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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-07-20

An encouraging indication is the meeting
of white and black citizens Of the region
known a the scene of the EllentOn riot las.
Fall in South Carolina, the other day. with
the view to restore peace and harmony.
Resolutions were unanimously adopted look
ing to the cessation of race trouble and to
the dropping of the pending prosecutions in
the State AMI Federal Courts. The pro-
motcrs OF the LiJerian emigration scheme
claim to have enrolled the names Of . 500
colorcd persons in the city of Charleston, and
10000 in the State, who consent to emigrate-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-07-20

\ DuCkING STooL.-ln the crypt OF War
wick Church, the mighty ribbed arches of
which spring from one enormous pier, there
is an article which has long gone out of Use
whether adyantagccusly nor not shall not
venture to Say-a ducking stool, made Tor
the public discipline OF srolding women
This is one Of the only two, believe, that
remain in England. 1t consists Of strong
oaken frame on low wheels, from which u
scat rises upon an inclined beam that works
upon a pivot or axle. The scold was lashed
into the seat, and then the "institution"
was drawn to the river side at convenient
deep place, and rolled in until the patient
sat iust above the water. Then the land
end rl the beam was tipped up, and conse
quently the other end with its ladng went
down under the water, where it was allow
ed to remain not too long. and was then
raised for breathing time. This process was
repeated us often A. it was thought here
ticial to the lady under treatment, or neces-
sary Tor the peace of her family and neigh
borhood. Whether husbands ever inter
ceded for wives thus disciplined, ~ wives do
now sometimes for husbands who are uu-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-07-20

LARGE NUuGER or CANNES DROWNED
SCENES AT THE POUNE-THE SUrFERINCS
OF THE CATCHERS.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-07-20

''Our horses were Immediately sent for and
We were of before daylight; went TO the next
station, found my brother. got breakfast and
arrived ot Salt Lake City that day. The next
day took the S93j. and we all went to head
quarters. Flack and had talk. as We
went, about the money lie said Brigham
ought to give it to us, as We had already been
to more expense than that money amounted
to from horses used up and other losses. and
urged me to get it. told him | would try,
saying TO him, "You know how much am
out and can testify to it, and think he will
give uA part, any way.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-07-20

now come to recital even more terrible.
Painful as it Is to dwell ON such subjects,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-07-20

Porter Rockwell and party returned to Salt
Lake city, took Bucklin and the other man
and started southward. plying them with H.
Iuor. II is probable that Bucklin. who is
described as little less than IA Hercules IN
frame and strength only feigned drunkenness
the other man was inscnsIble by tho time
they reached the point Of II mountain, where
Porter Rockwell kept public house. There
IT was decided To ''use them up and they
were attacked with slung-shots and bilies
The unarmed WAS instantly killed. Bucklin
leaped from the wagon, outrnn his pursuers.
their shots missing HIM. swan the Iordon
and came down to the city ON the west side.
Here he related the story, which created the
general excitement.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06
The Deepest Mines.

Twenty years ago the deepest mining
shaft in the world reached only about
two thousand feet below the surface.
The very deepest, we believe, was
metalliferous mine in Hanover, which
had been carried down to a depth of
2,290 feet. The deepest perpendicular
shaft to-day is the Adelbert shaft, in a
silyer-lead mine in Prizibram, in Bohe-
mia, which has reached depth of 2, $50
feet. The attainment of that depth
was made the occasion of a three days
festival, and still further noticed by
striking off a large number of commemo-
rative medals of the value of a form
each. There is no record of the begin
ming of the work on the mine, although
its written history goes back to 1923.
Quite recently an elegant commemora-
tive volume has been written and
printed, which is most interesting read
ing to those who have taste for either
the actualities or antiquities of mining
industry. There are two other locali-
ties, however, where greater depth has
been reached than that at the Adelbert
shaft, but not in perpendicular line.
These are: l. The rock salt bore hole
near Sperenberg, not far from Berlin,
which few years ago had been bored
to depth of 4,175 feet. 2. The coal
mine of Viviers Remus, in Belgium,
where the miners, by shaft sinking, to-
gether with boring, have reached total
depth of 4,542 feet Turning from
these two mines, no shaft in unbroken
perpendicular line has as yet exceeded
the depth of $3.50 feet.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06

A CONFEDERATE soldier, in one of the
battles of the late civil war, who was
struck on the head by a mimic ball
which passed through the skull, and the
surgeons, afraid to probe the wound in
search of it, left the man to die. In
the course of time he recovered, but
had lost his reason, and was sent to the
insane asylum at Staunton, Virginia,
where he remained for eleven years. At
length DIR. Fauntleroy obtained permis-
sion from the asylum authorities and
friends of the insane man to make a
surgical examination of the head with
the hope of finding the ball. He was
successful, and found the ball imbedded
on the inside of the skull and pushing
against the brain. Unable to extract it
with any instrument at hand, he took a
chisel and mortised it out. AS soon as
the ball was removed, reason resumed
its control, and the deranged one was in
his right mind. He says he is not con-
scious of anything that occurred during
the interval of eleven years-from the
time he was stuck on the battlefield to
the moment the pressure was removed
from the brain, all was blank to him.
Another case in the same county of
Augusta was that of boy whose gun
bursted while shooting, and drove the
lock into the brain. The piece was
taken out by skillful surgeon without
injury to the patient.
But the most remarkable case in the
same neighborhood was that of woman
subject to fits of mental arrangement,
and while in spell of lunacy drove an
eight penny nail into the top of her
head, penetrating down into the brain
the nail having been driven up to its
head. The nail was drawn out, and the
woman has been in sound mental condi-
tion ever since.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06
Report of the Commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
says in his annual report, after considerable
to the question of changing the
rate of taxation on spirits and tobacco, that
he has come to the conclusion that the
interests of the government and manu-
facturers and dealers will be preserved by
allowing the rates of taxation to remain un-
disturbed, nor would he recommend
change of law in respect to the tax on fruit
brandy.
Collections for the past fiscal year were
$41S, S,S70, 1897, and for the months of July,
August, September, and October of the
present fiscal year $3S,772, 1888, grand total
of $157 ,643,S3 collecteds ince the beginning
of the last fiscal year. The Commissioner
says the subject of relieving banks and
bankers from payment of taxes now imposed
by law upon their capital and deposits, of
relieving bank checks from the impost of
two cents each now placed upon them, and
also of taking off the tax from matches,
have received a considerable share of the
public attention. These taxes realized
SIS, ,636,90S for the past fiscal year, appor-
toned as follows: Amount of tax collected
from capital and deposits of banks for the
year ending May 81, 1877, So, 755, ,299; value of
stamps imprinted on checks, $1,277,776;
amount of adhesive stamps sold for checks,
$611 ,55S; amount of tax collected from
matches, So, ,9S2 ,275. If the financial interests
of the government would warrant so great
reduction in its revenues, it seems to me
that in selecting objects to be relieved from
taxation, these would commend themselves
strongly to the law making power. If,
however, in view of the falling off of
receipts from customs, it is deemed mex
pedient to reduce revenues by as large an
amount, it occurs to me that if any reduc-
ton be made from the above source, the law
taxing matches could with very great pro-
priety be repealed. This tax is levied upon
an article that enters into universal con-
sumption, and more than doubles the cost of
the article taxed in the hands of the manu-
facturers.
The taxable capital and deposits of banks
and bankers are S774,077 ,269, and the tax is
one-half of one per cent. on that amount
| apprehend that no object could be selected
for taxation that could more easily bear
burdens imposed upon it than the capital
and deposits of banks and bankers. The
tax of 81 $3.50 1874 realized from stamps upon
checks is collected at very inconsideraale
cost to the government, and as it is realized
from nearly ninety-four and One-half million
OF transactions, it is not burdensome or in
convenient to those who pay it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06

New YORK World: 81 say, ledge"
said gaunt woman, hailing the Court
from where she stood, with elevated voice
and wave of her long arm, eye hain't
got Jim Carpenter locked up in yer, hev
yep
Is there such man here?" asked his
honor of the clerk.
Yes, sir-drunk and unable to take
care of himselfT'
He's here" said the Court.
"Well, I've come after him." said the
gaunt woman. "He's the sole support
NV his family over in Jersey, an he's my
husband, an l want i'm" James was
brought out, and proved to be a small,
meek, inoflensive person. Mrs. Carpen-
ter brought her hand down upon his
shoulder with bang, and clutched his
collar. Ken | hev i'm, Jedge?"
Yes; take him."
James gave one appealing look to his
Honor, cast regretful glance in the di-
rection of his prison cell, and was led
rapidly out of Court.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06
Planting TOrpedOes,

[Gen. G. T. Beauregard in the Phila delphia Times
From the commencement of the siege
of Charleston | had been decidedly of
the opinion that the most effective, as
well as least costly method of defense
against the powerful ironclad steamers
and monitors originated during the late
war, was to use against them small but
swift steamers of light draught, very low
decks, and hulls ironclad down several
feet below the water-line-these boats to
be armed with a spar torpedo, arranged
upon Capt. Lees plan, and to thrust out
from the bow at the moment of collision,
being inclined so as to strike below the
enemy's armor, it being also arranged
that the torpedo could be Immediately
renewed from within for another attack;
all such boats to be painted gray like
blockade runners, and when employed
to burn anthracite coal, so as to make no
smoke. But unfortunately l had not
the means to put the system into
execution. Soon after the first torpedo at
tack, made as related by the David upon
the New Ironsides, caused number of
boats and barges to be armed with spar
torpedoes for the purpose of attacking
IN detail the enemy's gunboats resorting
to the sounds and harbors along the
South Carolina coast. But the Federals
having become very watchful, sur
| rounded their steamers at night with
| floating booms to prevent the torpedo
boats from coming near enough to do
| them any injury. Even in the outer har-
| Dor of Charleston, where the blockaders
| and their consorts were at anchor, the
same precaution was observed in calm
weather. The anchoring of the large
| torpedoes in position was attended with
considerable danger. While planting
them at the mouth of the Cooper and
Ashley Rivers (Which form the peninsula
of the city of Charleston), the steamer
engaged in that duty being swung
| around by the returning tide, struck and
exploded one of the torpedoes just
anchored. The steamer sank immedi-
| ately, but, fortunately, the tide being
low, and the depth of water not great,
no lives were lost. In 1864, Jackson
vile, Florida, having been evacuated
by the Confederates, then too weak to
hold it, the Federal gunboats frequently
ran up the St. Johns River many miles,
committing depredations along its
banks. To stop these proceedings 1 sent
a party from Charleston, under a staff
officer, Capt. Pliny Bryan, to plant tor
pedoes in the channels of that stream
The result was the destruction of several
large steamers and cessation of all an
noyance on the part of the others. In
the Bay of Charleston and adjacent
streams had planted about one hundred
and twenty-five torpedoes, and some
fifty more in other parts of my depart
ment. The first torpedoes used in the
late war were placed in the James River,
below Richmond, by General G. R.
Raines, who became afterward Chief of
| the Torpedo Bureau. Mr.. Barbarin, of
New Orleans, placed also successfully a
large number of torpedoes in Mobile Bay
| and its vicinitv
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06
4" Hanged in the Sbade.o

The Constantinople correspondent of
the Political Correspondence relates that
many of the Bulgarians taken red
handed in acts of violence and con-
demned to death, when they see that
there is no longer any hope or chance
of escape, produce from hidden pockets
in their clothing large sums of money,
which they present to one or other of
the zaptiehs who may perhaps have
treated them with kindness. Lately,
ve,Bulgarians were sentenced to death
in Mustapha. When it came to the
turn of one of them to be led forth, he
requested the non-commissioned officer
commanding the party in charge of him
to wait moment. With some trouble
he then extracted from the folds of his
garments handful of gold liras, and
these he presented to the sergeant. The
latter, moved by the generosity of his
prisoner, tapped the latter on the
shoulder, exclaiming, "As you are such
good fellow, you shall be hanged in the
shade;" and keeping his promise, he
selected a shady and pleasant spot where
the Bulgarian was executed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06
Some Features of the Navy Report.

The Secretary of the Navy, in his annual
report, says the appropriations available
for the present fiscal year, commencing
July /, 1877, are $13,592 1882. The whole
amount drawn from the Treasury, from July
l to November l., 1877, $5,S43,0S7. OF this
amount there is estimated to have been in
the hands of paymasters AID agents of the
government on November /, 1877, 1876, ,52S,
besides $4,000 refunded making a total of
81 ,029,52S, which deducted from the amount
drawn, will show the actual expenditures
from July 1 to November |, 1877, to have
.been $4,3l3, 500. The estimates for the
present fiscal year are SIG, ,233, ,234, exclusive
of 2,314,231 submitted for new buildings,
repairs, and improvements at the several
navy yards.
In the report of the Secretary of the Navy,
November 30, 1876, it is estimated that the
amount for pay of the Navy for the present
fiscal year was 81, 100000, computation being
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06

based upon the number of officers and men
then borne upon the register. Congress,
however, by the act of March 8, 1877, ap-
propriated only $4,000, 900 or 800, 900 less
than the estimate. This will necessarily
produce deficiency ct the end of the fiscal
year, unless Congress shall appropriate the
above amount, payment of which to officers
and men is so fixed by law that it can not be
fciency at the extra session of Congress had
reference only to the last fiscal year, ending
June so, 1877, and was based upon the
amount ascertained to be due upon the
books of the Auditors Office; whereas the
deficiency here referred to is estimated for
the present fiscal year, ending ] June 80, 1873.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06
TILE PONCAG

The "Great Father" through his Sec
retary, Schurz, has promised to treat
those peaceable Indians, the Poncas, as
we'll as those vile Indians, the Sioux and
Piutes. The Greal Father" would not
permit the peaceable Poncas to go back
to their old reservation, as they earnestly
desired, although they argued that their
present location is an unhealthy one.
The Ponca Chiefs were presented with
medals, whether of leather, or tin, or
brass, our correspondent says not, and
were told that of the lands in the Indian
Territory that belong to the government
they might select what suited them best,
good land, with plenty of timber, and as
large as the reservation they had left.
The Great Father also indicated his
design to present the Poncas, when
they had selected their lands and settled
on them, with houses, furniture, farm
ing implements, horses, cattle, schools
for their children, and everything that
could make civilized Indian happy.
The Poncas left the Big City not entirely
satisfied with the arrangements made
for them, but promising to try and be
satisfied. They passed through Cincin-
natl on their way to the Far West, and
paid a visit by invitation to Woods
Theater, where between acts they enter.
tained the audience by firing miniature
paper arrows at those horrible figures OF
the drop curtain. They were much
pleased with the play, Pink Dominoes,
especially the gayly dressed ladies, and
Little White Mush, one of the fast young
chiefs, was with difficulty prevented
from going on the stage and making low
to one of the most gorgeously apparelec
coriphees. They are fine sample of th'
Indian race, physically-strapping, mus
cular fellows, giants in stature compared
with the average white man.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

ATTACKS are reported by the Turks at S1rs-
tenck, Metcha and Rustchuk. They were
repulsed in every instance.
THE Russians report the surrender of four
hundred Turks in Schipka Pass on the 2Sth
ult.
/ DETAILS of the losses in the fighting at
Metchka the 26th inst, show that the Rus
slams collected twenty-five hundred Turkish
dead.
A RUSSIAN official dispatch states that
after the capture of Pravatz the Turks
abandoned Navatche, Scoviena and Or
chanie, retreating to a Balkan defile near
TIratobast
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06

SITTING BULL has been interviewed
on the subject of his fight with Custer,
and gives vivid description of the ac-
tion. 1t is as full of poetry and elo-
quence as the speeches of Logan, the
Mingo Chief. Custer, or "Long Hail" +"
as the red men call him, aroused great
enthusiasm on account of his valor. He
fought like demon, and was the very
last of his brave band to die.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06

"PoNGo," the gorilla that has Just
given up the ghost-if it had ghost to
give up-in a European Geological
Garden, was a great favorite with the
Darwinians and other people who are
anxious to trace their descent from
animals of this nature, and much hope
was entertained that he would prove his
relationship with us. 1t has been cited,
in proof of his human intelligence, that
when he was sick he would welcome the
arrival of the doctor and would gladly
permit his tongue and pulse to be ex-
amined by that functionary The
argument is not avery strong one, for a
dog will readily permit medical treat
ment of a wound. If it could be proved
that Pongo, upon his recovery, regarded
the doctor with scorn and refused to pay
his bill, then the most skeptical might
be compelled to admit his claim to kin
ship with our race.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06

New RICHMOND, Ohio, has been en-
joying a sensation in the finding of what
was at first thought to be petrified
corpse-the body of Daniel Bushman,
buried at Boat Run Cemetery, twenty
three years ago. On examination, how
ever, it was seen, for a wonder, that the
body was in its natural flesh, no de-
composition having taken place in all
that time, and the features were natural
as life.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06

number of desperate Turks in headlong
advance over their bitches and parapets.
Captain Kwadmicki was the first to en-
ter the redoubt with his regiment, at
midnight. His sword was cut clean out
of his hand, and his clothes pierced by
the weapons of his adversaries, who
yielded not till early in the morning.
The Turkish losses are reported at five
thousand killed and wounded, and ten
thousand prisoners.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06

SIR JOSEPH HOOKER is said to have
seen more species of plants than any
other botanist. The results of hisrecent
investigation of the fora of the three
middle ATTITUDES of this country goes to
show that the vegetation resolves itself
into three meridianal foras, incom-
parably more diverse than those pre-
sented by any similar meridians in the
Old World, being, in fact, as far as the
trees, shrubs and many genera of
herbaceous plants are concerned, abso-
lutely distinct.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06

In his conference with a correspon-
dent of the New York Herald at Fort
Walsh, Sitting Bull made the charge
against Major Reno, that he stayed on
bluff near the fight where Custer was
killed, held at bay by squaws and chill
dren, while Custer awaited his aid. If
Sitting Bull is not the biggest liar in
the world, what is Major Reno?
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06

MAJOR RENO having been interviewed
by a correspondent of the New York
Herald, denies the accusation of Sitting
Bull that he was prevented by old men,
squaws and papooses from making a
junction with Custer at the battle of Big
Horn. Just as we thought. And now
old Sitting Bull, as soon as the law
will allow him, may change his name to
Living RuII
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06

THE London Garden publishes
sketches to aid the collector in determin-
ing what to gather among edible fungi
and what to avoid. What are the
infallible rules for distinguishing the
true mushroom from all other fungi :?
The true mushroom (Agaricus campes-
tris) is invariably found amongst grass
in rich, open pastures, and never on or
about stumps or in woods. Another
point is the peculiar, intense purple
brown color of the spores analogous to
seeds); the ripe and full matured mush-
room derives the intense purple-brown
color (almost black of its gills from the
presence of these innumerable colored
spores. 1t always grows in pastures:
always has dark purple-brown spores;
always has a perfect encircling clothy
collar, and always gills which do not
touch the stem and top with overlap
ping edge.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06
THIS mundane sphere is a mighty I'M.

THIS mundane sphere is mighty un-
certain sort of place. The bitter and
the sweet 60 hand in hand, and you all
ways strike an upgrade when you're in
the biggest hurry. Wealth and happi-
ness seldom work together in double
harness. A contented mind is better
than money in savings bank. The rat
can do carpenter work in the place of a
king, and the jaws of the virago may
vibrate in castles of granite. A couch
of the lightest down may support heart
heavy as homemade bread. So young
Dorfenberger thought the other day
when he read the marriage notice of the
girl he had intended to propose to this
winter
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06

THE family Of w. G. Young, of Cali
fornia, KY, have opened up a mine of
wealth in the discovery of deeds which
make them the rightful heirs to the
lands on which are situated Lexington,
Maysville, Paris, and other Kentucky
towns. This will be big bonanza for
the lawyers.