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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1877-09-06
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1877-09-06
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1877-09-06
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1877-09-06
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1877-09-06

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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02
An American Fox.

The Reverend Charles D. Mott, of St.
Louis, sends to the New York Inde-
pendent story suggested by the remark
of learned metaphysician that he had
some doubts whether the lower ami
mails can abstract, whether they can gen.
eralize. A former pastor of mine, says
Mr.. Mott, told me the following: "When
boy, he had fox, which, I regret to
say, bore the reputation of possessing
far more brain than personal piety. The
fox was kept in the yard in a sort of
raised den nicely sodded over, and was
confined by chain that allowed him
quite generous circumference. One
evening in the Fall, the farm wagon, re-
turning from the field with load OF
corn, passed near the den, and by chance
dropped an ear where the fox could
reach it. He was seen to spring out
seize the corn, and carry it quickly back
into the den. What lie wanted with il
was mystery, as corn formed no part
of the gentleman's diet. The mex
morning, however, the mystery was
solved, for the fox was observed out o
his den, and considerably within the
length of his chain nibbling off some o.
the corn and then scattering it about il
full view of the poultry, after which h
took the remainder back into the der
and awaited events. Sure enough, tn.
chickens came, and while they wer,
eating, out sprang The fox, nabbed hi
mac, and quietly took his breakfast il
his back parlor."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02
Salamander.

A Missourian who had been in Den
yer long enough to get hold of the ropes,
went into drug store the other day,
and speaking in a familiar way to the
clerk, asked ifhe had any muriatic acid.
The clerk said yes, he took down a jar
labeled "muriatic acid" and set the jar
and a graduate measure down by the
Missourian, who proceeded to pour out
about "four fingers" of the contents into
the measure and swallow it. A num-
Der of persons present who saw the per-
formance, noticed the man smack his
lips with event satisfaction and 60 oui
feeling good, whereupon they asked the
clerk if he was in the habit of doing
such things, and others wanted to know
if he wasn't the fire king that belonged
to the side show. The clerk informed
them that the object of their solitude
was private gentleman who performed
that feat once or twice day for pleas
ure, but he didn't tell them that the jal
labeled muriatic acid contained old Ken
lucky sour mash whiskey, distilled il
1890
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02
Boz Lost for serenteen Years.


In 1860, says the Scranton Republican,
in the Lackawanna regions, little Hen
ry Hart, six years old, wandered away in
the forest between olyphant and Cobb's
Pond after berries one afternoon, and
was lost. Nearly every able-bodied
man in Blakely Township turned out
and searched the woods and fields in vain
for the lost boy, who was finally given
up and mourned as lost. A few days
since, while gentleman from Olyphant
was visiting friends below Wilkesbarre,
he met young man whose resemblance
in features was SO similar to that of
Henry Hart, of Olyphant, that be asked
him if his name was not Hart He said
that he was called Riley, but he might
be Hart. The father and mother were
sent fol, and as soon as the mother en-
tered the room the recognitions were
mutual between the mother and long
lost son. He recollects but little of his
early history. For nine years the man
with whom he lived, and whom he sup
posed was his father, boated on the Del
aware and Hudson canal, and he yividly
recollects how the brute of man locked
him UP in barn, fogging him and half
starving him at times After nine years
of such treatment he ran away and Jared
better. There is great joy in the family
over the unexpected reunion.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02
NUMBER 43.
Hunted into the Desert.
From the Virginia City Chronicle.l

From the Virginia City Chronicle.
James Graham, the reputed murderer
of Andrew Elholm, and now fugitive,
for whose apprehension reward of $500
is offered, made himself visible for the
first time since the murder on Saturday
last. From the circumstances attending
his reappearance it is manifest that since
the shooting he has been a wanderer in
the wilderness, holding communication
with nobody. A little after noon last
Saturday he appeared at his cabin in
search of money and food, and in pursuit
of Information concerning the condition
of his victim. He then learned, appar-
emily for the first time, of Elholm s
death, and was most fearfully APPALLED, to
hear of the fatal result of his rashness.
He was sent into rear room, with in
structions to help himself to food, and
Immediately messenger. despatched
to this City to notify the Sheriff of his
presence. Graham, whose terror made
him vigilant, quickly discovered the alb
seDce of the messenger, when, without
waiting for further assistance, he speed.
lily decamped.
Two deputy Sherifs arrived at the
cabin in the course of the afternoon, ex-
pecting to find the fugitive there, but
were of course disappointed. On search
ing the premises, however. they discov- :
cred fresh tracks leading up the noun
tain in the rear of the house, and al
once gave chase on the trail. At some
distance up the mountain they started
their game from cover of bushes. Ht
had evidently seen his pursuers before
they saw him, and when they we're a
least eighty yards from him he started
to run. One of the deputies fred sho
to induce him to halt, bur the fellow
wisely concluded that his only chance
for life was in making good his escape
and therefore only increased his speed
A second shot was then fired at lopj
range, which evidently hit the man, a
he stumbled and fell, but quickly re
covering himself managed to make goo,
his escape.
The time that has intervened sine
has been characterized by the mos
severe weather that has been experiences
SO far this winter, and the poor wretc
wandering in the wilderness, but indii
ferently clad, without food, compelled I
shun the sight of man, and with n
money with which to purchase necessal
les, even from strangers, must have su
: fered untold miseries.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02
Newspaper.Making.

It isn't boys play, reader, to make a
newspaper. Everybody can't do it, al
though most people think they can.
More excellent qualities of head and
beart are required in an editor than in
any other calling or profession in the
world. He talks TO more people than
the pulpit does, and talks to people of
all grades of life and of all shades of be-
lief. II conscientious, and no man who
is not has any business in the editorial
chair, he feels the responsibility of his
position as if it were mountain on his
soul. He knows that the welfare, m oral
growth and peace of the community de-
pend largely upon his daily or weekly
utterances. Many times does he draw
his pen through lines which express his
sentiments, but which he fears may be
misunderstood, and do harm to some OF
those whom he desires to make better
and not worse. 1t is not an easy position
it is scarcely desirable one; and yet, il
he happens to express sentiment which
does not suit the reader. the latter is
uncharitable enough to lose no time in
censuring him. The editor does not al.
ways think as the reader does; he can't
If he did, if he never expressed senti
ment except such as the reader cherish
ed, what would be the object of taking
his paper? 1t is certainly foolish to pay
for a journal which simply contains 8
rehash of what we have long before
thought of ourselves. But, reader
when you are induced to find fault with
the editor because he says something
that doesn't suit you, remember tina
you can't get paper under the sun, if i
amounts to anything, that will not some
times say things that you can't agre
with.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02

FoREIGN.-Gladstone, in speech at
Taunton, Saturday, said: "We ought to
mind our own business, and why we
should mind the Eastern question is be-
cause We have chosen to make it our
own question. 1t was made our business
under circumstances which no true.
hearted Englishman will disown. ]
have had within few days the honor OF
a letter from Mr.. Schuyler, United
States Secretary of the Legation and
Consul General at Consta1 tinople, in
which he says he is about to make q
further report on the trials and execu.
tions and on the state of Bulgaria. q
think you will find it, he writes
abundant confirmation, of the remark
at which Selim Effendi took offense.' ]
quote this because those who wish Il
lull the people of England into ignobl,
slumber are fond of saying there ha
been no exaggeration OF this subject
There has been no exaggeration excep
the exaggeration that the Turks had il
them the capacity and desire of reform
Do not listen to that for a moment. Blu
as to to the black deeds done in Bulgari
the whole vocabulary of the human
language is insufficient to paint them a
they deserve"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02

a circus company, on their way TO
Australia, stopped to see one of the FIJI
islands. While wandering about one of
them turned somersault, and the ns-
tive spectators were astounded by the
sight. Thereafter, the circus men dis
cerning the opportunity for fun. varied
their walks BY frequent somersaults and
grotesque contortions, all the time main
tanning sober faces and the utmost gravity
of fdemeanor. Multitudes folio sed them
in the belief they were missionaries,
sent to teach religion in which somsf-
saults were part of the service.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02
A Dogs Fidelity.

Passengers on the "Valley Railroad"
are attracted daily by the conduct of a
large and intelligent dog waiting by the
roadside for the daily newspaper, which
was formerly thrown to him from the
baggage-car for his master, who lived
half mile from the rails. The mas
ter has been dead many months, but the
faithful dog has not missed the mail.
train day since. There is no paper
for that master now, but sometimes the
baggage-man, in pity for the dog, tosses
a paper to him as the train rushes by
which he eagerly seizes and starts joy
fully over the hills for his home. When
the train has gone by and no paper is
thrown he rushes wildly up and down
the track, gazing after the cars with ar
almost human look of disappointment
and jogs dejectedly homeward Il New
Haven Comm Register.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02
How a Pretty Widow Sold Her
Sleigh.

A New York correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune is responsible for this
pretty little story: Among the effects
left pretty young widow living up one
of our most fashionable thoroughfares
was handsome sleigh. She was not the
owner of horse or carriage, and
sleigh seemed superhuous article, SO
she desired to sell it. Having informed
her friends of her wish, there were sew
eral applicants for bargain, and among
them a widower neighbor, who obtained
permission to use the sleigh on trial
He used it accordingly, and expressed
himself satisfied with all but the price.
The widow thought she would like a
sleigh-ride herself, and laughingly re-
marked to her. neighbor, GAS I loaned
you my sleigh, it is only fair you
should loan nae your horse" The gen.
tleman assented, but inquired, "Who
will do the driying?" Shs answered,
"Oh, you will, of course" The fun OF
the suggestion struck him favorably,
and a sleigh ride was soon arranged
The result was rather amazing. They
not only rode together on that occasion
but on several other, and the meeting, SC
apparently accidental, soon led to gossip
in the neighborhood. The women said
Mrs. - seems uncommonly devoted
ro Mr.. -" and the men smiled anc
said, Filtration betweel two old bird,
means business" A few days ago the
gentleman informed his family that be
fore the Lenten season commences h,
expects to be married to the widow, ant
the news went the rounds very rapidly
In the meanwhile the widow quietly an
nounced that cher sleigh had been sole
| to Mr. -"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02
Looking Beyond This Life.
Jersey City Sunday Press. ]


Mr.. Michael Carrigan, the bartender,
called on prominent undertaken last
week and inquired the price of burial
caskets. as it for your wife?" Mr..
Carrigan, solemnly and sympathetically
inquired the undertaken "No, sir; it is
for me-" answered the young man.
"While resting in my bed this morning
got to thinking, s'posing I'd die, what
would become of me? Would my
friends send me of in a pine box in
front of two coaches, or would they give
me funeral of some degree of respecta-
bility. thought this matter all over,
and came to the conclusion that my
chances for anything like fashionable
| funeral in these times were slim; so
came round to select nice coffin, which
I want to pay for in five dollar install
ments. If 1 live long enough to get 1t
paid for, / shall be thus far prepared
| for death"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02
A Heroic Boy.


Some years ago steamer took fire on
the ST. Lawrence river, and became
complete wreck. Very many, in their
attempts to escape death by fire, met
with watery grave. A boy named
Narcisse Lamontayne, aged thirteen
years, saved eight children from the
wreck. He accomplished his noble deed
by seizing the door of state-room, plac-
ing the children upon it, and pushing it
before him while he swan. By several
such trips he succeeded in landing on a
dry rock, or on the beach, eight of the
children that were on board the i'll
| fated vessel.
Now this, boys, istrne courage. Many
boy who can double his fist, and make
great threatening noise before his
playmates, would have been too great a
coward even to have attempted what
the noble Narcisse Lamontayne so
bravely did.-[S.S. Visitor.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02
Mr.. Boobies almost choked himself

Mr.. Bobbles almost choked himself
with anger.
"Sir." said Mr.. Bobbles, rising in
great wrath, "that supper is mine, sir'
mine sir! prepared expressly for Mrs.
Gleeson and myself; so you will oblige
me, sir, by not touching it,"
~ guess Mrs. Gleeson won't mind my
having some," said the man, "for I am
awful hungry"
Mr.. Bobbles looked as if he would
like to have pitched the man out of the
window, but he was about size too big,
so he refrained.
Mrs. Gieeson entered the room
"Julia," asked Mr.. Bobbles. "who is
that mani"
ayes, who am !" sold the man.
Mrs. Gleeson gave startling scream.
and exclaimed, "My husband"
"Your husband?" almost shrieked
Mr.. Bob5les "Why. amt your hus-
band dead?"
But Mrs. Gleeson didn't ;answer, for
she had tainted.
"This here woman is my wife," said
the man, "and think you'd better 60
while you're safe"
Mr.. Bobbles didn't answer him, bu,
took his hat and made tracks for home
1t was too true, the man was Mrs
Gleeson's husband. He was wild, dis
sipated fellow, and had married heI
when she was quite girl, and long be-
fore she knew her own mind. He had
been to Colorado, and she, not hearing
anything of him for FIVE years, conclud
ed that he was dead, and gave out tina
she was a widow. When Mr.. Bobblel
came along, she thought him an excel
lent catch, and determined upon marry
ing him if possible. But she was pre-
vented by the inopportune arrival of he
husband
Mr.. Boobies has discarded blue coat
and mustaches, and has gone back to hi
} old fashioned black coat and whit
waistcoats Mr.. Bobbles is still bach
elor.
Susceptible old gentlemen, take warn
ing by Boobies.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02

The Houston (Texas) Telegraph
speeds a departing citizens with this
genial send-off: "He was little, spin
dle-shanked, tallow-faced, pot-bellied
officiating specimen of the genus homo
always dressed in walnut-dyed cotton
breeches, a cotton shirt, one suspender
n pair of rawhide shoes and no socks
His priscipal business was to meddls
with the affairs of other people, and
while he slobbered tobacco juice (home
made twists), made remarks about 9th
er people and poked his turned up nos,
! into their business"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02
A Wonder Land.

Between the Indian and Pacific
oceans, south or a little southeast of
Asia, there lies continent whose great
est length is about 2,400 miles, with a
breadth of 100 to 1900 miles, having
coast line of nearly 5000 miles, en-
bracing an area perhaps of 100000
square miles. In this until recently un-
explored country nature appears to have
done her work by laws and rules entire
ly at variance with her accustomed
methods elsewhere.
The vegetable growth of this land is
remarkable, and seems projected upon a
gigantic scale. Palm trees grow to the
height of seventy to one hundred feet,
and the fern tree, mere stalk until it
reaches fifteen or twenty feet in height,
suddenly sends out its leaves, four Or five
feet in length, in every direction. A
grass tree produces food for the cattle,
and the inner part of the top of the tree,
both raw and roasted, is eaten by the
natives. Lilies, tulips and honeysuckles
reach the proportions of trees, and most
beautiful iuchsias Chamber to the house
and tops. Cherries have stones out.
side the fruit, and there are trees which
shed their bark instead of their leaves
And the zoology of this wonderful
country is no less anomalous and inter
esting. There are no ruminating ami
mails, no monkeys, elephants, deer, bears
lions, tigers, wolves or 5other beasts O
The wild dog is the only carniverous an
imal. No less than forty of its animal
are marsupial-with a pocket like tn,
opossum's-while very many of its spe
cies have no type elsewhere on the globe
So too of its birds, among which we fine
birds of paradise, oven birds, blacl
swans, and many other equally curiou
creatures.-[ Home and School.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02

Talking about the solution of the
problem of fence or no fence, let me tell
you that the matter has been settled in
certain townships in this county, and no
fence has become the order of the day.
Driving north from Champaign City,
ILL.,, by the time you have gone two
miles fences hSve disappeared, notwith-
standing hundreds OF town cows wander
ing on the streets not two miles of. And
this has been going on for three or four
years, without any reasonable chance
for return to the old fencing fashion.
Town people have learned to care for
their cows or take the consequences, and
slip shod farmers TO herd their vaga.
bonding stock, or il goes to the pound
IL Prairie Farmer.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02

The lawyer who defended Daniel
Price, convicted of murder in Warren
ton, No, mounted the scaffold just be-
fore the execution, and said to the spec
tators: "You are now about to witness
the execution of a fellow being of whose
innocence ] have not the least doubt.
tell you, fellow-citizens, that in the ex-
ecution of this man the people of WAR
rem county are about to commit a most
heinous crime-that of executing an in
nocent man." Price also protested his
innocence
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02

A grave robber has just been tried in
St. Louis. The legal accusation was
grand larceny, and that is the crime of
which he was convicted, the coffin Sesag-
the article mentioned in the indictment
as stolen. The body had no value in
law. and in Missouri the statute against
"body snatching" inficts only an insig-
ni6cant penalty. The defence was that
a coffin after being put in a grave is
abandoned, has no owner, and therefore
cannot be stolen, but that point was
oyerruled.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02

Susan Shrock had the reputation in
Princeton, KY, Of being wonderfully
trustworthy fortune teller. She was not
an old hag, according to custom, but
rather young and pretty. She predicted
that G. Lewis Hollingsworth would meet
death at the hands of unknown men on
the highway, and that his horse would
return home alone, and that his body
would never be found. A few days
ago he started on horse back journey,
and soon the horse came back riderless.
His wife was grief stricken until she
learned that Susan had also disappeared
and that her husband had taken his
best clothes and all the. money he could
accumulate. Now she is searching 70,
his body, but she expects to find it alive
near by Susan.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02

The importation of cattle from Amer
lea promises to become speedily devel-
oped into trade of considerable mag
nitude, and irish graziers have thus a
new and formidable competition to con-
tend with IN the English markets. As
matters stand, Irish graziers are actual.
ly placed at great disadvantage in this
matter, notwithstanding their proximity
to the English markets, from the man.
ner in which tho transit of their animals
during the short channel passage is con
Quoted ed.-IIrish Fnrmsrs' Gazette.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-02

A correspondents points as to Sidney
Station, a new town in the Black Hills
region: The residents number about
twelve hundred, and the strangers hall
as many. Every building on 1.-THE main
street contains drinking saloon and a
faro game. At night nearly every one
gets drunk on very bad whiskey, al
twenty-five cents drink. Revolveri
and carbines are generally carried, and
often used. A barroom party is usually
a mixture of soldiers, miners, thieves
Cinnamon, gamblers, Indians, and "bull
whackers"-the latter :being old front
iersmen, who have established reputa
tions as murderers. A white shirt i
stripped from the wearer on sight, blu
or red ones being tolerated.