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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03
Gen. Scott's Advice to Graduates.

Speaking of the graduates from West
Point who are going out into the world,
the New York Herald says il would sur
prise man of experience TO see the inn
mensity which seems to prevail among
them. They would appear to have
strong conviction that when they step
forth upon the arena of action their foot
fall will be felt through all the regions
of space. The paper says:
at would be well indeed if the grad
uate at West Point would always take
the advice / once heard given by Gener-
al Scott--of sainted memory hereto a
graduate. Said he, you have been
here, my son, four years, and you go
away tomorrow with the idea that you
know more than the average run Of men.
The cadet frankly answered, i dO.'-
We'll, sir, said the general, i have seen
a generation Of classes graduate at West
Point, every member Of it holding the
same idea of things as you do; but
never met one of them in after years who
did not confess that when he went oui
into the world, he found that he had
mistaken his own strength and knowl'
edge And the princely old gentleman
with that courtly grace and good heart
edness which made him the beloved maI
he was to all who knew him, softly ad
ded: You will find when you go int
the world that you know nothing, tina
You are child in the wilderness; n
don't put on any airs, for the world viii
take you 10 be a countryman il yon do
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03
Closing Cracks in Stoves.

1t may be convenient to know a ready
method of closing up cracks, which are
not uncommon in cast-iron stoves, and
we are assured that the following receipt
is n reliable one. Good wood ashes are
to be sifted through n fine sieve, to
which is to be added the same quantity
of clay finely pulverized together with
little salt. The mixture is to be nlois-
tened with water enough to make paste,
and the crack Of the stove filled with it.
The cement does not peel off or break
away, and assumes an extreme degree of
hardness after being heated. The stove
must be cool when the application is
being made. The same substance may
be used in setting in the plates of stove,
or in fitting stove-pipes, serving to rem
der all the joints perfectly tight.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03
N. y. correspondence Chicago Journol.l
4 Strange Case.

Fourteen years'ag Mr.. --- was the
American partner of large firm doing
business on both sides of the Atlantic
He was 4 hard worker, and trade rapid
ly increased in the United States under
his management. His European part
ners thought the world of him. But
suddenly, one day, without any wrang-
ling or premonition whatever, he became
stark mad. Before night he was raving,
and upon the following week he was re-
moved to the Litch6eld, Connecticut
Insane Asylum. He was very soon
classed among the "incurables." Time
passed on; his friends, most of them
ceased to visit him, and had apparently
forgotten the unfortunate man. Never
once had he given any evidence of re-
turning reaspn, but, on the contrary, as
each year came and went he grew seem
ingiy more confirmed In his dementia.
The other day some of the attendants
were somewhat surprised and amused
when Mr.. - came toward them IA
they were standing in group and ex-
claimed: 81 am restored to my senses
again, and want to get out Of this place"
At the same time he indicated the fol-
lowing dispatch to the senior member Of
the firm when he lost, directing il to
London, England: II am sane again
come over and meet me-" Inasmuch az
the laying claim to sanity is one of the
marked indications Of insanity among
the patients, the attendents thought
nothing of the requests of the man. He
continued, however to push them 30
persistently and mani tested such stri-
king indications Of returning reason
that the physicians were finally called,
that the man vas sane. To make long
story short he was ssubsequently released.
The withheld dispatch 20 his old part
ner was forwarded. 1t found him in
Europe. lie came over 10 this country
to meet the restored Innatic. The latter
found his interest in the business, which
had never been disposed Of, had increased
from 100000 to 100000. He at once
resumed his place as an active member
of the firm, and what is both remarka-
BILE and valuable, the memory Of every
thing transpiring just before his calami,
ty came upon him as fresh as though
the events transpired but yesterday. He
jokingly alludes to his long period of
forced retirement from the world, obser-
wing that it was the best thing for him,
inasmuch as he would have probably
engaged in some speculation and lost his
money, instead Of being worth more
than twice as much as he was when
prostrated with insanity.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03
A Curious Electrical Phenomenon.

During the last three nights the engin-
eers and mdchinists at the rOund-honse
at the Virginia and Truckee Railroad
Company, in this city, have been in
state of lively excitement about some
strange electrical disturbances which
have occurred there every night. For
three nights all hands have been engaged
in trying to solve the mystery, but have
only partially succeeded. A compa-
nv erected large smoke stack, which ri
ses to a considerable height above the
roof of the round house. At the base
this smoke stack Is spread ont in the
shape of funnel. 1t was built in order
that the locomotives may stand under it
and cool off when they come in off
the road, and also while being fred up
in the morning. Into the side of this
smoke stack, three or four days ago, was
run stove-pipe, from stove standing
in a room about forty feet distant. 1t is
about this stove that the electrical dis
turbances take place. The first that
was observed of these was about eleven
o'clock, four nights since, when q. Pip
bingham, Il we'll known machinist, APP
preached the stove for the purpose Of
putting a stick of wood into it. As the
stick neared the stove, he received such
shock that it fell from his hand and
his arm was benumbed. He at first
thought he had taken a sudden eramp
in his arm. In trying again to put the
wood into the stove he received a second
shock. This time he perceived flash
and heard sharp snap, which he at
once recognized, as discharge of cleo
tricity. They tried all manner of exper-
| iments, and found that the stove was
fully and heavily charged with electric
ity. it giving out sparks and flashes when
a piece of iron, steel, wood, or the ma
ked hand approached it. After an hour
or two the phenomenon ceased. The
next day nothing was seen of it; but the
next night, about II o'clock, shortly af-
ter locomotive came in and stopped un-
der the tunnel of the smokestack, the
stove was again charged and began snap
ping and cracking, sending ont sparks
and flashes on all sides. So it has been
every night since. They now know that
the heated locomotive causes this cleo
trical display, but in just what way is
that which is still puzzling them.-Vir-
ginia (Nevada) Enterprise.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03

1t is stated that a party of army Off
GERS, who have been engaged in mount
ing guns and otherwise putting the gulf
forts in a serviceable condition, while
sailing through Mississippi Sound, since
the recent food, encountered rem1rka-
bic scene. For miles were seen logs,
driftwood and patches of turf and soil
floating out into the Gulf filed with
live animals, who clung to their frail
barks with the tenacity of shipwrecked
mariners. Among the animals were
seen rats, raccoons, 'possums, rabbits,
alligators and moccasin snakes in un-
counted numbers, all brought down from
the swamps and marshes, perhaps from
fifty to oue hundred miles inland. The
novel exhibition had scientific inter
est, as il suggested the manner in which,
during past geological periods, animals
were transported from regions far in
! land to the mouth of estuaries, and their
bones being entombed in the salt and
soft mud furnished the organic remains
which are preserved for ages in harden
ed strata. 1t was doubtless by similar
means that the fossils now found in th'
solid limestoBes were ingulfed and pre-
served; and also that animal life has been
distributed over portions Of the globe.
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New Probabilities.

When you see a man going home at
2 o'clock in the morning, and knows his
wife is waiting for him, it is likely to
be stormy.
When a man receives a bill for goods
his wife has bought unknown to him,
look out for thunder and lightning.
When man goes home and finds no
supper ready, the fire out, and his wife
visiting the saloons with the rest of the
boys" it is likely to be cloudy.
When man promises to take his wife
to q party, and changes his mind after
she is dressed yon can expect shower.
When a man saves his cigar money
to buy his wife new bonnet and the
children new shoes, it indicates a spell
of sunshine.
When a man dies and leaves a nice
young lady with plenty of money, and
you see her walking out with the execu-
tor on Sunday afternoon, change is
imminent
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03
Deception-By Mark Twain.

You may remember that | lectnred,
lately, for the young gentlemen of the
Claytonian Society? During the after
noon of that day ! was talking with one
of the young gentlemen referred TO, and
he said he had an uncle who, from some
cause or other, seemed to have grown
permanently bereft of all emotion, and,
with tears in his eyes, this young man
sand: "Oh, if l could only see him
laugh once more? Oh, if | could only
see him weep!' was touched. / could
never Withstand distress. / said: Bring
him to my lecture. I'll start him for
Won" ''Oh, if you could but do it. If
you could but do it, our family would
bless you forevermore; for he is very
dear TO us. Oh, my benefactor, can you
make him laugh? Can you bring sooth-
ing tears to those parched orbs?"
| was profoundly moved. l said:
"SIy son, bring the old party around. I
have got some good jokes in my lecture
that will make him laugh, if rhere's
any laugh in him; and. if they miss fire,
have got some others that will make
him cry or kill him, one or the other.
Then the young man wept on my
neck, and presently spread both hands
or my head and looked up reward hezv-
en-, Inumbling something reverently,
and then went after his uncle. He
placed him in full view, in the second
row Of benches, that night, and began
on him. ! tried him on mild jokes,
then with severe ones; dosed him with
bad jokes, and ridiculed him with good
ones: l fired old stale jokes into him, and
peppered him fore and aft with red-hot
new ones. / warmed up to my work
and assaulted him on the right and left,
in front and behind; / fumed and charg.
cd and ranted till | was hoarse and sick
and frantic and furious; hut | never NOV
ed him once-T never started a smile noi
tear. Never a ghost Of smile, and
never suspicion Of moisture! [ was
/ astonished | closed the lecture at last
with one despairing shriek-with one
wild burst Of humor-and hurled a joke
of supernatural atrocity full at him
Then sat down bewildercd and ex
/ hausted.
The President of the society came III
and bathed my head with cold water
and said: "What made you carry on SC
toward the last?"
said, 81 was trying to make tha
confounded old idiot laugh, in the sec
ond row."
And he said, "Well, you were wasting
your time; because heis deaf and dumb
and as blind as a badger"
Now, was that any way for that OLE
mans nephew to impose on Il stranger
and an orphan like me?
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03
Don't Force Them.

IT Is worse than folly to send children
to school before they have developed
reasoning facilities. To the infant Of
four years school is a prison, the teacher
dread being whose frown is death, and
whose smile and kindly notice is over
powering. Therefore children should
not 90 to school until six years old -
They should not learn at home during
that time more than the alphabet, relig-
ious teachings excepted. They should
be fed with plain, substantial food, at
regular intervals of not less than four
hours. They should sleep in separate
beds, on hair mattresses, without caps,
feet we'll warmed by the fire or rubbed
until perfectly dry; extra covering on
the lower limbs but little on the body.
They should be compelled to be out of
doors for the greater part of the day,
from after breakfast until half an hour
before sun set, unless in damp raw
weather, when they should never be al
flowed to go outside the door. Never
limit healthy child as to sleeping or
eating, but compel regularity as to both;
it is of great importance. Never com
pei child to sit still, nor interfere with
its enjoyments, so long as it is not inju-
rious to person or property, nor against
good morals. Never threaten a child;
it is cruel, unjust, and dangerous. What
you have 10 do, do it at once, and have
done it. Never speak harshly or angrI-
ly, but mildly, kindly, and, when need
ed, firmly-no more. BY all means ar
range it 50 that the last words between
you and your children at bedtime, es-
pecially the younger ones, shall be words
of unmixed affection.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03

Mrs A. R. Yost, Mrs. r. S. Cox, Mrs.
Lon Doubleday, Mrs. 7. Spencer Still
man, Mrs. D. NJ. Mathews, Mrs c. J.
Skinner, Mrs. Ben. Whitmer, Mrs. DIR.
Frank Dawson, Mrs. Aaron johnson,
Mrs. O'Keefe, Mrs. Samuel Ream, Mrs.
w. NJ. Ream, Mrs. Isaac Weaver, Mrs.
Thomas Ashhrook, Mrs. VIM. II. Rus
sell, Mrs. Henry Walker, Mrs. Jonas
Bowman, Mrs. Joseph Myers.
The above committee are requested TO
meet at the Il all on the Fair Ground on
Monday p. m. Of the 5th day of October
at l o'clock
.Satemeats
To be furnished by applicants for
premiums on field crops.
l. The land shall be measured by some
competent person, who shall make affi-
davit OF the accuracy of the measure
ment and the quantity of ground.
The applicant shall make affidavit,
according to forms annexed, to the guam
tity of grain raised on the ground enter
ed on the premium list, which affidavit
must accompany the application for
premium, together with samples of grain
or seed.
3. The expenses OF labor and manure,
and the kind of manure will be stated
by the applicant.
t. The kind end condition of the soil,
the quantity and kind of seed used, and
the time and mode of putting it in the
ground, should be particularly stated.
). The grain must be either weighed
or measured in 4 sealed measure. Corn
TO be weighed or measured after the
18th of November; ali of which shall
be furnished to the Secretary, on or be
fore the first Of December next.
Form Of 4fidarit
The state OF Ohio, Perry County, S. :.
~ D. being duly sworn says he meas
ured the land upon which c. ID. raised Z
crop of--the past season, and the
quantity of land is--acres and nc
more.
Sworn to before me ethis--day o
--A. d. 1878.
-Oficia Character.
c. D. being duly sworn says, that hC
raised crop pof--the past season
upon the land measured by \. B. anC
the quantity of grain raised thereon was
--bushels, and no more weighed
( (or measured in a sealed measure, al
the case may be, and the statements il
regards to cultivation &c, are correct t.
/ the best of my knowledge.
I Sworn to before me this -da,
I of---, 4 ID. 1878.
Official Character
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Committee ON Decorating Halls.

George Brown, VIM. II. Darst, Aaron
johnson, VIM. ii. Slough, Willie
Doubleday, Albert Grimm, Lewis Kulh-
man, Miss Mary Magruder, Miss Eugene
Ditloe, Miss Annie Elder, Miss Cassell,
Miss Angie Redmond, Miss Lizzie
Levitt, Miss Amanda Burns, Miss Ella
Walters, Miss Becca Williams, Miss
Belle Hewitt, Miss isabel Coleman, Miss
Trude Finck, Miss Mary Darst, Miss
Droege, Miss Annie Graver, Miss Addle
Berkey, Miss Flora Hall, Miss Ida
Ream, Miss Clara Yost, Miss Hattie
Dick, Mise Sollon, Miss Eva Chiicote,
Miss Angie Skinner, Miss Lizzie Slough.
Mrs. r. w. Levitt, Mrs. Emma Brown,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03

Young gentlemen, when they take
their "duxies" buggy riding, should pay
every attention possible to their safety
and welfare. We noticed young man
last Sunday that seemed to understand
the art of protecting his lady love TO
perfection. Asrthey passed down Fifth
street, she was asrdoing the driving, while
he had both arms around her, and We
could tell by the wild look in his eye
that he was determined she should u
fall out.-St Paul Press.
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Ben Hills fourth letter TO Aleck
Stephens is four columns long. Here is
u passage from it delicately limiting a
filmy doubt of Mr.. Stephens reputation
for spotless veracity: "When / assure
the public there are over one hundred
and fifty untruths and peryersions Of
truth in the FIVE letters of Mr.. Stevens,
and fifty-tbree by the count, in his let
ter No. 2 alone, ] think my moderation
toward him will be appreciated. shall
notice nothing more he may say, unless
1t be something which shall have title to
credit outside of his statement"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03

When men desire to put on water
proof coats, or to wear their trousers
by suspenders instead of a
strap or buckle, they quietly do so and
say nothing about it. A woman, howev-
er, no sooner feels a desire to lay aside
her corsets, or to fasten her stockings in
some novel manner, than she calls con-
vention of other like-minded women,
who, after having chosen their president
and secretary, resolve that, though their
lives should pay the forfeit, they will
abandon corsets and garters forever
New York Graphic.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03

John Randolph, in one of his famous
anti bank speeches, said that banks were
a cause of perpetual motion more GER
tain and reliable than anything else due
TO human invention:-"FOr banks make
poverty, and poverty makes rags, and
rags make paper, and paper makes mon
ey, and money makes banks, and banks
make poverty, and poverty makes rags,
and rags make paper, and paper makes
money, and money makes banks-and so
on forever and ever, SO long as banks ex-
iSt -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03

The former Chief Of Police Of Terre
Haute, Ind, was recently married under
unusual circumstances. His little son,
tired Of living without a mother, sug'
gested to his father the lady whom he
would accept rs a step-mother. The
lady was sought, and listened TO the
singular proposition. She awakened
her little daughter and laid the subject
before her. The child consented TO the
mothers marriage, and it took place the
very next day.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03

Mrs Ames seems to have discovered
that the Ohioan is as lovely as he is in
dispensable yhen an important office is
to be filled. She writes from Washing
ton. No matter where he went to college
or how long he served in the army, his
aspect is still suggestive of bnttermilk,
cream, clover, fallow soil and luxurious
growth. If he has not lain in the lilliesI
he has surely fed on the fat things OF
l;fa
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03

David Martin, who took little boy,
loaded his pantaloons, with brickbats,
and threw him into Cape Fear river,
punching him with pole until he was
drowned, is only twelve years old, and
under sentence of death In New Ham
over county, North Carolina.
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FIELD CROPS.
CLASS AA.

CLASS AA.
Best three acres of wheat not less than
twenty-five bushels per acreS5 90
" three acres of corn, not less
than seventy bushels per acre 90
H three acres Of oats, not less than
forty-fve bushels per acre. -. 90
e one acre of cloverseed, not less
than four bushels per acre. -. 8 90
'e one acre of timothy seed, not
less than bushels per acre.. 3 90
/ acre Of potatoes. not less than
$50 bushels per acre. .......- 90
3 acres of barley, not less than
forty bushels per acre: ........ 90
Awardimg Committee - The Board Of
niraotorS
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Tho mansion In which the Nathan
murder was committed In New York u
doomed. No one has offered To- rent or
purchase it, though Il could have been
obtained at a vast reduction, owing %
the tragedy enacted in it. It il now Be
ing pulled down level with the dust, and
a new mansion, where no ghost or mur-
der stalks, H. to be built upon the site
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03

Duchess Of Oneida, the two-ySar.old
heifer purchased by A. J. Alexander at
the New York Mills sale last fall for
nineteen thousand dollars, died few
days since ON Alexander's farm in Wood
ford County, Kentucky, of pneumonia.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-03

Some Of the Chicago NngeFa yesterday
went into saloon kept by German
woman and called Cor whisky. She tald
them that ahe didn'f sell nny--und then
whlsper.d eon6dentially 10 one Of them
.v.r von want vi.kv YOU mooot call foT
- ma nlnch mi, yonr cyes.--IClevt.
land Plain Dealer.
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HORSES.

Isaac Weaver Member in charge.
CLASS A.-Thoroughbreds, open to all.
Best stallion years old and over.....SS
Best stallion years old and over...... 6
Best stallion 2 years old and over..,... 5
Best stallion l year old and over......
Best mare years old and over......... 5
Best mare years old and over......... 4
Best mare 2 years old and over......... 3
Best mare year old and ever ........ - 2
Awarding Committee. = James Love,
John O'Keefe, Charles Foersman of
Fairfield county.
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A special premium of S5 will be awar-
ded to the lady making the greatest
number of entries by the Board of Di-
rectors.
Sewing machine agents not allowed to
compete ON machine work.
Andrding Committse-O. I. Moler, Mrs.
A. P. Ashbrook, Mrs. Samuel Shearer,
Miss. Peter Poorman Mrs. William Love
Mrs. Sallie Needy.
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FRUITS.
CLASS P.-GrGpes.

CLASS P.-Grdpes.
Martin Berkey and John Gallin mem
bers in charge.
Each variety to be named and distinct
" la beled when entered.
D., n,Ilnnt;n,n nf or-n nos Il, my Narie-
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Best floral ornament of living plants GO
All plants in the above list must be
exhibited in the pots in which they
were grown.
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J. L. Franks member in charge.

j. l.. Franks member IN charge.
CLASS L.-Fine Wool Sheep.
Best buck years old and over.........$5
I'd best ......... 2
Best buck year old and over A
2d hest " "a 4" - 2
Best buck lamb. ......... ......... 8
Best pair of ewes l year old and over. 5
I'd best -. 3
Best pen of five ambs..................... 8
I'd best .................... z
Sweepstakes for buck, any age.......... 8
Sweepstakes for eve, any age.........". 4
Entrance fee on sweepstakes....... ]
Aleagding Committee = John Ream,
Charles E. Speaks, John s. Hull.
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Fifth Annual Fair Of the Perry Co.
Live Stock, Agricultural and Me-
ehamieal Art Union Society.
To be held at Somerset, o., Oc-
tober 6, z, 8 and 9, 1874.
Terms of Admission.

All tickets will admit one person
above the age of ten years, and will be
sold at 25 cents. each Children under
ten years of age free; team tickets %
cents. saddle horses ten cents. -
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Ararding Committee = Mrs. Thomas
Williams Mrs. DR.. Willard, Mrs Al
bert Yost, Mrs. John A. Spencer, Mrs.
G. w. Hoyman,, Rev. D. Wiseman-
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Glass V.
FLORAL HALL.

Auording Commidee-Samuel Baker,
Martin Kagay, George B. Trout.
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Cut F1ouers.

Awar}ing Committee-H H. c. Greiner,
Mrs. Caroline McNutt, Mrs. s. r. Ream,
Mrs Isaac hartman, DR.. Frank Dawson.