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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27
LOCAL AND Personal.
DODGE CITY. SATURDAY. JULY 90. rs
THE WEATHER IN DODGE.

During the heated term of last week
which proved so fatal to the people of st.
Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago, the inhab.
i,ants of this "city of the Plain" kept both
health and temper in spite Of high ther-
mometer: Our sun was a hot as that
which burned in st. Louis. but we had cool
nights. In the east, exhausted nature found
little repose in sleep, the nights being near
ly as unbesrable as the dsye. In Dodge
the steady southwest breeze was cool after
dark. The average range of the themom-
eter being. q degrees. The hottest day,
lo2 degrees, was followed by the coldes,
night, 6S degrees, showing range of 81
Thus Dodger wss ensbled to rise renewed,
regenerated and disenthralled from the en-
ervating influence of Old Sol, even during
the heated term of 1878. As summer re.
sort Dodge IL sure TO become famous.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27
CITY AUCTIONEER.
J. B. DICKINSON,
LICENSED AUCTIONEER,

UILL Sell Cattle. Horses, Stock and everv-
w thing IN an aucfloneer's line on reasonable
terms. Leave orders at Wright, Beverley 4
Co.'S store, DODGE CITY, KAN.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27

A man passed feebly up the street
With streaming eyes and blist'ring feet:
The sweat dropped wildly from his nose
And in this wise he walled his woes
ssUas
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27

A maiden in a white pekay,
All streaming strobe upon her way.
She heard the strangers feeble cry
And in this wise she made reply
''Hoti'
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-13
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
A NUT TO CRACK.

There was an old woman who lived In hut
About the size of hickory nut;
The walls were thick and the ceilings low,
And seldom out doors did tho old woman go
She took no paper, and In no book
of any sort was she seen to look;
Yet she imagined she knew much more II
Than man or woman had known before.
They talked In her; hearing of wondrous
things, e...s t
Of the dazzling splendor of Eastern Kings,
of mountains covered with ice and snow
When all the valley lay green below.
They spoke Of adventures by sea and land,
OF oceans and seas by a cable spanned
of buried treasures; but though she heard,
She said she didn't believe one word!
And still she lives in her little hut
About the size of hickory NUT
At peace with herself, and quite content
with the way in which her days are spent.
Little it troubles her, I suppose,
Because so very little she knows;
For, keeping her doors and windows shut,
She has shriveled up in her hickory nut.
And you, my dcars, will no longer grow,
If you rest contented with what you knew;
But pitiful object you will dwell, 200. .r...
Shut up inside of your hickory shell. ~ ?
Josephine Pollard. IN Vide. Aicake.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-13

making railways is also. making some
new forms of literature II the freside
tales are to be disturbed, some good
will take their place, and what seems
lostto romance and adventure and laugh
ter will perhaps DO gained to higher
forms Of sentiment and philosophy
Prot. David Stoi,sg, in the Independent.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-13

The total cost of the Canadian Pa
cifc Railway is estimated at 800. oOO,-
600, The vast sum of sl5,OOo,OOO has
already been expended in surveys and
contracts, and all that is now to show
for it, says the Railsoay Age, is some 20
miles of track from Thunder Bay, on
Lake Superior, westward into the will
derness, and few miles Of track from
Winnipeg, in Manitoba, eastward
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-13

fastened to say. "Nor." cried Frau
Hickelt, did my Gretchen like to dust
up the HEARTH" "It is sol" solemnly
said William Neumark. " They are tax
en- away for being discontented at there
being any work to do in life. They want it
all play" All the hearers grew more
afraid on hearing this, and looked one
at another. Scarcely a minute passed
before woman in the group said:
"What great shape is that see upon
the mountain yonderp' H., -u
Every head was turned toward the
Eagle Cliff, as it was called. 1t was a
lofty rock some distance from the vil-
lage, but looking right down the valley
toward it. The distance, was toe, great
for things on the rock to be clearly
made out, but the woman declared that
she could see the form of a giant sitting
there. She said he was clothed in
mantle, half blown back by the wind,
and that he wore q hood on his head.
No sooner did she say this than several
others saw it all. Then two or three
voices cried out together: "See, he is
lifting his right arm and reckoning"
At that instant cry sounded from one
of the houses. They knew that it meant
that child had vanished. While they
were looking in amazement, the giant
again raised his arm beckoningly. As
he did so, there came fresh cry-an-
other child had been taken. The whole
thing now was plain-the children dis
appeared whenever the giant, on hear
ing their complaining wishes, signaled
for them. The next morning his huge
shape could be seen more distinctly sit
ting on the rock, and, whenever he
beckoned, Il child went. The white.
haired Lutheran minister, just as the
sun was setting, came in front of the
crowd and said: "Let us each to-
night by our bedside pray that the chill
dren may be forgiven and restored to
u.s." 40 ..''' n 'st ''.''" .. .1'
This prayer was answered. Early
the next morning, some who were
watching raised cry, saying that the
children were coming back. In a long
procession, the little people were seen
winding down the valley. Their fathers
and mothers and all the inhabitants ran
to meet them. They were astonished
to see how meek the returning children
were. sob, let us get back to our
work in helping you," cried out hub
bub of boys and girls voices. No soon
er had they neared the house than the
boys rushed into the gardens, and
up spades began to digi
while the girls, darling into the dwell
ings, instantly were busy sweeping,
busting and polishing. The explana-
lion they all gave was this: "While
we were kept inside the mountain, we
we're not allowed to do any thing at all,
and, oh, it was so hard! The good
giant said that we could not have play
without work also." All looked toward
,he rock, but the figure of the giant was
no longer to be seen. The boys and
girls were much the better for his visit.
The Cburchnlda1. ~ -,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-13
Effects of Baths.

An article of very interesting and
instructive nature, on the physiological
action of baths, was published in a late
number of the London Lancet. Sum-
ming up, the writer notes that warm
baths produce an effect upon the skin
directly contrary to that which is
brought about by cold water. The
cutaneous vessels dilate Immediately I'M
der the influence of the heat, and, al
though the dilation is followed by a
contraction, this contraction is seldom
excessive, and the ultimate result of q
warm bath is to increase the cutaneous
circulation. The pulse and respiration
are both quickened in the cold bath.
The warm bath increases the tempera-
ture of the body, and, by lessening the
necessity for the internal production of
heat, it decreases the call which is made
upon certain of the vital processes, and
enables life to be sustained with a less
expenditure of force. While cold
bath causes a certain stiffness of the
muscles if continued too long, warm
both relieves stiffness and fatigue. The
final effect of both hot and cold baths,
if the temperature be moderate,0 is the
same, the difference being, to use the
words of Braun, that "cold refreshes
by stimulating the functions, heat by
physically facilitating them, and in this
lies the important difference between
the cold-water system and the thermal
mode of treatment"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-13

ToDLEBEN, the hero of the Russian
campaigns, had never seen Constantine
pie until he reached the headquarters of
San Stefano. He is now amusing him
self by making excursions and visiting
ali the objects of interest in the city and
the environs. he is very fond of Prin-
kepo, and goes there often, and he and
his aides-de-camp are frequently to be
seen riding on donkeysup the pine-cov-
cred slopes of that island. There are a
gleat many English children staying
in the hotel, and when he finishes his
dinner he plays with them and charms
them all BY his good humor.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30

they may not work disjointedly,
but solidly and firmly together, IN
support OF that decision, whatever
it may be. This is fair PROPOSE
ton, and we feel it will meet with
general appropriation. There are a
few, who, living as it we're, in the
past, will accept nothing-who are
not up with the progression OF the
age and who, in the name OF a
conservatism, which they never
had, cling with lingering, abiding
faith and love to the old organic
enormity of the State of Louisiana;
but let the people Of the parishes
of the State generally, who are
truly conservative, give ins'ru
tions to their delegates for or
against the propositions, and let
the people of st. Mary specially,
who say in unity, ''down with the
amendments, down with the mo-
nopolies, and mp with new Con-
stitution," instruct their delegates
accordingly.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30

iness toa mere shadow. The :,
erty of this establishment 4 p y
valuable. No railroad IL MI
country has better mater;.l
more complete appointments "
business is III a more compact
practicable shape. To stand s,s
aud let another road enter n
Texas field would be to yirtr. NJ
abandon all this immense nrors.
ty. This the management viii =
DE-. and hence the communitr
quite prepared for the AMMONIA
lnent that the extension is II N
pushed at once and on formid,]
BILE scale.
The work. really, is inconsiaa,
able. Ali the most difficult anjl
expensive grading has long siuoI
been done, and within the past i,
or eight years has been oyerhaulsd
and leveled afresh. Between Mor'
gan City and The upper snd of N
Mary parish there is nothing 10 a.
but lay the cross-ties and bridge
the culverts. and from New Ibqria
Onward the country is as level as
u billiard table.
That the management of tia
road should have decided to hnr,
up its completion is not at all won.
derful, and that they fix one ysal
as the time required is perhau
only because they wish to max,
ample allowance for any delay il
finishing the litigation as 10 the Il
tleto the westernroad bed. Assam
ing that operations can be begul
between now and the first of Au
gust, which is perhaps a iai
assumption. the tine specified i
ample. With the appliances a
their disposal, the money and mi
te ial they can comrn@nl IN uliIin
ited quantities, there is rfo reaso
why the Morgan road should u,
be in reality as well as in pane,
Texas Railroad before the LIST (
Janualy, 1880.
The litigation referred to in I'll
above article has since been CON
promised Ed. Echo.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30

Franklin (St, Marys) Enterprise.
The Louisiapa Democratic State
Convention will meet ut Baton
Rouge CD the first Monday of Au-
gust next. Then, and not until
then, will the plan of the coming
political battle be definitely settled
upor. Whatever that plan or poll
cy may be, the people must sup
port it, it 1T is in consonance with
popular Justice and common right.
That plan will be discussed, adopt
ed and worked out by representa-
tives Of the people, sent to Baton
Rouge for that purpose.
They will act fur aud from the
people, and it is our duty to see
that they act by and agreeably 10
the expressed will of the people
The recreancy and obstinate de-
NAL of that popular will by the
majority of the members of the
last General Assembly have taught
us the wise and salutary lesson, we
hope, never again to send any one
to the Legislature Or elsewhere to
speak for us unless they be men
honorable enough, true enough,
and firm enough against all temp
tation, to speak freely our senti-
ments. We have sent them before,
trusting to their fair and correct
discretion; we must send them now
instructed as to the important, Sc
rious and vital qnestions which
must be decided bythat convention.
Let the convention give full
and fair expression of the will of
the majority Of the people.
Let each parish instruct its dele
gates, when chosen, as tn their ac-
tion in regard to-First--the
amendments, which some are seek
ing to plaster on our organic law.
Second-whether it is the policy
of the people to preserve and pro-
tect by Legislation, po~erful mo-
nopolies. such us Towards lottery,
etc, which feed off the very sub
stance of the people. Third
whether our political enlighten-
lnent demands new and more
equitable Constitution -one not
conceived in party spirit, but one
stretching it's protecting arms over
the whole people. without regard
to race. color, previous condition
of servitude, or political senti-
ments. These are the great ques-
tions for the Democratic Conserv-
alive party to decide; and we say
let the people of that party decide
them at the very inception of the
campaign, so that when decided,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30
The Calcasieu Log Seizures.
THE INVESTIGATION REsUMED AT NEW
ORLEANS.

DEMONSTRATION, opened at Lake
Charles, was resumed at New Or
leans last Thursday. Special agent
Adams produced, and ordered to be
filed. an affidavit of Geo. III. Wells,
ESQ.,, explanatory of part OF the lat
ter's testimony at Lake Charles.
j. j. Gainey was called as a wit
ness for the defense, when counsel
for the prosecution filed a protest
agtinsthis examination, and against
the reception of any other oral tes-
timony whatever, except that OF
Judge Billings and Marshal Whar-
ton, on the ground that to receive
such oral testimony would be to
cuntravene the official announce
ment by the commission, at the
opening of the investigation at Lake
Charles, that it would take no ties
timOny at New Orleans except that
of Judge Billings and Marshal
Wharton, and the records of the q.
S. Circuit Court, and in the Mar
shal's Office; and on the further
ground that to receive such oral
testimony would deprive the prose
cution of the right to rebut it by
the only witnesses who could rehut
it-namely witnesses residing i'll
Calcasieu. 1t was also objected
that Gainey was before the commits
sion at Lake Charles, and might
have given his testimony there if he
had not voluntarily ran away. The
objections and protest We're over
ruled, and Carney took the stand,
and swore all over the case, with the
same lofty disbelief in a future state
of rewards and punislrmentS Witch
he exhibited here as a witness OH
the trial of Capt. Horne.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30
TeIegEas sliic Breyities.

Special to the n. o. Dem ,a-rnf

Washington, May 20-Thel+ is
no longer amy doubt HI to CLIO
Speedy removal of George S. LA
cey from the district sttorpeys|nl.
A prominent member of tho
Cabinet Is quoted as saving few
days ago that "Mr. Lacey sboulI
be removed immediately; that lo
was not entiiled to the office. and
had done nothing to merit his pres
eat position" etc. A former I'm
ted States district attorney of Lou
isiiana Saiei that Mr.. Lacey was tho
only member of the Louisiana bar
who ever made him an improper
proposition. 1t is heiiesed here
that the true inwardness of tho
way in which Mr.. Lacey came to
get his present position would
prove Very interesting reading.
BUELL..
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30
New Orleans Times. 4


MIR. Superintendent Pandely of
the Morgan Texas II. u. has said
to an interviewer that the Texas
extension of the road from Morgan
City will be completed within o
year. Everybody felt pretty GER
tain that tie moment the New Or
leans Pacific road became invested
with an air of probability the Nor
gan road would be pushed with all
the resources at the command of
it's management. The Morgan
road cannot afford to let a Texas
line go into operation against its
steamships. Six months OF such
competition would reduce lis bus-
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30

Wecallspecial attention to the change
made in the advertisement of Rice d
Baulard, of Galveston, Texas, dealers
in paints, oils, etc 1t will seen they
advertise a cotton worm destroyer.
There is no more reliable house In their
line, In the South, than theirs.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30
The Democracy of Calcasieu

1
The time is near at hand when l
will be of the last Importance tina
the democracy of Calcasieu be thor
oughly organized for the fall cam
paign. International peace depends
on democratic majority i'll the ma
tiOnal senate and house OF repre-
sentatives, and the states elect the
representatives, and the state legls
latrures the senators, in the national
Congress. Next fall will witness
the most desperate efforts even
made by the republican party to
give the next Congress a republican
majority i'll the House OF Represent
atives, and to maintain a majority
in the Senate.
1t is essential to the peace and
prosperity of Louisiana that the
democratic party shall have large
majority in our own senate and
house of representatives for the
next two years, and that the demo
cratic members of our senate aud
house of representatives shall be
the ablest, most unseltish and pa
triotic men we can send there.
The democratic party Of Louisi-
ana has the hardest fight i'll all its
history to make next fall, and if the
democracy of the various parishes
believe they can win that fight with
out unity, organization and disci-
pline, they will wake up early i'll
November to find they were bitterly
mistaken.
Calcasieu is a strong democratic
parish. She has done the State
and the nation good service. She
must do her best next fall. The
eye of the State is upon her, and
the question is thrObbing in the
hearts and rising to the. lips of the
leaders of the democratic party, at
our state capital, and throughout
our congressional and senatorial
districts, "Will the democracy of
Calcasieu maintain a united front
against the enemy i'll the coming
campaignW
The least sign of INSTRUMENTATION:
the slightest manifestation of d dis
position to avoid representation in
the state, congressional or senate
rial convention, will carry dismay
and confusion into the ranks of our
brethren in the other
parishes, and will prove disastrous
to the PARRY, and ruinous to the
State.
This is no time for personal feuds
or personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 1t is
a time for self sacrifice, for united
effort, for hard, honest, ceaseless
labor for the common good, and for
the general prosperity of Louisiana.
"To your tents, o Israeli"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30
United States Circuit Court.

Morgan's Louisiana and Texas
Railroad Company ct al. vs.. Frank
M. Ames, trustee.-In this case
Judge Billings issued the follow
ing order. Oh the motion of counsel
for the parties in interest:
'Tet an order he entered in con-
fnrmity with the foregoing stipula-
ton, and let the property therein
described be withdrawn from the
advertised sale until further order
OF this court, and let the above
named j. q Parkerson, A. l.. Rives
and A. B. Seger be appointed to
examine the said property, and to
report to the court with all couve-
uieut speed The true value Of the
same, in order that the court may
be informed as to the propriety
and expectancy of authorizing the
sale of the same according to the
terms of the foregoing stipulation;
and that the said Parkerson, Rlyes
and Seger be- aud they are hereby
appointed special commissioners
for the above purpose, aid that
before executing their commission
they take oath to execute the same
faithfully and honestly"
In the same inatter the following
affidavit has been filed iu evidence
on behalf of plaintiff:
AFFIDAVIT.
/ am superintendent of The road
extending from New Ollenns to
Morgan City, IL distanc, Of about
eighty miles; the property belongs
to the Morgans Louisiana and
Texas RaiIroad and Steamship
Company. Incorporated by act OF
March 8, 1878; / have been super
intendent tor niue years.
Charles A. Whitney, the presi-
dent, has purchased for cash, say
$l41 900, 5000 toms of No. ] steel
rails from the Edgar Thompson
works, delivery to be- in Algiers in
September. At last accounts he
had virtually closed a contract for
all the fasteuings required fol 5000
tons of steel. He has instructed
me to contract for ties; so far ]
have made contracts for $50 0
ties. j know of over 5000 already
made of said $4,000, all for extern
sion beyond Morgan City.
The company has purchased
wharves at Morgan City, and OBJ
tanned grants trom that town. i
am now busily engaged in prepar-
ing ferry crossings for all the ma
terials and supplies needed west
of Morgan CITY.
have also made arrangements
for $50 track layers and skilled
foremen for the work west of Nor
gan City.
We are now ready to commence
building the road beyond Morgan
City, and are only waiting for the
necessary right of way.
G. PANDEIY.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 22d of May, 1878.
| +. b. VINoT,
United States Commissioners.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30

The PEEnnEss PoTAro We were
presented this week by Mr. James
Howard with five Peerless potatoes,
weighing three pounds. They were
grown by him in Lake Charles, and
if it had not been for the drouth last
April would have been much larger.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30
Another Obstacle Removed.
IN. o. Picayune, May "a |

The decree rendered yesterday in
the United States District Court,
cOnfirmatory Of the right of way to
the Morgan, Louisiana and Texas
Railroad and Ship Company, though
not unexpected, will be hailed with
satisfaction by LOT the many thou
sands who are directly interested
in the early completion of connec-
ton by railway between New Or
leans and Southern Texas. The
right of the company to acquire a
roadway from Morgan City west
ward to the Sabine is now happily
placed beyond condensation, leav-
ing no obstacles but such as must
readily and speedily yield to energy,
enterprise and abundant resources.
The public may now rest assured
that the road will be built as rapid
| " as practicable. Proprietors in ST.
Mary, Iberia, Vernlilion, Lafayette,
st. Landry and Calcasieu are eager
to be put in speedy and cheap com
munieation with the Mississippi,
and the railroad system of Texas,
and they are predisposed to lib
eral concession. In view of the
enormous increase in the market
value of all tillable lands along the
line of the road, which must be the
immediate effect its completion,
owners could well afford to grant
the roadway gratuitonsly.
Corn at 70 cents per bushel. at
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30

Surgeon r. V. Burnett, of the
18th q. S. Infantry, stationed here
during the log war, has been trans
fsrred to the army of the Platte.
He carries with him the sincere
respect and best wishes of our
people.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30

ATTENTION FARMERs.-Just the
thing for you. Wire muzzles, at j..
w. Bryan & Cos, for horses, mules
and oxen, only % cents each, and
will last, with care, ten wears.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-30

We are authorized to announce Mr.
WILLIAM VINCENT as candidate
for Representative to the General As
senlhly of Louisiana, from Calcasieu, at
the November election.
May 22d, 1878.