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AIroS. Ill.,, Aug. 3I.-A hoy aboat years
ut nxe, so., of IL. G. q. AterItz. ot t!s, elty.
was lrt,wlttti ills eyn,lI'g ab0ut o'clock
wl,ito lattlinp III TIN '!ysr: -, ,,.:.,. -. ~.
mar ~, II rnnInyt; IT tilo LIKE Ertv u Western
I' WsIiway, s ,sif witt" bntains IN DnrssHs llH,'.
,rr tliiS rly. this attHrnopl, ,yus selzt,' VIII
cra,!p alnl drowned. Tho body tss not beet
rHrOyGfcll, " T.. 80, -:,.
, 1880-09-01
Forced Contribution b Being Made
for Democratic Funds
for Indiana,
notwithstanding Engltah's Notf t1catfon
TINT 1le WILL CarrF the Stato
Al0nc.l
Samples Of Democratic Inconsistencies
Relative to the Back.Pay
Grab.

THE T1IEIEss Dl:,toC1sAT1c MANAGER
srrttal Ussp,4teh to 1hs Chicago Tribune.
PHILADELPHIA, 1'a., Aug 3l.-It IL e1nlnled
by special correspondent Of tho THUGS.
telcgraph1ng from New York, tint Dariluna
hns tlo,o lnucl, moro work than Jewell. Tho
TtHscs correspondent snys:,
H. fact.. narnum hnss, t'9ne ten tiu!cs moro
Mnsk for tlahctrk thnn NJ lowell his tlLte feE
never tuok any stock IN tho MniIe contest hns
not bson I, ne state, and h@s not wasted aty
Msao raiee.i l sp.0V9 themselves md thsy hnvo
e' eaamittso iast, I'M hns iarssea M spcakers isr
Ssnlis sliean Dus maap!tS si!nS trss s!se @ u sa' S
;1St9 ! b. ~ sss, 4 mi Mt
clectct' would vnto With tho democrats to orEnn-
lie tiio House. Now York, New les.cy, md Can;
ncetieut nays s, n.y. H. shn "ss ;s s5sgtto @ @ e1,a r.!
md Kelly forces III Now fark. tho nomination Of
Abbott III Nov Jersey. and If tho organization,
canrnssil'g, and NJ tho Mpr'aIlces co;n,aun tn
es1Sy w1 f. s s'ssGns s sps rcss s nv 5S 5
oa.i h9 i aalie easaisn. e e ct!,neSiIsSt; @ I,
went - .Ohlo and ln.!iana Ii n!''uth nH.., lala
grounds for n,eat Gotnptoto organization Ut beth
c,tnnlKns there al.'ut thIrty t.ays befor.. tho
October election. Preliminary. work has bool,
x IT,, ~ nj fi.a i o Wit sops ae
ltepwb!ien"s III nuke 9 desperate asn! ctatly
attasglo /" sayS on!o. 1'Grn''i,, y now IT, QUIZ
n"utse.,, md hc i tloFo. Sn Ei,sinsss; .: ).
M Il @ s''Ss ,, ~ n"f h0a 0G II s%rt S stte t
publican lc,iticrs hy his ioll nlll huImfut efforts
10 carryIt Iie now feel. eertNl, s,f both CIt,;
olnnnt districts. md. III C!iciiunsl haa cnfrlad
illU HntN ffi contest BLIbcD lHti}, no
, 1880-09-01

SERIOUSLY WOUN1FU,
DAn,.lxoroS, 1ud., Aug. M.--Jllst heforo
tho Democratic speaking commenced Sasur-
tlay evening, nn anyil whlcl. was beInE. fired
uxptocs, seriously woundIng stx boys. Two
will probably Atv. .' -
, 1880-09-01
NOTES..

NOTES.
uuTLEN's MAINE TA1P.
spsetas DApateA to Tht t'a'sa9o 9ttdaas'
WASHINGTON, u. o., Aus: 3i.--Aenibera OF
thu Democratic Committee arV 1ublIant oHeE
, 1880-09-01
CASUALTIES.

THE MARINE CfrY: DISASTER,
Special Dt.paffh 10 The Chttng" Trtauns.
DEriutr, ,t1cst., At,E. 3f.--lt Is now kl,own
tl,lt ten lives were Inst by the burning Of the
steamer Alar1nn City, Oh Like Huron, St.'-
t!ny, tile latest being John AIcCurran, secol,d-
class passenger, residing III Detroit 1t Is
alsu snld there wert, Two ssowaways III tho
llDId who were burned to death. 1t In thu be-
1lcr Icrc that the fire was caused ly the spon-
taMcous iEnttlnn Of gas generated III tic coal
bmNkeys.
David Gal|ag|fnr. General Agent Of tho
Peoples Line, itfnrned your correspondent
tt'4'ay That wilen tho A{arinu City WIS In lort
Inst weak slle cleaned out her boiler a'ltl took
IN coal. Tho coal was of s,nnlier stzo
than s!,e 1,n.l lren burning, anel when he
lscars of II lto tllrectct Capt. 1ncr to l!ayo
IL taken m. 1t was found tint there was no
coal s.f larger stu ut tic dock, SO tic stcanlel
left will, tllo small coal.
Clerk Mcintosh, who WIS under the guards
of the burning steamer nearly MI hour before
being rescued, holding 4 baby In Ills arms.
nl.ll sustain Ing Indy nj the same tt1tlc. was
pr0strnscd on hts arrival here, ind Is IN n
braenrln,,Y condition.
5. ii. Davis Wholesale flsh-tlcnlcr Of this
city, WHO w;as In the watsr .two hours, a,d
was picked up inscl,ssblr, IL considered In
danger ot losing his life owing to the shock.
, 1880-09-01
PRESIDENTIAL.

pRESIDENnIA AL,
The Democratic Chairman,
Barnum, on a Very
Still Hunt.
Confident Tic Has Fixed, Things
iu New York, Now jersey
and Connecticut,
Now He Is Giving His Atten-
tions to, Ohio and
Indiana,
Intending to Conduct Il Wig
orous Decisive Thirty
Day Contest.
In All Of Which He Win Undoubtedly
Find Himself 0heokmated
Everywhere.
Some Plain Talk fnon the Dem.
ocratic Newspaper of
the South.
A Call for the Reorganization OF
tho Itctt-shirt Clubs
Of 1876.
Forced contributionh Being Made
for Democratic Funds
for Indiana,
| Notwithstanding Englt4h's Notification
TINT Ilo Will Car1sy the State
Alonc.t
Samples Of Democratic Inconsistencies
I
, 1880-09-01
WEBER PIANO,

Which, being constructed from the
very best materials and very best
workmanship, is much cheaper
than the worthless instruments
that are offered at any price.
These Pianos combine in the high
est possible degree the maxi"
mum OF value and the
minimum OF cost. All in
stru1ncnts FULLY GUARAN-
TEED, AND TERMS MADE
TO SUIT.
THE ROOT g. SONS MUSIC CO.,
1856 Statc-st., Chicago.
, 1880-09-01
PIANOS.
SE(,(jR|T Y!

In the purchase Of Piano is Of
greater Importance than price.
For this reason it is matter Of
ECONOMY to buy such an in-
Strun1cnt as the
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
Died as a King Should.

j. Z. MURDOCH has written book
on the stage, in which occurs the fol-
lowing story:
Mr.. Macready was fond of telling the
following story as his experience of
American independence. exempliiied in
western actor of the self-satistied
kind: lin the last act of Hamlet"
said he, Il was very anxious to have
the King. who was rather of a demo-
cratic turn of mind, to fall, when
stabbed him, over the steps OF the
throne and on the right hand side, with
his feet to the left, in order that when
| was to fall should have the center
of the stage TO myself. as betting the
principal parsonage of the tragedy. No
objection was made to this request on
the part of the actor; but at night, to
my great surprise, he wheeled directly
round after receiving the sword-thrust.
and deliberately fell in the middle of
the scene. just on the spot where l was
in the habit of dying. Well; as dead
man cannot move himself, and as there
was no time for others to do 1t, the
Kings body remained in possession of
my place, and was forced to lind an
other situation, which l did, and fin-
ished the scene in the best way could.
When Iexpostnlated with his Majesty
for the liberty he had taken. he coolly
replied: Mr.. Macpady, we Western
people know nothing about Kings ex-
cept that they have an odd trick Of do
ing as they please; therefore, l thought
as was King | had right to do
whatever pleased; and SO. sir, l fell
back upon my kingly rights. from
which, you perceive. sir, there is no
appeal 1 RETIRED" said Mr.. Mac
ready. Ito nv dressing room to have
a hearty laugh over what felt more
like crying over moment before"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

melted away like frosted cake at pic
mic. The Dctroiter was thunder-struck.
One man was still left, and TO him he
appealed for the excuse for such singu-
lar conduct.
"Well. you see, the boys have been
caught on that once or twice and it has
become old"
Caught! Old! What do you mean?"
''Why, they knew you were going to
finish with but nothing will ever be
invented which will knock cold as
quick as DIR. kyan's cough sirup.' We
are up in the woods here. but the BOYS
tumble to aracket almost by telegraph"
Detroit Free Press.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
Tie Sense OF Direction In Animals.

A GENTLEMAN writes to the Popular
Science Monthly:
| was very much interested in the
account, published in your July num-
Der, of the experiments with the intel
ligent Cincinnati dog. and | think the
facts there developed tend strongly to
the proof of theory that have long
believed to be correct, viz: that some
OF the lower animals are endowed with
sense of location and direction which at
most is only fundamentally possessed
by man. | do not think that the feats of
the carrier-pigeon can be accounted for
on the theory of any finite development
of the sense OF sight, smell or hearing,
and the action of honey-bees presents
the same difficulties TO persons familiar
with the habits of these interesting in
sects. In searching for wild honey. the
bee-hunter provides himself with a
small box with a sliding door; inside
of this box he puts some sweet sub
stance as bait for the bees. When
several bees have collected in the box,
he closes the lid. As soon as they have
finished eating, he releases a bee,
which, after ascending high enough to
clear the surrounding trees. makes a
- bee.line" for its hive. The hunter
marks this direction and carries his box
of al right angles to the line made by
the first bee, and releases another bee;
he carefully marks the direction taken
by this second bee, and If they are both
the same swarm. the hive will be found
at the point where these two lines
meet. .--.
might cite well-authenticated cases
tfcats, pigs and dogs finding their way
home. where such feat would seem
impossible 10 man under like circum-
stances; my object, however. was not
to theorize. but simply to record what
j consider some interesting observa-
tions bearing upon this subject
Last spring. | built trout-pond in
my garden. on the west side of run
ming brook discharging about six hun
dred cubic feet of water per minute.
The brook is quite rapid whereit passes
the pend, and the surface of the pond
is sen,e live fee: higher than the sur
face of the brook. The pond is supplied
with water brought swo Thousand feet
in underground pipes and discharged
in fountain in the center of the pond
Common bull-frogs (Rana pipiens) oc-
casicnally lind their way into this
pond. On the 18th of last July found
three frogs in the pond. and shot all OF
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
A NOn.PolItlcal Speech.

A DETROITER who was travelling in
Isabella County on business last week
was approached by the leading citizens
of small village and asked 20 make a
speech in front of the hotel in the even
inc. When he asked what sort of a
speech they wanted the spokesman re-
piled:
well, we are sort o split up here.
We've got some Democrats, some Re-
publicans. few Greenbackers, one or
two Communists, and about a dozen
men who don't hang to any party nor
believe in God. We'd like neutral
speech. Don't hit anybody, but make
all feel good. We are going to make
up shake purse to buy candles and
hire music, and all must be treated
alike"
The Detroiter thought the matter
evening came he was the hero of the
hour. There was quite a respectable
gathering, general good feeling, and he
was introduced with j grand hurrah. 1t
was impossible to make political
speech under the restrictions imposed,
and he therefore hoped to get away
with them on oratOry. When all was
ready he began:
'.As great and grand as is our coun-
try-as rapid as has been its Increase
as amazing as have been its inventions
we may look to the future for greater
results"
This was considered pretty good, and
he was given three cheers and tiger.
Feeling enthused. he went on:
Fires may rage-1oods may come
famine may cast its black shadow
over the land-war may sound its loud
wall. but nothing
Here there were yells. whoops, cat
calls, Kisses and boots. and the crowd
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
An Old English Country House.

IT stood upon low hill, above the
river the river being the Thames, at
some forty miles from London. A long
gabled front of red brick. with the COM
plexion of which time and the weather
had played all sorts of picturesque
tricks. only, however, to improve and
refine it, presented itself to the lawn,
with its patches of ivy, its clustered
chimDeys, its windows snothered in
creepers. The house had a name and
history: the old gentleman taking his
tea would have been delighted to tell
you these things; how it had been built
under Edward the Sixth, had offered a
nights hospitality to the great Eliza
beth (whose august person had extend
ed itself upon huge, magnificent, and
terribly angular bed which still formed
the principal honor OF the sleeping
apartments), had been good deal
bruised and defaced in Cromweirs
wars, and then, under the Restoration.
repaired and much enlarged; and
how, finally. after having been remod-
eled and disligured in the eighteenth
century, it had passed into the careful
keeping of shrewd American banker,
who had bought it originally because
lowing to circumstances too complica-
ted to set forth) it was offered at
great bargain; bought it with much
grumbling at its ugliness. its antiquity,
Its incommodIty, and who now, at the
end of twenty years. had become con-
scious of real aesthetic passion for it,
SO that he knew all its points, and
would tell you Just where to stand to
see them in combination, and just the
hour when the shadows of its various
prOtuberances-which fell SO softly
upon the warm, weary brickwork-
were of the right measure. Besides
this, as / have said, he could have
counted off most of the successive
owners and occupants, several of
whom were known to general
fame; doing so, however. with
an undemonstrative conviction that
the latest phase of its destiny was not
the least honorable. The front of the
house, overlooking that portion of the
lawn with which we are concerned, was
not the entrance front; this was in quite
another quarter. Privacy here reigned
supreme, and the wide carpet of turf
that covered the level hilltop seemed
but the extension of a luxurious interior.
The great still oaks and beeches flung
down a shade as dense as that of velvet
curtains; and the place was furnished.
like a room, with cushioned seats, with
rich colored rugs, with the books and
papers that lay upon the grass. The
river was at some distance; where the
ground began to slope, the lawn, prop
erlv speaking, ceased. But it was none
the less charming walk down to the
water.-Henry James, DR., in atlantic
Monthly.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

them with pistol. 1 dipped them up
with scoop-net. and found two of
them shot through the body. and the
other. little fellow, weighing about
two ounces, was shot across the back.
the bullet just raising the skin and
leaving white streak across its dark
green surface. emptied the three
frogs out of the net into the swift
running water of the brook. and they
fioated down stream out OF sight. On
the 18th of July, the dav following. |
found the wounded frog in the pond
again. and readily recognized it by the
scar from the bullet l found no diff
Guilty in catching it in the scoop-net.
and, fearing that the scar might disap-
pear from its back. ] cat of the center
toe OF its right foot, put the frog into n
paper bag. carried it down the brook
across a bridge, and finally threw it
into the stream some one hundred yards
below the pond.
On the 9th of July | found the frog
back again, caught ii, and. so as to leave
no doubt about its identification, | cut
off the middle toe of the left foot. |
then put the frog in the paper lag,
started from the pond in n northeast
course, stopped and whirled the BAG
around so as TO confuse any ideas that
it might have had of direction, and then
changed nv course, and finally released
the frog on the opposite side of the
brook in an oat-iield about an eighth of
a mile in an easteriy direction from the
pond. To prevent the frog from get
ting any idea from watching me, l
passed on after releasing it, and did not
go back again to the pond for several
hours. Three days afterward | saw the
frog in the pond again. but it was so
wild that | could not catch it with my
scoop net, and l ;tfterward tried various
devices to capture it alive, but the mo-
ment it saw me approach the pond it
would jump in and remain hidden in the
stones at the bottom until | left. Finally,
despairing of catching ii alive. and hav-
inc some doubts about its identity, on
the 9th of August shot it. and recog-
nized it by the absence of the cutoff
toes.
The general direction is uphill from
the point where the frog was last re-
leased to the pond, and about the same
distance in a down-hill course would
have taken the frog to the Ausable
River. IL still remains possible that
the frog waited until night, and then
followed my tracks back to the pond,
but that seems improbable, | think;
even more SO than to believe that the
frog knew all the time the direction of
the pond. and slowly worked its way
back again as inclination prompted.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
POLLY SNGELINE.

TWAS on q winter evenn'-
The clock had Just struck nine
SIT inside the farmhouse,
With Poly Angeiinc.
The folks vas al a-slcepin'-
! heard her snorin' sire
While SIC aud l was kccIin'
Awake nrosind the fire
awake around the ire.
While aP the cbimbiey lcapin'
the sparks flew higher an higher.
Now she was lust the sweetest
% I'll she .,als knew.
And. whiie sot aside her,
The minutes more n flew.
AT las. II me seq Polly
~ We stay here IN I,iprn
Twill make Il nc night more jolly
To pop a ieetie corn
To pop a lCctic corn"
Seq !, - lnu re right. golly.
Ez sure e. you were born.
knew that she was wiIIin':
thought | jest wonld melt:
10 gin a bran rev shillin'
tn told her how felt.
The corn was soon a-pnppin',
An she was talkin' gtv;
My heart il KEEP a-hopp:n'.
Hat ncthin' conid say
But nuthin' could saw:
The corn IL KEEP A-iroppln
wished | was away.
Al last she took the pepper
An iaii II on th,. floor.
An, rcddrr n any copper,
She went and shet the door;
An then. II moment sIoppin'.
She came lceile higher.
An whispered. Dn the poppin',
An | will tend yer fire
An will tend yer fire-"
ten my heart a-iioppin',
But was bound tn try her.
Mex Christmas ] was married
To Polly Angelina,
An now We pull tewgaihcr,
With Children eight or nine.
They make a heap - moppin',
Altho' our house il small,
And il Jest keeps me hOppin'
To clothc an feed EN- all
Tc ciothe an feed 'em all:
An now I must he sroppin'-
hear the baby haw.
-Etigass j. Hal, in Chicago Tribune
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
Growth Of the Beard in History.

A FRENCH paper gives some haphaz-
ard selections from a history of the
beard. In the earliest Pagan times the
primitive deities were represented with
majestic boards. In France they PLAYED
great role from the reign of Phara-
mOnd downward. Under Clovis. in
deed, the beard of the King was an OBJ
ject of peculiar veneration, and indeed,
every individual was more or less SEN
sitive regarding his beard. 1t is re-
lated that after the great battle of Toll
biac, Clovis sent a deputation to the de-
feated Aliarc requesting him to come
and touch the victor's beard as to-
ken of alliance. Far from accepting the
invitation in the spirit in which it was
offered, the enraged King of the Huns
seized the Franklsh emissaries by their
boards, and hauled them out of the
room by their revered locks. The I'M
fortunate ENJOYS returned rather crest
fallen to Clovis, narrated what had hap
pened. and swore ION their boards"
to avenge the affront. In subsequent
reigns the beard was the object of
numerous enactments. and the fashion
of wearing it was changed as frequent
~. IL WIS NVtl
times close-clipped, now peaked, now
plated, or even decorated with pearls or
gold trinkets. Even in the sacred atmos-
phere of Rome itself boards were the
objects of considerable discussion. Diff
ferent Popes laid down different rules
ON the subject. One Pontiff enacted
that no boards were to be worn: anoth-
er as stringently directed that the razor
was never to be applied to the chin.
Saints Clement. of Alexandria. Cyprian,
Jerome and Chrvsostum engaged in
vehement controversies about the mode
of wearing the hair about the face in
the fourteenth century. In France the
final triumph of boards dates from the
Renaissance, when the example set by
the great artists, who INDUCED largely
in these appendages, was closely fol-
lowed by the sovereign and other mag
mates of the land. Under Henry Ill.
shayen chins were the mode, the mus
tache being worn long and dropping.
During Henry Tvs reign boards, cut
square, came again into fashion, and
mustaches were curled; while under
Louis XVI. boards were again taboOed,
and the mustache alone worn. and in
the two following reigns the razor was
in full use. Under the Republican
regime, rs also under those of the En-
pire and Restoration. no boards were
grown. They came in again, however,
with the revolution of 1880, in company
with many other changes of costume.
etc, and at the present day no uni
versal rule exists on the matter.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

A NEW JERSEY fox that had been
tanned secured the friendship of dogs.
but. from his peculiar odor. eats kept
aloof from him. They would not walk
upon any spot where the fox had been
standing He used his knowledge of
this to cheat pussy out of his breakfast.
As soon as the servant poured out the
cats allowance of milk the fox would
run up to the spot and walk around the
saucer. well knowing that the rightful
owner would not touch it. Day after
day the cat lost his milk. until the trick
was found out, and the milk placed in q
spot where the fox could not reach it.
After he had been stopped from rob-
bling the cat he tried his cunning on the
dairymaid as she was bringing the pals
from milking. As she was passing along
the fox went up to her and brushed him.
self against one of the milkpails. The
milk became so planted with the smell of
the fox that the maid dare not take il to
the house, and thoughtlessly poured it
into pan and gave it to him. The crafty
animal repeated this trick several times,
but when he found that the spoiled milk
was given to the pigs instead of to HIM
self, he gave up his attempts.
WHY is the discovery of the North
Pole like an Illicit whisky mandatory?
Because it's a secret still.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

By holding very little misery quite
close TO our eyes, we entirely lose sight
of great deal of comfort beyond which
might be taken.-Bufalo Express.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

WHY is the discovery of the North
Pole like an Illicit whisky mandatory?
Because it's secret still.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16

~sold In Iowa and everywhere by al
druggists.