The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

j. II. UPTON, Cnle1 OF Une 1nQepenQ-
ent Treasury Division, has been ap-
pointed Chief Clerk of the Treasury
Department.
AT the Southern ice factories beauti-
full wreaths of flowers are artistically
frozen into the center of blocks of ice of
any desired size.
A WRITER in the Church1nan says
that it required $4,000 last year, to dis
tribute $40, O,000in one of the benevolent
societies of the Episcopal Church.
BISHOP SMITH, of Kentucky, has
preached his farewell sermon and intends
to pass his remaining days quietly at
home. He is eighty-three years of age.
A NEVADA paper speaks of the con-
ductor of river journal as a creature
difficult to describe without doing in
Justice to inferior but innocent animals.
SCIENTIFIC american: We think Gen
eral Pleasanton pestilent ignoramus,
and his book on blue glass the ghastliest
rubbish that has been printed in hun
dred years.
AN enterprising man who went to
| Tulare County, Cal, three yearsago With
| $4,000 in gold, and invested the amount
in sheep, has recently quit with $1.5O
in silver in his pocket.
CAL. FERGUSON and Dan. Sawyer were
drowned in the Wabash at Vincenes,
Ind, a few nights ago. They, with
two other young men, were upset from a
skiff in crossing the river just below
town.
ROBERT M. and Stephen A. Douglas.
jr., sons of the late Stephen A. Douglas,
are living in the western part of North
Carolina. The young Stephen is study.
ing law with Chief Justice Pearson o1
that State.
DUKE GEORGE, of Saxe-Meiningen
who is to be married to the eldest
daughter of the Crown Prince of Ger.
many, is the sovereign of 194, 494 people
The revenue of the Duchy is 81 ,055, 9l0
and its expenditure is $94S, 40.
IT is said in Stamboul that the Ex-
Sultan Murad is in daily fear of poison
and that, ever since q recent fainting Fl
made him suspicious of his attendants
his mother tastes all food that is Offered
him before she will permit him to touch it
AS the King of Denmark passed {
butcher-shop few days ago, a huge
mastif sprang upon his tiny white rat
terrier. The King defended his dog, ane
the butcher, not knowing who it was
started for the King, when he wa
: stopped by a police-constable, who ex
planned matters.
The Royal Commission on historica
MSS lately unearthed at Spencer House
St. Jamess, London, copy of the follow
ing epitaph by Soame Jenyns on Dl
} johnson:
Here lies poor johnson reader have care
Tread lightly, lest you rouse ses ping bear.
u Religious, IL oral generous, and humane
He was but sef-suficient, rude, and vain;
s Ill bred and overbearing in dispute,
= A scholar and Cnristiap, anu brute.
Would you know all his wisdom and his folly,
His actions, savings, mir h, and me ancholy,
: Boswell and Thrale, retailers of his wit,
8 Will tell you how he wrote and talked az
coughed and spit.
! ! instead Of printed are subject to lette
= postage.
s. PURsER WELDHAN, of the steame
s Leo, burned April 13, off Tybee Islam
l. about eighty miles, tells thrilling stor
k of the disaster. The fire was discovere
e amidships, and those on board had hardl
e time to secure a life-boat and life-rat
o Two aged maiden ladies, the Misses Fa
J. rington, perished in the flames. The lit
is boat was not seen after being manne
> and few people taken in, and the ra
n was turned up side down by a heavy Sc
n The occupants all got back on the IA
g. except one, Martin McQuade, who WI