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New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-21

Society is an exchange where vain
people meet and dupe themselves and each
other.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-21

Berlin and zephyr worsteds, all colors, at
Nine. Rosal alReynoir's, No. Chartres street
New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-21

A man should keep on good terms with
himself and never get mad at fool.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-21

The sponge crop OF Florida does not turn
out this year so well as expected
New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-21

If courtship is bliss it does not follow that
matrimony is blister.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-21
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New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-21

A fashionable hop is an entertainment re
markabe for toadyism.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-21

Get your worsteds at Nine. Rosa Rey-
noir's, No. 8 Chartres street.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-21

A commercial tirm goes up when it's busi-
ness goes down.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-21
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The public are spe cally invited to examine this
magnificent stock, which for quality, variety and
extent is unrivaled by any previous importations
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New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-21

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feel cheap.
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05
The Groves of Morocco.

The groves of rose trees and the flow
er farms of Morocco are said by recent
traveller to exceed in extent and value
those of Damascus, or even those of the
Valley of Mexico. The general climate
of the country is very favorable to this
kind of culture. Swept alternately by
the breezes of the Atlantic and Medi-
terranean, and tempered by the SHOWS
of the Atlas ranges, the degree of heat
in Morocco is much lower than in AL
geria, while the soil is exceedingly
fertile. To the date, palm, and to orange
and to lemon trees the climate appears
to be especially suited, the dates Of
Ta6let having been famous even from
Roman times. The orange plantations
are of great extent in various parts of
the country, while olives and almonds
are also staples imported in large guam
titles, Seeing that this fertile land, Iy-
ing within five days steam of London,
produces so much vegetable wealth un-
der the most barbarous cultivation, it
appears extraordinary that European
enterprise does not, in such a climate,
seek profitable employment for its over
abundant capital in its application to the
development of such vast resources, so
close at hand, instead of going to so far
a field as Australia or America.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05
A Count in Disguise.

Omaha has discovered among her citi-
zens a scion ofan Hungarian royal house.
His name is George Szirmay, and his
rank count. About FIVE months ago
he came to Omaha, a moneyless man,
and obtained position as dishwasher
in an Omaha hotel at sixteen dollars a
month. While he was thus engaged, he
received box of goods, containing the
finest clothing and household articles
bearing the coat-of-arms of his family.
This led to the discovery of the true
character of the man. He confessed his
identity and told his story. He had
been chamberlain to the Emperor of
Austria, but having been deeply insulted
at court by an officer, and his wife dying,
he withdrew secretly from the country;
and came to America TO escape from the
indignity that had been cast upon him,
to drown his grief and TO make fortune
and a name in the new world. To sub
stantiate his statements, he showed let
tiers of the highest recommendation from
the consul at New York, and also dis
patch received from the Emperor of
Austria, stating that he was at liberty at
any time to return to his country. He
has relinquished his menial occupation,
but does not propose to return to Europe
where he has brother receiving an in
come of $4,000 from land property,
but to remain in America. Having once
Withdrawn from his country, and re-
nounced the patronage of royal hand
and nobility generally, he has made up
his mind never to betray a weakness by
returning and again bending the knee
to royalty. He will remain in Omaha
till about the 25th, when he is going to
St. Louis, and from there to New Or
leans, with a view practising, medicine
in the Crescent City, his education fit
ting him for the profession.-[Exchange.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05
Ohio Marriages.

The learned pundit, who thinks he
has made discovery of the fact that nine
tenths of the married people of Ohio
are not married at all, would better con
suit law student, of at least six week,
reading experience, before announcing
his next decision.
A little inquiry into the law of mar
riage might have shown the writer that
marriage may be entirely good in law
though not solemnized in accordance
with the statute in any respect In fact
it is not necessary that there should be
any license at all; and consequently, in
every case where the license was defec-
tive, the marriage, if contracted in good
faith, by competent parties, is good
and valid marriage. And the same
would be true even though no license
were had at all, and equally true, il
there were not even a statue in the State
regulating marriage. 1t has never vel
been held, in this or any other State,
and never will we make the venture
be held, that a marriage, contracted by
competent parties in good faith, solemn
lied in good faith, and so accepted and
considered by all parties, is illegal,
though it was not all done in conformity
with the statute. On the contrary, it
has been repeatedly ruled that all such
marriages are valid and in all respects
good and lawful
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05

Mrs. Fitzgerald, of San Antonio,
Texas, has taken a contract to grade
nineteen miles of railroad.
Beecherchuck is the name of Cairo,
(Ill.) Alderman.
According to Senator Jones, 10000
more persons settled in California last
year than left it.
William Billings, of Woodstock, VT,
has been stage driver to Windsor
county for forty-six years.
Elder Joseph Smith, son of the old
original Joe Smith, is lecturing on Nor
monism in Illinois. He denounces
polygamy.
Amos Clark of Tennessee, upon his
death bed expressed wish that twelve
fddlers should stand around his grave
and play "Old Dog Tray" The Widow
Clark saw il done.
Susan B. Anthony is maiden sister
of Mark. and came over to this country,
because of modification growing out of
her brothers naughty behavior in the
Cleopatra affair, thus anticipating Col
umbus in the discovery of America by
about fifteen hundred years.
Governor Osborn, of Kansas, has re-
ceived dispatches from Florence, Arizo-
ma, stating that the veritable old Bender
has been captured there, and the Gov
ernor has sent requisition for his de-
livery to the authorities of that State
On the death of one of England's
most eminent physicians; all his effects
were sold by auction, and among other
things was sealed packet, marked "Ad-
vice to Physicians" which brought
great price. The purchaser on opening
the packet, read as follows: keep the
head cool, the bowels open and the feet
warm" If physic is necessary, use
Parsons Purgative Pills; they are the
most scientifically prepared pill that has
in the last hundred years
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05
Three Little Brothers Peddling Bas-
kets Die Of the Cold in the Road
Parental Cruelty.

The particulars of a sad case Of death
town of Exeter, New York, during the
intensely cold weather of last week.
The victims were three boys, named
Patrick, Martin and Michael O'Brien
the first aged eight, the second ten, and
the third eleven years. They were
brothers, living with their parents in
Exeter. The father and mother are lazy
and dissipated people, and live on the
fruits of the labor of heir children, who
were seven in number. The four oldest
made baskets and three others just nam
ed travelled on foot about the country
selling them.
On Tuesday last the thermometer in
the town of Exeter marked twenty i've
degrees below zero. Mr.. and Mrs.
O'Brien told their three little children
that they must start out with a lot of
baskets. The boys begged to be allowed
to wait until the weather moderated.
| They were poorly clad and were barely
able to keep warm in the miserable house
in which the family lived. The brutal
| parents forced them with threats and
beatings, however, to go out with the
baskets. They started in the direction
of Westville, some miles distant, over a
| bleak and desolate road, hilly, and in
some places badly drifted. Each boy
/ had a number of baskets tied to him
reaching above his head. When last
seen alive by any of the family they
were struggling mp the hill away from
the house, two of them weeping bitter
ly. They never reached Westville.
Wednesday morning gentleman, while
driving from Westville over the Exeter
road, saw the bodies of three children
lying in the road. Each had a number
| largest of the three had his arms around
the neck of the smallest. 1t needed but
a glance to enable the gentleman to see
that the boys were dead, and had doubt
less been frozen to death. There were
frozen traces of tears on the cheeks of
each one. The bodies were taken to
Westville, where they were recognized
as those of three little basket peddlers
who were we'll known throughout the
section. They were taken home, and
when it was learned that the little fel-
lows had been driven out in the cold to
sell their baskets the popular indigna-
tion was intense against the parents. If
there is any legal punishment, it will be
invoked on the unnatural father and
mother
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05
French Colleges.

A movement now being made in
France to improve the condition of the
French colleges has brought to light
some facts which are astonishing, as to
the general Indulgence and inefficiency of
the institutions of learning in that coun-
try. Even the College of France, in
Paris, is so poorly endowed that it was
obliged to decline, recently, a very val
liable geological collection which had
been bequeathed by the late Ellie de
Beaumont, because it had not funds with
which to provide properly for the care
of it. Such collections as it possesses
are stored away like so much rubbish. /.
aud it actually has no library. The
provincial colleges are said to be wretch
edly poor, and $50 year is the average
There are forty three faculties scattered
over twenty-five towns, which consist of
only four or FIVE professors each, and
whose course of teaching is limited to
two years. Unless these facts are exag-
gerated, there can be no doubt that it
was the schoolmaster who triumphed in
the late conflict between Germany and
France. If the Gauls ever expect to
have their day of revenge they must
borrow hint from the Teutonic schools
before they go into training for it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05
Tilton at Hinsted.

The following is the testimony in the
Beecher trial, of Mr.. Rufus f. Holmes,
in regard to Tilton's hotel performance
at Winsted. Mr. H. was the only eve
witness to this affair, except the parties
themselves, and his evidence has been
admitted, as affecting the moral charac-
ter of the plaintiff. 1t shows that
brother Tilton also, had a weakness for
Strange women"
l reside at Winsted, Connecticut, and
am Vice President of bank there. l
was President OF the Young Mems
Christian Association in 1869 and 1870.
I remember Mr.. Tiiton lecturing there
in December; I met him at the station
and took him to the Beardsley House.
He was accompanied by lady about
twenty-seven or twenty eight years OF
age. Laughter from counsel for pros
ecution, in which the audience Joined.
I called on Tilton in the Evening, and
knocked on his door twice; there was no
reply; I knocked third time, and then
was going away, when lady opened
the door-the same lady who accompan-
led him; she said Mr. Tilton was lying
down; I saw him lying on the back side
of bed, and the clothes turned down;
he had nothing on but his shirt, pants
and stockings; the lady's hair was dis
heveled; Mr.. Tilton said the lady had
been reading him asleep; there was no
appearance of the school girl in this
person; she was full grown woman.
Cross-examined-I went to the room
door and knocked; I did not try the
door when ! knocked the second time; !
heard no noise; when took a step away
I heard a rustic or movement in the
room; when l heard the noise l stopped,
and the door opened and the lady show
ed herself; I mentioned to her that Mr..
Tilton wanted me to show him the
church where he was to lecture. The
lady said he had lain down to rest. This
was in the winter, in December, When
she said this, l said I would call again,
and Tilton said wait minute and l will
go with you. The bed was behind the
door, and when Tilton said this. the
door was thrown wide open. There was
no effort at concealment after the door
was opened, nor do know that the lady
was endeavoring to conceal anything
She said she had been reading Tilton
asleep. The book she was reading was
think, Millions paradise Lost" Mr.
Tilton lectured before the Association
that night; I introduced him to several
parties after the lecture, among these tc
my family; 1 was first notified to appear
here on Thursday at the request of Mr.
Hill
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05
Another Talking Machine.

An ingenious mechanician connected
with the Patent Office. who saw Faber's
talking machine when it was exhibited
in Washington two years ago, has con-
strncted enc on an improved principle.
When wound up, an expert performer
on the keys attached to fit can make it
pronounce distinctly all the elements of
speech. Could one be set up at either
end of the Capitol, to be run ten hours
a day, for the benefit of the stenographic
reporters, Senators and Representatives
could furnish their quotas of political
harangues, without encroaching upon
their offiee-hunting labors at the depart
ments. AS for the ideas, why Librarian
Spoford could supply them to prefor-
mers as he now gives them to profession
al speech-writers.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05

LAND IN THE SoUTH.-The ST. Louis
Globe makes a point in this paragraph:
The Chicago Tribune calls for divis-
ion of land at the South. 1t is quite
confident that it has found the solution
of all the difficulty that hinders the de-
velopment Of the Southern States. It
probably has no reference to New Or
leans and Little Rock: but then the
vast plantations of the South are main
" unbroked. Lord bless you, Brother
Medilll you can have a slice off any
plantation from Virginia TO Texas.
They lay unbroken, for lack OF some
one to do the breaking. The want is,
not to find men to sell, but men to buy.
Plantations whole. and plantations by
the arpent, are open to all corners.
Blacks or whites are equally welcome
if they have the cash. "Land monopo-
ly" is indeed terrible grievance; but
in this case the land holds the people,
not the people the lands,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05
Birch ON congressman.

The New York Sun is responsible for
this:
cad" said Mr. Birch at the San
Francisco Minstrels, "Ad. where's your
brother Ebenezer? h'ain't seem him
around for year or two"
"Ebenezer?" said Mr.. Ryman, refec-
lively. "Ebenezer has gone away for a
few years"
Anything happened to him?"
"Well, yes. To tell you the truth,
Billy, Ebenezer fell into bad habits. He
lost that fine perception which enables
man to distinguish between his own
property and that of his fellows, so that
he forgot himself at times and became
absorptive to that degree that he scoop
ed in, as it were, any little portable ar
ticle he came across, no matter to whom
it belonged"
Your narrative grieves me, said Mr..
Birch. ''It lacerates me deeply to know
that Ebenezer should have so lost his
memory, and I should think it would
have made trouble"
at did" said Ad. "The people called
in the police. Ebenezer protested at the
trial that his prosecutors were trying to
blackmail him, but the judge said that
Ebenezer had been stealing, apd he sent
him to State Prison for five years. By
the way, Mr.. Birch, I have not seen
your brother Eliphalet for year or two.
I do sincerely trust that nothing has
happened to Eliphalet."
"Liph?" said Mr.. Birch. "Liph is all
right He went to Congress a couple O.
years ago, and he's stealin' yet"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05
The Black Hills Gold Hunters.

SIOUX CITY. IA, March John
Gordon, who led the Black Hills ex-
pedition from here in October last, re-
turned to-day, and fully confirms the
reports telegraphed Saturday night
The party remaining in the Hills mum
bers twenty-six; they are we'll satisfied
with the prospects. strongly fortified
and anxiously waiting the coming o.
reinforcements. Gordon returns about
the middle OF April, and is confident he
can make the trip in twenty days with
mules teams. He brings letters TO friends
of the party remaining in the Hills, and
fine specimens of gold.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05
Veteran Pensioners

AT the late payment of the amount of
pensions due the veterans of the war of
1872, in New York, some peculiar and
interesting facts were developed. the re-
cipients included 200 widows and 500
men. At the same time seven widows
whose husbands served under Washing
ton also drew their pensions. Two of
them are centenarians. Among the
leading names in the veterans of 1872
are Ex-Governor Dix and Thurlow
Weed, the latter having served as a fifer
in the battle of Lewiston He gives his
pension to widow Mrs. Cream with
whose mother he had boarded sixty
years ago, when working at the printers
trade along with the Harpers. Joseph
Warren and Selleck Nichols are among
the rickest of the survivors, the former
being estimated at S4,0O0,0OO. Both
give away their pensions, and Mr.. Mich
OILS sends his to the widow of an old
comrade. Amelia Brown, the widow of
General Jacob Brown, (who did such
good service at Sackett's Harbor) re-
ceives $500 year A few succeeding
years will remove these veterans to the
grave, and it IS we'll to reward their SER
vices while an opportunity is left.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05

Squire Wallace was n captain in the
militia; and one day, after the training
was over, and just before the men were
dismissed from parade, he took guard
with him and made a prisoner of Pat
Sweeney, who was a powerful drinker
drinking almost as much at time as
a camel. Pat" says he, II seize you
in the Kings name" "Me" says Pat,
scratching his head, and looking abroad,
bewildered like: "I'm not a smugglerl
Touch me if you dare" 81 seize you,"
says he, "for violation of the excise
law, for carrying about you more than a
gallon of rum without a permit, and to-
morrow | shall sell you by auction to
the highest bidder. You are forfeited
article, and could knock you on the
head and let il out, if liked, SO no
nonsense, man." And he sent him off
to Jail screaming and screeching like
mad, he was so frightened. The next
day Pat was put up for auction, and
knocked down to his wife, who bid him
in for 40s.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05
Not To Be Counted.

The Auburn Advertiser recalls an in
cident of the Electoral College which
met at Albany in the winter of 1929 to
cast the vote of New York State for
President of the United States. Andrew
Jackson, of Tennessee. and John Quincy
Adams, of Massachusetts,, were the lead
ing candidates, one elector put into the
hat, by accident, the card of his landla-
dy, which he mistook for the ballot
Ex-Governor Joseph c. Yates was the
President of the College, and when the
Secretary of the State, who was Secretary
of the College by virtue OF his office,
announced the result, the Ex-Governor,
in his characteristic style, declared the
result of the ballot to the College as fol-
lows: "Gawntlemen-You have cast
twenty-four ballots for Andrew Jackson,
of Tennessee; four for John Quincy
Adams, of Massachusetts,; and one vote,
gawntlemen, what it isn't worth while
to say nothing at all about"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05
As a Woman Looks to a Preacher
REV. Charles Kingsley's "Hypatia-'l


A woman of some two-and-twentv
summers, formed in the most voluptu-
Gus mould of Grecian beauty, whose COM
plexion showed every violet vein
through its veil of luscious brown. Her
little bare feet, as they dimpled the
cushions, were more perfect than
Aphrodite's, softer than a swans bosom
Every swell of her bust and arms show
ed through the thin gauze robe, while
her lower limbs were wrapped in a
shawl of orange silk, embroidered with
wreaths of shells and roses. Her dark
hair lay carefully spread out upon the
pillow, in thousand ringlets entwined
into gold and jewels; her languishing
eyes blazed like diamonds from cavern
under eyelids darkened and deepened
with black antimony; her lips pouted OF
themselves, by habit or nature, into a
perpetual kiss; slowly she raised one
little lazy hand; slowly the ripe lips
opened; and in a most pure and melodi-
GUS Attic she lisped her huge lovers
question to the monk, and repeated ii
before the boy could shake Oh the spell
and answer
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05

The English Government is prepar-
ing to send out Polar expedition. 1t
will take the track of the American dis
covery through Bafin's Bay and Smith s
Sound, up with Hayes and Hall pro-
ceeded to a higher latitude than had
been reached by former explorers. The
path to the Pole may be said to have
been pointed out by these intrepid men,
and they would unquestionably have
pushed on to the Pole but for unfore-
seen obstacles and disasters. The Eng
lish expedition, better provided than
they were, and proiting by their exper-
fence. will stand fair chance of an i'm
mortality Of honor. Yet were our own
Government as liberal as the English,
the discovery of the Pole might be re-
served for American navigators-rCin-
cinnati Commercial.