The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-17
Personalities.

thors of Beautiful Snow" The Ava
larche sees, no doubt, the necessity for
immediate action in this benevolent en-
terprise.
Good time now for some ingenious
Connecticut genius to turn up in Paris
with his patent ready-made bullet proof
self-erecting street barricade, thrown up
in two minutes by the most unmilitary
reformer, and, by touching spring, will
fly any fag-Bourbon, Orleans, red OF
tri-color-and play tunes all the way
from MarseilIes to Syria.-Boston Tran
script
Hon. 4. B. Meacham has been lectur-
ing in San Francisco on the Modocs, and
in narrating the circumstances attend
ing the assassination of General Candy
and his own escape, said: Boston began
to take my scalp with blunt knife; but
Toby interposed with devices to delay
the operation, and when at length he
had raised FIVE or six inches of skin on
the left side of my head, Toby, woman
like accomplished by strategy what could
not be done otherwise. She shouted
Soldiers! sold1ersv and Boston left his
work unfinished"
Miss Jerusha Peck, very old maid,
and miser, died at Riverside, Connec-
ticut, last week. She was eighty, and
the survivor of two sisters, just like
herself. A search of the premises re-
vealed four hundred dollars in gold
which had been in the house thirty
years, five hundred dollars in old State
bills, and large sum in greenbacks.
William F. Ensign, formerly of Troy,
New York, an expert in opening and
constructing complicated safe locks, was
lately arrested at San Francisco for
picking safe locks in that city. He had
been engaged in his burglaries for a
year, and had given the detectives a
good deal of trouble. Ensign once won
81 900 gold from London safe manu-
facturer, who locked it up in one of his
safes and advertised to give it to any
body who could take it out.
"Do you know of any liquor being sold
in Montpelier, of your own personal
knowledge" Eyes" bluHy responded
the Colonel; 81 have sold liquor to
eight of that jury that sit before youp'
The prosecution told him he could go,
although he was ready to answer furth-
er on the subject. Rutland Globe.
Mr.. Hoke, of Atchison, Kansas, who
has jOurneyed eighteen thousand miles
during the past year in search of his lit
tie girl, found her Tuesday in Brooklyn,
living with his mother-in-law. She was
carried off by the unfaithful Mrs. Hol1e,
who fled from her husband after he had
shot another man from jealousy.
A lively verbal warfare is going on
between the Winnemucca Register and
the Unionville Silver State, both pub
lished in Nevada. The latter paper, af-
ter severely rejecting on the paternity
of the editor of the former, says that he
is "a hunchback ape who can't write his
own name without wiping his nose with
his tongue"
A paper published in Lexington, Mis-
siouri, has the following: "a physician
of Lexington was lately called, by whom
is nobody's business, nor where resident.
to perform a painful, but necessary sur
g1cal operation upon a young child.
The child had come into the world with
a real, unmistakable tail, several inches
long, which, like all other narratives,
ran out to fine point. The vertebral
posterior wager had continued steadi-
ly to grow, and had curled under in such
a manner as to necessitate its removal.
The amputation was undertaken and
successfully performed a few days ago,
and the infant is in fair way to come
out all right. The names of all parties
are sacredly guarded, but the truth is
beyond question"
How pretty girl drew her deposit of
$50 from a suspended bank is told by
the Chicago Times: She rushed fran
tically to one of the Directors and asked
him if she could not draw her money,
am very sorry, madam said he, but
I can't help you to it just now.' But
must have it Immediately she returned,
passionately; It's all I have in the
world We'll, my dear madam, you
must have patience as well as the rest
But mine is an urgent case and I can't
wait, because Well, because whatp
Because said she, Pm going to be mar
ried, and I've got to get some things.
The man Pm going to marry has not a
cent to pay the minister, and he has on
ly one leg, and so I've got to see to every
thing myself" The benevolent Direc-
tor reached into his pocket and produc-
ed his private purse, out of which he
paid her the amount"
Although Italians are not generally
regarded as very industrious, the con-
tractors on the Berks county railroad,
Pennsylvania, say they are the model
workmen of the entire line They are
more economical than the Chineses of
San Francisco, live principally upon
bread and pork, and their expenses do
not exceed 81 "a per month each. They
are paid 81 rs per day, and each man
receives trifing amount of his wages
for his own use, while the remainder is
thrown into general fund, which is
dispatched to New York and from
thence to their wives in Italy. Those
on the Berks railroad send $4,000 a
month out of the country.
In Baltimore there are about fifty firms
engaged in oyster and fruit packing, of
which twenty confns themselves exclu-
sively to the packing of raw oysters.
The fruit and vegetable packing season
is now nearly over; the thirty houses
engaged in this branch of the business
have been busy up TO the present time,
and nearly all still have orders ahead for
all kinds Of canned goods. 1t is esti-
mated that about tive nty million cans of
fruit and vepeta hles have heen mt nm