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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
Recovery from the Panic.

The London Times of November 29th
concludes as follows an editorial article
on the American panic and its signifi-
cance and consequences: at never; how
ever, imagined that nation which has
sustained with ease the burdens of a
most costly war could be long oppressed
by the consequences of casual fiji. of ex-
travagance. Practically and substanti-
ally speaking, the Union is rich beyond
measure, and the present difficulties
must gradually pass away. 1t is clear,
indeed, thaa they are already beginning
to disappear, and there was, perhaps,
some unnatural ,exaggeration in the esti-
mate Grst taken of the consequences Of
tho panic. Nevertheless, period of
Suffering is probably at hand, and, as
we have already observed, it will, to all
appearance, be- characterized by Incl
dents and features exactly resembling
those of similar seasons in older coun-
tries. We may expect to hear of large
gatherings of unemployed, of the priva-
tions endured by the working classes, of
labor mere drug in the market, and of
hopeless pauperism or wolfsh struggles
for subsistence. The trouble, too, may
be aggravated if an impression should
prevail that labor's difficulty has
been selfshfy turned into capitals op-
portunitys but no such occasions, as
we learned seven years ago, capitals has
advantages of which it cannot be de-
deprived. Money can dispense with
employment more easily than labor; in
deed, in seasons of distrust employment
is Stunned altogether. 1t is not i'm
probable that the Americans have been
living too fast, and committing them
selves to extravagant expenditure, not
only upon railways, but upon many
other enterprises, public and private
From the penalties due to such excesses
they cannot, any more than the nations
of the Old World, except to be exempt;
and if the pressure on this occasion
should be more severe than usual, the
event would simply indicate that some
of the distinctions between the Old
World and the New are gradually dying
out. To a certain extent, indeed, they
have disappeared already, but with
territory still only half reclaimed, with
margin of space for an indefinitely
larger population, and with every re-
source that soil, climate, and national
character can supply, the American
Union will easily tide over the occas-
ional effects of financial errors or specu-
latiye extraYapance"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
A SOmnambulist with . Tremendous
.'- Appetite.

From the Springfield Republican.
Miss Warner of Highgate, VT, the
girl who weAs to sleep on the 9th, and
wasn't going to wake up till the 21st,
has been interviewed, and she seems to
sleep on an entirely original plan. After
two days and nights of it, she appeared
to dream that she was a receiving ware
house in the provision business, for she
got up and ate-didn't she eatl The
lunch gave her the nightmare, evidently
for she was restless, and would wri.e de-
tached words on slate, such as: "Pen
and ink, ;" "Do not force me to take any
thing" "God tells me, and you musa do
it," at is not my natural food sI'm
going to see the angels" 'CoEaing back
November 81" etc. Those two days
were the longest tine she has slept
without that little lunch. Her coun-
tenance is "snooth and placid" pulse
natural, respiration ditto. If her hand
is lifted from the bed, it will remain
where it is left for moment, then slow
lX settle to its original position. The
man who interviewed her thinks the
cause of her slumber "a very obvious
one" but he doesn't choose to enEshten
the public.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19

An Important New
Feature.

The "Daiy Graphic" of recent date,
propo ses to inaugurate new feature in
illustrated journalism by publishing
photographs of the leading idiots of the
country, accompanied by brief biograph-
ical sketches.
From the beginning of illustrated
journalism, statesmen and soldiers and
criminals have been honored by the pub
lication of their portraits, to the total
exclusion of another important class.
The fools, as SUCH, have been ignored.
OF course many have appeared, but only
in their connection with statesman and
reformers.
Now the "Graphie" proposes they
shall be no longer neglected, and asks
that the photographs of such, be sent
to them from every town and village in
the United States, for every one has at
least one fool who is its perpetual butt,
and whose portrait in the character OF
the champion idiot of the place would be
recognized as deserved tribute.
No second rate idiots need apply, but
all who can establish their claim to the
leadership of that important class, may
rest assured they will receive due atten-
tion from the "Daily Graphic.
Contributors to the gallery must be
careful to write upon each photograph
and sketches, the name and residence o.
the person it represents.
This is unquestionably gigantic un
dertaking, but it is one full of interest t.
he whole nation.-Netc Lexington Trib
tsEe.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
Useful Suggestions.

Successful cattle breeders in Europe
give molasses constantly to fatten cattle
and milch cows. A large German farm
er gives pint day mixed with oil
cake, to his COWS, largely increasing
their milk.
Stagnant or foul water is injurious to
all animals. 1t causes blood poisoning,
and this leads to many febrile COM
plants, and is one the great causes Of
abortion in COWS and other animals.
FELoN ON THE FINaEH.-The fol-
lowing simple prescription is recon-
mended as cure for felon on the fin
ger: Take common rock salt, such as is
used for sailing down beef or pork; dry
it in an oven; then pound it fine and mix
it with spirits of turpentine in equal
parts; put it in rag and wrap it round
the parts affected, and, as il gets dry,
put en- more. and in twenty-four hours
you are cured-the felon will be dead.
1t will do no harm to try il.
Losr-A large Breast pin gentle
man's,) witha large, white stone set.
Pin about an inch and halflong. The
finder will be rewarded by leaving the
same at this effice.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
History ofThe SteelPen.

The early history of the steel pen is
curiously obscure. The most diligent
search fails to discover the first maker
or the earliest date of this implement.
There were steel, or rather iron pens
made, in Hollands early as the mid
die of the seventeenthcentury. Toward
the close of the last century, Mr.. Harri-
son an ingenious mechanic, made steel
pens for DIR. Priestly. One of them is
nothing more than a tube turned out of
a fiat strip of metal, with the sides fled
away in the shape of pen. The first
actual supply of such pens, it is believed
the authority for the statement is
local tradition = was made by a
Sheffield workman, whose name is for
gotten. From time to time, as far back
as 1909, steel pens, had fashioned, turned
and filed, were made as curiosities or
luxuries for presents; but it was not un-
til about 1924 that such instruments
were produced in considerable quanti-
ties, as regular articles of manufacture.
Mr.. James Perry was the first manufac-
turer; but the process was tedious and
costly. The metal was steel, rolled out
wire, and for this Mr.. Perry paid as
much as seven shillings a pound. To
the first person he employed he gave
five shillings for making each pen; and
even when the trade had become regular
he gave for some years as much as thir-
ty-six shillings per gross to his work
men. Now-thanks be to the machinery
and modern improvements-pens, not
very good perhaps, but good enough to
write with, can be made and sold at
profit for three cents per gross.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19

An ex-Congressman made these plant
i've observations to the Washington cor
respondent of the Chicago Journal: 81
have now been in public life for twelve
years. By the redistricting of my State
my district has been abolished, and the
nasty salary grab business has prevented
my nomination for the only vacant place
that of Congressman-at-Large. i am
almost glad to get out of the public serv-
ice, and yet do not know what to do.
They have called us all thieves, but /
have scarsely money enough to support
my family in respectabillity for six
months. 1 was bred lawyer, and have
had my old shingle for the last ten years
screaching upon its rusty hinges before
my Office door in my native town. 1t is
little town. The business is small and
has greatly changed, and the people
have almost forgotten me as a lawyer.
/ doubt, if commence work there again,
if 1 could earn my salt. The young
have got all the clients, and need and de-
serve them, because they know the mod
ern ways of the Courts. The truth ia,
it is like beginning life over again, and
the prospects are blue. / tell you young
man, if you ever have any ambition
for public life, don't do it. II is q pret-
ty sorrowful spectacle to see man three
score years Of age in my condition"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
Bazaine's Sentence COMMITTED.

President MacMahon has acceded to the
recommendation of the court martial
for clemeney in the case of Marshal Ba-
Zaine, and commuted the sentence to
twenty years "seclusion" on the island
of St. Marguerite, off the southerIscoast
of France; the same island, by tn, way,
made famous in the romance of history
as the place where "the man with the
iron mask" spent portion of his
dreary prison life. "Seclusion" We sup
pose, means a comfortable sort of isola-
tion from the busy world without le in
and humiliation Of close
imprisonment. Bazaine is to bean the
effects of degradation from rank, but is
spared the humiliating ceremony of
having his orders and insignias publicly
stripped from his person.
The conservative press in France ;en-
orally approve the commutation of the
sentence, while the Republican papers
growl over it. The Marshal bears his
misfertuhes with patiece and dignity.
He declined to appeal against the sen
tence, avows his entire innocence, and
is willing to leave his justifeatioa to
the lapse of time. The lenieney shown
to Bazaine, aside from political reasons,
was based on the fact that he was a
veteran soldier of undoubted courage
He had seen forty-fve years of active
service, and had done France good serv-
ice in Algiers, Turkey, Austria, Italy,
and Mexico. He had been a skiiifuH
General and a brave soldier, and he had
done nothing degrading in the eyes of
the world, up TO the time of the sur
render of Metz, except his abandon
ment of Ms ximilian to his fate, and in
doing this he was only obeying the or
ders of his superior, the Empt 7pr.-
Pihsbur0h TeLeora4lh
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19

THE FLORIDA FIsHERIEs.-No State
in the Union has equal wealth and re-
sources in their fisheries with the State
of Florida, and yet we have never
heard that a dollar of State revenue
was derived from them. Hundreds of
thousands of dollars are annually taken
from our waters, says the Republican,
in shape of fish, turtle, oysters and
sponge, by non residents, without cent
of tribute to our State The attention
of the. Legislature has been again and
again directed to the subject by the
Governor during the past five years, and
yet, while crying out against taxation
and the burdens of government, no ef-
fort is made to relieve the industry and
property of the State by securing rev.
eune from this exhaustless mine of
wealth. Governor Reed estimated the
revenue which would be derived from
these sources alone, if properly regula-
ted by law, as equal to the entire ex-
pense Of maintaining the State Govern
menf
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19

KEEN SATIRE-"A Retired Murder
er" has written to the London Pal Mall
Gazette a letter whose satire will scarce
ly be understood by the London Police
authorities. 1t is upon the practice OF
OF those persons (too often police) who
rob the bodies of murderers of London
de mean themselves so as to rob their
sacrifcial victims, and he instances how
they deposit bodies under the very nose.
of the police, whom, he says, the muir
derers cordially admire, as evidences
that there is an openness il their pro-
ceedings that speak volumes for the no
billity of their nature"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19

@OUR MISGUIDED Brethren. I'm
the present Congress there is not only
Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, but
fifty lone either prominent supporters of
what was once known as the G. s. A.
These gentlemen were quite as anxious
to get back to the National capital as
their predecessors were to secede there
from in 1860 or 1851. All the Old
World wonders to see the gentlemen
from the South once more occupying
places of honor, trust and profit in the
grand councils of the Union. Monarchs
and their ministers cannot understand it.
The subjects of empires and Kingdoms
are coming by the thousands to live un-
der political institutions capable of pro-
ducing such happy results as blotting
out the animosities engendered by
one Of the most extensive and bloody
civil wars that the world ever witness
ed =s3 t
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
A Family OF Emigrants Murdered in
Texas.

LITTLE Rock, ARK, December 10
A family named Moore, consisting of a
man, his wife and child, passed through
this city, on Thursday, for Texas, and
about seven miles out, coming to small
stream which was swollen by the recent
rains, they were advised to deviate from
the main road and go to a crossing
above, which was unfrequented At
this point the entire family was muir
dered and their bodies thrown into the
stream. The body of the man and his
wife were discovered yesterday, and the
Coroner held an inquest this morning.
No clue to the perpetrators. The vic
Tins are strangers. The missing child
is not yet found.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
One Hunrded Years Ago.

A mans life and nations history are
alike marked largely by incidents and
scenes of formative character. Episo-
des and indulgenees, triaing and unim-
portant in themselves, may often be
taken as indicative of human growth
and national development. About a
century ago, or more, perhaps-if the
record has been properly made-there
lived in Boston town, on the shore of
Colonial Massachusetts,, a few quiet and
inoffensive people. And this quiet, in
offensive little people had master a
lord-a king, and a master who was
harsh-that king was cruel, who lived
across the sea, and with an iron rod
sought to rule this people and their desti-
ny. Time wore away, and this little
people grew in numbers and in spirit;
they came to regard their condition as
dark and unhappy, till down, very far
down in the heart of that small commu-
nifty single spark was seen to burn,
though dim, yet with pure and steady
fame. Time never stopped, but con-
tinued to roll on, and that fame in
creased till its burning so warmed that
people and enraged their attention that
their duties to the crowned head were
neglected and undone. This, as you
may imagine, so incensed the master
that by way of chastisement the stamp
act was prepared, which, marvellous to
relate, the audacity of this growing
people, rejected and destroyed. A peri
cd of eight years intervenes-a season
of comparative quiet and peace. Dying
souls we know will hold to that which
only breaks, and drowning men Will
grasp at that which cannot bear, and as
the hero of the other days saw
"Hills over hills
And Alps on Alps arise"
with his sinking power, made one last
grand attempt at authority, in levying
duties on imports; but just one hundred
years ago to-day the law and community
went down together-the valiant few
threw out the tea-threw off the
shackles-threw over the throne, and
stood forth candidates for freedom. The
fame is restrained no longer-it shows
above the surface, and lights up pole and
pole; reaches far across the SET, and fut-
tiers de6natly IN the face of the quOndGm
lord and master. Then came the long
and hard fought war; but as wild flow
ers are said to grow through the heads
Of shattered drums on the dead field OF
battle, and untouched flowers to take
root in scenes of former strife, emblem
attic of peace coming from war, so from
this wasting and desolate fight came
peace and liberty together.
The American people are an apprecia-
tive and greatful people, and love to
dwell on "reminiscences of their earlier
life. Then upon this, the day of histo-
ry-relating and tea-drinking, is it not
well and appropriate to break away the
amber in which the original circum-
stance is buried, push back in passing
the veil of century, and realize in oul
civiliza ton and advancement the end Of
little fagot which burned so brigh tly
on the altar of Independence just one
hundred years ago to-day.-Pitts6Urgt
Telegraph, Dec. 18Th '73.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19

nUR connections with other Real Estnte
" Agents Is very extensive, and aided by oul
advertising arrangements, gives us splen did op-
portunities for buying and selling property
We will do all in our power to secure pufchn-
SC RS and having found them we will assist then
in getting what they want, with just the kind
Of title they want.
We offer for sale the following property:
40 acres Of first class farming and grazing
land, with good buildings, plenty Of water and
timber, also abundance Of good fruit; miles
south east Of Somerset, Ohio, and on very res-
sonable terms.
l67 ceres miles south Of Somerset, Ohio, in
very good repair, good soil, 100 acres cleared
balance in the best Of timber, all well fenced,
good springs and about 1900 fruit trees; truly
good farm at a low price and easy payments.
i6 acres Of land In Thorn township Perry coun-
ty, Ohio; n very neat Il story house, good fruit
some timber, and every thing in the best Of r
pair; fine little home for some one cheap
$40 acres Of first class prairie land in o'Brien
county, Iowa, will sell cheap trade for a small
farm I'm Ohio, or town property.
10 acres of land with good improvements,
water, adjoining the corporation Of Somerset,
Ohio. VIII positively sell cheap.
A desirable property situate In the city Of
Ctrcleville, Pickaway county, Ohio, consisting
Of q dwelling house In very good repair contain
ing six rooms and kitchen, good well Of water,
eistern, necessary out buildings, we'll set with
fruit trees An healthy locality and quiet neigh
borhood.
Also q vacant lot situate In said city and In the
same locality, the above said lott Is nicely stu-
ated for building In good neighborhood. These
properties viii be sold on reasonable terms.
August 8. ls1A vinI7
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19

ALEcK STEPHENS. Tribune
correspondent says, apropos to his
late speech in the House: The pc
culiar effect produced by his feeble
and emanciated form, and his sun
ken, parchment-like cheeks, and
his keen, dark eyes, was heightened
by his singular costume. Upon his
head he had black velvet skull
cap, from under which fell thin
fringe of white hair. His hands
were incased in loosely-ftted gloves,
and he wore q suit Of the blackest
Of black clothes. His voice was
sharp and penetrating, and at times
had shrill falsetto quality, while
at others, when apparently fatigued
by exertion, it sank to lower
tone, and became with difficulty
audible. The appearance of this
weird and unreal figure, amid the
realistic surroundings of the House,
as an actor in the commonplace
drama of Legislation" and in a
scene that had more features of wea :
riness than of grandeur, was an
event of unusual interest. The
members thronged around him,
leaving the distant seats to congre-
gate in dense masses where they
could best see and hear. Some COM
pared him afterward to a picture of
an old Spanish ''inquisitor," and
others saw resemblances to Booths
Richelieu in his bearing and ges-
lures. All were profoundly 1im-
pressed with the dramatic element
in the scene; When the old man
finished, two members helped him
to his chair and wrapped his cloak
around him. 1t took some minu-
tes for the Speaker to quiet thebuz
of talk and the noise caused the
dispersion Of the dense throng."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19

while chloroform was very uncertain in
its results, ether was harmless, and that
the statistics of the hospitals proved the
fact. This verdict, however, is hardly
announced before a lady in the same
locality dies while under the influence
of ether. What is to be said now?-
These two cases occurring SO near to-
gether furnish broad field of investi-
CATION, which the medical men ought to
improve.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-19
SPLENDID FARM FOR SALE.
ONE MULE SOUTH OF soMERsEr.

TT1HIS farm contains ls7 acres In a high state
Il of cultivation, and upon which are commo-
dious brick residence, spring house, and never
failing spring, good barns with wagon sheds,
800 bearing fruit trees of all kinds in excellent
condition. There are 40 acres Of splendid bot
tom land in the farm, and the whole 10 admfra-
bly, watered. 1t can be bought for $50 per acre.
For further particulars call oa OF address she
subscriber, JOHN GALL.
July %, 1873. 15 Somerset, Ohio.