Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-07-07

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organized at Tampa, Fla.
Polk county, Georgia, has thirty saw
mills. employing 1.050 hands.
The law against carrying concealed
weapons do not apply to cucumbers.
John Bright will complete his twen-
| ty-fifth year OF parliamentary service
this summer.
A water-power near Athens. Ga.
has been purchased by New York
firm for $4,000.
A number of large black bears have
been seen prowling around in Oswego
county, New York.
A Texas lady in describing her appe-
tlte said that it was so poor that flea
would be a barbecue for her.
The Clayton county, Georgia, con-
victs were sold at auction the other
day for $45 per head per annum.
Fred Black has been sent to the Cal
itornia state prison for two years for
running away with girl under legal
age.
Mrs. Darlington thinks that Polly
tics, from the queer turns" they APP
pear to take, should be named Ann
tics.
The battle ground of the old Grass
fight between Texans and Mexicans,
near the AlaZan creek, is to be marked
by suitable monument.
Mississippi taxes persons travelling
with young trees for setting SIS each
county. Nurseries sending trees that
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all losses good.
The convicts in Auburn IN. " PEN
| itentiary will hereafter be allowed to
commence eating as soon as they get
their victuals, without waiting for
grace to be said.
The ancestors of king Kalakaua of
the Sandwich Islands ate so much mis-
sionary in their time that he cannot
help being good. The missionaries are
not wasted after all.
Florida butterfly hunters get an av.
erage of cents apiece for their cap.
lures. Some rare specimens bring
much more, and one kind, that is very
scarce, brings $40 pair.
1t is reported that a mountain of
very soft, has been discovered short
distance from Prince Arthur's landing
Lake Superior. 1t can be easily mined.
A 13-year-Old girl living on Bayou
Terrebonne, eighteen miles from Hou-
ma, La, has growing upon her face a
light brown beard two inches long and
very heavy, except upon the upper lip.
The grave of Emerson, at Concord,
is always covered with fresh flowers.
This is done by the young people of The
town, who have regular system about
it, so that the flowers are never with
cred, but always bright and beautiful.
An old adobe building at San Anto-
MO, Tex, over $50 years old, is being
pulled down to make room for mod
ern structure. 1t was built by settlers
from the Canary islands in 1880.
Many of the timbers, which are cedar
wood, are good yet.
The whole town of Mineral Ridge.
Mahohing county. o., is caving in from
three to FIVE feet in consequence of the
removal Of the coal. The New York.
Pennsylvania and Ohio track settled
two or three feet near the depot few
days ago, and the hole had to be filed
with cinders.
The armyworm has made it's APP
pearance in the southern portion of
New Jersey, and is doing great damage
to the growing grain and vegetables.
Pierre LOrillard's Rancocas stock-farm
has been visited by these pests in large
numbers, and in comparatively short
time large fields of wheat and rye were
destroyed.
George William Curtis, thirty years
ago, asked Bancroft how far he pro-
posed to continue his history of the
United States, and the reply was: "If
L were an artist painting picture of
this ocean my work would stop at the
horizon. [ can see no further. NV
history will end with the adoption Of
the constitution. All beyond that is ex-
pertinent"
During late thunder storm near
Centerville, Nd, three mules out OF
team Of six were killed by lightning.
The mules were attached TO timber
wagon, geared tandem, and the light
ming struck the leader, missed the next,
struck the third, missed the fourth and
fifth, an struck the breech mule, kill
ing three.
The greatest run by the steamship
Alaska in her quickest trip was 419
miles in "a hours. This is not equal
to what was accomplished before 1850,
the clipper-ship James Biines having
made 42O miles in "a hours. The Fly
ing Cloud, Mr.. Lloyd's most celebrated
ship, once made 374 knots, or 433
miles, in "a hours and % minutes.
Last year it was said that all the
cattle in Grant county, Oregon, had
been sold and driven out, but more
cattle are passing eastward through
The John Day valley this ysar than ever