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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-12-01
A Sharp Monkey.
Boston Journal of Cbemistry.l

Boston Journal of Cbemistry.l
A correspondent in the Transsaal Re
public writes that = species Of large
cynocephalic ape are in the habit Of
ravaging the coffee plantations there.
which, therefore. have to be guarded
Among the coffee trees there grows a
shrub whose fruit the apes particularly
enjoy. But species of wasp had fast
ened their nests to these shrubs, and the
apes were kept from the tempting food
by their fear of being stung. One morn
ing fearful cries were heard from the
apes, and the following scene was wit
messed: A large baboon the leader OF
the band, was throwing some youngapes
down into the shrubs, that they might
break of the wasp-nests with the shock
of their fall. The poor victims, stung
by the infuriated insects, were crying
piteously; but the old baboon paid no
heed to their miserable condition
While they were down below, suffering
from anger Of the wasps, he quietly pro-
ceeded to regable himself with the fruit
now safely within his reach, and occa
sionally threw handful to some fe
males and young little way off.
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Lost Articles at the Centennial.
philadelphia Letter.l

Everything lost on the Grounds
when picked up by an honest man, has
been handed to the Lost Property Office.
Everything that men and women can
shed from their persons may be seen
there. Wallets with money, and many
more without, well-worn pocket books
which have fallen unnoticed from some
horny handed farmers pocket. for which
coat-tails have been clutched, and the
pockets examined and re-examined with
a frantic eagerness and horrible sink
ing sensation; pretty mother f-pearl
covered and gold. mounted portemon-
males, missed by misses from the city;
railway tickets, memorandum, note
books. diaries, catalogues, novels-still
await owners. The atmosphere of this
little Office is full Of uneasiness and
anxiety. A troubled and unsatisied in :.
huence attaches itself to the thousand
article. still stored here. whose sudden
absence weeks and months ago have Civ
en- the owners so much useless labor
Two thousand umbrellas have been
picked mp. The majority Of these have
passed their prime, and are verging into
broken ribs and dislocated wires. The
fans can not be numbered. Three thou
sand dollars in greenbscks have been
brought here and restored TO the owners
One hundred and seventy dollars in
small bills and fractional currency re.
main, and the former proprietors now
far away in distant homes still mourn
Many garters have been found and
await claimants. Also bnstles and en-.
tire sets of crinoline. OF iewelry there
Is every description, from the twenty.
fve-cent brass ring to the fve-hundred
dollar diamond. Satchels and lunch
baskets can not be counted. Spectaclei
and opera glasses are also represented
There are canes by the cord. Four.fifth,
of all these articles appear to have beer
lost by women.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-12-01

Well directed energy and enterprise
are the life of American progress, but
if there is one lesson taught more plain
iy than others by the great failures Of
late. it is that safety lies in sticking to
legitimate business. No man-manu.
facturer, trader, or banker-has any
moral right to be so energetic and enter
prisiDg as to take from his legitimate
business the capital which it requires to
meet any emergency. .-..a... ....
Apologies are sometimes made. for
firms who have failed, by recurring to
the important experiments they have
aided, and the unnumbered fields Of en-
terprise where they have freely scattered
their money. We are told that indi-
vidual losses sustained by those failures
will be as nothing compared with the
benefits conferred on the community by
their liberality in contributing to every
public work. There is little force in
such reasoning. A mans relations to q
creditor are vastly different from his re.
lations to what is called the public. The
demands of the one are definite, the
claims of the other are just what the
ambition Of the man may make them.
The histories of honorably successful
business men unite to exalt the import.
ance Of sticking to a legitimate business
and it in most instructive to see that, in
the greater portion of the failures, the
real cause of disaster was the branching
out beyond q legitimate business, in, the
taking hold Of this and that tempting
offer. and, for, the sake OF some gres'
gain, venturing vhers. they did moi
know the ground, and could not know
the pisfall.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-12-01
Misapprehension.

Says the Pittsburgh Telegraph: Some
highly intelligent citizens Of foreign
birth, In view Of the electoral imbroglio
In parts Of the South, and Of the general
attitude Of the people, seem quite assur-
ed Of the indifference Of the people. il
10 perhaps not remarkable that such
mistake should be made. Ordinarily
when people are sgitaied or in any de-
gree disturbed BY public events or by
the starting Of questions which may af-
feet their fortunes, they manifest their
feeling by some appropriate movement.
They hold "town meetings" or they rush
TO arms. History certainly teaches us
10 expect one or the other Of these
eourses as the result Of deep, thorough
political excitement.
Except few politicians BY profession,
few Of the American people see any
thing in the actual imbroglio to call for
either town meetings or other demon
stra,ion Of the common feeling. Indif-
ference, however, is not the word which
expresses the present condition Of the
popular mind. Genuine anxiety on the
part Of the many seems 10 be the fact
An overwhelming majority OF the
people unquesiionAbly desire to see tn,
question Of the Presidency settled in
accordance with the facts OF the case; tC
sec him inaugurated who has received 4
majority Of the legal votes cast. And
they certainly watch and mark with ns
appreciation those intriguants Of boti
parties who are seeking to carry through
their candidate by hook or by crook
But they mark these parisaps for futur
punishment and not for any instaniane
Gus inaiction. Happily, amidst the un
deniable obscuriiies and uncertainties o
the situation, the American people ar
once more, under striking circumstan
ces. proving their capability Of self-gov
ernment. Knowing that they can do NJ
good by violent action or by any irregu
lar display Of sentiment-whether O
wrath or indignation they are quieil
waiting for issues. BY their vigilan
patience they are exemplifying thei
quality ss clearly a., under other condi
tions, they have before illustrated thsi
quality In other wnys,
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The Great Exposition.

We have received from the publish.
ers, Messfs. Hubbard Bros, of Phila-
delphia, advance sheets of forthcom-
ing volume, which will greatly interest
every American. 1t ia entitled "Ihe
Centennidt Exposition Described And Illus
trated," and is a complete history and
pictorial representation of this grnndest
worlds fair the world has ever known.
Every intelligent. and thoughtful per-
son who has visited the Exposition and
comprehehded not only its vast proper.
tions but its wide significance, viii be
glad to find it photographed and preserv-
ed in permanent form in this beautiful
and carefully prepared volume.
The great Exposition is really a re-
presentation of all that the human race
has accomplished during its career of
six Thousand years. The nations of the
earth Of every cline selected that which
embodied their best thoughts and their
highest achievements in every depart
ment Of human effort, and bringing
them together, invited the world TO be-
hold the last and most perfect results of
all that man has accomplished in every
field of thought, industry and skill.
OF the millions of our citizens who
have expended from $50 to 5000 each in
viewing and studying this wonderful
display, We have never heard of one Who
did not feel amply repaid for the expense
Of time and money involved. These
millions desire to study more at leisure
what they could then examine bat hur-
riedly, and many millions more who
could not visit and see it, desire to pos
sess a work which shall give them full
and adequate representation OF this
grand and wonderful exhibition To
supply this urgent demand is the object
of this work. 1t has been prepared
from material gathered on the grounds,
by the moat careful, patent and labori :
and though it does not claim, as some
do, to be by official authority, it com
manhs confidence thereby, Gen. Hawley
having announced that no hook has anv
right to such claim. 1t describes
briefly the inception and growth of this
grand enterprise, but mainly the won
deriul rxhabits Of the Nations of the
New and Old World. showing their
different peculiarities, valnes. euriosi-
ties of mechanism. &C., and contrasting
them one with the other.
But the interest and value Of the
book lie largely in it's prof,iae and bril-
liant illustrations, In this multitude of
finely executed engravinRs, the main
features Of the Exhibition are vividly
impressed on the mind Of the reader in
away that words cannot do. II il mex,
thing to seeing the Great Worlds Fai,
itself We advise our rrsaders to examine
the. book carefully should they have ar
opportunity. We presume the publish.
!, ers want agents in this vicinity, and sc
hope some OF our eaerRefic Young men
will improve what seems to us an extra .
ordinary opportunity 10 serve our citi
zens and do handsome paying BUSH
ness.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-12-01
Funerals as Disease Breeders.



There is good reason to believe that
disease is occasionally disseminated
through the medium of funerals. We
have at lesst one fairly authenticated
instance in this country of diphtheria
being diffuse broadcast through the
crowding incidental occasionally TO the
last ceremony. In America this ques-
tion is beginning to receive much at
tention, and several cases have been re-
ported of late where the transmission of
the disease from the corpse seemed high
ly probable. The Suffolk District Med
ical Society sent out four hundred circu-
lars to medical practitioners, with a
view to ascertain the opinion of the
profession on the alleged danger Of per-
mitting public funerals of persons who
had died from diphtheria. Two hun
dred and thirty nine answers were re-
ceived. OF. these. one hundred and for
ty-three writer's express belief in the
possible danger of contagion at such
funerals; seventeen believe that there is
danger from funerals in the houses oi
the dead. but none in churches; twenty.
nine fancy that, in the present state OF
knowledge, there is no justification in
prohibiting public funerals; and eight
record circumstances which occurred in
their own experience confrmatory o
the proposition that peril may ensne
but the testimony these latter advance i,
not quite satisfactory. The Society, af
ter due consideration, recommend thai
funerals at the houses Of those who have
died Of diphtheria should be private
owing to possible exposure to the poisor
Of the disease. st''t .t '-i'-
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The New York Times has been inter.

The New York Times has been inter.
viewing prominent bankers and mer.
chants Of that city, on the subjec, Of the
continued flow Of gold INTO this conn
try In the face Of the exceptionally low
premium. These opinions are illustra-
ted by table Of imports furnished from
Washington, concerning which the
Times says:
From this IL will be seen that during
the last ten months We have imported
$4,000, 900 yard-. or nearly fifty per cent.
less ~ cotton fabrics than we did for the
same period last year; thaswinen goods
show falling of to the extent Of o..
100000 yards. or about twenty FIVE per
cent; that we have imported forty pei
cent. les. Of British earthen and chins
ware, and thirty per cent. less Of hard
ware and cutlery, than we did in 1875
The imports Of woolen cloths have d.
minished by nearly one half, Of worsted
s,uasby one-ff,h, and Of carpets by one.
half As the volume Of our exports ha,
suffered but little, IL any, diminution
and as the balance can be remitted NOR,
cheaply in specie than in any other form
the influx Of gold and silver Is not very
difficult 10 explain.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-12-01

Thomas Hiester. aged eighty three
years, residing. at Hiester's Mill, near
Stransstnwn, in this State, must he \
vigorous old gentleman, One DAY late
ly he walked To the foot Of Blue Noun
tain, distance of two miles, returned a,
noon for his dinner, went hark again in
the afternoon. and returned in the even
ing, thereby walking eight miles, and
splitting during the day l75 chestnut
rails. Mr.. -fiesier says he is able to
repeat this during any day Of the year.
Who saws the race ia s,iegeneratingo
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-12-01
Another Plight and nm Indian VII
lage Captured-L0ss on Both
Sides Supposed TO be Large.

CHICAGO, November 28.--Generai
Crook, under date OF Camp on Crazy
womsD's Fork, November 2s, reports
that Colonel Mackenzies Fourth Cav
airy attacked a Cheyenne camp. consist
ing Of one hundred lodges, on the West
Fork Of Powder River, on the 25th
inst, capturing the village and the great
er portion Of the Indian herd. The loss
on both sides IL thought to be considera.
BILE, but was not definitely ascertained
when the courier let. Lieutenant Nc.
Kenny, Fourth Cavalry. was killed.
The weather Is very severe.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-12-01
A Man Who Lives i'm a Cistern.

There are philosophers in these latter
days of almost as many different schools
as Hourished in the dim ages of the past,
and in Shreveport there is one who,
adopting the motto of make the best of
everything" takes the world calm and
serenely, although misfortunes have fall
len thick and fast upon him. His char
acter reminds one, in some respects, Of
Dioeenes, the Grecian Cynic, who lived
in tub and was unawed in the presence
of the great Macedonian, who, by his
sword had placed the world at his feet.
compelling the successful warriors ad-
miration and prompting him to say that
were he not Alexander, he would be
Diogenes. Our readers will remember
that We published a short time since
that the two story frame house in this
city, at the corner of Marshal and Texas
streets. was burned down. 1t was the
property of Mr.. J. Citron, and nearly
everything be possessed on earth was
destroyed. In the rear of the building
there stood large wooden cistern with
brick foundation, which was blackeD-
ed and cbarred by the flames, but still
stands alone black and begrimed by fire
| and smoke. Mr.. Citron accepted the
situation, drew off the water, cut an
opening for door, in which he hung
one of the doors rescued in half-burnt
condition, and has fitted himself up a
home IN the clstern. In it he has placed
a bed, bedding, chairs, tables, washstand
etc, and is comfortably housed for tbs
winter, or until he is able to rebuild or
the old site. 1t isa queer ha5itation
and we expect in his day and generation
Mr.. Citron is as contented ir his tub
cisten as was Diogenes in his tub in tn
ataeets of Athens and Corinth.
. I
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-12-01

The South has had all the War il
wants, and its journals say so frankly.
Thus the Macon Telegraph and Mes.
senger remarks; whenever and wher-
ever the slogan Of War is raised let the
mphatic response Of the entire South
be- Get thee behind me, SATAN Our
people have already resorted to this sort
Of 'arbitrameni. and were 20 terribly in
earnert that they never succumbed until
nearly every family moruned the loss of
n gallant scn. brother or father; = debi
oi two billions Of dollars had been re-
pudiated; four millions Of slaves, our
rightful property, emancipated; towns
and cities laid waste, and gaunt famine
and want stared every one in the face
We state deliberately that the assertion
that the South is prepared, by force oi
arms, 10 seat Mr.. Tilden, or engage in
another attempt at revolution, is wholly
and absolutely falae. This very mer
most opposed to such folly are the bat
tle-scarred heroes Of the lost cause
They have felt the shock Of battle ant
realized the miseries Of War, and, there
fore, shrink aghast At n renewal Of tn,
dreadful spectacle. No. Having takei
anew the oath Of allegiance and plightet
our faith TO conserve the public peace
We do not intend to be seduced into re
bellion upon any National issue"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-12-01

An illustration was given yesterday in
the Posi-ofice Of the speed with which
tho employees can distribute incoming
mails when circumstances will permit
the force present to work at 1t. Tho
mail Of the Bremen steamship Neckar,
an unusually large ore, in all 103 bags,
was received at the rear doors exactly at
/ p. NJ. In about twenty minutes all
the letters, about fifty thousand in num-
ber, had been distributed, and in half an
hour the great mass OF newspapers. AT
1:40 p. NJ. all this city mail had been
distributed in the boxes, or was in the
hands Of the carriers as they went ont
on the l:45 P. NJ. delivery, and at this
time all packages for different parts Of
the country were fully made up.-[New
York Times, November 25.
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Remarkable Prophecy Made by
Joe Smith Many Years Ago.
From the Salt Lake Tribune. |

From the Salt Lake Tribune.l
l. About the year A. D., 184S, or
IS49, there will be 10 Europe revolu.
tion, either in France, Italy or Austria,
and then commences the beginning of
the end" spoken of by the prophets.
New governments will arise on the
earth, and we shall have Wars and
rumors Of Wars.
2. Scarcely has the turmoil in Eu-
rope expired before our own America
will have taken up the tumult; and
about A D. 1860 or 1861 there will be a
division in the United States. The
South will 60 to herself, and then War,
famine and pestilence will stalk abroad
over the land-murders, arson, incest,
theft, and all other crimes will be rife in
the land. Hope will depart from every
human breast. Governments that had
been deemed impregnable will topple
and fall; but the end is not yet.
8. Thirty years from the beginning
cf this end" will pass away, and upon
the broad earth there will exists no gov
ernmept such as now exists, or which
may exist up to that time-all will be
overturned--all will be destroyed. Those
then on earth will return 10 the govern
ment Of the pa.riarchs. and the sire OF
many descendants will rule and govern
as in the days of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob, and servants and slaves likewise
will exist a. in those days.
4. Forty FIVE year. of this patriarchal
rule, and then comes the glorious day
the MiIlenninm--and the return OF
Jesus Christ to the earth. here to reign
as temporal prince three hundred and
sixty five thousand years. Happy is he
who may be on earth, or who may have
arisen from the earth, fitted "a subject
to live nnder the mild government o
such Prince and King.
AMINIDAR.
MI D.. n 1TQn
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-12-01

DR.. Forhes Winslow. who il regarded
as one Of the most ahie modern authori-
iiea on mental deranyement, records i,
as startling fact, not mere rumor.
that over 10000 persons of unsound
mind are confined in lunutic asvium. in
the United States, driven mad from
over excitement by Spiritnalism: Dr..
Winslow add. that insanity from thi.
cause is now very prevalent in England,
and is increasing day by day.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-12-01
Sale of George WashingtOn's Library
Some Valuable Relics Disposed
of Cheap.

PHILADELPHIA, November 2S.-The
sale Of the library of George Washing
ton was an event which drew a large
concourse of book buyers from all parts
of the country to the book auction
rooms this afternoon The library was
placed in the hands of the auctioneer hv
Lawrence Washington, young man
who has just arrived at his maiariry,
and who succeeds to the estate OF John
A. Washington. The books have been,
since 1860, stored in a farm house near
Mt. Vernon; one bv one volumes dIsap-
peared. OF Were mutiln:ed by curiosity
seekers. OF the two hundred and fifty-
five volumes sold to-day, more than two
hundred bear Washington's autograph
and coat of arms; from those that have
not the autograph, it has been cut by
the knives of visitors. ,-4.-s e..
There was great deal Of spirited
bidding to-day, and the prices obtained
were large. The volumes averaged
about eight dollars each. ..,... .l
The highest priced volumes were:
Thomas Jeffrey's General Topography
of the West Indies," which was sold at
$35 to Mr.. Sabine, of New York. A
treatise on Steam Navigation, by Robert
Fulton, with an appendix in his own
handwriting, brought S43; some volumes
of old pamphlets, were brought by Gen
eral ]. r. Hawley for Sl5 to $25 per
volume; Mr.. JeGerson's Notes on the
State of Virginia, which was brought at
Sl6; John Winthrop's Journal, which
brought $40; copy of Horace, twenty.
two volumes Of the Federalist, $50 each;
Philadelphia Directory of 1895, S22;
some volumes of old maps. S22 to S35,
and History of Marshal Turenae, S17.
There were also lot of books, about
three hundred in number, that had be-
longed to other members of the Wash
ington family, but which bore the auto
graph of General Washington.
The journal OF Major George Wash
ington, with maps of the country east Of
the Mississippi, printed in 1775, sold al
$50.
Bradock's Register, with the journals
of Major Washington, brought $50; an
old Sanskrit Bible S25; Poor Richards
Almanac, from 1751 to 1856, $3.50 pei
volume.
Henepin's Discovery, 81, and the pro.
ceedings of the House of Representa-.
tives of Pennsylvania, S6075.
a set of FIVE pieces of plated ware
once owned by Washington. and used by
him at Germantown. was sold for S22.
The principal buyers were Mr.. Sabine
and Mr. Mack. book dealers, and Gen.
eral Hawley and Chas. II. Baker, pri
vate collectors. r. .@
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-12-01

The Rev. DR.. Stephen Fl. Tying. jr.,
Of New York, told tho woman of his
Church, on Sunday, that he needed $4,-
600 for the Church Orphanage, and If
they would buy one button glove. in
stead OF three button gloves, the differ-
ence in price would support the ,estab-
lishment. II wouldnt do for . nav
preacher to talk that way.
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SAN EXCELLENT PLASTER ,

Messrs Weeks & Potter, Gentlemen,-
Please eend me another COLLINS
VOLTAIC PLASTER. l find them
to be an excellent Plaster, the best ]
have ever used. ! am sorry that the
druggists here do not keep them.
F. NJ. SNIDER.
BROADWAY, o., July, 1876.
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"THE BEST PLASTER"

Messrs. WEEKS & POTTER, Gen
Please send me six COLLINS
VOLTAIC PLASTERS, Send by re
turn mail, ! think they are the bes
Plaster / ever used. Please find money
enclosed. HASKELL LEWIS.
MILFoRp, DEL, July IA. 1876.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-12-01

The Albany Evening Journal cites a
case in point on the postmaster-elector
question. In I84S one Samuel Rnssel
of Allegheny; was one Of the Electors
chosen in New York and was at the
time postmaster. He did not resign his
postmastership nor did he attend the
meeting of the Electoral College. II
was held that a vacancy existed in the
College of Electors and the remaining
Electors proceeded to Gil il by ballot.
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100 Horses and Mares
Wanted.

For the New York market-from to
9 years old. They must be in good
flesh, and weigh from HOO to 1900 lbs.
For which will pay the highest mar
ket price in cash. Will be at Somerset,
Saturday, December I'd.
s, w. HEINEMAN
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The Presidential question is still un-
decided. Indications however, point to
nm early termination Of tbs contest-at
leas. 90 far as the disputed States" are
concerned