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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-01-05
Science and Industry.

1t is reported that petroleum of a
good quality has been discovered about
100 miles south of Deadwood in the
Black Hills.
MFR. Lyman, Geologist of the Japa-
nese Government, estimates that there
are in the island of Yesso $50, 600
tons of coal.
The Railroad gazette thinks the
year ending in July last was, the Centen-
NAL Notwithstanding, the worst for rail-
road interests since the war.
Switzerland has passed law pro-
hibiting children under the age of IA
from being employed in manufactures
after the first of next May.
A cloth made from the down of
birds is coming greatly into favor in
Paris. Ii is waterproof, and estimated
to be five times lighter and three times
warmer than wool.
More than 150, 600 boxes of clothes
pins are annually shipped from this
country to England, and great quanti-
ties to New Zealand, the Sandwich
Islands, and Australia.
Peanuts yield large percentage of
oil that is as good for all purposes as
olive oil. 1t is more palatable than
olive oil, and is used extensively for
culinary purposes, finding a ready mar
ket.
Mortar does not reach its usual
firmness when dried in the heat of sum-
mer, and one of the best authorities
commends the custom of the masons of
Northern Italy, who, in constructions of
importance, water the masonry during
the summer months to prevent its dry
ing too rapidly.
Eighteen thousand men are now
engaged in the express business. Ex-
press companies cover 10000 miles of
railroad, and it is estimated that their
messengers daily travel 100000 miles.
Three thousand FIVE hundred horses are
employed. and over 5000 offices are re-
quired TO transact their business in, and
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-01-05
an amount of capital invested not less
than $50, 000,O0

an amount of capital invested not less
than $50, 900, 600.
The experiments that have been go
ing on for the past year in making glass
from Stag have been concluded, and a
glass suitable for bottles is now being
made on a commercial scale. The Stag
is taken hot from a blast-furnace in u
ladle and poured into a Sieman's
furnace; carbonate of soda and silica are
then added in various proportions, ae-
cording to the quality of glass to be
produced. A large manufacturing
plant will soon be in operation in this
line of glass-making.
Showing the results of scientific
farming, while Austria produces on one
square mile :, 1876 head of stock, Prussia,
within the same limits, raises 5,537,
France 500, Great Britain II. Az. In
Belgium, where agriculture is most
naturally pursued, sgnare mile pro-
duces means af nourishment for 7,345
persons, whereas in Poland the farming
produces food for only 1929 persons
per square mile, and, taking the world
at large, far less average than this is
obtained.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-01-05

Haps and Mishaps.
At T'iffin, o., little.child of Henry
Adams, age Il months, fell backwards
off a chair, breaking its neck.
VIM. Burke, a painter, fell from a
school-house in Cleveland, o., dis
lance of 80 feet to the ground, killing
him instantly.
Mrs. Perez, aged 65, of Niuncie,
Ind, received fatal injuries by being
thrown from her carriage while the
horses were running away.
Near Noblesville, Ind, Benjamin
Wyant, while cumming a saw, was in
stantly killed by the grindstone burst
ing.
AT Wolfboro, n. H., 1-year-old
daughter of James Bressenhan fell into
boiler filled with hot brine and was
scalded to death.
AT Whitehouse, O., Maggie Wet
more, Is years of age, while crossing
the track ahead of a passenger train,
was run over and killed.
AT Cedar Springs. Mich, Henry
Monroe fell from hay-loft, striking on
d luC tluCS VI NnlIl ptlAC-
trated his abdomen, causing fatal inju-
ries.
John Cartwright, aged So, well
known resident of Fort Wayne, Ind,
died from the effects of dose of NOR
phine, swallowed by him for the pur-
pose of quieting his nerves and assisting
him to recover from the effects of a pro-
longed drunken debauch.
While Mrs. Gertie Barnes was adj
dressing temperance audience in the
hall at Pinckney, Mich, the floor gave
way, precipitating IS or 100 people into
the cellar. A number were seriously
but none fatally injured. There were
about 500 persons in the building.
Some recent suicides: j. W.
Hooten, butcher, for 90 years resi-
dent of Heyworth, Mclean County, ILL.,,
killed himself by taking four ounces of
Newton Mills, aged %, liv-
ing near Shreve, o., ended his life with
morphine.-H Henry Woodruff, drum
mer for an indianapolis clothing house,
hanged himself at Eaton, O.-W. A.
Logan, a sewing machine agent, divest-
ed himself of his clothing and
jumped into a deep well contain
ing 80 feet of water, at Burton, Texas
From letters left by him it is
known that he deliberately committed
suicide.-Annie O'Neil, an intelligent
young Irish girl, Il servant in family
at Madison, Wis, took her life with
poison on account of being suspected of
theft Calvin Armstrong, aged IS,
saloon-keeper at iCoopersville, Mich,
took fatal dose of morphine. Cause
not stated.-C. ID. Fitch, prominent
citizen of Greenfield, n. H., hanged
himself to tree while out of his right
mind.
Cunning accidents AT Wadsworth,
o., Paul Boughman shot himself acci-
dentally with rifle, the ball, passing
through the right eye, came out near
the right ear. His recovery is doubtful.
AT Kenton, o., while quail-shooting,
John Carlin accidentally shot John Q.
Walker, of Texas, the entire charge
lodging in Walkers hip. He will prob
ably recover.-At Cleveland, o., Ed
ward Robinson, aged IL, was fatally
shot in the abdomen by the ball from a
revolver which he was taking out of his
pocket.-At Vincennes, Ind, three boys,
Jesse Foulks, Frank Harris and George
Gardner, aged respectively 10, II and
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-01-05

odist Episcopal Church, is about TO start
out on a lecturing tour to raise funds to
establish and endow UNCONVENTIONAL
colleges at Louisville, Ky, and Sardis,
Miss.
Rev Dr. Harris, Bishop-elect of the
new diocese of Quincy, declines the
episcopate, compelled to the conclusion
by considerations relating to- the work
Of the church in his present field of
labor.
The Reformed Episcopal Church is
slowly developing its diocesan or synodi-
cal organization. Two synods have been
organized-thato of Chicago and recent
ly that of New York. No Bishop has
Yet been appointed for the latter.
The Diocesan Convention of the
Episcopal Church of the Springfield
Diocese, by unanimous vote of both
orders, elected Rev. Geo. Fox, d. D.,
Dean of the General Theological Sem
mary of New York, Bishop of this Do
cese, which was created by the late
General Convention at Boston.
A theological seminary is to be
opened at Toxic, Japan, in connection
with the recent union of the three Prot
estant missions, the American Presby-
terian, the Dutch Reformed, and the
United or Scotch Presbyterian. The
college will have a permanent staff of
three professors, one nominated by each
of the missions.
The Holston Southern Methodist
Conference will send a petition to the
Southern General Conference next May
to change the name of the Methodist
Episcopal Church to episcopal Meth
odist Church." This name was once
adopted by the General Conference, but
was not ratified by the annual confer
ences.
The work among the Chinese on
the Pacific Coast, by the Congregation
alists, has been carried on in schools
with II teachers, and over a thousand
pupils. A Christian Association and
home has been kept up by the Chinese
converts. A school building has been
erected, and despite occasional "hood-
lum'' outbreaks, the work progresses.
-Kimball, the church-debt raiser, has
lifted the rest of that Sll0,0 on the
Memorial Presbyterian Church on Madi-
son Avenue, New York, in meeting of
the people, and Rev. Dr. Robinson, the
pastor, and all his people are in great
glee about it. DIR. Robinson says: 81
record my deliberate conviction that we
could no more have raised this sum of
money now without his aid than we
could have lifted the Cordilleras.
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School and Church.

The death of Bishop Marvin, of the
Methodist Church South, will neces-
state the election of three Bishops by
the General Conference, which meets in
Atlanta
"A Methodist minister in Georgia
walks so miles in each week in order to
fulfill one of his appointments, and
works two days out of each week in a
brick-yard for corn to feed his family.
Bishop Miles, of the Colored Meth
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-01-05

He fell from the fence on which he was
sitting, backwards, breaking his neck.
His age was about Il years.
Foreign Notes.
Father Hyacinthe is only five feet
three inches high.
The Duke of Norfolk's wedding-day
cost him 100000, or two months in
come.
In many parts of Germany taxes
now amount to from II to 20 per cent.
of ascertained income.
On the site of old Temple Bar, Lon
don, now in process of demolition, is to
be erected column or obelisk to mark
the limits of the city's jurisdiction.
Refusing to serve the Office of Lord
Mayor of London renders an Alderman
liable to a fine of 5000, which Sir b.
Hammet had to pay in 1898.
Miss Clara, daughter Of Leonard
Jerome of New York, is to marry the
Earl of Wicklow, who is alss Viscount
Wicklow and Baron Clonmore. He is
one of the representative Irish peers in
the British Parliament. The Earl is
about SO, and was once an officer of the
9th Lancers.
-Skobeleff says: ''This is new era
in war, and we are making experiments
for the benefit of others. The shovel
and the breech-loading rifle have chang
ed every thing. Artillery goes for moth
ing; the infantry assault is the only,
though the most precarious, mode of
success
"A Berlin paper says that Germany
in 1880 will have a fleet which, although
inferior in the number of vessels to
those of either France or England, will
be superior in the quality OF material
and artillery, in the education of officers,
and in the completeness of its equip
ment. The construction of vessels pro-
ceeds rapidly.
in the Cathedral at Brunswick.
Germany, it was recently determined to
scour the walls and pillars. As the dirt
of ages came off, the indicators of
cleanliness were awarded by the uncov-
ering of old paintings of great merit
that had been entirely forgotten.
Sketches are to be made of them first,
and they are then to be restored.
Sir George O'Donnell, member of
Parliament for County Mayo, Ireland,
is anxious to be made peer. He was
cruelty hoaxed the other day by tele-
gram announcing that he had been
made Lord Darlington. 1t takes several
days to get from London to Mayo. Sir
George gave out the good news of his
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-01-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.



james BaIlantine, the well known
Scotch author. died at Edinburgh on
the 18th.
of Victor Hugo's History Of a
Crime" $4,000 copies were sold in
France in three weeks. A Spanish
translation. with a preface by Signor
CASTELAR,, will soon appear.
Senator McCreery is said to be ex-
ceedingly well read in classic poetry and
fiction Of the last so years, and makes
speeches about orange groves, helmeted
knights and other romantic objects.
Mark Twain introduced William ID.
Howells at the latter's lecture in Hart
ford with the remark that il was I'M
necessary TO speak of his literary repu-
tation; he was merely there to back up
the moral character Of Mr.. Howells.
1t is said that Mr. Charles Nordhofi
received from the New York Herald a
salary of $4,000 year; and writer
in the Denver Mems adds to this state
ment that he used TO "hold copy" for
MIR. Nordhoff "when the indianapolis
Sentinel only paid him Sl2 week, and
he grumbled at that
Nearly all the distinguished Cali
fornians of the day are said to be self
educated men, guiltless of college train
ing. Senator Sargent is one example,
Gov. Irwin another, Mayor Bryant, of
San Francisco, another. Messrs. Flood,
Mackey, Fair, Jones and Sharon may
be added to the list.
The late Charles +. Briggs, in an
article on Poe, recently printed in the
Independent, said: ale loved no one,
though the objects of his hatred were
many. His biographer might have Civ
en- some startling evidences of the con-
tempt which the poet entertained for
persons who trustingly believed they
were beloved by him"
MIR. Ralph Waldo Emerson adj
dressed, 20 years ago, Il literary society,
during commencement at Aliddlebury,
VT, and when he ended, the President
called upon clergyman to conclude
the service with prayer. Then arose a
Massachusetts minister, who stepped in
to the pulpit Mr.. Emerson had just left
and uttered remarkable prayer, of
which this was one sentence: we
beseech Thee, o Lord, TO deliver us from
ever hearing any more such transcend
entail nonsense as we have just listened
to from this sacred desk" After the
benediction, Mr.. Emerson asked his
next neighbor the name of the officiating
clergyman, and when falteringly an
swered. with gentle simplicity remark
ed, lie seems a very conscientious,
plain-spoken man." and went on his
peaceful Way.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-01-05

9 years, were loading a revolver, when
it was accidentally discharged, the ball
passing through Harris's finger and in
to Gardner's lung. The latter was
thought to be mortally hurt.-Near
Owingville, Ky., James Robinson, aged
%, was instantly killed by the accidental
discharge of his gun while hunting
Walter Hatch Of South Windham,
Conn, 16 years old, went cunning, and
in the evening was found dead in the
woods, shot through the head. The APP
pearance of the body indicated that he
had slipped on descending ground, ac-
cidentally discharging his gun.-Fred
Frost, OF Mortified, Me-, attempted TO
perform trick which he had success
fully practised number of times, by
cooking his gun and striking the ham
mer on the cap without exploding it.
Feeling sure of success on this occasion,
he placed the muzzle in his mouth and
cooking the gun with his foot, snapped
the hammer on the cap. The gun was
discharged and the contents passed
through his head, killing him instantly.
He fell from the fence on which he was
sitting, backwards, breaking his neck.
His age was about l. years.
, 1878-02-23

Rev. DANIEL BAGLEY, Chair
man of the Republican Terrific
rial Committee, in common with
a number of other gentlemen
representing both parties, thinks
the Constitutional Convention
should be relieved from parti-
zanship as much as possible, and
to effect this end suggests that
the three District Judges be
nominated by the Republican
Conventions as delegates at
large, and If the Democratic
Conventions will accept them,
then the three Democratic can
didates for the judicial districts
to be ratified by the Republi-
cans. The ends sought by Mr..
Bagley's suggestion will no
doubt meet with favor from
many members Of both political
parties, but we hardly think
a majority of either will en-
dOrSe it.
, 1878-02-23
Lands Restored.

A letter from Hon. John j..
McGilvra, dated Washington,
February 2, 1878, contains most
important and cheering news
for the people Of King county
and the counties east Of US. The
portion of the letter referred to
reads thus:
Toe land gran. to the branch line is to be sur
rendered, and restored to settlement, excepf a
small strip in the shape of 4 tri1nsle. embracing
the odd sections for twenty miles rorihsas', or at
right ansl.s with the line of the Payallup road.
This leaves Seattle, the most of King county, and
all the couuties north and east, iaclnding laEi-
ma. free from this grant. and the lands open to
settlement at S1.25 per acre. These terms were
agreed to to day in the Committee on Pacific Rail-
roads Of the House, and the bill will be reI orted
on Monday. All lands sod, or contracted to be
sold by the company on the ma line, are TO be
subject to taxation, and various other provis oas
ale containeI in the bill. for the protection Of Sc
attle.
There is little doubt but the
bill will pass as thus reported,
if the n. P. Railroad Company
succeed in getting the time on
the land grant extended. This
will restore to settlement all OF
the railroad lands IN this county
north Of a line beginning about
three miles south Of Seattle, and
extending in a southeastcrly di-
rection. Thus the recently dis
cussed coal fields near Snoqual-
mie, including both anthracite
and bituminous coal. will be
thrown open for entry, as will
the valuable deposits of iron,
copper, marble, etc, in the same
neighborhood. There is nothing
now IN the way Of the compa-
MES that have been organized
in this city for the development
Of these valuable mines. Here
tofore they have been prevented
from more than prospecting, as
the larger part of these miner
ais we're on lands reserved for
the n. +. Railroad Co. There
are thousands of acres OF good
farming lands i'll this county
now subject to homestead entry
or pre-emption at s1.25 per acre,
as soon as this bill as reported
becomes a law, or the bill fails
altogether. Seattle is about to
enter upon a new era Of pros
perity, owing to the untiring
efforts of our Delegate: Hon. o.
Jacobs, and Hon. J. J. McGilvra,
who has so ably assisted him.
, 1878-02-23

AN Irishman, seeing a vessel
very heavily laden and scarcely
above the waters edge eXclaim-
ed: "Upon my sowl if the river
was but a little higher the ship
would 90 to the bottom"
, 1878-02-23
From Eastern Oregon.

To THE EDITORS OF TIE DISPATCH:
l see nothing in your paper
that gives me the sentiment Of
your community on the railroad
question. l am afraid the news
papers in the Wal!amet valley
are subsidized in favor of the
extension of time to the North
ern Pacific Railroad. AS far as
that is concerned it is all right
enough as to time, if they would
make it obligatory on the COM
pany to finish and put in opera
tion a certain amount of road on
this end of the line. 1t is stated
by some that they have trans
portation to this portion of the
country, and that they now own
Sc 7enty-fve per cent. Of the o.
S. N. Co. If that is the case
this will be the last section of
the road that will be finished, if
ever. AS long as the company
can monopolize the carrying
trade by the river the road will
not be finished. Boats cost no.
thing, comparatively, to the cost
of building a railroad. Besides
what do we want to so to Port
land for? 1t is long distance
out of our way, and difficult and
dangerous going to sea; our
sacks are worn, our grain de-
stroyed, our purse depleted for
expenses. The Wallamet peo-
pie are trying to have Portland
the city and supply point of
this section. How absurd! East
ern Oregon above the Dalles of
the Columbia will be so identi-
fed with Washington Territory
that there will be no trouble in
annexing it. Portland and the
Wallamet people are trying to
hold US. But the near future
will solve that problem, as we
shall soon hold the balance of
power. We have paid them tri-
butte long enough, and if we can
cross over the mountains to deep
water we have got them and
they know it. All the publica-
tions are throwing cold water
upon the enterprise. Had we
received the same notice ten
years ago from the press that Is
now given us, our population
would have been four times as
great as it now is. c..
[Our correspondent labors un-
der mistake when he says he
can see nothing in our paper
which gives the sentiment of
our people on the railroad ques-
ton. The DISPATCH is the only
paper published here which has
defended the interests of the
people against the monopoly of
the Northern Pacific Railroad
and advocated an early con-
nection with Eastern Washing
ton and Oregon by rail.-ED.1
, 1878-02-23

A London paper estimates that
during the latter 200 days of1S77
human blood flowed at the rate
of 40 gallons an hour.
, 1878-02-23

Such are times changes that Na-
poleon has lately been the guest in
England of q Wellesley. the ex-
Prince Imperial having been stay
ing with the great Dukes grand
nephew, Lord Cewley, at his seat,
Draycet, in Wiltshire.
, 1878-02-23
The municipality of Rom,

The municipality OF Rome
has voted $4,000 toward a grand
bronze column, surmounted by a
statue Of Victor Emanuel, to be
erected on the Termini square,
near the Baths Of Diocletian.
The other cities of the peninsula
have subscribed literally to the
same project, as also private
individuals at home and abroad;
so that there will be no lack of
funds. The monument is to be
after the style of Trajan's col
umn, and is to record IN twining
bas relief the royal deeds in
behalf of the unifieation of Italy.
On the assembling Of Parliment,
on Feb. Is, bill is to be passed
unanimously to pay the Kings
debts, amounting to S6,O00,OOO.
, 1878-02-23

In Eureka, New, the delight
ed miners shouted to Di Murska.
" Cut her loose old gal" Turn
on the music" and Raise the
roof, little one
, 1878-02-23

Miss Esther AMeikeham, the great grand
daughter of J ferson, is a 81, 900 clerk In the
Inte Ter Department.
The Governor of California receives the high
est salary among Governors, s., ,O00
The general staff of the Russian armv lately
ordered $4,000 worth of champ gne from Paris.
, 1878-02-23
Reform Of Migrants.


The great and growing evil of
tramps is attracting much atten-
ten IN the Eastern States, but
no more than the Importance of
the subject demands. Migrants
have multiplied with a rapidity
which is alarming. In parts of
the country where a few years
ago there were only a few doz-
ems there are now hundreds and
thousands. The whole number
in the United States has recent
ly been estimated, although the
figure seem incredible, as high
as a million. On the subject Of
vagrancy generally a good deal
of valuable information may be
derived from the Annual Report
of the Chief Detective of Massa-
chusetts, recently published
Two amateur tramps were sent
out by him last summer to study
by intimate association and CO.
opera tion the ways Of the real
tramp. They spent three weeks
in travelling about the State in
company with vagrants, amount
ing from a single one up as high
as twenty. One day they met a
gang of thirty-three, who in
formed them that as many as
four hundred were concealed in
the woods, in anticipation of an
opportunity to join in strike
on the Boston and Albany Rail-
road. All these tramps subsist-
ed principally and almost Who'll
ly by theft. OF the entire num-
Der encountered by these two
| amateurs in their travels, only
two manifested any desire or
even willingness to gain an hon.
est living by work.
This class of scoundrels infest
every section Of the habitable
globe. Every means devised by
the lawmakers of the various
states have so far failed to check
or even mitigate the evil. There
are three distinct types of the
American tramp II the restless
spirits that keep constantly on
the wing, subsisting by theft
and begging as they go; the
vagabond who dresses well and
lives independently upon the
earnings of depraved women,
and, last, the lowest species of
lazaroni that exist in any other
country, - shocking reflections
upon humanity " who swarm
about squaw brothels and kind
red localities. Seattle has it's
full quota of the latter classes.
There are at least twenty men
in this city who have no visible
means Of support, yet dress we'll
and have more or less money,
procured from the sources men
toned; and the lazaroni who
swarm around the squaw dens
are more numerous still. Car
lyle says there are only three
ways of sustaining life-to work,
beg or steal. And as these fel-
lows will neither work nor beg,
it is reasonable to suppose they
maintain their existence by theft
or graver crimes-at least the
recent murder of Hagerson leads
to that inference. The sorry
spectacle of a street in the heart
of a town of four thousand in
habitants, on which it is unsafe
to travel after 9 o'clock, is here
presented, and yet the authori-
ties seem powerless to check
the evil.
The municipality of Rome