The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18

New LEXINGTON, o., Dec. 7th, 1874.
EDITOR PREss:-Our "Calaboose and
raging Canawl" are fast approaching
completion, under the management Of
the competent artifcers who contracted
to execute the work; and the location of
these valuable and much needed i'm
provements is we'll adapted to the pur-
poses for which they are designed. The
principal harbor of the "canawl" is To-
Gated at the southeast corner of the
Court House square, at the corner of
Main and Brown streets, the most fire.
quented and popular thoroughfares of
our enterprising village. Persons desir-
Gus of taking a voyage either for pleas
ure or business or both combind, will
find excursion boats always in readiness
at the dock with porters ready to check
and transfer the baggage of passengers
on board. These vessels are built in
the latest and most approved style of
architecture, having the newly patented
reverse action, double deck, which pre-
vents sea-sickness, and thereby removes
the animosity that people bear toward
sea-voyaging as a source of pleasure.
These vessels will stop at all the princi-
pal ports on the trip around, besides put
ting in at the islands most noted for
wild game, beautiful scenery, and trout
brooks, where the Nlmrod the Lothair
and the follower of Walton may each
find the pleasure that his inclinations
and peculiar fancy dictate. BY all
means, all true infiationists, Grangers,
and others desirous of increasing the
volume of the currency and even hard
money misers, should embrace this op-
portunity to see the world that they in
habit but know SO little about; for there
is naught SO gay as
"a life on the ocean wave
| A home on the rolling deep,
| Where the scatter ed waters rave
And the tides their revels keep"
But if the "canawl" was noble in its
conception and magnificent in its exc.
cution, the palm of superiorely mus
still be awarded to the mind that con-
ceived the brilliant idea of slowing the
calaboose away in that romantic and Sc.
cluded nook in the north east corner o.
the park. Think of the verdant rural
youths for they are the only ones that
suffer from village discipline) coming tC
town on lark or to see the sights, and
who worship too faithfully at the
Shrine of Bacchus, who after filling
themselves to the collar bone with the
effervescing nectar of Gambrinus, anC
become tired and exhausted from tht
unequal contest with the Glowing bowl
are led off by the grim guardian of th'
peace to the bar of the Solon of the vii
lage to answer the charge wherefore they
became tired within the corporate limit
of the city against the peace and dIgni
ty thereof. With what terror will they
face the dispenser of justice and be,
to go hence without day, for all theil
"leathers" had passed into the till of tn
vender of the aforesaid nectar; but tn
avenger of outraged justice consign
them-without ray of mercy flashing
athawart his grave visage-to the scot
tage" among the trees, there to remai
till their currency initiates, with fear an
trembling they depart under charge to
ward the park, but as they enter tn
park admiration and JOY take the plac
! of fear Suppose this to be on Sprin
day.. All around the trees are shootin
forth, their dense and verdant foliag
!, the birds are singing and twitterin
upon every hand among the branches a