Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-01-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Wild pigeons have appeared at
POinte Coupee, La.
Artificial stone for building is manu-
factured at Tampa, Fla.
Nearly 100000 oranges have been
shipped from Tampa, Fla, this season.
The Anaheim (Cal) Gazette sums up
the wine yield of that district at &c.,
600 gallons.
A Grenada (Miss.) man claims to have
found $500 in following the dicta-
tions of a dream.
An enterprising merchant of
Thomasville, Ga, offers from 90 to So
per pound for alligator teeth.
An inventory of the property in
Paris belonging to the city estimates
its value at about $200,000,000.
The blackleg, or mountain fever, has
made its appearance among the cattle
of Chewaucan, Oregon. A few have
died.
In the year 1880 the total loss by
fires in Boston was $1,173,594, while
up to Dec. l, 1881, the losses footed up
$435, ,585.
The state of Pennsylvania has re-
covered $4,000 from ex-treasurers
who withheld money received for
liquor licenses.
A scourge seems to have seized the
Visalia country, Tulare county, Cali
fornia. The mortality for the past two
months has been awful.
Thirty thousand pounds of powder
are now stored in the magazine at Null
lan's Tunnel, Montana, and $4,000
pounds more will soon arrive.
A colored tailor from North Caro-
lima is said to have made $4,000 in
Boston since the war. He gives en-
ployment to over one hundred persons.
The total cost to Whitman county,
Washington territory, for fitting up a
pest-house, and caring for smallpox
patients therein up to Dec. !, was 1858
Laboring men are in great demand
at Apalachicola, Fla. One man re-
Gently offered 25 cents an hour or $1.50
per day and board for laborers, without
effect.
The Los Angeles chamber of CON-
merce has addressed circular TO the
farmers of southern California, in
which they estimate the orange crop
at 81, 100000.
A resident of Belfast, o., has been
put under bonds of $500 to appear be-
fore the grand jury on the charge of
opening a letter written by his wife to
her father.
A Norristown (Pa) junk-dealer has
shipped 225 old-fashiOned (grandfath-
er's) clocks, that he succeeded in gath
ering up in the neighborhood, to New
York during the last year.
The so-called Sopori Mexican land
grant, which covers $50 miles of land,
has been declared by the surveyor gen.
eral of Arizona to be fraudulent and
invalid. The land included in this
claim extends from the San Xavier TO
Tubac.
A man near Hammond, st. Lawrence
county, N. Y, caught seal in net
near Oak Island the other day. 1t
weighed seventy.six pounds, and meas
ured four feet in length and three feet
in girth. This is probably the first seal
ever caught in the upper st. Lawrence
river.
An organized band of horse-thieves
is operating in eastern Washington ter
ritory, in the Yakima and Klickitat
sections, from which over 1900 horses
have been stolen within year. About
twenty of them are encamped in val
ley near the British line, which they
can cross when pursued.
The impression that no fish can be
caught frem the famous Silver spring
of Marion county, Florida, is erro-
neous. A Mr.. Westerville, of South
Carolina, who has been stopping there
for time, has taken thirty-seven diff
ferent varieties of fish from the spring,
and reports having seen several other
kinds.
A list of the streets of Paris ccm.
piled by order of the municiple council,
shows that there are $3.50 Of them,
with total length of abort 600 miles.
Nofewer than l, ,439 Of the streets have
had their names changed within the
last thirty years, and most of the
changes have been made for political
reasons.
Someone who has looked up the re-
cord denies that the twenty-five pat
ents issued to Edison on Dec. q con.
stituted the largest number ever is
sued at one time to one individual by
any government, and says that on Sept.
IA, 1872, twenty-nine patents, under
the single title of steam vacuum
pumps, were issued by the United
States to G. II. Hall, of New York
city.
The "Indian question" is to be rep
sesented to the people of the eastern
states in quite new light during the
winter months. Mrs. Hopkins, nee
Sarah Winnemucca, bright, vivacious
full-blooded Piute Indian, of pleasing
manners, and possessing rare fund of
practical intelligence, will deliver lee
lures upon the "Indian agencies" She
says that the condition Of the tribes
| in the far west is deplorable, and that
there will surely be another outbreak
unless the president removes many Of
the pale-faced Indian agents who sys-
tematically rob the savages.
An estimate has been published Of
the municiple estate of the city Of
Paris, and it is curious and imposing,
all national monuments and buildings
situated in Paris bein g left out of the
reckoning. This estimate shows prop
erty of one kind and another valued at
| $2i2, ,OOO,O 900, in which sum are includ-
ed 64 churches worth nearly $35, ,000,-
600, 20 barracks worth $1,000, 900, lab
primary schools set down at $12,500,-
900, 19 cemeteries at $6,500.000, A
parks and squares at nearly $55,000,-
600, and 95 statues and fountains at
100000.
A correspondent writing from Lake
Valley, Cal, says: We are now in the
midst of winter storm, regular