Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-02-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


per assessment just completed, Is s59.-
256, ,175.
A plan is on foot in Elmira, N. Y.
to introduce savings banks in the pub
lie schools.
Offers are numerous and many of
them are being shot in Bradford county,
Pennsylvania.
There is said to be a valuable petro--
leum oil region or belt in the vicinity
of Gilroy, Cal.
Gas has been struck at Newton.
Trumbull county. o., in sufficient guam
tity to light the town.
A mountain, which is almost solid
mass of antimony, is located near
Lovelock's Station, New.
A correspondent of The Portland
(Me.) PIess urges the erection in that
city of statue sf Lorgisnow.
1 There is talk at Brockton, Mass.
about toothpick factory, tn make
seventy thousand picks an hour.
There are now more visitors in st.
Augustine, Fla, than there were last
year month later in the season.
Pat McGinnis drew his fortune of
1000 from Bridgeport, Conn bank,
and spent it all in weeks spree.
The report that 100000 had been
subscribed for new dormitories fer
Williams college proves to be untrue.
On account of the scarcity of brush
mattresses, the harbor improvements
at Galveston are at a standstill tenn
pOrarily.
New York state produces about one
third of the petroleum of America, aud
Allegheny county produces two thirds
of that one-third.
1t is reported that several more
deaths will occur from the Shanesville
| (O1 disaster. The neigbboring towns
are raising funds for the sufferers.
A religious revival is so attractive
at Madison, o, that all the stores and
factories are closed during the after
noon while the employees go to meet
ing.
A movement is ON foot for the imme-
date division of the Episcopal dioceset
of central Pennsylvania, and the erec-
tion of a new diocese oet of the convo-
cation of Williamsport.
A considerable part of the ice in the
Penobscot is rendered understandable
this year by shingle hair, which was in
the water in considerable quantities
when the river froze over.
The new capitol building at Austin,
Tex, is to be 366 feet high, 566 feet
long, and 285 in depth, the seventh
highest building in the world, and the
second in the United States.
One of the objects of the convention
of colored men at Macon, Ga, next
month will be to organize and hold a
grand southern fair, at which the pro-
ducts of colored men will be exhibited.
During the year 1881 the Connecti-
cut Mutual Life Insurance company
sold for 1906, ,92257 real estate costing
1889 S59.02, and valued by the COM
missioner in 1879 at only $764, ,334.92.
A rattlesnake. measuring Is inches
in diameter and II feet in length, and
having 10 rattles, was killed in
Natchez, Miss, recently. When shot
the snake had large rabbit in its
mouth.
A review of the progress of Rich
mond, Va, in manufactures and COM
merce during 1881 reports CTS manu-
| featuring establishments in the city,
embracing II, 7,648 operatives, with over
$11, 100000 capital.
Parties lately rigged up a dredging
apparatus at Olympia. w. T., and pro
ceeding down the bay to deep water
commenced operations, and suceededir
finding some Of the largest oysters yet
found on Puget sound.
There is picture of President Lin
coin in possession of the state of New
York, and the governor suggests that
the senate place it over the main en-
trance to its chamber, as it does not ft
conveniently into any of the handsome
panels Of the executive room.
The immigration of farmers and
land buyers to the section of Virginie
about Culpepper from the valley is
something Tery noticeable. They are
selling their valley farms at fine prices
and buying land almost or quite as good
for but little more than half the price
During the year just passed there
were published in England total of
5,406 new books, of which 1926 were
new editions, books already known to
the public. This shows falling of,
as compared with the year 1880, of
about 800 books, which is attributed to
the rapid development of the periodical
press.
An Idaho stock-herder has discover
ed an undrnund liver. He found
funnel-shaped orifice, fifteen or twenty
feet deep by ten or twelve, at its rim,
| in diameter. At the bottom Of this
funnel-the soil giving out there-was
rift in the rock, two or three feet in
width by four or five in length which
seemed to open into the very bowels Of
the earth. Through this aperture
came up from the depths below terri
reble roaring, as of leaping cataract,
a mighty rush of waters, tumbling over
rocks. The ground trembled, and the
subterranean noise continued uninter-
ruptedly.
Vermont has to-day one of the most
stringent laws against the sale Of
liquors ever devised by the "wisdom
and viltue" of any legislative body.
In all but the larger towns the letter Of
the law is lived up to, and the sale OF
alcoholic stimulants is restricted to
town agent, who is authorized to sell
: only for medicinal purposes, and then
only on a physicians prescription.
: Breweries have been closed and saloon
keepers driven into other states. In
lSt. Albans, the Weldon, the American.
and two other hotels have gone out of
the business because without the prof
its of the bar they could not pay ex-
penses.
i The railway up Vesuvius known as
fha Euniooloro ia a EraUch uudertak