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Nevada County picayune., 1888-07-11

Over 90 degrees hot,
 Inc green grass grows.
 Natermelons and collie,
 And still it is rather warm.
 33cts. Lawn at W, F. Armstrong X Co.'S.
 Wholesale and retail groceries at Hamilton & Evans.
 Call at W. F. Armstrong X Cos and get nice scarf for 25cts.
 A ear load of new Bluff City stoves al J. M. Denman X Bros. ] The fourth of July did quickly pass by. The next fourth of July will come in 1882
 off and on the sprinkler sprinkles the street.
 Quite a heavy rain and wind storm Monday evening.
 Fresh Star Whitaker Hams at Brooks. Blake X Cos.
 NANTED-Your butter and eggs. at the market ]. C. TREvILLIoN.
 Go to Foster X Logan Hardware Co. for your fruit cans and jars.
 Hughs Flux Cordial for sale at all the stores in the county.
 Straw Hats at cost, at W. F. Armstrong X Cos.
 Quite a crowd, near 2.OOO. atten- ded the barbecue.
 MT. Ed Hood. of Emmet. atten- ded the barbecue.
 Mir. Price Cantlcy. of Hope, was in the city last week.
 Uncle Fred Chambers, of Emmet. attended the barbecue.
 Pure Kentucky. apple cider. the best made, at J. J. McGraw's.
 Prints from to Tets. at Hatley & Christophers.
 Give Us q trial, when you need chewing or smoking tobacco.
 JoNE> & JoNfS. \ few dozen more pair of those bet. hose al W. F. Armstrong X Cos.
 Times may change, but principles never.
 Mother IIubbards are in full blast now-a-days.
 Prof. Hill, of AItus college, has been visiting our city.
 It seems as if we couldn't be pleased with the weather.
 Ladies summer dress good as low as the lowest, at Jones X Jones'.
 Jones X Jones still ask everybody to try them for flour and groceries before buying elsewhere.
 No more Aux or diarrhma with those who use Ilughs' Flux Cordial. Poe. at Hugh Moncrief's.
 Tent for sale or rent.-A 10 oz. Duck tent, l2Xl5 with poles X stays complete. JNo. F. PoRrIS. Mir. Sid Woodbcrry. of Okolona. was in Prescott last week.
 A good many of the colorcd folks celebrated the 4th in Hope.
 We were sorry to learn of the bank getting broke, Saturday.
 Mir. W. B. Waller has had his brick store nicely painted.
 A nice line of chambrays at S8cts. per yard. at w. F. Armstrong X Co.'S.
 Fres flour, sugar and coffee at lowest prices for cash, at Hamilton X Evans.
 Ladies muslin robes, with cmbroid- cry ts match, at Brooks, Blake & Co.'S.
 j. P. Dunic, Hope, Arkansas, has just received q ear load of furniture, and will sell it cheaper than ever be- fore.
 The trains were heavily loaded with passengers on the 4th.
 Mrs. Ellen McSwain of Emmet' IS visiting her mother, Mrs. Gill.
 Miss Julia Stephens, of Wallace burg. is here, visiting relatives.
 Modcsty is never pretcntiouS' and true merit is never ostentatlonS'
 Bring your eggs, hides etc. to Brooks. Blake X Co. They will pay yon the highest market price Tor same.
 The cntcrprising drugglst' Hugh unnc,;ef has secured the agency TOT .the celebrated Reeds chill cure, F,ud can sell to country mere''a''H ''
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Nevada County picayune., 1888-07-11
Don't Wait

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 ,, reouire for the hair-and use little, i,ilv 10 prcscrv" the natural color ana nrerent badness.
 Thomas Muuday, sharon Grove, ky. ,rites Several months ago ny hair commenced falling oAt, and in few weeks my head was aIeoSt bald. | ,ried many remedies, bat they did no oood finally bought bottle of Ayers Hair Viger, and. after issinS only a part of the contents. my head was covered uifh heavy growth "f lai". grcom- mend your preparation E. hr bt>i hair. rslorcr III T e wa.' '
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Nevada County picayune., 1888-07-11
anaaa Conntg 2ieaynas.

PRr>corr, ARK.. JunE 21. lSSs. 'aerea ai the Postoifce. Prescott. Ark, az
 Second Glass Matter.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-03
BORROWED SPICE.

TooruPtCKs must not be served with
soup. They are neither useful nor orna-
mental
YoUR lawn should always be kept nicely
trimmed. but IL Is senseless extravaganza
20 trim your lawn with point lace.
KEEP a scrap-book Of all tho funny items
you road In tso papers, as the time will
come when they viii be available for the
comic weckios.
THE cast-off scarfs Of your husband can
be made over into crazy quilt, which will
last you twenty years, when IL may be cut
into strips TO furnish necktles for your chill
drcn.'
NoruINg should be thrown away. Even
an old tomatO-can when polished up and
painted, with few strips Of ribbon neatly
and tastofully adjusted, can be made useful
as prize tor progrcssivc-euchrc tarty.
SHOULD your available cash and groceries
give out simultaneously, do not humiliate
yourself by getting credit at tho groccr's
send In b. your ncighbor's aud borrow the
ncccssarics of nfc IN small quantities until
your finances come TO-
ENDEAvoR always TO have tact. For in
stance, IN u caller Inadvertently smashes a
vase, smile swcctiy and say: "Oh. pray
don't mention H. It's OF no consequence, l
nssunr you" But never say this when the
positions are reversed.
TUERE Is no mood for n thrifty mans buy
Ing new hat If you need a now beaver
or n Derby q visit TO a crowded restaurant
will throw many little opportunities in your
WY which may be valuable n observed
with neatness aud dispatch.
Nv you arc a resident In the country en-
hcavor to have handsome servants. This
will attract the attention of the volunteer
FRO department and viii receive the con
slant attendance Of a squad Of police who
are often OF use In keeping your neighbors
tramps on your grounds.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-03
sHERIFF's SALE.

BARBER County. IS.
In the District Court of Barber county, in the
state of Kansas.
James N. Titus. Plaintiff.
versus
Malinda Litchfield and James Litch-
field, Defendants.
DY virtue of an order of sale to me direc-
ID ted, issued out of the District Court of Bar
Der county, Kansas, dated the 4th day of Sept.
1888, |, George w. Stevens. Sheriff of Barber
county, Kansas, will, on
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9th,
A. D., 1888, between the hours of nine O'Clock
neon of said day, at the front door of the
courthouse, in the city of Medicine Lodge, in
Barber county, Kansas, offer for sale, at pub
lie auction. to the highest bidder, for cash I'm
hand, all the right. title, interest, claim and
estate whatsoever of the said defendants, I'm
and to the following described lands and tene-
ments, tO-wit:
Lots twenty-three [S31 and twenty-five I25l on
Kansas avenue West in the City OF Medicine
Lodge, Barber county. Kansas.
Levied upon as the property of the above.
named defendants and TO satisfy Judgment
in said action against them and In favor of said
plaintiffs for the sum OF One Thousand and
Three Hundred and Ninety-seven and 56-IOO
the date OF the judgment ut the rate of IL per.
cent. per annunl and for the costs of the case
and for the costs of this sale.
Given under my hand at my Office in the city
of Medicine Lodge, this, the 4th day of Sept.
GEO W. STEVENS,
1913 Sheriff of Barber County, Kansas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-03
SINGULAR FACTS.

JACKSON, Tilden and Cleveland were born
on March 10.
BALD-HEADED Indians are becoming nu-
merous since the adoption Of hats and caps
by the race.
CHARLES DICKENS, a fourteen-year-old
colored boy preacher, is astonishing the ma
tives Of Macon, Ca.
IN Liberty County, Ga, man is attend
ing school, and two of his children go with
him. He Is at the head of his class.
THE deaf often hear conversations when
there is music going on, which they could
not hear when there was no music
THERE is a small canyon near San Miguel,
Cal, which is said to be occupied by seven
teen families, each named Jones, and they
are not related.
DEATH from sunstroke is said to be al
most unknown IN Portland. Ore, where the
recent disease Of a citizen from that cause is
looked upon as a peculiar occurrence.
A GUN which will throw shell fifteen
miles land there are SUCH will drop it upon
the deck OF ship before the ship can be
seen, as at that distance any ship is ''hun
down"
CHICAGO has some appropriately named
citizens. a man named Anguish is a dealer
IN green fruit, while Mr.. Culcher repre-
sents Boston firm that manufactures but
tons.
IT has been computed that during life
time OF three-score years and ten the blood
Ct n human being travels 4.2922, 400 mics, that
his heart beats 2,5SS, $4,000 times.
SOME coincident ooilator has made the dis
covery that General Grant was buried on
the second Saturday in August, 1885, and
that General Phil Sheridan was buried on
the second Saturday of August, 1855.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-03
BUSINESS eREvITIEs

Tue Alaska salmon pack Will exceed 3OO,-
600 cases this year.
GIRLS are employed as single packers in
the mills at Bay City, Mich.
THE citrus belt OF Southern California
shipped this year :, go carloads Of oranges
WISCONSIN parties have commenced the
raising of buffalOes for the sake of their
hides
SHORTAGE in the salmon crop is reported
from the Pacific coast. as was to be ex-
pectsd.
THE imports Of cocoanuts for the first six
months Of the year 1883 amounted TO 9,57l,-
49S nuts.
A MASSACHUSETTS quarrying company has
received contract for supplying 5000
headstones for the National cemeteries.
THE manufacture Of burial shoes, which
is now "A branch Of the fOotgear industry
OF Chicago, promises TO become lively
business.
CHIFoRSIA's production of dried fruit in
creased from 5,07O,o0O pounds in 1888 TO &c.
600 pounds in 1857.
MEMPHIS = the greatest inland cotton
market in the world, receiving from 200, 600
TO 100000 bales yearly.
THERE are 10000 retail tobacco-dealers in
the United States and 500, 600 workers inter-
ested in the manufacture of smoking and
chewing tobacco.
THE demand for ribbon is now so great
that one State alone, New Jersey, turns out
36,615,000 yards a year. This is HOOPS, 900
feet, or not quite %, 73l miles.
IT is estimated that there are 10000 for
lists in the United States, with 1000 acres
entirely covered with glass, in the shape Of
greenhouses, devoted to flowers.
THE people of the United States are using
annually not far from 100000 barrels of
salt. and there has been a steady increase
of pounds per capita for the last decade.
YORK, Pa, is said IS have the g-eatest
rag-carpet works in the United States. Six
hundred women and girls make carpet rags,
and there are 100 weavers and spoilers.
MORE than 1900, 100000 cigarettes were
sold in the United States during the year
1881. The entire business is in the hands Of
less than half a dozen firms, who expect this
year to increase their product.
AN English syndicate has bought up all
the tin deposits so far discovered in Da-
kota The English know and appreciate
the value Of tin in the market Their tin
mines have supplied the world for many
centuries.
THERE are ten shoe-peg factories in the
United States, employing about 300 hands,
having a capital of $4,000. Until recently
shOe-pegs were imported from England.
We now export 10 that as well as almost
all other European countries in large guam
titles
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-03
EXPENSIVE NEEDLES.
"Reminiscences OF the Days when Times
Were Hard I'm the Confederacy.

Were Hard In the COnfederacy.
From an article entitled Hard Times in
the ConfedcracyN in the Century we quote
the following: In August, 1854, a private
citizens coat and vest, made of five Yards
OF coarse hOmcspun cloth. cost two hundred
and thirty dollars exclusive Of the price
paid for the making. The trimmings con.
sisted Of old cravats; and for the cutting
and putting together, country tailor
charged fifty dollars. IL is safe 20 say that
the private citizen looked "a veritable guy
in his new suit, in spite of its heavy drain
upon his pockct-boOk
In January, 1860, tho material for a
lady's dress which before the war would
have cost ten dollars could not be bought
for less than five hundred. The masculine
mind is unequal TO the task of guessing
how great a SUM might have been had for
bonnets brought through the lines; for in
spite OF patient seif-sacrfce and unfalter-
ing devotion at the bcdsidcs of the wounded
IN the hospital, or in ministering to the
needs OF relatives and dependents at home,
the Southern women Of those DAYS are
credited with as keen an interest in the.
fashions as women everywhere in civilized
lands are apt TO be In times Of peace. IL
was natural that they should be so inter-
ested, even though that interest could in the
mail not reach beyond theory Without il
they often would have had charm the less
and a pang the more. Any feminine gar
ment in the shape of cloak or bonnet or
dress which CHANGED 90 come from the North
was readily awarded its need of praise.
and reproduced by sharp-eyed observers,
so far as the scarcity of materials would
admit.
But fashions rules were necessarily
much relaxed IN the Southern Coufederacy
80 far as practice went when even such
articles as pins.brought through the block
AIDE sold for twelve dollars a paper, and
needles for ten, with not enough of either"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-03

BUTLER, Ca, claims 20 have a VEN of
natural glass. IL il found at a depth of 3l7
feet In round. hol.ow and very rough pieces.
which appears TO have come from the fusing
Of the sandy soil by intense heat
" MN dear, ~ YOU don't quit annoying me,
IL shall really have 20 move 20 Mexico
said Washington MAJ 70 his wife the
other day. "What good would that do, I'd
like 10 know!r There is a law there COM
pelling males, and males only, TO wear panta-
Icons"
IL is easy 20 make a loan--go IN debt. Tho
forms are all prepared, the road is smooth.
But there are no forms waiting to pay IT,
The road Is rough, the weather is lowering
and stormy. Circumstances conspire 70
block the way and defeat all enterprises
tending In that direction.
LET no person fatter himself that because
q man Is loud Of voice and blunt la speech,
ever ready with cruel Judgment OF others
and free with advice on all matters, that be
viii pleasantly accept such treatment from
others, for he is quite as likely 10 resent in
reference with his Affairs as the man Of
CENTER speech and greater charity.
IT Is easy 70 form the habit Of NEEDLE
someness and to persuade ones self into the
belief that ones mission is 20 be private
Investigator and public advisor" that one IS
apt 70 forget that ia the regulation Of ones
own conduct life presents enough perPiex-
ing problems without trcspassing upon the
rights Of others in a mistaken real to con-
vert thea 70 better way.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-03
MEN OF MONEY.

Ex-GovERNOR ALGER, Of Michigan, stud
led law while working on a farm at five dol
lars month.
CLAUS SPRECKLEs is reported TO have
made recently the snug sum Of S2,OOO,OO on
raw sugar.
WILLIAM WEIGHTMAN is worth s., 100000
He has made most of the quinine for the
Americans.
MAHLoN ID. SPAULDTNG, who ranks well up
IN the roll Of Boston milhODaires, was an IL
inois farmer boy
ISAIAH V. WILLIAMS, Of Philadelphia, at
S2O,OO0,OO0, is accounted the wealthiest
bachelor in America.
JAY GoULD's establishment at Irvington-
on-the- Hudson costs him 1000 a week for
expenses of maintenance.
ONE Of Chicago's millionaires, Mr.. Dale,
sold for $4,000 not long ago lot within the
city limits that he originally paid only sew
enty-five dollars for
NoRvIN GREEN, the telegraph king, was a
country doctor IN Kentucky forty years ago.
Now he is doing better. A lucky hit in
finance put him to the front
CYRUS w. FIELD, the millionaire, started
in an humble way. He " formerly" clerked
for commission-house at two dollars per
week. he has been saving man.
THE butter which Senator Palmer, of
Michigan, uses on his table is made from
the milk OF bis own high-bred Jersey COWS,
and costs bin three dollars pound.
THE youngest millionaire in Chicago Is
Cyrus b. Mccormick, VINO is only twenty
nine, and is at the head of the extensive
reaper mandatory founded by his father.
He Is unmarried and has fortune of 81, 000,-
OOO
PHu ARMOUR, the Chicago pork king, Is a
man Of medium height, substantial form,
clean-shaven cheeks and clear complexion,
with a handsome mouth and a warm blue
eye His expression is most kindly, and he
has not single repellent trait of charac-
ter. He dresses plainly but in excellent
taste.
RUSSELL SAGE is at least fifteen years older
than Jay Gould, but he has not a wrinkle in
his face and is as well preserved as man of
fifty. de attributes his continued good
health after twenty-five years in Wall
street to the fact that he never permits
himself TO worry about business outside of
business hours.
THE richest man in all Iowa is said to be
Edwin Manning, who lives in the town of
Kcosauqua, near KeOlxuk. He has many
millions, and his interests include all
sorts of enterprises between the two
great rivers and the Missouri and Mime
sofa lines. He was a pioneer settler in the
State and has made every cent he has.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-03
SHERIFFS SALE.

STATE OF KANSAS,
BARBER COUNTY. d.
In the District Court of Barber County in the
State of Kansas.
The Kansas Mortgage and Investment Com
pany, Plaintiff,
versus
John Kimball and Alice Kimbal, Defendants.
BY virtue of an order of SALE issued out of
the District Court of Barber county, Kansas.
wherein the Kansas Mortgage and Investment
Company plaintiff and John Kimball and
Alice kimball are defendants, will on
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9th, 1883,
at O'Clock p. M, at the front door of the Court
house in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, offer for sale
at public auction to the highest and best bid
der, for cash in hand, the following described
real property, situated in the county of Barber
and State of Kansas, to-wit: The southeast
quarter, l1-4] of the southwest quarter, Ia
and the southwest quarter, [1-41 of the south
east quarter, ll-41 of section seven IN, aud the
northeast quarter [1-4l of the northwest quar-
ter ll-4l, and the northwest quareter Hal of
the northeast quarter [l-4[, of section eighteen
isl, all In township thirty-three [a3l, south of
range ten [l0l, west of the 9th p NJ, according
TO Government Survey, subject TO a certain
mortgage thereon in favor of james H. Tall
man, of five hundred dollars, [$50O.00l with In
terest thereon, at the rate of seven per centum
per annum from the first day of April 1888
GEORGE w. STEVENS,
Sheriff of Barber County. Kansas
Croker Il Noftzger,
Attorneys for plaintiff. 1919
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-03
THEATRICAL TALK.

FIFTEEN THOUSAND pounds sterling Is esti-
mated a. Horny lrving's expenditure for
che production OF Macbeth"
TnE "Still Alarm was great success at
SIS first night la London. Every thing WIS
called out, including the flre-engine.
Ovn Of the leading dramatic critics Of
Paris, NJ Sarccy, says his city rs sadly In
need Of a school for "supcrsn They ore far
behind their London colleagues IA the mat
ter OF "hguraton."
j. X. EMMETT, the actor lately purchased
for eve thousand dollars the ST. Bernard
dog Piinlmmou, said 10 be the finest Of the
breed In the world. Pinlimmon is i've years
old, and has never been beaten but once on
the show bonch. This is the largest price
over paid for "a dog.
a LONDON playwright, doubtless inspired
thereto by the success attending Mr. Irv-
ing's jump through sash Of real window
glass, has evolved situation in which
mob smashes two hundred and fifty panes
of glass, and has written "a mellow drama,
as IL were, around the paneful scene.
CARL HERTZ, the coniurer, has new
trick. He proposes 20 do the "life-giving
namen act out of "Shcn on the stage, with
the beautiful young woman apparently be-
ing consumed 90 ashes In the full view Of
the wings. II is variation of the vanish
ing-lady trick.
Az Englishwoman is responsible for the
suggestion that, along with other improve
mcnts 90 theater seals. there should be an
arrangement by which they can be sunk
through "A trap In the hOor into a saloon be-
low 80 that men can so out between the acts
and sec n man without treading on the toes
Of all the women seated near them.
Az Englishman recently sued Augustus
Harris, manager Of the Covent Garden
Theater, for five dollars damages for refus-
ing To allow him 10 take the seat for which
ne had purchased ticket He was refused
admission To the seat because he had an
umbrella with him, and would not give II up
at tho cloak-room, where there would have
been charge Of sixpence for the taking
care Of IT. There was placard in the
building announcing that clOaks and UNI
brollas would not be allowed in the stalls,
and tho court decided that tho thoater man
ager was right
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-03

STATE OF KANSAS,
COUNTY OF BARBER.
In the District Court of Barber county, State
of Kansas.
H. r. Lewis, Plaintiff,
L. G. Peck, Mary Peck, j. o. Hazel
ton, ct al Defendants.
The State of Kansas to Araminta Hazeltou.
Matte HaZeton, Henry j. s. Dickson. L. NJ.
Karr, George w. Botsford, A. w. Bell, Mary
4. Bell. Ella NJ Cool, John Schenkel, Eliza
beth Schenkel, p. b. Warren and - War
rem. his wife, Chester T. Linley and - Lin
ley. his wife, George p. Prouty and - Prou-
~, his wife, Ike s. Elder. Lucy Elder, Alice
Elder. r. l.. Lamont, William Stewart and
Stewart. his wife. Newton Campbell and
- Campbell, his wife, George w. Simpson,
and - Simpson, his wife, l.. G. Cool, Hen
ry Fisher, Mary c. Fisher, Union School Fur
niture Co., George p. Bent and l.. ID. Knight:
Won are hereby notified that you have been
L sued in the action above entitled and in
the said court by the said plaintiff and that
you must answer the petition fled by the said
plaintiff ON or before the Both day of October
1855, or the said petition will be taken as true
and judgment rendered against you and each
of you adjudging all of the claim, right, title
or interest that you may have in the following
described real estate situated in the county OF
Barber and state of Kansas, to-wit:
Lots 1, Ii. l6, II, p, 81 "a, in block 10: lots
& block 81; lots and II block %; lots l, 8, 2.
and 10 in block %; lot block "a; lots ], s, Q
and TO- block 80; lots and Z, block "a; lots L,
p Ii. IL, block 80; lots p and p, block AZ; lots
IL, 20, 81 and % block 49, lots g. o. 10, IL and 20
block 40; lots 2, 3, IL, - and % block 5O lots s.
g. IA and 10, block 81; lots 1, g T. H. IS, II, Is
and 10. block 52 lots l, 10, IL, IL, Is, 10 and 20
block 81; lots 4, 3, 9. 20, u and % block 81; lots
and "a block 90; lots l, 2 3, ID. IA, II Is block
Oh lot 20 block rs; lots and block II; lots 8.
@ 10 block SO lots A. 3, and Z. block 49, lots 10,
~. 81 ~, %, block "a; lots l, and block &c.
all in the town of Hazelton, Kansas, as shown
by the recorded plat thereof, subsequent, sub
Ject and inferior TO the mortgage lien of the
ever barred and fOrecloScd from having or
claiming any right title or interest in or 10 the
said real estate last above described.
Dated this 18th day of September. 1883, at my
Office in the City of Medicine Lodge in barber
county, Kansas.
Attest: FRANK HOLMES
Clerk of the District Court.
FINCH & Finch and SAMPLE x LONG, Attorneys
for Plaintiff. 1919