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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
WIT AND WISDOM.

When we know how to appreciate
a merit we have the germ of it within
ourselves. -GCethe.
1t is a species Of agreeable servitude
to be under an obligation to those we
esteem. Queen Christine.
1t is easy to criticise what is wrong
in another man life. but very diff
ficult thing to really do much better
than he does.-N. y. Herald.
Many man with an ambition to
do great things does nothing at all sim
ply because he feels above doing the
very little things which he is capable OF
doing .-Bostofs Transcript.
Mike" It's the Irish that does all
the inv nting in these days, sure" JON
ATTAIN Irish be darned! the Irish
don't invent anything to speak of.
Americans invent everything" Mike
Thin perhaps yez can tell me why
the Irishman's name, Pat, is always
next to the date on all the new irwin
tons. Divil an American name can yez
find on one. at all, at all!"-C Chicago
Tribune.
"A family named its sons One Stick
ney, Two Stickney, Three Stickney;
and the daughters were named First
Stickney, Second Stickney, Third Stick
ney. The three elder children of an
other family were named Joseph, And.
Another; and it was proposed to call
the rest, if any appeared, Also, More
over, Nevertheless and Notwithstand-
ing. Another household actually
named their child Finis, supposing il
hn lac h,,f 10,
who were called Addenda, Appendix
and Supplement.-Detron Post.
An exchange says: "A man was
driving an old OK when he became
angry and kicked him, hitting his jaw
bone with such force as to break his
leg" And we have been fairly wild
ever since we read the paper to know
who or which got angry at whom OF
what, and if the OK kicked the man S
jaw with such force as to break the OK s
leg. or how it is? Or did the man kick
the OK in the jaw-bone with such force
as to break the ox's leg, and if so, which
leg? It's one of those things which nc
man can find out, save only the man
who kicked or was being kicked, as the
case may NorristoaCn Herald.
MT. ana MIS-. Jones were starting
for church. "Wait, DEAR" said the
lady, 1--we forgotten something; won't
you go up and get my goats off the bu-
reau?" Your goats, replied Jones;
"what new-fangled things that?" "Tll
show YOU" remarked the wife, and
she sailed upstairs and down again
with a pair of kids on her hands.
There they are" said she. "Why, ]
call those things kids" said the sur
prised husband. "Oh, do you? -
snapped the wife Well. so did
once, bnt they are so old now, I'm
ashamed to call them anything but
goats. Then they went on TO church.
The next day Jones wife had half.
dozen pairs of new gloves in handsome
lacquered box of the latest design
Boston Transcript.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
A Waste in Threshing.

A careful German farmer has tested
the waste from threshing-machine or
rubber, as it is called, which takes in
the bundle sideways, so as to adm of
its being rebound. He ran the chat.
which was supposed to be free from
grain. through fanning-mill, and oh.
tanned twenty-five bushels of rye. This
was twenty-five per cent. of his crop.
1t proves what l have urged before
that in the hurry and helter-skelter and
''hurrah boys" connected with thresh-
Ing-machines. especially the itinerant
ones, there is always a considerable
waste. When spread buckwheat
straw to mulch the strawberry beds, the
ouckwheat came up last spring thick
enough to seed the ground.
An economic al manager of a paper
mill once told me that they obtained
fifteen per cent. of the cost of the rye
straw In the rye that was in il. They
always threshed tire straw over before
using it in the mill, and in this way re-
duced its cost. The lesson to be learned
nom these facts is obvious. There
should be less hurry about the thresh-
ing, and the feeding of the machine
should be slower, in order TO insure a
mo perfect Smelling Of the grain. The
owner should see that the cleaning-m II
Is In good order, and that the Sleeves
are kept clean, otherwish the grain will
run over and 60 out with the chat. If
there were any of the old-time thresh-
ers W tn fails, one of them won be
sure to get q steady job at Kirby Home
stead. 1t did not cost as much to thresi.
grain In this way in old times as it does
now with the fast-working machines.
q. u. Curtis, In ~. T. Tribune.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The human family inhabiting the
earth is estimated at !, 800, 900, 900; the
annual loss by death is 100000.
"A report prepared under Govern
ment auspices says that the area of land
in Manitoba broken for the first tlme is
99,911 acres.
A wonderful mineral is found only
in Missouri. 1t is called Adams CO.
bite, and it is so hard that it VIII cut
steel without losing its edge Chicago
Herald.
The great forests of the South will
be worth a mint of money before this
generation dies. Old North Carolina
has 10000 square miles of forest.-M
T. Sun.
1t is estimated by a statistician
that the total movements freight last
year on all the railroads of the United
States equaled 39,S02, 209,249 tons
moved one mile, the value of the tom
mage being no less than $22, 900, 600, 900.
The Government lighthouse on the
Long Island shore where it juts out into
the waters at He'll Gate, at Astoria, is
being rapidly pushed forward. 1t is to
be an electric light of 10000 candle
power and $50 feet high, in order that
its rays may not dazzle the eyes of
pilots passing under it.-N. Y. Tribune.
The IRON and steel building in
dustry on the Delaware River is said
by the Philadelphia Press to have ex-
banded since the beginning of the pres
ent year with wonderful rapidity. The
tonnage of iron and steel vessels con-
49, Ill 80
largely exceeded that of the entire year
1882. the figures being 5000 and 40, 097,
respectively.
The horse population of the United
States is now over II, 900, 600, or about
one horse to every five humans. Ac-
cording to the 1880 census the leading
horse States, with number of horses re-
spectively, were: Illinois, 1,023, 0S2;
Ohio, 7S6, 47S; New York, 610,35S;
Pennsylvania, $50. 5S7; Michigan, 378,-
1888; Kentucky, 372,64S. Two-thirds
are draught and all-work horses, and
one-third are used for pleasure driving.
Chicago Times.
"A person passing along the crowded
streets of large city often wonders
where all the multitudes of people are
! SbV"Ou away Oue VI oIS III az IlSut. AZ
cording to the census of 1880, the aver
age number of persons to dwelling in
the large cities was as follows: New
York, 1886; Brooklyn, GIL; Cincin-
natl, Oil; Boston, 1925; Chicago, 1924;
St. Louis, SIS; San Francisco, 6.S6;
Baltimore, 6.54; New Orleans, sos;
Philadelphia, $40. Big tenement
houses run up the average Chicago
Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
THE WORLD'SDOINGS.
A Summary or the Daily News.
POLITICAL AND Personal.

The New Hampshire Legislature closed
the longest session of that body, I'm the his
tory Of the State, on the 18th. The members
each received lO2 days pay, requiring over
I 10000.
COLONEL ROBERT NJ. MAYO, Of West
moreland County, Va, member OF Congress
elect, shot himself the other morning on
board the steamer Virginia, from Balti-
more for Norfolk.
JACK RYAN, n newspaper correspondent,
was recently found murdered near Lords.
burg, N. NJ.
JUDGE MAYO, who recently suicided on
board steamer near Richmond, Va, was
not Congressmnn-elect, as at first reported,
but father OF the Congressman. He was
seventy years Of age, and the cause Of his
self-destruction was political troubles.
Two OF his sons had committed suicide
within the past ten years.
JUDGE JOHN NJ. KRUN, who for over fifty
years had been prominent member Of the
~. Louis bar, died on the 18th.
The other day General j. b. Weaver Gre
ated sensation in Des Moines Qowa)
street car, crowded with ladies and preach
ers, by assailing Rev. ID. II. Lucas, a noted
political preacher. Weaver assailed Lucas
in great violence OF language, accusing
him OF misrepresenting his record on the
amendment. For time the scene was
lively.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT HILL has tom
dered his resignation 90 Secretary Folger,
TO take effect on tho appointment OF his
successor.
The Massachusetts Republican State
Convention, held recently at Boston, NOM
mated George d. Robinson for Governor
and Oliver Ames for Lieutenant Governor.
The Maryland Democratic State Conven-
ton nominated Robert NJ. McLane, for
Governor; Charles b. Roberts for Attorney
General, and J. Frank Turner, for Comp.
troller.
CADET j. II. TUGGLE, Of Kentucky, for
hnzing, has been dismissed from the Naval
Academy.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Cut back the sage plants in the fall
to prevent freezing out.
DO not pillow thin soils in or
chards. Spread manures.
One hundred bushels of shelled
corn will shrink to ninety in the bin
~ Y. Eer0ld.
-Alkali clover may be sown with
timothy. 1t is good on low, rich land,
is fine pasture and is good honey
food.-E1change.
"A half bushel of lime and eight
pounds of powdered sulphur make
a whitewash for trees and out-buildings
to kill insects. Put some on chicken
roots. Prairie Farmer.
Bread Pie: Soak slice of very light
bread in pint of rich milk. When it
is quite soft, beat it through the milk,
adding well-beaten egg and four ia
blespoonfuls of sugar. Flavor with nut
meg. Bake in q rich crust, and you
will find it delicious. The Household.
The Rhode Island State Fair man.
ayers Disseminated between public in
stitutions and ordinary farmers in the
matter of vegetables, and offered a sep
arate set of premiums to the farmers
who had not the facilities the public in
stitutions have for producing extra veg
etables.
The apparently incurable disease
which resulted in the death of several
horses at Stamford, Conn" affecting
spinal column, paralyzing throat and
hind-parts" lis, veterinarian thinks,
"chargeable to atmospheric changes"
and he warns against fast driving and
watering while warm.-M Y. Erans-
iner.
The Chatham IN. W Courier says:
"f boy has patch of ground for
potatoes or some other crop which he
may sell and have the proceeds of, he
knows how he came by the money, and
it will not be expended foolishly as
when it is given him outright. The
great thing is to teach the boys the
value of a dollar. and this can best be
done by letting them earn it on their
own account"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
A COwardly Assassination Near Tomb
stone, Arizonia.

TOMBSTONE, A. T., Sept. Is.
Saturday last two men named j. B.
Jones and John Jarvis, left on horseback
TO visit the ranch of ]. E. Hand, located
about a mile and half from the mouth of
Ramsey's Canyon, Hanchuca Mountains.
After their arrival they had dispute,
which resulted in a fight. Jarvis whipped
Jones, who, going into Hands house, re-
turned and said to Jarvis, "You have
whipped me in your kind of a fight, now
fight me my kind of fight" Jarvis re-
fused, stating that he was not armed.
Jones answered, "Pll give you a
show" Returning to the house, he
brought out another gun, which, after
examining and finding it contained no car
fridge, he loaded from his own weapon.
AT this point testimony conflicts, some wit
nesses stating that Jarvis took the gun and
walked of a short distance and then threw
it down. Others state that Jarvis refused
to take the gun and it was thrown down by
Jones, who walked away from Jarvis, the
latter following him up and saying he was
a coward and dare not shoot him. Jones
then raised his rife and: fired, the ball strik-
ing Jarvis in the right breast and bringing
him to the right knee, from which he arose,
and Jones fired again, the ball striking Jar
Wis in the right eye, killing him instantly.
The parties present attempted to approach
Jones, but he warned them off, and, finding
his horse had been scared away by the fir
ing, he mounted horse belonging to Hand,
which was hitched close by, and drove off
toward the canyon. Before leaving he took
hat from Hands head, having lost his
own in the melee, and also picked up the
rifle previously thrown down and took the
loads from it.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
A SOUTHERN KIDNAPER.
Georgia and Alabama In q Ferment Over
the Operations OF John Ogletree-A
Posse In Hot Pursuit.

Georgia and Alabama In q Ferment Over
the Operations OF John Ogletree-A
Posse In Hot Pursuit.
COLUMBUS, GA, Sept. l6.
Three recent kidnapings by man named
John Ogletree have exercised Georgia and
Alabama as thoroughly as the Charley
Ross case did the North. On Wednesday
last while James G. White, who lives on a
farm in jackson County, Alabama, was
absent from home, Ogletree rode up on a
horse and induced one of Whites young
sons to accompany him to a spring half q
mile from the house on the pretext that he
wanted to herd some cattle at the spring
Ogletree made the boy prisoner and hur-
ried away with him. Upon his return
home White gathered posse of farmers
and started in pursuit. Yesterday Ogle-
tree darted through Tallapoosa at break
neck speed, but his crime being unknown
there, no effort was made to detain him. A
few hours later White and posse Of seven.
teen rode into town in pursuit of Ogletree,
and learning how near they were to their
game, continued the pursuit on a gallon
without a moments delay. 1t has since been
learned that the boy was last seen in the
kidnaper's companyat Oak Levee, small
place fifteen miles from Tallapoosa. The
child had been brutality beaten, and his
blood-stained clothes attracted so much at
tention that the villagers became indignant
and demanded AL explanation of his condi-
ton. With undaunted temerity Ogletree
said that the boy was his son, and the in.
juries were the result of q beating admins
tered by a negro woman whom he had
knocked in the head with a wagon spoke in
retaliation, and left for dead in the road.
The villagers seemed satisfied with the
story, and Ogletree passed on as already
narrated. When he rode through ITALIA
poosa blood stains were noticed on his
clothes, and there is little doubt that, being
hard pressed by his pursuers, he murdered
the boy after leaving Oak Levee and hid
the body in the woods by the roadside. The
boy was only nine years old, was dressed
in homemade clothes and had one very
sore foot when carried Off. The body car
therefore be very easily identified if found
Ogletree has swarthy complexion, is
muscularly built, a half-breed of medium
height, with a murderously bad record. A
few weeks ago he threw Atlanta into ex
element by abducting Charlie Tilden. The
chase got too hot, however, and the boy was
recovered. Soon after that escapade ht
was again frustrated in a similar attempt
in Paulding County, this State. The Ala
bama authorities have offered reward Of
800 for Ogletree's arrest, but there is not g
doubt that he will be overtaken and
lynched by White and his companions be-
fore morning.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
a Permanent Abiding Place for a Historic
Flag.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. 10.
Saturday the Treasury flag, which has
connected with it so much of historical in
terest, was at last given permanent place
of security in case constructed for it in
the room of the Captain of the Watch. This
flag is large banner made of silk, pre-
sented by the ladies of the department to
the Treasury Regiment when it left for the
field. Upon the day of the assassination of
President Lincoln it was borrowed by Mr..
Ford to decorate the box which it was ex-
pected the President and General Grant
would occupy that evening. 1t so happened,
however, that General Grant decided to go
to New Jersey to visit his wife and chill
dren, and was not in the box. AS is we'll
known the President went and was shot by
Booth. When the assassin turned to es-
cape his spur caught in a flag, and he was
thrown so heavily as to break leg. This
caught. There is in its folds now a jagged
slit several inches in length cut by the
rowells Of the spur, not far from the upper
side of the flag, about midway down the
stripe. For some years after the event at
Ford's the flag was kept rolled up on the
staff in the basement Of the building, but
finally being in the way of the firemen it
was brought to the room of the Captain of
the Watch, where twas unfurled and hung
across the wall below a large portrait OF
Lincoln, exposed TO the dust and entirely
without protection. 1t hung there for some
nine years, till Saturday, when, as stated
above, it was placed in a case prepared
for il.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28

A TONY youngster aged sixteen, and
another youth Of the mature age Of sew
enteen. were rivals at Richmond,
Va. for the smilcs-and likely division
u gum-drops Of n young Miss Of the
bcwitching and susceptible age offifteen,
which resulted in n thirst for each 9TH
er's blood. The outcome was a hostile
meeting upon the field Of honor. where
tender but wounded affections over the
sprightly little Miss were healed by each
rival missing the other.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28

ABOUT two hundred gentlemen repre-
scnting all sections Of the State of Mas
sachusetts recently held n conference at
Boston for the purpose Of delibcrating
ON the course to be taken by the indie
pendent voters in the coming campaign.
An address was adopted setting forth
The desirability Of defeating the princi-
pies represented by the present Chief
Executive Of the State. and warning the
existing parties that the formation of q
third party can only be- ayerted by con.
slant advocacy Of civil service reform,
tax reform. economy in State affairs and
wisdom in legislation.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28

A COMPANY Of veterans Of General
Shcridan's old command. from Massa-
chusctts and New Hampshire. recently
visited the old battlc-Gclds in the Shcn-
andcah Valley. They held their first
campfire ut llarpcr's Ferry Some OF
the Confedcratcs. who took part in the
battles. met the Union veterans. and to-
gcther visited the scenes Of their former
struggles. The principal object Of the
veterans in visiting old battle-felds was
to locate their positions for the purpos,
Of securing accuracy in maps and il
the history Of battles.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28

Hon. SAMUEL j. RANDALL was re-
Gently drawn rs juror in the Quarter
Sessions Court Mt Philadelphia. Al
though he was legally exempt IL he
chose to avail himself Of the privilege.
rs member Of Congress and lawyer, the
eN-Spcaker. while others asked to be
excused. stepped up when his name was
called and took his seat in the the Jury
box. He was accorded the position of
foreman Of the jury and spent the first
day listening TO the dry details Of assault
and battery eases. His refusal to claim
exemption gave the city his services as
Juror for two weeks.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28

GOVERNOR MCDANIEL. Of Georgia,
recently signed the bill appropriating
$1,000 900 To build n new State Capitol AT
Atlanta, on the old City Hall Square,
decided TO the State by the city for that
purpose. The new building is to be
completed ready for use by January 1,
1889. The bill makes Il a felony for
any Capitol Commissioner TO be inter.
ested. either directly or indirectly. in
any contract for the building. Bids for
material. which must be- marble or gran
tie, are open 10 the world
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28

The Utah Commission has agreed TO
recommend the enactment of 4 marriage
law by Congress which will provide
that all marriages in the Territory shall
he null and void unless solcmnized pub
licly before witnesses. The witnesses
and those who oiliciatc and the con-
tracting parties 10 made affidavit in
every case that they are not polygamists.
Every marriage, and the circumstances
connected with it. the names Of wit
nesses, contracting parties, etc, to be
made a matter Of public record. A
heavy penalty is proposed for violators
Of this projected law.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
Important Capture of Counterfeiters.

Captain Linden, of Pinkerton's Detective
Agency, aided by several of his operators,
raided the house No. 215 Christian Street,
and arrested Anotty, better known as
stony" Hale, and John w. Edmundson, on
the charge of issuing and having in their pos.
session counterfeit bank notes purporting
to be issued by the Brazilian Government.
A lot of counterfeiters' material was cap.
tured. They were held for trial. The ar.
rests are the most important made in couu,
terfefters' circles for years, In view of the
fact that the accused were on tho eve al
counterfeiting over q million dollars Of
notes, which they intended to palm on On
Ne natives Of Brazil.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28

Two Mormon elders had for some
time been holding meetings in Franklin
County. Ind. and had been entertained
by Mr.. Adams. When they left his
house, Adams daughter disappeared.
Search revealed her hiding place. and
also the fact that she had been received
into the Mormon Church. and was de-
sirous Of going to Utah. A mob waited
upon the elders. coated them with tar
and feathers, and gave them to under
stand that prompt lynching would fol-
low their return Ia the county.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28

TnE estate of Daniel Wordsworth. Of
Hartford, Conn, held in trust since his
death In 1913. was distributed to his
heirs recently. The amount Of the
estate at the time Of his death was
s2SS, 900. the largest in the city at that
time. Over $4,000 have been paid in
annuities. The amount lately distrib-
utcd was s7s6.OOO. The estate was to
be held in trust during the lives Of the
testator's nephews and nieces. Of whom
the last died In 1892. Daniel Wads-
worth-wss the son Of Colonel Jeremiah
Wadsworth. Commissary General Of
the Revolutionary army. His successor
In that Office was Ephraim Blaine. the
grandfather Of James G.. Blaine.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28

THE people Of the Southern part of
Dakota elected delegates to Constitu-
tional Convention which recently as
scmbled nj Sioux Falls for the purpose
Of framing a constitution and applying
for admission rs n State. In forming n
n constitution Prohibition figures large
". and has many friends.