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&C. II. schlepergrell, of Charleston,
S. c., has been appointed to West Point,
on tho recommendation of congressman
Ransicr. The West Poirt7yiitors were
unanimous upon colored cndet Smiths
incompetency.
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COMMERCIAL.

Batesburg, S. c., Aug. 8, 1874.
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TELEGRAMs or THE WEEK.

j. B. KERsHAw.
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-Spartanburg is saeiJicin,; ti,at she has
consolidated the Sparsaphara Aari Urion
Railroad with theiAsnevii!o sue Frenca
Broad Road. We Ih.nh sac Jas ioue
well, and wish her e ca; speed with ,lie
read ti 5l
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-06-23
The Pulpit Well.
THE Evangelist


The habit of shouting so loud us to
offend the ear is perhaps equally OBJ
jectionable, while a sudden transition
from one extreme to the other is suffi
ciently artificial to comprehend the
evils of both. But there is another and
a growing fashion, so vicious, so often
sive to good taste, so destructive to
spiritual emotions, and SO repellant to
serious contemplations, that a public
speaker has need only to hear himself
as Others hear him, to feel conscience
smitten for disturbing public worship,
1t is the abrupt transition from low to
high-not mere hallooing-that cx-
preston is quite too tame, but an in
stantaneous, startling yell, which would
drown the sound of a savage war
whoop. Let no one think this rs carl,
cature Of what is sometimes witnessed
in public speakers 1t would be difficult
to select language forcible enough to
make the description hyperbolieal II
there be any who. not having witnessed
an instance Of this mis- called oratorv,
are unable to recognize this photograph,
let him imagine himself seated in a
house of worship in devout frame ol
mind, listening with absorbed attention
to an instructive discourse, in harmony
with his serious contemplations, deliver.
ed in a tone of voice adapted to the
sentiment and to the awakened feelings
of the congregation, when, instantly, as
with an electric shock, the speaker mt
ters yell that falls painfully on the
dullest ear. The rupture of water.
spout would not more surely discharge
its contents than such an explosion
would empty the mind of all serious
thoughts.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-06-23
The Scissors Edsror

Some people estimate the ability of a
newspaper and the talent of its editor
by the quantity of original matter. 1t
is comparatively an easy task for a
frothy writer to pour out daily a col.
umn of words-words upon any and
all subjects His ideas may flow in one
weak, washy, everlasting food, and the
command of his language may enable
him to string them together like bun
ches of onions, and yet his paper may
be poor concern. Indeed, the mere
writing part of editing paper is but a
small portion of the work. The care,
the time employed in selecting, is far
more important, and the fact Of a good
editor is better shown by his selections
than anything else; and that, we know,
is half the battle. But,as we have said,
an editor ought to be estimated and his
labor understood and appreciated by
the general conduct of his paper-its
tone, its uniform, consistent coarse, its
aims, its management, it's dignity, and
its propriety. To preserve these as
they should be preserved is enough to
occupy fully the time and attention oil
any man If to this be added the gen.
eral supervision Of the newspaper es-
tahlishment, which most editors have to
encounter, the wonder is how they find
time to write at all.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-06-23
The Check Rein.

Why is it that so many of our farm
ers, and nearly all of our carriers, insist
on using tight rein on working hor
ses2 When horse, left to his natural
inclination, has heavy load to pull, he
can best exert his strength if his back
bone is in one continuous line, and this
he will have if not prevented by tight
check-rein. Some claim that it prevents
a horse from falling and when man
can raise himself over fence ny lift
on his suspenders, we will believe it
When horse falls, tight rein will
most efectuslly prevent him from get
ting onto his feet again. Try it with
out the rein and see if we are not cor.
rect in our practice and theory.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-06-23
NEWS ITEMS.

1t is now proposed by the friends Of
Senator Schurz to return him to Con-
gress from the First Missouri District.
The first consignment of grain from
Kansas City to Liverpool Direct by the
Galveston route, has been ordered.
James D. Porter, an ex Colonel, is the
tenth person arrested for tie railway
bond forgeries by which Wall street was
swindled out of nearly million dollars
last year.
The name of Benjamin Montgomery,
colored, has replaced that of Jefferson
Davis as payer of taxes to the annual
amount of s2.447 on two of the finest
plantations in Mississippi.
A company has been organized at Col
den City Colorado, consisting entirely OF
soldiers of the Federal and Confederate
armies. The captaincy has been given
10 Colorado Union ex- officer, the first
lieutenancy to rebel, and the second
lieutenancy toa Maine man.
The Mexican, Elgardo, who robbed,
and tried to murder, few days since, Mr..
Turner and wife near Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, was captured, wounded comics sed
the crime and showed where the money
was concealed. A party of armed men
thereupon seized and hung him.
The house of Thos McIntire, Brook.
lyn. occupied by himself, wife and five
children, took fire Saturday. McIntire
lowered his wife and, as he supposed, all
his children to the sidewalk, and then
leaped out himself, when he learned that
one Of his children was still behind. No
rescue could be effected, and the child
was found, after the fire, burned to crisp
Arizona Territory, which is populsrly
believed to be wealthier in minerals than
California or Nevada, is fast recovering
from the prostration caused by Indian
raids. Many Of the mines which have
lain untouched for years on account OF
the Apaches are again being worked, and
the results are said to be wonderful.
John Randolph, in one of his famous
anti bank speeches, said that banks wert
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 so or
forever and ever, so long as banks exist"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-06-23
snunas and raydrophnbsa.

An article in the American Journal Of
Science and Arts presents the unpleas-
ant animal called the skunk in ne W
attitude 1t appears that at the Wes {
these creatures have a habit Of hitting
people at times, and that the bite al
ways results in hydrophobia. A large
number of cases are cited in illustration.
The hydrophobia produced by other an
imals is much less fatal than that from
the skunIls. From this it is possible TO
infer that the disease originated with
these animals, and they have transmit
ted it to others, its power being, as al
ways, lessened by transmission. They
are its originators. Then, to carry out
a suggestion offered in the article, tits
noticeable that the odorous secretions
of the skuuks, when administered in
proper quantities, have very beneficial
effect upon all sorts of convulsive
trouble and attacks o: that kind. The
inference is then made that the liquid is
an antidote for the poison of the bite,
and the idea is thrown out that in the
skunk the source and cure OF hydropho-
bia may be simultaneously discovered
if any scientific person feels inclined to
wrestle with a problem Of such mate
strength. iIeG ass sra
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-06-23

After enduring eight months of the
keenest anguish. powerful friends of
DR.. Bollman began to interest them
selves in his fate, and after long and
patient heseiging of the Cabinet at
Vienna they were unexpectedly restored
to liberty, on condition of Immediately
evacuating the Australian dominiois.
DR.. Bollman settled in London, where
he died in 1921.
Mr.. Huger returned to America, SET
tied in Charleston. and became one of
the leading citizens He served with
distinction in the war Of 1912, and died
full of years and honor in 1855, as be-
fore stated
Lafayette fingered in prison for three
years after, and was fiNally liberated on
the demand OF Napo.eon, on the 10Th
of September sSTS5
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A Kings Capacity for Champagne.

Interview with Rochefort in N. Y Herald
1 neve: saw such wine-drinking as
saw in the Sandwich Islands. The
King there sent me word he would be
pleased to have me at the palace. We
went, and were very Hospitality enter
tanned. The King dida't know French,
but he said, through an interpreter, that
he had copy of La Danterne, which
he would not part with. The King and
his three Ministers were present, and
they ordered champagne, and, with a
couple of friends more, drank forty
bottles of it. which they poured down
like water. OF course, didn't attempt
to keep up with the King. 1t was very
funny. The others addressed the King
very famliarly, and the interpreter only
interpreted when he felt like it.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-06-23

A Fredericksburg tradition relative
to the early days of George Washing
ton has got into print 1t tells how
George used to wander into the tavern,
against maternal orders, and how Mrs.
Bushrod Washington used to wander
in after him with rawhide and scourge
him homeward.
Somebody has been summing up the
fate of kings and emperors, as follows
Out of 2,540 emperors or kings, over
"a nations, 299 we're dethroned, 64 alb
dicated, 20 committed suicide, II went
mad, 100 died on the battle field, 123
were made prisoners, % were pronoun-
ced martyrs and saints, Isl were assas.
sinated, 81 we're poisoned, and los were
sentenced to death. Total, 963
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-06-23

The President of Cremation Club
in Iowa has named his last baby "Cin-
derella."'
1t is said that Jones, of Nevada, can
sit on more of his spinal column and
shoulder blades than any other man
who ever hoisted his feet against wall.
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TERMS OF ADVERTISING:

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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13

"Will was dead, and all night long his
wife lay motionless upon his breast;
great fires burned, table, stood covered
for the master, who was never to feel
I cold or hunger more. When the chill
late winter morning broke, Mabls too
had entered into the great eternal sun
shine Of God"
The next day Aunt Lora took me
to the grave where wife and husband
slept together. The moss, Goods bless
ing on the grave" had crept softly,
greenly above them; the scarlet letters at
the base of the white cross, which told
the story of William Forsythe Long
and Mabel his wife, CLEANED readily
through the holly wreath which hung
there, message of love and remem-
brance from the living to the dead.
No trace of the murderer was ever dis
covered; it was supposed to be one of
those all but motiveless crimes which
have desolated so many Irish homes du-
ring the last forty years. Mr.. Long
was an Englishman; he had began his
reign well-was full of schemes to ben
eft his tenantry. His crime was having
taken the place of an Irish family, who
had emigrated when long career of ex-
travagance had made itsimpossible for
them to live at home any longer-BeE-
orr7;in
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
An Artificial Sea.

An idea, says GaIiononi's Messenger,
was started not long ago on the practi-
cability. of forming an inland sea in
French Algeria. There exists, south
of the Atlas, chain ofsalt lakes called
"Chotts," that 60 from east to west, fol-
lowing general depression, which lies
at an average depth of from eighty to
ninety feet below the level Of the Medit.
terranean. According to all probability,
there formerly was q sea there, of which
the Chotts are mere remnaT1s. It would
be easy to restore this inland gulf by
merely opening short canal connect
ing the Gulf of Gabes with the nearest
Chott, according to the description late
ly given to the Societe de Geographic,
by Captain Roudaire, who has himself
surveyed the Mel-Rhir. He states that
the Chotts situated south of Biskra are
a series of shadows, varying between
twenty to sixty kilometres in length,
and generally dry in Summer. They
form chain about $50 kilometres (225
miles) long from Chott-el- -Faroun to
Chott-Mel-Rhir which lies in the merid-
ian of Biskra. An insignificant chain
of downs or sand hills separates the Gulf
of Gabes from Chott-el .Faroun. The
surface of these shadows, as smooth as
the floor of barn, is sprinkled with
salts of magnesia, which gives them the
aspect of being covered with hoar frost.
The western back of Chott-Mel- Rhir, as
the Wed-Cedra is twenty-seven metres
(eighty-one feet) below the level of the
sea, and its bed has slope eastward of
twenty-five centimetres per kilometre, or
four tenths per cent. Should this incli-
nation continue as far as Shott-Sellen,
sixty kilometres further east, the latter
would be forty-two metres (126 feet be-
low the level of the sea; without this
being ascertained, the latter Chott lies
certainly lower than the Mel-Rhir.
From various cursory observations there
appears to be no doubt that from the
latter to the Chott-el-Faroum there ex-
lists an immense depression, which might
be filled with the sea from the Gulf of
Gabss. The advantages to be derived
from this plan would be considerable.
Seaports might be formed at eighty Kill
ometres south Of Biskra; the wandering
tribes of those regions might thus be
kept in obedience, and the numerous
rich oases of the Sourf and Wed-Rhir,
whose dependence from France is mere
ly nominal, would be efectually held
under rule. The presence of the sea,
moreover, would render rains more fire.
quent, and thus fertillize the country.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
A Scene Of Terrible Beauty.

A correspondent writing from the
Hawaiian Island says: 81 would like
to give a description of the great lava
overhown regions, but must content my
self with your imagining a sea of seeth-
ing, foaming fire, miles in width, and
from ten to thirty feet deep, rushing
like torrent over the earth, of terri
bic motion lake of fire in the volcano OF
Kilauea, singing like the everlasting
ocean. You would have to see to real
ize its sublime granduer. 1t was lovely
even enchanting as rode along on
horseback, to pass for miles through
dense forests of hala trees, the tree from
which they make their mattings, and al
30 the groves of stately palm trees, bath
ing their feet in the bIllowy ocean, and
stretching out their beautiful limbs in
the golden, glorious sunlight. Then, the
beautiful bread-fruit trees and the wa
wing banana groves, and the pa payas,
&C., fascinate the eye. Nature revels
m grandeur in the tropics; the great
God Of Nature is to be seen in all his
splendor and magnifcence.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
The Smallest Babies i'm the World.

A correspondent of the Inter Ocean,
writing from Kalamazoo, Michigan,
January 20th, says:
Last Friday evening the wife of Mr..
J. 3. McCrum, living at So Parsons
street, gave birth to a pair of twins
boy and girl. The surprise of the par
ents can be imagine when, On survey
ing the party, the nurse held up the
tiny pair of infants in one of her hands
They were soon after weighed, and the
aggregate avoirdupois of the twins was
three pounds and four ounces, one of the
pair weighing one pound and eight
ounces, and the other weighing one
pound and twelve ounces. They were
less than eight inches long, and perfect
ly formed. A bed was made for them,
which consisted of minute basket fill
ed with cotton-batting, and clothing
had to be improvised for the strangers,
that which in expectancy had been made
up proving a world too wide for their
little limbs. Some doubt was express
ed by the physician who attended the
mother as to whether they would live,
but up to this morning they are not on
ly alive, but are lively, bright and wide
awake, and claim a place in this big
sphere as well as their own immediate
brothers and sisters, of whom there are
several in the famil.,', grown up.
There have been iiince Monday great
many visitors to see the little children,
and the exclamations of surprise and the
CALCULATIONS of admiration would fill
large volume. Lad ies and gentlemen,
old and young, flock o the house where
the children lay. Pink and blue ribbons
have been tied about Ghe little arms of
the babes, SO as to answer the question
of which is boy and which is girl. The
sensation is likely to last some time,
though every precaution is taken to pre-
serve the lives of the little ones. They
nurse and seem to enjoy themselves as
we'll as could be expected. They are
perfectly formed, and we understand,
are full-time children. Wrapped in
their little beds they look like dolls sud-
denly vivi6ed; their cries are like those
of very young kittens. Mrs McCrum
has not been in the enjoyment of per-
feet health for several months past, but
has not, however, been sick. The par
ents of the Lilliputians make no objec-
tions to people coming to see them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13

An account of illegal gambling in
Chicago should begin with faro. The
game, while an old one, is, in its present
simplifed form, the product of Ameri-
can ingenuity and labor-saving inven-
tion. 1t and poker are the games on
which the reputation of America in the
card line can safely rest Among all
the various forms of gaming, faro pre-
dominates. There are now in operation
in that city between twelve and fifteen
houses where it is the chief attraction.
The cost of fitting and furnishing the
rooms varies from $1,000 to $4,000 in
each case. Gamblers are luxurious in
their tastes, and expensive in their
habits. As their money comes easily,
it goes quickly. Costly wearing appar-
el, valuable jewellery, and rich and elab-
crate surroundings are their weakness
The leading faro bank of that city was
furnished at cost of $4,000, and its
running expenses, including rent 49,
60O), probably exceed that amount in
the coarse Of year. 1t is situated on
Clark street, within stones throw of
the Board of Trade, of which body one
of its proprietors is a member, and from
which it derives a large portion Of its
patronage. 1t is regarded as the best
and "squarest" conducted gambling
house in the city, and by far the most
valuable property.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
A Distinguished German Working
as Farm Hand In Illinois.

Among the hundreds Of foreigner
who apply weekly at the efics of the
Mullanphy Board for relief or assistance
in making their way for the West, the
Secretary ofths Board, Mr.. Brey, now
and then comes across characters OF
more than ordinary interest. The mo-
notonous tale of poverty and destitution
is occasionally relieved by life histories
which smack of romance and adventure,
as WIS the case day or two ago. Among
the applicants at the Office early one
morning was young German, about
twenty-one years of age, who gave the
name of Franz Witke, and who stated
that he had landed in New York with
little money which had been completely
exhausted before his arrival in St. Lou
is, and was now in destitute, starving
condition. Accordingly he was sent to
the Home, where clothing and food were
provided him until q place could be
found where he might earn a livelihood.
In the meantime inquiry was made con-
cerning Witke, caused largely by his
erect, military bearing and air of culture
and fine breeding that surrounded him.
1t was ascertained first that he was
son of a wealthy German Baron living
near Danzig. At the opening of the
Franco-Frussian war he held a commits
sion in the cavalry service. 1t was his
good fortune to be engaged in most OF
the battles which occurred within the |
borders of Alsace-Lorraine, and he rose
rapidly in the profession of arms. With |
ais connections, social position and fine |
qualities, it seemed if nothing stood in
ais way to attaining all the distinction
If glory he burnened for. But an un-
event forfeited him his posi-
ion and banished him from his native
and. During the Prussian occupancy
# Metz, he had a quarrel with an infant
y officer over some trivial matter, and
he result was challenge. In the mil
tary regime that previled Franz Witke
lad no recourse but to fight, and in the
Iuel that followed the infantry officer
vas killed. He was arrested, tried be-
ore military tribunal and was convie-
ed. The penalty affixed by the tribu-
al was seven years imprisonment in the
estug, but, through the influence of his
ather with Kasier William, the sentence
Tas commuted to three years banish-
nent from Prussia. At present the son
f the German baron, and the distin-
uished young dragoon officer of Kaiser
William, is working as farm hand in
illinois
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13

A BOWL OF PUNCH WAS AS A Bowl.
A remarkable bowl of punch was made
across the water in 1874. 1t was made
in fountain in a garden, in the middle
of four walks, covered overhead with
orange and lemon trees, and in every
walk was a table the whole length of it,
covered with refreshments. In the foun-
tain were the following ingredients
Four hogsheads of brandy, twenty-five
thousand lemons, twenty gallons of lime
juice, thirteen hundred weight of white
sugar, thirty-one pounds of grated nut
megs, three hundred toasted biscuits,
and one pipe Of dry mountain Malaga.
Over the fountain was n large canopy to
keep of the rain, and there was built on
purpose little boat, wherein was a boy,
who rowed round the fountain and filled
the cups OF the company. 1t is sup
posed more than six thousand men drank
from the fountain.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13

OUR LANDED PossEssIoNs.-In a re
cent report made to the House Of Rep
resentatiyes by the Committe on Public
Lands, it is stated that there are yet /, b.
100000, 900 acres Of public lands in the
country that are unsurveyed Out Of
the vast area of the public lands Of the
United Staes, however, after deducting
swamp lands, deserts, mountains, and
railway and other grants, il Is estimated
that the whole amount Of arabic lands
available for settlement cannot now ex-
ceed $50 to 400 millions Of acres. Last
year nearly four millions Of acres we're
taken up by homestead settlers, and the
estimate of the Committee is that before
a century elapses, all the arabic lands Of
the country will I've absorbed. When
we consider what was the area Of the
past of the United States, inhabi-
ted by whites a century ago, this
prediction not only seems probable, but
there is also likelihood Of the entire
arabic surface of the country being abb
sorbed by settlers long before 1874.