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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-03-22

Members of the Union Club say that
letters from Mr.. Bennett prove that be
Is in AlgieSs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

SULEIMAN PAsHA has been appointed
Commander-in-C Chief of the armies in Rou-
melia. Ali (probably TozliD Pasha will
command the Army of Rasgrad.
THREE Russian battalions captured the
fortified position OF Aztzie, and, although
obliged to withdraw before superior
force, carried off five hundred and fifty-nine
prisoners. The Russians lost thirty-two
killed and had six hundred wounded.
A VIENNA correspondent telegraphs: The
capture of the position which General
Skobelof has been attacking would turn all
intervening works toward Radizevo,
Tutchenitza and Grivitza. 1t seems pretty
certain the fighting has not yet been for the
redoubts themselves, but for the rife-pits in
front of them. The redoubts are the same
which were temporarily occupied by Gen
eral Skobeloff in the battle of September
11th. According to rumors from the Rus
sian camp preparations are making for a
general assault on Plevna.
THE Paris Moniteur, semi-oficial, of No
vember 16, announces that at the mornings
Cabinet Council the Ministers rendered
their designations. The Duke de Broglie
and M. Fourtou explained that they were
most devoted friends of the Marshal, and
considered change of the Ministry nee
essary, as the Chamber might refuse to vote
the budget while the present Chamber re-
tanned Office. President MacMahon accepted
their designations, but asked the Ministers
to hold their portfolios until their successors
were appointed, and give him the benefit of
their advice and cooperation in negotia-
tions for the formation of a new Cabinet.
The ministers did not conceal their opinion
that it would be difficult for them to- assist
in that task, and suggested the cooperation
of influential members of the Constitutional
| party in both Chambers.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22
A Medical Students Prank.

A London hvery-stable keeper recently
sued a medical student for disfiguring a
pony with lampblack. The pony was
originally milk white; his owner left him
for about five minutes in front of
public house and in charge of a small
boy. When he came back he found
waiting for him an animal as black as a
dress-coat. He protested that the pony
had been changed for another one; (" but
on calling it by name the intelligent
creature showed by its recognition of
its masters voice" that its identity was
unquestionable, although, as the owner
told the Judge, it was transformed into
ga complete guy, the queerest looking
animal you ever saw" All that the
boy, who was severely berated, could
offer in explanation was that a gentle
man had been examining" the pony.
The gentleman turned out to be a
mischievous medical student, whom the
magistrate fined fifteen dollars, chiefly,
perhaps, because the pony had caught
severe cold from the washing necessary
to the removal of the lampblack. The
owner testified that the efforts made for
restoration of the white coat were un-
successful. !" 1t was impossible to get
the lampblack out of her, and she shone
like a. beetle" The medical student
paid his fine, and was doubtless ashamed
of himself
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22
oJ,P pR0DUCTNG INDUSTRY.

The Department of State is in receipt
of further communications from our
Consul at Leeds, concerning the general
import and export trade of the United
Kingdom, and how to enlarge the trade
of the United States Herewith. During
the first eight months of the present
year the total imports of breadstuffs
into the United Kingdom we're: Wheat,
S102, ,25O, 900; grain and -four, $93, ,500,-
600; meat, dead and alive, $50, ,OO0, 600 !;
butter, cheese, and eggs, about $5O, O,0OO,-
600; miscellaneous, $40, ,000,0 GOO; making
the total of farm products the enormous
sum of 1905, ,750,00 The harvest re-
ports render it certain that imports for
the remaining four months will be even
greater in proportion than the above.
OF wheat imports, the United States
supplied about6O, 900, 900 bushels. Russia
34,O0O, 900 and India Is, ,000, 900, jumping
from tenth in 1875 to a third in 1877. 1t
is expected India will become dangerous
competitor of the United States in the
grain trade, as no pains will be spared to
develop her resources in that line.
Imports of fresh meat from the United
States, as soon as prejudices against it
are dissipated, will almost become
illimitable. In eight months the i'm
ports of cotton were $126,000,000, of
which $50, 900, 600 were from the United
States. The Consul speaks hopefully of
the future of the American wine, fruit,
watch, and shoe trade.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22
History of a COmmunistic Organization
i'm Illinois.

The Bishop Hill community, in Henry
County, ILL.,, was formed by party of
Swedes who came to this country in 1916
under Eric Jason, who had been their
religious leader in the old world, where
they were greatly prosecuted on account
of their peculiar religious views. They
suffered great hardships in effecting a
first settlement, some of them going off,
in the interest of the community, to dig
gold in California, and others taking to
stock-raising and specializing. In this
they were quite successful, so that jobs
and speculations became the peculiar
work of this community. They took
various public and private contracts !;
among others, one to grade large por-
ton of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad and to build some of its
bridges. In 1858 they owned ten thou
sand acres of good land, and had the
finest cattle in the State. In 1859, how
ever, the young people became discon-
tented and wished to dissolve the COM
munity. They divided the property in
1860, when one faction continued the
community with its share, In 1861 this
party also broke up, separating into
three divisions. In 1861 these again
divided the property after numerous
lawsuits. A small fraction. 1 believe,
still continues community on the ruins.
In this community the families lived
separately but ate all together They
had no president or single head, the bus
iness being transacted by board of
trustees. Their religion was their prin-
cipal concern.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22
An Arizona Interlude.

Quite ripple of excitement was
caused in the usually quiet little town
of Prescott, Arizona, not long since, by
the appearance of two genuine border
ruffians on the streets. They first made
themselves troublesome at Jackson &
Tompkins' saloon, where they drew their
revolvers and fourished them in a
threatening manner. Col. Mccall, who
happened to be there, was covered with
the pistols several times, and told that if
he opened his mouth they would let day
light through him, and he wisely kept
still. They then began firing at a dog,
and afterward mounting their horses,
rode down Montezuma Street at full
gallop, yelling like demons, and firing
right and left at everything that showed
itself, the bullets whistling in unpleas-
ant proximity to several persons who
were on the street. John Rabies dog
was the only thing hit by them. Proceed
ing on down the street, they stopped on
the outskirts of the town and reloaded
their weapons.
Meanwhile Standefer and Col. Mccall
armed themselves and got into Duprez's S
barouche and started in pursuit. Sheriff
Bowers and Frank Murry, City Marshal,
also armed themselves, and, mounting
their horses, started after them.
Standefer and Mccall passed the rufians
on the fiat near Noyes's old mill, SO as to
get on the upper side and head them off.
Sheriff Bowers and Murry came up on
this side, and the Sheriff ordered them
to throw up their hands and surrender,
instead of which they opened fire on
him. Tullos, one of the desperadoes,
slid off his horse and fired three shots at
Bowers, all of them coming pretty close,
when charge of buckshot from the
Sheriffs gun brought him down. Marshal
Standefer also emptied load into him.
Running across the road, Tullos got
under the bushes and commenced to
load his revolver, still refusing to sur
render, when a shot from the Sheriff s
revolver stretched him out lifeless.
Vaughn, his companion, kept firing
away, but was soon brought down with
a bullet in his head, but was not killed.
There was so much shooting going on
that it is almost impossible to tell who
fired the fatal shots. The horse Sheriff
Bowers rode was shot in the hind
quarters. This was the only harm thai
befell the pursuing party.
The dead and wounded were taken to
the Sherif7s Office, and from thence
Vaughn, the wounded one, was taken to
the hospital, where he. lay at last ac.
counts, still conscious, but DIR. Day said
he could not live more than two OF
three days. From letter found on the
body of the one killed his name was
ascertained to be Robert Tullos, OF
Stephenville, Erath County, Texas, and
that he did not bear a very enviable
reputation there.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22
A Natural Annette.

Several years ago happened to be ac-
guainted with Frenchman, a doctor of
medicine by profession, who was re-
nowned for relating the most marvellous
stories. / remember especially one in
cident which he said happened in his
own practice. He said that he had
once in his care patient who suffered
from some disease with big Greek
name, which l have forgotten. To cure
this man he had to perform very diff
cult task, that is to cut open the stomach
and investigate the intestines. After
having chloroformed his patient he pro-
ceeded to business at once. In order to
have better view of the stomach, he
took it out and laid it on a table near
by. Accidentally there happened to be
big dog in the same room where this
was going on, which during an interval
when the doctors attention was closely
engaged with his work, snatched the
said stomach from the table, jumped
through the window and was out of
reach and sight, before the astonished
follower of Esculapius could prevent
it. Here was dilemma, but the quick
witted doctor proved himself equal to
the emergency. He espied in the ad-
joining yard yearling calf. To catch
and kill it was but the work of few
minutes; after which he carefully took
out the stomach, cleaned itand put it in
the place of the corresponding part of
the sick man. After having adjusted
everything according to to the rules of
his art he sewed together the opening he
had made, and awaited with patience
the result of his experiment. In a
short time the sick man returned to con-
sciousness.
To the doctors question how he felt,
he answered:
ga great deal better."'
"Do you have any appetizer
eyes, 1 am very hungry"
"What would you like to eatH
"Let me have good-sized bundle OF
hayp
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22
The Kind of Religion Wanted.

We want religion that softens the
steps and tunes the voice to melody and
fills the eye with sunshine and checks
the impatient exclamation and harsh re-
buke-a religion that is polite, deferen-
tial to superiors, courteous to interiors
and considerate to friends-a religion
that goes into the family and keeps the
husband from being cross when dinner
is late, and keeps the wife from fretting
when the husband tracks the newly
washed floor with his muddy boots, and
makes the husband mindful of the
scraper and door-mat; keeps the mother
patient when the baby is cross and
amuses the children as well as instructs
them; cares for the servants besides pay
ing them promptly, projects the honey
moon into the harvest moon, and makes
the happy home like the Eastern fig tree,
bearing in its bosom at once the beauty
of the tender blossoms and the glory of
the ripened fruit. We want religion
that should interpose between the ruts
and gullies and rocks of the highway of
life and the sensitive souls that are trav-
cling over them,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22
Spelling at Yassar.

The following communication, writ
ten by Vassar girl to an exchange,
shows that after all there may be some
need for photographic reform in SPELL
ing our good English language:
Dear SRI have been much inter-
ested in Mr.. Richard Grant Whites let
ters regarding our language. Inotice a
number have written to him, and 1 de-
sire, through you, to ask him simple
question, viz: What does "Phthologn-
yrrh' spell?
Solution-(To be reserved until we
hear from Mr.. White):
FirstPhth (as in phthsic) is........... .
Second-olo (as in coloneD UF
Third-gn (as in gnat) is........................
Fourth-yrrh (as in myrrh) is ................. Ell
or Turner Vassar.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22
A Musical Mountain.

A gentleman of Virginia City, Ne
vada, who has been taking look among
the old abandoned mines of the Truckee
district, made a critical examination of
the musical mountain, of which a good
deal was heard some years ago when the
mines were first discovered. Some of
the early miners pitched their tents at
the foot of the mountain, and were not
a little surprised and puzzled at hearing,
during the quiet hours, the tinkling
sounds that seemed to pervade the whole
atmosphere, coming from they could not
tell where. The sounds were not unlike
those of small music box. At times
they supposed that the sounds were
caused by the wind playing among the
they found that tn solution would not
answer. as the same bushes were found
everywhere, while the musical sounds
were heard nowhere else than on the side
of the mountain, at the foot of which
they were camped. They spent much
time in scouting about and listening of
nights and quiet hours during the day,
and at last tracked the sounds to great
bed of small pieces of rock that covered
the slope of the mountain. These bits
of rock were found to be quite senorous,
and the miners concluded that the
sounds they emitted were caused by the
action of the wind among them. The
gentleman who recently visited the
mountain says he went to it expecting
to find good deal of humbug, but
found it much more of a curiosity than
he had anticipated; the mingled tink-
lings much resembled the sounds of an
eolian harp, and frequently attaining a
startling degree of loudness and dis
tinctness. The sounds seemed to rise
and fall, approach and recede, as though
caused and governed by the wind. On
close examination it was found that
the small fakes of rock covering the
face of the mountain contain large
per cent. of iron. This iron is supposed
to be magnetic, and there appears to be
a constant motion among the chips of it,
which appear to cover the ground to the
depth of several feet in many places.
The whole drift of broken rock seems to
be moving down the slope of the noun.
tain with the slow, creeping motion of a
glacier, and the slipping over each Other
of the fragments composing the mass il
thought to cause the tinkling sounds
which are so numerous as to mingle anG
rise into single strong musical murmur
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

THE humanity of the Nez Perces in
their last battles seems to have been
something remarkable for Indians. One
said 10 a wounded soldier, who lay help
less, expecting every minute to be
scalped: "Me no kill you. You can't
kill US. Me no want to kill a man who
can't shoot. Plenty man can shoot. No
use you try shoot at me-" Another
chief approached wounded soldier at
midnight and said in broken English,
"Poor boy, you're too young to go to
war. l no kill you" Then he put a
blanket under his head and left him.
General Miles in return ordered all the
wounded Indians to be well cared for.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

A NEW kind of explosive has been dis
covered which will cause considerable
CONSERVATION in large cities. Not long
since a man walking along Teachers
Street, Liverpool, after lightninga a cigar,
dropped the blazing match through the
grating Of n sewer. Straightway there
was an earthquake, with much noise (;
the pavement opened, flames issued
forth, and n stone weighing three hun
dred pounds rose in the air. The sewer
gas continued TO burn for long time
after the explosion. If sewers are in
reality receptacles of underground serial
dynamite, city real estate has a rather
insecure foundation.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22
EDITORLAL OLU.

In the valley Of the Kander, in Switz-
erland, is an establishment where invalids
resort 10 inhale the breath Of cows.
There is large salon or parlor fitted up
with a row of stalls for cows on either
side, and in the center are placed sofas
and chairs on which the patients sit
and, the external air being excluded,
they are forced to take into their lungs
the same which has passed through
those Of the cows, and which, in con-
sequence, is supposed to have acquired
a hygienic and curative quality.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

THE Quebec judges have been called
upon to decide what is meant by
" Indians" in the law which prohibits
the sale Of Intoxicating drinks to such
persons. A dealer has been prosecuted
for selling to the Indians of Lorette, and
defends on the ground that the people so
described are not Indians Mt all owing to
constantintcrmarriages between those
Of Indian descent and the French Can
adams. The Supreme Court of this State
once decided that negro was justly so
called when one-sixteenth of his blood
was African in its character; but the
precedent will not help the Quebec
courts n great deal.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

A PRACTICAL economist has figured it
out that it costs the people of this coun-
try too much to die, or rather too much
TO get buried after they are dead. To
say nothing of speculation in cemetery
lots, the cost Of flowers and funeral "trip
perry is enormous, not to say startling.
The population of the United States be-
ing forty millions, the accepted average
Of death rates will give about one
million two hundred and fifty thousand
deaths annually. Estimating the aver
age cost of funeral at one hundred dol
lars, the mortality tax foots up one hun
dred and twenty-five million dollars,
or over three dollars head for every
man, woman and child. Yet death di-
vides the profits with life, for what is
doubtless cxtravance gives employment
TO the survivors and extends the re-
sources Of livelihood.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

The buildings of the coming Paris Ex-
hibition in 1878 are the largest yet con-
ceived for the purposes. The nave of
the main building is nearly two thou
sand two hundred feet long; the vista,
which includes the two vestibules, is
more than two thousand three hundred
and sixty feet; and each of the transepts
and yestibules, more than one thousand
one hundred feet. The eight industrial
courts are all parallel, and are divided
into two series Of four each; one series
being devoted to the productions of
France, and the other to the rest Of the
exhibiting nations. In the center of the
garden, between the two series, are two
ranges Of fine art galleries. On the op-
posite side Of the river is the Trocadero
Palace, which is to be devoted to the
history of man from the savage state
down to the most modern appliances Of
science and art. 1t will afterward be
used as municipal museum.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

A SNOWMAN travelling with pano-
rama of scenes from the Bible met
Yankee, and on learning that he could
propriate selections after each picture at
his show that night. The curtain rose,
revealing "The Return of the Prodigal
Son." upon which the player struck up,
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home I"
The effect produced was wonderful.
" Consider yourself engaged to travel
with me-" said the Snowman. "You
draw better than the picture"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

A "TRUANT SCHOOL," the idea of
which is said to be borrowed from the
Strof Schulz system, of Hamburg, is
about TO be instituted at Hackney,
London. Truants are to be brought be-
fore magistrate, as at present; but,
instead OF being sent to an industrial
school, they are to go to the Truant
School. There the "silcnt system is
10 be rigidly enforced. The children
are not 10 be allowed TO utter a single
word, either by day or by night, save to
their teachers, or when saying their
lessons. They are to be kept for the
space Of one week in the silent school,
and are then TO be free to return home
and attend the ordinary schools of the
benefcent board. II they again play
truant they may be committed to the
place Of mute torment for a fortnight OF
for three weeks, or even for month.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

SINCE the beginning of the war three
large manufactures have been estab-
lished in Russia for the preparation of
condensed forage for the cavalry horses of
the Russian army. In the establishment
mt st. Petersburg there are five large
ovens, capable of turning out thirty thou
sand pounds in twenty-four hours. The
food is composed of oatmeal, pea flour,
rye meal, and ground linseed, small
quantity of salt being added. The con-
stituents are kneaded together in large
wooden troughs, the dough being after
ward rolled out in cake about as thick
~ n mans finger, and cut into biscuits of
three and n half inches in diameter.
Thcss are then dried in the ovens, and
finally strung on wires for transport.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

A PUBLIC spouter, while making a
speech, paused in the midst of it, and
exclaimed, "Now, gentlemen, what do
you think?" Instantly a man rose in
the assembly, and, with one eye par
TALLY closed, modestly replied, "I think,
sir-I do, indeed, sir-I think if you and
| were to tramp the country together,
two men in the country, sir! and I'd not
say word during the whole time, sir. I"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

DR. CALDWELL, of Iowa, says that in
1862 he was present at the examination
of n body which had been buried two
years before. The coffin had sprung open
at the joints, and the hair protruded
through the openings. On opening the
coffin the hair of the head was found to
measure eighteen inches and the whiskers
eight inches. The man had been shaved
before being buried. In 1874 similar
circumstance occurred in Mercer County,
Pennsylvania. In digging a grave the
workmen came across the skeleton of a
man that had been buried ten years. The
hair was as firm as during life, and had
grown TO a length of ten or twelve
inches.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

The ball which penetrated Miss Alice
Blaine's head is still there. While talk
ing with caller the young lady played
with a pistol, then unloaded. she was
entreated to put it aside, as, even when
empty, dangerous plaything. She
laughingly ran up stairs to her brothers
room, put a cartridge in the cylinder,
and bounding down again to the front
door, merrily called upon her visitor to
see her shoot. But before she had lev
eled the weapon, in her hurry she pressed
the trigger and-was instantly a wiser
and very much sadder young lady.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

A FIRM of undertakers in San Fran
cisco caters to the desire of its poor
patrons by hiring to them very costly
coffin. After the funeral is over the
body is secretly transferred to cheap
coffin.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

A SAGINAW school-ma'am speaks of
the Spotted Tail as Freckled Finale,
the Aboriginal Chieftain."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22

DOUBLE postal cards are authorized by
the German Government. The two
parts are each stamped, and are to be
used when o return answer is requested.