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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1877-04-11
11srA DE pREc1os DE LOS rAsAJrs DE Ia cLAsr.

En- "a 3y5 parties y en- ga una cuarta parte de los
prccos de Ia Los pasaeros de "a cse han de lleyaI
consgo los enseres de CANA y las proyisiones nece
sarias.
Cuando el vanor sale de este puerto Il las de !!
manana. Sc expenderi ningun billete en- dichC
dia pero hari de de la tarde cl dia anterior
m;is de las horas acostumbradaS.
INGLATERRA Y FRANCIA.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1877-04-11

Sc expiden pasajes de ida vuelta validos por dos
meses 25 ps. de rebaja los pasaIeros de camara
NINOS.
Los nifios de los pasaje, os que no tongan ahos
cumplidos, son llevados gratis. Los que tengan :
amos cumpdos hasta sin cumplir. pagaran a pasa-
je. Los que tengan afios cumplidOs no lleguen II
II, pagardn \ pasaie; de II amos en- adeante pagan
DaSaie entero. En- caso de que una famila fenga 1
nnos memories de mos. uno de ellos solamcnte Sc
lleva gratis, los otros pagaran a pasaJe.
CRIADOS.
Los criados de los paaajeros pagardR en- los via(es
trasatlantcos pasaje de entrepucnte SO Las cria-
das pagardn las 40 del preco del pasale segun Ia en-
tegoria tomada por sus amos: no tienen derecho l"
estar los salones. sino Ell tempo rlgdrosamente
necesario para el servico de sus amos.
Recomendamos a los pasajeros inscriban sus
caracteres inteligibles Los passages SO eXpden hast
una hora antes de la salida dc los vaporcs.
No Sc adniten fetes despues de la llegada de los
vapores. Para mas nformes dirgirse Ii los Consig-
natarioS.
LLAuRI. BoRDA COMP.
Mnyapnez IA de Fcbrcro de 1876
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
The Maine State Convention.

The Maine Republican State Convention
met at Augusta on August 9, and Governor
Connor was renominated unanimously and
by acclamation. The following resolution
was presented:
Resolved, That we reaffirm unshaken conf
of Rutherford B. Hayes and cordially approve his
efforts to carry out good faith the principles avowed
by the Cincinnati Convention.
Governor Chamberlain spoke in favor of
this resolution. and his remarks were re-
ceived with great applause. &. A. Boutelle,
of Bangor moved the following amendment,
and advocated its adoption:
ResoIyed, That this convention declare the belief
that Governor Packard, of Louisiana, and Governor
Chamberlain, of South Carolina were entitled to
their respective offices by the same votes which
elected Rutherford B. Hayes President of the United
States and that both Governors clearly entitled
to recognition by the national government and that
the failure recognize them placed the national gov
ernment in humliating attitude of surrendering to
rebels, threatening, with arms in their hands, to re-
sist its legitimate authority.
Hon. V. A. Farwell, of Rockland, spoke
in favor of Gen. Chamberlain's resolution.
Mr.. Blaine took the floor, and said he was
opposed to both resolutions and in favor OF
peace. He moved that the resolutions be
tabled.
Mr.. A. G. Lebrake made violent speech
against the Administration, which was
greeted with cheers and Kisses.
After other speeches, Aaron V. Morrill,
said he wanted peace, but there was no
peace in opposition to the National Admin
istration, and he desired to say this to his
friends who had preceded him. He pro-
ceeded to address the convention amid a
scene of great confusion, being greeted
with cheers and Kisses.
Blaine's motion to table both resolutions
prevailed,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
RAILWAY BUJLDING IN 1877,

The Rail,oay Age, of Chicago, pub
fishes statement of the extent of rail-
way building in the United States during
the last six months, which shows that,
up to July l, 1864 miles of track had
been laid, as against $50 miles in the
same period in 1876, 400 in 1875, and
$50 in 1874. In every year noted the
track-laying of the first six months was
from third to one-ffth only of that
of the year. This points to mileage
of 5000 miles or more of new track in
1877. The Railocay Age says: Avery
notable feature is the amount of narrow
gauge track, all three feet, except one
(the Philadelphia and Atlantic City,
three feet and one-half). Of the 705a
miles built, 283, or over forty per cent,
are of this class-a pretty good evidence
that the narrow-gauge theory has in
herent merit, and is destined to form
very important portion of our railway
system, in spite of the opposition of
some who can see no good in any gauge
but the standard. We believe in both,
in their appropriate spheres. The cost
of railway building was never so low as
now, and yet it costs great deal of
money to build railways of any kind in
any times. The economy of narrow
gauge roadshas generally been overrated,
and the extremely low figures antici-
pated by some have seldom been ad-
hered to. On the other hand, the enor-
nous rate of $4,000 to 100000 per
mile, at which our principal lines were
formerly built, has been greatly reduced
for the best roads of late years. 1t will,
perhaps, be fair to estimate the average
cost of the roads in the above list of both
gauges, including equipment, at 1000
per mile.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
A SUICIDES HOTEL.

The Suicides Hotel in Paris has been
torn down. 1t was situated in the Latin
Quarter and was great place of resort
for students, but of late years it gath
cred around itself rather a superstitious
reputation, which gave it the cheerful
name it bore. Ten years ago a young
student blew out his brains in the room
which he was occupying, and just one
year afterward another student COM
mitted suicide in the same room after
losing his money in a gambling-house.
The proprietor of the hotel was alarmed
at the fate of these unhappy students
and the room was transformed into a
lumber-closet. A few months afterward
a waiter, who had been accused of theft,
crept into this lumber-room and hanged
himself. A strong-minded druggist took
possession of the premises and carried
on his business there, but being over
taken by serious trouble, he retired to
the fatal chamber and poisoned himself
with his own drugs. At last notice was
given that the place was about to be
pulled down to make room for the
Boulevard Saint Germain. An indem-
nifty of $4,000 was demanded, but re-
fused, and the jury having decided that
$l7,500 was ample compensation, the
owner grew Respondent and declared he
was a ruined man. A month ago he
asked permission to visit the old prem
ises before they were pulled down. His
request was granted and nothing more
was heard of him until the workmen
found him hanging by the neck in the
tnl
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
Successful Cremation.

DR.. G. F. Winslow, a Massachusetts
man, died at Salt Lake City on the 7th
of July, leaving directions that his body
should be cremated. Owing to the op-
position of friends, this direction was
not carried out until the 31st ult. On
that day the corpse, which weighed one
hundred and twenty pounds, was put in
a furnace at $50 p. m. According to
count of the process to the Chicago
Times, the furnace was constructed
with double fues, so that the flames
came directly in contact with an en-
velope above the body, large current
of air being admitted. The first ap-
pearance, as seen through the mica
apertures, was that of roasting, but in
twenty minutes nearly all the flesh was
consumed, and the bones had begun to
crumble. Half an hour later very lit
tie could be seen of the form of the
body At 7:45 o'clock DIR. Hamilton
opened the door of the furnace, and
only one or two pieces of bones could
be seen, and they crumbled under the
weight of the ashes. At S:55 the pro-
cess was pronounced complete and sue
cessful by Drs. Hamilton and Smart.
The fires were drawn, and the ashes left
to cool short time before being re-
moved"
We were shown, says the Cincinnati
Gazette, by gentleman to whom it had
been sent in letter, about a teaspoon,
full of the ashes of one of the thigh
bones of the deceased. 1t was pure
white powder, looking very much like
cream of tartar. The cremation had
been thoroughly accomplished as far as
the osseous system was concerned. A
small jar would have been amply suffi
cient to contain the entire remains, il
the whole are to be judged from one Of
its parts.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
Slightly Familiar with Wales.

Those who remember how Major Tom
Ochiltree was appointed United States
Marshal for the estate of Texas-persuad-
ing President Grant that he, Major Tom,
was seriously injured in the defense of
the Presidents good name against a
crowd of Texan rufians-wilI not be
prejudiced against the truth of this other
story anent him as told by a New Mex
leo newspaper: On one occasion he was
in England, guest of nobleman who
had come in contact with him during a
visit to this country, and who had fallen
an easy victim to Toms unsurpassed
impudence and powers of fascination.
The Englishman had taken Tom to Lon
don and was exhibiting him to his friends
as a genuine American lion. Tom was
plentifully supplied with funds by his
noble friend, and was cutting grand
figure. One day Tom and his friend met
the Prince of Wales at club. The no.
bleman asked permission of the Prince
to introduce his American friend. Leave
having been obtained, Tom was form
ally introduced to the heir apparent. He
grasped the royal hand and shook it
heartily, and then burst out: Wales, old
fellow, Pm devilish glad to know you
let's take drinkp The horror of the
nobleman was changed to amazement
when the Prince gave Toms hand a
hearty shake and replied, Don't care if
do Cheek carried the day"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
RAILROAD CONSULTATION.

The Enquirer intimates that move
ment is on foot among the railroad men
of Cincinnati for the calling of meet
ing in that city of prominent railroad
officials of the country for the purpose
of concerted action and a general agree
ment upon the matter of rates and
general management. Letters have been
sent out to various officials throughout
the country urging such action.
The object of the proposed consulta-
ton is principally an advance in the
rates of freight. Probably no better oc-
casion was ever offered for concerted
action of this kind than at the present
moment. The late strike, growing as it
did out of reduction in wages to which
the management was forced, was the
legitimate and logical result of con-
tinued system of carrying freights at less
than cost, which had been in active op-
| Grafton for months, and which to the
disgrace of the railroad management, be
| it said, is being again openly entered
upon as soon as the strike is ended.
More than half the roads in the country
have been bankrupted by this process,
and unless some action in the direction
indicated by this call for a meeting is
taken, the remainder must follow. The
business public is generally aware of
this fact, and recognizing it in its ter
rible reality, are willing that an advance
shall take place. More than this, they
are even anxious for it and will cheer
fully acquiesce, and, more than that
will themselves put their shoulders
to the wheel to help in the united move
ment. The railroad managers of the
country are, and have been, engaged il
Kilkenny-cat warfare, and now the
business public proposes to take the
combatants by the tails, and if the fgh
isn't stopped something will be apt t.
give way.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
The Mean Small BOy.

The mean small boy is different from
the mean big boy, because all of his
tricks are calculated to make other
hearts ache. He now takes a silver
quarter and makes it fast to string,
and to see him hanging about the Post
office one would set him down as boy
who never had an evil thought. He
selects a victim, and drops the quarter
where it will do the most good. The
ring of the metal commands attention at
once, and the programme is carried out
as in case yesterday. The victim was
a short man, with very red neck, and
when he heard the quarter drop he
clapped his hand on his pocket and
looked around.
"Did you drop a quarter ?" mildly
asked the mean small boy, pointing to
one on the stone floor.
"Ah! must be hole in my pocket" :"
replied the fat man as he pulled up the
knees of his pants and bent over to pick
it up.
He had his fingers on the money when
it slid away, and as he Strengthened up
he was greeted with fiendish chuckles
from half a dozen mean big and mean
small boys, one of whom inquired:
Which pocket has hole in it?''
The man didn't say. For some in
explicable reason he refused to enter
into any explanation, but fastened away.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
Patent Applied For.

A melancholy young married man has
made several Intellectual attempts to have
his landlord provide a door-bell for his
house. First he sent to his landlord some
pathetic verses entitled, ''What is Home
without a Door-bell," which had no
effect whatever. Finally the melancholy
tenant hit on the following plan, which
he has put into active operation: He has
arranged the floor of his front porch so
that it acts something after the manner
of the platform of Fairbanks scale,
which, on receiving persons weight,
instantly connects with some diabOlical
machinery concealed below. The whole
force of the apparatus beneath is then
club, which Immediately drops from the
ceiling of the porch and bats the door.
By an ingenious contrivance a person
whose weight is fifty pounds, standing on
the porch, causes one single rap; one
hundred pounds, two raps, and so forth,
being graduated so asto give the inmates
an idea of the size of their visitor. The
inventor is in great terror, however, lest
fat neighbor, who lives opposite,
should take it into his head to call before
the thing is entirely perfect, as his
weight would cause about sixteen raps,
and, in all probabilities, would smash in
the door. The inventor also, with sad
smile, explained to us how, by adjusting
a little wire, he could turn the descending
club from its regular course, and COM
pletely bat the penurious landlord off
the porch when he called for the rent.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
Another Distressed NObleman.

A tramp came along the other day,
says the Bridgeport Standard, and con-
fided to the impressible better half of a
farmer on the road that he was Count,
who was travelling through the country
in this humble way seeking true heart
which he might win and take back with
him to share in the revenues of his i'm
mense estates in Italy. He begged that
she wouldn't mention the fact, as it
might interfere with his cherished plan
of being loved for himself alone. She
promised not to say word about it, and
invited the Count to stop with them all
night, giving him the best bed in the
house and the seat nearest the beefsteak
at the supper table. The meal was quite
revelation to her in the matter of the
table habits of the nobility of Europe,
but the discovery she made in the morn
ing was still greater eye-opener. His
lordship had departed in the small
hours, taking with him, probably as
cherished souvenirs, the larger portions
of the bed linen, the farmers best boots,
an old horse pistol and half ham. He
left dirty, scrawling misspelled note,
stating that he must away, as his pas
sionate longing for the true heart of
which he was ever in search would not
let him rest until they were united. The
farmer loaded his shotgun, took the
road, and was gone two days, but didn't
| find the Count. He must havs gone
J back to his estates In Italy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
A Novel Lawsuit,

A village in New York State furnishes
a very complicated matrimonial suit
which at present embarrasses the legal
fraternity of that district Cyrus c.
Haskins, who was twice a widower, fell
very much in love with Mrs. Brooks,
who was twice widow, and so far every
thing seems very appropriate. But
Mrs. Lizzie Spaulding, who was once a
widow, and could therefore not hope to
vie with Mrs. Brooks, became exceed
ingly enamored with c. c. Haskins, and
here begins the complication. However,
Mrs. Spaulding induced Mrs. Brooks to
sell all interest in c. G. for and in con-
sideration of four hundred dollar
house and lot. Mrs. b. therefore re-
signed in favor of Mrs. S, and further
more induced Mr.. H. to transfer the
wealth of his affections to that lady.
The marriage took place, and Mrs. Has
kins, who formerly was Mrs. Spaulding,
was requested by Mrs. Brooks to turn
over the deed of the house and lot. But
Mrs. ii. expressed her desire to see Mrs
B. get the house and lot if she could
And now lawsuit will decide who owns
that house and lot, and it remains to be
seen whether the law of the land will
permit the bartered affections of Mrs
| Brooks to be trampled upon.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
Pacific Steamship Eten Wrecked North
of Valparaiso.

New YORK, August 11.-A Star and Her.
aid, of Panama, just received, announces the
total loss of the Pacific Steam Navigation
Company's steamer Eten, Captain Coathupe,
on the morning of the 18th of July, at Los
Vilos, about seventy miles north of Valpa-
raiso. Fourteen bodies had been recovered,
while forty-three of the crew and passengers
had reached the shore in safety, and twenty
were still on the rocks.
A British war vessel and Chilian gun
boat were sent to the scene of the wreck
as soon as reported, but were unable to
render assistance, owing to rough weather
and a fog.
The survivors on the rocks, from exposure
and want of food, threw themselves into the
sea to end their misery, and only three were
saved.
correspondent writes that out of the
crew (sixty-seven all told) and the passen-
gers, there are probably saved sixty-three.
There could not have been less than from
ninety to one hundred passengers. The loss
of life, therefore, may be estimated at about
one hundred persons.
The commander of the vessel is thought to
be among the lost.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

The last steamer from Hayti reports the
breaking out of another revolution there.
THE Journal DesDebats of August an
nounces that the Gar has just recrossed the
Danube.
THE Gar has ordered levy of 1SS, 900 of
the Landwehr. The entire Imperial Guard
has been ordered to the front.
IT is said that bitter discussions have
arisen between the Car and the Grand Duke
Nicholas, in regard to the conduct of the
campaign.
THE Bosnian insurrection is at an end.
The insurgents are crossing into Dalmatia,
and are being interned on the islands in the
Adriatic.
THE Russians not only have not recovered
from their disastrous defeat at Plevna, but
have met with new reverses. A late dis
patch says they have lost Is 900 in another
engagement.
THE Russian troops around Plevna have
been reinforced, and now number seventy
thousand The Roumanian army, numbering
twenty-five thousand, now passing contin-
ually to Nikopolis, will form the extreme
right of this force.
SPECIAL dispatches report that the vii
lage of Garnsee, near Marienwender, Prus-
sia, has been destroyed by fire, and that
eight hundred persons are rendered home
less, and that the town of Sundsvall, Sweden,
has been almost totally burned.
A ADIsPATCH from Berlin says the Emperors
of Austria and Germany met nea- Islon,
Wednesday, August 1, and that the con-
ference was very important. Emperor
Wilhelm urged strict neutrality on the part
of both Austria and Germany.
A ZARA special says that after seven hours
engagement August 4, the insurgents, under
Gen. Despotovich, were defeated with great
loss. Despotovich, with three hundred fol-
lowers, crossed the frontier into the Austrian
territory, where he was intercepted and dis
armed.
THE regulations concerning the forced
loan of 100000, 900 piastres, and the forma-
ton of a civil guard for Constantinople
have been published. All Ottoman subjects,
without distinction, must participate in the
loan. Men from twenty to forty years of
age will be enrolled in the civil guard.
APPALLING misery is reported among the
Bulgarian and Turkish fugitives from Eski
Saghra and the neighborhood. There are
from ten thousand to fifteen, thousand of
whom five hundred are wounded. Many are
dying on the road from exhaustion and star
vation. All are destitute of every necessary
of life.
OsMAN Pasha telegraphs from Plevna that
eight battalions of Russian infantry and
eight squadrons of cavalry attacked Lovatz
Tuesday, August 7. The garrison at Lovatz,
having been reinforced by five battalions of
infantry and some cavalry from Plevna, re-
pulsed the Russians, who lost three hundred
killed and six hundred wounded.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
NUMBER 10.
Afternoon Men.


There is proverb which says, ''What
can be done any time is never done" :"
and it applies especially to class who
have become slaves to the habit of pro-
crastination- habitual postponing of
everything that they are not compelled
by necessity to do immediately. Now,
delays are not only damaging to present
prospects, but destructive OF ultimate
success. A dllatory man is not to be de-
pended upon, the slightest pretext is
sufficient for him to disappoint you; if
an employee, the sooner he is discharged
the greater the advantage to the en-
ployer.
There are those who may properly be
called afternoon men; they are always
busy getting ready to go to work. In
the morning they walk around, carefully
inspect their duties, and say, Flenty to
DO 10 DAY; L must go to work this alter
noon! ABOUT three O'Clock they sur
Fey What they maven / zone, ana ex-
claim: "One thing or other has preyen-
ted me from making any headway to-day.
Ill quit and begin bright and early to
morrow morning!' One day with them
is simply the reflection OF another; there
Is nothing accomplished IN whole life,
and their westerlng sun overtakes them
and finds no preparation for the wants
and lntirmlties OF age. There is moth
ing to look back upon but squandered
time.
One hours exercise IN the morning
loosens the muscles OF the limbs, sets the
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16

BRISTOL, r. l., dates back nearly two
centuries, and long before the Revolu-
tionary War her streets were laid out
by a royal engineer, who did his work
so well that no modern macadamizer
has been able to improve on it. 1t is
asserted that this is the only ancient
town in America, with the solitary ex-
ception of Philadelphia, where the
streets are all made "on the square,"
and where, for the whole distance of
each one, they run as straight as an
arrow.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16

GEN. LIE Due, the Commissioner of
Agriculture, isorganizing society called
the Relief Union, at Washington, to
provide an efficient agency for concen-
trating and distributing aid to the poor
of the District, the leading principles of
the society being to afford relief to the
needy by furnishing work of some kind
at bread-wages and to offer aid in selling
any and all products of industry to the
best advantage to the workmen.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16

A PooRHoUsE in Canada has been de-
stroyed by fire and seventeen persons
burned to death. The disaster is very
like that which occurred on Long Is
land year or two ago, in which the
majority of those who lost their lives
were aged and decrepit persons
Wherever one of these buildings is de-
stroyed the loss of life is generally very
great. Many of these buildings are of
a fimsy character, and when attacked
by flame are destroyed in short time.
The law should see to it that all such
public institutions are made safe with
out delay. Most communities have
laws touching the subject, but they are
generally dead letter.