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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

The London Times prints two columns
of description of the mechanical dis
play Of the United States at the Paris
Exhibition. In the editorial article com"
menting thereon, the Times says: "The
pre-eminence of the mechanical genius
of the United States may be- admitted,
and is illustrated not for the first time
in the exhibition in Paris. The Times,
without pretending to exhaust the whole
secret of the phenomena of the inven-
tive genius across the Atlantic, finds a
reason therefor in the greater efficiency
of labor there, and the increased cost
and difficulty Of hiring it. The condi-
tion Of union as an economic society
drives its inhabitants toward invention,
and there, as elsewhere, necessity may
be said TO be the mother of it."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05
Father Hyacinthe and His American
Wife.

We have all along wondered at the
ecclesiastical inconsistencies of Father
Hyacinthe in abandoning the Church
of Rome, and yet still claiming to be a
Roman Catholic priest, and quite re-
moved from Professionalism. But we
had no idea that his theological aberra-
tions and isolated position as a priest
could be followed by social embarrass-
ment regarding his marriage. To those
grim and dyspeptic old priests who crit
icised their brothers marriage more
sharply than they had his heresies, tb be
welded pair sent cards with pitying
words upon them With the forgive
ness of Pere and Madame Loyson;" ;" for
the late Pere had some time before his
marriage released him from his mo-
nastic VOWS, and when that witty Pom
tiff heard of his marriage, he said, with
shrug, Poor man, he has taken his
punishment into his own hands,
1t would seem that the remark of Pho
Mono is another instance of the proverb
that "many a true word is spoken in
jest" The French Court of Cessation
has Just pronounced the marriage of
another priest, in 1S4s, to have been
null and void, and since holy orders are
indelible, and "once a priest, priest
forever" the marriage of Father and
Mrs. Loyson will be regarded as lille.
gal, and their little sons position will
be socially unpleasant. The law seems
hard one in the case of a priest OF
good character, who conscientiously be.
1ieves that marriage is lawful for him
| And it seems the harder in Father Hy.
acynthe's case, because, as the English
Protestant Bishop of Lincoln publicly
stated, a prelate of the Roman Catho
lie Church assisted at the marriage. )
DR.. Christopher Wordsworth, the Bishop
in question, is in hearty sympathy witt
Father Hyacinthe, theologically, anc
was the only English prelate who at
tended the Old Catholic Conference al
Bonn.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

MILTON has left us this sentiment,
which deserves to be written in in
delible characters on the tablets of every
youths mind: "I call complete and
generous education that which fits
man to perform justly, skillfully and
magnanimously all the offices, both
public and private, of peace and war,
infiamed with a
study of learning and the admiration of
virtue, stirred up with high hopes of
living to be brave men and worthy
patriots, dear to God and famous in all
aceS.O
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

WORTH, the Paris man milliner, is
not Frenchman at all, but Protes-
tant Englishman with Catholic and
Partisan wife, and two sons just out of
College. His home is at Suresnes, a
suburb Of the gay Capital, Immediately
under the guns of. its chief defense,
Fort Mort Valerian, which the Germans
failed to reduce in 1871. Here he plays
the genisl host in an elegant chateau,
planted in the midst of extensive grounds
which are fenced in by high brick walls.
One day and night each year house and
grounds are thrown open to Worth's
employees, the women appearing in
dresses given them from his store, and
each trimmed according to the great
milliner's directions.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

ON the authority of the London
Medical Examiner, it is proposed to form
"school of beauty" in England, in
which all the members pledge them
selves to do all they can to make them
selves comely by natural means. Prizes
will be given to those ladies who can
move with ease and grace, and so afford
evidence Of the free use of their limbs.
In short a natural waist and we'll
curved hack, with a perfectly posed
head, will be premium.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

CHATHAM ISLAND is one of the places
where the sun "junps a day." and is
thus described: Chatham Island, living
on the coast of New Zealand, in the
South Pacific Ocean, is peculiarly stu
ated, and it is one of the few inhabitable
points Of the globe where the day of the
week changes. 1t is just on the line of
demarkation between dates. There high
twelve on Sunday, or Sunday noon,
ceases, and instantly Monday meridian
begins. Sunday. comes into mans
house on the east side, and becomes
Monday by the time it passes out of the
western door. A man sits down to his
MONDAY dinner on Sunday, and it il
Monday before he finishes it. There
Saturday is Sunday, and Sundays Mon
day, and Monday becomes suddenly
Transferred into Tuesday.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

THE gross earnings of the Central
Pacific Railroad for the present year
will be, it is estimated, in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000, 900, of which about
$4,000 will be net profit. The gross
earnings have been as high as SIT ,0OO,-
600, with a net gain of $4,000, 900
about fifty-two per cent. The Chicago
and Northwestern Railway, which is a
well-paying road, does not get a profit
of $2,0oO,000 out of the gross receipts,
amounting to $14,0O0,0O0. And still
the Central Pacific has just increased
its freight rates.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05
TOPICS OF THE DA 2.

The opening of the suez Canal has
proved the ruin Of the overland trade,
by caravan to Bagdad and the Persian
Gulf, which formerly supported ancient
Damascus. Many of its houses and
shops are now entirely empty, and Its
streets are filed with beggars, where
they were formery a rarity.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

A CHINAMEN has sued the Sheriff of
San Francisco for cutting off his queue
in the County Jail. The Sheriff de-
INJURED to the complaint on the ground
that he was empowered to cut of the
queues of prisoners by city ordinance,
but the Court overruled the demurrer,
declaring that there was no ordinance
which gave such power, and that there
is no general Authority for Sheriff to
clip the hair of convicts.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

A CHrNAMAN's mule walked from a
hillside on to the roof of miners
cabin, in Eureka, Nevada, and fell
through, breaking nearly everything
underneath, including one of the miners
arms. The enraged miner Immediately
slew the mule with an ak. The China
man now sues for the loss of the mule,
and the miner sues for the damage to the
cabin and himself.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

TWELVE million acres of forest, it is
estimated, have been cut down or
burned in the United States within the
last ten years. Much of the timber is
used for fuel, twenty-five cities being on
record as consuming from five to ten
thousand acres each. Fences and rail-
way sleepers require one hundred and
fifty thousand acres per anDum. The
timber industry employs two hundred
thousand men, and one hundred and
forty-four millions of dollars capital.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05
FOREIGN SUMMARY.

IN Berlin, the Federal Council has
adopted a bill against Socialism, which EN-.
powers the police to prohibit Socialist as
sociations, and provides for appeals to q
Committee of the Federal Council
AN excursion train on the London
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

AN ENGLISH gentleman says: "For
sixteen years was cripple from gout,
and never knew what month was
without serious attack, when some one
told me to eat what l liked, but to drink
nothing except milk. have done this
for ten months, and have not had a
twinge."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

THE fact that General Philippovich,
the Grand Duke of Wertemberg, Baron
Romberg, General szapary, and Baron
Bienerth, have all been gazetted COM
manders of the army corps, gives an
idea of the extent of the proposed mobil-
ization Of the Austrian army, and causes
speculation as TO the mission of such a
hinge force
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

The late Cardinal Franchi was very
fond of retailing Pho Nono's good say
ings. Here is one which the Cardinal
Secretary of State used to tell with in
tense relish. Complaints had been fl
quently made by priests to the Propa-
ganda of the arbitrary exercise of author.
ity over his clergy by certain Austral
ian Archbishop. The Archbishop was
informed that his presence in Rome
would be esteemed favor. He crossed
the seas and arrived in Rome. In due
course he was introduced to Pho Mono,
who was well conversant with the points
in dispute between the Archbishop and
his clergy. "Oh," said Pho Mono to tn,
Archbishop, offering him chair beside
him on the dais, "you are the othe
Pope. Sit down, your Holiness" TIL,
rebuke cured the Archbishop, and he
and his clergy lived happily afterward
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

The Italians, in their desire to create
anavy, have naturally initiated English
traditions of naval management some
what Unfortunately. Among other
things they have adopted the famous
punishment Of mastheading. The heroes
Of Capt. Marryatt's novels appear to
have spent considerable portion of their
lives at this uncomfortable elevation,
and panorama of a British feet al
anchor in the beginning of the century
would have been incomplete without
the introduction of some dozen or 80 oi
midshipmen tipping the tapering mas
with their persons. Recently an Italiar
cadet was mast-headed at Spezia in the
heat of the day, and losing his footing al
he endeavored TO descend was killed
The Captain has in consequence beer
severely blamed, though if masthead
ing be prescribed in the articles of war
the system rather than the Captain
would be to blame.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

THERE'S worse things than getting
married-hanging for instance Eznira
Gazette.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05

I had relapse. Ninety-nine doctors
out of hundred will tell you that a
relapse means death. Two weeks to a
day after my first attack felt an over
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-10-05

The total number of weeks board for
one inmate Is 5,94O, at Il cost OF about
l.6l5 8c per week.
Total number of inmates for the year,
246. Total number on the 3lSt day OF
August, 49, Males, IS; females, 4 .. In
sane males, 10; insane females, ii. SIM
pie or idiotic, II. Nativity American,
45; Irish, 80; German, u English );
French, =; Scotch, i; Norwegian, l; Dane,
|. Number of births, Z. Number OF
deaths, u.
The asylum is still in charge Of Mr..
and Mrs. Arnold as Warden aud MatrOn
to the extent of the care and manage
ment of the inmates. We consider them
well calculated for the position. we
must S. Y, however. they have notions III
regard to supplies which are eXtravagant
and should be restrained. Formerly
they were accustomed to purchase many
articles for the asylum which may have
led them to practice liberality that IS
unwarranted in running poor-houSe.
Your committee would recommend that
the Superintendent only should purchase
supplies, and that he shall pay for the
same on delivery.
Inmates should understand that PLAN
food properly cooked, plain and sllbStan-
tial clothing in sufficient quantities to en-
is all that will be furnished by the county.
The continued depression in business
and the probability of an approaching
cold winter render it safe to say that
the county Will be called upon TO support
a larger number than heretofore, conSe-
uuenlly the officers of the asylum should
be compelled to do all in their power to
the end that the tax payers Will not pc
called upon to pay more than Is actually
necessary for the care and support or the
poor.
\ our committee desire to call your at
tentOn to some improvements when we
think necessary. The pipes leading from
the water closets are in want OF repairs.
Tile should be laid from the basement to
connect it with the cess pool in the house
Suitable hose should be furnished III each
ward to be used in case of tire. Ihe
range will soon have to be replaced by
npWone. The corn crib should be removed
and placed upon stone foundation.
All of which is respectfully submitted
in behalf of the committee.
MARTIN FLAHERTY,
Chairman.
Supervisor +. c. Lewis, chairman of
the committee to settle with County
Treasurer. submitted the following re-
port, which on motion was adopted:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen OF the Board
OF Supervisors:
Your committee to settle with the
County Treasurer beg leave to report
that they have carefully examined the
report of the County Treasurer hereto at
tached, and compared the same with the
books of the Treasurer, and find the same
correct; that they have carefully COM
pared all vouchers and having verified the
same have destroyed them; that they
have counted the cash balance as shown
by the report hereto attached, and ma
the same 10 be correct.
rREAsURER's REPORT
SAMUEL ". RAYMOND. Co. Treas,
4, Account nth La SAFE County
ls7s. DIR.
Bal due Co Jsny report S.'aioo'
Tax AID 1871. ...-... kJ9,531 -
y.y ,ince sdd,d $500. 3s2
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-10-05

On motion of Supervisor O'Laughlin
it is ordered that the report Of the com
mittee on new courthouse and jail be
made the special order of business on
Tuesday morning next.
On motion Board adjourned until .
o'clock +. NJ. Monday next.
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Attest: TX WILLIAMS,
county superintendent Of SchOOis.
And we would recommend the payment
of r. Williams bill for services rendered
from March 18th to June 18th, 1878,
500 Also for Office expenses, including
rent, Sl56.06. Total, S356,06.
NJ. O'LOUGHLIN,
letting Chairman.
Supervisor Stevenson, chairman of the
committee on complaints and abate-
ments, submitted the following report:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen Of the Board
Ot Supervisors
Your committee Oh complaints and
ATTACHMENTS would respectfully report
that they have examined the matter of
the petition of Charles Drummer, of the
city of Peru, and recommend the follow
ing:
That he be granted an abatement of
$500 on his assessment for the year 1878,
although in violation of a resolution of
this Board, inasmuch as he did not APP
pear before the Town Board for redress.
We think his reasons for not doing so are
such as entitle him to our consideration.
The ayes and noes being demanded,
Supervisors Belford, Boyer, Brown, Ca
rey, Chappell, Conerton, Donlevy, Fades,
Il VA, NiohS, ~ NIL, AlllItl, IlChtIS, ctt-
venSon, White-l5, voted in the aiiirma-
tive. Supervisors Arnold, Barton, Bay
ley, Beach, Bowen, Cooper, Flaherty For
ristal, Grove, HickOk, l.. C.Lewis, Miner,
Nelson, O'Laughlin, Palmer, Robinson,
Scott, Stevens, Stormont, Tower, West
gate, Wiley, 5. G, Wylie, Alexander-23
voted in the negative. Lost.
Supervisor Stevenson also presented
the following report. which on motion was
adopted.
Upon the petition of n. j. Bostwick.
of the town of Freedom, asking to be re-
leased from the assessment of $500 per
sonal property in the town of Wallace.
the same having been assessed in the
town of Freedom where it properly be-
longs. we recommend that said property
be so released.
All of which is respectively submitted.
JAMES w. STEVENSON.
Supervisor Stevenson, chairman of the
committee on complaints and ATTACHMENTS
submitted the following report, which on
motion was adopted:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen Of The Board
Of Supervisors
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OTTAWA FRE; TRADER: SATURDAY, OCTOBER &, 1873.

Resol,,od, That, We firmly believe that
our bounden duty under the law requires
as to take immediate steps toward erect
inc new courthouse and jail
supervisor Barton moved to lay the
resolution on the table, whereupon, the
ayes and noes being demanded, super
yIsors Arnold. Barton, Bayley, Belford,
Bowen, Butte, Chapel, Conerton, Cooper,
Donlevy. Fades, Fox, Grove, Hickok,
I.auf, Miner, OIaughhn, Palmer, Rob
insou. Scott, Stevens, Stevenson, West
gate. White, Wiley, ). c., and Wylie,
Alex. (26l voted in the Affirmative, and
Supervisors Beach, Boyer, Brown, Carey,
Flaherty FOrristal, Klove, Lewis, Lynch,
Miller, Nelson, Pickens, Stormont, Stout,
Tower and Mr.. Chairman, (l6) voted in
the negative. The motion was carried.
The time having arrived for the con-
sideration of the resolution of Supervisor
f. c. Lewis offered on yesterday, SUI
pervsor Tower moved the previous ques-
ton. The ayes and noes being demand
ed. Supervisors Arnold, Barton, Bayley,
Beach, Bedford, Boyer, Bowen, Butte,
Chapel. Conerton, Cooper. Fades, Fox,
Grove, IIickok, klove, Lauf, Lynch,
Miller, Palmer, Robinson, Stevenson,
Stormont, Stout, Tower, Wylie, Alex,
t26l voted in the affirmative, and Super
vsors Brown. Donlevy, Forristal, Lewis,
T.. c., Miner, Nelson. OLaughlln, Scott,
Stevens, Westgate, White and Wiley, :.
c. az voted in the negative. Motion
carried.
The question then being upon the adop-
ton of the resolution, the ayes and noes
being demanded. Supervisors Arnold,
Barton. Bayley, Beach, Bedford, Boyer,
Bowen, Brown, Butte, Chapel, Conerton,
Cooper, Fades, Fox, Grove, llickok,
Klove. Lauf. Lewis, Miner, Nelson,
Palmer. pickenS. Stevens, Stevenson,
Stormont. stout Towerand Wylie, Alex,
(29)voted in the Affirmative, and Supervis-
ors Donlevy, Forristal, Lynch, Miller,
OIaughlin, Robinson, Scott Westgate,
White and Wiley. ;. &. t!0) voted in the
negative. The resolution was adopted.
On motion of Supervisor Miller, 1t was
voted that when this Board adjourns on
tomorrow it stand adjourned till Mon
day next at o'clock p. u.
Supervisor White introduced the fol-
lowing resolution. which, on motion, was
lost
Mr.. Chairman ard Geutiemea Of tie Board
Of Supervisors:
As your committee on equalization of
personal property has raised the aggre-
gate of the county OF personal property
some S43.0 900, and the greater portion of
that amount was raised on the personal
property of the town OF Aleridfn, There
fore offer the following resolution:
ReSolred, That the Clerk of this Board
be instructed to deduct so ,0O9 from the
personal property Of the town of Meri-
den. a. &. WHITE.
On motion Board adjourned till 9
O'Clock tomorrow morning.
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All of which is respectfully submitted
l.. b. HICKOK,
/rb,.,.,,,n,,


l.. b. HICkOK,
Chairman.
Supervisor White moved to amend the
report by striking out amounts allowed
the committee on equalization. The
ayes and noes being demanded, Supervl-
sor White l) voted in the affirmative.
Supervisors Barton, Beach, Bedford, Bey-
er. Brown. Butte, Carey, Chapel: Con-
erton, Cooper. Donlevy, Fades, F!aher-
ty. Forristal. Fox, Grove, Hickok, klove,
Lauf. Lynch Miller. Nelson. O'Laughiln,
Palmer. Pickens. Robinson, Scott. Ste
vens, Stevenson, StOrmont, Stout, west
gate-32-voted in the affirmative.
The amendment was lost.
On motion of Supervisor Brown the re-
port was adopted.
Supervisor Stevenson. chairman OF the
committee on complaints ana aDate-
ments, submitted the following report,
which on motion was adopted.
Mr.. Chairman aud Gentlemen Of the Board
of Supervisors:
Your committee on complaints ana
ATTACHMENTS would respectfully report
that they have examined the matter OF
the petition of the School Trustees OF
town SO. range 5, east OF the 81 L. NJ.
presented before them asking TO be re-
leased of certain town lots from assess
ment the current year, viz: lots i, 2, IN 3,
6. and s in block Gums ADDITION to
Marseilles. Also lots 2, 8 and Gums 81
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following resolution
ReSOlred, That the committee on equal
ization of personal property be instructed
to place all the evidence in their hands in
the POSSESSION of the County Attorney,
who is hereby instructed and empowered
to commence such proceedings as IN his
opinion can be sustained.
Onmotion of Supervisor White, action
upon the resolution was deferred until to-
morrow afternoon.
Supervisor Stevenson, chairman of the
committee on complaints and abate-
ments, submitted the following report,
which on motion was adopted:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen Of the Board
OF Supervisors:
Your committee on complaints and
ATTACHMENTS would respectively report
that they have examined the matter of
the Illinois River Bridge Company, of
Ottawa. claiming an abatement of their
assessment on the general grounds that
the assessment was too high. 1t not APP
pearlng that said Company appeared be-
fore the Town Board, we therefore ask
to be relieved from the further consider
alton of said petition.
And we have also had under consider
alton the petition of the Northern Hi
nois Coal & Iron Company, claiming that
they are assessed too high, not compare
lively but absolutely too high but il not
appearing that the said Company APP
peared before the Town Board, we ask to
be relieved from the further cOnsidera-
ton of the same.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JAS. W. STEVENSON,
Chairman.
On motion Board adjourned till 9
o'clock tomorrow morning.
FRIDAY, sept. Is, 1878.
Board met pursuant To adjournment.
Present same as yesterday. Minutes of
Yesterdays proceedings read and APP
/ proved.
Supervisor Barton. chairman of the
committee on roads and bridges, submit
ted the following report, which on motion
was adopted:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen Of he Board
Of Supervisors:
Your committee on roads and bridges