Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-02-23


A Massachusetts, firm will erect
cotton-mill at Fort Worth, Tex.
The San Francisco city treasury
holds $2,908. Ill, mostly of coin.
A Groton IN. " girl of 16 fell on
an icy sidewalk and broke her back.
The West Virginia legislature has
defeated bill to tax commercial trav-
elers.
Several ice gorges have occurred in
the Susquehanna river during the past
week.
Rochester and Utica are the only
claimants for the New York state fair
this year.
The oldest charcoal furnaces in the
United States are at Cornwall, Leba-
non county. Pa.
The total number of coke-ovens To-
Gated on New river, West Virginia, is
over thousand.
Erie, Pa, expects to have return
of 100000 from ice stored there, dur
ing the coming summer.
A $4,000 hub and spoke factory
one hundred men, will be
erected at Tullahoma, Ala.
A four-foot vein of excellent camel
coal has just been opened on the Guyan-
dotte river, West Virginia.
Diphtheria of an uncomfortable typo
is raging in Franklin, Orleans, and
Caledonia counties, Vermont.
The rabbits are stumping the state
in Alabama. The overfiowed bottoms
are responsible for the innovation.
Eighty-five acres of Washington
county coal lying near MonoDgahela
City, Pa, sold last week for $4,000.
1t is estimated that the Alabama
Great Southern railway has sustained
$3.50, 900 damages by the recent floods.
A Robertson county, Kentucky, mar
ried woman is only fifteen years old.
and measures six feet five inches in
height.
A farmer at WethersGeld, Conn.,,
gathered SIC eggs in January from
twenty-three pullets of last years
raising.
Forty acres of land at Portage la
Prairie, Manitoba, purchased while
ago for $4,000, could now be sold for
$40, 900.
In 1881 there were 311 scholars at
tending the colored public school at
Covington, KY; this year there are
only 19l.
To replace the high school building
at Hartford, Conn.,, recently burned,
fire. proof structure costing $780, 900 is
The Boston and Albany Railroad
has bepght two hundred Bah
cock fire extinguishers for its passen-
ger-cars.
Land in Fleming county, Kentucky
sold last week for $110 per acre, the
highest price that has been paid since
the war.
Six soft maple and two white elm
bodies were cut from the same stump
on w. Patterson's farm, near Warren,
O., last week.
The census of 1880 showed that
there were in Pennsylvania 146,l
children over 10 years of age who
could not read.
A firm in Darien, n. Y, have evapo-
rated at their dryer 240, 900 pounds of
apples the past season, which they
sold for 12a cents per pound.
This seasons ice crop on the Kenne-
bee river is estimated at 100000
tons-not an insignificant addition to
the prodigious harvest of the fields and
orchards of Maine.
The ice at the base of Yosemite
falls has formed in cone that extends
upward some two hundred feet and
with the falling water forms scene of
SURPRISING brilliaDcy.
A dentist in ganstown, w. Va,
has made from India rubber and gutta
percha an entire face for Elias
Cartwright, of Marshall county, who
had his lips, eyelids, and nose burned
off.
A corporation has been formed to
build an underground railroad in Phil
adelphia. The tunnel will be ventil-
ated by air shafts communicating with
the surface, or by the system of sue
ton ventilation employed in mines.
The Roane Iron company of Chat
tanooga is now receiving an order Of
steel blooms from England. They are
arriving In carload lots every day.
This order will amount to about $751;
600, the duty on which will be $22. 900.
The richest man in Wyoming coun-
ty, New York, lives in the plainest
manner and fights his taxes. He has
been a voter in the same county fifty
five years, but has never voted for
legislative candidate who was elected.
Santa Fe New Mexican: Eastern
people would be surprised by the an
nouncement that there is in Santa Fe
a blanket, made by Navajo indians,
valued at 500. Valuable blankets are
frequently brought into the city for
sale.
A Connecticut concern Is making
large quantities of vaccine points Of
ivory. Orders from 10000 to 100,OO
are coming in, which shows that the
spread of smallpox is waking people
up to the necessity of vaccination as
preventive.
The fish commissioners of New
York have planted 1885,, ,030 young
fish and 595,156 mature fish In the
lakes and streams of that state during
the last ten years. There is good fish,
ing in many waters now where there
was none before they were restocked.
A drove Of thirty-6ve hogs drank
long and deep of barrel of sirup
skimmings near Buena Vista, Ga, and
in a few hours every big and little
porker was drunk as lord. They cut
up all manner of didoes, and finally
the whole gang got weak in the knees
and dropped Of to sleep.
The coal beds Of Yayapai county,
Arizona, are first encountered about
twenty miles west from Oraybe vii