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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16

On the 9Th of August, last year, the
three-masted iron steamship Great
Queensland left London for Melbourne
with a large cargo and sixty-nine pas
sengers and crew on board. At Grave
send she stopped to take on some thirty
tons of black gunpowder and two tons
of patent gunpowder. After this was
laden she proceeded on her voyage, and
has never been heard from since August
~, 1876. A name-board belonging to
her, however, and some life-buoys, have
been washed ashore on the south coast
of England. The English Wreck Com
missioner has just decided that the
steamer must have been destroyed by
the explosion of the patent gunpowder,
which was proved to have been in bad
condition and improperly packed.
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GLEANINGS FROM THE MUSE
A STORY OF THE WAR.

Miss Mag de o'Keefe was a beautiful girl,
From the sole of her foot 70 the little black curl
That she used 10 pin on with queer little twlrlt
Right over her aquiline nose.
Her lovers she surely could count by the score,
And for aught that know there were myriads more,
Who ceased not in silence Miss X. TO adore;
And oshe had plenty of beaux.
Well. one Of these lovers she'd known all her life,
Twas an understood thing, she would soon be his
wife;
When the war sounding notes of the drum and the
Went ringing through city and town.
when the President called for the first volunteers
Her lover enlisted, think for % three years.
lie went a. high private, and then ~ appears
That his stock soon began 10 go down.
For shortly after he went away,
Major De Boot appeared one day,
ON special service-rhat is TO say,
fIe there was detailed TO recruit.
Quite gorgeous, the major, in hgure ana lace,
Muztaches as long a clergyman's grace;
And every young lady and girl in the place
Was Wild over Major DE Boot
Maggie frequently thought of her absent beau,
But privates were then at discount, you know,
While eOlOnels and majors were all CONNIE IL iaut,
As the story would seem to prove
private was only an awkward galOot
So Maggie o 'Reefe married Major De Boot,
(she found him a sort Of a second-class brute)
But " major" Of course she could love.
For year or two everything went quite WE'LL
They lived ON in style at the best hotel;
And the major continued most awfully swell "
While holding his proud SITUATION
But when the war ended and peace was made,
They mustered out the entire brigade,
At which the major wasquite dismayed
For gone was his occupation.
Then the major looked round for something to do;
He must be good for something, he knew,
50 he started off home for Kalamazoo,
Though Maggie felt bad about going.
His pride very soon was run into the ground,
And driving horse ear the major soon found
A calling which gave him chance TO be round,
while Maggie, his wife, took in sewing
The private whose suit for her love had been purned
With glory and honor soon after returned,
And a big pile Of money twas said he had earned,
BY n fortunate speculation.
As he rides about in his coach and four,
And passes sometimes by Maggie's own door,
She rsnretfulIy thinks OF the days Of yore,
And her own bad calculation.
Boston Advertiser.
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THE MARKETS.

., CINCINNATI-F -FleuraPatent s. 5o@lo; fancy,
8 5o@5 3; sqPertine sSg 25; low grades g 25
prime to choice red 81 2O@ 2S; prime to choice hill
and amber 81 25@1 80; prime to choice white 81 S5.
GGF GaT pT@s 10 aG SSis 0 9
LoUfsvILLE.- Ffo9r-:Extra, s. 75@5; extra
so. Grain-Wheat, 81 25a1 33; corn, 5O953c.; rye,
Zoe. oats, 3O@33c. Hay $11@12. Mess pork, S14 25
Oh So 1 Lard, d, 1oA@1le
925; fancy, Sc 1897 25 family, Sc 25a6 rs; extra,
IS 1896; low grade, S394. Grain-Wheat, No. 2,
red g 9 25 oats, new, 25s27s; rye, 5Gg55s corn
Sugar-cured Hams, 10c. Lard, prime steam, 90
s1Se;; prime kettle, s54@1oc;, Hogs, 81 9O@5 Is:
sSa1ps SE% sfs}a 99RkFS1No and %esfeS6 State 59@t
common to good Western and State, S. 6O@6 10;
good to choice Western State Sc 15@6 25; common to
non mon to choice extra Ohio, S. 65S7 50; common mon
to choice St. Louis, So so@9 so; Minnesota patent
process, extra good to prime, and choice to double
Wheat, 81 2s@@1 50; rye, 65@7O12e.; corn, 57@61c.
oats, 2SaG sc: Mess pork pork neT new s14 o5' Lard new
PHILADELPHIA.-Flou = Western superfine
S.; Western extras, Sc; Minnesota extra family
ss 5Oa9 SO; Pennsylvania extra family, 81 5O@ss
red, 81 42@1 43; Pennsylvania amber, 81 45d1 46
white Western, 81 47@1 so. Rye, Pennsylvania
6s@7Oe Corn, yellow Western, 6212@6Sc. mixed
Western, S7@3Sc. Mess pork, new, S15(a15 2S
Petroleum, refined, ,13c.; crude, in barrels, Ss4c
STOCK MARKETS.
CINCINNATI.-Cattle- - Common to medium
So 1904; good to choice butchers grades S4 254 75
fair to good shippers, S. as so. Sheep and Lamb
Common to choice sheep, 81 50a4 so; fair to extr
lambs, S4@5 25. Hogs-Common, 81 50a4 75; fair Il
good light, S5@5 20; fair to good packing grades
$4 S5d5; selected butchers, SIS 1O(65 20.
BUFFALO.-Beef Cattle--Butehers and medium
grades OF shippers, 81 25@5 so; and heifers
s. 60@4 so; common Texans, 81 50(d3. Sheep
Stockers, S3@3 So. Hogs--Yorktirs S. 1905 So
heavy fair, S. 256l5 40.
NEW YORK.-Beef Cattle--Best in market, 121
@12ac. per pound; fair to prime steers at 11@12c.
and inferior to medium ditto at Sd1034c.; common
Texas and Cherokee cattle not in demand. Sheel
and Lambs-SheepSrange from &c. to 5s4c. per ID.
with few selected wethers at 6@61%c. Lambs rang
| from SC. to 712c.; carload of choice Delawar
| brought 65s@634c. Hogs-Market easier and quote,
| at So 75@l5 Viper 100.
| WOOL.-1n Cincinnati, manufacturers seem to h
| buying sparingly, only taking sufficient to NEE
| their contracts Dealers pay the following price
| for choice, while bury and bad conditioned ar
| taken at 3@7c. per lb. less: Unwashed- Fin
| merno, 2l@22c.; coarse clothing 24@26c.; medium
| do, 27@29c.; long combng, S2aS5. Fleeced-washe'
Fine merino, 35@40c.; coarse clothing, S0@l35c.
medium clothing, 35@3Sc; long combing, I0@ i2c
b-washed-Common, 3Sd35c good TO choice $50
| SOC. Pulled-Superfne 25a27c.
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Gardening in the California Tules,-

UdTueHluS Ill tHc CdIIIVIuId lu1oSs-
The Stockton Independent says the mar
ket gardens of the tule lands bordering
on the San Joaquin River, both above
and below Stockton, are rapidly coming
into formidable competition with the
gardens of the Santa Clara Valley for
the trade of supplying the San Francisco
markets. The profit of tule gardening
seem enormous when one hears of the
almost fabulous productiveness of this
land. For instance Joseph Hafe, whose
ranch is on Robert Island, bordering
the river but few miles above Stockton,
informs us that last year he sold $l49
worth of string beans from one-eighth of
an acre of ground Another piece of
ground containing a few acres was
sought for by some parties who desired
to rent it, and offered to pay $40 an acre
f Or a years rent. He refused, however,
to rent the land for that sum, and put
it into onions, potatoes, etc. From
one and half acres onions he gathered
44O sacks, weighing twenty-seven tons.
Some of these sold for So sack, some
| for 81. so, and some less. The whole
| netted about 800, which was consider
ably more profitable than to rent his
land for $40 an acre. He had in al
twenty-five acres in onions, beans, and
potatoes last year. The levee around
the island had not been completed when
the food came, covering all the land but
| about ten acres of onions. From these
he sold $4,000 worth of onions, netting
an average of 1920 an acre. This yeal
he has dug and sold an acre of new
potatoes, which brought him $S5, anc
the land had been replanted to sweet
potatoes. From the 18th to the 31st o.
last month he sold $237 worth of " garder
truck" and one could no more tell where
it came from than he could tell if few
roses had been picked from a full rose
bush. Three years ago his neighbor, Mr.
Horeo, sold 81, 800 worth of onions from
four acres of ground; and the mex
year, from the same piece, he sold $4,000
worth. On the Sardine ranch, belov
Mr.. Hale's, there was raised and sold las
year 5000 worth of string beans from tw,
acres of ground.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
Ar a wedding of a French couple at

AT a wedding of French couple at
Dover, England, the other day, the bride
groom discovered that he had no ring.
No one in the company could lend one,
and the sexton went for the church key,
the eye of which had been used for the
same purpose before. But the eye was
too small to admit the brides finger.
Finally the groom thought of his key
ring, and with 1t the pair were Joined.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16

Will testify to the virtues of DIR. TUTT's Pills.
Wherever Chill and Fever. Bilious Diseases or Liver
Affections prevail they have proven great blessing
Readers single trial will convince you that this is
no cat tch ch-pe medicine
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". NEW YORK.


The SUN ontinGes to be the strenuous advocate of
reform and retrenchment, and of the subs stitut1on
of statesmanship, WISDOM and integrity for hollow
Pretence imbecility, and fraud in the administra-
ment of the people ty the people and for the people,
opposed to government by frauds in the ballot
box and in the counting of votes enforced by mill
tary violence. 1t endeayors to supply its readers-
a body now not far from million fsouls-with the
most careful, complete. and trustworthy accounts
of current events, and employs for this purpose q
numerous carefully selected staff ofreporters and
correspondents. Its reports from Washington, es.
pecial!y, full, accurate, and fearless; and it
doubtless continues to deserve and enjoy the hatred
Of those who thrive by plundering the Treasury or
by usur ping what the law does give them. while
it to merit the confidence of the public by
defending the rights of the people against the en-
croachments of unjustfed power.
The price of the daily SUN is SIS cents a month. or
$3.50 a year post paid CT, with the Sunday edi-
tion, $7.7O year.
The Sunday edition alone, eight pages, sI.2O a
year, post paid.
THE WEEKLY Sun, eight pages of Sc broad columns.
is furnished at 81 a year, postpaid.
SPECIAL NorIcE.-In order to introduce THE Sun
more widely to the public, we will send THE
WEEKLY edition for the remainder of the year, to
January l. 1875 t-paid, for Half Dollar. Try it,.
Address. THE SUN, New York City.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16

WHENEVER Jim Blaine reads any
more of people getting sun-struck he
smiles smile of inefable contempt or
pity, and gives the cabbage leaves in his
own hat fresh shaking up.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
CHEW
The Celebrated
"MATCHLEss
Wood Tag Plug
TOBACCO.
THE PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY.
New York, Boston, and Chicago.

THERE is now no State in the Union grow
ing so rapidly or that offers such induce
ments for farming, stock-raising and specu-
lation as Texas. The very best of farming
lands are selling for S160 per section (640
acres). Mr.. S. H. Drew, Cincinnati, o., will
take pleasure in giving further information
on this subject
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
Keeping Winter Squashes and Saving

Seed.-Keeping squashes in winter
seems to be attended with considerable
difficulty. They cannot be kept where
it is damp, as in most cellars, or where
frost can reach them, nor will they keep
so we'll where it is very warm. The best
condition for keeping them seems to be
whe :e the air is cool and dry, yet safe
from frost. An attic chamber until
winter; then a closet near the chimney
where the frost cannot reach or the
temperature does not rise very high, is
the best families can command. Exten-
sive market gardeners often keep them
in houses built for the purpose, where
they can maintain an even temperature
by the aid of fires and ventilation.
Great care should be taken to save
seed only from perfect specimens, which
are up to the standard requirements of
their kind, and as mach superior aspossi-
| BILE. When two or more kindsare planted
near together the seed should not be saved,
as the product will only be mongrels,
owing to the readiness with which they
mix. But it is better to plant each
variety by itself, and to save our own
| seed, for the squash can be wonderfully
| improved by good cultivation and care
full selection of seed. I do not believe
in changing seed for the sake of change
[ have some variety of squashes, the
seed of which 1 would not exchange
with any one, and I take great care te
keep them pure. The seed of squash
should not be saved unless the quality
and flavor prove satisfactory at the table
When thoroughly dry, the seed shoulc
be carefully marked with the name o
the variety and the year. The specia
characteristic of the specimen, if it ha
any, should also be marked, as extr;
dry, extra sweet, or extra large.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16

VANITY, like laudanum and other
poisonous medicine, is beneficial in small
though injurious In large quantities,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
Light, weI-Raised Bread, Biscuits.

Cakes and Postry, digest easily and conduce
to good health. Good health makes labor of
all kinds easier, and prolongs life. Doo-
LEY's YEAST POWDER will always make all
these productions light and wholesome. 1t
is warranted to make better, lighter, sweeter,
cake, bread, ETC., than any other baking
powder
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16

AFTER an experience OF over twenty-five
years, many leading physicians acknowledge
that the GRAFENBERG MARsHALL's Uterine
CATHoLICoN is the only known certain
remedy for diseases to which women are
subject. The GRAFENRERG VEGETABLE
PILLS, the most popular remedy of the day for
biliousness, headache, liver complaint and
diseases of digestion. Sold by ali druggists.
Send for almanacs. Grafenberg Co., New
York
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16

PONDS EXTRACT, for Varicose Veins,
Hemorrhages or any Pain. Physicians
allopathic, homeopathic and eclectic-rec-
ommend it. Ask of them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16

If you feel dull, drowsy, debtated, have frequent
headache, mouth tastes badly, poor appetite, and
tongue coated you suffering from torpid liver.
ssbiliousness and nothing will cure you so speedily
and permanently as to fake SIMMONS Liver REGu-
LAToR or MEDICINE.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16

THE best Normal School in the U. S. is a
Valparaiso, Ind. See advertisement.
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TOPICS FOR FARMERS.

A Cure for ' ScOurs." p" Scours,"
says correspondent, is disease that is
caused by various circumstances, such as
sudden changes of the weather, or from
dry or green food, which is such as to
cause irritation of the bowels, and if not
attended to in time will become chronic
and be difficult to cure. The following
has always proved an infallible cure for
any case of that kind that have had
under my care: For a COW or OK l
make Cruel of starch or wheat -four
boiled to the consistency of a thick
starch, such as is made to starch linen,
and give it to the cow two or three
times each day as much as 1 think
needed, judging by the severity of the
disease. While administering the Cruel
do not give anything to eat that has a
tendency to cause looseness of the bowels
until l see that l have put check to
the disease; but if I see that 1 am likely
to stop the scours too suddenly, l give
inseed or some other substitute that is
lubricating for the bowels, until they
become natural. For calf that has the
scours, caused by giving the milk too
hot, or early new mown hay or rowen, I
give Tablespoonful of starch dissolved
in its milk, until cured.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16

ESTABLISHED b YEARS. Always cures. Always
ready Always handy. Has never yet failed. thirty
raiions hare tested it, The whole world approves the
glorious old Mustang-the Best and Cheapest laini-
ment in existence. 25 cents bottle. The MI ->Aar
Liniment cures when nothing else will.
corDpy Ar MFDTcINF VENDERS.
, 1877-10-20

A series of astounding frauds. perpe>
trated in New York by Pine street in
surance broker named William C. Gill
man. was brought to light on the 81
inst. the amount of the forgeries asgre-
eating $3.50. 900. The Herald, abiding
te the matter says: "WLen this crime
was first discovered there was uatural
indisposition to believe that Gilman
could be guilty OF it. but several cir
cumstances seem to leave no doubt that
he alone was the author of the forger-
les. Coming SO close upon the heels Of
the Morton frsude in Philadelphia this
event will shock confidence all over the
country. In this case. as in Morton's
the criminal is a man of respectable
of the highest standing
among bankers and of an apparently
life, and this adds to the
painful and irritating Impression which
the event produces. Men naturally ask
who can be trusted when such men
break their trusts and take to the most
vulgar Of crimes '-t
, 1877-10-20

Jordan, swan to the opposite shore
and got back to the city. He relat-
ed his story to many persons still
there, who are willing to testify to
what he informed them. He was
soon afterward induced to 60 with a
professed friend to live in the coun-
try, and when he was few miles
ont of the city he was shot through
the head and buried by the roadside.
The murder of the last one was, no
doubt, the work of the notorious Bill
Hickman, Rockwells associate, for
lie relates the circumstances in his
confessions with such minuteness as
to leave no doubt that he did the
deed. He closes his narrative of
that murder with charming simplic-
ity. "The man Buck" says he,
"got a shot through the head and
was put across the fence in ditch.
A rag was hung on bush to know
the place. We returned to the city
to General Grants, as per agree
ment, found him at home with Gen
erai Kimball, o. P. Rockwell, and
somebody else whose name I do not
recollect now. They asked if all
was right, and I told them it was.
They got spades, and we all went
back. deepened the ditch, and bur
led him, returned to Grants took
some whisky, and separated for the
night"
The reader of such heartless and
treacherous murders cannot but
wish that every guilty man among
them may speedily be brought to
Judgment.
, 1877-10-20


The recent death in China of
the oldest male descendent of
Confucius calls attention to the
curious fact that this family is
the only one which has retained
a grand position owing to ped
igree derived from a peaceful
thinker. This family holds the
highest place IN the kingdom,
except the throne itself, and has
retained it for 2O2 years longer
than the Christian era. The gov
ernorship of the district sur
rounding the tomb of the sage
and an estate 6f 10000 acres
are still held by the representa-
tive of the family, which now
numbers over eleven Thousand
persons, and all this multitude
are subject to him, while he re-
celves royal honors even from
the highest off ficials.
, 1877-10-20
A Fearful Risk for Girls.

The pastor of a church in one
of our large cities said, not long
ago : " / have officiated at forty
weddings since l came here, and
in every case save one, l felt.
that the bride was running an
awful risk. Young men of bad
habits and fast tendencies never
marry girls of their own sort,
but demand wife above suspi-
cion. So, pure, sweet women,.
kept from the touch Of evil
through the years Of their girl
hood, give themselves, with all
their costly dover of woman
hood, into the keeping of men,
who, in base associations, have
learned to under-value all that
belongs to them, and then find
no repentance in the sad after
years. There is but one way
out of this that l can see, and
that is for you-the young. wo-
men Of the country require
in associations and marriage, pu-
rity for purity, sobriety for So
briefly, and honor for honor.
There is no reason why the
young men Of this Christian land
should not be just as virtuous as
It's women, and if the loss of So
ciety and love be the price they
are forced to pay for vice, they
will not pay it. I admit with,
sadness that not all our young
women are capable Of this high.
standard for themselves or 9TH
ers, but I believe there are
enough earnest, thoughtful girls
in the society of our country to.
work wonders if faithfully
aroused. Dear girls will you.
help US, in the name Of Christ 2
Will You, first of all, be true to-
yourselves and God so pure in
your inner and outer life that
you shall have a right to ask
that the young man with whom
you marry shall be the same ?
The awful gulf of dishonor is
close beside your feet, and in it,
fathers, brothers, lovers, and
sons are going down. Will you
help US in our great work?
, 1877-10-20


Ann Eliza Young has recently
addressed President Hayes an
open letter, from Lockport, New
York, where she at present re-
sides. The letter is somewhat
lengthy. She urges the govern
ment to put. a stop to the hellish
iniquities which are being trans
acted in the center of our civili--
zatlon by the Latter Day Saints,
closing as follows a: "Oh, how
long it has been tolerated |! The,
lood-soaked sod of lonely Noun
tain Meadows, the brutal butch
cry of the dissenting Morrisites,
the thousand murders on the
Plains iinstigated by the ac--
knowledged head ofthe Mormons
church, and done by Mormon
tools at Mormen commands
have been crying for vengeance
many and many years to deaf
ears! Shall the voices that rise.
out of the CORY history of Nor
monism calling for judgment
upon it still be UNDECIDED ? Do.
not be persuaded that the Nor
mon faith will 60 down ere long
under the pressure of Christian
competition and execration. 1t
has withstood the competition
for fortyseven years, and in
that time has risen from a
church of six members to 2OO,-
600, and almost monthly ship
loads of deluded recruits arrive
at the wharyes of New York to
augment the sorrowful ranks of
polygamous wives or contribute
to the working and financial
strength of the Church. While
the government has tolerated
and waited Mormonism has pros
pered until it demands State,
to control, and boldly claims re-
cognition as a religious denomi-
nation under the constitutional
guarantee"
, 1877-10-20


Shakespeare was performing
the part of king in one Of his
own tragedies before Queen
Elizabeth, who wishing to know
whether he would depart from
the dignity of the sovereign.
dropped her handkerchief on
the stage, as if by accident; on
which the mimic monarch imme-
diately exclaimed-"but ere this
be done, take up our sisters
handkerchief This presence
Of mind in the poet and his close
attention to the business of the
scene is said to have pleased the
queen very much.
, 1877-10-20
GENERAL NEWS.
EUROPEAN.

MADRID, Oct. H. The Spanish gov
eminent has paid the American minis,
ter $4,000 on account of claims for
losses incurred by American citizens in
Cuba through the revolution.
LONDON, Oct. 1.-The ship Electra
from Boston, June 20. for San Fran
cisco. put into Rio Janeiro October 6th,
leaking.
BUCHAREST. Oct. 10. "A Galatz spe-
cial says II passenger vessel from the
St. George mouth of the Danube, acci>
ken,ally struck Russian torpedo and
blew up with all hands.