The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
News items and EditoriaI Notes.

Extraordinary measures are being
taken by the Spanish authorities in
Cuba to crush the struggling pa
triots of that island They contem-
plate the enrolment for conscrip-
ton of all free males, including ne
groes between the ages of twenty
one and forty-fve. The entire
island is declared in a state of siege.
-Major-General Hazen, who has
been stationed at Fort Buford, Da-
kota Territory, since 1866, writes
long and very interesting letter to
the New York Tribune, descriptive
of the country through which the
famous Jay Cooke railroad line pass
es (known as the Northern Pacific
r. r. which shows, beyond doubt,
that the country which has been
represented by the company as one
offering great inducements to set
tiers, and as being highly adapted
for agricultural and stock-raising
purposes, is not worth a penny an
acre for any purpose; and that the
weather during at least two-thirds of
the year, is so intensely cold and
stormy as to be uncomfortable, while
the other third is usually season
of uninterrupted drouth. General
Hazen gives table of temperatures
and rainfall, taken from actual daily
observations, a study of which is
sufficient to convince any one of the
truthfulness of his statements con-
cerning that country and climate.
There is not now much doubt in the
minds of people generally that the
Northern Pacific railroad scheme
was a stupendous fraud, and that it
came to grief none to soon.
The Duke of Devonshire has
purchased for two thousand guineas
a red two-year-old shorthorn bull,
the "Fifth Duke of Wetherby,"
from the famous herd belonging to
Colonel Gunter, of Wetherby
Grange, in England. The price is
the highest ever known to have been
given for a bull.
About all the news of any i'm
portance that is going now, is con-
cerning the ladies' crusade against
whisky and whisky-sellers. The
daily papers are filled with particu-
lars of the movement in different
parts of the State, where it is in act
i've operation-the news from each
place being about the same as from
the others-varied, merely, by a
change of names and unimportant |
events. That there is determined |
and unprecedented effort upon the
part of the ladies and male temper
ance advocates to suppress the traf-
fic, is very manifest. Their efforts
are not merely confined to towns
and villages, but are being exerted
in cities, and the storming of places
like Columbus, Cleveland, Cincin-
natl, etc, is contemplated. DIR. Dio
Lewis, the originator of the praying
plan for the eradication of dram
shops, Is now in the State, and will |
take command of the temperance
hosts. He is assisted by Van Pelt,
of New Vienna, who had gained
notoriety as the ''wickedest man in
Ohio, but who succumbed to the
prayers of the ladies, and is now an
enthusiast in the temperance cause.
Masked robbers are getting to
be the terror of the country. They
are as daring and as dangerous as
the Southern Ku-Klux, and will re-
quire the severest rigors of the law
for their repression.
Several Philadelphia physicians,
having gained the consent of the
families of the Siamese twins-have
taken the remains of the defunct
couple to that city, for the purpose
of dissecting them in the interests
Of science. Considerable effort was
necessary to get permission to thus
handle the Twins, as they had posi-
lively forbidden any such liberties
with their persons.