davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-07-22

Cost OF INDIAN WARs.-An article
in The New York World on the subject
of indian wars in the past represents
their cost at figures that are somewhat
startling. The Seminole war, wherein
dnring the seven years of strife 10000
whites were against 1890 warriors, as
sisted by $50 of their negro slaves, in
volved an expense of S2,O00'000 on ac-
count of the militia and volunteers engag-
ed or for compensationto citizens for los
ses incurred. The regular army expendi-
lures were about $l0'000,0O0. The cost
of the Sioux war Of 1928, in Nine
sofa, was also about $l0,000.000. The
Chevenne war that followed the Chiv-
ington massacre cost over $50, 900, 600
some accounts, indeed, placing the cost
at S4O,OOO,OO0. The uodocs under Cap
tain Jack, a mere handful of men, were
subdued at o cost of several millions.
These data are sufficient to indicate
what vast expenditure in money are
necessary to subdue the Indians when
they break out into warfare. If the fig.
ures of oil the Indian wars which have
occurred since tho formation of the gov
erment we're collated the total cost Of
these wars to the country, it is conjec-
tured, would be found probably to foot
up $250,0oo,o00 if not to surpass that
amount.
/ No estimate is given of the expense o
the Indian wars before the establish
ment of this government, and which
were, of course-the Indian power be
ling then in its prime-on much larg
er scale.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-07-22
ANCHOR LINE STEAMERS
Do THE PUBLIC.

ITO THE PUBLIC.
i The Wilmington and Reading Railroad Com
pany have completed arrangements TO carry Money
Packages and Express Ma tier to and from ali pointi
en- the line Of their road and West Chester.
Also. TO all points on the Philadelphia and Read
Allentown Columbia Harrisburg, Lancaster. Down
ingtown, Mahoney City. Mt. Carmel, Norristown
Pottsville DC.
For further information apply at the Depot, cor
Ter of Front and Madison streets, Wilmington.
Express matter sent 10 Franklin Telegraph ofi7 0
No, w est Third street, or TO their Depot, From
snd Madison, or orders left with McMallen Seal
delivering agents. will receive prompt attention.
sp6-u GenI Supt W. d X. Il. X. Co.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-07-22
pxsSsaRovE, N. j, July 81, 1874.

PENNsaRovE, N. J July 2l, 1874.
Especial 10 the Gd=ette.
The Mariners Bethel Sunday School schol-
ars went from this place TO Collins Beach,
Yesterday. There was large turnout ana
they made fine display as they were passing m
TO the steamer Ariel. By the looks OF tne
wagon. a horse one, they took loaded Win
good things, don't think there was sny OF
the party came home hungry, unless IL was
Tom Collins. He came TO the photograph
nj ery ard got his doetype taken. lie had q
borrowed clothes with white stove pipe nat
on and cane In his hand. buthe looked natu'
raj.
Ii apy Of the Wilmington people would Ike
to have nice mess of Trout fish they can get
them here for there are several parties from
here that 90 down the Bay to catch them ana
bring them here to sell. They bring very nice
ones. but they are scarce, They sell at 10 cts.
per pound as fast as they can get them strung
up and weighed.
Mr. Ely Strimple is getting fine skin bull!
at Mr.. Job Barber's ship yard, in TINS place. IL
will be the finest in the place.
The Clerk of the Palisade Is one OF the mos!
obliging of men living, he thinks nothing Oh
trouble.
The Thermometer, lat the Fisherman's Pride,
stood yesterday at Z, A. NJ, 76 noon, 81
4. p, NJ 81. TONIC
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-07-22
over the River.

FxcuRsIoN-ToM COLLINS ON BoARD-TRouT
FIsH-THERMoMETER AT THE FISHERMAN
PRIDE, &C, sc.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-07-22
10 pounds and over at the rate OF 81 90 per 100 II

20 pounds and over. at The rate OF II % PEI oV os
Although the above price sare as low as
good Eastern Ice can be sold in this market at a
profit, VIC do not intend to be undersoid upon any
consideration.
These prices to take effect on and after Monday.
April IL. ,r ,,,p
OFrIRos-lO6 Shipley, 4th ani Poplar. and 1916
Walnut SITS. apr III
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21
"A Live Lantern.

You think, perhaps, that there is no
such thing. Look ST the little glow
worms aud sparkling fre-flea. Does n't
each one of them carry abont with him
a tiny lantern to light his patti.
But that is not ALL
In the West Indies, and some other
hot countries, As I've been told, there
are distant relations of our glow-worms
and fre-fiies that carry larger sparks.
These insects give so much light that
they are caught by the natives, and some
times a dozen at time are put into
gourd pierced with many holes, each too
small for the insects to escape through
The opening by which they are put into
the gourd is then stopped up, and the
live lantern is ready to be carried about
on dark nights, as you sometimes carry
glass one. A very convenient lantern
the insects make, for the fame never
burns anything, and never goes out.
BY the way, wonder whether the
fame can be of the same sort with that
that burns on the ocean? The fame with
the long name-the phos-something that
l told you about last month? / should
MT wonder if it were so. Who will find
out?-JacE-in the Pulpit" 81. Nicholos for
Cspfep,Bs,.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21
st. Nicholas for September

Opens very seasonably with "The
Gentle Angler" a paper on Isaac Wal.
ton, and we soon come upon story
about hunting antelopes in the West.
Among other seasonable things is very
funny, illustrated poem, called "The
Cheated Mosquitoes" The serial stor-
les, EAST Friends, /" by J. T. Trowbridee,
and "What Might Have Been Expect
cd" by Frank X. Stockton, draw near
their conclusions. and the interest of
both stories naturally increases. "The
Pony Express" il a well-written article,
handsomely illustrated, showing how
messages ard letters were carried before
railroads and steamboats, monopolized
the business. Celia Thaxter comes to
the defense Of the birds in poem call.
ed "The Kitti-wakes," and Mr. Dodge,
in some lively verses, tells how Mother
Pussy tanght her children. There is 4
Handsomely illustrated article nn "Old
Dutch Times ia New York" by Col. T..
w. HigginsOn, and loving account of
the author Of Robinson Crusoe," by
Donald e. Mitchell. Lucretia F. Hale
has one of her quaint 'Peterkin' con-
ceits, in which that inimitable family
have some Of their queer experiences.
There j. lavishly illustrated account
Of the adventures of a certain "Jim
Crow" and poem, curiously illustra-
ted by James c. Beard, in which the
verses and lot of fishes, in company
with little boy and mermaid, swim
bravely about, all over two Pages. Sarah
o. Jewette contributes 4 capital story
for girls, and there Is romantic tale.
Little Ben and the Sunshine" by Kate
Bloede. The departments at the ends
of the number are crammed as nsual
with wise bits Of fun sBd funny bite Of
wisdom
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21
NUMBER l9.
inst In From The Country.

He was = very innocent locking man.
and had evidently come from Charles
county, God bless you, to enjoy the
Fourth. He wore blue jeans, very seedy
and threadbare abou. the seams, and
heavy cowhide boots, redolent of the
Etable-yard. And 20 Il came about that
when ne dropped into leading billiard
room, not hundred miles from the
National, he found no difficulty in in
ducing one of the sharps who frequented
the place to give him small odds in n
game of French carom. Then some of
the bystanders wanted to bet, and the
stranger not being outdone in the dis.
play of genuine spirit of accommoda
tion, took all the wagers that were offer
ed as the game progressed, and when
they had amounted to the respectable
figure of some $500 he turned in and ran
out the game. His play in the last inn
ing inspired the loOkers-on with 20 much
respect for his powers that no attempt
was made to get even, but old Charles
County pocketed the cash and started for
the Navy Yard bridge as quietly and
innocently-looking as when he entered
the saloon, and the boys said nary a
word.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21
Pet Birds.


In New York, especially, the demand
for singing birds is great. Men love
those musical and innocent creatures
quite as we'll as women do. In fact,
dealers say that they would rather deal
with male buyers than female. Among
the emigrant population, notably the
Germans, the love of song-birds amounts
almost to a mania. A woman who had
no money to buy bread for her children
had yet money enough to buy canary
of whose voice she had become enamor
ed, aad many similar instances could be
cited. Of course the favorite song-bird
Of New Yorkers is the canary. Two
thirds Of the singing birds in this coun-
try are canaries, which are imported
from Germany, where they are reared
and bred. The canaries brought from
England are scarcely worth mentioning.
Attempts have been made to rear cana
ries in this country, but so far unsuccess-
fully. They are brought over in the
steamers from Germany. in coopa, by
thousands at time. There, they cost
about shilling; here, about FIVE dollars
each. The figures relative to bird-keep-
ing in New York are really surprising
ly large. There are eight large estab-
lishments in the metropolis transacting
a heavy trade in "birds," and over one
hundred minor bird stores. Several
hundreds of people earn an easy and am
pie livelihood by raising fancy fowl
for the New York market, and a small
army of agents in Europe are kept busy
sending over choice birds.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21


FISH CULTURE.-Culture of fish is ex-
tending. Not only do we send our aquar-
ium cars to California, but We trust our
tender denizens of the water to a sea
voyage new and strange. Germany sends
us her salmon and We return her our
shad. We read:
The classic waters of the mighty
Rhine" are to be denizened with emf
grants from the new World. The castle
of the Lurliberg is to be flied with Wis
itors from the Bay State. On Tuesday
one hundred thousand newly hatched
shad, from the works in the charge OF
the Massachusetts Fish CommissIoners
started on voyage to the Old World.
On their arrival in Germany they are
10 be placed in the Rhine. These tiny
products Of Massachusetts waters and
Massachusetts ingenuity are n present to
the German Government; the latter bear
ing the expense of transportation
Should the experiment of stocking the
Rhine prove successful, our transatlan
tic friends will have cause to thank the
Massachusetts, Fish Commissioners; and
rs in future years, the 6nny Children O
the New World disport themselves a
the base Of Rhinefals, around the Mouse
Tower Island, or in the foaming water
of Schafihausen, we trust that the bond
of international friendship will b
strengthened as the gourmand Of Faith
Eerland refr~rhes himself with Yanke'
shad and Rhine wine.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21
Meerschaum Mania.

The mania for meerschaum pipes,
though perhaps not SO prevalent now as
formerly, has produced not few pipo
maniacs the world over. A New York
gentleman, for instance, has collection
of some 400 meerschaums, all beautiful
ly colored. This is rather an expensive
taste, however, for besides the first cost
of the pipes, he has to keep two men
continually employed, whose sole duty is
to smoke and keep the 400 pipes in or
der One Of the greatest pipe-fanciers in
the world, Major General Raffalovich,
of the Russian Army, is now in this
country. He has collection of more
than six hundred pipes. Since he has
been in this country he has purchased a
number of meerschaums and there is
now in the hands of one of the most
prominent manufacturers in New York
a magnificent meerschaum pipe made to
his order. The bowl forms the bust Of
very beautiful woman, and is a correct
likeness of the Generals wife, taken from
life. The stem and mouth-pieee are o.
amber, fifteen inches long. The whole
cost $50. This pipe will be taken tC
Europe as curiosity for it seems tha
General Raffalovich had an idea tina
such things could not be made in thi
country. He ia now travelling in tb'
West, and will doubtless enrich his col
lection by adding to it some of the cele
brated calumets made of the famous ret
pipe-stone by the Indians.-Bo Boston Pos
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21
A Paradise Of Birds.

Another thing that would he quite
sure 10 strike my eye on this my first
ride across British soil and on all subse-
guent rides, was the enormous number
of birds and fowls of various kinds that
swarmed IN the air or covered the ground
1t was truly amazing. 1t seemed as If
the feathercd life of whole continent
must have been concentrated upon this
island Indeed, | doubt if a sweeping
together OF all the birds of the United
States into any two of the largest States.
would people the earth and air more
fully. There appeared 20 be plover,
a crow, rook, blackbird and spar
row, 10 every square yard of ground.
They know the value Of birds in Brit
ain-thet they are the friends, not the
enemies, of the farmer. L. must be the
paradise Of crow and rocks. IT did me
good to see them So much at home about
the fields and even in the towns. vas
glad also to see that the British crow
was not Z stranger 10 the, and that he
differed from his brother ON the Ameri-
can side Of the Atlantic only in being
less alert and cautious, having less use
for these gualitee.
Nov and then the train would start
up some more tempting game. 4 brace
or two OF partridgcs or a covey of quails
would settle down in the stubble, or a
cock pheasant drop head and tail and
slide into the copse. Rabbits also would
scamper back from the borders Of the
firlds into the thickets or peep slyly
ont, making my sportsman's fngers tin
GLE" Meltoae England" by John Bur
roggi&, in Scribney's for September.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21
A Miserly Nephew.

Sanuel Bushnell, of Troy, is reported
to be q nephew of Daniel Webster, and
a miser. He is G rag picker, and lives
principally from drink, when he can get
the drink for nothing. HE is passion
ately fond of money" says an account in
the Press, "but when he gets any it is
never more seen. Old Sam won't spend
a cent either for food, drink, raiment, or
anything; consequently he will drink
any kind Of liquor, and, of course, his
clothes are not always, if ever, made to
order. He sleeps at night about cellars
or barns in the neighborhood of the
Eddy steamer-house; but no one can find
ont where he keeps his money. He
does not carry it upon his person; he
knows better than that, he says. 1t is
estimated that he is worth at least Sl0,-
O0O He owned at one time house and
lot in North FIRST street alley, between
Rensselaer, and North streets. In this
bnildihg he used to store away his rags
and sleep at night. Some persons set
fire to the building, one afternoon, about
six years ago, and burned up most of the
rags and three thousand dollars in gold,
and nearly roasted the old man alive.
Since then he has refused to be comfort
ed, and cannot forgive his prosecutors.
He swears at those incendiaries very Of
ten, either when he happens to be walk
ing alone or when speaking to anybody.
Regarding his relationship to Daniel
Webster, he used to visit him frequent
ly, he says, both in Washington and
Boston, where he has dined with Clay,
Calhoun, Governor Marston, of Massa-
chusette, Hains, and others. AT times
he attempts to relate has conversation
with them. At this period Sam was an
enterprising cattle-dealer in the South.
Bushnell is seventy two years of age,
having been born in the year 1902, in
| IL. .f
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21
American Charity Abroad.

1t is exceedingly creditable TO the
you will in travelling, says the Baltimore
Gazette, you are pretty sure to come up
on an American charity. And if not
American, it is English. From Cairo
to Iceland those who are striving 10 do
good are scattered. And most begin
ming should be n1ade-with the children.
Strange, how clearly this is seen in for
eign lands and how dimly at homei
Yet human nature il the same in
Caireno as in an Englishman, and
Though one is more stolid and processes
less, and cares to understand less, the
other, more active minded and brighter,
ia still hardly more impressionable. The
latest school for children has been estab-
lished at Rome by a Mrs. Gould, the
wife of an American physician there. She
has for some time been gathering in the
poor and friendless children Of the
streets. Mrs. Gould has now printing
press, and the pupils are taught to use
it, and with it are printed varions pnb-
locations suited to the needs of the chill
dren, and to make those needs better
known to the general pnblic. A number
of benevolent Roman ladies and men of
influence have become interested, and IL
is hoped that before long one of the old
converts will be given as place for the
permanent establishment of the institu-
tion
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21
A Novel Theory.

Several wells of magnetized water be-
ing discovered in Michigan, suggests the
idea that this State is magnet. That
the discovery of these peculiar wells is
confined 10 the central portion of this
State is also we'll known, and the proba-
bility that they will always be limited
to Michigan, is to the mind of every
scientific man fixed fact. Let 4 per-
son, to whom this idea has never occur
ed, take the pains to glance at naap of
this State, and he will be astonished at
the resemblance which the outlines of
the lower peninsula has to an ordinary
magnet The great lakes that surround
it, do, in fact, form an enormous horse
shoe magnet, with proportionate cur
rent of electricity constantly circulating
through these vast bodies of water, and
then the different poles of magnet across
the southern and central portions of the
State-completely saturating, az it were,
the earth, air and water with this power
ful agent. Science teaches us that when
ever two bodies of water assume certain
positions to each other, current Of cleo
tricity is Immediately formed, and the
intensity of. the current (other things be-
ing equal) will be in proportion to the
size of the bodies brought in contact.
Now, with Lake Michigan on the west,
Lake Huron and ST. Clair and the straits
on the east, united at the apex of a mar
row strait, there is supplied all the nee
essary qualifications to form huge
galvanic battery, and the conclusion is
inevitable. Again, electricity always
seeks the best conductors, and in its
passage across the State, the water, be-
ing a better conductor than either earth
or air, is more highly charged. But the
surface water having its electricity con-
stantly drawn off by surrounding objects,
is enfeebled, while the lower strata are
powerfully impregnated. On exposure
to external influences, this, however,
gradually passes of, which accounts for
persons not finding this quality in water
which has been transported distance
from the wells.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21

Az UERIvALED PLUM PUDDIsG.-
Stone and cut BUT do not chop one and
one half pounds muscatel raisiDs; and
cleanse without cutting one pound of
aultama raisins; wssh and dry two pounds
of Zante currants; cut into small, thin
slices six ounces of mixed candied peel;
CRATE the rinds OF two lemons and one
ounce Of nutmeg; add one ounce Of
ground cinnamon, one half ounce of
pounded bitter almonds, two pounds Of
finely chopped beef-suet, and two pounds
of bread-crumbs. Mix these ingredients
we'll together. Beat the yolks Of sixteen
eggs and two pounds Of sugar to froth,
beat separately the whites of the eggs
till they will cut smoothly. When this
is done, stir one-fonrth pint of brandy
into the dry ingredients. add quickly
the beaten yolks and whites little at a
time alternately; beat the whole rapidly
together ill well mixed. Butter well and
-four n stout new pudding cloth or n
pudding mould put in the pudding, tie
down very tightly and closely; boil eight
hours. Serve with brandy or lemon
sauce. This quantity IL enongh for four.
teen persons.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21
The BOgardus Kicker.

We have tried the Bogardus kicker,
we have kept a kicking mule in our
room, we've used bull dogs and kept shot
guns, and still people Who have nothing
else to do, will come when We are busy
and insist on having US TO stop work
and listen to them "biow their horns"
for an hunr or two on q stretch. We
have invented chair which is a success.
1t is made of Iron, screwed to the floor
near our desk, and the seat is so arrang
ed with steel springs that it ''lets go"
every ten minutes, after it is wound up.
One winding will let her go three or
four times, and, as it has the power of
three-year-old mule, no matter who sits
in it. when it goes off it lifts 'em" and
flies back 10 its harmless position.
1t went through its first operation yes
terday. A little chap with side whisk
ers, from Cincinnati, came in TO talk to
us He took a seat in "our chair" and
commenced telling US about our filings"
at the swilI house below his native city.
We wrote away, while we knew '-thingS
was working" His ten minutes were
up. Flip! and the dog was dead, so to
speak. His hat went out the window;
his leg kicked over the desk; and, when
we looked mp, his head was sticking fast
between the laths and plastering and the
floor above, while his arms were whip
ping the plastering off the ceiling all
around where he was fast. His feet
were flying about over our heads like a
pair of steam governor balls. He work.
ed loose, and fell down upon our table.
His side whiskers, hair, shirt collar,
cravat and face were in one mass, while
his shoulder bones were each higher
than his cars He arose to his feet,
trembling, and with look of horror in
his face, he said: "Was any one else
killed or hurt, sir?' 'You seem to be
in a hurry" said We He looked at the
door and then at us, and said: "Good
day, sir" "Call again" Ard he left
| VTieY-Joufndl
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21
Butter Making.

We note by the Western papers, and
other sources Of information, that butter
making is receiving an increased share
of attention over former years. In some
places they are indeed talking ab0nt the
business being overdone. This is almost
always the case when any great industry
is taken hold of earnestly, and is
trouble which soon rights itself by the
weaker brethren falling out of the track.
From the same sources we note that it is
believed the quality has somewhat de-
generated in the main, and this also is
general result of over-prOduction.
Many have an idea, when the market
is poor, that it @bes not pay to do things
well. The sharp-witted take advantage
of this. 1t is their golden opportunity
Most people who make money by farm-
ing or gardening do it BY always having
frst-rate article. The more poor stuff
in market the better theirs sells. What
ever is in general and steady demand
will always have an open market for the
good article. We do not expect butter
making OF the right sort will ever be
overdone.-P Philadelphia Pres
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21
4 Dangerous Present.

Very few people, probably, are aware
that osmium is the most powerful pois-
on ever known. At recent meeting of
the Paris Scientific Academy, NJ. II.
Sainte Claire Deville, member of this
learned assembly, offered TO his col
leagues. in perfectly tight vial, eight
kllogrammes-about Is pounds of
osmium. The illustrious chemist ac-
companied his present, with short ex-
PLANTATION. Osmium, he said, il the
most poisonous of all poisons. Twenty
pounds of it would be sufficient TO pois-
on the entire population of the world.
One thousandth part Of grain of osmic
acid, set free in q volume of air Of a
hundred cubic yards, would possess such
deadly influence that all the persons
respiring this air could be nearly killed.
Osmic acid is so much the more danger
Gus that no counter-poison is known
against It,