Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-29
FROM ALL POINTS.

OVER one hundred white men are said to
be in hiding in the famous Dismal Swamp
Of Virginia, once the refuge of many run
away slaves.
BY late statistics it is shown that Negro
property-owners in Georgia, South Caro-
lima and Louisiana pay taxes on property
valued at forty-eight million dollars.
1T is not generally known that camels,
both wild and tame, are found in Texas, yet
such is the fact. The first of these animals
were brought to the State by the Govern
ment in 1852 to test their usefulness in
crossing the American desert.
THE State of New York is about to en-
bark in the enterprise of keeping deer
Last year the Legislature voted 5000 for
the establishment of State deer park in
the Catskill Mountains, and recently the
forest commission has taken the matter in
hand.
News comes from Prescott, A. T., of the
discovery of wonderfully rich ledge
of gold bearing rock twenty inches wide, on
the Hassayampa river. The assay shows
100000 per ton. The pieces Of the rock,
when broken, hang together by the gold in
them.
IN the South the rice industry is seriously
damaged by the inroads of the "rice bird !"
The loss occasioned in this manner is esti-
mated ut s., 100000 year. In some parts
large numbers of men and boys are en-
ployed in the destruction of this rapacious
destroyer.
FoR years one Of the features of the Nj
agara falls has been a huge mound of ice
formed by the freezing of spray that falls
upon a large rock at the foot of the Ameri-
can falls. 1t is proposed to convert this
mound into toboggan slide during the
coming winters.
ONE OF the wealthiest women in Chicago
is Mrs. Muncel Talcott, childless widow of
three-score years. When her husband was
dying few years ago, he requested her
never to hoard dollar. Her income is $780,
600 per annum, and of this sum she devotes
S45, 900 to local charity.
New York CITY is to have drinking sa-
loon which will surpass in elegance any
thing Of the kind in the country. The floor
IS inlaid with silver dollars, which are ce-
mented in the marble floor IN holes bored in
alternate slabs-heads and tails up alter
nately. The handles of the beer-pumps are
mounted with silver dollars. The place is
named "Ihe Silver Dollar" and the sign
bears huge counterfeit of the diverse and
reverse of that much coined coin.
Four Chinese journals are published in
San Francisco. These appear weekly, and
have circulation of twenty-five hundred
copies. According to the Chinese method q
good printer can print four hundred sheets
a day. Five days work are required to get
out an edition of one thousand copies. The
journals are printed with black ink on sin
gle sheets of white paper, except on the
Chinese lew year, when the printing is
done with red ink or upon red paper.
THE champion glutton and pie-eater has
turned up in st. Louis. This titled person
is negro boy, nineteen years of age, and
graduate of the House of Refuge. Recent
ly he devoured two large pies, one mince
and one apple, in the short period of two
minutes and thirty seconds. The feat was
performed with his hands tied behind his
back, his tongue performing the duties that
would otherwise have been done by his
hands. During the week he gained great
notoriety and an enviable reputation among
his class by three similar feats. He drank
half-gallon measure of water withoutonce
taking tho vessel from his mouth. He Also
drank quart measure Of whisky under the
same conditions and ate six soda crackers
IN five minutes without dampening them in
anv manner.