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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
REMOyAL-2OO Pianos & Organs.

REMOVAL--2OO Pianos & Organs.
At Manufacturers prices. The Subscri-
bers will sell their Entire Stock of Pi-
amos and Organs, new and second hands,
sheet music, music books, and merchan-
disc, at very near cost prices for cash
during September previous to removal
to their new store 40 east 14th ST., Union
Square, Oct. 1st. illustrated Catalogues
Mailed. Agents Wanted, Special in
ducements to the trade HORACE WA
TIERS & SONS, Manufacturers and
Dealers 4S1 Broadway n. Y. 4w
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No one in Perry CO., can beat Geo
Nichols on fine harness.
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BUSINESS. DIRECTORY.

COUNCIL.
7. ]. Rissler, J. f. Lawyer, Nathan Dodd.
Marshal; ). L. Moore.
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Fresh Beef !!

FJNHE undersigned having fitted up the base
ment of the Clerks Office, in convenient
manner, now occupies the same as Meat mar
ket. The public are respectfully notified that
am prepared to accommodate them at all times
with choice Beef etc, at reasonable prices.
It is my aim to offer my customers the BEST
In my line the market affords. Give me call.
April 90, 1873. JOSEPH ATT.
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NEW
Spring and Summer
STOCK!
VIM. L. MAINS,
Is now receiving new Spring and Sum-
mer Stock of Goods, consisting of
FANCY WoRsTED COATINGs,
FANCY sUITINGs,
FANCY CASSIMERES,
FINE FRENCH BLACK CLOTHS
FINE BLACK DOESKIN CAsSI.
MERES,
VEsTINGs,
BINDINGS, and all other Trimmings
READY-MADE OvERCOATs,
READY-MADE SUITS,
READY-MADE PANTS & VESTS
HATS, CAPS, &C.
These piece Goods are all of tn
very latest styles, selected with grea
care for first-class custom trade, and viii
be made to order at the lowest possibl
prices, and warranted to give satisfaction
in every particular.
@g~ NEW YORKz:FASHION r.
PORTS received regularly as soon a
issued.
Bg%CUTTING done to order at rea.
sonable rates, and ALL GOOD
30 OUGHT AT THIS ESTA BLLSE
MENT CUT INTO GARMENT
FREE OF CHARGE.
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200 ACRES
OF good timber land for sale, in 4, or
more. equal and undivided share, cost
ing only
$500
as down payment, will cover the entire
cost to the purchaser, if certain other
conditions are fulfilled
9 SAW MILLS
Wanted to saw for two-thirds of the
lumb Der. Address
stiff MARTIN KAGAY,
Somerset, 0.
A fine lot of mems and boys shoes, OF
the latest style, just received by Walker
& Russell.
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Terms of Rent
OF Town Hall, Somerset, Ohio, adopted
by the Council April 26th, 1875.
Entertainments to which the ad-
mission is fifty cents $500
twenty-five cents.......... 600
Church purposes without supper. $50
with 500
Free Lectures. 200
Dances o.UV
The above rates includes all expenses,
except on occasions in which unusually
late hours are kept, when an extra COM
pensation must be allowed for taking
care of Hall, or the party renting be re-
sponsible for unnecessary damages, and
take care of it himself after the said
usual hours for closing.
All contracts for Hall must hereafter
be made with the Mayor.
The foregoing regulations will be
strictly adhered to under all circum-
stances hereafter.
RoBr. B. WOODWARD, Mayor.
The new STYLES of Jewelry for the ensuing year
More lovely and pretty than ever apear,
| And J. C. Curran has such a supply,
As will take with surprise any Connoiseur's eye.
| So call and see
This J. c. c.,
And he will make you happy be.
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"Carry the news to Mary" that Ham
ilton sells the cheapest goods in the
county.
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Central House,
ThOrnville, o.
s. Observation-Disclosures.

Excellent accommodations..and5re
bills. Good stabling attached.
July 2. 1915. Il
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Societies.

SOcIeffes.
I. o. o. F..
Somerset Lodge No. 352, meets at Odd Fellows
Hall, every Saturday evening at o'clock.
No 76 F. A. NJ.
Somerset Lodge, No. 75 F. and A. NJ, meets
at their hall, on Wednesdays, preceding the
full moon of each month.
ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER NO. 81.
F. A. NJ. meets at Masonic Hall, on the Mon
day preceding the full moon of each month
Companions in good standing are cordially invi-
tedtO attend.
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West M0iIc Street.

He has replenished with a variety of choice
Family Groceries, and is determined to keep u
full and complete assortment of every thing in
his line, and hopes, by close application to bu-
siness, polite attention to customers, together
with low prices, to secure a liberal share of pub
lie patronage. His motto is-READY PAY,
AND LOW PRICES. All kinds of
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Country Produce

Taken in exchange for goods at the highest
market value. Call at the Gallagher Rooms be-
fore buying-it will pay.
Sept. 10, 1875. %
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
AGENTS WANTED FOR THE GREAT
Centennial Book.

sales. IT PAYS. Send for Circular
P. W. ZIEGLER & CO.,
PHILADELPHIA Pa.
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Provide for your Family.

BEN. WHITMER
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15

Strasburg or Danvers onions finely
chopped. The layers of kraut are SIM
ply interspersed with said salt, berries,
and onions. The two latter serve the
purpose of gratefully aavoring the
cabbage, and rendering the kraut more
digestible, precluding the fatulence
likely to occur with dyspeptic and aged
or delicate people. On fitting sauer-
kraut still further for the table, more
onions may be incorporated to advan-
ttage; some light white wine mot sweet)
lmparts pleasant aroma, or lemon
juice. The yellow part of the rind of
prime lemons or tart oranges carefully
scraped with thin, sharp knife, dried
on warm but not hot) stoneware CT
china plates, and deity put away in q
cool, dry pantry, likewise adds agree
ably to the ways of serving sauerkraut,
which ought to be steamed, not boiled,
at least not as usually; but the vessel
containing the kraut should be place in
larger one with hot water.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15
White W Tipping in Russia.

The married women of Russia, &C
cording to various writer's, look upon 81
sound whipping on the part Of their
husbands as an expression of affection.
The story is told of handsome Rus
sian lady, married to a Frenchman,
who after fourteen days of supreme
happiness, became very sad and mel
ancnoly, showing signs of most pro-
found grief. The young husband being
very anxious to know the cause of her
sorrow, she explained the matter, after
much questioning on his part, by say
ing: Glow CAN | believe that you love
me? We have already been united
nearly four weeks, and you have not
beaten me once!" The husband was
delighted to learn that her grief could
SO easily be assuaged, and lost no time
in procuring tender and elegant rod,
with which, on suitable occasions, he
bestowed upon her the necessary tokens
of his love.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15
Scientific.

The only satisfactory detective of
blood-stains, and the animal from which
they have been derived, is the micro
scope. When very thin film of hui
man blood is pressed between two
plates of glass, as in ordinary micro
scopic work, and examined under toll
erably power of the instrument, the
well-known red fluid is seen in reality
to consist of q perfectly colorless IL
quid, known as the serum, and Of an i'm
mense number of minute, solid par
ticles floating in this liquid. The lat
ter particles are the blood corpuscles,
the vast majority of these bodies 40
pearing of a reddish-yellow hue, while
a few are seen to be Of white color.
Thus the color of the blood is entirely
due to the presence Of these little glob-
ules, which exist in such numbers that
the fluid presents to the unassisted
sight a uniformly red appearance. The
blood of all animals contain corpuscles
or globules of one kind or another; and
it is from the different characters pre-
scented by the blood globules of differ
ent animals that the microscopic is
enabled to distinguish the vital fluid of
one kind from that of another.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15
Two SUNDAYS.

You know that, in crossing the Pa
cifc, it becomes necessary to alter the
reckoning of the days to conform to that
Of the Eastern or Western Hemisphere,
according as a ship is sailing in one di-
rection or the other. In going to ia
pan, when the 1S0th degree Of longi-
is reached (which is just half way
around the world from the royal OBJ
servatory at Greenwich, England,
from which longitude is reckoned), a
day is dropped, and in returning one is
added. We crossed that meridian on
the Sth inst, and so two days were put
down In the ships calendar as the 9Th
Of Jun5. Now, as it happened that this
was Sunday, we had two Sabbaths sue
ceeding each other-one of which was
the Sabbath in Japan and in all Asia,
and the other the Sabbath in America
and IN Europe. Some of our ships
company were puzzled to know which
to keep; but [ did not think it would
do me any harm to keep them both,
and shall always remember with pleas
ure this double Sabbath on the sea-
DR.. 4 ael1, IN EvonqelSst.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
One Cow a Mine of Wealth.

The history of the shorthorn cow,
Duchess Goth, which was sold in 1858 at
Earl Ducie's sale, in England, to Col.
Morris, of Fordham, for 700 guineas:
or S3,675, is remarkable as showing the
actual value of one good breeding
animal. From this cow which was
calved in November, 1850, there may
be traced in direct descent number
of animals which have sold for about
$5OO,000. Let it be admitted that as
much Of this value as may be is de-
pending On fancy or rich breeders,
and is not the intrinsic value of the
beef and milk produced; yet no ole
can help admitting that an immense
value, estimated In these alone, has
accrued to the world from this COW;
and IN proportion to this value may be
estimated the profit to breeder from
any superior animal he may produce.
A line of breeding animals is brought
into existence which spreads out fan
like, and DIVORCES year by year wider
and wider, until we can no longer
reach the bounds of the beneficial inhu-
ence. It is IN this that lies the value
of any good animal, and it is an unfair
dispara cement to confine its value to
the weight Of meat upon its carcass
or It's produce iii milk and butter. The
breeder who produces superior ami
NAL sets IN motion an impulse which
must in time spread and increase
enormously, and far beyond computa-
tion.-Assaericd9 AgricuAaNiSt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15
More for Huxley.

AT Modena, in Italy, within circle
of four miles around the city, when
ever the earth is dug and the workmen
arrive at the distance of sixty three
feet, they come to bed Of chalk,
which they bore with an anger,
five feet deep. They then withdraw
from the pit before the auger is re-
moved, and upon its retraction the
water bursts up with great violence
and quickly fills the well thus made,
the supply of water neither being af-
fected by rains nor droughts. At the
depth Of sixteen feet are found the
ruins of an ancient Lighthouses, paved
streets, and mason work. Below this
is layer Of earth, and at twenty-six
feet walnut trees are found entire, and
with leaves and walnuts upon them.
Attwenty-eight feet soft chalk is found,
and below this vegetation and trees and
the remains of another city.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15
WOman'S HallucinatiOn.
From the London News.

The newspapers yesterday contained
q story of what seems to be q case of
self de]uslon, not rare, indeed, in char
acter, but much more elaborate and
more complicate in its operation than
is ordinarily found under similar con-
ditions. 1t if the story OF what pur-
ported TO be a confession of murder,
but which appears to have 8 statement
made under the influence of a COM
plete hallucination. On Saturday even
ing, as the facts are reported, we'll
dressed woman, not apparently in g.
state Of disordered intellect, spoke to s.
police officer in one of the streets of
London, and told him that she had
committed murder. She was taken
at once to a police station, and there
she gavea long and minute account of
the murder which she said she had
committed. She described herself as
nurse In one Of the Metropolitan
workhouses, and declared that for q
long time she had been filled with feel
ings of hatred and revenge against one
of the matrons; that she had watched
for and found an opportunity, knocked
the matrOn down, stunned her, and
then killed her by cutting ner
throat with q razor. After this the
self-accusing woman said she wrapped
the body in her bedclothes, and hid it
under the bed. This done, she got
pass for leave, and she intended to
make her escape, but afterward she
thought there would be no chance for
her safety, and she became stricken by
re nd oh la
ed upon giving herself up. The story,
grim and CHASTITY as it was, seemed CO.
herent, and had nothing il it that could
be called Incredible The police &C
cordlngly made instant inquiries, and
they found at once that in one rather
important part it was incorrect. The
woman said to be murdered was alive
and well. In the room of the alleged
murderess there was found, indeed,
long bundle Or roll under the bed: but
the bundle On being opened was found
to contain no human body, only a boil
ster. The woman who accused herself
was examined by a medical man, but
he appears to have been unable to give
any opinion st once as to whether she
WAS sane Or insane-that is, as to wheth-
er her condition, judged without regard
to the story she told, could be consider
ed that of madness. She remains,
therefore, for the present in charge of
the police. Should the reports which
We have read, and from which, of
course, we draw our sole knowledge of
the facts, turn out to be accurate, and
the woman prove really to have been
the victim of a delusion, he story will
be a somewhat curious chapter in the
strange and painful chronicle of NOR
bid human self-deception. Perhaps
not the least curious thing about it is
that it has been anticipated far more
often in fiction than, so far as our
knowledge goes, in real life.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15
Ar SUNSET.
BY NORMAN GUNNIsON.

By NOhMAN 1UNN1SOS.
The shadows fall across the wall,
The lovely twilight shadows;
While fades away departing day
Along the slopes and meadows.
The cricket, shrill, chirps Oh the hill,
and in the peaceful valley;
The homely kline withia the shine
OF the last sun-rays daily.
A softened light is on the height,
And with the cleaning blended.
The shine and shade together laid
Tell that the dav is ended.
The farewell ray that fades away
Touches the earth with glory,
And bids.geod night to vale apd height.
So ends the days short story.
o hour divine! whose softened shine
Precedes the night and shadows.
Whose mellow light fades from our sight,
Creeping across the meadows!
How softly falls along the walls
The heart's-ease of thy bringing,
While on the hill the whippoorwlH
Its evening song is singing.
@ sunset hour thy mystic power
Brings back old forms and faces,
And at the hearth our lost Of earth
Fill up the vacant places.
White, childish feet adown the street
Come at thy gracious calling;
They gather here, our loved, our dear,
While sunset shades are falling.
All, dream in vain bitter pain
Our souls with sorrow stiri iog--
Along life's track they come not back
1t sunsets hour recurring.
Beneath tia cross we suffer loss,
Cur hearts are sad aud lonely
foJo
Ours is the sunset only.
-GinDer
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15

recent disaster to the New Bedford
fleet, it is little singular that just
about year ago whalemen were on
the lookout for q repetition Of the Ca
tastrophe of 1861, when another fatal
wind should bear down with It's icy cor
don, and, with it's right wing resting on
Icy Cape, sweep the whole fotilla high
and dry on the low beach that fringes
the northern coast. The disaster, how
ever, and unfortunately, had happened
a year later than was predicted, al
though in q somewhat different form,
but with terrible results. Whalemen,
1t is said, note q most remarkable
change in the seasons of the arctic
zone. A few years ago they reached
the whaling grounds sometime In Au-
gust, only to be obliged to leave them
early in September las was the case in
the late disaster.) Two years ago they
fingered into October, and might have
delayed longer so far as peril from the
1ce-pack was concerned. They went
within eighty miles of the mouth of the
Mckenzie River, where sailing vessels,
we believe, never have been before;
and it was thought at the time that a
steam vessel, aided by the currents,
might have easily gone through to
Baffin's Bay, a DISTANCE of less than l.
600 miles from the extreme point at
tanned, thus solving the mystery Of the
northwest passage.
Smiths Bay is only forty five miles
from where the crews Of the recently
abandoned ships were left; and as
there was an abundance of provisions
on board of the vessels, it is thought
by experienced New Bedford ship
masters, familiar with the coast, that
the men, having no fear Of starvation,
wood and water being plenty, and the
shores lined with driftwood, and the
seal, deer and seafowl found in abund-
ance, will worry through the ice to
Smiths Bay, where they may remain
in safety until delivered from their I'M
fortunate condition by some vessel sent
there for the purpose; but it is posi-
bic that some Of the officers among
the brave men may bring their ships to
port. In fact, there is no reason for
alarm at all for those men who stuck
by their ships with their valuable car
goes.-Boston Globe
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15
Roofs of Enormous Width.

The desire to construct the largest
single roof in the world was achieved
in the roof of the Midland railway STA
ton, at St. Pancras, England, which
now possesses that distinction, having
eclipsed the roof of the riding-schooI at
Moscow by few feet, the span of the
former being 240 feet, and that of the
latter 235 feet. The roof to cover the
large new station at st. Enoch Square
for the Glasgow Union railway has
span OF 1913 feet, and length of SIS
feet. The roof of the new joint station
of the Midland, the Great Northern, and
the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln
shire railways has span of 21O feet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15

MAGGIE STEWART, a little girl from
Brooklyn, visited independence Hall,
last night, accompanied by some of her
family, and while admiring the old bell
and the many relics exhibited there,
asked the janitor whether she might
be allowed to recite "The Independ-
ence Bell, saying that it was her highest
ambition to speak the piece in indie
pendence Hall. Permission was
granted, and the little girl astonished
the many visitors by reciting the piece
in fine style.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15
Strange Effect of the African Climate.

Francis John Pocock, an English
man, and SANKEY'S companion in his
African explorations, in one of his
letters to his parents speaks of the diff
Guilty of remembering anything ID
Africa. A brother who accompanied
him died; but even this event he could
keep in his mind only a short time |!
He says: "This is an awful country
to forget; you lose all understanding. If
you want to remember anything you
must write it down. | am sure poor
Ted's death was not in my mind one
hour. It is the way with everybody.
Of course, a thought crossed my mind
very often, but not to think of it."-N.
Y. LeGner.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15

SPONGE CAKE Three eggs, one
cup of sugar, half cup of milk, one
andia half cups Of flour, one teaspoonful
OF baking powder; flavor with lemon.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15

A correspondent of the Utica IN. Y. J
Heron writes: Trees, In winter, are
less hurt by 3 low temperature than by
the drying winds, which all cold winter
winds are Blowing sharply, they dry
the branches of the trees faster than
the sap can supply them, the sap being
lessened by the freezing OF the watery
part, thus becoming incapable of re-
sisting the desicating effect, and so the
branches or the tree dies. IF the ex-
posure is short, there Will be but lit
tie or no harm. It is the long contin-
ued, severely cold, and strong winds
that work the mischief; and particu-
Iarly If the roots as well as the branches
are frozen. The past winter was a
noted example. The remedy is
to protect against the winds. A
screen of evergreen trees can be
made effectual. So hill or wood will
protect what is near it, on the side op-
pcsite the wind. A building, also, is
guard. But sometimes the sun is apt
to hurt, and all the more for such pro-
lection, as 1t confines the heat. This is
difficult to prevent. But its effect is
not near SO great as that Of the cold,
strong winds. It is not enough to mere
w protect so Is to prevent destruction
The mere strain may be so severe as to
be felt the season following. So it is
with Strawberries. If severely strained
by exposure, do what you may, there
will be a lack-the plant will disap-
point expectation, Grapevines serve
us In the same way. Protect your
strawberries well with evergreen brush,
and make secure 30 that the wind can
not remove it, and you are safe, 1t mat
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-15
Care of Poultry.

The care that poultry is entitled to,
to make it profitable, is not near SO
much as one would think. It is just
like any other business-it needs daily
attention, not one day III a month, but
each and every day. Poultry should
have equally as favorable treatment as
any other stock. Construct houses not
too large, as you will permit too many
to crowd together. They should be
about eight feet wide, sixteen feet long,
to accommodate each a flock of fifty
fowls, fronting to the south, with large
windows, so placed that the fowls may
enjoy as much sunlight as possible
Have it perfectly tight and dry, ex-
cepting means for ample ventilation,
without a possibility of a direct draft
reaching the fowls at night, after going
to roost. A fowl will take cold while
asleep SIS easily as a person. Keep the
roosting apartment clean; sprinkle a
little air-slacked lime and dry ashes
under the perch; have the house thor
oughly whitewashed inside three or
four times a year. See that they have
free access to plenty of pure, fresh
water at all times; don't force them to
drink the drainage from the barnyard
many cases of cholera have been
caused by this. 4 few drops of sui
phate of iron put in their drinking YES
sells occasionally will be benefit.
Sprinkle the perches with coal oil, and
scatter sulphur in their nests and
dusting-box
Many fowls die from severe colds
received by roosting in exposed places.
OF course, every fowl that dies, it is
said, had the cholera, when probably
half of them were affected in this way.