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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
A White Mountain Guide.

OUR guide walked on before us. erect
and manly, wearing one of those broad
canvas hats which are characteristic of
this region, and furnish one of our few
glimpses of picturesque costume. He
had led for years the genuinely out
door life which belongs to our mount
aineers. As rule, farmers are far less
rich in conversation than seaside peo-
ple-sailors, pilots, fishermen; the rural
lives are rather monotonous and I'M
eyentful; but when you come where the
farms actually abut upon untamed for
est, the art of conversation revives, and
James Merrill was Is good as Thoreau,
so far as the habit of observation could
carry him.
He showed us. in the occasional de-
posts of soft mud by the water bars on
the mountain road, how to distinguish
squirrel-tracks. sable-;racks, bear
tracks. A bear had passed. as he proved
10 US. within few days. which had
weighe! about one hundred and seven
ty-five pounds, and was probably two
years old. He pointed ont TO us where,
in sandy places, the young pariridges
had nestled and iluttered like hens in
the path. and where the hedgehogs had
gnawed and torn the roots in the wood.
He told us how these little ''quill-pigs."
As they are popularity called. defend
themselves with their tails. thrashing
them about till the nose Of dog or
other animal is full of bristles; the dogs
instinctiyely fear this, and seize the
creature BY the head, where the bristles
turn the other way. and cannot hurt.
The hedgehog is in winter the chief
food of the "tisher-cat," and this in
turn is trapped for its fur. This small
quadruped is iet-black. with a few
white hairs; is as large as Il large cat.
but is shaped like mink, having
short legs. The :isher-cat and sable
pronounced uniformly ..saple"
trees like cats in pursuit of squirrels,
and will run from tree to tree as easily
rs the game they hunt, though unable
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
Village Improvement Societies.


ALMOST every New England village
OF much prosperity now has Its Society
for Promoting Rural Improvement. the
work OF which is to induce and direct
tasteful architecture and gardening.
bishop Clark OF Rhode Island IN a
Ledger article emphasizes the value OF
these societies by describing fortorldge
IN 1870 and In 1850. This Is tortbrldge
as It was; 1.-The houses bordering the
main street are all enclosed by rail
fences, picket fences, and dilapldated
stone walls. with creaky furnishes and
gates half unhinged, and drunken posts
leaning against an old stump for sup
po1ti patches OF unshorn grass and
weedy gravel, faggots OF bark and
wood and brush fragments OF ancient
carts, and broken plows and disabled
harrows, heaps OF mortar and stones,
piles OF bottles. and all other concelv-
able forms of rubbish dumped into the
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
cleveland Penny Press.1
Health of the American Engie.

To relieve the monotony of the constant
important sayings of ''our Candidate" ''Our
Next President" and "0ur Fellow Citizen"
1t is pleasure for US to present herewith the
opinion of one of Cleveland's most popular
Druggists, Mr. E A. Schellentrager, III st.
Clair Street. The gentleman writes: know
OF no remedy which has given more universal
satisfaction than the Hamburg Drops. have
not heard of a case where they failed to bene-
fit. The very large and daily growing demand
Cor this Great German Blood Purifier, is a
fource Of high qualification, for aside from
the pecuniary gain, one takes pleasure in
selling an article OF such marked efficacy and
superior merit
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
How a Man stitches on a Button.

He had never tried it before, but he
was naturally self-reliant man, and
felt confident of his ability 10 do it.
Moreover, his wife had gone TO the
country. Therefore, carefully selecting
FROM that lady's work-basket the
thickest needle and stoutest thread, he
resolutely set himself to the task.
Splitting upon his fingers, he carefully
rolled the end OF the thread into a point,
and then, closing one of his own
optics, he attempted to fill up the
needles solitary eve; but the thread
either passed by one side or the other
of the needle. or worked itself against
the giittcring steel. and refused TO be
persuaded. However. the thread sud-
denly bolted through the eve TO the ex-
tent of an inch, and. fearing to lose this
advantage, he quickly drew the ends
together and united them with knot
about the size of buckshot. The but
ton was a trouser one, but he liked the
dimensions Of its holes, and it was only
going on the back of his shirt, anyhow.
AS he passed the needle gently upward
through the linen, he felt mingled
pity and disdain for men bungling
over such easy jobs; and as he let the
button gracefully glide down the thread
to its appointed place, he said to him
self that ii ever he married a second
time it should be for some nobler reason
than dread of sewing on his own
buttons. The first downward thrust
had the same happy result, and holding
the button down firmly with his thumb,
he came up again with all that con-
tidence which uniform success inspires.
Perhaps the point OF the needle did not
enter to the bone, but it seemed to him
that it did. and his comment upon the
circumstance was emphatic. But he
WAS very ingenious, and the next time
he would hold the button by one edge,
and come up through the hole nearest
the other. of course he would. But
the needle had an Independent way of
suting itself AS to holes, and it chose
the one where the thumb was. Then
the needle got sulky. 1t didn't care
about holes, anyhow, if i. was going to
be abused for finding them, and the
button might have been an unperforated
disc for all the apertures which that
needle could thenceforward be made to
discover, without infinite poking and
prodding. 1t always came through when
it was least expected, and never when
it was wanted. Still he persevered, and
it was not until he finally discovered
that he had stitched over the edge of
the button and had seWed it on the
wrong side of the shirt that he utterly
broke down.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

7SN 1H.I
He Would Hun Like LIxhanlms

Speaking Of candidates and records, It is
safe TO say, that if a man could be nominated
for the highest office in the land with as clear
record for being the fittest, safest and the
best, as our famous German friend St Jacobs
Oil has, there would be no doubt Of an cleo
tion- Party, creed, or denomination would
not enter into the canvass. Many of our most
influential citizens are enthusiastic upon tho
subjec. Of this wonderful oil.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
"A woman who gave her name as

A woman who gave her name %
Margaret Irvine who had been arrested
while wandering about, on account of
her peculiar manner, was handed over
to the parochial authorities at Greenock,
Scotland, to be taken care of until her
friends could be communicated with.
The woman declared that she was in re-
ceipt of commands from the Almighty
to do some most extraordinary things,
including serious mutilation of her body.
On the way to Greenock she passed
through Glasgow, and while on the
green there she, in obedience to these
commands cut her hands in fear
full manner with pair of scissors, tore
the nails off her toes, and otherwise
committed frightful mutilation upon her
limbs and body. At the Police Court
she was in very exhausted condition,
and her limbs were bound up so that
she could scarcely make use of them in
a natural manner.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
No More Hard Times.

II you will stop spending so much on fine
clothes, rich food and style, buy good healthy
food, cheaper and better clothing; get more
real and substantial things of life every way,
and especially stop the foolish habit Of en-
ploying expensive quack doctors or using so
much Of the vile humbug medicine that does
you only harm, but put YOUR trust in that
simple, pure remedy, Hop Bitters; that cures
always at trifing cost, and you will see good
times and have good health.-Chronicls.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

HE was saving, as he struck lucifer on the
side of the house, 81 like these houses with
sanded paint; nice when you want to strike a
match you know" "Is that so!' she asked,
demurely; 81 wish l lived in house with
sanded paint"-and then she looked things
unutterable. II he had asked "What for 2"
she would have hated him. But he didn't;
he took the hint, and the match was struck
then and there
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

UNCLE Mosg met the pastor of a colored
church yesterday on Galveston avenue and
asked him: Al say, parson, is dat fac what
you breaches, dat a man and mis- wife are
onei" dat ar am gospel troof" ..Well,
parson. eff you will come down after dark on
Abenoo l., when Brudder Bones an his wife
Sukey am drunk, and bangin one anuder an
listen TO de racket you will be willing to
swear dey is ten or DISQUALIFICATION Nears.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

"A young woman, 16 years old, at
tempted suicide by taking laudanum at
a hotel in Savannah, Ga, but was acct
dentally discovered in time to save her
life. She had been clandestinely mar
ried some time since to young man,
who grew tired of her and was trying to
get her to leave the State.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13
II Travelled fast: it's here at last.

II Travelled fast: it's here at last.
The dreaded epizooty.
My nose. of course. is getting worse,
And gone is all my beauty:
My style is lied, my swelling head
Each day is getting larger;
Herodias. sure. could not endure
Such head upon a charger.
-St. Louis Chronicle.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

ARE you wearing out from excessive labor,
care, grief or old agel II so, then no food or
medicine can restore your strength, your
sleep and your spirits like Malt Bitters, made
OF Unfermented Malt, Hops, CalisayA and Iron.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

Parsons INDELIBLE MARKING INK has a
record of fifty years Sample mailed for 3oc.
by F. II. Stoddard & Co., Northampton. Mass.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

"THERE is no place like home,r repeated
Mr.. Henpeck. looking at a motto, and he
heartily added: Pm glad there isn't"-
Rochester Herald.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

WOULD not be without Rediing's Russia
ealve, is the verdict of all who use 1t.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

WIHofT's Fever and Ague Tonic, the
old reliable remedy, nov sells at one dollar.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

II afflicted with Sore Ewes, use DIR. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists SELF it. 25c.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

have sold Piso's Cure FOR Consumption for
years. and have used Il myself for Coughs Colds at
different times ind IL fully good you say q Is
j. S. HYER- Braxton, W. Va
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

selling great quantities Of Pisos Cure for Con-
sumption Having had Bronchial Cafsrrh and Asthma
for number of years l tried all other medicines
Nothing suits me like Piso's Cure.
VIZ II. RkKsk Monticello. IL
Os-rouxp fen
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

THE Frazer Axle Grease is the best and
only Genuine We know IL
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

sr IA eSl perday at home. Samples worth q 4
W w W. free Address SINsoS a ca. Portland. Ma
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

Gs.HS Revolver. Illus Catalogue free
GyskS Graf Western Gun Works. Pittsbarch. Pa
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-11-13

Q70 \ WEEK. Sl2 day at home easily made.
pl Costly outIit fres. Addrs True Co. Augusta Ma
cENn 81 for s.. .'Rom.nce Of Perfume Lands
S6aD Illus. CLIFFORD Pcr.uner, Boston, Mass
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-24
THE ELEMENTS.

Franklin, Ont, July IA eve
storm oflhail and rain fell yesterday, de-
stroyiug crops to q great extent in the
western part of this township. hail fell
to the depth Of sever inches.
Car isle, Pa. July 20.-A terrific rain
storm occurred last night, water running
four ieet deep in the roads. Many houses
were fooled, crops much injured, and
many cattle killed by the lightning.
Rochester, N. Y, July l8.-A terri.
the western part OF this county early
this afternoon. Ten or twelve miles
west OF this city trees we're stripped OF
their foliage by the hail, and barley,
oats and corn cut and beaten down, many
fields OF grass being u total loss. Near
Iockport the damage was also great.
Detroit. July ia violent and de.
EtructIve cyclone and hail-storm visited
Monroe county, lorty miles south OF this
city, about | O'Clock Sunday afternoon,
1t seemed to start in the township vi
Ida, and travelled IN a southeasterly d.
r%ection. sweeping everything in its path
With irresistible Jury. The distance
%traversed was about seven miles, and the
swath moved by it from a hall mile TO {
mile vide. The wind uprooted anu
twisted the largest trees, while the hal
accompanying the Storm was very Sc
we're. Fields OF oats and corn wer'
threshed clean, and fruit trees stripped
About the worst damage inflicted wa
in vineyards, which are very extensiy'
in this region. These were completed.
stripped and the green fruit. the year
product, ruined, beside the great damag
done 70 vines ~ lew houses and barn
were upset. live stock somewhat inlui
ed. and windows riddled OF giasq Til
loss at the present time is roughly as,
mated 1T 500 900.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-24
SWEET SPRINGS CORRESPONDENCE

This place has become Il y ell-known resort
for health and pleasure; Its waters are not sur
passed by any in the world of their kind. 1t is
proposed to bring the waters of the salt springs,
tor bathing, up to the hotel. The right of way
has already been pun chased over the entire dis
lance required.
The Various societies, brOtherhoods and ASSOC
Citations find this u convenient and pleasant
place to meet. The convention of the Missouri
Bankers Association met to-day and, after
transacting special business. was addressed by
Hon. Henry Clay Dean. His subject was 1.-The
Relations Of BANKS to and Modern
civilization" lie pointed out their great use
fulness, and spoke in high terms of the general
trustwOrthiness of these men, who are the Gus
todians OF the peoples money, and, on the
other hand. called attention to tine fact that the
entire capital aId mach of the deposits of the
banks is loaned back to the people, much OF ii
only secured by the honor of the borrowers. He
counseled evaporation and concord among nll
vOcations Tor the benefit Of snciety. Mr.. Wilson,
the secretary of the association. delivered an
address on THE Uses of Organization In Bank
ing" He called attention to the tendency OF
money to accumulate in the money centers.
where II inflames speculation; and proposed, us
II remedy. n voluntary organization among all
the interior bankers to establish Il central agency
in some great city where they should all deposit.
and through which the business men oil one
section might use the money belonging to tbos.
of another section when II happens IRON climate
or other cause that one. is busy at the time the
other is idle. He noted that the money loaned
in the cities on the stocks and bonds Of railroads
depends tor its security on the products carried
to market by the roads, yet the credit of thu
producers themselves ~ almost unknown to thu
banks that are dependent on il. He thought thu
cspital should be made available for the pro
ducers instead OF for the SPECTATORS in stocks
\ case oil antagonism among bank interests, Ii
said to have lately been Developed. The tax OF
deposits. which works oppressively on tn
Industries of the country, Is AN eyesore TO tn
bankers everywhere; but the cotton states sa,
eve will consent to no change in the law unit
it includes the repeal OF the ten per cent. tax OF
state bank circulation This means death {
national banks, SO the Two systems have locke'
horns. -
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-24

People who are anxious to get an i'm
portant construction of the proper view
to be taken of Gen. Garfield's fee of S.
900 in the DeGelyer case, should read
an opinion by Justice Swayne, delivered
in 1875. IN the cass OF Burke against
Child, appealed from Cook county. H.
linols. This appeal covered the De
Golyer case. Justice Swayne is an
Ohio man, and a republican. In his
opinion. in 1875. he said, with no parti-
san necessity to bias his judgment
The agreement with Gen. Garfield, a
member of congress. to pay him $4,000
as a contingent lee for procuring a con-
tract which was itself made to depend
upon a future appropriation by congress,
which appropriation could only come
from G committee of which he was
chairman, was q sale of influence
which no veil a cover. against the
plainest principles OF public policy. NJ
counsellor at law while holding high Of
flee has q right to put himself in a posi-
ton of temptation. and, under pretens'
of making a legal argument, exert hi
official influence upon public officers de
pendent upon his future action. Ger
tainIy the courts OF justice will neve
lend themselves to enforce contracts Oh
tanned by such influence"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-24
Notice to the Board OF Public Ed1
cation of Lexington School
District,

The members of the board of education of the
Lexington school district are hereby notified that
the next regular neeling to be held on the 9Th
day Of August next, will be held at the Srcond
Ward sch0olhouse. and all other meetings of The
board thereafter during my administration,
unless otherwise ordered by the board.
Il. Il. WILSON. President Of Board.
l make the above order in conformity with
what | believe to be Il duty that l owe to ihe
psopir who elected myself, irsether viii. ihe
otuer mea.Lers al ths bnaru. believing aa do
that all legislative bodies der i've their power
from the people. Hence the board of Iii rectors
ar. nothing else but delegated agents OF the
| people, and must administer all the laws regu-
ioti,.g the cubic schools IN accordance with the
laws of the state. therefore, the board. deriving
their power from the people, they become their
servants in the full sense OF the law. Enter
tanning these views l am Of the opiuiou iHat Il
is the duty of the board to meet ut some ruhiIo
place where all the people can come and heal
the deliberations OF their servants. The schools
are public institutions and run in the interest
OF public education, and WHICH 10 paid for oui
OF hard earned taXeS. therefore these nierting-
suOuld not he held at u prtcato house, hut a
public places, where the people OF every rRns
can meet with freedom and ease ana hear IN,
! deliberations oil tlteir servants, then they VII
he better able 10 Judge Tor themselves, und ie
better satisfied with their representatives.
b. H. WILSON.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-24
TRUSTEES SALE.

WHEREAs, John ". bean and Mary J;
w Dean. his wife, by their certain deed Of
trust, dated the sth day Of March, 1915. and
recorded in the recorders Office of Lafayette
county. in the state OF Missouri. in deed book
No. 20. page ~ conveyed to William J. Catron ..
trustee. the following real estate situated in The
county OF Lafayette and state of Missouri. to-wit:
The west h,ilf Of the northeast quarter Of section
twputy-uine tSgl, and the east half OF the north
east quarter OF section thirty t3D), all in town
ship nifty tjD). OF range twenty-lour Ci), coI-
tanning in the aggregate one hundred and sixty
G6D acres, more or lessI anu. whereas. the
said deed was niat4 iu SECURE the payment OF
three prOIai5sOrI notes. III said deed described
ana, whereas, the said notes are past due and
.cmain unpaid, now, thereforetore. Mt the re.
quest OF the lawful holder and oWGep OF said
notes, and in pursuance 4f :se provisions OF
said deed OF trnst, ! VIII, on
TUESDAY, AUGUST s4rH, 1880.
bet ween the hours Of nine O'Clock in the fore.
noon AMI > O'Clock IN the afternoon vi that day
1T public venhur, to the highest bidder, for oasi
il hgpd In irolt of the courthouse door In III,
county Of Lafayette and state oil Missouri. rro,
coed Ia sell the real estate herein above described
or so much thereof AS may be necessary TO pa,
said notes ard interest, together with the cost
arI expenses OF said deed of trust and this sale
| 1s2t WHLiAMJ CATRoN., Trustee.
81 y ~ -
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-24

writes from Santa Barbara, COUNTY, CahfOr-
MIA - HAYS rpst u good many old s!ls-
souri, farmers here, and all say Missouri ~ u
better country than this Tor farming and
Embarrassing, under the same care and in
Eu-.ry. Some of them have been here since
1870. Ttey say That II Is the dry season here
THAT makes labor tighter, as oEE eau harvest
his grain at any time within Two to foul
weeks alter 1t Is ripe Except barley AMI hay
which must lie promptly cut as early II,
ripe,. and after cutting, IL may be stack, {
| at any time before Eovsmber OF Dec, mber
though II Is best TO get IL stacked before lii.
hot months of August and SEPTEMBER. Tn
ground Is bare. no green grass anywhere
and the flowers on gray plats Remind one u
! ornaments On faded women
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-24
I~oNDAY, AUGUST sra, 1880,
sHERIFF's SALE.

kAS ~ III > q u ulktISD
vs..
William T. Price.
\ virtue OF q special execution. issued from
LINE Ofhce OF the clerk OF the circuit court al
Lafayette county, Missouri, wherein the state OF
MlssOurI, at the relation and to the Use OF Put
nam 5. FulkersOn. collector oil the revenue oil
Lafayette county, in the state oil Missouri, Is
plaintiff and William .. Price is defendant.
to me directed, and returnuble To the August
term, issO, OF said court, l will, On
MONDAY, AUGUST 9rn. 1880.
between the hours Of nine O'Clock In the fore
noon and fve O'Clock in the afternoon of sail
day. and in front of the courthouse door, in the
city OF Lexington, in Lafayette county. Missou-
ri. during the session OF the said circuit court of
said county. sell publicly, by auction, 10 the
highest bidder, for cash in hand, all The right,
title, interest, claim and estate OF the sau,f
William I. Price. defendant in said execution.
in and to the following described real estate,
situate, lying and being in the county of La
fayette and state OF Missouri. tO-wit: Part OF
lot fourteen (lH, beginning on the east line In
continuation oil Ash street, three hundred and
Blk and twO-tenths (306 2-lO) feet south of The
northwest corner lot fourteen QD, Woods sub
division rs per plat, in book ''Y.' M. /, OF
page 4l6; thence east three hundred feet; tlicn~
south one hundred and lorty-iive and twu teninS
tl45 2-lO) feet, thence west three hundred (30O)
feet; thence north one hundred ard iorty-tivc
and two-tenths Q45 2-l0) feet to beginning lines,
run by variation seven ~ degrees and thirty
(3O) minutes east. containing one ny acre
Given under my hand this 9Th day OF july,
1880. GEO. NJ MOUNTJOY.
julylIid sheriff
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-24

DR.. Tanner began his fast at noon on
the 9th day OF June. He has now been
nearly four weeks without food. For ten
or fifteen days he did not drink any
water, bulls now drinking all he wan Is.
When he resumed drinking he gained
four pounds IN two days. He is losing
weight slowly, but Is in good spirits.
Some doctors say he will easily accom-
plish the task, while others claim that
he would have been dead long ago had
no food been supplied HIM. 1t is gen,
orally conceded that the test has been q
fair one, and will prove of great benefit
to science.