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Dodge City times., 1880-09-04

A BRASS pulpit has recently been
completed in Philadelphia for St.
Johns Protestant Episcopal Church,
Troy, N. Y. 1t will be erected as a
memorial by William Stone Smith. a
very wealthy gentleman of that city,
to his deceased wife. The pulpit is
about seven feet high by three feet
square, and is made entirely of
polished brass, except the floor, treads
and handrail, which are of solid ma
hogany. The ornamentation consists
of rosettes, intersected with twisted
rods, after the style of 1850. The
eight posts or columns are intersected
at given spaces with square grooved
blocks, and the balusters are round
and twisted in the center. There is a
scalloped apron below the floor, hand
somely ornamented, which greatly adds
to the appearance of the pulpit. The
whole is heavily braced and counter
braced. and is exceedingly strong and
massive, though it has light and
graceful appearance. The reading
desk is of brass. and will be covered
inside with scarlet velvet. There are
four small gas-iets, and the light will
be hidden by nickel-plated reflector
from the audience and the speaker.
This is not the least ingenious part of
this beautiful piece of art. 1t is in
scribed in old English letters. cathedral
style. in colors: "In Memoriam. Fam
ME Burdett Smith. From Faith unto
Fruition. March 2, 1880" The cost
of the memorial TO Mr.. Smith. which
includes handsome marble steps, al
coves. etc, will be ten thousand dol
lars.-N y Tribune
Dodge City times., 1880-09-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Miss MARY ANDERSON has Just cele-
brated at Long Branch her twenty-first
birthday.
IT is announced that Mark Twain's
latest work is not for sale. 1t is girl
an innocent at home.
Mr.. w. T. WRIGHroN, the English
composer; who died at Tunbridge Wells,
was the author of Her Bright Smile
Haunts Me Still" He was in his sixty
fourth year.
Mrs. MARY j. HOLMES, the prolific
novelist. is travelling in Scotland with
her husband, and while on the way is
reading the proofs of a new novel called
Chateau dor"
Miss DUDU FLETCHER, the author
of those charming novels. Mirage"
and .'Kismet." is about to publish a
new one with the striking title of ''The
Head of the Medusa."
Nix. BELL, the inventor of the tele-
phone is thirty-two years old. he re-
ceived large round sum for his in
vention, besides shares in the company
as consolidated. and he has salary of
$25, 200 year as an electrician.
BRET uARTE is well satisfied with
his new consulate at Glasgow. He will
pass some weeks of the summer with
Froude, the historian, at his residence
in Devonshire. He is engaged upon a
novel of country life in England.
whose scene is laid in Devonshire.
AT his country seat on the Hudson,
called Ardsley after the old homestead
of the Field family in England. Cyrus
w. Field has nine separate habitations
occupied by himself, his son, and his
daughters. Four other houses are oc-
cupied by his relatives.
MARSHALL o. ROBERTS. the New
York millionaire, began life in lowly
manner He kept ship-chandler
shop. and was glad to retail tar and
oakum to the North River boatmen,
but he got into the California trade and
is now one of Gotham solid men.
PROF. BAIRD, the Fish Commits
sioner, is said to be an Unsuitable novel
reader. When he goes away for the
summers fishwork he takes with him 4
large valise of two compartments.
One is filled with the paper-covered
novels about to be read, the other with
those swiftly disposed of. where his
family may browse ut their pleasure.
When it is remembered that a fish
story" is synonym for a relation of
fiction the suspicion of an incongruOus
mind will be removed.
Dodge City times., 1880-09-04
A Dog That Understood.

A CORRESPONDENT writes to the De-
troit Free Press: Some years ago we
were operating leather store in .
small town in Wisconsin, and it was
part of our business to buy hides for
shipment East. The hide-house was
situated in rear of the lot and wheel
barrow was employed to convey them.
This dog. which we named Watch, part
shepherd and Newfoundland, always
carried with the greatest delight the
key, which was attached to a piece Of
shingle by string, to the hide-hOuse.
One day as Watch pranced gaily down
to the hide-house with the key in his
mouth he met strange dog. The two
commenced to snarl at each other, and
Watch closed his teeth so tightly into
the piece of shingle that he broke it in
two and lost one piece aud key. When
We got to the hide-house he came up
and had only the piece in his mouth.
Watch" said L, 81 this won't unlock
the door; where is the key?" Watch
looked up. and when the words were
repeated and the door shaken, to show
that it could not be opened, he started
of. In short time he returned with
the other piece of the shingle. He was
again shown the two pieces, put to-
gether this time. and made to under
stand that the key was yet missing. 1t
was getting late and We followed him.
He stood a moment, as if rejecting
where he was at the time he met the
dog, and scenting up his tracks, found
the key and brought it to us dangling
from the string between his teeth. 1t
seems by this that he certainly under
stood what we said to him about the
lost key.
Dodge City times., 1880-09-04

suited to my abilities, told me to hire
a hall and 60 into the starvation busi-
ness"
Gracious goodness" uttered the
cook, getting broom to sweep out
the kitchen.
''Yes, marm," said the abused
tramp, as he rose hastily, glancing at
the broom, ''for everybody amt as
soft as you as soft-hearted as you are,
marm."
And he vanished.-St. Louis Chron-
icle.
Dodge City times., 1880-09-04

the more or less frivolous theorie.
which are put forward in later times
without the excuse of being warped bv
a religious purpose. The Celtic theory
ssuppOrteduponc characteristic grounds.
1t is based upon the idea that our old
friend, the Welsh Prince, Madoc, son of
Owen Gwynedd, established his COLONY
in Mexico, and the proof of this start
ling assertion is threefold: First, the
MeXicans believed that their ancestors
came from a beautiful country afar off.
inhabited by white people; secondly.
they adored the cross; and, thirdly.
several Welsh names are found in
Mexico" In further confederation.
various stories are told which are SUP.
posed to point to existing traces of the
Welsh colony.
But all these theories of the origin
of American races from an Israelitish
stock, or from kymric or a Gaelic.
may be safely dismissed as the fruits Of
misguided enthusiasm and perverted
ingenuity. There remain. then, three
hypotheses, each of which has its
strenuous advocates-namely: First,
that the American races are autOch-
Monic, and this was held by Agassiz, in
accordance with his doctrine of null
tiple centers of creatiOn; second, that
they are of one blood with the races
inhabiting the Eastern continent, from
whom they were separated by the sub
sidence of the intervening land; third,
that they represent migration from
Asia by way of Behring Strait or
across the Pacific in lower latitudes.
Either of the first two hypothesis,
could it be proved, would harmonic
many apparently conflicting circum-
stances connected with Mexican civili-
Zation. At the same time it would
give to that civilization the peculiar in
terest which must attach to an indie
pendent development, presenting a
curious and suggestive parallel to that
with which we are familiar True, there
are striking resemblances between the
architectural styles of American and
of several Old World countries. and
slight, but seemingly real, though in
fact fortuitous, points of affinity in
language, while consensus of tradi-
tions shows an aboriginal knowledge Of
certain countries beyond the sea in
habited by .'white faces" But this is
not overwhelming evidence against
either the Atlantis or the autOctthonic
theory, and is as nothing, indeed, COM
pared with the proof that can be ad-
duced against any of the ether
theories. 1t is difficult to say whether
we may expect much new light to be
thrown on this phase of the subject
from future investigation; but We can
rest assured that a nearer approach
will be made to the truth on the ac-
QUESTION of fuller and clearer knowl-
edge.
Dodge City times., 1880-09-04
Trials OF Tramp-The Effect Of DIR.
Tanners Experiment.

DEJEcrEDLY he appeared at the back
door-it was on Eugenia street
mournfully told his pitiful tale, and.
with deep-drawn sigh, seated himself
at the kitchen table to attack break
fast set before him by the sympathetic
cook. Silently, but dexterously, he
slowed away the cold ham and fried
potatoes, while his entertainer re-
garded him with wondering compass
Sion and kept an eye upon the spoon.
Ten minutes devoted he strictly to
business. and then, as he poured out
his fourth cup of coffee, under the in
fiuence of the genial Java, the re-
cuperated tramp seemed disposed to be
sociable, and in reply to an intimation
that he was evidently no disciple of
DIR. Tanner, broke into voluble speech.
mo, marm," he said, Il take no
stock in that old maniac. DIR. Tanner
has done incalkerlable injury to the
cause of humanity. and poor fellows
like me find il mighty hard scratching
10 make a living sence he has under
took TO prove that people can live on
air and water
How is that?' asked the cook, as
she cleared away the table.
well. marm,n said the tramp.
giving his chair hitch back and
stretching his legs out comfortably.
'.fl tell you jest how it is. Before
this fasting experiment was COM
menced folks were inclined to take
pity on feller when he said he was
hungry. and mighty few would turn
him away without givin' him some
thing. How is it now, marm? Why,
you gets the door slammed in your
face at most places, and even those
who are eharitably disposed have be-
come perverted.n
Perverted? How?"
I" For instance, marin, there is one
heretofore susceptible young lady who
answers my plaintive appeals by draw
ing inyidjus comparisons; she tells me
to look at that poor DIR. Tanner and
advises me TO live on my fat awhile
for the benefit of SCIENCE
.'Weli, | declare" remarked cook.
''Yes. marin. Another lady, when l
informs her in nv feeblest tones that l
kain't eaten a morsel for two DAYS
and half, encourages me to per-
severe in the good cause and to call
'reund when l have completed the
other thirty-seven and half DAYS
then she purposes presenting me with
watermelon"
LAND sakesr'
"Yes, marin. One old man, to
whom presented myself in the char
aeter of a played-out school teacher
from the country. and asked his ad-
Dodge City times., 1880-09-04
MANS REMOTE ANCESTOR.

athletic TRIBUTE TO THAT "scASTY SORT OF
wATER-BEAsT," THE Asc1DIAS.
THE ancestor remote of man,
Says D-w-n, is tn ascidiau,
A scanty sort of water-beast
That. 10000, 900 years at least
Before gorillas came to be,
Went swimming up and down the sea-
Their ancestors the p:ous praise
And like 10 initiate their ways:
How. then, does our first parent live,
What lesson has his life TO give.
TIL ascidian tadpoie, young and gay,
Doth life with one bright eye survey:
His consciousness has easy play.
He's sensitive TO grief and pain,
Has tail and spine. and bears n brain,
And everything that fits the state
Of creatures We call vertebrate.
But age comes on: with sudden shock
He sticks his head against a rock
His tail drops OF, his eye drops in,
His brains absorbed into his skin:
He does not move. nor feel. nor know
The tidal waters ebb and flow.
But still ahifles, unstirred. alone,
A sucker sticking to Il stone.
And we, his children. truly we
In youth are, ike the tadpole, free;
And where we would we blithely go,
Have brains and hearts. and feel and know
Then age comes on. To habit we
Aflx ourselves, and are not free;
Tn ascidian's rooted to a rock,
And we are bond-slaves of the clock;
Our rock is MISUNDERSTANDING,
From these our heads we cannot draw;
Our loves drop OF, our hearts drop in,
And daily thicker grows our skin.
We scarcely live. we scarcely know
The WIDE worlds moving ebb and How,
The changing currents ring and shock,
But we are rooted to the rock.
And thus at ending of mis- span.
Blind, deaf and indolent, does man
Revert TO the ascidian.
ST. james Gazette.
Dodge City times., 1880-09-04

Mr.. FRANCIS CowLEY BURNAND, one
of the staff writers for the London
Punch, will succeed the late Mr.. Tom
Taylor in the editorship of that paper.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18
Bishop simpson Ill in the Pulpit.

San Francisco, Sept. H. The president
and Mrs. Hayes attended service to-day q.
the First Methodist church on Powell street,
near Washington. The congregation filed
the building to lis utmost capacity. Bishop
Simpson, who is temporarily in tho city,
fad Tue pulpit, s.d mai Uus fairly
comm, need his sermon when he VS. taken
with a conutslive bill. He was vt once re-
moved tos nughhoriug house and ammo nee
m,nt srou ator mnde to the congregation
TINT bis conduion was improved and hat the
SYMPTOMS we're favorable Tn reverend
gentleman had fer several days been suffer.
iug II. III symptoms Of fever and que. The
Ireri0,nt to-day is the guest of Captain
Goodnll, the business partner Of Governor
Per ms
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

THERE is Judge Baldwin running on the
Republican ticket for attorney general OF
Indiana. And very ill-msnnered, vulgar
and insulting fellow is this fellow Baldwin.
He said in speech the other day II can
always tell Democratic woman by her
slovenly, untidy appearance" To which a
Democratic lady replied !; II remember when
females of Bsldwin's household scrubbed
my floors; but it was before he got chance
to run his hand into the public crib and
steal the money" 1t is one of the evils of
American politics that such coarse creatures
as this Baldwin are given opportunity to
show their low breeding in public.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

the main proposition we have made, many
gentlemen Of both 'hese courts who are able
and learned but they are exceptions, and SO
being, there Is ground for the general propo.
sition. These exceptions know that what
we say is true, and know that there should
be reform in the judiciary SYSTEM of the
state. Simplify the laws in both their read,
Ing and in the matter of their execution, and
simplify the judiciary system is what we
want, is what the people desire. 1t is just as
easy to say three times two are six, in fact
it is much easier thin 1t is to say that the
product Of the mulIipIcand two, and the
multiplier three, after close mathematical
calculation, is six.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

THIS is the way the Dallas correspondent
OF the Galveston News puts it; "The secre-
tsry-elect of the Board of Trade, Mr.. H. G.
Stevenson, was formerly on the editorial
staff Of the Houston Telegraph Consider
ing the Telegraph died some years ago, and
considering that said secretary was never on
the editorial staff of said Telegraph, and con.
sidering that he has been the commercial
editor of the HERALD for these many, many
months, the said special to the News "is
peculiar" however significant and under
stAndable.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

WE fancy that the Maine election hs
Hurried the st. Louis CD. In Thursday
mornings issue, under the head of "Massa
chusetts Republican Convention" after nam
ing the officers, it says "Hon. Frank Jone
was unanimously nominated for governor.
and some time subsequent it says: "Gov
ernor John d, Long was nominated by &C
clamation." The truth is that Hon. Franz
Jones, a brewer of Portsmouth, N. H., has
been nominated for governor of the Grant,
State
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

The idea pretty generally obtains, ant
especially among nautical men, and il
marine circles generally, that the Grea
Eastern is the largest ship ever built. Thu
Is mistake, as a months travel through
New England will establish emphatcally
The May flower that landed the Pilgrim
Fathers at Plymoth Rock is the largest vesse
that ever aoated. There is furniture enough
in Now England, not to speak of that else
where, that came over in the Msyaower, tt
load tho Great Esstern down half dozer
times
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

The New York Evening Express gives
the following interesting figures as showing
the increase in the extravaganza of our peo-
pie for the year ending June 30, 1880, over
that for tho previous year, occasioned by the
growing prosperity of the Country: 1.-THE
disposition Of the American people to in
dulge in foreign Injuries the very moment
prosperity sets in, is shockingly illustrated in
the item Of precious stones, the imports of
which were S6,G9S.4 against 1882. 007
the previous year. Another case in point is
that of the manufacturers of silk, of which
the imports Of dress and piece goods were
S2O92i, l76, against SIG, 100, 1852, other man
ufacturess at Sl0,9O6, l47, against S7,757, 1855.
Still another is wooden dress goods. the inn
ports of which were l5,36O5i2, against
$l2, 4S6,SGl the previous year, These figures
may be fairly set down as represent
ing the increased extravaganza of
our female population. The increased in
diligence of the male portion of the commu.
nifty is shown in the imports of tobacco and
wines. The value of leaf tobacco imported
was S4,9ll,0S6, against SS,545,5l5 the pre-
viovs year; cigars, S2,4O4,sl2, against ST.
266,9l0; spirits and cordials, $2,090,O6l
against Sl,697, 500; wines in casks, $685.
T05, against S2,o5i, 700 and wines in bottles,
SS2S0,766, against So 2S4, 1888. These ilg-
ures afford pretty clear ide of the cost to
the country of our increased indulgence in
those two great national amusements or vi.
ces, smoking and drinking Our male popu-
lstion are also principally responsible for the
imports of Sl0,773,9l2 worth of cloths and
ca'simeres, against $6225, 1876 the previous
year Our aesthetic tastes seem to have made
considerable progress, for they were gratifed
with importations of paintings, cromos, litho-
graphs and stationary to the amount of 3d..
l04,565, against Sl,O74,907 the previous
year.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

BAD weather has made dull week in Dali
las markets. The roads and streets have
been and are in too wretched condition to
travel with that ease and comfort our folks
are used to. Country produce Is scarce aud
high. Corn has gone from 20 to 40 cents per
oushel' Hay made jump yesterday OF froa
50 to 80 per ton for loose from wagon.
Cotton, under local pressure, also went up |.
The markets are strong all round, and gen.
orally show an advancing tendency.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

THOSE innocent French settlers away up
on the Androscroggin, whom Blaine says arc
apt to be enticed to commit frauds are yet
to hear from officially. Blaines complaining
OF those Democrats buying votes and cheat.
ing, reminds Us of one Jim Roberts in game
OF draw poker. Jim had slipped the acea in
acrack under the table, which the "gentle-
man opposite" saw him do. The next deal
Jim got an ace and so did the other man.
Jim reached under for the aces, but the other
man had them already in his hand. With a
look of perfect innocence il n said: "Gentle-
men, there is cheating going on around this
board!'
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

A GAGMAN physician takes the ground that
insanity is a blessing to man. He urges that
the loss of reason delivers q man from q
tempest tossed sea of doubt, unhappiness and
unrest to peaceful heaven OF calm happiness
and that attempts to restore such person to
sanity is a positive cruelty. He contends
also that the greater mass of mankind arc
more or less insane, and that all great men
who achieve distinction, or who work n UGH
good on earth, are monomaniacs. The fact
is the doctor is crazy himself.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18
A Destructive Fire In New York
TnWn

Canton, Sept. ia serious fire occurred
at Morley, St. Lawrence county, last night.
The following are the names of those who
were burned out; Whitney Bros, butter
tub and cheese box factory and dry house,
no insurance. r. NJ. Witherbee, tannery; A.
5. Robinson, cheese factory, insured;
5. Orr, harness shop together with house
and barn; John Taylor, shoe shop, house
and barn; II. L. Wright, tin shop; John
johnson, three dwelling houses, barn,
etc. T. Fox, blacksmith shop; the cardiDg
mill Of John Car's estate l., Fenton II
Son. genera merchants telegraph office and
postotce, The total loss is estimated at
S25, 900, insurance, $4,000,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

AT the governors election in Maine in
September, 1876, the Republicans carried the
state by l5,444, and Hayes in November fol-
lowing carried 1t by over 10000 majority.
This is an appalling loss for that party in
four years. Ii the balance of the north loses
in that proportion will Garfield carry half a
dozen states' If so, which ones? At pres
ent writing We only concede him Kansas,
and we wouldn't give that if it wasn't in a
starving condition.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

A PARIS correspondent Of the Chelsea Mas.
sachusetts Telegraph and Pioneer in a letter
Of recent date says; "a young doctor, TO
siding at Lyons, DESTROYS of emulating tho
fame Of the celebrated Tanner, commenced
forty days fast in that town; but after under.
going indescribable torments Tor week,
Tsnners rival has been forced to cry "Hold,
enough" His stomach is In fearful state,
ms throat utterly parched, and there are
0'nef symptoms as well which ! shall spare
your readers. A milk diet has been recon.
!. ', y, % the too euterprising doctor, ant
W. hoped that with care and attention hi
u's. . organs win DO set to rights within ,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

GOVERNOR JEWELL says "there is nothing in
this Maine business which indicates theRepub-
licans won't carry it in November" No, moth
ing at all, only $1,000 votes on tho reverse
side Of DeGolyer machinery. Judge Small
Icy says: "There is no instance of state not
voting the same way in September and No.
yomber"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18
MAINE, OHIO, INDIANA, ILLINOIS.
AS matter of reference of some interest
1t this moment, we give below the votes of
h1 81 states In 1876 and 1878

W ,I"U'IUH IVI vi y NUHbT' - NNU NVpTt'
stnlntiyes.
The state election in Ohio takes place on
the first Tuesday next month. In Indiana il
takes place on the 10Th Of October and in II.
linois not until the % of November. Cal
ifornia also will have a general election
in November. In that of 1876 she gave
Tilden 76,4di votes and Hayes 1929, and
Cooper Greenback, A votes.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

JUsT before the battle Colonel Blaine
wrote to Indiana: "You are having a dress
parade; we are fighting pitched battle"
There may DO something for the Republic
cans in dress-parades, but the result in Maine
proves they lad better risk no more pitched
battles
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

As WILL be seen by our dispatch from
Columbus, Indiana, shows that Ex-Governor
Hubbard has begun his work. He was
greeted with the widest enthusiasm by the
vast audience that listened to him. A late
letter to us Gays that there Is no donbt of a
magnificent victory for the Democracy in the
hoosier state next month.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

On the ith of March, 1881, the terms Of
twenty five United States senators will OK
pire. OF these eleven are Republicans and
fourteen Democrats. Mr.. Garfield, of Ohio,
will take Senator Thwmans seat, AID about
twenty odd Republicans of New York expect
70 succeed Senator Herman.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

Mr.. EDISON claims that he has completely
solved the problem of electric lighting, and
in the October number of tho North Ameri.
can Review proposes to discuss the adyan.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-18

tsges of electricity over gas, and to explain
how the new light is TO be introduced. In
other words . will give an anxious, long
waiting, e4pcctant, public light on tho sub