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

That IS very smar. chap, who, over the
non de plume of ALASKA" in recent issue
of the New Lexington Tribune, proceeds
to smash up the managers OF the Somerset
fair. l wonder who this graceful writer
can be? 1t is clear that he is dying TO get
somebody to notice him, Naturalists des-
cribe an animal with two glands at the ex-
tremity Of the alimentary canal, secreting
feted liquor, which the animal uses as a
means of defence. Now if We cou!d get one
Of those animals to engage ALASKA" in
mortal combat! But We shall not try to
find this smart writer, like the experience
of another "Japiet in search of father"
lie might not meet expectations W hen found
But we dare say he is a daub in more
things than writing His own no would
reval a gooc job Of sign painting, and if he
had his face frescoed it would do him good
Like the liqnor Of lIephitis -AmeTjcand
his writing may possess valuable proper
| ties, but its extreme offensiveness inter
f.res with its use. S
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
To Comfort Others.

Take an aged mother seventy years of
age, and she is almost omnipotent in COM
fort. Why? She has been through it all
At seven O'Clock in the morning she goes
over to comfort a young mother who has
Just lost her bate. Grandmother knows
all about that trouble. Fifty years rgo
she felt it. At twelve O'Clock of that day
she goes over to comfort a widowed soul.
She knows all about that. She has been
walking in that dark valley twenty years.
At four o'clock In the afternoon some ore
knocks at the door wanting bread. Two OF
three times in her life she came TO her last
loaf
AT ten o'clock that night she goes over
to sit with some one severely sick. She
knows all about it. She knows all about
feners and rleurisies and broken bones
She has been doctoring all her life
spreading plasters, and pouring out little
drope, and shaking up hot pillows and
contriving things to tempt poor appetite
Drs Abernethy and Rush and Hosack and
Harvey were great doctors; but the great
est doctor the world ever saw is an ole
| Christian woman. Dear me! do we no
remember her about the roomlwhen W.
were sick iu our boy-hood? Was there
any one who could ever so touch sort
without hurting it? And when she lifted
her spectacles against her wrinkled fore
head, SO she could look close at the wound
it was three-fourths healed.
And when the Lord took her home al
though you may have been men and wo
men, thirty, forty, fifty yerrs of age, yol
lay on the coffin lid and sobbed as though
you were only five or ten years OF oge. {
man, praise God if, instead of lookin
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
AMERlCA's FUTURE GREATNESS.
Ex-Premier Gladstone Predicts that
this Country will Surpass England.

tHIS SOuutIJ via SuI pilsS LHS lauus
The Right Hon. William E. Gladstone
has an article in the last number of the
North American Review, in which the
following passage occurs:
There is no parallel in all the records
of the world to the case of that prolific
British mother, who has sent forth her in
Vulnerable children all ever the earth, to
be the founders of half dozen empires.
She, with her progeny, may almost claim
to constitute Il kind of universal church in
politics. But, among these children, there
is one in the place of the worlds eye and
in history ls superlative; it il the Ameri-
can republic. Sheis the eldest born. She
has, taking the capacity of her land into
view as well as its mere measurement, a
natural base for the greatest continual en-
pire ever established by man. And it may
be well here TO mention what has not al
ways been sufficiently observed, that the
distinction between continuous empire
and empire severed and dispersed over sea,
is vital. The development which the
republic has effected has been unaXampled
in its rapidity and force. While other
countries have doubled or at most trebled
| their population, she has risen during one
| single century of freedom in round num-
bers from 1000, 900 to 45,000,000. As to
riches it is reasonable to establish from
the decennial stages of the progress thus
far achieved, series for the future; and
reckoning up this basis, | suppose that the
very next census, in the year 1880, will ex
hibit her to the world IA certainly the
wealthiest ofaIl the nations. The England
and the America of the present are prob
ably the two strongest nations Of the world
But there can hardly be doubt, as be
tween America and the England of tht
future, that the daughter, at some no very
distant time, will, whether fairer or less
fair, be unquestionably yet stronger thar
the mother.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

Money was poured into the district lik
water, and it is now several thousand dol
lars better off than 1t was a month ago
On Saturday special messenger was sent
to Elk township Vinton county, with 200
new silver dollars, with instructions to use
it there. Responsible parties were wit
nfFses TO this transaction, and the guilty
parties ought to be arrested, and sent to
the Penitentiary, where they belong."--
Ohio Eagle.
Oh, Lord, Perry can distance you
Come to Perry county and learn the
amount of "Silver dollars" that were
handed to voters, and then were marched
TO the polls like dogs, and voted them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
Graceful Swimming Feats OF Girl at
Ocean Grove.


Bur lirl-rate bathers and swimmers are
NOT ulentv even amono men. and very rare
,,nong women An exnert gentleman
bather will always draw a crowd of be-
holders ~ watch his snortinp in The snrf
but LEI a frst.class lady bather appear up
ON the scene and the gentIeinan's conpre
,at;on melts away in \ triee
One such Iadv. truly. is here to day. a
y,nn@ woman Of good statue, symmetrical
f,gm fine gvmnastic training. ample bust.
,yi,i, room for nrceIIent lnnes and a waist
and fnnra not snoiIed bv stavs, vet grace.
fnI anongb for Goddess. She is tasefully
but not flaringly dressed in well-shaped
snit Of nearItgrav flannel trimmed with
garnot h,nds and ending in narrow frills
et he throat The elbow. the knee and
ahovo The tha ankle She Is = blonde with
I;on;J aves LIna ~ the oceon and fine
hair (aIiine in two tight braids tied at
tie ends with narrow blue ribbon, Head,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

In France, rays contemporary, every
thing ia done to make the poorer classes
thrifty. There are 500 savings banks for
school children alone, to deposit their pen.
nj g Economy is thus taught from the
tcnderest age, and is the most important
lesson in finance. In Client, $4,000 boys
and girls deposit 100000 annually. No
ailures occur. The rate OF interest nv-
cages per cent. In 1870 there were p
80, 900 "penny depositors" in France.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
The Gratitude of a Tramp.

In 1883, Miss Myra Kellogg, eldest dau-
ghter of the late Simeon Kellogg and sister
OF Mark II Kellogg, who fell beside Gen
Custer, on the Little Big Horn, was mar
ried in this city to Mr.. Thufnan J. SAT-
ford who had represented Green County in
our Legislature, in 1888, and who in the
the year above named, had removed TO the
promising village of La Crosse. The next
spring, however, the young couple moved
down into Iowa and settled on 4 farm, and
several years since went into Dakota
He was an hOnnest, hard-workiug man, but
never succeeded in accumulating much of
this worlds riches. -Four vears since, Just
after the evening meal had been eaten. a
dirty, ragged foot-sore tramp called at his
house and begged for something to eat
he was on his way to California. bat haa
had hard luck. having been taken sick af-
ter starting Mr.. Stafford made him we'll
come, and his wife cooked supper for the
stranger They allowed the tramp TO re-
main over night, and he was entertained
for q week until he recuperated his health
when, bidding them good by he started on
| California. Two months ago the stranger,
who during his four years absence in CAL
| ifornia, hae "struck it rich" came back to
Dakota, and. in disguise, again spent the
night under Mr.. Saford's roof. The tramp
was particular to inquire into the circum-
stances Of M. Stafford, and was told by
him that he had plenty of hard work to
do, but very little money. The next NOR.
ing the tramp departed without making
htuself known, and the conversation and
incident had been forgot, q, wher
Mr.. and Mrs. Stafford received through tbs
Post Office sealed package, which contained
1 fio Of Oc %6a Il
neighborhood, having good house, barn
stock, horses, wagons, agricultural impl
emeus, and everything complete. Th
deed was accompanied by an explanator
letter from the giver, stating that he wished
them TO accept the deed of farm whicl
he had purchased especially for those VIII
divided with him when in need, and trea
ted him kindly when foot-sore and poor
IL La C1osse Denlocrnt
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
Public office,

a Ii persons whom information can reach for
known trespass upon the Fair grounds OF the
Perry County l.. S. A. & NJ. A. u. Society, will be
prosecuted to the extent of the law In any such
cases made, and provided there has been property
of the Society, well as that of exhibitors at our
late Fair carried ava and this violation of s1aw
must and shall be stopped
BY ordcr of the Board.
w ERKEY, Prcs't.
o. NJ. HAMILTON, See.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

The Nationals Of Shawnee did not
do their duty.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

A Boston young man married against
the wishes of his parents, and, in telling a
friend how to break the news TO them
said Tell them first that Pm dead, and
gently work up to the climax"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
REPUBLICAN,.


First District. BENZ. Butlerworth.
Second Dist. -Thos. l., Young.
Fourth Dist. j. w. Keiler.
Twelfth Dist. s. Neal.
Sixteenth Dist.-Wm. Mckinley.
Seventeenth Dist JAS. Monroe.
Eighteenth Dist. T. Upde-
graft.
Nineteenth District. JAS. A. Gar.
field.
Twentieth Dist. townsend.
DEMOCRAT.
Third Dist.-John A. McNlahon
Fifth Dist.-Ben. LeFevre.
Sixth Dist. w. D. Hill.
Seventh Dist.--Frank Hud.
Eighth dist.--E. Finley.
Ninth dist. Geo. l.. Converse.
Tenth dist, Thomas Ewing.
Eleventh dist, II. l.. Dickey.
Thirteenth dist, A J Warner
Fourteenth dist, g. Atherton.
Fifteenth dist, G W Geddes.
Twas thought Van Voorhees, woul'
pull through, but he fell short /
votes.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

Maginnis runs ahead of the ticket
in Perry County.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
Martin is happy.
hartman made a noble fight.

Maginnis runs ahead of the State
ticket in Reading township.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

Dave Ansel comes out ahead Of the
State ticket. Dave made glorious
fight.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

YNS he undersigned has been appointed and
IN qualified as Administrators oi the estate of
John Winegardner, late of Perry County, decd.
j. NJ. WINEGARDNER,
HERBERT GEIGRR.
Admins,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

J. & NJ. Culp. makers and dealers in
brick. First class brick always on hand,
Yard on Logan road below R. R. crossing.
All kinds of brick laying done on short no
tice.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
SOMERSET PRESS
Two DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE,
w. p. Magruder. Editor.
somerset, Thursday Oct. 10 1879
SCOOPED!
Both Nationals and
Democrats !
The Republicans Elect
Their Probate Judge
by 287.
Their Sheriff by S6
The State 10000 Re-
publican.
Nine Republican Con-
greSsmen.
Eleven Democratic Congressman

We are scooped in Perry County;
the Democracy fare no better; the
Republicans elect their Probate
Judge by 2S5 and their Sheriff by 81
majority. Thackers majority Tor
Auditor is 1876. The balacne OF the
Democratic County ticket is elected.
The Republicans elect nine Con-
gressmen. The Democratic State
ticket has $50 majority in the Coun-
ty. The National vote in the Coun-
ty il 746. The Republican State
ticket is elected by over 5000 ma
jority.
Indiana gave a Democratic MAORI
ty Of 10000 on State ticket.
Iowa has given about l5,ooo he
publican majority.
The following Congressman are
elected:
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
LEGAI, NOTICE.

Margaret Spencer, whose place of residence is un-
August, 1873, the undersigned filed his setition in
the Court of Common Pleas Of Perry County, o.,
charging said Margaret Spencer wit adultry, and
wifuI absence for than three years. last past,
and asking that he be divorced from her. Said pc
tition will stand for hearing six weeks after the
first publication hereof as required by law.
w. L. Finck. Jr. GEORGE SPENCER,
Atty. for plaintiff. petitioner.
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TO Western Emigrants.

For maps, rail road time tables, Land Circulars
Land Exploring Tickets, Low rates on Household
goods and stock, and reliable Information relative
to the
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For Rent,

Ali kinds offspring caught lake FISH at
Kempfs at bottom prices.
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in the county. lie hopes by strict attention to bus
lness, and cheap fare to still merit the patronage lie
deserves Persons calling on him 1T any time
VIII sent to any part of the country at the low
est possible rates,
Nov. o. If
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THE LIVERY STABTE
George w. B own.
MNRSIES AND RTGGIES

Is attracting general attention IS baing he mot
complete livery in Perry county. His trade S
rapidly increasing, and he returns many thanks to
he general public. He has the best
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Coroner

james Price d..
John K Milligsn ~ ...............-...... -213
John Sullivan n. ..................~10
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

Catalogue of Lanterns and Slides, with directions
for using, sent on application.
An emterprising mau can make money with a
Magic Lantern.
"a Cut ont this advertisement for reference o..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-12
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

An important article in The London EcOnO-
mist on Prospects of Money for 1873"
strongly confirms impressions to which other
indications lead in regard to business In this
country. The reciprocal action of the money
markets upon each other is well recognized.
Indeed, the London market is so Overshadow-
ing i'm power, that if disturbance or stagna-
ton appear there, the market here will GER
tainly not escape the influence. In the simplest
TERMS the present situation on both sides of
the ocean may be called one of extreme dis
trust and hesitation. In very marked
degree, commerce and industry are paraIyzed
by prevailing uncertainty, in Europe as well
as in this country.
With respect to the London market, it is
remark ed that the position is that of man
"waiting in the interval between the out
"bursts of a terrible Storm" British temper
regarding the Eastern question is mainly re-
sponsibe for the storm and TIE danger. If
England mad not 50 behaved as to encourage
ish hopes, the war would never have
begun, CT would have ended much sooner.
Again, if England had not bgiied and blus-
tered, and treated the settlement OF the East
ern question as one OF selfish interest, the busl-
ness would have been settled between Russia
and Turkey, under more or less Of diplomatic
restraint, probably without any danger to the
peace of Europe, OF the acquisition of any ter
rito,y or advantage by Russia which il has
not now secured. The peace of Europe is dis
turbed, then, essentially by British jealousy
and sellisbness and if the unpleasant effects
could he confined to the British money mar
ket, and British commerce and industry, it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-12
COIN md CREDIT.

In every phase the money question turns ut
last. excepting so far rs it is one of morals
and honor. upon this issue: Does an increase
in the amount Of coin used in the Western
World tend to lessen the weight of debts-in
other words, to make money easier to get, and
thus to advance prices No student of econ
omy will deny that, of all pending questions,
this is one of the most urgent and I'M
portant. Unhappily, it has seemed very easy,
and has been answered as If 1t were very easy
by many able men whose studies have led
them to attend wholly or mainly to an ideal
condition of trade, in which coin only is sup
posed to he used as medium of pay
ment and purchase, or to an ancient
condition of trade, in which coin was mainly
used and credit-money bore a comparatively
insignificant part. But the present condition
is very different. Coin is nowhere used wholly
or mainly, in the Western World. The United
States, France, Italy, and other countries
have III use great quantities of paper cur
rency, Russia alone having in circulation
at tic end of the year 1,O3S,6 22, 025
roubles, and Turkey having also emitted
paper money during the year to an
amount unknown, This paper, employed in
nearly all transactions, dispac IS and throws
out of use an immense amount of coin, which,
expelled from the countries which use paper,
gathers in other countries and affects their
markets. The coin thus displaced, and sent
to find employment elsewhere. within a few
years, has probably exceeded the entire yield
of gold. What economist will venture to say
that these issues have not had an important
effect upon. the purchasing power of gold
throughout the Western World?
This, however, is but the beginning. Credit
currency of other forms has greatly multiplied
in an cunt, and--a fact generally overlooked
even by able writers-increlsed greatly in eff
cheney and acceptabilty. Within twenty years,
the arrangements for exchange and cancella-
ton of commercial Indebtedness. without ac-
tual transfer of money of any sort, have been
enormously enlarged aDd improved. The
Clearing House system, which is OF recent ap-
plication to general use, diminshes to an in
calculable extent the amount of money
required, by enabling various forms Of credit
paper 10 serve all the purposes of money in
the larger transactions Of commerce. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-12
Aen,'alork Daily Gritn,ae.
FOUNDED eY HORACE GREELEY.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1873.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoprIGN-Prince Gortschakoff has Informed the
Powers that Russia may occupy Constantlnope it
is reported that orders have been s sent the Grand
e. reonnex Bessarabia despite Roulnania's protest.
- Austria has appealed to the Sultan for au-
thority "a send her feet TO the Dardanelles.
DoMrsTIC.-A telegram Of sympathy has been sent
10 General Anderson by Secretary Sherman, General
Garfield and others; Mr.. Sherman pronounces the
conviction an outrage Judge Whitaker. who pre-
aided in the case. is defaulter in $6O0,00O -
The 81 800 package of money lost in the Treasury
Department is not yet found; ex-Treasurer New
will be severely criticized. - General Mcmillan
il still a candidate for Collector at New-Orleans.
G. The Committee on Ways and Means
have finished Schedule c of the Tariff
bill; very few changes are being made. -
One of the Quartermasters OH board the Metropolis
testified that the vessel overloaded and some of
her timbers were rotten. 60 Ex-Seecretary of
War Charles n. Conrad and Ex-Secretary OF the
Navy Gideon Welles died yesterday. - Ex-Sena-
tor BENJAMIN L. Wade is dangerously sick. -
The Town and City Funding Bill was ordered to
a third reading III the New-York Assembly. -
The Jersey legislative investigations to be
made in public.
CoNGREss.-ln the Senate yesterday, great num-
Der of petitions were received asking for o XVIII
amendment, for reconciliation, for resumption,
etc.; remarks were made by several Senators upon
them the Senate agreed to join in the exercises
to-day at the reception of Carpenters picture. -
In the House, the House agreed to receive CarpeI-
ters picture formally to-day; remarks will be made
by General Garfield and A. II. Stephens; the sub
ject of West Point appropriations gave rise to lively
debate among democratic members two PROPOSE
tons to lower compensation were rejected many
new bills were received by the House.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-A schoOner's crew reached
this city yesterday, after being forced by hunger to
eat human 1esh.= The brig Carrie Winslow was
sunk by a collision and the captain and steward
were drowned.-The Board of Education adopted
the scheme for reducing teachers salaries.-=
The president and secretary of the National Trust
Company were indicted for perjury. - The.COr-
poration Counsel held that the Board of dice could
do street cleaning by contract. - Three students
of the School Of Mines were arrested Mt the Lv
ceum Theatre. - No settlement of railroad
difficulties was reached. - The charges
against Commissioner Flaherty, of Brooklyn
were not sustained - The International Trust
Company, of jersey City, suspended. 60 Gold.
1O2, I017s. 102. Gold value of the legal-tcnder
dollar at the close. % cents Stocks active and
generally lower but fuctuatng, closing irregular.
The WtATHER.-TRIBUNE local observations in
dictate fair and cold weather, gradually growing
slightly warmer. Thermometer, yestt day, 2S',
QOo 900