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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-14

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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-14
The count goes on.

In days gone by the election ended the
contest, but it doesn't of late.
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Daily, exeeptSunday.
Leave Robb's (Westwood) 5:43 q m, 7:05 nv
2;3S m, 1858 p m, 603 pm.
Leave Brighton, 6:2s m, So m. POS p m, SIS
p m, 6:4s m.
Sunday trains
Leave Robbs (Westwoodl, 8:3S a m, 1923 a mo
1923 m, &0s p m, 4:53 p M and 6:33 o M.
Leave Brighton, 9.33 m, II: :08 M, l:2S p ual
2;ss p N, 5:55 p m, 7ls p m.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-14

guChSOH dIIu TUICsLHUUEI
BALTIMORE OHIO, VIA PARKRRsBURG.
Dppot Pearl and Plum
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28
The New Conditions of Peace.

A dispatch from Constantinople, Feb. 81,
via Syra, gives the principal points Of the
fresh conditions of peace demanded by
Russia. The dispatch fully confirms the
report from Vienna as to the proposed
boundaries of the new province of Bull
garia, which will include the country be-
tween the Danube and the Balkans, and a
portion of Roumelia, between the Black
Sea and Servia, comprising Sofia and Phil
ipopolis, a greater part Of Thrace and Mao
edonia, and the whole valley of the Martha,
except Adrianople. The conditions provide
for an assembly of notables to elect Sow
ereign Prince for Bulgaria, whose nomina-
tion is to be submitted for sanction to the
Porte and European Powers. The Bulgarian
tribute to the Porte is to be equal in amount
to the net revenue of the province.
A Russian Commission is to superintend
and fifty thousand Russian troops are to &C.
cupy the principa ity during the same Pc
riod. The conditions also require cession
of Podgoritza and Antivari with territory to
Montenegro, Russia to have power to cede
the Dobrudscha to Roumania in exchange
for Roumanian Bessarabia; cessions of ter
ritory in Bosnia and towards Nisch to
Servia; prohibition of the passage through
the Straits to men-of-war, except in isolated
cases absolute freedom of passage for mer-
chantmen even in time of war; payment of
an indemnity of 1 400, 100000 roubles to
cover which Turkey is to cede Batoum, Kars,
Bayazid, Ardahan and adjacent territory ;
Turkey a'so to pay 10000 600 sterling in
bonds, the interest and sinking fund of
which are to be guaranteed by Bulgarian
and Egyptian tribes, the Anatonian revenue
and Heraclea mines; ten million roubles to
be paid Immediately to indemnify Russian
| residents of Constantinople Turkey to re.
imburse the Russian capital invested in
Turkish bonds; also to pay for the main
tenance of prisoners of war, and the re.
opening of the Sulina mouth of the Danube
1t is now believed Russia will accept four
iron-clads instead of six, originally de-
manded
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28

A WAUKEaAS man was basily en-
gagged whitewashing the fence around
his grounds few days since, kiniAs'
assisted by the usual crowd whe gathofI
around on such festive occasions im
country villages, each one SUGGESTING 4
different way of doing the job. If yoS
fellers would Just tell me how to nfake
this ere stuff stick so that ID won'tfaS
off, III stand the beer for the hull crowIsSb
remarked the knight of the bEnsAs
About forty suggestions were offered theb
most feasible Of which was a liberal
quantity of salt to be mixed with white
wash. Salt is cheap in Waukegan, and
from the fact that the salt was not Added
until after the above terms in regSfTso
the beer had been complied withfdtSis
not surprising that the quantitbinHedi
was very large. The next mprnias
every COW in the village was lunchipg,
off that picket fence, which now bears
the appearance of having been %i&fet
by tornado. Pll give four 'seflssfb
and half to find that villain whohdbiSt
me to put salt in that whitewash," ad-
vertises that Waukegsn man.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28
The Backward Habit Of the Japanese,

The japanese habit of reversing every
thing, if we may regard our way of doing
as the proper way, is very curious, and
in some of its details, very interesting.
Mr.. Grifiths, in his work on Japanese,
discusses it thus: Another man is plan
ing. He pulls the plane towards him. I
notice blacksmith at work. He pulls
the bellows with his feet, while he is
holding and hammering with both
hands. He has several irons in the fire,
and keeps his dinner pot boiling with
the waste fame. His whole family, like
the generation before him, seem to get
their living in the hardware line. The
cooper holds his tubs with his toes. All
of them sit down while they work. Per-
haps that is an important difference be-
tween European and an Asiatic. One
sits down to his work, the other stands
up to it. Why is it that we do things
contrariwise to the Japanese? Are we
upside down, or they? The Japanese
say that we are reversed. They call all
our penmanship "crab writing" be.
cause, say they, ait goes backward"
The lines in our books cross the page
like crawfish, instead of going down.
ward properly. In a Japanese stable we
find the horses flank where we look fol
his head. Japanese screws screw the
other way. Their locks thrust to the
left, ours to the right. The baby toyl
of the Aryan race squeak when 50 ueezed
the Turnonian' gimcracks emit noise
when pulled apart. ACaucasian, to in
jure his enemy, kills him; Japanese
kills himself to spite his foe. Which
race is left-handed2 Which has tn,
negative? Which the positive of truth
What is truth? What is down? Wha
is up?
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28
A Sentimental Nuisance.

The English chancery judges have re-
Gently drawn the line between a legal
nuisance and a sentimental grievance.
A man in Brighton built house SO as
unintentionally to deprive neighbor
of the use of his best bedroom. This
room had bay-window, and the indis-
Greet neighbor had built his house on
such plan that some of its rooms com
manded a full view of this window at a
distance ofseventeen feet. Ladies could
not use the room, and the hospitable
owner of the dwelling could not enter
tain his friend. He brought a suit
against the owner of the new mansion
as the author of public nuisance, and
the case finally was laid before the
chancery judges. But the bench de-
cided that there was only one test of a
legal nuisance: Was it injurious to the
health of the complainant, or did it
interfere materially with the passage of
light and air? If not, it was only a
sentimental nuisance, and damages
could not be claimed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28
FOREIGN SUMMARY

A PARIS dispatch says it is understood
that Russia has issued a circular inform
ing the powers that she has renowned the
occupation Of Constantinople at the re-
quest of Emperor William.
THE marriage of Princess Charlotte,
daughter Of the Crown Prince and grand
daughter of Queen Victoria, to Bernard,
hereditary Prince of the Duchy of Sake
Meiningen; and of Princess Elizabeth,
daughter of Prince Frederick Charles, to
Augustus, hereditary Prince of the Grand
Ducby Of oldenburg, wefe salenhized on
the evening of the 18th of February. The
ceremony was performed at seven in the
chapel Of the old palace. The King and
Queen of the Belgians, the Prince of Wales,
Duke of Connaught, Prince of Orange,
heir to the throne of Netherlands, and
may German royal and princsly person
ages witnessed the marriages.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28
FEATURES OF THF PARIS EXPO.
STTION

The Universal Exhibition of 1873
will possess three features of marked
interest, organized with the loving at
tention to detail which characterizes the
Latin race. The first, which has already
been prepared on gigantic scale, is
department in which the most re-
markable and curious methods of manu-
facture of articles of luxury and prac-
tical use will be shown to the public.
This was attempted to some extent at
our Philadelphia fair. and proved a
lasting attraction. Most of the impor-
tant continental nations have arranged
for this display, and it is to be hoped
that America will not prove to be the
only exception. The second interesting
department will be an historical exhibi-
ton of ancient art and the ethnoeraphy
of peoples foreign to Europe. For this
collectors have been at work in many
countries for more than three years,
and the world has yielded very rich
harvest. The arts and industrial pro.
cesses of Egypt from remotest times, Of
Occidental Asia, of the extreme Orient
will be represented in these galleries
The third novelty will be the specia
exhibition of anthropological sciences
organized by the Paris Anthropologica
! Society. A large number of museum
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.

The following decisions have been
recently rendered in the Supreme Court
at Washington. No. 1905, Cromwell
VS.. County of Sac.-Error in Circuit
Court for Iowa. In this case the Court
held that where a person purchased
municipal bond that had several years
to run, to which an overdue and unpaid
coupon for interest was attached, that
fact did not render the bond and subse-
quent and maturing coupons dis
honored paper, SO as to subject them in
the hands of the purchaser for value to
defenses good against the original holder;
that purchaser in market of negotiable
security, unless personally chargeable
with fraud, can recover the full amount
of security against the maker, though
he may have paid less than its par
value, whatever infrmities may have at
tended their origin, and subsequent
purchaser, even with notice, takes the
paper with like immunity. Then a
bona fide purchaser Of public security
for value before maturity takes it freed
from all infrmities of origin, the only
exceptions being where securities were
absolutely void. for want of power to
issue them, or where their circulation
was prohibited by law for illegality of
consideration, such as being founded
upon gambling or usurious transaction.
Municipal bonds in Iowa, it is said,
drawing ten per cent. interest before
maturity under the law of that State,
draw the same interest after maturity,
and the coupons attached to such bonds
draw six per cent. year after maturity,
as also judgments entered upon them.
Reversed.
No. 202, Ohio & Mississippi Railroad
Company VS.. McCarthy.-Error to the
Circuit Court for the District of
Missouri. In this case the Court held
that the railroad company having con-
| tracted to forward cattle from East St.
Louis to Philadelphia, it is responsible
for transportation over the whole route,
as well on the tracks of other COM
panies as on its own; that railroad COM
panies, unless forbidden to do SO by
their charters, have power to contract
for shipments the entire distance the
freight is to be carried over connecting
| lines. Affirmed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28
BELLAy HORRIDA BELLA,n

The Eastern question" is growing
more complicated, and the dark cloud of
war hovers grimly on the horizon, with
scarcely a silver lining. Turkey pro-
tested, but vainly, against the advance
of the English feet upon her borders.
Johnny Bull paid no attention, but
passed the Dardanelles on Wednesday
with his flags flying and guns bristling,
and anchored in the Sea of Marmora,
within an hours sail of Constantinople,
unfinchingly determined to watch,
wait, and give warning that he intends
to protect his rights. The valiant Russ
is not bit intimidated by this move
ment of his antagonist, but lessons the
distance of his approaches to the great
city of Constantine; and Prince Gort-
schakoff expresses the intention of the
Russians to occupy the position for
which they have been SO long aiming.
In the meantime the subjects of En-
gland have been viewing the proceedings
with no uncommon interest and anxiety.
1t is said that in England little is now
heard of peace or neutrality demonstra-
tions, and the sentiment is nearly unan-
imous for sustaining the Government if
it should be drawn into a war. The
Times and the Daily Naoes, which have
always been on the side of peace.
full and .conciliatory measures, are now
forced to acknowledge the necessity fol
decided action to support the credit Of
the country for bulldog grit and fight
ing qualities. Canada, the American
colony of the old country, is aroused
and offers to give every possible aid tc
its parent in case of necessity; and The
other colonies are by no means unwill
ing to arm and resist every encroach
ment upon what they regard as tht
rights and honor of Great Britain.
The excitement is great in Austria
and in Hungary it is said to be still
greater, and increasing. The Empero
of Austria has sent for Archduk
Allbrecht, his Field Marshal, for tn
purpose of concertipg important meas
ures. The Government organs main
tain that Russia has broken her word
and that Austro-Hungary must tax
active part with England. The Aus
trian moderate press, however, waver o.
the subject, and ask for peace, if it ca
be secured by any possible means no
derogatory to the national interest.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28
Pope Leo xiii.

Cardinal Gioachimo Pecci, Pontifcal
Camerlengo, has been elected Pope. Car
dinal Pecci is an italian. He assumes the
title of Leo XIII.
The new Pope is thus described:
Pecci is tall, with fine head, high fore.
head, narrowing at the temples, long face,
and straight features.
He has large month, prominent chin,
cheerful, open countenance, and large, well
shaped ears. His face reminds one of Con-
suloi, the renowned Minister of Plus XIII.
He has fine sonorous voice, great dignity,
even austerity, of manners in public life,
but privately is affectionate, unasshmihg,
sociable, and witty.
As lamerlengo he has been head OF that
party which, without formally renouncing
the right of the Holy See, acknowledges the
wisdom of submitting to the DEGREES of
Providence, accepting what seems to be
irrevocably accomplished facts. The gen.
eral opinion is that for learning, tact,
energy, dignity, amiability, real moral
worth, and sincere piety the Sacred College
could not find more deserving Pope than
Cardinal Pecci.
At Perugia he followed the same policy
recommended by the late Cardinal Riario
Sporza at Naples. He advised good
Catholics to fulfill their duties as citizens at
municipal and provincial elections, even
when the clerical press, protesting to inter.
pref muCQ OF GQe VATICAN, euJOlQeU the
policy of abstention. Cardinal Pecci spoke
with great effect against the proposal fol
the removal of the conclave from Rome
and other measures advocated by the re
dictionary party. He enjoys the confidence
and support of the Liberals, or at least 9
reasonable minority of them, of the Sacred
College, and plays the same part he was
sustained in by Cardinal Gizzi in the con
clave of 1886.
Cardinal Pecci's private life at all periods
is above reproach. He has considerable
literary talent, and has written poetry. HI
never has had intercourse with the function
aries of the present Italian Government
but is esteemed by them all, and those with
| whom the necessity of his duty brings hiI,
into contact are perfectly charmed with him
The circumstances of election are as fol
lows: At the mornings ballot Cardina
Pecci received thirty-six votes, which wal
| five short of the requisite thirds ma
| jority. When the voting was finished, ant
| the papers were burned, Cardinal Franch
| and those holding the same views with hin
| advanced and knelt before Cardinal Pecci
| This example being followed by others
| Cardinal Pecci's election was accomplished
| by the method known as "by alteration
| Count Segur Immediately informed tn,
Pope that he purposed to present him witt
| ZOO, 900 francs as the frft donation o
Peters pence from the French Episcopate
As soon as the result of the election be
came known, the bells in all the churches o
Rome were rung, and the dipl mates wen
to the Vatican to congratulate the nev
Pope
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28
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have promised to send their collections.
Russia, Spain, Sweden, Belgium,
Canada, Italy, Portugal, Hungary,
Austria and Norway have sent very
striking contributions and if all are as
fine as those shown by Russia at Phila-
delphia the happy visitor TO the
Trocadero galleries will enter one of the
finest museums that the world has ever
seen. 1t is evident that the chances for
special study here will be greater than at
any previous exhibition. The products
of the stone age, in Tunis, in Egypt, in
Palestine, in Asia Minor, will be fully
represented, and Mexico will contribute
great numbers of her antique typical
statues.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28
SEVENTY million people are reported

SEVENTY million people are reported
to be starving in Northern China.
The numbers are SO greatly beyond all
hope of general relief, as well as beyond
the grasp of ones mind, that the an
nouncement apparently lacks the i'm
pressiveness of much more limited
disaster. When Lisbon was destroyed
by the earthquake in 1855, though fewer
thousands lost their lives than the mill
ions now said to be perishing from lack
of food, all Europe was excited to the last
degree. To come nearer home, and to
our own day, the burning of Chicago,
where few if any persons died, or the
Ashtabula railroad catastrophe, appalled,
the public heart far more than the woes
of people nearly twice as numerous as
the population of the United States.
This is natural, for distance abates our
conceptions of misery, and our chief
sympathies center on our own near
kindred. Yet when all this is said, there
remains the fact that defniteness is lost
where tens of millions are involved.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28

A WRITER in Nature says that by
combining the telephone with the kinese--
graph he can produce a talking picture
which will move and gesticulate as
man does when he is earnestly engaged
in speaking. This he proposes to do by
taking instantaneously photographs of
the speaker at intervals of quarter or
half second, and these, after fixing, are
to be placed one below another on strip
or ribbon of paper wound from one
cylinder to another. AS each picture
passes before the eye it is to be lighted
up by an electric spark, and the man
will thus be presented to us at successive
moments, while the recording phono-
graph speaks the words which the man
uttered. 1t may be years before produc-
ing the form, motion and natural voice
of the original. Who dare say now that
the time will not come when whole
dramas will be reproduced ad Hbitum
from actual performances, with such
fidelity that they cannot be distinguished
from the original.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28

TIE waste Of wire-working establish
ments is utilized by charging the diluted
acid wed in cleaning the wire with iron
and heated by steam in lead lined tanks.
The liquid snlphate of iron thus pro-
duce'd, is cvaporated and the solid
crystals of eopperas separated for COM
mer cial uzss. Three tons of copperas is
obtained from twelve tons of waste acid,
which, until recently, was thrown away
as useless. The oxide Of iron which set
ties Va the boiling tanks, when properly
treated, forms pigment equal to i'm
por ted Venetian red.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28

The Mofett bell-punch seems to be
working out the financial salvation of
Virginia, and is bringing into the State
Treasury from four hundred thousand
dollars to six hundred thousand dollars
per annum toward the payment of the
State debt. There is a good deal of talk
of introducing into other States, es-
pecially Kentucky, this method of
registering every drink taken in every
liquor store, taxing the same, and thus
raising a large revenue while checking
drinking to some extent.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28

IN answer to a fair correspondent who
wants a receipt to hide freckles, we re-
ply that the best receipt for her facial
blemfsh will be well-circulated report
that she is possessed of one hundred
thousand dollars in her own right. No
one will see any defects in her face after
that.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28

PRUSSIA derives no small income from
her rich amber mines. Not less than
one hundred and thirty-five tons of am
Der were dug last year. The industry
gives employment to about fourteen
hundred men. The principal markets
are Austria, France, Russia, America,
China, and Japan.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28

ST.. PAUI's Cathedral, London, has,
strange to say, never had chime. Four
years ago the omission was brought to
the public notice, and now the city
companies, in association with Lady
Burdett Coutts, have undertaken to sup
ply this want, and noble peal of twelve
bells will be supplied. The bells will
together cost about five thousand
pounds, exclusive of The cage which is
to hold them, and each one will bear the
name, arms, and motto of the donor.
The entire peal will weigh not less than
eleven tons. 1t must not be supposed
that these will I'M any way interfere
with the great bell Of st. Paurs, which
hangs alone in the clock tower, and
weighs by itself five tons and a quarter.
1t is tolled only for the royal family,
the Bishop of London, the Lord Mayor,
(should he die in office), the Dean of
st. PauPs, and by special order for a
very famous parsonage, such as the late
Duke of Wellington. Sometimes it does
not work for years.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28

FIVE hundred tons of minerals, re-
presenting the resources of California in
that respect, will be sent to the Paris
Exposition. A pyramid twenty feet
square and seventy feet high, contain
ing seventy million cubic inches, will be
erected to set forth the mass of gold
{ thus far obtained from our Pacific Coast.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28

GREAT BRITAIN paid 10 foreign ma
tions for grain, cattle, and meat, during
the year 1877, $4S4, ,sSs, ,6s5, while during
1876 the total was s4S5, ,646, $50. Of the
total in 1877, ssi5, 1861, ,l2o was for grain,
ss6, $3.50 Tor cattle and meat, $47,-
69l,52S tor butter, s23, ,s15, ,26s for
cheese. and $l2, 1926, ,405 for eggs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28

IF woman wants to faint in COM
parative safety, Maine is the place 10 do
it. A woman tainted in car on a
Maine railway, and thirteen liquor
TASKS were promptly placed at her dis
posal In this connection it may be in
cidently mentioned that there were just
thirteen men in the car.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28

A Mr.. DAVIS of Medford, Mass, a
short time ago, while shaving, fell back
ward upon the floor, and was pronounced
dead. As he had expressed fears that he
might be buried alive, the body was
kept several days in the house and care
fully watched. The remains were finally
buried at Maiden. After the funeral
the widow and her daughter, who reside
in different houses, on a certain night
dreamed that the deceased was buried
alive and was trying to release himself
from the grave. They told their dreams
to each other, and finally caused the
grave to be opened. To the horror of all
the corpse was found lying on its side,
and the top of the casket broken, show
ing that the man had made strenuous
efforts to escape death by suffocation.