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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-12

STATE OF LOUISIANA VS.. TwO LOTS Op
GROUND, in square No. l22; assessed In thu
lame OF ROBERT OLBRIGHT.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-12

JOHN n. g. PARKER. Postmast<
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-12
RIVER P. N.

Below bench mark,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-12

STATE OF LOUISIANA vs.. TWO LOTS OP
0ROUND. in squares Nos. q and -; sssessed
In the name Of MRS. REIS0.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-17

Baskets always find favor with ladies,
and just now the shops are selling some
round high ones, not unlike lighthouse
cut in half, the white basket work OF
which they are composed being covered
here and there with wool work in cross
stitch.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-17
CURRENT NEWS

An Ohio girl married Chinaman the
other day ut Helena, Arkansas.
over 200 actresses in New York have
not yet succeeded in negotiating engage
menis for next season.
AS the science of photographing
sounds has been revealed The Detroit
Free press is anxiouSly waiting to see
now Michigan girls yell will look on
paper.
Mr.. Longiellow has been chosen poet
and eN-Goyerner Seymour orator for the
the centennial celebration OF the surren
der OF Burgoyn at Saratoga. on October
Is, 1877.
There IS SO much drowning and SO on,
this year, that the Boston papers contain
advertisements OF professional divers,
ready to recover and return the bodies
OF drowned persons.
A dozen United States sailors and
mariners were released from the Weth.
erstield. Conn. prison. last week, by
or,ier OF Secretary Robson, making >.
pardoned from that prison in two months
The Miners Journal of Pottsville
Pa. saws the exterminationo OF the Molll'
Naguires thus tar has cost the count,
SchuvIkill over $4,000. 1t estimate
further proceedings at $4l.po more.
The first car OF spring wheat of th
crops of 1876 was received In Chicag
Monday. 1t was from southern lows
Inspected No. and weighed 81 pound
10 the bushel.
A compilation Of statistics By the Chis
ago fire department gives the number I
haildings in that city at l2l.455. |
which los, AS are frame, 1900 bricl
454 Stone and brick, 490 Stone and ire
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-17
CliCagn' \ NOlhWeSterlR.

PASSENGERS for Chicago, Detroit, Toledo,
Cleveland, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, Rochester, Albany, Toronto, Mon
treal, Quebec, Portland, Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Saint
Louis. Cairo, San Francisco, Sacramento, Og-
den, Salt Lake City, Denver, Council Bluffs,
Marquette, Escrnaba, Menasha, Madison, Chey-
enne, Omaha, Yankton, Green Bay, Milwau-
kee and all points West, South and East should
buy their tickets via CHICAGO and the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway.
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Mich
igan Central, Baltimore and Ohio, Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago, kankakee Line and
Pan Handle Routes, for all points East and
Southeast, and with the Chicago and Alton
| and Illinois Central for all points South.
Close connections are also made with the
Union Pacific r. r. at Omaha for all far West
points.
Close connections are made at junction points
with trains Of all cross roads.
PULLMAN PALACE CARS.
These celebrated cars are run on all night
trains on all the lines of this road.
This is the ONLY LINE running these cars be-
TWEEN Chicago and St. Paul or Chicago and
Milwaukee.
At Omaha orr sleepers connect with the
Overland sleepers on the Union Pacific Rail-
road for all points west Of the Missouri River
Among the
inducements Offered by this
Route
to the travelling public are all the modern inn
provements-Eock and Gravel Ballasted Track.
/ Steel Rails, Rock and Iron Bridges, Parlor and
| Drawing Room Day Coaches, Smoking and
Lounglng Cars, Westinghouse Safety Air
Brakes, Miller's Patent Safety Coupling and
Platforms, Speed, Safety and Absolute Comfort
Burning Through Five Great tates,
and operating over 1000 miles Of road, this
company presents TO the traveller facilities that
are not and cannot b. offered by any COMPETE
i tor.
All ticket agents can sell you tickets via this
route.
| If ron wish the best travelling accomrnoda-
tons, you will buy your tickets BY this route,
and win take no other.
| G1KTJN HUGHITT.
| General Superintendent.
W. II. STENNETT.
General Passenger Agent
9ly-wk
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13
REMARKABLE LETTER
From a Gentlemen Known and
Honored from the Atlantic to
the Pacific Coast.

Messrs. WEEKS & POTTER. whole
sale Druggists, Boston, Mass: Gentle
meD.-I have for some months felt it
duty that owed so suffering humanity
TO write you, stating the great benefit
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE FOR Ca
TARRH For more than 20 years have
been afflicted with this very Troublesome
complaint. ! have tried all the remed-
les that could find. but without mater
ial or permanent benefit. Last fall the
disease had arrived at that state that
must have relief or die. The entire
memhranous system had become so in
| famed. and the stomach SO disordered,
that it was doubtful matter whether
could go to the Pacific coast, or if did
go whether ] should live to come back
or not. I saw an advertisement of this
med cine, and although being very in
crednlous about specifics or nostrums OF
any kind, yet in sheer desperation I tri-
ed this, and was at once benefited hy it
The changes of climate, chronic dis.
ease of the liver and my aae-over 70
NAV prevent my entire restoration, bnt
the benefit I derive from its daily use il
to me inpdluable. and am hoping tC
be completely cured. and at last arrive
at respectable old age.
If this statement of my case can be o
any service to those afflicted as 7 hav,
been. and enable you to bring this rem
edy into more general nse. especially oil
the Pacific coast (where it ia much need
edl. my object in writing this note vii
be obtained Very truly yonrs,
HENRY WELLS,
of Wells, Fargo & Co.
AURORA, n. Y, June, 1876.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13
A Train Attacked by Indians.

CHEYENNE, WY, October 9.-News
from Fort Fetterman states that on the
9th q haying party of twelve men and
seven OK teams we're attacked by q band
Of twenty or thirty Indians, twenty-five
miles from the above post, badly wound
ing John Ottens, wagonmaster, and kill
ing one horse. Two of the party out
hunting, about s o'clock, heard the war
song, and hastened to the train, which
was Immediately prepared for defense
Four Of the men started to find the In
disns, which they did, and made live
ly retreat, hotly pursued by the Indians
to within City yards Of the train. when
eight men sent volley into red skins
who retreated to the shelter Of q bluff
and commenced to firing upon the train
which was at a disadvantage and com
PEELED IL to move two hundred yards
and the fight continued nearly foui
hours. The number Of red skins killed
is unknown. Two were seen TO drop
Mr., Powell, a contractor, states that III,
Indians showed great courage, and wer
armed with Winchester and army rifles
The telegraph line between Fettermnl
and Cheyenne was cut about that time
il is thought, by the same band. o.
tens il doing nicely, but will undoub,
edly lose his right arm.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13
Murder Will Ont.

A few years age "Angust Flower" was
discovered TO be certain cure for
Dyspepsia and Liver complaint, few
thin Dyspeptics made known to their
friends how easily and quickly they had
been cured by itsuse. The great merits
Of GREENS AUGUST FLOWER became
heraled through the country by one snf.
ferer to another. until, without advertis.
ing. its sale has become immense. Drug.
gists in EVERY TOWN in the United
States are selling it. No person suffer.
ing with Sour Stomach, Sick Headache
Costiveness, palpitation of the Heart
indigestion. low spirits etc, can tax,
three doses without relief. Go to you
Druggist Skinner & Bro. and get bot
tie for rs cents and try it. Sample bot
ties 10 cents.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13
Sabbatarianism at Grand Rapids
Two Preachers Arrested for viO'
lating the Sabbath.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, October o.
There has been great excitement during
the past few days occasioned by the
City Council passing an ordinance re-
quiring the police force to enforce all
Sunday laws, city and State. The result
Is, nearly two hundred citizens were ar
rested on some small offense. Mayor
Pierce, for driving on the streets; Rev.
Hildreth, OF the Methodist Church, for
performing n marriage ceremony; Rev
Morgan Smith, of the Congregational
Church, and large number of Others
for going to the Post office and standing
in groups on the sidewalks. They are
being tried to-day, most of them de
manding jury trial.
Council have been very much annoy
ed by petitions to have saloons, &c.
closed on Sunday, and have taken thi
way TO settle the matter-getting every
body in a bad scrape.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13
John ID. Lee Sentenced. to be Shot.

SALT LAKE, October 10.-At Beaver,
Utah, to-day, Judge Boreman passed
sentence upon John D. Lee for,par,ici-
patton in the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre nineteen years ago. In doing go
he called attention to the atrocity of the
crime; the inability heretofore of the
authorities to procure evidence; that the
conspiracy to'Imurder was widespread;
that Lee was finally offered up as sac
ri6ce to popular indignation, but tina.
others equally guilty mighs hereafter
expect punishment. The prisoner hav-
ing the right, under the laws of the
Territory, to choose death by hanging
shooting or beheading, and having
chosen to be shot, he was sentenced to be
shot TO death January 26, 1877.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13
Wooden Money.

From the reign of Henry J. down to
the period of the establishment Of the
Bank of England, the legal-tender mon
ey of England was manufactured ou. of
wood. This instrument was called an
exchange tally. and by virtue of it the
holder Yss entitled to receive from the
Crown the value inscribed thereon. II
really consisted of one-half Of a four
sided rod or staff, on which, when in its
entire state, the sum it purported to rep
resent was carved in transverse notches,
varying in width for thousands, hun
dreds, scores, pounds, shillings and
pence. These signs were for the I'M
learned; for the advantage Of those vino
could read, the sum was written in ink
ON two opposite sides Of the staff, and,
finally, with knife and mallet the staff
itself was split in two, longitudinally
One-half, called the tally or check, was
given to the person for whose service it
was intended; the other half, called the
counter tally, was laid up in safe-keep-
ing until its corresponding tally should
be brought in by the person who had
last given value for it. Its intrinsic
value was, Of course, only that of the
wood Of which it was composed, but by
representation it denoted large sums.
1t was a current token of real money
and served actually to distribute it from
man to man by exchange. From this
primitive tally was derived the Ex
chequer Bill, first introduced in 1895 b,
Mr.. Montague, then Chancellor of th'
Exchequer. The word "bilI." too, wa
no doubt obtained from the Norman
French word bile, which means staff
Bank post bills and bills of exchange il
in our own day came from the sam
wooden base, and soldiers are said a
This hour to be "billeted," because form
erly they rendered wooden "billes" o
tallies to the victualers upon whom the
were quartered. In olden times, officer
of the army, when taken into the King
own pay, we're said TO be put on tn
staff-that is, they were paid with e1
chequer tallies, or wooden money
Exchange.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13
Tho Worlds Age.

Mr.. William Chambers, the veteran
author and publisher of Chambers
Journal, contributes 10 that excellent
periodical q summary of some of the
many views held hy scientists as to the
antiquity Of our world. The Quarterly
Rexiew treated the same subject recent
ly. and tina, most conservative of maya.
zines now admits that the ordinary in
depreciation of the date of the creation,
about 6, 900 years ago, is to be set aside
as untenabie and at variance not only
with historic and archaeological research,
but with the substantial discoveries of
geology. The reviewer quotes the opin-
ion that it is impossible that the earth
can have existed many millions Of
years, as the earth is cooling, if not rap
idly, at such rate as to make such an
antiquity impossible: and again, there is
reason to believe that the earth's rota-
tion is not so rapid as formerly.
The question as to the date Of creation
must be considered to refer to our solar
system alone. The nearest fixed star or
sun outside our aystem-possibly the
center of a similar SYSTEMS too far off
to enter inte tho question of the age of
our sun and its planets and their satelli.
| tes, being two hundred millions of mil
lions miles away Sir Charles Lyell
gives the date of the Cambrian forma-
ton of rocks as a. least two hundred and
forty millions years ago; while Mr.. Oar.
win assigns to the world much greater
age even than this. NJ. Adams has es-
sayed to calculate the retardation of the
earth by the friction of the tidal waves
on the atmosphere; and in conjunction
with Professor TAFT and Sir William
Thomson, he allows % seconds per cen
tury as the time lost BY the slackenec
speed. Mr.. Chambers wisely concludes
his article as follows: I'VE can onl,
say that the theories propounded arr
eminently suggestive, but nothing more
1t is not remarkable that there should b
differences of opinion among men o
science concerning the dark and stipend
ous questions of the cosmogoDy of tn
world All we deprecate, in the presen
r state Of human knowledge, is ras
dogmatislng, one way or another
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13

Dr. Bulls Congh Syrup has been be-
fore the public for years, and is pro-
nounced by thousands superior to all
other articles for the cure of Coughs,
Colds, Influenza and all Pulmonary
Complaints.
The Philadelphia Press is responsible
for this, story: The extravaganza of
the San Francisco parvenus grows Grim
inal. One of the spectators of the
Golden City has bought another mans
wife for S3oO,00O There are some men
nearer East who would have sold him
theirs for half the money"
A little miss, writing to her father or
the first day of her entrance at board
ing-school, says: The first evening We
had prayers, and then singing, and s
/ passing around of bread, which ! diC
not take, because. not being confirmed.
thought had no right to take commun
ion. Afterward l learned that / ha,
lost my supper"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13
American Nickel Mines.

The nickel deposit near the Gap, Lam
caster county, Pa, ia considered the
largest yet discovered in the world, and
the only deposit Of the ore worked in
America. The mine is on the high d.
viding line between Chester and Peques
Valleys. Besides nickel, copper, iron,
and Limestone are found 10 the came 10.
caliiy. Nickel was discovered here
about the year 1856, though copper
which Is taken from the same mine, was
known in the same locality seventy year,
ago. The ore has a gray color, is very
heavy, and so hard that it Is minded en-.
tirely by blasting. After the ore ha,
been broken into small fragments, il il
put into kilns holding eighty or ninety
tuns each, and subjected to heat produc
ed at Grst by the burnisg of small
qnantity.of wood, and continued by the
conversion Of the expelled gas. II il
then put into smelling furnace, and
dergoes q treatment similar to that o.
iron ore.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13

EAST LIBERTY, October Pre-
ceipts of Cattle 10 day, 765 head; 6 cars
through and SO cars for sale here; total
for the two days 2,159 head; supply
light and demand good, and nearly sold
out at about last weeks prices; best S..
medium to good 81 5O@,4 75. common to
fair So 50@4. stockers S3@3 so, Bulls
s. 56@2 IS. Receipts of Hogs to oday,
$3.50 head; total for two days 6105
head; Workers s606 10. Philadelphia
% 4096 so. Receipts of Sheep to-day,
5000 head; total for two days $3.50 head;
selling at s4@5.
TOLEDO, October 12-Flour steady;
Wheat steady, No. 3 White Wabash 81
II, No. White Michigan 81 II, No.
do 81 10, extra White Michigan 81 %
Amber Michigan 81 16s, October 81 163
November 81 lSa, No. 2 Amber Michi
gan 81 90, No. Red Winter 81 26, No
do 81 Is, November 81 II, No 3 Red
81 08&, rejected Red 81 OIL Corn quie
and steady; low mixed 47c, no grade
463c, damaged 444c. Oats steady; No
32c, White 374c, Michigan s3c. Re
ceipts; 400 bbls Flour, 44,O00 busf
Wheat, $4,000 bush Corn, $4,000 busi
Oats. Shipments; 900 bbls Flour, 81,
600 bush Wheat, 1000 bush Corn, 800
bnsh Oats.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13

Grasshoppers are rather novelty in
Texas, and if you were to tell q Texan,
anywise familiar with railroads, that
grasshoppers could stop a train, he
would laugh at the idea and think you
were "poking fun at him." For all this,
the grasshoppers are stopping trains
right here in Texas. Sunday night,
when Mayor Lord and Alderman Nc
Gowan we're going to Austin, just be-
yond Giddings the track was so covered
with 'hoppers that it took the train two
hours to make six miles. In places they
were two feet thick on the track. The
wheels running over them mashed them
40 that the track became so slippery the
wheels revolved without going ahead
The stencil from the massacred insects
was 80 great and overpowering that tht
windows of the cars had to be closed
Houston Telegraph.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13

When Victor Emmanuel is obliged to
be present at the grand State dinners
that are given on the first Of the year to
his Cabinet Ministers, to the Diplomatic
Corps and other officials, he never eats a
monthful nor does any one else. The
guests must dine before they go to the
royal feast, unless they wish to go away
starving from the royal table. The
courses succeed each other most rapidly,
and only hasty morsels are matched OF
the tempting dishes. The King, who is
the soul of graciousness sometimes, Ia
anything but gracious at these state din.
ners. He never touches knife or fork
One great brown hand crumbles bread
on the cloth nervously, the other fidgets
impa.iently with his sword-hilt. The
Princess Marguerite, his niece and
daughter-in-law, Of whom he is very
fond, always sits at his right hand on
these wearisome occasions, and amuses
him with her sprightliest talk.-[ Rome
Cor. Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13
ONLY REMEDY
FOR HARD TIMES.
CHANGE YOUR SURROUNDINGS.

A Ii wanting FRUIT FARMS. especially
"A adapted to the growth of the VINE, where
il is established success and pays large profit.
The land is also adapted to the growth of Peach
es, Pears, Apples, and small fruits also, Grains,
Grass and Vegetables
Many hundreds of excellent Vineyards, Or
ehards and Farms, can now be seen.
THE LOCATION is only 81 miles south
of Philadelphia by Railroad, In a mild delight
full climate, and at the very doors of the New
York and Phi.adelphia markets. Another Rail-
road runs direct to New York.
THE PLACE is already LARGE Successtul
and Prosperous Churches, Schools, and other
privileges are already established. Also, manu-
other things, at which different members of q
family can procure employment.
1t has been a Health Resort for some
years past for people suffering from pulmonary
affections, asthma, catarrh, ague, and debility;
many thousands have entirely recovered.
A new brick Hotel has just been completed,
100 feet front, with back buildings, four stories
high, including French roof and all modern
improvements for the accommodation of visitors.
Price of Farm Lands S25 per Acre,
payable IN instaiiments, within the period of 4
years. In this climate, planted out to vines, 20
acres of land will count fully as much as 10C
| acres further north.
Persons unaequainted with Fruit Growing, can
become familiar with it in a short time on &C
| count of surroundings
FIVE ACRE, ONE ACRE, and Town
Lots. in the towns of Landisville and Vine
| land, also for sale.
| Whilst visiting the Centennial Exposition
| Vineland can be visited at small expense.
| A paper containing full information, will b.
sent upon application to CHARLES K. Ian
DIS, VINELAND. n. j., free of cost.
The following is a description of Vineland
published In the New York Tribune, by tn
| well known agriculturist, SOlon Robinson:
All of the farmers were of the "well to do
sort, and some Of them, who have turned thei
attention to fruits and market gardening hav
grown rich. The soil is loan, varying fror
sandy to clayey, and surface gently undulatins
intersected with small streams and occasions
wet meadows, in which deposits of peat or muc
are stored, sufficient to fertilize the whole uI
land surface, after it has been exhausted of Il
natural fertility.
almost Leuel position and suitable condition fl
Western prairies We found of the Oldest farm
apparently just proftdbly productive as trhen fir
cleared Of forest fifty or q hundred years ago.
The geologist would soon discover the cause
this continued feltilisy. The whole country
a marine deposit, and all through the soil "
found evidences of calcareous substances, gei
orally in the form of calcareous mari, showir
many distinct forms of ancient shells, of the te
tiary formation; and this nldriy substance Is sea
tered all through the soil Il. very con1ninuted torT
and in the erdct condition most easily dssiiated
such plants as the farmer desires to cultivate.
July IA, 1876. y4-1i
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-13
A Boston Mystery Solved.
From the New York Post, 5th- ]


A good many intelligent persons in
Boston have had their faith rudely
shaken by long story which the Herald
Of that city has published. 1t appears
that for good many months a certain
reputable woman of Boston, whose pieiy
and personal character were believed to
be a satisfactory guaranty against any
species of fraud or trickery, has been
holding spiritual seances at her house,
greatly to the edi6cation of the elect
and no, less to her own pecuniary proEt.
She has shown wonders exceeding any
thing hitherto attempted, and very ma
nv Of Boston's best people were convinc-
ej that they had seen their friends, long
dead.
The spectators sat in one room, while
the spirits appeared in another, with
folding doors between. Darkness was
the condition Of the manifestations, but
the doors and windows of the rear room
were securely sealed.
The Boston Herald, however, with
that lack Of faith in everything less
we'll authenticated than an Associated
Press dispatch is, which is common to
daily journals, has been investigating
the affair, and by the aid of master
carpenter il has discovered that a trap
door in the corner Of the darkened real
room gave access to the kitchen below
and that the spirits were in fact visit
ants from the lower regions-of th'
house, not Of the spirit world. 1t print
alec many details Of the tricks practicet
which can have been learned only from
some repentant or resentful member o
the spirit band. The exposure 10 com
plete, and il adds another to the man,
reasons which every sensible man ha
for saying that whatever the reputation
Of man or woman may be for trut
and probity, the moment that man o
woman turns spirit medium he or sh'
"a the case may be, turns swIndler alst
Unluckily there are large classes ef otf
erwise sane men and women who are 6
given over to believe lies in this matte
that no exposure of the tricks Of med
ums can shake their faith. The delusio
' is one which neither evidence nor argl
ment can remove; but something ma
, perhaps be done for its cure by lockir
up the tricksters who practice upon puI
- lie crsdulity whenever they are detec
ed. The sight ofa half-dozen reputab
mediums in Jail under sentence for o
V tanning money under false pretens
= would have a wholesomely deterrent il
. fuence upon persons Of spiritually fe
~ sitive" organizations.