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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-30

A UTICA doctor, escorting a young
lady home the other evening, attempt
ing to relieve her cough by giving her,
as he supposed, a troche, telling her to
allow it to dissolve gradually in her
mouth. The next morning he received
note of thanks, inclosing metallic
button, which, she said, she had been
unable to make desolve anyhow.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-30

CORN-STARCH PUDDING-To 1 quart
OF boiling milk add tablespoonfuls
prepared corn-starch, heaping table
spoons sugar; flavor with lemon
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-30
THE MARKETS.

PARTICULARS regarding Electric Belts free.
Address Pulvermacher Galvanic Co., Cincin. o.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-30

TWILL send free. ! all afflicted with Catarrh,
prescription for infallible cure. Address, with
stamp, Rev. T j. MEAD, Syracuse, n. Y.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-30
Sleepest thou stiII2
My lutte shall wake thee!

One day we heard some hunters who
had been to the mountains talking of
adventures and dangers. They spoke
of the death of a comrade
." Yes, it is fate. When we hear the
voice call, what can we do but follow /?
Never shall 1 forget Emile's face when
he babe US farewell and turned to go.
Three times had he heard the call in the
darkness. All, poor fellow
Et Is it so dangerous, then, in the
mountains?" asked Rose.
The old hunter rose stiff1y, and bowed
with grave, old-fashioned courtesy to
the pretty young lady with the wild,
startled eyes and pale face, who asked
this question.
''We must all die, and one can never
tell when his time will come. Some
times hunter chasing his prey, breaks
a twig or brushes a fower-woe to him
if it bleeds internally. He must give
life in return for a life Is it not so. Ivan p,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-30

BY MILE W. CARPENTER.
Love is come with song and a smile;
Welcome Love with n smile and a song;
Love can stay but little while
why can not he stay? They call him away,
fe do him wrong-ye do him wrong,
Love will StaV for n whole life LONG
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-18
Great Fire i'm Clarksville, Tenn.

A destructive fire occurred at Clarksvil1e
on the 18th. The best judges estimate the
loss at $500,0 The burnt district covers
fifteen acres. The Gracy Warehouse covered
over one acre itself. The Hartford Insur-
ance Company lost about SIG 900; the Equit
able, of Nashville, $1S,5O0; Liverpool and
London, $4,000; Home, of New York, $10,-
600; Etna, Hartford, and State, of Nash
vile, $500 each; Continental, of New
York, $1,000, and Phoenix, of Brooklyn,
$4,000. These are estimated as comprising
the aggregated loss on between fifty and
seventy-fve of the principal houses.
1t is now definitely ascertained that fifty
seven house were destroyed by the Clarks-
vile fire, including the best buildings in the
city. The insurance is estimated at $780,
000 The fire is regarded as the work of an
incendiary, with whom the blacks seemed
to deeply sympathize, refusing aid in sup.
pressing the flames.
Policeman Phillips shot and killed a negro
named Seats while resisting him with stones
This aroused a feeling among the blacks,
who threatened to mob Phillips, and he was
placed in Jail for safety.
1t is supposed the fire was the result oi
the recent lynching of a negro for the
attempted rape of white girl, and Seats's
death.
Nine hundred hogsheads of tobacco were
destroyed by the fire and rain. The list o.
houses embraces all kinds of business, ant
| among them newspaper Offices, courthouse
bank, Central Hotel, hook and ladder houses
| two jewelry stores, two dry goods stores
eight groceries, two public halls, and tel
| residences.
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A Negro Mans Hoard.

The Wilmington (Del) Republican
says: On Saturday last decrepid old
colored man came into the Farmers
Bank, of Delaware, and surprised the
officers by handing them a rusty old
bag in which was about eleven hundred
dollars in specie, six hundred dollars
being in gold chiefly and the balance
in silver. The bag of course was heavy,
and although the colored man who
brought it was known as a regular de-
positor at the bank of money in notes,
from time to time some surprise was
manifested that he should have brought
so much specie at one time. In answer
to interrogations the colored man said
he lived near the canal between Sum-
init Bridge and Kirkwood, he was now
somewhere between seventy and ninety
years old, and that he had worked on
the canal ever since he was young
man, and that he had been saving up
his money for great number of years
he could not tell how many, and that
the only place he had for its secretion
was up an old chimney. Some of the
silver gave evidence of the truth of wha
| the old gentleman said, for it was blacl
and smoked, and had evidently lain {
long time in one position without ever
having been turned over. He was asked
why he had not sold the gold when il
was bringing such high price during
the war, but he expressed surprise t.
think that it had ever been worth NOR,
than dollar, and could not see why on
dollar should be worth more than an
other. Under the direction of Mr.. Rob
inson, the cashier, the colored man ,ol
his six hundred dollars in gold up t,
Robinson & Co., where he sold it for on,
per cent. premium, which it was bring
ing, after which lie made full deposi
at the Farmers Bank.
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The Nl-Fated Sphinx and Her Cargo
of CircassianS,
IBy Gable to the Enquirer. ]

Lloyd's agent at Larnica, Cyprus, in a
letter dated March 10th, furnishes full par
ticulars of the burning of the Austrian
Lloyd's steamer Sphinx, near Cape Ella, in
the early part of last month, by which five
hundred Circassian refugees lost their lives.
1t appears that the Sphinx was on, her way
to Lattachia, from Cavalla. with about
three thousand Circassians on board.
On the 9th of March, at 7:10 a. m, she
was doubling the Klito Rock off Cape St..
Andrea, with strong wind from the south
east, with the intention of going to Fuma-
gusta to wait for better weather and take In
provisions for the emigrants. About three
o'clock P. m: there was strong gale from
the southeast, which shifted to the west,
then to the north, returning at last to south
east. At that time the ship would no lon
ger obey the rudder, and heavy sea strik-
ing the vessel, washed forty refugees from
the forecastle. The vessel could not put
| back to Alexandretta, as the matches were
open, and being afraid that the sea would
| fill the hold, coupled with the fact that the
Circassians would not allow them to be
| closed for fear of being suffocated.
At s: 45 smoke was seen coming out Of
| the fore hatch, and the vessel was shipping
| heavy seas. A little later she grounded Oh
a sand-bank; one heavy sea drove her Oh
the coast, and she sprung a leak. There wa:
| no working of the engines Meanwhile tht
| fire increased, and the confusion and erie.
| of the Circassians are said to have beer
something awful.
| Seeing the fire could not be put down
| the matches were closed with the consent o
the Circassians, and SO upward of five hun
dred lives were sacrificed to save the rest
During the night attempts were made t,
| extinguish the fire, but without success.
On the 9th the surviving immigrants wer
landed. The Captain and crew fed from
the wreck, as the Circasslans threatened t.
murder them. The Circassians had fires, j
is said, in the hold to keep themselves war;
and to cook with, and it is not surprisin
the fire originated from the accident at tn
upsetting of one of their stoves.
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JUDICIAL DECISION.

A very important decision has been
rendered in the Court at Millersburg,
Ohio, by Judge Voorhees,, in the case of
Ross VS.. Ross, on a motion to distribute
the proceeds of a sale of real estate in
partition. Harriet Heston, one of the
heirs of Allen Ross, deceased, sold and
by quitclaim deed conveyed to James
Ross, another heir, all her interest, both
real and personal, in the estate of Allen
Ross, and this conveyance took place
before the death of the ancestor, and
now James Ross claims her share of the
estate. The Court held that the convey
ance from Harriet Heston to James Ross
was of no effect, as it did not contain a
conveyance of warranty, and that it
ante-dated the death of the ancestor, and
cited number of authorities to support
his decision. The decision gives Mrs.
Heston, who lives in Missouri, nearly
seven hundred thousand dollars. The
case is an old one, as the will of Allen Ross
was set aside before commencing the parti.
| tion proceeding. The decision gives
satisfaction, as it shuts off over-eagel
SPECTATORS and swindling.
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THURMA MS FINDING BJLL

The Thurman Pacific Railroad Fund
ing Bill, passed by the Senate, makes the
Union Pacific and Central Pacific Rail-
road Companies pay into the United
States Treasury, in addition to the whole
of the Governments earnings, not to ex-
ceed for the former company, $3.50, 900,
and for the latter 100000 per year.
The Government has heretofore retained
all the Government earnings, although
one half of them has been due to the
companies. The objection made to the
bill was not as to the amount to be paid
into the Sinking Fund, but to the other
sections of the bill, including declara-
ton of the right to amend, alter or
repeal the bill should it become law.
Senator Thurman, in his remarks, ex-
planned these sections in a manner
which deprived them to some extent OF
their Objectionable features. The amount
due the companies heretofore from the
Government for transportation and
other services, which has heretofore
been held in the United States Treasury
without benefit or interest to the com
panies, will Immediately, on the bill be
coming law, bear compound interest al
a part of the Sinking Fund, and b.
placed to the credit of the two compa
| MES
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HENRY H. ERB, of Lancaster, Pa, re-
Gently closed up his store and his house
and withdrew with his family from all
intercourse with the world. The neigh
bors became suspicious that something
was wrong, as Erb's children could be
heard crying bitterly, and Erb himself
was not known to buy any food. Two
officers effected an entrance into the
premises by crawling through back
window. The house was found to be in
most wretched condition. All the
furniture had been sold, there was no
fire, and the three girls and two boys
were crying with hunger and shivering
in rags, while the mother crouched in a
corner. Erb explained that spirit had
appeared to him and directed him and
his family to fast for five days, at the
end of which period a most wonderful
event would occur in his house, at which
the whole world would be present. He
ordered his children not to accept the
food offered them, and the mother, who
seemed to be entirely under the influence
of her husband, also refused to eat any
thing. The children were clothed and
made to take nourishment, and the wo
man was at length reused from hel
apathy by some very vigorous talk.
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FOREIGN SUMMARY.

FRESH purchase of arms are being made
by the Turkish War Office.
LARGE shipments of powder from bort
mund, Prussia, into Russia, are reported.
THE Russians are completing the fortifca-
tions begun by the Turks at Schekmedja and
Serkos.
THE King of Rome gave dinner to Gen
eral Grant on the 18th. Ali the Ministers
were present.
position of the Porte, have again abandoned
their project of embarking at Bujukdere.
THE movements of the Russian forces on
the Danube and in Roumania indicate de-
termination to prepare thoroughly against
the contingency of an Austrian attack in
the rear.
ALL passes over the Carpathians, practi-
cable for artillery and trains, are covered
by the positions which the Russians have
just occupied. Russian troops are con
stantly moving from Bulgaria into Rou-
mania.
THE Japanese contribute 900 for the
relief of the Chinese famine; the Emperor
81 900; the Empress and Empress mother,
$500 each; the Cabinet $1,000; the Milton
Bishi Steamship Company, $500; three
newspaper offices, 800 each, etc.
NEW objection has been taken by the
Turks against the Bussian military move
| ment. The Russians garrison have relieved
the Roumanians at Widdin, Nikopolis, and
Rabova, and the Russians now hold the
| Danube from its mouth to the Servian from,
| tier.
| IT is said that Russia is looking out for a
| loan in America. 1t is understood that
negotiations are also opened in Germany
and Holland. 1t is reported that the new
loan will amount to fifty million roubles
independently of the fifty million roubles
in Treasury bonds to be issued immedi
ately.
A FIRE in Tokia, on the night of March II
destroyed upward of 1000 houses. Esti
mated damage, $2OO,OCO. One life lost
Great complaints are made of the ineficiency
of the fire department. The burnt distric
is to be rebuilt in stone. Large voluntar,
contributions are made for the relief of th'
sufferers in addition to the government aid
THE London TSmes has issued a specia
edition tonight, containing the full text o
Prince Gortchakof's reply to Lord Sails
bury's circular dispatch. Prince Gortcha
koff contests Lord Salisbury's assertions
point by point, but the general tone of hi
reply appears to be conciliatory. He de
nies that the treaty of San Stefan
creates a strong Slav State unde
the control of Russia, and declare
that arrangements relative to Bulga
ria are only a development of principle
established by the Constantinople Confer
ence. He continues: "Lord Salisbury ad
mits that return to the programme of tha
conference in pure and simple is rendere
impossible by the war"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-18
Poisonous Gases in Houses.

Typhus fever, diphtheria, and other
fatal diseases, are often caused by sewer
gas which forces its way through the
water-closet and opens fixed basins into
the house. Another dangerous gas is
that emanating from stoves. The New
York Herald thus writes about both these
poisons:
Unless there is free circulation and
an adequate supply of pure air in bed
room occupied by one or more persons,
| the volume of air inclosed becomes very
rapidly exhausted of its life-preserving
properties, and proportionately charged
with gases of an opposite character.
The mere breathing of the air takes
from it the oxygen, and returnsa volume
of carbonic acid gas, which speedily as
sumes an undue proportion to the former,
and renders the atmosphere absolutely
dangerous to life.
| But there are other sources of danger
that too frequently fail to be recognized,
even by generally careful householders.
These are the pipes leading from water.
closets, sinks and fixed wash hand basins
to the house drain, and which often serve
as the inlets by which that most deadly
of poisons, sewer gas, enters dwellings.
1t does not matter very much whether
the poison enters the hallway from &
water-closet, the kitchen from sink, o.
the bedroom from a fixed wash han(
basin, it will attack the sleeper in hi
bedroom.
Thousands of fatal cases of diseas,
that are believed to be the result of con
tagion are really due to sewer-gas poison
brought directly into bedrooms by tn
Ways we have suggested.
Another dangerous gas that must b
guarded against in bedrooms is that EN-
anating from stoves. During coll
weather these stoves are much used a
heaters in sleepiDg-apartments, an
through ignorance of the principles G
combustion and ventilation, the carboni
acid gas given off fills the air with il
poison.
1t is a hundred times safer to sleep i
cold bedroom than in one heated by
, badly-regulated stove. Open fireplace
, obviate all danger, and serve as the be.
r means of ventilation.
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Positive Facts.

Among the English aristocracy Earl
Granville ranks as the best linguist; he
is master of twenty languages. In ap-
pearance he looks like an oiled and
curled Assyrian bull. The parting of
his hair has never been known to change
one hairs breadth.
The Lord Chief Justice of England,
Sir Alexander Cockburn, Bart, was
offered a peerage, but declined it. He
is a bon vivant, and eats asparagus all
the year round. No dinner party is
ever organized in London without ask
ing him to grace the board. He quaffs
port.
The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
is scraping up all he can to pay oil his
inherited debts. Queen Victoria, ad-
miring his integrity, gave him the Gov
ernorship of Madras. His Grace has
brought up his daughters in the sensible
way, and a dinner cooked by their lady
ships is worthy of Francatelli.
The Marquis of Salisbury comes from
old stock; he is tall, thick-set man,
and grows a full black beard; he prefers
riding in a cab to his own elegant
brougham; if anxious to see whether
YOU have any defects in your personal
appearance, walk behind his lordship
and his coat will serve you as looking
glass. His tailor's bills were never large.
The Duke of Portland even in London
is not much heard of. On subscription
lists he puts down the figure l, and,
after it, not two naughts but three. This
is an invariable rule. When there has
been great distress in England he has
employed 200 laborers at time to dig
pit, and ordered them to I'LL 1t up
again. He is martyr to host of
bodily ailments.
DIR. Kenealy is thick-set son of Erin.
He once upon a time held the position
of Queens Counsel, but when he ap-
piled offensive epithets to those in au-
thority, and refused to retract them, he
was disbarred. 1t would have been
better for him if the Tchborne Claim
ant had never been born. He is now
editor of the Cirilian, from whence he has
derived golden harvest. He isin Par
lament.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-18

A MOST unfortunate man, resident
of Murray County, Ga, has, since the
war, accidentally killed five men. The
first was slain by an AK slipping from his
hand and striking the victim on the
head; the second he drowned by snag-
ging and sinking boat in which the
pair were crossing stream; the third
was shot through the brain, being mis-
taken for turkey; the fourth was
killed by tree he had chopped down,
and the fifth was killed at a log rolling.
He was put on trial for his life on sew
eral occasions, but each time was ex-
onerated from all blame. He is peace
able, law abiding man, simply the. vic
tim of chain of unhappy circum.
stances.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-18

A CURRENT note in the Boston journal
contained query concerning the use
made of the millions of old postage
stamps which are collected. A cores
pondent is prompted by the question to
inform the public of practice which
prevails in converts and other Catholic
institutions in this country, and is almost
unknown to those outside their walls.
All cancelled stamps are saved and sent
to missionaries of the faith in China,
who buy with those worthless scraps of
paper infants who would otherwise be
destroyed in accordance with the custom
of the more degraded Chinese. The
many colored stamps are used for the
decoration of walls, ETC., by the in
genious Orientals, and are valued SC
highly that one hundred of them will
buy baby whose parents have doomed il
to death. The little ones thus purchased
are gathered into asylums, and reared in
accordance with the laws and customs
of Christian civilization.
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DURING the height of the war with
Napoleon in 1911, the population of
Great Britain was IL, 900, 900, fettered by
100000 Of hostile Irishmen; whereas
in 1871 it was q, 900, 900, with 5000, 900
Of Irishmen comparatively friendly and
tranquil. Great Britain has conquered
since 174O, 2,650,000 square miles and
$50, 100000 of people in all quarters Of
the world; while Russia has conquered
in the same time 1,642, 900, occupied by
17,13S,0 900 people. The English conquests
are productive or self supporting, while
Russian conquests in Asia bring little
except expense.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-18

wAsHINGToN and Jefferson College,
Pennsylvania, has graduated since its
beginning 6,ss9 students, of whom six
have been Governors, five United States
Senators, forty-seven members of Con-
gress, 1858 ministers, seven hundred
and eighty-six lawyers, three hundred
and eighty-two physicians, one hundred
and four college Presidents and profes-
sors, and sixty foreign missionaries.
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Mr.. SAX, Austrian Consul at Adri-
anople, has lately issued some very care
full statistics regarding the population of
Turkey, as to which there have hitherto
been no trustworthy data. He gives the
population of Constantinople as 600, ,OOO
of which from fifty to sixty per cent. are
Turks. Adrianople, $4,000; Philippe
polls about 2S,000; Eski Sagra about
$4,000; slevno, $4,000; Sofia about 49,
600; Rsdosto about 1900. All these
towns have large number of non-Turk-
ish residents.
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The New York Commercial says that
Henry Ward Beecher is finishing a
forty-roomed house on his place at Peek
skill, rich in Eastlake adornments, carved
woods, gold, silver, crimson and velvet
which looks as though that distinguished
divine intends to retire from the ac-
tivities Of life to pass his declining years
in the Sybaritic luxury of a mansion
capable of entertaining all his friends in
turn, and which will certainly be one OF
the finest show-places on the Hudson.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-18

A LETPsIc paper records a number of
superstitions of artists, some of which
are very curious. Tietjens, for instance,
believed that the person would speedily
die who shook hands with her over the
threshold at parting; Rachel and Mars
thought they gained their greatest sue
cesses Immediately after they met a
funeral; Bellini would not permit new
work to be brought out if on the day an.
nounced he was first greeted by a man,
and LA Sonnambula was several
times thus postponed; Meyerbeer regu
larly washed his hands before beginning
an overture, and living noted TRACE
dienne of Vienna never plays unless sh,
has white mouse In her bosom.
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A BALTIMoREAN named Caldwell has
discovered new propelling power for
vessels, which may possible play an i'm
portant part in navigation. He gave a
trial trip down the Chesapeake in a
little boat forty-three feet long and ten
feet wide, and reports state that the ex-
pertinent was a success. He uses neither
wheels nor screw, but propels the boat
by means of streams of water forced by
steam pump through pipes which lead
from the pumps to the stern, their ends
being about three feet under water. On
the trial trip the pumps made one hun
dred and eighty strokes to the minute,
each stroke driving a stream into the
water at the stern of the boat. The
vessel made ten knots an hour, and was
easily managed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-18

The Earl of Leitrim, who was shot the
other day, was as great land owner as
the late Mr.. Tullis. He owned Sc, ,1S4
acres IN Donegal, s,2O3 in Galway, SO
in Kildare property on which he was
murdered), and 81, l79 in Leitrim, max
ing in all 95,619 acres. Of the two Irish
Dukes, Fitz-Gerald, Duke of Leinster,
owns 70,462 acres in Kildare, and /, ,1l9
in Meath; and Hamilton, Duke of Aber-
corn, 5,1s6o in Donegal, and 1919 in
Tyrone.
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ton, and 81 250, 900 for pay of postmasters.
The bill provides that the Postmaster-Gen-
eral may appoint an agent to superintend
railroad postal service and one to superin-
tend car service, and authorizes the Post
master-General to reduce compensation to
railroads for transportation of mails five per
cent. A long and general debate was inter
rupted by the committee rising, and soon
afterward the House adjourned.