Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-02-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cd Wltn quail IT0m California
A large hotel is to be built at WASH
ington Heights, New York city.
The population of the Philadelphia
house of correction numbers 1881. es
Seventeen thousand dollars worth Of
sponge in one pile was recently sold at
Key West, Fla
A negro in Upson county, Georgia,
got rid of bone felon by cutting OF
his finger with a hatchet.
The will of Mary Pratt, of Water
town, gives to the Massachusetts, gen.
eral hospital the sum of $4,000.
1t is said that Rueben r. Springer,
of Cincinnati, talks of endowing the
College of Music with 81 100000.
Gold has been washed from alluvial
lands within the limits of Gainesville,
Ga, which pays so cents to the pan.
Secretary Hunt has just become the
owner of a neat but simple brick house
in Washington. Its price was $10.-
500.
A railroad company has been organ
lied in Arizona to build a road from
Tucson TO the Gulf of California, $50
miles.
Gov. William d. Bloxham, of Flori-
da, is the first native-born citizen of his
state that has won his way to its high
est Office.
Hard pine and other woods abound
ing in rosin are now brought from the
southern states and sold in eastern
cities for fuel.
Brooklyn had 437 fires last year, with
loss of $927. Jas, and an insurance Of
81, $50, 200. Sixty-two fires were caused
by kerosene explosions.
AT Adams, Jefferson county, N. Y,
during the fall and winter, and within
a mile and half of each other, there
have been forty.fve deaths from diph-
therla
A good old lady of Plymouth, Mass,
collected money for the benefit Of
poor family and bought groceries for
them. The family are now sning her
for the cash.
The cost of feeding the prisoners in
San Francisco is low. Last year, in
that city, meals were furnished priso-
ners to the number of 41,SS9, at an
average cost of 4a cents per meal.
Sixty-fve corporations for wild min
ing shemes have suddenly transferred
their offices from Philadelphia to Cam
den, N. j., to escape the taxation i'm
posed by the. laws of Pennsylvania.
An alleged gold mine has been5sd dis
covered in North Stonington, Conn,
and in order to obtain a conclusive
test of the value of the ore, two car
loads were shipped to New York last
week.
The financial returns of two Catholic
church fairs lately held in Philadelphia
show that one realized $4,000 and the
other over $4,000. The contests by
votes proved most remunerative, the
ballots to award a chalice producing
the sum of $500.
A case exciting much local interest
in Auburn, Me-, was decided last week
Miss Fannie Dickey, in mailing letter
on Sunday. was struck by ice falling
from the roof of the city building. She
sued for 10000 The jury rendered a
verdict or So,25O.
The first jury composed exclusively
of colored men ever assembled in
Tazewell county, Virginia, tried
shooting case last week in which the
principals were also colored. The
guilty party was sentenced to six
months Imprisonment and a fine of
$500.
A hen at Pawtucket, r. l., was ar
rested the other day charged with steal
ing young mans 500 diamond pin.
There was no evidence incriminating
the hen beyond the naturally reckless
passion of her sex for trumperty, yet
after three days of durance vile she
was beheaded and the missing stones
were found snugly hid away in her giz-
Zard.
The Union Benevolent association,
of Philadelphia, since its organization
has distributed, in round numbers, ST.
0O0, 900; over 100000 families have
been in its charge; 10000 tons of coal
and 10000 tons of coke have been sup
piled to the poor. 1t has been the
almoner for thirty-two Dorcas societies
and a very large number Of other dis
tributing institutions.
Frederick A. Tuttle, who has been
appointed governor of Arizona terri
tory, is native of Franklin county,
Pennsylvania where he was admitted
to the bar some twenty-five years ago,
but he soon struck out for the Pacific
slope, and settled down in what is now
NoxroIo n hos uooIa hio rnorbr IN
politics and in journalism, in connec-
ton with The Virginia City Enter
prise.
All persons entering the public houses
hotels, restaurants, and liquor sa-
loons-of Bristol, England, between the
hours of and IL o'clock on the even
; ing of Saturday, Jan. 2, were counted,
!, with the following result: OF popu-
lation of 2O6, 600, ZOE, 900, or more than
one-half, entered the public houses IN
four hours. OF this number 54,074
were men, 36,803 women, and 13,4l5
E children.
r The superintendent of the Indian
e school at Carlisle, Pa, proposes to give
e an exhibition in Philadelphia next
y month, whereat the workmanship OF
) the Indian boys and girls can be seen
9 and their proficiency in elocution tested
e The lads will show their manner Of
e making harness, and on the stage viii
r be a wagon, specimens Of tinware
8 boots and shoes, all Of which wers
8 made by the boys at Carlisle.
oI The total cost of Guiteau's trial car
4 not be estimated, but the following
+ figures are correct as far as can be as
certained: Jurors fees, $1,540; board
seventy-two days, including three bail
o iffs, $500; government witnesses and
+ mileage, &5,189.85; defendants Wit
/ nesses and mileage, 81, ,889; Of the latte
the Guiteau family and their connec