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MISCELLANY.
Major Andres Watch.

The Washington correspondent of the
Winona (Minn.) Republican sends the
following respecting an interesting rev.
olutionary relic: Il was privileged, the
other day. to examine a most curious
and interesting Revolutionary relic 1t
was the watch once belonging to Major
John Andre-the identical watch with
which he attempted to purcha his
freedom from his captor-, when he was
Fastening back from his conference with
Arnold to arrange for the consummation
of that officers treason. The watch is
now in the possession of Congressman
Caswell, Of Wisconsin. 1t ia the prop
erty of lady residing in Mr.. Caswelfs
district, and he obtained it from her,
and carried with him for the purpose of
Centennial exhibition. Apart from its
historical interest, the watch is of itself
curious piece of mechanism as COM
pared with our modern times pieces. 1t
is wide and oval in shape, and so ttin
that one wonders almost how the works
could find adequate room on the inside.
The case is smooth and glossy. The
dial exhibits only the figures /, 6, 9 and
IL, while the hours between them are
indicated by tiny dots or stars. On the
inside of the case is the inscription:
John Andre, Albany, IVA Albany,
of course, has reference to the place OF
that name in Great Britain. The ma.
ker's name, John Campbell is given in
another place and in smaller script
The workmanship is delicate and finish.
ed. When wound mp and properly at.
tended to it keeps as good time and tick
as briskly as when it reposed in the fol
of Andre. There can be no doubt as tt
the genuinness of this rare relic, as the
parties owning and vouching for it art
entirely responsible and worthy of ths
fullest credibility. We heard it's his
tory narrated, but we cannot this mo
ment recall it with sufficient distinctnes
to detail it here. Suffice i: to say tina
after Andres execution the watch fonn,
its way into pawnbroker's shop in New
York, whence il was obtained by tn
immediate ancestors of the present own
: era. Harpers' Magazine for May con
tanned an article on John Andre, where
in his watch il incidentally referred te
but lost sight of after being sent to Ne,
' York by an American officer, who wish
, ed it sent to Andres relatives in Eng
land.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-07

A FISH THAT LIVES IN THE MUD.-
Here's story of fsh who can live
without water! This accomplished scaly
gentleman ia a native of Africa where
most Of the wonders come from, nova
days,--and has the misfortune to belong
to river which dries up every summer
Rather discouraging circumstance to
a fish, should say; but this little fellow
doesn't mind it. When the water gets
low, he very coolly Burrows nearly two
feet into the mud on the bottom, and
there he stays, while the hot sun dries
up the water, and bakes the mud ill it
is full of deep cracks. When the water
comes back, fills the cracks, and soaks
into the ground, the mud fish comes out
as lively as ever. One of this family
has lately gone to live in an aquarium
in England. where his ways can be stud
led; and now we shall know how he gets
on in water all the year round.-["Jack-
in-the- Pulpit" St. Nicholas for July.
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PREPARED BY
H. r. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS.

What is VEGETINE?-It is COM
pound extracted from barks, roots and
herbs. 1t is Natures Remedy. 1t is
nourishing and strengthening. 1t acts
directly upon the blood. 1t quiets the
nervous system. 1t gives you good,
sweet sleep at night. 1t is a great pan
acea for our aged fathers and mothers;
for it gives them strength, quiets their
nerves, and gives them Natures sweet
sleep,-as has been proved by many an
aged person. It is the great Blood Pri-
fer. 1t is a soothing remedy for our
children. 1t has relieved and cured
thousands. 1t is very pleasant to take:
every child likes it. 1t relieves and
cures all diseases originating from i'm
pure blood. Try the VEGETINE. Give
it fair trial for your complaints; then
you will say to your friend, neighbor
and acquaintance. "Try it: it has cured
me-"
VEaETINE for the complaints for
which il ia recommended. is having a
larger sale throughout the United States
than any other one medicine. Why?
Veoetine uiU cure these complaints.
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VALUABLE IMPORTATION.

BosToN, Dec. II, 1869.
Gentlemen-My only object in giving
you this testimonial is to spread valua
BILE information. Having been badly
afflicted with Salt Rheum, and the whole
surface of nv skin being covered with
pimples and eruptions, many Of which
caused me great pain and annoyanc
and knowing it to be a blood disease,
took many of the advertised blood pre-
parations, among which was any quanti-
ty of Sarsaparilla, without obtaining
any benefit until / commenced taking
the VEGETINE, and before I had COM
pleted the first bottle saw that ] had
got the right medicine. Consequently.
followed on with it until had taken
seven bottles. when was pronounced a
we'll man. and my sSin ia smooth and
entirely free from pimples and eruptions.
I have never enjoyed 40 good health be :
fore. and ] attribute it all to the nae of
VEGETINE. To benefit those afflicted
with Rheumatism. will make men.
tion also of the VEGETINE's wonderful
power Of CURING me of this acute COM
plant, of which have suffered so in
tensely.
c. II. TUCKER. Pas. Aet.
Mich. c. r. II,
50 Washington Street, Boston.
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Selling the Old Farm.

There is constant selling and buying
of farms going on from year 10 year in
our country. This recklessness on the
part of the farmer and his desire to
change present location for another
one hundreds Of miles off, is so frequent
ly witnessed in our day that We cease to
fathers, when a man was settled on
farm he commonly continued through
life,- and then left it for his son. In
times gone by the same farm was occu
pied by the grandfather and soon by the
son and grandson. Then the good old
homestead was revered and the occu-
pancy Of it was esteemed great privi-
lege. There was satisfaction felt b.
the successor that his predecessor wa
his relative, cultivated the same fields,
wandered by the same brooks, traversed
the same hills, and ate of the fruit OF
the same orchard. Then there was a
home feeling. home associations, and
horne attachments. Now the farmer
looks more to his pecuniary gains, and
when offered a large price for his land,
hesitates not to sell. He quits his
beautiful homs, his we'll cultivated
acres, emigrates to the Far West, and
commences life Of hardship that he
never dreamed of. II can be safely said
that, where one man succeeds in thi.
undertaking many fail. IF he could on
ly sell his new farm, how gladly would
he go back to the old home, now occu-
pied by strangers, and the enclosure con-
tanning the graves of his kindred going
to ruin. With the advent of spring
many will dispose of their farms and re-
move to a far off country, to undergo
privations and troubles incident upon
establishing home in a new country.
Our advice is to remain where you are.
If you are comfortably off, be con-
tent, to remain 30. Do not exchange a
certainty for an uncertainty, unless pow
erful reasons are brought to bear upon
you to seek a new settlement in q dis
tant region. Stick to the old farm, for
it has never failed Won in time OF need
IN. E. Homestead.
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A writer in an exchange says the
greatest evil to which farmers are expoe.
ed by patronizing travelling threshera. is
the carrying of foul seeds from one farm
to arother. If one farmer raises red
root or Canada thistle, the seeds are sure
to he carried all through the neighbor-
hood by these threshers and clover hull
lers. The remedy suggested is for good.
tidy farmers to club together and buy a
thresher--not the large six or eight
horse powers, but good tread power as
now made, with level tread, that will
thresh two hundred bushels day, with
one team and three men. 1t is far
safer" he saws, "more profitable because
less expensive, costing not more than
one-half, some say not more than one
third as much per bushel to thresh grain
as with the travelling machines, and il
relieves the house of small
army Of men. As long as travelling ma
chimes are used from farm to farm, they
shonld be brushed and swept from tor
to bottom before moving from each sta
tion. This is the only precaution thai
can be taken to guard against the dis
semination of foul seeds, except the plar
above suggested. p Practical Farmer
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-07

The Burlington Hawkeye says: John
Osborn, farmer. living near Laporte City,
recently bought fine blooded bull. of
which he was very proud. He went into
the fine blooded BULLS stall the other
morning, slapped him familiarly on the
back and told him to "waltz over" And
the fine bull waltzed John Osborn over
the side Of the stall, and then escorted
him out of the barn and walked him
across the barn-yard and helped him ov-
er the fence, and then serenaded him un.
til noon try to coax him back. But he
would not be coaxed.
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Yegetine Is Sold by all Druggists.


Americans are particularly subject TO
this disease and its effects: such M Sour
Stomach, Sick Headache. Habitual Cos :.
siveness. Heart buru, Water brash, COM
ing up Of the food coated tongue, disa-
greeable taste in the mouth, pslpitation
Of the Heart and all diseases of the
Stomach and Liver. Two doess Of
GREENS AUGUST FLOWER will relieve
you at once, and there positively is not a
case in the United States il will not cure
If you doubt this 60 to your Druggist
SKINNER & Bro. and get Sample
Bottle for 10 cents and try il, Regular
size rs cents.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-07

The assurance Of the lightning rod
man was never better illustrated than
the other day when he applied to the
president Of railroad company and
wanted to put lightning rods OR all his
cars.
Lightning rods on our cars?" replied
the latter.
"Why, certainly"
"Wha. in the world do we want them
for3"
because they make good conductors" "
replied the man, as he closed the door
hastily behind him.
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Ohio is eulogized by the New York

Ohio is eulogized by the New York
Tribune's correspondent at the Centen-
nial Exposition for making the finest
educational exhibit Of any State in the
Union. He represents that the system
of arrangement for showing the progress
of education in our Buckeye State as
being much more easily understood, and
particularly euloglzes Columbus, Toledo,
Sandusky, and Oberlin for the admira-
BILE showing Of the graduation through
the several departments Of their public
schools, from the Primaries through the
High School.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-07

A couple Of weeks ago the Duke Of
Portland was fined S5 by the Dron6eld
(Derbyshire) magistrates for allowing
a traction engine belonging to him to
travel along the turnpike road without
a man carrying red flag in front to sig
nal its approach. Mr.. Cripple, steward
to his Grace, said the. Duke. would be
very much dissatisfied with the decision
"a circumstance which the Bench in
formed hin they could not help.
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Length of II ,dern Campaigns.

The great social feature of the present
day is pace, everything goes ahead, and
of things. Accordingly, military oper-
ations and results which used to occupy
years are now compressed INTO moths; it
might almost be said weeks. The war of
1859 was declared by Austria on April
26; the first action, Montebello, was
fought on May 10; and the war was fin
ished at Solferiuo on July "A. In 1866
the Prussians virtually declared war by
crossing the Austrian frontier on June
%, and in seven weeks the latter power
was forced to come to terms at the very
gates Of the capital. Prussia received
the French declaration of war on July
10, 1870. On September I'd Frances
last army in the field was destroyed at
Sedan, and the last shots were fired on
February I'd, 1871. Here, then. we have
al once an immense saving of life. The
long delays, which meant. for the soldier,
exposure to the weather and to sickness;
the defective communications; entalling
insufficient food, the slowly dragging
campaign with all its privations and
hardships-all these fertile sources of
disease and death have vanished, or are
vanishing 1t is trne that the French
soldiers both in and ont of Metz suffered
terribly from want of proper food and
supplies; but it must be remembered
that their administration was exception
ally bad, and the very magnitude of
their defects will prevent repetition of
them. Let us, for comparison, take one
or two instances from the wars of the
first Napoleon. Here is the state of his
| army during the invasion of Russia in
1872, not after but before meeting the
enemy otherwise than in small skirm
ishes:
From the want of magazines and the
impossibility of conveying an adequate
supply of provisions for 80 immense a
host, disorders of every kind had &C.
cumnlated in frightful manner on the
hanks and rear of the army. Neither
bread nor spirits could be had; the
flesh of over driven animals and bad
water constituted the sole subsistence oi
the soldiers. s. and before a
great part of the army had ever seen the
enemy, il had undergone a loss greater
than might have been expected from the
most bloody campaign. When the strag
glera and sick were added to the killed
and wounded the total reached 100000.
Again: Mastena entered Portugal il
October. 1910; spent weeks and weeks il
futile examination of the lines of Tore
Vedras and recrossed into Spain o,
April 3, 1911, "having lost 10000 mel
by want, sickness and the sword" A
the only action of any importance tha
occurred during the retreat was that @
Barrosa. at which the French loss wa
under 600, the reader can estimate fo
himself what proportion ofthe total los
was due TO "want and sickness" Thes
are but two instances out of many tina
might be quoted, but enough. Sue
pro,racted neglect and suffering woul
be impossible in these days, for the sim
pie reason-if for no other-that til
soldier is now much too expensive an al
ticle to be squandered in such whole
sale manner-[ Macmillan MagaZin
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-07

On good day not less than $4,000
quarts of ice cream are manufactured in
Philadelphia, using up 1900 quarts Of
plain cream, skinned from 100000
quarts of milk.
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She Came from a Tricky Family.

The other day Grand River avenue
grocer purchased thirty pound crock
of butter Of farmer whom he had
never dealt with before, and while down
celler empting the crock, he thought of
a trick to surprise the agricul,urlst.
Finding stone weighing about eight
pounds, the grocer creased it. carried it
up stairs with the crock, and. pointing
to it, quietly remarked:
This, of course, is to be taken from
the gross weight, as we'll as the jar"
The farmer looked at the stone for
several long seconds, and then in voice
so low that no one else could hear, re-
piled:
"Please kiver piece of paper over
the jar, for there's a man out by the door
who knows me-"
The grocer finally explained his fend-
ish plot, and the butter sellers's face
underwent sudden change. Reaching
over the sugar barrels to shake hands,
he said:
II didn't hardly believe it, though
my wife came from tricky family. and
should have gone home and organized
mourning and lamenta,ion in that farm
house."
Mr.. Robert Dale Owen was married
at Caldwell, N. Y, last Friday, to Lot
tie Walton, daughter Of the late Martin
A. Kellogg of Hartford, Conn.,, and
granddaughter of the Rev. Bella Kel-
logg, who for more than thirty years
was pastor of the Congregational Church
at Avon, near Hartford. The lady is q
cultivated artist, of middle age, who has
travelled and resided many years in
Europe and studied her profession in
Rome. 1t was to her that Mr.. Owen,
two years ago, dedicated his autobio-
Yraphy as ito dear friend at whose
pleasant home on Lake George part Of
these pages were written" This pleas
ant home" which was built some years
since by Miss Kellogg, is situated on a
headland, embowered IN trees. in one of
the most romantic nooks on the eastern
shore of the lake, and will be the Sum-
mer reaidence of Mrs and Mr.. Owen.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-07-07

The Cincinnati Commercial of Sum-
day prints report of an interview had
with Mrs. Abigail Warren, residing in
that city, and now within two months Of
being eighty years of age, respecting a
prediction made by the lady in 1867 that
Gen. Hayes would be elected President
in 1876. The prediction was made in a
letter written BY Mrs. Warren to Mrs.
Hayes, the writer being on intimate
terms with the family, and as the old
lady kept a copy of the letter she has
furnished the Commercial with the re-
markable paragraph, the concluding
part of which is as follows:
I have often wished you had been in
the White House, instead of Mrs Lin.
coin. She gave large party when our
country was in its greatest distress, and
when the sick and dying soldiers were
almost within the sound of her voice
yet she needed them not You would
have been with them, to hattie theil
feverish brows and parched lips, and te
speak words of consolation to them, and
soothe them in their last moments.
uiU mow make prediction: In 1876 r. B
Hayes ,0iR be elected President of the Uni
ted States, and know yon will both fill
your stations with honor and credit te
the country. And may God bless you
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cENp asc. to G. p. Rowell & Co., New York,
y for Pamphlet Of 100 pages, containing lists
Of 5000 newspapers, and estimates showing cost
Of advertising.
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"Can a politician be honsst?"- Ex.
Can potasoe wink?-[ Danbury News.
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l. L " H R "

Rg-Iu connection with this estsblishmenu'
q first-clasa Livery Stable, where at all times the
public can he accommodated with turn-oufs oi
ss-yo GRIMM & GALLIN.
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Curing Hay In the Cock.

AS ] have never seen a method like
mine for cutting and curing hay men
toned in your most valuable journal, I
thought / wonld write il out, hoping
thereby to help some beginner in the
business.
As it il an established and admitted
fact that we must cut hay early, how
shall We best preserve it in its purity. is
the question. Now, those who are lucky
enough to have the "wherewith to pur-
chase hay-caps, tedders. &C., will tell us
that single day will cure it quite
enough to have it keep we'll. But what
shall others do who do not have these
helps?
For more than fifteen years, have
endeavored to begin to cut the clover as
soon a. it was in full bloom, but more
recently have come to the conclusion
that if the weather promises we'll, it ia
not best to wait for few blossoms to
come out. Cut il when the dew ia all
off, letting it lie one night; open next
day and improve all the sunshine. Now,
if fairly wilted, make the cocks larger.
and let them stand one or two days, and
if they are not dry enough SO as not to
sour in the NOW, you must open out
again: but if otherwise, let them stand,
only doing this-commence and cock
them over, letting them cure in the
cock rather than by the sun.
Persons using this kind of feed for
their cattle. will make as much butter
in December as in June, provided the
cows are in fresh milking condition.
Clear timothy, managed this way is worth
fifty per cent more than that which has
been cut and put into the barn and al.
lowed to become hot and burnt in the
NOW.
| have often seen hay that had all ash.
colored appearance, and very dusty, that
was not much better than bright straw
Do not fear shower if the hay is we'll
put up in good sized heaps, even if you
do not have them capped. You can cut
and put up in the way described. and b.
much better pleased with the result thar
by hurrying it into the barn. In short
cut it early. wilt it, dry itin heaps. rath
er than in the sun. ! have had, in some
seasons. weeks work in heaps before
putting any in the barn. But it mus
be remembered, changed them by cafe
fully changing the top to the bottom
keeping them in good shape. 1t require
little extra labor, some will say, bu
when one gets ton in, it is almost eqna
to ton OF Western corn meal.-[E. J
Buttolph in New England Farmer.
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wind blew directly shoreward; it was
necessary 10 keep the boat headed in the
same direction. which, without land
marks, was almost impossible.
Young Elery, who held the steering
oar, became confused, and, by a mis-
stroke, allowed the boat 10 turn broad
side to the wind. She capsized in an in
slant. Luckily, all the sufferers succeed
ed in grasping some part of the boat, and
were thus temporarily saved from drown
ing. But the water in the great lakes at
that early season ia very cold; and the
boat drifted 10 slowly that there was
more than half an hour of wretched
clinging before land conli be seen.
BY this time Lefty, who was the mosi
delicate of the party, had become &C
chilled that she could hold on no longer
She besought Arthur to swim with her
to shore; but he answered her sternly, al
most roughly: like many persons, feal
and suffering developed the selfishness o.
his character.
There was low tongue Of land no
more than a quarter of mile distant
which Eugene. being strong swimmer
thought he might reach.
"Cling to me-" he said, to the hal
stnpe6ed girl. 81 will do my best 70
you"
She obeyed mechanically.
Encumbered as he was, and hindere'
by the roughness Of the water, Eugen'
knew the risk was desperate; but dealt
for her seemed to him sweeter than life
When he had passed over about two
thirds Of the distance, an unexpecte
difficulty presented itself. A strong cuI
rent, that swept round the point, Dor
: him irresistibly out Of his course, The