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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

WHEREVER newspapers are read the
quaint humor and inimitable drollery
of the Burlington Hd0k-Eye man"
are laughed at till the tears come, and
everybody will be glad to know that he
has Just issued a book through the
American Publishing Company, which
he calls "The Rise and Fall of the
Mustache, and other Hawkeyetems."
There is now difficulty in telling where
the laugh should come in his writings
1t finds its way at the proper place
without any prompting of its owner.
Indeed, it is impossible to prevent it
breaking out in uproarious cachinnations
when Mr.. Burdette is at his funniest,
and this is nearly every time he takes
his pen in hand. There is perpetual
flow of drolleries from his Imagination,
which amazes one at the extraordinary
prolifcness and inexhaustibility of the
fountain. The whole country has
learned to look in its newspaper for a
daily supply of borrowed Hawk
epetems," over which it may fall into
the widest merriment, and for few
moments forget every cankering care
and teasing sorrow. The man who thus
beguiles and cheers the world, putting
to its lips, as it were, a cup of the
waters of Lethe for merciful draught
is public benefactor, and should re.
ceive the warmest gratitude.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20
She Wanted to be Rich.

The Springfield Union tells story of
a young girl named Josephine Davis, who
was induced to leave her home in
Camden, New Jersey, last April, when
only thirteen years old, by man named
Henry III. Hatstadt, and Dora, his re-
puted wife. He promised to adopt her
as his own child, saying he was enor-
mously rich and would educate her and
give her all that heart could desire or
ask for. The simple-hearted little girl,
thinking it would be such splendid
chance to live life of luxury, assented,
and he took her to Franklin, in Norfolk
County, Massachusetts, and thence to
distance and sleeping in barns, box-cars,
ETC., at night. The child, finding the
life different from that promised her,
threatened to return home, but was
frightened into submission by stories
that the la~or of Camden would arrest
her, and - her in the house of correc-
ton if she returned. While in Troy he
compelled her to beg and steal for the
support of himself and Flora Jones, a
woman who passed as his wife, and when
the poor child did not bring home at
night as much money as Hatstadt re-
quired, he would curse and beat her in a
terrible manner, at one time striking her
in the eye, and nearly destroying the
sight. He even went so far as to tell her
that she was taken from her home for q
bad purpose, and that she would make
money enough for him by and by. They
remained at Troy until June Z, when
they set out on another tramp through
the country, passing days without food
of any kind, and bringing up at last al
Ware, where Hatstadt has sister living
While here the child escaped from him
and wandering around through Ware
Gilbertville, and Barre, was at last
found in Hubbardston by Chester Bills.
and wife, of Ware, who took her to theil
home, and, after hearing her story
wrote to the girls mother in Camden
The mother reached Ware Monday
morning, and was overjoyed to see hel
lost child once more, and they returned
! home to Camden.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

are additional particulars of the collision in
the channel. The Forest struck the Ava
lanche between the main and mizzen masts,
nearly cutting her in two. The latter sank
Immediately. The Forest, though utterly
wrecked, kept afioat an hour or two. Three
boats were launched from her, only one of
which has yet been saved. 1t contained the
twelve persons already .mentioned.as saved.
One boat was washed ashore and several
bodies. The other boat, it is feared, is lost.
The Avalanche had sixty-three passengers,
twenty-six saloon, seventeen second class,
and twenty third class, mostly colonists.
The disaster occurred at half past nine last
night, seven miles off Portland.
LONDON, September 13.-The latest par
ticulars show that over one hundred persons
were drowned in the disaster of the Forest
and Avalanche, off Portland.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

The Philadelphia Academy of Natural
Sciences has been discussing the adyan-
tages of promoting the growth of the
lacquer tree in this country. The varnish
obtained from this tree in Japan is used
for the beautiful lacquer-work of that
country. The tree is of the rhus family,
and the varnish, when new, is poisonous,
causing rash. DIR. Thomas mentioned
an American family, all of whom were
poisoned by some newly lacquered fur
niture sent from Japan. Prof. Rothrock
told u plain, unyarDished tale of an in
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

Mrs. DAVENPORT designs to presen
her late husbands magnificent wardrobe
to needy members of the profession. She
says she will not sell it, and she could
not bear to have it where it would be
constantly opening the wounds of her
heart afresh. Though forced to continue
on the stage for livelihood, the Daven-
port family have not been left in needy
circumstances. The residence in Can
ton is free and clear, the last mortgage
having been paid off three weeks before
MIR. Davenports death.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

CAPTAIN WHITE, of the revenue ma
rine steamer Thomas Gown, lately visited
the Territory of Alaska. In his official re-
port he states that trouble is appre-
hended among the Indians from the
excessive use of fiery and intoxicating
drink distilled by them from molasses 8
and various kinds of wild berries. The
natives and creoles lie drunk with it
half the time. The art of distilling the
drink was taught them by the soldiers.
Such is civilization.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

FROM work on the Materia Medica
of the Hindoos, recently published by
Mr.. George King, of the Royal Botanical
Gardens, Calcutta, it appears that, not
withstanding the present extensive
growth and use of tobacco and opium in
India, neither of these narcotics were
known thcre in ancient times. Opium
was introduced by the Arabs, and
tobacco was brought thithcr by the
Portuguese from America about the end
of the sixteenth century.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

TIE conduct of American women
while travelling in the old world is the
subject of letter of Mrs. G. S. Munson
to the Independent. Shesays that women
who profess Christianity attend the Sun
day evening entertainments in Germany
and France. They crowd to see the an
nual horse race for the Prix de Paris,
which is always run on Sunday. Worse
Than that, they generally visit such
places as the Jardin Mabille. Mrs
Munson says, too, that American women
are the worst gamblers atMonaco.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20
Ocean Horror.

LONDON, Sept 12-Information of a terri
BILE disaster in the English Channel has Just
been received. The British ship Avalanche,
Capt. Williams, from London, September 4,
for New leland, came in collision with the
British ship Forest, Capt. Lockhart, from
London, for New York, off Portland, and
both vessels foundered. The Forest was in
ballast and had a crew numbering twenty
one. Capt. Lockhart, chief mate, and seven
Others were saved. The Avalanche had u
crew of thirty-two and fifty passengers. The
third officer and two seamen only were
saved.
SECOND DISPATCH.1
LONDON. Sentemher 12-Thn fnllnwinr
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20
NEAn the city of Moyobamba. Peru.

NEAR the city of Moyobamba, Peru,
has been discovered tree called the
tamia-caspi, or raintree." 1t absorbs
the moisture of the atmosphere, which
it concentrates, and subsequently pours
il forth from its leaves and branches in
such quantities that in many cases the
surrounding soil is converted into bog,
and it seems to possess this power to a
greater degree during the dry, hot
weather, when water is most scarce.
The culture Of these trees in arid wastes
is recommended by the Peruvian Gov
ernment.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

A CORRESPONDENT of the Tribune in
Utah says the popular idea of the wealth
and power of the Mormon church is
wrong, and that the show of wealth
made by tine organization is delusive.
The Mormons themselves have not gone
into business and mining, but have kept
on tilling their little patches of wheat
and potatoes, paying tithing, marrying,
obeying council, livin gthier religion, !"
and growing poorer and more wretched
every year. Brigham Young told his
people, two years ago, that they were
the most miserable people in. the world.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

WITHIN ten years, no less than 12,-
100000 acres of forest have been cut
down and burned over in the United
States. Much of the timber is used for
fuel, twenty-five cities being on record
rs consuming from 5000 to 10000 acres
each. Fences use up much timber, and
railway sleepers require the product of
10000 acres per annum. The amount
of pine and lumber timber yet standing
in the forests of the timber States, is
estimated at 225,0O0,0OO feet. The sum
of $l44, ,00O,00 is invested in the timber
industry, employing 100000 men.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

THERE isuntold honor, fame and gold
awaiting the man who will invent
steam hired girl that will fasten the al
ley gate at night and one who can be got
up in the morning without raising an
alarm of fire.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

Nor only is kindness due to every one,
but special kindness is due to every
one. Kindness is not kindness unless it
be special. 1t is in its fitness, season.
ableness and individual application that
its charms consist
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

THE oil of roses that is manufactured
in the country south of the Balkans is
worth half its weight in gold. A short
crop is an advantage to the rose growers
for the price rises in the exact ratio of
the scarcity of the roses
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20
An AnecdOte of Bret Harte.

Bret Harte was lecturtng in Pennsyl-
vania a short time ago. At one of his
appointments he felt very much de-
pressed. 1t is popularity of humorists
to be melancholy at times, and he was in
this mood now. One of the committee
went back of the scenes to see him, and
the depressed humorist welcomed him as
a scene of unusual good sunshine. They
shocks hands-Harte earnestly, the COM
mittee man decorously.
"Mr. Harte," he said, gravely, "you
will find this an unusually healthy
city,
"Ah," said the humorist.
"Yes; the death rate is only one a
day"
At this juncture Harte took the COM
mittee man by the arm and hurriedly
asked:
els he dead?"
"Deadr' calculated the committee
man: "Who's deadT'
"Why the man for to-day" was the
grave reply.
The committee man stared with all
his might into the immovable face of the
lutecrer.
"Isn't there a clerk, or register, or
coroner, or something like that, of whom
you could find out whether a man foI
this day has died? p
"Why, yes, suppose so" slowly re-
piled the committee man.
Would you be so good, then, as to
find out, and before l commence the
lecture if possible, whether the man is
dead? If he is dead then | am all right
for / am to leave the city early to-mor
row morning; but if he is not dead,
can not but feel uneasy about myself, a.
l am not well tonight"
The kind hearted committee man hur
ried away to get the information.
When in his room at the hotel tha
night servant told him that gentle
man wished to see him. He went dowI
stairs and there met the committee man
"I am sorry, Mr.. Harte, to disturb
you," he said, "but could not get tn,
information any earlier. 1t is all right
That death rate l spoke of was only Al
average"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

A FRENCH scientist claims to have
discovered that writer's cramp is not an
affection of the muscles of the arm or
hand, but that the difficulty centers in
the nervous action of particular por-
ton of the brain.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

THE only place yet heard from where
steve-pipes are taken down and put up
without profanity is the deaf and dumb
asylum. But the victims keep up a
terrible thinking, though, and all
writing materials are carefully hidden
for the time.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

BIRDS killed on the Western prairies,
packed closely with paper in barrels,
and without any freezing or other
artificial process of preservation, now
60 regularly to London, England, and
are eaten in the dining-rooms there side
by side with the much more expensive
partridges, pheasants, and fowls of
England
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

A FARM hand for harvesting is paid in
Central Italy seven cents a day, and
considers himself lucky man to find
employment at that rate. But he is 80
economical and abstemious, and the food
he deems sufficient is 50 cheap, that he
can save money out of this pittance.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

The twelve Mormon Apostles have
waited upon the Lord /" and received a
revelation to the effect that the last days
are at hand, and that it is important
that the faithful should pay up their
tithing promptly. This may be regarded
as the settlement of the Mormon prob
lem
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

A STRANGE lawsuit is in progress in
Australia A Tasmania capitalist pur-
chased two islands from the govern
ment. When he proceeded to take
possession the islands disappeared, and
where they stood was only water. Now
he wants the government to give him
back his money, and the courts of the
colony are to decide whether it shall
or not. Perhaps this is the first time
volcanic agency was ever made the
subject Of lawsuit.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

The imperial government of China
has lately issued an edict against the use
of opium by the Chinese people, and
vigorous efforts are also making to limit
the culture of the poppy in China. In
addition to the home production, opium
is imported into China to the annual
value of over $40, 900, 900, principally
from British India. More than 81 ,00O,-
900 worth is annually shipped to Cali
fornia for the use of the Chinese in that
State.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

DURING last year there were l0,Sl9
boys and 1881 girls born in Minnesota.
There were $50 pairs of twins, eight sets
of triplets, and one of quadruplets.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20
EDITORIAL OLIO.

By the earthquake of 525, 100000
persons perished in Antioch and the
ancient Berytus, and all its inhabitants
were destroyed. The same country has
often suffered, and in the last, in 1892,
Aleppo, etc, were overthrown in six
seconds, and 10000 perished.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

stance where full company of soldiers
was sent to Cape Cod to drill, and ninety
five per cent of them were poisoned by
plant of the rhus kind, probably "poison
sumach ,,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20
RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS,
POREDIN, September 11---5:20 a. m.

Our siege batteries cannonaded Plevna
all day Monday, and until late in the night.
The left wing, under General Skobeletf,
captured another one of the ne1ghboring
heights, which will enable us to lombard
the enemy's positions and the town of
P1evna itself. The enemy opposed General
Skobeletf very feebly. Our cavalry on the
Sophia road has defeated a detachment of
Circassians from Plevna. Our losses to the
present time are insignificant.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20
Official Bulletins from PIeyna.

LONDON, September 12.-The following
official bulletin is not in harmony with the
Vienna and Bucharest reports Of the cap
ture of Plevna:
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20
RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS.

PoREDIN, September l8-l040 a. NJ.
Our batteries cannonaded Plevna all day
Sunday. The Turks made a considerable
sortie against our left wing, but were
pulsed, losing heavily.
The Roumanians made bold reconnois-
sance of the enemy's redoubts, which
opened heavy fire, but was silenced by the
concentrated fire from our batteries. The
position of one of our siege batteries was
changed Sunday evening, to enable it to can
nonade the fortified Turkish encampment.
Heavy cannonading continued throughout
the night, and has increased in extent and
activity from five o'clock this morning.
All quiet at other points of the theater of
war.
At the capture of Lovatz we took two
Turkish standards and a quantity of arms
and ammunition. We buried two thousand
two hundred Turkish dead. Large num-
bers were sabered by our cavalry during the
If AiiE Log ~ nd
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20
The Indians.
Cincinnati Commercial

ST. LOUIS, September 1.-THE Republican
has the following special from Camp Stam-
baugh, Wyoming Territory, dated Septem-
Der II: The Wind River expedition against
the hostile Nez Perces, consisting of five
of the Fifth Cavalry and one of
the Third, under the command of General
Merritt, left Camp Brown, forty miles north
of this place, on the 9th inst. General
Crook was present in person to see that
everything was in campaign order, and to
give his final directions. This makes the
fourth column now in the field against Chief
Joseph, and it is confidently believed that
he has ventured too much, and must either
fight or surrender. His position when last
heard from was critical being between the
forces of General Howard and those of
Colonel Sturgis, of the Seventh Cavalry,
only short distance from either. Which
ever way he moves now there is a command
to confront him. A junction with Sitting
Bull can not be effected, and it is not be-
ieved that the Grow Indians, who have al
ways been friendly, will receive him. A
very few days snow will determine the fate of
the willy chieftain. Gen. Crook has returned
to Omaha.
SITTING BULL TAKES A HINT, AND LEAVES
CANADIAN TERRITORY.
NEW YORK, September 11.-A cores
pondent tells the story of the cause of Sit
ting Bull leaving the British possessions. He
says: The British officers and Sitting Bull
had a council, and after the council the tribe
performed the usual dance. A young half
breed, Bill Culverson, at present Govern
ment scout, joined in the dancing. After
it was over he became excited, counting his
scalps, and said to Sitting Bull: "Look, I
have killed many of your hostile red
skins"
Sitting Bull drew his revolver, movement
initiated by Culverson, but before either
could shoot, Major Welsh, with his revolver
drawn, sprang between them and told
Sitting Bull to puthis pistol away. Turning
to Sitting Bull, he said: 81 want you to un-
derstand that you can not commit any of
your deviltries here, as you do in the
United States. 1 will give you and your
tribe five days to leave this country; if you
are not gone then, or if you ever return, l
will fight you. If you are ever caught here
again, or If youshoot this man, I'll have you
hanged by your neck till you are dead"
Sitting Bull left the next day.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20

LONDON, September 12.-The following
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-10
The knights Temp,ar.

The Knights Templar-not the
knights Templars, although you
may speak of them as Templars-
were a religious order of soldier.
monks, vowed to single life, ohas-
tity, protection of women, duty to
the church and the faith of Christ.
1t was indeed a noble order, 1t
was instituted when the Crusaders,
after the first wave of that impulse
which carried them to the Holy
Land had died away, were weak in
men, and when the soldiers Of the
cross who had taken Jerusalem
wanted every help. Then it was
that the orders of the religious who
had thronged to the Holy Land for
peace, prayer and from longing to
Law their bones in that land cover
whose acres walked those blessed
feet" which for our behest were
nailed upon the shameful cross, s,wero
pressed into the service, and were,
as well as laymep, sworn to protect
the temple of the Lord. Hence
they were called Knights Templar
After the Holy Land was lost,
the order continued, and held
Rhodes and other islands, fight.
ing the Turks well, but
grew into a proud, rich, lustiul and
terribly vicious organization - al
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-10
A French Romance.

There was a certain bride of high
birth who felt that she had cause to
suspect her equally high-born hus-
band. Her suspicious pointed to-
ward an intimate friend, who not
only had a lisp, but also never used
any perfume but jasmine, and in
yariably dresses in white, mauve or
black. Wife and friend were both
of a height. To procure a toilet
of white satin and mauve velvet, a
blonde wig, jasmine odor and jas
mine blossoms, and to counterfeit
the lisp, was the act of the quick
witted and jealous woman. A
bunch of Cape jasmine blossoms
held her domino at the throat.
Next, at the last moment she
feigned illness, and said she would
not go; monsieur started, and mad
anne, with the aid of her femme de
ohambre, was soon ready to follow,
to find her husband, who had been
looking EXTREMITY bored, grow ami
mated and seek her side at once.
The music that drowned the tones
of their voices and the assumed
lisp aided in her project. An ap-
pointment was made for the follow
ing day, which both kept. An
eclaircissement then.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-10
HOBART PASHA,
some OF his Daring Exploits I'm the
confederate Service During Ihe

Some Of HtB Daring Exploits in the
confederate Service During Ihe
New York Tribune
The exploits of Admiral Hobart
Pasha, Of the Turkish navy, in
passing down the Danube under
the very guns of the Russian bat.
teries at Galatz, as described in the
recent London dispatches, recalls
to memory the career of this ad-
yenturous man as a blockade run
ner in America during the war of
the rebellion. Captain George
Forsyth, of Charleston, formerly
an officer in the Confederate navy,
and at present visiting this city,
gave to Tribune reporter, lately,
the following particulars of Admi-
raj, then Commandant Hobart's
experience in this country. AT the
outbreak of the war a number of
wealthy merchants in England
formed an association, the object Of
which was to aid the Southern
cause. Commandant Hobart and
several other officers in the English
navy were enlisted in the cause and
sent to the Southern States, where
their services were eagerly accepted.
Hobart landed at Charleston in the
summer or fall of 1861, and was at
once assigned to naval duties. He
soon developed a taste for daring
adventure, and attracted attention
by his success in capturing several
small Union vessels and greatly
damaging others.
In the following spring he was
placed in charge of a blockade run
ner on the Atlantic coast, where he
did valuable work for the Confeder-
ates. He was soon after recalled to
the gulf, and for nearly year was
on the staff of the admiral COM
manding at Pensacola. The numer-
Gus successful attacks upon the
Union fleets and the daring block
ade running in the vicinity are
credited in the main to his planning
and bold execution. In 1868 he
was again put in command of
several blockade runners, and then
began a series of exploits which
created admiration for the skill and
bravery displayed in their execu-
ton. 1t is estimated that Hobart
was engaged in no less than
twenty such undertakings, all of
which were exceedingly annoying
and in many instances disastrous to
the Union cause. Hobart was
about 40 years of age when he ar
rived in this country. He was a
heayy-built man, of dark complex
ion, and was noted for his imperious
bearing and the ardor with which
he prosecuted every undertaking.
He went to.England in the spring
Of 1864, on account, it is said, of a
difficulty with the officers of the
Confederate government