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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-02-27

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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
General Indian Raid in Wyoming.


FoRI LARAMIE, Wy, February 10
A report came in at $50 last evening by
courier from the Peak ssain that about
ten miles from the mill Lieutenant Rob
inson and Corporal Coleman were sur
rounded by about forty Indians. \
private named Noles was near by, and
SAYS the last seen of Robinson IVES that
he was leaning forward in the saddle,
and the Indians very close, firing at
him. Robinson and the corporal raa
toward the mill; Noles ran toward the
train, which was about FIVE miles nnTth
of where the attack was made. His
horse was shot and killed, he running
the remainder of the distance OF the
train under fire of the Indians. When
in sight of the train the Indians left
him. Castines left the mill about two
hours after Robinson left there, which
was an hour after the train had left. He
saw nothing of Robinson, Coleman, or
the Indians. Captain Eagan was order
ed out Immediately, with two compan
les of cavalry, but nothing has yet been
heard from HIM. The train arrived
here 2 p. NJ. to-day. The Indians made
raid on rancho, yesterday, nine miles
from here, took one horse, and fired on
herder. 1t is expected that general
raid has been made on the Laramie.
Colonel Bullock arrived at Fetterman
yesterday. He says he saw large par
ty of indians at the upper crossing of
Horseshoe, singing and dancing what
seemed to be a scalp dance.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
Indian Troubles in Nebraska.

OMAHA, NEB., February l0.-The ex-
element over the Indian news is becom-
ing very great. There is no doubt but
that, in consequence of the failure of
agents to prodide for them, the Indians
are leaving their reservations for the
purpose of providing themselves at the
expense of settlers, herders and ranch
men. The following = official, received
to-day by General RuggIes, from the
commandant at Sidney, Nebraska:
Wheeler & Metchant, reliable ranch
men, state that a party of Indians drove
them six miles last night They aban-
doned their herd and came to Sidney.
Their rancho is near Courthouse Rock.
Am l authorized to send cavalry to drive
these Indians across the Platte. No
news from Morton's party"
The commanding officer, Sidney, was
directed by telegraph to send ont all his
available cavalry to Lawren's Fork, as
as far as Reddington's rancho General
Reynolds, commanding at Fort D. A.
Russell, has been instructed by tele-
graph to send ont two cavalry compan-
les, under reliable officers, to the same
place; thence to thoroughly scout the
country and drive the raiding bands
within reach north of Platte River; to
take six days cooked rations and sixty
rounds of ammunition for each man.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
The 'sTribune" Mystery-To Whom
it NAV Concern.

The New York Tribune recently an
nounced that it was in possession of
facts showing the most gigantic frauds,
and villainies concocted at Washington
by men in high positions under the Cow
ernment, which, when made known,
would astound the whole country. A
careful inquiry developed the fact, that
the startling information was a hoax,
and the Tribune has this to say about it:
A number of documents duplicating
certain high officials in most disgraceful
practices were laid before US last Friday.
They had previously been submitted to
friends in. other cities, who made no
doubt of their authenticity and had al
ready communicated with US on the
subject. Experts to whom We submit
ted them as soon as they came TO our
hands declared after careful examina-
ton and re-examination that they were
unquestionably genuine. They agreed
with the general drift of rumors and
suspicious which had long been current
at the capital; they disclose perfect
familiarity with some facts of recent
political history not very we'll known,
and shameful as their story was, it
scarcely seemed intrinsically improba-
BILE. In view of the fact that several
persons in public life knew of their be-
ing laid before US We were unwilling to
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intervening before our next issue, in the
position of suppressing needed dis
closure. On the other hand, certain
trifing circumstances had aroused our
suspicious, and We were equally unwill-
ing to give currency to these documents
while a single chance remained that
they might be false. A thorough and
patient investigation, prosecuted in New
York and elsewhere, has shown that
some of the papers are the WORK of a
bold and remarkably accomplished
forger. Others, bearing on the same
general subject, we know to be genLine;
but the falsity of a part, for the present,
at least, discredits the Interpretation of
the whole. The forgeries were not man
ufactured for money; although in their
novel and ingenious features they were
very like certain recent forgeries by
which prominent business men have
been mulcted; and we can only regard
them as the work of an INSCRIPTIONS
political faction which has taken into
its service one of the most expert and
wary rascals outside of the State Prison. |
It is a relief to know that we are
spared the additional disgrace in which |
these fictitious disclosures would have |
involved the country; but it is sad
commentary on the condition of official
morality, that forger can manufacture
scandalous documents such as were laid |
before us, without overstepping the
bounds of probability, or without
shocking the belief of those highly rep |
utable political opponents of our own
from whom came to us the first assur-
ances of belief in their authenticity.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
THE CENTENNIAL BUILDING.
The General Plan as Sketched by a
Woman.

1t is proposed to erect building COW
ering thirty acres, and yet so devised
that more than half of it is visible from
the centre at once-an effect made evil
dent to the eye BY apink and white CAM
brio map wherein the lobster-like pink
projections represent the visable area
outside this vast building is grea; par
allellogram; inside it is broken up.into
innumerable arches joining on very
hand in immense pillars sixty feet
square, and such is the arrangen: m of
the roof, in small domes, that c.2eil of
these pillars encloses an open space
reaching up to the sky itself, bright with
grass and flowers and musical fountains.
Yet the area is SO immense that these
enclosed courts appear only like ofS'ina-
ry pillars. The general plan is of aisles
radiating from an eliptical centre, cross
ed by other aisles encircIing the ~ame
centre.
The outside of the whole bu .lding
measures 1876 feet, the open space in
side, 1,776 feet. Outside, there are
domes and cupolas, projections ami en-
brasures, and, crowning all, dome of
such singular construction tina; you
forget it is 500 feet high, and notice on
ly that, instead of following the ordi-
nary plan of domes and settling iown
upon the building with an immense
base too suggestive of solidity to hint
of grace, this one is contracted ~ the
bottom, a sort of an irregularly shaped
octagonal globe resting upon one of its
sides and supported by pillows which
seem to bind it to the building beneath.
You think of solidifed balloon, and
then you think it is much prettier than
that would be. You are thankful for
the variety, at least; you are speedily in
love with this variation, and You are
amazed to be told that the Capital dome
might mount upon itself and still peer
upward unavailingly to the crown of this
aspiring summit.
You may easily exhaust one after an
other the whole round of favorable ad-
jectives in describing this building, and
find the last circumscribed and ursatis-
factory. 1t is triumphant combination
of magniicence and practically as unex-
pected as it is unsatisfactory. The won
der of it lies in the fact that it is a tenn
porary building; that an architectural
pile which is the growth of ages past
or the pet of future centuries should be
all that art and money can combine to
make it is no great marvel That this
structure3 neither equals nor resembles
the world-famous and time-defying ar
chitectural standards is an evidence of
its fitness to its purpose; moreover, it is
American in every sense, and it deserves
the commendation of the people of
America. DIR. William Carpenter has
somewhere called common sense the |
resultant of the whole previous action |
of our minds. Perhaps this building
might be called solidifed American COM
mon sense-the resultant of all the va
riety of inside force and outside circum-
stance that for hundred years has /
moulded our country into what ii is
Cor. Springfield Republican.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
Bismarck and France.

The Pal Mall Gazette, in scanning the
political horizon of France and Ger
many, says: Bismarck has given many
reasons for suspecting that he is bent
upon a policy of humiliation and dis
turbance in his relations with France.
Acute and far-seeing as he is, even he
had no conception that within few
years, few months, Franco, thoroughly
conquered, exhausted, burdened with a
debt of almost fabulous weight, and
given up to political discord, could pre-
sent such a front as now she does; and
his strong, coarse mind may be tempted
to prove from time to time that, all APP
pearances and all promise notwithstand-
ing, Germany Is and means to remain
her master. Long ago we expressed an
opinion. not uncommon now, that Ger
many had fully resolved on one thing
never to allow France to become strong
again. Nobody doubts that France will
take her revenge when and if she can; it
seems to us even more certain that Ger
many will never allow her the means
and the opportunity. And manifestly,
considering the broken and factious
state of the conquered country, it may
not be difficult, by beginning early, to
use such diplomatic" efforts as will
perpetuate internal confusion and dis
tress, and SO favor the German designs
very much. Ministers of the Bismarck
and Gortschakof stamp are never at a
loss for an irritant, and can always find
a sufficiently fair excuse for a threat;
and we fancy that France is doomed to
a long course of such treatment. And
if it be not overdone it will probably
prove successful; especially if the ag-
gressive party really means to take no
denial of his purpose, but to resort to
force whenever Representation" lose
their virtue. But German Minister
may easily miscalculate what a people
like the French can endure, and NAV
suddenly find them at bay. Even that,
however, may suit the German policy
perfectly we'll. 1t has become an ac-
cepted opinion throughout Germany
that the Freheh will have to be beaten
once more, and for that purpose the day
come too soon.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
Great Expectations.

William T. Lawrence, of lansing
burg, N. Y, and others of kin are the
last Americans with great expectations
from vast estates in England. The sum
that has been awaiting their appearance
this century and half now amounts to
a cool half-bIllion of dollars, and was
left by Lord Efingham, through whose
wife it was transmitted to the Law
rences. The present claimants trace
their ancestry back to Effngham's wife
through Jonathan Lawrence, formerly
of Walpole in this State, whose parents
came from England in 1713. D. B.
Carver, of Albany, a successful lawyer
and one of the most skilful antiouar-
ians of the day, has been retained by
some of the heirs, and has carefully
compiled and traced the pedigree from
the year 1866 in England, and through
the line of Lawrence in America, and
has the evidence and facts on which to
lay his claim in England. He associa-
ted with him George Day, of Troy, N.
T., and they have the assistance and
counsel of John Day, of Montreal,
brother to George Day, and counsel to
the Queen, a gentleman, necessarily
from his position, of great legal ability,
and who has accurate knowledge of the
records of England relating to the case.
The evidence is considered perfect, and
The Lawrences are gleefully rubbing
their hands in anticipation of speedily |
dividing these heaped-up ancestral mill
ions.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13

81 was sure they would refuse" said a
gentleman who was for years in our di-
plomatic service, when he saw the dis
patch announcing that the Russian Gov
ernment had refused to take any
part in our Centennial Exposition.
"Why," said he, "look what we ask of
these monarchical Governments of
Europe. We ask them to join US in
celebrating principles which they hate
and fear worse than they do the devil.
They are to come here to celebrate the
most successful popular revolution in
the worlds history, the establishment of
democratic politics, the triumph of re-
publicanism over monarchy. Only
think how these things are detestcd by
European royalty and aristocracy, and
then think that we have invited their
Governments to unite with us in glori-
flying them, and holding a general YAM
kee jamboree in honor of them! / tell
you, they won't do it, What satire it
would be on themselves and their polit-
lSdA syStehS. w nat nanQle IL would
give to their pestiferous agitasors.
What time it would raise among their
subjects. We ask them to come over
here and behold the success of popular
government. Our politicians seem in |
capable of understanding how this sort
of thing looks to them. Every King and |
Kaiser among them is troubled or his
throne now, and we invite them to ccle-
brate the abolition of thrones and |
crowns. 1t is said that Bismarck has
promised that the German Govern raent
will take part in our Centennial Fourth |
of July Independence glorifcation; but
must see his letter before believing it.
We ask the British Government to cele-
brate the democratic triumph by which
It was humiliated. I don't believe the
European Monarchical Governments
will take part in our celebration at all.
1t would be dangerous for them to do
It." We shall know, in course of time.
what ground there is for such opinions
Is these
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
Location Of State Fair Southern
Ohio Fair Proposed.

DAYTON, February 10.-The c..atest
for the location of the State Fair to: the
next Five years is narrowed dow be-
tween Columbus and Dayton. The Ag-
ricultural Association of this county
have notified the State Board that they
will furnish the grounds with suitable
buildings for the State Fair for the des-
ignated time, and tomorrow the cxecu-
tive officers of the State Board will visit
this city to inspect the grounds, and de-
termine upon the advantage of holding
the Fair here. Twenty five thousand
dollars, or about that sum, it is said. has
already been raised by private suL>crip-
tions to erect the necessary buildings.
In the meantime the Board of Trade
have been agitating the question nj or
ganizing a Southern Ohio Fair TO be
held here, and now it is proposed that
in the event of failure to secure the
Stase Fair, the subscriptions made for
that purpose shall be transferred to the
District Association. In any event, it
is proposed to hold fair or exposition
of greater proportions than usually Civ
en- by the County Association.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
A Novel Street Railway.

A merchant in Chicago has recently
patented device for street railway,
dependent upon gravity for the motive
power, The railway itself consists Of a
series of Inclined tracks, elevated upon
framework of heavy pillars and tres
ties, upon which the wheels which car
ry the car travel. The central postss
are heavy timbers, twelve inches square,
into which are set the cross .joists which
support the double tracks on each side.
The inner track is set one foot from the
post, and the outer is eighteen inches
from the inner. The tracks are set on
beds, two by fourteen inches, and are
braeed to the trestle work and to each
other. The cars do not run on the
tracks, but set of four wheels with
grooved edges travel on the halfround
rails, and the car is suspended from the
axles of these wheels by wire rope. On
starting at the highest point of the first
section of track the car is hung about
one foot clear of the ground, and as the
sections are one mile long or more, and
the grade is about twenty-five feet to the
mile, it is evident that the car would
strike the ground within very short
distance. To obviate this a large wheel.
five feet in diameter, is placed at the
front end of the car, on the side. This
wheel is turned by spoke, like ships
wheel, and the bold pilot of the car oc-
cupies a little platform where he can
keep lookout for passengers and work
the machine. As the wheel descends
the incline, the operator winds up the
car distance corresponding to the YER
tical fall, by means of his large wheel
and series of pinion wheels which turn
the shaft to which the supporting rope
Is attached. The car is thus kept CON
stantly at the same distance from the
ground at which it started, and the exer-
tion necessary is not great, owing to the
Ilghtness of the car and the leverage
obtained by the gearing. Each car car
ries ten persons, for each of whom seat
is provided with sliding door for each |
seat, and, when they are filed, no more
passengers can be carried. The cars
weigh about 500 pounds each, and cost
from S75 to 500. 1t is thought that the
road will not cost over 50, 900 per mile
where the incline is not over twenty feet
to the mile.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
Boston Wool market.

There is very little OF interest IN the
Wool market this week. There has
been a fair inquiry for fleece Wools,
but manufacturers are holding off, and
only buying lots on which slight conces-
sions are made, unless compelled to do
so otherwise by actual wants. The sales
have not been heavy. owing partly 10 the
smallness of the stocks here Some of
our heavier dealers report that they are
unable to buy in the West, and that hol-
ders are not willing to meet the market
Both manufactures and dealers are ava
ting the result of the February London
sales, which will probably decide what
prices will rule here from March until
may or June. There has been no mate
rial change in prices of domestic fleece
since our last report, double extra and
above Ohio and Pennsylvania bringing
about 55(956 cents, and Michigan extra
52(957 cents.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
NOTICE

Il s HEREBY GIVEN that petition signed by
Il the requisite number of freeholders will be
presented to the Commissioners of Perry county,
Ohio, at their next quarterly session, commence
ing on the first Monday in March, 1874 in New
Lexington, in said county, praying that county
road may be viewed, laid out, and established
according to law; the same to commence at the
termination of the county road now existing
commonly known the New Reading Road
where 1t intersects with the Somerset and New
ark Road in Hopewell township in said county
being in the section line between Section No 28
and Section No. 33 in Township No. II and,Range
No. 16, where said Somerset and Newark road
crosses said section line, between the lands of
George Pherson and Henry Glouse. Thence due
East along the line between said Sections No %
and No. 33. between the lands of Henry CIouse
George Albert, Samuel Cotterman, and Jacob
Snyder on the North, andGeorge Pherson Solo
mon Boyer and Thomas Price on the South; and
thence Tor short distance through the lands OF
said Thomas Price to the point where said sec
ton line intersects with the Somerset road and
there to terminate.
MANY PETITIONERS
January % 1874 41w5
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
In the Constitutional Convention.

In the Constitutional Convention,
yesterday, there was an amendment
proposed to the Legislative Article,
now under consideration in that
body, which provided that Colum-
bus should remain the capital city of
the State until 1876, and no law
changing the location of the Capital
from that place should be valid un-
less submitted to the electors of the
State and ratified by majority at
a general election. The amend
mendment was rejected, but defeated
by very light majority. Although
introduced in a spirit of pleasantly
to relieve the monotony of pro-
tracted debate, the mover of it
touched a subject of Importance.
As the organic law of the State now
stands, Columbus has no guarantee
of the position she now occupies as
Capital city other than that resting
upon the anlmus of Legislatures
rein. Com.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13

There isone act of politeness which,
in some of the European countries, the
poorest peasant never forgets. 1t is the
salutation of the dead. A funeral passing
through the streets of Philadelphia or
London is treated with no more consid-
Grafton than a street car, but in Italy,
every hat would be raised in reverent
salutation as the corpse went by. There
may, perhaps, be very little sincerity in
the feeling which prompts the saluta-
tion, but it is one of those graceful lit
tie actions by which We express sympa-
thy for the bereaved, and acknowledge,
in the presence of death, that touch of
nature which makes us kin.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13

There promises to be general, and
very extensive flight to Europe next
spring and summer of prominent peo-
pie and ultra-fashionables. Some of the
steamship company agents predict that
the exodus will be fully equal to, if
not greater than, last year, when every
body who could afford it went to Vien-
ma. The steamship companies will en-
deavor to accommodate all who want
to cross the Atlantic, and extra steamers
will he run by the Cunard, Inman and
other lines. 1t is understood that two
or three of the companies will raise the
rates Of passage.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13

A FoRG OFTEN NEST EGG.-A peeu-
liar case of forgetfulness and increase of
treasure came up in Lowell, Mass, re-
Gently, at the Lowell institute for earn.
ings. Years ago, a young lady from
Sanford, Me-, came to Lowell, and from
her earnings deposited $175 in this in
stitution. She left the city twenty-one
years ago and returned home, and in
course of time forgot her deposit. Re-
Gently it occurred to her that she might
have some money there, and she wrote
to inquire if there was anything left for
her. Mr.. Canney, the treasurer, report
ed that there was balance there of
S785.95, which will undoubtedly be graf
flying intelligence.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13
81, 900 Highway Robbery.

Special Telegram to the Commercial
CAMBRIDGE. O., February 9.-Jacob
Smith, a stock dealer of this county,
was robbed of four thousand dollars on
Friday night, while on his way from
Washington, this county, TO his home.
Three men attacked him, one holding
his horse while the other two dragged
him off and robbed him.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-13

Jefferson Davis, says the Boston
Transcript, is not so i'll as i'll at ease
1t is noteworthy that Mrs. Davis, whose
attachment for him is such that he has
before now felt called upon to deprive
herself of some of her clothing to shell
ter him, does not accompany him TO
England. j. d. is doomed to drag out
just such a wretched life as Aaron Burr
did on the banks of the Hudson; happy,
indeed, if they have left him, in wife or
child, one faithful breast to fill the place
of his prototypes devoted daughter.