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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

According to the New York CORES
pondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, a
strong feeling is expressed by the DEM
ocratic leaders in New York, in favor of
an early conference with the recognized
representative men of the party in 9TH
er parts of the country, with view of
reconciling conflicting views on the
financial question, aud presenting an un-
broken front in the next Presidential
election. The apprehension is, that if
that question is left to drift, an antago-
nism between the East and West will
ensue fatal to unity. The matter has
been freely talked over at the clubs, and
it is probable that the State Central
Committee, in the course of few days,
will communicate with the National
Committee on the subject. Both these
bodies just now are busy preparing con-
gratulatory addresses to the party
throughout the State and nation, and it
is said neither will ignore the fact that
their victory has been largely the result
of Republican dissatisfaction. This
admission will soften their partisan
tone.-[ Pittsburgh Telegraph.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
The number of land owners in Eng

The number of land owners in Eng
land is growing less year after year
Little less than two centuries ago it was
about 100000 In 1871 the Census
Commissioner of England reported the
astounding fact that in that time the
number of landowners was 3O,3l5 per-
sons. Thus the whole of England and
Wales is the private property Of 30,315
persons. This was in the spring of 1851.
OF these land owners IL, ,O47 were males
and 3,26S females. Twenty years later
the number of gentlemen land owners
had decreased to 14,191, and the num-
Der of lady land-holders to S, S,733-22, ,934
in all The income of English land .
owners from their lands has increased
enormously. The number of land own
ers, it is thought, is now smaller than at
any previous period.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

The Washington Republican explains
in a very queer way. 1t laments the re-
cent reverses, but attributes them to the
fact that the Republicans have had no
leader in Congress strong enough
to stand up against the popular demand
for the investigations that have been
made into the conduct of Congress and
other Office holders. 1t maintains that
if these investigations, and the conse-
quent exposures, had been prevented, the
Republican party would have been sue
cessful again this fall, and it pines for a
man like Thad Stevens, who will put
stop to such foolishness. In other words
the Republican would have the party
die of dry rot Pittsburgh Telegraph.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

From the manner in which the
newspapers of all parties are pitch
ing into Ben Butler, now that he is
"elected to stay at home" the con-
clusion is forced upon us that he is,
perhaps, the most unpopular man in
the country at this time. He has
been awfully caricatured in the east,
and in numerous places in the west
and south he has been hung and
burnt in effigy, while the newspapers
Ben, it will be remembered, never
lost an opportunity to express con-
tempt for the newspapers, and al
ways declared them to be fomenters
of mischief, spreaders of lies, and
invariably unreliable-are going for
him in a fashion which is truly
amazing. But Ben is tough Gus
toner, and may survive all this cuff
fing, and come to the surface again
some of these days, in which event
he will doubtless do his best to gel
even with his traducers. Judge Pc
land, who has recently been express
ing some "views" of the "causes o1
the defeat of the Republicans" ex
Dresses. also. in connection there
with, his regret for the defeat o,
Butler. He regrets it for one thing
Because he would be good mar
to make trouble and bully the ma
jority. He did not consider Ben
good man to lead any party, but hi
thought him an excellent man t.
buck against a majority. He doe
not think it likely Butler will g
back to the Democracy, as they hat
him SO that they wouldn't touch hin
or have anything to do with him.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

In his annual report, made for
transmission to Congress, General
Sherman says the army will be re-
duced, by natural causes, by the 1st
of January, to $4,000 men, which
is the number limited by law. He is
of opinion that our army is the hard
est worked body of men in this OF
any other country, and says the con-
duct of officers and men during the
year has been ga model for the imi-
tation of all good men,"
In Lieutenant-Ge Sheridan
report allusion is made to Clusters
expedition to the Black Hills. He
says that this country is much bet
ter than it was supposed to be
abounding in good timber, good wa
ter and grass, with considerable good
soil at high attitudes. Gold was
: found, but of its abundance the
General thinks there is no reliable
information. As to Indian wars, q
favorite idea of the Peace Commis.
ssioners is that they are nearly al
ways provoked by the frontiersmen
for the profit that would inure to
them in such emergencies but
General Sheridan entertains deci-
dedly different ideas about the mat
ter, and says:
mo man of close observation, il seems
to me, can travel across the great plains,
from Nebraska and Wyoming to Texas,
and see the established ranches with their
hundreds of thousands of head of cattle,
sheep and horses, together with the fam
lilies of the owners, and reasonably think
that these people, so much exposed and
having such valuable interests, are de-
sirous of provoking Indian wars. There
was time, possibly, when the popula-
tion of the Indian frontiers may have
been desirous of Indian troubles, but
that time has passed long ago."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
PRESIDENT TAYLoR's GRAyE-Ge

PRESIDENT TAYLoR's GRAvE.-Gen-
eral A. Ekin, who lately visited the
grave of ex-President Taylor, we learn
from the Washington Chronicle, says
that the entire vault is covered with ivy
and weeds, the front alone being discern
ible, and the approaches to this are so
matted and entangled with the same
growth that they look as if the foot of a
human being had never trodden them.
There is an iron door about five feet
high and thirty inches wide, and above
this is plain marble slab, about three
feet in length and eighteen inches wide
on which are inscribed the following
words.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

A few brutal remarks by fashions
critic: "Fancy fashionable gentleman
with a mass of greasy, filthy false hair
hanging over and soiling beyond the
limit of decency the collar and shoulders
of a two hundred dollar coat-supposing
for the sake of illustration. that it would
be possible for him TO find one costing
SO much money-or with his trousers
legs trailing in the dust and mud, max
ing his hosiery and underwear so abom-
iuably wet and dirty as to be at once
uncomfortable, unhealthy and indecent.
No man in his senses would do, or think
of doing, either of these things; yet lead
ers of fashion among women and their
blind followers do more. And ,swhat is
more, they actually seem to enjoy it."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

The Tilton-Beecher case is set
down for trial on Wednesday next,
and again the papers will likely
TEEN with the offensive % matter.
But then it promises to be in the
future, as it was in the past, "mighty
interesting reading" to a good many
persons, and it must be published to
satisfy a widespread and pressing
demand for further information on
the suhiect.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

usual severity, cured by Johnson's An
odyne Liniment, is noticed by one of
our exchanges. A large bunch came
out upon the breast of the sufferer, and
appeared like part of the breast bone.
Used internally and externally.
The sweetest words in our language is
health. At the first indication of dis
ease, use well-known and approved rem
edies. For dyspepsia or indigestion, use
Parsons Purgalive Pills. For coughs,
colds, sore or lame stomach, use John
sons Anodyne Liniment.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

DR.. Hall, of the United States Coast
Survey, has, upon his return from an
expedition to the Arctic regions through
Behring's Straits, told the San Francis
co Academy of Science of the sublimity
of the scenery around Mount st. Elias.
That mountain, he says, proves by accu-
rate observation to be the highest in
North America, its altitude being nine
teen thousand feet. 1t is not a volcanic
cone, as the biographies generally say,
although there are volcanic vents on its
sides.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

An ex-rebl general, O'Neal, who serv-
ed under Stonewall Jackson, is shovel
ing dirt on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad for 81 per day.-[Wash-
ington Chronicle.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
q. TAYLOR,
Born November "a. 1884;
Died .Julv q 1870

This is now in a falling condition
and is supported in its place only by a
decayed fence rail, about twelve feet
long, which was propped against it by
some friendly hand. The vault is lit
orally falling to pieces, and on its sides
between its front and inner courses OF
stones, are cracks and openings from
one-fourth to half an inch wide. This
is but another evidence of the fact that
even the great men of the world are
soon forgotten after their death.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

A narrow-gauge railroad is to be
built from Xenia to Cincinnati, via
Mason and Lebanon. The compa-
nv, which has capital of $500, 900,
was incorporated on the 9th instant,
and is known as the Miami Valley
Narrow Gauge Railway Company.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

Mrs. Van Cott preached a sermon on
ly for men in Baltimore recently, the
text being "What dost thou?" And they
busted before she got through scolding.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

Rev. ]. II. Todd, of Sioux City, play
ed a rather neat little joke on his wife,
the other day. While she was unsus-
pectingly engaged in half soling his win
ter trousers, he quietly slipped out at
the back gate and eloped with mill
t.1ar
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

A wealthy citizen of New York has
mechanical curiosity in the form of a
musical tree. 1t is an artificial tree or
bush about five feet high set in large
square tub of Russia leather. 1t looks
very natural and beautiful, every leaf,
sprig, and twig being absolutely perfect
in the workmanship of copying nature.
Touch knob on the side of the tub and
instantly the tree is literally filed with
small birds of every imaginable hue and
color, including those represented in the
raidbow. Each and every bird begins
to sing, and very sweetly, too, their soft
notes blending beautifully in harm ony.
Touch the knob again and the birds dis
appear mysteriously, to reappear when
ever summond by pressure of the little
gold knob.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

An Englishman who is travelling in
this country writes to the Times ''that
many wives have 70 carry revoIvers to
protect themselves from their husbands.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
STATE OF OHIO
Insurance Department,
Columbus, Janury 90, 1874.

WHEREAs. The Farmers Insurance Com
w pany, located At Howard, In the State
Of Ohio, has nled in this oface a sworn
statement by the proper officers thereof,
showing Its condition and business, and has
complied in all respects with the laws Of this
state, relating TO Fire Insurance Companies
Now, therefore, In pursuance of law, VIII
liam y. Church, superintendent Of Insurance Of
the State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that said
Company Is authorized 10 transact its appropri-
ate business of Fire Insurance In thiA State In
accordance with law during the current year
The condition and business Of said Company Al
the date Of such statement, Dec. 81, 1s7a, is
shown a. follows
Amount Of actual paid up Capital ... 800 O0O 90
Aggregate am'nt Of Available Assets 1si, SIS %
Aggregate amt Of Liabilities (exeept
ehpitaD including re-insurance
only, being hfty per cent of
Premiums on risks not terminated. AS1Tl %
Amount Of Income for the preceding
year In cash.......- ..,............... 9O,Tfs 10
Amount Of Expenditures for the pre-
ding year in 1919 O.
NJ. Is. PetermAn, District Agent,
Millersburgh, Ohio.
M. J. Bugh, Local Agent, Junction
City Ohio.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

A Maryland girl who was under tree
when it was struck by lightning, says
she thought some one had thrown his
arms around her.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13

The Troy Wing relates the following:
"We have heard much of the wonders
of cable telegraphy in outrunning time
and annihilating space, but an anecdote
related to us last evening by Mr.. w. P.
Phillips, assistant agent of the State
! Associated Press in New York, who is
on visit to this city, surpassed every
thing we have ever heard. A gentle
man of the Western Union Telegraph
Office, at No. 145 Broadway, New York,
was sitting in the cable-room when a
telegraph from Philadelphia, destined
for Paris, came over the wires. This
message, like all others for France, was
to go over the cable via Duxbury, Mas
sachusetts. The operator called Dux-
bury a few times, and then said: The
fellow is asleep, evidently; but the cable
men are always awake-1'n have to get
one of them to go in and awake him
up So he stepped to another desk,
called Plaster Cove, in Newfoundland,
and sent the following message. To ca
BILE operator, Duxbury: Please go and
wake up my own true love- This mes
sage Plaister Cove hastened to send
across the ocean to Valencia, Ireland
who, in turn, rushed it to London;
thence it was hurried to Paris, and still
onward to the European end of the
French cable at st. Pierre; the operator
there flashing it back to Duxbury. In
less than two minutes by the clock the
message had accomplished its journey
of some eight thousand miles, by land
and sea, as was evidenced by the click
ing of the instrument on the Duxbury
desk, which licked out in a manner n
little more petulant: That is a nice
way to do; go ahead. Your own true
love-"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
Murder Of Railroad Bridge Watch
man in nlinOis-COnfessi of the
Murderer.

TERRE HAUTE, IND, November o.
On the 29th of October, Joseph Rob
bins, bridge watchman at Kaskakia
River, on the Vandalia Railroad, in
Illinois, was murdered. Nathan Bur-
gus, a neighbor of Robbins, was arrested
by the officials of Fayette county, and
the evidence against him was so strong
that he has made confession in open
Court. 81 knew the Vandalia pay car
had passed that afternoon, and had paid
Robbins his months wages. l got that
shotgun and went to the bridge. AS
approached the watch house / saw
through the window Robbins sitting in
side. His shoulders and head only
could be seen. 1 raised the gun and
fred. 1 then hesitated few minutes,
to listen if the report of the gun had
aroused any one. then went up to the
watch-house door and found Robbins on
his knees, praying. I plainly heard
him say % God, have mercy on the one
who did this; spare him, for Jesus sake
I was Mortified and turned and ran, 1
did not know where. / did not enter
the house, nor touch the door. His
words haunt me still" The sum of
money for which Robbins was murder
ed was thirty -one dollars and fifty cents.
There is great excitement in Fayette
county, and threats of lynching Burgus.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-13
MARKET REPORT.
SOmerset Grain Market.

CORRECTED BY AsHBRooK 4 co
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06
LIVE LIKE LOVERS.

Married people should treat each
other like lovers all their lives
thsn they would be happy. Bick.
ering and quarreling would soon
break off love affairs consequently
lovers indulge in such only to very
limited extent. But some people
men and women both--when they
have once got married, think that
they can do Just as they please, and
it will make no difference. They
make a great mistake. II will make
all the difference in the world
Women should grow more devoted
and men more fond after marriage, il
they have the slightest idea of being
happy as wives and husbands. 1t is
losing sight of this fundamental
truth which leads to hundreds of di'
vorces. Yet many a man will scold
bis wife, who would never think o.
breathing a harsh word to his sweet
heart and many a wife will be
grum and morose on her husbands
return, who had only smiles and
words Of cheer for him when he was
her sutton. How can such people
expect to be happyf
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06

FIVE FROM FIVE. happened to
be in a school room one day, says
correspondent, while class of very
small boys and girls were reciting a
lesson in arithmetic. 1t was about
their first lesson. olive from five
leaves how many 7" asked the teach
er of little girl six years old. Af>
ter a moments reflection, she ans
wered, give" Chow do you
make that out 7" answered the teach
er. Holding her little hands out to-
wards him, she said, "Here are five
fingers on my right hand, and here
are five on the other. Now if !
take the five fingers on my left hand
away from the right, won't FIVE res
main ~ The teacher was, as we
say in this region, "stumped," and
was obliged to "knock under"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06
SJgelarirtta sonrilal.
80 TnMpnRANcn WAR.

movement that originated
" the women Of Ohio bids fair
through every Northern
It's intensity and strength,
F!ses rather than diminishes in
states from which it springs,
avery day witnesses new sur
els of saloons and stocks of liq-
~ to the ladies. And each addi-
onal success makes the women of
other and larger cities more san
guine and more determined to prose-
scute the work. In Dayton, Ohio
a town larger than Savannah-the
ladies are resolutely preparing to
simultaneously beseige no less than
five hundred liquor saloons. In
Springfield. Ohio, large manufac-
turing city, 100000 have been
subscribed to carry on the crusade,
and employ counsel if legal proceed
ing are instituted against the women
while they are holding their impro-
vised meetings Of prayer, song and
appeal In Ripley, Ohio, the crusa-
ders marched out with one days
rations, established a camp in front
Of each saloon, built fires, and were
relieved in true military style, NOV
ing on the enemy's works by turns
with all the power of moral suasion
they possessed. The enemy capit>
ulated.
The movement has reached Kan>
ses and all the Western States
Tennessee is the only Southern
State thus far affected. The church
throws the weight of its influence in
favor of the women. The men who
lease their buildings for the sale of
liquors are to be visited.
They meet with great opposition,
are jeered at and insulted, but with
prayers and songs they conquer.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06

A Connecticut clock company
has shipped a curious clock to San
Francisco, to be placed in the tower
Of the greatest hotel on the conti-
nent, where it will furnish time for
FIVE hundred dials, which are to be
operated by compressed air carried
in pipes all over the building. The
building has five hundred rooms,
and there is to be dial in every
room.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06

A gentleman at dance remarked
to his partner, a witty young lady,
that the Groom was SO close he must
60 out and get some air." After an
absence of half an hour he returned,
when she asked him "if he had been
to the graveyard, as his breath smelt
of the beer"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06

As our devil was going home with
his sweetheart few evenings since,
she said to him II fear | shall
never get to heaven |" "Why Z"
asked the knight Of the ink key
Because" said she, with a melting
look, II love the devil so we'll"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06

A Boston man was cursing an cd
itor the other day when he fell dead.
Several similar instances have been
lately reported. Men should be
careful in speaking of anything sa>
cred.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06

THE steamer "Mary Carter
made her first trip down the COSTA
naula river last week. She arrived
in Rome at 4 p. Nj. last Wednesday,
Capt. f. nj. Coulter as master. A
reception was given at the skating
rink TO the officers and directors.
She brought down % bales of cotton
the first trip. The little boat runs
at the rate of 10 miles an hour.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06
A Word Of. Warning.

READER. IN CHANGING OVER THE
different Newspapers Magazine Almanacs
and even on the stumps, fenr' and on the
house tops, your attention & every where d.
rected to the scores Of selfstyled human bene,
factors, and nowhere IL this more apparent and
disgusting than IN the local notices Of certain
patent medicine vendors in condemning some OF
the most valuable preparations, which they
know to be superior TO their own, and hope by
this continued gas.conading TO decoy the
simple minded into belief that they. swallow
ed the whale Instead Of onah but it is alto
oether too thin for this country and especially
The climate because the people here. already
know whats what" and when weakness or
general debility and indigestion requires the
ilse OF a wholesome Tonic and Restorative they
resort promptly to McCUTCHEON'S "CiER
oKEE INDIAN BITTERS" and are never
in their reasonable expectations
As yGt nothing equal to il is offered for their ac-
ceptance either In this or any other market.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06

Satan is the first tramp mentioned
in history he went to and fro on
the earth looking for job.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06

When is a fowls neck like bell 7
When il is wrung for dinner.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06
Time is Money !

FINE WATCHES. Clocks. Spe,,aeles and
Jeselry. Guns, Rifles ard Pistols, Musical
Boxes, aud Sewing Machines, repaired and
warranted. and ali kinds Of light Jobs in metal
executed with neAIness and dispatch. by
l. HUNTER
Al Dr. nanwody's old ofice, Cherokee Street,
Marietta, ga, Dec I2th-ti.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06
DR.. RAILWAYS
PerfeetP

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purre Regulate purity cleanse and strengthen kad
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Liver, Bowel9 Kiinsys, Hsa6der. Nervous DISEASES
HeaaneAA, Constipation. CossreneS<, in1gestoa. Dys
800 hilioznesA Bilious Fever, IndamDeticn OF the
Rewek Ptie& and all Derengensnts Of the Internal
Viresra Warranted 10 eject c positive cure Purely
vsgelaele containing mercury minerals OF deleterf
Afew doses 81 RAILWAYS PILLS viii tree the sys-
uer Rox SOLD BY DRUGGISTS
pKAp "FAISE AND TRUE SIND .ssscF
s.anlr 10 Rk0WAY a co, Ne. 81 Warren s.. New
Yerk Information worth thousands VIII be ssnt yea
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-03-06
MILL GEARING FOR SALE.

A complete set Of Mill Gearing for Sash Saw
Mil. Mandrel and Saws for Laihes and Pa
ings Will be sold at one-third value
Apply at THIS OFFICE.