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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-23
A Comedy of Errors.

Here is an amusing comedy of errors
with Partisan edge. Nine. de V. was
very jealous, and determined to watch
her husband. One day he told her he
was going to Versailles. and when he
went out she put on her bonnet and fol-
lowed him. She kept him in sight until
he turned into a passage which shortened
the way to the railway station, where
she missed him. She stood for few
minutes in the passage looking about,
and suddenly saw man coming out of
a glove-shop with rather overdressed
lady. From the distance she made sure
the man was her husband, and without
a word of warning she gave him three or
four sounding boxes on the ear. When
the gentleman turned around to con-
front his assailant, she perceived that
she had made a mistake, and at the same
moment she caught sight of her husband,
who had replenished his cigar case at a
tobacconist's, and was crossing the street.
What could she do? 1t goes on with
saying that she tainted in the arms of
the stranger whose ears she had boxed.
while the other lady ran off as fast as she
could to avoid scandal. The stranger
who was comedian, was astonished tc
find an unknown lady in his arms, anc
while his ears were still tingling from
her blows, he was again startled. A
gentleman collared him, and shaking
him roughly asked what he meant by
embracing lady in the street "Why
she boxed my ears and tainted =
screamed the actor. She is my wife,
shouted the irate husband, "and woulc
never have struck you without cause.
The infuriated gentlemen shook thei
fists until the lady, whohad been carried
into a shop, recovered sufficiently to ex
plain how it had happened.
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The Autumn Celebrations.
New York Post.

The American people have so many
passages in the history of their early
struggle for freedom to commemorate,
that it his hard to keep track of all the
Centennial celebrations. The dates
of the important incidents of the sum-
mer and autumn of 1877 are given in
the following list, prepared for the con-
venience of our readers:
August 16.-Battle of Bennington.
September 5.-First Congress met in
Philadelphia.
September 19.-Massacre at Paoli,
Pennsylvania.
October 4-Battle of Germantown,
Pennsylvania.
October 6.-Capture of Forts Clinton
and Montgomery.
October second battle of Saratoga.
Valley Forge.
Many of the events in memory of
which we fire cannon and ring bells after
the lapse of a hundred years were ac-
counted comparatively insignificant af-
fairs in their day, and some ended in
positive temporary disaster to the Co.
lonial cause; yet each contributed its
share to the great sum of victory which
gave America name and a standing as
| a Nation. Of such a nature were some
| of the earlier battles of the Revolution
whose hundreth anniversaries were ush.
cred in and helped out by much noise
and pageantry. This year the people are
| taking their celebrations in a quiete1
mood, though two of the most important
achievements of the war were the driving
| of the British troops out of Bennington
and the defeat of Burgoyne at Saratoga
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-23
Detroit Free Press Sarcasms.

Jim Blaine wants to annex Canada
so as to even up the weather in America.
Deplorubus Unum" is the way a
Chicago proof-reader let it go through
the other day.
Henry Ward Beecher knows that poor
men can live on dollar per day because
it costs him only six thousand dollars
per year to pull along. -
Some things have changed, but people
of the present day who tumble down Gel.
lar find the same bottom which our fore
fathers did.
George Francis Train hasn't come out
with card yet entreating the strikers
to stand fast, but he will as soon as the
last one has resumed work.
And now the pumpkin begins to
show its head" remarks New York
daily. A later dispatch will probably
reveal the whereabout of an Eastern
paragrapher.
A Vermont Judge has decided that no
law can be made to prevent handsome
girls being kissed by mistake now and
then, and the girls sustain the decision.
The average speed of a steamboat is
eighteen miles per hour" says the Phila-
delphia Bulletin. Yes, we always knew
IL. alSO, oudO GllC dNCIdSC SpCSu VI d COW
is eighteen and a half.
The San Francisco hoodlum is the
same sort of hoodlum to be found in
any other city, but the San Francisco
police are afraid of brick-bats. That's
where the hoodlum comes under the
wire abe ad.
Sea sefpents are measured very closely
You take the length, as stated by any
sight-seer, cut it down seventy-fve per
cent, chop off the head and tail, SUBJ
tract twenty feet, and the actual
measurement is left.
Any one wanting to 60 to Europe and
take hand in the free fight, can secure
a letter of introduction from General
Sheridan. He gave Michigan man one
the other day that read: "This mans
name is Jones-Jones, of Michigan.
Very truly, P. III. Sheridan"
The New York Board of Health warns
people in general against going away
from home on long excursion trips dur
ing the summer. Change of water,
food, ETC., is certain to result in serious
illness or death of at least one out of
every five.
The Chicago papers make a serious
complaint against the soldiers, which, if
true, ought to be attended to. During
the late unpleasantness the soldiers, tax
ing advantage of the Mayors attention
being occupied by other things, openly
disregarded the city bylaw which says
Keep off the grass" What makes this
disregard the more glaring is the fact
that right where the soldiers camped,
there were numerous signs warning off
trespassers. The authorities should look
to this matter.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-23
Secretary Sherman.

Secretary Sherman made speech at
Mansfield, Ohio, on the 18th of August,
giving his views on the administration OF
public affairs, the withdrawal of troops,
civil service reform, specie payments, and
the resumption act. He does not speak
decisively with reference to the resumption
act. We can not infer from his remarks
that he is in favor of or opposed to retain
ing the date fixed for resumption. He re-
marks that if Congress does not repeal or
modify the act, he will do his part toward
enforcing it. He says the law as it stands is
defective 1t authorizes him to sell bonds for
gold, and to use that and the surplus revenue
to redeem greenbacks. 1t does not, in his
opinion, authorize him to sell bonds for
gold, and gold for greenbacks, and hoard the
latter. Some people have put this construc-
ton upon the resumption act, and urged
him to adopt it, but he respectfully declines.
He will accumulate gold gradually, and in
that way prepare for resumption. This may
be done, he thinks, if the shipments of gold
can be checked, and it looks to him as if
the balance of trade would bring gold into
the country, instead of taking it out. He
evidently does not consider it neces-
sary to have as much coin as
paper money in order to resume.
What Mr.. Sherman means by the term re
deem is distinctly stated. When the re-
sumption act was under discussion in the
Senate he could not say what the word re-
deem meant; but now he says it means to
keep the greebacks afoat; that is to say, to
redeem them in gold at one counter and pay
them out at another desk. He is very
emphatic in the opinion that the greenback
currency ought to be maintained, as part Of
the circulation. He favors the retention of
the greenback and national,bank currency,
regulating the volume of both by the laws
of trade as may be indicated by the demand
for specie. The Secretary discusses the
recent railroad strike with full apprecia-
tion of its gravity, but without any hys-
terics; deprecates the excessive power of
the railway kings warns disorderly persons
of the penalties of the law; points out the
constitutional provisions that enables Con-
gress to get hold of this matter, and hopes
"That Congress will pass laws to establish
and limit maximum rates of freight, so that
the production of farmer may not be in
danger of confscation by exorbitant rates !;
that it will limit and restrain the cutting
and reduction of freights so as to destroy the
ability of railroad companies to pay fair
prices for honest labor, and prevent the
companies from making paupers of men
who perform essential functions in COM
merce. Congress may thus, by wise general
laws, control the most powerful corporations
as well as the humblest citizens"
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Imperial Russian Amenities.

. IBuda-Pesth Cor. of the London Telegraph
When the Gar of all the Russias ar
rived in the United Principalities, and
established his headquarters in Plojesti,
the Landesherr, his Magnitude Prince
Carol, straightway repaired thither to
greet the most illustrious foreigner who
had solicited Roumanian hospitality
in the memory of man. Itwas source of
three days wonder to Bucharest society
that his Imperial Majesty, contrary to
of which Sovereigns en- Uisite abroad, and
temporarily sojOurning at the court of
any fellow monarch, invariably receive
and exchange courtesies with the duly
accredited representatives of all the other
sovereigns who may be in friendly rela-
ton with the court in question, declined
then to vouchsafe the honor of an audi
ence to the foreign Corps Diplomatique
resident at Bucharest, which signifed to
him, through the proper channel, its de-
sire to pay him its respects. 1t was
stated in the political salons of the
Roumanian Residenz at the time, that
the application of the Diplomatic Body
for its audience reached the Gar stimuli
taneously with that of the Alliance
Israelite-namely, while his Majesty was
at the Hospodarial Palace on the Podoi
Mogosoi, where he took luncheon ON the
| day of his State entry into Bucharest
| and that he remarked contemptuously
| to Count Adlerberg, who laid both ap-
| plications before him: 81 have no time
now to receive Jews and Consuls; per.
haps some other day they may come
down in Plojesti, and / will see them if
can."
Subsequently to the incident already
recounted above, which took place at the
Hospodarial Palace on that broiling af
ternoon during which Bucharest hung
all its hearthrugs out of window il
honor of Roumania's Liberator, and the
loveliest ladies of Moldo- o-Wallachi;
pelted the White Car with huge bunche.
of fresh roses from the windows o.
Vivian's" Jockey Club, his Imperia
Majesty, being reminded of the Diplo
matte Body's wish to offer him its con
gratulations upon his safe arrival in tn,
Roumanian capital, asked for list of tn,
gentlemen respectively representing tn,
great powers, which list was promptl,
made out and laid before him. Castin,
his eye over it he lighted upon the entry
"Col. Mansfield, Diplomatic Agent an,
Consul s&eneral of her Britannia Ma
jesty," wfereupon, turning round to tn
official in attendance, he exclaimed
"Col. Mansfield! is that the MANSFIELD
who wrote those lying reports ices rap
purts menters) from Warsaw about tn
United Greeks?' "The same, sire,
was the reply. "Then, of course, / sha1
not receive the Corps Diplomatique if h
makes one of its membersr'
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-23
THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE.

During the recent visit of Senator
Morton to California a delegation of
Chinese merchants waited upon him
with regard to the troubles attendant
upon the presence of their countrymen
in California. The spokesman stated in
substance that there was a strong feel
ing against them, that their property
had been destroyed, that they had been
subjected to personal violence, that their
rights under the treaty had been dis
regarded, that. the State and the United
States governments failed to afford
them that protection to which they were
entitled, that they did not blame the
American people for this state of affairs,
recognizing the fact that it was the
foreign element that SO strongly op-
posed them, that having borne with this
treatment for many years with no pros
pect of relief they wished to adopt such
measures as would have tendency to
check Chinese immigration, and to this
end requested the Senator to introduce a
bill at the next session of Congress pro-
viding for modification or abrogation
of the Burlingame treaty, and for levy
ing per capita tax of one hundred dol
lars on every Chinaman landing in
America, the proceeds of this tax to be
devoted to paying passage back to China,
of those Cinnamon who wish to return
but lack the means to do so.
They also expressed their intention of
endeavoring to induce the Pacific Mail
and Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Companies to modify their rates of steer
age passage SO as to make the rate of
coming this way seventy-fve dollars
while reducing the price thence to China
to thirty dollars; either way they ex-
pressed their readiness to provide all
means necessary to pay any expenses in
cident upon procuring such legislation.
Senator Morton expressed his willing
ness to introduce such bill. Touching
the recent troubles in the city the COM
mittee of safety have had repeated con-
sultations with the leading spirits of the
workingman's party, anti-Coolie organi-
cations, etc., all of whom unite in
deprecating any resort to violence, and
announce their readiness to cooperate
in maintaining the peace of the city
against hoodlum assaults.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-23
The Apollo of Long Branch.
[Walsingham's New York Letter to the Baltimor
Enquirer.

[Walsngham's New York Letter to the Baltimore
Mr.. Fred. May, whose little coffee and
pistols affair with James Gordon Ben
nett is still fresh in the minds of the
public, is one of the celebrities of the
Branch this year. May is a very hand
some young man in evening dress, but
when he emerges from the bathing
house clad in the acrobatic costume in
which he enters the water he creates
universal havoc in the breasts of the fair
lookers-on. He is tall and finely pro-
portioned, with limbs as clean cut as
those of some crack racer, and an Apollo
like head, set on broad shoulders. He is,
altogether, magnificent specimen of
manly beauty, and he has but to appear
in his scanty garb of mauve color, with
short sleeves and legs, to create de.
cidedly adverse sentiment against James
Gordon Bennett on the female side of oul
constituency. This classic featured
youth, who might take his place as s
model for sculptor, is decidedly averst
to the notority to which he is subjected
and said recently, half-joking, half
petulant, that he might as well hire him
self out for exhibition at once.
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Official Report From GibbOn.

CHICAGO, August 13-The following dis
patch was received at military headquarters
to-day:
BIG-HoLE, PASS, August 11.---My loss in the bat
tie of the 9th was seven officers and ffty-three
killed and wounded. / satisfied the Indians suf-
fered much more, for the surprise complete,
and many were killed in the tepees, running
out.
battlefield. Howard has just arrived, and believe
he catch them again. AS soon as he arrives,
and can get the services of doctor, propose to
move to Deer Lodge, and take most of wounded
to Shaw. They are all doing well, but fear Lieu
tenant English is mortally hurt.
GIBBoN, Commanding.
HELENA, Mont, August 13.-The follow
ing are the names, as far as ascertained, of
the killed in the Indian fight on Big Hole,
on the 10th, in which the Seventh Infantry
was engaged: Officers Captain Logan,
Lieutenant Bradley, and the Fort Shaw
scout, named Bostwwick Company Ser
geant Hogan, Corporals Mccartney and
Edgeworth, Sergeant Martin, Corporal Say
Ter, Corporal O'Connor and private O'Bryon.
Company K-Sergeant Startz. The courier
could give no further names.
SALT LAKE, August ia telegram from
Pleasant Valley, Idaho, this evening, says
the driver and passenger in the stage from
the north tonight report that a messenger
came in from Horse Prairie, when they left
LovelPs Station, this morning, and reported
that the Pierce brothers ranch was burned,
and firing heard in the vicinity. 1t is twenty
miles from Lovell's Station.
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by DIR. Donovan as a peculiar famine
eruption. If we look at the thousands
of people collected on the relief works
these famine marks are of almost uni
versal prevalence.
The Superintendent of Relief Opera
tions in Adoui reports that the journey
over one of his roads resembled the
path of great battle, in the numbers of
dead and dying. If the people had
been smitten by local outbreak of the
cholera in ordinary times they would
have fed from the works and never re-
turned, but SO severe is the pressure for
food that none could afford to leave the
works and lose their pay, even for a
single day.
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ALL the Bonapartes having palaces

ALL the Bonapartes having palaces
and villas in Rome let lodgings. Prince
Tarlonai's great palace, once the property
of Cardinal Wolsey, is entirely let to
dodgers. Prince Parberini lets part of
his palace to Mr.. Story-in short, the
King, the Pope and the Cardinals are the
only house-owners in the dirty, mag
nificent old city who do not let apart
ments. Prince del Drago, who is married
to Princess of Spain, lets rooms in both
his Roman palaces and in his country
villa, and has, moreover, the reputation
of being rather grasping in his dealings
with his tenants. There is story told
concerning him which is piquant, but
probably not true. They say his Excel
lency has all his servants on board wages,
and gives his cook a certain sum daily
for supplying his lordship's table. The
meals are sent from the kitchen in tin
case which has lock, of which one key
is kept by the Prince and another by the
cook. The cook puts the dinner in the
case and locks it. When the case is car
ried into the Princes dining-room it is
unlocked by his Excellency, and what is
not eaten at the table is put back into the
case, which is again locked and sent back
to the cook. This plan prevents the
servants from pilfering any of the food
to the loss of the Prince or of the cook.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-23

A RESIDENT of Detroit, who has had a
great share of the house-cleaning to do
this spring, estimates that he has one
thousand chairs in his house, and that he
has lifted each one fifty different times.
He believes he has five hundred bed
steads, and that each one has fallen
down nineteen different times, just as he
had the rails all ready to go in. He cal
culates that Il common sheet-iron stove
weighs eight tons, and that he has seven
wagon-loads of stove-boilers, steamers,
skimmers, soup-ladles and broken water
pitchers. He further estimates that he
has beaten over seven hundred different
carpets, and that his wife has put her
head out of the back chamber window
over five hundred thousand different oc-
casions and called out, Don't hang that
carpet where all the neighbors can see all
he holes in it,"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-23

GREAT efforts are being made to COM
plete as rapidly as possible the works of
the second as we'll as the first line of
the German fortresses. The new fronts
on the LETT Dank of the Rhine at Cologne
which, as originally intended, were not,
to be finished before the end of next
year, are already approaching compile
tion, and will be ready to be occupied
by their garrisons during the course of
the present summer. The girdle of de-
tached works round the fortress is to be
completed by forts on the right bank of
the river. Plans and designs for these
have been drawn up, and contracts for
their execution entered into, but the
work is to extend over four years. When
completed Cologne will be one of the
strongest of German fortresses. Al
Metz the fort built since the late war a
Wolppy and named by the Empero
after his Minister of War, General VoI
kamecke, has been handed over to tn,
engineers, and armed with guns of larg
caliber and of the latest pattern. TIL
garrisons OF the other forts are also t.
be increased, in consequence of the in
crease in the German forces on tn
French frontier.
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YoNKERs Gazette: The poetry of mo-
ton may be seen in two ways at one and
the same time. Just watch a bald-headed
man in church. To look at him you
would think his whole being was alb
sorbed in wrestling with those great
problems of theology which the preacher
was rolling in upon him like a flood,
but it is not so; looking closely, and you
will see the set teeth, the cooked eye,
and vengeance standing out upon his
brow. He knows that a fly has been
shining for the last five minutes back
and forth and all over his head, but can
find no resting place for the sole of his
foot Suddenly as the lightnings flash
his hand is describing circle in the air,
and the fly is gracefully making a
straight line to further conquests in the
other aisle.
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The NeZ PerceS.
The following has been received at mill
tary headquarters

The following has been received at mill
tary headquarters:
DEER LODGE, MONT, August15.
General Terry, Commanding Department 81. Paul:
l have just arrived. The wounded are
getting along well, thanks to the prompt
assistance sent by the citizens of Helena,
Deer Lodge and Butte. They will reach
here in three days. Howard left the battle
field in pursuit day before yesterday. Only
fifty of his infantry were up. I sent with
him three officers and fifty men. I met
Norwood's company of the Second Cavalry
on the Big Hole, and he is probably with
Howard by this time. Cushing's two COM
panies of artillery passed here this morn
ing, in wagons. | have ordered them to
push down the stage road at forty miles a
day, if their stock will stand it. Have also
telegraphed the commanding officer at Fort
Hall to start some of the Bannocks up
toward the Lemhi and mountain passages to
get information as to which way the Nez
Perces are heading. They can not travel
rapidly with their wounded, and the next
time they are struck they will be ruined.
Many thanks for your cordial recognition
of our services in your dispatch of the 18th,
received yesterday.
[Signed.] GIBBON, Commanding.
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AN ingeniously constructed and ex-
ceedingly effective steam excavator has
been introduced on one of the Scotch
railways. In its arrangement, and in
the action of its various parts, this
machine is said to resemble somewhat
an inverted umbrella, except that the
connecting bars, representing the ribs of
the umbrella, are swiveled, and work on
points at either end. 1t can grasp within
its gigantic "claws" as much as three
tons of material. 1t is worked by
means of an engine of sixteen-horse
power, the chain used in the operation
being not less than three hundred and
forty-five feet in length. The cylinders
themselves are immense, and around the
cylinder, on the inner side, weights are
placed to the extent of some two hun
dred and eighty tons, the object.of ar
ranging this enormous mass in such a
position being to provide against the
probability of the adjacent ground sub.
siding to a degree which would be
highly dangerous.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-23

The value of the hay crop in this
country is clearly shown by govern
mental statistics. In 1875 it was third
in the list of farm products in respect to
increase, and second as regards the value
Of the crop. Under Indian corn there
were forty-four million acres, twenty-six
millions in wheat, and twenty-three
millions in grass for hay. These crops
alone aggregate ninety-three million
acres out of one hundred and twenty
three millions under cultivation, of
which reports were published. The
value Of the products for the same year
is set down as follows: Indian Corn
1856, AS, ,93O; hay $342, ,2O3, ,445; wheat
1924, $50, 800; cotton 1912, 1886, 400; oats
s129, ,499, $50; potatoes $65,019, ,42O; to.
bacco $50, ,342 800; barley $29, ,952, ,0S2
rye $13,631, 300; buckwheat 81, 7,166, ,267
the hay crop being worth nearly twenty
per cent of the value Of all the farm
products of the country.