Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-03-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1900 OF them were broken last year.
: The cabbage crop of Mobile corntv
Alabama, sold for 100000 this year
About $4,000 has already been suh.
scribed in aid of the Denver exposition
scheme.
Mining on the Comstock lode has NOT
been so discouraging in the past decade
as now.
There was three feet of snow at
Sitka on the 10th, and business was
very dull.
The first behring's of the season sold
at the rate of $50 per thousand at Al
exandria, Va.
Wheat fields in the entire belt of
counties of northern Pennsylvania are
reported to be promising.
Another extensive blast furnace will
be put in operation the coming at sum-
mer at BirmiLg CHAM. Ala.
A south Florida lake is said to con-
tain enough alligators to build fence
around it four feet high.
a Fall river turkey in being pre-
pared for the spit was found to have
handsome gold thimble in its gizzard.
A fish caught in the Sacramento river,
near Chico. the other day, Was found
to contain fOur-bit piece in its stom-
ach.
DR.. Tanner, the once well-known
faster" is living in Buffalo, and occa-
sionally delivers lectures on the use of
alcohol.
Thirty-fve thousand acres of gov
eminent lands were disposed of at the
Gainesville, Fla, land office during
January.
During the week which ended Jan.
Il, there were but forty eight minutes
of sunshine registered at Greenwich,
England.
A cow at Vicksburg ran her tongue
through lattice work, when an un-
neighbOrly mule made snap and bit off
four inches of it.
William ID. Howells, the novelist,
married sister of Larkin G.. Mead, the
sculptor, and she has been of great aid
to him as an author.
The shipment of cattle from Texa
to Pennsylvania is now greater than
ever, and at the same time more cattle
are raised than ever before in the state.
The Mississippi house of representa-
tives has passed bill to prevent the
sale of tob eco to minors without an
order from their parents or guardians.
The ex-confederate soldiers of Nash
vile, Tenn, have appointed commit
tee to inquire into the cost of erecting
monument to the confederate dead.
Swedes and Danes are said to be col.
onizing in Florida. Already have nine
hundred settled in Orange county, and
are proprietors of profitable orange
groves.
A woman at Kearney, Neb., who was
vaccinated by humanized virus was
obliged to have her arm amputated to
prevent the poison OF the virus getting
into the system.
A young school-teacher of Harmony
township, Morrow county, O., was last
week fined forty dollars for chastising
one of his runaway scholars with .
baseball bat over the head.
Lightning struck stone house in
Norristown, Pa, during the storm last
week, and the side wall was riven
from top to bottom. The occupants
of the dwelling were not injured.
Meetings of miners in the bitumin-
Gus coal-6elds Of Pennsylvania are now
of constant occurrence, but for what
purpose does not appear, they being
conducted with the utmost secrecy.
The state reform school at Meriden,
Conn.,, received 1876 boys last year, dis
charged 146, and now contains 357.
The expenditures for the year were
$84, 1863, of which $12, 469 were for
salaries.
An extra session of the Maine legis-
lature to pass congressional appor-
tionment bill would cost $4,000. 1t
will not be held, and four congressman
will, therefore, be elected by the state
at large.
A Spectator in the neighborhood of
London, Ont, is buying up all the cats
he can get, and paying therefor from
Ccu Cculo W IOIIy CcilCS cdCH. TIC says
the pelts are cured and manufactured
just the same as fox, mink, etc.
The restitution in some parts of
Adair county, Kentucky. is reported to
be SO great that the county court will
have to grant relief TO two or three
hundred Of the inhabitants. Corn is
selling in Adair at IS per barrel.
A party of New York capitalists
have purchased $50 acres of laid near
Rockaway at $500 per acre, and will
commence the work at once of laying
the property out into villa sites and
erecting dwellings for sale or rent.
It is reported that Campbell. of Utah
who has already contributed $4,000
and fine suburb lot of eleven acres
toward the university at Holton, has
also expressed his Willingness to aid
the institution with an endowment.
An effort to purchase the United