Bargemaster

The proprietor or owner of a barge, who carries goods for hire. Bargersville, in Indiana, a post-office of Johnson co. Bar'-gown, n. In England, the gown worn by a barrister, or member of the bar. Barham, RICHARD HARRIS, better known by his literary pseudonym of "THOMAS IN GOLDS BY," B. at Canterbury, 1788. He was appointed a minor canon of St. Paul's, London, in 1821. B. was the author of the famous In golds by Legends, a series of burlesque poems, which have obtained immense popularity. He also published a novel called My Ousin Nicholas. D. 1845. Barhamsville, in Virginia , a vill. of New Kent co. Ba'ri, (anc. Barium ,) a fortified seaport and city of S. Italy, cap. of the prov. of Terra di Bari, on the Adriatic, 50 m. N.N.W. of Tarentum; Lat. 41° 7' 52" N., Lon. 16° 53' 4" E. It is a mean and ill-built place, with narrow and dirty streets. Manf . Cotton, gla , silk, hats, soap, . The port, which is encumbered with sand, only admits small ve els. B. is a very ancient city. It is referred to by Horace, " Bari mænia piscos i" (Sat. i. 5.). In more modern times it fell succe ively into the po e ion of the Saracens and Normans. Pop . 50,524. Barigazzo, ( bar'e - gats'o ,) a village of N. Italy, prov. of Lunigiana, in the neighborhood of which natural fires i ue from the soil, a phenomenon similar to that of Piet ramal a , q. v. Barile, ( bar'e - lai,) a town of S. Italy, 3 m. from Malfi; pop. about 4,000. Barilla, ( ba - ril'la ,) n. [Sp.] (Chem.) The name given to commercial alkalies, formerly imported from Alicante, Malaga, . It is the ash of the Salsola and other sea plants. It was much used in soap manufacture, but is now almost entirely superseded by the carbonate of soda obtained from common salt.