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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19
CORRECTED WEEKLY BY A. r. Yosr.i
PRODUCE
Somerset GrRin Market,
CORRECTED BY AsHBRooK A cc
Stock Markets.

CINCINNATI, February 1S.-Cattle-
Market has ruled steady and firm all
day for all grades at the following
range of prices, viz: Common 304c,
fair to medium 44@5c, good butchers
and shippers 54@6c. No extra grades
offering.
HoGs-Market quiet but firm. Sales
ranged as follows, viz; Common grades
Sc 2596 65, fair to medium packing So
8097, good packing 81 1907 35, and
choice butchers 81 1907 55; bnlk of
sales from Sc 9OG7 25. About 800 head
lefl over unsold.
SHEEP-Supply rather light and
market firm at from 4IM5fc for lower
grades, and 53@6I for fair to extra quail
tiles.
EAST LIBERTY, February IS.-The
receipts of Cattle to-day were ! 1926 head
and for two days 1870 head; supply
light and demand good, but not much
change in prices; quality generally good,
best Sc 25CG6 rs, medium to good SIS so
@6 10, common to fair 81 75@5 25, no
stoclers, Bulls S3@4 %. The receipts
of Hogs to-day were 2,750 head, and for
two days past 3,075 head; Workers Sc 65
@6 so, Philadelphia SS(d)8 35. The re-
ceipts of Sheep to-day were $40 head,
and for two days past $500 head, good
$696 so, medium $595 IS.
BUFFALO, February 1S.-Market gen.
orally dull and seminally unchanged.
Receipts of Cattle 425, total for the
week 5,47l; market moderately active
and strong at yesterdays prices Re
ceipts of Sheep and Lambs 1000, total
for the week 10000; market dull, owners
holding for advance; Western $5(G6 371
according to quality. Receipts of Hogs
2,100, totrl for the week $500; Workers
Sc 1907 10, heavy 81 1907 35. Light
Stock in poor demand.
PITTsBURG, February 1s.-Wheat
quiet and unchanged. Ear Corn firm at
74976c, shelIed 73974c Crude Petro-
leum 81 7561 80 at Parker's; refined
lac, Philadelphia delivery.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

The Baltimore and Ohio, and the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad Compan-
les are at war with each other. The diff
ficulty between these great corporations
has already brought about a very con-
siderable reduction in passenger rates on
the lines of the respective companies
The B. & o. Company have announced
the following reductions:
Washington, from Sl9 to $40; between
Cincinnati and Baltimore and Washing
ton, from SIG to SO; between st. Louis
and baltimore and Washington. from
S23 to SIS; between Louisville and Bal
timore and Washington, from $50 to $40
between Pittsburg and Baltimore and
Washington, form So so to So. A SINH
lar reduction has also been made be-
tween Philadelphia and Chicago, Gin
cinnati, St. Louis, Louisville and Pitts
burg. These reductions take effect at
once 1t IL understood that the Balti
more and Ohio Co. is arranging for a
line of first-class steamships for the con-
veyance of freight between New York
and Baltimore.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19
LIVELY SCENE IN CONGRESS.
Disagreement Between Ben Butler
and a Fiery Member from the Lone
Star State-A Row, and Almost
Fight.

1t occurred during a debate on the
Civil Rights bill, and is thus described
by a correspondent of the Chicago Times:
He (ButIer proceeded to stigmatize, by
inference. the majority of the people of
South as murderers, banditti, and horse
thieves. This remark stirred up the
Southern mem bers, and they came crow
ding down to the front, with eyes fash
ing and threatening looks. They were
uuwise in this. Randall said during
the row, at don't amount to shucks,"
and that they should consider the source
of the remarks before becoming offended.
The uproar and! hubbub was so great
that when Mclean, of Texas, called out
TO Butler, You are the only murderer
I know of; you murdered a man in New
Orleans" he did not at first hear it.
Some other words were exchanged, when
a member ran TO Butler and told him
what Mclean had said. Butler then
bounded out in front of the Speakers
desk, and roared at Mclean that the
time had long gone by when such ruff
fanly, supplementary, and ungentle-
manly language could frighten anybody
There was now one of those lively scenes
that occasionally occur upon the floor Of
the House. Confusion reigned supreme
for a moment, while Blaine pounded
away vigorously with his gavel. As
soon as order was partially restored, Mr..
| Blaine condemned McLean's language
as grossly unparliamentary.
Mclean said he had understood But
| Ter as calling the people of the South
murderers, banditti, and horse-thieves-
Butler denied this, and then, to save
any more recrimination, the House wait
ed fifteen minutes for the shorthand re-
porter to transcaibe Buffers words, as
taken down. The scene was made fur
ther interesting by Butler saying that
il was true he had hung a man in New
Orleans. He was proud of it, and was
only sorry that he had not hung more.
When his words were read, it was seen
that he had not openly charged the
Southern people with being murderers
and the like.
Butler gave way for Lynch, the col
cred Mississippi member, and he be
gan to speak, but the confusion was SO
great that he could not be heard.
Lamar, of Mississippi, ran over to
Lynch, and got him to yield a moment
and then Lamar called the attention OF
the Chair to the language used by But
Ter in reply to Mclean, and asked i
that was nof unparliamentary. He wan
ted censure visited where it belonged
Pelham, of Indiana, crowded in from
of Lamar at this. ''God damn it," said
he, there is going to be fight now
There was another erowding of mem
bers to the front, during which De Witt
of New York, had some words with
Butler. Butler told him to get out o
the crowd, and stop mixing with othel
peoples quarrels. Then De Witt wen
right over to Butler and shook his fis
in his face, to show him that he wa!
not afraid to talk without permission
The enmity between these men is espec
iaI, because De Witt is attorney in 4;
case against Butler to recover money
taken by the latter, during the war
from New Orleans bank
The Speaker then enlivened matters
by ruling Buffers language also unpar
liamentary.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19
An Accident That Might Have Been
Worse.

Last Wednesday week, Mr.. Isaac W.
Cooper, of Clayton township. met with
an accident that came near resulting in
his death. He was in the woods and
was telling a tree of considerable size.
When it gave Indications of falling he
started axe in hand, in an opposite direc-
tion from that which he supposed the
tree would take, but CHANGING to look
back discovered to his horror that it was
falling to o~ard and was nearly on him.
A hasty glance to the right and left
showed him fallen timbers and brush so
thickly strewn as to make his escape
doubtful, but nerving himself to the
task he leaped TO one side just in time
to escape the body of the tree but was
caught by one of the larger of its bran
ches, which Tapped over his right leg
below the knee and held him firmly to
the ground. The weather was intensely
cold and Mr.. Cooper realizing that un-
less he could get released he must freeze
to death in a few hours, commenced call
ing for help, but as there was no one
within hearing distance he cast about
for some other means of escape, when
seeing his axe which was fortunately
within his reach he seized it and with one
hand succeeded in severing the branch
between his pinioned leg and the tree,
but owing to the weight of the limb and
his exhausted condition he was still un-
able TO free himself and was compelled
to commence the task of chopping of
the branch above his leg. After hard
struggle he succeeded in obtaining his
liberty but his injuries were so painful
he could not walk. After a short rest
he dragged himself to pile of brush and
selecting forked stick converted it in
to crutch and with its assistance man.
aged to reach his home where he is still
confined.
Mr.. Cooper undoubtedly owes his
/ life to the fortunate circumstance OF
having his axe within reach at the time
of the accident, as he would have frozen
to death before any one would have
thought of looking after him.-[ New
Lexington Tribune, 18th.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

THE QUEEN CT ALL SEWING Ma
CHINEs.-In speaking of the merits of
the Wilson Shuttle Sewing Machine, it
is sufficient for us to say that we think
the invention of this machine marks
one of the most important eras in the
history of this country; and when We
consider the influence it has upon the
social well-being of the masses, it is
difficult to conceive of an invertion of
more importance. 1t has beautiful,
noiseless movement; it makes the gen.
uine "Lock- Stitch" alike on both sides,
and does to perfection a II kinds of plain
and fine sewing; it needs no commend
alton; its rapid sales, the increasing de-
mand, and the many lattering testimon-
ials from those who have used it is
sufficient proof of its merits. The want
of sewing machine is deeply felt in
every household, and as the Wilson
Shuttle Sewing Machine, on account of
iIs extreme simplicity and less cost of
manufacture, is sold at much lower
price than all other irst-class machines,
it is meeting with the extensive paIron-
age that it so justly deserves. Machines
will be delivered at any Railroad Sta
tion in this county, free of transporta-
tion charges, if order through the Com
pany's Branch House at 327 and 329
Superior Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
They send an elegant catalogue and
chrome circular free on application.
This Company want a few more good
agents.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19
A Bankers View of the Currency.

A few months since the Cincinnati En-
qaSirer interviewed John G. Deshler,
banker, of Columbus, Ohio. Mr.. Desh-
Ter is man of established character and
long experience in finance. He is in
favor of pure greenback paper curren-
cy, opposed to the repeal of the Nation
al Bank charters, in favor of the 3-65
Bonds and opposed tc initiation and
specie basis if forced by legislation but
in favor of going to specie by the high
way of necessity.
These views, at first sight, seem con-
Trajectory and irreconcible but his rea-
soning makes them dove tail together as
neatly as if they were all of the same
solid metallic accretion.
For the benefit of the readers of the
Somerset Ohio Press, and the public gen
orally, I will attempt to condense his
views.
Greenbacks should be the exclusive
paper currency because there is profit in
furnishing it and nobody has a better
right to this profit than the General
Government
National Bank paper is good enough
but not better than greenbacks A re-
peal of the National Banking law before
the charters expire, though within the
powers of Congress, would array the
whole consolidated influence of the
banks against the party attempting it,
and would do this because the charters
are to run 20 years from date, and to cut
them short would be regarded as an
Infringement upon the terms of the
charter.
Allow all the charters to expire by
their own limitations, or the banks 70
wind up of their own free will, as many
are doing every year, and refuse to char
ter any more, but allow Greenbacks to
take the place of the black backs as fast
as these are retired, until greenbacks oc-
cupy the aohole field of paper money cir
culation.
Up to the time of the Jay Cook PAN
ic in 1873 there was no complaint of
scarcity of circulation There is as
much money to-day as the day before
that panic but it will not circulate.
Like the blood in human veins it will
not circulate. It's failure to circulate is
not because there is not enough Of it,
but because it has become stagnant. So
has our money circulation become stag
nant-there is as much of it as usual but
1t will not circulate as usual.
THE CAUSE OF sTAGNATIoN
is due to the fact that when Cook failed
many of the banks were taken by sur
prise-suspended payment of deposits
and this created distrust, people began
to withdraw deposits and those who had
money refused to deposit, every man be-
came the custodian of his own money
and refused to tell anybody he had
money for fear of the importantly of
friends, or the raid of robbers. And so
1t remained for months, until people be-
gan to think there was no money left,
or if there was, what had become of 1t.
The banks suffered with all the rest, for
people would not, and will not now,
trust them with much over half the de-
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19
Soldiers BOunties.

An important measure relating to the
equalization of soldsers' bounties, recent
ly received the sanction of the National
House of Representatives, and it is be-
heved that it will also go through the
Senate without serious opposition. The
bill provides that "there shall be paid
to every non-commissioned officer? musi-
clan, artifcer, WAGNER, and private, who
served during the war, the sum Of S8-335
amonth, deducting all bounties hereto
fore paid under the United States or State
law. If such soldier is dead, payment
to be made to the widow, if she has not
married, and in case she has, to minor
children. Substitutes, and those dis,
charged, except for disability or to rein
list, are excluded from the provisions ot
the act" The bill which appropriate'
between twenty and thirty millions Of
dollars, was passed by a vote Of 179 tc
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19
One Man in Colorado Disperses
Thirty Vigilants, killing Three.

ST.. LOUIS, February 16.-A special
from Topeka, Kansas, says that near
Helena, Colorado, on the Sth inst, thir-
ty vigilants went to the house of one
Gibbs, and on his refusing to deliver
himself to them to be hung, set fire to
the house in which were Mr.. Gibbs, two
women and several children. Gibbs
leaps out through the flames with n re-
volver, and shot three of the party dead
and wounded fourth, when the rest
took to their heels and fed. Gibbs had
recently been acquitted on charge of
murder, and the vigilants proposed to
take a summary appeal from the decis-
ion which set him at liberty.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19
Up and be doing.

Each tick of the clock brings us near
er the day of the last KY, Library
Drawing. Those who would participate
in it, must cup and be doing" for it is
just at hand, and once gone, it is gone
forever. Fortunes will be given to ma
ny on the 9th; to whom, none can tell
but to some person very certainly, and
then, gamers and losers alike will have
the compliment of the grandest Concert
ever given in the West, provided they
are TO any extent holders of shares in
the drawing.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

We noticed in one of our exchanges
this week the statement of Dea. John
Hodgkins, of South Jefferson, Me-,
whose son was cured of incipient con-
sumption by the use of Johnson's An
odyne Liniment. We refer to this at
this time as tending to corroborate the
statement we made last week in relation
to this Liniment as applied to con-
SUMPTION
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19
Three Children Burned to Death
Through Carelessness of Parents.

MCCoNNELLsBURG, Pa, February g.
The residence of D. B. Mellott, of
this county, was burned, and three of
his children burned to death. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mellott went away on a visit and
left the children locked in the house.
On their return a few hours afterward
they found the bones of the children
among the ruins
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

If Congress had employed as much
scientific skill in the arrangement of its
Reconstruction Policy" at the close,
as the War Department did in the be-
ginning of the war, in arranging for
the manufacture of what was called
Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders
for the use of the Cavalry horses, no
doubt the Union would have been re-
stored long ago Exchange
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

AT West Jefferson, Ohio, on Wednes-
day evening, horrible death, by coal
oil, occurred. As the wife of William
Stratton was attending to her domestic
duties, small child upset the coal oil
lamp. She picked it up and it explod-
ed in her hand, throwing a fame of fire
over her, which consumed her clothes
and caused almost instant death She
was found shortly after her death by her
husband.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

A traveller in Nevada recently stopped
overnight at house by the wayside,
and in the morning, while looking out
of the kitchen window, saw the man of
the house selecting stick from the
wood-pile, while at the same moment
the woman who was IN the room seized
a long pudding stick. In answer to a
look of inquiry on the face of the guest
she said: "You see the old man is arm
ing, and l must be prepared" The
traveller, feeling no interest in the com
ing contest, left at once without waiting
for his breakfast
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

In 1875, as In 1894, Western Pennsyl-
vania has objections to the practice of
taxing whisky. BY the way, some one
recollected that President Washington,
in the last named year, described the
masked Pennsylvania night-riders, call
ing themselves Tom.the- -Tinksr's-B Boys,
as "armed banditti."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

Three sisters of Dubuque, are SO set
in their Temperance principles, that they
make the hired girl smell the breath of
every gentleman caller and report the
result before admittance to the parlor
can be obtained.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

A Danbury boy is preparing for Con-
gress. He is so far gone as to have said
in debating club oration that "the
name of the late Charles Sumner will
go crashing down the centuries. -
News
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

a Montana editor bemoans the Gala
mites of 1874 in the following touching
strain: "First, that Beecher business,
then the grasshoppers, then the Demo
cratic victories, and now an increased
tax on whisky. What is this poor coun-
try coming tor"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19
"Our Local Interests. :"

His Lecture will be prepared
with great care and labor, and
his aim will be to rekindIe the
same fame of devotion to "Our
Local Interests" which lit up
the pathway to success in our
railroad campaigns. He will
not hesitate to assert, among
other topics, the right and duty
of our people to demand a vote
on the
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

Near Belmont, Michigan, Friday, a
boy six years old was sent to school
considerable distance from home. The
weather was intensely cold, and when
the little fellow started home after
school, he soon became chilled, aud ly-
ing down in the snow, soon lost his SEN
ses. When found several hour~ later,
life was extinct. He died in short
time. His parents are Hollanders.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19
COUNTY SEAT QUESTION

and appeal to that justice inherent the peo-
pie and demonstrate the feasibility when appeal
made Let his audience correspond intelligence
lofty aims Ladies will be pay
for the benefit of the poor paying expenses
W. H. Darst will act Treasurer
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

More people have been frozen to death
this winter in the United States than are
likely to be struck by lightning this
year. Twenty deaths from cold are re-
ported from Kansas alone.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

2,i7s Cash Gifts, amounting iO......,..si, 10000
NUMBER OF TICKETS, 100, 600
PRICE OF TLcEETN

NUMBER OF TICKETS, 100000.
PRICE or TICKETS
hoie LOO
1000
300
kiRnthH or ench upon.s.s..s-.s. Aau
DIa llcketB lOON
The Mountpelier Humane ANuocintlou char
tered by the Legislature Of Virginia and che
Circuit Court Of Orange CO, proposes by q grand
Gift Concert 90 establish aud endow a Home for
the Old, Inhrm, and Destitute Ladies Of Virgin
Ia, AZ Montpelier the former residence Of rrrrl-
dent James Madison.
Cows. OFFIcE, RICHMOND, July g. 1874
Il Affords me pleasure 20 say that I am well
with large majority u the oficers
OF the h hountpelier Female Humane Association,
who reside In the vicinity Of my home and i
attest their intelligence and their worth and
public confidence, influence aud substantial
means literally represented among them.
JANIS l.. kEMrER, Gov. Virginia
ALExANDR1A, Va, July 8. ts7a.-
! commend them nv gents of honor and integrity
and fully entitled % the eosadesos q the pub
II. W. Hughes, Z s. Judge Eaat'n Dist. OF Va
Further references BY permission His Encci-
lency Gilbert &. Walker, EM-Guvermor uf Va.
Hon Robert r. Withcrs, Lieut-tiov. Of Va. aud
Y. = Senator elect Senators and Members Of
Congress from Va.
Remittanccs for tickets may be made by ex-
press. prepaid, post-ofhce money y-urder on Wash
ington, ID. C., or by registered letter.
For fun particulars, Testimonials, dc send for
circular. address
Hox. JAMS RAHnorR.
Pres't. ~. =. a. A., Alexandra, Va.
Reiia Bile agents wanted every here
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

Several cases of smallpox are repor
ted at Logan.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

Charles Lamb, Essayist. denounced
all spirtuous liquors as "Wet Damna-
ton" Poor fellow; he knew whereof he
spake, by sad experience, and if living,
would apply the same to Alcoholic Ex-
citants, advertised as Curealls. But
there is one Tonic and Alternative in ex-
istence-the best the world has ever
known-which contains no alcohol. 1t
is DR.. Walkers California Vinegar Bit
terg 1wd2
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

Mrs. Hooper, in a recent Paris letter
TO the Philadelphia Press, gives this ac-
court of an experiment in natural histo-
ry; zone often reads in the daily news
papers and elsewhere of the discovery of
live toads in the center of trees or inside
of apparently solid stone. A French
naturalist, NJ. Margelidet, has just pub
lished the results of an experiment of
that nature. On the 18th of January,
in the year 1870, he caused cavity to
be followed in a large stone, put a toad
into the cavity, and then sealed up the
mouth of the cavity with impermeable
cement. The other day, on the 18th of
this month, five years, day for day, since
he had put the poor creature into dur
ance vile, he broke open the cavity, at
the Museum of Natural History, and
found the toad within alive and we'll,
though in torpid condition. Nor has
it since its release taken any nourish-
ment whatever"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19
HORT POSTPONEMENT DAY
FIXED-FULL Distribution.

FIRST Grand GIFT CONCERT
Montpelier Female Humane Asso-
citation,
AT ALEXANDRIA. VA.
MARCH 20, 1874.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19
st. Louis and Morgan County Mining
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