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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07
Same PeonIe i'm Asuyu,ns.

It is about as difficult as ever to get
sane people out of the English private
lunatic asylums. A committee of the
House of Commons have lately had be-
fore them four or five outrageous cases.
Mrs. Lowe, a minister's wife, who was
simply Spiritualist, was confined in an
asylum fifteen months, during which she
was twice held to be insane by two of
the Commissioners in Lunacy. She was
transferred from one asylum to another,
Notwithstanding the Superintendent of
the first asylum refused to sign the nee
essary papers on the ground of her sanity.
Her letters were not posted; even one
of her cousins, Charles Kingsley, the
late well-known author, was withheld
from the post by DIR. Maudsley. A Mrs.
Petschler, a photographers wife, was got
into an asylum by her sister for the
Enthusiastically British reason that her
sister &c occupied a good position and OBJ
jected to relative of hers being engaged
in trade in the same place." The caste
of society as distinguished from trade
people must be vigorously insisted on.
In this case clergyman was frightened
into assuming the Office of committing
magistrate. In another case man was
incarcerated by his wife. There is &
strong demand for the entire abolition Of
private asylums.
A RUSSIAN commis5ariat officer a
Odessa was detected adulterating fou
about to be sent to the army with lime
and other substances. He was i'm
mediately tried, and shot within twenty
four hours after the discovery took place
The Russian Government trust that thi
summary execution will put stop t.
these practices, which caused so mucl
! suffering to the Russian soldiers durin
the Crimean war.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07
The Latest B,

The Latest Bait for Count fryn, en-.
Warnings of this kind appear to do
but little good, as the victims are
gene rally men too stingy to subscribe for
a newspaper, but we float this at a
venture:
The latest fraud on the farming COM
munity is the springfield swindle, the
modus operandi of which is as follows:
The first of the gang engages storage
room in the farmers barn, for spring
beds, representing himself as agent for
the manufacturers. He gets the victim
to write down his name and address, and
departs. Shortly afterward another
stranger informs the farmer that the
spring beds he ordered are at the door
and presents his bill for large invoice.
The farmer disclaims the transaction,
upon which the collector shows him his
signature to large order for beds. If he
still refuses to settle, two more strangers
visit him representing themselves to be
the lawyers of the company. They
threaten legal proceedings, but are will.
ing to compromise for portion of the
claim,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07

The Euening Journal says that Chi
cago man thought he needed an errand
boy, and so he hired one. He advertised
for him, and picked him out of a drove of
two or three hundred, or maybe more,
because he seemed to be a brighter and
smarter boy than any of the rest, and
the man had the pleasure of telling his
wife and all his friends that he had got a
"tip-top good boy"
The first errand the man sent that boy
only took him about three minutes to do.
1t was to 60 down the street and back, to
take letter to the mail box. Evidently
he was ".tip-top good boy"
The second errand was to carry book
to a friend near by, and occupied an
hour. Evidently he got slow very fast
for a " tip-top good boy"
The third trip was to carry bundle
of papers to a lawyers Office, and the
boy was gone until the next day, giving
as an excuse that he thought it would
be just as well to hand in the bundle
when he came from home in the morning.
Evidently the boy was very slow boy
for "tip-top good boy"
The next errand the man sent that boy
was for a quarters worth of envelopes.
The boy got the quarter and started out.
Three minutes passed. An hour passed.
A day passed. 1t has been six months
since the boy went out after those en-
velopes, and he hasn't got back yet. Ev.
identity he is an awful slow boy for a
" "tip-Iop good boy" Still, when he gets
back it shall be our pleasure to finish
this item, and let everybody know just
exactly how long tip-top good boy u
usually stays away on his fourth errand
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07

IN the year 1928 the Russians lost
thirty-six thousand men by sickness
alone in Bulgaria. In the following
year they lost sixty thousand between
the Pruth and Adrianople; whilst out of
one hundred and twenty thousand men
not ov er six thousand ever recrossed the
Russian frontier alive.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07

In ancient Rome, in the period of
from two to five hundred years after the
Christian era, the average duration of
life in the most favored classes was
thirty years. In the sixteenth century
the average longevity in Geneva was
twenty-one and one-half years. Between
1914 and 1888 it increased to nearly
forty and three-fourths. In England the
average life of annuitants in 1893 was
twenty-six years, but in 1890 it had in
creased to thirty-three. The average in
this country is over thirty five, and is
slowly increasing.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07
LOVE SONGS.

I draw each day some happy thought
From my rich memories of thee,
As Orient pearls the driver brings
Up from the gem-producing sea.
Each night pass the gates of sleep
To walk thy gracious form beside,
As If one entered Paradise,
And met the soul of his dead bride.
So is my life, by love of thee,
Made night and day alike divine:
Like some rude, worthless cup of clay
Filled to the brim with priceless wine.
SPECIFICS through all the cherries night,
Stood Memnon's statue but at morn
The stone lips hailed the Day-god bright
With sounds of love and rapture born.
Lo here an image of my heart,
That has no voice bereft of thee;
But into songs of joy must start
If thy sweet presence shines on me.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07
NUMBER 9.
Poisoning Rodents.

In many parts of the West, and es-
pecially in California, squirrels, pocket
gophers and other species of rodents are
so very destructive to crops that it be-
comes necessary to poison or, in some
way, lessen the number of these animals.
Strychnine has been extensively en-
ployed for this purpose and is generally
quite efectual, but correspondent of
the Liue Stock Journal has been trying
phosphorus, and finds it quite as certain
death, besides being far cheaper. He
gives his method of using it, as follows:
A fve-gallon oil-can is good vessel to
prepare it in, and one I usually use.
l fill the can one-third full of
water, and set it ON the stove till it
comes to boil then 1 take one-half corn
meal and one-half -four, and stir in till
have stiff mush then add two pounds
sugar, and carry the can out of doors
and let it stand ten minutes to cool then
take stick OF phosphorus in a pair of
plyers and plunge it in the mush till the
stick is all melted. (Melting in the
mush, instead of in the water, prevents
it settling, and takes less poison, and is
more thoroughly mixed through the
mass. 1t is quite important that the
mush should be considerably below the
boiling-point or the phosphorus will take
fre.) Then add wheat as long as you
can stir it. The wheat becomes coated,
! and when swollen will absorb the water,
and you can break it into Jumps of q
suitable size to use. A piece as large as
a walnut is large. enough for squirrel OF
gopher hole, ana should always be put so
far into the hole that no domestic animal
can geta it.
1t is no reason, because an animal does
not die Immediately, that it has not been
poisoned. call to mind an instance oi
poisoning by phosphorus of child ot
one of the physicians of San Diego. It
in some way, got hold of a bunch o.
matches, and though it seemed to have
swallowed but very little of the com
pound, it was taken violently i'll, ant
every known remedy was applied and tht
child partially recovered, and fingered
for six months, but finally died from tn,
effects of the poison. I write this t.
impress upon all who use the drug tn,
necessity of extreme care in its use; for
like the "Mill of the Gods,' it some
times grinds slow, but nevertheless
grinds very sure. In using it to poison
gophers, dig down to the main runway
and put in a piece as large as walnut
and, believe me, you will soon be rid O
them. For kangaroo-rats and mice, pu
it into clumps OF bushes, piles of brusl
or stone, where nothing else can get a
it. The opinion prevails that it is liabl
to take fire after being mixed, and evel
after being put out, but have the bes
of reasons for believing it mistake
having inquired of parties who hav
used it for fifteen years, and they scou
the idea.
In conclusion 1 will say that fift,
cents worth of phosphorus will be NOR
; efectual in Kidding your fields ant
orchards of squirrels than two dollar
worth of strychnine.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07

SOME of the surgical instruments,
taken by the Sioux from a surgeons
pocket in the Custer massacre, and re-
turned by the Sioux at the Spotted Tail
surrender recently, had been badly
mutilated by squaws, who had tried to
convert them into personal ornaments.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07

To prevent your wife from keeping
you awake by snoring, We would advise
you to take clothes pin to bed, and
when she begins her sweet music, put
the clothes pin gently but firmly
astride her nose. If this doesn't stop
the delightful strain, then clap
porous plaster on her mouth, and give
her a pinch or two of Scotch snuff.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07
The PrOCist0ns of the NesU Ohio EIec
fiO1l Lao.

LfO1t Lao.
The requirements of the law passed at
the recent session of the Legislature to
govern elections are briefly as follows
To be entitled to vote without registra-
tion one must have been a resident in
one particular county for three hundred
and sixty days, and three hundred and
fifty-fve days in one particular town
ship, village, or ward in the county.
Registration is required of persons who
have not the above qualifications. By
registering one may vote upon a resi-
dence of one year in the State, thirty
days in the county, and twenty days in
the township or ward. The entries OF
registration include number, name OF
applicant, last previous residence, name
of the precinct where expected to vote,
place of residence in that precinct, date
of removal to said precinct, married OF
single, date of registration, signature and
remarks. In places of more than fifteen
thousand inhabitants the voting precincts
will be distributed in the ratio of one to
every three hundred voters. Each vot.
ing precinct shall have its registry book
and two registrars, opposed to each other
in politics. The voting place is to be al
the registry Office. The registrars shall
be appointed before each election by the
Council of the city or Trustees of the
township, and the time for registration
shall be the third Friday and Saturday
preceding each election day. Wards are
to be described by letter and precinct by
number, as Ward A, Precinct 1. L
Council fails to designate the boundarie.
of the precinct within sixty days, ther
the Mayor shall have power to make tn,
division
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07
A FEAR.
,BY HARRIET PRESCOTT sPoFFoRp.


Oh. - hat Is happiness. when fear
Siar,. 'like pale unbidden ghost
That sta Nls across the banquet-hall,
And spa Is the dra Ight we long for mosti
For when / J, ok at her itcomes,
The fear thu she may leave US soon
30 perfect In the rlorning light,
How can the blossom last ill noonl
Thetoit an shinin baby hair
Seems but n nimbl Is round the brow;
The sweet amszemel Z Of the eye
Asks what they do In heaven now.
] marvel what they do there, too,
Without her IN that far still land:
tremble lest turn ana see
Great angels In the sun beam stand
Great angels, whose deparl ing wings
Shall spread q shadow on Inc air,
Since having earth 10 bright, lear
Heaven be not heaven withoGt her there
-Hdrpey's MGgdzin
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07

AN instrument for shorte ming human
legs, by fracturing the thigh bone, was
exhibited at the Boston City Hospital a
few days ago. 1t is for the benefit of
persons having one leg longer than the
other.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07

An aborigine of the Andaman Islands
is generally under five feet in height.
Not very Anda-man, SO to speak, to
have about the house when you're taking
down stove-pipes or putting up clean
| window-shades,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07
ADOOy THE LANE.

Upon one stormy Sunday,
Coming adoon the lane,
Were q score Of bonnie lassies-
And the sweetest / maintain
Was Caddie,
That took beneath my pladdie,
To shield her from the rain.
She said the daisies blushed
For the kiss that had ta'en;
1 wadna hae thocht the lassie
Wad sae o kiss complain.
"Now laddie,
wanna stay under your pladdis.
II I gang home in the raini"
But on ane after Sunday,
When cloud, there was not ane;
This self-Same, winsome lassie,
Iehanced 10 meet in the lane
Said Caddie,
why did'na ye wear your pladdie ?
Who kens but II may rain ?''
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07

NORWICH Bulletin: The crude en-
bryonic condition of society in the west
is shown in the fact that they have fairs
out there where kisses sell for forty cents
piece with no wholesale rates. This
explains why SO many Norwich men
who have gone west with fortunes rang
ing from 100000 to 100000 have re-
turned in few months bankrupt.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07

The CivI and Military Gazette has
the following: There is a Russian lady
in London at present who has perhaps
done more to promote the Cars pur-
poses in Eastern Europe than his whole
army of diplomatists. I am precluded
from mentioning her name, but it is open
to me to state that the deft int'iguante is
singularly accomplished, very pretty,
extremely well-bred, apparently wealthy,
and possesses the most fattering tongue
in the world. 1t is said that the famous
pamphlet of Mr.. Gladstone was a good
deal due to her instrumentality and that
she also completely charmed Lord Gran
vile, who, as all men know, is the "my
dear Granville" of Mr.. Delane, the
Times editor. She is likewise reported to
have essayed her destinations on Lord
Beaconsfeld, but the willy Benjamin was
not 8" the sort of man" to be tickled by
fair fingers into betraying English inter
ests. He afterwards declared that madam
was "charming, very charming, but
rather too much inclined to talk poll.
tics" Mr.. Gladstone, on the contrary
was bagged at once. His emotional ma
ture proved very susceptible to the
glamour of beauty pleading for the cause
of humanity, and he consequently suf
fered himself to fall into the trap, so fal
at least as carrying on long and highly
interesting correspondence with the fail
Russian. And it is rumored in Pal
Mall and whispered in St. James Street
that she now holds over his head, IN ter
rorem, certain letters which do NOR,
credit to his heart than to his head.
Moral-Beware ofpretty patriots whe1
theY are of Muscouite Eneaoe
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07

TURKEY has population of %, 1885,
00O-of which S,315,O0O are in Europe !;
16,050,O00 are in Asia, and 3,S00,0O0 are
in Africa.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-09-28
Discomfort.

How universal it IS! We never
knew one who would say, 81 am con-
tented" Go whore you wiz, among
the rich end the poor, the man Of
competence, or the man who earns
bis bread by the daily sweat Of his
brow, and you hear the sound Of
murmuring and the voice Of COM
plant. "The other day." said
Freeman Hunt, ~ stood by a coop
er, who was playing a merry tune
with his adze around a cask. 'Ah,
said he. 'miue is hard lot forever
trotting Ike dog, driving away al
hoop 'Heigho!' sighed ou'
peighbor the blacksmith, ia one Of
the hot days as be wiped the per-
spiraiion frou, his brow, while fis
red hot iron elowed on the anvil,
this is life with a vengeance, melting
and frying over the fire. oh, thai
| | we're a carpenter = calculated a
shoemaker, a, he bent over his lap
stone, here / am, day after day,
working my soul away to make solef
for others, cooped up 10 this little
seven by nine room 4 am sick Of
this outdoor work exclaims the
ca penter, brolliog and sweating
under the sun, or exposed to the in
cIemency of the weather--if | only
was q tailor. aTo be compelled tt
be perched up here, plying my
| needle would that mine was
more active lie 2 said the tailor. =
Last day of race 1.-The banks won'
discount customers won't pay
what she 4 | doY' grr mbles the mer'
client Il had rather lie dray'
horse--a dog yibiug ? Happy
fellows, grosns the lawyer, rs he
scratches his head over some per
picking case, or pores over some dry
record--'happy fellows, I'd rather
break stone than cudgel my brs'u or
this tedious vexa.ious question. =
And fbrough oil the 70 indications O
society, III are compls ming Of their
condition finding fault with theiI
pc ict lar calling. IF | we're only
this, that or the other, | should be
content is the u1iverssl cry-'euy-
thing but what / am So wegs the
world, so it his wagged, and SO il
WI veg.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-09-28

TnE MoLLIEs TAKING Their Re
yENaE.--A speeisl dispatch to the
Philadelphia Times from Blooms
burg, Illinois, September 10, says
"The MolIie Maguires have begun a
war of revenge against the witnesses
who have testified against their
members. Recently the fire fiend
Kramer was tried end convicted Of
arson. William Ringrose testified
that he visited Kramer in jail while
the grand jury was in session, end
the Mollies proposed to Ringrose tc
bride the grand jury into ignoring
the bill of Indictment, suggesting
that en- dollprs man would fix them.
10 giving his testimony the witness
stated his fears that be would suffe.
fi'igbtfUl consequences. Sure enough
at quarter pr t one o'clock this
MOI ning Ills house was fired and en-
tirely destroyed, with all the furni
ture srd effects. The flames then
extended to the Lutheran parsonage
and destroyed that also, though Rev
D. McCoon, The minister, saved his
furniture. There is no doubt thai
the fire was the work of Kramer't
friends. r5.m9e
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-09-28

THE New York SUI says, "1ow%
ever the case may stsnd with other
commercial centres, there is no long
or any room for doubt or question
as to the revival of 'ade here in the
met opolis. The fact is patent to
every body who hes eyes. Western
and Southern faces, long missed end
mou med, a~a reappesriug daily in
the hotel corridors and on the down
town sideweiks; the wholesale mer-
cheats are rubbing their bsuds with
satisfaction /; he railroads are Gerry,
ing n,ore freight thea they have had
the hpnd';ag Of for years past. 10
the | arbor, too, and ell elong the
water front, there is q new life spd
hustle very good to look at, Ship
.pers and SIX ppers alike are busy
and hopeful. The FIVE steamers that
cleared for Europe on Sstu day took
with Thorn over q quarter Of Q, million
bushels of.grsin, besides beet, ba1
con, and other provisions, Altoseth-
er, the outlook for the fa'rs business
is decidedly encouraging. ,,aaa9 b@,.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-09-28
TIE STATE THE GAMER.

"The Capitol at Milledgeville can
be put !, perfect condition for ten
tLoosgad dollsrs.
IA new capitol must be built if the
capitsl is in Atlanta, as the present
capitl is universally admitted to be
worthless for State purposes. This
WIN entail cost TO the State of Isev>
eral million dollars iHcdgerale
"OM Capital"
Oh, deer sirs, you are sadly de-
luded aud wofUlIy misguided in your
statements. The Mayor aud City
Couuc;l of Atlanta have recently re-
feoed their proposition 70 build en-
entirely new capitol 10 that city and
donate it to the Sta Q If the capitsl
is located there. This proposition
is on file in the office of Gov. Coli
qpitt. aud assumes the shape Of a con.
tract and only needs compliance Of
the people to make it legally obl'ga>
tory. The State Of Georgia would
be the gamer to the amount Of "sev~
eral r"ion doilprs," (accordiug to
your owa figures in the above para-
grapbs,) by the new capitol edi6ce
that would be donated IL the people
should locate the capitel in Atlanta,
while The State would be the loser Of
$4,000 according to your own fig
u,es in the above psrae 9aphs) which
YOU assert would have tobe expend-
ed as absolutely necessary to repair
the old capitol buildings II the peo-
pie should locate the capitol at Nil,
ledgeyi''e, to say nothing Of the cost
OF removing the valuables of The
State 10 that place, Atlanta pro-
poses . give an additional new edi'
fee to tho State IL she is chosen as
the capitol and MIledgeyille pro
poses to spend ten thousand dollars
OF the peoples money if she is ehos-
on. Now the State 9 tthe opcople)
sbouId net in this ma'teriike an indi,
yiduals from self, interest, aud that
interest is to let the capital remaiu
where it is where the States prop
erty win not depreciaee, but be en-
hsnced by the th,ift and enter prise
Of . large aud g. owing commercial
centre, accessible by seversl Rail
Roads sad convenient to everybody.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-09-28

F 81 V II
A NAN WuH A SPRoUrINGg EAR.
A short time ago man. named
Tompson, living on Morris creek, in
the Sierra Nevada mountsius, was
engaged ia making hay. Whist at
work he got su1aIiilres seed in one
of bis ears. He applied to aophysi-
ciau, but he WAS unable to find or re-
move the seed About ten or twelve
days st,er Mr.. Tkomplo on CHANGED to
be picking at bis sfilicted member,
when to his great surprise, he felt
some soft substance protruding from
the cavity OF the ear, and pulling at
it, was Lurplised to pull forth a green
slfilrea leaf. As soon as he recover
ed from his surprise Mr. Thompson
procured mirror aud made su ex-
animation, aud Obse, we'd pretruding
from his ear The tiny leaves of en- al
filrea plant. The seed in his ear
had sprOuted and was growing. He
scored 3 pals of tweezers and tried
10 pull the plant out, but the leaves
were too Young and tender, and
brokc of, aud left Mr.. Thompson 10
greater despsir than ever, as he feels
that he sill be compelled to LETT the
plant make considerable growth be-
fore he eanremoyesits In the mean
while, however. he fears that the
roots may pepatrRte 10 his brain and
kill him Cateiego Tines. is4 $40
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-09-28
SINGULAR ATTACHMENT.

The following is from the Boston
Globe: "There is a curious case at
Rockport Of the singular attachment
sometimes Instituted between man
and the lower animals. Mr.. Hale
has been for a long time accustomed
to throw bits Of food for some cells in
a little bro ok that runs along back
Of bis lot. Latterly be obser yed
that they seemed 10 be waiting for
his visits, and with little training
they were juduced to eat food direct
ly from bis hand. Then they learns
ed to play fonJly about his fingers
held in the water, o1d enjoyed his
caresses. More recently the largest
one Of the -four, huge old fellow
over Two feet long and very large
around, allowed Mr.. Hale to take
him entirely out of the water, slide
him about freely Fl ON heud 10 hand,
apparently enjoying the novel gym
nastics. When Mr.. Hale goes to
the brook he calls them with pecu
liar whistle, aud they soon come
rushing biiskly from do~a stream
Not long ago he brought them his
usual luoch of fish and mackerel, end
only the large one came. The eel
waited a few moments, then turned
dow a stream, aud soon came back,
beioging bis tardy family to super