in a Philadelphi
ad street car jumped of, the conducto
y, not stopping the car as promptly as
III wished. The passenger sustained 81
as we're injuries and sued the company 70
5. damages, but Judge Thayer, of tn
IN court of common pleas, on Tuesday
IS nonsuited him, holding that he shoul
IN have stayed on the car and then sue
20 the company for the Inconvenience an
*. loss of time sustained, and that if b
@ aS chose to jump off while the car was ]
ch motion, he did 30 al his own risk.
Boston Transcript: Continuous col
and dry weather this month has ser
or ously affected both English grain, cor
AZ and hay crops in Vermont. Repor,
i'll from various sections of the state rel
by resent the appearance Of corn, oats an
lo GRASS as less promising th4n for man