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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-07

own length. e., shutting on the steam
and bringing everything to rest within
a distance of fifteen feet. An annaIus,
provided for the emission of steam in 4
continuous flow, prevents the noise of
putting and snorting of the engine, and
obviates all difficulty and danger OF
horses shying or becoming frightened.
The inventor of this road-steamer
has applied his principles in the manu-
facture of private travelling carriage,
and proposes TO build steam-omnlbuses
for city convenience and traffic. The
small private carriage, after many ex-
periments in the most crowded streets
of Glasgow, was found TO be perfectly
manageable and almost noiseless; while
the steam-omnibus, it is believed, would
prove equally so, and be from 40 to 80
per cent. more remunerative to its own
er than the ordihary horse-omnibus of
the same capacity.
Among all the boasted improvements
and despite the inventive progress of the
age, no one has ever yet patented a bri-
die with which runaway horse may be
safely curbed. Every day we have re
ports of fatal runaway accidents, and it
may be questioned whether the casual
ties from road-steamers and steam-omni-
buses would be as numerous as from the
former source. If we should have an
other equine epidemic like that of last
autumn, it may be found necessary to
make the experiment in this country of
substituting steam for horse power in all
large cities where the local transporta-
ton is so great
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-07
Prof. Klippart's Investigation of the
Finny Tribe in the Licking County
Reservoir.

A few days ago Prof. Klippart, one
of The State Commissioners of Fisheries,
returned from an official and scientific
investigation of the indigenous fnny in
habitants of the Licking county reser-
vOir. He proposes making similar in
vestigitions in all reservoirs in the State,
his co-workers being Dr. Sterling, of
Cleveland, for the lakes. and Mr.. John
Hussey, of Lockland, Hamilton county,
for rivers
In the investigation at the Licking
reservoir it was discovered that the fol-
lowing kinds of fishes inhabited that
body of water, viz: Black bass, lake
bass, rock bass, her ing, white sucker,
black sucker, mud sucker, red horse,
yellow cat, black cat, silver side, sinner,
horn club, bitter heads, ring perch,
green perch, blue sunfsh, creek sun
fish, speckled sunfsh, thornback sunfsh,
yellow sunfsh, salmon and grass pike,
The various specimens obtained by Prof.
Khppart in this search will be photo
graphed and embodied in the forthcom-
ing report of the Commissioners, in
which work they will make such sug-
gestions and recommendation as will
have tendency to improve The cultiva-
tion offish in rivers, lakes and reservoirs.
State Journal.
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A MAN-W0MAN.
Singular Character in NOrthumber-
land County. Pa.

A correspondent of the Episcopal Reg
lister gi~es the following sketch of a re-
markable woman he met in Northumber-
land county: Some few miles from
Shamokin lives a character that those
manly people, the 'woman's rights wo-
men," should certainly know, as she is
decidedly the champion. This singular
being is some seventy-two years of age,
and is altogether the most manly wo-
man | ever met with. A tenant-at-will,
sle has occupied for many years the
farm she cultivates with her own hands
and the assistance of hired iaborers. She
owns about forty-two head of cattle, some
of which ] saw, and are really fine stock.
She lives alone in her log cabin, her on
iy companions being two shepherd dogs
and her chickens, many of the later sleep
ing under the same roof with her, she
calling them her children, and training
them up in the way they should go, so as
&C canse the least inconvenience to her,
in their habits of life. She Is utterly
fearless, and with her dogs and gun,
which she can use with unerring aim,
Lie Schuler is a character that few
would -are 70 trife with. Imagine if
you can, a woman of medium size, dress
ed in mems clothes, with soft hat vari-
Ously indented upon her head, no coat,
barefooted, and you have this eh ampion
of "women's rights" before you. Wrink-
led though her face is by the storms and
trials of many years, the strength and
activity of this man-woman of seventy
two is somewhat wonderful. Voluble is
hardly The term suitable for the ex-
preston of her powers of talk, and
few men, however disposed for such
perfection, may boast themselves super
ior to her on the score of profanity
Much and varied has been my travel,
and strange sights and objects have
seen and met with, but the Hermit Of
Shamskin, with her supernatural powers
Of tongue and limb, far surpasses any
thing of my previous experience.
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Keep Then at Work.

Cincinnati Trade List.
If we recognize the fact that all wealth
is the product of labor, that all taxes
paid and all governments and enterprises
supported by labor, we mus: sincerly de-
precate any interference with its prosper
ity. The wealth OF a country depends
wholly upon the remunerative employ
ment its laboring population. In lands
where this class reaps the reward for its
services, the happiest and most intelli-
gent people are found, as well as the
most virtuous. Therefore, enterprises
which employ to great extent should be
fostered and encouraged in all commun-
tiles, and nothing, not even monetary
panic, should be allowed to interfere
with rational and vigorous prosecution.
Capital is worthless when out of employ
ment- 1t Innst depend upon labor for
returns. The idea; then, of reducing the
laboring force in our workshops and on
public improvements, as I, means of re-
trenchment, is not only absurd bnt sui
cidaI. 1t must work disaster 20 the
common veal, if persisted in; and the
only really sane disposition of employees
at this crisis is to keep them at work,
pay them in full if possible, but if this
cannot be done, pay them enough for or
dinary subsistence. and the balance when
the pressure on the money market is re-
moved. They will consent to such ar
rangement with alacrity, and by adopt
ing it much good will accrue to the mu
tual profit of employer and employed.
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For the Press.
Educational.

To introduce our subject for the pres
ent issue Of your paper, allow me to say
that we have made a partinl call on our
city schools, and were very happily en-
tertained by the Principal, his assistant
teachers, and their pupilage. We found
them reasonably well organized, credita-
bly, classified, and busily engaged in their
several recitations. In fact, we were un-
TIE whilst there, yet hopefully we sue
ceeded in introducing ourself to the pu-
pills. Rays Higher Arithmetic, and
Greene's Analysis, afforded US a little of
the pupils pleasantries. Suffice it say
here, that under the deprivations of
proper rooms, the patrons of our schools
can rest assured that in the cold build
ing" the schools are very promising
Should you, as patrons, doubt this glad
tidings, go and see and hear for your
selves (sooN), and you will, in all prob
ability, receive the impression of the
Queen of olden times, that you can ex-
claim with her-''lo, the half has not
been told me-" As for the other schools,
we hear favorable reports from them,
and wehcre promise the teachers of the
same that we will be forthcoming
Teachers, why not send written invi-
tations with your pupils to their parents,
asking them 70 visit you. Think of this,
and decide upon its propriety. A word
here to teachers who are interested in
School Institutes.
Your first term of teaching is near its
terminus. Why not ask your County
Examiners to afford you an Institute
during the Holiday-week? Itwould GER
tainly be living treat to all of
you. There and then you could report
your progress, success, changes of meth
cd; make known your queries concern
ing any of the branches upon which you
may be in want of light. Above all,
you could there lay plan, or the foun-
dation-work for such an Institute as the
law provides, which shall be truly pro-
motive of educational work, which shall
be one in purpose, and AUTHORITATIVE
in its decisions upon the practical part of
teaching. Teachers, send up voice to
the Examiners, asking for Holiday
School Institute.
D. M. wv
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on their rail roads any distance exceed
ing fifty miles.
No officer, employee shall be interes-
ted in furnishing materials of supplies,
or in the busipess of transportation of
persons or freights over the line with
which they are connected.
No preference shall be given to ship
pers in cars OF other facilities.
No free passes are TO be granted to
any save employees
No Company now in existence shall
have the benefit of any legislation ex-
cept by complete acceptance of the fore
going provisions.
These provisions are a stroke in the
right direction and if not all required
will go far to restrain monopoly and
double dealing on the part of rail road
Companies. One provision should have
been added that the Legislature shall
have full power to regulate the price of
freights and passage. We may hope also
that the wisdom of the Ohio Convention
will be exerted on this subject.
NJ K
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Governors ThanksgiYine PrOelama-
ton.

Remembering with gratitude that
health and general prosperity have been
vouchsaftd to the people of Ohio during
the past year-recogniz:ng the guiding
hand and protecting care of Almighty
God in all that affects our lives and fors
tunes-desiring above all things a con-
tiuance of the Divine favor, /, Edward
T. Noyes, Governor of Ohio, do hereby
designate and appoint Thursday, the
9th day of November, the present
month, to be observed as day If public
thanksgiving and prayer.
1 earnestly recommend that all the
people of the State do, upon that day,
abstain from ordinary labor, and unite
together in worship and supplication.
especially request those who have
been blessed with health and abundance
to remember and provide for the sick
and the poor, now that financial troub-
les assail our prosperity, and as the cold
winter approaches.
He that hath pity upon the poor lend
eth to the Lord: and that which he hath
given will He pay him again
Given at the Executive Chamber in
Columbus, this third day of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ..seventy-three, and
of the Independence of :he United
States the niuety-eigh.h.
EDWARD Z. MOVES.
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A story is told of former member
of the Missouri Legislature whose rep
utation was far from spotless, that he alb
sented himself for while, under the
plea of sickness, and shortly after had
his death announced. Thereupon the
Legislature passed the usual resolutions
of coincidence, some of the willy MEM
ber's bitterest enemies eulogized their
departed friends exalted character
and high moral WORTH" and the next
day he reappeared in his seat with the
resolutions and eulogies neatly pasted
in his memorandum book as a receipt
in full for the past, and letter of credit
for the future
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-07
Terrible game of Cards-A Human
Life at Stake.

A game of cards in which a human
life was at stake was played on the 9th
of September at the Ritter Hotel
Heidelburg, by four young students, one
of whom, Silfred Meyer, was an Ameri-
can from Chicago. 1t appears that the
four men had formerly been intimate
friends, and they met, it seems, on the
above day, at the Swami Tavern, where
they drank a good deal, and finally be-
gan to quarrel. One of them, Count
Ottendrof, called Meyer cowardly
Jew, whereupon the latter promptly
challenged him. Ottendrof accepted
the challenge Immediately. Meyer, in
tone of great excitement, proposed
that all four should retire to the Ritter
Hotel and there play game of "sixty-
six" The loser should shoot himself
with pistol. This proposal was ac-
cepted, and the four students repaired
to the hotel. They ordered wine and
cards to be brought up to private
room, and Ludeken, one of the four,
PAOSuAOO WV AOthoCo RAStOAS AIOAl4 d
neighboring arnorer. The fourth stu
dent dealt the cards, and Ottendrof and
Meyer seated themselves, pistol lying
by the side of each. The first few
minutes the game remained almost even.
But then Meyer obtained a single ad
vantage, and Ottendrof, seeing that he
was lost, suddenly jumped up and ex-
claiming: "Adieu, my friends" seized
his pistol, and shot himself through the
right temple. He fell corpse to the
floor, while his companions stood as if
petriied for moment, then hurried
from the room. When the proprietor
of the hotel hastened into the room he
found the dead count lying on the floor.
He gave an alarm, and the police started
in pursuit of the fugitive students
Late in the afternoon they succeeded in
arresting Immich, who made the above
statement. Meyer and Ludeken escaped
across the French frontier. Ottendorf
was the son of wealthy landed propri-
etor in Westphalia. At the time of his
death he was only nineteen.
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A New Boat for the Raging Canal.

A canal boat to run by air has been
invented in Maine. The machinery
consists of a small upright engine of
about six-horse power, a fan, and two
cylindrical air compres5ers. The engine
runs the fan, and also works the valves
of the air compressers, from which the
air is forced through pipe to the bot
tom of the boat by the admission Of
steam at the top. The bottom of
the boat under the stern has an inclina-
ton of about thirty-five degrees, the in
clinatiun beginning twenty-five feet from
the stern. The air is let out at the bot
tom of the boat, at the base of this in
cline, through a valve which keeps the
water from coming in, and, as it natur-
ally seeks the surface in a straight line,
it rushes alone up this incline, and thus
pushes the boat ahead, or really the boat
slides along OIL the ar. The force thus
obtained is equal 10 twenty-six horse
power, and is calculated to propel a load
ed canal boat along at the rate of five or
six miles an hour.
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New Road Steamers.

Of the many inventions for steam To-
comotion, nothing promises better results
than the new road-steamer recently in
troduced on the streets of Glasgow by a
distinguished and opulent Scottish en-
gineer. The idea has always ruled that
steam was too dangerous to be adD; itted
on the great municipal thoroughfares,
and could not be applied to street vehi-
cles as expertlv as horse power. Weare
convinced that, with certain restrictions,
the experiment will refute this assump-
ton, as, indeed, it has done in Glasgow.
The engine attached to the road-carriage
is very simple in its construction, and is
so much under control that it is possible
to stop the carriage, when travelling at
the rate of six miles an hour, within lis
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-07

The difficulties III which .he Spragues
are now involved furnish an interesting
commentary upon the ingenious financial
schemes which Senator Sprague in his
sober moments was accustomed 10 pre-
sent for the ',o5lside, ution IF an migrate
ful people. II appears, from an exanii-
nltion in.o The affairs of The broken
C-ans:on Savings Bank, slrat among the
Liabilities of t:lat Institution, amouAting
10 8, SOC. .935, nearly 81, 100000 consists
of loans made to The Sp-cgues, for the
most part without any secG:ity what
ever. These eminent fnanciers have
simply been in tne habit OF lel ping Them
selves to .he money of the dep0si:ors Of
;he bank and using it foc her own pr
poses. ASIDE from liIe effect of these dis
closures upon the reputation Of the
Sp-aguss, tney show .he most disgrace
ful homogeneous Oh tue p2cG % the Off
GERS o. The Crans5oh Savings Bank, and
Will furnish a new Argument in s1p-
port of the plan of u Government postal
savings banks.-Daily Graphic.
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mantle incidents of the war. Few nave
forgotten how, early in the game, he took
possession of the wires between Nash
Vile and body of Federals operating in
Southern Kentucky, giving peremPtory
orders not to send any more troops, but
plenty of provision and ammunition, and
how an old friend, then in charge at
Nashville, detecting the peculiar touch
or lingering of the bogus operator, fash
ed back to him this good humored an
swer: see. out, Saville, or I'll send the
cavalry after You" Saville volunteered
his services at Shreveport after every
resident operator had been stricken down,
and died at his post.
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The yellow fever has almost en-
tirely disappeared from Memphis.

tirely disappeared from Memphis.
The earnings of the Hooking
Valley Railroad from January 1st
to November 1st, 1873, were s947,
S25 90. For the same length of
time last year the earnings were
1851, ,273 70.
One of our exchanges makes
the following observation, which is
well worth remembering as we
journey along 'life's highway
''There is a wonderful sight of pluck
in humanity, and it don't pay to
kick a man when he is down, unless
ycu are sure he can't get up again.
He may return the favor with in
terest. Those cusses that can wait
several years for revenge are the
worst sort to deal with.
Governor Noyes has designated
Thursday, the 9th instant to be OBJ
served as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer.
Louis Gaylord Clark, for long
time the editor of the once popular
Knickerbocker Magazine, died at
his residence in Piermont, on the
Hudson, on the Sd instant, from a
paralytic stroke.
The Spragues of Rhode Island,
have failed, and, if report be true,
their suspension will be severely felt
by others in that State. They had
employed in their manufactures
$4,000 persons.
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The Financial Stringeney.

The New York Daily Graphic of
recent date, contains the following
well timed comments upon the
money stringency, its cause, and the
remedy:
Though the ptember panic COM
menced in the stock market, its eff
fects have not been confined there.
As we predicted at the time, it has
had a depressing effect on the entire
business community, and we are not
surprised at the failure of great
firms and the suspension of import
ant houses. The crisis was not a
mere local gust, but a general storm.
1t struck the stockholders first only
because they were most exposed
Their fall naturally created a feel
ing of general insecurity, but it
would have subsided in week had
it not been widened and deepened
by disclosures of weakness and finan-
cial decrepitude among the mercan-
tile classes. The inflated currency,
which had stimulated speculation
among dealers in stocks, had also
naturally tempted banks to loan
money on inadequate and unreal Sc
curity, and led even sagacious mer-
chants and manufacturers to extend
their business relations and liabili-
ties far beyond the point of safety
and prudence. The sudden gale
finds them with all sails set, exposed
to the full severity of the blast, and
without sufficient ballast to hold up
against a pressure they had not an
ticipated, and were not prepared to
meet. We may as well look the
fact fairly in the face, that for the
last half dozen years we have been
rushing too fast, and the momentum
has carried us beyond the point of
safety and immediate recovery. The
suspensions and failures which have
already occurred show how specula-
tive methods have found their way
into mercantile affairs, and how cool
headed and sagacious business men
have yielded to the temptation to
operate on contingencies and build
on possibilities, and imagine that
debts are cancelled by promise to
pay.
The Immediate outlook for the
business community is anything but
cheering. The financial disturbance
is too radical and widespread to be
got rid of in a week or calmed by
official order or act. The general
confidence has been shaken, and
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The financial panic has not en-
tirely subsided in the east. Recent
ly several more very large firms
have been carried under by it, and
there are no good reasons for believ-
ing that still more-equally as prom
inent, and generally regarded as in
as s'good shape as those were that
have gone by the board-may not
very shortly succumb. The truth
is, people are distrustful of banks,
and very many of the elass-farm-
ers, for instance-who, having mon
ey, but no urgent need for it, would
deposit, and permit it to remain on
deposit, until their business demands
should require its withdrawal, will
now very likely hold ON to it, or
find other and safer places for in
vestment,. until banking security be-
comes more manifest and reliable.
Without help from these sources,
the institutions which have been,
and are still doing business on other
peoples money-and upon which
their existence depends-must GER
taialy go under.
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Strange Affair.
NJ. K.

The Lima \. " Recorder gives an
account of singular shooting affair that
occurred in that village about II o'clock
Sunday night J. A. Lindsey, esq,
and his wife were awakened from sleep
by a pistol-shot in their room. Mr..
Lindsey sprang from the bed and pro-
ceeded to grapple with the intruder
Before he succeeded in doing so 4 Sec
ond shot was fired, striking the bed
where Mrs. Lindsey had just left it.
The first charge took effect in the head of
the bedstead, few inches above Mr..
Lindsley's head. During the struggle
that ensued the revolver was again dis
charged, the ball passing through the
would-be murderer's hat. A dark Ian
tern used had become extinguished at
the first shot, and when n light was
brought, 1t was discovered that the at
tack was made by an adopted daughter
of Mr.. Lindsey, named Lizzie Ford.
The first words Mr.. Lindsey heard were,
'If you stir you are dead man" She
was disguised in Mr.. Lindsley's hat and
vest, and had on pair of false whis-
kers. She had placed large bottle of
chloroform open on the stand near the
bed, and the fumes had nearly overcome
Mr.. Lindsey when assistance arrived.
The girl was armed with revolver, a
surgeons catlin with an elght-inch blade
and bottle of chloroform. She states
that these were purchased for her by a
young man in Lima. Mr.. and Ms.
Lindsey state that Lizzie had been sub
ject to attacks of apparent insanity and
tina: she showed signs of lit Saturday,
She has been pronounced insane by Drs.
Ellis and Bennett.
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NEW ADVEaTI3EMENTs.

FOIy Z uIy yUuIH,
ELLEN Ewing SHERMAN.