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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08
BY the President of the United States
of America-A Proclamation.

The completed circle of summer and win
ter, seed time and harvest, has brought us
to the accustomed season at which religious
people celebrate with praise and thanks
giving the enduring mercy of Almighty
God.
This devout and public confession of the
constant dependence of man upon our Di-
vine Father for all the good gifts of life and
health, and peace and happiness, so early in
our history made habit of our people, finds,
in survey of past years, new grounds for
its joyful and great manifestation in all
blessings which depend upon benignant
seasons.
This has indeed been a memorable year
over our wide territory. Our country, with
all its diversity of soil, and climate, and
products of the earth has yielded a bounti-
ful return to the labor of the husbandman.
The health of our people has been blighted
by no prevalent or widespread diseases.
No great disasters of shipwreek upon our
coasts, or to our commerce on the seas have
brought loss and hardship to eur merchants
or marines, and clouded the happiness of
our community with sympathetic sorrow.
In all that concerns our strength, and
peace, and greatness as nation; in all that
| touches permanence and security, our gov
| ernment and the benefcent institutions on
which it rests; in all that affects the char
acter and disposition of our people and
|
| the equal and free condition of society now
permanent and universal throughout the
land; the experience of last year is con
spicuously marked by the protecting Prov
| idence of God, and is full of promise and
hope for coming generations.
Under sense of the infinite obligations
to the Great Ruler of times, and seasons
and events, let us humbly ascribe it to oul
| own faults and frailties if in any degrees
that perfect concord and happiness, faitE
and Justice which such great mercie'
should diffuse through the hearts ant
lives of our people do not altogether ant
always and everywhere prevail.
Let us with one spirit and one voice
lift up praise and thanksgiving to Goo
for His manifold goodness to our land
His manifest care for the nation.
Now, therefore, /, Rutherford b. Hayes
President of the United States, do appoin
Thursday, the Doth day of -Noven,fer NIX
as a day of national Thanksgiving an
prayer, and 1 earnestly recommend tha
withdrawing themselves from secular care
and labors, the people of the United State
do meet together on that day in their r.
spective places of worship, there to Civ
? thanks and praise to Almighty God for hi
, mercies, and to devoutly beseech their col
tinuance.
l In witness whereof 1 have hereunto 81
!, nv hand and caused the seal of the Unite
Q States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this 29i
O day of October, in the year of our Lord OF
n thousand eight hundred and seventy-seve
: and of the independence of the Unite
States the one hundred and second.
e L.S TSigned] r. B. HAYES.
d By the President: VIM. NJ. EvARTs, Seer
1t tary of State"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

IT is reported in Constantinople that
Orchanie had been captured, with Chelket
Pasha and several thousand troops.
THE district of Kagyoman is placed under
Russian administration. Generals Hey
mann and Tergukasoff have effected
junction near Hessan Kaleh.
A SPECIAL from Alexandria says the King
of Abyssinia again threatens to invade
Egypt with an army of 10000 men. Gen.
Gordon is expected at Massowah to
negotiate with him.
A SERvIAN communication to the Porte
says Servia's military measures are solely
to protect her frontier, and Servia hopes for
the maintenance of good relations with
Turkey.
IT is officially announced that the brigade
which was intrenched at Tellshe has been
dispersed by the Russians. Cheiket Pasha
is fortifying the neighborhood OF Orehanle.
Suleiman Pasha telegraphs confirmation
of reports that the Russian army OF the
Dobrudscha is marching to Kuzghun, near
Silistria.
THE rumors of German intervent on be-
tween Russia and Turkey are again clrcu-
| lated, 1t is not to take place until Russia
has achieved some triumph thatwil enable
| her to back out of war without in Jury to
her prestige. Germany has all along shown
partiality to Russia, and her interference is
doubtless based on the conviction that her
favorite has undertaken bigger contract
than she can carry out.
| A special from Bogot, about eight miles
south of Plevna, has the following: The
Car arrived here on the 9th of October
The Grand Duke Nicholas has his head
quarters here. General TOdleben is a
Tuchnitz with his staff. The Prince o
Roumanias headquarters is at Poradina. Al
attack on Telische, simultaneously witt
the capture of Dubnik, on the Oath ult.
was repulsed with the loss of thousant
men. The loss at Dubnik was three thou
sand men. Every brigade and regimenta
commander was killed or wounded, and, a
nearly all the officers of the guards ar
personally known at headquarters, the lac
that two hundred officers had been place
hors de combat cast deep gloom over tn
staff at Bogot. The bombardment Of Plevn
continues in desultory way"
A RUSSIAN official dispatch, dated No
2, says: After almost unresisted occup;
!, ton of Kaprikoi, on the 2Sth ult., whe
. Ghazi Mukhtar and Ismail Pasha's res
/ guard hastily retreated to Hassan Kalel
!. our cavalry continued the pursuit, and tW
hours after midnight attacked the enemy
j.. bivouac. After short skirmish, we e.
= tered the bivouac, cut down hundred me
+ and compelled the others to take to tigh
J, The pursuit was continued six versts, whe
! it was discontinued because of the extren
4 fatigue both of men and horses. At ii
- o'clock in the morning onr cavalry occup1'
\ Nassau Kaleh. Meantime other cavalry hi
v arrived at Kurudjek, eighteen versts fro
!, Erzeroum. Generals Heinmann's and Ie
gukassof7s columns are concentrated ne
Deve Boyom, where the enemy are e
'i canned
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08
Combinations.

The Senate, in executive session, con-
firmed the nominations of e. w. Stoughton,
Minister to Russia; Gen. Nsyes, Minister to
France; Mr.. Kasson, Minister to Austria /;
Mr.. Lowell, Minister to Spain; Thomas A.
Osborn, of Kansas, Minister to Chill; James
NJ. Comfy, of Ohio, Minister to Hawaiian
Islands, and several other lower grade
diplomatic appointments; also, Alonzo f.
Barr, United States District Attorney of the
Western District of Wisconsin; Jacob s.
Boreman, Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Utah; Daniel 7. Boynton, Pension
Agent at Knoxville; Samuel Post, Pension
Agent at Detroit: Rufus Champion, Pension
Agent at st. Louis; Clark Waggoner, Col
lector of Internal Revenue, Tenth Distric
| Ohio.
Postmasters-Edward r. Shipley, Spring
field, o; q. Burch, Jefferson City; Theo. S
Case, Kansas City; Alder Carter, Memphis
Mrs. Jennie C. Prater, North Springfield
Francis p. Phillips, Plattsburg VIM. Firth
Moberly; Matthew w. Stofiord, Joplin, al
| of Missouri.
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Literary Notes.

seThat Husband of Ours" by the Aggre-
gate Relict, will shortly be issued from the
Salt Lake press.
General Longstreet has written a review
of the battle of Gettysburg, which presents
some new information.
Miss Emily Faithtulps new paper is called
the Vest London Express, and is lar superior
to the other penny papers.
Beecher getting ten votes for chaplain
of the House, and Theodore Tilton calling
on his wife, are two items from Brooklyn.
Edward jenkins, NJ. p, is writing book
in connection with William Gilbert, and
is engaged on another 'Gln2s bapy ro-
| nance.
sThat Girl of Nine" Washington society
novel. bv a well known author, will shortly
be published by 7. d. Peterson d Co., OF
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote has been making
a. careful study of Hawthorne's Scarlet Let
ter, and will illustrate superb edition OF
the work that is to be published by the Os-
goods.
George Eliot seems to have incurred the
enmity of English reviewers, the last attack
upon her emanating from the Church Qudr
tcr4y, which charges her with writing DOCKS
subversive of good morals.
Mr.. Walter Reid, it is rumored is com
posing a new 'language of flowers" sc
many new plants have been propagated o
late years-which remain speechless-tha
they must be given tongues IN appropriate
sentiment.
A Philadelphia paper announces the graf
ifying intelligence that Joaquin Miller, sine
the populace has approved of his dramatic
i efforts has made concession to the popu
lace. He has assumed the outward garb o
civilization, and dresses like other whit
} men.
4 The will of J. Lothrop Motley provide
: that all his books, pictures, library paper'
t MSS, plate, jewelry, clothing, and othe
4 personal property, shall be distribute
f equally among his daughters Eliza Cab6
J. Ives, Mary Lothrop Sheridan and Susan n
S. Motley.
The Boston Trureller considers the case {
the Rev. Joseph Cook and concludes, mrs
l. that the style of the physical part of M
l. Cooks oratory is too vehement and tends
O minrle too cbemically-if we may use I'll
|; expression-his depth and superticialty
|. secondly, he does not possess an intellectu
IS style which carries thorough conviction
IL his views"
lie Mrs. General Fremont, known in old da.
3 as Jesse Benton, will contribute to Harpe'
lie Magazinc a series of papers giving her Ca
5. ifornia and other early experiences
le twenty years ago. The first paper, i'll Il
IN forthcoming number, will give glimpses
IN scenes of still earlier days, in st. Lou
IN Washington and New Orleans, when s.
IL was known as the daughter of the gre
ct Senator.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08
Death of Senator Morton.

Senator Morton died at his residence in
Indianapolis, on November l, at 5: 30 p. M
About noon of that day Mrs. Morton and
her sons, by her request, were left alone
with the Senator for about an hour. What
passed between them is not for us to inquire
Before five O'Clock it became evident that
he had entered upon his last hour on earth.
He had rested the greater portion of the day
in a half lying and half sitting position.
AS he grew weaker, the supporting pillows
were withdrawn so that he lay prone upon
the bed. A deeper silence now Pervaded
the room, and remained unbroken except by
an occasional question to the dying man.
Once, when the Senator exclaimed, am
diving" his sister-in-law Mrs. Holloway, in
| ouired, "You are not afraid to die, OEver?
| he indicated "no" by shaking his head.
| Soon after a similar exclamation, question
and answer passed between nun ana ~.
Thompson. At ten minutes past five O'Clock
| ne exclaimed, 81 am dying; L am. worn
| out: :" and these were his last words.
From this on it was difficult to discover
that life remained. On the Doctors an
nouncement, "He is going" the gaze of the
| wife and sons became fixed on the face OF
| the husband and father, with now and theE
a piteous look of inquiry toward the doctor
until his further announcement, cit is
over"
The widow clasped her sons to her, ex
claiming quietly but in tones never to be
forgotten, "My darling boys" The friends
withdrew, leaving them for a time, whe1
they were tenderly led from the room.
In the evening, by direction of the Mayor
the city bells were tolled fifty-four strokes
indicating the dead Senator's age. Ih'
bells were tolled each day at noon unit
after the funeral. The burial services tool
: place on Monday, at Roberts Park M:
Church, and the interment at Crown Hi
Cemetery The services were conducted b.
the Eev. Prof s. X. Hoshour, Mrs. Morton
former pastor, and the Senator's preceptol
assisted by Revs. ]. B. Cleaver, Henry Day
= and J. Ii. Bayliss.
The body lay in state during Sunday i
f the corridor of the Marion County Coul
d House, now used as a State House, givin
S the people of the State an opportunity.
y view the remains, for whose accommodatlo
e special excursion trains were run on SUI
s day and Monday. The Indianapolis Ligl
e Infantry rendered their services as guar
e of honor. The Montgomery Guards,
e. Charlottesville, also rendered their service
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

seven members to represent this House at the
funeral Obsequies
Resolued, As further mark of respect, this House
do now adjourn.
Adjourned.
In the House, November 5, Mr.. Price
asked leave to offer resolution providing
for the reconciliation of silver. Objected to.
Consideration was resumed of the bill for
the repeal of the Resumption Act. After
discussion as to the proposed terms for the
management and consideration of the bill,
Mr.. Kelly proposed to offer resolution
making it special order for Tuesday next,
and until Thursday, 18th, when the previous
question was to be ordered, but Mr.. Willis
objected absolutely to the resolution being
received, inasmuch as he regarded the bill
as an assault upon the National credit.
The remainder of the morning hour was
used up in voting on motions to adjourn,
and the bill went over till the next morning
hour. Bills were introduced: For the
monetization of silver and the recoinage OF
the standard silver dollar. Referred; for
amending the Constitution so as to elect a
President and Vice-President by the direct
vote of the people; authorizing the coinage
of the silver dollar. A bill for the free
coinage of a standard silver dollar was
introduced by Mr.. Beckner, and was, on
motion of Mr.. Stephens, after discussion
referred to the Committee on Coinage
rather than to the Banking Committee.
Adjourned till Monday.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

ANYBODY could have told he was an
Englishman by the bed-spread around
his neck on such warm day. But
even had the weather been cold enough
To make boy stay in the house, you
would have strongly suspected it by his
saying: eli say, 'Enry, Hi want a
shilling's worth o hoysters, hand mind
your heycs, now, ave hem 'ot, or Hill
not tooch hem. Hand look'ee ere
SOON 'afI-an-'ah, too, lad"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

MIGHTY, indeed, is the peanut crop
In the years 1s76-'77 the State of North
Carolina produced 125,0e0 bushels of
peanuts; Virginia, $50, 900 bushels, and
Tennessee, SOC, 900 bushels. The United
States can "point with pride" to the
fact that in the last four years, within
their boarders, 100000 bushels of pea
nuts were harvested.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

A MILLION and fifty-fve thousand
men are reported to be on the military
register of the German Government.
OF this number 33S, 900 are upon the So
called black list, for not having served,
including 100000 who left the country
10 avoid serving. 1t is estimated that
one German in every eight expatriates
himself 10 avoid military service.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

DIR. LELLI, having met with case in
which dose of strychnine was admin
istered in coffee without fatal conse-
auences, was led TO some experiments to
determine whether it possessed antitoxic
power against this drug. The expert
ments were made upon rabbits. He
found that dose Of five centigrammes
proved fatal in short time. When the
same or larger dose was given in a very
strong infusion of coffee, he found that
the coffee either acted as complete
antidote or that it materially diminished
the violence of its action.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

AS pines and frs have been discovered
10 have n greater effect than other trees
in influencing the rainfall and increas-
ing the general humidity of the atmos-
phcrc, M. Fantral, of the French
Academy, has proposed the planting OF
these trees in Algeria. The same fact
may possibly be utilized with advantage
ON some of the Western lands in this
country.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

An ingenious use of carrier pigeons is
on record. They were employed in Bel
gium TO smuggle tobacco into France.
Each bird carried from ten to fifteen
Rrammes Of the weed, and two dozen
pigeons per day were regularly dis
patched. How long the new industry
had been established is not stated; but
one day it came to grief. A bird was
too heavily loaded, and he dropped with
his burden, exhausted, into the Seine. A
public inquiry resulted, and the whole
business WAS exposed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

AGAssIz says that in certain Anna
zonian tribes, while the wedding fes-
tivitics are going on, the bridegroom's
hands are tied up in paper bag with
fire-ants, and if he bears the torture
smilingly and unmoved, he is considered
fit for the trials of matrimony.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

IT would seem that not only is the
climate of Iceland growing so cold that
grain can not ripen there, but that of
Scandinavia and Western Europe is be-
coming more severe. This is due, it is
supposed, TO the steady descent of the ice
of the far North upon the shores of Ice
land. 1t has been ascertained that the
temperature of Greenland was once
much more mild than at present. Plants
have been discovered in fossil state
there which can not now present sigr
of life. In the Atlantic, also, ice has
been found much further south thar
formerly. Is another ice age slowl!
making its approach?
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

Ir is now becoming a question whether
the original purpose of boarding schools
was to fit young ladies to keep boarders
after they marry, and assume the sup
port of husband, OF to fit for boarding
house life those who dislike the response
bility Of housekeeping.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

WE thought the last of the female
officers disguised in mems clothing died
with our late rebellion, but we have
trustworthy account by telephone of a
Russian girl who commanded a company
and fell before Rasgrad. The boys never
suspected her sex until after her death.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

VICTOR EMMANUEL has bestowed a
gold medal, to be presented to II. M.
Stanley, the African Explorer, on his
arrival in London, and the Austrian
Geographical Society will hand him
testimonial of appreciation. Consider
ing that he was and is newspaper man,
IL would seem as if "them literary
fellcrs" could do something once in
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08
EDITORIAL OLIO.

AND now the relics of the Ashtabula
disaster are Ia be sold at auction by the
Coroner, in the hope that enough may be
realized to settle the costs of the county
in the inquest. Talk about vandalism.
1t was gentility compared with this.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08
Statement of the Controller of the Cur.
rHncy.

The Controller of the Currency made the follow
ing statement, showing the issue and retirement OF
national bank notes and legal tender notes under the
act of June 90 1874, and January IA, 1875, to No
vember 1, 1877:
National bank notes outstanding when
the act of June 90 1874, passed $349 1874 1872
National bank notes issued from June 20,
1874, to January IA, 1875..........-". 4,734, 800
National bank notes redeemed and
tired between same dates 2,767,272
Increase from June 20, 1874, to January
ii, 1857 ,26s
National bank notes outstanding January
IA, 35, ,s61 ,45O
National bank notes redeemed and
tired from January IA, 1875, to date. 60,342 617
National bank notes surrendered between
dates.
Total redeemed and surrendered........ 69,472 724
| National bank notes issued between same
dates a. 1856 1856
Decrease from January IA, 1876 to date 3d. 0S6, ,39
National bank notes outstanding at date 316 III
| Greenbacks on deposit in Treasury June
20, 1874, to retire notes of insolvent and
Iquidating anks....................... 3,S13,67s
Greenbacks deposited from June 90 1874,
date to retire national bank notes.. u, ,407, ,54
Total deposits .......... 1921 On
Circulation redeemed by Treasurer be-
tween dates without reissue........ 81 1909 S4
Greenbacks on deposit at date. 13, 11,67
Greenbacks retired under act of January .
IA,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

EGYPT is rich in obclsks. Among the
ruinsof San-the Ioan of the Hebrews
in the Delta, lie no less than ten, all
overthrown and some shattered. AT
HeIiopolis, an obelisk sixty-eight feet
high, which was four centuries old when
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

WHERE does all the cotton go to? Last
year some of it went as follows: To Great
Britain, 1,270, 0,2S7, 600 pounds; Ger
many, 255, 100000; France, 2lO,ooO,OOo; ;
Bussia, 10000, 900; Austria, 1O4, 4,O00,-
900; Spain, 100000; and the United
States consume 674,68S,000 pounds.
England manufactures forty-three per
cent. Of all cotton goods, the United
States twenty-thrce per cents, and the
continental countries of Europe thirty
three per cent. England exports one
half of her manufactures; the United
States only seven per cent, which is moi
very Hattering exhibit for the enter
prise and activity Of our manufacturers
II il however, attributable to some ex
tent TO the almost prohibitory tariff will
which many of the articles used in cot
ton manufacture are weighed down.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08
An Old Time Hotel.

Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher has been
giving in Cincinnati, "reminiscences OF
his early life in Ohio. One of his stories
is this The other day / came through
Loudonville, Ohio, and I was forcibly
reminded of my stay there when on my
first trip out West. We stopped late at
night and spent Sunday there. There
were two coach-loads of us, and the lit
tie two-story brick tavern was nearly
full when we arrived. The best they
could do for my brother Charles and
myself was to give us couple OF
"shake-downs" in the dining-room: We
slept late Sunday morning, but finally
waking up commenced to talk. | said
"Charles, Pll bet you / can tell what
they had at this hotel for dinner yester-
day." "What was itT' he asked
Roast beef" l replied, basing my
Judgment on a stale sort of odor that
pervaded the room.
"No, you are mistaken" said he
i. shaking his head and shifting at the coy
ering Of his bed; ait was mutton" W.
both stoutly maintained our respective
propositions, and falling to a vigorou
smelling of our bed-clothes, found tn
landlord had given us a couple of table
cloths for bedspreads, and Charles ha'
got the mutton cloth and the beet"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

CHICAGO Journal: Drive out with a
horse and he will switch his tail one
hundred and fifty times rod, to force
away troublesome flies, but let him once
get his tail over line and the old quad
ruped will wander on for miles without
thinking of the flies which revel unmo-
Tested in the living gore. What a horse
loves above all things is to do the driv-
ing himself.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-08

MOTHER SHIPToN fourished in Eng
land in the seventeenth century, and sew
eral of her books of prophecy were pub.
lisbed, as follows: Her Prophesie,' u
in 1641; "Two Strange Prophecies" i'll
1912, and " Her Life and Curious Pro-
phecie,' in 1897. We suppose the latter
refers to the one that goes the rounds OF
the press occasionally, predicting the END
of the world in 1881, and some Other
singular prophecies, which have beer
nearly if not wholly fulfilled. Doub
has been cast upon the authorship ant
date of this celebrated efiiusion; but !
the world should come to an end in 1881
most people who have read it will be ap
to believe it a genuine prophecy.