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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
Nine Hours in a Cistern.
From the Decatur (In., } Magnet

From the Decatur Ill,) Magnet.l
Yesterday morning, about o'clock,
little two-year child of Mr.. Webb
Calhoun, living two and half miles
north of the city, fell into the cistern,
and the mother, who happened to see
the child fall, jumped in after it. Mr..
Calhoun, who is dealing in stock, was
away from home at the time of the acci-
dent, and there was no one on the place,
and Mrs. Calhoun, being unable to get
out, was compelled to stand in water
waist deep from o'clock in the morn
ing until in the evening. The unfor-
tunate woman probably would have had
to spend the night in that distressing
condition, where, no doubt, she and her
child would have perished before morn
ing, if, by her screams, she had not at
tracted the attention of some children
who were returning from school. The
school children heard her cries for help
but it was some time before they dis
covered and rescued the almost exhaust
ed lady. Indeed, she was 80 much chill
ed and fatigued that it will be fortunate
if she escapes a severe illness. DIR. Sibly
was sent for about o'clock last evening
and il ia hoped the lady win escape ser
! ious consequences from her long bath.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
The Detroit Justice.

There is a justice in Detroit who has
made himself remarkable for the i'm
pressive solemnity of the sentences he
passes upon prisoners. Here is the
Free Press report of one of the latest
cases in his court, man who was ar
rested for vagrancy:
''Can't find nothing to do but loaf
around the wharves and gallop up and
down the alleys, eh?" remarked his
Honor, as young man was rushed out.
81 am stranger in this town-dead-
broke and nobody to borrow of" replied
the prisoner, his hair climbing up to a
perpendicular as 'Bijah glared down
upon him. During the momentary
pause, boy in the alley was heard sing
ing:
mot shilling in my pocket
Pulling hard against the stream"
81 can't help il that you are dead
broke" said the court. "I'd be glad il
everybody owned silver mine and two
coach dogs. The officer says you have
been wandering aimlessly around, sleep.
ing. on bales of hay, taking free lunches
and making no effort to amass fortune.
You don't seem to have any aim-any
ambition"
eyes I have" replied the prisoner
"Where is it, sir-where is it2" asked
his Honor, leaning forward. "Did you
ever here of Cicero taking free lunches?
Did you ever read that Plato gamboled
through the alleys of Athens? Tell me
sir, did you ever hear any one say that
Demosthenes slept under a coal shed OIL
on bale of hay? If you wanted to be
Plato, there would be fire in your eye
your hair would have an intellectual cut
you'd step into a clean shirt and hire a
moving machine to pare those finger
nails. Sir, you have got TO go up fol-
four months"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
A Costly Wallpaper.

Detectives yarns are often a little
more marvellous than those of sailors,
who are supposed, according to the pop
ular notion, to spend their whole time in
talking to the marines. This one is
about Chicago boy, and the reader is
not required to believe it in the absence
of documentary evidence. This youth
made raid OH an open safe, and ran
away with roll which turned out to
contain large amount in five-twenty
bonds. 1t was found that the boy lived
with his mother in a shanty on the out
skirts of the city, and the detective, re-
pairing thither, entered and beheld on
its walls the most extraordinary and val
liable wallpaper on which his sharp
eyes had ever rested. The missing bonds
had been neatly pasted on the wall nice
ly matched and joined. By considerable
moistening, pulling, and profanity, they
finally came off with layer of white
wash adhering to them. We regret to
say that the boy was arrested and pun
ished. He should have been allowed tc
keep the bonds for his ignorance, if moi
for his honesty.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

Battle Creek, Mich. has cider
manufactory capable of making four
hundred barrels of cider per day. In
cluding the boiled, four kinds of cider
are made-the first is the simon-pure
juice, the second is clarified article,
and third is a compound of cider and
hops. The last kind has become very
popular drink for bilious persons. A
fruit.preserving house four stories high
and of peculiar construction ia another
novelty of the establishment. This has
a capacity of $4,000 barrels, and fruit
placed in it can be kept perfectly sound
for three years. The walls are of solid
stone, thirty inches thick, and the fOors
and walls are covered and backed up
with ten inches of sawdust, covered with
galvanized iron.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
GENERAL NOTES.

A revolver-The earth.
Go to work should be all the go.
Drawing materials-corkscrews
Hop merchants-dancing-masters.
1t is never too late to marry or to
mend.
A wife's secret-her opinion of her
husband.
An era unknown to woman-the mid
die ages.
There is never scarcity of the small
potato crop.
The earliest participants in the fall
trade-Adam and Eve.
'Tis better to have loved-and lost, than
never to have had a mother-in-law.
The genius who is to invent practi-
cal substitute for work has not yet been
born-and never will be-
The youth who cried Excelsior" "
didn't know that he was naming five out
of every six saloons in the country.
There is something noble about a goat
which all boarders might initiate. He
is not particular what he feeds upon.
Mr.. Smirkins says he has been mar
ried sixteen years, and all the income
they have had to live on has been incom-
patibility.
Henry Godnose Bailey is the name OF
boy in Springfield, Ohio. II We were
your parient, Henry, Godnose we'd
knock your middle name ont of you
| Gin. Times.
The latest Sunday school prodigy
having listened to discourse on the ne.
cessity of offering a firm front to tho
evil one, said he'd "be scared of the old
devil, but If he came across one of the
little ones he'd knock the stuffing out o.
him.
We don't want to kick up a great
rumpus and be the means of bringing
about dozen libel suits; but right here
and right now it may be we'll to remark
that tobacco is not injurious TO the hu'
man system. Now then come on De
troit Press.
A Detroit young woman tried TO b
aristocratic and did not look at the mon
ey that she gave the horse car conduc
tor. but he meekly gave her back th'
lozenge on which was written, "Ill new
er cease 70 love thee" and said he wal
an orphan with five little brothers tC
| - s,,,,rs h.
A man about two thirds druAk, anC
his back covered with mud, stopped I
policeman on the street and asked to b
locked up. "Why, you are able to wall
home, aren't your" asked the officer
ayes, could get home all right, but
don't want to; you wouldn't If you ha'
my wifel Take me down, ole feller, ant
IL she comes inquiring round juss sa.
I've gone to T'ledo on 'portant business.
/ Detroit Free Press.
There is a postofice in Schohari
county, New York, which consists Of
cigar box nailed to rail fence.
, In Todd's Valley, n monlter blast {
!. 1878 kegs Of powder was discharged o
the 10th of October. II cost 5000.
A consignment Of $4,000 pounds {
ehestnuts, the largest single lot ev'
shipped, was sent north from Virginia
4 few days ago.
, A firm In Reading, Pa, promises
> distribute 100 loaves Of bread per wee
n among the poor Of that city during a
coming winter.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
FROM BALTIMORE.
Correspondence Somerset Press-l

BALTIMORE, MD, Nov. D, 1874.
Whenever leisure moment is available
/ think of my obligations as your hum
BILE correspondent. Yet available mo-
ments are as scarce as "hens' teeth" and
precious as rubies. The long interval
that has just occurred was unintentional
on my part, but owing to the uncommon
amount of written matter which L have
been compelled the last week TO scruti-
nize and investigate, my moments are so
occupied that have scarce time to par
take of the necessary comforts of life.
am at present just completing the ex-
animation of prerogative, chancery, and
law courts, courts of appeals, and ad-
manifestations accounts, with will records,
inventories and appraisements, and also
proprietary leases. My intention is to
thoroughly probe every avenue, and
leave nothing undone, necessary to make
our case complete. have been through
some forty ponderous volumes of court
records relating to judicials and impair
lances. find enough here to make quite
little chapter in the history of this in
vestigation, but time prohibits US from
giving it at present.
In pursuing this venerable claim, l
am shaking the dust off of some old
books that perhaps have not been open
ed for fifty pears past, and the dust has
accumulated to such an extent upon the
backs and edges that it is most un-
pleasant undertaking to move them at
ALL presume most of my constituency
would indulge in fits of merriment, if
they could witness the efforts to rid these
volumes of their accumulations by lift
ing them down carefully and throwing
them suddenly on their ponderous sides,
and then retreating a half-dozen steps
until the cloud of dust settles, and again
repeating the same performance, then
suddenly opening and closing them, and
holding our breath for fear of suffoca-
ton. o, tell you it's fun, "it is" This
is no child's play to us, however, though
it may seem funny to those not perform
ing the labor. We go to Annapolis to-
morrow to get some points we cannot
reach here, for as old as our dates are
here, we must get still beyond these, and
trace them back to almost the Eoachian
period; and as we must take an early
train, we bid you kind goodnight.
]. G. c.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
Transformation of Sandstone to Mar.
BILE.

J. Corvin, an engineer residing at
Dresden, Germany, has invented meth
cd of giving the ordinary sandstone, the
exterior appearance of marble. He ac-
complishes this by impregnating the
well-dried stone with soluble silica and
alumina. The thus prepared sandstone
becomes much lighter in color, some
kinds being intensely white and trans
lucent, while it IL capable of the highest
polish, equal to that on the purest mar
BILE. He has even succeeded in imita-
ting marbles of every color by adding
mineral colors to the liquid used for i'm
pregnation. The famous quarries near
Pirna, in Saxony, produce a sandstone
especially adapted to this process, and
Mr.. Corvin now makes colored stones
from sandstone, adapted to the most ele-
CANT architectural structures. The price
is considerably below that of marble;
and the new material has the important
advantage that it is much more fire.
proof than marble, which, when exposed
to the fire, rapidly burns into quicklime
and crumbles to dust Scientific Amer
ican
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

OLD FRIENDs.-Never give up old
friends for new ones, make new ones if
you like, and when you have learned that
you can trust them, love them if you
will, but remember the old ones still.
Do not forget they have been tried and
found true; that they have been merry
with you in time of pleasure, and when
sorrow came to you they sorrowed also.
No matter if they have gone down in
the social scale, and you up; no matter il
poverty and misfortune has come to
them, while prosperity and plenty to
you, are they any the less true for that?
Are not their hearts as warm and ten
der IL they do beat meath homespun in
stead of velvet? Yes, kind friend, they
are as true and tender and loving, and
don't forget old friends.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

David n. Matthews, Adn'El 10 che Frgbate
de bonis non Of the estate ol Court uf Ferry
Jacob Coelman, deceased Nonniyf uaio.
va Petition 90 aHll
Emily Goldman aud others. Real Estute
T FRED HARsCH aud Harriet Harsh, 81
~ the county Of knnE In the state ei lnollnai
are hereby n0tined that ON tha HQth day ui june,
is7a said David ~. MathgWH, ~ the Anullnia-
traitor as Aforesaid hiad him petition im Che Pro-
bate Court of uaid Perry eounty against ne anld
er of witch sid petition q 90 obtain On ORDER
from aaid Court for the assignment oi she aogaf
of the uaid Emily Goldman, widuw or $40
rob Cochran defrnaad in and for tha sale ul tna
east half ~ in-loi No 10, IA tha town or Hlnlgi
set In said county Of Perry ohio % pay tAa
ssia nesitIon VIII stand for hearing en- tne
pm,G a. M Ftermmhmw Ha46 im aaiA Erpe4ta
c..t n NJ MATNihWAl Adu'E
~ hnrts non Of estate af jacob Goldman a. q.
Nov. q iH7s aQwA
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

General Jackson, when President, said
TO one of his fercest newspaper oppo-
nents, "Send me your newspaper.
know that you are opposed to me, but
then should like to see your paper
every day. / want to see how many lies
you can tell of me-" General" said
the editor. az think do right in op-
posing you, and 1 shall continue to do
30 with all the ability of which l am
MASTER" Here was a man after Jack
sons own heart, and he replied
with an oath, "Sir, send me your paper,
it is a good one. Besides never saw a
newspaper in which 1 could not find
something worth reading. just so. No
man can pick up newspaper withou,
finding something of interest. You
may take the paper and tear Il into ffag-
ments, and in each fragment you will
see something to amuse or instruct you
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

now the twelfth State with compulsory
education law upon its books. The foil
owing are all the States which have in
dulged in this Prussian and monarchi-
cal kind of legislation: New Hampshire
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Kentucky
Rhode Island, New York, Ito go into
operation January /, lS75,) New Jersev
Michigan, Kansas, Texas, Nevada and
California. Suasion, by the presenting
of abundant inducements to education
is the proper means in this as in al
other moral reforms.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
A Curious Old Custom.

Down to the beginning of the present
century, in some parts of Cumberland, a
custom called "letting a woman" was
adopted-queer enough in its way, but
not so queer as it sounds; it was mode
of transferring to some family. to board
and lodge, any young unmarried woman
who had become burden to the parish,
an advertisement announcing "a woman
to let" was inserted in the papers, and
preference was given to the family which
offered the best terms. In 1888 manu-
facturer, in the Midland Counties, took
a lease of his deceased wife's sister
whether there was any legal bar at that
time, or whether he had any conscien-
tious scruples in regard to marrying heI
we are not told; but the leasehold prop.
erty lived with him, and assumed the
rank and position Of wife. In 1915 q
Birmingham carpenter, after ill-treatinl
his wife, leased himself to another wo
man by document which an unscrupu-
lous attorney had the hardihood to draw
up, and for which he charged thirty FIVE
shillings; this precious document bound
the man and woman to live together per
manently, and to support and succor
each other to the utmost of their power
The poor wife was, Of course, no consent
ing party to this; she appealed to th'
law; the appeal brought the "lease" be
fore the eyes of the judiciary, the maj
brought to his senses Though probabl,
remaining bad husband), and the at
torney received severe rebuke. Maiden
and widows of good repute are not AYERS
70 a pleasant banter about bein
@leased for life" as another name 70
matrimony; but in by gone times thi
pleasantly was sometimes elaborated TO
remarkable degree.-[All the Yea
Round.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
Important Religious movement.
SABBATH SCHOOL UNION coNvENTGO
FOR PERRY COUNTY.


The lovers of Jesus and the little
children, have long desired closer bond
of fellowship, one with another, in order
TO thorough canvass of the field, and
better organized forward movement in
the great work of bringing the children
to Jesus, as we'll as 10 place the
county along side Of her sister counties
in the great Sabbath School Union or
ganization of the State. Each den0mi-
nation doubtless has been doing what il
could, in its own way, and in It's locality.
But this is not enough. We want uni
versal blaze of Gospel light, and heat,
that shall not only burn in the hearts Of
the many laborers who are already in
the field, but, that shall spread from hill
top to valley, and visit every household.
To this end at a former convention q
committee was appointed, who have de-
cided to publish call to meet IN the u.
B. Church in Junction City at ] o'clock
p. NJ, November "a, 1874, for the pur-
pose of completing a County sabbath
School Union. All arrangements have
been made. A programme, embracing
living and vital topics, will be prepared.
All things are ready. Come and partici-
pate, assist and enjoy.
BY order Of the Committee.
J. II. Dickson,
Chairman.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

ssThe latest feature of the chrome gift
business comes from Dexter, Ne. They
have n church there which gives ehro-
mo to every new convert. - Boston
Globe
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

"Beckie, my dear, You were very
good little girl to-day" "Yes'm, /
couldn's help bein' good. / gos tia
neck"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

A Representative and Champion Of
American Art Taste
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

Prospectus for 1s75-Elglrth Year.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
The AIdine,
The Art Journal of America,
ISSUED MONTHLY.

"A Magnificent Conception, ,ooadsrtillly ourried o
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-07-06

The PRECIOUS METALs-In an article re-
Gently published by one Of the San Fran
cisco journals valuable statistics as to the
products of the gold and silver mines
were given. From this report we learn that
the total yield in the last twenty five years
in the whole United States has been
81, 5S3, GA, 934, and to this immense sum Cali
fornia alone contributed 81, O94, 9l9, O9S nearly
all of which is gold Nevada is credited with
having yielded over 1921, 100000, in silver
and gold, while Utah, though reputed to
abound in mineral wealth, has thus lar only
produced some $685. 900, for her mines
have but recently attracted the attention Of
capitalists, who now work them in proper
manner Colorado seems to beat Utah, hav-
ing produced some s30,0oo,0oO, while the
united yield Of Washington Territory and
Oregon was but little over s25, 100000 Since
the excitement caused by the discovery of gold
has died out, and mining is systematically
carried on, the production has steadily in
creased. In 1873 the actual yield of the Pa
cifc Slope was $50, 287, 1885, whereas for the
year 1872 it was only 7O,236,9l4, which
shows gain of about fourteen per cent. The
increase is mostly in silver, and meets, there
fore, the unusually great demand which has
lately been made for this metal. England
secures the bulk of the production.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-07-06
Simplicity and Safety in Railroad
Management.

AS the number of railways 80 rapidly in
creases it is encouraging TO find new and well
matured plans devised for the prevention of &C
cidents. At the present time when the railroads
are crowded with passenger traffic and every
body who can leave home is projecting tour or
journey ON the rail, it is opportune to call
attention to an invaluable paper recently read
in England by Captain Tyler, the Chief In
spector Of Railways.
This experienced and practical engineer, in
the paper referred to, seeks to secure sim
plicity in the signal systems of the great trunk
lines as the sine qua non of all safety, speed
and economy in their management The few
and eminently simple features of his plan,
designed to displace the cumbrous confusion
that now prevails even where railroading has
attained its greatest perfection, deserve to be
widely published and pondered by those on
whose skill thousands of lives depend for
safety.
One of the most important proposals, Cap
tain Tyler argues, is the combination OF the
''slottinQ system With the locking and other
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-07-06

ENGLISH CAPITAL FLowING INTo THE SOUTH
Since several Of the Southern States have ex-
empted capital invested in the development of
their int rnal resources from taxation North
efn and foreign capital has begun to find profit
able investment there Many companies
have been formed to develop the rice fields Of
South Carolina, the forests of Florida and
Georgia and to manufacture the raw cotton
adjacent to the plantations. The English CO.
operative associations, we learn from our ex-
changes are looking southwark for fields of
profitable investment, and one company of
English cooperative rice planters, with cap.
ital of two million dollars, will soon begin ope-
rations near Charleston The Augusta Constihi-
tonal,st commenting upon these facts, very per-
tinently remarks: ''Some anxiety was recently
expressed to get an tinerant newspaper excur-
sion party to come here and be made much OF.
The parties who were so eager to capture and
entertain these festive quill drivers had a great
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-07-06

Mr.. BEEcHER's SERMON at Plymouth church
yesterday was the feature among the pulpit
.discourses, not because it was much more
striking or original than any of the others,
but because it was not the sermon which
everybody expected him to preach. 1t was
the religion of JOY that he preached, when
it was believed that he would have something
to say of his own griefs. There was not one
word in the discourse about the grave charges
which affect his standing as q Christian min
lister. This may have been wise, but most
people will doubt its wisdom. The Christian
minister ought to be above suspicion, and one
little sentence, "Not guilty" from Mr..
Beecher's lips yesterday morning would have
been better than all his fine words about the
religion Of JOY.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-07-06

HYDRoPHoBIA CURED.-In another column
we publish highly interesting case of pain
ful Impotence at the present moment. There,
circumstantially related, is a case of a young
woman, twenty-five years of age, who,
having been bitten by a mad dog two weeks
previously, was taken i'll on the 10Th day of
September. A physician was called who
found her in all the commissions of hydropho-
tia. Five days thereafter she was conva-
lescent, the treatment having been that she
was deprived of seventy-two ounces of her
blood by ''the cold and early use of the
lancet"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-07-06

The SERMONS YESTERDAY attracted but
small congregations, partly because the favor
lite divines, with one or two exceptions, were
not in their pulpits, and partly from the fact
that even good Christians seem to think that
the Lord is willing to grant them leave of alb
sence during the summer. Unfortunately this
indisposition to go to church during the warm
season indicates that the devil has no time for
O vacation.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-07-06

WASHINGTON has been having one of those
old-tashioned storms in which dust is the
most active agent that it used to have in the
days before it obtained delegate in Congress,
a Governor and Board of Public Works.
The storm was perhaps the result of the
change from the new order of things, though
we presume it is not to be attributed to the
fact that there is Blow on the Commission.