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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-02-04
Fowler Graphics.

Fourteen ffteenths Of the people of
Fowler are opposed to selling whisky
in the town.
If We don't have good crops in this
part of Kansas next year, then plenty
OF snow and cold weather are no indi-
cations.
A freighting outfit camped in town
last Friday night that had been seven
teen days coming from Dodge. They
will probably get to Tascosa by the
4th of July.
George Fowler offers to make lib
eral donation for the purchase of band
instruments. Others would like to do
likewise. All We need is someone to
take the lead.
Fowler is strictly temperance COM
munity, and her people are determined
that it shall remain so. So far no
drunkenness has disgraeed her fair rec
ord. Let it be kept clean.
There nothing small about Fowler.
She has big scope of fine country
around her, big trade, Big Five is
building a town hall, and she has a
greater proportion of men over six feet
high than any town in Meade county.
Besides, we think the poorest man in
town would have given more than So
to keep the county out of debt if We
had secured the county seat.
Fowler is gaining reputation for
sobriety, decency and order that may
well excite the envy Of less fortunate
towns where whisky is sold and drank,
and where the attendant evils follow
The seeker for home in a fourishiug
town, surrounded by good country
and favored with a healthy social at
mosphere, will have no difficulty in Sc
lecting Fowler.
An enthusiastic temperance meet
ing was held in the school house IN
Fowler City last Monday night, which
was presided over by James Vaughan
and served as secretary by ". E.
Moody. J. 6. Brewer delivered a
short but pointed address on the evils
Of intemperance, supplemented by
George Fowler and others. A pledge
was circulated and signed by all but
four persons present. A committee
of Ave to was appointed to draft con-
stitution and rules, as basis for per-
marent organization. A committee
Of three consisting of George Fowler,
Mr.. Armstrong and A. NJ. Norman was
also appointed to work in opposition
to the granting of any permit to sell
whisky in Fowler, or for the reyoking
Of any that may have already been
granted The committees were instruct
ed to renort on Monday NIGHT. Feb. LIST.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-02-04

Snow storm on Monday.

Real estate advances as the snow falls
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-14
A Badly Managed Ball.

Ben: Perley Poore writes as follows:
Gen. Grant at first positively declined to
attend the ball gotten up in honor of
his Inauguration, but was persuaded to
reconsider his determination. The use
of the new north wing of the Treasury
was secured and was well adapted for
the festivities, although much trouble
resulted from the employment of the
colored messengers as attendants in the
cloak rooms. They received wrappings
and gave out checks with alacrity. But
when people came later in the evening
and presented those checks it soon be-
came evident that many of the messen-
gers could not read figures, and the cor
responding wrappings were not forth
coming. After fretting a while some of
the indignant guests insisted on person
ally hunting up their property in the
room, and the contents of the pigeon
holes were soon piled in heaps on the
floor. When the managers were in
formed of this mixing up of coats,
shawls, overshoes and hats into mis-
cellaneous medley they sent one of their
number to endeavor to straighten out
matters. But as he was making his
way up the crowded staircase he heard
just above him the shriil voice of Horace
Greeley inquiring for zone of the infer
nal fools who have undertaken to man
age this affair" with so much earnest
ness that the alarmed manager quietly
pulled off his gorgeous badge, turned
about, and left the building glad to flee
from the wrath to come. / do not sup
pose that there was ever a more angry,
more disguised, or more profane crowd
IN Washington than those who had to
trudge to their hotels or their homes
that cold night without their wrap
pings.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-14
Seeing the Point.

There are some people who can never
see the point of story until it is ex.
planned to them. A jolly Dutchmar
who used to tell a story of a family OF
boys, a family of girls and mountain,
sometimes experienced this difficulty.
you see," he would say, "dere vas q
big mountain vid a deep, nice valley on
this side of il, and anoddec one on the
odder side of it. Now in one of desc
valleys dere is a man and his wife lives,
and dey have nine poys! And in de
odder valley dere is anodder man and
his wife lives, and dey have nine girls!
"Now ven desc poys vos growed up,
efery Won of dem comes over dat noun
tain Won at a time, and takes Won of
desc girls for his wife, and moves away
clear out of desc valleys Bime-by de
pOys vos all come over de mountain, and
all married and moved away-all desc
poys and girls vos gone.
Now bime-by de wife of de man in
dis valley vas died, and de man he
lived alone. And bime-by de man in de
odder valley he vos died, and his wife
she lived alone. And bime by, vonce
more again, de man in dis valley he
goes over de mountain and marries de
woman in de odder valley, and dey moves
away clear out of bot de valleys and de
whole country, yoost like de poys and
girls"
"Weil, what then?"
'Notlng den. Don't you sec the
point2"
mo, I confess I don't"
''Vy, de mountain eos dere yeti"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-14
The Harvest Moon.

When our satellite, on the 18th Of
September, presents her full, round
face to the earth, the most beautiful
moon of all the year delights the eyes OF
the inhabitants of this small planet.
For several successive evenings she APP
pears before the eastern horizon, in full
splendor, soon after the sun has disap-
peared below the western.
During the our evenings succeeding
the full there is this year an average diff
ference of only thirty two minutes in the
time of her rising. For this reason the
harvest moon has furnished theme for
poetic inspiration, ever since men began
to "consider the heavens"
The husbandmen of old, who lived
near to nature, saw in the arranc ement
a provtdential interposition to prolong
the day, and thus lend them assistance
in gathering in the harvest. Their faith
was more simple and reverential than
scientific, but none the less to be ad-
mired.
In England in the Middle Ages the
moon that rose at the autumn sunset
was known as the Hunters moon, as it
enabled the fore tiers to continue the
hunt and chase during the evening and
night.
Science explains the reason for this
seeming departure from the moons or
binary course, and throws to the winds
the theory that the moon deviates from
her answering path to aid the husband
men of the north temperate zone.
But the name given by the observers
of long ago still clings to the loveliest
moon of all the year. Long as the earth
endures, and her satellite circles around
her, so long wall the lesser light whose
full-orbed splendor lllumines the Sep
TENDER nights be known as the harvest
moon.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-14
Notes ON the Fashions.

French dresses imported for autumn
and winter, says Hayper'S Bazar, differ
vastly from the English gowns described
hitherto; they are less severe in style,
are gathered and pulled where English
frocks are pleated, are more bouffantly
draped, have more elaborate corsages,
and are more luxuriantly fashioned in
every way. Six or seven long straight
breadths are in French skirts gathered
full at the top to belt, or else they
are sewed to the edge of basque to
form a polonaise Quantity shaped
sleeves with transparent putfs at the
elbows, or with the top gathered and
full below the elbow to meet a stiff cuff
of velvet, are among the picturesque
French features of new dresses, and
there are girdles, odalisque sashes, old
designs il brocades, new ribbon stripes
in gros grain, plush and fur pompons,
and var ETY. of small details that give
an air of novelty to familiar fabrics,
and that may be easily added to last
years dresses.
The elegant short dresses for visiting
and afternoon reception toilettes sent
out by French modists are combinatio IS
of two kinds of velvets, or else of Ben
galine with velvet, or perhaps the new
striped gros grains are used with plain
velvet. Gray Salammbo blue, dull red,
dark een,-anl brown are the prevail
ing colOrs in such suits, and there is
usually a contrasting color, or at least
white introduced to relieve the dull
dark shade. Striped fabrics play con-
spicuous part in most of these dresses,
and are made especially effective in
basques when arranged to taper in the
back forms and to slope diagonally on
the sides to a point in front, or else
next the vest. Diagonal stripes in
sleeves are also stylish, and two striped
breadths are used on the front of the
skirt, with a seam in the middle below
the drapery.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-14
A BLOOD-SUCKING RAT.
How the Earthquake Swarmed Big Houses
| With Rodents.
from the New York World

On Tuesday night last sensation was
naturally experienced in one of the most
prominent apartment houses uptown by
the earthquake, and on Friday night
two more sensations occurred, which
again alarmed the occupants. The first
was the supposed bursting of the hot
water pipes, which came near flooding
the building, so that the water had to
be cut off in the cellar. The second oc-
Cured just after midnight, when every
body was awakened by screams in one
of the apartments. The young daughter
of the tenant was found sitting up in
bed, holding her hands to her throat nd
blood trickling between her fingers.
She was hysterical and persisted that
somebody had attempted to kill her,
that she had felt the keen point of dag
ger pressed against her throat. There
w a slight laceration Of the skin of the
throat An investigation was made; the
doors were all found to be locked, and
it was evident that no person from out
side could have assaulted the girl. The
father of the young lady had, on turning
down the Counterpart of the bed, found
an enormous rat, which was killed.
! he next day the plumbers who ex-
amined the waterpipes discovered that
instead of bursting they had been
gnawed through by rats, who had then
found their way into the rooms. 1ester-
day ratcatcher captured more than one
hundred rats in the house. 1t was then
learned that before the earthquake no
rats were seen in the house. 1t has since
been ascertained that many of the most
prominent fat houses have been swarm
ing with the rats since the earthquake,
and one house in particular has been so
colonized by the rodents as to become
almost uninhabitable.
Investigation has established a most
probable theory in regard to these
strange and sudden visitations, and that
is that the recent earthquake is the
cause.
A gentleman who has made a special
study of rats, says a rat by nature is COM
PEELED to gnaw; if he does not his teeth
grow so rapidly that his jaws become
locked. He is one of the most nervous,
cunning and sensitive of creatures, and
when cornered is very vicious. They
are easily alarmed by rumbling or jarring
sounds.
This gentleman has no doubt but that
the tremor and 1everberations caused by
the shocks of the earthquake tuesday
night so alarmed the rats in the sewers,
cellars and subterranean passages that
they left in swarms. He remembers at
the siege of Paris, during the cannonad-
ing by the armies, that the conclusion
frightened thousands of rats from the
sewers and catacombs to the streets and
houses.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-14
"The Old, Old Story"

What a depth of pathos there is in
those words How as in mirage shift
ing scenes float before US of happy
homes, and hearts once made glad, now
desolate.
OF dark eyes that brighten in the
glow, of the love that burned at the
pure hearts altar, of sweet lips that
smiled and from which tones issued
forth, like the chime of silver bells, SO
full of trust were they.
OF the soft white hand laid so confid-
ingly in the apparently strong and firm
one, with perfect faith that knew no
change; that whittier thou goest will
go. Thy people shall be my people,
and thy God my God"
To find, and to see, that it was all for
naught, that the bright hopes were
windward strewn, that the love, so
great, and faith and trust, has been
more than the aching heart could bear,
meeting no return, and so it had broken.
That how love and hope and trust, like
the Dead Sea fruit, had turned to ashes
upon the white lips.
How the soft, little hand, had grown
scanned and callous and SO weary of
battling alone, the clouds so dark and
lowering that the erst while beautiful
eyes, now dull and heavy with unshed
tears, could not pierce the gloom.
How with some the light of reason
went out suddenly, because Of the mar
rowness of the groove they moved in,
when with just caress or a smile, a
tardy appreciation even, a life would
have blossomed anew; and how she,
who knew no guile until he came, was
made to understand the pertidy of the
world and the hollowness thereof, and
made ''to stand without, as the Peri at
Paradise longing for that she may never
have" All, the bitterness of slowly
finding out, when hope is dead and de-
spair and reckless care troop in and hold
sway God pity the wrecks of the
Knight have been" because of ''the old,
old story"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-14
The Murder of Helen JeWett.

The graveyards of a community are
excellent records, and in the beautiful
cemetery of Nacogdoches, Tex, one soon
notices the recurrence of the names of
the Northern States as the birthplaces of
the most prominent dead. The leading
citizens of those early times seem to hive
come North and East rather than from
the South and West.
This old town served as haven of re-
fuge in some cases, and in others as a
stepping stone to great wealth for many
of these sons of other States; notably
among the last may be ranked the Thorn
family, and under the first count may be
classed Richard Parmalee Robinson. He
figured as principal in the murder case
of Dorcas Doyan, alias Helen Jewett,
which was tined in New York long years
ago. Robinson was clerking and was
engaged to his employers daughter;
when his mistress, the beautiful cyprian
mentioned above, heard of her lovers
contemplated marriage, scene ensued
she vowed it 81 ould never be, she
would take means to prevent it; but that
night as she slept her skull was cleft in
twain, and with the Ratchet belonging
TO the store wherr Robinson cler ed
He was arrested and tried; the details
were sensational in the extreme and hor-
rible to a degree. but Robinson was of
good family, and his fathers money
bought the witness whose testimony
saved his life This was done, however,
on condition that he would go to Texas
and change his name, which he did
simply dropping his surname and retain
ing Richard Parmalee. The man whose
testimony had made HIM free committed
suicide not long after by jumping from
the yard arm of a ship and drowning
himself in New York Harbor; the me =
DRY of his perjury crazed him, it was
said. This tragedy gave birth to the
novel "Helen Jewett."
Parmalee made many friends in his
new home, and among those who liked
him were many firm believers in his in
nocence. He afterward married a lady
who came to Texas from New York and
became Mrs. Phillips; after Phillips
death size welded with Parmalee; from
that union sprung a respectable and
highly connected family. There are those
still living WHO believe and say that Mrs.
Parmalee was the same lady to whom
young Robinson was engaged when the
Jewett murder was committed. How
ever that may be, she was mortally
afraid of her husband, and never seemed
easy until she had seen him in his coffin;
perhaps she ever felt in imagination the
murderous blow with which he had put
her rival out of his av.-Ne1o Orleans
Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-14
John G. EnO's Life.
ANXIOUS TO RETURN TO THE sTATEs-HIs
CHIEF PLEASURE is PLAYING BILLIARDS.


FROM the cincinnati enquirer.
OTTAWA. Ont. 1t was only a few
days ago that your correspondent was
in Quebec, and while there called upon
John G. Emo at his chateau, just outside
the Gold Rock City, for the purpose Of
learning from him whether there was
indeed any truth in the report that he
had been making overtures to the New
York authorities looking toward a set
Element of his difficulties in that State,
which at present keep him an outcast
Emo admitted that his friendsshad tried
to settle up all matters for him, so that
he could return and go through the
mere formality of trial, VIII oh would
end in an acquittal. He said that while
he was happy in Quebec, he would much
rather live in the States This is appar-
ent to all who have ever known him in
Gotham. Go where he will, be about
whatever business he may, there is al
ways the same cold, Indifferent look
upon his face. There is also peculiar
mechanism about his movements which
never wears away unless he IS at a
billiard table Here he seems t. be at
home. There is probably no man in
Canada who can handle a cue as we'll as
Emo. He has entered in several tourna-
ments which have been held in Quebec,
and has come out winner each time.
He is very absent-minded, and this
seems to be growing upon him 1t may
be IN his reVerie he is contrasting life in
Canada with that of the convict pound
ing stone in Sing Sing or Auburn. He
is indifferent to all visitors except Amer
leans. These he is partial to, and will
sit for hours in one of the satin cushioned
hammocks with which his grounds
abound, listening to what they may
have to say of the country of his first
love. His wife. very pretty woman,
with graceful figure, Is generally by
his side. She dresses twice each day,
whether with her family only or when
entertaining, it is a the same. Their
residence is a quaint old place, fitted
luxuriously. The furniture is all of old
design, and of heavy oak and mahogany.
1t can not cost Emo less than S., 600 per
year to live in the style he does, but this
never seems to trouble him Four of
the best horses which he could buy in
all the country about are in his stables,
and at least once each day, when the
weather is fine, he can be seen behind
span of jet black mares driving at a
three-minute gait to or from the ancient
capital.
Try as he will, the absconder cannot
feel at home. The doors of the ] osses,
the 1achereaus, and the Morins, all first
families, are closed against him. Had
Emo hunted all Canada over he could
not have found a city which he would
have had so much difficulty in obtaining
an entree into society as he has here.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-14
HIS LAST RUN.
Story of "A Railroad Man Full of Real
Life.

He had been sick at one of the hotels
| for five or six weeks, and the boys on
the road dropped in daily to see how he
got along and to learn if they could
render him any kindness. The brake
man was good fellow, and one and all
encouraged him in the hope that he
would pull through. The doctor didn't
regard the case as dangerous, but one
day the patient began sinking, and it
was seen he could not live the night
| out A dozen of friends sat in the
room when night came, but his mind
was dead; he did not recognize them
1t was near one of the depots, and
after the great trucks and noisy drays
had ceased rolling by, the bells and the
short sharp whistle of the yard engines
sounded painfully. The patient had
been quiet for half an hour, when he
suddenly Enclosed his eyes and shouted
-"Kal- a-ma-ZoOn
One of the men brushed the hair back
from the cold forehead, and the brake
man closed his eyes, and he was quiet
for time Then the wind whirled
around the depot, and banged the
blinds on the windows of his room,
''Jacksonl Passengers going north
by the Saginaw road change cars"
The men understood The brakeman
thought he was coming east on the
Michigan Central. The effort seemed
to have greatly exhausted him, for he
lay like one dead for the next five min
utes, and watcher felt for his pulse to
see if life had gone out. A tug going
down the river sounded her whistle
loud and long. and the dying brakeman
opened his eyes and called out-''Ann
Arborm
He had been over the road thousand
times, but had made his last trip.
Death was drawing special train over
the old track and he was brakeman,
conductor and engineer.
One of the yard engines uttered a
shrill whistle of warning, as if the glare
of the headlight had shown to the en-
gineer some stranger peril, and the
brakem called out:
TYP sill -antin'
she is coming in FAST" whispered
one of the men.
''And the end of the run will be the
end of his life," said second.
The dampness of death began to col
lect on the patients forehead, and there
was that CHASTITY look on the face that
death always brings. The slamming
of door down the hall startled him
again, and he moved his head and faint
ly said:
'Grand Trunk Junction. Passengers
going east by the Grand Trunk, change
cars!'
He was so quiet after that that all the
men gathered around he bed believing
that ne was dead. Suddenly his eyes
closed. He lifted his head whispered
DE"
''Not Detroit" but Death He died
with the half-uttered whisper upon his
lips, and the headlight of Dea this en-
CINE shone in his face, and covered it
with such a pallor as nothing but death
can bring. M. Quad.