Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-02

Am largest quill toothpisk min n ths
l ve0tad is near Paris.
| AyArcH has 175 pieces. The balance has
1S,0Q1. beRts per hour.
I THE IKest farm in America u the Gram
l;sin whest tfeld IN Dakota II contains 1900
IA NUMBER Of Charleston e. C.) mer-
chants have gone to jail rather than pay
their license.
TEE fifteen buildings that compose Cres.
son, Kan, are being removed 10 Paic0, one
and q half miles away.
The big coal miuing strike In England
has ended in favor Of the workmen, except
in Yorkshire, where the strike is stiIl on. Il
ITALIAN shoemalxers at New Orleans who
have been receiving 81 per palr, less ex-
penses 90 cents), have struck for .25 per
pair.
TIE wages Of the girls in Hitchcock's
knit mill, at Hartford, Conn, have been
reduced cents per dozen on mittens, or 81
per week.
THE trade unions Of Great Britain repre-
sented at the twenty-nrst annual congress.
recently held at Bradford, Eng, numbered
membership Of s16.944
THERK are 100000 negroes in the United
States. In the South there are l6,0o1 col
cred school-teachers. They have colleges.
universities and seminaries, and are worth
$2,oO0.OO0 in property.
TIE Birmingham (Ala) glass works ara
IN successful operation. The sand and lime
stone are within half mile of the factory.
1t is An open-tank shop. Jars and bottles
are made The production is 100 gross per
day.
TAYLOR WILLIAMS has secured nearly
1000 acres Of additional lands nj Norris.
Ill, adjoining his mines At that point He
has sunk two trial holes below the vein
which he is working, and struck five-foot
vein at the depth of about $50 feet The coal
is OF very fine quality, and u shaft will be
sunk at once.
THERE are only two carpenters in New
Boston, Neb, a town which Is srau hut
growing rapidly. One of them was
sick few days ago, when the othei
promptly gave it out that he would lie
services to the highest bidder. SOM
like an auction was held, and the luck
penter dropped the hammer at $3.50
for job Of three weeks.
AT Leavenworth, Kan, the b,
Mining Company are busy getting tn
chinery into position, and will com
SINKING their shaft at the earliest D.
moment The Home Mining Compa
already reached depth Of 800 feet, a
peot to market their coal during the
mg WINTER. The largest mine in Let
worth Is that of the Leavenworth Coal
pany, in whose5mines there is com
system OF cable roads employed ha
cars.
ROANOKE, Va, which is the region q
oped extensively by Philadelphia ca
lists. is about to have rolling mill, tn
chinery Of which has been almost
pleted by Pittsburgh firm. The ord
one Of the largest ever filled bya single
In Pittsburgh, amounting to about S7t
The newmill, which will start up about
uary /. will be one Of the finest plants il
country. and will give employment
about GOO men. Bar iron and axles viii
the principal products.
THE Rochester IN. W Jewtsh TSdt
says that the Jews are not carpenters
IN other trades because the European gu
did not permit them to become members
adds: ut is true that the Jews have not in
last few centuries shown great inclinat
TO engage in farming or any other man
labor, but they are rapidly drifting il
these callings. The Jewish communities
farmers in the West and the Alliance O.
ony in New Jersey are evidence Of the pro
ress that has been made"