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Somerset Grain Market.

CINCINNATI, July 29.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts liberal and market firm, with a
slight improvement in prices on the
better grades. Sales ranged as follows:
Common qualities 24c TO 33c, fair to me-
dium 4c to &c, and good butcher and
shipping grades 52c to Ole.
HoGs-Receipts moderate and market
rather active, especially for good light
grades, which are scarce. Prices ranged
as follows: Common-$7 60(G7 20, good
light and heavy butchers 81 1907 30;
general sales from 81 20 to 81 80. One
lot of 81 head, averaging 660 lbs. was
sold by E. w. Bramble TO Mike Grease,
one of onr Oldest and best butchers, at
81 so. Pens well cleared at the close.
SHEEP-Market fair at from 34c to
44c for fair to good qualities. Market
for Lambs steady, both butchers and
shippers buying. Prices range from 4lc
to 6lc, according to quality.
EAST LIBERTY, July 29.-Cattle re-
ceipts to-day TIA, making 1921 for the
past two days; the arrivals to-day were
all for sale here, and all are sold except
load or two; prices have gone of a
shade from last week; market pretty act
i've except for Eastern market; best So
1907 ~, medium to good So 1906 so,
common 20 fair $4 50(G4 55, Bulls So 20
ga. Hog receipts to-day / 1925, making
8 3,4l0 for the past two days; Workers So
50@8 10, best $S 26(9S 90. Sheep re-
ceipts 535, making l2,500 for the past
two days; selling slow at @4C95 20.
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A Very Curious Case.

Has been discovered at the Treasury
Department by the examination of some
old accounts. A few days ago an officer
of the War Department received notice
from the Treasury that there was bal
ance of 81 600 in his favor on an old
account. This officer knew that no such
balance was due him, and caused an ex
animation of the origin of the account
10 be made. The discovery was then
made that by an error in accounting ma
ny years ago this amount had been de-
Quoted from the account of an officer in
another department, where it properly
belonged, and credited to this officer OF
the War Department. This discovery
explains a very lamentable suicide
which occurred about the time this ori
ginal error was made. The officer from
whose account this sum had been wrong
ly deducted was charged with defalca-
ton of that amount. He was not able
to prove his innocence, and took his own
life. The accounts are said to clearly
show that the suicide is due to the Grim
inal error of some clerk in the War De.
partment.
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witness for the prosecution acted as Ad-
jutani in riding around the settlements
10 notify the companies. Another witness
heard that the order had gone out, and
took to the range under pretence of
hunting his stock, remaining out till all
was over. The driver who ran the ex-
press from Cedar City to the Meadows,
bears witness that ne never knew or
heard till long after the massacre that
it was other than regular military pro-
ceeding. The popular idea was that the
Territory and Kingdom Of God" was at
war with the United States, and this
company was detachment of their ene-
mics. Furthermore all the militia I'M
derstood at first that the only object was
to capture the emigrants and hold them
as:.prisoners and hostages till the war was
over. The idea of a general massacre
was not broached till the siege was near
its PiOSe
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MOUNTAIN MEAp0W MAssAcRE.
Further Testimony duplicating Nor
mon Leaders.

BEAVER, UTAH, July 2G.-To-day
Ann Elizabeth Hoag was sworn-Lived
at Harmony in 1857; there was meet
ing called before Lee and the Indians
the meeting that the emigrants should
be destroyed; an express was sent to
Brigham Young at the Head, that the
soldiers and Indians had started: after
the massacre a meeting was called to
hear Lees report; Lee stood up and said
he wanted the Indians to rush on the
emigrants; they would not; he then put
up a handkerchief; a man came out; the
emigrants were promised peace if they
gave up their arms; they agreed, and
marched out alongside the soldiers, who
shot them down at signal, and the In
dams killed the women; he said one
man had baby in his arms; after the
first fire Lee said, "Give up that child"
the man replied, aft ] die, this child
dies with me; know you, John d. Lee,
despite your paint" Lee said he
had to shoot the man and child. While
reporting an express from Young arriv-
ed; saw the children in the wagon in
front of the meeting house; one boy
eight years old pointed to the Indian Joe
and said THAT man killed my papa, got
my papa's pants" / never saw the boy
afterwards; Lee said not to talk to the
children; wanted them TO forget about
the massacre.
Thos. P. Willis sworn-Saw the goods
of the murdered emigrants at Cedar
fifteen or twenty wagons and 400 or 500
head of stock; heard Haight before the
attack ask my father the best way to at
tack the train; after the massacre saw
the property of the emigrants, the wag-
ons, in front of the meeting house in
Cedar City; the Indians washed the
bloody clothing in ditch in Cedar City;
saw the children; Higbee had boy,
seven or eight years old; my brother
had one; Burbuck had one; saw them
in 1859 at the Indian Reservation in
care of DIR. Torrey; tine Mormons had a
military organization; the men had drill.
ed every Saturday; the property of the
emigrants at the tithing house was sold
at auction.
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A farmer hoy in Ohio, recently OBJ
serving small flock of quail in his faith
er's cornfeld. resolved to watch their
motions. They pursued a very regular
coarse in their foraging, beginning on
one side ofthe field, taking about FIVE
rows, and following them uniformly to
the opposite end, returning in the same
manner over the next five rows. They
continued this course uutil they explJr-
ed the greater part ofthe field. The lad,
believing that they were pulling up the
corn, fred into the flock, killing but
one of them, and examined. In the
whole space which they had traversed he
found but one stalk of corn disturbed.
This was nearly scratched out of the
grcuud but the earth still adhered TO it.
In the crop of the quail he found one
cut worm, twenty -one striped vine bugs,
and one hundred chinch bugs, but not a
sngle grain of corn.
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Flood Signals.

Mr.. Agustus Watson, of Wash
ington City, urges the national
adoption of food signals. He pro-
poses that on all the rapid rivers,
liable to sudden floods, a cannon be
placed at each town, in charge of
some reliable person, a fire company
or some town official, to be used as
a food signal. When heavy rain
is falling let the telegraph opera
tors along the river keep up contin-
ual communication along the entire
length, and when a destructive flood
is found to be inevitable let the sig
nal stations be ordered to fire their
cannon.
Three guns, at ten minutes in
terval, may be fred as generally
published flood signal, to be repeat
ed every one, two or three hours
while the danger continues. These
signals would be heard over each
town and between the towns in the
valleys and bottoms on both banks
of the river throughout its entire
length, giving instant and general
warning of the coming flood, by
which men, women and children,
cattle and much movable property
could be removed to places of safety
or secured from destruction, and es-
pecially when the flood comes in the
night. On rivers having no tele-
graph line the warning can be given
with the cannon alone, fired from
station to station, by sound. AT
dams, all of which are liable to
break by foods, carrying destruc-
ton throughout the village below,
cannon should be placed to give
instant and general warning of the
disaster. A cannon at Mill River
Dam would have saved every life
and much light movable property
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The Late L. NJ. Singer.
From the Toledo Commercial, 27th

From the Toledo Commercial, 27th.
In the death of Isaac NJ. Singer, an
nouneed from London, a strange life
closed The deceased had cheqnered
history. OF his earlier life we know
little, beyond the fact that he was a
young man of bright talents and mental
promise, with special tendency to de-
velopmcnt in mech anic ar.s. When
about thirty-six years of age lin 1S46l.
under the name of ]. S. Merritt (substi-
tuting his middle for his last name), he
appeared in Ohio as the proprietor of a
"Great Moral Drama" designed to illus
trate the vice of drunkenness and en-
force the principles of total abstinence.
The success of the enterprise seems not
to have met his expectations, for in
short time he found himself at Freder-
ickshurg, Wayne County, bankrupt, and
compelled to suspend operations and sell
out his concern. Thus situated, he set
about looking for other business Hav-
ing some knowledge of wood type man
ufacture, he soon found in Mr.. Day (af-
terward we'll known to the printers of
Ohio), a partner for the prosecution of
that business in fredericksburg, under
/ the firm name of Day g. Merritt A linn
| tied establishment was improvised, with
tools and machinery driven by horse
power. The next spring Mr.. Merritt"
started out with one-horse wagon load
ed with types, which he sold chiefly to
country printers in Northern Ohio En-
couraged by the results of this trip, the
firm went on and manufactured so liber-
ally that the next spring Mr.. merritt"
set Uut with double team an6 larger
load. The results of that trip was not
known for many years, for the peddling
partner failed to return to make report
the avails of the trip. The type busi-
ness was continued for many years al
Fredericksburg, and subsequently al
Cincinnati. by Mr.. Day and brother
but Merritt" returned no more
Subsequently, as already indicated, he
turned up under his proper name, Isaac
NJ. Singer, the sewing machine patentee
in which character he has long beer
known to the world. To what extent he
was the real inventor of the machin,
bearing his name, is disputed, it having
been alleged that il was chiefly the worl
of other brains; but he became the pat
entee, and as such secured an enormou
income, which, for many years past, ha
contributed literally to the qualification
. of his tastes and desires, most of hi
time of late being spent in Europe. Hi
life was success in respect to pecuniary
gain and notoriety; but in other respect
which most men regard as higher attain
: ments of human ambition, he was no
r much known, and his record can hardl,
: be held up for the emulation of youn,
men.
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AN amusing story is related of Repre-
sentative elect Walker, Of the twenty
ninth district of New York, who is
somewhat noted for his carelessness in
the matter of apparel A few days ago
he was seated on porter's truck in front
of hotel in Corning, when lady trav-
eler, mistaking him for the porter, re-
quested him to carry her satchel to the
depot. He readily complied, and on
reaching the lady's destination blandly
declined to receive compensation, and
with a graceful bow left his companion
amazed at the disinterested politeness
of her "porter."
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A Smuggler's Wooden Leg.

Perhaps the most ingenious method of
deceiving the Custom House officers
that has come to light lately was the de-
vices of man with wooden leg.
His name was Ernest Bohrumann,
and he was a native ofSaxony. He was
usually dressed very shabbilv and trav-
#eled as poor emigrant. He was skill
ft1 story teller and betrayed himself by
tellinga cry humorous story a second
time with the hearing of the same de-
tective who was on board one of the
White Star steamers with him.
The climax was brought out in such an
inimitahle manner in broken English
that the officer Immediately recalled the
voice and manner of another one-legged
emigrant who had come over in a ship
of another line with him only about two
months before. The fact of poor-dress-
ed man making two journeys to America
within so short period excited his sus-
picion.
He accordingly reported the circWm-
stance when the vessel arrived in port,
and the usual diligence was used in
searching baggage and person, but moth
ing was found until his wooden leg was
removed. Itwas an ordinary, cheap ar
tiicial leg, fastened at the natural leg
at the knee and armed with n ferrule at
the bottom. When it was taken off il
seemed unusually light, and on careful
examination it was found to be hollow
and to contain about $4,000 worth oi
laces and precious stones. He had been
a diamond broker, but had become poor
and subsequently entered the Prussian
army in the French war as a private OF
noncommissioned officer. He lost hi:
leg in battle, and when he recovered he
thought of this method of retrieving his
fallen fortunes.-CN. Y. Geaphic.
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Samuel A. King, the eronaut,
has contributed 500 to swell the
gross reward offered for the recovery
Of Donaldson and his companion,
dead or alive. He sent the follow
ing dispatch to Chicago Tuesday
evenings sit is my opinion that
Donaldson and Grimwood have
reached the woods of Michigan, on
the lake shore, and that they will
follow the coast in their efforts to
extricate themselves. Send a tug
to cruise along the shore, as it may
be the means of saving them from
starvation. Spare TO means to save
the lives of the men, and believe
nothing of the stories told of inten.
tional absence for the purpose ot
creating sensation" King has
been employed by Barnum to take
Donaldson's place as balloonist tc
his show.
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The busting mp" season has com
menced. The lead off. by Duncan Sher-
man & Co.. of New York, was an i'm
mense affair. and was promptly follow
ed by the following national houses:
New YORK, July 2s.-It is reported
that the Commercial Warehouse Compa-
ny have failed. The canse is their heavy
advances on Cuban crops which the
early rains destroyed. The house had
also advanced largely on railroad securi-
ties, which deprecated.
The Secretary of the Commercial
Warehouse Company states that the
probabl liabilities of the company were
81 500, 900, and the assets, which are
not available perhaps $4,000, 900. A full
and complete statement of the affairs of
the company will be ready in about two
weeks.
LOUISVILLE, July 2S.-The Tobacco
Exchange Banking Company, of this
city, cloosed its doors yesterday. The
institution has been regarded for some
time in precarious condition, and its
present suspension has no connection
whatever with the New York failure.
As far as can be learned, no bank or
person in Louisville has been affected
by Duncan. Sherman & Co.'S failure.
New YORK, July 28.-Worth & Was
son, 1S3 Duane street, and Martain y.
Bum & Co. Jay and Greenwich streets,
Wholesale grocers, have suspended. The
liabilities of the former are over S60, 900,
and of the latter small.
PHILADELPHIA, July 28.-John Ma
son & Co. sugar dealers, suspended today
Liabilities about 100000.
WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The failure
Of Duncan, Sherman & Co. produced
great CONSERVATION here, yesterday, and
q general panic was freely prophesied in
financial circles, but a more hopeful
feeling exists to-day.
LONDON, July 2S.-A dispatch from
Paris says the failure of Duncan, Sher-
man & Co., spread CONSERVATION among
the Americans in that city. Roths-
childs gave notice early to-day that they
wonld not honor drafts ofthe firm. They
even attempted TO recover moneys
paid to-day at their house before it was
aware of the failure. Their agent took
fore Minister Washburne, who sustained
the latter in his refusal. The feeling
among the Americans is very bitter.
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The prevalence of crime in the In
dian Territory is astonishing. A Wash
ington correspondent thus speaks of
the deplorable state of affairs there:
The District embraces seventy FIVE
thousand square miles, and contains one
hundred thousand inhabitants. The
great bulk of the business comes from
the Indian Territory, over which the
Jurisdiction is exclusively criminal.
| The inhabitants are two-third Indian,
one third negroes and whites; all bear
arms; they are largely Adventures and
fugitives from justice. The population
| is one person and one-third to the
square mile. The people are not thrift
ty; property rights are 6isregarded; the
Indians consider the whites and negroes
intrudt RS; horse stealing is business.
The Territory is pandemonium Of
crime; life is cheap. Murders are COM
mitted frequently for two or three dol
lars in money. or a pair of shoes. Al
the last May Term of the Court there
were eight convicted of murder, and
seven of manslaughter, and eight case:
of murder continued to next term
There are thirty-eight indictments ir
the Court for murder, the parties no
yet arrested, and seventy-two United
States Commissioners writs in tht
hands of the Marshal for parties who
are charged with murder and not yet in
dicted, making fearful total of ont
hundred and thirty three known homi
cides. This does not include homicides
committed by Indians on Indians, IL
which cases the jurisdiction of thi
Court does not extend. Such cases ar
numerous; not less than a dozen sucl
have occurred within fifty miles of For
Smith during the past two months.
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Great Offer.
NUMBER FOUR.

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Twenty short stories, rich variety of
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Ten steel productions, fac-similes Of
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All the above sent post paid with
Hearth and Home, the great illustrated
weekly magazine, two months on trial,
tor only so cents. Object; to introduce
the paper To new subscribers. Price re-
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stands or by mail. Great inducements
TO agents and clubs. The Graphic
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New York. Please state in what paper
you saw this advertisement.
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Mr.. c. B. Lewis, the humorist of the
Detroit Free Press, has this dedication
to his forthcoming book: ITO the Paw
nee Tribe of Indians, whose enterprise,
talent and craftsmanship, coupled with
the fact that they rise early, go to bed
late, and are always around when want
ed, and who cheerfuily roasted one OF
my ancestors at the stake, without re-
ward or hope of reward, is this volume
respectfully dedicated by the author"
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Notice to Rnilders-

CEALED PROPOSALS will be. received until
- IL o. lock noon of Monday, August %, 1875
for building School House in the town Of SOM
erset, Perry county, Ohio, according to the
plans and specifications which can be seen at
ter the 2Sth of July, at the office of The Clerk
Of the Board of Education in said town. All
persons or parties making proposals wild be re-
quired to furnish the Board satisfactory refer
ences as to responsibility and skill. The Board
reserves the right TO reject any and all bids.
By order If the Board.
f. A. HESSE, Clerk.
July %, 1875. 15w5
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An immense pine tree on the Phillip
son road in Athol, Mass, fully three
feet in diameter, was uprooted by light
ming duringa recent thunder storm, and
its branches were completely stripped OF
bark, while the ground in the neighbor-
hood was ploughed two or three feet
deep for yards.
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The Springfield Republican says that
it is decidedly interesting to witness the
exhuming of all kinds of articles buried
by the Haydenville (Mass.) food of 1874,
something like six feet under rocks and
sand. From two to four hundred pounds
of small brass articles, finished and in a
rough state, are brought in daily. A
mong the latest discoveries was fine
brass musical instrument, in good con-
ditio1
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To BAKE RHUBARB.-The best way
for cooking this delicious substitute for
fruit is to bake it. Cut up the stalks
into pie dish of nice white or yellow
earthern ware, sprinkle sugar over it,
cover with a plate, set in the oven and
bake fifteen or twenty minutes, just long
enough to be tender and retain its fresh,
green color, like apples. 1t is an ex-
cellent supper dish to eat with bread
and butter or cream.
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A curious theft was perpetrated near
Fitchburg, Macs, the other night, when
il was found that all the axels of train
of cars which had just arrived had been
raised up and the Bahbitt metal boxes
taken out,
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these have been described, others remain
to be discovered. The arch@ologists OF
the State are now moving to collect ma
terial and to devise measures for a
thorough exploration. A society will
be organized and agents appointed in
nearly every county. The first meeting
will be at Mansfield, September 7th. u
who have collections, or who have stnd-
led the subject. are invited to come and
bring specimens with them and TO help
start the enterprise.
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All kinds Of marketable country pro-
duce taken in exchange for goods or
work at the Clothing Store of Mains &
BEo. A variety of goods and trimmings
on hand suitable for Mems Youths and
Children's clothing, good and cheap.
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Administrators Sale of Real
Ec%nfn


DY VIRTUE Of an order TO me directed from
Id the Court of Probate within and for the
county of Perry, and State Of Ohio / will offer
for sale upon the premises in Hopeweu town
ship, in said county, at the late residence Of
hours of 10 o'clock A. NJ. and O'Clock p. NJ, on
Saturday, the Fist day of 4H0ust, 1875,
the following real estate, of which the said de-
ceased died the owner, and described as follows:
situate in said Perry county, and being part Of
the southwest quarter, and part Of the north
west quarter, Of Section sixteen, of Township
seventeen OF Range sixteen, commencing at the
southeas: corner Of said southwest quarter Sec
ton, thence north 60 chains am a links TO
post, thence west chains and 20 links to post,
post, thence south 3so west chain and so links
10 post, thence south 90 west 1 chain az d 50
links TO post, thence south $50 west chains
and links 10 post. thence south So west 3
chains and fifty links to post, thence south 81
chains and 62 links TO po I, and thence east II
chains and 75 links to the beginning corner,
containing 100 acres more or less, saving, how
ever, aid excepting therefroIB, s acres hereto
fore sold and conveyed to Harriet Rusler, and
by her now owned, the residue containing SO
acres more or less, subject, however, to the dow
er etate Of 33 acres, heretofore assigned and set
off therein TO Hannah J. Latimer, widow of said
deceased, and wi ! be sold upon the following
TERMS One-third cash in hand, one-third in
one year, and the residue in two Yeas, with in
terest on the deferred payments from the day
of sale, secured by mortgage upon said real es-
| tate. Appraised at $1,000.
JOHN BARE, Admir-
of James Harry Latimer, decd.
July %, 1875. 15w5
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The following communication is
being sent to different newspaper
editors throughout the State of Ohio
BY Rev. 8. d. Rset Of Ashtabnla:
The State Of Ohio oabounds with many
races Of = prehistoric race, Some Of
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Go to SINNERS Drug store, il you
wish to get nice patterns of Wallpaper
and WIndow-curtafns. They sell for
cash only. 40
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Money Matters arc Close.

And / mean TO sell 81 900 worth of
goods in the next 40 days, at less figures
than ever befo known in this part Of
Ohio. Call and price my goods, and
see that / mean business.
j. G. CURRAE.