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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26
Good Times Ahead.

This from the money column Of a lead
ing New York journal:
"The foundation for the improving
condition of the Stock Exchange for
some time past is closely linked with
legitimate business, and rests upon some
thing more than mere speculation. In
estimating the causes at work, the steady
advance in the price of wheat for two
weeks past is most important fact, for
every one knows how much the prosper
ity of the West depends upon a free
market and fair price for wheat. This
advance will enable the farmers TO dis
pose of their surplus accumulation of
the last crop at profit upon the cost of
production; and as there are over $4,000,
600 bushels of wheat in four States Of
the West yet to be marketed, the impor-
tance of this wheat question becomes at
once apparent to the public. The mar
keting of this cereal will place a large
amount of cash in the hands of the West
ern farmers, to find its way through all
the ramifcations of trade from the West
to the leading cities of the Atlantic
coast, and its transportation will increase
the earnings Of railroads and give en-
ployment to idle labor in many direc-
tions. Our merchants will feel the i'm
petus of this in the future by freer pur-
chases of merchandise by the country
traders, whose stocks on hand are known
to be light. Again, we are approaching
a season of dividends. On April l all
the annual settlements among farmers in
the Middle and New England States are
made, and shortly after that date money
always flows to this point for Investment
In May the Treasury will disburse a
large amount for interest and principal
of the public debt, and railway and other
corporations also pay out freely for div
idends and interest. The quarterly rents
Of New York City on May l have be-
come very large in amount, and por-
tion of this money always seeks the
Stock Exchange for investment either
| in bonds or shares. All these disburse-
ments must be taken into account in
considering the present and future in
financial circles. With a general revival
Of confidence, such as is now going on in
the Stock Exchange, the industries OF
the country will receive great stimulus,
and we shall steadily drift back to our
| former nrosperity."
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&C. 3. c."

When di~integration prevails to as
great an extent as we find it among the
descendants of John Chilcote, sen, who
died in Baltimore county, Maryland,
about A. D. 1871; the collecting of the
genealogical history of such integral
parts, as becomes essential in gathering
its true lineage so that it embraces all
the various branches of the same, Is a
herculean task, such as we did not at all
apprehend in the out set, and car scarce
appreciate at this writing.
We must depend to some extent upon
developments from unexplored sources
as yet, TO gain many important data,
without which we cannot proceed with
any degree of assurance to ourselves and
patrons of speedy termination.
The object 10 obtain every link in the
chain of evidence which is essential to a
speedy and successful terminus, has been
our highest ambition from the outset;
we design to leave no gaps or outlets,
but intend our edifice to be grounded
upon sure foundations; and to this end
we want our lineal descent complete
from the aforesaid John Chilcote, SEN, of
Baltimore county, Mary land, down to the
present generation of the family; and, l
have had no doubt from the beginning,
that this can be accomplished, when all
the different members of this large
household begin to bestir themselves,
and determine to accomplish any one
thing, it will most assuredly be done.
Since l commenced this task, 1 have OBJ
tanned from an intelligent lady, men,
Der of the family living in Illinois, a
copy of the family record, of Robinson,
the eldest son of John Chilcose, (''the
orphan boy") dating back to the year
1859. We also can find the record oi
John-brother of Robinson, as one oi
his sons still survives.
We also received recently copy OF
the family record of branch of Josh
ua's family, the 3rd son of John, and on
my return from the city of Baltimore
in November last, l called to see Mr.
Humphrey Chilcote, of Huntingdon
county, Pa, who is nearly 100 years old
| but with bodily vigor astonishing fol
| one of his advanced age. He is the son
of Humphrey, the younger son of the
aforesaid John. / also am just in receipt
of the following item clipped from ar
unknown paper and sent me per letters
from Wood county, Ohio, entitled
Family Relic"
Several members of the Chilcote
family are now living at Salina, Jeffer
son county, Iowa, one of whom is th'
fortunate possessor of the Old Family
| Bible which contains the family record
commencing over 130 years ago, a par
of which was written in England. i
further shows the record Of the marriag
at Baltimore in 1774, of the paterna
granfather of the present owner of the
Bible. If reports prove true in regar,
to the lapsed lease in Baltimore, and tn
SS0,000,000 in England falling to thi
family, this Bible may become valua
BILE evidence in proof of heirship.'
have written for copy of this rec
ord which will add one more link in ou
chain of testimony. and 1 do not doub
hut others of equal i'm portance may b
fonnd if diligent search be made, as W
have ample room both for scope {
country as well as lapse of time.
! n =
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

A gentleman who recently saw Thomas
Carlyle taking his customary afternoon
walk through the suburbs of London
says that he goes usually alone, wearing
a very old felt hat askew on his thick,
stubby gray head; and a more gloomy,
unsocial, cynical looking old man is sell
dom to be seen. No one could pass him
without taking note OF him: his face
would attract the attention of a street
urchin, so singularly expressive Of a
wholly unusual character is it. He is
very sailow and hollow checked; his
eyes, dull and CLASSY, are deep sunk in
their sockets; he wears a rough, short,
tangled beard and mustache, white all
but here and there stray streak of
brown; his form is bent, and he stalks
on in the gloomiest apparent indifference
to the world about him. At home he
occupies a harum- -scarum study at the
top of the house most of the day; of this
sometimes, when closed with friend,
he makes a bear-garden, with his hur-
ried pacing of the floor and his bitter
and voluble homilies about the littleness
of mankind.-[ Harper's Weekly.
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Aninvestigation of the charge of bribe

Aninvestigation of the charge of brioe-
taking, which has been preferred against
certain members of the Ohio Legislature
i'm the matter of the vote in that body
on the Wood County seat bills being
conducted at Columbus, with fair pros
pect of showing to the pnblic that the
charge will be substantiated by ample
proof. Thus far it appears that the price
asked and received for a vote was not
any ways nearly mp to the average price
paid by unprincipled schemers to un-
princlpled members Of the legislature OF
other States. 1t is rather humiliating
to have to admit that members Of the
Legislature of great State like Ohio,
sell their votes at the comparatively
paltry figure of 500 each, while in other
States, of not geater magnitude and i'm
portance, Legislators who are for sale,
always ask and invariably receive at
least five times that amount.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

The New York Tribune thinks there
will be some tall swearing in Ohio after
a while.
"Governor Allen, according to the Re
publican journals, indulges in profanity
to that extent that it passes out under
the door of his room in blue fog when
ever he becomes excited. The Hon. B.
F. Wade has always had the reputation
of being an expert in the same way, and
Mr.. John Robinson, the circus man,
whom the Republicans have nominated
for Mayor of Cincinnati, is said to use
expressions which would knock the bark
off of hickory tree. Messrs. Moody
and Sankey should come home from
London and, with Mr.. Varley, concen-
trate at once upon Ohio"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26
"Died Yesterday"

Every day is written this little SEN
tence: "Died Yesterday, SO and So"
Every day a flower is plHeked from
some home; jewel stolen from some
treasury of love. Each day from sum
mer fields of life some harvester disap-
pears, yea, every hour, some sentinel
falls from his port and is thrown from
the ramparts of time to the surging
waters of eternity. Even as we write
the funeral of one "died yesterday"
winds like winter shadow along the
street. "Died yesterday" Who died?
A young girl, pure as the white bios
SONS that are resting lightly on her cold
brow, was stricken down in the spring
time of life, and that heart of hers is still
now, for she "died yesterday" and is
now being borne to the garden of slum-
berers.
"But wise is he who mourns not the
pearl and music lost; for life with him
shall pass away gently as an eastern
shadow from the hills, and death is a
triumph gained.' -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

THE HENRIE HOUSE, CINCINNATI
Those of our citizens who may have oc-
casion TO visit Cincinnati, Will find the
Henrie House very desirable head
quarters during their stay in the City
Speaking of this House, the Cincinnati
Star, of recent date, says:
The history of the Henrie House in
this city is suggestive of the good results
that can be accomplished by indefatiga-
bic exertion and strict attention to busi-
ness. One year ago Col. Watson, after
an absence of two years, returned to the
Henrie House, which he had previously
kept for sixteen years, finding its patron
age scattered and gone He immediate
ly commenced overhauling the honse
from cellar to garrett, and he now has the
satisfaction of seeing it rank among the
first in the city in patronage. The po-
pular price, only 50 per day, with su-
perior accommodations, and its conven-
lent location to the public buildings,
Post office, telegraph offices, &c, and
being connected with all the depots by
street railroads, which pass the door of
the hotel every five minutes, makes it
beyond doubt the best house in the city
for the merchant and the business man
to stop at. We can testify to the read
ers of this paper as 10 the superior ac-
commodation, and civility of the pro-
prietors and employees, and recommend
it to their patronage.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

The Louisville Courier-J ournal
throws its whole soul into the following:
81 1T has been asserted, say the St. Louis
Republican, that the most melancholy
spectacle in the world Is cold pancake
This could never have been asserted by
any true Christian caught in country
village on rainy Sunday. with all the
groceries closed, and not the slightest
pains taken to conceal from him that
saddest of all earthly objects, an empty
hnf,1a -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26
CORRECTED WEEKLY BY A. r. YosT.
PRODUCE.
Somerset Grain Market.
Stock MarEkcfs.

CINCINNATI, March 25.-Cattle-
Receipts liberal, and market opened dull
and a decline in prices was established;
but subsequently the demand improved,
and the market closed firm and active at
from 3 Ic TO 4 ic for common grades, 4Ic
to 54c for fair to medium, and sic to &c
for good to choice.
HoGs-Receipts have been nearly all
of common to fair grades, and for such
the market ruled dull and lower Good
to choice qualities are quiet but firm.
Prices range as follows, viz: Common
grades Sc 80 to 81 %, fair to medium
81 so to IS, and good to choice butcher
qualities 81 % to SO so.
SHEEP-Market quiet dnd prices not
so strong, selling at from sc to 7c for
common to choice grades.
EAST LIBERTY, PA, March "a
| Cattle receipts to-day Jos head, max
ing for the two days past .42S head;
supply for yard sales very light, demand
moderate and prices up fully &c all
round; extra 7(17ic, medium to good
| G9G64c, common to fair 5(G53c, Bulls
| 4G154c, stockers 4l943c. Hog receipts
to-day 3,080 head, making for the two
| days past 4, ,125 head: Workers 81 20C0
| 7 40, Philadelphia IS 90ld9 Sheep re-
eeipts to-day 5,200 head, and for the two
days past 1900 head; best S7G57 so,
medium So 25(96 70.
BUFFALO, March 25.-Wheat firm;
sales $50 bush at 81 l8 for No. | Mil
waGkee 81 80 for White Michigan.
Corn fairly active and strong; receipts
IA cars; 77c for new on track, part to ar.
rive, 78c in store. Oats and Rye neg
lected. Barley firm. Cattle receipts
832 head; total for the week 8,636; mar.
ket moderately active and strong at yes
terday's quotations, but higher for me-
dunn and light qualities. Sheep and
Eamb receipts 1000 head; total for the
week 9,400 head; market dull and drag
ging, owners holding off for an advance.
Hog receipts 400 head; total for the
week GOO head; market dull, 3c of
Yesterdays quotations: Workers 81 50(7
7 rs. heavy Hogs 81 1908; slow de.
mand.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

THE FAMILY SEWING MACHINE
The invention of the Wilson Shuttle
Sewing Machine exerts an influence ov-
er domestic comfort unequalled by any
invention of the last hundred years. As
an economical arrangement it enables
ore person to do the work of ten in a
superior manner, and with unspeakably
more comfort. Machines will be deliv-
cred at any Railroad Station in this
county, free of transportation charges, if
ordered through the Company's Branch
House at 1927 and 800 Superior Street,
Cleveland, Ohio.
They send an elegant catalogue and
chrome circular free on application.
This Company want few more good
agents.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

Donaldson contemplates a balloon
voyage from New York to London next
autumn, the expenses to be paid by
William K. Belknap, of Cincinnati,
George L. Bruce, of New York; Ma
thaniel Grey Hadaway, of. London. and
Narcisse Pelletier. of Paris. These
gentlemen are to provide $4,000 for
the expenses, and give Donaldson S2O.-
900 if he makes the trip from New
York to London within forty-eight,
hours or $4,000 if he takes seventy
two hours.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26
The BIack Hills.

The Interior Department will soon
send an experienced geologist to examine
the Black Hills country, and report as
to its mineral wealth. The Interior
Department, took additional measures to
provide for the immediate removal of
adventurous trespassers from that re.
rrinrn
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

The spelling match mania is also rag
ing at Boston, and will reach its climax
in a contest at Music Hall, Tuesday
evening, the rivals being fifty reporters,
compositors and proof-readers connected
with the daily press and an equal num-
ber of pupils from the English, high,
Latin and higher classes Of the city
grammar schools. A fine dictionary
will be given-like many of the world s
awards-to the man who has the least
need of 1t.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

eyes, SIR" yelled a preacher in a
Dakota church, one Sunday morning,
there's more lying, and swearing, and
stealing, and general deviltry to the
square inch in this here town than al
then the congregation got mp and dump
ed the preacher ont Of the window.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

A dog at Utica. N. Y, has been train
ed to carry the little daughter of his
owner TO school in a sled made especial
ly for the purpose. When the time for
closing the school at noon and night ar
rivea, the-log is hItched to the sled and
starts alone for the school house after
his little mistress, whom he either waits
for outside or meets on her way home.
The dog is so proficient that often when
the time for going after the little girl
arrives he quietly slips away and is no.
where to be found Upon being dis
covered he will look very much asham-
ed, and Immediately submit to harness
ing, and trot off as fast as possible to
perform his duties.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

Mr.. Fitch, the husband Of the lady
on whom the Khedive of Egypt inflict-
ed $500, 900 necklace, discovers that
even if the necklace comes into the
country free of duty, it is going to re-
quire more money than he is earning to
pay the annual tax on the Jewels. They
say he is neglecting his meals, and goes
around bareheaded. His friends are
trying to secure him the position Of con-
ductor on street-ca line.-[ Danbury
News
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

The Cincinnati Commercial announces
that Phil. Sheridan has become qnite
popular in the Sonth, and explains it
thus: "The red-hot Southrons, upon the
whole, are of the opinion that Phil,
with all his faults, is a good fellow.
They see, too, that he really isn't afraid,
and convince them that a man is not
afraid of them or of Satan himself. and
they fall in love with him impetuous-
l.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

Ii was probably an attack of the green
eyed monster, that induced the Chicago
Inter-Orean TO say that "on the night
that Victoria Woodruff lectured and
the can-can appeared, the Common
Council of Jackson, Mich, failed to
bavo N ouppupa -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

A Reckless Bavarian, who prided
himself upon his skill as marksman,
recently bethought himself of a crown
ing proof of his unerring aim. He
thereupon led his son, lad of eleven
years, to a certain spot and paced off
seventy yards. Upon the boys head
thus posted he placed an apple, and re-
tired with his rifle to the distance of
two hundred and ten feet, he called up
on his friends who had assembled to
witness the dangerous and heartIess act
to observe that he should cut the apple
in two without harming his child. lie
deliberately raised his weapon. fred and
cut the apple in the middle, leaving the
child neither scathed nor frightened, SO
confident was the latter in his fathers
skill. The heartless man was then about
to repeat the experiment, when the po
lice, secretly informed, it was said, by
the boys mother, came upon the ground
and interfered to prevent the continu-
ance of such a dangerous experiment,
and arrested the father, imprisoning
him for a number of days in punish
ment for his fool hardness.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

The invention of making paper bar
rels was patented about six months ago,
and there are two factories now working,
one at Winona, Wis, and one at Deco
rha, Iowa, the latter turning out 1000
barrels per day. Their strength is said
to be greater by four times than wooden
barrels and only half the weight, costing
twenty per cent less.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

At Carlisle, Canada, few days ago,
Miss Hood, an intelligent and cultiva-
ted young lady, was sitting in conversa-
tion with lady friend, when young
man came mp behind them and sudden
1y jerked the chair from beneath her In
attempting to save herself Miss Hood
injured her spinal column so severely
that she went into commissions. The
doctor gave his opinion that if her in
juries did not prove fatal her mind
would be left deranged from the effects
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

At parting at Chicago railroad de-
pot, "Do not forget me or cease to love
mew murmured the husband. "Never,
neverl' sobbed the wife, and she pulled
out handkerchief and tied knot in
II, that she might remember.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

"Your son died rather suddenly; yes
terday, of throat disease" is what an
Idaho sheriff wrote to fond mother in
Indiana the other day.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26
NEW GOODS!

Every department in my stock is
full, and prices are down to the very
lowest notch. | am confident that
no other house will do better by you
than mine. | respectfully solicit
your examination of my goods and
prices, before making your spring
purchase, believing that it will pay
you to do so.
H@- need money, and will there
fore sell cheap for CASH.
soft n. DANIsoN.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

o. T. Mohler has opened a furniture
store in the old Exchange Building, and
will aim to keep first class stock at all
times. He will also conduct the cabi-
net-making business in connection with
the furniture store
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The publishers Of tine Pittsburgh Evening
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proved and more convenient form. We have
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Folding and FASTING Machines, by means Of
which we present the Evening Telegraph to its
patrons In the efght-page form, with the leaves
cut and securely pasted together, 10 that IL may
be read as easily as a book
The TELEGRAPH viii aim 10 promote the
established principles Of the Republican party,
and wiz in the future, as in the past, oppose the
election 70 Office Of men not fully qualified, or
who shall by trickery, or any unfair means,
manage TO secuTa place on the ticket. Homes
ty and capacity only will receive our support
The Telegraph will cor tinue 10 publish all
The netcs Of The day at the earliest moment and
in such shape as to be aoeeptable to the most
critical reader.
The Evening Telegraph
In all its departments, win be, during thu year
1919, superior 70 the past, excellent as Il has
nAcen By general admission. No expense will be
Spared 10 keep the paper sIreast with the times,
ahd Its managers viii exert every effort that ex-
perisnce may suggest TO make It, If possible,
more attractive TO the general roa lcr.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

Mr.. J. D. Forquer is canvassing in
this community for sub-cribers for Mac
Gahan's work entitled campaigning ON
the Oxus." He is stopping At the Rus
sell House.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

The Rochester IN. ~ Express says
the peach trees throughout Northern,
Middle and Eastern New York, not
withstanding the cold weather, are all in
good condition. Apple, plum and cher
ry trees are also healthy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

ia Walker & Russell are offering
great inducements to cash customers call
and see them!