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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-21
THE CENTENARY OF A BALTIMORE JOURNAL.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 20.-The Baltimore American
celebrates its centennial anniversary to-day. The office
handsomely decorated with flags the coat Of arms Of
the State, etc. Accompanying its morning edition 1t
publishes fac 6raie Of tho first number of the paper,
dated August 90 1773 which, among other interesting
matter. contained long advertise OF George Wash
ngton setting forth the advantages OF 10000 acres OF
land on the ONO and Great Kanawha Rivers for winch
he had just received patent II also prints an Illus
trated supplement- with map OF Baltimore town IN
l773 and picture OF tie first Office The population OF
Baltimore town then only l,s,6
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-21
GEN. BURNSIDE AND GOV. HOWARD THROWN
FROM A CARRIAGE. ..-'

PROVIDENCE, Aug. Goat Martha's Vineyard,
last evening. carriage containing Gov Howard of this
State and Gen. Burnside, driven By young man, was
going from Edgartowp TO Oak Bluffs when from imper-
feet light or other cause the driver ran vehicle
IN AGAINST the railing of bridge. Both gentlemen were
thrown out and severely bruised, but fortunately
escaped serious hurta- They have arrived home.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-21
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON, Wednesday Aug. 20. 1873.
A, the request of the Secretary OF the Treasury the
has instructed the United States At
toruey for ts District OF Columbia to conduct the de-
Tense Of Mr. T. W. Hale, paying teller OF the United
States Treasury in the suit for damages for false mprs
onment brough. against him by Clinton Rice THIS suit
ernw. ont OF check upon when II Is charged there was
forged Endorsement discovered by Mr.. Hale
Prof Able who for n long tune has prepared the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-21
A GRANGE ORGANIZED IN BOSTON

BosToN Aug. 2O.-A Grange of Patrons oil
Hnsbandry organized IN Boston to-day with the full
number OF charter members. John ID. Barteu was
elected Master aud Herbert Radcliffe, Secretary. The
IneUbers are mostly grain dealers Mr.. Abbot who was
ratreienal ~ organizing the Grange has left for the
l.escrg part OF Massachusetts,, but Will return mere
1 n.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-21
NJ. ROCHEFORT ASSAILED BY COMMUNISTS
PARIS Wednesday, Aug. co. 1873.

A report from the vessel in which Henri
Rochefort was shipped for NewCaedonia says that ms
fellow considering his course as reasonable 10
the cause OF the Commune, made an attempt TO ynch
him. The officers Of the ship obliged to assign him
quarters apart from and protected against the Com
mupist exiles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-21
A JAPANESE TOWN TO BE OPENED TO
COMMERCE.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-Information ha
been received here that the Mkado will soon open STINT
nosa in the Japan Inland Sea, 10 the commerce OF
nations This section is reported Astounding in near
every kind VI wealth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-21
DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS IN INDIA.

Bombay dispatches report that destructive
foods have recently afflicted the Province OF Agra III
India. Thirty-fve hundred native houses had been
swept away There had been some oss of Life, OF the
extent OF which no estimate Is yet furnished.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-21
ROwDY SHOT AT CHURCH FAIR.
ATLANTA, Aug. 2O.-At q colored church Fail

last nigh; eight dsorierly colored men attacked q
mulat,o boy and stabbed him with knife. He drew
pistol and shot eight dead al tue church door
Ine rest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-21
The FIRE RECORD.
IN FORT wAYSE-Loss $4,000.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 2O.-A special dispatch
from Fort Wayne says that fire broke out this morning
In Daniel Neses block at the corner Of Broadway and
West Jeferson-st., occupied by A. c. Keil as drug
store; Ke Mckenzie, dry goods and millinery estab-
ishment and Christian Spiege, boot and shoe store
The whole block and its contents were destroyed The
loss is estimated at s50oO insurance, $500 mainly III
Western companies
ELSEWHERE.
The cupola of Dodd g. Co.'s Prussian blue
factory in Chestnut-st., Newark, n. j., was damaged
$500 by FIRE last night.
A fire in brick building at No. 238 Mer-
eer-st In TINS city, occupied by John Thielbahr as
grocery, yesterday, damaged stock 1900.
The Boston Chair Company's Works in War
yicks Boston, were damaged the extent OF 81 800 by
fire Tuesday night. The loss is covered By insurance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-21

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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
NUMBER 36.
The Difference Between xeanness
and Economy.

Economy is an excellent thing. That
is, it is very comfortable TO say TO
ones self, 81 will do without this, that,
or the other luxury, rather than run the
risk Of being beggar in my old age" !"
or even to find it possible to live with
out that which is usually deemed a ne
cessity, rather than to run into debt.
But exaggerated economy, in other
words nseGHneS, is something which
must render its possessor wrStched, and
something, too, which is of.en found in
people who are TOO selfish to forbid
themselves anything they desire. They
covet rich food and fine dress, ease and
idieness, but they begrudge to those who
minister unto their wants their we'll
earned p-ice, and always forget that the
"laborer is worthy Of his hire"
From .he lips of such people you
near nothing but complaints. Every
one is over-reaching them. The dress
maker has sent in f-iehtful oil; the
cook has no right TO such wages; the
abominable landlord thinks no rent 200
much for MS house. 1t is impossible to
get anyt,ing done without being cneat-
ed. In fine, they want all that people
have to sell, and have within their souls
miserly desire to get it for nothing.
Always acc using o:ner people Of tneir
own vice, they salve their own con-
sciences, and when they get something for
nothing, fancy themselves happy. But il
is only fancy. Tney can never know
the pleasant warmth hat flls the hea-i
when a generous act has been done at H.
prompting. They never feel the pleasant
independence that follows ungrndginl
payment Of those to whose toll or troublt
one is indebted Life is constant bar
lie TO them, and many spendthrift ].
happier than those who forget that the
have no right to economize at he ex'
pense Of other people, and whoever wit
tingIy takes inc money ofanother to add
TO his own purse is, at least at heart, ;
2
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
Playing For High Steaks.

Civilization is gradually penetrating
to he remote regions of the ear.h. A
faro bank has been started in Feejee, and
the natives are facinated with the game.
A somewhat sad insident is mentioned
in connection with the last match for the
championship. A chief became deeply
interested in game, the steaks for " hich
were human beings fattened for the
stake. Luck seemed to go against the
chief, for he put up his servants and
lost; then he put up his mother-in-law
and lost. He did not shed tear over
this disaster. Then he staked his un-
married sister and his wife's cousins, and
the bank raked all his chips. The in
fatuated chief then offered his baby, and
the owner of the bank had it packed
down in the ice chest in less than fifteen
minutes. The chief then bet all his
children successively and lost; and then
having gambled away his wife, he staked
himself on the last chances, and again
bet on the wrong card. When he hac
time to think it over, the chief said tha
he was convinced that gambling wal
very wrong, and he thought that i
ought to be suppressed by the autnori
ties. But before he could get a BIZ
passed he was killed, and put in bag tc
corn for the faro bank man. A success
ion of peculiarly succulent free lunches
made that establishment very attractive
to the Feejeean epicures for severa
mon his afteward. The name of the
chiefs family no longer appears in the
directory. The faro bank proprietor
however, is inclined to be benevolent
and he offers to make very liberal ar
rangements for Sunday schools. He il
now much interested in missionary
wnom he expects 70 entice into mis- den
He has intimated to his confidential
f..;ends that if he can only get that mis-
s:onary to play one game, and bet tn
infant class, ne will get up a supPe
which will discount spring chicken en-
1 tirely
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
How ThimbIes are Made.

The manufature of thimbles is very
simple, but singularly interesting. Coin
silver is mostly used, and is obtained by
purchasing coin dollars. Hence it hap
pened that the profits of the business are
affected instantaneously by all the va-ia-
tions in the nations greenback promises
to pay. The first operation strikes a
novice as almost wicked, for it is moth
ing else than putting lot of bright sill
yer dollars, fresh from the mint; into
nasty crucibles and melting them up in
to solid ingots. These are rolled out to
the required thickness, and cut by a
stamp into circular pieces of any requir-
ed sized. A solid metal bar of the size OF
the intended thimble moved by power
full machinery up and down in bottom
less mould of the size of the outside OF
the same thimble, bends the circular
disks into the thimble shape as fast as
they can be placed under the descending
bar Once in shape, the work of brigh-
tening, polishing and decorating is done
upon lathe First the blank form is
fitted with rapidly-revolving rod. A
single touch of sharp chisel takes a
thin shaving from the end, another does
the same on the side, and third rounds
off the rim. A round steel rod, dipped
in oil and pressed upon the surface
gives it a lustrous polish. Then lit
tie revolving steel wheel, whose edge is
a raised ornament, held against the re
volving blank, prints that ornament
just outside the rim. A second whee
prints different ornament around tn,
center, while third wheel with sharI
points makes the indentations on the low
er half and end of the thimble. Th'
inside is frightened and polished in ;
similar way, the thimble being held il
revolving mould. All that remain
to be done is to boil the completed thin
bles in soap-subs, to remove the oil, bTusl
them up and pack them for the trade
Springfield (Afass) Republican.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
Cut This Out.

Every person should understand how
to treat flesh wound, because one is
liable to be placed in circumstances,
away, from surgical and veterinary aid,
where he may save his own life, the
life of friend or of beast simply by
the exercise ofa little common sense
In the first place, close the lips of the
wound with the hand and hold them
firmly together to check the flow of
blood until several stitches can be ta-
ken and bandage applied. Then bath
the wound for a long time in cold water.
Should it be painful a correspondent
says, take painful of burning Goals and
sprinkle upon them common brown su-
gar, and hold the wounded part in the
smoke. In few minutes the pain will
be allayed and recovery proceeds rapid
ly. In my case rusty nail had made a
bad wound in my foot. The pain and
nervous irritation were severe. This
was all removed by holding it in smoke
for fifteen minutes, and was able tc
resume my reading in comfort. VIZ
have often recommended it to others
with like results. Last week one of my
men had finger nail torn ont by pail
of ice-to gs: 1t became very painful
as was to have been expected. Held il
sugar smoke for twenty minutes, th'
pain ceased and promised speedy re
! cOyery
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19

commended b. .he medical authorities Of
the Island. Tweed's duties here will
extend over q wide field. Besides copy
ing all prescriptions ordered for inmates
of the hospital, he will have to admin
lister the medicine, apply bandages, as
sist in operations, and hold such patients
re subject to periodical fits of epilep-
sy. He will have to clean and arrange
the medical department, and zee that
the surgical instruments and other hos
pital appliances are Kept in proper con.
dition. Mr.. Tweed looks haggard and
broken spirited. He speaks to no one,
and performs his duties in an inert,
mechanical manner. The removal OF
his hair and beard has given unwonted
prominence to his features, and his sun
ken cheeks have greatly added to this.
The Boss sleeps in a comfortable bed in
the hospital, and takes his meals with
the other orderlies of the institution.
The fare is substantial, the same as that
furnished to the prisoners in the peni-
tentiary.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
A Lost Note.
From Old and New London.

From Old and New London.
An extraordinary affair happened in
the year I74O Ole of the Directors,
very rich man, had occasion for $780,
900 of The Bank of England, watch he
was to pay as the price of an estate he
had Just bought. To facilitate the mat
ter he carried the sum with him to the
bank, and obtained for it a bank note.
On his return home he was suddenly
called out upon particular business; he
threw the note carelessly on the Chin
nev, but when he came back few min
utes afterward to lock it up, it was not
to be found. No one had entered the
room; he could not, therefore, suspect
any person At last after much inffec-
tual search, he was persuaded that 1t
had fallen from the chimney into the
fire. The director went to acquaint his
colleagues with the misfortune that hap
pened to him; and as he was known to
be a perfectly honorable man, he was
readily believed. 1t was only about
twenty-four hours from the time that he
had deposited the money, they thought;
therefore, that it would be hard to refuse
this request for second bill. He re-
ceived it upon giving an obligation to
restore the first bill, if it should ever
be found, or pay the money himself, if
it should be presented by any stranger.
About thirty years aftervard (the direc-
tor having been long dead, and his heirs
in possession of his fortune an un-
known person presented the lost bill at
the bank, and demanded payment. 1t
was in vain that they mentioned to this
person the transaction by which that
bill was annulled; he would not listen
to it. He maintained that it came to
| him from abroad, and insisted upon i'm
mediate payment. The note was paya-
BILE to bearer, and the 100000 were paid
him. The heir of the Director would
not listen to any demands of restitution,
and the bank was obligee to sustain the
loss. 1t was discovered afterward that
an architect having purchased the Di-
rector's house, and taking it down, in
order to build another upon the same
spot, had found the note in a crevice OF
the chimney, and made his discovery an
engine for robbing the bank.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
FOrtitude in Business.

Many a man, who would be brave be-
fore cannon's mouth, manifests lack
of courage and fortitude in the ordina-
ry affairs of life. Discouragement and
despair are always unmanly; and this
should be borne in mind in times Ike
these. No matter how you are situated,
do the best you can. Ifyou have made
mistakes in the past, rectify them in the
present and avoid them in the future
Everybody makes mistakes; therefore do
not be disheartened because you have fall
len into error, when you reflect that error
is common TO all. Look at the future
That is the field for hope and for labor
Only regard the past for the lessons
which il teaches. Say TO yourself dis
aster may come, but despair, neverl b
brave in business as you would be brave
in battle. If your efforts in the pas
have failed, renew and double them ia
the future. Never despair.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
Intemperance and its Treatment.

The Boston Chief of Police has made
a report of unusual interest concerning
the affairs of his department during the
past year. Covering, az tnat year did,
two such events as the Jubilee and The
fire of Nov. 9, the report presents several
points wortney of careful persual, in as
much as owing to the preventive system
adopted by the police, there was no in
crease of rojDe-y or violence at either Of
these times. Among otner subjects
treated of, ;.at of iniemperence obtains
prominence. The most noticeable state
ment made under this head is hat in
spite of proaibitory legislation the crime
of drunkenness has increased much no-e
rap;dlv tnsn the population.
During .he year 1872 there were ar
rested 1925 persons for drunkenness
and $3.50 for disorde=iy conduct, while
I.77S have been helped to their homes.
This shows a total OF 18, ,3s9 cases of in
toxication which have been brought to
notice of the public, or about one to ev-
cry fourteen inhabitants. Of course,
numbers of persons have been arrested
several times, so that this proportion is
not exactly fair, but that consideration
is more than couDterbalanced by the
fact that an imence number of cases have
never been brought before the police.
In fact, the report does not speak well
for Boston temperance.
With great good sense, the Chief efpoints
out that while no penalty is visited upon
the maker and but small tax exacted
from the seller of intoxicating liquors,
the drinker of the stuff, which is gen.
orally acknowledged TO be too often a
disease, is severely punished. Whether,
in the present condition of socety, the
manufacture of liquor cnn be prevented,
is questionable But it is neither wise
or humane to legalize the temta.ion, and
then punish him whom the law has
tempted. The problem, ofintemperance
and its treatment has by no means found
its solution when the sale of liquor is
forbidden. How erratic this legislation
is, may be judged from the fact, as Civ
en- in this report, that if an intoxicated
person lies down on the road side of q
fence he may be arrested, but if he lies
on the field side can not be interfered
with, inasmuch as that is considered a
| private place.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
VentrilOquism Easily Acquired.

A writer in the Chicago Advance says
that "the ventriloquist's art is as easy to
learn as falling off log" He main
taIns that there is no difficulty in ac-
quiring the power. In the first place,
he says, speak any word or sentence in
your natural tone; then open the mouth
and fix your jaws fast, as though trying
to hinder any one from opening them
further or shutting them; draw the tongue
back in a bali; speak the same words,
and the sound, intead of being formed
in the mouth, will be formed in the
pharynx. Great attention must be paid
to holding the jaws rigid. The sound
will then be found to initiate voice
from the other side Of the door when it
is closed, or under floor, or through
wall. To initiate sound behind a door
partly open, the voice must be altered
from the original note or pitch, but be
made in another part of the mouth.
This is done by closing the lips tight
and drawing one corner of the mouth
downward, or toward the ear. Then let
the lips open at the corner only, the
other part to remain closed. Next
breathe, as it were, the words out of the
orifce formed. Do not speak the words
distinctly, but expel the breath in snort
puffs at each word, and as loud as posi-
| BILE. By SO doing you produce the illu-
sion in The minds of your listeners that
they hear the same voice which they
heard when the door was closed, but
more distinctly and nearer on account O.
the door being open. The lips mus
always be used when the ventriloquis
wishes it to appear that the sound comes
through an obstacle, but from some one
close at hand.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
FastIdIOus Taste.

From the Detroit Free Press.
A cadaverous fellow, dressed in bear
SKIN coat and hailing from Nevada, sat
down in restaurant yesterday, and told
the waiter that he guessed he'd take
some "briled fox" The astonished da--
key admitted that the establishment was
Just -out of that kind Of meat. "Gimme
a piece of fried wolf, then" said old
Nevada. The waiter replied that the
wolf meat was also gone. "ohs wal
sling along hunk Of mule, # ye ar .
little pinched for grub" continued the
stranger. The waiter replied they were
also out of mule. "Then what in thun-
der is man gwine to eat7" shouted the
stranger, an he moved back. "If can't
git a squar' lunch in the State III leave
for Laramie afore snow Aiesl" lie was
afterward seen devOuring a hunk Of
Washington pie, which closely ap-
proaches "a hunk Of mule" In taste, and
perhaps he'll winter with Us.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19

was dressed in silk, and very gentle
manly in appearance. He said that no
Europeans were admitted. We told
him that we were not Europeans,
but Americans. He said that he would
be very happy to obIige Americans, but
could not, but did consent that we
should 90 up the road, outside the inner
wall, and have the view of the city and
bay. The sentinel took US along the
winding road, and rupee given to him
acted like a charci. II opened all the
gates and passed the police There
were no Parsees in sight to stand in our
way, and we entered the prohibited in
closures. The grounds are surrounded
by a wall twenty feet high, and have
been used for a great number of years
by this strange people. There are no
monuments in the cemetery. There are
three round towers about fifty feet in
diameter, and fifty TO sixty feet high.
On the top of these towers tnere is an
iron gate. The dead are brought TO the
gate and delivered to the priests, and the
friends depart. The priests prepare The
corpse and lay it on the CRATE, and it is
devoured by vultures, and the bones
drop through the CRATE into the cbarnel
house below. These towers or vaults
are called the Towers of Silena. We
saw hundreds of vultures sitting on
these towers, and the sentinel told US
that they would take all the flesh from a
corpse in an hour We asked why these
towers? TIL, sentinel, pointing to one,
said, 'Parsee with plenty of money put
there;' to another, 'Parree with little
money put there The sentinel said
when a corpse is placed on the CRATE tne
noise of the vultures is frightful, and
could be heard for long distance. We
saw those Towers of Silence and do
not care to be any nearer"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
Tweed at Work.

The Brooklyn Eagle says the striped
garment which Tweed was first clothed
in belonged to felons and has been re-
moved, as he is sentenced for misde-
meanor, and the regulation provides for
another kind of garment. On visit to
the penitentiary this morning, continues
the Eagle, Mr.. Tweed was found seated
at a desk in the medical department,
copying prescriptions into book. He
is to be kept here on regular duty as
hospital orderly, and will not be remov-
ed to the peniseutiary proper. This is
no special favs5- extended to him per-
sonally, Com. Stern says, but is a course
pursued in all cases whether of felony
or misdemeanor, in which it Is rec