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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

Very singular hailstones are thus de-
scribed by the Reading Eagle cores
pendent, in an account ofa recent storm
in the Blue Mountains of Pennsy lvania:
1--WE were astounded at the grandeur of
a mountain hailstorm; but when we ex.
anined the hailstones and found some Of
them of dull green color, and others
blue, We were doubly mystifed. The
hailstones we were accustomed TO see
were white and transparent to degree
These were perfectly Opaque, and seemed
to be glass globes filled with a dull COL
oring matter. They were very cold,
hard, and not in melting mood. Some
were as large as walnuts. may say
they averaged that size. Our host ex-
amined them and pronounced it the
strangest thing he had ever heard Of
We drew forth water from the we'll and
emptied about three quarts of hailstones
into pail of water. The water was not
discolored in the least. ] never drank a
glass of ice water before as cold as that
was. 1t had peculiar sulphurous taste
very like the water from the Hot
Springs. At first none of Us cared to
drink too much Of it, but we finally con.
cluded that it could not kill us, and we
partook copiously of it. The after taste
finally got to be bitter, and as the hal
melted it became stronger. We tried to
preserve the hailstones by freezing q
large number together, but the next
morning by ten o'clock the mass had
melted, and that was the last of our mys
terious ice. On our travel to-day VIC
met DIR. Kirby, and we were pleased tc
learn that he had seen hailstones of this
same storm. He pronounced it mos
wonderful freak of nature He attri
butes it purely to electricity and the com
bination of various currents of atmos
phere bearing upon the rain drops higf
up in the clouds. He said he was showr
a specimen of dark green hail that seem
ed to have animal matter in it. One
stone was shaped like halfmoon, anc
the other had a smell of phosphorus
That had reddish cast. He tried hare
to preserve it by electricity, but failed
He said ordinary hail could be preserv
ed, but this last species or kind com
pletely baffied him. Another strang
thing about it was that the territory
fell upon hardly covers two square mile
along the mountain side"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
A Generation on the March.

A generation on the march from the
cradle to the grave is an instructive
spectacle, and we have it carefully pre-
sented to lis in the report by DR.. Farr,
an English physician. Let us trace the
physical fortune which any million of
lis may reasonably expect. The num-
Der, to begin with, is made up of 511,-
745 boys and 4s8,255 girls, dispropor-
tion which, by and by, will be redressed
by the undue mortality of the boys, and
will be reversed before the close of the
strange, eventful history. More than a
quarter of these children will die before
they are FIVE years old-in exact num-
bers, 141 1897 boys and 121,795 girls.
The two sexes are nearly on level.
The next five years will be much less
fatal. In the succeeding FIVE years
from ten to ffteen-the mortality will
be still further reduced. Indeed, for
both sexes, this is the most healthy per
iod of life; the death-rate, however, is
lower for boys than for girls. There will
be some advance in deaths in the next
FIVE years, and still more in the FIVE
which follow, but 634 ,045 will certainly
enter on their twenty-sixth year. Be-
fore the next ten years are at an end,
two-t thirds of the women will have mar
rie6 The deaths during that period
will be 62,052, and of those no fewer
than 27,134 will be caused by consump-
ton. Between thirty-6ve and forty five
a still larger "death. toll" will be paid,
and little more than half the original
band-in exact num- bers, 02,915-will
enter on their forty-sixth year. Each
succeeding decade, up to seventy.fve,
will now become more fatal, and the
numbers will shrink terribly. At sev-
enty-fve only 161, ,124 will remain to be
struck down, and of these 1859 will
have perished by the eighty-ffth year OF
the march. The 1866 that remain
will soon lay down their burdens; but
2,153 of them will struggle on to be
ninety-fve, and 223 to be 100 years old
Finally, in the 10Sth year of the course
the last solitary life will flicker out
Such, then, is the average lot of a mil
lion men and women.-[Newark Adver
tiser.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
From the Pittsburgh Telegraph
A Repr0ach to ChristendOm.

Most Americans, we suppose, hope for
the confirmation Of the dispatch of this
morning which reports Servian victo.
ry. No combatanis of recent times
have been better entitled than the Ser
vians to whatever sympathy neutrals,
whether near at hand or far away, have
to bestow. 1t is nothing less than a
disgrace to the Christianity of Christen-
dom that the Turks are permitted to
wage the present war for the mainten-
ance of their power under the protec.
tion of the Great Powers. II is quite
true that the religion Of the Christian
subjects o! the Sultan is not the purest
or most refined form of Christianity
Probably devout Christians of Pitts
burgh would see many things objection
able in the worship of the Greek Church
everywhere as well as many defects in
the moral life of Its most exemplary
members. But, after making all neces-
sary deductions on the score of both
mistaken faith and wrong practice, the
Christians of the East are Christians,
fairly entitled to the name. This is the
judgment of Dean Stanley and of other
observers equally competent. Their
faith is an effective, living principle
that is, it exerts a direct positive inhu.
ence upon the daily life of millions
causing them to do things that they
ought to do and to abstain from things
that they ought not to do, while Chris
tian sympathy a sa benign power affecting
more or lees the great majority of those
who bear the Christian name broadly
distinguishes Christian society from thu
Musselman society around it. Thi
truth rests upon testimony 40 respecta
bic and satisfactory that one cannot hell
regretting that the evangelical mission
aries in the East so frequently publish
statements Of an apparently opposite
tenor. We cannot help suspecting tha
their minds are unduly prejudiced b.
the hostilitylthey so frequently..encoun
ter from the fierce bigotry ofthe Easterl
clergy. But it is, besides, undoubtedl
true that the sympathies even of tn
American missionaries in Turkey, hav
always been enlisted on the side OF Eng
land. They have enjoyed the specis
favor of the English Ministers at Cor
stantinople, and they have been aided b
English funds. II ia, therefore, not ur
natural that they have always sided wit
England against Russia in the Orients
question, and as, furthermore, their a,
prehensions of Russian interference wit
their peculiar work in case of Russia
occupation Of the country, are, no doub
: we'll founded, their attitude in the pre-
} snt contest is fully accounted for.
t 1t is, however, a pity that the entil
, Christian world is not more distinctly
t one mind in reference to the subject
E Turkish rule in Europe over a gre
Christian population capable of bett
D things. A heavy responsibility certai
e ly rests upon England in the matter,
1 condemnation not relieved by the ia
: which seems clear enough that Russ
e appears to be acting without ambition
: territorial extension.
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An Arkansas local soliloquises thus:


'Some of our exchanges are pub
fishing as curious item. a statement to
the effect that horse in Iowa pulled
the plug out of the bunghole of a bar
rel, for the purpose Of shaking his thirst"
We do not see anything extraordinary
in the occurrence. Now, if the horse
had pulled the barrel out of the bung-
hole and slnked his thirst with the plug
or, if the barrel had pulled the bung-
hole out ofshe plug, and slaked its thirst
with the hunghole, or, if the bunghole
had pulled the thirst ont of the horse
and slaked the plug with the barrel or,
if the barrel had pulled the horse out Of
the bunghole and plugged it thirst with
the slake, il might be worth while to
make fuss over it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

"If / have interested you, it is that
which desired; If not, it is that only
to which could attain"
have written Of places and events
that have pleasing interest TO me; of
names and circumstances that have be-
come saBetified in nav affections; OF nav
old home, where the sprightliness and
vivacity of youth grew into manhood
and maturer age; of recolleetions that !
find Strengthening az the body is inclin-
ed TO break with the weariness of age.
All these faded glories brighten upon
the tablet Of memory with each return
ing sun, and they afford us pleasure in
their remembrance. But while all these
are short liyed and fade from our grasp
at every turn we take round the mile
posts Of time, We may take new comfort
by looking foruard TO that grand central
home in the midst of which "roll the
wheels Of life, imperishable, unceasing.'
II your readers will be a. prompt ir
paying the subscriptions due you, which
] know you so much need IL this time
Of printers need. | shall be we'll repaid
for the time spent in getting up these
papers, and you will be cheered for thu
patience you have exercised IN putting
them into type. But if / thought ny
efforts to make up an interest in tn,
"Olden Times" did not inspire at leas
a tew to assist you pecuniarily in return
for the pleasure they have had owe
the "recollectIons OF the past" my pei
would be palsied for thesstime to come
IL no gratitude has been awakened, ihel
no good has been accomplished.
II these letters are to be resumed
will not be for some time. My time vii
be fully occupied for some months t
come. Yale. SENEx.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

Prof, Huxley admitted at Buffalo
that he has found development" in
this country. "Almost Immediately on
my arrival" he says, 81 asi..inlerview-
ed by two active and intelligent repre-
sentatiyes of your Press, who put to me
series of inquiries of deepest and most
profound interest, each of which would
require treatise in reply" And then
the Professor goes on TO say that he has
learned more since his arrival than eve,
before in an equal space of time. This
remq rk looks well on the surface, but
perhaps it would be rash to ask him fol
a bill Of particulars.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

Two old and respectable citizens OF
Philadelphia mysteriously disappeared
the other day, and their friends search.
ed for them in the hospitals and the
morgue, but to no avail. At length
they were found ut the House of Correc-
tion, one of them, worth $50, 900, being
engaged in breaking stone. They were
old and feeble, not very well dressed
and the police thought they we're va.
grants, and the magistrates, no wiser
sent them up. it is needless to say, they
were promptly released on being found
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

The Director of the Mint, with the
approval Of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, has authorized the coinage at the
Philadelphia Mint of twelve million OF
nickel coin for the Government of Ven
ezuela. The planchets for these coins
are to be manufactured at Waterbury
Conn, and delivered at the Mint ready
for milling and stamping, which opera.
tions can be performed without restrict
ing United States coinage, the milling
and stamping facilities being sufficient
ly in excess of those for preparing the
metals and planchets.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
Sensible Advice.

Some times I think am tolerably
good natured, but when have favored
customers by letting them have goods for
80 or go days, and have to wait on my pay
from two to six years, it tries my
patience. Another hint: / have a
great many small claims running from
fifty cents to five dollars. Do not think
because your accounts are small, do not
intend collecting them, for l do. Now,
please come at once and settle with me
and save trouble and cost
Evils THOMAS JOHNSON.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

Yesterday youngster of two and a
half years, who had become jealous Of
his two weeks old brother, and being
left alone with the infant for couple oi
minutes, lugged him out of doors, where
he left him. When "liitle jealousy
was questioned why he did it, he replied
that he "was going to take him back tc
grandpa; he didn't want him any more
T Boston Transcript.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

In the New York dry goods market
on Thursday, one thousand cases of
Richmond prints were sold. The COM
petition was animated throughout and
the whole offering was distributed in
less than an hour, at prices fully up to
current market quotations. The aver
age price realized was seven cents. The
result is considered as indicating a
healthy feeling among the trade, and as
foreshadowing also readiness to absorb
other goods, later in the season, that
may be thrown on the MARKET on the
same conditions
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
The Best Evidence.

many pny6lclanS; also those Sunerlng
from the same disease as afflicted the
son of the Rev. E. S. Best. No person
can doubt this testimony, as there is no
doubt about the curative power of VEG
ETINE.
NATIcK, Mass, JAN. LIST, 1873
MIR. H. r. STEVENS:
DEAR Strive have good rea-
son for regarding your vEaETINE med
icine of the greatest value. We feel as
sured that it has been the means of saw
ing our sons life. He is now seventeen
years of age; for the last two years he
has suffered from necrosis of his leg,
caused by scrofulous affection, and was
so far reduced that nearly all who saw
him thought his recovery impossible. A
council of able physicians could give US
but the iaintest hope of his ever rallying;
two of the number declaring that he was
beyond the reach of human remedies,
that even amputation could not save
him as he had not vigor enough to en-.
dure the operation. Just then We COM
menced giving him vEGETINE and from
that time to the present he has been con
tinuously improving. He has lately re-
sumed studies, thrown away his crutches
and cane, and walks about cheerfully
and strong.
Though there is etill some discharge
from the opening where his limb was
lanced, we have tho fullest confidence
that in little time he will be perfectly
cured.
He has taken about three dozen bot,
ties of vEGETINE, but lately uses but
little, as he declares he is too we'll to be
taking medicine.
Respectfully yours,
E. S. Best
Mrs l.. c. +. Best.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01


NIJNE NovGoRoD FAIR. The great
market of the eastern world has been
held at this junction of the Volga and
Olga Rivers, in Russia. every summer
for hundreds of years. Here the nations
of Europe and Asia meet with their
products for trade. Cossack, Chinese,
Turk and Persian, meet the German
and the Greek with every variety of
merchandise that mankind employs,
from sapphires to grindstones, tea, OPT
UNI, fur, food, tools and fabrics, and last
but not least. medicines. J. c. Aver &
Co.'s celebrated remedies from America
were displayed in an elegant bazar, where
the Doctor himself might sometimes be
seen. They are known and taken on
steppes of Asia as we'll as the prairies OF
the West and are an effectual antidote
for the diseases that prevail in the
yaourts of the North, rs we'll as the huts
and cabins of the western continent
Lincoln Ill.) Times.
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Mrs. J. HI. willard

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 Colum-
bus street.
GOtl, 1874
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
Avoid Cold and Wet Feet,

1 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. l in every
respect. All rips occurring in work Of
my make will be repaired gratis.
BENZ. GRAVES.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

Pleasant and Profitable Employ.
ment.-"Beautiful." "Charming!" "Oh,
how lovely p "What are they worth ?'
&c. Such are exclamations by those
vino see the large, elegant New Chromos
produced by the European and Ameri.
can Chrome Publishing Co. They are
all perfect Gems of Art. No one can
resist the temptation to bny when see
ing the Chromos. Canvassers, Agents,
and ladies and gentlemen out of en-
ployment, will find this the best open
ing ever offered to make money. For
full particulars, send stamp for confid-
entail circular. Address F. GLEASON
& CO., 73S Washington ST.. Boston,
Mass, 19m3
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

A correspondent of California paper
complains bitterly of the policy by
which the Yosemite Valley Park Com
missloners control that State institution
in leasing it to various parties whose
only aim is to fleece the tourist. One
can not 60 about in any direction to see
the wonders of the place without finding
them fenced off and an admission of fouI
bits to a dollar charged for the sight
This is said to account for the light
travel in that direction, and in fact it ii
more to be dreaded than a visit to Nj.
aRara
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

Go to Skinner and Bros Drug Store
and examine their fine stock Wall Pap
per and Window Curtains, nearly one
Hundred different patterns of wall paper
on hand which they offer for CASH. SO
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
NOTICE.

MARIA G BACKENSTOS, now of GAINESVILLE,
Nl Muskingum County, Ohio, is hereby noti-
fed that her husband, Charles E. Backenstos. of
Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, did, on the 4th
day of August, 1876, file his petition in the of
flee of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
within and fer the county of Perry aforesaid,
charging the said Maria G. Backenstos with
having been wilfully absent from him. the said
Charles E. Backenstos, for more than three years
last past without any sufficient cause or justifi-
cation therefor on his part, and asking that he,
the said Charles E. Backenstos, may be divorced
from her, the said Maria q. Backenstos, for the
cause aforesaid; which petition will stand for
hearing at the next term of said court.
CHARLES Z. BACKENST0S,
By VIM. SPENCER, his Atty.
August 4, 1876. 1--we
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
THE OLDEN TIMES.
General Reflections.
Number 23.

After what have given you, in refer
ence TO the mills and aDti-Mills War;"
the reader will begin to form some idea
10 what extent local war may be car
ried between parties who strive for the
mastery. have given you only small
insight into that ancient war, TO show
YOU that all difficulties, troubles, and
vexations that have come to citizens OF
Somerset, have not come solely to those
who have resided in. the place within
the recollection Of the present genera.
iion; that, in short, il has seen other ex-
citing periods with which anything that
has occurred more recently IL not to be
compared. No wonder that Lidey q
Alfred's paper-"The Western World and
Political Ticker" and the first paper es.
tablished in the village, should have
been termed "Ihe RaaLesndke," for its
chief Office was to sting and bite every
body who stood in the way of its aspir-
ing managers. What folly for frail
politicians 10 berate each other in this
inhuman way. They are all dead long
ago. and their names almost forgotten,
and their acts are now being collected
aa historical amusement for their grand.
childrenl
or the business men Of Somerset from
1920 10 1880 we know but little, as there
are but few records left from which We
can gather their number or occupation
John Murray was the Auditor in 1920
For the Fall OF that year he advertised
80 parcels Of land for taxes-quite a
formidable a list as is now annually OF
fered for delinquency, though half o
the county was still subject to entry. s.
we infer that money was an object then
more diiicult to obtain than now, wheI
hundred dollars are called for to on
then. Among the delinquencies report
ed we find many names that were famil
lar with us fifty years ago, which by de
grees have been dropped from the rol
Of landholders. We give a few of thes
to-wit: Angle, Barnhisel. Anderson
Banks, Chrisiley, Catterlin, Devei
Gardener, Greenwal., Griffith, Hush
Hoshour, Hooper, Hardsock, House
Hinebaugh, Robson, Rush, Roth, Rod
man, Ramsey, Hummell, Manson. Ste
phenson, Springer, Upp, Shreev,
Weaver, Ward, Wiley, Wallace, Wa
ters, Wood, Teal, &c.
The 6rst paper did not need muc
money 10 insure its publication. W
find in its columns these advertisement
"Linen and Flax will be taken fc
debts due this Office"
"Rags wanted at this office. cen
will be given"
"NOTICE.-Bacon will be taken ,
81 cents per pound for any debts du
this Office, il delivered in few days."
"WOOL Is also wanted, and will |
taken at market price for one or tw
months"
John Beckwith was clerk Of the Cou
in 1921. Who could blame him for b
ing very old man when he died ye;
or two Ago?
will give you in full, one of the ol,
eat business advertisements that appea
in newspaper Of Somerset:
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
Flowers-Beautiful Flowers.

Lovers Of flowers are respectfully in
formed that all my towering plants are
now in bloom, and that the same are
offered for sale at the lowest prices At
my Greenhouse on Columbus street,
Somerset, Ohio. p. G. MATTHIEs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

At recent performance in Dublin
circus, Lulu, the well known gymnast,
met with terrible accident. She is pro-
pelled from spring platform about six
ty fee, into the air, and then catches a
trapeze. On this occasion she missed
the catch, and did not fall perpendicu-
lRrly on the net intended to receive her,
but sideways against she gallery rail-
ings, and thence, rebounded into the
arena. Her injuries are fearful, and the
doctors entertain no hope of her recov'
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Notice of Annninfmant.

NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber
N has been appointed and qualified as the
Execator of the Iast will and testament of Will
liam Sanderson, late of Perry county, Ohio,
deceased. JOSIAH PETTY.
August IS, 1876. 19w3
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WANTED.-$150O from parties whose
accounts are past due. We are selling
now strictly for cash at greatly reduced
Idsso and desire speedy adjustment of
all past due accounts at once.
Respectfully, &c.
J. G. CURRAN.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

A GAINESVILLE correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette having recently stat
ed that the city was the third oldest
town in the State, the State journal
corrects the statement as follows: "The
order is thus: Marietta and Cincinnati,
1888; Gallipolis, 1870; Manchester, 1871;
Dayton and Chillicothe, 1896; steuben-
vile, 1898. Then, if we include Bridge
port, Belmont County, and Harmar
Belpre and Beverly. Washington Coun-
ty, all now towns, and all of which had
settlements within their present limits
before 1870, it would make GAINESVILLE,
1899, not earlier than che twelfth. Lam
caster was settled about the same date az
Zanesyille."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

The largest, finest and best selected as
sortment of gold and gold-plated chains,
for both ladies and gentlemen, ever Of
fered in Somerset, at ]. c. Curran's.
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COAL!COAL.
INeBest and Cheapest!
AT GREENS BANK.

Joshua Green desires to inform the
public that his Coal is as good as the
best, and none of it IS bad as the worst,
and all cheaper than the cheapest to be
had at any other place in this County.
Price al the Bank cents per bushel
and full 80 pounds to the bushel guaran-
teed. Call and see: Silver money not
refused. 17w4