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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-09

Widowed on her wedding day.
Such is the expressive heading under
which Detroit paper tells the sad and
romantic story Of young, beautiful, and
gifted Emma Halsizcr, daughter Of VIM
Halsizer, an influential resident of Oak
land county, Michigan. Emma, while
passing a school vacation with Miss
Moves, n New York friend, met and be-
came engaged to a brother of her host
ess. The marriage ceremony was to be
performed with eclat on the oath ult.,
and to be followed by bridal trip to
Europe. On the 18th, in the midst OF
her elaborate preparations, Miss Emma
received n telegram announcing the sud-
den and dangerous illness of her afi-
anced husband. and requesting her pres
ence at his bedside She arrived in Buf.
falo, his mothers home, before death had
reached him, and at his dying request
consented TO be married TO him. The
ceremony was performed amid the sol
emn surroundings, and shortly aftcrward
the bridegroom passed in at eternal por-
tails leaving his bride widow. It's very
consoling for us matter of fact people to
know that he also left her something
comfortable in the way Of bonds and
mortgages.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-09
NUMBER 26.
Not Much.

The story of the absent-minded man
who, meeting his own son on the streets,
shook hands with him and asked him
how his father was, has been equaled by
the forgetfulness of a Wisconsin farmer.
The man drove to town to transact some
business and was accompanied by his
wife. Leaving her at dry goods store
he proceeded to carry out his intentions
Having finished his business he forgot
all about the little circumstance of bring
ing his wife with him; and started home
alone. Arriving there, he put his horse
up, and proceeded to do the chores. In
the meantime his wife had learned that
her husband had left town without her.
Hiring a conveyance, she was driven
home. She didn't wait to take of her
things, but seizing a press board made
her way to the back yard. The husband
had just opened a conversation with the
COW on the subject Of histing,' remark
ing frequently that it was $50 boss" He
had just settled down TO business when a
whistling sound, as Of cleavIng the air,
came from the other side of the COW. 1t
was the press board, and his wife was on
the end of it. An instant after it fell
with crashing weight upon his knees.
The COW having conscientious scruples
about standing between husband and
wife, left very suddenly, and in a hurry
kicked the poor man in the immediate
vicinity Of his vest pocket. The unhap-
py victim of circumstances scrambled
up on all fours, when the press board
again descended, striking him opposite
to where the COW had left her track. His
wife then asked him il he would ever
forget her again, his answer was plain
and to the point, mot much"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-09
Sailors as Lovers and Husbands.

"Olivia" has well-written, sparkling
letter from Washington in the Phila-
delphia Press of yesterday. Here is a
paragraph we Gull from it for the bene-
FL of the young ladies whose weakness
is bright buttons and blue coats;
"The newspapers announce that the
fashionable festivities of the season are
to be inaugurate6 the first of next month
by series of Monday morning hops at
the navy yard. Can anything be more
bright and attractive? Imagine the
smooth shaven sward dotted with his
toric relics Of mighty achievement, and
ornamented with the same cannon balls
that Henry Ward Beecher seduced into
his boyish hat, the darling 'middies' in
bright buttons and smart blue coats,
with all their delightful ocean pranks.
1t is wonder the girls' hearts are gone
before they are quite sure they have
any? Besides a sailor ms kes love in a
different way from an ordinary land
lubber. Time is short on shore, and the
moments must not be spent in dallying.
II is a kiss and blow, and the blow
means matrimony; and God help the
woman who has a sailor husband or low
er. a person was once heard say, My
parents were married twenty-seven years,
and my father was a commodore in the
navy; twenty-five Of these years my
mother spent alone on the land, for in
those days no woman was allowed on a
United States war vessel. When l was
little child l remember a tall, bearded,
rough-looking man, who used to come
once in great while to our house, and
mother would call, children, come and
see your fatherp The only time was
glad to look at him was when he brought
us n narrot ("
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-09

General Beauregard and Miss Beaure-
gard, his daughter, from New Orleans,
are. travelling North. The General Is Of
medium size, erect, with brown hair and
gray moustache and imperial clipped
short, has rather high cheek bones, with
somewhat Of the French type of physig-
nomy, is quiet, and seemingly stern in
manner, but really easy and afable. He
wears a turn-down collar with a small
black tie, light wooden vest and trousers,
dark frock coat and brown soft hat, with
black band about three inches wide. lie
has the general bearing and appearance
Of West Point officer in citizens dress.
Miss Beauregard has a pleaaing and
handsome face, tall, Of full figure, and at
times dresses in black grenadine, trim
med with black lace and blacl, lace
ruffle.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-09

Aiding DEsERTER BY SAVING Hrs
LIFE.-It is not desirable for a man in a
boat to pick up every drowning rogue
that happens to be near. lie ought al
ways to interview him first and endeav-
or to obtain a material guarantee or a
solemn promise Of good behavior. Near
Exeter, England, a soldier deserted from
an artillery regiment. He was pursued
so closely on every hand that he plung-
ed into the river. He couldn't swim,
and was near drowned, when a man in
a boat came to the rescue and dragged
him out. But he did not deliver him to
the pursuers. lie landed him on the
other side, and the deserter got away.
Then the man in the boat was brought
up on a charge Of aiding the escape Of
a dcserter. His defence was that he
yielded to imminent peril, as the soldier
threatened his life. All this is now on
trial. If he had not picked the man up
perhaps some other process Of law would
have got at him for constructive man
slaughter in consenting 10 n death he
could have prevented.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-09
Gentlemen OF Color.

The case brought a few days ago in
Washington City, under the local Civil
Rights law by Professor Langston and
DIR. Purvis, both colored, against Har-
vey & Holden, aristocratic restaurant
keepers, has been decided by Judge
Smell. DIR. Purvis swore that he was
denied entertainment because of his col
or, as he inferred. 1t was proven, how
ever, by three or four witnesses who were
in the room at the time of the occur
renee, that Purvis and Langston seated
themselves at certain table that was
specially reserved for regular customers
who visited the place at certain hour
every day, and that this happened to be
that hour. The waiter informed them
that the table was reserved, whereupon
Purvis threw himself back on his digni-
ty, and inquired whether they declined
to serve him, TO which answer was made
that he would not be served at that par
ticular table; whereupon the colored gen.
tlemen walked out in an imposing pro-
cession, and brought suit. There was no
refusal to entertain the party, and they
both testified that they had been more
than once entertained at that place. In
Langston's side ofthe case Judge thought
he perceived a difference, and fined the
restauranter 500. DIR. Purvis was laid
aside. Purvis is one of the Commits
sioners to wind up the Freedmen's Bank.
The trial was largely attended by the
colored population, who chcered enthu-
siastically when the result as to the
Langston side was announced. The sub
stance Of the thing appears to he that
the colored gentlemen insisted on privi.
leges that are denied to white gentlemen
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-09
AARON BURR,
Born February 6, 1856,
Died September IA, 1886
A Col. in the Army of the Revolution
Vice President of the United States
from 1901 to 1903.

The Virginia New Chronicle states
that a man who can move his ears like
a mule arrived in town on the train
Monday morning for the purpose of CIV
ing an exhibition. His name is Follett,
and passengers who came up in the car
with him say the manner in which he
will twist his ear around to listen to a
conversation behind him is wonderful.
1t is believed that his ears are provided
with an extra pair of muscles, by means
OF which he is enabled to turn them in
any direction. Supposed to be native
of Louisville.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-09

Colossal STATUE or WEBsrER.-It
is announced that the Central Park
Commissioners in New York, and Mr..
Burnham, who proposes the gift, have
reached on understanding as to the To-
cation Of the proposed statue OF Web
stcr. The order for the statue has al
ready been given to Mr.. Thomas Ball,
who Is now a resident of Florence, but
who has been passing the summer in
this country. A native of Boston, with
the tradition Massachusetts reverence
for Mr.. Webster, besides good deal OF
personal knowledge, Mr.. Ball may be
confidently expected to produce a work
worthy Of the subject.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-09

The negroes Of McLenuan County,
Texas, recently passed resolutions more
proper in meaning than in language
They declare that they "have n desire TO
live where peace and plenty lay at ev-
cry door, and hopes to sec the time come
when the lion shall lay down with the
lamb in perfect peace" They also re-
gister their intention 10 endorse good
men for representatives, caring nothing
Of what profession they are, 6f what
party they are, so they are good men,"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-09

Rossiter w. Raymond, in letter to
the Brooklyn Eagle, explains that the
term "nesthiding" simply means keep
ing home troubles secret, and says shame
on the blackguard who can fish from the
obscene abyss of his own consciousness
a criminal significance for such n word
and such thing.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-09

Horse thieves in Texas are serenaded
BY string bands.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23
Rapidity of thought in Dreaming.

A very remarkable circumstance,
and an Important point in analogy, Is
to be found in the extreme rapidity
with which the mental operations are
performed, or rather with which. the
material changes on which ideas de-
pend are excited in the henlispherical
ganglia. 1t would appear as if whole
series of acts, that would really occupy
long space of time, pass ideally thro'
the mind i'm an instant. We have in
dreams no true perception of the lapse
of time-a strange property OF mind
for if such be also its property when en-
tered into the eternal disembodied
state, time will appear to Us eternity.
The relations of space, as well as time,
are annihiiated, 50 that while almost
an eternity is COMPRESSED into a mo-
ment, infinite space istraversed more
swiftly than by real thought. There
are numerous illustrations of this prin-
ciple on record.
A gentleman dreamed that he had
enlisted as a soldier, deserted his regl-
ment, was apprehended, carried back,
tried, condemned to be shot, and at
last, leu out for execution. After the
usual preparations gun was fired; he
awOke with the report; and found
that noise in the next room had at
the same moment produced the dream
and awakened him.
A friend of DIR. Abercrombie dream
ed that he crossed the Atlantic and
spent fortnight in America. In en-
barking on his return, he fell into The
sea, and awakening in his fright, he
found that he had not been asleep ten
minutes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23

The penalty is a fine of from ten to
one hundred dollars.
An Act to protect agricultural fairs
and fair grounds, passed April IL, and
took effect May 1, 1856, is not of gener-
al importance.
The Act of March 10, 1864, TO sup
press the sale of liquors within the
State upon the days of election, is well
known, its provisions being set forth
in the proclamation issued to each
election.
An Act passed January ., 1871, pro-
vides for the eappOintment of guardians
of habitual drunkards, and prescribes
the duties of such guardians. The ap-
plication is to be made to the Common
Pleas Court, orsJudge in vacation, or
in case there be no such Judge in the
county, then to the Probate Judge.
Section 199 of the Municipal Code, as
passed May Z, 1869, and amended
April Is, 1870, provides that all cities
and incorporated villages shall have
power "to regulate, restrain, and pro-
hibit ale, beer, and porter houses, and
places of notorious or habitual resort
for tipping or intemperance." Under
the authority given in this section, the
Incorporated village Of McCennelsville
passed prohibitOry ordinance, which
has heeu declared constitutional by the
Supreme Court of Ohio. | TFI
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23
SenSible:

Rev. III. w. Beecher says: "1 sup
pose do slop oUer sometimes. Well, ]
oeyer saw pan of milk that didn't slop
over. If you do not want any stopping
over take a pint of milk and put it in a
big bucket. There will be no stopping
over then. Aud a man who has only
a pint Of feeling, in an enormous buck
ct, never slops over. But if man Is
full of feeling, up to the very brim,
how is he going to carry himself with
out spilling over? He cannot help it.
There will be dripping over the edges
all the time. And as every flower or
blade of grass rejoices when the rain
falls upon it, SO every recipient along
the way in which man with over
flowing generous feeling walks, is
thankful for his bounty. How to carry
a nature full of feeling, and administer
il without making any mistakes | do
not know, youdo not know, nobody
does, nobody ever did, and nobody ev-
er will; so we must take it and get
along as best we can. Life is kind OF
zig-zag, anyhow; and we are obliged to
resort to expedients, and make expe-
riments, and learn from our blunders,
which are inevitable. We find ont a
great deal more from mems mistakes
than from their successes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23
THE SPANISH CoRTEs.
What Miss Kate Field Saw.

Miss Kate Field, the vivacious and
adventurous, has visited the Spanish
Cortes, and this is what she saw:
There is nothing remarkable about
the Spanish COrtes. Plain externally,
it has numerous well-furnished COM
mittee rooms, containing modern por-
traits and paintings OF no artistic value.
while its Chamber of Deputies. ar
ranged like an amphitheatre, is re-
markable for nothing but its deeds,
The Bourbon crown and the Queens
portrait have been removed, but the
great doors by which her Majesty used
to enter have never been thrown open
to the President. The odor of royalty
still clings to the Cortes. "Are YOU a
well-behaved body?" 1 asked. The
good-natured deputy smiled, and the
sonora replied: "Well be-
haved? They act like children. They
exercise no self-control. You never in
your life heard such a noise as they
make. And then how they use up
carpets! Spit! spit spit! They are
forever splitting, and what would hap
peu to a woman's skirts if she came
upon the floor leave you to imagine" )
did the rain of expectoration set in !
with the rain of the Republic ?'' ooh, |
40! 1t has always been. j see no diff |
erence." Here was revelation. The
noble art of splitting is not confined to
he Western Hemisphere. 1t is not
peculiar to republican institutions. |
breathe more freely.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23
Statistics of Intemperance.

The testimony of competent Judge is
decided IN the opinion that the use OF
ardents spirits is hurtful to health and
long life, and the old-fashioned calcuI-
ations of Nelson, in his Vital Statistics.
are confirmed by the researches of the
General Life-office. According to these
estimates, the probability of death
among drinker between twenty-one
and forty years is ten time as much as
among the whole population; between
forty-one and sixty years, four times
as much; and among habitual tipplers
over sixty years of age, twice as much
as among the people at large. In Eng
land, 1S5O-59, more than 5000 cases were
reported of men who had literally
drunk themselves to death. Nelson
has given US his investigation of Gill
tipplers, that out of 1000 s., 4 die annual.
~, while out of 1000 inhabitants OF the
same age only nineteen die. Thus the
mortality among drinkers is three,
times as great as in the community at |
large. He has carried out his calcul-
ations into all ages, and shown how this
chronic self-murder marvelously dimi-
nlshes the expectation of life. The
highest point as to numbers is found
IN the year 1S51-60, which 1872 men and
a women intemperate out of 10, COO, in
England and Wales, and which reckon
he diminution in the rate of expecta-
ion of life accordingly. This last state
nent is most startling, and shows a
alling off in the probable term of life
or each years, from twenty to sixty
nd upward, of respective twenty-eightl '
seventeen. ten. bnd fiya
ears with fractions, and amounting to Q
he fearful percentage, respectively, of ,
hirty-hve, thirty-eight, forty, flfty-I
ne, and sixty-three per cent. Of pro-
able life, as compared with the popu- =
stion. Surely strong drink is slow fire, ;
nd intemperance is voluntary mad .
ess and chronic suicide.-Dr. Samuel
sgood, in Harper's Magazine for May.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23
Bslmnat Go. 8nsiasss airfttorn
COUNTY OFFICERS.


p..b,,s J,,doe-C W. CARROLL once
nn.stoirs in public buildings, first door 70 rlgh'
tSberIr-WM G. COCHRAN. once In PuOIio'
riert of fnurfs-J. r. MITCHELL. 0IneeIn pup
lie buildings adjoining the Sne o9nss noes.airs in
z,,Jitor-W E. STAMP. Onice w "
,,1tpta n,,ilding entrance at left door.
7reasuer.,A; P9RTERFisepB 20 8sg, ri tse Bank. ' ~
~ itsScSa,r5eTEJAs D., A. BARNES. once IN puohe
,niiding. first floor. second door on ieIt. ofsoe
I-osec5jiao AnorneS-W. $. kENSoN- onice
-. soors east of the National Hotel
Sonnissioners-Sol Hog9e, Somers9pTn; on %. sa- a.
Dungan. Plank Road; William AllAal"e'
SsrTrss,or-NoBLE CARTER. HendTysDufsh'
.TSro1,er-THnMAs GARRETT belialTe1 bersIo ,,, I'll.
"Reminiscences meet at st. ClaIrsyliie on q ~
+arSt MONDAYS of March. June, Septeinper an
December-and as Board oi Equailae'ion .na
-he third Wednesday of May. In eacn yea
Tha probate Court meets on the nrss ,as.s'
.asys Of January March. May. Jnly, sePnedTi. ppd !.
bar and November, as a crilhir s sor The trans.
NJ gays open (on business hoiisl ioi '
action of other business
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.

East Tennessee is shipping marble
to Cincinnati and Chicago.
Slowly hut surely the old grip is
tightening on the throat of France.
The Fiji Islanders are orphans, and
are getting'fjity for want of father. !
Fish culture is sattractipg more atten-
tion all over the country than ever be-
fore.
Possibly there may soon be another
vacant Senatorial chair in Mas5achu-
sets.
The Philadelphia Ledger put Mil
waukie lager beer under the head Of
'amusements.'
The Bishop of Manchester, England,
has taken up the argumentative cud-
gels in favor of cremation.
1.-THE baseness lurking beneath ex-
cessive pretentiOns to virtue" is the
latest synonym for hypocrisy.
The prohibitionists in Canada are ag-
itating for legislation of that character
by the Dominion Parliament.
4 fresh vinegar spring has been dis
covered in New Hampshire. The Re-
pabIicans found one there last March,
Philadelphia is greatly improving in
her export trade. as is seen in the Gus
tom House returns. ;'s--' -
Capital punishment flour;shes in the
South. White and colored men are
daily roped in with great impartiality.
The Danbury News man has met the
fatecf theaverage pyrotechnical Amer
Iicaa,i hnmorist-that of being unne-
-',idnIt it be wittier in Eapks to
teiet- and give the pfhef
'hanee2 He might
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23

A Dublin gentleman, in speaking
of nobleman's wife of great rank and
fortune, ,lamented very much that she
had children. A south of Ireland med
ical gentleman who was presnt observ-
ed that to have no children was a great
misfortune, but he thought he had re-
marked 1t was hereditary" in some
families!
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23
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And now it is asserted that tn.
mems crusade has not lessened the
sales of liquors. Probably they were
sold for scientific purposes.
The South Carolina, Alabama and
Georgia press is zealously advocating
all proper means looking towards the
encouragement of immigration.
Bnilding in New York city has fall
en- OFF one-half as compared with last
season. Tweed's legacy of an enor-
nous municipal debt is what did it.
A Western Granger who calls dam
cling "the fiOwery entarnce to hell -
protests against it being allowed in
oranges after the business hour.
Notwithstanding the authority OF ex-
perienced scientists, many old toners
yet maintain that whisky drinking Is
c2rnjuice-ive to longevity.
Transient newspapers, books. mer-
chandise, etc., cannot be forwarded an
less fully prepaid. Bushels of them
may be found in nearly every post-of-
fee.
The New Orleans journals are push-
ing with renewed vigor the proposed
line between that port and
Rio Janeiro, and ST. Louis is secondine
the effort.
No less than two dozen petitions
we're recently presented to the English
praying that the electoral
of women might be remc-
yed. Mr.. Gladstone led off.
1t is claimed that dry goods are sold
heaper in Boston than in any Other
ity in the country, and that no city in
he world sells so many goods in so
mall compass.
Birds in Virginia are reported scar
or now than: they have been in many
ears. They have left disguised with
hat Bourbon Commonwealth's repu-
iation of its own notes.
Canada papers repent the complaints
'hich have been made elsewhere. re-
pecting the character of the pork
'hich has been packed during the past
'inter's season in Chicago.
There is probability that our pres
at stock Of the precious metals wfl,
Jon have additions from Sources
luch nearer than California and Ne
ada-Georgia and Arkansas, for in
ance.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23
MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1874.

,o,,,o,t tIodge. No. l6. F. & A. NJ meets ',I eT1
BeIe95 eWIe5nesday night on or preceding III the N ipii
moon. 60
l. l,-.-n,-;I,e c,bapter. No. II Royal Arch
.sons os, meets every Friday night on OF a1sei
s.asonss OF ,.,non nsr, - a. J. BAGGS. I'll. r.
#. H. FERRELL. Sec'y.E
Belmont Council. No. 81 Royal ss.est ,s,s seconS
: T-,,ss,iay night of ev ~ month: NJ
i"es'''s Fl. BUMGARENR, T. l. u N
--F d, BAILY, Rec. ,r.,,,,,
Hone Commandery NO; ~ o. o., ,,ient ot ever.
ymunth. - ~ marlI72l
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23
Dentistry,

DR WOOD having located in y. Siaii n ss1tis, I,I.
/ annonnces 10 the public that he is nov
,,repared TO perform ali OPT ratinns nDenisy,:
krtificiaI teeth inserted on the oe@ ,,antinn
Sor sIo a sci (either upper or underg AILentno, As,
~ ~. lied 10 ALtfIfyttni the hghtest, strouges'
and purest material ever worn In tbe irsd ,noa'n
Gola aH a1tention Maid 10 treating filling the
nalurai s. F. WOOD, Dentist
;sost1 Office nearly opposite Post onlce-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23

If cremation is undertaken to any
extent, it's rather curious
to reflect that its principal opponents
will be the undertakers.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23

New York city uses a million postal
cards per month, and yet there has
been no perceptible decrease in the
number ofletters mailed.