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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-01-02

Jo.a WI L. h Downhsm wa norm in New
900' reS on the $50 Of March, 1889. When
. YEA Sears OF age he left hons and engaged IN
bs .uius enterprise in the West. Ia 1862
oso saIe 10 this city, where he has been en-
s srseu In tho wholesale lqnor business ever
f b being tee bead of lEe firm Of Down.
s as@ d Green. He has byea active in syerv
s.uiIefpflse that woaia tend 20 in;!d mn
da a. Up to las, sprnu ne was nresi.
zen OF the Beard o. Aldermen, which nosi
j.; ir'u ne occupied for Ten years Of the-sixtoen
~, " m, he represented his constituency #
rec,a auiIu ward in that body. He was a d.
cnj,u ut 10 tne Alexandria and Fairfax Aeri.
Joh 'a- d Z ASSOCIATION CT which The late Hon.
The ca - omoot vas president, director in
iIe man Bank and is director ofea I. Of
i'ur building associations now in opera.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-01-02

DRY MADEIRA WINE, very old, purely medi-
~ cinal in qnart bottles.
oct26 GEO. McBURNEY & SON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-01-02

DREECH.LoADJNG GUNs-We are now offer.
ID ing at very low prices in order TO reduce stock
dec15 JAS. F. CARLIN & SONS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-01-02

g
Ny son Samuel has been admitted IS partner
from this date. The finn hereafter will be known
as l. SCHWABZ & SON.
January Q, 1855 !. SCHWARZ
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-01-02
STOCKHOLDERS MEETINGS
NITIzENs' NATIONAL BANK,

Alexandria, Va, December 13, 1857.
Tho annual election for Directors of this Bank
will DO held at the banking house on TUESDAY,
January 10, 1888, between the hours of - m.
and 1 p m.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-01-02

A FIRsT-RATE STOCKING FOR CHILDREN
n to e1h ribbed white feet and all colors, at
10c per pair at
my13 AMOS 3. SLAYMAKER'S.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13
An Extraordinary Suicide.

The suicide in the Rue la Guerre
bears the marks of genius. In a
room whose windows were all closed,
a headless body was found upon a rude
guillOtine. A note held in one hand of
the dead man said it was useless to at
tempt to discover his identity, for he had
made arrangements which would pre-
vent the head from ever being found.
Sure enough the body lay headless in
a closed room and the head could no.
where be found. The man was buried
as one unknown and the case babe fair
to grow dusty in the pigeon-holes of
the curator of mysteries. A few days
after this event a peasant in a depart
ment distant some two hundred miles
away was attracted by peculiar
object in the branches of tree. Inn
PEELED by curiosity he examined more
closely. and found a human head at
tached by cord to a small silken
balloon. He reported the affair to the
nearest sergeant of gendarmerie, and
No. 2 was given due promin-
ence. By combination of the two
mysteries it became clear how the
suicide disposed of the head, which,
being restored. served to identify him.
But how the balloon. with the head at
tached. escaped from closed room
none have ever been able 70 explain
London Nctcs.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13
LIFE IN PORTUGAL.
A Country Where Modern Ways Have No,
Yet Become Popular.

A Country Where Modern Ways Have Not
Yet Become Popular.
In Portugal man may look about him
and almost forget how the world has
grown older and sadder. Here he will see
the plowman and the carter guiding oxen
in size and shape such as the ancient
Romans bred, yOked to such primitive
plows or carts as we still can see on Greek
and Roman coins. Their rules and
methods of tillage are the same simple and
often foolish ones as the ancients followed;
the old heather superstitions still mingie
with the new religion; the peoples Ian
guage is Gker to the old one that came
from Rome than any still extant, the ploSv-
man and WAGNER and reaper, the shep-
herd in his goats skin coat, and the
maiden, with her distaff, might all take
their places in some such rural procession
as we see sculptured on Roman bas-
relief of the Augustan age. The very
aspects of nature, the genial air, the vines
and olive trees, the rocks, valleys, run
ming streams, the songs of birds and MUIR
muring of b - on thymy hills, are all
such as the sw est of all pastoral poets
used as accOm,r.- ;ments to his idyllic song
Of happy rural life. From just such
craggy noun, n sides overlooking the
sea, as Theoc..tus sang of, and beneath
just such tall stone-pine as he describes,
does the Portuguese shepherd lad of
to-day rest to take ais midday meal of
bread and olives, ana cox down upon the
creeping waves of ;,ue ocean far be-
meath his feet; jus hose ancient days
does he bare his Sd. .. at breast to the cool
sea breeze, and hears It in the branches
overhead, the very sweet, whispering pine
music, that the poet heard in Sicily twenty
centuries ago.--Tnte,ior.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13
BEING AN ANCESTOR:


The Least Satisfactory Of All the Blea0
fngs Bestowed on Mankind.
OF all the benefits and blessings which
fame may be supposed to confer upon man.
kind 1t is difficult to think of any thing
which brings to the honored individual
less satisfaction than the glory OF being an
ancestor. POsthum0rous honors must al
ways be regarded as barren an unpro6ta-
BILE, but in the case Of most Of them thera
is some faint foretaste in anticipation.
Whatever q man has done, he has not only
the satisfaction of actual achievement,
but he may enjoy the hope, more or less
tangible. that some time his merit may be
recognized and due credit be given to him
by posterity, although his contemporaries
deny his need Of praise. In the case Of
descent, however, the men who appreciate
the fact that they are founding families
are so few as not to count in the argument;
while no precience yet vouchsafed to or
binary mOrtals can put an individual in
possession Of the knowledge that century
or two after his grave is filled in he will
become famous as the great-great- great
grandfather of poet, a statesman or Q
hero.
And when one comes to think Of it, It Is
doubtful if one deserves any especial credit
for being an ancestor. Even the principles
of heredity hardly justify one in attribut-
ing mans greatness or his virtues too ex-
clusively to his forbears, and in any case,
the remOteness of an ancestor from the
glory OF his descendants makes it difficult
to regard him in any way out as fgment
of the brain. There is shadowy unrea!ity
about the waole troop of prOgenitOrs which
renders them at best little more than mere
names; and indeed ancestors are mostly
fictitious beings, creations of the brain
conveniently fashioned to suit the taste Of
whoever devises them, and then ticketed
with the misappropriated name Of some
defunct worthy, probably as unlike this
false image as possible.
There are plenty of people whose only
exhibition of imagination is in this direc-
ton, and their conjuring up Of fictitious
forms is generally the most effective when
1t is least conscious. The bygone person
ages whose names are applied as labels to
the fanciful Great ons Of the ancestor
maker would doubtless have been sufl-
GENTLY astonished could they have seen or
foreseen what their alleged presentiments
would be like. Indeed. it is to be feared
that they would have been keenly pricked
by unavailng remOrSe, because they in
reality fall SO far short OF the more than
human perfection of these shadows, and
perhaps that is one of che compensatiOns
to be set down as balancing the privation
of getting no satisfaction in being an an
cestor. 1t is just as well, after all, to
know nothing about it. Our descendants
will not know us, and, looked at in large
sense, no human being is even really hon.
ored as an ancestor at all, but at most lends
his name to Pigment Of the brain Of some
later generation. Boston Courier.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13
PUBLICATION SIMMONS.

The State Of Kansas to John j. Covert, greeting:
You will hereby take notice that you have been
sued by A. Gluck before G. +. Jones,a, justice Of
the peace, Of the city Of Dodge City in the county
of Ford and State Of Kansas; that your chattel
tached in said suit and that the trial Of the &C.
ton will be had in the Office Of said justice on the
LIST day ofOo tober 1888 at the hour Of ten O'Clock
q. m, and unless you at that time and place ap-
pear the said Gluck will make due proof Of his
claim against you Of $500 and get judgement
therefor with interest at the rate Of II per cent
per annum from the 26th day Of June, 1858, and
that said justice will thereupon issue order for
the sale OF your property attached aforesaid to
satisfy said judgement. G. F. JONES,
FRANKEY l. MCGARRY, Justice of the Peare.
ATTORNEYS for Plaintiff,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13

WHEN you do any thing from a clear
judgment it ought to be done; never FiDb
from being seen to do it, even thous
world should misunderstood it.-Er
The great desire of mankind in gem
eral is to prosper and become rich.
Some go at life as though they thought
people should be thankful for their
presence. Their seeming Importance
generally terminates in a downfall at
an early period, and they find their
level in disappointed existence. Others
manfully persevere, taking hold of
things continually as they appear to
block up the way of progress under
standingly, and finally come out often
ahead of their most sanguine expecta-
tons. Life is made up of ups and
DOWNS" and the sooner we learn to
realize the fact that to enrich our
selves We must not trample on the
rights given us, but must store up
every faculty and power of mind and
body to be used judiciously in working
out the wealth that is in store for US,
the more certain of our success. If
we maltreat associates, or strive to
gain our ends by dishonorable means,
we must sooner or later expect to be
rewarded accordingly. Truly, life is
in great measure what we make it.
There are some things we may win
with violence: others, and these are
far more precious, can only become
ours by moderation, patience, cheer
fulness and self-restraint. Some per.
sons think to make their way through
the difficulties of life as Hannibal is
said to have done across the Alps, BY
pouring vinegar upon them-a very
unlikely process, indeed. There is
better way-the taking of things by
their smooth handles; thus they may
yield us their aid, if not their secret
to enrich US. and we shall be better
and wiser, if not also stronger and
richer men.-Fdym and Fireside.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13
State Of Kansas, Ford County,
In the District court 10Th j

State OF kansas, Ford County,
In the District court 10th Judicial District.
In the matter of the petition of Clara thinner
mann by Matilda \. Zimmerman her next friend.
Notice il hereby given that the said Clara Zim-
hermann. minor, intends filing her petition in
the office of the clerk Of the district court i'm and
for Ford county, Kansas praying for an order con-
ferrng up n her the rights of majority concerning
contracts, real estate personal property, land
for authority and power to purchase hold, possess
out Intervention or control Of guardian or trus-
tee, any goods, chattles, rights interest in lands,
tenements and effects, by such minor lawfully NC
CURED or inherited Any person having right to
object to the granting of said order may appear
and show cause why the same should not be grant
ed. CLARA ZIMMERMAN.
BY MATILDA A. ZIMNERMANN,
Her next friend
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13
ORDINANCE NO. 17s

An ordinance providing for a tax levy to pay .
judgment in favor Of RObt. Dixon against Dodge
City.
Be it ordained by the mayor and councilmen Of
Dodge City, Kansas.
SECTION /. That lis mill on the dollar be,
and the same is hereby levied, upon all taxable
real, personal and mixed property within the cor
pOrate limits of Dodge City to be extended upon
the books and collected other taxes for the year
1888, for the purpose Of paying Judgment rend-
against Dodge City and in favor Of Robt. Dixon.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be in force
after its publication once in the Ford County Re-
publican
Passed the council Aug 24th, 1885,
Attest GEO. F. JONES.
City Clerk.
Approved Aug. cath, 1888
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13
State of Kansas, Ford County, ss:

State of Kansas, Ford County, So:
Before Geo. F. Jones, justice of the peace,
of the city Of Dodge City, in said county.
S. Galland,
We
E. E. Perkins.
The defendant. E. E. Perkins, is hereby notified
that he has been sued by the above named plain
that an order OF attachment and garnishee sum-
mons has been issued in said action; that said
garnishee summons has been served on the Atchi-
son, Topeka 4 Santa Fe railroad company, and
that said, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
road company, have made answer in which 1t ad-
mts to OWING said defendant the sum Of thirty one
dollars and thirteen cents; and that said cause
will be heard before said justice Of the peace, on
the Goth day Of September, 1883. at O'Clock p. m.
Attest: GEO. F. JONES'
Justice Of the Peace.
E. u. Swan, l.. l.. Dysert, Pltffs. Att'ys.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13

WE have again and again urged our
readers to become systematic students OF
the Bible. We shall continue to do so.
Those who have not tried the experiment
have no idea of the effect which in
the course of few months even,
would be produced in their minds
and hearts. Ii one will study the
Book until he really acquires taste for
the study. he will be very sure to continue
it during the remainder of his life. He
will feel the need Of it just as much as he
does his daily foOd.-N. 7. Independent.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13

In the district court, Ford county. Kaneas.
W, l.. Bergen,
vs..
c. W. Robinson.
BY virtue Of an execution to me, the under
signed sheriff of Ford County, Kansas. delivered
issued b. the clerk Of the 10th judicial distric,
court, lifting in and for Ford county, in said state
! will, on Saturday, September 10Th, A. d. 1873
at II O'Clock II. Of said day. at the west door Of
the court house. in the city Of Dodge City, in said
county and state aforesaid, offer at public sale
and sell TO the highest bidder for cash in hand
all the right, title and interest the above named
defendant had on the 18th day Of July, A. D. 1Ssss
or at any subsequent time thereto to the following
named property described follows, viz:
Lot two ~ in block fifty nine (59 in the town
Of Ford City, Ford county, Kansas, and lots three
(3 and four a. and the south half Of the north
east quarter Of section (3, township twenty eight
(2Ss), south and range twenty three (23w) west,
all in Ford county, and state Of Kaneas. Said
property was by me duly levied upon and ap-
praised, at the value Of one thoieand and seventy
five dollars, as the property Of the above named
defendant, c. W. Robinson, for the purpose Of
satisfying the abOve-named execution, debt, in
terest damages costs and all sccrung costs there
on. H b. BELL,
Sheriff Ford County, Kansaa-
Sheriff. Office, Dodge City, Kansas,
August p, A ID. 1888.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13

An invincible wit and prlster
asked the captain of a craft, loaded
with boards, how he managed to get
dinner on the passage. why" re-
piled the skipper, I'VE always cook
aboard" Cook q board, do your
rejoined the wag; ''then l see you
have been we'll supplied with provi-
siUns this ttfp. 1t al event."
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13
Hard to Believe.

Scene-Husband. writing; wife, knit
ting
Husband-Elsie. oblige me by leav-
ing the room.
Wife-Why. Oscar?
Husband-Your silence is oppressive
Detroit Free Press.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13
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Characteristics

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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13

Black measles Of a most virulent
character has broken out among the
negroes on their plantations on the Santee
river, s. C. Many deaths have already
occurred aud the disease has become.epi-
demic. It has created . panic.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13

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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13
sHERIFF-S SALE.

State of Kansas, Ford County, ss:
In the district court, Ford county. Kaneas.
", l.. Bergen,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-13

NN'aAN \
ent home that the world can not ee: Does
there not reach TO you from among the
Canadian hills, or Western prairie or from
Southern plantation. or from English or
Scottish or Irish home a cord of influence
that has kept You right when YOU would
have gone astray, and which. after Won
had made a crooked track. recalled You.
The rope may be as long as thirty years or
five hundred miles long or three thousand
miles long but hands thatwent out of mortal
sight long ago still held the rope Yo,t
want very swift horse. and you need to
rowel him with sharpest spurs. and to let
the reins lie loose upon the neck. and to
give shout to racer if you are going to
ride out of reach of your mothers PRAYERS.
why, ship crossing the Atlantic in seven
days can't sail away from that, A sailor
finds them on the lookout as he takes his
place, and find them on the mast as he
climbs the ratiines to disentangle a rope in
the tempest, and finds them swinging on
the hammock when he turns in. Why not
be frank and acknowledge 1.-THE most of
us would long ago have been dashed to
pieces had not gracious and loving hands
steadily and lovingly and nightly held
the rope.
But there must come a time when we
shall find out who those Damascenes were
who lowered Paul in the basket, and greet
them and all those who have rendered To
God and the world unrecognized and nm
recorded services. This is going to be one
of the glad excitements of Heaven-the
hunting up and picking out of those who
did good on earth and got no credit for II.
Here the Church has been going on nine
teen centuries and this IS probably the first
sermon ever recognizing the services of
the people in that Damascus balcony.
Charles g. Finney said to the dying Chris
tian: Give ny love 10 st. Panl whom ~
mset him" whsh Sua md I neet HIM 9
Telegram-herald., 1888-12-16

We wish to call the attention of parents
aud guardians. in fact sll who are interested
In educational matters. TO clubs that are
forming In our city in the interest of coop
Grafton Of parents and teachers. So few of
Is realize how Identical our interests are
and how Ne send our little charges from
under home influences 10 the care of total
strangers who are entirely ignorant of the
training their pupils receive at home. and
y no would and could do 80 much better by
their pupils II they knew some Of their
idio-yncrasies.
Few comprehend how intimate the rela-
tons ought % os between parents and in
strucfOrs. or how the laws affect each.
These clubs srs organizing to study all
Of these questions. aud those who are inter
esied and who sr- not. are invited TO meet
with the Eighth Ward CinD A. il3 Court 81
residence Of r. 81. Goodrich. December 2sth
AZ p m
Pspers on Compulsory EiucstiOn. Duties
of Parents AMI Guardians OF Teachers and
Pupils and on Parliamentary Laws. p-e-
pared bv able writer's Come and Join us
for the good Of our coming citizens and for
yourselves INDIA &. eroNs. sec y.
Telegram-herald., 1888-12-16

0szx
ogEksIox-rcs PeoEs - Geo. II cy--e.
as lag easf siLEQ2. lessee verde 81
s-sy. s4l-g.
EoLlgz skn De- drunk, co12ni.te1
Ne ss oays Caas- kl-1ssf. df4ak, Psia
800 u Il Gees dr1ak conmitssd
t4eiys d4Ys. Wa J. Aes1s s9-slng oii
ofolua1ces adorned - Dscs1n o<f =. ~ -
"a. hsBrt ~. Der. tru4Dcy adJournsd -
Decsmoer - 10 a. ~. Asrsh hamoln,
lzrcsny. discharged OF = 8oi-s PROSE-. " n.
AorloE isrc1ny adjourned 70 Decsnesr =,
~ : a. John WnAlsE. lafcsDr cis-
chsggsc Jzales Aalsy lsrceny. Adjourned
10 DScsolssr IL. 10 q N JOAN h0ipef
Harry A49 Cb4s Vim. Harry QQins and
James keAoe. charged siLh stealing brass
were discharged aDa Immediately arrested
on charge of petty larceny. Frank ID
LxLt1, - con opea alter hours, sxamins-
uol eaivsd ard defendant held for trlal al
the nexE term OF toe Snp~iior Court ke
~srensy ialss pretens~s adjourned 70 De
cember 9. % q 10. Wm. Skehan. larceny
adjourned 70 DsceaaB Der a.. 5 =. NJ.
PsoBArx- Eslste Of Geo IT. White. de-
ceased. appraisers sarr4at snd inventory
nlsd. EsEzte Of HATTIE b. GacKlsr ct al,
ml BOrs appraisers warrant spd iuysn tory
nied. ks-afs o. Samuel Crawford, deceased,
order allowing executors nusl account,
distributing estate and clschsrzins him.
Estate Of john Gezon. j.. deceased. order
sli0 wing Administrator nnal account dis
Iubuung estate and discharging him In
70 Edward Grimm. al INDECENT and neg
lscted child, order Of admission 10 the State
Public school at Coldwatsr.
CIRCulr-samusl A A0rey vs.. c. & w.
a. L. X. trcspass on the case, on trial.