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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08
Begging Reduced to Fine Art.

Begging has become fine art in Eng
land and the tramps who go about the
country making livelihood out of the
sympathies of the pnblic have well-de
fined routes and conduct operations with
much system. In London and the large
towns they have an alphabet of chalk
marks which they put on doors and 9TH
er places to indicate the character Of the
residents and the chances of obtaining
aid. These marks indicate: lat, this
road ia better than the other; I'd, they
will buy if you have what they want;
Sd, good for food or something to eat;
4th, religious, but good on the whole;
5th, no good; 9th, spoilt by too many
tramps calling; 7th, likley TO have yon
taken mp; 8th, dangerous-sure of being
sent to prison. These marks serve as
guides TO the professional mendicants.
Residents in some of our American cities
and larger towns have been startled
sometimes by finding their doors or gate
posts curiously marked with chalk.
Can it be that our American tramps are
adopting the English system?
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08
DEATH or AMERICAN GIRL.
She Drops in a Race at EImira and
Expires without Struggle.

ELMIRA, y. V, October ,, 1875.
The famous trotting mare American
Girl fell dead this afternoon in the frs;
heat of the "free for all" race, on the
Elmira Driving Park. She was driven
BY John L. Dotv. and appeared at the
start to he in the very best condition
The horses were scored a number of
times before they got the word. The
Girl at the first turn was we'll in front,
but here her driver noticed that she
seemed to be giving ont and let her
head loose. She kept staggering for an
eighth of a mile. and at a quarter pole
fell and died instantly without strug-
gle She dropped to the ground very
easily, with her shoulder against the
fence The incident excited a great
deal of sympathy, as the mare was fa-
vorite here. and had been the chief at
traction for the races to-day. A singu-
lar circumstance in the matter was that
from the grand stand a rainbow could
be seen, the end of which appeared as
If it fell npon the head of the dying
horse. The band played funeral dirge
as soon as the death was made known.
American Girl was owned by William
Lowell, of New York, and was valued
at S25, 900, which enm had been offered
for her only last week. Ben Mace, it
is said, was this morning willing to give
S20. 900 for her, which sum was refused.
She was a handsome bay, with black
points, by Cassins NJ. Clay, jr., and thir-
teen wears old. Her races have heen
without number, and, when in condition,
she was always dangerous to the hest,
and not until within a few years did she
have any superior. OF qnite fine form
and sixteen hands high, the Girl always
commanded attention. For long time
she has been tronbled with SPAWN. but
being repeatedly fired and blistered, it
was thought that this year she was as
good as ever. The tnrf, in the death Of
the Girl. loses one of its best performers.
The Elmira Driving Park Associa-
tion propose, shonld the body be left
here. to erect a 81. 900 monument to the
memery of American Girl There was
no insurance on the mare.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08
MARKET REPORT.
CORRECTED WEEKLY By HAMILTON a co.
PRODUCE.
Somerset Grain Market.
BY AsHBRooK & C,

CINCINNATI, October 7.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts liberal, bnt all of common to me-
dium grades. The market was quiet
throughout, with the following range OF
prices, viz: Common 81 50G3 so, fair
to medium $3 759475 There are no
good grades of butcher or shipping
Cattle offering. Feeding Steers are in
good demand, at from So 25C94 % for
fair to good, the supply not being equal
TO the demand.
HoGs-market quiet, as the offerings
were almost entirely of the lower quail.
tiles. Good butcher and shipping grades
would command ready sale and good
prices. The demand for heavy grades is
improving, and there gre packing firms
ready to commence operations as soon
as the supply of Hogs will justify. The
sales to-day ranged as follows: Stockers
Sc 1905 rs, common to good light 81
2597 75, and medium heavy grades 81
S5@s O5.
HHEEP-Market steady, at from 3]6
42c, according to weight and quality.
PITTsBURe, October Cattle re.
ceipts from and including Sunday up
til to-day 96 cars OF through and 229
cars of local against SO cars of through
and 212 cars of local same time last
week; sales 1896 head against 2,439
head same time last week; market very
dull, by odds the worst of the season;
prices on butcher Cattle ic lower, max
ing decline of &c in the past two weeks;
stock Steers, for which there is a ready
demand, are bringing about as much az
they did last week, say 3l@4ic. prime
to extra graded Steers 696l, medium TO
good 5a5lc. Receipts of Hogs 147
cars against "a cars same time last week; |
market dull and prices are of ac to Jc
since Saturday. and tendency still down
ward; Philadelphia So 500S 75c. corn.
fed Workers 81 sO9s. grassers s7@7 so.
Receipts Of Sheep 81 cars, against IA
ears same time last week; market dali |
Ind ac lower; prime, 95 and 100 lbs
sheep, $5(96 %; little 6ne-wool Sheep
hard to sell NJ any price.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08
Walking Horses.
tspiri. of the Tines.l

We are glad TO notice that many of
premiums for the fastest walking horses.
There is no Disgusting the fact that a
good walk is the most useful gait that
general purpose horse can posess: and il
one-half the attention were paid to cul
tivating this gait, and breeding with
view to its transmission, that is now
given 10 that of training froiters, horses
that could walk FIVE miles an hour would
be a. abundant as 2.30 trotter= now are
The trouble now is, that the whole
is possessed of mania far fast troiters,
and as <Ovn as the colt is old enough TO
halter, no matter whether he be Thor
oughbred, Conestoga, Norman, ClydeF-
dale, Hambletonian or Canadian, he ia
put to trotting The whole cnuntry is
engaged in training troiters, from the
plowboy in the field To the professional
on the track, to the utter neglect of that
more useful. every day gait. the walk.
Even the importers of draft stations
from Europe have eaught the infection,
and instead of bringing the hest walkers.
We only hear OF their great trotting
action" 1t is time to put an end to this
nonsense; the gait for draft horse is
pre- eminently walk, while nothing add
more to the ability of the roadster to make
a long journey IN good time than good
walking gait that will take him along
at the rate of FIVE miles an hour The
first aim, when a colt il broken to the
harness, should be to educate him to a
good, square, fast walk, and after that
has been done. If you can get him to trot
fast, so much the better One of the
most successful breeders of tr0tting
horses in America has often remarked
to us, that he would not keep a horSe on
his place that was not a fast walker, and
that he had invariably found that the
fastest walkers made the fastest trotters.
It is positive luxury to ride or drive =
horse that can walk off with you at the
rate of FIVE miles an hour. 1t is such
relief to feel, when you ease up yoar
horse from his swinging troi, or l0pe,
that you have not come TO a stand still,
but that you are yet making respectable
progress. For our own private use on
the road, the walk is the gait which We
prize above all others, and anything
which promises to increase the number
of fast walkers, shall receive our hearty
oneOuraOoment
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

Not long since, Mira Hussein Khan
entertained the Shah of Persia at his
house in Teheran for a whole day. The
Shah breakfasted there, and received
manv presents, sl2,O00 in cash for him.
self, and jewels and one hundred Cash
mere shawls for bis ladies. The enter
taInment cost Hussein Khan G20, 900.
The Shah never Visits any one without
expecting to receive presents.
He was good little boy, whose ina
gination had been nourishei upon para
bles, and when he got old enough to
write parable himself he sat down and
produced the following:
"The lambs loved the shepherd, and
the shepherd loved the lambs; and SO it
came to pass that the lambs set up a
plaintive cry of 'Ba-a-ahP because the
shepherd crawled under the fence i'm
stead of walking upright through the
gateway"
A young lady who reached Portland,
Oregon, direct from Germany, two weeks
since, became homesick and started for
her mothers home in Fartherland again
in thirty hours.
Caroline Pell4, young German wo-
man who attempted te swindle the Mas
sau Bank out of $1,000 on a forged
check of Warden, Mitchell & Co.,
Springfield Ohio. has been sentenced to
Two and half years in the Peniientiary.
A conscientious Maine farmer recent
ly carefully scraped the mud from the
wheels Of his cart before driving ii upon
he scales TO weigh load Of hay.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

Mr.. E. H. Hinson, said to be veal
thy cotton planter of Alexandria, La,
was found near the Pacific Railroad de-
pot in st. Louis, Monday evening, in n
helpless condition, and taken to the cal
aboose under the supposition that he
was intoxicated, and placed in a cell.
About midnight some gentlemen called
at the police station and inquired for
him, and upon going to the cell to bring
him out he was found dead on the floor.
Coroner Dudley examined the body yes.
terday and gave the opinion that death
was cansed BY heart disease. 1t appears
that Mr.. Hinson came up from the
South TO visit his daughters residence,
a few miles from the city. II appears
he was very i'll, instead Of intoxicated.
and bsing unable to get on the train Mt
the depot, had lain down near by, and
was insensible when taken up by the
police.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

The farmers Of Kansas, like their
brethren in many Of the other States,
have secured large crop of corn this
year. But it would seem that the pros
pect of their deriving much pecuniary
benefit from their good fortune in this
respect, is not Of the most aattering ma
ture. The money which many of them
hoped to obtain By the sale of this crop,
II now greatly needed by them to meet
obligations, and for extending facilities
for larger operations in the futnre; and,
could they secure fair price for their
abundance of corn, there is no doubt it
would be the means of putting many a
faithful tiIler of the soil on the high
way TO prosperity. But this they cannot
do. Not, however, because their grain
is not needed in the markets outside Of
their State, and therefore, will not COM
maDd a remunerative price, but because
the Railroads Of the State have the mat
ter of charges for transportation wholly
their own way, and are therefore merci-
less IN their demands. The Kansas farm
er cannot now realize more than 6fteen
cents bushel for his corn; the railroad
companies charge fully that much for
transportation from interior points, and
the agents who handle it must have five
cents bushel for doing so. These sums
aggregate the highest figure the article
ia bringing in their only available mar
ket-St. Louis. Thus it will be seen
that the grower of the grain receives n
considerably less share of the proceeds
OF its sale than do the railroads, and the
agents who handle il.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

AND STILL ANOTHER MoToR.-
New moters have been scarce of late,
and Chief Engineer Wood, of the Unit
ed States Navy, comes to the rescue
with an invention consisting Of power
derived by the agency of carbonic acid
gas obtained by means Of electricity and
galvanism. He has fled cnveat, and
promises to exhibit his invention at the
Centennial. Keely must hurry mp aud
apply for his patent. He asked for an
extension for six months to run train
of cars from New York to Philadelphia,
and il he doesn't look sharp Wood will
get there frst.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

1 wish to say to all those desiring to
plant fruit trees this coming fall that
have the largest and best stock Of Trees
and Plants ever grown in Perry county,
my Apple and Peach consisting of one
hundred varieties, are very fine. Pear
Plum and Cherry, large and well grown.
Also large stock of small fruit plants,
such as Strawberries, Raspberries, Black
berries, Grape Vines, &c. Call on me
at the Perry Nursery, two miles north
of Somerset, or address me at Somerset,
Ohio s. NJ. LENTz, Prop'r.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08
Jimmie Wharton. who was snpnosed tc

Jimmie Wharton, who was supposed to
be pretty fast man, was recently mar
ried. On the morning after the wedding
the lady asked her husband to perform
an office of the toilet for her maid. Her
husband did it willingly, and when it
was concluded was astonished to find
his pretty wife in tears. "Why, my own
precious" said he, whats the matter
with her own hubby's pet? p" "Oh,
Jimmie, Jimmie !" replied the poor girl.
crying as if her heart wonld break, elf
you hadn't laced a thousand c0rsets you
never could have done it like that p
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08
A Wife's Fatal Error-AdmiHistpr
ing Oxalic Acid TO Her Hus-
band In Place Of Epson Salts.

GRoToS, \. Y, September, 80, 1879
Mathew Walpole, a prominent citizen
of this place, and we'll known through
out the southern tier as a successful
hotel proprietor, came to his death, yes
terday, under the most painful circuni
stances II seems that he has not been
feeling we'll for several days, and yes
terday laid down ON sofa at his resid-
ence and requested his wife 10 prepare
him dose of salts. She took package
from a shelf in closet. ~here she kept
salts and other household remedies, and
poured out a large dose of the contents,
and, dis<olving ii in cider, gave it to
her husband, surprising it was epson
salts. Mr. Walpole drank the entire
dose, and, remarking TO his wife that it
had peculiar taste, was almost instant
" seized with terrible burning in the
stomach. This was followed by severe
commissions, and vomiting of blood and
pieces of flesh. In his agony Mr.. Wal
pole ran shrieking about the room and
rolled in commissions over the floor, con-
stantly crying for water. His wife offer
ed him water. but he conld not drink
Mrs. Walpole at once dispatched mes
senger for DIR. Weaver, but before he
arrived Mr.. Walpole died in the most
intense agony. No medical aid could
have given him the slightest relief. how
ever, a. ar examination by the physician
revealed the fact that the unfortunate
man had drank oxalic acid in sufficient
quantity to kill hundred men. His in
testines and stomach were literally eaten
up entire. The acid had beeh brought
into the house to be used in some cleans
ing operations. and a servant had placed
the deadly stuff, unknown to Mrs. Wal
pole, on the shelf with her collection oi
medicines.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

A correspondent writing to the Balti-
more Gazette in reference to the recent
exhumation of Poe's remains. says: cit
was discovered by medical gentleman
present that the brain of the poet Poe,
on the opening of his grave a few days
since for the proper placing of the mas
sive monument about TO be erected to
his memory, was in an almost perfect
state of preservation. The cerebral mass
as scen through the base of the skull,
evidenced no signs Of disintegration or
decay, though, of course, il is somewhat
demolished in size. The skull was in
tact, and the general skeleton was in "a
good condition IA an anatomical pre-
paration in doctors office"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

This has been a remarkably prosper
ous year with Chicago, so far as build
ing is concerned. The amount of money
expended on new buildings from LIST of
last March to January 1, 1876, will
reach fully s1o,oOO,OOO, and this will
have been paid out for construction Of
solid buildings of brick and stone. There
has not been q frame building put up in
the city; on the contrary, great many
old frames have been demolished or re-
moved outside the city limits, and their
places supplied with brick or stone
structures.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08
Notice TO Builders.

GEALED PROPOSALS will be received until
- II O'Clock noon of Monday, October 25, 1875
for building School House in the town Of SOM
erset, Perry county, Ohio, according TO the
plans and specifications which can be seen a;
the office Of the Clerk Of the Board of Education
in said town. Each bid shall contain the naIne
of every person interested in the same and shall
be accompanied by sufficient guarantee Of some
disinterested persons, that If the bid is accepted
a contract viii be entered into and the PERFORM
anee of IL properly secured. Both labor and
materials must each be separately stated with
the price thereof. The Board reserves the right
TO reject any and all bids
By order # the Board.
E. A. HEssE, Clerk.
Sent. p. 1875. 24w5
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08
She May Not Have Loved Him.

A womanaever quite forgets the man
who has once loved her. She may not
have loved him; she may, indeed. have
given him the "no" instead of the Eyes"
he hoped for; hut the remembrance that
he desired ''yes" always softens her
thoughts of him, and would make him,
were he reminded of it, friend forever.
There may be girls who make Jest OF
discarded suitors; but they are generally
very young, and the wooing has been
something that did not betoken much
depth of tenderness. There are mercen-
ary offers, too, that only awaken scorn
and hate in the woman wooed for money
and not for herself; but, really, to have
touched mans heart ia something not
to be forgotten while she lives.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

Kite"fying has been quite an epidemic
of late at Sonthbridge, Massachusetts,.
Not long since the boys raised monster,
fourteen feet long, which required sew
eral men to manage. A man of large
proportions and heavy weight offered
TO bet "that he could hold him" The
bet was quickly taken, and the too con-
fident individual tied the cord around
his waist and grasped it with his hands,
but no sooner had he said "Let go" than
he went over walls and gardens. and was
glad enough, after yelling like mad, to
be rescued from his perilOus position.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

Shelby, Ky, Republican: The worst
case Of seltishRess that we have ever
been permitted TO present to the pnblic,
enanat-d frum a youth who complained
because his mother put bigger mustard
plaster on his younger brother than on
him. after they had partakrn a little too
freely of melon and hard apples.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

Ashbrook q Co, guarantee their -four.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08
Restoration of Robert Dale Owen.

Formal announcement is made in the
indianapolis Journal by DIR. Evarts,
superintendent of the Indiana Hospital
for the Insane, of the restorafion of
Robert Dale Owen, who, he saws, will
in few days return to his home in New
Harmony, where, under advice, he will
continue from labor. The Doctor adds
that he sees no reason why Mr.. Owen
may not, in short time, resume his
work with all the vigor and ability in
cident to his age and habits of life. The
note is accompanied by a long letter
from Owen to DR.. Evarta, in which he
aliudes to the circumstance of his Sc
clusion by hischildreD, who. he believes,
acted for the best Judging their action
by the Napoleonic test of success. He
finds that he has entirely gotten rid of
his dyspeptic symptoms; that his health
has been essentially improved, and his
mind greatly tranqnilized, and, there
fore. does not regret what has been done.
He admits that a man placed IN his cir
cumstances cannot be a competent judge
of his own past condition, yet it seems
to him that his only ailment was ex-
haustion of the brain and nervous force,
until what he regarded asarbitrary re-
straint tended to irritation. He admits
that he has inherited a tendency to
overhopefulness, and that this tendency
showed itself especially after his severe
illness at Dansvllle He thinks the re-
pose Of the past three months has been
greatly beneficial to him, and speaks in
feeling terms of the kind words winch
have been spoken Of him by the press in
his affiiction. He closes his letter with
warm acknowledgements of the kindness
and consideration shown him by DR.
Fvarts
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

Our HONEST ADvICE.-We know
The American Rural Home, published
at Rochester, N. Y, to be thoroughly
good journal for the farmer and the
aimer's family. II is practical, honest,
handsome and clean. You can trust it
and it will benefit you and yours. just
how its publishers can afford to send it
thirteen weeks on trial for but thirty
cents, postage paid. as they now offer,
we cannot understands; but they are re-
liable, and will do all they agree. And
our honest advice is that you forward
the thirty cents right away, and see the
paper yourself for three months to
come. 1t is worth the money either as
an agricultural, horticultural or literary
periodical alone Ably combining
these three specialties, it is dirt cheap at
its regular club price of 81 go per year.
Address. THE RURAL HOME,
Rochester, N. Y.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

Respectfully announces to the people OF
Somerset, that she is now giving lessons
on the Piano and Organ, and from her
abundant experience in teaching, she
will guarantee satisfaction to her pat
rons. To those wishing advancement in
this art, we would advise them to call
early at her residence on North Column
bus street.
Nav 29th. 1874.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

DIR. Holland, editor of Scribner's
Monthly, has made terrible (aur pas.
In one article this month he vigorously
defends Mr.. Beecher, and in the very
next he denounces the jury-syetem, say
ing: "After one has picked out three
best men on a jury, he has better jury
than in the nine which are left" Per-
haps Tilton's friends will claim that
his three men were "the better jury"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

II is stated in an obituary Of an old
lady in New Orleans. that she was "the
widow of that renowned fighter. Rein
Bowie, the brother of the famous James
Bowie, whose name was bestowed upon
that fearful instrument Of death known
as the Bowie knife"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

l will endeAvor to keep on hand, at
all times, the best calf, kip and Stoga
Boots, of my own manufacture, and
warrant the same to the No. in every
respect. All rips occurring in work Of
my make will be repaired gratis.
RENI- GRAvFs
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

Don't be 80 foolish as to buy a worth
less set of plated jewelry, when you can
get solid gold set at very nearly the
price paid for plated set.
12w2 p. g. MATTHIEs & Co.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

A few weeks ago the elegant mansion
Of DR.. w. Fl. Hagood, in Blockville,
South Caroline, was entirely destroyed
by fire. As soon as the news spread,
thirty negroes. formerly his slaves, vol
unieersd their asaiatance for the erection
OF = new dwelling.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

American locomotives cost 25.000 sill
yer roubles each, and German locomo
tives $4,000 to 20 600 roubles, but the
American locomotive is. so per cent.
morepowerful than the German.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08

Mrs. f. Tubman has presented to the
Campbelite Society of Augusta, Ga, a
magnificent church ediice, having the
tallest spire in the South, and costing
her nearly $4,000.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-08
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