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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08
A Duke In Poverty.

Mobiles who have lived in luxury fare
hardly in exile when cut off from their
estates. Many French mobiles, banished
during the first Revolution, escaped
starvation only through the charity of
sympathizing friends. The Due D'Aguil-
Ion was one of many who sought ref
uge in London. He soon became pen
niless, but was too proud to accept
help or even to make known his needs.
He became acquainted with Mr.. Kelly,
then a famous singer and actor, and one
day ventured to say to him:
"Kelly, can not stoop to beg or
borrow from any mortal, but am re-
duced to my last penny. Formerly. as
an amateur, was partial to copying
music; 1 would be glad to do it now for
a livelihood. Can't you obtain work
for me, as you would for any copyist?
l can content myself with simple fare
and a single bedroom"
Kelly obtained work for him, and the
noble exile toiled from sunrise to dark
over his music sheets, and then, in full
dress, went to the concerts for recrea-
ton. No one who saw his stately form
and dignified bearing would have
dreamed that he had been working
through the day as laborer for wages.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08
Fourteen Boxes OF Him.

About month ago we published an
article from foreign journal detailing
the purchase by Prof. Ward, of this city,
of the celebrated Stuttgart mammoth,
or elephans primagenius, for a large
sum, and stating that it was intended to
ship the gigantic affair to America.
Some time ago Prof. Ward returned to
Rochester, and yesterday his works did
follow him. At least IA large boxes Of
them did follow him, and their arrival
was the occasion of no little wonder
ment on the part of those who saw
them. The reconstruction of this ia
nous animal, when taken apart and
packed in boxes, weighed something
over seven tons, and from this its size
may be imagined. The freight upon
the boxes from Stuttgart to New York
was 1852, and the cost of bringing them
from New York to Rochester by canal
was 1856. They were loaded, upon their
arrival here yesterday, into train of
freight-wagons, and conveyed to Prof.
Wards celebrated workshops, near his
residence, in the rear of the University
buildings. The task of putting together
the separated portions of the mammoth
will be commenced this morning, and
to assist in the labor an experienced
artist from Germany and two from New
York have been engaged by Prof. Ward.
The task will consume several weeks and
when it is completed one of the greatest
curiosities will be ready to be looked at.
The mammoth is intended for the Uni
versity of Virginia, and is one of the
gifts of the late Lewis Brooks to that in
stitution. The learned Professor has
nearly completed his collection for the
museum of that university, which MIR.
Brooks presented, and next week will
ship the seventeenth carload of curiOsi-
ties, which will finish the task. -Roches-
ter (N. " Democrat.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

Peach Cordial.-Make a rich sirup of
l quart of peach juice and pound of
white sugar; when cold add pint of
the best brandy; for drink, dilute with
water, the same as any fruit shrub.
Corn and Tomato.-If corn is boiled
on the cob, and then cut off and canned
with tomatoes, in the usual manner of
canning tomatoes, it will keep well and
be an excellent dish. Have twice as
much tomatoes as corn.
Apple Custard Pes cupfuls stewed
apples, nearly a cupful sugar, eggs, l
quart of milk. Sweeten the apples well
and let cool, mix the eggs with the ap-
Piles, season with nutmeg, stirring in the
milk slowly. crust.
Apple Bread.-Take apples and boil
to pulp. Mix with double the guam
tity of flour. If the apples are juicy
very little or no water will be needed.
Use the same proportion of yeast as in
ordinary bread. Let it rise 10 hours
and then bake in long loaves.
Apple Pie.-Stew apples and run
them through fine sieve; add egg;
beat apple, egg and sugar together;
sweeten to taste; flavor with lemon !;
make crust as for a tart: bake, and
when the pie is cold beat the white of
one egg with sugar as for frosting, cover
the pie and put in oven to brown FROST
ing slightly; eat cold.
= Paint for Floors.-In painting floors
none but earth colors mixed in oil should
be used. The rapid wearing off of a
coating of oil paints on floors is sure
indication thatwhite lead has been mixed
with the paint. White lead is often used
because it causes the paint to cover bet
ter and spread easier. 1t is also very
important that the first coating of paint
should be perfectly dry before second
is applied.
Tomato Sonp.-Boil p pounds of
lamb in 4 quarts of water; boil the lamb
TO shreds and the water down to
quarts; strain it. Peel and cut up fine
2 quarts of fresh tomatoes; mix them
with the liquor; stir them very hard, land
boil them hour; season with parsley,
pepper and salt: strain them again; stir
in one tablespoonful of butter before
pouring in the tureen. The broth in
which chickens were boiled is often pre-
ferred to the lamb.
Peach Jelly.-Wipe the down well off
your peaches, which should be free
stones, and not too ripe, cut them in
quarters, crack the stones, and break
the kernels small. Put the peaches and
kernels into covered jar; set them in
to kettle of boiling water, and let
them boil till they are soft; strain them
through jelly-bag; allow pound of
loaf sugar to pint of juice, put the
juice into preserving-kettle and boil
Is or 20 minutes briskly; then add the
sugar, and let it dissolve; skim careful
1y; pour the jelly into glasses; when
cold cover with thick paper.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08
The Romance Of Real Life.

The White Pine (Nev) Neus tells this
little story: every traveller who, dur
ing the past six years, has rode over
the route leading from Hunter toward
the eastern portion of White Pine Coun-
ty has noticed during the summer
months the well cultivated garden on
Murray Creek, which beautiful stream
flows into Steptoe Valley. Generally a
little, old, dried-up Frenchman could be
seen working in the garden late and
early, who could talk no language in
telligible to any one, and to whom no
commission of lunacy would refuse
diploma to Woodbridge. He had squat
ted on about two acres of land, and in
closed it with a neat and close sage
brush fence, built thereon little stone
hut, furnished with little round port
holes near the roof. The land belonged
to a neighboring farmer, but as the lit
tie old Frenchman was inoffensive and
did the farmer no material injury, he
was allowed to cultivate his garden year
after year unmOlested. When travellers
or residents of the neighboring town of
Mineral City wanted vegetables the old
man understood two bits or six bits
and furnished the crispest of lettuce
and the most succulent radishes
in exchange. And SO year af-
ter year passed away, and the
little crazy Frenchman became fix
ture on Murray Creek. But few months
ago terrible tragedy occurred at Min
eral City, a few miles this side of the
twO-acre farm of little Frenchy,' and,
after he had seen a number of excited
men pass from Ward and other points
in buggies and on horseback, and, not
understanding what this wild commO-
ton meant, had finally ventured up the
road to town, he there saw the cause of
all the excitement, which was no less
than the CHASTITY corpse of Matt. Glee-
son, who had that day been cruelty muir
dered by John Roach. Gleeson, during
his lifetime, had done some kind act
that endeared him to the little French
man, and when he beheld his dead body
he grew wild and demonstrative at the
sight, and after dropping on his knees
and uttering some mysterious incanta-
ton over the lifeless body of his former
friend, he departed from the house, and
from that moment has not been seen or
heard of. The little twO-acre farm has
gone to ruin, and owls and bats inhabit
the little stone-hut, but where the little
crazy Frenchman has drifted to no one
knows"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08

How OswEGo Taxes THE STARCH Our
Kingsford's Mammoth Starch Works at Os-
wego, N. T., require over IS miles Of steam
pipe fog drying, IL turbine water-wheels Of
so horse power each, in addition to steam
engines Of 900 horse power, consuming one
million bushels Of corn in the production Of
over 10000 tons Of their celebrated STARCH
annually
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08

PAINS AND ACHES, who is free from them!
To all who suffer We recommend COLLINS
VoLTAIc PLAsTERs. In them you will find
an enemv TO pain and Inflammation of every
kind. No more grateful, soothing and
strengthening application can be made.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08

any DEAR" said Mr.. s. to his blooming
helpmect, Z" l must congratulate you on your
recent improvement in cakes, biscuit, bread,
rolls, every kind Of pastry in short" ''Ohl"
said the wife, "Pve solved the secret by
using the greatest thing in the market for
baking-DOoLEY's YEAST POWDER. Hence
forth my kitchen knows no other"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08

The body of a tramp was found be-
side hay-stack out in Sac County, one
day last week, nearly devoured by rats.
As .Esop remarked, "Mus ct rusticus."
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08
Mother, Mother., Mosherv,

Don't fail to procure Mrs. WISsLow's SoorH-
ING SYRUP for all diseases of teething in chill
dren. 1t relieves the child from pain, cures wind
collie, regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief
and health to the child, gives rest to the mother
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08

~ Clinord's Febrifuge.-In the cure Of
Fever and Ague this remedy displays ex-
traordinary powers. Properly used, no case
can resist II and other diseases Of an intermit-
tent character, including that most DISTRESS
ing disease, periodical Neuralgia, have been
found to yield with equal certainty, to its
influence. 1t eradicates all malaria from the
system, gives tone and yigor to the whole
body, and prevents disease from becoming
seated. Try CIIFFORD's FEBRIFUGE; II Is
sure, safe and speedy in its action. You will
never regret buying the first bottle, and you
will have discovered friend you can not af-
ford to lose. j. c. RICHARDSON, Prop'r.
For sale by all Druggists. st. Louis.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08
wILHorr's FsvsR AND Aous TONIC

WILHOrr'S k0vBB AND A6UB TONIC
This medicine 10 used by construction COM
panies for the benefit Of their employees,
when engaged in malarial districts. The
highest testimonials have been given By con-
tractors and by the Presidents Of some Of
the leading railroads in the South and West
When men are congregated in large num-
bers in the neighborhood Of swamps and
rivers, Wilhoft's Tonic will prove q valuable
addition to the stock Of medicines, and will
amply reward the company in the saving Of
time. labor and money. We recommend 1t
to all. G. R. FISLAI & Co., Projectors,
New Orleans.
FoR SALE BIZ ALL UnUGGIsra
HAVE sold Hatch's Universal Cough
Syrup since 1870. II has had the leading sale
among all cough remedies. from its first in
PRODUCTION. My customers, as they get ac-
quainted with It, become its friends almost
without exception. After this trial Of six
years, can recommend its use to all in need
of cough remedy.
A. B. ARMSTRONG, Smethport, Pa.
For sale by Richardson & Co., st. Louis, Mo.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08

WHEJ WRIIIyo TO ADSEgTHsERa
- 6o1U 0QDovs
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-01-12
TEE WIDOW VAN Colts Or
kT0RY.
Telling the story Ofa Vile She
Walled in Twelve Minutes.

The Widow Van COtt told her
hearers in West Thirteenth street
Methodist meeting house, last
evening, that she once walked a
mile in ten minutes. II was
she said, "in a small country
place on the Hudson River rail
road. | had an appointment to
preach in one Of the cities on the
line of railroad. ! went into the
station and told the agent that |
wanted a ticket for the city. The
agent told me that the passenger
train did not stop at his station
again that day. | told him that |
must go, as ] had to preach in the
city that evening. The agent
said, "Well, Madame, the train
does not stop here, but it will
stop at the next station, a mile
from here. The train will be
there in fifteen minutes. II YOU
can make a mile in ten minutes
you will be right" | told the
agent that, God helping me, ]
would try try it. ] started down
the track. 1t was a hot summers
day and the sun was scorching
hot. but had an umbrella to shell
ter me from the burning rays. |
walked so fast that | almost faint
ed, but a drink from spring re-
vived me, and | pressed on. ]
reached the station three minutes
before the train camc.n Mrs Van
Cott described wildly the wan
dering of the children of Israel in
the wilderness, and told how there
was no water for the people. No
ses smote the rock and water
gushed forth. Personating Moses,
she welded an imaginary rod,
and with all her might smote an
rock. "See." she cried,
the pure water gushing forth.
See the thirsty people running to
the fountain TO quench their
thirst. As Moses gave the people
water, so God gives us the living
waters" The widow painted the
scene Of Paul and Silas in prison.
N Y. San.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-01-12
Horrors Of Solitary COHHRe-
n1pn(

Thirteen years ago Thomas Ma
ry was sentenced to the pcnitcn-
tiary for life, for murder. lie has
recently become insane, on ac-
count, it is believed, Of long con
Gnement. lie has been in the
prison longer than any other con
iincment.
Few men are able to bear pro-
tracted imprisonment. Solitary
confinement for a year would
cause nine out Of ten to go mad
or die Of mental depression,
Hence the laws Of Tennessee
provide that no convict shall un-
dergo solitary confinement for
more than thirty days, as punish.
ment for obstinate conduct. As
d rule, convicts are confined foi
bad conduct for only about twen.
ty four hours. and in extreme ca
ses forty eight hours.--NashyillC
American.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-01-12
THE PRESIDESCY.
Democrats Less NOpcfGI OF IL
COnpTOIh Ihisc--~hnt Govern
OF Hendricks Says.
lclaI pi.na.cA to The Eyoning Post.

special Dispatch to the Evening Post.
The Democratic leaders talk
less hopefully Of a compromise
now than they did a week ago, and
seem surprised that Republicans
do not show signs Of weakening
in their assertion Of Hayes cleo.
ton. The report sent from hero
toall the Democratic papers last
week that Republicans were talk
ing Of q acompromise seems not to
have produced the effect desired
or intended by the Democrats
who originated it.
A well known Democrat who
recently visited Gov. Hendricks
at indianapolis, assures your cor
respondent that Mr.. Hendricks
expressed himself very freely in
regard to the settlement Of the
Presidential question, and implied
his entire willingness to have it
adjusted by the election Of Mr..
Tilden by the House Of Repre-
sentatiycs, and Of Wheeler by the
Senate. Mr.. Hendricks said that
he had no desire to re- e-enter pub.
lie life in Washington, and if the
difficulties could be satisfactorily
adjusted, he would much prefer
accepting the mission to England
or France. There is no question
but that the Democratic leaders
haze been made aware Of Mr..
Hendricks views, and that the
talk Of q compromise by these
leaders has been by his full con
iscnt.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-01-12

reports of the death rate as we
have 20 to support that conclu-
sion, and it is thoroughly prov
ed that the deyastations Of cpl
demic diseases are not so great
now as formerly; while the medi-
cal art steadily advances in its
mastery Of the disorders of the
human system and inits ability 10
ward of and check maladics
which threaten human life. In
England for instance, the death
rate has declined considerably
during quarter Of n century.
There and elsewhere in Europe, as
also in this country. the subject
of public hygiene has received
great attention of recent years,
and its difficulties are being stead
lily overcome. The probability
is that men now on the average
live longer than their ancestors
and in better average health, and
that our descendants will gain on
us in those respects.
Asst great cities, New York is
easily third. If it took in all its
children, it would press hard on
Paris for the second place, and
before the next century is reach
ed. or before it has advanced
far, will probably know no supe-
rior except marvellous London.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-01-12
The Population OCtI,c Globe


The most trustworthy estimate
of the number of people on the
earth for the year 1876, as furnish
ed by German statisticians, is l.
423,9l7,000. This is an increase of
over twenty seven millions on the
estimate Of 1875, but the augmen-
tation is not due entirely to the
excess Of births over deaths, but
largely to the obtaining of more
accurate information regarding
the population Of regions hitherto
little known. and to more perfect
census returns from other coun-
tries.
Asia is still the home Of the ma
jority of the human race, after
having supplied ollshoots from
which have sprung great Western
peoples. About four-sevenths OF
the earth's population is Asiatic,
or S25, ,54S, $50; Europe comes next
with over a fifth, or 309,l7S,300;
Africa with about q seventh, or
l99,92l, 600; America with less
than a sixteenth, or S5,5l9,S0O;
and finally Australia and Poly
nesia with the very small fraction
of4,74S,600 people. Europe is the
most densely populated, having
81 persons to the square mile;
Asia comes next with IS to the
square mile, Africa next with III,
and America and Australia bring
up the rear with 81 and Il respect
lively.
There are 215 cities on the earth
with a population Of over 100000;
20 of halfa million or more, and
nine cities containinga million or
more inhabitants. OF these last
four are China. Including Brook
lyn with New York, as we may
rightfully do for purposes Of com.
parison, and the greatest cities OF
the world stand in this order: Lon.
don, 3,4S0,42S; Paris, 1851 ,102
New York, l,545,G22; Vienna, l..
091 800; Berlin, 1,0440O0, Cantor
and three other Chinese cities
one million each, New York
therefore takes its place third il
the list Of great cities, without
counting our New Jersey over
now
Though there are not at hand
statistics upon which to base al
accurate statement Of the fact
yet it is tho opinion Of all observ
ers of the condition of civilized
peoples that the average longevi
~ OF the human race has increas
ed within a hundred years. Sucl
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-01-12
James Gordon Etcnnett'S Bro
Ken Engagement and
Broken CuticIe.

New YORK, Jan. 4,-Tho mar
riage of Mr. james Gordon Ben
nett and Miss May did not take
place yesterday, the engagement
having been broken off a few
days since by mutual consent,
and at the solicitation Of the la
dy's father Yesterday afternoon
Mr.. Bennett was assaulted in front
of the Union Club House, corner
Twenty first street and Fifth ave
nue., by a brother Of Miss May,
Mr. Friedrich May, a native of
Washington, d. G., and received
some cuts with a cowhide, when
they were separated by friends.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-01-12

pecting his death. lie died al
most without a struggle, y
change far the worse took place
in his condition about fourO'clock
this morning, and he expressed a
desire 10 see Rev. DIR. Deems, his
spiritual adviser. The latter was
soon plesent, and the Commo-
dore said TO him: III think | am
nearly gone, Doctor" Dr. Deems
prayed, and the members Of his
family who We're present sang a
hymn. His physicians were at the
dying mans bedside, and did all
that medical aid could suggest to
make his last moments peaceful.
The funeral will take place on
Sunday morning.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-01-12
TERMS $500 A YEAR
WASHINGTON.
Congressional and Other news
and Gossip.

WAsuINGTo3,'Jan. THE,
committee on the Pacific rail
roads, of the House, met and dis
cusscd the North! Pacific Railroad,
without action. They meet again
tomorrow. The subcommittee
on the Texas Pacific had IA meet
ing last night and this morning,
and meet again tonight. They
will report the compromise bill,
but the details are not fully de
yelopcd. The Southern Califor-
MIA Road lobby are. not cheerful
over the present condition of af-
fairs.
The Privileges ssand Elections
Committee had no session. They
will examine, tomorrow, Govern
or Grover, and Mr.. Wheeler, man
ager Of the telegraph Office at Sa-
lem, Oregon.
The special committees ap-
pointed in each House on the
subjectof the counting Of EIcc-
toral votes aIe not, as is general
ly supposed, a Joint committee,
but are distinct bodies, which
have the same subject Ulatter
committed TO them, and which
may confer together, and, if they
can agree upon q mole Of pro
ceeding. report that mode to their
respective Houses, but if the two
committees cannot agree upon
such mode, then each commit
tee will report its own views to
its own House. There is, besides,
a select committee in the House
to enquire and report upon the
rights, duties and privileges of
the House in connection with the
Presidential election.
Senator Ferry has been nomi
mated by the Republican caucus
of Michigan.
Speaker Randall has no advi-
ccs from the Louisiana Commit
tee that President Orton is in
contempt.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-01-12
The United States Corn Crop

The statistician Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. in his De
cember report, makes the corr
crop only two per cent. short oI
the great crop Of last year. and
fifty per cent. greater than the
crop oflSI4. The aggregate. sub
ject to possible future revision, is
,295. 10000 bushels. Less than
one per cent. of the crop is raised
in New England; scarcely six per
cent. in the Middle States; twenty
in the Southern; forty-four in the
Ohio basin, and twenty-nine west
of the Mississippi. The product OF
the South is 100000 bushels
greater than that Of last year;
that of New England, 100000
bushels greater, and there is less
in the Middle and Western States
producing less than in 1875 are
New Hampshire, Rhode Island,
those on the Atlantic coast from
New York to North Carolina. Mis-
sissippi. Tennessee, Michigan, Hi
nois, Iowa, and Missouri. Illinois
is credited with nearly 250,000,000
bushels, and Iowa with 10000,
600. Next in rank are Ohio, Indi-
ana, Missouri, ,.and Kansas. These
six States produce six-tenths of
the total product. Tennessee,
which once held the highest rank
in the country, now stands first in
the Southern States, followed by
Texas, Alabama, and Georgia. In
quality the crop is superior to its
predecessor. New Hampshire is
an exception in New England. In
New-Jersey there was injury by
drought. North Carolina and
Florida are slightly below the
standard, and a Slight inferiority
is indicated in Mississippi, Louisi-
ana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missou-
ri, and Nebraska. In some por-
tons Of the South and West there
is complaint Of rotton and worm
eaten corn. In all the States the
crop as a whole reached full matu-
rity withoutinjury by frost. There
has been an increase in area in
all sections aggregating about
two million acres, the advance
being very slight in the Gulf
States from Alabama to Louisiana
and scarcely perceptible in the
Middle States. It's largest west
of the Missouri. Wisconsin shows
the heaviest rate OF increase in
the North west and Georgia in
the South. The average price of
corn per bushel is highest in Mas
sachusetts and lowest in Kansas,
95 and % cents respectively. II
is % in Iowa, - in Nebraska, and
2S in Missouri. 1t is I'll in Hi
nois and Tennessee and 32 in Ken
lucky. In the northern tier Of the
interior States the price is higher
Al in Wisconsin, - III MINES
sofa, and 50 in Michigan, On the
fortieth parallel, from Nebraska
eastward, the average are respect
lively, y, 20, 81, 81, 81, 3S, 50, and
60. On the thirty,lourth parallel,
from Arkansa eastward, 30; 55 in
Mississippi, 80 in Alabama and 50
in Georgia,