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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-21
ALLEN-HOGAN FIGHT.
Three Rounds FOught-The Affair
Broken Up in General Row.

OMAHA, November 18.-AlIen and
Hogan, with their trainers, left the city
at an early hour, in hacks. A train of
five cars, with three hundred passengers,
left the depot at 9 A. NJ. At Council
Bluffs the train was boarded by the
Sheriff and two companies of militia,
who didn't find any one to arrest. The
conductor refused to allow them to go
along. The train proceeded six miles
south, and took on Allen and Hogan.
The fight took place at Pacific City,
seventeen miles south of the Bluffs
Tom Riley, of Kansas City, was appoin-
ted referee Hogan won the choice of
positions. Allen SHE'D his caster into the
ring at Ills, Hogan at 1:3O.
Round One-Lively and beautiful
sparring by both men; Allen working on
Hogan's face; Hogan at the head and
breast It closed with a good square
knock down for Hogan, with the first
blood.
Round Two-Allen gave Hogan a
heavy foul, under the belt, doubling him
up, and nearly broke his wind. The
second blow knocked Hogan down.
The spectators shouted "Foul, FOUL
Riley ordered the fight to go on.
Third Round-Hogan was in bad
shape, but fought bravely. Allen struck
him foul again, and the spectators broke
down the ring. Knives and pistols were
freely displayed, and there was much
excitement.
The referee on the train decided the
fight draw on account of the spectators
breaking the ring.
Jim Eagan, stakeholder, says the men
must fight again for the money now in
his hands. Looney, who is responsible
for the money, says he will pay his to
Allen, which causes much excitement.
Everybody considers Hogan unjustly
treated.
Sheriff Wells, of the comfy where the
fight took plrce, tried to arrest Allen
and Hogan, but served his papers on
the wrong men.
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over a land purchase. Yesterday
Strather came into Hinges store, and
the difficulty was settled, as was suppos-
ed; but as Strather started to leave the
store he stepped behind Kinge, and with
a large knife cut his throat from ear to
ear. Strather then left and was pursued
by Constable Russell, who met him and
two confederates in a lane. All three
started to run, when the constable COM
menced firing on them wounding all
three. One was caught, but Strather,
wounded in the arm, got away
New CANAAN, CoNN, November 49,
Mrs. Joseph Selleck, a widow, owing
and occupying alone small place in
this town, was brutally murdered this
saturated with kerosene, and the body
nearly consumed, and the house was on
fire when discovered. An ak with blood
and hair, small piece of skull and
brains, and an empty kerosene can were
found in the room with large pool of
blood on the carpet and floor. A hole
had been burned through the floor
through which the charred remains of
the body had fallen into the cellar. The
skull showed two cuts with the ak. 40
suspicion SO far rests on any one. No
motive can be conceived of except
plunder. The house had been ransack-
ad
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-21

The Hon. Charles Sumner is not
in the least belligerently inclined
over the slaughter of the crew of
the Virginius. Below is the letter
which he sent to the great meeting
in New York, ON the 18th, of those
who favor immediate action on the
part of our Government to humble
the Spanish authorities in Cuba, or
in Spain, if need be, for the recent
summary executions which have
startled the whole civilized world:
''BosToN, November 16.
GENTLENfEN-It is not in my
power to be with you at your meet
ing to ask for justice in Cuba. AL
low me to add that, longing for i'm
mediate emancipation in this neigh
boring island, where slavery still
shows its Infamous front, and always
insisting that delay is contrary to
Justice, I do not think it practica-
BILE at this moment, on existing ev-
idence, to determine all our duties
in the recent ease, where civi1iza-
zation has received a shock. 1t is
very easy to see that no indignation
at the dreadful butchery, inconsis-
tent with the spirit of the age, but
unhappily aroused by an illicit fill
clustering expedition from our own
shores, kindred to that of the Ala
bama, for which England has been
justly condemned in damages, can
make us forget that we are dealing
with the Spanish Nation; struggling
under terrible difficulties to become
a sister republic, and, therefore, de-
serving from US present forbearance
and candor. Nor can we forget the
noble President whose eloquent
voice pleading for humanity, and
invoking our example, has so often
charmed the world. The Spanish
Republic and Emilio CASTELAR, do
not deserve a menace of war from
the United States. If watchwords
are needed now, let them be: Inn
mediate emancipation and justice in
Cuba Success to the Spanish Re-
public Honor and gratitude to
Emilio Castelar, and Peace be-
tween our two Nations
Bearing these in mind, there
will he no occasion for the belliger-
ant preparations of the last few
days. adding to our present bur
densome expenditures several mil
lions of dollars, and creating wal
fever to interfere with the general
health Of the body. I am, gentle
men, your faithful servant,
CHARLES SUMNER"
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Colorado Scenery.

To get good view of the Arkansas
Canyon in Colorado, one must take the
carriage-road on the north side of river,
and drive up a distance of ten miles,
near the head. The ascent is easy and
gradual, and after passing the first low
range of foothills, the glories of the
Snow Range burst on the vision sixty
miles away, but seemingly so near that
every gorge, precipice, and peak are re-
vealed in all their grandeur Up one
hill and down another, through pinion
grove and over loose masses of lime
stone rock that are hurled and tumbled
in all sorts of fantastic shapes, the ad-
venturous traveller makes his way, and
is soon standing on the very brink of the
canyon. The grandeur of the sight is
not easily forgotten. One involuntarily
holds his breath as he approaches the
awful brink. Straight down as the
plummet go the limestone walls hun
dreds of feet, while the river below looks
like mere thread of silver, and its an
CRY voice cannot be heard. 1t is a spec
tacle for the poet and painter; and, in
looking upon it, even Shoddy will for
get his greenbacks and paste-diamonds,
and rharsodize by the hour.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-21

THE LAW OF tCoURTIN. "A
mild-minded magistrate of Guthrie
county, Iowa, has just made a de-
cision in the case of parent who
sued his daughters wooer for kick
ing him out of his own parlor. 1t
was held by the Court that counting
is necessity, and must not be need
lessly interrupted-that a parent
has no legal right in room where
courting was going on. This, how
ever, leaves open the questions
whether a father in the exercise of
proper parental authority may or
der his daughter, still domiciled in
his house, to go to bed at 9 o'clock;
and whether he is bound to find fire
and light for the convenience of the
enamOrad
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InfIati IN and Resumption.

Every day it becames more evident
that powerful pressure will be brought
to bear on Congress in favor of fur
ther imitation of the currency. The de-
mand for more currency is strong in the
West, where everything is plenty but
money, and where the prevailing idea
seems to be that money can be manufac-
tured to order by the Government prin-
ting press.
We earnestly hope that Congressman
will pay more heed to the real interests
of the country than the irrational de-
mands of their constituents, and take
counsel of q wisdom learned by expert
ence instead of an ignorance which con-
founds printed promise to pay debt
with its liquidation. What the country
wants more than anything is a wise, set
tied policy, which looks towards resump-
tion at the earliest practicable moment.
Estimating the premium on gold at 10
per cent, resumption would add some
seventy-tive millions to the actual pur-
chasing power of the present body of cur
rency, and convert between two and three
hundeed millions of gold and silver
from merchandise into money. Thus
resumption would virtually add more
than three hundred millions to the ac-
tual money of the country by bringing
the gold and silver now lying idle into
circulation and increasing the purchas-
ing power of the currency we already
have. The premium OH gold has al
ready dropped to 6 per cent, and this
reduction, which is a natural movement
towards resumption, has practically ad-
ded over thirty millions to the currency
of the country. Make every greenback
worth its face in gold, and we should
have all the money the country wants
or could absorb and use with pro-
fit. 1t ia for our interest to increase
the purchasing power of the money we
| have, rather than to add to the volume
of the currency, in order to check un-
necessary importation and enable our
/ u1cICnHllLO anu AndHuAdCtuICEo
mers to compete successfully for the
trade of the world. Imitation means
exclusion from the open markets of the
globe, unbounded speculation, extrava-
CANT imports, and tremendous financial
and commercial crash in year or two.
On every ground, whether of private
interest or domestic prosperity or ma
tional policy imitation would be ruin
GUS step. Our hope lies in the other
direction, and we earnestly entreat eve
ry member of Congress to resist the
insensate clamor of Ignorance and pre-
judice and adopt policy that looks to-
wards early resumption. To cover a
wound with a bit of paper aggravates
instead of curing it.-N. Y. Graphic.
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on occasions, more energetically, than
any other sort of government. This
thing of freedom is, in itself, the grand
est possible agency for developing hu-
manity and promoting the permanent
welfare of the human race. When any
evil is exposed in this country, its cure
is sure to be effected; but in many other
Governments evils can not be exposed,
and no means arc ever taken for their
cure. We have had "a great deal of
political corruption, but it has come
to the surface, and the peo-
pie are dealing with it. When the
quick-witted japanese compared our
political institutions, and the result OF
our political methods with their own,
they could not help seeing the numerous
advantages of Republicanism.-C Cinein-
natl Commercial
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NO. 3.
NO. z.

Wanted 40 to 80 acres Of land = few miles
from Somerset. Improvements desired. All
cash down.
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A Lonely Duel.

From the ST. Joseph (Mo.) Herald.
A duel without witnesses was fought,
last Saturday, in fancy county, near the
county-seat of Forsythe. John Goforth
and Simon Melville went out to hunt
deer. Each was armed with the old
fashioned squirrel rifle. Goforth said
to Melville: 81 hear that you have been
lying on me-" "What did you hear
said?" asked Melville. "That I have
been beating my wife, "And SO you
have" replied Melville. "Those who
told it lied; and when you repeated it
you also lied; and you knew at the time
you were lying" These were pretty
plain words, and they brought about
some very plain shooting. Both men
agreed TO step off thirty yards each,
wheel at the word, and fire Immediately
after wheeling. They did SO, Melville,
when he had measured off his thirty
steps, called out wheel" and both men
turned and fired. Goforth was shot in
the right arm and Melville in the right
shoulder. Both wounds were painful.
They managed, however, to walk into
Forsythe, where physician extracted
both balls, and consoled Goforth with
the information that unless he was very
careful he might have to cut his arm
off. This version of the case agrees in
the main with the stories of both men.
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es by bIoOd-thirsty Cubani

Abiding to the conviction of the
notorious Boss Tweed, the Cincin-
matt Commercial says: 1t was but
a few years since the public was en-
tertained with accounts of the al
most real magnifcence of Boss
Tweed's style of living in New
York. He literally dwelt in Mar
BILE halls, with refine of servants to
wait upon the Prince of Tammany
such as rarely attends upon majesty.
Even his stables were more elabo-
rately finished and equipped than
the dwellings of those who think
themselves well to do in the world.
He was then the autocrat of New
York, controlled its politics, and
dictated the candidates to be voted
for. Men feared, if they did not
respect him. He was a power in
tbe Democratic party, and his in
Auence was felt in its councils
throughout the country. How
marked the change now. His sum-
mer friends have deserted him.
He stands convicted of the frauds
charged to his account and is SEN
fenced to fine and imprisonment
1t has taken long to bring him to
book. Money and power have been
used unscrupulously to evade the
Issue, and every expedient that in
genious counsel could devise has
been resorted to, to delay the pro-
cess of the law and defeat the ends
: of justice.
The announcement of his convic-
ton was received with general sur
prise in New York. Not that his
guilt was doubted, for the facts con-
clusively show that, but it was the
general belief that he would be able
to manipulate the jury SO as TO be
able to secure verdict of acquittal,
or at least hopeless disagreement.
That he has finally been convicted
and condemned will do much to re-
store confidence in the high charac-
ter of the Courts and revive hope
that those who participated with him
in the gigantic frauds upon the treas
ury of the city, may ultimately be
brought to punishment.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-21
The Glory Of the Farmer.

The benefit conferred upon mankind
by the farmer, and the pleasure which
attaches to his vocation, are charmingly
portrayed by Ralph Waldo Emerson in
one of his essays as follows:
The glory of the farmer is that, in
the division of labor, il is his part to
create. All the trades rest at last OH his
primitive authority. He stands close to
Nature; he obtains from the earth the
bread; and the food which was not, he
causes to be. The first farmer was the
first man, and all historic nobility rests
on the possession and use of land. Men
do not like hard work, but every man
has an exceptional respect for tillage,
and feels that is the original calling of
his race, that he himself is only excus-
ed from it by some circumstances which
made him delegate it for a time to other
hands. If he had not some skill which
recommends him to the farmer, some
product for which the farmer gives corn,
he must return into his due place among
the planters. And the profession has
in all eyes its ancient charms, as stand
ing nearest to God, the first cause.
''Then the beauty of Nature, the
tranquility and innocence of the coun-
try, his independence and pleasing arts,
the care of bees, poultry, sheep, hogs,
the dairy, the care of hay, of fruits, of
orchards and forests, and the reaction of
the work in giving him strength
and plain dignity, like the face and
manners of Nature-al men acknowl-
edge. All men keep the farm in reserve
as an asylum, in case a mischange, to
hide their poverty, or as solitude III
case they do not succeed in society. And
who knows how many glances of re-
morse are turned this way from the
bankrupts of trade, mortified pleaders
in courts and senates, or from the vic
Tins of idleness and pleasure?"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-21

Hard times don't affect the liquor
business at Boston. Here are the
figures which the Herald thinks
represent the trade in that "prohib-
tied" city: 5000 liquor shops, run
ming from II to Is hours per day,
patronized by 10000 customers,
who drink 100 barrels of whisky
and proportionate amounts of mild
er beverages.daily As for the prof
its of the business, a barrel of whis-
XIV, that doesn't cost $40 at whole
sale, brings over s400 by the fifteen
cent glass.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-21

We learn from paper published in
Japan that all the japanese students
and travellers who have been in this
country, and have returnd home, spend
their time glorifying Republicanism,
and telling about the fine way in which
things are carried on in the great Amer
ican Republic. We are delighted to
learn this fact We fear that the young
er generations of Americans, who have
heard of little else than political cor.
ruption ever since they came on the
stage, must be inclined to undervalue
the advantages of republican institu-
tions. They must not do this; Republi
canism is Il good thing. OF all the
forms of government existing in the
world, it is incomparably the best. 1t
secures the citizen more of his rights; it
secures the community more freedom; it
works more advantageously to the pub
lie interests; it brings about reforms
more successfully; tits capable Of acting,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-21

ST. JOSEPH, Mo, November 1S.-A
respectable and reliable gentleman from
this city, who witnessed the fight be-
tween Allen and Hogan to-day. declared
that the whole thing appeared like set
up job on the part of Omaha roughs to
cheat Allen out of the stakes. Hogan
never had the slightest show to win the
fight, and even had he been able to
come to time for another round would
have thereafter been mere plaything in
Aliens hands. When the ropes were
cut and the fight broken up Allen had
his left eye closed; his nose was as large
as big potato, and his mouth swollen
to twice its natural size
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-21

A $400, 900 defalcation in New
York is announced by telegraph.
Edward K. Winship, of Broad
street, with whose reputation rumor
has been busy for some time, is at
length announced defalter to the
extent of 100000. Winship was
engaged in the purchase of claims
of Government employees at ten
per cent, discount, and receiving
deposits, ON which he paid three and
three and half per cent. a month.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-21

SNAKEs.-On the I'd inst, John B.
Putnam and several others visited a
prairie dog city three miles from town
for the purpose of catching some dogs to
send to Ft. Wayne, Indiana. The day
was warm and sunny, and about the
holes were basking hundreds of snakes
"Put" and his comrades armed them
selves with sticks and made terrible
slaughter. They killed about two hun
dred, of which one hundred and seven
ty-five were rattlesnakes. "Put" came
back to town exultant, and with his
pockets full of rattles plucked from tails
of his victims.
In the spring and fall tbs "boys" all
over the country have great sport visi-
ting these towns and carrying out the
scriptural injunction of bruising serpents
heads They carry on the business in a
wholesale manner so effectively, that it
is thought, after next spring, a snake
will be curiosity in the settled portions
of Reno Hutchinson Kas. Mews
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Rissler Linville, dealers in Hardware, Nails,
Stoves, Tobacco, &c.
Noah Swiek, dealer in Groceries, Liquors, &c.
Rouseculp Bro, dealers in Family Groceries
j. w. Thomas K Co. dealers in Dry Goods,
Queensware, Notions, &c.
Gutelius House, Gntelius & Bro, Proprietors
Joseph Brown Fashionable Tailor.
Robert Forgraves, dealer in all kinds of Liquors
Robinson Il Dickson, Blacksmiths.
Whitmer & Hite, Physicians and Surgeons.
Yost Il Groves, dealers in Dry Goods, Notions,
and all kinds Of Merchandise.
Central House, Rouseculp & Bro. Proprietors.
Gutelius Bro, dealers in Drugs, Medicines
Paints, Oils, and Liquors for medical purposes.
Frederick Steiner Sons, Manufacturer Of
Harness, Saddles, &c.
Jefferson CO., dealers in Dry Goods, Cloth
ing, Notions &c.
W. II. Schenk, Physician and Surgeon.
J. Il. Moor, Boot and Shoe manufacturer.
j. Foster, Blacksmith.
n. l.. Stevens, Dentist
j. Dunwoody, Root and Shoe Maker
Peter RousecuIp, Blacksmitb.
Stevens Son. Carpenters.
II. Kokensperger, Wagon Maker.
J. Clemson, Plasturer
J. r. Deohant, Tailor.
Lawyer Bros. Carriage Makers aud Painters.
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The Mexican Congress is crowded
with railroad projects, the only road
fully completed at present being
the line from Vera Cruz to the City
of Mexico. Three companies are
now trying to obtain subsidies, one
of which is headed by General Ro-
sencrans, who represents Tom Scott
in Mexico. The leading schemes
contemplate lines from the City of
Mexico to the other large towns, a
road to the pacific and one to St.
T T,olliS
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-21

Mr.. Augustin Daily, in building his
new Fifth Avenue Theatre, which is
soon to be thrown open to the public
has wisely made it, as far as possible,
fire-proof. Brick partitions with iron
doors cut off the stage from the body OF
the theatre and separate the dressing
rooms in the rear from the stage. The
means of egress are SO ample that the
house can be emptied in two minutes,
whereas Wallack's Theatre, which COM
pares favorably in this respect with
most of our theatres, cannot be emptied
in less than seven minutes. Water
tanks and other means of extinguishing
fire are placed in readiness in various
pa: is of the building, and the patrons OF
Mr.. Daly's new theatre will have no rea-
son to dread the possibility of being
burned alive. There is no excuse for
the dangerous condition of many of our
theatres, and hereafter no place OF
amusement should be allowed to be erec-
ted unless it is made as safe as the new
Fifth Avenue Theatre.
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An Anti-Sheriff Steed.

The New Orleans Times asserts that
"of all men living, none have perhaps
had more distressing acquaintance with
sheriffs' officers than Dan Rice, the
clown and Snowman" and goes on to re-
cite the following circumstances which
occurred in 1860: "Among Dams credi-
tors there was one whom he promised
to pay before his departure, but failing
to do so, his creditors determined to
capture the Snowman, and to that end,
procuring writ of seizure against the
circus, despatched to Carrollton a Sher-
ifs officer, who, reaching there as the
boat.was about to cast off, hurried aboard,
and looking up Dan, told that festive
lad that he must come to time or oe tied
up. Dan couldn't pay, and told the
man so, intimating to the latter, howev-
er, that he could seize away TO his hearts
content. In response to a request to
point out certain property, Dan took
the officer to where the horses were
kept, and, after designating four noble
chargers, he called especial attention to
the fifth, handsome animal; and mana
ging to place the minion of the law di-
rectly behind the beast, Dan suddenly
made loud, unintelligible exclamation,
the horse let fly his heels, and 10, the
Sheriff's officer lay on the deck, knocked
as senseless as a his MINER. Hurriedly
calling assistance, Dan carried the man
ashore, and before that luckless chap
could recover had cast off his lines and
was soon steaming up the river. twill
be in order to remark that the horse in
question had been trained by Dan for
the express purpose of getting rid OF
Sheriffs in the manner above recited-
the exclamation given in that instance
being the signal for the onslaught. More
than one Sheriff bit the dust in the
same style, when he thought he had a
sure thing on Dan, and many time has
the showmen got out of an unpleasant
predicament by the use of that pair of
heels"
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It isa dreadful thing f

It is a dreadful thing for woman
to lose her voice, it must be de-
lightful thing to recover it. A Miss
Unmack, ut Lawrence. Mass, six
months ago suddenly, and from no
apparent cause, became speechless,
or almost so. Last Sunday night
she was so affected by the explosion
of kerosene lamp that her voice
suddenly returned in full force; she
gave one good healthy scream, and
has talked audibly ever since. Hus-
bands whose wives are similarly af-
hicted, viii, of course, prohibit the
use Of keresone lamps in their hou-
ses.