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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-25

About six years ago, lady named
Mrs. Lauinger, residing in Allegheny
City. purchased plain thirty day clock
from the jewelry establishment of C..
Terheyden, 130 Smithfeld street. The
clock clicked" pretty regularly until
Tuesday last, when it stopped running
and Mrs. LIS daughter brought the
clock over to Mr.. Terheyden's to have it
cleaned and repaired. On taking the
clock apart, Mr.. Philip Roos, the young
man who does the repairing for the es-
tablishment, discovered roll of green
backs carefully rolled up in yellow pa
per and secreted in an offset in the bot
tom Of the clock The roll was taken
out and carefully counted, and yesterday
when Mrs. L. called to see if the clock
was cleaned, she was asked whether she
had ever put any money in the bottom
of the clock. She replied that she had
lost one bill some time since, but knew
ed in the clock. On being further interro-
gated she gave correct description OF
the clock As the husband of the lady
died some five years ago, three days af-
ter the purchase of the clock, it is surmis-
ed that the deceased must have used the
clock sa a "safe deposit bank" This even
in& when Mrs. L. calls for her clock, the
money amounting to nearly 5000 will be
turned over to her, as the money evi'
IDENTIFY belongs to the owner of the clock
The money is in good condition, and il
doubly acceptable to the widow coming
at time when money is money.-Pitts.
burgh Telegraph.
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Prevention of Cruelty to Children,

By unrelenting prosecutions of cruel
owners, Mr.. Henry Bergh has done
much to ameliorate the condition of
dumb animals In the course of his
constant search through New York for
instances of the abuse of brutes, he has
frequently come upon cases of lnhu-
man treatment of children by parents,
or those clad with parental authority.
A few months ago he rescued a parent
less little girl from aggravated servitude
and caused her unfeeling task mistress,
to whom she had been incautiously in
dentured by the Commissioners of
Charities and Correction, to be sentenc-
ed to imprisonment. To secure repeti-
tions of this success, says the Sun, Mr.
Bergh has drawn a number of powerful
gentlemen into a "Society for the Pre-
vention Cruelty to Children" whose an
nual meeting takes place on the 28th of
December. Its agents will traverse the
city, and with particular frequency its
poorest and most densely populated
quarters, where strong drink wars in
cessantly with the good impulses of the
human heart, seeking the oppressors of
children, that they may bring them
within the grasp of the Judiciary.
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Capital punishment for crime was
abandoned in Iowa two years ago, but
the results do not seem TO have been sat
isfactory, and it is reported that an eff
fort will be made to have the gallows
restored. Murders are said to have
been exceptionally frequent of late, and
there were ten murderers in the. Des
Moines Jail awaiting trial at the opening
of the last term of court. By a judicial
Interpretation of the code adopted in
1873, criminals indicted for murder are
bailable, and one who had wealthy
friends recently escaped the laws clutch
es by the forfeit of $4,000. The per-
petrator of murder which had excited
considerable i'll feeling in the communi-
ty, was taken from the Jail at Des
Moines, after he had been sentenced to
imprisonment for life, one week ago,
and hanged by mob. of masked men
1t is doubtful whether this would have
been done if it had been possible for the
law to have administered the same pun
ishment. As it was, the capital punish
ment which was abolished by law was
reenacted by mob violence.
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Somerset Grain Market.


PITTsBURG, December 24.-Wheat
quiet and unchanged. Corn dull and
dropping ear and shelled 73(975c. Pc
troleum firm crude 90c at Parker's re-
fined 112@11sc for Philadelphia deliv-
cry.
CLEVELAND, December 24-Wheat
frmer and 1c better No. l Red 81 II,
No. 81 90. Corn steady shelled 72(9
73c, ear on track Csc. Oats firm and un-
changed. Petroleum strong; standard
White, in car lots &c, Ohio State test 10c:
small lots 1@2c higher. Receipts !, :
$50 bush Wheat, 1.4O0 bush Oats.
EAST LIBERTY, PA, December "a
Receipt of Cattle-to-day, 1,o45 head.
The run for yard sales is quite light SO
far not and not many billed to arrive
not many yet on hands, but the trade is
lively and stock selling well; best 500
so, medium to good S. 50@6, common
to fair S4(95; stockers scarce at 23939c,
Bulls 24@34c. Receipts of Hogs to day
1850 head Workers Sc 50a675. Phil
adelphia S7a725. Receipts of Sheep to-
day, 5000 head extra S6 5Oa7, prime
So 50a6, medium 81 75a5 %.
TOLEDO, December 24.-Flour steady
Wheat in light demand and holders
| firm No 2 White Wabash 81 I41, No.
Z
gan 81 102, February 81 134. Corn, Nos.
l and 2 higher and closing easier: high
mixed cash and January 724c, May 78c,
low mixed 714c, White 714c. Oats full
prices but no demand; No. sec, Mich
igan 564, White 584c. Clover Seed SIS
so. Dressed Hogs 81 75a8. Receipts:
400 bbIs Flour, 1000 bush Wheat, $4,000
bush Corn. 5000 bush Oats. Shipments
1000 hush Wheat, 10000 bush Corn, s.
600 bush Oats.
CINCINNATI, December 24.-Cattle-
Receipts moderate and market quiet for
the lower grades but firm for the better
| qualities, The sales ranged as follows.
viz: Common 2a3c, medium to fair 3ta
43c, and good to choice butcher grades
43a6c
HoGs-Receipts light for this season
of the year, and the market throughout
the day ruled active and closed firm at
the following range of prices, viz: Com
mon S6a6 40, medium TO fair averages
| S6..5Oa6 rs, good packing and butchers
qualities Sc S5a7, and extra butchers
81 1Oa7 20. Very few left over unsold
SHEEPs-SuppIy light and market
firm at from 32a44c for common and 5a
| 54c for good to extra grades.
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As an illustration of tho chang

As an illustration of tho changes OF
personal fortune in this country, the
Chicago Times tells this story: ODE
troit readily disposed of $4,000 in thirty
year seven per cent. water bonds there
being but two purchasers, each of whom
paid premium of one per cent. J. H.
Beach, who took $4,000, went to De-
troit in 1847 with the present Governor
Of Michigan, Bagley. He had six dol
lars in cash. Bagley found employment
in a tobacco house, Beach in a bank.
The latter's employment not being per-
manent, he went to Cincinnati, where
he failed in business. Desiring to 60 to
St. Louis, he had no other means OF
reaching there than such as nature pro-
vided, and to raise money wrote to Bag
ley asking him for $25. Bagley, now q
millionaire, was just able to remit the
amount. Beach reached ST. Louis, and
now, with ready cash capital of $780,
900, is investing in the bonds of city
where once he hadn't a maravedi tc
bless himself withal."
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st. Nicholas For January

Is real Holiday number, and pecu-
liarIy attractive one. 1t opens with a
beautiful frontispiece called mozart, the
Little Music-King," followed by a short
Sketch of the great musicians career. 1t
gives us an abundance OF interesting
Christmas stories, such as "Tommy, the
Soprano" by Charles Barnard; "May's
Christmas Tree" by Olive Thorne; "a
Christmas Legend" by Florence Scan
nell leach of the three with beautiful
picture by Eytinge) and The Dwarfs
Mirror" illustrated by F. A. Chapman.
There IS also fac-simile of the original
manuscript of the famous ballad " Twas
the Night before Christmas" which
will attract the attention of all the boys
and girls.
The beginning of the two serials
"The Young Surveyor" by ]. I. Trow-
bridge, and Eight Cousins" by Louisa
NJ. Alcott, with fine illustrations by W.
L. Sheppard and Addie Ledyard, is an
event of great Importance to the readers
of the Magazine, and has no doubt been
eagerly awaited by them. Hezekiah
Butterworth contributes a set of lively
stories called "The Funny Kings,
which are admirably illustrated by
Henry L. Stephens, and Thomas Dunn
English has an old fashioned Fairy-tale,
with two striking pictures by E. B.
Bensell. The number also contains A
Brid's-Eye View of the Battle of Life, u
illustrated by five of Concklin's exquisite
pictures; description of "The Horn
biIl," with an illustration by James C.
Beard; and article giving directions foI
making "Domino Bridges" and an in
teresting account by Noah Brooks of the
celebrated 'Children's Crusade"
Then, there are poems by Bret Harte
and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; "Christ-
mas Carol' by Mrs. Dodge; and a beau.
tifully illustrated poem, entitled "Santa
Claus and his Men,"
The large number of excellent illus
trations by such artists as Sheppard
Eytinge, Addie Ledyard, Stephens, Ben.
sell. and others, is an important feature
of the number.
"Jack-ln-the-Pulpit" and "The Rid
dle-Box" have also caught the Christ
mas spirit, and there is an additional
department of Books for Boys and
Girls" in fact, extra pages have beer
added to the January St. Nicholas, ii
order to make room for all the good
things that have been crowd into IT.
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Temperance in Wine-Drinking Coun-
tries.

After all there are statistics which
prove that wine-drinking countries are
the most mperate. There everyone
drinks the native light wines. 1t will
not be disputed, also that murder in all
nations is one of the truest signs of pre-
vailmg intoxication. We quote from a
Philadelphia paper, and presume its
facts are correct: ain the year 1871, in
the whole population of Italy, there
were only 40 deaths resulting from the
abuse of intoxicating liquors, 13 of
these being in Venetia, in Lombardy,
7 in Piedmont, and in Liguria. This
in country where every body, from the
king to the humblest peasant, can and
does have his wine daily. An abun-
dance of cheap, but pure wine, saves
Italy from the great curse of drunken
ness, which aff1icts every people among
whom ardent spirits are habituaIly used
because of their comparative cheapness.
The favorite and almost the sole bev-
erage of the mass of the people is a
light and and healthful wine. To this
circumstance is due the fact that not
more than fifty persons die in year
from drunkenness, or ''the abuse of liq-
uors," in the whole Kingdom of Italy.
So there is no such thing as intemper-
ance in Italy.
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From the Earth to the Moon.

To an astronomical traveller the dis
tance will certainly appear to be mere
bagatelle. Accustomed to the huge fig
ure in which the remoteness of the near
est fixed stars is expressed, the 100000
miles separating US from the moon will
seem to him like a mere hop-skip-and-
jump. When we hear of cannon balls
consuming centuries in their journey
from some orbs, and of light which
has not yet reached us from others,
though possibly it may have been racing
onward since long before the creation of
Adam, the lunar journey will scarcely
count in the scale of cosmical mileage
Every now and then we see notices Of
rural postmen who have travereed an
astonishing number of leagues in the
course of lifetime, and who have walk
ed themselves into a pension or a work
house at last. Amy one of these valua-
bic servitors of society, who has done his
twenty miles day for forty years (Sun-
days excepted) could, within that peri
cd, have carried our letters across to the
Lunarians, had there been good turn
pike road with house of Refreshments
where he might obtain his pipe and
tankard, as we'll, as bed, at regular in
tervals-[ Brisish Quarterly.
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"Anerican CIycIopmdIa.. -

We have received the first three vol
umes of this great American publica-
ton. This is the revised edition of
what has formerly been known as the
New American Cyclopadia. 1t is en-
tirely rewritten by the ablest writers on
every subject, and beautifully illustrated
with engravings and maps costing up
wards of $4,000. The entire cost of the
work will be upwards of S500,00O. 1t is to
be completed in sixteen royal octave vol
umes of eight hundred pages each. Nine
volumes are now published. The re-
naming seven volumes will be complet-
ed one every two months. Those who
secure this work will have practical
library worth more for practical use than
many libraries containing volumes cost
ing thousands of dollars. Parties de-
string specimen pages of this work for
examination, will be supplied by ad-
dressing Stacy & Brooks, 1T West 4th
street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-25

Compulsory Education in New York
begins on the first of the year. The
opinion is general that the new law will
work we'll and will be of great benefit to
thousands of children who are now
growing up in pagan ignorance and
crime. In New York city it is the in
tention to enforce the law with energy,
and the police force will be employed
to obtain much of the essential infor-
nation. 1t is intended to gather in
from the streets, slums and workshops
of the city all children between the ages
Of eight and fourteen and compel their
parents, if they have any, to send them
to school for term of fourteen weeks
in the year, eight weeks of which must
be consecutive, or they may be instruct
ed at home fourteen weeks, which will
serve the purpose of the law equally
we'll. The law provides specifically that
the branches which all children of wlnt-
ever sex or social rank must learn shall
be, spelling, reading, writing, English
grammar, geography and arithmetic.---[
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
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An Eye Fight i'm the Cars.

A clergyman writes: "Did you ever
have an eye ffght--have some person
look at you persistently, catching your
eye every time you looked toward him?
Did you ever get annoyed and fix your
eyes on him, and struggle and wrestle
with him, and finally throw him? l
have many time. l was once riding
in the cars..with beautiful young lady
who was in my charge. A man sitting
near fixed his wicked, greedy eyes on
her, and she was greatly annoyed. got
in good range, and fought that mans
eyes all the way from Cleveland to Buff
falo. His eyes both needed what no
minister; what no good Christian could
give them, and if any wicked man had
come into that car Tand had given him
a pair of black eyes, | should have
thanked the Lord.
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Novel Religious Belief.

A new and novel religious belief, pro-
badly an outgrowth of the spiritualistic
idea of naturalization, is gaining con-
verts in the northern counties of Ohio.
1t involves, too, an elaborate principle
of metempsychosis. An outline of its
teachings is as follows: The soul is i'm
mortal, beginning with the original Gre
alton of the universe and lasting forever.
in the course of its existence il occupies
varied succession of bodies on earth.
When disembodied by the death of its
corporal form, it hovers an unseen pow
er in the air until, by subtle process
of naturalization, it forms for itself a
new infantile body. This body it builds
up by what we regard as the natural
process of growth, and occupies it until
death again frees it when the same thing
takes place again. While disembodied,
istence, but when clothed in form of
flesh it loses the knowledge, except in
those vague gliDnpses which people are
supposed to have at times of some previ-
GUS and different condition. The fol-
lowers of the new religion call themsel-
yes Eternalists, and their number is in
creasing rapidly. They believe that
souls may advance or depreciate in at
tainment, rising high enough to take on
the forms of men great in some particu-
lar, or falling low enough to animate
d,unkards, criminals, savages, or even
animals. They do not believe the Bible
or the Christian scheme of salvation; but
they teach culture and morality as means
of development for the soul, and as a
training for higher form of organiza'
ton when the soul shall next materia-
lize an earthly body.
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Spiritualism has recently received a
blow which, it would seem, it can hard
ly survive. The miserable trickery and
iugglery of the so-called "spirits" have
time and again, been exposed and ex-
plained-as far as it is possible for per-
sons not proficient in ledgerdemain, to
explain such things-to the satisfaction
of rational people. But these exposures
seemingly had no effect in checking the
spread of Spiritualisn, because its ad-
vocates steadfastly elung to the belief
that they had not been made in good
faith-that they were put up job, ETC.,
and SO they went on producing their
"phenomena' throughout the country to
the delectation of their followers and the
establishment of unthinking skeptics.
The blow which Spiritualism has re-
ceived comes from one of its most ardent
and able votaries-Robert Dale Owen
and is in the shape of an acknowledge
ment that he has been gloriously hum
bugged: This he is forced TO admit just
as an exhaustive" article from his pen
appears in the Atlantic Monthly, des-
criptive of the wonderful performances
OF "spook" called Katie King, who has
been dead several hundred years and
whose father was once notorious pirate.
He went many times to see Katie in a
dark box in Philadelphia, and witnessed
her doing so many things, and heard her
say so many things, which to him were
SO startling, and altogether unlike the
things done or said by earthly beings,
that he never once thought that she
could be anything else but an angel.
Well, it turns out that she wasn't "spir-
it,"-but handsome young widow, with
a shocking breath, and that she was
playing the part of spirit in order to
support herself and child. Ascertaining
thlt this was fact beyond doubt, R. D.,
acknowledges the corn" and in so doing
deals the stupendous folly of spiritual
phenomena" stunning blow.
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The Anglo Chinese city of Hong
Kong appears to have some curious So
cial customs An English journal, pub
lished there, says: at appears that the
local authorities haye recently ordered
that pigs shall not be kept at all within
the limits of the city, and as conse-
quence pigs cannot be allowed to sleep
in rooms of their owners, several wo-
men were found who had met the diff
Guilty by going to the newly erected pig
sty and sleeping with the pigs. AS this
was not considered an exactly proper
place for them to sleep, they were appre-
hended and fined 25 cents each"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-25

The African baobab, or monkey bread
tree, may be called the elephant of the
vegetable world. They have been found
thirty feet in diameter, and one hundred
in circumference, and are usually hol-
low SO theyare used az dwellings. Doc
tor Livingstone mentions one in which
twenty or thirty mon could lie down, as
in hut.
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Miss Kellogg says that American girls
have the sweetest voices in the world
When one of them puts her mouth to a
hole in the fence and "hollers" to the
girl next door to "fetch back them
crimping irons," it fill the air with mel.
ody.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-25

Prudent mother--"Don't look at
Prof. Won Bungs 80, Dora dear, or peo-
pie viii think you are in love with him"
Dora (who is inconsolable for the loss of
her darling poodle)-'T can't help it
ma, he is the exact image of poor
Mopsy!'
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CHEAP SEEDS
WOULD NOT BE WITHOUT
VEGET TN e
FOR TEN TIMES ITS COST.

FOR TEN TIMES ITS COST
The great benefit received from the use Of
yEGETISE, induces me TO give my testimony in
its favor. believe IL TO be not only of great val
ue for restoring the health, but preventive Of
diseases peculiar to the spring and summer sea
sons.
EDWIN TILDEN,
Attorney. and General Agent for Massachusetts,
of the Craftsmens Life Assurance Company,
No. 40 Sears Building, Boston, Mass.
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LIST OF GIFTS.
p 17s Cash Gifts, amounting to.......sl, 600, ,Oo
NUMBER OF TICKETS, 100000.

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NUMBER OF TICKETS, 100000
PRICE OF TICKETS.
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1000
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The Montpelier Humane Association, char
tered by the Legislature of Virginia and the
Circuit Court Of Orange CO., proposes by grand
Gift Concert to-establish aud endow a Home for
the Old, Infirm, and Destitute Ladies Of Virgin
ia, at Montpelier, the former residence Of Presi-
dent James Madison.
Cows. OFFICE. RIcHMoND, July 3, 1874.
1t affords me pleasure to say that am well
acquainted with large majority Of the officers
of the Montpelier Female Humane Association,
who reside in the vicinity of my home, and
attest their intelligence and their worth and
high reputation gentlemn, aswell as the
public confidence, influence and substantial
means literally represented among them.
JAMES l.. KKMPER, Gov. Virginia.
ALExANDRIA, Va, July s. 1874 Z"
/ commend them as gents Of honor and integrity
and fully entitled to the confidence Of the pub
lie.
II. w. Hughes, u. S. Judge East'n Dist. Of Va.
Further references by permission: His Excel
lency Gilbert &. Walker, Ex-Governor of Va,
Hon Robert L. Withers, Leut-Gov. Of Va and
U. S. Senator elect; Senators and Members Of
Congress from Va.
Remittances for tickets may be made by ex-
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For full particulars, testimonials, &c, send for
circular. Address
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Pres't. NJ. +. II. A, Alexandria, Va.
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The father of Charlie Ross now offers
$5 900 for the boy and promises to ask
no question.
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SHORT POSTPONEMENT - DAY
FIXED-FULL DISTRIBUTION.

FIRST GRAND GIFT CONCERT
Montpelier Female Humane Asso-
citation,
AT ALEXANDRIA, VA.
MARCH %, 1874.
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The New York WEEKLY WITNESS,
giving News Markets, Stories, Pictures, and
Live Editorials at 81. 20 year Postage paid, has
reached $4,000 circulation in three years.
Send for free sample copy.
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Marvellous Effect.


Mr.. A. r. Stevens: Dear Sir-I have used the
gaeat Blood Remedy, NEGETIFE, and feel IL q
duty TO acknowledge the great benehttt has done
me. In the Spring Of the yeaa 1862, was sick
from general debility caused by overwork, want
of sleep and proper rest l was very weak and
much emaciated. tried many remedies with
out receiving any benefit from any of them, un-
til was persuaded to try VEGETfNE. Before
had taken this one week, my impoyed condition
gave me renewed hope and courage. lcontinued
to take Il every day gaining more strength, until
was completely restored 10 helath The effect
Of this remedy in case Of general debility, is In
deed marvellous.
ELIzABETn A. FOLEY,
May sd, 1871. 2l Webster ST., Charlest0wn IA, Mass
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SsDsYCHOMANCY, or SOUL CHARMING. ="
III How either sex may faseinAte and gain
the love and affections Of any person they
choose instantly. This simple. mental acquire
ment all can possess, free by mail, for rs cents
toqether with a marriage guide. Egyptian Or
acie, Dreams, Hints 10 Ladies. Wedding Night
a. irs sc. A queer book. Address
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A Perfect Cure.

CHARLEsTows JUNE II, 1861
Mr. II. II. STEVENS: Dear sir--This Is TO certify
that VEGETENE made a perfect cure of me when
consumption, and said could not survive many
days.
Mrs. LEDsTIoN, IS Cook Street.
The facts stated by Mrs. Ledston, are person.
ally known by me, and they are true.
A. ID. HAYNRs.
VEGETINE Is LOLD BY ALL
DRUGGISTS,