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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
Signing the Declaration.

The following gossip about the Dec
laration of Independence is from Wood s
Household Magazine, and is by J. B.
Wakeley:
"In looking at the signatures, not one
is written with trembling hand except
Stephen Hopkins. It was not fear that
made him tremble, for he was as true a
patriot as any of them, but he was afflic-
ted with palsy
"But one of the residences of the sign
ers is attached to his name, and that Is
Charles Carroll. It is said that one was
looking over his shoulder when he wrote
his name, and said to him, There are
several Of your name, and if we are un-
successful, they will not know whom to
arrest He Immediately wrote of Car
rollton,' as much as to say, if there is
reproach connected with this, l wish to
bear my share; if any danger, am ready
to face it." There's genuine patriotism.
at was rather amusing, after they had
signed their names, to hear Benjamin
Franklin say to Samuel Adams: Now
! think we will hang together Yes
said Mr.. Adams, sor we shall hang sep
arately.' Many have supposed that all
the names were signed on the Attn of Ju-
ly, 1776. Not so. It was singed Oh that
day only by the President, John Han
cock, and with his signature it was sent
forth to the world. On the second day
of August, it was signed by all but one
of the fifty-six sigBers whose names are
to it. The other attached his
name in Noyember. The pen used by
the signers is preserved in the Massachu-
setts Historical Society, at Boston,
What tales that pen could tell, if it could
speak, What history there is connec-
ted with it,
"The signers of the Declaration are
dead. The hands that held the pen, and
the fingers that moved it when it worte
their names on that original document,
now lie across their bosoms. They all
lived TO good old age. Tho average of
at the time of their decease
was over sixty-eight, the last survivor,
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, being
over ninety when he died. Fourteen
signers lived to be eighty years old, and
four past ninety. They all sleep in hon
ored graves"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
A GhOstly Passenger.

A haunted railroad is the latest sem
sation in the ghostly line in Detroit.
The drivers and conductors on the Fort
street route in this city have been half
frightened out of their wits by lady
spectre, who mysterinusly boards the
last car at night, and vanishes from it
as mysteriously without paying her fare.
The circumstances of her appearance
are thus described by local paper:
about ten nights ago the conductor
of the last car down, having no passen-
gers beyond Twentieth street, was stand
ing in the front door talking with the
driver, when he heard the rustic of silk,
and turned about to find lady seated
in the car. He wondered to himself at
her agility in boarding the car while the
horses were at trot and after the car had
passed along several blocks he started
forward to collect her fare and ask her
where she desired to stop. She had her
face turned away from him, and as he
put out his hand to touch her shoulder,
the lady vanished. The conductors
hair stood up, and the driver felt cold
chills run up his back. Every night
since then, as half dozen conductors
allege, the ghostly passenger boards
the last car, provided there are no other
passengers and after riding few blocks
she suddenly vanishes. The conductors
describe her as being richly attired in
winter clothing, having a shawl, hood
and muff and so closely veiled that a
glimpse of her features is impossible.
The most alarming circumstance of the
affair appears to be the omission on the
part OF the ghostly lady to pay her fare
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
NUMBER &C..
Aaron Burr's Daughter.

1t was Theodosia, his daughter, 80
lovely, so pure, so intellectual, so haugh-
ty, and yet so soft and gentle, that open
ed to Aaron Burr the brightest page in
the blotted volume of his life.
"She was nearly complete realiza-
tion of his ideal of a woman" Upon
her he lavished the wealth of q soul that
overbowed with secret tenderness. Long
after his fall from power she was the
solitary star, shining in beautiful lustre
over the darkened and rough pathway
Of his life.
During his trial for high treason, at
Richmond, in 1907 Theodosia, then the
brilliant leader Of society, in the most
aristocratic city Of the South, the wife
of Joseph Aston, distinguished citi-
zen of South Carolina, by her devotion
sagacity and influence, powerfully aid
ed her fathers defense. In the darkest
hour of that legal memorable drama
she evinced her deep affection in Ian
guage as heroic as it was beautiful.
"My vanity" said she, "would be
greater if I were not placed so near you;
and yet my pride is our relationship. /
had rather not live than not be the
daughter of such man" 4 few years
after the Richmond trial, which result
ed in victory for Burr, Theodosia
met a fate which is still enveloped in
mystery.
At the close of the year 1912 she sail
ed from Charleston in a vessel bound for
New York, for the purpose of visiting
her father Her husband was then the
Governor Of South Carolina. Though
he provided everything conducive to
her safety and her comfort which wealth
and influence could command, the ves-
sci never reached its destination-was
never heard from after leaving Charles
ton harbor. At last all hope ended; the
certainty that Theodosia was dead came
home to them, and Aaron BUR was be-
reaved-left to "a war within himself to
wage"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS:

The Financial furry" has c.
in the price of wheat ip purple ca and "a gold
tions Of the -es--.e enehai'ieD sf0uhu
:. y.-..-o-m the woods that crown
neGbhnd. where the mingled sPlendors glow,
yhere the gay company of trees look down
On the green fields below
MY steps are not alone
these bright walks; the sweet south wind at
~, nesting where the painted leaves are
stTewn
Along the winding way.
And far in Heaven, The while,
~ sun, that sends the gale TO wander here,
ous out on the fair earth his quiet smile
The sweetest of the year.
Where now the solemn shade
yer ure and bloom, where many branches meet
Sos ateful when the noon OF summer made
The valleys sick Win heat?
Let in through all the trees
Com5 the strange rays; the forest depths are
Their snnny-colored foliage in the breeze,
Twinkles like beams Of light.
The riyulet, late unseen,
Wmre, pickering through the shrubs its waters
Shines With heimage Of its golden screen,
And glimmerings OF the sun.
But meath yon crimson tree,
Le-r to listening maid might breathe bis fame,
Nor mark, within its roseate canopy,
Her blush of maiden shame.
o Autumn why soon
Depart the hues that make thy forests glad
Thy gentle wind and thy fair sunny noon,
And leave thee wild and sad?
Ahl 'twere lot too blest
Forever in thy eolored shades to stray,
Amid the kisses of the soft southwest
To roam and dream for aye!
And leave the vain, low strife
That makes men mad-the tug for wealth and
power,
The passion and the cares that wither life,
And waste its little hour.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
HYnROPHORIA,s HORRORS.
The Bite which Took a Year to
----a..s Kill fts aEiet5ms

Mr.. Peter Keil died at 4 o'clock on
Thursday afternoon, Of hydrophobia,
at his house, No. 1G7 Church street, af-
ter suffering terrible agony. The bite
from dog which caused this horrible
death, occurred more than one year ago.
The animal which inflicted the wound
was followed to the town Of Lake View
by a concourse Of frightened citizens,
and was finally killed. Mr.. Keil was
one of the most Jealous purEuers of the
rabid animal, and was not very deeply
grieved when a bullet was lodged in the
vitals of the brute.
Months passed away, with no symp-
toms of the terrible disease which final
ly destroyed him, becoming visible, al
though he was haunted with dismal
fears. On Thursday afternoon his fam
lily noticed that his restiessness had in
creased to a considerable extent, and the
almost forgotten wound was thought Of.
After few hours Of suspense it became
evident that the disease ICcd indeed
fastened upon its victim, Medical assis-
tance was at once summoned, and Drs.
Shippers and Williams did all in their
power to check the malady, but in vain.
The suffering man foamed at the
mouth, raved and exhibited all the
symptoms of hydrophobia. Those who
witnessed his agonies we're appalled, at
the apparent suffering he was undergo
ing. Death was inevitable, and it was
proposed by the attending physicians
to adopt some method to hasten the poor
sufferers demise. The friends objected
TO this, and allowed the disease to run
its course. The frenzy and contortions Of
the sufferer increased from hour TO
hour. He frantically called upon those
around him to kill kim in some man
ner and thus put an end to his strngglea.
Finally he was seized with commissions
and then died in great agony Chicago
Times
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
A War Incident.
Fro-n the Lexington Cva.) Gazette.

ErOEa Inc Lexington I va NTlzetle-
An order was sent from Gettysburg to
"post" commissary about Woodstock
or Mount jackson, in the Valley, to
collect rations for four or FIVE thousand
prisoners. A bright idea struck the IA
C. s." He had been refusing to buy the
bulls offered by the farmers, though be-
low the price of beef He Immediately
sent runners to bring in the bulls
f'good enough for Yankees to eat" In
a few days his sergeants had brought in
one hundred and fifty bulls, assorted
Sizes"
He had never thought how such
collection of cattle could be driven to
Winchester, the point of delivery.
Now, one big bull, with halter on,
and deep bass voice, walking with
slow and solemn dignity in front by the
side of his keeper, never fails-to bring up
the droves of steers, COWS, and heifers
in regular order; in fact, is necessity
to every "cattle man" in the country
But one hundred and fifty bulls and no
plain stock behind them was entirely
"unprofessionaI"- disgrace to the cat
tie trade.
Now the bulls had been gathered and
penned in twos and threes. These
scuffied little during the night in their
primary meetings." but got used to
leach other" by daylight. Early in the
morning they were all driven into the
turnpike at once, and an effort made to
"start" them. Instead of moving on,
not bull budged. Every one squared
himself in the road, with his horns
lowered and his hoofs busily defining
his position" Each covered himself
with a cloud of dust, and no one "knew
where he stood" until some "member"
accidentally "tramped on his toes"
which was followed by 1unge," the
signal for general fight. The hundred
and fifty announced with loud snort
they had accepted the issue" One
hundred and fifty tails flashed in the
air. Three hundred horns-long and
short-met in fierce collision. The dust
rose in vast fogs, as from an army in mo-
tion with cannon and cavalary. The
mountains on either hand beloved back
the deep and deafening roar of the COM
bat. Fences were splintered, trees torn
up, crops perished, the earth shook.
The sun rose as they Joined in battle,
and reached its zenith when the fight
was fercest. Night settled down upon
few battering bulls staggering along
the last of the living "rations" Hoofs,
tails, hair, horns, and hide marked the
distance of that days "drive"-just
half milel
AS the sun set and the detailed men"
returned with only the stumps of their
whips left, the commissary opened his
mouth in a wise saying: "There are too
many bulls for safe trip, boys"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
CONDENSED History Of Steam.

About $50 years b. G., Hero, Of Alex
andria, formed toy which eShibited
some of the powers Of steam, and was
moved by its power.
4. d. $40, Anthemius, an architect, ar
ranged several cauldrons Of water, each
covered with the wide bottom Of Icath-
eln tube, which rose to a narrow top,
with pipes extending to the afters Of
the adjoining building. A fire was built
beneath the cauldrons, and the house
was shaken by the efforts Of the steam
ascending the tubes. This is the FIRST
notice of the power Of steam recorded.
In 1543, June IL, Blasco de Caroy
tried steamboat of 200 tons, with toll
cradle success, at Barcelona, Spain. II
consisted of a cauldron OF boiling water
and movable wheel on each side ofthe
ship. II was laid aside as impracticablc.
The first idea Of steam engine IN
England was in the Marquis Of Wor-
cester's "IIistory of Inventions" A. p.
1868.
In 17lO, Newcomer made the first
steam engine in England.
In 171s patents were granted to Savery
for the first application Of the steam en-
gine
In 1876 Jonathan HulIs first set forth
the idea of steam navigation.
In 1864 James Watts made the first
perfect steam-eugine in England.
In 177s Thomas Paine FIRST proposed
this application in America
Ins17sl Marquis y anfEroy- y-eonafruotoa
one on the Saone.
in I7s5 two Americans published
work on it.
In 1889 William symington made a
voyage in one on the Forth and Clyde
canal.
In 1882 Ramsey propelled a boat by
steam at New York
In 1888 John Fitch, Of Philadelphia,
navigated a boat by steam-engine on
the Delaware.
In 1893 Robert Fulton first began to
apply his attention to steam.
In 1898 Oliver Evans, native of
Philadelphia, constructed a locomotive
steam engine to travel on turnpike
road.
The first steamboat that ever crossed
the Atlantic was the Savannah, in June,
1919, from Charleston to Liverpool
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10

Count Troutmansdorf, Grand Equer-
ry to the Emperor Charles VI, pur-
chased from the celebrated Jacob Steiner
violin under the following conditions:
He paid down in coin seventy golden
caroluses, undertook to provide Steiner
as longed as he lived with good din
ner every day, as we'll as 100 fiorins a
month in cash, and yearly a new coat,
two casks of beer, lighting and fuel,
and, in case he should marry, as many
hares as he might require, with twelve
baskets of fruit annually for himself
and as many for his old nurse. Steiner
lived sixteen years afterwards, and the
instrument cost the Count 10000 forins,
and it has just been sold at auction in
Dresden for $500 thalers, about 81, 900
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10

Again. o tender and benignant fSignt,
MY -fevered temples unto thee bare;
Bend softly downward from thy tranquil hignt,
And lay thy dewy fingers gently there.
Again, 0 Night, again
Until the turmoil of my brain shall cease,
And gentle peace
Shall come to banish pain
Still most compassionate, most blessed Night
The little wood-hird in its fsowny nest,
All safely sheltered in its wind-tOssed hight,
Ard softly tended has been lulled to rest.
Thou rock'st the murmuring bee
To sleep amidst the Hlys curtain folds,
And slumber holds
Ill weary things, save me.
Have pity, pitying Night thy breath Of balm,
Thy dews shed DER me. TN my forehead bare
Make haRte to lay thy tender cooling palm,
Thy stillinG finger on the pulse Of care.
thank thee Night! feel
Der each tired sense soft spells begin to
creep
In Visions sleep
Iegins my eyes to seal.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
-signaf Station on Pixies Peak.

DENVER, Col, October 1.-The Uni
ted States Signal Station on the summit
OF Pixies Peak is nearly completed, and
viii be dedicated with appropriate cere-
monies on the 11th inst. The telegraph
line to the summit is already completed,
and when the station is fully established
important scientific DISCLOSURES may be
expected. The signal station is 14,216
feet above the sea level. One observer
and three assistants will remain on the
summit all winter. The new trail lead
ing thereto renders its location accessi-
bie excepting In the most severe wealth
er. DR.. ". r. Hayden, the eminent
Chief Of Government Territorial Sur
vgyE, fIas purugIasud : sh0n1g nc Colorado
Springs, near the foot Of Pixies Peak,
and will reside there permanently.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
People Who Never Get On.

There are people in this world who
seem to be so constituted that they keep
all they have and add more to it. There
are others who are always losing their
scant possessions and rarely finding them
selves able to replace them. 1t begins in
childhood with children of the same
household. One will have her Christ
mas book with the gilt covers, her doll,
and her fancy box, and little trinkets, al
most as good as new the next Christmas.
Nay, the doll will have a new wardrobe.
and be fresher than at first. Her sister,
with the same presents, will have torn
her book into bits, broker hef-vfoiii, given
away her trinkets, and be quite uncon-
scious Of the whereabouts Of the fancy
box. They live in the same house, and
have the same education, but one is diff
ferent from the other, and remains so all
through life. As young lady, one
never can find her thimble or her scis-
sors, nor the book she wants, nor the
music she has but half learnt, while her
sister is never at a loss as to such mat
ters. And as married Momen, one, with
the same amount Of pin-money, will
fine clothes and jewelIy, while
ler goes shabby.
boys start in life with equal
One finds himself, at forty, with
sE4 sne; the other Is wretchedly poor,
sithout prospects. The pennies he
a-eorned to save have made the other a
rich man, perhaps, Something has, at any
rate. One has been no more vicious than
the other; but while one has accumula-
ted wealth, the other has not.
am not sure that any thing can be
done for people who are not born to get
on. Something within them clogs their
movement. We should no more be an
CRY with them than with cripple who
cannot climb hill. Nature made them
&c, and so they will stay as long as the
soul eieaves to the mortal body. They
are often good people, often desirous of
being generous. They are generally
people who can't say "No;" and the 9th
ers are sometimes little hard listed;
but still, the good things of the world
cling to the one class and fall from the
other, vino, for some inscrutable reason,
known only to their Maker, do not seem
be born to get on.
MARY KYLE DALLAS.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10

"Thirty-two centsI' echoed a woman
yesterday, when her grocer charged her
that sum for a pound of butter. Yes,
'um," he replied, with bland smile,
"You see the grocers can't carry much
of a reserve and can't turn out our col
laterals at sacrifice. If the Govern
ment calls in the bonds due in 1874 and
the imports Of bullion tend to ease the
money market little, butter must find
its level with everything else. Butter
is very panicky just now, but l think
the worst is over" She paid the mon
ey without further growing g.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10

NArIoNs WITHOUT FIRE.-Accord-
ing to Pliny, fire was long time un-
known to some of the ancient Egyptians,
and when a celebrated astronomer show
ed it to them, they were absolutely in
raptures. The Phonicians, Greeks and
several other nations, acknowledged that
. fheir ancestors were once without the
ise Of fire, and the Chinese confess the
Ame Of their progenitors. Pompanion,
hola, Plutarch and other ancient writers,
ssak of nations who, at the time when
ney wrote, knew not the use of. fire, or
mad just learned it. Facts of the same
kind are also attested by several modern
nations. The inhabitants Of the Marian
Islands, which were discovered in 1851,
had no idea Of FIRE. Never was astonish-
ment greater than theirs when they saw
It on the desert in one of their Islands
At first they believed il was some kind
of animal that fixed to and fed upon
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10

At the execution of james Conner,
at Kirkdale Jail, the rope broke, and
the wretched man fell to the ground.
81 stood it like brick" he said, "and
they ought to let me free" The hanging
however, was effectively performed the
second time.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
HoRsEs IN NARRow DOORWAY

HORSES IN NARROW DooRwAYs.-
A man who will habitually take horse
through a narrow door knows very little
of what a horse remembers, or what is
fair treatment to the animal. One sim
gle blow Of the hip against the sharp
corner of doorway is sometimes sniff
cient to ruin valuable horse; but, when
the blow has been several times repeated,
the horse becomes valueless, because he
has become highly dangerous animal.
We have seen a horse whose hips were
never healed after striking two or three
times in pasting through narrow way.
Another dangerous practice is the lead
ing of horses out of the barn door, by
the sides of loads of hay, grain, Sc. A
slight blow upon the hip will sometimes
so excite high spirited horse that the
person leading loses control over him;
and he escapes upon the jump, banging
his shoulders aud. hips as he proceeds,
leaving patches Of skin and hair as evi-
dence that he has got through. Many
a valuable horse has been ruined in this
way, and many a valuable one can be
saved by never leading him through a
narrow space Young FoLks' REa'.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10

gr. Joseph G.. Cannon, Congressman
II from Illinois, says he will make it
first business when he gets to Wash
ION TO find olt what sum Represen-
re Of the people can live on in de-
BETTING manner, and will then ex-
himself to have the salary fixed at
figure. Mr.. Cannon will find that
cost of "a decent, befitting" support
range. from 5000 to $50, 900, ac-
ling as Mr.. and Mrs. Congressman
define thoyes very uncertain ad-
Ives, decent and "beftting.n-- Bnf
Ezprsss.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10

"My little Tommy didn't disobey
mamma and go in swimming to-day,
did he?" "No, mamma, Jimmy Brown
and the other boys went in, and !
wouldn't disobey you" "And Tommy
never tells lies, does he?" "No mamma,
or couldn't go to heaven" "Then
how does Tommy happen to have on
Jimmy Browns shirt" (Interview be-
comes private with shingle accompani-
ment.)
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10

The citizens of Uniontown, Va, feel
a little cold toward Henry Snyder. His
wife fell down we'll, and he rode three
miles to borrow a rope, when there was
a ladder long enough for the purpose
learning against the house.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10

A Boston reporter found package of
sixteen thousand dollars, the other day,
and he refused the two dollars which
the owner rendered him. Some folks
are 70 airiah.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10

General Longstreet has been prospect
ing in the vicinity Of Birmingham, Ala
hama, with view to investing in the
iron business.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10

UNFERMENTED MAHURE.-Many ex-
cellent farmers have an idea that manure
to be most efficient in raising crops
should be well rotted; bat this Is a mis-
take. Manure loses heavy per ccninEn
Fresh manure, dripping with animal
urine, hauled directly from Che stable
on the land and plowed under, N worth
nearly double that which has decom-
posed to saponaceous consistency. When
it is convenient for farmers to haul
manure on corn ground from the stable,
as fast as it is made, il saves handling
il twice and forwards the work in busy
spring time. No fears need be enter
tained that the atmosphere win carry
off the strength of themanure if left ON
the surface. The only danger to be APP
pretended by this method will be in
case of the ground being frozen and
covered with snow and ice when the
manure is applied; il upon slopiRg
land the virture Of the manure might
wash away, but on level land there il
no exception to this plan Of operation
during the entire fall and winter season,