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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-29
Science and Industry.

According to statistics recently pub
lished, 421 ,009 persons were engaged in
the iron industry of Prussia, December
l, 1875.
The forests OF North Carolina pro-
duce twenty-five species of oak, eight
of pine, nine of spruce, seven of mag
nolia, eight of hickory, and five each of
elm and birch.
The brandy production of North
Carolina is immense. Over 500 distil-
lers are registered in the internal reve-
nue division about Statesville.
The cotton-seed oil trade has in
creased greatly of late years. The ar
ticle is largely shipped to Europe,
whence it is reshipped to this country
in the guise of ''pure olive OIL"
1t has been proved in Nevada and
other silver-producing States of the
West that capital devoted TO agriculture
pays better and more regularly than if
put into gold and silver mines.
The lead interests of Galena, Ill.
have beea seriously injured by the s,,-
perabundance of lead produced in the
reduction of Nevada and Colorado
silver ores
The building has eern completed
and the machinery placed Tor new cot
ton-mill at Savannah, Geor;,ia. 1t viii
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Bret Harte has way of using in
fiction the names of people whom he
has really met.
Loo Ming Yam, of Denver, has a
complete Chinese dictionary in two
parts-Chinese and English and English
and Chinese-called lying A Tsap
Ts'um," and containing in all 1,40O
pages.
Charles Lanman, the author of the
''Dictionary of Congress, has written
up some of the authors, artists, Journal
lists, and politicians Of his acquaintance,
in a volume called "Haphazard Person
alities''
Some idea of the value of the Oldest
printed books may be formed from the
fact that the contributions to the Cax-
ton Exhibition, sent from Earl Spen-
GERS Althrope library, were insured for
f56,0O0.
The extraordinary value placed on
Turner's drawings was illustrated at a
late London auction, where the smallest
vignettes from his pencil brought 3D. 900
each, and a landscape drawing, entitled
Coventry" brought So, 405.
MIR. Ralph Waldo Emerson is "A
years of age. He speaks of himself as
man whose work is nearly ended: but
the only sign of failing power nOticea-
BILE in conversation is a slight hesitation
and apparent effort in recalling needed
word-especially proper name.
-Berthold Auerbach dictates his
stories to shorthand writer, and new
er allows the first draft of his manu-
script to 20 to press. He weeds out
nearly one-half of the original dictation,
and the final copy delivered to the print
er is entirely in his own handwriting.
The Germans accept Mr.. John Hab-
bertOn among the 90 Standard American
Authors" Baron Tauchnitz has put
the Bulge and Toddie books into his IL
brary of that name, paying a royalty to
their author, and Mr.. Auerbach pro-
poses to issue an authorized German
translation.
Mrs. II. K. Ingram, Tennessee
lady, may hereafter be considered one
of the Sdrdnts of the day. She was one
of the members of the Scientific Con-
gress recently held in Nashville, and
chose for her topic, atmospheric Con-
cussiOu as a means of Distinction.
She made the point that germs Of dis
ease may be destroyed bya conclusion
of the air.
DIR. Chaplin in his funeral discourse
upon the actor Davenport said: 81
have always respected, honored and
trusted him. In the profession which
devolved upon him he endeavored to in
terpret it to its higher uses, and, aware
that no genius, no sudden inspiration,
no glow of fancy was sufficient to cause
him to do well, he conscientiously and
faithfully studied out his duty, and
achieved as result stainless reputa-
ton and great fame
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-29


French lady OF rank has Just died, at the
age OF oi,who had been accustomed, for
the last ~ years, to smoke pipe twice
day as penance In 1910 she mar
ned q wealthy sea-captaia, and obtain
smot;no of which ha mo- a~,ram,a,,,
fond ~ ta,, h,s .ror5 ,,.,, a;,a 49,
" after from regrs,"s, !, - a,lanad
His widow WAS So overvbslmsd With
or;af and remorss tho, tro,,, .h., 49,,
fo the DAY ~ ber death shs s,natad
connie 81 mines q day and dss;rad =, hor
deafb that ber min. should he hmr;aa
with her
Inc Ming OF Italy Is hunting
ehamols on the Alps where he leads
trapper me. tie rises early, and the
iruSahty OF MS table often forces wry
faces from the gentlemen OF his suite
Ihere Is rarely any thing seen on the
royal taoie except roast meats, a home
y haricot OF mutton Bordeaux and
Macon WINE. The hing knows his life
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-29
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

An communications for this paper should he
accompanied by the name of the au'hor, not
necessarily Republication. but as evidence Of
good faith on the part of the writer. Write
only ON one side of the paper. Be particularly
careful in giving names and dates, to have
all letters or figures plain and distinct.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-29
Odds and Ends.

Just the place for cribbage-players
-Winnipeg.-COm. Adu.
When you read the street-corner
legends, "Peaches 10 cents dozen,"
remember ten is sign of the decade
Com. Bulletin.
-'.Ayoid that which you blame others
for doing" says one of our wise men.
Well, things have come to q pretty pass
if a man can't kiss his own wife. oil
City Derrick.
The flies held q mass meeting in a
downtown saloon one afternoon last
week and adopted the following reso-
buttons in reference to the strike:
.',';:'.-,!-Shelby Sentinel.
1t is reported around that the fall
petticoat has very wide seams, but land o.
Lowell what does man up in the fourth
story know about such things.-DetroI
Free Press.
Let a grown person cry with half
the strength, volume and frequency of
a babe and he would kill himself in "a
hours. Who can explain this appalling
ystery?-Rochester Democrat.
"A boy undertook TO torture wasp
by touching a lighted match to its body.
The wasp applied its warm side to the
boys hand, and as it flew away il gave
the boy these words of wisdom: :. Neve-
try to beat a man at his own Camel
Turner's Falls Reporter.
1.-THE funeral Was all that could lie
expected" says an aged lady who looks
upon these events with an artistic eye.
1.-THE display of flowers was grand md
the widow went like born ANGEL
Rochester Democrat.
The largest watermelon of the sea-
son has been brought tn this Office. IL
was ~ feet long and weighed 362
pounds; the heart containing 1883
seeds and 1l.::i3 cases OF cholera NOR
bus, and the Mississippi Bridge Com
pany bought the two halves OF the iind
Tor bridge caissons.-H awkeye.
He was an enthusiastic fisherman.
He had caught half dozen black bass
about the size of slrdincs, and proudly
placed the catch before y farmer for liz
spec:ion- The granger turned the little
fishes over with the blade OF his jack
knife. and, looking up in the face OF the
ii fisherman, remarked, in painfully meas
lred syilabies: :. neutrality-suspicious.
b -abogt-as--we,i- o.t---if --yeis-
-kept-your- bait-and- cooked
it?'- Turner's F,.ls reporter.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-31
SARGENT'S EFFORT TO SECURE AN
OFFICIAL VINDICATION

Under the head of ''The Cost of Justice,
the Sacramento Record Union of Tuesday has
the following:
1t is the intent of the law that crime should
be punished. 1t is the privilege Of any citi-
zen injured in property or reputation to in
woke the redress the law affords Detectives
declare that the highwaymen of this State Sc
lect as the ground of their depredations the
most nearly bankrupt counties, because the
objection to putting the county to cost is a
sentiment operating to their protection and
i'll favor of the preparation Of crime. There
IS not criminal of any grade but would urge
the consideration of cost upon the attention
of any community to shield himself from
prosecution The consideration of cost is
just now being strongly urged against the
prosecution of the crime of libel. If that
argument is good in any case of the violation
of law, it is good in all IF the people are
too poor to afford the prosecution of libel,
they are too poor to ell Joy the luxury of JUS
tice against any class of criminals, and the
millennial of scoundrelism has indeed dawned
Mr. Page and A1r. Sargent claim to have been
libeled by the Pinney publications. Their
threat of appealing to the Courts for vindica-
ton has been ridiculed. They have been de-
fed to the test of judicial conclusions They
do not control the columns of any newspaper
through which they may reply to persistent,
repeated and malignant attack They stand
in the Instantaneous relation common to
all citizens whose public and private reputa-
ton may be assailed by newspaper They
will find vindication and redress at the hands
of the law or they will not find it at all, and
the citizen who interposes the objection of
the costlness of justice is an enemy to civil
zation and the ally of successful crime. The
publication of the allegations against these |
men was iustifable only by the full knowledge |
OF their truth on the part of the publisher. |
To hesitate to meet them on the field of judi |
cial inquiry is in effect confession of the alb
sence of such knowledge and denial of the
existence of sustaining evidence, and this of
itself is the most sweeping and blasting con-
demnation that publication can receive. If
the charges and allegations against which the
gentlemen assailed are forced, by their publ
cation, to defend themselves are true, then
the evidence exists which will vindicate their
truth They are public men, holding exalted
public positions. The public have an interest
IN the case. That public has established tri-
bunals wherein assertion borrows no false
effects by the persistency of reiteration, and
where, under the strong light of judicial in
quiry, the lie may be exposed or the truth re-
vealed. The parties claiming to have been
hbeled ma Ike the challenge to this better test
therefore it becomes the duty of the promul.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-31
MAY 81. 1877
GOOSE CREEK, " ETC.

We have been looking over Goose Greek 5
letter-the Washington communication which
appeared in yesterdays APPEAL. 1t Is not
the most gracious thing to find publication In
u Black Republican paper like this. But We
like to oblige all parties and give all sides a
hearing The author is too honest d man to
mince matters. He was Union man when
the war was on He had hot and honest
dislike to rebels and rebellion. But he has
no liking for abolitionists; and he entertalns
so deep dislike to free-colored people who
dare to set up an opinion of their own, that
he never forgets that black blood cannot be
bred out of a mans veins. He has respect
for the seven Fights of white i'll Fred Douglass
but it is a mere passive respect. When Fred
does anything he dislikes, he charges the Of
Tending thing to the one eighth black stock
that lies under his skin. An octoroon may
be permitted to wear all the graces of his par
entage so long as he is not offensive; but the
moment he takes the liberty of forgetting the
color of his mother or of doing anything
which crosses the tastes and temper of pure
white, the whole gravamen of the offence is
charged against his black maternity. This is
the manner of thought which warps the pref
udice of not few who see a great deal to ad-
mire in Mr. Hayes ERA of Cancellation.
They seem to like what lifts the mortgage off
the Southern political homestead, but they
are still sensitive lest the one eighth black
blood of former slaves should be forgotten.
Our friend AYERS that Greece and Rome and
Carthage were too cOnsiderate of their captlves
to reverse the condition of master and slave.
If any Romans were ever in any instance al
all delicate about what they did with their
captives we had forgotten it. There is no
such tale of delicacy recorded on Traians
Column Nespasians Amphitheatre and It's
wild beasts dens do not remind us Of any
licitOus care to preserve, intact, the distinct
ion between Christian master and servant.
If we recollect the facts of Roman Conquest,
there used to be great professions of captive
slaves, from defeated princes to contiscated
vassals, chained to the chariots of Roman
conquerors as they marched through the
streets of the Eternal City. .Our respected
correspondent takes on a tone which Smacks
of the objurgations of slave owners who first
talked of no-coercion and then attempted to
make it seem infamous that the successful
march of the Union army should bring the
freedom oil the slave If the seven eighths of
white blood and brains in Fred Douglass have
not right to ridicule the mouldy dignities of
the National Capital, the enfranchised one
eighth of black that is in him certainly is JUS
titled in doing so-unless indeed he is to be
blamed for not forgetting that time was when
he was liable to be corraled in an enclosure
within sight of Washington's Monument and
exposed for sale there as a Marylander's chat
tel
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-31
THE CHRONICLE IN THE CRIMINALS
BON

We think there is a feeling of fairness and
squareness pervading the following, which we
copy from the San Francisco Stock Report of
Tuesday A few of our contemporaries, "
says that paper are advising Senator Sargent
how to manage his libel cases, and some Of
them even go SO far as to say that he has
made a mistake III not combining his suits to
this city. We are not acquainted with the
Senator's designs, nor do we care to be taken
into his confidence; but We cannot refrain
from remarking that it is not customary for
the plaintiff in a suit to accept advice from
the defendeht or his counsel Sargent is the
principal plaintiff i'll this case, and as such, he
will probably ignore suggestions made by any
Of the little newspapers which make up the
bo hhing for the Chronicles journalistic kite
We have purposely refrained from participant
ing in the great political engagement inaugur-
ated by the Chronicle, because we desired to
see fair fight We wanted to see Sargent
and the Chronicle settle the difficulty in the
courts But if the row is to be a general one
why it behooves us, rs a leading journal of
the coast, to see that no mean advantages
are taken on either side
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-31

We greatly like the way the Britishers are
treating General Grant They know him well
in England-know him for the soldier side of
him. For these solid effective parts the Eng
fishers have great liking They saved their
most unaffected regard for Wellington. He
was not brilliant man, not an orator, not at
all satisfactory to the fashion mongers or the
snobs, but practical, effective, and with gen
JUS for disregarding the mere ornaments and
trappings of life and effort In these respects
Grant is Wellingtonian. He accomplished IN
the field as full successes-moving larger bod
les of men and welding greater forces-as the
hero of the Peninsular and the central victor
of Waterloo Grant will show the English
people-the every day folks-how possible it
is for simple manhood, backed by q Thoroughly
masculine mind to do the greatest things
known to arms and armies and not forget its
wholesome simplicities The middle class of
mankind is what Grant represents. This sort
of man is always accessible, always simple
minded, always bent upon doing, and utterly
Indifferent to the vanities of seeming. Mr..
Pierrepont represents the weak and vain side
of a very large class of cultured and semi
cultured people on both sides of the Atlantic.
He would rather excel in what he knows and
worships as g society" than be caught doing
any simple unaffected useful thing. He is
an over-anxious posturer, artificial, alumnus-
like, snobbish. The men of England who
have the brains to direct, devise, foresee and
command Will warm toward Grant Stout
John Bright will like him, so viii Gladstone,
so will snch strong men as Cailps and Derby.
We think the Queen will like Els simplicity
and plaimess of demeanor The people will
swing their hats high for him and let him
know their sympathy with his unaffected
manhood.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-31

gators of the libel to meet them cheerfully
and willingly in this more equal arena, and
every exhibition of hesitancy will be justly
accepted as an evidence of the weakness Of
their cause. Whatever it may cost, to any
citizen claiming to be wronged in property or
reputation, justice is cheap.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-31

The New York Herald groans in the spirit
at the idea of the removal of the capital from
Albany to the metropolis. 1t gives vent to
its fears in the following strain
Several of our city contemporaries are making
Governor Robinson's veto of the appropriation
for the absurd and extravagant new Capitol
an occasion for advocating the transfer of the
State government from Albany to New York,
Merciful heavens, deliver US! This suffering
city is bad enough without a new accession to
its dangerous classes. The effect of the pro-
posed removal would be merely to bring the
Legislature under the immediate control of
Tammany Hall and the Custom House, which
are already the chief agents of corruption.
The removal would save a great deal to those
intermeddling agencies in railroad fares and
hotel bills, and enable each of them to prac-
tice all its arts upon raw rural members with
slight trouble or expense. Such change
would substitute Tammany Hall for the
democratic side of the Legislature and the
Custom House for the republican side.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-31
ENGLAND'S ATTITUDE.

Chicago, MAY so - The Times London
special says that signs of England taking a
hand in the war accumulates. The Times
correspondent at Berlin gives a sketch of the
negotiations going on between England and
France Bismarck sudden temperance III
Berlin was caused by an mixing that Nc
Mahons corp detdi was the result of an
undertaking between the Tory Government
ana De Rroglie, that in the event of France
Joining England for the re-establishment Of
the Treaty of Paris, certain Interior consider
ations should be assured to France These
considerations the Berlin Cabinet Is repre-
scented as knowing, and are the restoration OF
Alsace and Lorraine. Contirmatory Of this
programme the English war presses, which
at first saluted Mc1Iahons revolution with
virulent maignity, have assumed a new
tone and are now eXtOlhn9 the moderation
and conservatism of the monarchlcal conspr-
ators. All attempts to drag the late Repub-
lican ministry into an alliance with Austria
or England were Intellectual. The RepublI-
cans, confident of strength in the country,
refused to plunge the nation into war, Simon
going so far as to say that France must now
pursue the policy Of England and grow rich
on the misfortunes of her neighbOrs. In
Austria preparations are active III Germany
the Landstrum has been ordered out under
the pretence of reorganization 1t is Il body
which has not been in the field since 1872
Under cover of establishing an equilibrium of
forces on the Rhine Bismarck and Aoltke
give ont that the frontier posts are to be re-
garrisoned to prevent surprise on the part
of France.
Every paper in London urges England to
prepare to defend its interests in the East.
The press says that unless Turkey sues for
peace within the next two weeks, England
must check the Russian advance. The Lib
erals, hoping to stay the strong tide for war,
have organized monster meeting for Glad
stone at Birmingham, where anti-war declar-
arions are to be put forth as a last resort.
Inquiries as to the strength Of the land and
naval forces, and the number of guns, abound
on all sides The complete cessation of
traffic on the Danube, the Black Sea and the
Suez Canal, and even with Russia, is felt in
every form of business. The merchants of
the marine have begun to take precautions i'll
the event of sudden declaration. Com
merce on the Suez Canal is compelled to pay
war risks.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-31

Sulphur from the mines in Humboldt
county is shipped thence to San Francisco in
considerable quantities
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-31

In the capacity of an heir presumptive the
MORNING APPEAL is the rightful recipient OF
certain mail matter directed to defunct Carson
newspapers. But some things are 50 very,
very dead so thoroughly and preposterously
dead that amy post-office business done in
their behalf, save under the CHASTITY and flu
nereal inspiration of the dead-letter depart
ment seems mortality absurd. Yesterday we
received by mail a copy of MacKelIar, Smiths
and Jordans Topographic Advertiser 1t bore
upon its wrapper the name and superscription
of q E. f. Melvin, Daily Silver Age, Carson
City, Nevada" The person referred to is
doubtless Mr.. McElwain, one of the founders
of the Carson Daily Appeal When we re
fleet that The Daily Silver Age is dead these
full thirteen years and that Mr.. McElwain
has not been a resident of Carson since 1867,
the dreamy retrospections which occupy the
moss grown mind of the. mailing clerk of the
Topographic Advertiser can be family pic
tured to the struggling understanding.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-31

The work of demolshing the old Reno
bridge is progressing. The new structure is
promised as soon as July f.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-31

Tenbroek's miles in 3:27@a-fve seconds
better than True Blues time, is to be sailed
down among racing records as the best two
mile time in the world. He is doubtless the
speediest horse living He dates back to Long
fellow on his mothers side and first class
English horse "Phseton" on the side of his
sire
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-31

Because a gun is a breech loader is not of
itself a reason for concluding that it, well,
possibly the Reveille can illustrate with more
effective delicacy what had better be left to
be understood thar~have any further elabora-
ton on the part of the MORNING APPEAL.
Says that faithful record of events:
A gentleman who had oeen out with his
gun in search of doves, yesterday, on his way
home dropped into saloon connected with a
brewery, to refresh his inner man. While
there the lock on his gun was commented ON
by some of the inmates, it being of a new
pattern, and i'll order to show how it worked,
the hunter fired the gun through a knot-hole
in the side of the saloon. A howl of pain
which followed the discharge demonstrated
that the gun was a good shooter; and when
the doctor gets all the particles of lead dug
out of the target, it may be able to sit down
to its meals To speak more plainly, the
charge of shot contained in the gun was lodged
in the posterior of a gentleman standing out
side the building. The shot being fine bird
shot he was not seriously injured, though the
wounds are painful and annoying
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-31

While we are considerably silent in pres
ence of an etervescent press whose stormiest
indignation is reserved for those persons who
sell ardent spirits to the Indians, let us not
fail to record the deep detestation of true
Caucasian for the instance of white rascalism
noted by the Silver State of Tuesday as fol
lows
Some tramps who had neither the fear of
the law nor Indian vengeance in their hearts,
robbed Naches camp on the Big Meadows
while he was at work on an irrigating ditch
They stole two sacks of barley, one sack of
wheat, about forty pounds of bacon, nearly
two sacks of -four, lot of sugar and coffee,
two shovels, a riatta and a hackamore. If he
discovers the thieves and the authorities give
him permission to deal with them, their pun
ishment will not cost the county cent.