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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12
From the Shadow Of the GuiIlotine.

One of the most remarkable escapes
ever made was made by M. de Chateau
brun during the reign of terror in
Paris He was sent to execution with
twenty other prisoners; but after the fif-
teenth head had fallen the guillotine got
out of order, and workman was sent
for to repair it. The six remaining vic
tictims were left standing in front of the
machine with their hands tied behind
them. A French crowd is very curious,
and the people kept pressing forward to
see the man arranging the gullotime.
BY degrees NJ de Chateaubrun, who
was to the rear of his companions, found
himself in the front line of the specta-
tors, then in the second, and finally we'll
behind those who had come to see his
head cut off. Before the man could get
the guillotine in working order night
began to fall, and NJ. de Chateaubrun
slipped away. When in the Champs
Elysees he told man that wag had
tied his hands and robbed him of his
hat, and this simple individual cut him
free. A few days later M. de Chateau
brun escaped from France.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12

A FUNDAMENTAL LAw.-We sup
pose it il come to be universally ac-
knowledged that, after a steady and per
sistent trial for some thousands Of years,
there is no way to get living except to
work for it. The condition may seem
to be a hard one even to the philosopher
who believes, or persuades other people
to believe, that labor, in the ordinary ac-
ceptatiOn of the term, is a blessing in
disguise; but there it y, and We must
make the best Of il. True; there are ma
ny who, despising this fundamental Law
of our being, exert their ingenuity tO
evade its conditions, by endeavoring to
somehow live by their wits, as the say
ing is; but as that kind Of living usually
begets as many pains and as much toll,
after their kind, as fall to the lot Of
plodding industry, after all it comes 70
about the same thing In the end. Pity
it is that this condition cannot be inn
pressed upon the multitude Of deluded
people who are constantly crowding from
the country into the great cities, ~ ifun-
der the hallucination that all they have
to do to snake their fortune" is simply
to HE hither and pick it up, and that
the majority of the deniEens Of New
York, and Philadelphia, and Boston, etc,
must be gentlemen Of elegant leisure
who like the lillies Of the field, "toil not,
neither do they spin" yet are arrayed in
/ purple and fine linen.-Ex.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12

MAsTs OF IRoN.-At the Delaware
river Iron Shipbuilding and Engine
Works, Chester, Pa, the masts Of the
City Of Peking are now being finished.
These, three ia number, are Of iron, one
hundred and thirty-eight feet in length,
with a diameter from eight TO thirty-six
inches. They are formed Of heavy roll.
ed plate iron, and their construction in
work OF difficulty, patience and labor.
About fifty men are now engaged active
" in their completion, some Of whom are
obliged TO work on the inside. When
we state that there is barely room for q
man inside, and his progrc stlrough tha
iron tunnel IL analogous to ascending q
tight chimney, with all the advantages
in favor Of the sweep, inasmuch as che
latter can keep his head perpendicular.
while the workers must lie horizontally
and that, although sheds are erected oy-
er the masss, water poured ON to keep
them cool, and air introduced by pipes
the men cannot remain I'm their iron
prison house more than fifteen minnteai
all can realize the statement made re-
Gently by one present, that "this IL worse
than working in the caissons Of the
bridge over East river, New York city
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12
Wonders of Newspaper Printing.

The New York Herald claims that a
recent Sunday edition consisted of one
hundred and fifty thousand copies. Each
number consisted of twenty pages, that
is one hundred and twenty columns, of
which seventy eight were advertisements
and forty-two reading matter. The
Herald says:
"a detail which will be perfectly new
to on-professionals is, that to produce
one hundred and fifty thousand copies,
it is necessary to take nine hundred and
fifty thousand impressions. To accom-
plish this the short time allowed, five
rotary Hoe presses, of eight and ten cyl
inders each, and two Bullock perfecting
presses, were kept rolling off at the rate
of one thousand minute. To drive
these huge presses, two large engines of
eighty horse power were kept in mo-
tion by burning six tons of coal in the
furnaces. To form the stereotype
plates for the cylinders, eight tons of
type metal were used to cast one hun
dred and forty-eight plates, weighing
when finished and dressed, thirty eight
pounds each The ink on single copy
would not be taken into observation by
the aversge observer, but it required
seven hundred and twenty-five pounds
to keep the rollers prepared to leave the
imprint of their kisses on the eighteen
million virgin pages that were to glow
at daylight with the news. And these
rollers are composed of five hundred
pounds of glue mingled with one thou
sand pounds of honey. Then the vir-
gin pages-the paper on which all this
is printed. There are eighty men and
boys about the presses, handling sheet
by sheet as it passed through the press
until seventeen tons, or thirty foul
thousand pounds are printed on both
sides. If you were TO pile those sheets
one upon another; they would make g
monument one hundred and twenty-feet
hiod -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12

Among the meanest and most con.
temptible Of Gods creatures the gossiPer
stands prominent aud alone in his enor-
nifty. No wretch docs more to destroy
human happiness and propagate human
misery than he. He il in heaven IL can
only keep his neighbors in purgatory.
He sinks around and prizes into Others
affairs in order TO keep up his stock of
literary trash. It would be we'll ifsueh
persons could be dipped in the river
Styx every Saturday night and dried
off in a snug corner in his satanic ma
jesty's dominions. Let decent, resPecta-
BILE people avoid such as they would
wolf. Don't touch them or you will get
smeared over; and keep on the wind
ward side of them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12
MISCELLANY.
4 Pleasing Bit ofword-Painting.

The London Nelrs, speaking of DR..
SchIiemann's alleged discovery of ancient
Troy, indulges in this pleasing bit of
word painting
"High up in the northeast corner of
the Levant, where the rapid Hellespont
rolls southwark in ceaseless food, lie the
plains Of the Troad, the scene of the
worlds grandest epic. The Simois and
Xanthus still flow southwark to the sea;
the Hellespont still falls at noon upon
the shores of Mitylene; the rocky islet of
Tenedos-where the Greeks lay hid while
the fatal horse was dragged into Illium's
citadel-still lifts its hills girt with their
crown of gray green olive groves out of
the blue Egean; and Ida-Ida where
Paris chose between the three immortals
still towers toward the sky, peak leap
ing above peak. IT is hard to look up
on the scene and not to believe in the
downright truth of the Homeric tale--to
picture the turretted walls, and the
Scaan gates, and the lofty citadel, and
Priam's Palace, with its endless corrid-
ors and countless chambers, and the nav
al camp of the Achsean host, with its
trench and rampant, and the beach where
the 'vermell- proved ships lay in long
rows, and the huge mound under which
lies the great Achilles, whom we knew
XeI xes, before he crossed the Hellespont
with his hosts, went up to the hill which
tradition even then identified as the
Pergamus of Priam,' and sacrificed a
thousand oxen to the Ilian Athene. A
century and half later Alexander not
only ascended the holy hill, but hung
up there his own armor and took down
suit of mail which local tradition cher
ished as the panoply of Hector himself
Centuries have since rolled by, and the
ghost of Demetrius of Scepsis has shud-
dered at the sacrilegious inidelity of
Wolf; but the divine lay of Troy's fall
still retains its hold upon mems hearts,
and traveller after traveller has wander
ed along the Troad shores with reverent
step, and sought to identity the site of
Priam's city, and to fix the mound be-
meath which Troy's ruins lie."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12

A gentleman and lady who occupied
the same seat on an eastern bound train
of cars in Ohio, recently, casually fall
ing conversation, found that they both
belonged in Boston and were going home.
On their arrival at the depot in Boston
they both got into the same hack, and
the hackman having inquired where he
wanted to go, he replied, "No. 12---
street. ."-"You may leave me at the
same plr ce," said the lady. The man
was a good deal surprised, but when
they arrived at the house they found
that they had been living in adjoining
houses, the entrances to which were not
three feet apart, for several years, and
had not known each other.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12
Tremendous Tower.

The Tower Of Babel was a pigmy to
what a company of enterprising Phila-
delphia bridge builders propose to con-
struct as a toy to grace the approaching
centennial exhibition in that city. 1t is
to be of wrought iron one thousand feet
in height, and beside it such structures
as the dome of st. Peters the pyramids
of Egypt and Bunker Hill Monument,
would be dwarfed into insignifcance.-
The tower is to be circular, in sections,
one hundred and fifty feet in diameter at
the base, diminishing to thirty feet at
the top. 1t is proposed to have spiral
staircases wind around the center tube
for those preferring to walk up; but ell
evators will be provided, which are cal
culated to ascend to the top in three
minutes. This is one of the greatest en-
gineering projects of the age, and it is in
the hands of constructors capable OF
completing whatever they undertake.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12

Canada appears to be afflicted with at
least one of the troubles which beset this
country. The Canadian Nation says
"One of the easiest things in the world il
to obtain signatures to a petition for any
conceivable object under the sun. There
is an infection in subscribing names, ex'
cept where il also involves a monetary
liability, from which few people escape
For one person who signs because he hai
strong feeling that the thing petition
ed for is right, it may be safely said that
ten sign for no better reason than tha
everybody else has signed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12

An enterprising superintendent of one
of our city Sunday schools was engaged
last Sunday in catechizing the scholars,
varying the usual method by beginning
at the end Of the Catechism. After ask
ing what were the prerequisites for the
Holy communion and Confirmation, aud
receiving very satisfactory replies, he
asked: "And now, boys, tell me what
must precede BaptisniP Whereupon q
lively urehin shouted out, "A baby, sir ?
Fact; followed by sensation and laugh
tar
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12

An Ottumwa, Oregon, paper says:
During the wind storm the other day
Richard Warden, of the COriuer, lost his
hat, which went whirling into space, or
rather into mud-hole. Richard, how
ever, was equal to the occasion. He sim
ply crossed his ears over his head and
bid defiance TO the storm"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12

There is one word of seven letters in
the English language that will spell
over 300 words without using one letter
twice in succession. 1t is the word
strange.-[ Exchange.
Try this, some Of you. We have NOT
time to verify il.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12

An editor, who speaks with the air Of n
man who has discovered new fact by
experience, rays that the way TO pre-
vent bleeding at the nose il to keep your
nose out of other peoples business.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-06-12

A man who snores was Described by
his friend, the other day e. follows'
.snoresg Oh, no, guess not--no name
for It. When you wake up In the
morning and fnd that she houae you
lodge In has been moved half q mile
during the night by the respiratory We
hemence Of a fellow-lodger yop may
get rone idea Of that fellow'a perform
ance. His landlady gets the houHs
moved baokby turning bis bed aF9anQ-
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-12
HE. F. KunkePs Bitter Wine OF iron.

THIS truly valuable tonic has been 50 tholough
ly tested by all classes o the community that Il s
now deemed lndiSp nsable a. a Tome medieIhe
Il costs but little. purihes the bloed and gve tone
10 the stomach, rsnovates the system anu Irolon2s
life. Everybody should have 1t.
For the cure OF Weak Stomachs, General Debility.
Indigestion, Diseases OF the stomach. ana l1T lIi
cases requiring tonic
This wine include the most agreeable and
efficient Salt of Iron we possess-CItrate ct Al1E~
uetic Oxide, combined with tho most enerEetlt u
vegetable tonics Y elbow sruvian Eark.
Do you want sonnet hing to strengthen yon
Do you want a good appetite
Do you want to get rid OF nervousness
Do you want energy Z
d. you want 10 sleep well
Do YOU want to build up your constitution:
Do you want to feel Well?
Do you want brisk and vigorous feeling .
II YOU do, try kuNkEL'S BITrEh NlNEbI
IRON,
only ask a trial of this valid able tonic.
Beware Of counterfeit, as kunkel q Bitter " me
Of Iron is the only sure anu eHectunI remedy IN
the known world for the permanent cure Of ~
pepsia and Debility, Gnd as there are number "a
limitations offered to the public, / wuult CAUTION
the community ia purchase none but the gsAu'ne
article manufactured by T.. f. kunkel and mas
ing his stamp on the cork OF every bottle. lht
very fact that others are attempting t1 imitatl
this valuable remedy, proves ITS worth and 9eai
volumes in its favor.
Sold only in 81 bottles. Sold by Druggists ana
: /ers everywhere. may4sm
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-12
The Workinanen.

ANOTHER MEETINd-PERMANENT ORGANIZATION
DEFERRED.
AT McDonnell's Hall, Sixth and Shipley streets,
last night, another meeting OF workingmen was
held, Mr. 3. Thompson in the chair.
IL was expected at this meet ng to organize a
Council OF the Sovereigns of Indrstry, but as Mr..
Jacob Byrnes, Pennsylvania State Deputy of the
Order, was absent on official business, organizs-
ton was deferred for the present
MIR, John Sheldon, of Phiiadclphia, a member
of the Executive Committee of the Penns lvania
State Counc', being present, addressed the meet
ing at length, in a torcible and interestiug man
ner. He fr'Iy explained the workings of this
new Order, Its origin, rae, progress and objects.
This Order looks to a National Organization OF
all the industrial classes. 1t admits women to all
Its privileged clpss and invites the coop sration OF
| all who are IN sympathy with its purposes. 1t
aims to plan TOR education aud culture, and to
secure peer mary advantages to members through
| a eheapening OF the cost OF living by bringing
producers aud consumers into more direct contact
| Ii seeks to make every dollar held by its members
secure larger equivalent than Is possible in the
hands OF the isolated purchaser, and at the same
time stimulate and cultivate the social and intel
| lectuai tastes OF the membera, aud increase the
| ability Of iaborers to understand their rights, ia
terests and power. 1t also proposes, by com
binationof numbers, concentration of trade, and
the adoption Of the each system, to arrange Tor
purchases at reduced rates, its practical results
ate best illustrated by the following letter. which
was written by the Presidents of four Councils in
Spilng field, Mass.
/. SrRINGFIEIp, MASS. MAR %, 1874,
W4 H. EARLE, President OF National Council
The undersigned, presidents Of the four Coun-
cils iniLis city, representing present member
ship OF about tour hundred would state for the
, benett OF the Order III other places, that on
members here are trading with local dealers II
flour, groceries, meats, clothing coal aud station
cry AZ special rates, by which 1t is estimated tina
an ordinary family, oi average size, will save a
least hity dollars year. Allowing that tw
+ hundred families are represented in our presen
, membership. we save ten thousand dollars pc
annum. Bat. at our present late Of growth
, will not b. ionG before one thousand famiie:
, who do tte.r trading here, will be represented il
, our Councils. There would then be 4 saving c
, hiy thousand dollars per annum. We beev
tins to b. au under estimate Of the truth, as ou
arrangements for procuring the articles we con
sumo are tar from complete
The next meeting viii BE- be held at the sam
place Monday evening, June 9TH, At -
. clock. Mr.. Byrnes Will then be present and oi
game Council OF the Soyereigns of Industry.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-12
SECOND EDITIONl
4 COUNTY CONSTABLE HURT
MINISTER ORDAINED
Appropriate Presents, &c.
Runaway and Accident.

CONSTABLE sAML c. PIELCE THROWN FROM
HIs CARRIAGE AND INJURED,
Yesterday afternoon, as Constable Samuel c.
Pierce, ofChrirtisna Hundred, was driving along
the road, near Du Points banks, his horse took
fright aud Runaway. In very few minutes the
Carriage was demolished and Mr.. Pierce thrown
violently out upon the hard ground, receiving in.
juries OF quite serious nature No bones, for
tunatey, were broken' but his back was spraiu-
ed, aud be was almost coyered with bruises from
head to foot. Friends soon came to his assist
ance and conveyed him to his residence wher,
he is now confined to his bed. The horse wa:
captured soon after the accident
MIR. Pierce is one of The caudidates fJt th,
Democratic nomination for Coroner, and tins ac
| cident ls peculiarly unfortunate, coming 20 clos
| upon The nomination election, when he need al
| bis spare time for electiobesfing. His man
friends will sympathi1e with him in his misior-
tune, and wish for his speedy recovery
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-12
Speciai Notices,
Food Cor lIle Rabies.

Children fed on RIDGES FOOD will thrive be
strong and healthy and become little models Of
youthful strength and childish beauty. apr2a'm
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-12
,trav W ATS

Para9ola and IId e. - 1ln5 ut Frank ;. jl1
Market street
A lew lodger5 continue TO straggIe into the
city Hail cells each night,
Mise school shoes, II - aud upwards al
D0nahoe's 3, ~ Market street
Infant, first shoes, soft -olps, all coiors. slip
per- and button shoe at DohAhor'1 Il Mai
Eet street
Chas. Warner A Co, advertise all the finest
and best kinds OF coal tor sale at their yards.
Market street wharf.
The DELAWARE t AZETTE (Wepkly) crow
ded with all the lnteI estiBg news of the week,
has been issued, and is Tor sale at this office,
The excursion Of the First PRESBYTERIAN
Church sunday schools to Fort Delaware and
Collin Beach to morrow Will be nice affair
Be ,sure and %
The Roard OF Education viii meet in a spe
eai session this evening secretary kUigore
will probably be requested 10 resign and hi'
suCces~U. elrc,ed
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-12
THIRD EDITION.
NOTES FROM NEW CASTLE.
STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY
eyv Castle Notes.
PARADE THE CITY OF CHELsEA.-SPEcIAL
poIlCE.

PARADE THE CITY OF CHELsEA.-SPEcIAL
PoLlCE.
Special 10 the Gazette.
NEW CASTLE, June 18th, 1874.
To night the Pipe and Nozzle Hose Com
pany Will indulge IN "a street parade. A
good turnout Will probably be made.
AT 6.30 O'Clock, last evening, the ferry
boat CltY oJ Chelsea, Just completed at the
yard OF the Harlan ~ Hoilingsworth Com.
pany, W ilmington, touched at this point.
and landed party OF Wilmington ms, who
| had taken short trip this far. The vessel
then proceeded on her route to Boston, and
the party returned home III hacks.
| Our Town Commissioners have appointed
"A Special folira for the town, in the person
| OF County Constable John Ward. whose
duty II shall be arrest persous for drunken
| ness, disorderly conduct and corner loung-
lng, and 10 generally preserve the peace
aud order OF the Town. Those who Know
oiileef Ward are aware that he will carry
out all INSTRUCTIONS 20 the letter, and Of
Tenders ot the law had better maintain or
det whlIe he is around or they VIII speedily
| be made acquainted with sheriff Armstrong.
Ihe appointment IL very satisfactory
Ione REN.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-12


propose becoming meMbers OF this church, viii be
| bapused IN the Brandy y me, at tne loot ot Wanul
street.
PRESENTATIONS At the Union NJ Il Suully
school strawberry festival, III the City Hall last
night, hundsome cake was presented t. Rev l.
! +. Martludale, pastor OF Union Church Prot Z.
| Allen made the presentltlou speech.
| AT the same time. 4 very handsomely framed
picture containing the Lord Prayer, was pre-
| sented 10 little Ellie Goodwin, as an ackuowled ,-
ment ot services rendered by her dunn. tue
| festival
This evening, at The festival. verv handsome
Bible Will be presented, on behalf OF the member;
OF Union Church, 10 au cx-police ohlcer oil TN.
city. During his term, said officer was very Il
| fclent III preserving order around the church
during the evenings On which services were held
ana thls presentation Is 10 be made by the M IA.
pefs as token OF Their appreciation OF li3 Ell
In a PRE- AR1oUs CoNpIrIoH MIR, William
Guyer, Of New Castle, whose son Wa, Killed 81
the railroad on Tuesday Afternoon has been II, d
lprecarous eondlnon and remained uhsgo onst .5u
ever since with frequent attacks oi 9plsias IGt
shock was too great Tor her, ana tn attending
physician thinks her recovery = eNere ita Il
doubtiul The aiilcted lmdy nav It synp,
thes OF the enlire commuAliy
a fLFAsASr kAp URsIlH The A,burg VI !
4 Sunday School eEeurslon, yesterday, Nts iIrprit
attended and WI, very pleasant altar IN
special tram reached Chester iieigGt. IL ,I4
time and delightful tme - spent At ihls ia
nous resort. The weather wa pleasant III "a "A
cloudy, and nothing occurred 10 luai tGr pleasuI,
OF the occasion. The tram Irit Il all e1Iiv hon
and reached here 1t 20 I NJ
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-12
DiEO

DkED
PORTER On " Wednesday. June 10th. l.14 Robert
Porter
The relatives and friends of the family are re-
spectfully invited to attend the funeral. on sat
urday afternoon. 18th inst at o'clock from his
late residence, llG French street, without further
notice.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-12

IHr MED, Al SOCIETY of the state OF Deil-
ware met 10 the Levy Court Room 10 Dover,ou
Tuesday, the 2qth inst, At o'clock, Z. NJ Dr.
Swlth.n Chandler, President, in the chair
Naicu7 medicli -utJect were discussed AMI
matters tending 10 the promotion of the in terests
OF the Society were determined on, alter which
lhe Society Adjourned to 20 o clock for dinner
\ SGmPnou' replst was pTeTafei b9 ''mire
Lost' u the Capitol Hotel.
At / 80 dock the Society re-l ssembled and
elected the following officers ipr the ensuing
yelr Pre-, Dr n !rati Nice Pres, Truitt
Maxwell Secretary b Hall treasurer DR. II.
A,kew
Ihy meeting al ,aFnrd I, meet in Dover OF
tte se,Jud iursdav IN January lo7j lhe next
4aunal m,etng ~i BE- held IN Lewes on thu
...-nl Iue.llH M Juno. = --ssa-nL.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-12

Alden X Martin committed suicide by taking
stryehnne, at FIshk,ll, y Ii on Wednesday lie
had family troubles.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-12
M AR RIED.

Alex MeArthur. Mr.. William Boyer OF Kent
county. Nil to Mis- Lizzie NJ Walton. oil this