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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

The Attorney General has decided
a question of naturalization recently
submitted to- him by the Depart
ment of State. The facts, briefly,
are that Mr.. A.ESteinkoolen, a Prus-
sian subject by birth, immigrated to
the United States in 1S49, and was
naturalized in 1854. When he re-
turned to Germany he took with
him his son, then aged four years,
born in the United States. The son
is now twenty years old. The ques-
tion at issue rose as to the son owing
military service IN Germany. The
Attorney General comes to thecon-
clusion that the boy has two nation
alities, one natural and the other ac-
lquired. The father returning to
Germany and resuming his allegi-
-ance, the SON partakes of the status
of the father. Being minor, and
having enjoyed the protection of the
German Government, he, for the
time being, or until of age, owes
military duty, the obligations being
reciprocal; but when the boy be-
of age, he can return to the United
States as. an American citizen, with
all the rights and privileges as such,
and would even be eligible to the
Presidency of the United States.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

Few people have any idea of the ex.
tent of forest land in Germany, and
most imagine that of the Black Forest
little is left except tradition and a
conventional blister of woodland 40
named. On the contrary, in Hanover
alone there are 100000 acres of wood
under state management, while nearly
one fourth part of the area of Prussia is
in forest, although half of that is in pri-
yate hands. As is we'll ll-known, the forest
administration in particular districts has
long been famous, especially in Thurin-
gia and the Hartz mountains. In North
Germany generally the responsibilities
are allotted in districts among careful
ly organized body Of officers presided
over by forest director.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02
A Suffering Capitalist.

"Yes, these are awful hard times, y
said La Sale street broker, as he stood
on his steps, talking to friend last
evening.
mighty tough, expect" was the re.
ply.
"Why," said the broker, "Ive been in.
vesting and investing for year back
pile of money, I assure you--and
find have been losing like fury"
+ sgndeed2"
''True as I am living. If I've lost q
cent, I've lost more than $500, 900"
"No?"
"Certain," continued the broker, and
make me feel. the worst; is that fully
$50 of it was my o,UnP'
Then the friends retired to a secluded
place and "smiled."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02
Publishers of Newspapers.

And more particularly local newspa-
pers, have to depend mainly upon their
advertising columns for their support.
Yet how many are there who seem not
to realize this fact. Instead of giving
their paper a liberal advertising patron
age, they perhaps give it none; and if a
levee or entertainment is got up in the
place, the paper is expected TO notice it
for nothing.
Now if all the patronage that paper
can expect is that of the locality for
whose interest it works, it would seem
that every one should give 1t the advertis-
ing that legitimateIy belongs to it, and not
try to get it without paving for it..
There is class of people that seem to
begrndge every dollar that goes to their
local papers; and still borrow it and
read t, and are the severest critics of its
shortcomings.
The publisher has TO pay foE labor and
paper, and every notice of any kind, in
the nature of an advertisement he ought
to have his pay for. He has got to get
his living out of his advertising col
umns, and any society or individual
can with just as much propriety beg
five dollars of any other individual, as
to expect it gratuitously of newspa-
per.
Any man who does not think enough
of his towns paper; and every trader
who does not believe in advertising,
should move into some town where they
have no paper.-[Gardiner Journal.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

HONOR TO THE VETERANs.--Honor
also 10 the inventors whose genius have
emancipaied the face Of women from the
drudgery of the needle. Honor above
all to a irm which like the Wilson Sew
ing Machine Company, di-tributes it's
machines broadcast throughout the land
at prices that even the poor and humble
can afford to pay. A first-class machine
for fifty dollarsl This is the proclama-
ton Of the Wilson Sewing Com
pany to the people. Machines will be
delivered at any Railroad Station in
this county, free Of transportation
charges, If ordered through the Come
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. sea 81
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02
Greenbacks And Taxes.

Government securities, or promises to
pay, are not taxable, and greenbacks not
being money, but an unredeemed prom
ise to pay money, are not liable to State
or municipal taxation. While this is
true as to greenbacks, money is taxable
by State and municipal authority as
personal property. In some States every
man is Obliged to make a return. under
oath, of the personal property held by
him on given day. In lucidation of the
fact here stated, the Journal of Com
me -ce reports that citizen of Boston,
feeling himself aggrieved by what he
deemed little sharp practice in the col
lection of taxes, turned all his personal
roperty into greenbacSs and made q
special deposit of it in bank over the re-
urn day. He then returned it as in
vested in Government securities and
Jared the assessors 20 levy a tax on it.
They did rot push him to pay, but kept
verv still about it, for fear the habit
might be catching.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

The crop of melons in Florida this
year viii lie unprecedently large, and TO
dispose of them pro6tably has been
matter of serious concern TO all the
growers. Superintendent Hains. of the
Atlantic and Gulf Rrilroad, while in
Florida about ten days ago, saw this diff
icnlfy, and Immediately set TO work TO
remedy il. He wrote TO persons in sew
e-al of the western cities, offering to
place watermelons in those markets by
express trains, fresh and good. The
idea was Immediately taken up, several
merchants guaranteeing TO dispose of
twenty carloads twenty thousand) of
melons per week. Mr.. Haines imme-
diately notified the Floridians of tie
prospect, and they assert that they@c can
furnish two hundred car loads (twohun-
dred thousand) of melons between now
and the 9Th of July. The cars of the
Gulf road not being adapted to some of
the western tracks, the Green Life cars
can only be used, and he has written on
all sides of them. These cars are to be
partly open, so as to allow the air to
pass through, and will have psinted on
their sides, Fruit Car, A. & G. r. r.. -
The first train of seven scrs left Live
Oak yesterday, and goes directly 10 Chi
cago. 4 second of fourteen cars has
gone down to load, and will leave
Tuesday mornii g, and as many cars as
can be laden with this fruit and be for
warded. On the 2Sth of this month a
monster train of melons will be dis
patched, which will also take with it a
delegation of the Florida fruit growers
to Chicago, who go for the purpose of
10 king around, and making this a per-
manent BUSH ess.-Savanah News.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02
-Destructive Strom And
Floods.

LONDON, June 2S.---A dispatch from
Buda, Pesth, to the Standard, says fur
ious thunderstorm passed over that city
to-day. The lightning was ineessant.
and hail fell in such quantities that
roofs of houses and surrounding hills
were covered two feet thick with ice.
The water fall was extraordinary. Tor
rents swept through the streets of Bnda,
carrying men, vehicles, and everything
movable down into the river. Many
houses were suddenly flooded and de-
stroved before their inmates could escape.
Five hundred inhabitants are missing,
and at least one hundred have been
drowned or killed by falling walls. All
railways are in -errnpted.
PARIS, June 29.-The damage to
property by the inundations in the cite
of Toulouse and Agen alone excee,ls
S24, 4,ooo, 900. The heaviest losses are in
the departments of Haute -Garonne and
Lot-et- -Garonne. Contributions for the
Vi dAC AA 'AOAO
al parts of France, Switzerland and
Belgium.
PARIS, June 3o-The subscriptions
received for the sufferers by the iaunda-
tions are unpreceden'edly large. Thr
total amount TO date is $4,000. The
list opened by President MacMahon al
ready reaches $4,000. 1t is announced
that one hundred thousand persons will
be wholly dependent on public charity
for months to come. The number OF
men, women and children drowned in
Toulouse alone is roughly estimated al
two thousand.
THE PoPE's CONTRIBUTION.
The Pope has sent four thousand dol
Lars for the relief of the sufferers BY the
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

. Daniel A. Piper, the Grand Tyler of
the Grand Masonic Lodge of Maryland,
died on Friday evening, at his residence
in Baltimore. Mr.. Piper was identified
with the Masonic fraternity for nearly
fifty years. He was born in Virginia,
and was initiated into the Order in Rock
ingham Union Lodge, at Harrisonburg,
Rockingham county, Virginia. He
held many important positions in the
Grand Lodge of Maryland, and was gen,
orally known by the Masonic fraternity
throughout the country. He was highly
esteemed by the craft, having in his long
Masonic career rendered valuable service
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02
Somerset Grain Market.
CORRECTED BY AsHBRooK & co.

CINCINNATI, July 1.-CATTLE-Rc-
ceipt5 moderate, and nearly all of COM
mon grades. which met dull and heavy
market! Good qualities are scarce, and
are readily sold at full prices. The en-
tire range is as follows: Common grades
2503Ic, fair % medium 3g@4ac and
good 5fG96c. No extra grades offering.
HoGs-R Receipts light and demand
good, more particularly for good light
grades, the offering of such being in
sufficient for the demand. Prices range
as follows: Common Sc 5096 81, good
light Sc 75Q17, and good to extra butch
er grades s. 15t97 2l.
SHEEP-Market quiet and prices un
changed, the range being from &c TO 44c
for fair TO good grades. @
LAMBs-Market firm but quiet at from
81 to &c, according to quality. ..ss5
PIrTsBURo, July I,-Cattle receipts
from and including Sunday up until
noon to-day were 129 cars of through
and 1876 cars of local against lo6 cars OF
through and 1873 cars of local for the
same time last week. Sales Of 95S head
against $40 head for the same time last
week. Market slow, and while prime TO
Fed Cattle in consequence of scarcity
are holding their own, common and me-
dium grassers are s@lc lower. Prime to
extra fed Streers 6497c, do grassers $40
&c, common do 4@4lc. Hogs, receipts
81 cars against l25 cars for the same time
last week. Market quiet and unchanged
Philadelphia Hogs 81 45@7 Go, Workers
$7@7 rs. Sheep, receipts 81 cars against
"a cars for the same time last week.
Market very dull and prices 25C@5lc,
lower; prime Ill lbs Sheep $4 81, 9l and
95 lbs S4@4 81, rs and 81 lbs s. 4lSS
81. Lambs, 81 and el lbs $4@5 81 9.
=
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02
Dogs that Have s'ShOt Niagara"

Apropos to the c.s-e of dog which,
during recent low water crossed the rap
Ids above Niagara Falls to a small islet,
and is now unable to return, the Ma
CARA Falls Register recalls two instances
in which dogs have been sent over the
falls and and survived the plunge. In
November, 1886, a troublesome female
bull-rerrier was pnt in coffee sack, by
4 couple of men who had determined to
get rid of her, and thrown off from
the middle of Goat Island bridge. In
the following spring she was found alive
and we'll about sixty rods below the fe-
ry, having lived through the winter OH
dead COW that was thrown over the
bank the previous fall. In 1853 another
dog, a male of the same breed, was
thrown into the rapids, also near the
middle of the bridge. In less than an
hour he came up the ferry. stairs very
wet and not at all CAV. The reason why
the animals are not killed is that the
water pours down so rapidly and in such
quantities that the water below, so to
speak, cannot run off fast enough, and
it piles up in large water cones which
are constantly forming and breaking. If
any strong animal shonld fall on to one
of these cones as upon a soft cushion it
might slide safely into The current be-
low. The dogs were doubtless fortunate
enough to fall in this way, aided also by
the repulsion of the water from the
rocks in the swift channel through
which they passed Ii is not impossible
that some strong man in light, strong
boat may thus, at some future time, go
over the Horseshoe fall and not be
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02
Grangers in the Cotton Business.

The Grangers in Mississippi propose
to build cotton factory in or near
Natchez, the capital to be supplied by
the oranges of Adams and the adjoining
counties. The proposition is to form
company with capital of $4,000, to be
represented by 2,4oo shares of S25 each,
payable in four equal installments. 1t is
estimated that fair start can be made
with an investment of S45 900 for land,
buildings, water power and machinery,
which would leave $3.50 for working
capital. When the necessary capital is
subscribed, board Of directors is to be
chosen by the subordinate oranges inter-
ested, each grange being entitled TO votes
in proportion to the amount of its sub
scriptions. The proposed enterprise is
an attempt to put in practice one of the
purposes Of the order announced by the
National Grange, namely, that of rednc-
ing the cost of transportation by selling
less of the great Southern staple in lint
and more IN warp and woof. The
Grangers do not say, however, supposing
the project to prove successful, whether
the dividends are to go into the general
fund of the oranges which subscribe the
capital, or are to be distributed among
the individual members who actually
supply the necessary means for its exc.
cution.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

About nine o'clock on Monday
night, desperate, one of the Smith
boys, while on his way to Jail, shot
and instantly killed Deputy City
Marshal w. Logan, Ottumwa, Iowa.
The excitement of the citizens was
great, and after an examination on
Tuesday, before the Mayor, it cul-
minated in an assault of about five
hundred citizens on the policemen
who were taking him to jail. Smith
was captured by the mob, a rope
placed around his neck and he was
hung to a lamp post in sight of a
thousand spectators in broad sun
light.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02
Great Offer.
NUMBER FOUR.


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great Story. price, in book form, S1.75.
Twenty short stories, a rich variety of
miscellaneous reading; over sixty large
pages splendidly illustrated.
Ten steel productions, fac-similes of
famous pictures; original engravings
worth $500.
All the above sent post paid with
Hearth and Home, the great illustrated
weekly magazine, fwO months on trial,
tor only so cents. Object; TO introduce
the paper to new Subscribers. Price re-
duced to only $3.50 per year. Single
number, six cents-none free. At news
stands or BY mail. Great inducements
to agents and clubs. The Graphic
Company, Publishers, 39-4l Park Place,
New York. Please state in what paper
yon saw this advertisement.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

Professor Barnard, of Columbia Col
lege, has been recording his opinions of
American industry and inventive skill
in a recent lecture He said there is
hardly an industry TO the progress of
which we have not largely contributed !
The cotton-gin, without which the ma
chine spinner and the power loom would
be helpless, is American; the power
shuttle, which permits an unlimited en-
largemeut of the width of the web, is
American; the planning machine, navi-
CATION bv steam, the mower and reaper,
rotary printing presses and the hot air
engine are all American, and so also is
the sewing machine. The machine man.
ufacture of wool cards and the entire In
dia rubber industry are American. The
machine manufacture of horseshoes, the
sand blast, the gange-lathe, the only sue
cessfnl composing machine for printing,
had all their origin in America. The
grain elevator is essentially American.
The artificial manufacture of ice, which
has been for several years known to the
pnblic as the "Carre process" was origi-
nally invented by Professor Alexander
s. Twining, an American. The electric
magnet was invented, and Immediately
after its invention was first practically
applied in transmitting telegraphie sig
mails by Professor Joseph Hengy. The
Geographic instrument introduced few
years later into public use, and which
has since obtained literally universal ac-
ceptance, was invented by Professor
Morse. an American. To this most
worthy list must be added to the duplex
and quadruplex system of telegraphy,
than which the history of mechanical
progress knows no greater trium ph.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

The Comptroller of the Currency
has advised the Secretary of the
Treasury of the issue of 81, ,615, ,525
National bank currency since May
27, upon which 80 per cent. of legal
tender notes will be retired, as pro
vided by law. The whole amount
of additional National bank circu-
lation issued since the passage of the
act of January II last is 81, 785, $40.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

John Condor, in Chicago, op last
Tuesday morning, while at break
fast, drew revolver and shot across
the table at his wife, hitting her in
the left breast and also in the head.
The first ball passed through her
lungs, and she died instantly
Condor then placed the pistol in the
region of his heart and fired, in
Aicting a wound which will doubt
less prove fatal. As the police at
tempted his arrest he fired among
the crowd, but did not harm any
one. He stated to a reporter that
he was perfectly conscious of the ex-
tent of his crime, and that he had
just cause for it. jealousy is sup
posed to be the cause of his act.
Condor was sixty=fve and his wife
forty years old.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

Dispatches from all parts of Ne
braska give in the main very en-
couraging reports Of the condition
and prospects of the crops. The
grasshoppers have almost entirely
disappeared. The recent rains
which have been bountiful, have
done much good.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

Let the young women who think of
the medical profession read up about In
dia. \ great field is spread out for them
there. DR.. Nancie Monelle, who lately
sailed from New York, has settled in
Hyderabad, and rapidly acquired an ex-
tensive practice. She has opened a dis
pensary in one of the bazaars, and it is
now so crowded that she is about to re-
move to much larger honse. Among
her patients are many native ladies, who
come from great distances to avail them
selves of her skill.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

The Chinese at Honolulu are said to
be very shrewd smngglers. Recently
on the arrival of a steamer, a canoe load
Of watermelons went alongside, and
some of the fruit that had been passed
on deck was after time returned into
the canoe by Chinese passengers. who
intimated that they did not desire to
purchase them. Itafterward transpired
that the insides of those melons had
sbeen carefully seooped out, the cavity
filed with. boxes Of opium and the rind
put neatly together again, when the "no
goodee melon" was taken on shore
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

1t is urged that the general govern
ment should appoint commission to
study the habits of locusts, ascertain
where they come from and where they
have gone, and obtain full information
concerning them. It is known that they
are this year covered with parasites and
it is believed these parasites destroy
them, but there is a very general feeling
that too little is known of the pests, and
that it is the duty of the government
to appoint n competent commission for
the purpose of studying their habits.
Senator Ingalls, has telegraphed the
Secretary of War, asking him to direct
the military and signal officers through
out the Northwest to observe and re-
port their movements
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

The Washington Monument So
ciety requests the churchss and the
Sabbath schools of the country to
take up collection on Sunday, July
4th, to aid in the completion of the
monument, contributions to be for
warded to j. B. FL. Smith, Treas
urer of the Society, Washington,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02
The Clearing Away of Prejudices.

When the Southern people at Vicks-
burg decorated the graves of Federal
with those of Confederate dead, they
cleared, with one little act, load OF
prejudice from the mind of the North.
So when Boston gives an ovation to our
Fifth Regiment, and honors with the
highest of its own leaders a representa-
tive Southern soldier, it puts to shame
hundred calumnies, and takes its true
place in the friendly regard ofthe South.
Il Baltimore Gazette.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02
Stockholders, Meeting.
OFFICE NEWARK, SOMERSET q
STRAITsvILLE RAILROAD Co,
NEWARK. Ohio. June 10. 1875

STRAITsyILLE RAILROAD Co.,
NEWARK, Ohio, June 10, 1875.
To The lSOcLhOlders Of The Nelrark, SOmerSet q
lSrditsUiLie Rail ROad Company:
NOY are hereby notified TO meet at the Office
Il of said Company, in Newark, Ohio, being
the principal office of said Company, on the 20th
day of July, 1875, at l O'Clock p. NJ, and then
and there vote upon proposition to issue not 10
exceed Thirty Thousand Dollars of preferred
stock of this Company, which preferred stock is
to be delivered to the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road
Company as per existing Lease" in payment
of an Indebtedness, and liabilities Of this Com
pany for that amount in value and cost Of right
of way, and permanent improvements and fix
lures made by. said Baltimore & Ohio r. II. Co
to the Newark, Somerset & Straitsville Rail
Road. I. J. DAVIS, Pres't.
+. G. McCUNE, Sec'y.
June H. 1875 9W4
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02

Mr.. Samuel Hoicraft, a resident OF
Dickinson, Iowa, few days ago decided
to ride for the first time in his life on a
railroad. lie had lived within eight
miles of a station on the Burlington line
but had never before ielt like taking the
risk. lie sent TO the superintendent of
the division asking which was the safest
train. and was mischieyously advised to
take fast express. .
On the appointed day Mr.. llolcraft
was escorted 10 the station by band OF
music and a profession Of villagers IN
grotesque costumes. His excursion was
unattended by accident, although the
nervous excitement made him i'll after-
ward. s 81
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Notica TO RniIdera-

CEALED PROPOSALS will be received by
- the Board of Education Of Somerset School
District, Perry county, Ohio, until I2 O'Clock
NJ. OF Monday, July u, 1875, for furnishing ma
terial for one Brick ~chOOl House in said school
district; for excavation, furnishing material.
tiOn can be seen on and after the 18th of June
at the residence Of f. A. Hesse in the town Of
Somerset, Ohio. The Board reserves the right
to reject any or all bids. BY order Of the Board.
u. NJ. WEISMAN, President.
f. A. HEssE, Clerk.
June II 1879 9W5