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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-08-06
CARTA NOTABL E.
Lo es la siguiente que tomamos de
nuestro ilustrado colega ell Diario de
la Marina


Nueua. York, de julio de 1876.
ST los peri6dicos espano!es emplea
sen para juzgar los acontecimlentos
el mismo criterio que caracteriza & los
peri6dicos americanos, que comen-
tarios tan chistosos podr1amos hacer
hoy sobre 10 derrota que han tenido
las tropas federales en- una accion
contra los indios
Podrfamos decir, por ejemplo, que
hace va muchos amos, que Sc prolon-
ga esta desastrosa guerra; que Sc ha
agotado va nuestra paciencia al con-
templar tan est6ril lucha; que la hu
manidad y ell cristianismo ezigen que
Sc ponga fin 4 esa encarnizada con-
tienda que las naciones civilizadas
miran con horror y repugnancia la
sangrienta persecution de que son
vfctimas esos infelices indigenas, obli-
gados a luchar para sostener su mise
rab!e existencia; que las simpatlas del
nero humane estan en- favor de esas
pobres gentes cuyas tierras ha usur-
pado Ell gobierno americana que las
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-08-06

Esta manana 4 las nueve ha llegado
4 esta Capital ell Excmo. Sr. Gober-
nador General D, Segundo de la Por-
tilla, con su comitiva, de regreso de
su cuarta y Ultima minuciosa vista.
Damos 4 S. E. la mas respetuosa y
cordial bienvenida.
Otro dia nos ocuparemos de la
brilIante acoglda DE- que fue objeto
en- todas parties sin distinction de
partidos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-08-06
LA ED ACIO N f.

Mucho Sc habla de instruction, de
ilustracion, de civilization y de pro-
greso: mucho Sc escribe acerca &c la
necesidad de difundir en- las masas
los elementos del saber humane; pero
muy pocos Sc ocupan de llevar la
pdblica opinion la conviction de esta
gran verdad consignada en- ell libro
immortal de los Proverbios: GEL te-
NOR de Dios es el principle de la sa-
bidurfa." Todos los grandes pensa-
dores antiques y modernos, Voltaire
y Rousseau inclusive, convienen en-
que la religion es el fundamento de
toda sociedad, y que los pueblos han
sido tanto mas duraderos cuanto mas
religiosos fueron. Creemos sincera
mente en- las augustus verdades que
nos euse1a la Iglesia: 81 en- elias tu-
viesemos la desgracia de no Greer, 10
confesamos con franqueza, serfamos
hip6critas ante nuestros hijos, ocul-
tAndoles con cuidado nuestras dudas,
y haciendoles practicar con regularl-
dad los preceptos cristianos, porque
no concebimos que aquel que no te-
me mas que la espada material de la
ley humana pueda ser buen ciudada-
no, nj miembro it'll de la suciedad,
nj bueno, nj siquiera honlado. FL
hombre que no cree en-, un tribunal
incorruptible, omnisciente, absolute,
& ineludible, que sea como ell compile
mento de los imperfectos tribunal@s
de la terra, es decir, ell azote de los
malos, el desagraviador de los bue-
nos; ell que eternameute castigue tan
tos delitos como. en- este vale de Ia
grimas quedan ignorados, y premie
las virtudes no siempre notadas nj
apreciadas en- ell mundo; 81 hombre
que este no crea, decimos, asesinara,
81 le convene y 10 puede hacer sin
testigos materiales, hurtara, conspira-
"a y hara todo cuanto satisfacer pue-
da su ambicion 8 sus pasiones.
Sabemos que hay excepciones, que
existen hombres privados de la luz
vivi6cante de la f9, cuya conducta es
irreprochable; pero este mismo con-
frma la regla,
Para ell que cree, siempre hey un
testigo invisible de sus acciones: STEM
pre- ell Juez que lie ha de juzgar sin
apelacion; le espia, lie sigue, y consig
ma en- ell proceso los hechos que han
de condenarle 6 salvarle por toda la
eternidad. El que de esta verdad
este convencido no podra ser mai hijo
nj NAL padre, nj rebelde q la autori-
dad, nj funcionario infel, nj despota
nj perverso. ST las privaciones, 81 la
miseria, 81 las calamidades lie at1jgen,
no ira q pedir ell repa'to de los bic
mes del vccino acomoGado; no acudi
RI al gobierno pidiendole ell derecho
al trabajo q la cabeza de un motin,
porque q los mansos, los pacf6cos
y q los que padecen persecution por
la justicia Jesucristo prometi6 el rel
no de los cielos y la possession de la
terra; a los que lloran, prometlo con-
suelo; satisfaction completa y ell tftu-
10 de hijos de Dios a los que. han
hambre y sed de justicia, y premio
perdurable a los que ejercen la carl
dad.
Esa religion que dice al pobre re-
slgaate q espera, al rico ana al pr6ji-
mo como d tt n,isnao, al que manda,
Sc bue'so q justo, al sdbdito, Sc obe-
diente, y a todos, cumpNd CON la ley
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-08-06

q mi me parec;6 que la solucion de
los punetazos habia de traer pOr con-
secuencia la p6rdida de la codiciada
CANA. Nett pues la mano en- ell boil
sillo de mi pantalon, que estaba de.
bajo de la almohada, saqu6 cuatro
pesetas de las que me habia dado
Acoste, Y poni6ndole dos & cada uno
en- la mano, les die con acento supli-
cante:
-Senores, por ell amor de Dios.
Dejennos descansar aqui esta nOche:
estamos ateridos de frio y fatigadOs
de caminar entire la nieve: tenganme
lastima, estoy herido y estropeado.
. Oonformaronse los dos sujetOs, 81
no con estas razones humanitarias,
con los cuatro frances que habian
recibido, y Sc marcharon en- direction
4 la cantina, alegres y satisfechos sin
duda con objeto de completar su
borrachera. De este modo logramos
pasar una nOche buena, Ia segunda
desde que hablamos partido de Muir.
cia.
Continuance al dia siguiente nues-
ira marcha al pueblo de Ganout, que
esta ocho leguas. Pernoctamos en- la
iglesia. Sobre un altar desnudo dor.
mimos 70 y mi compaflero Buendia,
81 teniente. Proseguimos el 10
Airot, ell 20 & Rufeurque, en- donde
nos alojaron en- una cuadra de caba-
Hos, Y 10 mismo el 2l en- Guasin, ell
% en- Bachaus = cl % en- Bahan. Aqui
Sc hicieron cargo de nosotros los gen
darmes, retirandose los gums 'nas
oieaales que nos cI.stssallan. cs.1.slan
ty4o.f;u..ar6.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-08-06

Casi podemos asegurar que los dias
18 y 19 del corriente tendra lugar en-
esta capital la benaicion solemne de la
bandera del battalion de Madrid. A es-
ia fiesta militar acudiran las autorida-
des, y es de Greer que Ia presencie un
numeroso coneurso de ambos sexos.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-08-04
A Petrified Whale.

Sonoma county abounds in vegetable,
animal and geological wonders. The
latest particularly notable development
under these heads is the discovery of
the partially petri6ed remains Of a
monster of the deep on hillside on
Watson's ranch, on the line of the Ma
rim Narrow Gauge Railroad, between
Valley Ford and Freestene. While at
work, three days ago, in a cut, which is
to be twenty-five feet deep when finish
ed, gang of men, at a depth of four
teen feet, came upon peculiar forma-
ton, which presents almost certain indi-
cations that it was once the body of a
whale. 1t lies lengthwise of the cut,
and is about fifty feet in length. Alex
ander Wander Moot brought to town
specimens of the bony part of the de-
funct creature. They are soft and por-
Gus, and there can be little doubt that
they are portions of the body of a men,
Der Of the fnny tribe. AT the same
place were found petrifed shells, of dit
ferent kinds, and a substance two inches
long and about one inch in diameter al
the base, which had evidently been the
tooth of some animal. A bone, four fee
long and about eight inches in diane
ter, sharp at both ends, was also found
Boulders nearly round, and weighing
from 100 to 600 pounds, are numerous
in the cut. This matter presents sub
ject which is worthy of the considera
tion of Scientists Petalumna (Cal.
| Argus.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-08-04
A Curious English Lawsuit.

The Spectator of July Is says: "Vice
Chancellor Sir R. Malins had on Mon
day TO decide curious case, H. Stuart
Duncembe, son of Mr.. Duncombe,
solicitor of some property, in 1868 ap-
peared at his fathers office and asked
for assistance. His father, who had dis
missed him years before, refused it, and
Fl. S. Duncombe, then sixty-six, has
never since been heard of. The father
died in 1869, intestate, and the son S
share of his property would have been
S24, 1874 consols, but he was not to be
found. The court, therefore, was asked
to decide whether his share belonged to
his brother and sister, as his father S
next of kin, as it would have done if he
had died before his father, or to his own
next of kim as it would do if he had
survived him. The Vice Chancellor
decided that, in the total absence Of evil
dence, II. S. Duncombe must be held to
have survived his father, to have lived
seven years since he was last seen, and to
have died intestate. Consequently, as
his sister had died within the seven
years. only the brother and brothers son
could enjoy the property. That is a
singular instance of the application OF
arbitrary yet sensible legal rules. Sup
pose II. S. Duncombe is alive, or a new
claimant starts forward to personate
| b;r,SD
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-08-04
Death From q Fly's Bite.

The Montreal Witness of Saturday
says: "Mr. Edward Joseph, OF NJ.
Kotosk & Co., hatters, promising young
man of about twenty five years of age,
died to-day from the bite of some insect.
While driving, on Sunday afternoon
last, he felt something which he suppos-
ed to be fly on his upper lip, and i'm
mediately afterward was sharply stung.
He paid no attention to the matter at
the time, but some hours afterward his
lip began to swell, and became very
much infamed. In a day or two the
swelling extended to his face, and sub.
sequently to his body. and the services
of Drs. Craig and Macdonald were OBJ.
tained. The young man took to his bed
on Wednesday, but his friends did TO
anticipate fatal results until this morn
ing, when he became delirions. Hi
death took place about 8 o'clock. AL
though of late few deaths from the bit
of flies feeding on decomposed matter
have been reported, yet some years ag
several cases occurred in Montreal from
this cause, within short period of eacl
other"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-08-04
Fancy Versus Table Poultry.

The London Field says: LET Us take
few of the varieties as they are now
shown, and ask ourselves what have
been the results of breeding them for
show purposes only. Old fanciers re-
member when Spanish without red Oh
its face was never seen, and when the
ear-lobes Of the prize birds were not q
quarter the extent they are now. Can
any body who is not an eligible candi-
date for Earlswood Asylum imagine
that the new leggy, large faced birds
are as good egg producers or useful as
table fowl? If 50, let them send a con-
signment to the markets, and see what
they will realize The old breed were
shorter on the leg, larger on the body,
and much more prolific as layers than
those in which everything has been
sacrificed to face and earlobe. Even the
useful red faced Minorca has come under
the influence of exhibitors, who have
bred them with monstrous useless combs,
and tried to degrade them into fancy
fowls. The old Dorking-short.le legged,
square bodied, and small -boned, with
every aptitude TO lay on white fat un-
der a thin, fine, white skin-has been
changed into long-legged, heavy, big
boned bird, that shows in every point
his descent from the coarse Indian cock,
| from which he is descended Ham
burgs have been bred for feather only;
Polish for crest, and the white-crested
have been so inter bred that roupiness
and bumped backs appear to be normal
characteristics. The old Surry and
Sussex fowls that still supply our best
poultry for the London markets, are
never seen at shows. Almost the only
breed that has been improved by the
high class poultry fancy isthat of Ay les.
bury ducks, which have certainly in.
creased greatly in weight Show geese
have also had their size greatly aug
mented; but what about the fertility o
the oyergroWn monaters?"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-08-04
How to Make Farming a Success.

Much labor is done on farms that is
not farming in its true sense. By such
labor no money is ever made A man
may support himself and family, keep
out of debt, and have few dollars in
his pocket by practicing the most string
ent economy. If he is otherwise than
industrious and sober, he is on the down
grade with loose brakes, and the end is
soon reached. But farming in its true
sense is a profession equal in dignity to
that of the law or medicine, and needs
equal study, mental capacity, and intel
ligeLtly directed labor to command sue
cess in it.
The principles which underlie the
practice of the true farmer must be well
understood, and a steady, consistent
course of operations must be followed
Having thoroughly learned the nature
and capacity of the soil he possesses, and
chosen the rotation most suitable, and
the stock to be most probably kept on
| it, he does not swerve from his chosen
course, but, in good markets and bad
raises his regular crops and keeps his
land in regularly increasing fertility
No special cry tempts or affrights him
He does not talk dairy this season OF
crops the next, but, doubtless, if any
particular product be in demand ant
bring good price, he has some of it t,
sell and reaps a share of the advantage
He saves as much money as some mel
make by care and economy in purchas
ing and preserving tools, seeds, manures
and machines, and his business habit
constant readiness for all occasions Civ
him reasonable security against the ef
fects of adverse seasons and bad wealth
| er.
Always prepared, he is never too late
and always calm, he is never too soor
and thus, "taking time by the forelock
he has the stern old tyrant at his com
mand, and turns him at his will. He ha
no losses, and his gains are steady
Canada Granger.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-08-04
Lightning.

Professor John Wise, having witness
ed the effect of lightning on some build
ings in Philadelphia, writes to the Times
of that city that the metallic roofs of
buildings, at any rate if they are made
of material as tough as corrugated
iron, will scatter electricity, and thus de-
prive a charge of its strength. Chin
neys and other lofty parts of the house
may be shattered. but on reaching the
level of the roof the electric fluid will
lose its power of doing injury.
On the contrary. the Professor asserts,
"The lightning rod as protection in it.
self is Of no more value than a bodkin
would be to ward off ball fired from a
columGiad." Accepting the statements
in regard to the roof, it by means fol-
lows that the criticisms on the lightning
rod are just, the reverse is more likely
If metal is the best conductor and dis
penser of electricity, fiat sheet has nc
advantage over rod, except in exces:
of surface. If then the rods are suffi
ciently large and numerous, they will
have the same virtues as the roof, ant
moreover if they are properly connected
with damp ground, will carry charg
of electricity into the earth and ava,
from the house. If badly constructed
as is too often the case, two, three, o
more poidts being fastened to chimneys
with only a single ground rod, and tha
not extending to moist strata. they ar
worse than no protection at all. A
iron roof is certainly help, and SO ar
copper or tin cutters. All of these shoul
have good ground connections, however
to insure their perfect working.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-08-04
Don't Feed Corn ID Fowls.

In forty five out of fifty focks of
poultry you will find the feeding boxes
supplied with Indian corn.
This grain is the lazy mans blessing
No work is required in feeding it ont; it
keeps clean; the fowls like it, and moth
ing is wasted.
Now for laying hens it is worse than
valueless; there is so much fattening
material in its composition and so little
of the albuminous that eggs cannot be
manufactured from it.
Your hens will eat it when they will
eat anything, but the only result will be
an increase of fat on their bodies and a
decreas, of vitality and productiveness
The grains which abound in albumi-
noids only should be fed to poultry.
Our experience has been that for
their breakfast dry dough of shorts is
sufficient, if you have some skim milk
to mix it with, all the better. A good
supply of oats and barley should be
kept in the feeding boxes through the
day, and at night feed Of whole whea
should be given them.
Wheat screenings are not economical
and the weed seeds they contain are
enough to "disqualify" them even il
they were otherwise desirable. Many
poultry keepers have discovered the
pernicious effects of corn on their poul
try and haye tried to change the food
but as the birds steadily refuse to change
their diet the owners have finally yield
ed and acknowledged the corn"
In such cases the only plan is to starv,
the fowls into eating some other kind o
food; they will come to terms when the,
get sufficiently hungry, and after they
have become accustomed to less attrac
tive diet they will improve in eyer,
way.
Corn should be fed only in the colo
weather, and then sparingly, and for th'
last meal in the day [Massachusett
PlOupbman
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-08-04
The Day You Were Born.

Here is an infallible method of dis
covoring tha day Of the week on which
n given day Of the month any number
Of years previous occurred. To the
number representing your age at your
next birthday add one-fourih for leap
years; this amount divide by 7, and the
remainder counted back from the day
Of tho week on which you were born.
For instance, on your next birthday you
will be "a years old. This divided by
4. and the quo,ient, 6, added to "a, gives
30, the amount, which divided by 7, th'
number Of days in week, gives foul
weeks and the remainder Of two days
Now, IL your birthday in 1876 comes OF
Monday, count back two days, and yor
have the day on which you were born
Saturday.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-08-04
Absence Of Insects Destructive to
Fruit.

The severe cold weather Of the winter
of 1S74-5, followed by last seasons ex-
treme rains, with the continued wet
weather Of the present summer, has been
very destructive to all predatory insects,
though potato beetles are more numer-
ous than last year.
Green apples hang upon the trees
without an apparent blemish, while
plum trees are breaking down with
abundance, the curculio having failed to
put in an appearance, so far, and the
fruit being now out of its reach.
Two summers ago, the larva of ], 100
codling moths were taken from single
apple tree. Last year, very few were
found it. This season, not one, so far
The large captures were made by plac.
ing soft cotton cloth in theIorks of the
tree, and the same expedient has now
been kept up for three years, for the
purpose Of testing its efficacy. 1t will
alao be kept up for the future, and rec
ord kept Of the case. Is this absence o
fruit insects general in the Northwest
Il.
We copy the above from the Prairi
Farmer, and are glad to learn that ou
horticultural brethren of the Northwes
are enjoying such immunity from insec
attacks. We can not rejoice in such
condition of things here, for the curcu
lio, codling moth and the various othe
insect species seem to be just as activ
, and voracious in Western Ne~ York q
iever.-[Rural IN. " Home.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-08-04
Origin Of Billiards.

1t is not generally known that bill
lia-ds were first invented by a pawnbro-
ker. About the middle of the sixteenth
century there was one VIM. Kew, a
pawnbroker, who. during wet weather,
WAS in the habit of taking down the
three balls and with the yard measure
pushing them, billiard fashion, from the
counter into the stalls; in time the idea
Of a board with side pockets suggested
itself. A black letter manuscript: "Mas-
ter VIM. Kew did make one board
whereby game is played with three
balls, and all the young men were great
ly recreate thereat, chiefly the young
clergy men from St. Pawles, hence one
of ye stokes was named canon, having
been by one of ye said clergymen in
vented. The game is now known by
the name of Bill-yard, because VIM or
Bill Kew did first play with the yard
measure. The stick is now called a
kew kue." 1t is easy to comprehend
how Bill yard has been modernized
into Billiards, and the transformation
of kew or 'kue' into cue is equally ap
parent
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-08-04
Ancient Reed Pipe.

Mr.. w. Cbappell, F. S. A, recently
delivered lecture at the Sonth Kens-
ington Museum, selecting the subject Of
ancient musical science. He said that,
having been curious to learn the musi-
cal system in prehistoric ages, he had
taken models Of some ancient Egyptian
pipes at Turin and in the British Muse
um, and had new pipes constructed from
them. 1t was custom of the ancient
Egyptians to deposit a small musical
pipe and straw of large Egyptian barley.
or reed, beside the dead body IN the
tomb, and some Of these tombs in which
these pipes had been found were as an
cient as the pyramids. The pipes are
like shepherds pipes, to be played by
straw or reed at the end, like the haut-
boy, but they are cylindrical pipes, not
conical. Itseems to have been complimen
tarily supposed that the dead man would
feel so happy when he awoke from death
that he would like pipe TO play upon,
and the straw of barley was obviously
intended to supply a stock ofreeds, for
few of the remaining pipes have the re-
mains of similar reeds within them.
! This is the case as to one of the pipes in
the British Museum, and another at
| Turin, while the straws which were plac-
ed beside the pipes are preserved in the
| British Museum and in the museum at
Leyden. Mr.. Chappell was indebted to
Mr.. Stones assistance in trying the pipes
in various ways to find out all possible
notes which could have been produced
In one case it was necessary TO sink the
reed within the pipe to elicit its tones
This contrivance had evidently been re.
sorted to in order to protect the fragile
straw from injury, and it exempli6es III
anticipation the concealed reed in the
drone of the bagpipe. Another pipe
was drilled through a little below the
reed, and it could not be sounded at al
until these holes were closed. By GOV
ering them with film Of gutta- percha
instead of the fish bladder which haC
probably been used, the tones were rem
dered slightly tremulous, and assimila
ted more TO the human voice. This i
the principle of the old English pip
called the recorder, to which Shakes
peare refers in 'Hamlet" in "a Mid
summer Nights Dream" The recorde
was simply the old English flute, blow
like the fiageolet, at the end, but with
hole drilled through it to be covere'
with bladder, to produce the vocal quail
ty fthe tone through the slight vibra
tions of the bladder. Who would hav
, supposed that these two principles, th
bagpipe reed and the recorder, are a
old as the pyramids. Four Fgyptia
pipes were selected for experiment, an
q two proved to be tenor pipes and tw
treble. No long bass pipe has bee
hitherto found. The recorder pipe
in the British Museum. 1t is trebl
pipe upon the "pentaphonic" or Scotc
scale, and it agrees absolutely in pitc
with the present turning of the blac
keys of a pianoforte or harmonium.
has four holes, is 104 inches long, an
= has five notes in its ordinary scale, thu
F sharp, G sharp, A sharp, c sharp an
II n sharn