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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-09-06
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Yellow Fever News.
a~-Nkw oR1ExNs. Sep. S.
From noon to s P. n. yesterday there
were twenty. eight deaths and sixty new
cases reported to the Board of health.
Among the new cases are Major Nathan
Burbank. Of the Pioaynne. and julius
kesch, the we'll known musician. Mrs.
Matte Norvell, wife of the late @. p.
Norvell of the Democrat. died yester.
day. Her husband aud their only
child died last week.
CANTON. Miss, Sep. 5.
We have about loo cases Of yellow
fever under treatment. There were l6
nes cases and four deaths preceding 8
O'Clock a. II. yesterday. We are in
great need of money aud colored nurses.
Any one desiring to contribute money
to relieve our wants. will please send
BY express to WI. Mosby. Treasurer
of the Howard Association.
CEoReE W. THOMAS.
President Of the Howard Assn.
& MEMPH1s. Sept. S.
Our city at present is Q vast charnel
house. The undertakes report IS ill.,
terments for the "a hours ending 6
P. M. yesterday. OF these, SO deaths
we're caused by yellow fever. Seventy
six were white aud 20 colored.
al CHICAGO. Sept. 5.
Total yellow fever fund collected by
the Citizens Committee to date.
$26, SOL; from various sources. So 922;
total. $33. 483. Two thousand dollars
has been sent to New Orleans. 81, 900
each to Vicksburg and Memphis, $500
each to Port Gibson and Baton Rouge.
Collections are coming in rapidly from
the country in increasing amoonts.
naoiiss Mccarthy Beaten. Z ea
MINNEAPoIJs. Sept. 3.
The races at the Exposition yester.
day created great enthusiasm among
horsemen. The 6rst race was o cup
race. running sweepstakes Of two and
quarter miles dash. Governor Nep.
tune. Of saltwater, won the race, Bill
Dillon second. Speculation third. Joe
MacMahon fourth. Mollis Mccarthy
9Th. Time. 4Ol. ~Molhe was in bad
condition and not urged. ''" ~
g. In. Prsslde.iial Party. H1
MADISON. Wis, Sept5.
The Presidential party stopped frst
at Harvard. Illinois. after leaving Chi
cage yesterday A large ooneourse Of
people greeted the train with cheers.
The President shook hands with few,
bat finding himself unable to reach all
present made brief speech.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-09-06

a N unlimited number Of men will be
IA furnished employment chopping wood
near Camp McDermit, at S. per cord. For
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-09-06

In an altercatiou. between John T.
Enright and James Harrington at Bodie
a few days ago. Raright was shot and
instantly killed by Harrington.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-09-06
TAKE NOTICE.

ENROM this date stock men are forbidden,
IL under penalty of being prosecuted for
trespass, TO drive cattle, horses or sheep in
side my Enclosure ia Cross Canyon. The gates
will be closed to all not having legitimate
business on my premises. ! desire the public
to understand that my ranch is private prop.
erty, not common OF, highway. s
a@ffa* fAhtAtW W. ". CROSS.
Winnemucca, September 2, 1878. If
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-09-06

HAVE In my possession q black mule,
4 about 10 hands high, branded II Il on left
shoulder, which the owner can have by
proving property and paying cost of advertise
ing. = ~ - - THOMAS CAIN
Winnemucca, September 3, 1873 St
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SALT, SALT.

The Desert Salt Company
Is now prepared to furnish a choice article OF
MILLING SALT in quantities to suit
ut reasonable rates. sea
ADDRESS 0RDERS:-"pEsERr SALT Con-
PAsE. Browns Station, G. p. II. r..
Nevada" auis.'zast i
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to Justice
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31
A Terrible CyclOne-Great Destruc.
tiOn of Property.

A cyclone from the Gulf of Mexico
struck our Atlantic seaboard early on
Wednesday, the 23d instant, causing
immense damage to property and loss of
life. Dispatches from the Southern seabord
cities are very meager, because probably of
the blowing down of the telegraph wires.
At Washington in the form of heavy
rain-storm, accompanied by violent wind,
it passed over the city, unroofng
houses, uprooting trees, and doing other
damage. The Signal Office received only
twenty of the usual one hundred and
twenty reports from various signal stations
AT Baltimore considerable damage is re-
ported, especially to the shipping at
Chester, Pa. Seventy dwellings and stores
were unroofed, nineteen being blown down
altogether. Three churches were partially
destroyed, and eleven manufacturing places
were SO much damaged that work had to be
suspended for while, and number of
people are thus thrown out of employment.
The damage to shipping is very consider
able. The tide rose to great height, and
washed out many manufacturing places.
Several schooners and sloops were washed
ashore, and five canal boats loaded with coal
were sunk in the river.
The greatest damage appears to have been
done in Philadelphia. From a velocity OF
twenty-four miles an hour at quarter past
two o'clock, the wind rapidly increased in
violence until at five O'Clock it was travel
ing at the rate of forty.nine miles an hour
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Anecdotes of Bismarck.

Here are two characteristic anecdotes
of Bismarck. The other evening, as he
and his wife were walking out at Kissen-
gen, they saw family evidently anx-
ious to get good view of the Chancel-
Ior, who was Just about to turn down
private path, which he would reach be-
fore his admirers met him. The young
est daughter started forward, leaving
the rest behind. The Princess noticed
the girls timid ,boldness, and whispered
to her husband, who at once, turned
aside and sat down on rustic bench by
the roadway till the girl had passed
them, when, rising, he bowed his state
liest bow to her, and with a friendly
"Good evening, miss" turned down the
secluded path, leaving his girlish ad-
mirer in raptures. At Berlin, during
the conferences of 1876 between the
three Chancellors, Prince Gortschakoff
made particularly able, not to say te-
dious, exposition of Russia's position and
policy, to which Bismarck listened in
tently; indeed, at last he was seen to
take up pencil and make copious notes
of the speech, fact which surprised
Count Andrassy. After the conference
was over, Prince Bismarck showed him
his notes. Page after page of paper was
covered thus: "P-po-pom-pemp
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
pompo-pomp-ponpo-P," and so on
dd minimum.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31
FOKEIGN SUMMAR

THE Federal Council of Germany has
assented to the socialist bill
The Turkish Sultan has authorized Baker
Pasha tor employ forty thousand men to
complete the defensive lines of Constanti-
nople.
AN at empt was made, on the 25th of Oc-
tober, by pistol shot, TO assassinate the
King of Spain. Ths King was not hit, The,
cdlprit was arrested. and sspf oeesd ihgs
against him began at once.
Two and half million of francs, for
warded to Anconia, I'aly, by the National
Bank, have been stolen, en- route. Three
employees of the bank have been arrested
for the theft. n -as. -
ORANGMEN in Montreal have brought
suit for damages against the Mayor for false
arrest on the 12h of July. David Grant,
county master, claims ten thousand, and
others five thousand.
HEUGH, BALFoUR & Co., Of Manchester,
England, have failed. Liabilities estimated
at between fl 100000 and e2,000,000. The
firm of Heugb, Balfour & Co. was one of the
oldest Eastern shipping houses in Man
chester. Two hundred Thousand pounds of
their liabilities fall chiefly on Manchester
cloth and yarn agents.
IT is said that negotiations are pending
between Austria, France, and England,
with the object of securing common treat
ment of all European questions a
counterpoise to Russia, and to substitute
for the Kaiserbund an entente between
France, England, and Austria. Count Won
~,
Paris is believed to be connected with this
project.
The Directors of the City of Glasgow
Bank, arrested on the charge of fraud, await
trial. Of the directors, W. Taylor is ex.
| Town Councillor of Glasgow, member of the
School Board, and partner in large grain
| dealing firm in the west of Scotland; Inlis
| is landed proprietor in East Scotland !;
Louis Potter is member of large ship
ping firm in Glasgow: Wright is member
of in East India firm in Lendon aud Glasgow !;
Robert Salmond was manager of the City of
Glasgow Bank when it stopped in 1857 !;
Stewart is an Edinburgh merchant. The ar
rests created great sensation, but meet
with general approval.
A Vienna correspondent on the Oath,
says: If the latest news be true, affairs near
Constantinople are more and more assum-
ing the same semi-hostile phase as before
the meeting of the Berlin Congress. Turk.
ish troops are being moved into positions
vacated by the Russians, and earthworks
are being repaired and armed before Con.
stantinople and Gallipol. The Turks are
arranging to increase their forces, and are
summoning half-pay officers to active duty.
A special committee for the defense of the
Capital has been formed at the Sevaskierate
A Berlin dispatch says: The return of the
Russians towards Constantinorle was only
commenced after the Porte had rejected
the draft of the new treaty demanded by
Russia,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31

AMERICAN women have gone shop
ping at the West End of London too
often. "A draper's assistant writes to
one of the morning newspapers that q
whole family will frequently enter a
store and begin inspection, "being sub
timely oblivious to the disarrangement
and trouble they give" If every parcel
is united, the contents of every box and
fixture turned out, and the contents
piled to the ceiling, they never, express
concern for the trouble and work they
occasion, to say nothing of damages to
goods they overhaul, and, having seen
every article, they coolly glide off their
seats, and, without word, take their
departure, or, by chance, they occa-
sionally will remark: "They guess
they will look over other 'stores,' and
calculate they will call when they are
again passing" doubtless repeating the
same gratifying assurance at every shop
they make free use Of The suggestion
is thrown out that the London trades
man would better plant signs in their
show-windows assuring the public that
ono Americans are served here"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31
A Drin Which Bores Square Hole.


= One of the novelties of the PaiisaEx :.
position is drill, which bores Square
holes, the invention of Mr.. Julius Hail.
Of Londons The work is done, too, says
a correspondent of the Scientific Ne,cs, in
a way so simple and SO easy that any
one may prove the fact for himself. The
invention has,excited genuine astonish-
ment among the mechanics gathered at
the Exposition. There is a, constant
crowd surrounding the inventor, watch
ing him bore hole after hole square, and
puzzling over the rrovokingly simple
solution of the problem. All that is re-
quired is an ordinary hand drill stock.
A stationary one with a chuck below for
holding the work is used by the inventor |;
but he says common brace will answer
-" anything, in fact, will do that will
properly hold the drill" The tool itself
is the usual form of three-square drill
SO that no special apparatus is required.
Clamp or chuck this drill in its holder
SO that {" it will wobble," that is the
whole secret. Instead of making round
hole, as it will if tightly grasped, when
loosely held it produces square one /;
and, according to the inventor, it is i'm
material whether the drill wobbles in
the work or the work under the drill.
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ashore south of Cape Henry, and is total

ashore south of Cape Henry, and is a total
wreck. Only one person was saved.
At Wilmington, Del, about seyenty-6ve
buildings were unroofed. four or five car
ried away by the food, and six blown down.
Two schooners were wrecked on Delaware
Bay, near New Castle, and seven persons
drowned. Captain Barker, describing the
wreck OF the Express at the mouth OF the
Potomac; says the sea was running at a
great height, every wave washing the boat
from em 10 stern. Shortly after five
o'clock Wednesday a. M, there canes ter
rife crash, and the joiner work started from
the stanchions. C3L- So
The passengers and crew had hardly time
to realize what had occurred before the
wave tore the saloon deck Ike so: much
paper work, and the following wave swept
it off to sea, and with it nearly all on board
All on board had secured life-preservers at
the earliest period of the gale. Some of the
officers tried to secure boats, but they were
washed away and broken up. A moment
after the upper deck had been carried away,
the hull rolled over and sank bottom up
ward. Those of the passengers and crew
that could reach portions of the wreck
chung Co them, but the heavy sea washed
them off again, and in breaking down only
about eight persons could be seen.
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Sheridan's EamOus Horse.

The famous horse that took Sheridan
to Winchester on that famous ride, and
whose death is reported, was jet black,
with white star forehead, was sixteen
and one-half hands high, and was very
proud spirited and active. He saw
ninety engagements during the war, and
was given to Sheridan by Captain
Campbell, of the Second Michigan, in
1862. He was very brave, and it is said
that with one exception he never tailed
toward the enemy, and that was when a
cannon ball passing under his belly
frightened him. The Chicago Times says
that Sheridan told its representative
that when hurrying to Winchester he
had ridden the horse at full gallop, at
times breaking into a run. Two staff
officers, Generals Forsyth and OKeefe,
and the escort of twenty cavalrymen,
rode with him, but the horse "Win-
chester" showed more spirit and "bot-
tom" than any of the other animals.
The General said that he had not been
upon Winchester's" back since the
war closed. The skin of old Winches-
ter" is to be prepared and preserved in
the best art of the taxidermist, under
direction of Professor Ward.
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previous by his guide that if they did not
come out aud surrender before noon he
would blow every one of them from the
face of the earth. This threat had the de.
sired effect, for, in few minutes after the
interpreter returned, all the savages came
forward and surrendered themselves. After
being disarmed, they were marched to Chey-
enne, arriving there at midnight, where
comfortable quarters and supper were given
them.
A SPECIAL to the Cincinnati Gazette of
DC oper "a, says: Some Baltimore tea
merchants TO day called upon the Chinese
ambassador, and discussed the question
of commercial relations with China with
special relation to the tea trade. This is
the first reception given by the Chinese
to civilians. The tea merchants requested
The Chinese Embassador to discourage the
expectation of teas which were artifeially'
colored, and to send teas only in natural
condition, as they are used in China. Tie
Minister showed his shrewdness by inform
fng the delegation that Chinese merchants
would be glad to export teas in the
natural CONDITION, as it cost them
much less, and that artifcially colored
teas would not be exported day longer
than there was demand for them.
A sample of tea brought from China
by the embassy for its own use was brought
in. The Minister said that the various
brands of tea sold in America and Europe
were unknown to and unused by the tea
consumer in China. They were especially
prepared by Chinese tea exporters for the
foreign markets were colored by chem.
icals, and this process, together with the pc
culiar methods of putting up teas for
foreign markets, not only rendered it less
palatable and beneficial, but more expen-
sive. He expressed the opinion that if
boards of trade in New York and China
were to make known the fact that pure
teas were not only more palatsble, but less
expensive, it would be benefit to both the
producer and consumer. There is, said he,
really but one kind of tea plant,
and from this both green and black
teas are produced. The equivalents
for the two terms "green and black" do
not signify to Chinese the color of tea, but
have reference to the period of gathering
Green" indicating, not "green" color,
but unripeness. Yung Wing, in the course
of a speech, made the important admission
that he was confident that tea could be
successfully cultivated in certain portions
of the United States, but that Chinese labor
would be necessary to successfully do this,
and he added that Cinnamon are not dis
posed to emigrste in great numbers to this
country in view of pending prejudice and
agitation against them in California.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31
A Sensible Dog.

"Sixty years ago, when | was a
teacher in Kilmalcum parish" says
John Fraser, az was using whisky
bitters for my stomach's sake. One day
/ dipped a piece of cake in it and gave
it to my dog. He grudgingly ate it.,
curling sup his lip to avoid the taste.
Ere long he became tipsy; he howled
most piteously, and unnaturally looked
up in my face as if for help. He began
to stagger and fall like drunken man.
The appearance of his face and eyes was
extraordinary. He lay on the floor and
howled until the effects of the drink
wore off, This was supreme folly, it
was wicked. The dog never forgot the
trick. Whenever afterward / went to
the press for the bottle he fastened to
the outside of the house. One day, the
door being shut, he sprang at one bolt
through pane of glass to get outside.
So much for the wisdom of the dog
infinitely surprising foolish drinking
men,"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31
Negro Logic.

Old Pompey came down to the village
the other day with big brass watch
key prominently displayed from a shoe
string chain.
"Whar's your watch, Uncle Pomp"
asked a young nigger.
" Dun got none."
"You ain'tT
"No, chile"
" Den what fo' you kerry dat yere
watch-key roun' 80 conspicuousw
Old Pompey chuckled.
Look here, chile" he said, "youse
amt no logician-got no head for de
scientific side of matters. Do youse
s'poze dat if come down here a-totin'
of stable door dat it would be any sign
dat l owned hoss? De two cases ON
prezactly parallelogram, sah."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31

A BEEFsTEAK DUEL.-The Paris
papers are telling story of beefsteak
duel-of course it is an Englishman who
is the challenger, and the Frenchman is
induced to go through the ordeal by the
Englishman's temptation of the offer of
points--that is, he undertakes to eat ten
steaks, and and then start fair. Eating
begins for 81 900 side, and as usual,
Mr.. Frenchman leads off so voraciously
that he is done up at the eighth beef
steak, but the Englishman goes on to
the twenty-second, and only stops when,
ON calling for more, he is told that he has
swallowed all in the house, and he must
wait until another bullock is killed for
him. In order to show the substantial
character of the gorge, it is carefully
noted that the steaks weighed half a
pound each.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31

WE are requested by a pale, sad
spirited father to insert the following:
"Johnny P.-All is forgiven. Come
The minister has forgiven you for plac-
ing shat bucket of water over the door.
Your sister Annie longs to see you and
says you may kcepthe gold pen if you
will restore her teeth. The dog is still
living, but its hair is all singed off, the
cat is getting along nicely, and the cook
is convinced you meant no harm when
you put pepper on the stove. Johnny
you had better come home, the country
can't spare any of its energetic and
promising boys-Keokuk Constellation.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31

CAR lighting is problem which occu
pies the minds of inventors as we'll as
the railway authorities. The {" dim,
religious light" of candles is about
enough to show how gloomy car can
be at night. Oil lamps in cars have
been rather at discount since the terri
BILE accident which they caused on a
Canadian railroad some years ago. The
Rait,cay Age suggests that small ma
chine be attached to locomotive and
run by steam from the boiler which will
generate electricity enough to light
every passenger car to the brilhancy of
day. The plan should please the train
men, as their. work would only be the
easy and simple connection of wire or
two when the car was coupled on.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31

A BAsHFUL young man went three
times to ask beautiful young lady if he
might be the partner of her Joys and
sorrows and other household furniture,
but each time his heart failed him, and
he took, the question away unpopped.
She saw the anguish of his soul, and had
compassion ON him. So the next time
he came she asked him if he thought to
bring his screw-driver with him. He
blushed, and wanted to know what for.
And she, in the fullness of her heart,
said she didn't know but he'd want to
screw up his courage before he left. He
took the hint,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31

SMALL game, such as rabbits, par
tridges and squirrels, haven't been so
thick in years as they are this season.
The reason why is that last winter was
unusually mild. Very cold weather kills
them of. Heavy snow invaribly de-
creases the number of partridges, for
they have practice of plunging into it
and remaining there for some time. If
while they are in it a crust forms they
are imprisoned and die ere they can re-
lease themselves.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31

We have done very we'll at the Paris
Exposition, after all. In agricultural
implements we take all the highest
prizes, all the second and majority of
the third. In machinery, scales, instru-
ments Of precision, beer and parlor
organs, we rank first. In dental instru-
ments, we, as usual, pass all competitors
In books we take three of the FIVE
prizes; in gold work, street cars, print
ing presses, sewing machines and
canned goods the highest honors.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31

Iris a matter of congratulalion that
although the preparation of our Gov
ernment for the American exhibit at
the Paris Exposition was greatly de-
'layed, the aggregate of swards TO ex-
hibitors from the United States is larger
Proportionally than to any other nation
represented at the Exposition.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31

A MAN has been arrested in Liver
pool for stealing buttons from mems
coats. In his rooms were found thou
sands of buttons of every variety. He
would be good fellow TO play that
game of Button, button-whose got
the button 2"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31

A KENTUCKY paper says whole
family in Adair County, in that State,
are afflicted with leprosy in its most
loathsome form. They have no eye
brews or eyelashes, their hair has all
come out, leaving the scalp bare, and
the skin peals off in rough scales, leav-
the the skin of a deep scarlet color.
They are Stunned by everybody.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31

In this age of progression it is rather
curious to see a town go backwards.
Westhampton, Mass, celebrated its
centennial on Sunday by religious and
secular services in it's one church. 1t
has neither railroad nor manufactures,
a few of the natives are left, and foreign
ers have taken possession of the soil
The population fifty years ago was eight
hundred, thirty years ago seven hun
dred, twenty years ago six hundred, and
now it is five hundred and decreasing.