Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-11-24
Prickly Pears From Old Cactus.

The mail was again late on its last arriva
and considerable dissatisfaction il manifest,
: thereto. II seems that there is some paIpab
: negligence some where-and in all probabi,ii
L it is in the start from Soldiers Grave as "
were Informed by passengers on several occ.
\ sions, that the mail did not leave that static
, until nine or ten O'Clock =. IN. This should nc
) be. IL The present contractors do not intend as
! IN: more promptly they should give way and Il
some one that will act in q just and accommo
dating spirit. CareIesness seems TO be II,
stigma.
Col. Charles Norton, q gen tleman well know
1t Dodge. Sweet-water City and other enterpri.
ing localities, showed his hand here pc
last mail on his way to the front. The Colone
upon his arrival here claimed that he had a war
rent for the apprehension of an individual dow
at Fort Elliott. and entitled to ride free from
here TO that post, but the Corporal couldn't Sc,
it, and the Colonel had to fork over his "saw
dust'' and forfeit his stake" as the Corpora
''held the best hand' and knew that the Col.
tad ''blured
by the late arrangements, the post of Fort FL.
holt will soon accumulate 4 large library
The fare between Camp-Supply and Elliott il
$40, which amounts received are plac I'd to the
credit the Post Library. Some weeks rs high
thirty or forty dollars Is received in that way
very excellent idea, and soon the bows will be
supplied with one OF the best libraries on the
frontier.
Happy Jack" went out turkey hunting the
other evening, aad espied what he thought was
hugh old turkey, fired and brought him down
and lugged hun home, but TO his utter astonish
m he h..
discovery that it Was beautiful golden eagle.
one Of the finest specimens Of our national bird.
Jack says that amount of casl. would have in
duced him u kill it had he known what il Was
Jack has had 4 little Fourth of July to himself
ever since Patriotic flashes have oozed out of
him Ike sparks cut Of an eighty horsepower
engine. and as he takes 'pase ala Patrick
Henry, he crates: ''See the smblen of our
glorious country, his noble mission has ended,
he has conquered agony, and his inspired head
has sunk low, low, low. lie died, not AS the
martyr dies, wrapped in his living shroud of
flame. Tie fell not AS the warrio re falls, graz
ping UPON the field of tame but passed TO death
by the murderers hand. Alas for we, the SLAYER |
,f you-noble bird! Let's sing; "Virginia !"
We have u little piece Of gossip Just now
lmong the boys, but gracious goodness how do
we begin? Say our friend A, who is i'm
plicated in the little story am about to
if they be lies. WHAT May l
ask, is the averages of lying' Is the same
a mount of lies told about every one, and
10 We pretty much all tell the same
of hesi Is the average greater
lmong women than among meni Is this
lie l am telling nOwi Ii | am talking
bout you. the odds are. perhaps. that 1t |
S. look back at some which have been I
old about me. l speculate on them with
hanks and wonder. In a late article writ
EN- by this hand, remember making {
ONE pathetic remark about our propensi-
y To believe i'll of our neighbors. Within |
wO hours it was all over camp, 80 trans /
lagnitied that l was surprised to hear q
hat was the author. o, mea culpa mea
iaKima culpa. But to nv story: We il
ave a young trooper here who Is well a
ersed in the culinery branch of science, o
ut alas, he has allowed the allurements
this bewitching beauty, of similar i,
occupied individual Of the op- G
osite sex, to arouse the latent sparks that c
'ere burning deep. deep in his heart Tor Il
'eeks and months. r
Last week those sparks IgnIted and caus- c
d an explosion, which resulted in q calm RI
nd peaeeable survey of the debris. and G.
Don which raises the cause of all this Il
down and wrote his report
} MY Dear Annie.r who was cast in
Guilds deeply impregnated with jetty II
pony; the moulds in which she was cast 81
eng deficient in its diametrical rotunda
used two protuberances to prominently Fl
'velop themselves. Well, after pouring II
Continued next week. q
Lieut.. COwles and family arrived home "