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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30
He was AStOniShed.

"Cut my hair" said customer, as he
seated himself in BARRIERS chair, "a and
be sure you let it run down the back of
my neck" referring, of course, to the
particular style of the cut.
The barber was Western artist, hav-
ing lately arrived in Oil City from St.
Louis.
After clipping away for some time, he
concluded that perhaps the hair wasn't
running down his customers neck as fast
as that individual might desire it-al-
though, for the life of him, he couldn' t
see why he should want it to run down
at all and when quantity had ac-
cumulated inside his shirt-collar, the ac-
commodating barber showed it down
and out of sight with the handle of his
brush.
This performance repeated two or
three times, and the customer began to
realize what was going on. Henceforward
he took lively interest in the proceed
ings. He said:
What, in the name of the bird with
the broad and sweeping wing, are you
doing?"
It didn't seem to run down." said
the barber, apologetically, "and so
crammed it down with the BRUSH"
The customer acted like a man who
had just made the discovery that a rat
had built her nest between his shoulder.
blades and had kittens there; so he
yelled:
"Cram your crammed head to cram
mation!' and then turning double SOM
ersault out of his chair, he kicked al
herefection of the barber in the looking
glass, and fell to knocking it forty ways
for Sunday. While he was knocking the
daylights out of the barber in the
seventy-ive dollar looking-glass the bar
ber in the flesh escaped.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30
COAL STRIKES.

The situationin in the Pennsylvania coal
fields has been very serious. A cores
pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial in
that region, says that, with several thou
sand troops encamped in Luzerne County,
violence and successful intimidation
are every day occurrences. The last
instance is the stopping of the pumps in
some of the mines near Carbondale.
The flooding of the mines is one of the
most desperate resorts of the strikers.
1t not only entails great damage to the
machinery in the colleries, but renders
them practically useless for months after
the settlement of the disputed points
between the men and the company have
been accomplished, thereby increasing
the hazard by consequential damages.
Soldiers have been guarding the rail-
road tracks for miles, and yet it was
nightly occurrence that attempts were
made to throw the passenger cars from
The road. Volleys of shots were fired
into the passengers, and other forms of
outlawry committed at unprotected
points. Thus far the passengers have es-
capped with their lives but several have
been seriously wounded. One young
lady was confined to her bed several days,
suffering from wound received in these
attacks upon night train.
The last phase of the strike is unlocked
for, and as it affects the Western markets
and industrial pursuits, we will give the
details briefly: The miners in the employ
of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany, at the inception of the strike of
the railroad employees, made it common
cause for an advance in wages. This
demand has not been acceded to, and
the works remain idle. Acts of violence
against the property of the company
have occurred, and the United States
soldiers have been called upon to disperse
the rioters and to guard the works. In
the meantime a number of the smaller
companies have encouraged their men
to continue work by making an advance
in wages of ten per cent. Owing to the
light production for the Western market
from the Wyoming region and from
which the Lehigh Valley Railroad is the
outlet, the demand has been brisk, and
the circular prices have been strength.
ened. The sympathy between men and
employers has most happily been aug
mented. But at this moment new OBJ
struction is thrown athwart the brigh
horoscope of the steady producers by
the issuing of new freight schedule OF
the Lehigh Valley road increasing tht
tariff eighty cents per ton to Buffalo.
The effect of this unexpected tax i
likely to work most disastrously, as a
the present price of coal the operator
are forced into losing business or mus
I discharge their men. The operators to
gether with the Western dealers VIII
are here, speak of the rise in tolls wit
no less emphasis of denunciation tha
it has been their won't to talk of refrac
tory miners. Every ton of coa
: that leaves this valley for the lakes
taxed to an extent that justifes the il
: ference that the Lehigh Valley Compan
y mean to control the market and the pre-
i duction, even though their extensiy
Ii works lie idle.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30
AMERICAN EXPORTS.

The official statement of American ex-
ports for the first seven months of the
fiscal year 1851, shows that the num-
of yards of colored cotton goods exported
in that period was IL, ,225, SOP, and of un-
colored cotton s43,731, ,223 yards-total
1856, ,735 yards. For the same period
of the fiscal year 1876, the number of
yards of colored cotton goods exported
was A, ,515,616, and of uncolored 81 ,65i,-
6O6 yards-total 80, ,16s, 1922; showing an
increase of 23,9SS, ,419 yards during the
last seven months compared with the
corresponding period of the year before.
This shows that our manufacturers are
able to compete with the Old England
manufacturers and, moreover, the in
crease indicates that the cotton fabrics
of America are finding favor in the mar
kets where they go. The difference in
wages between this country and England
is not so greatly to our disadvantage as
it was five years ago; but our better ma
chinery, cheap power and greater va
rieties of colored cotton goods put
American manufacturers on an equality
with the English manufacturers.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30
Pain the Penalty for Superiority.
LScientific Americana

The ideal perfect life thatmen imagine
is always one in which pain forms no
part, yet curiously, in all the life we
know, pain is ever the penalty paid for
superiority. The higher the organism in
the scale of being, the greater its ca
pacity for pain; this is the universal
rule. Mutilation, such as an insect
bears without apparent Inconvenience,
will kill reptile. A fish or reptile
disregard injuries that would be quickly
fatal to a mammal through nervous
shock. A savage laughs at wounds that
would rack the nervous system of a
civilized man with acutest agony. Thus
in every Instance capacity for pain is
the measure of development. Evolution
being attended by an ever-increasing
complexity and delicacy of nervous
organization, it is inevitable thatincreas
ing liability to nervous arrangement
must mark every upward movement in
the scale of being. Will the price of
elevation ever rise so high as to put an
end to progress in this direction? There
would certainly seem to be possibility
of such result, when we consider the
| fate of those most admirable persons
| who are. as we say, too finely strung for
this rude world The acuteness and
delicacy of their sensibilities make them
at once the highest moral and intellectual
types of humanity, and physically the
most unfortunate. And they rarely or
never leave behind them vigorous
| family.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30
The NeZ Perces.

SALT LAKE, August 2O.-The hostile Nez
Perces Indians were reported yesterday at
Hole-in-the-Rock stage station, Idaho.
They have destroyed the telegraph line in
the vicinity, and stopped all travel over the
road for several days. A large party of
teamsters are fortifying themselves short
distance north of Snake River Bridge. 1t is
reported that the Indians stock are poor ;
that they are stopping to recuperate, and
have taken possession of the stage barns,
using the grain.
FORT HILL AGENCY, IDAHO, VIA SALT
LAKE, Aug. 2O.-Capt Bainbridge, with a
company of scouts, enlisted from the Ban
nocks and Shoshones, left Fort Hall yester-
day after hostile camp at Hole-in-the-Rock
Station, about ninety miles north. At last
accounts yesterday the hostiles had posses
sion of the station, and would allow no one
to pass either way.
They told those who have made the at
temptto turn back and they would not be
molested. No one hurt yet that is known.
The telegraph line is down and strung in
different directions. All the young Ban
nocks and Shoshones at this agency who can
raise a gun have left this morning to fight
the hostiles.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30
A Trace of Donaldson, the BallOOnist.

A trapper signing himself II. J. Kim
ball writes from Houghton, Mich, to
the editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean,:
In looking over one of your old numbers,
l saw where it mentions Prof. Donald
son as being lost in the pineries of Michi-
gan. / was on the south branch of the
Big Manistee River, some forty and
half miles east of the lake, soon after
he made the ascension that this paper
speaks of, looking for trapping grounds
/ found a piece of white ash about five
feet long, five feet of cord attached to it,
with canvas ropes onto it, the same as
ships sails, and made fast to the ropes,
and some other goods made fast to that.
1 don't know what it was. A short way
from that found corpse lying face
down, no coat or boots on undershirt,
/ think, was silk, and had been torn open
from the shoulder downward to the
waistband of the pants. Hewas so badly
swollen that / did not touch him.
supposed he had been murdered by the
Indians. There was near by an envelope
mailed at Detroit, Michigan, to some
one at Chicago; could make out the name,
with some figures on it, suns altitude,
and turn and direction of the wind. If
this is worth anything to his friends
they are welcome to it, and if there is a
reward for him and trap there next
winter / will try and find some of the
wreck. If this was the man there must
be some parts of the balloon near by.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

PAIL MALL Gazette: An interesting
experiment was made at horse-slaugh-
tering establishment at Dudley, with a
view of testing new system of slaugh-
tering cattle by means of dynamite, and
thus putting them out of existence more
speedily and with less suffering than by
the ordinary pole-ax. Two large, pow
erful horses and donkey disabled for
work) were ranged in line about half a
yard apart, under shed, the donkey
being placed in the center. A small
primer of dynamite, with an electric
fuse attached, was then placed at each of
their foreheads, and fastened in position
by piece of string under the jaw. The
wires were then coupled up in the cir
cult, and attached to the electric ma
chine, which stood about five yards in
front. The handle of the machine being
then turned, an electric current was dis
charged, which exploded the three
charges simultaneously, and the animals
instantly fell dead without struggle.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

The peach growers of Delaware have
a new terror which they expect will en-
hance the value of their fruit. They
announce that peach culture is so far a
failure that many farmers will cut down
their trees during the present year. A
gentleman living near FELTON,, after pick
ing this years crop of Hale's early
peaches, cut down an orchard of five
hundred trees. Though freights have
come down to about half what they were
few years ago, yet the prices realized
for the fruit have fallen much more in
proportion, and there is no profit in
raising fruit to sell at the prices it has
realized in New York for the past few
years. Cutting down all the peach tree,
will certainly raise the price of peaches
but it is difficult to see where the prof
of the operation comes in.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

A CALIFORNIA paper describes " the
latest thing out" F" as a new horse shoe
made out of three thicknesses of raw
hide, compressed together by heavy
pressure. 1t is said to last longer, weighs
only one-fourth as much as the common
shoe, never splits the hoof, and has no
bad influence on the foot. 1t isso elastic
that the horses step is never uncertain.
This will remind the farmers who drove
cattle and horses across the plains in
early days of the fact, now almost for
gotten, that this is no new invention,
for the cattle and horses, too, were often
shod with shoes made outof buffalo hide,
cut from the neck, where the skin is
almost an inch thick.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

STATE detectives in Massachusetts,
have been spending good deal of time
lately among the professional tramps in
that State, initiating their dress, man
ners and habits in order to obtain infor-
nation to be used by the authorities in
dealing with the tramp question. One
result of their investigations is that the
tramps have regular organization, that
most of them are thieves and the rest
beggars, and that the thieving and beg
ging business, for particular days and
localities, is assigned to particular
individuals, by order of the chief Hav-
ing made these interesting discoveries,
the authorities will now proceed to make
war on the nuisance.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

New YORK CITY issued $2, 200, 900 in
bonds to pay for the property destroyed
by the rioters in 1868. This year she
willhav to pay an installment of $780,
600 on the principal. Including the in
terest, the cost of that riot to the tax
payers of the city will be between three
and four millions of dollars. The
amount of property destroyed by the
rioters in Pittsburg was much greater,
more than double the amount, and if
the city is made responsible, a great
burden will be added to its debt.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

A HUNDRED thousand mad animals,
whose heads are covered with hats, ad-
vance to kill or be killed by their fel-
low mortals covered with turbans. By
this strange procedure they want to
know whether tract of land, to which
none Of them has any claim, should be-
long to certain man whom they call
the Sultan, or another whom they call
the Gar, neither of whom ever saw or
ever will see the spot so furiously con-
tended for; and very few of these crea-
lures who thus mutually butcher each
other ever beheld the animal for whom
they cut each others throats.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

THE Agricultural Gazette says, con-
cerning the crops in England, that it is
plain that 1877 will prove no exception
TO the succession of unfortunate harvests
lately experienced. The wheat crop is
certainly very generally and very largely
below the average. Oats and winter
beans seem the best of the grain crops
this year. On the other hand, it has been,
and is, great year for graziers and dairy
farmers. All kinds of cattle are found
unusually abundant. Potatoes, 50
promising, are very generally threatened
with disease. The hay crop is abun-
dant
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

PRINCE AMADEUS, of Italy, was so
much attached to his wife that even now
scarcely day passes without his spend
ing some time, often hours, in prayer,
beside her tomb, and his evening drives
are often directed to the spot, where a
monument is to be erected to her
memory; he keeps his children with
him as much as possible, teaching them
himself, and filling, as far as may be in
that way, the place Of their lost mother.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30
Railway Profits.

1t is an error to suppose that the
profits of capital invested in railways,
as whole, are disproportionate to the
wages of operatives. A few facts from
Poon's Manual of Railroads will show
this. Below we have tabulated from it's
last edition a statement exhibiting the
number of companies in each State, and
how many of them earned dividends
the last year. 1t is as follows:
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

AUSTIN ReueiIe: A Boston lady who
has recently arrived in this city, told a
young man who works in the mines
that she could indulge in the ecstasy of
osculation with an adult male of the genus
homo with feelings analogical to quaffing
the nectar of the gods; and after he had
consulted the authorities, he was mad
at himself because he had not kissed
her
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

ALBERT MEYN, of Boston, during
twelve years paid the premiums on $685.
900 Of life insurance. The burden was
too heavy for his business, and was the
cause of his bankruptcy; but he struggled
hard and successfully to make the pay
ments, believing that by doing SO he was
securing his family against poverty after
his death. Within two years one after
another of the companies in which he
was insured have gone to pieces, and
when he died, several weeks ago, all his
policies were worthless. His wife and
children are penniless.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

EIGHT thousand five hundred people
comprise the regular staff in the royal
china factory at Missen, Saxony. When
the china has been examined by the
Superintendent, and he considers it per-
feet, he affixes the well-known crossed
swords before the last baking. Every
bit with the slightest imperfection is
marked imperfect, and sold for less than
half price either at the factory or more
frequently at small shop in Dresden,
which goes by the name of " the rejected
shop" This mark of imperfection is
simply small white line drawn through
the crossed swords. The factory is ad-
mirably managed, and the hands well
cared for,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

The King of Holland, who is about
to abdicate, has never liked court life,
and, when free to do so, lived at his
country place of Loo instead of at the
Hague. At Loo he hunted, drank
freely, and-so scandal said-led an
immoral life. When compelled to re-
ceive the ambassadors he was stiff in
manner and with difficulty found words
to address each one as he passed. A
thorough believer in an hereditary
monarchy and hater of Republican
institutions, he naturally treated the
Ministers from the United States with
coldness-except Mr.. Motley. The
Prince of Orange, the heir, is about on
the same moral level as his father.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

and killed. Twenty-seven horses belonging
to the miners were also killed. After dark
the Indians withdrew, and the miners es-
capped, being obliged to walk one hundred
and fifty miles to reach this city.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

AN ingenious swindle is being
practiced in some parts of the country by
which one-dollar bills are made to return
a large interest to the manipulation. A
one dollar and five dollar bill, green
back or of some national bank currency,
are carelessly torn in two in the middle,
and the half of the one and half of the
five are pasted together. Unless closely
scrutinized they will be apt to be taken
for fives. Thus, with six dollars, the
swindler will make profit of four out
of the two fives which he manufactures
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

Mr.. EPH KEYsER, sculptor, of Balti-
more, achieved brilliant triumph in
Berlin, about two weeks ago. He was
awarded the "Meyerbeer prize of
twenty-five hundred thalers, which rs a
bequest by the brother of the composer,
given annually to the best artist and
sculptor, alternately, among the Jewish
race, throughout the world. There is a
very large number of competitors every
year from every part of the world. 1t
was awarded to young Keyser, by the
unanimous vote of the Senate of the
Academy of Arts at Berlin, for fgire
of Pasche," and some very fine orig
inal bas reliefs and other work Mr..
Keyser is twenty-six years of age. He
has studied four years in Munich and
one year in Berlin. A condition of the
prize is that the winner must spend
year in Rome for study.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

who was one of the most accomplished
women in Italy. He has been applied to
more than once to furnish notes for
history of his brief reign in Spain, but
he prefers that it should be forgotten,
and has desired his aide-de-campto to keep
silent on the subject.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

CossAoK young women do the popping
themselves, and when their propositions
are rejected their relatives make trouble
for the, persons who reject Perhaps
our mode is the best.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

MUCH has been written about the
meanest man, and at last the meanest
woman has risen. She only allows her
daughter one hundred and sixty buttons
on her summer dress.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

WHAT is the difference between hun
CRY man and a glutton? One longs to
eat, the other eats too long.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

JOHN COCHRAN, of Lambs Creek,
Tioga County, Pennsylvania, died at his
residence, August Is, 1877, aged one
hundred and one years and seven months.
The deceased was born in Bennington,
Vermont, January, 1866. His mother,
Mt the commencement of the memorable
battle of that place, carried him away in
her arms on horseback. He died upon
the farm on which he had lived for the
past sixty-one years.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30
EDITORIAL OLN.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has issued style of ticket long needed
by that large class of people who travel
hither and thither at short intervals.
The new ticket is good for one thousand
miles and one year. There are thou
sand one-mile coupons attached to it, of
which the conductor tears off as many as
the passenger travels miles.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-04-27

STAY WHERE You ARE.-Hard times
change. Without stopping to realize that
the same elements occasioning dull times
in Maine or Vermont, are in full operation
In Ohio and Illinois, the discontinued man
feels certain that any location is to be pre-
ferred TO his present abode. We advise all
they are. Dull times are always followed
by periods of activity, and one is better
prepared TO secure the advantages of re-
vival in business where he is known than
among strangers. Again, moving about is
demoralizing In its tendency, expensive
and destructive. Seldom do we hear of
the removal of man from a village or
nelghborhood In which he is interested, ac-
tive and public spirited. Nothing so weds
a man to q cause as working for II, spend
ing his time in sacrificing something for 1t.
You may be assured the fault lies partly at
your own door, when the desire TO leave a
familiar nelghborhood silences your better
judgment and prompts the snudering of
the ties of early association. Resolve to-
day, all ye discontinued, to take hold with
a will and sustain your Farmers Clubs
and Grange Clubs, to discuss aud compare
important practical matters with your
neighbors, to feel an interest in whatever
shall benefit your village, your kinsmen,
your family and yourself, to cultivate a
spirit of contentment, improvement aud
o-operatiOn.-C ultiVdtOr.