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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31

The educational statutes providing for
County School Institutes are equally
commendable with uny other tenet Of
the Commoa School System. The sys-
tenn as such, TO be desirably and success
fully promotive Of education, must ne
cesEarily have imperative regard to the
required and essential preparation Of its
teacher. Hence, the Teacher School
or the 'School Institute"
Our School funds are in the major
part, vainly and lavishly appropriated
co long as our methods of teaching are
contradictorily confused, and the grade
Of the teacher SO limited, as 10 precon-
ceive for him a state Of educational in
ertia, and to say unto him or her-so FAR
and no farther-if you know this much
Of so many branches, you know enough
to teach; it is not necessary for you to
know more, to progress onward in the
higher branches Of Literature and Of
the Sciences; our children will know
enough when they shall have passed
through the branches fixed by the law;
our examiners will not ask you any
questions outside Of the common branch
es-and we would rather not have You
teachers acquire so much knowledge
both for fear Of you neglecting the COM
mon branches, and Of charging such
high wages Imagine TO yourself what
the qualification and mental ripeness Of
teacher who permits himself thus to
be hattered by the voice Of ignorance
and moral depayity, and thus battered,
conceivcs himself to be so we'll equipped
in the habits Of education, that he can
now be inactive in self.information-
knows enough, if not ALL, and in this
mood not only remains away from the
sessions of the County School Institute,
but also condemns it as a financial out
rage upor the public, He intending to
teach fourishing school, and himself
drone, yea a veritable ao5o5A at a GER
tain advanced stage in the course Of ed
ucation's progressiveness!
The man who is unwilling to be taught
and to be informed, is totally unfit 20
teach He who refuses more Of The thco-
ries Of knowledge, certainly cuts off tis
! life and blessings Of knowledge 10 the
pupilage. A well prepared and quali-
fed person for the leadership, is he who
is among the last to profess his worthi-
ness and ability,is always thankful for in
formation, and prefers to be regarded rath-
er as pupil than as a teacher. lie isnev-
er so full Of the teacher as to be above a
kind and dutiful consideration Of the
child's uante, It's rights, and its claims 10
his most efficient attainments in his self,
and communicable requirements as q
teacher. In consideration Of this, our
school law provides us with School In
stitutes, which are not, and cannot be,
an empty boast, though treated as such
by the majority Of its obligatory mem-
bers, which is shame, and vital demorit
to them for the position Of a teacher.
j. " Wy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31
POETRY.
THE BOOK OF POEMS.

On the pages whose rhymed music
So oft has charmed thine ears;
have gazed till my heart is filling
With memories Of vanished years;
And, leaving the lines of the poet,
Has sadly turned TO roam
Away TO that beautiful valley
In the sunset land OF home,
o, land of the greenest pastures,
o land of the coolest streams,
Shall only again be near you
In the shadowy light of dreams;
Shall only sit in visions
BY the hearth and lattice pane,
And my friend Of the past, my brother,
Shall we meet not there again
As a sweet memorial ever
This book to my heart will be;
But never can read its pages
So far from home and thee;
For the words grow dim before me,
Or tremble on my lips,
And the disk Of life's orb qf beauty
Is darkened by woes eclipse
So forever closed and clasped
Shall the volume lie unread,
Is might in some ancient cioIster
The gift Of the sanity dead;
Till our hands shall open its pages
Once more beneath that dome,
That hangs DER that beautiful valley,
In the sunset land Of home,
PHOEBE CARRY.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31
BEYOND JORDAN,

And they came TO him mothers Of Judah,
Dark-eyed and in splendOr of hair,
Bearing down over shoulders of beauty,
And bosOms half hidden, half bare;
And they brought him their babes and besought
him
Half kneeling with suppliant air,
To bless the brow n cherubs they brought him,
With holy hands laid in their hair.
Then reaching his hands he said, lOwly,
sfOf such is My KingdOm;" and then
Took the brown little babes in the holy
White hands of the Savior Of men;
Held them close to his heart and caressd them
Put his face down to theirs as in prayer,
Put their hands to his neck and so blessd them
With baby hands hid in his hair.
From joaquin NIiller's last volume.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31

A FLOATING IsLAND.-That singular
phenomenon, the floating island, at Ions
dale, r. l., has again been moved, strong
wind from the south having brought it
back to its former position on the north
ern side of Scott pond. A small portion
became detached in its passage and had
hoated to the east side of the pond
There are several trees upon this island,
at least twenty-five feet high. 1t has at
tracted considerable attention and been
visited by large number of persons
since it commenced its migratory move
ments
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31

The uniform in which Frederick the
Great died, according to story which
comes from Prussia became the property
Of his valet, and remained In his family
until recently, when It was sold Go a
dealer in old clothes for l50 thalers.
The dealer soon met with "a partriotic
sdmircr ofhistorical relics, who invested
500 thalers in the suit The next pur-
chaser was an Englishman, WHO ventur-
ed the comparatively high price Of 5000
thalers (el200l as speculation hoping
to realize as much a. eSOO0 10y resellias
il TO Prince Of the roigning house Of
Prussia, who was anxious toposess him-
self Of the uniform bat the price alarm
ed HIM. The purchaser, Il is said, has
shipped the interesting garments q the
United States, where he believes ho viii
obtain even higher price than that
asked Of the great kings descendant.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31

The Baldwin locomotive works, of
Philadelphia, covers six entire squares
in that city, employs five thousand men,
supports twenty thousand persons and
turns out work annually worth at least
five millions of dollars. ~Whitney's car
wheel factory, of the same city, occupies
square of ground, and besides supply
ing American railways, exports car
wheels to Europe.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31

Pining, sickly women should go to
Colorado if they want health and
strength. Mrs. p was not able to sweep
her room when she lived in Ohio, but
the other day, after living in Colorado
one short year, she chased her husband
half mile with pitchforlS.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31

A New Orleans paper relates how a
pet monkey in that city, seeing that a
little child was on the point of being
run over by a street car, rushed into the
street and wrenched the child from the
jaws of death. That beats any monkey
wrench we ever heard of before.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31

A HIoH-PRICED HoRsE.-Mr. +. u
Simmons has purchased the trotting
gelding Jim Irving from his owner Mr.
James irving, for the sum Of $4,000
This is the largest price ever paid for a
trotting horse, and as Mr.. Simmons ia 8
very experienced turfman, and superior
judge of horses, he must have been salts
fed that Jim Irving was decidedly the
fastest trotter in the world before he paid
this price.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31

A recent English writer says that
drunkenness is an affair of climate
The people Of all damp and cold coun-
tries are apt to drink more than Is good
for them; and a geographer might di-
vide n map Of the world into temper
aten and Hintemporaie" zones.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31
ACT FIRST.

A wooden tenement in the suburbs of
Baltimore, occupied by one w. S. Goss,
who is ostensibly engaged in experimen-
ting on substitute for rubber, for which
he proposes securing a patent. He has
a partner, one w. Z. Udderzoot, who
has put two hundred dollars obtained
from his mother) into the common purse
the object being not to perfect patent,
but to defraud five insurance companies
out of $4,000. Goss is a married man
and these policies are on his life, one OF
$4,000 being in the Travellers Acct
dent Company. Udderzoot procures a
corpse from some cemetery or disecting-
room and places it in the builing. Then,
all being in readiness for the final corp
Udderzoot and Goss start one morning
for this building, purchasing on the
way pint of whisky and q gallon OF
coal oil. They also borrow one AK ol
neighbor, who accompanies them
With the ak quantity of kindling is
cut, and at dark futile effort is made
to light a coal oil lamp. Udderzoot
then goes away with the neighbor, os-
tensibly for the purpose of procuring
another lamp. They had not been gone
long when the building was in flames
Goss had piled the kindling wood on the
body, drenched it with coal oil, and SET
fire to the pile. He then ran down the
lane, got into buggy which his brother
4. c. Goss, had procured and held in
waiting, and drove to the Philadelphia
depot He then took a train northward
to become a voluntary wanderer, a home
less outcast.
Udderzoot and his companion hasten
back to the blazing building. The neigh
bors gather around, and stand in the
glare of the cracking flames. Not un.
til the fire fiend had done its worst did
Udderzoot mention to those around him
that Goss was in the building. This
failed TO create sensation, however
as several had seen a man run down the
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31
A Remarkable Chapter in Crime.
Cincinnati Commercial.

Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.
BALTINoRE, October "a, 1873.-The
trial of w. E. Udderzoot for murder,
inst. at West Chester, Pennsylvania,
promises to unfold one of the most
remarkable criminal cases of the age
"a case involving more of mystery,
startling incident, greed for gain and
heartless butchery than was ever con-
jured up in the brain of the most sensa-
tional writer of modern fiction. The
plot of this dark tragedy, its scenes and
incidents, as disclosed before the Courts,
a Coroner's jury, and unearthed by
shrewd detectives, may be summed up
as follows:
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31

II is significant that "to adyertise''
rhymes with ito realize"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31

A hourishing buaiuoes p ornamental
nenmanahip.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-07-31
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THE BALTIMORE FIRE.

1t seems impossible to avoid the
occasional development of the pow
er of fire to overcome any kind of a
building that human ingenuity can
construct. Chicago and Boston
have recently furnished illustrations
of the power of great fires, and now
Baltimore is added to, the list, True
the fire ofFriday did not compare,
in extent and destructiyeness, with
the other two, but it was sufficient.
|ly serious, nevertheless. Ten city
blocks were visited BY the, deyour-
ing element, and it seemed, foI
awhile, a. Though - considerable
portion Of the city'would be destroy.
ed. As is is,valuable buildings have
fallen under the power of the flames
and the loss is quite severe. Yet
the energy of the Baltimore firemer
aided by citizens, was found suffic.
lent to subdue the flames. We hard
ly imagine the cry against Mansard
roofs will be applicable to Baltimore,
Possibly wooden roofs may be found
to havs facilitated the speed of the
flames. The truth is, the lesson oi
the several great fires. within few
years is, that an efficient Fire De
partment. is Of first Importance
When once fire has gained head.
way, it will melt stone, warp iron
and break with its force the stout
est walls. Thus the great necessity
is promptness in controlling fire
when it first breaks out. Next to
this should be the exchange of shin
gle for slate roofs. Fires are gen
orally spread by sparks falling on
the shingles, and hence the danger
of infahmable roofs. We extend
to the sufferers by the Baltimore
fire our sympsCLy.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-07-31
NEW CURE FOR ASTHMA.

The Titusville Herald says that
asthma is of very rare occurrence IN
the oil regins, and that the cause OF
such exemption is found in the ia ct
that the atmosphere there is strong
ly impregnated with the vapors of
petroleum, which act almost as a
specific for the relief of asthma, and
at the same time as preventive OF
consumption. 1t adds: .Let any one
who is afflicted with asthma and
feels particular difficult spell OF
breathing coming on, go in the vi
cinity of a producing well, where
petroleum vapor hovers in the neigh
borhood, and he will find great relief
and continued presence in such a
neighborhood will be the best means
of a PERMANENT cure. We look for
ward to the. time when physicians
all over the United States will re-
commend to their asthmatic patients
a journey to the oil regions, and we
hope some suitable preparations will
be made for their entertainment and
diversion. The prospect of an in
firmary for such subjects has been
seriously discussed by many of our
citizens, but has not yet taken def
mite shape
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-07-31
FORESTS AND rlmeee.

The matter of forests and timber
are coming to present, especially in
the older States, questions of practi-
cal and serious concern. The rapid
disappearance Of the primeval
growth throughout the inhabited
portions of the country, is exciting
in rejecting minds sense of alarm
which causes much solicitude for
the future, and is suggesting differ
ent plans for protection a. ,sainst the
total loss of that interest, so impor-
tant to the commercial, the agricul
itural and the sanitary welfare of the
country. The Prairie States have
no recourse in this respect, but the
cultivation Of timber by planting,
which is now being done to some
extent, with the prospect'of increas-
ing attention thereto. That process
lis slow, but as the only one there
available. it must be adopted, and
the probability is, that important
benefits will be secured thereby. do
What the people of the Western
prarie are compelled to obtain by
production, those of other regions
may have by preservation, which fact
is coming to be understood by the
latter, and we may expect ere long
to see general attention given to the
matter in the older and -timbered
sections. -
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-07-31
IHuRMANs SPEECH.

The Chicago Tribune, which is
bitterly opposed to the Republicans
but does not like. the Democratic
party, is disheartened over Senator
Thurman's Fourth OF July speech.
1t says SO long as the Democratic
organization is maintained, the peo-
pie will always vote the Republican
ticket to keep the Democratic party
out of power, so bad is the order OF
of the latter in the public nostrils.
The Tribune wants anew party, or
at least new organization, SO it can
get clear Of the odium Of supporting
the Democracy, in appearance at
least. It knows very we'll that any
new party that will be made up ex-
clusively of Democrats, but hopes
it will not bear the Democratic
hsSAhC' e..,a .s--.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-07-31
THE TRAM RoBseRs.

There is q fair prospect that the
Iowa train robbers may be caught.
The whole country out there is rous-
ed, and the gang has been pursued,
it is thought, into Missouri. The
citizens and authorities are watch
ing every avenue of escape and clos
ing on the miscreants. Few of the
robbers would ever see the inside
of a Jail if those amateur emissaries
of justice should get hold riof them.
1t is to be sincerely hoped that they
may be caught. There can be nc
darker crime than throwing off the
track train ladened with innocent
men, women and children, for the
sake of plundering the express car
The Iowa gang would be good sub.
jects for example. = q 4.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-07-31
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

About dozen leaye of absence
were granted to delegates, in the
Constitutional Convention on Satur-
day: And that too, although the
adjournment at night was to be an
adjournment over until Tuesday
which showed those excused mem
bers did not expect to be back on
Tuesday. The hot weather is tel
ling upon the delegates and the Con-
vention will drizzle down to nothing
before mid August. Judge An
drews, in Tuesdays debate upon the
adjournment over until fall, said
"there are more than twenty mem
bers of the Convention who were at
home, or ought to be at home on
account of ill health. The months
of August and September were the
most unhealthy months of the year.
1t was therefore, dangerous for the
delegates to remain during those
months" ssasq-laBi la s.' r.s %
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-07-31
SNAKE STORIES.
Ladies Frightened to Death.


80 A few days ago Western papers
reported that while party Of young
persons were enjoying picnic, one
of the boys killed a snake and
thoughtlessly threw it around the
neck of young lady. She was
greatly frightened, tainted, and was
made quite i'll. She recovered, how
ever, but few days later, unexpec
tedly meeting the boy in the street
she was SO shocked by the recollec
ton of his act that she was thrown
into commissions and died. A some.
what similar case is described by
the Evansville, Ind. Journal Of 8
recent date, which says: ''Dr.C.W
Brooks, OF Rayfield Ill. was in town
on Sturday, and related to a gentle
man here, q sad case of young Ia
dy who lost her life by a shock II
her nerves, caused by fear produced
by finding herself in dangerous
proximity to large rattlesnake al
his residence, a little more than 9
week ago. The doctor and his wife
had gone out to gather mulberries
leaving the young lady at home
During their absence she went into
the lawn near the house, and sat un.
der the shade of tree. After sit
ting while she was startled, she
says, by feeling the hot breath Of .
snake on her cheek. She started to
her feet and screamed frantically, her
cries reached the ears of Mrs. Brooks
who came home ahead of her hus
band. Mrs. Brooks seized a gun
and hurrying to her assistance shot
the snake, which on being measured
proved to be nearly six feet long
The young lady's fright was SO great
that she was thrown into spasms
On Tuesday she died in great agony
defying all the medical skill thai
could be exerted in her behalf" "o1
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-07-31
A COMING ARMY OF CHINESE.

Expect great news from the Pacif-
ic coast! A rumor has reached San
Francisco that there are twenty-sev-
en- steamers in the waters of China
waiting to convey $4,000 Cinnamon
to California. After the events that
have already occurred, the liyeliest
apprehensons may reasonably be en-
tertalned as to the result of this en-
ormous importation. At the mo-
ment when John Chinaman is sub
jected to a vigorous and unrelenting
persecution in his new home, "a fresh
army of his fellow-countrymen
threatens to swoop down upon the
irate Californians, and it is difficult
to foresee the issue. The Chinese
merchants have tried to stem the
torrent by q formal protest against
further emigration, but if the com
ing twen:y-nine Thousand have not
heard, or have refused to heed that
appeal, San Francisco will presently
fall into a tumult of excitement, in
comparison with which the present
turmoil will be as nothing.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-07-31
THE BALLOON JOURNEY.

As the day for the balloon
journey Of Professors Wise and DON
aldson approaches, and their prep
aration draw near completion, it
must be confessed that the enter
prise promises far better than any
thing Of the kind yet attempted. A
sufficiency Of funds, together with
able direction and energetic manage
ment, have done all possible to over
come the known difficulties Of the
aerial journey, and to forestall all
possible dangers.
Two still serious obstacles remain
however, and those on which the at
tempt will fail if fail it must. They
are the,loss of gas by percolation
through the envelope Of the balloon
and the loss of both gas and ballast
in rising and descending in search
Of favorable currents Of air. The
former loss requires an expenditure
of forty pounds Of ballast per hour
to counterbalance it, which neces-
sarily limits the journey to six days
at the outside, as the balloon car
ries but 5000 pounds of disposable
ballast. All needed beyond that
for alternate rise and descent of
course reduces their time correspon-
dingly. Something of this latter
expense of gas and ballast they
hope to avoid by means of the stem
der balloon" and the windlass and
rope-the tender can be let up near
ly two Thousand feet t., test the up
er currents of air. as
On the whole there seems to be
ground for the growing hope that
the enterprise may be productive Of
great results, instead of the failure
that was at first SO confidently an
ticipated. ,osr.a II. .ras ID. Haf Ia
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-07-31
Decisions of the United States
Treasurer.

General Spinner, United States
Treasurer, has recently rendered
decision to the following effect.
Bills lor telegraphing are payable
only in the legal-tender currency
Of the U. S. r4l 'ae ..9t
National banks cannot deduct
premium on bonds from capitol
stock in semi annual returns.
Postmasters are not required to
redeem mutilated currency.
Fractional currency can be OBJ
tanned from the Treasurer's office in
any amount by registered mail, un-
der Circular No. 4. land Circular
No. g. in redemption of old or de-
faced United States currency for
warded to the Treasurer in the same
manner, and in sums of S. or up
wards in redemption of old or de
faced fractional currency, or in
sums of $50 or upwards in redemp-
tion of old or defaced legal-tender
notes forwarded to the Treasurer by
express under Circular No. l.. (Su-
perceded by No, g.
Returns for old CURRENCY received
by express are invariably made IN
new currency by express to the
owners. .t.''' '''
The deposit with the Treasurer
of bonds Of funded loan of1S81 does
mot exempt national banks from
semi annual duty on circulation or
| deposits. % 7rs i.a--a b... T
That the Department wishes to
retire all legal-tender notes of issues
prior to 1869. i .1u, boss -,.rv a.a.
That copy of letters of admins
tratian must be furnished by ad
minister's in order to collect inter-
est due decedent. .H
A national bank cannot deduct
from average deposits in semi-annu-
al return on amount due sat ten
days sight, ar s....s.
Coupon bonds pass by delivery,
and when stolen will be paid to an
innocent third party.
The amount of unmatured coup.
ons lacking is deducted in redeem
ing scaled" bonds.
Adams Express Company should
pay charges on new, currency for
warded to banks without the limits
of express contract
The Department will not pay ex-
press charges on new notes returned
for redemption.
Certificates Of deposits and notes
payable on future days must be in
cluded BY national banks in estima-
ting their average deposits for pay
ment of duty.
| Unpaid dividends are not subject
to semi-annual duty as deposits.
That the facts required to be sta
ted in affidavits concerning partial
destruction of United States cur
rency. -a.
Only the Treasurer IS authorized
to redeem United States currency
at a discount. .u..-.