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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-15
A SOutherner's View.

General Alfred Anstell, broker of
Atlanta, Georgia, who ha- been visiting
New York, gives his experiences in an
Atlanta paper. He tells the Southern
farmers that they are in a better condi-
ton than the masses of the North:
The merchants are depending upon
the West and South to bring in some
trade. They calculate to get our cotton
cheap. Goods are now cheaper than
when cotton was from FIVE to six cents
per pound. If they cannot sell the
goods they make, they cannot pay big
prices for cotton, and they think the
price of this crop will go down to 10
cents. Contracts are made now to de-
liver cotton there in November for from
121 to 133 cents per pound. Last year
we made upwards of four million bags
of cotton, and yet the people cannot
consume all the goods made. Matters
will not be bettered much by the pres
ent crop.
We are better off to-day than the
North. They have their paupers and
their people out of work, and must pro-
vide for them We are an agricultural
people and produce, by which, if a man
has anything made he can sell it. If he
has it there is a market price for it.
Such people are always safe, but those
who cannot make and hence have moth
ing to sell, must suffer. They must
steal, commit crime. or be provided for
by puhlic charity. We have produced
that which is staple. and there is plenty
of money to buy it, and We will sell and
profit nv our industry. Our prosperity,
is measured only by our industry. This
you may rely upon as an axiom to the
Southern people.
Our condition is in every way promis
ing. We are far better off than the
Northern people, all things considered.
Our Georgia seven per cent. bonds are
commanding par in New York to day.
We owe less money than almost any set of
people in the Union, and made onr crops
this year worth fiftv per cent. less money
than in any year since the war. What
we want to do is simply to practice
economy, husband our resources and de-
velop our industries. ! don't think the
South has anything to fear from the
prostration and panics in the North;
we'll sell all we produce, whether nt
high or low prices makes little matter,
for we'll buy what we need at proper
tionately high or low figures.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-15
Useful Information.


A correspondent of the Rural Sun
says: Founder in its worst form can
be cured by standing your horse all day
in water deep enough to come over his
back. Running water is best"
Bee moths can easily be killed in
large numbers by setting pan of grease,
in which is floating ignited wick, near
the hives after dark. The moths will
fly into the light, and fall into the grease.
Taking timothy hay as the standard
of comparison, it requires one hundred
pounds of it to supply certain amount
of nourishment. 1t is estimated by care
full experiment that the same amount OF
nourishment can be obtained by using
the following quantities of other food
Clover hay, 95 lbs; rye straw, 355 lbs;
oat straw, 22o lbs; potatoes, 1876 lbs.i
carrots, $50 lbs; beets, 346 lbs; ruta ba-
gas, 262 lbs; wheat, 43 lbs; peas, A lbs.
beans. 46 lbs.; rye. 40 lbs; barley, 81 his.
corn, Sc lbs; oats, SO lbs; buckwhenr
"a lbs.; and oil cake, "a lbs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-15
Sheep on a Farm.

Sheep are undervalned by the mass of
landholders, as means of keeping mp
the fertility Of the soil and putting
money into the pockets of the farmers.
The moment one begins to talk of sheep
husbandsy, the listener or reader begins
to look for wool quotations, as if the
wool is all that yields profit from sheep.
One might as well look for wheat quo
tations alone when there is talk about
the profits of farming. Sheep on farm
yield both wool and mutton. They are
the best farm scarvengers, "cleaning a
field" as no other class Of animals will.
They give back to the farm more in
proportion to what they take from it
than any other class of animal, and dis
tribute il better with a view to future
fertility of the soil. Prove this. There
is no need of proof to those who have
kept sheep, and know their habits and
profits they yield. To prove it to those
who have not had the experience, it is
necessary they should try the expert
ment or accept testimony of an expert
enced shepherd New York Herald.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-15
4 Valuable Coal Mine.

From ths San Francisco Chrcniele. Sept 27. !
An immense mine of coal has been
discovered in Uintah county. Wyoming,
near Carter Station, on the Union Pacific
1t was discovered by Mr.. Crocker, of
Logan, from information he received
from an old Indian. who showed him a
piece of fine looking coal which he
found while hunting He offered to
show Mr. Croker the place if he would
give him so. which offer was readily
accepted. The Indian then took him
about fifty miles to spot about Eve
miles from the mine, which Mr.. Crock
er found by tracing the vein the Indian
pointed out to him. The mine is in a
sandstone mountain, about fonr and a
half miles long. running north ard
south. facing east, and about three miles
and a quarter across, the mountain dip
ping suddenly at each end. There are
sixteen veins of coal in sight. The
feet; the next is the largest and most
easy of access, and is upward of seventy
feet thick; the next above is sixty feet;
another of forty feet; another of about
thirty feet; five of about twenty feet each,
and Eve of sixteen feet each. The last
one is about twelve-altogether about
four hundred feet of coal four and
half miles long; in fact, it may be cor
rectly termed mountain of coal. The
veins lie at an angle of twenty-five de-
grees, with ledges of white sandstone in
tervening. The coal is very bright, is
perfectly free from slate or dirt, and is
said to be camel coal. A small qnanti-
ty Of the groupings from the seventy feet
vein has been tested for coke bv an as
saver, who states that it yields coke 5.22
per cent When il is considered that
very large quantities of coke are ship
ped from Pennsylvania to Utah and
Nevada, a distance of 1000 miles at a
cost of $50 or 40 per ton, for the purpose
Of smelling silver ores, it will at once be
seen of what immense value this mine ia
likely to prove to owners of low grade
silver mines. But whether the coal ~ill
coke or not, it is an excellent steam
coal. One engineer who has used it save
that one bushel of it will make as much
steam as three bushels of ordinary coah
leaving less ashes than any coal he ever
burned. Professor Pontez, geologist to
the Central Pacific Railroad. has made
an investigation of the mine, and reports
1t as the finest deposit of coal in West
ern America.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-15
NUMBER 81
Washington and Andre.

L ne following account Oi an interview
with persons who bad seen both General
Washington and Major Andre is pub
lished in an exchange without anything
10 indicate its authorship:
Many years ago ! made nv first visit
to Washington's headquarters at old
Tappantown, about mile from the old
Seventy six House" This ancient edi
fce was more than one hundred and
twenty years old, and although built oi
stone seemed almost tottering TO the fall
1t had four roofs. one on top Of the 9th
er. and from the first lower layer or cedar
shingles ] selected powder specimens
which pulled out easily. and have them
now among my Revolutionary relics. ]
entered with my friends whose gnest !
was at this time, and who was a resident
in the immediate neighborhood. We
we're courteously welcomed by its then
occupants, two elderly ladies, who were
born in the house. Nothing could be
in more perfect keeping with the man
sion than these two venerable women.
Their name was Yer Brnyck; and ! was
more Interested in them because / had
recently become acquainted in New
York with a relative of theirs of the
same name, promising young painter.
who was fast Increasing his reputation
as very natural artist and keen Oh
server of the picturesque. One of his
most admired sketches soon saw was
most ii e-like picture Of this same old
house. One of the two ladies was over
eighty years old. aud her sister seventy
five. They were very lively for persons,
so aged, and very obligingly communl-
cative.
"Did you ever see General Wash
ington?"
"Oh, yes-many and many time" {"
she answered, an this very room. He
often used to hold me in his lap. re-
member it as well as II it was but yes
terday; he was lovely man, George
Washington. And here, ;" -he continued.
going to and opening a wide cupboard
"he used to keep his things. These blue
and white chiney cups and sassers he
used to drink out of; and here is the
very bowl he used to make his wine san
garee into; and they used to pass il
round from one officer to another when
they'd come to see him; and they helped
themselves. lie had then good deal
of company, General Washington did"
"Did you ever see Major Andre ?'' !
asked
"Oh, yes-more'n ffty times. lie was
a beautiful man. He kissed me twice.
| was little girl then. ! saw him the
very morning they took him on to the
top Of the hill to hang him. The day
before in the morning I took him some
handsome ripe peaches. lie thanked
me 80 kind, and broke one of 'em and
pnt into his mouth and tasted of it; but
somehow he didn't seem to have no ap
petite.
] asked how General Washington
seemed to feel on the occasion.
"Oh, he must have felt dreadful He
walked back'ards and for'ards all the
morning in this very room; and I've
heard Pop Blauvelt say that he had
never seen him feel so bad afore. He
kept looking at his watch every now
and then, and was uneasy until the time
had come and Major Andre was hung
! seen Major Andre myself when he was
swinging in the air; and ] saw him when
he was dug up and took away; so did
you Polly. didn't yon ?"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-15
MISCELLANY.
A LOST RACE OF THE MONONGA-
HELA.
4 Maeadamized Road Covered by
trees One Hundred aud Fifty Years
From the pittsburgh Commercially


From the Pittsburgh Commercially
Several years ago considerable excite
ment was created in Fairmont, West
Va, by the discovery of traces of an old
macadamized road extending along the
right bank of the Monongahela, opposite
that place. Recently the government
engineering party engaged in the sur
vey of the Upper Monongahela River,
with the view of slack watering that
stream from Morgantown to Fairmont,
examined this old road, and from the
members of the party we learn that there
can be no doubt but that this road furn-
ishes another trace of the lost race that
once dominated the continent long be-
fore the Indians came into possession.
There are traces of the road for nearly
eleven miles along the narrow strip of
bottom land between the hills and the
river, though at many points the river.
having shifted its channel and cut into
the hills, has entirely obliterated every
evidence of it. Generally the road is
covered by from two to FIVE feet of al
luvinm, either deposited through the
course Of ages by the river floods, or else
by the slow washing off the hills skirt
ing it. Its width is said to be fifteen
feet.
The most curious feature about the
road is that the stone from which it is
formed appears invariably to have heen
| burnt. Wherever the road shows itself
in the cutting banks, it is marked by the
black substratum of ashes. In depth
the broken stone varies from six inches
to eighteen inches, of irregular frag-
ments. The material employed appears
to have been largely composed of bouid-
ers of red sandstone, and the conjecture
is that they were broken aften being
made hot with water thrown upon them
There being few (f any) boulders in
the river or adjacent country, the query
arises, where could the material have
been obtained to make this road?
At the crossings of the streams there
are no traces of bridge abutments or
piers, which leads to the conclusions
that the streams were crossed on wooden
bridges. At many points the road is
covered with trees over 150 years old.
which makes it certain that it was con-
structed long before the advent of the
white man; and there are other circum-
stances surrounding the case which lead
inevitably to the conclusion that it was
made in those early ages when semi
civilized people inhabited North Amer.
ica. No one acquainted with the habits
of the American Indians would give
them credit for constructing such work
of art as this
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-15
A Man Supposed Dead Returns After
Five Years. Absence.


Five years ago Benz. s. Grosvenor
lived in Dowaeiac. In June, 1870, he
left home for The purpose OF going to 81.
10 to butcher. lie did not return and
his wife could only learn that he got of
the cars at Miles but did not reach 81.
10. She heard nothing OF him until
the following September, when in a
huckleberry marsh near Buchanan a
body was found so badly decomposed
that the features were unacceptable.
Some of those who saw il were positive
that it was Grnsvenor, and sent to Dow
agiac for his wife to come and view the
body. She went down and was met at
the depot by a dentist Of DowaRiac who
bad seen it, and he told her that he WAS
positive il was Grosvenor, az be recogniz-
ed the teeth from some work he had
performed on them. She went down 20
see the remains, and, thongh she could
not positively identify them a. her hus-
band, all the indications looked that
way, and a day or two after she wept
over the grave Of her husband, az she
supposed. Not long after son, who
was lying very sick when the father
went away, died also, leaving her with
one child, little girl. She left Dow
agiae and came to this city, and Is now
cook in the Grand River House.
From that time she lived a widow
and believed herself such, though she
says that there was always a PRESENT.
ment on her mind that thev had all
been deceived and that her husband was
still alive. But her friends we're con
fident that he was no longer living, and
as the years passed by without tidinga Of
him she had TO give up hope, and only
at times would doubts arise in her mind.
Any doubt she might have felt was not
shared by others and il was supposed
that he had been murdered, and she has
received a number of letters from detec-
tives-one from Europe 10 fer
ret the mystery and bring the murderer
to justice. She had some reason to hold
to her doubts, for her husband, when ab-
sent before, had threatened to stay away
till he had acquired competence, but
she did think that if he carried this
threat into execution he would have
written 10 her.
Tuesday night at midnight man got
off the cars and presented himself before
her. 1t was the lost husband. He had
gone to Missouri and had been living
there. lie had not yet become rich but
got sick of the country and Returned
East. His wife was so indignant at his
leaving a sick family as he did and leav-
ing her TO work for herself, without let
ting her hear from bim-though he says
he did write but the letter miscarried-
that she gave him reception more cool
than that which is popularity supposed
to be the thing in such cases, and rather
minated that as she had got along very
well without him for five years she
could keep on doing so. This somewhat
dismayed him and he went to see a
brother near Saginaw and Is there still.
jackson (Migh.,) Patriot
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A Singular Remedy for Hog Cholera.
lcolemau's Rural World. j


We have repeatedly urged upon our
readers the importance Of feeding char
coal TO hogs as a preventive Of disease,
but the following singuler remedy is
abundantly vouehed for as being one Of
the best yet discovered or applied in
Montgomery county, Illinois Z. 8. J 4,
who represented the Rural World at the
late fair at Hillsboro, interviewed Mr.
Hastings, large pork raiser Of Mont
gomery county, with the following re-
suit:
Reporter. What do you regard as the
best remedy for hog cholera?
Mr.. Hastings. think the best thing
have ever seen tried is to burn the
carcass Of the dead animals in the pen
where the remainder ofthe live ones are.
Reporter. Would not this give the
remainer Of the hogs choiera7
Mr.. Hastings. No: the disease il un-
doubtedly all driven away by the action
of the fire, and the charcoal which re-
mains is eaten by the hogs.
10 rbA f+ttA HANAn 40 AE "A
reliable recipe in cases Of cholera?
Mr.. Hastings. do.
Reporter. Have you seen il tricd2
and with what success?
Mr.. Hastings. have: friend of
mine whose hogs had the disease badly,
by my advice, took the remains Of thuse
that had died and burned their earcasses
to char, and then let the sick and we'll
hogs eat it. This he did, and never lost
a hog afterwards by the cholera, and nt
that time they had it very bad.
Reporter. What number of hogs did
he lose before he tried your remedy?
Mr.. Hastings. He had lost eighty
when ] gave him the recipe.
Reporter. Did the eighty he burned
have the desired effect?
Mr.. Hastings. It did; It cured the
remainder Immediately.
Reporter. Do you know Of other in
stances where this remedv has been ap-
piled with equally good results?
Mr.. Hastings. l know Of several
more and in every case il has proved
successful.
Reporter To what do you attribute
cure? and is there anything in the
charred carcasses that prevents further
disease, and thus effects this immediate
cure?
Mr. Hasting-. What is, itcxcopt that
it makes more bone for the hog land this
makes him the stronger TO endure morc)
do not know.
Reporter. Then you regard it as a
good recipe, and one that viii prove 60
be Of much benefit to farmers?
Mr. Hastings. do; IL has given bet
ter satisfaction than anything ! have
ever seen tried.
Mr.. Hastings views we're iudoraed by
large Rumber Of the farmers who we're
present at the fair.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-15

The purse of $4,000 in gold coin
offered for the four miles heat race, to
be run in San Francisco, November 18th,
will be distributed as follows: SIS. 600
to first. 1000 to second, $1,000 to third
and $4,000 to fourth; 81 900 extra will
he allowed on all entries east of the
Rocky Mountains, and 81 800 on entries
from Europe and Australia. The
weights will be: Three-years olds, 90
lbs; four year olds, 104 lbs: five year
olds, ITO lbs; six year oldS and upward,
ll3 lbs. The probable starters for this
momentous event are: Balankeel, Wild
idle, Grinstead. Springbok, Rutherford
and Katie Pease, from the Eastern sta
bles, Henry, Hardwood, two of Nor
folks and one of Lodi's four year old
colts, from California stables, and two
entries from Australia, making a total of
sixteen in all. Out of this number it is
almost certain that ten will start for the
golden prizes.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-15

There is a funny side to even so sad a
case as the abduction of Charley Ross.
The father of the lost boy tells the story
to a reporter of the Philadelphia Times.
While in Canada recently, he saw a cir
cular of circus manager announcing
wax figures of the Ross family, together
with an offer of a reward of 1000 for
the discovers of the boy. Mr.. Ross
went to the circus and saw figures of
himself and wife, and Charley, none of
which bore the least resemblance to the
originals. Without making himself
known he talked with the exhibitor, who
told him he was a frequent visitor to the
Ross household, and that all the figures
were strikingly accurate likenesses.
When Mr.. Ross made made himself
known, the man was dumbfounded for a
moment, but Immediately expressed his
deep sympathy, declaring his willing
ness to pay the $4,000 reward, and Of
fered, in case the boy we're found, 10 give
the father 1000 a week for 80 weeks,
for the privilege of exhibiting himl
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-15

When Calhoun was dying, a young
preacher, named Butler. called 20 see
him. when Calhoun heard the name,
snpposing the caller was his colleague,
Judge Andrew Pickens Butler, be said
to his private secretary, Scovil; "Show
him up--it is his privilege" But ima-
gine his amazement when the young
minister was ushered into Che chauibeF
and announced, his object being 10 con-
verse with Calhoun on relisionl Mr..
Scovil says that Mr.. Calhoun became
very angry, and he heard him mutier-
ing: "A boy-a boy-without beard on
his face--to call on me, and wish TO
speak about religion subject shout
which I have been thinking all my liio"
When i recall this scene, and remem-
ber the mAtchless pre-omin0neo Of Mr..
Calhoun. ! cannot help repeating the
line: "Fools rush ia where angels fear
| 10 tread ="
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-15

not do this mad thing. Return with
me to your father"
Then Reyeaux's voice, in passion,
cried:
How dare you interfere? will
teach you better manners!"
Before / could avold it be raised a
pistol and fired
felt dull pain in my side; then
came blank.
When / returned to consciousness
heard voices family whispering:
"He cannot last much longer, poor
f.llowl"
] had dim idea that the room was
full of people. but recognized no one;
then came another blank.
had been badly wounded in the side,
almost fatally, but careful nursing and a
good constitution triumphed. After re-
turning to consciousness the second
time mended rapidly. think what
helped me most was Kate's sweet face
bending over me with such a world of
tenderness in it. / convalesced rapidly,
and Kate and soon resumed our rides.
One morning Mr.. Marston summond
me into the library and told me that
must appear as witness against
Reveaux. This / did not wish TO do
for fear it might complicate Kate, but
Mr.. Marston insisted. and the trial re-
suited in Mr.. Reveaux being sent to the
Albany Penitentiary for three years.
Kate manifested no feeling. Her love
seemed to have yielded TO the force of
circumstances.
With Mr.. Reveaux's sentence my
work was done. | had gained the end
for which | had been employed. told
Mr.. Marston this, and thanked him for
his kindness.
"Do you really wish to leave us, my
boy?"
NO." I replied; "but have eomplet-
ed my mission, and now there is MOTH
ing left for me to do. In leaving you
leave everything, and go forth into the
world more desolate than / came"
"But why not stay? have property
which needs care. / can find plenty for
You to do.
"Can you not see that it il madness
for me to stay? have only relieved
you of one trouble to drag you into an
other. came here heart whole; | shall
go away leaving my heart behind ME.
would not have been presumptuous
enough to have told yon of this had you
not forced me to explain. As it is, you
ace the only course open to me is to go.
You have only escaped one danger to
encounter another"
What kind, benignant expression
came into the old gentleman's eyes as
he replied:
aft Kate loves you, you can marry
her. 7 only asked in my sonin- law ster-
ling worth. and believe that yon pos
sess that. care not for money, landed
estates, or whether blue blood or plebeian
flows in your veins.
''It is worth makes the man,
The want of it the fellow"
/ lost no time in finding Kate and tell
ing her the old, old story, and when I
had finished she looked up and said:
"Can you trust me now? have been
so very, very wicked!'
Trust herl No angel from heaven
would have seemed purer-and so told
her. Anybody looking into my home
Today and seeing my bonnie, happy
children would know that she had not
belied that trust
My sign, "David Moss, Attorney and
Solicitor at Law" hangs out once more
in view of the Capitol. 1t is not now
merely an empty sign, but a reality, and
my practice is not only large, but lucra-
tive. have special penchant for un-
fledged attorneys and do all that can
to throw practice in their way, that they
may show of what stuff they are made.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-15

EARLY FEEDING. - Early feeding
adds flesh more rapidly than late, and
puts on thick covering Of fat during
the warm weather to protect them dur.
ing the colder season Of winter. The
early fed corn being soft is easily digest
ed, and assists the fattening process great
iy, IA all know who have tried cooked
food for stock. We have known many
farmers TO delay the feeding Of their
hogs until late in the fall, 80 that they
might save sheir corn and hit late
market for their pork, but we never
knew one to secure the best results in
that way.