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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

IT is all very well to advise young
man not to do this, that or the other, but
when the man who gives the advice sets
the example of the very thing he repro
bates, his advice is very apt to slip up,
as it were, before it can effect any per-
manent reform. We started this for a
joke, but as it will not do for that, the
foreman will please put it under the
head of "grains of gold" ID
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweet
en- the breath, use Browns Camphorated
Saponaeeous Deutifrice. 25 cents a bottle.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

WITH Egyptians it was capital Of
fense to kill cat, we learn. 1t was a
capital piece of work, too.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

A CABLE dispatch TO the Associated Press
says that Mason & Hamlin have been
awarded the highest gold medal at the Paris
Exposition for their Cabinet Organs. Thirty
best makers of the world were competitors.
NEARLY all diseases that affiict humanity
originate in the stomach, liver or bowels,
aud might be prevented if people would
use a little common sense; but they will
not. They rather take Parsons Purgdtire
Pills, because one is dose.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
NEW RICH Blood!

Parsons, Purgative Pills make New hish
Blood aud will completely change the blood IN the
entire sy in three mouths Any person VINO VIII
take one riI each neht from to II weeks may oe
restored to soui. hea th if such thing be possible
Sold ererUree or sent by mail for eight letter stIHps
l. : JOHNSON Il Co., Bangor, Maine
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
WIVES and MOTHERS

Make such of your husbands and sons who need it.
take the Father Mathew Remedy 1t is the anti
dote alcohol lately discovered Ii cures intemper
and destroys all appetite for iaror as eneetusy
the extracting OF painful tooth cures toothache
1t builds the and is the most power
full and wholesome tonic known also all kinds
of Fever. Dyspepsia and Torpidity of the Liver Sold
by druggists. 81 bottle. Pamphlet on Alcohol, Its
Effects on the Human Body and lntemreranee as
Disease, sent free writing to the Father Mathew
Temperance & Manufacturing Co. 36 Bond St,N1
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
Cincinnati Musical institute.

Itv-InstrumentaI, Miss II. L. Evans, Miss
Rose Fortman, Miss Roma Gilman; Vocal, Miss
EMMA CRANCu, Miss Annie T.. March. Piano, Organ,
Vocal Music and Theory taught. Prof. II. g Andre 5
system followed. ARRANGEMENTS for boarding pupils
ADS Miss HATTIE L. EVANS. l30w. 9th St, Cint, O..
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-02-01
PULLING SrRAws FOR MANS LIFE

| PULLING iSTRAWs FOR A MANS LIFE -
Among the passengers by the Arkan-
sas Belle, last night, was Lawyer F
3. Albright, of Murfreesboro, Illinois,
wh' is on his way home from Shaw
neetown, where he was called to as
sist in the argument of the motion for
a new trial in the case of John AIKEN,
who was found guilty and sentenced
to be hung by a jury last week.
From Mr. Albright, last night, I
learned some very strange facts in re-
gard to the mode by which the grand
jury arrived at its decision, and it is
probable they are without precedent.
Mr.. Albright says the case looked
very bad for the prisoner when he was
called into it, and his learned compan-
ions had, but little hope Unexpected
ly, however, it came to Mr.. Albright's
ears that the jury had come to their
decision to hang the prisoners by
pulling straws. The idea that an in
telligent jury would be guilty Of such
an outrage was SO ridiculous that for
a time the counsel would not believe
it, but on examination it was found to
be too true, and the afidavits of three
of the jurors were obtained to corrob-
crate it. Nine of them favored i'm
for various terms, and
three were for hanging. To settle
this trivial difference of opinion, lots
were resorted to, and the piece con-
tanning the greatest amount Of hemp
won. The result was that AIKEN had
been granted new trial, to begin on
the first Tuesday in March. Three OF
the jurors, John B. Walters, VIM. Will
lis and John Grow, were fined $100,
and another wass fined $50.-Cairo,
(IH.) Special.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-02-01

z District for Boise county, Idaho Territory.
John Suhlsen VS.. Chin Lee Pow, ct al.
Under and by virtue of an order of sale and de-
of foreclosure issued out of the District Court
of the Second Judicial District of Idaho Territory
in and for Bois county, on the Goth day of Sep
tember, A. d. 1877. in the above entitled action.
wherein John Suhlsen, the above named plaintiff
obtained judgment and decree against Chin Lee
Pow ct al, defendants the Goth day of September
1877 and whcih said decree duly recorded in the
judgment record of said Court am command
ed to sell all that certain parcel of ground situate
in Idaho City, county Boise, Territory of Idaho
G )mmencing at the north east corner made by the
intersection of Walula and Montgomery streets,
running thence along Wallula street to the lot OF
All 500 thence along the east line of All SoOs lot so
feet; thence in westerly direction 25 feet thence
in a norther direction so feet to Wallua street;
thence in westerly direction to the northwest
corner of Lee Pows garden; thence in south
erly direction to the south west of said gar
den; thence in easterly direction to Montgom-
cry street; thence in a northerlJ direction along
the west 81 e of Montgomery street to the place of
beginning together with all and singular the tene-
ments. hereditaments and appurtenances thereto
belonging or in anywise appertaining.
Public notice is hereby given that on
Saturday, the 10th day of February, A. D. 1878,
at II O'Clock, noon, of that day, in front of the
Court House in Idaho City, Boise county, I. IT,
WILL in obedience to said order of ale and decree of
foreclosure, sell the above described property
much of it as ay be necessary to satisfy plaintiffs
with interest thereon, and costs, to the
highest bidder for cash. SAMUEL STEWART.
Sheriff.
Idaho City, Jan. 81, 187S-3w.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-02-01

The Hampton House in South Car.
'oina set a noteworthy example to
Congress and other Legislative bodies
a few days ago by the admission Of
Republican member from Sumter coun-
ty in the face Of fraudulent return.
Johnson had received about 200 ma
jority of the honest vote, as ascer-
tanned by an informal count on cleo
ton night, but a few enterprsins
Democrats, with Philadelphia Pilgrim
ncliDations, captured enough ballot
boxes to leave majority for the Dem
ocratic candidate. The election COM
missiohers reported the facts to the
House, and the body declared, by an
overwhelming vote, that the Repub-
lican should be seated at once. Evi-
IDENTIFY the world moves down that
way.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-02-01

The numerous friends of Mr.. Schuy-.
Ter Co'fax will be pleased to learn
that he has at last found some useful
employment. A Western paper re-
lates that Mr.. Colfax arrived at an
inn in Warren, ILL.,, the other night at
a late hour, and as he was to take an
early train he told the landlord that
he would not SO to bed. The land
lord, therefore, who did not know his
guest, asked him to act as clerk du-
ring the night, keep the fires going
and wake the porter in the morning 5
The ex-Vice President did SO and
doubtless continued to smile
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-02-01

The Colorado petrifed man was
made by George Hull, of Cardiff giant
fame, The latter humbug petrifaction
was made in the mountains Of Penn
sylvania and shipped to Colorado,
buried and dug up according to pre-
vious arrangements. Barnum was IN
with the swindle ard furnished por-
tion of the capital for Hull to work on.
Hull will yet be great American.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-02-01
Sheriff IS Sale.

EN THE DISTRICT COURT SECOND JUDICIAL
z District for Boise county, Idaho Territory.
John Suhlsen Chin Lee Pow, ct al.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-02-01

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PIScHBAcK, says the N. Y. Herald,
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17
BRATTLEBORO
Business Directory.
ArrIcuIturaI implements.

Agricultural ImplementS'
c. +. THOMPSON Co, Williston,s stone Block
W wOoD CS q DE u 9Tii - 'uit 'is N'''
d. a. liam, A9ioI D'o'A'
DooASeioES an" "S'Ni"
CHENEY CLAPP, crosby Block
+. G. EDWARDS door south Trips Jewelry store
}. STEEN, opposite Brooks House.
Carpets.
c. l.. BROWN, Marshall Estcrbrooks block, Main ST.
y, J: PRAIT, l dranite BLOCK .,-,,
- "1A i' ~ - O' IS %,
cement Dram Fipe'
WM' A. PELLET /, mahi r ana contractor ior laying
ChhmDer SeN'
T.. l.. BROWN, Marshall EsterbroOk s block Main st.
HEIIlNG SUN Hlsn ST. next brooAs HOUSE,
CiO'eH'
r. :: IEAGkETT III, Co. utan5e n how. 9,
= WHITNEY,. No. Granite ROW.
Coal.
FIX nAprows. office with p. parrows.
Al GLEASON, with A. V. Cox K Co.
Collins and CasketH.
e. l.. BROWN, Marshall Esterbrouk's block, Main st.
Contractors and Builders.
CuIpCu Flat 81
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17

"Willyou please insertth obituary notice 7?
asked an old gentleman of country editor
''the deceased had great many friends about
here who'd be glad TO hear of his death"
little boy in Sioux City Sunday school
put poser to his teacher The lady was tell
ing her class how God punished the Egyptians
by causing the first-born in each household to
be slain. The little boy listened attentively,
and ut the proper interval mildly inquired :
'What would God have done if there had
been twins z!
A Connecticut editor shows his familiarity
with agriculture in the following "ris wheat
to n-oat the pro-grass of the approach of
spring. Onion-der hills and meadows nature
is bean arrayed in all herb beauty. The farm
err manfosts corn -cider-apple zeal in his efforts
to secure early field crops while the gardens
with t-hay-r radish-ional work, are being care
fully attended to.
boy in Sunday school proposed ques-
ton to be answered the Sunday following :
'How many letters does the Bible contain p
The answer was three million FIVE hundred
and thirty thousand three hundred and thir-
ty-three. The superintendent says to James,
"Is that right?' mo, sir, was the prompt
reply. "Will you please tell us how many
there are, then| 'Twenty-six, sir"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17

TERRIBLE NIGHT.-Once when n bashful
cub, took a plain, unsentimental country
girl to a comedy one night. had known her
a day she seemed divine; l wore my new
boots. At the end of the first half hour she
said: 'Why do you fdget with your feet
so?" l said: Did 2" Then put my at
end of another half hour she said "Why do
you say, Yes oh, yes" and 'ha, ha, oh, GER
tainly very true' to everything say, when
half the time those are only irrelevant an
swers ?" 1 blushed and explained that l had
been n little absent minded. At the end of
another half hour she said: 'Please why do
you grin so steadily at vacancy, and yet look
SO sad?" l explained that l always did that
when l was rejecting.
An hour passed and then she turned and
contemplated me with her earnest eyes and
said, why do you cry all the time 7" ex-
planned that very funny comedies always made
me cry. At last human nature surrendered,
and secretly slipped my boots of. This
was mistake l was not able to get them
on any more. 1t was rainy night; there
was no omnibus going our way and walk
ed home, burning up with shame with the
girl on one arm and my boots under the 9th
er. l was an object worthy of compassion,
especially in those moments of martyrdOm,
when had to pass through the glare that
fell upon the pavement from the street lamps.
Finally, this child of the forest said: "Where
are your boots Z" and, being taken unprepar-
ed, put finishing touch to the follies of
the evening with the stupid remark The
higher classes do not wear them to the thea
tire, DR.. Warner,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17

The KIND OF RELIGION WE WANTING
want religion that softens the step and
tunes the voice to melody, and fills the eye
with sunshine, and checks the impatient ex-
clamatiop and harsh rebuke II religion that
is polite, deferental to superiors, courteous
to Interiors and consderate to friends a re-
ligion 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 hus-
band mindful of the scraper and door mat
keeps the mother patient when the baby is
cross and amuses the children as well as in
structs them; cares for the servants besides
paying them promptly, projects the honey
moon into the haryest-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 a religion that shall interpose be-
tween the ruts and the gullies and rocks of
the highway of life and the sensitive souls
that are travelling over them.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17

The late DIR. Chalmers of Edinburgh, thus
oloquently contrasts the relative powers of
these two Instruments The one reveals to
me a system in every STAR the other, world
in every atom. By the one, l am led TO be-
lieve that this great globe itself, with all the
mighty burden of its oceans and continents,
is but as n single grain of sand on the high
fields of immensity; the other teaches me
that every grain of sand may harbor the
tribes and families of busy population. The
one tells me of the insignificance of the world
tread upon; the other redeems it from all
insignifcance for it tells me that on the
leaves of every forest, in the flowers of every
garden, and in the waters of every rivulet
there are worlds teeming with life, and num-
berless as the glories of the armament. The
one suggests that far and beyond all that the
telescope has revealed, there may be fields of
creation which sweep immeasureably along,
and carry the impress of the Almighty's hand
to the remotest shores of the universe. The
other intimates that within and beneath all
that minuteness disclosed by the microscope,
there may be a region of invisibles, that could
we draw aside the mysterious curtain that
shrouds it from our senses, We should see a
theatre of as many wonders as astronomy has
unfolded universe within the compass of
point where the wonder working God could
raise another mechanism of worlds and fill
and animate them all with the evidences of
His glory"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17

"why should such a lovely child,
Meek, Industrious, quiet, mild,
Sweet, domestic, musical.
Suffer from q dreadful fall?
Ha 4 she been like some we meet,
Always romping in the street,
Like tOm-boy wild and rude,
Never trying to be good
Been as many others are,
Less obedient to her ma,
Less deserving Of esteem,
Less afraid Of doing wrong,
Less industrious at her seam,
Less religious in her song,
Less fastidious In her verse,
Things could not have happened worse!"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17

and a date, 1888.
1T is the work of Orazio Fontane, of Castel
Durante," he said. The name tells you
nothing. Well, he was great man, the
greatest of all the pottery painters of Urbino
in long past time. The plate is worth tif-
teen hundred francs. l am not a dealer. |
bring you the sum that is just. For the rest,
have heard your story. l am foreigner
but l am attached to your country, and l
have estates close by here. l will find you a
good post; you will live on my lands, and
Pastore shall have no need to risk his life in
the city"
Faello listened stupiied.
Misfortune he could understand but this !
When the truth, in all its ecstasy broke at
last upon him, his face shone like the light of
the morning.
God did wish it I" he cried aloud.
Two years later he married Dea, and Pastore
headed the wedding procession. on.-Hdrper's
Bdzdr
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17

"Pretty little Bessie u.
Sat one morning quietly
Hemming, by her mothers side,
Kitchen towels, long and wide,
Making labor do for sport,
Singing softly, "Hold the fort"
All, twas an unluchy day!
With no warning creAk at all,
Suddenly her chair gave way,
And poor Bessie caught fall
Down she went, with dreadful jar,
And alas, untoward fate.
Tibia and fbulA
Cracked OF short beneath her weight,
Now poor Bessie lies and groans,
with no color in her cheekH,
Kept in bed by broken bones,
CAged for six or seven weeks"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17

Special attention given to the placing Of funds on
Real Estate in city aud vicinity 80 that II will net
tue lender ten per cent interest, payable semi
annually. Mortgage deeds taken to secure notes
for principal with coupon notes attached given for
tue insgallmeuts OF uisTest
All loans made by rs, as well as the interest ON
them, will be collected free of charge, If wished also
titles examined taxes paid, property sold, debts coll
lcctrd and prompt r"turus made.
send for circular showing our method OF dong
business.
HgFERENCEs Northwestern, state Merchants iand
National Exchange Sat Bauks, Minneapolis, Mimi :
Merchants Nationg Bank, St Paul, Mimi First Ma :
unnal Bauk New Albany, Ind; Vermont National
Bank nrattlebnro, Vt. Barber n Trnmhauer, bank
ers Polo, H. Parks Wooson SpTinrheldi Vt; 2.
l. Sleeper Il Co., NJ. A. Lewis N Co., Boston, Mass. (;
H. T.. Baker. y, l.. Shaw, Rey.A. Foster ,Putney, w.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17

A frislty Briton bit his wifes nose of, and
the patient woman testified in Court that she
bit il off herself
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17

THE FACTs IN THE CASE.
Bessie, little damscl fair,
Whom this truthful tale concerns,
With her blondest Of blond hair,
Always minding one Of Burns
Cassie wi the lint-white locks"
Bessie, by some oversight,
Had an accident that shocks
Pen aud paper to recite.
One unlucky day last week,
She, In playing hide and seek,
Climbed the grapevine lattice-work;
And, TO run and reach the goal,
Jumped of with dreadful jerk
Fit to sever sense and soul.
Landing on the frozen ground
In a little aching heap,
Presently poor Bessie found
She had made n costly leap;
Broken by that dreadful hurt,
One poor aucle hung inert;
Twisted somehow, both the bones
Snapped like pipe-stems, and her groans
Called her pllymates, half afraid
And half doubtful, to her air.
Two of whom, with careful tread,
Hopped her slowly home to bed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17

Gentlest ways and blondest curls
Cannot alter Fate's intents,
And the incest little girls
Meet, sometimes, with accidents.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17

Bcssie, though laid mp in splints,
Dreaded much the public prints
Did not wish this mournful tale
Carried up and down by mail:
NO." said BESSIE ''how 'twould look
No young lady in book
Breaks her leg while romping--no,
Do not have Il published 81.
In the papers "local news!"
So her friends, who shared her views,
Plying her bashfulnpss,
Wrote the story ont like this:
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17

"Thercl that child has got a bumpl
She's a lively one TO jump
Climbing wall and fence and roof,
Never scared. and tumble-proof;
Anybody would have said
'Tis a marvel, in it's way,
That she did not break her head
Or her neck before to-day"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17
THE RRATTLEBoRO
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l. DRATTLEBORO, VT.
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Wy VI. AMsDRN,
MATCHMAKER,
JEWELER and ENGRAVER.

AIM. t. VanDoOrn Sons Crockery Store,
CROSBY BLOCK, MAIN ST.. BRATTLRBORO. vi.
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LEWIS ~ KELLEY'S
Real Estate Loan Office,


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BUSINESS CARDS.

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