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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12
A LOve-Sick Sailor.

An exciting scene occurred off North
Point yesterday morning as the French
corvette La Volta was leaving for Tahiti.
During the time that the Volta remain
ed in lhe harbor, one of the men, it
seems, utilized his tliberty days" in
lavishing his attentions on a young
French woman residing in this city.
The attachment was reciprocated, and
when the day of parting came it went
hard for both. As the vessel got under
weigh, the love-stricken sailor, with a
bound, cleared the bulwarks and headed
boldly for the shore. The corvette was
instantly stopped, a boat lowered and
manned, and his capture speedily effect.
ed. But he was no sooner placed on
deck than he sprang overheard again,
only to be captured in the same manner
as before. Among the witnesses of his
plucky attempt to escape who stood on
the dock at North Point, was the object
of his devotion. Her face was the very
picture of despair whsn she saw her
lover captured the second time.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12
Admirable Surgery in Wood.

Most persons have probably heard of
the surgical process known bv the name
of the galyano-canstic operation or some
such term. BY it tumors. polpi and
other objectionable protuherances are re-
moved from the person in very easy
and yet effectnal wav. The protuher-
ance to he removed is bound with a thin
wire of platinum, which is placed be-
tween the poles of a powerful galvanic
battery and heated to incandescence.
Tins by combination of binding and
burning, the object is removed. We
mention this admirable operation in or
der to state that substantially the same
process has been recently applied with
brilliant success to the telling of the
thickest trees, and even to the dividing
of trees into boards. The hot platinum
wire put in rapid motion is said to pen
citrate and divide the hardest timber,
even as a silk thread may be made to
divide roll of Goshen butter. Boards
can be thus sawed so thin as to be quite
or almost translucent, while the wire
can be made to follow curves with much
greater accuracy than the saw. Besides
there is no waste of timber in the pro.
cess, and the rapidity of its action is an.
other recommendations Pittsburgh
Telegraph.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12
Alarming Illness OF Vice President
Wilson,

WAsHTSGros, Nov. 10.-The illness
of Vice President Wilson has been the
principal topic Of conversation here to-
day. 1t appears that for some days Mr..
Wilson has been suffering from derange-
ment of the bowels, which caused great
pain in the chest and back. The hot
bath, which he thought would relieve
him, had the contrary effect. The pains
increased at once, and became So intense
that, while his attendants are inclined
to be very reticent, there is reason TO be-
lieve he was for some time quite insen-
sible. The case appeared for a while to
be exceedingly grave. but the active ex-
ertions of the physicians brought about
such relief that no serIous apprehen-
sions are entertained at present. DIR.
Baxter, who is in charge of the case,
said this evening, that while an attack
of this nature TO any man of Mr.. Will
sons age can never be esteemed a tri-
fling matter, vet there was no reason to
think that this case wonld resnit serions-
ly. At the present writing Mr.. Wilson
is resting easy, and confidence is ex-
pressed that in a very short time he will
be able to be about.
[Later.l
Nov. II The very latest report as to
the Vice Presidents condition ia a state
ment from DR. Baxter, that, while he
does not expect him to pass perfectlv
easy night, he Ia not in the least alarmed
as to the ultimate result, as all the symp,
| toms are most favorable
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12

The latest dodge; and one of the
sharpest sort, has been attempted upon
several sporting men of Cincinnati re-
Gently, and successfully in one instance.
Here is how it was done: Eph. Holland
and a friend were rolling ten-pins at the
Empire, on Fifth street, when note
came to Eph., asking him to call at the
Grand Hotel to see particular friend.
II was written on Grand Hotel "letter
head" He walked down t. the hotel,
but found nobody there that he parti-
cularly cared to see. While he was gone
a note came to "Doc" Martin, at the
Empire, written on Grand Hotel letter
sheet, signed "Eph.," aud asking the
doctor to send him 800 by the bearer, a
young man of respectable appearance.
The doctor. knowing that Eph had gone
to the hotel. and supposing he had met
some friend and wanted to nae that
much money, promptly inclosed 500 in
nm envelope and sent il "by bearer"
When Eph. returned the doctor merely
asked him if he had received that m0n-
ey all reght. Then the little gmae was
discovered.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12
MARKET REPORT.
Somerset Grain Market.
CORRECTED BY AsHBRooK 4 C,

CINCINNATI, November l1.-CATTLE
Market firm and active for all grades
The offerings of the better qualities are
not sufficient to supply the demand
Prices ranged as follows: Common
grades 24@3tc, fair to m .dium grade s
34@44c, and good to extra butchers
qualities 42@5lc. Feeding Steers were
less active to-day; sales ranged from 3(G
42c for fair to good
HoGs-Market steady and frni for
packing grades, but rather quiet for
butchers Hogs, shippers buying very
sparingly, packers being the principal
purchasers. Sales ranged as follows
Common light Sc 1907, fair to good
packing grades 81 1907 35, and good
butchers 81 1907 so.
SHEEP-Better qualities in steady de.
mand at from 4@54c; common grades
dull at from 24@34c.
EAST LIBERTY, November lire.
ceipts of Cattle to-day IA head, or 6
cars of through, and 364 cars of yard
stock, making / 1854 head for two days
supply and demand light; selling at s.
50t96 %. Receipts of Hogs to-day s..
610 head, making 7,4S0 head for two
days past; Workers 81 25@7 so, Phil.
adelphia 81 1907 80. Receipts of Sheer
to-day 4,100 head, making a,4OO head
Tor two days past; selling at 4C95c.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12

Last Saturday night 12a o'clock, q
rather daring exploit was engaged in at
the residence Of Enoch D. Crawford,
Esq, four miles southwest of this place.
A party of men burst in the outside
kitchen door and the sitting-room door
leading from the kitchen, with heavy
rail. After getting in to the sitting
room by the light ofa sperm candle they
took survey of the premises of an
adjoining bedroom. Finding no one
down stairs, they were abont to proceed
to the upper story of the house, which
was reached by narrow, winding stair,
where Mr.. and Mrs. Crawford were
sleeping, but upon opening the stair
door they heard some one stirring
Crawford, at this stage of the proceed
ings, inquired what was wanted, when
one of the party remarked to his pals:
"Here il the man we want now; go for
himl" The jingle of musket, which
was loaded to the muzzle, admonished
the Tufhans that they had better not un-
dertake to storm Mr.. C.'s position; SO
after considering a moment what to do,
they Int out, leaving several heavy clubs
and the rails on the aoor.-l Belmont
Chronicle, So. Clairsville, Ohio.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12
A Child's Monument in a Cemetery.

A correspondent of the Boston Globe,
writing or a visit to Cave Hill Cemete-
ry at Louisville, describes a peculiar
monument there:
The Wilder monument, erected 10
the memory of their only child, Minnie,
has on its square top group of three
figures in Carrara marble; one, the faith
er, life size, with his hand resting on his
wife's shoulder, who holds little min
lature in her hand and her head droop-
ed in grief, while he points upward to
the heavens Still above them is then
little one, looking over them as their
guardian angel; weeping angels at the
base of the monument, and four i'm
mense Greek vases filed with emble-
matte flowers, all in marble. Although
this was erected to child but seven
years oF age, no less than $4,000 was
expended ON it. 1t is the handsomest
monument / ever saw. not excepting the
beautiful one erected TO the Countess
DemidofT, in Pere la Chaise. Paris"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12
Ward Will Case Given to the Jury.

DETROIT, Mich, November 10.-The
Captain E. r. Ward reached its final
stage here to-day, having been given TO
the jury by Judge Patchen this morn
ing. The general points of this litiga-
ton are familiar throughout the coun-
try. The Ward estate is valued at S.
100000, with 81 100000 of debts. The
will leaves about ST 300 900 to his young
widow and her two infant children, free
from all incumbrance. 1t leaves minor
bequests to the value of about 100000
To different relatives and employees;
and the remainder of the estate.
after the payment of debts, is
placed in the hands of four trustees for
the benefit of his five adult children by
his first and divorced wife, now dead,
who are to receive but 5000 per month
and the use of his beautiful home here.
OF those last children, one son is a
lunatic and one daughter an imbecile.
Two sons and one daughter are not de-
ranged, and these sons are the contest
ants in the case. The trial has been in
progress for about nine weeks, abont
one week having been consumed in the
preliminary proceedings, amending the
procuring of picked jury, six weeks
in the taking of testimony, and two
weeks in the argument by strong ar
ray of counsel, including some of the
leading lawyers of the Northwest. The
jury went out at IL o'clock to-day, and
at p. m. were still in consultation in
the room. The Judge then adjourned
the Court until IL o'clock tonight.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12
A New York dispatch Of the 5th inst.

A New York dispatch Of the 5th inst,
says;
At the business meeting of Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, last evening. the
names of Deacon West and Mrs. MonI-
ton were dropped from the roll Of mem
bershiD on the ground Of continual alb
sence from the services Of the church.
Deacon West was not present, but Mrs.
MouIton was accompanied by her conn
sci, Roger A. Pryor, who read protest,
signed by Mrs. Moulton, and which
closed as follows: "My absence is an
enforced one, and ia caused by the crime
of adultery committed by Henry Ward
Beecher, pastor of this Church, with
one Of his parishioners, which / know to
be the fact, through Mr.. Beecher's con-
fessions 10 me and through the confes-
sions of Mrs. Tifton. and through con-
elusive evidence Of the crime from 9th
er sources. appear before this Church
in loyal obedience to its summons
which have received, ard / hereby
siiscl<-e my disposition and desire to dis
charge all the duties devolving on me
an a member that are consistent with my
knowledge of the adultery Of the pastor
and his false swearing with regard to
..
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12
The Protection Of Game.


DIR. Middleton Goldsmith, of Rut-
land, Vermont, a well-known physician,
who has investigated the subject Mt
home and abroad, recently delivered be-
hlre the Vermont Association for the
Protection of Game an address to which
we solicit careful attention. DIR. Gold
smith says that the game rents of Scot
land, that il, the licenses 10 shot game.
amount TO $1,000. 900 annually, and he
has no doubt that the game of the St&te
of Vermont Is susceptible of producing
more than the whole cost Of the State
Government Where a good trOut-brook
runs through a farm. the fishing ought
to rent for enough to pay the whole
taxes on the farm, and forest ought to
pay ten cents an acre. To attain this
end, game must he taken only in its
proper season, the exclusive right of the
landowner TO kill the game on his own
premises must be insisted npon, and the
lawless. rambling poachers, who pnr~lIe
game ignorantly, often ernelly and law
lessly. must he repressed. The Sunday
hunting of boys is exterminating the
last survivors of the natural cattle Of
the soil. The English obligation to the
game laws in that country does not oh
tain in tins country In England the
landlords are the inability, and for their
pleasure the game is preserved. But in
this country, and peculiarly in Vermont,
cnpiers, the common people, and nobOdy
has better right to insist on the pre-
servation of their own. Again, a. IN
the hardship of requiring ''the poor man.
to pay n reasonable license fee for the
right to hunt, If game was made plenty
he could much b.tter afford ts pay fee
than he now can to spend his whole day
tramping after few meageT squirrels
Game Ia now 80 scarce in Vermont that
a man whose time il worth 81 so a day
can send to Boston for il and get i,
cheaper. Then he can't hunt it. And
yet in the cities the prices are such as tC
remunerate richly cost of taking game
if it was preserved ard made plenty
In the New York market land they art
no cheaper here) rabbits bring from 81
to 81 cents pair, pigeons 81 % to 81 81
| per dozen for stall-fed, about as cent?
less for flight, though they are dearel
than that here; woodcock and partridge'
bring from so to 624 cents apiece, and
trout in the season so cents n pound.
A hearty public sentiment, however
must be created on the subject befor'
much can be hoped from law, and DIR
Goldsmith contemplates voluntary as
sociation and effort as the beginning anC
| foundation of game culture.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12

LOUISVILLE, KY, November TO-
Several days ago the family of Charles
Massey, sr., who lives at Fordville
Kentucky, were taken suddenly i'll.
Physicians pronounced the sickness the
effect of poison, and, despite their ef-
forts, son. daughter and wife died
The physicians discovered that the we'll
used by the family was filled with
poison-either strychnine or arsenic
but how it came there is not known.
No person is suspected, but all things
indicate that the poison was put in the
well by human hands. The others of Mr.
Massev's family, as well as he, are in a
fair way TO recover
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12
OBrrUARY.

LAURA T.. Youngest daughter of Ed
ward and LouiSa Berkimer was born
March 2sth. 1860; departed this life
Oct. 9th A. d. 1875, aged Is years, 6
months and % days.
A father aud two sisters, and many
other relatives, have gone before her to
the spirit land She leaves a mother,
two brothers and three sisters to mourn
her loss, hut we mourn not as those who
have no hope-rememhering that they
who sleep in Jesus, God will bring with
him in the last day
We miss the, dearest sister, We miss thy step 50
light,
Thy merry voice TO is hushed, thine eyes so
mild 50 bright,
Have Oped ON worlds more bright than this
To gaze on beauties ever new Thou will range
the fields Of endless bliss
And pain thou wilt never know.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12
Revolutionary Cannon Dug Up.

The West Chester (Pa.l News says
that seven cannon were recently dug up
on the Warwick Furnace farm, in War
wick Township. Chester County. They
were buried about three feet under the
surface, on a space of ground not over
thirty feet square. They are hinge ones
seven feet in length, two feet in diam
eter at the breech, and about four and a
half inches caliber. One of them ap
parently was charged ready for firing, as
a ball was found in proper position, but
all symptoms of powder had disappear
ed. Tradition says General Washing
ton put them there about ninety-eight
wears ago.
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mentality.
Prospect Of Revival Of the Great
Scandal.

The New York and Brooklyn As
sociation of Congregational Ministers
has taken action, il is alleged, which
will certainly revive the Beecher scan
dal. A Committee Of its members has
been appointed, and instructed to report,
after careful examination of the
charges, whether the Association ought
to retain Mr.. Beecher in membership.
It was said, last evening, that Mr.. Beech
er would withdraw from the Association
rather than submit to an investigation.
Plymouth Church has adopted a re
solution providing that Mr.. Beecher and
his deacons confer with Mr. Moody, and
they be authorized, IL the Evangelist
has no objection, TO announce the first
Of a series Of daily prayer meetings for
next Monday morning. In the discus
sion of this subjecs one member said,
"Let us show enough Christian spirit TO
go With the others to the meetings in
the tabernacle. Let US show no desire
TO stand aloof from our sister churches
even though they may not be cordial
toward us."-[N. Y. dispatch 9th.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12

John Bowdlear, of Jamaica Plains,
near Boston, holds that the sun revolves
around the earth, as a satellite, and that
this world is fat. He lectured the 9th
er night in Boston, his subject being
"The Earth Plane, not Sphere
An Illinois physician, having success
fully removed one-half of a patient =
tongue, has heon overwhelmed with ap-
plication from suffering husbands for
miles around to operate upon their wives.
"The habitual drunkard," says a
temperance writer, 'can never evince
prompt decision in an emergency" Quite
a mistake, our moral reformer. Did you
ever ask him to drink? asks the Roches-
ter Democrat.
"If Jones undertakes to pull my ears," "
said loud-mouthed fellow OH a street
corner, che will just have his Hands full,
now" The crowd looked at the mans
eah and thought so.
An Arkansas man ate pint of saw
dnst few days ago on bet. An in
telligent physician, who was called IN,
told him that he would have pain in his
lumbar region if he stuck to such board
as that New Orleans Times.
For soldiers killed in the civil war
eighty-five Thousand headstones have
already been completed in West Rut-
land, VT.
Peru Commissioners have arranged
a contract in Paris for the sale of two
million tons of guano.
In Norway, the longest days are three
months; the morning papers are publish
ed quarterly.
The most effective way for boy to
learn bee sees-by just putting his fin
ger into the hive.
A modern essayist defines gossip to be
the putting of two and two together
and making FIVE of them"
"Quills are things that are sometimes
taken from the pInions of one goose to
spread the pinions of another"
"What is that dog barking at" asked
a fop. whose boots were more polished
than his ideas. "Why," said by stand
er, "he sees another puppy in your
boots
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12
A Fact Worth Knowing

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BosCHEE's GERMAN SYRUP. This
medicine has lately been introduced
from Germany, and is selling on its own
merits. The people are going wild over
its success, and druggists all over our
country are writing as of its wonderful
cures among their customers. IT you
wish to try its superior virtue. get a
Sample Bottle for 10 cents. Large size
bottle 75 cents. Three doses will relieve
any case. Try it. Billy
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II in nothing else, Moody and Sankey
are meeting with great success IN draw
ing large crowds to their meetings in
Brooklyn. Whether they will even
tuaIIy succeed in evangelizing that city
remains to be seen. Beecher and Tiiton
have great influence there, and the kind
of religion that Moody processes is not
the kind that these worthless have been
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-12

A Society, composed of eminent
Frenchman and Americans, whose OBJ
iecs ia the erection in New York harbor
of lofty monument in commemoration
of the one hundredth anniversary of the
Independence of the United States, has
recently been formed in Paris. IL IL
known az the Franco American Union.
The members held meeting on the 9th
inss., concerning which the Pittsburgh
Telegraph says:
"From the cable account of the BAN
qnet of the Franco-American Union on
the 9th inst. in Paris. published in to-
days paper, it appears that the projeci
off monument is really to be carried
out. Many of the most important states
men Of France are members of the I'm
ion formed for the purpose. and the
American Minister, Mr.. Washhurne, be-
side many wealthy American residents
or soiourners in Paris, encourages tht
project. Hence one may safely believe
what has been little better than rumor
heretofore, that distinguished French
artist has been for some time engaged in
celebrating the monument. part OF
it is a statue of Liberty, of colossal
size or at least large enough to be con-
spicuous landmark 10 ships entering the
port. Indeed, we have seen it represent
ted as susceptible of illumination, and
thus of serving as beacon or sort OF
lighthouse. AT any rate the concep-
tion seems to be very original, in fact SO
original as to have suggested doubts oi
the seriousness its projectors.
"No doubt the project is designed BY
its French supporters for effect in
France. II il an attempt to unite citi-
zens Of the so-called French Republic
and citizens of the Great Republic OF
the West in celebrating the republican
idea in manner we'll adapted TO Occur
py and impress the French imagination
One eject Of its discussion win be t.
vivify in the memories Of millions o.
the French people the fact imperiectly
known or quite forgotten of French CO.
operation in the establishment of Amer
lean independence. It may thus con-
tribute in some measure to awaken in
French immigrants to this country some
sympathy with American citizenship, q
sentiment for the most part entirely
wanting. While Germans, Scandinav-
JAMS and even many Italians very soon
after coming hither begin to feel their
dignity as men invested with the rights
of self-government, few Frenchmen ever
seem to realize the change in their polit
ical position. They continue to remem
Der belle France with increasing regret
think of it as the only land worthy o
their affection. and very often even, in
their imagination, invest it with what
ever free institutions "a we'll as whatever
other advantages they desire it to pos
sess.
at may we'll be therefore that NJ
Laboulaye, who knows America and
Americans SO well, knows how to infu-
eace his own compatriots in favor of the
political form he seeks to establish
among them, and that the "monnmenr
is destined to serve as an effective instru.
mentality"