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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
Traded Like a White Man.
memphis Appeal


Scene in Broad street clothing store,
time IL o'clock yesterday morning. En-
ter cOlered troop from the rural regions.
Storekeeper walks hurriedly up to troop
and says:
"Well, my colored friend, the Civil
Rights bill has passed, and am compell-
ed to sell you anything you want, just
the same as to white man."
Colored troop (pompously)-"1 know
dat"
"Well, now just say what you want.
have to sell it to you, although l don't
care to do So"
81 don't want muffin"
"Now Just look around the store, and
ifthere is anything you want to buy, say
so. I'll have to sell it to you, as I am
not able to pay the $500 fine. If you
haven't got money enough to yay for
what you want I'll have to lend it to you
though hope you don't want much, as
I haven't got but little"
whats de price o. dem pauts?" point
ing to pair of cordurovs.
"Seven dollars" Worth about So. }
az aint got but S."
"Well, I'll have to lend you the other
s."
And so the trade was consummated
The darkey took the pants, paid S5, bor-
rowed 81, paid that, and went off, ow-
ing the store-keeper 50 borrowed money,
with the firm convection that he had
made "dat white man" sell him pair oi
pants and lend him 50 to boot.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
Terrific Explosion At Austin Pow
der Mills.

CLEVELAND, March, 16.-The Austin
Powder Company's mills, located near
the canal, about five miles south of this
city, blew up this afternoon with ser
les of terrific explosions. The works,
which were composed of ten or twelve
buildings, were completely demolished
large fragments of timber and heavy
machinery being thrown a considerable
distance. There were eight or ten men
at work in and about the mills at the
times of the explosion, three of whom
were killed, the rest escaping with few
slight bruises. The names of the killed
IRE Fred. Putnam, age thirty three,
leaves a wife and two children; David
Lamson, aged forty, leaves a wife and
four children; August Ratcliff, aged
fortv-fve, unmarried. The two maga-
zines. in which are stored large qnan-
.ity of powder, and situated abont forty
and sixty rods from the nearest exploded
mills, did not explode, although the
roof and wall of the nearest were badly
torn by the concnssion.
The loss to the Powder Company car
not now be estimated, but will be heavy
The buildings, with the exception of the
engine house, were of little value. The
extent of the damage to the machinery
is not known. The cause of the explo.
sion will probably never be known, as
the man at the coming mill, where the
first explosion occurred, was killed. In
the immediate neighborhood of the ex-
plosion houses were badly damaged,
windows being broken and plastering
torn off.
In the city the widest excitement
prevailed, many thinking the detona.
tions were caused by an earthquake
Houses rocked and shook, people rushed
into the streets, horses became frighten-
ed, adding to the alarm by their plung-
ing. Much damage to windows was
done, the large plate glass fronts in
Ryder's photograph rooms, Baldwin's
dry goods store; new City Halls, Cush-
ing's Block, Standard Block, and sever
al other places, being shattered. The
damage in the city is estimated at from
$25, 900 to $4,000.
An explosion occurred at these pow
der mills three years ago. But little
damage was done to the property, except
that owned by the powder company.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

Speaking of the new postal law
now in force, and which doubles the
rates on transient newspapers-that
is newspapers not sent by publish
ers-and merchandise, the Pitts
burgh Telegraph says: There is
considerable excitement growing
out of the enforcement of the pro-
vision of the new law doubling the
postage on transient newspapers and
merchandise. It is said nothing
was known of the amendment till
it had passed. The outspoken ex-
preston of the public press against
the increase of the price of postage
so as to help the express companies
was so decided that there is no doubt
but the job was hurried secretly
through Congress, and this imposi-
ton on the people thus secured. An
increase of one hundred per cent.
on postage by surreptitious bill is
of itself sufficient to excite suspi-
cion. It would be well to investi-
gate the question, says the Wash
ington Chronicle, and ascertain Just
who were responsible for the inser-
ton of the clause.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
THE NEW ELDORADO.
Return of -Four More of the Sioux
City Party from the Black Hills
Specimens Ofthe Gold Dust
A Glowing Prospect
Adventures Flock
ing to Cheyenne.

CHEYENNE W. T., March 13.-Four
more Of the Black Hills miners, named
Farren, Mcdonald, Williams and
Thomas, arrived at Fort Laramie to-
day. They have walked from the stock
ade, eight miles from Harvey's Peak, in
seven days. They bring fine specimens
of gold dust with them. Farren has
some that he washed out of two pans of
dirt Just below the surface, showing
grass roots in with the dust, and says,
they have only dug down to the bed
rock in one place. Water is SO plenti-
full that part OF the time they worked
waist deep in it. He thinks that with
pumps and hydraulics they can make
one hundred dollars day to the man.
He also brings with him specimens of
silver, that old miners state will yield
two thousand dollars to the ton, and say
it is the purest they ever saw. He will
bring it here TO be assayed. He has fine
specimens of plumbago, lead and cop
per, and says there is more gypsum in
the IlIl4S tIilil IdAlIOduS NOhAd
haul away in fifty years. He claims,
also, that there are tin mines there.
A party leaves for Cheyenne to-mor-
row. Their object is to get provisions,
machinery, tools, and recruit their num-
bers as much as possible, after which
they will return from here, which they
say is the only practicable route, it being
so much nearer than Sioux City, and
good roads. They report no trouble in
crossing streams or in finding good water
and camping ground every night. They
say they can walk the distance easily in
/ FIVE days.
| Railroads have reduced the fare one
third from Chicago to Cheyenne to
/ parties going to the Black Hills. Many
strangers are now here who it is supposed
are bound for the new Eldorado, not
with standing the orders from the Gov
ernment prohibiting them from going.
Parties just in from the Indian agen-
cies state that the Indians are anxious to
sell the Government their right to the
Black Hills country, but don't propose
to give it up without pay.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

It is pretty evident that the Ma
tional ''problem" to be solved in
the near future, relates to the Black
Hills. Whether the Government
shall be able to preserve these Hills
for their rightful owners, the In
dams, from the picks, and spades,
and drills and ''blasts" of the i'm
mense numbers of white men in
various parts of the country now
defantly, apparently, fitting out
to invade them, is question which
begins to assume some of the aspects
of seriousness. It is said that the
President has announced his inten-
ton to break up all expeditions of
white men attempting TO reach chat
country, and to maintain the treaty
made with the Indians regarding it,
if it takes the entire army of the
Government to do it. General
Sherman was recently interviewed
concerning the matter, and said, in
substance, that
Expeditions would be prevent
ed from entering that region, or if
any got in, they would be driven
out.
AS soon as the weather will per-
nit, troops will be put in the field
with instructions to prevent excur-
sions into the Sioux reservation, and
these instructions will be carried out
by force of arms if need be. The
integrity of the treaty with the
Sioux will be maintained at all haz-
ards. The General said frontier
people complain of Indian raids,
yet in this case do not seem to see
the injustice of their own act, which
is modelled after the Indian mode of
acquiring property. If necessary,
troops will be sent to bring out the
party now in the Hills"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
agents.

A doctors wife attempted to move
him by her tears. "Ahl" said he, clears
are useless. / have analyzed them. They
contain little phosphate of lime, some
chlorate of sodium, and water"
~. Gray-Pack with my box five
dozen quills." There is nothing remark
able about this sentence; only that it is
nearly as short as one can be construct
ed, aud yet contain all the letters of the
alphabet.
81 swear" said gentleman to his
mistress, "you are very handsome. +"
"Poohp' said the lady, $50 you would
say if you did not think So" And so
you would Think" answered he, though
1 should not say So"
DIR. Holmes, in the "Autocart of the
Breakfast Table," says, ''Our brains are
seventy year clocks. The Angel of Life
winds them up once for all, then closes
the case and gives the key into the hand
of the Angel of the Resurrection"
COHlC iEdNGleTS were Il
in South America While the party
were within, Investigating the gloomy
interior there was noticed an old negro
standing outside; and he was asked.
"Say, uncle why don't you go IMP" "Ah,
de heben help us" said he; al see
trouble on de top of the earph, and don't
want to go into dat hole searchin arter
misery"
Smythe was telling some friends about
a wonderful parrot, hanging in cage in
the door of store on State street.
"Why," said he, "that parrot cries stop
thief so naturally that every time hear
it always stop. Now, hang it, what
are you all laughing about?"
"Why did you pass yesterday with
out looking at me?" said a beautiful
woman to Talley-and. Because, mad
am, if had looked l could not have
passed"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

There are strong suspicious that
money was used upon certain mem
hers of the Ohio Legislature to Sc
cure the passage of the bill under
which the people of Wood county
voted upon the question of county
seat removal; and a strenuous effort
has been made to investigate the
matter, but thus far without success
the "other side" being sufficiently
strong, it is said, to prevent any
steps which would likely lead to a
tair and thorough investigation
The Cincinnati Commercial thus
bluntly alludes to the case:
e'There is an evident purpose to
stife investigation. The fact is,
money was used. Cash in hand ap-
peared. The testimony that must
come out if the investigation IS push
ed, would smash some rascals. That
which is to come, if the committee
take testimony, is well known In
Columbus. The point is that one
member of the Legislature, having
money to use in this Courthouse
Job, made an offer of 500 to anoth-
er member for his vote, and missed
his man, or mistook his size, and
the fear is that if this little peniten-
tiarv offense should be displayed be-
fore the public gaze, large amount
of valuable information that has
been held in close custody would es-
came
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

The speling-match mania now so
prevalent in all sections of the coun-
try, owes its origin, likely, to the
sharp practice of those houses which
make a business of printing die
tionaries and spelling-books, and to
the firms which sell them. But it
is evident that the mania will not
alone benefit these persons, but its
wholesome results will be general,
and in proportion to the degree in
which the people of various locali-
ties where it is raging, have "got
it." It is a notorious fact, the
American people, generally are dis
gracefully ''bad spoilers" " and any
thing tending to improve them in
photography should be encouraged.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
Settlement of the YirginiHs Ques-
tiOn.
WAsHIxGrox. D. G.. March Is. 1875.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March Is, 1875.
The President will transmit TO the
Senate to-day, in compliance with the
resolution passed in Executive session,
copies of all correspondence with the
Spanish Government in relation to the
settlement of the Virginius affair. This
will be accompanied with a letter re-
questing that secrecy be removed, and
the documents and correspondence be
made public. The documents show that
Spain yielded in full 10 the demand fer
indemnity made by Secretary Fish on
account of the murder of a number of
the officers and crew of the Virginius
who were American citizens, and that
Mr.. Fish acted in these negotiations in a
manner which entities him 10 great cred
it, and which undou ubtedly will be ac-
corded him. The British Government,
in making its demand for indemnity for
British subjects taken from the Virgin
ius and murdered, fixed the sum at five
hundred pounds for each white man and
three hundred pounds for each colored
man, the sum total amounting TO seven
thousand seven hundred pounds. there
being ten white men and nine negroes
slain. After much negotiation Spain
agreed to pay six thousand seven hun
dred pounds, one thousand less than
had been demanded, with the stipulation
that if any of the families or heirs OF
persons slain did not make claim to the
money, the amount they would be enti-
tied to should be returned TO the Spanish
Government. This WAS accepted by
Great Britain. In the case of the United
States, Secretary Fish made a claim on
the basis of twenty-five hundred dollars
for each of the crew, without regard to
color, and large sum for each officer
slain, without specifying the particular
sum. This demand was pressed and ad-
hered to strenuously until the Spanish
Government yielded. or consented &c
pay eight thousand dollars in gold un.
conditionallv, the money to be distribut
ed by the President without any ac
counta bilitv to Spain for the sum moi
| claimed, as in the case of Great Britain
1t will be seen that Secretary Fish obtain
ed greater concessions than did Grea
| Britain, and managed the delicate affail
in a masterly manner. The full CORES
pondence will probably be made public
tomorrow. but the above is an accurate
abstrs ct of the facts set forth in the doc
| uments.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
Six Men Drowned by the Capsizing
Of a Skiff.

HUNTINGTON, w. VA, March 14-At
Cotton Hill, West Virginia, this morn
ing, while Peter King, Buck Mcclure
and 6. B. Hazlet, of that place; John
Thackery, of Urbana, Ohio, and Hugh
Swope, of Union County, Ohio, were in
skiff riding on New River, the boat,
owing to the very rough water, became
unmanageable and was upset, drowning
the six men. All were under it. When
it turned over again only two men were
seen clinging to it. Itcontinued to turn
one man giving out after floating a mile
and the other man a few minutes after
ward. Neither the boat nor the bodies
of the men have as yet been recovered.
Several persons have met their deaths
the same way at that place within the
past few months.
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The Mountain Meadow Massacre.

The judicial investigation of the
Mountain Meadow massacre will begin
on the 4th day of April, in the Second
District Court of Utah, Jacob S. Bore
man, one of the Associate Justices, pre-
siding. The proceedings were com
menced with view to trial in the Court
of Chief Justice McKear, but he has
shown such extra zeal in prosecuting
the Mormons. that it has been thought
advisable to take the case to the Court
whose sessions are held some three hun
dred miles.south of Salt Lake City. The
massacre of the Mountain Meadow emf
grants took place in 1857, eighteen years
ago. The Mormons denied participa-
tion in it, or knowledge of it, and charg-
ed it upon the Indians. On the olher
hand, they were accused with planning
this scheme of wholesale destruction and
plunder, and 1t is said that there are
witnesses yet living who, when the case
comes up for trial, will disclose the Sc
crets which Brigham Young and his con-
federates have endeavorvd to conceal
1t is case of very great Importance
not only as it will affect the lives of the
defendants, but Mormonism itself
Should it be clearly established that the
infamous massacre was not only con-
trived by the dignitaries of the Church
but carried into execution by their or
ders, it will have moral effect upon
the cause of the Latter Day Saints more
damaging now than it could have had
then; and should the crime be brought
home to Brigham and his confederates
as is an expectation it will be, there is
possibility that the gallows will be the
ladder from which few of the patri
archs will step up to greet the Propher
Joseph on the other side of Jordan
sI
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

Mary f. AbOrns, was advertised by her
husband in San Jose, California, as hav.
ing left hIs bed and board without just
cause. and so forth. Mrs. Aborns re
torted in card, in which she said that
she had been married ten years, and in
that time had cooked about ten thousand
meals, spent fifteen thousand hours ov-
er hot stove, borne six children, milk
ed COWS over ten thousand times, and
performed other housewifely duties in
proportion. She adds: 81 have drawn
the picture very mildly. l have made
allowances for my sickness, when
have had help, something after the
way that farmer would hire horse
if his own was sick and unable TO work
! had nothing when | went there, and
nothing at the end of those ten years OF
servitude."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
Damages For Negligence.

The old question of negligence, in a
new form, has just been decided again
in an interesting suit by one Hodge,
fireman of an East Tennessee railroad,
against the road at Knoxville, in that
State. Hodge was oiling the engine
while it was in rapid motion, in Janua-
ry, 1874, and slipped and fell on the
track, so that the engine cut off his
right arm. The evidence showed the
necessity of the oiling operation at the
time of the accident, and the plaintiff
insisted that the Company should have
adopted, according to law, the improved
methods of oiling, which were free from
danger. The defendant, on the other
hand, urged that the danger was Of a
kind plain to the plaintiff, and that he
contracted to run the risks incident to
the place he held. This plausible sug-
gestion was Gisregarded BY the jury, and
a verdict of Sc, 200 given for the plaint-
iff. This heavy verdict, under the cir
cumstances, shows determination on
the part of the public to put in practical
force the opinion long since reached,
that failure of public carriers to pro-
vide against chances of accidents is neg
ligence, and that they should be punish
ed for their neglect.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

By the strictest DEGREES, Belgium and
Germany have disallowed the importa-
ton of American Irish potatoes into
their domains The shutting down on
us in that unfair style might easily be
accounted for in SO far as the Berlin de-
crees go, for an Irish potato must neces-
sarily inclose within itself Catholicism,
perhaps the germ of an infallible Pope;
but as regards Belgium, the move pas
seth comprehension as those kind of po-
tatoes are just what they grow there and
want The pretext that all our potatoes
have the epizootic meningitis is about as
solid as to say they have the aurora
borealis in their cells. American has
been illuminated long enough as being
the source of unheard of poisoning dis
eases; it would be sensible for these
powers not to be so squeamish, to a1nul
the DEGREES and eat the potatoes-a day
may come when they may be thankful
to get any kind of food. If veto had
been laid on the introduction into those
countries of Boss Shepherd, Jim Casey
and the Mullett of the day, there could
have been no objection from any Amer
ican--except President Grant, and, per-
haps, the parties Immediately concerned
the only kind of meningitis the country
is suffering from. Our potatoes are all
right, and the farmers who raise them,
too TCincinnati Commercial.
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Terrible Tragedy in Court.

ST. LOUIS, March 15.-On the 23d Of
September last, while several boys were
playing on the street, near the corner of
Christy avenue and Seventeenth street, a
little son of Robert NJ Boatright was
killed by brick supposed to have been
thrown by boy named Charles Wood
son. This afternoon while Woodson
was being tried in the criminal Court,
and while the counsel we're arguing a
legal point, another son of Mr.. Boat
right, about sixteen years old, stepped
mp to Woodson and said: "You killed
my borther, / will kill you," and plung-
ed butcher knife into his abdomen to
the handle. Woodson feel to the floor
his bowels protruding out in a terrible
manner. The wound is mortal. Young
Boatright was Immediately seized by a
Deputy Marshal and placed in Jail
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
ORlTTARK.
LINN II, Nf1rrs.ii.. Tr.arrc-

Martha Kishler was born in Lancas
ter county, Pa, in the year 1890. At
the age Of eight or nine her father NOV
ed to Dauphin county, in the vicinity Of
Harrisburg, where the family lived till
the deceased arrive at the age of sixteen.
In the Spring of 1906, sixty eight years
ago, the family removed TO the then
wilds of Ohio, and landed iL Fairfield
county, in the vicinity of Lancaster
which was then a village Of only a few log
houses. In the Spring following the
family moved into the territory now
comprising Perry county, where her
father entered land and opened a home.
In this county she resided for period
of 53 years. 1t was her lot TO witness the
progress of the county as well as the
State, from the dense wilderness, inhab-
tied by only wild men and wild beasts,
to the blooming gardens and fruitful
fields of later years,
At the time she emigrated to this State
Ohio had population Of only about 49,
600 souls. She lived to see the population
increased to nearly 5000 900, with a cor
responding progress in the arts, sciences,
industrial pursuits, and indeed in all the
elements that tend to make a State great
and prosperous.
She entered twice into the marriage re-
lation, the first time, in 1910, with Daniel
Shearer. and the second, in 1927, with
John Kishler, the former diving in 1920,
and the latter in 1875. These unions
were blessed with nine children, four of
whom preceded the mother to the heaven
ly land
Two of her children having moved 10
Marysville in the Fall of 1858, the next
year she followed them and made her
home principally here since that time
In early life she gave her hand to the
church-the Lutheran branch of the
Christian family-and her heart to God.
During all her trials and struggles in
early life, incident to the wilderness in
which her lot was cast; amid all the
sorrows accompanying the loss of those
near and dear to her, her faith in the,
Lord and Savior never grew faint; but
when her days and years were the gloom
miest and her burdens hardest to bear,
her uncomplaining spirit was ever ready
to say, "Thy will, o Lord, not mine, be
done.
Having passed through a struggling
and eventfnl life, she expired peacefully
on the morning of the 9th of March, IS-
| rs, at quarter before o'clock, at the ripe
old age of S4 years, 3 months and Is
days, and in the sustaining faith of a
glorious resurrection.
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AS an organization the Grangers have
sprung more quickly into public notice
than any ever known before. There is
good reason for this. This country re-
lies for prosperity on its agriculturists
Our immense territory must first be set
tied by them. Homely as it may sound
plowed ground is the harbinger of civ
ilization. Without it, manufactures
would be at a stand still. Cities could
never be; for, without agriculture, an
embryo could not even be formed. In
deed, the most superficial can trace all
our progress as a country to the hus-
bandman-to him who tills the soil. Is
there then cause for wonderment when
these men band themselves into a union
as a class, that the whole world listens?
Let US give them that attention they
deserve, that the whole country may be
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