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

deposits and surplus or $23S, $50, ,7SS
The interest earned on the year was
$12, ,285, ,345.
The establishment of a new pension
Office at Augusta, Me-, with ex-Gov.
Connor as pension agent, may be re-
garded as a fixed fact.
There were 66 vessels cleared from
San Francisco with wheat and -four for
December, and 800 vessels in the six
months ending Dec. 81.
A Concord IN. H. man guessed that
beanpot contained 1899 beans,
whereas the exact number was 43,974,
and he won an overcoat.
During the past year, 1852 persons
died in London of the smallpox. OF
these 325 had been vaccinated, and
637 neglected that precaution, the re-
naming $40 being doubtful.
Boston contains 1000 Swedes, &C
cording to a directory which has been
especially prepared to contain their
name, sex, age, native place and date
OF arrival in this country.
Leon Chotteau, the indefatigable
French political economist, is just now
devoting his attention to the establish
ment of new line of steamers to run
between Baltimore and Havre.
Not single bushel of 100000 of
grain sent to Europe from New York
last year went in an American ship.
In 1880 about per cent of the ship
ments was by American vessels.
Four thousand barrels of petroleum
year was too much for the worlds
consumption twenty-five years ago.
They are using it up now at the rate of
about fifty thousand barrels day.
A careful estimate of the acreage
sowed to wheat in west Tennessee
places the area at fully rs per cent
greater than the breadth of land given
to the production of this cereal in 1881.
The drafted men of 1868 are organ
zing by counties, in New York, to en-
force by the legislature the passage of
law making it obligatory ON towns
and counties to refund the $500 which
they paid individually for substitutes.
There is lively fight at Leaven-
worth over the enforcement of the
occupation tax of $40 per month. Sew
eral lawyers who were arrested took
retaliatory steps by causing Mayor For
tescue and the members of the council
to be hauled up for neglecting to pay.
The standing committee of the Prot
estant Episcopal diocese of Maryland
has refused to recommend for ordina-
tion III. G. Bishop, colored, not on ac-
nonpf nf bio oolOr hY,f hanaroo ho xuoo
educated by the Mount Calvary church,
Baltimore, who are ritualistic to an ex-
| treme.
An analy sis of the census of New
York city shows that the foreign-born
residents are 478,670, or little over
one-third of the whole The Irish ex-
ceed any other nationalities, their num-
Der, if the figures are accurate, being
1913, ,595. Germany comes next, with
153, ,462.
On the 10Th of December. at Mid
dletown, Conn, two orphan boys, Al
bert S. and Osborne NJ. Atkins. aged re-
spectively 13 and 10 years, were acci-
dentally drowned. On the very day
of their death suit in their favor was
decided in New York, by which they
were to receive $4,000. which now re-
verts to their fathers brother.
The late New Hampshire legislature
enacted that no child under sixteen
years shall be hired for any work unless
it attends school twelve weeks in the
year and is able to write legibly and
can make easy work with the Third
Reader" and now the French people at
Manchester are stirred up heca lse the
school board of that city have voted
that only ability to read English shall
be regarded.
Jacob Tesch died near Jacksonville,
Oregon, last month. He was about 81
years old and was herding sheep when
he became unconscious, and in few
hours passed away. He at one time
had owned large portion of the town
site of Cincinnati. He had been In
the employ of one man as sheep-herder
for twenty years, and living in almost
entire seclusion.
The statistics of water surface
lakes, ponds, bays and rivers-in
the several states and territories
present the extreme aridity of New
Mexico and Arizona, with only 120 and
100 square miles of water, respectively,
and the marked contrary characters
tics of Florida, with 4,440; Minnesota,
4,16O; North Carolina, $3.50; Texas,
1880; Louisiana, $500, and Maine,
3,145 miles of river, lake and inlet
area. The total water surface Of the
country is given at SIS, 600 square miles,
and the gross area, land and water,
3,025, 600 square miles, inhabited by Is
persons and a fraction to each mile.
Some idea of the match trade may
, be gained by a glance at the figures
paid for stamps. The government ex-
acts a revenue of l cent per hun
dred on matches manufactured. Dur.
i, ing the year ending May, 1881. one
!, company paid for stamps "a, 500, 600.
, This year the amount paid will be In
, creased $4,000. There are two hun
|. dred matches in box. The tax is 2
!, cents; they are sold to the grocer for 8
: cents, and retailed at 5. Four million
? five hundred thousand dollars represent
ASS. 100000 l cent stamps. As each
stamp represents one hundred matches
!. the grand total Of matches manufactur
= ed is 45,5O0,000,000 matches, or 277,
. 500, 900 scent boxes.
{ The public school of the village o.
8 Fort Ann, near Albany, N. Y, is sue
r cessfully managed by L. w. Barrett
e whose spare hours are devoted to th'
= legal profession and to the performance
a of his duties as justice Of the peace
. On the 10th inst. some of his mischiev
f Gus masculine pupils formed the con
|. spiracy to put cayenne on the stove
e and then persist in denying the job, o.
: any knowledge of it. They succeede:
O in doing it to the letter, but Mr.. Bar
!. rett proved himself master of the stu
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