The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-11-06
GENERAL NOTES.

doubled in FIVE years.
The British national debt will be re-
duced by $2,315,2l5 this year.
Twenty dollars in greenbacks is the
standing price in Savannah for 81 900 in
Confederate notes.
Five millions and half per week is
said to be the combined receipts Of the
English railways.
The largest plate Of glass ever manu-
factured in the United States was recent
ly cast in Indiana. 1t ia 1874 by 81 inches.
An English company employing
Chinese laborers is engaged in reclaim
ing 10000 acres Of swamp in Southern
California.
A California farm, purchased two
years ago for $4,000, was sold not long
since by its owners for $4,000. Dur
ing the term Of their possession they
hrd raised $40,O 900 worth Of wheat upon
it,
FIRST WIFE-"Dear me, Mrs. Doyle,
l have heard that your husband was a
spirit medium; is it sol" Second vile
"Mediuml Goodness, yes. Comes home
drunk every night."-[New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
A Washington lady, upon the marri-
age Of her daughter, gave her intended
son-in-law three dollars in a sealed en-
velope with which to fee the minister
The enterprising youth abstracted two
thirds of the amount and delivered the
remaining one dollar to the preacher.
Now, with commencement like this,
what chance has that mother-in-law.
James VOORHEES,, son Of Hon. Daniel
w. Voorhees,, of Indiana, after studying
law and going through two weeks ex-
perIence as a practitioner, abandoned
his fathers profession for the stage, and
is now travelling with the Fannie Price
troupe.
An Irishman and a cOlored citizen
were holding an animated political dis
cussion in Virginia City, Nevada, in the
course Of which the latter declared him
self staunch Republican. ayes" repli-
ed the iIrishman, "you may go on votin'
and workin' for the Republicans MS long
as you live, but divil an office will they
ever give you" "That's whar yer wrong
boss, that's whar yer wrong. Dey'll give
us all de offices, sab; will get all de Off .
ces to clean"
Dan, Davis, of Virginia City, paid a
visit to Promontory, on the Central
Pacific Railroad, and was charmed with
the manners and customs-nlmost patri-
archal in their frank simplicity-of the
people. He stopped at the principal
hotel of the town. It was a nice place,
and the landlord was a very agreeable
and friendly sort Of a man. Says Dan:
"When dinner was ready the landlord
came out into the street in front Of his
hotel with douhle-barreled shot
gun. Raising the gun above his head
he fred-oh one barrel. / said to him:
What did you do that for?' Said he: ITO
call my boarders to dinner / said:
why don't you fire off both barrels?'
Oh said he, 4 keep the other to col
lect with"
At a meeting in New Orleans recent
ly, General G.. T. Beauregard said he
desired particularly to respond to the
suggestions Of Mr.. Crossley on the sub
ject Of white men enduring labor in this
climate. He spoke Of the early settle
ment of the country by white men, who
cultivrted the soil with their own hands.
They and their descendants are still
here, and they always enjoyed good
health. Before the war immense num-
bers Of Irishmen came here. They ding
our canals and built our railroads, and
still they we're healthy. When in the
United States army he had been im COM
mand in Louisiana, and while-superin-
tending the building Of the Custom
house and other public works, had the
direction of many white men, and he
had never observed but they enjoyed
good health.
California, the land Of gold and Of
wheat and oranges, figs and olives, and
of the fat cattle on a thousand hills, and
of the big trees Of Mariposa and Gala
veras, and Of the wonders Of Yosemite
and of grizzlies and sea lions, is yet Of
all lands the premium land for the vine
and grape juice. For instance, the wine
crop of a single county in the golden
State, the county Of Napa, this year, is
estimated at a million gallons, or nearly
two gallons of genuine wine for every
inhabitant Of the State. With such de-
velopments, who can estimate the re-
sources of California7