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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

THE Bessemer steel trade, which had
its origin in England rather more than
twenty years ago, still continues to be
followed more largely in that country
than any other. Of about 100000
tons of Bessemer steel now annually
produced throughout the world, Eng
land furnishes fully 100000 tons the
United States, $4,000 tons; France,
261, ,S74 tons, and Germany, 242,251
tons. No industry in modern times has
sprung up so suddenly into Importance,
nor has any other caused greater
changes in the way of setting aside an
old and introducing a new order. To
this industry it is due that thousands
of furnaces in England and Wales have
been laid waste, and tens of thousands
of workingmen either thrown idle or
transferred to other occupations. The
age of iron has become the age of steel.
A new departure, long threatened and
greatly feared, has been actually &C
complished.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

LITTLE Princess Marie, of Hesse, is
the filth grandchild whom Queen Vic
toria has lost out of the twenty six who
have been born to her. The list of these
deaths is as follows: l. Prince Francis
Frederick Sigismund, son of the Impe-
rial Prince and Princess of Germany, died
June, 1866, aged two. 2. Prince Freder-
ick William Augustus Victor Leopold
Louis, son of the Princess Alice, and of
the Grand Duke of Hessc, accidentally
killed by a fall in May, 1873, aged two
and-a- half. 3. Prince Frederick Chris
tian Augustus Leopold Edward Harold,
son of the Princess Helena and Prince
Christian, died in May, 1876, aged one
week. !. Prince Alexander John Charles
Albert, son of the Prince and Princess
of Wales, died in April, 1874, aged
one day. 5. The Princess Marie OF
Hesse, aged four
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

further or other recess shall be taken by
either House.
SEC. TO- That section 140 of the revised
statutes of the United States be. and the
same is hereby, S. amended that the words
first Wednesday in January then next
ensuing" be stricken out, and the words
"second Monday next after their meeting
be inserted therein.
SEC. IL. That section 141 of the revised
statutes OF the United States be, and the
| same is hereby, so amended that the words
4" first Wednesday" be stricken out, and he
words 'on or before the day" inserted
| tberein.
SEC. 12. That sections 131, 1856, 1876, 142,
147, las, and 149 be, and the same are
| hereby, repealed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

The New York World has taken
another new departure. Not content
with owning free labor bureau, it has
gone into the conundrum business, and
offers valuable prizes in gold for the so
luton of one hundred riddles, some of
which are about the queerest ever pro-
pounded They include such queries as
these: Who invented milk punch?
What was Lucifer's lawsuit, and in what
particular did it resemble the Van
derbilt case? Who was William Patter-
son, and who struck him, and why was
he struck, and why has everybody been
so much interested to know who struck
him2
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

The total admissions to the late Paris
Exhibition were 1902, ,725, against a
total for the Centennial of 9,910,966
The Exhibition at Paris, however, was
open more than month longer than the
one at Philadelphia, while the actual
receipts at the latter place were about
fifty per cent. larger than the former.
This year at Paris, as compared with
1857, shows nearly double the number
of admissions, aud an increase of seventy
FIVE per cent. in receipts. In spite Of
this increase, the Exhibitions held dur.
ing the Empire involved an expendi-
ture Of considerable less money. In
1878, 100000 francs were appropri
ated, and deficit is isreported of $4,000,
900 francs more.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times gives curious list of the
names circulated in 1848 from the Cen
tral Police Office of Berlin as those of
men politically dangerous and suspi-
cious. Among them are Mazzini; James
Fazy, subsequently for seventeen year:
Dictator OF Geneva; Karl Marx, now
head Of the International; Louis Blanc;
Herr Bluntschli, Heidelberg professor
and devout admirer of Prince Bis
marck's ideas; Herr Bucher, permanent
head Of the German Foreign Office,
Count Karolyi, Austrian Embassador al
Berlin, and M. Bratiano, Prime Minister
of Roumania.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

try the terrors of martial law. The declar.
stions ef Count Gutenberg in the Prussian
Diet are startling. The Government has
information so serious that it does not give
the people the particulars. The main fact
is the assurance that there exists a great
revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow the
Kingdom and the Empire by assassination.
A veritable reign of terror seems at hand
in Germany.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

THE difference between the diet Of the
ancients and that of moderns is very
striking. The ancient Greeks and Ro-
mans usel no alcoholic liquor, it being
unknown to them; nor coffee, nor tea,
nor chocolate, nor sugar, nor even but
ter, for Galen informs us he had seen
butter but once in his life. They were
ignorant of the greater number of our
tropical spices, as clover, nutmeg, mace,
ginger. Jamaica pepper, curry, pimento.
They used neither buckwheat, nor
French beans, nor spinach, nor sage,
tapioca, salad, arrowroot, nor potato or
its varieties; nor even the common, but
a sort of marsh-grown bean; nor many
of our fruits, as the orange, tamarind
or American maize. On the other hand
they ate substances which we now
neglect-the mallow, the herb ox-tongue
the sweet acorn, the lupin. They liked
the flesh of wild asses, dogs, the dor
mouse, the fox, and the bear.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

THE Birmingham Iron and Trade
Circular says that several manufacturers
of spool cotton in Scotland recently
moved their machinery and many of
their working people from that country
TO Long Island and New Jersey, and
established their manufactures on
American soil. Some large manufac-
turers of linen thread have done the
same thing, and there are now about
seven hundred hands employed in New
Jer.ey in this business, working with
foreign capital.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

THE BARRIERS of this country have an
acknowledged enemy in DIR. A. P.
butcher, of Cleveland, who maintains
that shavingis in violation of every law
of health and beauty. He says the
mustache is the best respirator in the
world, and the hair covering the jaws
and throat is intended to give warmth
and protection to the delicate structures
IN the vicinity, especially the fauces
and laryDx. Shaving, he says, leads to
dental neuralgia, rheumatism of the
gums, weak eyes, and catarrhal disor.
ders. The Doctor, however, fails to de.
clare how it is that Nature did not in
vest women with the hirsute dignities,
these capillary beauties of the counte
nance.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

DREADFUL stories are told of the
adulteration of sugars in New York.
says the Commercial Bulletin. 1t is said
that muriate of tin is used to whiten
easily, and at trihing cost, sugars that
would otherwise be yellow. Po think
that consumers of sweets have been
gradually converting their stomachs
into tin kitchens for the profit of the
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

In the Turkish language, Shipka
means wild rose. The village, which is
at the bottom of the Balkan Pass, con-
sists of about eight hundred houses, the
inhabitants of which are occupied in the
cultivationand sale of roses. That flower
is not cultivated, as with us, in pots and
gardens; but in fields ahd burrows, like
potatoes. Nothing can be more beauti-
fulthan such a plantation of roses. Mil
lions upon millions of red leaves are
spread over the bright green of the rose
field. The oil of roses made here is O.
great value, and difficult to procure unal
loyed, even at Constantinople.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

HONEY sent to England in the comb a
month ago, for the first time, reached
Liverpool safely, and the experiment is
pronounced successful. There were
eighty tons in one ship, stored, says the
Pal IHaH Gazette, with some curiosity,
"by American bees themselves into
half a million neat little glass-sided
boxes" That paper learns that the
honey was the partial product OF twelve
thousand swarms of bees, in which a
large mercantile firm is interested, and
which are distributed throughout the
honey-producing sections of the United
States in apiarits of one hundred swarms
each. "There seems to be no limit, it
says, to the provisions with which
America is prepared to supply us. The
first experiment of bringing honey in
the cvmb on large scale to Europe
from America having proved successful,
it will no doubt be repeated. Honey
will even become with us, as it was with
the ancients, an important article OF
food
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

MACHINERY for shoemaking produces
marvellous results. One class Of ma
chimes sewed last year ~ 000, 900 pairs
of shoes, whileauother pegged 25 G0j,00l
pairs in the same time. Ten men eau
make 600 pairs Of shoes day. In
New England 400 bushels of shoe pegs
are made in day, and one cents worth
of pegs will peg four pairs of shoes.
There are $40 patents on shoe pegs ana
peggers, and 1000 on shoe machinery.
Machinery turned out over 1000, 600
lasts in the United States last year.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

IS 1910 the products of our wooden
factories amounted to s2O, $40, 900, while
in 1870 they reached the aggregate of
s165, ,4O6,O 900, and this exclusive of
worsted carpets and hosiery, which
amounted to S43, 10000.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

sugar refner! Just as we are beginning
TO Anticipate the brown and toothsome
buckwheat, enriched with amber syrup,
we hear that glucose enters into the
manufacture Of the syrup, and the only
sure thing is maple sugar dissolved.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

A BRISTOL (Eng.) ship owner says
that in no part of the world is any ship
ping concern, unless it has specially,
making profit. The English have not
only beaten the foreigners out of the
carrying trade of the world, but cut
their own throats by the oyerproduction
of shipping.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

Col. T. w. HIGGINsoN says that the
feeling in England toward America is
the feeling of unwilling respect toward
powerful competitor, and that Ameri-
can breadstuffs are making light the
work of English millers, and American
machinery and inventions are stesdily
advancing in the English market. Mr..
Chamberlain, VI. p, told a friend of
CL Higginson: Formerly we sent
screws from Birmingham to America to
the extent of tens of thousands of
pounds annually. Now American
screws undersell us in the Birmingham
market"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

KIoTo, in Japan, produces famous
mushrooms, as well as beautiful porce-
lain ware. On the mountains that sur
round it many varieties of the fungus
grow spontaneously, aud when the season
is at its height every family that can
afford it participates in general holi-
day, aocking to the hills in search of
their favorite variety. 1t is the usual
custom for the farmers to pay a small
tax to the local government for the
privilege of letting out to pleasure par
ties, for the time being, sections of the
hillside where the mushroom prevails.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

MEN, contrary to iron, are worse to
be wrought upon when they are hot ;
and are far more tractable-in cold blood.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

A CHESTER, Pa, man allows his pet
horse to sleep in the kitchen.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19

"GoNE down at sea! Gone down at sean'
The bells toll o'er that living grave,
And over cloud and under wave,
And down the melancholy lea
The cry goes round the rocking world.
To Danish dunes, to swedish piues,
To the fair shades of Rhenish vines,
To German homes where maldens wait,
To meet their lovers at the gate,
And wives, the flag of joy unfurled,
Wait for the kiss that ne'er can be-
"Gone down at sea! Gone down at seal"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-19
ELECTION OF PRESIDENT.

The following is the text of the Election
Bill which has been presented to the Ma
tional Congress;
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15
The Woman Who Falls to Pieces

She came TO the station little late,
and had to make a rush for the train.
When she reached her seat her hat
fell of. She got it on, but ii toppled
over to one side, and when she tried
TO straighten it up, her hair came
tumbling down. She lost her ticket
twice before the conductor reached
her. and would have lost it again if
he hadn't taken II away from her.
She reached up to bundle in the
rack above her head, and burst the
collar-button Off her buster and
struck her fingers on four pins in her
dress before she could find one that
she dared take out to repair the dam
age. Then Just as she thought she
was comfortably settled, her little
hand valisc, packed TO bursting with
enough things to load Saratoga
trunk TO the muzzle, exploded, and
she nearly worked herself into frag-
ments getting il together again.
Then by the time she got her yalisc
shut up her hat tumbled of again,
and by the time she got her hat
Strengthened into its place, her hair
tumbled down again, and as soon as
she got her hair twisted up, and har-
pooned il with a couple of hair-pins,
ihe yalise went OIL, and when she
got oil at New Prague, she tucked
the gaping valise under her arm, and
tried to corral her topping hrt and
wandering hair with one hand, and
as she went iluttering and struggling
into the depot, one couldn't hell
thinking that II would be safer anC
more convenient To run her in sec
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15
All the World Around.

Trouble between the missionaries
and natives in China. Churches and
school houses burned.
Threatened insurrection at Mig
poo, China; 100000 peasants in
volved; heavy taxation the cause.
Great strike of cotton operatives
at London.
A farmer near Decatur, ILL.,, chops
a neighbours head off with a corn
knife.
Japan rice crops greatly damaged
by floods.
The Emperor. of Brazil has invited
eminent doctors from Europe to
Brazil TO study the yellow fever.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15
THE ONLY REMEDY.

Follics turn sometime into TRACE
dies, and the settlement of the Rio
Grandc as a boundary between civ
ilized and semi-civilized nation, was
a folly of the first water.
There always has been, is and al
ways win be an irreprcssible antag-
onism between two such nations ow-
ing to the nomadic plundering pro-
pensities of the latter, and a boun-
Diary line, as purely speculative as a
river, which offers no obstacle to ex-
cursions of border savages and nom
ads involves perpetual trays, conflicts
and plunderings together with con-
slant expense on the part of the civ
ilized party of the first part, with
the probabilities of eventual war,
springing out of mutual exaspera-
tions. The Chinese recognized this
fact by building an immense wall be-
tween themselves and the pug-noscd
Tartar. the Romans, the wisest of
men, recognized the same truth in
building a wall between them and
the wild tribes of Scotland, wall
mountain has been an accepted boun-
Diary between nations ut all tines
and yet our forefathers violated every
principle of strtes manship in fixing
little muddy stream, and an indis
cernable line of latitude on broad
plains between those two nations.
1t was a folly involving persistent
tragedy. To repair that folly at the
earliest moment would be wise states
manship. The only policy before
the county is to readiust the boun-
Diary line between Mexico and the
United States, till il shall conform to
nature and common sense. Chihua-
hua, Cohahuila, Nuevo Leon and
Tamaulipas belong to the United
States, by the right of nature and
necessity, and in their absorption
alone is the frontier trhubles sue
ceptiblc of permanent adjustment.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

The English troops in India have
taken possession of Al Mussjid a
strong point in Khyber Pass, twenty
five miles from Peshawar and the
Amer is reinforcing Canadahar and
Jillahabad. Let our young readers
rub up their geography as the indi'
cations are strong for a war in q
country little known.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

The execution ofLongely was wit
messed by 1000 persons, and the exc
cution was strongly guarded, as
threats had been made against the
sheriff.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

Gen. Gideon n. Pillow is dead.
lie died at Helena, Arkansas, Octo-
Der the 9Th. Peace comes at last to
the hero of Cerra Gorda, Chepultapec
and the bloody fields of the late war
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

The Evening journal is new ven
ture in jefferson. 1t promises to be
an able journal, and we wish ii album
dant success, which we believe II
will attain.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

The Philadelphia Record says that
there are in the city one hundred and
twenty thousand mortgages unpaid
and drawing interest, and that they
cover seven-eighths of the real estate
tLn.a
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

Everything is falling into the hands
of the bondholders and finally there
will be left to the people nothing but
slavery. Houston Telegram.
Yet there will be one other right
left,-the right TO emigrate. Emf
grafton or slavery.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

The California Constitutional Con-
vention is in session. II spent two
days in electing two officers, and will
be probably one of hottest assem-
blies ever gathered together.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

II is now being demonstrated that
DIR. Peterman, the eminent German
geographer committed suicide.
Driven to desperation by domestic
infelicities, he HUNG himself.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

Scarcely has England become COM
posed over the Princes Alice disaster
when she is shocked by the Liver
pool theatre horror. Thirty-sevcn
persons trampled TO death on an
alarm of fire. Are great disasters
nniInmic1
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

The Republican congressional COM
mittee have exonerated Acklen from
the charge of assaulting young lady
in New York and have charged Gen
Smith with Matchmaking.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

Bob Toombs says the jackasses in
Georgia will continue to elect Alex.
Stephens as long as he lives, and af-
ter death will elect his administrator.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

The chief of Police at Burlington,
Iowa, was murdered, ald another
man seriously wounded at Green
back meeting in that place.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15
Yellow Fever Deaths.

The approximate list of deaths
from yellow fever up to October 9TH
(including imported and supposed
cases) since its first appearance this
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

A lady with five children has been
admitted after thorough examina-
ton to practice at the bar, in Cali
fornia
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

For upwards Of thirty years, Mrs Win
slows Soothing Syrup has been used for chill
dren. II cOrrects acidity Of stOma III, relieves
", I'd collie, dy4 sntery and diarrhgai regulates
tne bowels, Whether arising from .teething OF
other cause. An old and well tried remedy,
20 cents a bottle. dwtap2O's9
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

New York is shocked and horri.
fed at a mysterious murder. The
body of young girl being found in
q barrel.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

NJ. Gambetta is canvassing France
and is received with continued ova-
tions.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

The Brazos Pilot is responsible for
the statement that the rats in Dallas
are SO bold that they hunt the cats.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

The New York Greenbackers are
broken up into factions, and fighting
like the tabled Killkenney cats.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15
TUESDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1878.


London papers give 600 as the loss
in the Princess Alice disaster.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15
DREsCRIPTIoN FREE.

FOR THE SPEEDY CURE Of Seminal
weakness, Lost Manhood, and all disor'' RS
JAQuEs a Co, 100 West sixth st.. CiDnln
nail Oh OF. HlaTlidAwly
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

A musical prodigy seven years old
who outdoes blind Tom, has appear
ed in Detroit.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

After uncounted murders Bill
Longely expiatcs his crime in Gid
dings.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

There is a gain of two Congress
men by the Democrats in Indiana.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-15

tions and flag her against everything.
have seen this woman on several
other trains, and she has never been
able to keep herself together. She
keeps you in state of agonizing
suspense, for you never know where
she is going to give way next.
, 1878-08-03

\ FAILURE The present Indian war
III the eastern portion OF the state is, so
far as the forces Of the government are
concerned, & failure The Indians, IN
about one-half the nmnber OF the soldiers
engaged, march into our state overawn
ing more than double their number u
our citizens, and hare BAD but holiday
excursion. While the troops have saun
tered along behind and when near enough
have fought at :; loag raage-hnrt!as
nothing nor getting hurt. The cry Is
raised for more troops, but II those III the
field are sample Of government fighters,
the fewer there arc the better Had the
citizens of the eastern counties not have
hampered nor depended on the military,
no hostile bands would now be INSIDE our
border. The citizens depending upon
their own resources for defense would
have, long since. wiped those bloody as
sassins from the state and sent many Of
them to their happy hunting grounds, I"
perhaps with curses instead OF prayers
Howard may be good Indian fighter,
but he, like all other regular officers, in
charge of the regular troops, will seldom
or never accomplish much fighting In
dams. To be successful the troops must
be hardy, energetic and anxious for the
fray ready to subsist as the Indian does,
watchful OF ambuscades, and making his
work short, decisive and complete. -
Piaindealer