Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

On the last sale day at Huntsville,
Ala, land sold at an average of Is
cents per acre.
Judge Mershon, of the Brunswick,
(Ga.) circuit, assesses a fine of 81 per
minute on tardy jurors.
A party of Mercer county gentlemen
! killed eight deer on recent hunt in
the mountains of Tennessee.
Rural guards have been stationed
along the Vera Cruz railroad to pre-
vent people from putting stones on tn
track.
The total of the gifts of the la
Miss Sarah Gage, of Boston, to tn
Universalist church, it is said, will con
siderably exceed 100000.
The loss on the reading england
sewage farm the past year was $3.50
but as set off it is admitted that the
town was never so healthy.
Senator Sherman offers to donate ten
acres of land in Mansfield, O., or forty
acres in the subus5s, co Wittenberg
college, provided it will settle thereon.
A portrait of President Garfield,
painted on porcelain by Herr Sturm,
Dresden artist, has been sent from
Germany as Christmas gift for Mrs.
Garfield.
The fine span of horses which be
longed to President Garfield were pre-
sented, after his death, to Representa-
tive Updegraff, of Ohio, at the request
OF Mrs. Garfield.
A rivalryis growing up among som
of the Pennsylvania towns to get
silk mill that is to be erected in one of
them. Easton, Reading, and Pottsville
are the most prominent and ambitious.
The bootblacks Of London are di.
vided into societies. One of them,
known as the Saffron Hill, numbering
sixty-six members, has earned in tn
last twelve months between $4,000 and
$4,000.
Among the many diseases which
render the live stock industry hazard
Gus in England is diphtheria, which gen.
orally proves fatal. 1t seems to be un-
know in America outside of the human
species.
The Montgomery Advertiser esti-
mates that the amount spent by the
people of Alabama in gong and re-
turning from Atlanta, and during their
stay in Atlanta, will not fall short of
$4,000.
Since the beginning of Novem
twenty-five earthquake shocks hav
been observed in various parts
Switzerland. They seemed to hav
been most numerous in the neighbor-
hood of Schaffhausen.
Raimond de Bourbon, Marquis de
Valcarlos, nephew of Queen Isabella,
is, like many other titled personages in
these days, about to take an untitled
wife. His bride is Mile. Albert, the
daughter of Spanish banker.
At Easton, Pa, one day last week,
the Glendon Iron company touched off
blast to charge which required ten
tons of powder. Forty thousand tons
of solid rock limestone were broken in
to fragments by the explosion.
In 1873 freight rates on cattle to
England were in the neighborhood Of
fifteen dollars per head; now they are
from six to eight dollars less, and the
exporting business is less profitable
than when the high freights were rul-
ing.
The timber culture act has had the
effect of doubling the timber area in
Nebraska and Kansas during the past
twelve years. AT present nearly every
well ordered farm has an outlaying
timber tract of from thirty to forty
acres.
Sixty million sheep and twenty mil
lion cattle roam the pampas of the Ar
gentine Republic; nearly all, it is said,
the descendants of one bull and eight
cows taken there from Europe in 1858,
by two Portuguese brothers named
Goes.
Atlanta Constitution: Florida is
rapidly developing. A dredge is being
taken up the Catoosahatchee to Lake
Hickapooche to make connection with
Lake Okechobee. The next progress
i've step should be to abolish the
names.
Franz Winkler, of Canal Fulton, o.,
is believed to be the only heir to an
immense fortune in diamonds and
money deposited in 1845 in the Bank
of England at the death Of the owner,
who is supposed to be Winklers
brother.
For the ten months ending October
81, there was exported from the United
States 423, 100000 gallons of petroleum,
valued at $40O00,000, against 1885,
100000 gallons, valued at $29, 100000,
for the corresponding ten months Of
last year.
Mrs. Brewster, the wife of the at
torney-general and the daughter Of the
late Robert J. Walker, is described as
tall and stately woman, with dark eyes
and Spanish air. often heightened by
lace draperies and fan managed with
perfect grace.
Production of potatoes for 1881 is as
follows: United Kingdom, 5000, 900
tons; United States, 100000 tons;
Germany, 24,000,O00 tons; France, TO-
O00,000; Russia, 9,5O0,000; Austria
Hungary, 8,000,000; ether countries.
4 12,250,OO0 tons.
The fog was so dense, at Boston. the
t other morning, that objects could not
/ be distinguished ten feet away, and a
gaslight could not be discerned from
its next post. Pedestrians frequently
lost their way, and the police were
often at loss how to direct them.
Gov. Winslow's chair and table have
lately been placed for safe keeping in
Pilgrim Hall. Plymouth, by their own
er, Mr.. Isaac Winslow. The hall has
just been made fire-proof, and the
trustees hope to collect everything in
the way of relics Of the pilgrims into
this museum.
Il A certificate of incorporation was