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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09
Stolen Kisses.

Virginia, Nevada Chronicle
There isa class of men in this commu
nifty who never let any ybody else have any
fun Instead of making everybody happy
around them, they make everybody
miserable One of these characters
was on board the train on Saturday,
coming up from the pioneers picnic
with his young and pretty wife. They
were on one of the long benches of the
platform car. Alongside the wife sat a
young man of festive tendencies, a
popularity in men, young and old, not
unfrequent upon the COmstock. Well,
the train reached the tunnel, and in a
moment everybody was in the dark.
When daylight was reached again the
husband saw fragment of his wife's
lace veil upon that young mans hat.
Instead of reasoning, as philosopher
would have done, that it might be all
mistake, the suspicious husband got up
and wanted to punch the other mans
head and made a scene generally. The
trouble finally cooled down, and every
body began to laugh at the old fellow
| When presently another tunnel was
reached, mischievous young lady who
sat next to the husband quietly detached
a piece of her veil and put it on his hat.
As soon as the car got into daylight the
other passengers began to laugh at him,
and to hint that he had been browsing
on forbidden pastures. Worse than all /,
his wife pretended to get angry, and
when such audible remarks as "Who' d
thought it?'' I" Pity man of his age
can't behave HIMSELF" " Bald-headed
men are all that way" etc, went around
the car, his face looked like boiled lob
ster all over. When the depot was
reached he was the first man off the
| train
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

THE Russians have gained an important
victory near Rustchuk, capturing eight
thousand prisoners from Ahmed Eyoub's
army and turning the Turks to flight
A DISPATCH from Sukum Kaleh, dated
August 2, says the Turkish frigate Manman-
dich bombarded the Russian batteries at
Tchamtchira, on the 30th ult., silencing
every Russian gun. The Manmandich was
considerably damaged, and several of the
crew were killed and.wounded.
THE Porte has made public the following
intelligence: "The Russians have been
completely defeated at Yeni Saghra, with
considerable loss, including two guns, large
quantity of baggage and equipments. They
fed in disorder to Kainboghaz Pass, which
is occupied by Suleiman,, ,,Pasha, who pursued
them thither."
THE London Nears in its detailed narrative
of the battle of Plevna, gives the Russian.
forces as thirty-two thousand infantry, sixty
field guns, and three brigades of cavalry. 1t
says that this defeat makes the Russians
hold in Bulgaria extremely precarious and
must compel the withdrawal of troops from
some otEer point, where they are nearly as
Beaten they must be, and that speedily, if
the Russian army is not forthwith to retire
ingloriously into the principalities.
A GREAT battle took place between the
Russians and Turks at Plevna, on Monday,
July 30-31. The Turkish force was esti-
mated at fifty thousand the Russian forces
composed the Ninth Army Corps, under
Gen. Krudener, Thirtieth Division, and
thirty brigades of the Twentieth Division,
under Prince Schackasky, with three
brigades of Cavalry and one hundred and
sixty guns. The Russians, after a hard
fight lasting two days, were repulsed with
great slaughter. The Bashi-Bazouks went
over the battlefield, and put all the
wounded to death.
CABLE dispatches to August 4 give
further particulars of the losses of the Rus
sian army in its attack on Plevna. These
are given with much detail and such moder-
alton of language as to prove that the ac-
count is by one who is informed. The
Russians were not routed" nor did they
retreat across the Danube, as one dispatch
had it, but they made determined and pro-
longed attack on force of Turks which it
was essential that the Russians should de-
feat, and in place which it was necessary
for the Russians to possess. All this was in
order to make secure the line of their ad-
vance. The Turks were in strong positions,
and the Russian attack was so determined
that the repulse was after heavy loss.
And it was so decided that the Turks occu-
pied all the fighting ground. The Russian
army is too much hurt to renew the attack
with chance of success. Sufficient force
to do it does not appear to be available.
The present appearance is that the advance
over the Balkans is seriously threatened.
And to this is added the repulse south of
the Balkans, at Eski Saghra.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09
Trajan's Wall What it is, What it
was, and When it was Built.

The events now transpiring in the
neighborhood of the Danube bring into
curious prominence the name of the EN-
peror Trajan, the buttresses of whose
bridge, we believe, still stand on opposite
banks of the Danube, and whose famous
wall seems to be the line along which the
tide of war is rapidly rolling. The
bridge thrown over the Danube by this
great monarch was, in some respects at
least, the most remarkable of all the
structures that successive belligerents
have erected for the passage of their
troops. 1t was not a mere floating
bridge, but permanent structure car
ried on piers one hundred and fifty feet
high and sixty feet wide, and it comprised
twenty arches, extending altogether over
span of four thousand seven hundred
and seventy Roman feet. This giant
structure, than which ancient history
records nothing of the kind equal to it,
seems to have been intended as fortress
as we'll as a bridge. Standing eighty
feet above the water, it is supposed to
have afforded the command of the
Danube navigation, a garrison posted on
it being, of course, able to damage or de-
stroy vessels passing under, while they
would be above the reach of retaliation.
1t was destroyed by Hadrian, and its
precise locality has been the subject of
some dispute. Ruins, which evidently
might have formed the buttresses of a
bridge, occurring on the line of an old
Roman road, however, seems to leave
little room for doubt. Trajan's Wall is
another relic of this terrible energetic old
Roman. tits, strictly speaking, ram
part of earth about thirty-fve or forty
miles long, and extends from Rassova,
Just at the bend in the Danube, to the
shores of the Black Sea. Though only an
earthwork, it is formidable line of de-
fense. 1t is eight or ten feet high, with
fosse in front of it, while the western
portion is still further fortified by deep
lakes and the swampy valley of Kara-Su.
In addition to all this, another rampant
of a similar character lies just in the rear
of it. This is known as the South hWall, the
space between the two ramparts being
from one thousand to two thousand feet.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09
How a Louisiana Murderer Died.

Jules Guidry, condemned for the
murder of John Beale, was executed on
July 25, at Lake Charles, Louisiana, on
the square adjoining the Jail. He was
handcufed, and mounted the scaffold at
twenty minutes to two o'clock p. m.,
assisted by the Sheriff and friend of
Guidry, accompanied by young priest,
Father Charles. Guidry, during his
prison life, gave himself UP, apparently,
to religious instruction. Gufdry was
sent to the New Orleans Parish Prison
for safe keeping, because rescue was
dreaded. He arrived at Lake Charles on
the 10Th of July, where he has borne
himself bravely. He was very firm, cool
and determined, but constantly declared
of Beale, because he had seduced his
wife and ruined his home and his chill
dren's future. Guidry behaved on the
gallows in a desperate and daring man,
'ner. He addressed the crowd, and said
that he killed John Beale and he would
do it again to-day; that he ought not to
die for it; that he would die like man !;
that he did not care to die. Father
Charles said few words of prayer, he
nodded his head as if asserting, turned
to his friend on the scafold, and said :
"I am firm. | am not afraid to die"
He said that what G. G. Duson testified
to in court was not so. He continued
talking aloud to the crowd, declaring his
indifference to death, and that he would
commit the same crime again, and again
that he was justified. Before he was
pinioned, he took up the rope in his
hands. 1t was dangling from the beam
above him to his feet. He handled the
rope and examined the moose, and said:
That fall is not enough. want a neck
break fall of ten feet" The Sheriff
heightened the rope to a fall of about
eight feet, but this did not satisfy him.
He tried the slip knot to see if it worked
easily. Ween the black cap was put
over his head he cried out: "Why, can
see everything" The rope was adjusted,
and slipknot tightened. He said: Not
so tight, but put the knot more on the
side of my neck" AS the Sheriff took
up the ak to cut the rope, he cried out,
jeeringly: 81 can see you. Your are
going to cut the rope" In a few seconds
more, while the condemned man was
saying that he did not care, the ak fell,
the rope parted, and Guidry died almost
instantaneously. The fall was fully
eight feet, if not more.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09
The Omniscient Emperor.
Cincinnati Gazette.l

Dom Pedro is still keeping up his
reputation as practical exemplifcation
of perpetual motion. The other day he
arrived at Belfast, Ireland, by steamer
at four a. m, and with as little delay as
possible started for the Giants Cause
way. He had to ride seven miles in a
carriage on reaching Portsmouth, the
railroad terminus, and as many back.
He was again in Belfast by two p. m,
and left for Dublin, where he arrived
for supper. He was up at five next
morning, ascended the Nelson pillar,
visited half a dozen different institu-
tions and points of interest, and at six
in the evening started for Killarney. On
reaching the station he found he had ten
minutes to spare and at once inquired
whether there was anything he could
see in that time. A neighboring hospital
was pointed out, which he succeeded il
doing" before the train left. Hi:
thirst for information and rapidity o.
movement are remarkable enough, but i
the reports of the condition of hi
dominions are true he had better brins
his sightseeing to a close. The debt o
the empire is said to be equal to it
revenues for seven and half years, anC
its taxes are raised with difficulty. There
is an ample field for the exercise of it
sovereign's wisdom.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09
Mrs. Stubbs, the Suffers Wife,

His Inheritance" a new novel by
Miss Adeline Trafton, author of "The
American Girl Abroad" and Kath-
crime Earle" is begun in the "Midsum-
mer Holiday Number" of tScribner.
The scene is laid in the southwestern
frontier before the war. Of the char
acters introduced in the first Install
ment, the most prominent are Stubbs,
the sutler, his little girl Blossom (evi-
IDENTIFY to be the heroine of the story
and his wife. The following description
of the last named shows that she is to
play no insignificant part in the story:
She was tall, she was gaunt as gray
wolf in winter She was strong of arm
and stout of nerve, with talent for de-
vising and will for executing almost
any work. She could serve dinner to
tolerably straitened garrison that
would tempt king, or she could steady
a rife and drop a redskin, if need be, at
three hundred yards There was even
rough kind of femininity about the
woman, who was by no means disagree
able to look at, with her bright black
eyes and her brown cheeks showing a
subdued flame. She had been known
more than once to nurse a wounded
man back to life when the surgeons had
given him up-with just scolding
enough, it must be owned, to spur him
on to convalescence. Add to these the
aggressive qualities of thrift and neat
ness, and we shall have perfect charac-
ter, you will say. Oh, no; do you fancy
that all the natural graces as well as
the Christian virtues are to be found in
one individual? She was envious (but
that is not SO rare fault that it need
be dwelt upon). She was crafty and
unscrupulous. But the first she con-
cealed by the second; and the third, in
tending upon the other two, kept in the
background. And then she was comely
to look at-and that is better cloak
than charity, even-with her sleek
black hair and the fresh color just dead
ened by the tan ON her cheeks Comely
to look at, if one could forget the EN-
J bers in her eyes, which gust of passion
might blow into blaze. After all, i
was kind of beauty which MAJ
: might like to look upon, but would
5 hardly covet for his own.
Y As for her thrift and neatness, tn,
suffers quarters showed the effect o
t good qualities, which were a kind O
stockade about the real woman. He
9 home was tidy and inviting, or woulC
= have been, but that the tidiness becam
l. tyrannical at times. Gradually kim
n of cabaret of a most respectable pat
r tern was established here, where tn
s officers dropped in of an evening to OF
= der bit of supper, which the mistres
n OF the house was not above cooking wit
(. her own hands. A well-thumbed pac
d of cards was brought into requisitio
J. while waiting for this to be served, an
e rumor did say that many pile of Go,
s ernment gold changed hands over tn
q table here. But rumor is always NAL
,. cious, and this may or may not hav
t. been true. Drinking there certainl
d was, but no brawling over the cards c
.; wine, or the friendly pipe with Stubt
a himself, who was quiet, shrewd man, a
,t excellent listener at all times-and VIII;
d could be more desirable in companion
If He could even tell story of his ow
e. when Mrs. Stubbs was not by.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09

NoRRIsTowN Herald: A few weeks
ago, boy in Lancaster, Pa, fell between
the bumpers of moving train, but his
pantaloons catching on some portion of
the car he was held suspended over the
rail without injury until the train stop
ped, when he was released. Had the
cloth in his trousers been poor stuff, the
lad would have been killed. This in
cident shows the advantage of wearing
strong clothing. In Lancaster County,
few days ago, a man who was driving
threshing machine, had one of the legs
of his pantaloons caught in the couplings,
and torn completely off. Had the cloth
been of sterner stuff the man probably
would have been killed. The moral of
this incident is-well, it is so plainly and
Numerically opposed to the first, that it
is hardly worth while indicating.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09

The loss to business for five days on
five trunk lines, occasionad by the
strike, is figured up by the New York
Journal Of Commerce at $26, ,250, ,000
This estimate includes the destruction
of property of the Pennsylvania and
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroads. The
cost to each of the five railroads per day
for the suspension of traffic averaged,
say, $4,000, to which add $50,000 for
losses by interruption of other roads,
and the total is $3.50, 900 per day, or
81 ,250,000 for the five days; $40, 900, ,OOC
is the estimated loss sustained by the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Pittsburg and
at other points on the line. $5,000,00t
is the estimated loss to the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, and to this sum of $15,
100000, 5000, 900 more may be addet
for losses to other railroad property
making the grand total of figures givel
above.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09

The following statistics show a re-
markable increase in the supply of GER
tain favorite remedies since 1855. In
that year the central pharmaceutical
establishment of the Partisan Hospital
furnished 2S2 pounds of chloroform; in
1875 the quantity had risen to GIG
pounds. The increase of chloral from
1869 to 1875 was from ten pounds to
72O pounds. Bromide of potassium six
pounds in 1855, was 1000 pounds in
1875; morphine, one pound six ounces
in 1855, was twenty pounds in 1875.
The progress of alcohol, considered as a
therapeautical agent, is especially
worthy Of notice. Between 1865 and
1875 the consumption of alchohol in the
hospitals increased from ], 1,270 to 10000
quarts. Brandy does not appear on the
list until 1862, when four quarts were
supplied. In 1875 the quantity hat
risen to 4,10S quarts.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09

The losses in property and in the
stopping of business by the strike have
been immense, reaching probably to
500, 0,000,0 900 or $50, ZOO, 900, if not more
the amount can on only be imagined,
it can not be called an estimate. Prob
ably 100000 laboring men have, since
the mob became general, stopped
voluntarily and been compelled
to stop labor, during which their
wages have also ceased. Probably the
daily average that all these men were
earning was s1.75 each, and the volun-
tary or enforced idleness will be at least
ten days, making a loss of $3.50 to each
man, or $l7, ,500,0OO in all, which the
laboring man in the sections affected by
the strike would have received in wages,
but which they have lost, and which re.
mains in the pockets of their employers
the capitalists and in the bank vaults.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09
A THREATENED TAX ON FLOUR.

A THREATENED TAX ON FLOUR.
A threatened tax on flour of very
curious kind has come to light. There
is a process called high grinding in use
in most of the -four mills in the coun-
try, which is said to be essential to the
best results in reducing wheat to -four.
1t has long been in use in Europe, and
was introduced here in 1871, and the
machinery in use in all the great mills
is adapted to it. A ring of spectators
in Washington is said to have got hold
of an old patent on the process, quietly
had it reissued, got up case in which
the defendant was a man of straw, car
ried it into the Supreme Court without
any defense having been made, and got
decision in support of its validity.
New suits have been brought for in
fringements against the leading -four
manufacturers of the country, includ-
ing the Jewels, of Brooklyn, the Hax-
alls, of Richmond, and G. G. Washburn,
of Minneapolis, and the holders of the
patent propose to grant licenses to mil
lers for the modest sum of six thousand
dollars for each run of stone. This
would impose tax of thirty-six mil
lions of dollars on the -four business of
the country, which would, of course,
come out of the consumers in the end.
Is is unnecessary to say that a vigorous
fight will be made against this imposi-
ton, and special act of Congress can
ceiling the patent will be asked fol
next winter
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09

The Supreme Court of the United
States has affirmed a decision of the
Supreme Court of Vermont, that it is
the duty of the Cashier of a national
bank to furnish the treasurer of the
town with list of the shareholders for
the purposes of taxation. This decision
isin accordance with previous judgments,
that national banks are subject to State
legislation, excepting where such legis-
lation is in conflict with the laws of Con-
gress, or where it tends to impair or de-
stroy the utility of such banks as agents
or instrumentalities of the United States,
or interfere with the purposes of their
creation.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09

EDWARD KING writes from the seat
of war to the Boston Journal that the
Turks take no prisoners, and that such
of the advance guard as were cut of
from the main body on the night of the
26th were horribly maltreated before
being put to death. Four men of the
advance found themselves separated
from their companions. They were
subjected TO tortures of which the North
American Indians would be ashamed.
Some of them had their ears and noses
cut off, and all the glands and organs of
their throats cut out. One man was
found still breathing, with his throat cut
In this horrible fashion, and managed to
tell the tale of his tortures. 1t hardly
seems possible that the mild-eyed Turk
can be guilty of such wretched atroci-
ties az this
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09

The Emperor Williams habits are
described in the Colonge Gazette as fol-
lows: He drinks at 6 or 6 80, appears
on the promenade about 8, drinks the
water at the prescribed intervals till 9 80,
then breakfasts, and every other day
also takes bath between 10 80 and IL 80
During the morning he receives military
and civil reports, dimes at 4, generally
inviting company, and then receives
a report on foreign affairs, Cabinet
courier arriving every morning, and the
telegraph Office being open night and
day. If an interval remains before the
theater, the Emperor takes an airing,
and about 1880 appears on the prom
enade, then attends the play, next takes
tea, and about 10:45 retires to his
narrow iron bedstead, unless business de-
tains him till IL or IL :30"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09

TIE elasticity and cohesion of our in
stitutions have been we'll illustrated by
the late strike. As cable dispatches
showed, the depredations at Pittsburg
and elsewhere created more alarm in
London and the German cities than on
this side of the Atlantic. Capitalists
began to regret their investments in our
railroad securities, and, doubtlesss, fan
cied their United States Government
bonds might not be 80 safe after all.
Before they had made up their minds
what to do in this case, they were told
that the strike had passed its culmina
tion, and that, in weeks time, it was
virtually over. Had such demonstra-
ton occurred in the less flexible Euro.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09

ROCHESTER, Union: The alarming
prevalence of suicide throughout the
world is something shocking to contem-
plate. "My mammals hanging on the
cupboard door; she can't walkr' sobbed
little child, as he entered neighbours
room, few days since, in New York.
His pitiful story was found to be only
too true; his mother had hanged herself,
and was quite dead. Her husband had
committed suicide three months before,
leaving her to the tender mercies of. the
world, with three little children ITO care
for.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09

AN elderly kleptomaniac, was detec-
ted in San Francisco in the act of pur-
loining books. After his arrest his room
was searched. "There are about two
hundred books taken from bookstores,
large stacks of writing paper of all de-
scriptions, boxes of envelopes, bottles of
cologne, vest patterns, handkerchiefs,
corkscrews, leather taken from boot
stores, uppers ready to be manufactured,
two or three large boxes of common
laundry soap, dozen quart bottles Of
ink and multitude of other articles OF
every description" He is graduate OF
the University of Michigan CT the class
of 1845.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09
The pastor of one of the fashionable

The pastor of one of the fashionable
churches of Detroit is a poet. For
years he has had a small clock in con-
venient place under the reading desk by
which he could note the hour without
losing time by taking out his watch.
The clock was lost some time ago and
the pastor, who missed it very much,
sent to one of his favorite Pensioners
the following note on a postal card:
Your pastor very meekly suggests
Without venturing any decided behests
That n time-piece 10 the pulpit annexed
May keep the people from being yexed
BY sermons that run TO excessive length
And tax the popular patience and strength.
Perhaps houT-glass might do as well
BY which the passage Of time to tell;
With a beadle TO tap with his gentle rod
Not only the hearer who ventures to nod,
But the preacher whose words continue to run
When the sand in the glass says he ought to be
done.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09

THE King of Gaboon, the oldest ma,
tive Prince on the African coast, died
about the beginning of May at the ad-
vanced age of one hundred years, and
was succeeded by his eldest son,
Andaunte, who at once broke up his
fathers harem and cashiered the women
to the number of one hundred and
twenty, liberated all the deceased
Kings slaves, and abolished the sacri-
fee of human beings at religious rites.
He has also informed the traders on the
Gaboon River that he will take immedi.
ate steps to facilitate and opsS up the
trade Of the river and the roads leading
tn the interior.