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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
Is 1t SOap!-The Latest Californian
Sensation.

The rock-soap mine is situated in the
lower mountains or foot hills of the
coast range in Ventura county, five
miles from the city Of the same name
1t was discovered by A. F. Hubbard
while prospecting for coal. He accident
ally dislodged some that fell into water
and dissolved 1t being q new expert
ence to see rock dissolve, he gave it hia
attention, found it soapy, took it home to
experiment with and soon learned its
virtues; yet; strange to tell, his family
used it for nearly year before it was
given to the public, when Mr.. Hubbard
associated himself with Messrs. Cronk
and Bickfo forming the present com
pany, who are the sole proprietors OF
this wonderful mine. 1t is accessible
only through canyon leading to and
opening upon the beach. The coast
line stage road passes the mouth of this
canyon three miles below the mine
This canyon or ravine penetrates one of
the widest possible volcanic regions.-
Along this side ofthe ravine, sometimes
in the bed Of she stream, sometimes
high up it's PERCEPTIONS banks, winds a
little trail leading to the soap mine
travelled only by the safe pack mule
and hardy miner. The rock resemblet
chalk or lime. At the southern extrem
ity is an extensive deposit veined, mar
bled, and particolored sembling CASTLE
soap. The ledge at its opening is Is tc
80 feet wide and crops out for 1000 fee
to an unknown depth. The lode is wei
defined with wall rocks of hard slate
stone, and has, in common with the slat,
and sandstone strata about it, beer
thrown up from the depths and turned
completely on edge. In its vicinity is
mountain of gypsum, also turned up OIL
edge; indeed, the whole country bear
evidence Of fearful convulsions, alao O
sometime having lain peacefully at tn
bottom of the ocean; for on the highss
= mountain tops can be found nearly pei
' feet sea shells and specimens of marin
=, matter.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
General Grant Growing Old.

t'Gsihs' Long Branch Cocrespond.ncs to
oincipnsii Enquirer.
The hrss sign OF age I have noticed in
Grant is his refusal, -on the ground Of
nervousness, 70 drive his fourth. hand.
Like several Of our Presidents, he 10 al
most confined in the condolences Of life
in the bosom Of his family, having
found his Secretaries successivsly look
ing after thsir own interests. His son
10 his clerk, his wife his con6ddnte, and
his holiday home in ,his cold Autums
the house BY ihe lonely ocean-svery
hotel fastened and but few neighbors
remaining. On the whole the public
gives no security for domestic happiness,
or svsn Independence. I have seen men
like Sheridan, who occupies Grants old
rank, look troubled on matters Of fn-
sncs. For money only shermn published
his Memoirs. He was banker once, and
should hsys some knowledge and bust
ness skill, yet IL would appear by hi
own statement that be can barely liy,
within his incons. Indeed I presum,
Grant 70 bs At least sherman's equal il
business management. Few Of then
possess anything, however. SchofelC
has made soms money in mining stool
speculstions. Hancock 10 poor. Th
only way for soldier TO get wealth is l.
marry for At. A sailor can cut prizes
but q soldier gets no prize money.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
Man Terribly Bitten and Mangled by
Dogs.

COLUMBUS, O., October IA man
named George Long, about noon to-day,
went into the orchard of Dan'l Thomas,
across the Scioto River. and picked up
few apples, when Thomas saw him and
started in pursuit, accompanied by two
bull dogs. Thomas set the dogs on the
man, who tore his person in q most
frightful manner. One of his legs ia a
pitiful mass Of mangled flesh, while
there are two severe wounds about his
throat, where one of the dogs bit him
Long Was taken to his home. after get
ting away from the dogs, where he now
lies at the point of death. He has a
large family dependent upon him fol
support Thomas is man worth per
haps 100000. No arrests have beer
made as yet, although threats of lynch
ing have been made.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
Origin of the Canadian Horse.

A very intelligent gentleman residing
in the State of New York, who has given
a great deal of earnest thought to the
subject of breeding, and who has travel
ed extensively in European and other
foreign countries, in the course of pri-
vate letter to the editor of the Live
Stock Journal, makes the following sug-
gestions as to the origin of the tough,
hardy horses of Canada:
By the way, l have seen it inserted in
our agricultural papers, that the Cana
dian Is q. Norman reduced BY scantier
food, colder climate, &c. Now, this l
think physically impossible, as a reduc-
tion of size in this way. am confident,
would produce long-legged. sIab-sided,
STUN bling brute, very different from the
compact, hardy, fine formed, active little
Canadian, as he has existed there as far
back as the memory Of man, still main
tanning his ground il. considerable num-
| bers, Notwithstanding the numerous
crosser in late years of large. English
| horses
When I was in Quebec in 1852, saw
very fine light or 'grappled gray stall
lion, much in the style Of Mr.. Dunham'r +
Success, except he was finer in his points
He was about IA hands high, possibly
not over 133 hands-a real beauty, with
fine action, &c. In Paris, in 1867, saw
the exact counterpart of this stallion
also other equally small horses, of the
same style, though not so fine. Nov,
have no doubt that when the French
Arst settled in Canada, this WAS the cor
of horse they imported, and have con
tinued to breed and own to the presen
day. Ships, or rather brigantines, il
those days, were too small, I presume
to bring over II to IS hand horsef
weighing 1900 to 1000 lbs, as some o
the Western and Scotch Canadian breed
ers boast o. importing now.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06

A correspondent of the Baltimore Ga
zette, writing from Lancaster, Penn, re
lstes the following anecdote of Thaddeus
Stevens:
MANY years ago, when Thaddeu. Ste
vens was practicing law in Lancaster, he
was employed to defend tive bank Off
GERS who had been indicted for conspira
cy, they having used the funds of the
bank in speculation. All the legal tai
ent of Philadelphia and surrounding
counties had been engaged 10 assist in the
prosecution. When the trial was opened
Mr.. Stevens rose, and addressing the
court, said: "If it please your honors,
presuming there are different degrees of
guilt attached to the prisoners, my eli
ents, move they be tried separately"
The judge consulted for few moments
with his associates, who consenting, the
motion was granted and so recorded
Waiting some time for Mr.. Stevens to go
on, the judge at last becoming impatient
said impetuously: proceed, Mr.. Ste
vens, proceed. We are waiting for you
sir Stevens rose deliberately, and look
ing arou nd the courtroom for moment
said: did your honors ever hear of on,
man being tried for conspiracy Their
waving his hand to his clients, he said
you can go home; you can 60 home.
And they did 90 home. The jury wsr
discharged and the court adjourned
And for this piec. of legal stratee,
Thad. Stevens received e5, 1000"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
The Black Fungus on Apples.

This disease has been growing one
in this country, selecting for its subjects
many of our most delicious varieties,
and soon rendering the culture of an
affected variety Improbable. 1t fasten-
ed, many years since, on the old New
town Pippin one of the best, long keep.
ing varieties we ever grew, and render
ed its culture hazardous. It drove the
Fall Pippin, one Of our richest fall ap-
Piles, out of the markeE and it has affect
ed, in a greater or lesser degree, the
Swaar Spitzenberg, Fameuse, and other
apples of the highest quality.
1t is a skin disease, but when it attacks
an apple in its early growth, the black
spots are apt to crack and the fungus
follow the cracks into the core, and stop
the growth of the fruit or of the side
worst affected. When it appears after
the fruit is nearly grown, it does not
greatly damage it for immediate home
use, but if barreled for shipping, as soon
as the apples sweat, the fungus spots
commence decaying, and spread over
the fruit, coon rendering it worthless.
We have in our orchard quite mum.
ber of trees of the Fameuse, one of the
most delicious Of autumn apples, and
one of the worst affected by the fungus
But few years pass when they are fre'
enough from the disease to admit o
barreling, but as they find a pretty read.
home market we have retained them
This is one of the years when they ar
sound enough to admit of barreling, an,
it would be very interesting to know
what influences have contributed t.
keep off the fungus this year, but thi
as well as the cause of the disease
still wrapped in mystery and must b
classed with pear blight, mildew an
other diseases whose cause and cure
unknown.
We have written Of the fungus as a
fecting the apple, but it also affects tn
pear. 1t has nearly driven the Whit
Doyenne, once our most popular vsri'
ty out of cultivation, and haa seriousl
threatened Flemish Beauty and eve
Seckel. Verify We have much yet
learn about the diseases, and the inse
= enemies of frnits
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
When Aen Are at Their Best.

DR.. Beard states that from an analy-
sis of the lives Of thousand representa-
tive men IN all the great branches of the
human family, he made the discovery
that the golden decade was between for
ty and fifty; the brazen between twenty
and thirty; the iron between fifty and
sixty. The superiority of youth and
middle life over old age in original work
appears all the greater when we consid-
er the fact that all the positions of honor
and prestige-professors and public sta-
tions-are in the hand Of the old. Rep
utation, like money and position, is
mainly confined to the old. Men are
not widely known until long after they
have done the work that gives them
their fame. Portraits of great men are
delusions; statues are lies! They are
taken when men have become famous
which, on the average, is at least twenty
five years after they did the work which
gave them their fame. Original worl
requires enthusiasm. If all the origina
work done by men under forty five wer'
anDihilated, they would be reduced tt
barbarism. Men are at their best at tha
time when enthusiasm and experienc
are almost evenly balanced This per
iod, on the average. is from thirty sieh
I to forty. After this the law is that ex
, perience increases, but enthusiasm de
creases
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
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Sheffield Coming to America.

The announcement is made in the
Iron Age that the Sanderson Brothers
Steel Company has been organized in
this country for the manufacture of the
steel hitherto made for the American
market by Sandereon Bros. & Co.,
Sheffield, England. The new company
has purchased the Geddes Steel Works,
at Syracuse, New York and has also
bought of Sanderson Bros. their stock of
steel in the United States, together with
the right to use their name, trademarks
patents and all the methods, material
and processes employed in the Sheffield
works This is result of the progress
made in steel manufacture in the United
States, which has advanced so far that
the fine steel made by Sandersons oi
Sheffield had been practically excluded
from the American market by our owr
home manufacture.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
Encounter With a Wild Boar.

A terrible fight with a ferocious boar
comes from Davenport, Iowa. On Fri
day night last the beast mentioned wan
dered into the yard belonging to Mrs.
Burns. Her son, aged seven years, at
tempted to drive it out. when it turned
upon the boy, Knocked him down and
put its tusks into his face, arms and
legs, rolled him over and over and brnis-
ed him from head 10 foot. The mother,
hearing the screams of her child, rush
ed to his rescue-the boar at the same
time running of for short distance
and carried him inso the house and sent
for physician. Mrs. Burns, knowing
thai her other children would soon be
home. went again into the yard and made
another attempt to drive the beast
ava but soon rrtreat-A into :ha hou-e
\ this i'nctu9e her ait,.a giT! sUtered
, s,e Yard. sna the boar rushed at her.
sud she fed. By this time the physi-
clan bad arrived aud attended to the
injured boy and vas ready 30 leave. As
ha sent ous OF the front door Mrs.
Burns made another effort to e1pel the
| brute I he doctor Eaw her after he was
seated in his buggy, and returned to as
sist her. lie went 10 stoning the boar,
which turned and rushed for him. The
doctor picked up ball club and made
up his mind to let the beast come, to
jump aside and to strike it across the
head as it passed. He struck the beast
as it confronted him, but the blow fell
upon its neck and shoulders, and failed
to halt it for second, and it seized his
left knee, threw him down and then
went at him with the fury of a madden
ed tiger. 1t put its tusk through his
left forearm, through the inner part Of
his right thigh, inflicted several light
wounds and tore his clothes to pieces
He was utterly powerless, so quick wal
the boar in its movement. When h'
attempted to rise it would dart at him
knock him down and "root" at him
with furious strength. The woman
looked on in terror. Finally, the docto
managed to gain his feet, seize the clul
again and give the boar terrible bloy
across the anout, at which it turned ant
walked off with squeal and q grun,
The doctor then FASTENED to his bugg
t and drove to his home, but before he al
rived there was suffering intensely. H
e summoned medical assistance, and hi
e wounds were attended to- The one in tn
= knee caused great pain, the tusk havin
. penetrated the bone The doctor wi
$ be unable to attend TO practice for Sc,
e eral days
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
A Miraculous Care.

From The Washi aSton Gazette.
An almost miraculous cure is reported
from Sheldon street, the patient being
the wife Of a we'll to do citizen She has
for years been ailing, or thinking she
was ailing, and recently took to her bad,
and kept her husband unhappy by la
menting that she was going to die. Yes
terday her husband went out and got a
bu1om young widow, who is her partic-
ular abhorrsnce, to come in and look
over the house. The dying woman
heard him opening doors and explaining
things, and lay rackcd with indignation
and curiosity. Presently the buxom
young widow departed, and the husband
returned to the sick room. No sooner
had he entered than she accosted him:
"Peter Whitehead Hollinssworth,
what have You been doing?"
"Nothipg, my love, nothing. Don't
excite yourself Be calm. Only asyou
were complaining that you couldn't get
mp and zee after things, and that the
house was going to rack and ruin, /
thought I'd ask Mrs. Dasher in to let
me know what could be done to save you
trouble and relieve your mind of anki-
ETY."
80, did you?" she murmured with a
deep inspiration.
"Yes, end I showed her all over the
house."
"And the beds not made, and every.
thing like pig sty!"
"Never mind, my love. I told hel
that she must excuse it, as you were
sick, because you were very gooc
housekeeper. And she said you mus
| be-"
"Oh, she did?"
"Yes. And she said if she had be
way she'd have new set of parlor fur
niture in and les. vulgar wall paper, bu
that some people had no taste anyway
and-by the way, Maria, you and Mrs
Dasher are pretty much of size, ain
yau?"
Then he fell into a trance that las,e
some minutes, muttering, "Well, pei
haps they'll fit; if not, they can he mad
over" then departed.
When that husband went home la,
night he was surprised to see his dyin
wife up and dressed, and bossing thing
with a metallic ring in her voice and
glitter in her eye such as he hadn't ree
for years, and when he innocently r.
marked, Why, Maria, had hardly e,
pected to see you up again" she said, q
> know it, you bald-headed old reprobst
but I'll live to bury You yet, and if th;
u painted Jezebel comes into this hon,
= again I'll tear her into cotton waste an
r iute strings"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
Drying Eggs.

A large esta blishment has been open
ed in St. Louis for drying eggs. 1t is in
full operation, and hundreds of thous-
ands of dozens are going into its insatia-
BILE nav. The eggs are carefully hand
led by hand-that is, examined by a
light to ascertain whether good or not
and then are thrown into an immense
receptacle, where they are broken, and
by a centrifugal operation the white and
yelk are reparated from the shells very
much as liquid honey Is taken from the
comb. The liquid is then dried by heat
by patent process, and the dried arti-
Gle is left resembling sugar, which is
put in barrels and is ready for transpor-
tation anywhere. This dried article
has been taken twice across the equator
in ships, and then made into omelet and
compared with omelet made from fresh
eggs in the same manner, and the best
judges could not detect the difFerenc,
between the two. Is not this an age o
wonders? Milk made solid; cider made
solid; apple butter made into bricks
What's next?- Rural World.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
Tell-Tale Lips.

] have observed that lips become more
or less contracted in the course Of years,
In proportion as they are accustomed to
express good humor and generosity, or
peevishnsss OF contracted mind. Re-
mark the effect which q moment of ILL.,
temper and srudginsness has upon the
lips, and judge what may be expected
from 40 babitual series Of such move
menis. Remark the reverse, and mako
similar judgment. The mouth is the
frankest part OF the face; 1t cannot in
the least conceal its sensations. We cas-
neither hide ill.,empsr with it or good;
We may effect what we please, but affec
istior will not help US. Ina wrong causs
u will only make our observers resent
the endesvor 10 impose on them. The
south 10 the seat Of one class Of emo.
tior,, a. the eyes sre Of another; or
pis.r, :; srpros.es the sane emotion
hu, H. greater de,si!, ard wish 9 srsateI
i,rarrs- ihls tendency Il hs iB motion
n - ,bo region Of .niles snd dimples
ara ~ trembling Csrrcs'nsss; Of shnrI
sorrow, or fuiLtreAihing joy, Of candor
Of rescrvo, o. ao,ious care, or libers
symp.ihy. Tho mouth, out OF it's man!
sensibiI,is-, may be fsncied throwing
up ono great expression into the eye
- many lights IN city reflect q bror'
Iusler into the heavens. Leigh Hunt
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
A Little TOO Fast.

A fsvorite prosramme aith the h.jr'
dead 1eat ia 20 hsud q large -caled en-
velop- stufled with paper, to the clerk
and AK him to care for those $500 for
= few days" The game has been played
at orc hossi in this city, and the clerks
are on their snard. A ss,dy look ing old
msn registered at the house yesterday,
and sftsg dinner he handed the day clerk
an envelope marked $780," and asked
that it be put in the safe. "You can't
play that game on me, mister" replied
the clerk, and he tore the package in
two. As he held up the ends his eyeF
began TO bulge out. He had torn
eighteen new $40 bills in half, and he
had insulted the owner. One reason why
he was not ct his post the balance Of ths
afternoon was because he was pastinf
those bills togethsr.--l Detroit Free
| psees.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
The Grasshopper Described.

From the Fergus Falls (Minn) Journal.
The grasshopper as champion null
tiplyist has no equal. He lays ('peak-
ing generically and not to put too fine
point upon it. an egg which is about
the size and shape of long primer o.
In fact he lays several of them. From,
August 1st until winter he Is actuatsd
by reckless ambition to bore holes in
the ground, of the sizes of pipe stem,
and then to fill these holes with cream
colored 90. And though he is small
he attends to BIZ, and is a triumphant
success. In stature he is about a match
for sixpenny stub nail, in form be is
like unto lynchpin, and he wears a
green sealing-wax head on him and a
pair of glass eyes, so that with his
long-tailed duster on he looks like an
unsophisticated and near-eighted school
master. But unsophisticated ism
what's the matter with him. And num-
Grafton is his best mathematical hold
He will stand himself bolt upright like
a peg in one of those holes aforesaid
and view the heavens with an air Of
sublime serenity and woodenheaded un,
consciousness.
Don't you fool yourself-he know:
just what he is about. He pre- xes him
self like figure l in the business, and
adopting the decimal system of notation
calmly places o where it will do tn
most good. That stands for 10, and be
fore you can dot and carry one he ha
add another cypher to that, and h
nov r. ds 100. About this time yol
begin to discover what kind of a rooste
he is, and you entertain degree of aw
; for him not inspired by front view c
his green goggles. Reasoning q posterio,
you discover that he is a dangerou
neighbor. But while you stand amaze
he rapidly sufhxes fifteen or twent
, 600, carrying his problem into tn
millions, and has sealed and cemented
! up ready to be fred at you next spring
In two minutes and quarter he hs
given poblem that with all your pow
ers of multiplication cannot be solved {
equated. He compounds his interest {
- 100 per cent. every five seconds. puts
snap judgment on your corn6eld, an
j forecloses before you can say Jack Rol
| inson
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-10-06
Remedy for Girdled Fruit Trees

! noticed, in a recent number of the
Recorder, that one of your subscribers
gives lis manner of keeping up How of
sap, in trees girdled by rabbits, by graft
ing over the wound, &C. think / have
a discovery which may prove quite a
valuable improvement on the above
plan. Valuable, because simple, and
the remedy always at hand, and will re-
quire no expert to perform the surgical
like operation recommended above. In
the spring of 1874, before sap started,
rabbits gnawed the bark of of one OF
my dwarf Bartlett pears, standing in
my yard. The tree was so completely
denuded of bark all around, that
thought it "hopelessly done for" !
spaded a mound of fresh earth around
it several inches above the wound, and
left it in that condition 90 die-not
knowing any remedy that would pre-
serve it. But it came out fresh in the
spring with tha other trees, and kept
perfectly green all summer | did not
remove the dirt until the next fal when,
to my astonishmert. there was com
piete connection of bark-the wound
was healed, and il is now az healthy as
any tree have In the spring of 1875,
the rabbits girdled a young apple tree in
the same way, only more so,-taking
bark of for six inches or more all
around. I threw mound of earth
around it and left it as I did the pear
until last fall, when, on removing the
dirt, it had healed over and made new
bark. The bark, while forming, I no
ticed, rose up in bumps, like rough e1
crescences, about places on the hare
wood, and finally united and becam,
confuent or solid perfect bark. | an
going to experiment further, and test /
more fully, though there is no doub
about there instances, and particular,
the last, where they healed and formed
the new bark. l would like for som
one else to try it also, and give the re
suit of the experimentation should
stand the test Of experiment, and prov
what am sure it has proven with me
hope no one will get patent on 1T
they do, shall use my own dirt in ths
way, without paying any one for th
right to do SO, whenever occasion ma
require Cor. Fruit Recorder.