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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-04-04

| civilized world. They are huddled to-
geiher in the most squalid part of the
city, and though they live wretchedly,
they manage to save something every
day, and MANY of them are absolutely
accumulating properly. The emigrsnis
are, TO large extent, men, but they all
marry alter they have been here for a
lime. II is . singular fact that the Chi
nese men finI their wives among the
Irish. The Irish women of the lower
grades have no objection to marrying the
pig-lailed Oriental, aud they all trsti-
fy TO the fact that they max good, kind
husbands. The progeny of these Mon
gol- Celtic marriages are larger than the
Chinese, quite as nimble, 1.-THE and active,
and very much stronger. BUTT is-a Gu
Fious mix, isn't iIg
| . FASHION
Easter c0mmemora es the resurrection
OF the meek and lowly Jesus. How do
his followers in Gotham prepare for il ,
Read, and get an idea OF New York re-
ligiOn. Il 81 -.
Madame--'s opening of Easter hats
called out the beau monde. The ele-
CANT drawing room was crowded. Among
the nobby hats our attention was called
Ia a pretty 'eera chip, embellished with
French flowers and pure ostrich tips, al
so rxquisitrlY cut garniture, A lovely
chapeau composed of gros de suez, in ii
soft, gray tint, reminds one of Quaker
simplicity, and YET there is no lack of
grace about this naity Easter hat
Among the recherche Easter black silk
and camers hair cloth appear to take the
lead promenade Spring suits. Over
skirts are not so extensiv, ly worn as lor
merly. The n,rat little position jacket
is quite a fayorite Will. the bon tons" p;
Isn't this decent from the sublime TO
| the ridiculous .? A "natty Easter Hat p
Indeed. Bul speaking of
| HATS AND THINGS,
il costs something 10 be a fashionable
woman in New York The simplest
bonnet, withour flowers or feathers, costs
$50, and one as cheap as any wo-
man of pretention would wear costs $50.
Then Spanish Manlilla 10 suit that bon
nei costs $3.50, the roses on il being $4
ach ,xra And these two articles,
bear in mind, only commence the dress
some of your lady readers are doubtless
able 10 lake the cost Of these Two items,
and trom the. figures see what The entiry
outfit from hat TO shoes would cost l cant
do it, But this, | know if l ever marry
woman of position IN New York shall
examine the resources. OF her papa before
the Ger, mQny is pronounced. I shall in-
sist thai the old gentleman settles on her
at least S2O, 900 per annum. This sum,
will take sn ordinary belle through un-
less She is very ugly, in which case more
will be required. But think of a young
merchant saddling himself with SO ex.
pensive a luxury as fashion able wife
What. certain ruin is ii for liin, il he hap
pens to be in love with her ! Is it any
wonder that so many young men live
at the clubs, keeps rooms of their Ywn
rather than MARRY !? i think not.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-04-04
OUR NEW YORKLErTER.

Temperance BrOOkiyn--ths Neao Horse
DiseaN-tte OhaItiss=- Chiaese-F Fashion
J6r Easter B0nasts-ths cost of tloO
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-04
A Guy Fawkes in New Orleans.

The New Orleans Times saws that
great excitement was created in that
city some days ago by the discovery
that large quantity of powder had
been distributed about the floor of the
Senate chamber Of the Kellog legisla-
tive hall, which gave rise to much
conjecture, many supposing that it
was an attempt to blow up the build
ing. The matter, however, was near
ly forgotten, when on Saturday last,
man named King was discovered
at the entrance of the chamber with
SIX pound canister Of powder, in
which be had made small hole in
the top. He was standing at the
time over the canister, and deliberate
~ produced small revolver, and said
10 those VINO were watching him that
ne intended to fire into the can. He
was quickly seized the pistol taken
from him, and he was taken to the
police station and locked up. He
said be had been wronged by a GER
tain law passed several years ago.
whereby he was defrauded of all his
property, and charged a civ official
with making away with it. He. there
fore, holds the state responsible for it,
and says he is determined to have re-
dress or be revenged.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-04
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Execution OF n Murderer.

CONCORD, February l7-Franklin
B. Evans, the Dorlhwood murderer
was hanged to-day. He made a con
fession, admitting the killing o
Georgiana Lowering, his niece, and Of
a Young girl, in the fall of 1S50,f
and in detail tells the story of his use
less and licentious life. He relates
stories about some of his female rela-
tiyes of disgusting character He
says he killed Georgianna Lowering
because she threatened to expose him
for altering one dollar bill to ten
dollars. In relation TO the murder
of another child he says: "In the
Fall of 1850 left my wife, having
been living with her in Salem. Mass,
and came to Derry, ~ II. On arriv-
ing at the house of Mr.. Mills, late
in the evening, | found the dor
fastened. | heard in the house a
moaning sound, as of child. lopen-
ed the window and got in. found
several children lying on the floor,
and one girl sitting on the floor who
seemed to be very sick On examin-
ing her included she could not live
until morning. Wishing to procure
the body for surgical purposes re-
solved to kill her andtoOk her to the
woods at some distance and there
stranglcd her On examining the
body found one hip and part of the
spine deformed, and partly on this
account, but more because of a feel
ing of rcmorse and terror that seized
me, | desisted from my purpose of
examining the body. | found
chestnut stump, partly rotten and
turning it Up bid the body under it
and replaced tha stump,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-04
Feeding af Washington Parties

A Washington correspondent of the
LadependGnt says: AT twelve O'Clock
the doors ofthe supper room are open
ed, and then the jam beggars descrip-
ton. You may take your choice TO
be pushed or to push, and either case
to see plates of oysters, salads and
creams, with threatening spoons and
forks, bristling through mid-air, glanc-
ing by your nose, or swimming down
your back. | was never sure that
we were not civilized people till
contemplated my compatriots in the
Washington supper-room of festive
occasion" There | have seen digni-
taries whom the public believe have
CROUCH to eat at home, pushing to-
wards supper table as a cannibal
might to his feast and ladies renown-
ed as delicate" with piled up plates
of pickles, salads, fruits and creams,
cramming at rate that would make
perfectly healthy woman sick abed
Cor a week.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-04
Potatoc PlOyT.

The Mark Lane (Eng.) Express
has the following on one of the i'm
plements exhibited before the Royal
Agriculture Society:
COrbett and Peele's plow has Il
single mOld-board and has revolving
disc composed OF several teeth or
tines, which, by simple attachment,
is fixed to the handles Of the plow,
and works just behind the mold-board,
catching the furrow as it is moved by
the plow and tearing it to pieces. As
it is fixed to work at an angle to tie
mold board, and to the furrow, the
potatoes are deposited on the surface
of the pulyerised land, and very few
fall into the furrow sole, where they
would be covered by the next ridge
unless gathered Immediately after
the plow. BY this single mold-board,
two-thirds, or nearly all the ridge, is
turned over and broken up on the
mold-board side, and the furrow sole
left has scarcely single potatoe in it.
The revolving disc, fitting on the
whole furrow, at once produced a fine
level and broad bed for the potatoes
to fall upon
This plow was put to work upon
Regent potatoes, the tops of which
were ripe, and made capital work.
A few potatoes were buried by the
mold thrown up by the disc, but there
was no scratching al all for the gath
ersrs, and they could gather much
more rapidly than after the ordinary
plow used in the district.
A great merit of this principle is
that it is adaptable to any ordinary
plow at the cost of f3 The plow,
with a rotary disc, is here shown as
one implement, but virtually the in
vention consists in an apparatus to
be attached to 3 plow, and forming
part Of its fitting or furniture, like the
share or the coulter; but Oniy to be
used for special purposes. 1t viii,
however, pulverize land, winter P!ow-
I'd, in ridges, or at the time of plow-
ing, most ellectually.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-04
Trousers for Ladies'.

Long white trousers for ladies are
very much worn on the Continent.
These trousers should be quite plain
for wearing in the day time and in
the street, but those for evening wear
should be made of fine cambria, or
muslin ornamented with embroidery,
lace insertion, or heavy rich lace frills
or nounces, according to the taste and
means of the lady herself. What
could look prettier, or more modest,
than to see pretty, small trousered
foot in silk stockings and a neat san
daled shoe, appearing under the skirt
of a muslin dress, the ankle buried,
as it were, in several rows of the lace
frills or founces of fine cambria or
muslin trousers? Surely, also, when
a young lady of eighteen or nineteen
is dancing, it is more modest, as it is
certainly very becoming; to see the
limbs hidden in lace-frilled trousers
Of cambric than the present fashion.
As | said, this mode is very much
seen or the Continent, among French,
Spaniards, and especially Russians.
When at Barcelona, a few years ago,
| remarked that every lady wore
trousers, some plain, some richly TRIM
med with lace frills or hounces. Two
or four inches of the trousers were
visible, setting off the small Spanish
foot to perfection. | knew very
pretty French lady, who used to wear
most becoming trousers in the even
ing, which were made of very fine
cambria or muslin, with rich lace friIls
up the calf of the leg, and insertion
between each frill. The lace frills of
her trousers just touched the instep,
but the rest of the trousers was visi-
bic under and through the transpa-
rent skirt Of white muslin.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-04
Paris l'ickpocfs cts.

Among the English visitors to
Paris during the gay season of the
new year were several pickpockets,
who were, however, in most cases,
received by the police of the festive
city, SO that, as the American poet
sings, "the subsequent proceedings
interested them no more" There
were some of the elite of the English
practitioners-who are however,
rivaled if not excelled in dexterity
and ubiquity by their French com
peers. The following story is told
of the latter by Il French Journal: 4
physician officially connected with
the prison of La Force, and
much beloved by his light-Iingered
patients, perceived, on leaving the
Varieties one evening, that his pock-
ct had been picked, and that his
opera-gl lass was gone. Next day, on
meeting the dcnizens Of La Force, be
expressed his displeasure at the Oc-
currence 1T is all very well, :"
said he for you to say | am popu-
lar among you, but am treated just
as others are Some of your friends
contrived to relieve me of my opera
glass last night at the Varieties"
That was only because they cid
not know you, doctor, replied
prisoner "Who was on duty at the
Varieties last night?' he inquired,
turning to a comrade. The answer
was given in whirper. you shall
have your glass tomorrow, " he ad-
ded. Next day a person called on
the physicians wife Here said
he, "are all the glasses stolen two
nights ago at the Varieties; please
to point out the Doctors" The la
dy having done so, the obliging pick
pocket handed it to her, restored the
others to their cases, and disappear
ed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-04
Potatoes.

To see the soggy, watery mess that
is sometimes dished up and called po-
tatOcs, one would never think that
they could be converted into such de-
licious food as they can be. ] think
the very worst way that potatoes are
ever prepared is wh.n they are half
mashed, with great hard Jumps IN
them, often with the eyes and bits OF
the skin ornamcnting them, sometimes
without salt.
But pare them nicely, removing
the eyes with the point of the knife ;
soak them in water, immerse them IN
boiling water and not let them stop
boiling until done; then drain and
steam, salt and mash fine; add little
cream and dish up hot, and they are
fit for anyone to eat.
Or bake in a hot oven and take up
Just as soon as they are done.
Or pare and cut in slices and fry in
gravy remembering to salt them well.
The famous cookery of France par
takes largely of potatoes. Gravies,
sauces, soup, bread and pastry are
greatly indebted to them for their ex-
cellcnce. Vine and brandy are adul-
terated with the juice of the potatoe.
Eau dc Cologne is prepared from
them. In the East the pulp of the
potatoc is pressed into ornamental
articles. The juice of potatoes is ex-
cellent for cleaning wOolen cloth it
is also used to cure chiiblains.
There is probably no kind of food
wasted more than potatoes. There
is often too many boiled and what are
left are thrown out, while if they
were saved and fried in little gravy,
or warmed in some cream, or made
into a pudding, they would make ex-
cellcnt victuals
MRS. l.. z. X. TURNER
. 80. J
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-04

a Dodge Of the Doctors.

Oftentimes doctors advertise their
immense practice by having some one
to call them out of church during SER
mon time 1t was cruel on a certain
disciple of Esculapius who once got
enough at this little game.
Doctor! Doctor " called q young
urchin, sticking his head ipto church
door one morning, just before prayer
time.
well, who is sick now ~ inquired
the sexton.
NO one, as | know on" answered
the innoeent youth, loud enough to
be heard all over the church, but
the doctor gave me a ten-cent shInny
If I'd call hia cut Of the church dur
ing sermon time" The only serious
countenance in thss church during
the prayer that followed, vas that of
the doctor
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-04
The Man who can be spared.

When trade becomes dull, and but
little work is in the factory and not
much prospect OF more coming en-
ployers ask themselves, "Who can
be most easily spared '"One or
more men must be discarged, and
those most easily spared are the ones
marked out for a discharge, in the
knowledge that those most easily
spared are the very men who can be
most easily replaced The men we
are most 10th to discharge in dull
times are those who have been long
in our employ, who have always
been attentive to our interests, by
faithful discharge of duty and tow
ard whom we have learned, from
long association, to entertain a feei
ing of interest and friendship. Such
men will be retained under any and
all circumstances, while the shiftless
eve serving, afraid of doing-too-
much class will be shipped at the
first opportunity they can be spared.
The same result extends to all branch
es of trade and he who would sue
ceed in the battle of life must make
him self master of his business or be
reckened amoug those who can be
spared.
Young man, remember that the
m N who can be eaSilJ sla ed are
moi the ones ,ug bit after when re-
sponsiplc positions are to be filled.
Would you like to gauge your own
fitness for a position Of prominence
Would you like to know the p;obG-
b.lities of your getting such posi-
tion? Inquire within. What are you
doing to make yourself valuable in
the position yoI now occupy? If
you are doing with your might
what your hands find to do, the chanc-
es are ten to one that you will soon be-
come so valuable to that position
that you cannot easily be spared from
il land then, singualar to relate will
be the very time when you will be
sought out for promotion to bet
ter place. Be content to grade
among the men who can easily be
spared and you may rest assured
that nothing will spare" you so
certainly and 50 easily as promotion
! Eg.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-04
Touching Anecdote Ofn Spider.

A fine old English gentleman"
tMr. Morggridge), with abundant
leisure for studies in natural history
has written very entertaining book
on insects in one chapter of which
(as critic assertS) he "elevates the
character ofthe syider." 1t is pleas
ant at any rate to know that he has
found out enough about the creatures
feelings to elevate science in the
direction Of mercy. The story is
briefly as follows; Morggridge has
been in the habit'oi immersing, for
preservation his different specimens
Of spiders and ants in bottles of alco-
hol. He saw that they struggled for
a few minutes; but he thought that
sensation was soon eXtinguished and
that they were soon free from suffer
ing. On one occasion he wished to
preserve a large female spider and
twenty-four of her young ones that he
had captured. He put the mother
into bottle of alcohol and saw that
after few moments she folded her
legs upon her body and was at rest.
He then put into the bottle the young
ones, who, of course, manifested
acute pain. Wha was his surprise
to see the mother arouse herself from
her lethargy, dart round TO, and
gather her young ones to her bosom,
fold her arms round them and again
relapse into insensbiIity, until at
length death came to her relief, and
the limbs, no longer controlled by
this maternal instinct relaxed their
grasp and became dead The effect
of the exhibition upon him is lesson
to our common humanity. He has
applied chloroform before immersion.
Jndging from the above the spider
is superior to the human animal in the
fact that alcohol does not destroy her
natural affection
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4 Comma which Cost ~. .O0e. goo.

The Importance of careful Congress
siohal punctuation was strongly illus
trated at the meeting ofthe Ways and
Means Committee, where it was
shown that comma in one place was
100000 In the tariff bill which
went into effect August /, 1872, it
will be remembered that the free list
was extended by the addition of sew
eral hundred articles. Among the
articles added were "frnit plants trop-
ical and semi-tropical, for the purpose
of propagation and cultivation" In
engrossing the bill, or in the process
of copying it for official printing, a
comma was inserted after fruit, :"
and all fruit was thereby placed on
the free list. The custom officers
therefore, not tnoticing the change con-
tinued to collect duties on fruit until
the error was discovered. The WAYS
and Means Committee agreed TO re-
port a bill to remove the comma, in
accordance with the intent of the law
of 1872 The amount of tax illegal
ly collected is not far from $4,000, 900.
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How 'dout a feller that saves e..
Ingin babies thct hain't his irlends.
And thus reads the inscription TO
this day , s,
March OLD AND NEW.
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Miscellaneous.

Dr. j. Walkers California Nln-
ecar Bitters arc 4 purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges OF
tie Sierra Nevada mountains OF Callfor-
MIA. the medicinal properties OF which
arc extracted thcrefrom without the use
of Alcohol. Tho question Is almost
daily asked. "What is the cause OF The
UNPARALLELED success Of VINEGAR BIT
Tri;s?r Our answer is, that they remove
the cause Of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They arc the great
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
a perfect Rcnoyator and lntIGorator
of tho system. Never before IN tho
history Of tic world has 4 medicine been
compounded possessing the rcniarkab!c
qualities of VINEGAR BIrrERs in healing tho
sick Of every disease man is heir 10. They
are a gentle Purgative as well as Tome.
relieving Congestion or Inflammation OF
the Liver and yisccral Organs III Bilious
Diseases
The properties Of DE. WALKEE's
VINEGAR BITrERs are Apcrient, Diaphoretic,
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxatlye. Dluretic,
Scdative, Counter Irritant Sudorihc, Aitera-
tive, and Anti-Bilious.
II. II. MCDONALD & CO..
Drnggists and Gen. AEts San Francisco, California,
and cor Of Washington and Charlton Sts. N.
Sold by au Druggists and Dealers.
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This space is reserved for J
F. Blymyer, who has removed
his stock into the most magni-
ficent hardware room in this
place. He can be found in
Room No. 3, Baer's Block.
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This space Is reserved FOR e.. +. Rhoads Bro,
who have moved into the most ma agnincent grocery
room in this place. They can DO found In Bser's
new building, second door from the corner.
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Done In n neat and substantial manner, and nj the
shortest notice. He Is determined 10 do all his
work In such manner, and at such prices AZ 10
make II 70 the interest OF everybody 10 patronise
ing elsewhere.
JAMS ID. J. HORNER
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-05-26

"Humph!" said an Englishman to a
Sootchman. as they we're walking over
the fields Of the latter, ''oats are very
we'll in their way. but 10 England We
give them to our horses, while here
they are food for men" And just see
what fine horses there are in England,
and what iue men We have ~ Scot.
land" returned Sandy.
Forney has prepared roll-call of
Presidential candidates. They are
Morton, Hendricks. Blaine, Thurman,
Conklin, Bayard. Logan, SHERMAN aud
Joel Parker. He shouldn't forget
Grant.
PONDS EXTRACT. Men and women
will suffer from severe headache,
when ten minutes spent bathing tue
head with the Extruct would afford re-
lief. M2Cf5EI
Friday evening. about o'clock, IL
man named Kenneth Mcdonald was
killed i'll Harrisburg, one of the su-
bnrbs of Augusta. West of the city, by
another mun named Patrick Murphy.
MOSES. Tho Baltimore Sun says
Moses is compound, concentrated
carbuncle, made up OF the bud humors
and poisoned blood of whols de.
praved aud demorallzed body polite.
IL Is asserted by the best informed
parliamentary tucticians that the
Democrats have power to stavs of
action on the Civil Rights Bill until
after adjournment
4 CoNUNDRUM Tho London papers
arc beginning to doubt about the
Bengal famine. Perhaps the report
was started to nlfect the grain market
in Europe.
An Illinois County clerk refused to
issue marriage license because the
man was only four feet high, while the
womaD was six.
"Will some one move that 1 may
take the chair?" said Sheridan, when
he went to Il crowded meeting before it
was organized.
There is chance for curious rsfiec-
ton in the fact that large diamond
recently exhibited was worth 5000
barrels of -four.
Congressman Mellish, of New York,
who was run mad by the financial
question, died last Sunday.
The Mobile Register recon mcnds
trying English sparrows for keeping
cotton fields clear of insects.
Give to pig when it grunts, and to
child when IL cries, aud you will have
hue pig and spoiled child.
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sales $50; spin.

ports coastwise 26l; sales $50; spin
ners 105; stock 9sO56, sEg tYiS,sa
CHARLESTON, May 25.-Cotton-net
receipts 339; exports ooastwise Oil;
sales 100. a., f<1sts
SAVANNAH. May 25.--Cotton dull
sss sss receipts 44s' exports eoastwise
New ORLEANS. May 25.-Ootton
dull and inactive-middling1 177S; net
receipts l,747; gross 1,771; exports
coastwise 2. .913: sales $50.
MEMPHIS. May 25.-Cotton quiet
and weak-low midd!ing 1621; receipts
746; shipments l,085
BosToN. May -Cotton-receipts
II; gross 1.O3S; sales 200; stock 9.5OO
NoRFoLK. May 5.-Cotton-net re-.
ceipts 691; exports coastwise 695: sales
100.
GALVESTON. May 5-Cotton-net
receipts 335; exports coastwise 1000;
sales 100; stock l4.009.
AUGUSTA, May 25.-Cotton dull md
nominal; sales CO.
MOBILE. May 25 Cotton dull aud
easier-middIing IT'S; net receipts
9l3; exports coastwise 8; sales 800.
W1LMINaroN. May 25.-Oottou un-
ohanged-middling 17N; net receipts
13.