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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25
The Magnificence of Moscow.

correspondence of the Newark Advertiser.
This is one of the richest and most
beautiful cities in the world. 1t seems
especially SO as you approach 1t III the
distance Standing on elevated ground,
it is seen afar from every direction. Its
numerous towers-every church having
several besides the steeples-with hun
dreds of domes and cupolas, either
gilded or painted green and s9angled
with stars, together with many gardens
and trees intermixed with the houses,
give it quite an Oriental appearance,
and fill the traveller with wonder and
admiration whenit first breaks upon his
view. The river Moskva flows at the
base of the hill on which the Kremlin
is built. The Kremlin is vast citadel,
or city within city, enclosed by wall
from twelve to sixteen feet thick, and
from thirty to fifty feet high, with many
towers, embellishments and beautiful
gates. 1t contains many magnlgcent
churches, also the Large Palace and Lit
tie Palace. We entered with uncovered
head, as every one is required to do,
from the highest official to the lowest
serf, through the Gate of the Redeemer,
over which hangs a picture of the
Saviour. 1 would like to tell you Of
the cathedrals, and the great bell, which
weighs ten thousand pounds, or three
hundred and sixty thousand pounds
English, now standing with its broken
piece on pedestal, placed there by the
Emperor Nicholas; the Romansoff Place
with its ancient obelisk; the crooked
streets and mixed houses, elegant Gov
ernment offices in close contact with
huts and cottages; the tolerably wide
street, three miles long, leading from the
walls of the Kremlin to the st. Peters
burg gate, and thence to the Park o.
review ground; also to the Treasury
the Public Museum and Library, to
gether with modern Improvements il
gas-pipes, letter-boxes, ETC., etc, but
must hasten to give you brief accoun
of my journey from Archangel to thi
city. Moscow may be visited again, bu
that journey will never have secon'
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25
The TichbOrne Case Again.
TLondon Standard

Mr.. William Quartermaine East writes
to us from Tavistock as follows:
Mr.. Onslow, Lord Rivers, and myself
accepted the joint trusteeship of fund
established three years since to procure
evidence from Australia in this case.
We readily realized that the discovery
of Arthur Orton was the only chance of
possibly benefiting the claimant, and l
am sure all the well-disposed will be
pleased to learn that after many fail
ings, incessant work, great expense and
continued disappointment the undoubted
Arthur Orton has been discovered under
the name of George Cresswell, fully re-
cognized by several in Australia, and his
photograph sworn to by many in Eng
land who knew him within this past ten
years. Although the only sister who has
at present seen Cressweu can not possi-
bly, swear to him, she remarks: "There
is a most wonderful likeness to our
family; in fact, | at once picked him
out from several others, and, certainly,
after a lapse of twenty-five years, al
though l have not sworn he is my
brother, I should positively decline
swearing he was not" Upon the arri-
val of Messrs. Onslow, Haworth, and
myself at Dartmoor, on Friday, the
photograph of Cresswell was shown to
the claimant, who at once declared it
solemnly as the same Alfred Smith
sworn to by him on the sixteenth day of
his examination in chief. Of course
this is of no legal value, nevertheless it
is eminentiy satisfactory to his partisans.
The claimant looked in better health
than on any of the previous visits. I
will not intrude upon your space with
the many details connected with this
discovery, or dwell upon the causes
which resulted in his conviction. Judges
and juries must decide by the evidence
and facts as they find them, whether
true, untrue, perverted, or distorted J;
but 1 will simply observe that the credit
in the main is due to the unwearied
efforts of Mr.. Onslow, and to the many
kind friends who have from time to time
so literally subscribed, and thereby en-
abled us to trace Alfred Smith, alias
George Cresswell, at the Paramatta Asy-
lum, to be the undoubted Arthur Orton,
son of George Orton, butcher, of High
Street, Mapping.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25
SANITARY CARBON.

The name of sanitary carbon" has
been given to remarkable kind of shale
deposit found on the Dorsetshire coast,
England, which is now being success
fully employed in purifying the effiuent
water of districts that treat their sewer
age by precipitation; in clarifying the
waste-water of dye-works and mines, and
for other sanitary purposes. 1t is a
charcoal-like deposit, of undoubted ami
NAL origin, and is supposed to consist of
blubber, fish, and other forms of marine
animal life. 1t is found to yield more
plentifully than camel coal, and at less
expense, an excellent carbon-one ton
of the shale, after giving off nine thous-
sand cubic feet of gas, leaving about
eleven hundred weight of residue, which
is the sanitary carbon in question. 1t
is found to have precisely the same
properties and action, in sanitary point
of view, as animal charcoal that costs
three or four times as much. The tests
to which it has been subjected consist,
first, in running sewage through a layer
of the carbon, the effluent water coming
out as clear as crystal; and, second, in
mixing sewage with a compound of ink
dye-stuffs in solution, forming liquid
more intractable than would ever be met
with in actual drainage operations, the
water running off perfectly clear and
with no perceptible odor.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25
The Personal Appearance of Jesus.

A correspondent of the Washington
Chronicle writes: "On Sunday last Rev.
DR.. Newman delivered a discourse upon
the humanity of Jesus Christ, in which
he stated that nothing has been handed
down to us in regard to His personal ap-
pearance, many different views being en-
tertained on the subject. Enclosed you
will find letter written by Publius
Lentulus, President of Judea, and sent
by him to the Senate of Rome, when the
fame of Jesus began to spread abroad
in the world. These are his words:
"'There lives at this time in Judea a
man of singular virtue, whose name is
Jesus Christ, whom the barbarians es-
TEEN prophet, but His own followers
adore him as the offspring of the i'm
mortal God. He calls back the dead
diseases with word or touch. He is
tall and well shaped; of an amiable,
reverend aspect. His hair is color that
can hardly be matched, falling into
graceful curls below his ears, and very
agreeably touching on his shoulders,
parted on the head like the Nazarites.
His forehead is smooth and large !;
his cheeks without other spot save that
of lovely red; his nose and mouth
formed with exquisite symmetry; his
beard thick, and of a color suitable to
the hair of his head, reaching an inch
below his chin, and parting in the mid
die like fork; his eyes bright, clear
and serene. He rebukes with majesty,
consoles with mildness; his whole adj
dress, whether in word or deed, being
elegant and grave. No man has seen
him laugh, but he has wept frequently.
He is very temperate and wise; a man,
for his excellent beauty and divine per-
fection, surprising the children of
men''
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

A VIRGINIA Cry dispatch says: A
meeting of the Superintendents of the
mines on the Comstock Lode was held
lately to consider questions arising in
connection with the approaching COM
pletion Of the Sutro Tunnel. A COM
mittee was appointed to make careful
investigation as to the cost of the tunnel,
and the benefit it is likely to prove to
the mines, cost of pumping water to the
surface from the tunnel level, etc. The
committee will probably report in two
or three weeks, and their report is ex-
pected to exert strong influence in set
ting points Of difference between the
tunnel companies and various mining
companies.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

THE Russian Journal reports 59,434 Rus
sian troops killed and wounded to Oc-
tober IL.
In the recent returns of elections in
France, 325 Republicans and 191 Conserva-
tives are reported as elected to the Assem-
bly,. The election passed off quietly.
THE Hungarian Government has ordered
the stoppage of money relief hitherto
granted to able-bodied Bosnian fugitives.
The greatest distress and mortality prevail
among them.
IT is calculated that within five or six
weeks the Russians in Asia have received
about 10000 fresh troops. The Turkish
force opposing them, estimated at 10000
men, is probably correct.
A DISPATCH from Moscow, dated October
16, says private kilograms received there
state that on Monday the Russians attacked
Mukhtar Pasha's new position. The Cau-
casian grenadiers stormed Alwias Hill,
forming the key to the Turkish position. A
two hours engagement ensued, resulting in
the flight of Mukhtar Pasha in the direction
of Kars or Erzeroum. The Russians pursued.
Turks lost ostmanyprisoners, cannon, rifles, and
quantity of provisions. An official dispatch
at Constantinople locates the battle at Aladja
Dagh, which is probably the same as Alwias.
The dispatch says the Russians attacked
from four sides. The Turks were falling
back at the time the telegram was sent off
and the final result of the battle was mo
mentarily expected.
FORTY Turkish soldiers deserted Osman
Pasha's camp, and declared there "-as sc
little food in Plevna that the men Oh ly got
a pound of bread in twenty-four hours
There were one hundred and thirty Thousand
men in PIevna who could only be made tt
surrender by hunger.
A DISPATCH says a General, formerly il
the American army, and now correspondent
of the New York Times, has been expelled
from ROumania, by the Russian authorities
because he served in the Turkish army dun
ing the Crimean war. This measure aT
pears i'll advised and severe.
OsMAN PAsHA telegraphs that the enem
!, attacked his position on the right win
Friday, the 10th. The attacking party, onl
one battalion and some sappers, was re
pulsed. This was probably feint to dra'
Osman's attention from Grivitza, as tn
Bucharest semi-official paper, the Roumamie
announces that the Roumanians thrice a
tackled the second Grivitza redoubt, br
, were repulsed. Details wanting.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

Mr.. JACOB KILLAM, of Dresden, Can
ada, has petrifed mastodon's tooth,
which was found on lot four, in the
third concession of the township of Cam
den, County of Kent. 1t was found in
n marsh, three feet under the surface,
in digging ditch known as the county
drain. 1t was under an oak log of con-
siderable size, which bore marks of hav-
ing been gnawed by beavers. This tooth
is double molar, three and a half
inches long by two and a half inches
wide on the surface, the roots from the
surface Of the jaw being about three
and a half inches long, and the tooth
itself, the surface of which is deeply ser
rated or mammeIated, rising about on,
and quarter inches above tho jaw, tn,
whole tooth not weighing seventeen
ounces. The osseous portions of tn
tooth are petrifed, but the enamel on it
surface is quite clear and glossy,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25
BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION.

The old wooden bridge on the line of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, spanning
the Susquehanna River above Harris
burg, is being transformed into a
wrought-iron bridge, without interfer-
ing with the use of the structure by
the hundreds of heavy trains that pass
over it every day. The bridge is nearly
three-quarters of mile long, and its
reconstruction requires thirty-six hun
dred tons of iron. Fourteen of the
twenty-three spans are already in place,
and, although the manufacture of the
iron was not commenced till after the
lst of June, the entire work will be COM
pleted by the Goth of November, which
is ten days less than required by the
ter.ns of the'contract. The iron is being
-olled at the Edgemoor Iron Works,
near Wilmington, Delaware, and the
construction is by the Delaware Bridge
Company. Each of the iron spans is
placed in position outside of the old one
by means of derrick travelling on a
narrow gauge track. When the iron
span is thus completed the old track is
transferred to the new work, and the old
span removed piece-meal.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25
An Apparent Premonition of Death.
baltimore American.

A distressing case of drowning that
occurred in the Lower Harbor recently
was peculiar, in that the victim had
premoniion, apparently, of his fate, and
three minutes before, when on the point
of stepping into the boat, he handed his
name, written on a tag, to a bystander,
remarking, "That's my address, if l
should be drowned" The boat pushed
off from the wharf and presently cap
sized, and the man went under and was
seen no more alive. The card was then
examined, and the drowned man was
ascertained to be Jacob Wildeburg, a
porter in the employ of L. w. Smith, of
No. 46 South Broadway, with whom he
lived. Wildeburg had been sent with a
barrel of meat to be delivered on board
a vessel anchored in the stream. Having
obtained boat he got into it, and then
handed the card to Mr.. Roll, who was
standing by, with the remark given
above. The boat then showed off, and
had got not more than a dozen lengths
away when it was seen to turn about
and fall into the trough of the sea, which
was running pretty high, and then turn
over. Wildeburg sank at once. Efforts
to secure his body by graphing were
successful two or three hours later. The
coroner declined to hold an inquest, the
drowning being evidently the result O.
an accident.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

Two Belgian peasants, while in an inn,
desiring TO gamble, hit upon a novel
method. Each melted a lump of sugar
in water and poured the syrup on the
table. A multitude of flies were upon
the walls. Money was bet as to which
pool Of syrup the first dozen flies would
gather around. Soon there were eleven
flies around one pool, and, while its
owner was anxiously scanning the air,
into the room buzzed a wasp, and began
feeding by the side of the eleven. The
wasp was instantly claimed as fly, the
claim was declared absurd, a warm argu-
ment followed, then blows-and then
the police marched both men off to the
station house.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25
New Uses for Electricity.

The wonderful versatility of electricity
is constantly finding for it some new
labor to perform, and now the lumber
man and the butcher have secured it's
services. We read of the following use
made of it in the East Indies:
A platinum wire, connected with the
poles of a battery, is stretched around a
tree, and, becoming Immediately red-hot,
it is gently see-sawed with the requisite
pressure against the tree, and rapidly
burns it's way through. 1t is thought
that a tree can be cut down, without
any waste of timber, in about fifteen
minutes, that would require two hours
to fell in the ordinary way.
And in England has been made this
experiment in behalf of animals to be
slaughtered:
An interesting experiment was made
at a horse-slaughtering at Dudley, with
view of testing system of slaughtering
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 a donkey disabled for
work) were arranged in line, about
half a yard apart, under a shed, the
donkey being placed in the center. A
small primer of dynamite, with an
electric fuse attached, was then placed
in each of their foreheads and fastened
no position by piece of string under
the jaw. The wires were then coupled
up in circuit and attached to the electric
machine, which stood about five yards in
front. The handle of the machine being
then turned, an electric current was dis
charged, which exploded three charges
simultaneously, and the enthusiastically
fell dead without struggle The whole
affair was over in ten minutes, and the
experiment appears to have been per-
feet success. By this means, it is stated,
even a hundred or more cattle may be
instantly killed by the same current of
electricity.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

Mr.. SPURGEoN has always been the
fortunate recipient of many presents.
When he first rose into popularity in
London he had so many pairs of slippers
sent by the young ladies ofhis congrega-
tion that he announced one Sunday
morning that he had as many as would
last him all his life. Things have
changed now. Mr.. Surgeons friends,
learning that he smokes, sent him pres
ents in the shape of cigars. He has got
so many boxes that it will not be sur
prising il he should announce at the
Metropolitan Tabernacle some morning
that he has as many cigars as will last
him for generation.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

No man can judge of the happiness of
another. As the moon plays upon the
waves, and seems to our eyes to favor
with peculiar beam one long track
amidst the waters, leaving the rest in
comparative obscurity; yet all the while
she is no niggard in her luster-for the
rays that meet not our eyes seem to us
as though they were not, yet she, with
an equal and unfavoring loveliness,
mirrors herself on every wave; even so,
perhaps, happiness falls with the same
brightness and power over the whole ex-
panse of life, though to our limited eyes
she seems only to rest on the pillows
from which the ray is reflected back
upon our sight.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

THE newest industrial feature in the
world is the introduction by Kansas
landowners of the contract system in
raising wheat. Large tracts of prairie
are broken, seeded, and narrowed by the
poorer emigrants for the older settlers,
at fixed price per acre. The plan per-
mits the cultivation of immense areas by
capitalists at small expenditure, while
1t brings ready money to the doors of
those arrivals who require employment
for themselves and teams while cultivat-
ing their own homesteads.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

1T is related of NJ. Theirs that he
was passionately fond of flowers and
birds; that every recess in his house was
fitted up as an aviary or a conservatory ;
that on the landings of the great stair
case were gorgeous groups of tropical
ferns and magniicently tinted, heavily
odored exotics; and that here and
there were large cages, carefully pro-
vided with running water, fresh green
plants, and cunning inches of rockwork,
in which bright-feathered little crea-
tures from the topics plumed their gay
pinions, hovered TO and fro like butter
flies, and piped their dulcet notes.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25
BRITISH 81 VING,S BANKS.

When SO many of the savings banks
in the States have been going down,
return recently issued in Britain gives
some very interesting information on
the extent and condition of the national
institutions of the kind in the United
Kingdom guaranteed by government.
The extent to which the saving principle
is developed is seen by the number of
depositors in these banks. In England
there were 1,12O,172. In Wales, 32,947.
In Ireland, 6,S49, and in Scotland, $780,,
819. Taking the population of 1871,
this would give one depositor for every
ninety-six of the population in Ireland,
every thirty-six in Wales, every nine
teen in England, and every thirteen in
Scotland. OF the wealthier classes who
take other means of investing their sur
plus, we find that in Scotland every
alternate family has handbook. In
Glasgow alone there stood on the Goth
of last November, e2,559,9 ,999 to the
credit of 1885 depositors, or an aver
age of 926 each. In Edinburgh the de-
posits amounted to FL, 1,O79,67S, by 81 ,043
depositors. When these national saw
ings banks are fully and equally es-
tablished over all the country, the
amount of the savings put into them
which are as secure as the credit of the
British empire can make them-will be
immense. 1t is but comparatively a
short time since these banks were estab-
lished, and the result is as gratifying as
it is surprising. If workingmen would
only deposit in such guaranteed institu-
tions all they spend on tobacco and
whisky, in very few years they would
be surprised at the amount of cash al
tbair oradit with tho country
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

THE United States Consul at St.
Johns, N. F., informs the Department of
State at Washington that he purchased
of one of the crew of the New Bedford
whaler A. Houghton, wrecked in Hud-
son Bay last June, one silver tablespoon
and one dessert spoon, supposed relics of
the Franklin expedition. The table
spoon has the letters J. G. F. engraven
thereon. On the face of the dessert
spoon is the head OF a fish, with laurel
wreath, and on the back the English
crown and stamp. The story of the
sailor is that he received these articles
from the Esquimaux of Repulse Bay,
who had received them from Il native
chief, at whose camp the white man who
owned them died of scurvy while ON a
visit thereto.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

GooD old Bishop Mant regarded
affiiction as the guide to reflection, the
teacher of humility, the parent of re-
pentance, the nurse of faith, the strength
ener of patience, and the promoter of
charity. He probably failed to realize
that it never cures baldheadedness, soft
ems a shrieking female voice when fei-
low returns home late on lodge night,
nor places the paregorie within accessible
distance when the baby wakens up on n
cold night yelling with collie.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

A BRASS cannon sunk in the Hudson by
Burgoyne during his retreat, a hundred
years ago, Is soon to be raised. 1t is a
tweive-pounder, and lies in ten feet of
water, two hundred feet from shore, un-
der three feet of mud. Any man that
ever dropped a shirt-stud on the floor
Will wonder at the exactDess with which
that cannon is located.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

Dom PEDRo-has just ordered state
Coach in Lqndon. 1t is light and roomy
and the entire body is painted white,
relieved with broad bands of gold and
fines lines of crimson. On the doors
and panels are painted the imperial
arms in proper heraldic colors. The
hammer.cloth is Of crimson Genoa velvet
with gold tassels and cords. For the
lining crimson corded silk has been used,
but the glare of color is very much
toned down by the free use of Valen-
ciennes lace.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

AMONG thenoveltieso o the coming Paris
exhibition will be a youth of fourteen
with feet shaped precis ely like his hands.
He can use them for the same purposes,
and plays upon the piano with hands
and feet, having a peculiar chair which
enables him to curl his body into the ne
cessary position. He is very good per-
former, and speaks both English and
German. His French is yet imper-
feet
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

You may talk as much as you please
about man being able to accomplish
anything he undertakes if he sets about
it in earnest-we demur. When it comes
to scratching the back dead square be-
tween the shoulders, fat man has to
let out the job. He may pierce the
ocean wave with the lightning's FASH.
make fraud an honored profession, get
up telephone that will carry Russian
names without bending the wire, but he
comes to an impossible stone fence
sometimes.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25

THE Graphic's Washington correspond,
ent furnishes this good one: The wit Of
Secretary Evarts seems to have descended
to his children. He said to friend
here: 81 have received a letter from
one of my little girls, and she writes:
"DEAR PAPA--Thank you very kindly
for the donkey you sent me, but he's so
lonely: Won't you soon be home
papaT