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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-11-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.
KANSAS

MISCELLANEOUS.
St. Louis had $500 special constables OF
election day.
The American Racing association met il
Chicago.
Turfmen met at Chicago for the purpos'
of revising the rules.
The annual meeting Of the ManbsttaI
Railway company was held.
The German market building ard con
tents were burned at Miiwau kee.
The Western Nail association met and re-
affirmed the present card rate.
All the members of the Mississippi river
commission arrived at VicksDurg.
The extensive cooper shops in Pitsburg
Pennsylvania, will shut down for want OF
orders.
The steamer Fannie Freeze was burn.
ed to the waters edge at Madison, lndi-
ana.
George Montague was elected Presi-
dent of the New York Second National
bank.
In consideration of the election excite
ment stocks at New York held up exceed
ingly well.
Owners of the mills ut Fall River, Mass.
will probably order another shut down Tor
q week.
Asbury Jarrett, one Of the 'old defend
ers," died at Baltimore. aged eighty nine
years.
Maud s. trotted mile in 2:o94 at Lexing-
ton few days ago. This is TIE best time
on record.
The Chicago Board Of Trade will rot fur
nish its quotations through its own officers
after the 18th.
Two saw-mills and 1890, 600 feet of lum-
Der were destroyed by fire at Duluth, in
volving loss ct 100000.
for the New Orleans Worlds Exposition
was shipped few days ago.
The annual meeting of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railway company was held, and the
report for the fiscal year submitted
The single scull race for $500 side be
tween Peter II. Conley, Of Boston, and
John Teemer, has been declared OF.
During the firing of a salute in the New
York city hall park, wad from one of the
guns knocked out little boys eye.
Mrs. E. F. Storey, of Chicago, has filed
bill in the circuit court asking for the
appointment of q receiver of the estate Of
the late Wilbur F.Storey.
The FIRST annual tournament of the Kan
sas City wheelmen was concluded Wednes-
day. q. z. Stone, of st. Louis won the
State championship, one mile.
Major General Schofeld. commanding
the division of Missouri, has submitted his
annual report, 1t treats of the operations
of that division during the last year.
At meeting of the Woman's Foreign
Mission society Of the M. E. caurch, the eX-
ecutive committee reported that they had
collected twelve thousand dollars during
the last year.
E. Poppethawer, doing business under
the firm name of the Boston diamond
Cutting company, is missing with Ola.
monds belonging to various Boston firms
and private customers, valued at n large
sum.
The National Cotton Exchange estimates
the cotton crop of the United States for the
current year at 5,736, 900 bales, or trihe
larger than that of last year. There is a
large decrease in the Texas yield, caused by
the prolonged drought.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-11-20
HAHsms Cay frrGune asarkss
roe DAILY indicator Ten1rtz:-
FnTJR-DNlil and uaaE

kansas City. November 10. 1881.
Roe DAILY indicator ren1rsa:-
FlOUR-Dlll and weak.
Quotations: xxx, 81 90; f,Tn;ly 05Ai 10
chcoe 80@l Is: fancy. lS91 81, patent, ESQ
I 49, Rye, SOL IS.
wHEAT-The market ives about steady, With
ns, 80 winter cash. SOC bid. 5o,Sc asked: No
vember 6nIc December, SIG lid. 5lhc asked;
ssked. No. 8 cash, 4lc.. No 4. Ssc bid. zoe asked.
Rejected. $40. No. soft. 4sc bid. Soc asked.
tuItN1he feeling was shade better, and
prices were generally higher
hslt 322to hid. a21.c asked, November. 3oc; the
year, 2634c; Janusry, 25A4c bid, &c asked: May.
SIC bid, 2s,sc asked No white mixed, Sc
High mixed, $50. Rejected. 81.
OATS Rejected, &c asked.
GTE- Cash, 3oo bid.
RU1lEA--SUpply accommodating,
Quotations. Creamery, choice. Is 219, fair to
good, 23.a2.c. fine dairy, 22@2Sc: roll, ln@i6o,
store packed, l2na16e, sour aud poor, 6eDioc.
EGGS--Higher Pc : do<ap Cancled.
GAME-The warm weather Ia interfering with
Quotations: Prairie chickens, Q soss 90, tee
ducks 10: msllard. l GO FL 25
POULTRY-Dressed steady
Quotations; Chickens dressed, Sc, turkeys. 1
9l &c. ducks. Ice.
CORN aRAL--Greep. aoc kiln dried. I o.
DRY SALT MIA It--ShcqIGass 81 cesT SIDES,
$50 Ions c!esr sides, "a; clear no sides. s>sc.
SMOKED 3EATs-sl}0iIlters, ne long ciesY
ddes s340. rin tides. a3zo; olesr '!h SIDES, 100,
HAEs--SuasT al1rei. 1870.
BREAEFhs'T RACON-13c
DRIED BgGr--13e.
BkRREL HKATs--Pors. bone,ess. s20 Co., clear
pork, 20 %: neas pork, Is Or.
i-AHD-Cholce ieFce, Is; half barrel, 20.
CORNMEAL-Green 90c, kiln dried, 90.
hSAE-Bulk. 81 sacked 43c u leo fts
HAY--Fancy small baled, S 81: large bsled,
90.
FLAX sEEn--n 1901 90, 90 hss'- Of pure,
TALLOW-No I, SIC; No. 2, &c.
SORGHUM-26c per gallon.
CHEESE-Full cream, l4c; fats, ISsS1<c:
Young America, l4tac.
BROOM CORN 355.64c: self working, 324c;
short and crooked 2G2c.
WOOL-Missouri, unwsshed-heavy fine, l5@
l7c light fine, 17GNc: medium, lS@20c: me-
dunn combing, ls@20c coarse combing, 17@2Sc
low and carpet. l2915c. Kansas and Nebraska
heavy fine, i1ql5o; light fine, 159l7c: medium
l7aSl9c; medium combiHs. -; coarse combius
ll@i4c low and carpet, 9@12c Tub washed
choice. 2sas30c medium. 2s@2sc; dingy and low
2S0 &c.
HIDES AND PELTs-Hides: dry flint No. ! ?
70, 16c; No. 2 p b 1Sc, dry salted y b l2c Green
sslted, No. l p ID SC; green sailed No. Q p n &C.
Green No, p ID 7c No. = n SIC; calf q To lie
She en- DeltS dry % % loo
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-11-20
Chicago Live stock Market.
Chicago. November Is. lss

Chicago, Novenf or Is lsSa.
The Drovers' Journal reports-
HoGSReceipta 5000; shipments. 20 The
market was fairly active and 5@l0c lower. Rough
packing, 0C&4 20: packing and shipI ing. 4 $50
IS; light, COCA 80: skips and grs lArs, 3 50G
Is, closing weak with 1900 unso.d.
CATTLEcReceip2, ITO 0. shipments, 800 The
market was active but 10@l5c lover. Exports
6 1896 50; good to choice shipping steers. 40
G5 30: common to med UNI, 3 sslS4 20: Texans,
3 50G4 25.
SHEEP-Receipts 400: shipments. go The
market dull and 5O675c lower than last week.
Inferior to fair, 1902 80; medium to good, z 80
@3 Is; choice. s 5O9S 55-
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-11-20
81. Louis Live stock Market.
IS. Louis, November IS 1854,

The Western Live Stock Journal Repo,ts:-
CATTLE-Receipts, 1900: shipments. 800. The
market was active and strong. Good % choice
shipping steers, 5Oe6 25 common to medium,
4 5C@5 Is exports nominal, would bring So;
good to choice Texas steers. 3 75@1 e; common,
1903 81; native stocksrs, C0e IS; feeders.
GOA so.
SHEEP-Receips. 1900: shipments, 3cO. The
market was quist Common to med I'm, 2 eC9
IS, good to choice, t0@3 10; Texans 0oess Is
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-11-20

Burglars broke into the Central Branch
depot ct Washington, and stole $3.50.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-11-20
ELEVATOR REPORTS.

The following shows the amount OF grain re.
ceived, withdrawn and in store at regular eleva-
tors as reported to the Board Of Trade to-day.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-11-20
Kansas City Live stOch sSsrB
Kansas Civ Novemher tx 1e.

Kansas City, November Is. 1894.
The Live STOCK Indicator reports:--
CATTLE-Receipts, 1875. The market to dsy
was steady for good grass rangers and weak ana
a shade lower for common. Exports s 00g16 35:
GOOD 10 choice shipping steers COOS 80: common
tn medium, 0N@6 30. feeders. J is I'd 30: c0wr,
enes 30: grass Texas steers, 2094 90; Colorado
halt breed steers, 3 4064 -.
HOGS-Receipts, $685.. The marke was weaker
and 15c lower. Lots averaging 22& to 275 DIS sold
at 4 1904 IS, bulk at 4 1894 20.
sHEEP-Recepts, a7% The m arket was steady
and unchanged Fair to good muttons 3 oHQ3 sc.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
A Tramn,s Philosophy.

Tramp life, as actually enjoyed by
man who was once business man in
New York. was described to Rocky
Mountain News reporter. The tramp's
father, New York state farmer, sent the
boy to New York city, where he went into
busine $. Some years later the y ung
man married his partners wife's sister.
The partner absconded with the firms
means; the tramp that is fell in with
an actress, and ran away with her; then
his wife and children died and his
father was bankrupt, and the son went
to Chicago, but could not get employ
ment. He pushed on to Leadville and
got a job, but lost it, and then tramped
to Denver, and there resolved to do no
more work, work being in his
view, slavery. He said: II don't
ask for money; I've got clothes.
and 1 get my board; nobody gets
much more. My philosophy is: Don't
worry; don't fret What have got to
be low-spirited about? 1 get the air
that's free, and the water that's free,
and eating live. I usually
carry about $40 in my pocket. You
can't vag man with $40 as visible
means of support. don't trouble any
body; don't drink, and never steal
anything. The police never trouble
me, and usually find some place to
s1eeD"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
Her sweet Revenge.
TDetroit Free Press. |


As the car stopped at the Opera house
crossing, several men got in, A lady
was seated at the front end. She had
on light wrap, bonnet which covered
only four inches of her head, kid gloves,
and only bit of lace at her neck. The
car windows were iced over, and every
breath spun out half way across the
car.
Hanged if aint frozen" said one
of the men in big beaver overcoat and
fur-lined overshoes.
Never felt the cold SO in nv ife,"
added another whose clothing must
have weighed thirty pounds.
"Bet you ten to ons I've frozen my
ears" said third as he lifted off his
seal-skin cap and removed a heavy
muller from his neck
There were two other men, each hav-
ing heavy overcoat, muh1er, overshoes
and warm gloves, and yet they stamped
and declared that they were freezing.
The lady sat there as calm and serene
and as warm as toast. She saw the men
glaring at her, and wondering why on
earth the marrow in her bones didn't
turn to icicles, but she was not dis
turbed. AS the last one settled back
with shiver and groan, she pleas
antly asked:
will one of you gentlemen please
open the door? 1t is hot enough in
here to fry fish"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
Growing Power of the Australian
Dominion.
TChicago Tribune. ]

ICniCaSO tribune.
Mr.. J. Henniker Heaton forwards
from Sydney complete account of the
resources of which an Australian domin
ion would dispose. The seven colonies
now own 5000, 900 square miles of ter
ritorv, or three times the surface of Eu
rope west of the Vistula, inhabited by
2,936,000 persons of European descent.
These 100000 have placed 7,128,00O
acres under tillage. in addition, of
course, to their grass land; and own
1919, 900 horses, 8,429,OoO cattle, and
rs, $4,000 sheep. They have trade
of e114,00o,0 900 and revenue
of $110,0O0,000 year: and al
though their debt exceeds $500,000,000
the state railways are valued at more
than this sum. They have placed e62,-
OO0, 900 sterling in Australian banks as
fixed deposits bearing interest, and ex-
elusive therefore of current accounts ];
and they spend II per cent of their en-
tire revenue, heavy as the taxation IS,
upon public education In very few
years, probably before 1900, the domin-
ion will be powerful state of 8, 5,000,000
of people, with a practically limitless
territory for settlement, with revenue
of $1S5, 900, and the power of train
ing permanent militia force of 100000
men, b. drilling only the young men
from 10 to %. Such a state, SO isolated,
will dominate the South Pacific, what
ever Europe, or even America, may
have to say to the contrary.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
Actors and Riches.
philadelphia Press.

Your great fellow-citizen, Forrest,
died rich, and, by the way, the Forrest
home, which he SO thoughtfully pro-
vided and generously endowed, would
be good subject for inside treatment,
if it was possible to photograph it faith
fully The great Booth died poor;
Charlotte Cushman left a fortune;
Sothern died poor, and Edwin Adams
left nothing. OF all the actors living,
the list of rich among them is very
short. Mr.. Jefferson has some money,
not much; Edwin Booth was rich,
became a bankrupt, and is now
making money fast; Lester Wallack
is not reputed wealthy; "Solon
Shingle" Owens had much money and
has some now; none of the Thornes
have kept dollar; Salvini's fortune is
very small; John I. Raymond spends
money faster than he gets it; Robson
never saved dollar until he found his
mascot in Billy Crane, but now / am
glad to understand the one supple
ments the other so admirably that the
two are getting rich; Mckee Rankin
has little farm in Canada, but Moth
ing else; the younger leading men and
women of the stage are receiving good
salaries, but there are not more than
three who are laying anything by. The
fact is that among the deaths might
very well be put the ma nes OF economy
and prudence
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
BEAUTY A-SLEIGHiNG.
On the Road Feminine UgIiness Is
Rare and Prize Beauties Common.


Rare and Prize Beauties Common.
Inter Ocean New York letter.
The sleighing gives wealth chance
to vary its display. The fashionable
thing on runners is the Russian vehicle,
with plumes at its front corners, and
d1awn BY three horses abreast, the mid
die beast bearing high ere of jingling
bells. Great quantities Of costly fur
are in and over the sleigh and on the
harness. The men and women who ride
thus conspicuously are by no means so
uniformly fine to look at. They are of
all sorts and conditions, socially,
morally and intellectually, and am
bound to say that in none of these re-
spects is the truth indicated by appear
ances. The incidental racing, too, is
helter-skelter and democratic. The
deacon and the gambler speed their
trotters alongside. But if these men
are fair average Of all men in the
matter of face, the same is not true of
the women.
Probably you havn't any notion,
unless you have bestowed some thought
on it, said my sleigh companion, after
she had scrutinized the visages of many
of her own sex on the road, chow dis
proport; ;onately large is the amount of
beauty shown in places of pleasure; and
it gets more SO as the cost of the di
version increases. Go to church and
you will strike true average. Go to
the theatre, and you will see consider
ably bigger proportion of pretty girls.
Go to the more expensive operas and
the percentage of beauties go up. Here
on the road ugliness is rare and lowell
ness common.
'The reason is that men let good looks
decide them in choosing girl to take
out, and the more alluring the sport$he
hkelier it is to fetch out the prize beau
ties. It is really too bad on the homely
girls, for only wealth or unusual mental
qualities can command for them such
jolly amusements as this. I'm the ex-
ception that proves the rule"
No matter whether she was sincere as
to herself; but she was right about the
rest of it. Beauty abounded on the
road. Furthermore, and lamentable in
another way than she had intimated,
| the beauty was too often of notorious
kind. 1t was possessed in quite
shocking degree by chorus girls from
the comic operas, ballet girls from
the spectacles, lventuresses of divers
grades; and the p n',le point in the ex-
hibition was thai -.e men who shared
seats with them We're by no means all
of kindred character, but were numer-
ously sons of respected families, who
ought to have been ashamed of their
positions, but were proud instead.
There is no direction in which the idle
and moneyed young fellows of this city
are drifting worse or faster than to this
public association with professional
beauties. 1t is in imitation of the Eng
lish aristocracy. Ridicule has no re-
pressive effect. A spanking law might
be good.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
English Toadylsm.


/ hear from Florence that the Eng
lish in that city are making fools of
themselves anent the duke and duchess
of Teck, by insisting upon carrying olt
all the strictest laws of court etiquette
wherever the Tecklan highnesses go.
They never think of leaving before
them, and there is so wondrous an
amount of kissing of hands ana of
prancing backward at evening parties
where they are present, that the Flor
entines, Russifns and Americans are
lost in amazement. These royal antics
may afford the Princess Mary and the
duke certain amount of amusement,
but if persevered in they will render
residence in Florence uncomfortable,
both to them, and to all who are not
fiunkeys.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
RINGS FOR BRIDES.

The style Most Preferred Nowadays
IA Case OF Economy.
New York Jeweler.1
"Are wedding rings expensives Well,
no; they vary In price, but the dearest
of them would break q comparatively
poor man. This is the cheapest we
have, fourteen carats and not very
thick, and it only costs 81. 19ais again
is the most expensive I have in stock,
weighs tolerably heavy, you see; is of
the finest gold used for manufacturing
purposes, twenty-five carats, and costs
SIS. Seems almost too heavy to wear,
doesn't it? But ring that would gall
and weigh down a woman's finger
wouldn't be unsuitable to some mar
riages after all. Yes, sell quite few
of the cheaper ones. You would natur-
ally think that as man only buys one,
or at most two such articles in the
course of his life, he would not mind
spending few dollars ait. But that's
according to how they feel, too.
with sentiment Why, man bought a
ring in September last, haggled over
the price, and chose one at 81. Day
before last Sunday he came IN and
wanted the size altered straight away.
He was dressed in mourning and
looked like well-to-do clerk. He ex-
| planned that his first wife had died in
November, and he was going to be mar
ried again Christmas day, and as the
ring was hardly worn he thought it
was no use buying another!
Rings are broader and heavier than
they were thirty years ago, but as rule
the purchasers choice is guided pretty
much according to how the lady feels
about it. They say that in England
the thin, old-fashioned ring is coming
in again, but in New York, as I say,
the ladies mostly prefer a broad and
heavy one, and before marriage any
how man generally is guided by his
future wifes inclinations. and every
thing is done according to how she
feels about it."
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
What Can 1t Meant
TOlive Logan.1

You and I, who belong neither to
the one class nor to the other, who are
observers merely, shut out from splen-
doris highest expression, yet spared
squalor's keenest miseries, can but
look at each other and exclaim in
amazement, what can it mean? What
is this fearful secret of life, which con-
demns one man to hand-to-hand fight
with hunger from his cradle to his
grave and laps the other in downy lux
ury, softer than the plumage of the
swans white breast, feeds his baby lips
with a golden spoon, and lays his en-
balmed corpse in monument, whose
cost would erect hundred cot
tages to shelter many more than a
hundred human beings as irresponsible,
as worthy as himself? ?"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
A Curious Variation.

Manhattan in Chicago Journal
This general rule of squalor through
sacrifice to drink has one curious varia-
tion. You have doubtless read of the
cheapness and discomfort in which
Italians live in New York. They do not
endure that kind of existence because
they are saving it. They have no idea
of staying longer in this country than
will suffice to gather few hundred
dollars. with which to return to Italy,
where the sum will relatively be
fortune. The griniest rag
picker, the humblest organ grinder,
the meanest chesnut-roaster, is capi-
talist The Italians are colony by
themselves in the Sixth ward. The
houses are bad, and the occupants have
the aspect of abject and hopeless pow
erty. But there are three Italian bank
ing places in that quarter, and not
one pawnbroker. That tells the story.
Another thing, the italian stale beer
dens, in which the dregs from beer
kegs are sold at 2 cents q glass, with
the privilege of sitting all night on
hard bench by fire, are actual places.
and no description has exaggerated
their awfulness of degradation; but
Italians are the keepers Of thero, and
not the customers.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
A Prentice Chestnut.

The Courier-Journal says that the
late George D. Prentice was once play
ing at poeer on Mississippi steamer.
Prentice bet thousand on his hand !;
his opponent raised him five hundred !;
Prentice raised thousand; his oppo-
nent raised him five hundred; Prentice
again raised the stake thousand. ''Mr.
Prentice" said the opponent. conf
IDENTIFY, you are betting more than your
hand is worth" Prentice looked at his
hand, turned it down on the table, and
said: Sir, if L were playing with
Jupiter at star ante, I would darken
the everlasting armament on the hand
I have Just turned down"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
AS Important az Some Others.
New York Sur

A new society was discovered by a
Williamsburg policeman yesterday. On
one of the dumps at the Wallabout
basin he noticed an excavation. As he
slipped down into it his curiosity was
excited by hearing voices. Reaching
the bottom he found door in the en-
bankment, and opening it he found
a cave in which were three men
seated about stove smoking and chat
ting. He thought they were tramps and,
on saluting them as such, he was in
formed that they were the foremen Of a
gang of pickers-a class of men who
search the dumps for such articles as
may be carried there with the city ref
use.
Were here to catch the first cat, .
they sad, "and keep range pichers
away. This Is or week on. There )
little company of rs, and we ea'1 it
our society. Every dump has it, So
ciety. You just Try and see if You ran
pick anything of dump without be-
longing to the ociety that watthe, it. .
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
Shakespeare and the sEois-n Han
anar
TCrofu, $ letter.

Judge Barrett, author OF An Ameri-
can Wife," recently produced at Wax
lacks, led off with half-hours speech,
very compact and artistic, in which he
set forth that the main reason why the
American drama languishes is that our
people are too busy to become cultured
experts in art. Moreover, he said, our
managers would rather have poor
play from Paris, than good play from
New York ST was recent y asked" he
said, eff thought Shake -peare could
get his plays produced if he lived to-
day in some town up the Hudson, and
should bring them to notice
for the first time in this city,"
Oh, yes, I really think he could. I
fancy his coming down bringing under
his arm roll of manuscript, say, "The
Merchant of Venice" and submitting
it to manager. The manager conde-
scendingly says: "We have RATS of
plays ali the while, but will have
yours read as soon as we can get to it.
Good morning. SIR Slsakes1Sass calls
several times, and in about
three years he learns that it
has been read. Mr.. Shakespeare,
the manager says, there is some
merit in your play-there really is, sir,
some merit, assure you. I had no
idea there was at first. [ think we can
cut it down so as to make it play. I'll
give it to my man. You see it's awfully
talky -talky. Why, it would put an au-
dience to sleep as it is now. That SER
mon of what's-her-name's- Portals
they wouldn't stand that. Shall have
to cut it. Oh, yes, I know you like it,
aud think it good. It's always SC
with authors Then you bear down
rather hard on Shylock. This
will have to be toned down.
A good many of our best patrons
come from that race, and 'twont do to
offend them. Then the idea of leaving
Shylock out of the last act! Why, nc
respectable tragedian would take the
part. No; FL tell you what we'll do.
Well have missionary come into the
last act and convert old d'Shylock! See
Capital idea! Then I'll have the more
declamation-the talky-talky stuff
struck out; and then, when we get
through the plays at present under
lined, I'll give it a trial-that is, if ]
can't find German, French OF English
play! !"