Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-09-27
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town.
-Berthold Auerbach is going to pub
Tsb a collection of dramas and short
stories.
Mrs. Henry Woods "East Lynne ="
has reached It's eighty-fifth thousand,
which is a large sale even for a
novel. .nhssfa
Scotch papers announce the death
of Miss Elizabeth Taylor, well known
novelist, whom DIR. John Brown
called "the Miss Austen of modern
literature.
Mr.. Julian Hawthorne is said to be
engaged in writing novel larger in
scope than any he has yet pub
lished. Its title is to be 8 Sebastian
Strome." --------------.----
Miss Louise NJ. Alcott was the first
woman to register in the town OF
Concord, Mass, in order to vote Tor
members of the School Committee.
john f. Owens, the actor adver-
tises for sale the stak and fixtures Of
his elegant farm near Towsontown,
Md. The supposition is that MIR.
Owen proposes to quit amateur
farming. oETOr ,sRa1 az q
-Tennyson's brother changed his
name to Turner in order to inherit an
income of $4,000 year. He left no
children, and Tennyson can now get the
estate on the same terms; but he Will
not accept the condition.
Justin Mccarthy, the new Home
Rule member, is parliamentary leader
writer on the London daily Nelcs. He
was born in 1850. in Cork, and began
newspaper life as a reporter on the Cork
Examiner. Z. A I'd 81 ii q
The well known novelist and elo-
.ouent preacher. George Macdonald, will
probably visit this country the coming
winter with his wife and children, to
give dramatic performances founded ON
Bunyan's :. Pilgrims Progress"
Richard Henry DanpIy. comes up
on the worlds stage At Cambridge,
the other day, there was born unto
Richard Henry Dana, the third, and to
Edith Longfellow Dana, a son, who had
the honor of making the poet Longfel-
low grandfather for the first time.
The London critics speak very high
" of the ballads and songs of Alexander
Anderson, q Scotch railroad iaborer, a
man who, after mending roads all day,
would come home in the evening and
read Petrarch, Schiller, Victor Hugo,
Dante, Goethe and yBeranger and wvte
verses.
Mr.. Alex. III. Stephens, 'haying been
asked about his book, 1.-The War BE
tween the States,'' replied: "I wrote
it with view of having the facts'a'
they were tr1ithfully stated, and without
any pecuniary view. / have received
however. $50. 900 rs my royalty on the
sale, or - cents Il volume. wa
I; has come out through lawsuit
between the managers that g Pinafore'
at first failed to draw-weu in London
the receipts averaging for weeks onl.
about 5000 a night, While the GSPense
were $3.50. But the contract stiPaatet
that it should be performed at least lO'
times consecutively, and before that pc
Rod had expired the profit was q, 500
week.
-Epitaph by Longfellow on Parke
Cleayeland. Professor in BowdOin Col
lege in the first quarter of this century
Among the many lives that have known. 4
None remember more serene and sweet,
More rounded in itself. and more complete,
Than his who lies beneath this funeral stone
These pines that mniInur in low monotone
These walks frequented by scholusuc ieet,
Were all his world, but in this calm retreat
For him this Teachers chair hecamea throne
With fond affection memory loves 10 owen
In the old days. when his eNiiipple plAoe s.
A pastime of tiie toii Of tongue ana pen;
And now amid the groves he loved 50 well
That naught could lure him from Their CRATE
He ,,eeps' hut wakes elsewhere, for God hat
said' AmeH"l Z u & A . H