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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27
TWeed'S Examination,

At New York, on Saturday IS, Tweed
testified that 100000 was paid the Board of
Aldermen for confirmation of Peter B.
Sweeny as City Chamberlain. He paid
Thomas Cowan, President of the Board of
Aldermen, $4,000 or sec, 900 to pass a resolu-
directing the Controller to issue bonds for a
million and half for the Brooklyn Bridge,
of which he was Trustee and stockholder
In reply to the question whether he ever
suggested to any person to falsify the results
of the ballots, he answered hat he gave in
struction to that end to different men who
controlled the wards, but it would be impossi
BILE to name them. Nearly all the men on
nected with Tammany Hall from 1868 until
the ring broke up had more or less to do
with that business. In regard to the reported
meeting of the Board of Auuit, at which
claims amounting to millions of dollars were
passed. Tweed said the meeting was never
held, but claims were paid Notwithstanding.
Tweed received a paper relating to the
career of John Morrisey, stating that he had
been indicted for assault with intent to kill
in 1S4S in Troy, and in the following
year for burglary, and sentenced TO Jail !;
also that he served in the penitentiary for
several breaches of peace, and that he has
been professial prize fighter and gambler.
This paper was read in reply to critisms of
MOrriSsey on Tweed.
The Investigation was adjourned to Friday
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27
Details of General Gibbons Battle at
Big Hole.

General Sheridan is in receipt of the
official report of the battle of Big Hole,
Montana, August 9, and of the operations
in that district preceding the battle.
Colonel Gibbon reflects severely on the
inhabitants of Montana, who sustained the
murdereus Nez Perces by trading off
provisions to them for stock stolen by them
from whites, and thus prolonging their fight
and adding to the danger of pursuit. The
best estimate of their strength gave them
two hundred and sixty warriors well armed
and equipped. By forced marches Gibbon
came up with the hOstiles with a command
of seventeen officers, one hundred and
thirty-two men, and thirty-four citizens.
The attack was made late at night, the
Indians being completely surprised, but
they Immediately sought the bushes fol
shelter, and poured their volleys into the
troops. As the latter came into open
ground they did considerable execution
however. In twenty minutes the whole
camp was in possession of the troops. The
Indians being driven out still shot will
deadly effect at long range. by change o
base, shelter was obtained, and retaliatory
firing was commenced with equal destruc
ton of Indian life.
The Indians meantime had captured th'
| hOwitZer which was coming on under escor
and on muleback, the two privates wh'
were with it fleeing incontinently and leav
ing the officers to an unequal fight. Dun
ing the day various strategies were EN-
ployed, but it was II o'clock at night be
fore the Indians finally withdrew.
On the 11th the dead were buried. Gen
eral Howard came up that day, but too lat
to render any assistance.
The report speaks in terms of highes
praise of the conduct of the officers an
men, and mentions only few of the kille
and wounded as chiefly noteworthy fo
bravery. A complete list is appended
showing twenty-nine killed and fort
wounded. The burial party reported eight.
three dead Indians found on the field an
six more found dead in ravine some di
tance from the battlefield.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27
Accident Incidents.

Miss Jennie Frost, of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, who had marvellous escape from
the train that was wrecked on the Rock
Island Railroad, relates that one woman
heroically rescued her six children and
then went to the aid ofthe sufferers, while
another lady was terribly exercised over
the loss of her satchel, and could think of
nothing else. One lady, who was in agony
from broken wrist and a compound
fracture of one of her legs, would not
consent to have morphine injected into
her arm because she feared it might hurt
her. Another lady who was severely in
jured was offered glass of brandy, but
refused to swallow it, stating that she
was strict temperance woman and
meant to stand by her principles, even if
she died in the attempt. A little child
clung to a window-sill and kept her head
above the surging waters until she was
saved. Alittle girl lay for four hours with
only her face out of water, the corpse of a
large man being stretced across her little
body. 1t was supposed that she, too.
was dead, but a man who was chopping
out" the wounded thought he saw the lit
tie ones lips tremble. She was taken out,
covered with blood, her little stockings
as red as if they had been dyed, and in
few hours she was as lively as cricket,
asking if anybody had seen her doll.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27
Detroit Free Pressers.

Texas can quit now. She has raised
a one hundred and thirty-two pound
watermelon.
The Arab never speaks ill of man
behind his back, and he never speaks
well of him to his face. He's neutral.
A sweet-voiced woman has no advant-
age over shrill-voiced one in blowing
the dinner-horn or in driving pigs out
of the garden.
An "erring brother" is one who leaves
your gate open as he goes home after an
evening call, thus letting the COWS and
cabbages get at each other.
Gently glide the days along, and the
house-fy who knows his business will
soon begin to pick up cotton batting
and hunt for a crevice near the stove
pipe.
The native savings bank at Honolulu
must have been officered by Americans.
1t has failed and the officials can't tell
what has become of the funds.
When a Russian has a mud hut, a
sore-heeled horse and spotted COW, he
saws to the world: eco on with your
mad race for wealth-Tve got plenty"
It's cool enough now for those people
who have been living on crackers and
U0d all W dNOlu ucdlllS
blood to hunt up butcher who gives
credit.
We spoke of Saturdays hailstones as
being as large as beans. At Toledo they
were mentioned as the size of peach
stones, and Cleveland put them down as
hens eggs. This country is no place for
modest, truthful men.
Aggasiz believed in the immortality
of animals, and there is something pleas
ant in one thinking he can take these
old street-car horses by the ear in that
better land, and ask them why they
didn't kick the drivers head off.
Many people contend that truth will
prevail, and that truthful people will
reap rich reward, but it isn't so. Yes
terday afternoon servant girl in search
of situation called at house on Miami
Avenue, and after some general talk
with the lady she said: "I think I'd like
to come, ma'am, and I'll tell you in adj
vance that 1 have five beaux, 1 must
have night key, l shall want two
afternoons and all the evenings, shall &C
to church twice on Sunday. hate chill
dren, and if l take notion to leave
shan't give you an hours warning" Il
was the plain truth she spoke, and ye'
the lady escorted her to the door il
about minute.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

SUFFOLK (VA.) Herald: Some time
ago the wife of Mr.. Alfred Davis (who
drowned with his two sons last Friday
evening in Nansecond River) was con-
fined to her room with protracted sick
ness, and such was the poverty of the
poor man that he was unable to procure
the necessary nourishment for her. In
deed, as Mrs. Davis related the case, the
wants of the family must have been of
the severest and most trying nature, the
family subsisting for several weeks on
potatoes and salt alone During the
sad indisposition of Mrs. Davis and
her pressing want of delicate food, a
common house cat went into the field
and caught a young hare and brought
it to the house. Mr.. Davis tool. he hare
and made it into soup for his suffering
wife, which caused rapid improvement
in her condition. The day following
the same cat set out. on its mission of
charity, and succeeded in catching a
partridge, which was likewise brought
to the house and delivered as was the
hare. And thus it was, through the in
strumentality of this cat, the life OF
this unfortunate lady was saved from
absolute starvation. The facts of the
above can be substantiated as correct
and are given as related by Mr.. Davis il
person.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27
A Little off on Quotations.

A hoary, wicked-looking old tramp
who has been foraging around Cambridge
the past two months was pulled for steal
ing and eating bucket of paste belong
ing 10 a paper-hanger. He gave his
name as Elah Gabalus, and he said, to
the officer who arrested him and was
taking him to the station: "Tll be
cussed eff 1 shan't be glad when / git
somewhere, SOS l shan't be hungry all
the time. l wasn't brought up ter steal; j;
my mother allus teached me when was
young to be 'Onest. learnt the minis
ter's trade fore l was twenty-one years
old, but 1 could make more money goin'
mackerilin' than 1 could preachin'. Fve
been kicked all round the world, and
have allus had hard luck. Well, peace
on earth an good will to men will come
bamby, and the lion and the cow shall
lie down together, and the failing and
young goats and a little child shall chew
hay like er OK, and calf shall lead
them; and" Then the policeman
said: eff you can repeat Scripter any
better N that you had better get some
body to tell ye." And the poor old
malefactor was yanked into Station II
and locked up.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

bills. The witness attended to the Senate
and Barbour to the Assembly. He received
money from Fisk and Gould to influence the
Legislature.
Some hundred thousand dollars were
spent on the Legislature to carry the 1870
tax levy. He paid the following members
of the Senate to vote for it: VIM. Fl. Gra-
ham, Happening, Morris, Winslow, Wood
and Bowen. Money was also paid for rail-
road bills that year to the Transcript, of
New York, an association composed of
Cornelius Carson, Peter B. Sweeney, and
himself. They were in the New York Print
ing Company, and some 25 per cent. was
added to their bills. Their capital was
$4,000 each, and their dividends ranged
from 81 900 to 800, 900 each. His testimony
before the Legislative Committee was false.
He refused to testify before the Senate Com
mittee last spring. Henow testified because
he thought the Committee could compel
him to do so.
The Aldermen then notified the witness to
be ready to testify about the Tammany Hall
General Committee.
Adjourned till next Friday.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

THE French Minister of Agriculture
and Commerce gives his report in the
Journal Oficiel of the rules adopted for
the bestowal of premiums at the Paris
Exhibition. He says that the experience
cleaned from preceding Exhibitions in
France and elsewhere enables him to
offer the exhibitors perfect guarantee
of impartiality. OF $50 jurors to be ap-
pointed, $50 will be foreigners, to be
named by their respective Governments.
A million and half of francs is appro-
priated for prizes. There will be seven
teen medals of honor, one thousand gold
medals, four thousand silver medals,
eight thousand bronze medals, and eight
thousand honorable mention. Industry
and agriculture will be allotted special
premiums and rewards in money.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27
Advertising.

The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
says: There is nothing like advertising.
A farmer of Michigan was mentioned in
the Detroit Free Press as having taken
the best clip of wool. A Mrs. Walker, of
England, noticed the mention and
writes to the Free Press, 81 think it is
an appropriate time to ask him to remem-
Der the wife that he left in England over
twenty-four years ago, for she has re-
ceived only one sovereign from him dur
ing the whole of that time. / will not
ask him for any particular amount, but
will leave him to consult his conscience
about that. Any person who may be de.
sirous to know his whole character may
have it from his wife," Now if the
farmer hadn't advertised he might have
remained in ignorance of the fact thai
his wife in England still lives.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

THE olive tree, like the orange and
lemon, is readily grown in California.
Heretofore it has been cultivated more
for its foliage than anything else, and
its fruit has been allowed to wither and
go to waste. Within a year parties
have been utilizing the fruit by manu-
featuring it into oil. Some of this oil
has been put upon the market and it
found ready sale. 1t is of bright,
rich color, and, if not equal to the pure
imported Lucca oil, it is superior to
most of the olive oil sold.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

THE beauty of the victory of the
American team in the recent inter-
national contest consisted not only in
the fact that the Yankees shot better
than did the Blarsted Britishers," but
they did it with greater neatness and
dispatch. The firing on the American
side of the range was much more rapid
than that on the other side, and at the
same time more accurate. While the
British were twisting their legs around
their rifles, the Americans were knock.
ing bulls ewes.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

On the Goth of August curious case
of poisoning by nicotine occurred in
Turin. Giovanni Deloges, aged seven
teen, visited that city in compliance
with an invitation from his uncle. After
dining he joined his uncle and several
friends in the room allotted him during
his stay in Turin. There they drank
light wine and smoked continually until
the early hours. When the company
separated he did not cease smoking until
nearly overcome by sleep. His room
was completely impregnated with smoke,
and the young man, completely suffo-
Gated by the excessive quantity of nico-
tine he had inhaled, never woke again,
although every effort was made to revive
him. DIR. Tessier, of Turin, was of the
opinion that death was the result of
poisoning by nicotine.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27
Tweed.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.--At the examina-
ton of VIM. NJ. Tweed Before the Investi-
eating Committee of Aldermen, he stated
that the Directors of the Erie Railway of
1869, Gould and Fisk, called on him about
an injunction they wanted against Wander
bilt. He called on Judge Barnard, who
granted the injunction as a matter of friend
ship to him. For this they made the witness
stockholder in 1869. After this he lobbied
for bills for the Erie Company, at Albany,
as their agent, but cannot recollect for what
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

The heart of the female voter in
Wyoming Territory is much encouraged.
Heretofore upon election day she has
been obliged to fall into line and wait
for her turn to vote along with the men.
This proceeding embarrassed her, and
she protested againstit. At the coming
election Of the Territorial Legislature
there are to be separate voting places
for the sexes, and at the womens poles
the judges will be women. Those inter-
ested in this branch of female progress
will be pleased to know that a number Of
Wyoming women are candidates for the
Legislature, and that some of them stand
fair chance of being elected.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

THERE is good deal in Mr.. Stacey's
way Of putting the matter. Mr.. Stacey
represented the Union Banking Com
pany at meeting held the other day by
the creditors of one Isaiah Danks
Waddy, of Sheffield, England. "Mr.
Waddy," said Mr.. Stacey, chad been
a man of more than average cultivation,
and professed in the town religion and
morality certainly of very high order.
But the dividend is only Is. Sd. in the
Mound -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

THE Gold Hill, Nevada Neacs: Words
spoken on one side of Gold Canon are
heard with striking clearness upon the
other side The sounds are telephoned
across the intervening space, and may be
as distincly noted as if the speaker were
standing by the side of the listener.
This is of course due to the peculiar
formation of the country. Neighbors
who live on the opposite sides of the
canon talk quite readily when they live
as much as a mile apart by the way the
road runs. 1t is not SO far by the airline,
however.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

The excavation of the earth-covered
and ruined seaport of Ostia on the Medi-
terranean is proceeding rapidly. Some
beautiful columns and mosaic floors in
fragments have already been found; and
the archeologist Fiorelli expressed his
belief that proper handling of the old
docks and quays will bring to light some
curious maritime implements once used
against the fleets of Carthage.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

JACKSONVILLE (Fla.) Chronicle: The
first fight the Eighth Georgia got into
was no tea-party by any means. There
was one gallant member of tive will
call him Jack because that wasn't his
name-who was shot down in the
early part of the engagement. In agon-
lied tones he exclaimed, Boys don't
leave me, I'm bleeding like hogw
They bore him tenderly to the rear, but
upon examination it was discovered that
a ball had entered his canteen, and
what he thought was blood was simply
water trickling down his legs. After
that the surest way to bring Jack out of
his tent at night, was to exclaim in
sepulchral tones, "Boy's don't leave me,
Pm bleeding like hog"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

NEGOTIATIONS which have been in pro-
gress between the Catholic Colonization
Association of st. Louis and the Central
Branch Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany, for the purchase of land on the
line of that road, have been concluded
and contracts executed in due form.
The land purchased is in Pottawatomie
County, and amounts to twelve thousand
acres at three dollars and sixty cents pei
acre. A large colony will be immedi-
ately organized for settlement on this
land,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

ALL the remarkable trotters are not
confined to this country. Recently
a Wallachian mare named "Scandi.
nave," belonging to lieutenant in the
Prussian guards, trotted from Nauen to
Potsdam, distance of nearly twenty.
four miles. in one hour and twenty min.
utes, carrying weight of two hundred
and nine and a half pounds. She had
never been accustomed to a trotting pace
until trained to it for this special occa
sion during the fortnight Immediately
preceding the event, yet neither after
the race nor on the following day die
she show any sign of fatigue.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

INDICATIONS of a prehistoric people,
which are plentiful in southwestern
Colorado, have lately been discovered
in Western Nevada. Antique pottery
and undecipherable writings on the
rocks are the most common tokens. At
one place, engraved upon a rock, is the
nude figure of a man, holding in his
right hand shrub, the outlines of which
show considerable artistic skill.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

IT is becoming fashionable in remote
rural parts for people to be married on
horseback. The advantages of the GUS
tom are obvious. While the clergyman
is closing his eyes to pronounce the nup-
tial benediction the happy couple can
stick spurs into their chargers and van
ish without paying any fee, unless he is
posted in the ways of the country and
conducts the service with his trusty shot
gun by his side.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

In the annual statement of the financial
condition of Italy for 1876, it appears
that sixty-nine millions of lire were in
vested in lottery tickets in the Govern
ment cash boxes. OF course but small
proportion of this money went back to
the successful gamblers. Since 1868 the
State has received eight hundred and
eighty-one millions from this source and
returned in prizes five hundred and
sixteen millions and half, pocketing
profit in fourteen years three hundred
and sixty-five millions.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

A MINERAL has been found in Kern
County, Cal, which is puzzling the
geologists, no one knowing what to call
1t. 1t is Opaque; in color, tin white
luster, metallic; laminated; soft; yields
to the finger nail; leaves streak the
color Of amalgam on the back of looking
glasses; it is unchanged by heat which
reduces Hungarian crucible; is per
fectly insoluble in nitric or muriatic
acids or any of their combinations, and
has n specified gravity about equal tc
that of mispickel.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

WITHIN ten years tobacco culture has
become a most important industry in
Pennsylvania. Tobacco is grown in
Lancaster, York, Dauphin and Chester
Counties, but the main business is in
Lancaster County. The crop in that
county this year, now nearly all gath
cred, is by far the largest ever secured,
and in quality the best. One grower ex.
poets to realize from sixteen acres ten
thousand dollars. The leaf is of excel.
lent quality, much in demand, and the
experiment of its culture in the State an
unqualified success.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

WITH what severity the famine in In
dia is pressing upon the natives it is hap
PLY impossible for Americans to imagine.
A native Hindoo, who signs himself
Dharwar," describes some of the scenes
of suffering incident to the calamity in a
letter to the Times Of India. He speaks
in his letter of people eating the seeds of
the bamboo and tamarind, and the leaves
of various forest trees baited with little
salt and eaten with coarse bread, three
parts of which are dust and chaff. In
some of the towns, says the correspon-
dent, the poor people lick the patrara-
lees, the leaves from which others have
eaten their food, devour mango peels
and the rotten fruits cast into the gutter,
and dispute the garbage of the city with
its dogs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27
Condition of the National Treasury,

The Treasury Department has issued the
following memorandum of amount of United
States notes and national bank notes in the
Treasury and Sub-Treasuries on September
10, 1877, the accounts and funds payable
therefrom:
United States notes in Treasury q 697
National bank notes in II 461 1896
Total........ 6s1 ,693
Fund for redemption of certificates of de-
posit June s. 100 600
Postotce Department ACCOMPLISHMENTS. Il, ,325, 157
Disbursing officers 'accounts.......... 1896, ,543
Fund for redemption OF notes of national
banks failed (in lquidatiOn), and reduc-
ing circulation. 62s, ,91s
Five per cent redemption fund U. s. notes
in Treasury 1851, 1881
Five per cent. redemption fund, national
bank notes, held by National Bank Re-
demption Agency ncy..............-......1 10 OS9, ,951
Secretary's special deposit account 1889
Currency and minor coin, redemption ac-
27,1o6
Interest account, checks outstanding... 00 ,632
Controller of Currency, agent for cred
................... s7s, ,so3
Treasurer United States, agent for paying
interest on So d. c. bonds.-........... 1850
Special fund held for redemption of frac-
tional currency $685. 412
Treasurer United States, general account 3,016997
.s ....... .....rt
The above statement does not include money de-
posted with national banks.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

DANBURY Ne,cs: Two men were rid
ing in the cars on the Danbury Railway
the other morning, when one asked the
other if he had a pleasant place of resi-
dence. eyes," was the reply; 1--WE
have seven nice large rooms over a
store" "Over a store. l shouldn't
think that would be aquiet place. "Oh!
it is quiet enough. The folks don't ad-
vertise." "Ahl / see," said mis- friend,
n a tone of relief.