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The House is apparently opposed to the
reduction of the whiskey tax. Should it in
sst upon Its opposition it will have done at
least one good thing this session.
The Portland daily press., 1878-02-01

The little bandit kingdom of Greece is
bitterly regretting that it failed to get in in
season for the spolation of Turkey.
The Portland daily press., 1878-02-01

SOME of the Southern hard-money papers
are reminding the West that the line of the
Alleghanies doesn't stop at Harper's Ferry,
and say that if they must choose between
the East and the West they will go with the
East.
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Foreclosure or Norfgage.

PUBLIC notice is hereby given that Charles E.
L Stevens, of Portland, on the twenty-Jhird day
of April, A. D., 1876 BY his deed of that date re-
corded in Cumberland Registry OF Deeds, Book 42O
page 25, mortgaged to George q. Davis, the parcel
of land situated Portland, in the county of Cum
berland, described as follows: Beginning one hum
dred feet from the made by the northerly line
of Clark street and the southerly line of Summer
street; thence westerly by said line of Summer
street, ffty-one feet to land of Jeremiah Regan:
thence northery at right angles with Summer street
one hundred feet, to land of persons unknown; ;
thence eastery by said land of persons unknown for,
ty-dye feet, to land formerly of Hasty; thence
soutberly by said Hasty land and land Of Michael
Lynch one hundred feet. to the point begun at; to
secure the payment of twenty-three hundred dollars
and interest," according to the tenor of twelve prom
ssory notes; that said mortgage was duly assigned
to Andrew Spring and Samuel E. Spring, copartners
under the style of A. s. S. E. Spring; that the
period of foreclosure of said mortgage by its terms is
one year, that the conditions Of said mortgage have
been broken, and by of said condition broken
the subscriber, as surviving partner of said firm OF
A. & S. e. Spring, hereby claims foreclosure of said
mortgage, according to the said terms in year.
SAMUEL E. SPRING,
Surviving Partner of firm OF A. s. S. E. Spring.
Portland, January l, 1878. ta23dtf
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Besides the SERIAL STORIES above an
nounced, will have short serial story by the
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DID SERIALS FOR BOYS, one of which,
DRI TED INTO PORT" by EDWIN Hop
DER, an English writer, will begin in March.
Around the World i'm a Yacht,
Boys" has been promised by brilliant
writer, now on the actual tour of the world
in his own yacht. There will be contribu-
tions by a daughter OF the famous
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Americans by
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Gail Hamilton Again.

Our Great-Graudfathers and Their Civil
Service: A Review in Four Parfs-Mr.
Henry Cabot Lodge DeIines the Word
"Poiitician'' as Used by our Great grand
fathers, aud UnconseieusIy illustrates it
with Cuts
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GEORGE MACDONALD.

The "HOW'' Series of instructive papers,
by various authors, will tell HOW to bind
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and Sebago. For particulars, apply to
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TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE,

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StOrefo Rent.

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| GTORE No 556 Congress street, next west of Oak
- street, is for rent Good location for the stove
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REAL ESTATE.
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
Flirting.

Will a lady firt? The Star answers
emphatically and loudly, No! Courtesans
may, ard viii, but the idea of sweet,
pure woman dropping glove or waving a
hand kerchief to strange man The very
thought is disgusting, horrifying. Your
daughter, sister, reader. how would you
like to catch them flirting with some lib
ertine of stranger? Yet it is done every
day in this city. Mothers, fathers, broth
era, will you put a stop to it? What but
evil can come of such practice? Flirting
by young women is worse than tippling by
young men. He'll is generally at the end
of both, but on the way there, the poor.
silly glove dropper or handkerchief flirter
gets a far greater foretaste. The Star ad-
vises that if father or mother detect a
daughter carrying on Irritation by hand
kerchief or glove, that the young lady be
led home and switched if the place for
spanking be as big as Dutch oven
Make the young Miss take her meals
standing for a few days, and the romance
of fiji ting will be pretty we'll taken out OF
her "Made her acquaintance through a
street Irritation" That's what Joe Pay.
ton said after he had killed Nellie Sticky
and if the truth was known Nellie Sticky
made the acquaintance of her destroyer
through an innocent (sic) street Irritation
and nine unfortunate women out Of ten who
fill the vile houses of the land would tel
the same story. Stop it, girls, By all tha
you hold dear and pure. Nothing good
can come of it, only evil-only evil
Madison Star.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
A Question w ell Put.

A valuable friend and able farmer, about
the time the temperance reform was be.
ginning to exert a beautiful influence in
the conutry, said to his new hired man:
Jonathan, I did not think to mention
to you, when 1 hired you, that think of
trying to do my work this year without
rum. How much more nuts I give you
to do Without"
Oh, I do not know as l care very
much about it; you muy give me what you
please"
"Well, said said the farmer, "I'll give
you sheep in the fall, if you do without
Agreed" said Jonathan.
The Oldest son then, "Father, will you
give me me sheep if I will do without
rum ?"
eyes, Marshall, you shall have a sheer
if you do without"
The youngest son, a stripping, then
said, "Father, will you give me sheep il
l will do Without"
eyes, Chandler, you shall have sheep
also; if you do without"
Presently Chandler speaks again:
"Father, hadn't you better take sheer
too?"
This was poser; he hardly though
that he could give up the good creature
yet; but the appeal was from source no
to be easilp disregarded. The result was
the demon was henceforth banished iron
the premises, to tbe great joy and ultimat
happiness OF all concerned.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
Bob Ingerson on Drummers.

Bob Ingorsoll addressed the farmers at
Malone, y. l., the other day, and he gave
them such talking to as New York farm
ers never before had. Speaking about the
means by which some portion of our past
prosperity was brought about, the Colonel
said:
Everybody that could get $500 worth of
goods on trust became a merchant. They
wanted TO be dentists, lawyers, doctors
something that there was no work il.
When they could not do that they would
start an insurance association. Then they
sent their agents all over the country to
get your property insured, TO get your life
insured, and every moment you would
have n picture OF IA -ce4iiR- thrust in your
face TO see if you wouldn't insure. And
those agents would come and sit down by
you and talk about your last struggle with
that monster-death. They got certain
share of the premium, and they insured
nybody. They insured consumption in
its last hemorrhage, and the money flowed
into the society. AS soon as the fellows
began to die the company closed its doors.
then they had fire insurance companies.
The agents of these also had share of the
premiums, and tell you that for six,
eight, or ten years, they would have in
sured an iceberg in perdition. Then the
merchants filled all the cars and all the ho-
tells and bars with runners and drummers
Every man that you met had three carpet
sacks filled with samples. And in the
meantime we had the bankrupt law, sc
that every man who could not pay hi'
debts might take the benefit of this law
Then it all went to the clerks. etc., of thu
courts. I never heard of anybody gettin
wore than three per cent on any claim il
my life
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
Saving Sweet Potatoes.

PenGsylvanians have found much diff
Guilty in saving the few sweet potatoes they
raise, as when also they wish to put up
for winter of other peoples raising, We
have seen a number of methods recon-
mended, but have no experience ourselves.
The following looks as though it might
answer very well, and is adopted by an
experienced Jersey grower: The potatoes
are dug after the first sharp frost, and lef,
to lay as dug, exposed to the sun until
near evening, when when they are covered
with the vines. In the morning the vines
are removed, and the sun goes on with the
drying process. This is done four OF five
days, when they become thoroughly dry
They are then carefully carried into the
cellar, where they are put on shelves III
single layers, standing on their ends, by
which any rotten ones can be easily seer
and removed, and the air has free circula
tion. Warmth has a great deal to with
preserving the sweet potato; hence, if The
cellar is not naturally warm, they should
be put in cellar in which there is IA heat
er. They bear considerable heat withou
sprouting but it should not get get beyond
fifty nor below forty degrees.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
To Make Apple Trees Bear.

We frequently see statements in the
papers, says the Rural Neg Yorker, OF
inquiries if there is any way of making
apple trees bear fruit on alternate wears
or every year.
Many years ago friend OF mine had a
dozen apple trees that were bearing heavy
crops Of apples every other year. He
wished to have fruit every year, so he
took long pole-the trees were large
and gave them heavy beating on the
side, or half of the tree, just as the fruit
was about the size OF hickory nuts, knock
ing off every fruit on the south side of the
trees. The result was as saw for several
years, that these trees bore heavy crop:
on one side one year, and the next year 9
heavy crop on the other side, SO that tol
many years he had plenty of apples fol
homes use every year. sHis trees stood in {
rich soil that was annually cultivated
no grass sod to cover the roots. 1t is now
about time to try the experiment.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
Ten Dollars to Shake Hands With
Sherman.

General Sherman was recently in Ari-
zona. At Prescott the citizens gave ball,
every one who subscribe $40 being enti-
tied to admission. An army officer, who
was one of the three or four hundred, says
that, "In the midst of the joyous dance, a
miner, hardy son of toll, with unkempt
hair, soiled face and hands, and the usual
miners outfit, trousers in his boots, in
shirt sleeves, a belt filled with cartridges,
pistol and knife, approached the entrance
door and said to the attendant. "See here,
my friend, how much does it cost to get
into this lay out?" "Ten dollars, replied
the attendant. "Does that give fellow
the right to go in and shake hands with
General Sherman" "Certainly," was the
reply. Ten dollars goes, said the
minef, and handing him the ten dollar bill
he entered the ball room. He wended
his way carefully through the crowd,
avoiding the ladies trains as deftly as
could have done our famous German lead
ers, approached the General and said,
General Sherman, merly wanted tc
shake your hand, fought under you ir
the march to the sea, and turn ed and
left the room Immediately"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
CuTiosIties of Earth.

At the city of, Media, in Italy, and
about four miles around it, wherever the
earth is dug, when the workmen arrive at
a distance of 63 feet, they come to bed
of chalk, which they bore with an auger,
five feet deep. They then withdraw from
the pit before the augur is removed, and
upon its extraction the water bursts up
through the aperture with great violence,
and quickly fills the newly made we'll,
which continues full and is affected Meth
er by rains nor drought. But what is
the most remarkable in this operation is
the Taper of earth as we descend. At the
depth of a feet are found the ruins of an
cient city, paved streets, houses, floors and
different pieces of mason work. Under
this is found soft, oozy earth,
made up of vegetables, and at 26 feet large
trees, with the walnuts still sticking to the
stem, and the leaves and brancees IN per
feet state of preservation. At 2S feet deep
soft chalk is found, mixed with vast
quantity of shells, ant the bed is II feet
thick Under this vegetables are found
again.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
HARRY BASSETT.
The Race Horse that Was Called King
of the Turf.

Harry Bassett, for three years the fa-
vorite race horse of the East, died at the
stock farm of his owner, Colonel McDan-
iels, near Trenton, on Saturday. By Lex
ington, dam Canary Bird, this horse did
as much to establish the fame Of that great
sire as any horse that ever started on the
American turf, and his winnings during
the three years he was runnings did not
fall short of $15O,000. He was bought by
Colonel McDaniels when yearling from
II. P, McGrath, of Kentucky, for $500.
At that time he did not bid fair to make
much of a race horse, but as a two-year-
old he started with fifteen horses in the
Nursero stakes at Jerome, and although
not favorite by any means came in a
fine winner. 1t would be long list that
gave all the races that Harry Bassett start
He was entered in nearly everything to
which he was eligible, and always came in
near the first, although he won but one
more race in 1870, the Kentucky stakes at
Saratoga. His season Of 1871 ended with
winning the great Bowie stakes at Balti-
more, four-mile heats, the winning being
S32 1000. 1t was the first and only time a
three-year- had been able to endure the
long and cruel run, but before that he had
taken the Belmont and Jerome stakes at
New York, the Jersey Derby at Long
Branch and the Kenner and Travers stakes
at Saratoga, in all of them beating fine
fields of horses. But Bassett's fame was
made in 1872. After winnig the sweep.
stakes at jerome he started against Long.
fellow, then the king of the turf, and wor
the Westminster cup, two and a-half miles
Two weeks later, at Monmouth, the two
met again, and this time the Kentuck,
horse got away with the rich purse anc
Monmouth cup. The fall meeting at Sara
toga brought the two horses together fo
the Saratoga cup, and 10000 people wit
messed the gamest race that ever was hat
in this country. Longfellow broke dowr
ten yards form the string, but was then to-
far behind Bassett to have won. He low
cred the record of the face that day thre
seconds. One day shorely afterward Bas
sett broke down whilst taking his exercis
and went into the stud, but his foals hav
not done much to support the fame of on
+ of the hardest, gamest horses that eve
faced n starter. Recently Colonel McDan
| iels was refused $4,000 for the horses
, Six years ago he refused $4,000 cash, OF
fered by Pierre Lorillard.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
Specie Resumption.

The New York Sun shows the utter
folly of mixing up silver and gold met
tails into one discordant currency. 1t
states that our legal-tender silver dollar
IL worth now-how much in the other
metal, the gold? why, just 81 cents, And,
instead OF discarding that deprecated
dollar, he maintains that it is better-this
~ cent dollar is better-this than ire
deemable rag money (he uses even yet
that wicked, worn-out phrase; that ire
deemable rag money, which stands within
one Of his idol gold, is worth less than
the 81 cent dollar! 1t is painful to see the
lying shifts these poor Sbylock devils are
drivea to.
But how about the close coming resump.
tionT In the flashing by a few weeks
Sherman will be put at once on his metal
and his mettle. Never mind him. he has
got away Of his own of resumpting. He
has some seventeen millions Of silver to
stand in front and guard the gold. He
will greet his resumption customer with !
bland smile, as he may, for he is on the
blind side of the customer WITH
Pleasant morning, SIT; want specie, he!'
"Yes, il il is convenient"
20! convenient-quite 30 indeed. Come
in. Look at these kegs and hogsheads
One holds five thousand dollars-the othel
one hundred thousand. How much de-
you wish?"
"ls that all you will give me for tbest
i've thousand greenbacks? Why your sill
yer is worth no more than 81, and m,
green boys are worth 99."
"Can't help that" return John, "Yor
know we must carry out the law"
"And I'll carry myself out. You dom
catch me hiring n wheelborrow to carr,
away your silver and lose twelve per cen
besides"
Exit resumptioner, Sherman's squintinj
after him with an expression of face tha
would make the fortune of any artist sus
end countenance and modelize the devil
And yet the Sun that "shinss for al
the bond holders pledges his veracity
his!-that the metal is better pledge tha
the Greeeback, And he in his po vert
resurrects the extinct phrase "irredeema
able rag money y"-Irih World.
Reader, think of the meanness, the lii
tleness, the shuiiling to which the chic
officer OF the Treasury would resort.
proves clearly what we haye often sal
that the so-called specie Resumption is
delusion, a sham.