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Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-09-20

National Mining Company.-Locatioh
of works, Bristol Mining District, Nye county,
State Of Neyada. Notice is hereby given thai al
meeting Of the Trustees Of said Company,
held on the 3lst day Of July, lS73, an assessment
of fifty cents per share was levied upon
the capital stock Of said Company, payable
Immediately, in United States gold coin, 10
the Secretary Of said Company, at the office OF
said Company, Room No Z. No. AIN California
street. San Francisco, California. Any stock
upon which said assessment shall remain un-
paid on Friday, the 5th day Of Septem-
Der, 1878, shall be deemed delinquent, and Will
be duly advertised for sale at public auction,
and unless payment shall be made before, will
be sold on Monday, the 29th day of Sep
TENDER, 1878, to pay the delinquent assess.
ment together with costs of advertising and
expenses Of the sale.
By order Of the Board Of Trustees.
B. B. MINOR, Secretary
Office: Room No. 7. 4llh California street
San Francisco, Cal. au1td
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-09-20

pany.-Principsl place Of business, san Tan ran
cisco. Cal: location Of works Ely Mining De
trict, Lincoln county, Nevsds.-Notiee Is hereby
given that at a meeting Of the Board Of Direct,
ors, held on the 18th day OF August, Io'S, an
Assessment no, A Of fifty cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock OF the corpo-
ration, payable Immediately in United States
gold coin. TO the Secretary, at the office OF the
COMPANY, Rooms &c and p, Merchants Li-
change. california street San Francisco, cai;
ANY stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 10th day OF septem,
her, 1873, will be delinquent, and advertised
for sale al public auction, and unless payment
i made before. will be sold on Monday, the
9th day Of October, 1873, to pay the delin-
auent assessment, together with costs Of adyer-
Using and expenses Of sale.
LOUIS KAPLAN, Secretary.
Office: Rooms &c and q, Merchants Exchange,
California street, San Francisco. Cal. aul'-td
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-09-20

SeveiAici pci UAi VI cert
No 500, sold for asst No 3. 8
Hopper Mary, bal Of cert No
688, sold for asst No 3. g
Cope Geo W, per bal Of cert
No GIG sold for asst No 8. g
Cope Geo W, per bal Of cert
No 623, sold for asst No 8. 81
Hamilton e. bal Of certNo37l,
sold for assts Nos las. . !. g,
Cope Geo W, Trustee .......s
Barron William. -. IS
Burnham W O, bal Of cert No
S25. sold for assts No2 and : g.
Chler J Glen, Trustee, bal Of
cert No sol, sold for asst
No .. .s.... %
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17
Terrible Tragedy jim Missouri.

ST.. LOUIS, October I3.-The Evening
Dispatch has a special from Carrollton,
Missouri, giving an account of a terrible
tragedy enacted near there. 1t appears
Robert Austin, young farmer, residing
about eight miles from Carrollton, has
for some time suspected the in6delity of
his wife. Friday morning last Austin
left home saying he was going to the St.
days. He went to the depot, but return
ed after dark, secreted himself in a closet
in his wife's bedroom, armed with a
double-barreled shotgun. His wife soon
retired, and shortly afterward Eli ah
Hayley entered the room, undressed him
self, and just as he was getting into bed
Austin sprang from his concealment,
fred at him, but missed his aim, the
shot entering his wife's abdomen. Aus
tin fired again at Haley and killed
him instantly. The affair created in
tense excitement by reason of the prom
inence of all parties concerned, young
Austin being son of Colonel Austin,
one of the Oldest and wealthiest farmers
in Carroll County; his wife daughter
of DIR. Flourney, prominent citizen of
Lafayette County, and young Haley a
brother of Elder Thomas and Elder
Henry Haley, both prominent in the
Christian 7Church. Mrs. Austin died
Saturday afternoon, and Austin surren-
dered to authorities.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17
The Election.

We are unable to say, definitely, how
the election for Governor has gone, the
contest being so close that the official
caunt will likely have to be made before
the result can be known. But there is
a strong probability that Allen is elect
ed, as the Republican vote has greatly
fallen off in nearly all the counties
heard from, and it is not unlikely that
the decrease is general. If such should
be the case, the venerable William will
soon be the Governor of Ohio.
1t isconceded that the Democrats have
secured both branches of the Legisla-
ture, which means another Democratic
United States Senator-very likely the
return of Judge Thurman.
In this county the Democracy carried
their ticket by a majority, of nearly five
hundred. But it is said the majority
against Greiner, the Republican candi-
date for Senator, will not go much over
a hundred.
In Fairfield county, the Democracy
elect their ticket by TAjorities ranging
from 925 to 1900. Aliens majority in
the county is 1900. 1t strikes us that
the Gazette folks over there made vast
amount of fuss to no purpose
The Democratic ticket is elected in
Muskingum county, by majority of
about 200.
Later-The Republican State ticket is
considered safe, with the exception of
Governor which is still in doubt.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17

We were apprised, the other day, of
the completion of the great East Indina
Railroad between Bomby and Madras,
connecting the Arabian Sea with the
Bay of Bengal. The event is of great
importance to Hindostan. The line is
over thousand miles in length. 1t
runs through one of the most densely
populated regions of the globe. 1t
must be prominent feature of the i'm
mense network of railways with which
British capitalists are covering the
British dominions in the East Indies,
and which are working out such pro-
found results, bearing upon the politics,
social and religious condition, trade,
commerce and intercourse of the hun
dreds of millions of people who have
been planted there from time immemor-
ial. These railroads have given the
British Government new hold upon
India, far firmer than it ever had be-
fore. They are carrying European civil
lization and manners into regions not
heretofore liable to change. They are
breaking up the ancient system of
castles, liberalizing the minds of the
Hindoos, undermining their ancient
heathenism, and offering them all the
advantages of extended travel. They
are giving an immense impetus to com
merce, opening new markets to British
manufactures of every kind, and furn-
ishing new means of outlet for native
productions Railroads. telegraphs, news
papers, and the British system of polit-
ical administration are thus bringing
about marvellous changes in the popula-
tion of the East Indies, and are prepar-
ing the way for results which time alone
can reveal The new trans-peninsular
railroad line, just completed, is in
many respects the most important line
yet built in British India. Railroad
travel and transportation are very cheap
in that country, but nearly all the roads
have proved profitable to the capitalists
who invested in them. The Bombay
and Madras line is sure of pecuniary
success Cincinnati Commercial
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17
The Farmers MOVement-HOW it Is
Processing.

Let the politicians say what they
please about il, the farmers movement
is going ahead like prairie on fire out
West, whether the organizations in the
East are shams or not. Several repre-
sentative Missouri papers at hand speak
of the sentiment in that region. One
says:-"The necessity for that reform in
political administration which the united
effort of the farmers of the country, es-
pecially of the West, can alone obtain
is SO urgent that it cannot fail to be re-
cognized even by the most superficial"
Another-"This movement of the agri-
cultural interests of the country has not
commenced BIT too soon, and, how
ever modest and timid their actions
may be at first, they will soon find them
selves caught up in the whirling tide of
State and national politics, and will be
compelled, whether they wish it or not,
to consider all the grave problems now
before the country" Still another
"The farmers war, as it is sometimes
called, is destined to have great poll
teal influence" A Nebraska paper as
serts that the grangers are making rapid
progress in that State. Common cause
is there taken with the farmers of Iowa,
Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota and other
States on all questions affecting the far
mers' interest. Another Western paper
declares that Fthe whole race of dis
honsest politicians stand in awe of this
great movement" which is no doubt the
truth. A St. Paul paper says it now
looks as if the "potato bugs" (grangers)
will prove lively crowd in Minnesota.
An Illinois paper declares "the move
ment to be an independent one, COM
mitted to no one and to no party, but
commencing itself to ALL" The Catho-
lie farmers of Olmstead county, Mime
sofa, although not members of the Order
of the Patrons of Husbandry, express
themselves warmly in favor of its princi-
Piles, excepting its secrecy. In short
there seems to be general stampede out
West in favor of the movement, regard
less of religious predictions to previ-
GUS political afhliations.-N Y. Herald.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17
A Scheme for the Conquest of North
ern Mexico.

Sr. Louis, October ia gentleman
who has lived in chihuahua, one of the
Northern States of Mexico, many years,
recently arrived here on business, and
has communicated to the Times repor-
ter good scheme for the conquest of
Northern Mexico, embracing Chihua-
hua, Coahuila. New Leon and Sonora,
and their subsequent annexation to the
United States. A number of capitalists
of this country and many prominent and
be connected with the scheme
A brief outline of the project is as fol-
lows: The Texas Pacific Railroad is be-
ing constructed from both termini and
the work will be finished about the mid
die of the route, some where near Ell
Paso. Some fifteen thousand laborers
will be engaged on the road, and when
the work is completed they will be dis
charged in country where it will be
impossible for them to obtain employ
ment, and as such n en- are generally i'm
provident and without money they will
be glad to accept anything that may Of
fer. How these men are to be utilized
is thus stated: A society has been or
ganized, with headquarters at New Or
leans, composed exclusively of officers
of the Union and Confederate armies,
no one being eligible who has not attain
ed the rank of Captain. Some weeks be-
fore the completion of the railroad,
these gentlemen will be sent forward in
detachments, make themselves personally
acquainted with the laborers, and on the
discharge of the latter they will attempt
to organize them into an army, the COM
missariat and camp equipage to be fur
nished by capitalists who back them,
and they will then march over the
Northern States of Mexico and raise the
flag of independence in each of them.
The people of these States are expected
to look favorably on the enterprise and
offer no molestation or interference, and
the Government of Mexico will be pow
erless to prevent it. The next step will
be annexation to the United States by
vote of the people. Tom Scott and Gen
eral Grant are mentioned as connected
with or favorable to the scheme.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17
Important Decision in an Insurance
Case.

RICHMOND, VA, October 14.-In the
Circuit Court of the United States, to-
day, the case of Hancock VS.. The New
York Insurance Company was decided
against the company, and verdict rem
dered for 1871. This is a case of gen.
eral interest in the South, and also to
insurance men, as it settles the question
of the libility of Northern insurance
companies for the amount of premiums
paid before the war on policies which
lapsed during the war, if the companies
refused the application for renewal af-
ter the war had closed The verdict was
for premiums paid and interest thereon.
The company's agent here declined to
receive the premiums from the plaintiff,
because he was unable to communicate
with the home office.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17

Ex-Governor Warmoth, of Louisiana,
was present ION exhibition, as he said,) }
at the recent New Hampshire State Fair,
and made an amusing speech, in which
he told some of his own experiences in
life. He said that like every other pub
lie man just now he has great affection
for farmers His father was a farmer,
and tried to make, one of him by ap-
prenticing him to an uncle; but at the
end of six months the uncle waited upon
the elder Warmoth and said, THAT boy
may be bright enough, but be won't
make farmer; take him home" So his
father took him home and app-enticed
him to a printer. But the boss didn't
appreciate him, and in year he sent
him home, and the old gentleman set
him to studying theology. But he fail
ed in that too, and again went home, and
the old folks in despair summoned a
council, which decided that there was
nothing left but politics-the last and
lowest resort of all who could do nothing
else-and he became a politician. As
such he had hattered himself that he had
been success, but the vote last Fall set
him to. questioning ifafter all he was not
a failure in this too.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17

One H. Clay Harper, of St. Louis,
has been writing through the country
trying to obtain the publication of a let
ter pretending to offer to make bet that
President Grant will be "assassinated be-
fore the 10th day of April, 1874" The
editor of the Lexington (Missouri) Cdu-
casian publishes the letter; urges that the
assassination be committed, and says it
will "aford the Caucasian profound
pleasure to announce, on the morning of
April IL, that Mr.. Harper has won his
betp There should be some swift and
certain method of placing this pair of
fools in the lunatic asylum or the peni-
tentiary. The grand juries of their re-
spective counties should take them in
hand without delay Cincinnati CONNER
eiGL
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17
NatiOnaI Thanksgiving Day.

BY the President Of the United States Of Amer
ica-A Proclamation:
The approaching close of another
year brings with it the occasion for re-
newed thanksgiving and acknowledge
ment to the Almighty Ruler of the uni
verse of the unnumbered mercies He
has bestowed upon us. Abundant har-
vests have been among the rewards of
been among the blessings enjoyed; tran
guilty at home and peace with other
Nations have prevailed; frugal industry
is regaining its merited recognition and
merited rewards; gradually, but under
the providence of God surely, as we
trust, the Nation is recovering from the
lingering results of a dreadful civil
strife. For these and all the other mer-
cies vouchsafed, it becomes us as peo-
pie to return heartfelt and grateful ac-
acknowledgements, and with our thanks
giving we may unite prayers for the ces-
sation of local and temporary suffering.
l therefore recommend that on Thurs
day, the 9th day of November next,
the people meet in their respective pla-
ces of worship, to make their acknowl-
ments to Almighty God for his bounties
and his protection, and TO offer to Him
prayers for their continuance.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at
the city of Washington this 14th day
of October, 1878, and of the independ-
ence of the United States the ninety
seventh. q. s. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17
NO. $.
NO. 6.

Wanted to buy q cheap farm worth froln Two
70 four Thousand dollars In Perry county. Al
cash.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17
Pennsylvania Barns.

Mr.. w. c. Croffut, editor of the Min
neapolis Tribune, one of the spiciest,
wittiest, and most practical writer's in the
West, has been taking a stroll East, and
thus discourses of the barns he saw there:
"May jump from the footlights to
the farm?-from Chicago to Pennsylva-
mia? In Chester and Lancaster counties
is, think the most finished farming in
the Union. The farms, composed of a
brick dust sort of soil, are cultivated
from fence to fence, every rood, as the
farms of Ilemings and of Brittany are
cultivated from hedge to hedge. Cattle
stand with their four feet in two feet
of clover Every field is a park
Every barn is acow-palace. Every pig
pen is porcine paradise. Pennsylvania
is pre-eminently the State of barns.-
Think of three-story stone barn, with
a swell front and dormer windows in the
roof, and luxuriant portico where the
Sybaritic calves chew the cud of sweet
contentment on summer eveningsl And
then behold the little cabin in the rear
where the Agricultural Dutchman lives
with his "frow," and where the children
lie on the floor and envy the happy
calves in the lattice portIco. Every
barn is three times as large as the house,
which serves as a sort of appendage, and,
as it were, plays second fiddle to- it. The
barn is headquarters, and the house a
sort of sentry-box where the man resides
who takes care of it. The burn is sla-
ted, painted, corniced, cisterned, light
ning-roded, and the pig-sty is glazed, the
chicken coops are painted, and the worm
fences are whitewashed as far as you can
see l have no doubt the original
dwellers here whitewashed the ground
for acres around the domicile twice or
thrice year, till they learned its fatali-
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17
Pardon for all Deserters.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 1873

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 1873.
General Orders No. 1O4.
The President of the United States
commands it to be made known that all
soldiers who have deserted their colors,
and who shall, on or before the first day of
January, 1874, surrender themselves at
any military station, shall receive full
pardon, only forfeiting the pay and al
lowance due them at the time of deser-
ton; and shall be restored to duty with
out trial or punishment on condition that
they faithfully serve through the term
of their enlistment.
BY order of the Secretary of War.
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Adiutant General.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17
A Struggle with Devil Fish-A Di.
yer Nearly Crushed.

Mr.. Charles B. Drained, of Boston, in
writing to the Scientific American about
specimens of the devil-fsh, relates this
interesting incident:
The strength which these creatures
possess is almost beyond comprehension,
as is evidenced by what took place when
my pet q was captured. He had seized
hold of submarine diver, at work in
the wreck of a sunken steamer off the
coast of Florida. The man was a pow
erful Irishman, who claimed TO weigh
three hundred pounds. His size and
build fully verified his statement, and,
to use his own language, @the baste land
ed on the top of my shoulders and pin
ned my arms tight. felt my armor
and myself being cracked into jelly"
1t seems that he was just about being
crushed for he was suffering so from
the terrible embrace that he coald
move no part of himself. When drag
ged on to the raft from which he had
descended, and finally released, he had
tainted. The men on the raft seized the
fish By one of its wriggling arms and
tried to pull it off, but could not break
the power of a single one of the suckers.
The fish was only removed by being dealt
q heavy blow across the sack containing
the stomach This sack stood stiffiy up
above the eyes, while the eyes stood out
like Holsters eyes, and cleaned like fire.
The monster is, all in all, one of the
most frightful apparitions it could be
the fate of man to meet. 1t fulfills in
every particular the horrible features
attributed to it in Victor Hugo's "Toil-
ers of the Sea-" Notwithstanding the
severity with which the able Frenchman
has been criticised for Creating a non
descript with his sweird imagination, ,
the truth must be granted that his ''non-
descript" has an actual existence, as is
evidenced by the specimens in Brighton
and Hamburg, as we'll as my own.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17

General Cass, of the Northern Pacific
Road is now in the city. There is moth
ing new in regard to the line beyond the
fact that building operations west of the
Missouri are suspended, but the work
will be commenced as soon as possible
next spring. General Cass has been
over the line to see what is necessary for
putting the road in the best possible con-
dition for its winter business.-.S Paul
pr1oa
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17

The cathedral erected IL the twelfth
century is the only interesting church of
which Bremen can boast. 1t is now a
protestant church, and contains the
finest organ in Germany. Its greatest
attraction to strangers is the exbition of
several mummies, the oldest having been
four hundred years, and the most recent
sixty years, in an undecaying condition.
The vault in which they repose posses
ses the property of preventing decom-
position, in proof of which poultry is
frequently suspended in it, and vener-
able turkey one hundred years old, be-
ing at the present time hanging on
the walls.
The corpses bear no evidences ef do
cay, as in the case of Egyptian mum
mics, but carry on their countenances
the appearance of recent death, except
the dust of ages has somewhat colored
them. There are about a dozen bodies
laid out in coffins. The flesh feels like
archment, and the cheeks of an old
countess, who has laid here four hun
dred years, looks quite plump. One is
the remains of an English officer, shot
in duel ninety years ago, with bull
let-hole in his breast and a shatter-
ed shoulder. A corpulent old general
is still corpulent, and a dozen chickens
hung up ninety years ago, have their
feathers all intact
The vault in which they lay is abous
thirty feet long and fifteen wide, and
above the ground, in one of the crypts
of the church. There is nothing pecu-
liar about it and there seems no reason
why it should preserve bodies from de-
cay more than any other room in Bre-
men.
The exhibition of these curiosities
gives an income to the church of about
twenty dollars per day, and is quite
valuable sou: ce of revenue. 1t is not
everybody who can expect to be so re-
munerative after they have given up the
ghost.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17

SfOO,0OO Of stock in coal mine 90 cheap that
the coal in a 10 foot vein covering over 900 acres
Is given to the purchaser The mine is on Snow
Fork.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17

Mrs. Hill, who shot her husband, at
Worcester, Massachusetts, did it in a
unique way, with all the accompaniments
of fashionable life. She was walking
beside him and asked him to take her
parasol for her. He took it, and she
then, after putting her hand in her pock-
ct to get the pistol asked him to let her
kiss him. His recovery Is donhted--
Her eqnanimity is picturesquely perfect.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17
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