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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-09

We see by am Eastern paper that O.
Massachusetts, town has had what thew
call Tiger Ball." That must be.
good deal such bali as they use to have
up in the central part of the State. at a
place called Rhodes Corners. They
used to have "4liger Balls there years
ago, and the tiger that was let loose
there was enough to make a mans hair
stand. The boys would go out rom the
towns in the vicinity in droves, and as
they wore good clothes. and smoked
cigars, while the boys around the Cor
ners attended the ball dressed in over
hauls and wooden shirt and only one
suspender, the girls would get mashed
on the town; boys, and that would make
the boys at the Corners mad and then
the tiger business would commence.
Some of the. bows who have attended the
tiger balls can remember distinctly Just
how the tiger was let loose. When one
of the boys, from town wouldibe cooling
around the country girl someone would
paste him i'm the ear with frozen tur-
nip and knock MIN down, and then the
whole gang OF country tigers would pre-
tend to be- anxious to pick him up and
they would roll him aroundi on the dirty
floor until he looked like q. discouraged
dish-rag and couldn't mash the homeli-
est girl in the crowd. and then the coun-
try tigers would let him up. and every
thing woud be lovely again. If any
one of the boys from town who went
out to one of those tiger balls was par
ticulanly attentive to tho girls the tigers
would make him regrets it or die in the
attempt. And hen the town boysgot
ready to go home they were generally
the worst demoralized set that ever At
tended bali, and ths country tigers
would laugh it off and ask them to, come
again, and the country boys won d he as
fresh as daisies, and they would wink
at each other and say that those fellows
from town could come out there and
have all the fun they wanted, but when
1t comes to MASKING up lot o. country
gir s they would get left. If they are
Just beginning toll have tiger balls in
the East they are. ava, behind the times
as they have been in vogue in the West
for years. A tiger ba l in one of these
Western towns ould make the hair on
an Eastern mans head stand up so he
couldnt keep his hat on.-RcE's Sun.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-09

A strange story is related by some
persons VINO reside near Lemoore. II
is vouched for by several parties OF
known veracity. 1t relates to the FORE
sight and invention mani fested by o
large wolf that infests that district. The
parties in question had been missing
poultry for some time. The defamation
had proceeded to that extent it aroused
to activity the defensi faculty o. the
poultry owners. While one OF them. .
Mr.. Stark Hill, was looking about foI
some traces of the depredator he came
across duck that had been raised by
w. 4. Massmeyer. Its head was al
that was visible. The body had been
buried with the wings spread out, and
the ground had been tramped down.
The duck was still alive although it had
been missing for three days. 1t is evi.
tent that the wolf had taken this plan
to supply its future wants, and had
managed to keep the fowl alive so that
it would not spoil before he -hould want
it. Thus, it is evi ent that animals
think and reason and manifest some of
the faculties usually supposed to be the
exclusive prerogativs of the animal
man. - 1nlare (Cal Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-09

The. London Times gives thef0llowing
summary of recently published statistics
Of the increase, both, of the population,
and emigration throughout Germany.
The population of Prussia increased.
betweenil8l6 and 1864, from 10, $50. 600
to D9, 260, 900, while,, up to, 1876. inclu.
siwe; it mounted up to5l, 500. 600. or los
per cent. in sixty years. time. From,
1873 to- 1880 the population of all the
German States has BEEN increasing at
about 525, 900 per annum. At the last
census, in December 1880, the number
OF inhabitants was As, $50, 900. which. If
maintained at the same. nate: would be
10000. 600 in 1900. The increase, as
compared with that of France. is very
remarkable. the'French,population dur
ing the last five years showing an in
crease of only 389, 900. while the increase
of the German population, during the
same period was 2,0J0,O00, the birth
rate in the latter country being y 81 per
100, whereas in France tits only 2.47.
There is also this great difference be-
tween the two. thatin France the increase
has been almost entirely in the large.
towns, whereas inGermany the increase
isgeneral throughout tho country as
Woi sts INC UOWuS. 1n6,numDcr OF emil
grants that have left Germany during
the last sixty years isIover3. 500. 600. of
whom! the greater art have taken
their de arturo within, the last thirty
years. the United States having absorbed,
I'M 1881 no less than 248,3 23. DIR. Fried
richkapp estimates the. amount taken,
away by each emigrant, at not less than
$50 marks, or E22 lOs., so that the
capital transferred to the, United States.
during last year amounted directly to.
t5, 5S7, 267. And,this, it should be 10.
membered, is not returnable to Ger.
many in the ordinary ways of trade OF
commerce, as, inipoint of fact, the Ger
mamemigrants to tho: United States be.
come Ameri; ans, and. conse uently,
competitors with Germany In agricult-
ural and industrial, pursuits. Dr..
Engel considers that the cost of bring
ing up young personnel the lower or
middle class to the fifteenth year IL
about f200. and he. estimates the loss
to- Germany during the EN- grafton Of.
the last sixty years, i'm cash and valu-.
ables taken by ea h emigrant. at ever,
nine milliards of marks-nearly twice,
the amount OF the war indemnity paid
by France in 1S71.-Bradstreet'S
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-09
A Sisters Love.

Hostetter McGinnis, society Young
man, who is a great beau. called at the
Longcoffin mansion, on Austin Avenue.
Misses Esmeralda and Birdie Longcoffin.
who are rivals for the affections of Hos
letter, received him in the parlor. During
the conversation he narrated a very
amusing incident, at which Miss Esmer-
aida burst into vociferous roars of laugh.
ter, while Miss Birdie did not smile at all,
but sat upin her chair in very reserved
and solemn manner. She shortly after
wards excused herself, and withdrew
from the room, leaving her sister to en-
tertain Mr.. McGinnis.
'.Your sister does not seem to have a
keen appreciation of humor. notice
she did not smile when related that
humorous incident"
That's where you are mistaken Mr..
McGinnis," replied Esmeralda birdie
has a very keen sense of the ridiculous,
and would have roared until you could
have heard her a mile off, but she was
compelled to restrain herself"
sis she unwell?"
''No, she eats enough for three, but
she wears false teeth, and her new set
gets out of order when she smiles, which
causes her friends to suppose she has nc
sense of the ludicrous, but it is mis-
take. Ihave often told Birdie she ought
to live in Virginia"
"Why SOP" asked Hostetter.
Because she has to readjust her teeth
so frequently That's what she rs doing
now. She ought to live among the re,
adjustsrs. where she would feel more al
home. "-Terds SiftinQs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-09

The French dialect spoken by the
creoles of Louisiana sprang up almost
entirely by ear. Illiterate whites and
Africans. according to the Journal OF
PhiLto9y, catching the voluble utter
aces of the educated people around
them have altered, in their own way,
the sense of the words, producing lingo
that resembles French as curiously as
the extreme negro dialect resembles
English. Creole children of wealthy
parents are placed in charge of negro
nurses, and thus learn the patois before
they acquire the French.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-09

The Empress OF Augusta of Germany
is seventy-one, the Queen of Denmark
Sixty-fve and Queen Victoria of En-
gland sixty-three. The Empress OF
Brazil and Queen Olga Of Wartemburg
have both reached sixty, while the ex.
Empress Eugene. whose name is still
recorded in the place Of honor in the
calendar, is fifty six. The Queen OF
$axony is forty-nine, the Empress OF
Austria forty-6ve, the Queen of the
Belgians forty-six, the Queen of Sweden
forty-six, Queen Margaret, of Italy, is
6fty-two. the Empress Of Russis thirty
dvet and the Queen Of Portugal thirty
five, while the three youngest are the
Queen of the Netherlands twenty-four,
the Queen Of Spain twenty-four, and the
Queen of Servia twenty-three.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-09

"A few months ago the Secretary
OF the Brooklyn Board Of Education
stole $3.50. GOO of the public funds. and
to hide his defalcation destroyed and
mutilated the records. 1t cost %, 900
to have these restored. IN Y. Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-09
A California Surprise.

A purchaser OF land in California al.
ways stands chance of finding it turn
out to be gold bearing, or to possess
stores of quicksilver, copper, or other
hidden wealth. One Of these surprises
has befallen DIR. Z. T. Brunette, of Oak.
land. who bought hill near Los Gatos,
about sixty miles below San Francisco,
for use rs n pasture ground. 1t was
necessary to dig, in order to deepen a
well, and large number of blocks that
looked like ordinary stones were taken
out and thrown on one side in heaps.
Some of these stones, being afterward
used to build fire upon for cooking pur-
poses, were found TO be highly combusti-
BILE, burning rapidly with blush fame.
Further examination showed that they
were simply solid blocks of sulphur. and
that the whole hill is substantially an
immense mass of this mineral. With
sulphur selling at twenty dollars a ton
Mr.. Burnette's purchase has turned out
to be n greater mass of treasure thar
many gold mines. - Chicago Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-09

Berlin with over 1,l60, 900 popula.
ton, hss only forty-fye places of wor
ship
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-09

An aged and wealthy Cincinnati
lady took a young man to live with her
as her SON. he to manage the business
and she to provide for him and advance
money and property to him from time
to time. She now comes into court
with suit for $4,000. alleging that
after obtaining about $4,000 from her
10 pay for his education and establish
him in business, the young man broke
his contract and refused to live with
her.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-09
Colonel Joseph M. Bennett, n

Colonel Joseph M. Bennett. the
owner Of the Chestnut Street Opera
House. in Philadelphia, has presented to
Mrs. Simpson, wife of the Methodist
Bishop, a gift deed of a farm of twenty.
five acres, adjacent to the Methodist
Orphanage, itself a gift from Colonel
Bennett to charity. This land is assessed
at 81 900 an acre and win soon be worth
twice that sum. 1t will be sufficient for
all time to come to serve the purposes
and needs of the Methodist Episcopal
Orphanage. The donor had disposed OF
the land in his will to the Orphanage,
but recently he resolved to see that it
was donated In his lifetime.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
miscellaneous Notes.


On improved inquiry, steel rails are much
firmer. although not quotably higher than thirty
days ago.
The trunk-llne people seem to be making good
progress In their efforts to prevent a summer
railroad war
The stockholders of the New York & New
Haven road meet May 10 to vote on issuing
The Chattaroi road is now completed to Rich
ardson, KY, on the west fork of the Big Sandy,
five miles southwark from the old terminus mt
Peach Orchard, and forty-eight miles from the
northern terminus at Ashland.
The New York & New England Company Is
running on their western division locomotive
which weighs IS tons, has ten driving
wheels, and 10 pecnliarOoking machine. The
engine is designed to burn the dirt and refuse of
coal, the fire-bOX and boiler are unusually long,
ana the EN- gineer and fireman occupy separate
cabs, that of the former being over the middle OF
the boiler and the other well aft.
Now it Is said that the Lackawanna road is to
be extended To Pittsburg. The line sketohed for
this project, connecting the Bloomsbury division
of the Lackawauna road with Pttsburg, would
furnish the shortest route to New YORK, and give
practically new and vast resources in che inter-
Yening anthracite and bituminOus coal fields.
The trouble is that so many rOads projected to be
bullt to PlttsburS never get there.
The Walker smOkeless locomotive Is now being
tested on tho Eastern railroads. The invention
consists of water damper adjusted rs TO di-
vide The furnace into two section" covering the
section with live Goals while TIE opposite is be-
new coal are thus drawn through the section of
clear fire and consumed. The smORestack is
open, without a spark-arrester, and nothing but
steam Is seen nr frls to issue from 1t.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
THE ALTON LEASE.

Ratification by the stocKSolders-The I. Fl.
and s Il. Lease.
The stockholders of the Indianapolis g. St.
Louis Railroad Company, yesterday. met and
ratified the lease OF the st. Louis, Alton & Terre
Haute road to the l. & st. L. and Cleveland, Co
lumbus, Cincinnati Indianapolis Railroad
Companies. Hon. Conrad Baker acted as chair
man and A. g. White secretary. All shares of
the stock were represented and the lease
unanimouslv approved. Nexr month the c.. c..
O. q 1. stockholders and the T. H., A. & st. l..
RtockholderS meet to vote on the ratiheatiO
The directors of the three companies above
named have already ratified the lease, and the
stockholders are so largely represented in the
directory of each company that this voting of
the stockholders is only 10 conform to The law in
the matter.
The impression has prevailed that yesterday
the lease of the Terre Hate & Southeastern
road to the Bee Line people would pc perfected
The lawyers of both parties TO the transaction
spent u portion OF the day together and, on
being questioned as TO results, stated that the
matter still hung fire.
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interest, and it will be used, with $1,000 previ-
ously given for the same purpose, to establish
proiessorshtp of elocution and vocal culture.
Mrs. Lizzie Haldemau Pearce, wife of Charles
D. PeArce, of Louisville. and eldest daughter OF
Mr. W. n. Haldeman, president of the Courier
journal Company, died at her home in Louisville
yesterday afternoon.
At BaIley's HarhOr. Wis, fire yesterday
morning destroyed William Jackson's residence
twelve years OF age, were burned to death while
ups tairs " here the fire started.
The rare Occurreueei is reported from Salt Lake
OF "A MormOn's wife entering complaint of poiyg-
amy against him. In this instance the woman
had been beaten by her husband, and redress
had been denied her by Mormon Justice.
The saloon keepers of Des Moines, Ia, have
agreed not to take out city licenses this yearthe
lee having been increased To 81, 900. The may or
will allow three days for compliance with the
ordinance, after which the recalcltrants Will be
proceeded against.
The May Musical Festival at Pttsburg closed
with matinee and evening concert, at
tended by immense audiences. The managers
state that the receipts of the four concerts Will
be over $4,000, and that the festival has been
a success, financially as well as artistically.
AT Helena, NJ T., Henry FOrham was hanged
IN the Jall-yard, yesterday, in the presence OF
the officials of the Territory and few specta-
tors He preserved a stOlid demeanor, aud up
to the last moment gave no signs of weakness.
He left will bequeathing his body to the sur
geOns.
The jury in the case of United States Land
Registrar W. II. Crane, of San Francisco, charg-
Receiver Audred Miller brought in verdict Of
not guilty. Immediately after Crane, was ar
rested on an indictment for converting public
money To private use.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
SUNDAY RAILWAY TRAINS
Points from Col. Youns's Order Con
corning Trains on the Sabbath.
Fen Years. Growth of the Panhandle Lines
The Big FOur's Time Record
Personal and General.
RAILWAYS AND THE SABBATH.

UoioneI Young's Order Disseminating Sun
day Trains on the L., N. A. g. G.
LOUISVILLE, KY, May 2.-Yesterday, Colonel
Bennett II. Young. president of the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago railroad, issued an order
that so far asipossible, work be done or trains
be run on that road on the Sabbath day. Only
Dne passenger train will be run on that day, foe
carrying mails, and efforts will be made TO ar
rangejfor It's discontnuance. In cases OF perisha-
bile goods or live stock freight, trains will run
when necessary only. The order further says:
"You will, in future, run no excursion trains
of any kind, for any purpose. on the Sabbath.
This order applies to camp-meeting trains. Ii
Christi ans cannot find other places for worship
this company will not violate divine and civil
law and deny its employees the essential. rest OF
the Sabbath to carry them to camp-meeting
grounds. am also informed that a number of
the cOmpany's employees have conscientious scru-
pies against any work on the Sabbath. There
are, likely, others who 10 not feel so
strongly on this subject. Under ordinary
circumstances must any employe who objects
on the grounds of his religious convictions be
ordered or required to do any service on the Sab
bath. If any difficulties arise in the execution
of this regulation, YOU will please report them
to me for consideration, and you Will also notify
employees OF their right. on Conscientious
grounds, to be fully protected In the observance
of day OF rest"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03


Next to the statistical Spectator comes
the superstiious SPECTATOR. There are any
number of these, far more than the other, but
they are not So well known, Perhaps they
are not willing to acknowledge their weak
ness, but it crops out every now and then,
For instance there is T. X. Akin, who never,
under any circums tances, will make his first
entrance on the floor with his right foot.
His left foot must cross the threshold first
or bad luck will follow him all day. 1t
don't make any difference which foot sets
in first doing the balance of the day. John
Kauhman's pet scheme is to carry red
rose with him, generally q la Charley
Elleard, in his mouth If he can
make a trade without dropping that rose
from his mouth it's sure to make money. A
b. Colts fancy is to touch a buckeye he
carries in the left-hand pocket of his pants
when lie trades / was once told confden-
TALLY by Amadee Cole that he never thought
deal was safe until he had winked three
times while he was entering the purchase or
sale Oh his card But perhaps the most
curions is Oliver Wiseman's iufiiction. This
is that if he meets a cross-eyed person face
to face his luck for the day is gone, and no
matter what enterprise he may be engaged
in, whether business or pleasure, it will go
wrong, Jimmy Newell tells me he has a
standing order from Wiseman that while he
is on the floor Jimmy is never to admit a
cross-eyed person.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA.
Liberal Patronage of the Limited Express
Earnings of Other Trains.

Liberal Patronage of the Limited Express
Earnings of Other Trains.
George Boyd, assistant passenger agent of all
lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
east OF Pittsburg, is spending a few days with
his parents who reside In this city. In n chat
with Mr. Boyd yesterday the railroad reporter
gathered in II few points which will be of inter
eat to the readers of the Journal AS regards
the limited express train run between New York
and Chicago, and which is the finest and best
equipped train run In The world, he says that it
has come to be the best paying train they run,
often being unable to carry all the passengers
who wish tn travel on 1t. But five coaches are
run, aud these will accommodate but ITO pas
Hengers, and often to secure its aceOmm cd tiOns
berths must he applied for several days in al
vance. SO popular is the train that the manage
ment are urged to put on a sixth coach.
ToTa s %,l hardly be done, oo.,r Mr.;
OF making exact schedule time. As it is now
run. It averages to pay $500 each round "trip
made. Other through passenger trains, well,
are all well patrOniZed. The earnings of the
passenger department on the roads east of Pitts
burg were last year, In round Plumbers S19 ,00O,-
600, being an increase of Is per cent. over the
earnings In the previous year, and of So per
cent in the two years past; and this year travel
1s 40 heavy as TO insure q handsome increase in
1888 over the earnings of 1882. The passenger
men of the Pennsylvania road are giving much
attention to local as well through business,
and from this source their revenue is largely IN
over tho entire system. Mr. Boyd EXPRESSED
surprise at the excellent condition of the track
between Pittshurg and Indianapolis. Ten years
agn, when he left indianapolis tc take "a position
On the Pennsylvania road. he the
track WAS laid with fifty-sIx-
pound-tO-the-yard iron rail, and it
was very poorly crOss-tied and graveled only
in spots; and between Indianapolis and New
York passenger made three or four changes.
Now the track is laid with steel rails weighing
sixty pounds to the yard and eross-tied Pennsvl-
Vania standard, and the rnadbed heavily grav-
eled and as smooth and solid as any trunk line
In this country, and passengers carried
through TO New York without change and ten 90
twelve hours quicker than rem years ago, and the
run could be ulHde four hours quicker were it
not that competing lines would he disturbed nv
II, ANA possihly passenger war brought on. In
the equipments he said improvement was fully
as inarked. Fine. powerful passenger engines
now haul the trains and double the number of
coaches which were then hanied, and the day
coaches were now fine affairs were the best
sleening coaches then ruD and vet the Pennsvl-
Vania people were not satisfied, but proposed to
adopt all improvements they came to the
front that the Pennsylvania shall not lose its
present prestige.
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THE COURT RECORD,
SUPERIOR Court.

Room No. l-Hon. Napoleon b. Taylor, Judge.
Mary Kern VS.. James Miller ct al Motion for
new trial oveTruled. Judgment rendered on YER
dict against Glass and Miller, and i'll favor of ii.
C. Adams.
James j. Wilson VS.. Alfaretta Wilson. Divorce
granted plaintiff, with custody of child.
Room No. 2-Hon Daniel W. Howe, Judge.
Mary Taggart VS. j. Il. and j. f. Julian. Dis
missed 10y plaintiH at her costs.
H. b. Sherman VS.. William T. Jams. Suit on
account Verdict for defendant.
Room No. 3-Hon. Lewis G. Walkor Judge.
William Lewis, jr., vs. Robert f. Kennedy ct
al. Suit on deposit. Judgment for $304.39.
Jane L. Griffith, guardian, VS.. Alice q. Moore
head ct al. Foreclosure. Dismissed at plaintiffs
costs.
Kate Graham vs.. Cassius Graham ct al. Suit
for maintenance. Dismissed at plaintiffs costs
David Rand VS.. Rand d. Co. suit on note
Judgment for $2SS5U.
VOlney Q. Irwin vs. Benjamin E. Smith ct al
Suit on mandate. Judgment for $6,374.
Malinda Brown vs. John X. Brown. Suit for
divorces. decree granted on the grounds of
abandonment and failure TO provide, with the
prohibition of marriage for two years.