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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01
LORD SALISBURY VIEWS,

Lord Salisbury, in his official dispatch
from Berlin, of the 18th inst, to the
Ministers in London, which is now pub
lished, quotes the following from his cir
cular of the 1st of April: "The separate
and individual operation of clauses Of
the San Stefano Treaty, whether defensi-
BILE or not, is not that which should en-
gage the most earnest attention of the
signatory Powers. Their combined eff
feet, in addition to the results upon the
Greek populations and on the balance of
martinez Powers, which have been already
pointed out is to depress almost to
point of entire subsection the political
independence of the Government of
Constantinople. 1t can not be other
wise than matter of extreme solicitude
| that that Government should be SO
closely pressed by the political outposts
of greatly superior power that its indie
pendent action or even existence is al
most impossible" To these cardinal OBJ
jections, says the present circular, the
Congress of Berlin has supplied an en-
tire remedy. The Greek populations no
longer fall within the boundaries of the
autonomous Slav principality, and all
Russian interference has been removed
to a distance from the shores of the
Egean Sea. The same territorial ar
rangements have the effect of attaining
the essential aim which, in their recent
negotiation, Her Majesty's Government
have had in view. the independent ex-
istence and action of the Government of
Constantinople, the political outposts of
Russian power have been pushed back
to a region beyond the Balkans, and its
opportunities for establishing an in.
huence in the reduced Bulgaria have
been materially diminished, the Sultan'f
dominions have been provided with de
fensible frontier far removed from hi,
Capital. The interposition of Austrian
power between the two independen
Slav States, while it withdraws from
him no territory of strategical or finan
cial value, offers him security agains
renewed aggression on their part whicl
no other possible arrangement coul'
r have furnished. Rich and extensiv
3 provinces have been restored to thi
: rule, at the same time that careful pre-
3 vision against further misgovernmen
!, has been made, which will, it may b
g hoped, assure their loyalty and preven
y the recurrence of the calamities whic
:, brought Ottoman power to the verge c
y ruin. Arrangements of different kine
|. but having the same end in view, hav
provided for the Asiatic dominions {
l. the Sultan security for the present an
e hope of prosperity and stability in th
Vt future.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01
Remarkable Echoes.

In the sepulcher of Metella, the wife
of Sulla, in the Roman Campagna, there
is an echo which repeats five times, in
five different keys, and will also give
back with distinctness hexameter line
which requires two and half seconds
to utter it. On the banks of the Naha,
between Ringen and Coblentz, one
echo repeats seventeen times The
speaker may scarcely be heard, yet the
responses are loud and distinct, some
times appearing to approach, at other
times to come from a great distance.
Echoes equally beautiful and romantic
are to be heard in Scotland. In the
cemetery of the Abercorn family. at
Paisley, when the door of the chapel is
shut the reverbations are equal to thun-
der. lie simple note of music is
breathed, the tone ascends gradually
with a multitude of echoes, till it dies
in soft bewitching murmurs. In this
chapel is inferred Margery, the daughter
of Bruce, and the wife of William
Wallace. The echo at the Eagles
Nest," on the banks of Killarney, is re-
nowned for its effective repetition of q
bugle call, which seems to be repeated
by thousand instruments until it dies
away, Ill luc dlI. al buc IcpOIb VI
cannon, the loudest reverberates from
the rock, and dies in seemingly endless
peals along the distant mountains. Al
the Castle of Simonetta, a nobleman'i
seat about two miles from Milan, sur
prising echo is produced between the
two wings of the building. TIE report
of pistol is repeated by this echo sixt,
times; and Addison who visited the
place on a somewhat foggy day, whe1
the air was unfavorable to the expert
ment, counted fifty-six repetitions. A
first they were very quick, but the in
tervals were greater in proportion as th'
sound decayed.
| 1t is asserted that the sound of on,
musical instrument in this place re
sembles great number of instrument
playing in concert. The echo is occa
stoned by the existence of two parable
walls of considerable length, betweel
which the wave of sound is reverberate
from one to the other until it is entirel
| spent
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01
near his heart, which proved fatal in half an


hour.
THE National Greenback party of Ohio
lately in session at Columbus, nominated
the following ticket: For Secretary of
State, Andrew Roy, Jackson County Judge
of Supreme Court, Chiffon A. White,
Brown County; Member Board of Public
Works, J. r. Falls, Lucas County.
The resolutions passed denounce
as crimes against the people, the law max
ing the greenback only partial legal
tender, the act creating the national bank
ing scheme, the act changing currency
bonds into coin bonds, the act exempting
bonds from taxation, the act repeating the
income tax, the act demonetizing silver, the
act for issuing interest bearing bonds for
the purchase of silver bullion to be con-
verted into subsidiary coin, the act for the
forced resumption of specie payments, the
act for the indefinite increase of the ma
tional bank circulation and the enormous
contraction of the volume of the circulat-
ing medium; and recognize the financial
legislation of the government, from the
commencement of the civil war, as the
arbitrary dictation of syndicate of bankers
and usurers, with the single and settled
purpose of robbing the many and enriching
the few. To remedy and counteract the
evils complained of, tine National resolu-
tions demand that the government shall
issue full legal tender paper money, ade-
quate in volume for the employment of
labor, the distribution of its products, the
requirements of business, and for the pay
ment of all interest bearing bonds, as fast
as redeemable; the withdrawal and cancella.
ton of all bank notes designed to circulate
as currency; the non-exemption from
taxation of all private property; the
passage of graduated income tax
the unlimited coinage of gold and silver,
and the repeal of the specie resumption
act; all legalized monopolies abolished, and
their establishment in the future pro.
hibited. The resolutions recognize the
mutual dependence of capital and labor
denounce Communism and favor the estab
lishment of bureaus of sta 'istics, and the
appointment of competent persons to re-
port the condition of wages of the working
classes
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

LOUIS KossUTH, who still lives in
Turin, is described as quite feeble, and
having aged materially within a few
years. He is now seventy-six, and,
though for some time in delicate health,
his mind is as vigorous as ever. The
stories of his penury are said to have
been somewhat exaggerated, albeit he is
compelled to live very meagerly, which
is no hardship, as he has very simple
tastes. He does not complain; indeed,
he makes no reference to his poverty,
which has been relieved, it is thought,
by contributions from admirers in Eng
land, France and America. His entire
expenditure for several years past has
not been more than three thousand lire
per annum Cess than six hundred dol
fars), which is certainly frugal for man
who was once Dictator of his country.
He has often been invited to return to
Hungary, but he has steadily refused,
believing that the Hungarians have not
yet gained their rights. In Austria,
especially in Vienna, Hungary is sthought
to have more than her share of political
rights, more than the Austrians them
selves, and Francis Joseph is accused
of favoring the Hungarians to the ex-
clusion of his own race. Kossuth is
reported to regard the formation of the
| German Empire as very unfortunate for
the cause of freedom in Europe; but he
thinks it cannot last if the German peo-
pie be true to themselves.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01
ssruction of the. Republican party in the

struction of the, Republican party in, the
South. ~ ~ ss+-s
The President took the position that the
Republican party could no longer maintain
that policy, which had lost New York to the
republicans, and the party had become
weaker in consequence, therefore the good
Of the Republican party demanded change.
The President treated the subject as of ma
tional concern. .SgEg
:. The witness said, so far as he knew, mo
returns had been thrown out by the Re-
turning Board on Inadequate and INSULT
cient proof. There was q movement to
make Nichols Governor, even to the extent
of violence. ss t.e sk-.s - ...-
Gen. Butler examined witness with re-
gard to proofs of affidavits laid before the
Returning Board with reference to Eliza
Pinkston being brought into the room of
the Returning Board on a sofa. Morey
said such a conveyance was amattef of nee
essity, owing to her wounds. This was not
designed to produce a strong impression on
the board, although it naturally had that
effect.
Gen. Sypher was recalled by Mr.. Hiscock
and interrogated concerning the alleged
Sherman letter. Mr.. Hiscock repeated
whether there was anything which en-
abled him, up to the time he saw what
purported to be a letter written and
signed by Mr.. Sherman, to carry the form of
the latter's handwriting in his mind, and
also read the answer then given by General
Sypher-namely, "No, sir: l have not the
form of his writing in my mind now, and I
have not seen it frequently since; would
not swear to his signature now" General
Sypher said this was his answer to-day.
Captain L. G. Dennis, of Florida, was per-
mitted to make an explanation concerning
Governor Noyes's testimony before the Pot
ter Committee in Washington. Governor
Noyes had testified that when the life of
Dennis had been threatened he had called
together, ina church or somewhere, all the
colored people of the vicinity. and had
them kneel down and raise their hands
and swear that if he were killed
they would lay waste in every di-
rection and avenge his death. Captain
Dennis desired to say that nothing
| ernor Noyes must have been misinformed.
In reply to a question by the Chairman,
Denpis said that when he spoke at humans
vile, where it was alleged his life had been
| threatened, there was no intimidation nor
| any threats.
| Ex-senator Trumbull testified that he left
| for New Orleans on invitation of Mr.. Hew.
| lit, Chairman of the Democratic Executive
| Committee to witness the count by the Re
| turning Board, in company with other gen.
tlemen similarly invited. The visitors were
not present when the Board retired for de.
liberation; they did not see the compila-
tion of the returns by which the Board
| arrived at the results, nor did he know
| whether any afidavits presented to the
Board were read at all.
The Committee adjourned to meet in New
| York on July %.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01
LADY BARKER recommends airy bed

LADY BARKER recommends airy bed
rooms for children, She says: "The
fondest and fussiest parents do not
always understand that on the most
careful attention and simple rules de-
pend the straightness of children's
spines, the strength of their limbs, their
freedom from coughs and colds, and, in
fact, their general health. But few con-
slider that half of young child's life
should be spent in its bed. So that un-
less the atmosphere of the room they
sleep in, the quality of the bed they lie
on, and the texture of the clothes which
cover them, are taken into consideration
1t is only half their existence which is
being cared for"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

EVER since the Sandwich Islands were
discovered by English navigators, the
people, kindly race, have been rapidly
declining in numbers. The native
population is less by one-half than it
was fifty years ago, and the prospect of
their extinction before the middle of the
next century, at the farthest, seemed
certain. But it is now claimed that the
rigid enforcement of sanitary law en-
acted in 1868 has already proved wonder
fully effective in checking the decrease
of population. According to the official
statistics, the excess of deaths over
births among the natives for the two
years 1870 and 1871 was forty-eight per
cent; for the next two years, twenty
nine per cent; for the two years end.
ing with 1877, only seven per cent. and
the next return, il is hoped, will show
and excess of births over deaths.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

They have got, not Bridgeport. out in
Nevada, but the Reueille says there is a
bug in Nevada known as the stink
bug" A gentleman of this city,
while on his way to make call on a
friend a few evenings since, accidentally
stepped on one of these bugs, and trans
ported the odor with him on the sole of
hislboot. He did not prolong his visit
but, before departing, remarked to his
hostess that one cause of the sickness
recently prevailing in Austin was de-
fective sewerage, and people ought to be
very careful and see that the drains
from the houses were kept free and
clean. And, after he was gone, the
lady emptied two bottles of Florida
water on the parlor carpet. and con.
fidentially informed her sister that she
would just like to catch herself marry
ing a man whose feet perspired that
way."-Inter- Ocean.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

PROFESSOR BARFF, of England, whose
explanations of his new process for the
permanent protection of iron from rust
and atmospheric influences formed the
great feature of the recent conference of
British architects, has refused an offer
of 81, ,250, 900 for his patent rights. The
invention, which is likely to revolution
ize the iron trade, consists in coating
the metal with its own protoxide. 1t is,
however inapplicable to great standing
structures like the Menai Railway
Bridge, the days of which, consequently,
unless science has some further remedy
in store, would appear to be numbered.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

INTERESTING news comes from Berne,
Switzerland, of the discovery of the
remains of an old Roman military en-
campment in woody peninsula in the
Aar. near the town of Berne. A num-
ber ofhouses in good condition have been
unearthed, and a large quantity of in.
teresting archaeological remains, vases
weapons. etc., have been found. Curl
ously enough, the half of large vase
which forms part of the trouUaille, ii
found to be the wanting portion of {
broken vase which is already in tn,
Berne Museum. I..e
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

PERSONS continue to take coins with
holes in them to the post-ofice, and
these coins are, of course, continually
refused. They are taken by no depart
ment Of the Government. Those who
have them should bear their loss meekly,
and remember that the hole was punched
10 please some sweet child, whose
parents were, perhaps, unfamiliar with
the fact that it is wrong to debase the
money Of their country.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

SHAKESPEARE speaks of the lightning
as being " in Spleen" that is, in i'll
humor. But not long since, in house
at Taunton, Mass, it played such queer
pranks that one might fancy it as
roguish as Puck:
Bed-clothes were taken from one bed
and put on another. In one room the
bedstead was entirely demolished; in
another only a small piece of the bed.
stead was Clipped off. A chair was
landed in perfect condition q number Of
feet from the house. At both front
corners of the house the ground was
plowed up for number of yards. The
posts on which the cottage rests were
nearly all split badly, while one seeml
bored into for a distance of three feet.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

AN acute observer has discovered that
it is the chemical ray, and not the heat
ray, that causes sunstroke, and recon-
mends lining the hat with two Gnings-
one of orange yellow to arrest the chem
ical ray, and one of green to arrest the
heat ray. 1t is said this plan will give
great reliAf
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

THOSE poisoned arrows from South
America in the Smithsonian Institute
at Washington are dangerous things to
fool with. The points are tipped with
wooruara, a most deadly poison, which
seems to never lose its venom. A short
time ago some experiments were made
on rats, and though the point of the
arrow only pricked the hind legs of the
rodents, they died within five minutes
after the application.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

IT is estimated that the loss to agri-
culture from the growth of weeds in
stead of the useful grasses, in meadow
and pasture lands, is not less than $780,
00O, 900 per year in the United States.
Nothing will sooner or more cheaply
bring about the desired change in this
direction than a more general employ
ment Of sheep as scavengers on every
farm where their introduction is indi-
nafad
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

FROG culture has attained to some
dimensions as an industry in some parts
of Minnesota. Very little labor is in
volved. Theprincipal duty of the frog
raiser Is TO protect the eggs and tadpoles
from birds, and thisis attained by means
of wire screens. In market the frog-legs
sell at twenty cents a dozen.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

BAsINe his statement upon the tastes
displayed and the astronomical feats
accomplished by a young robin which
he reared, Mr.. d. A. Lyle, in the Ameri-
can Naturalist, says that robins are
strictly insectivorous so long as the sup
ply of insects is equal to the demand,
and that for every cherry or grape they
eat they destroy thousands of injurious
insects. Forty-six birds would devour
about four thousand six hundred in
sects day.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

then politely requested the stranger to
descend, but the latter answered. l
am Prince -" giving known name.
DIR. Ruppaner replied: "You are a
Prince, but am sovereign citizen
of the United States;" and without
much more ado he gently took the Prince
by the collar of his coat and seat of his
pantaloons and set him down quietly
upon the sidewalk. The Prince went in
search of another carriage, and the
sovereign "'rode off in triumph.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

DIR. RUPPANER, the well known Ger
man-American, and President of the
Goethe Club, of New York., was the
hero of an adventure in Paris recently
that attracted much attention from
those who saw it. He had hailed cab,
and as ne was about to step in he was
surprised to see another man entering al
the opposite side. DIR. Ruppaner de
manded Of the driver which of the two
had hailed him first, and the cocher de
cided in favor Of the New Yorker. H,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

MEN generally make way for him
who is determined to proceed" is
golden bit of advice intended for the
encouragement of timid young men
about setting forth on the untried path
of life. Yes, son of hope, you will find
it SO, so far as the men are concerned,
but the rule won't work worth 3 cent
when you undertake to obtain a seat in
street-car partly filed with women.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01
TOPICS OF THE DAY

TIE Greeks are maintaining state of
insurrection and anarchy in Thessaly
and Epirus, fearing that pacifcation
there would enable the Turks to indei-
nitely postpone a compliance with the
direction Of the Treaty of Berlin.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

OVER ffty-three million gallons of
water from artesian wells are daily used
in irrigating lands in Iroquois County,
Ill. There are two hundred wells in a
radius Of twenty miles, none of them
over seventy-fve feet deep.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

BELGRADE kilograms, which, however,
are colored by prejudice, continue to re-
port excitement in Bosnia against the
Austrians. The Beys have proposed in
Council that the Governor of Bosnia
should expel the Austrian Consul.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

A GHOST was seized for debt in Gin
cinnati, the other day, and was found to
consist of one glass and box, two trusses,
four pieces of gas fixtures, two straps
and hooks, one lot Of curtains, one re-
hector, one monkey-wrench and one lot
sf spndrie
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01

If the women were all longer-lived
than the men the manufacturers of hair
dyes wouldn't all live in houses with
bay windows and all the rest of the
modern Improvements. Statistics point
that way, at any rate.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01
PASSING SMILES.

RED is used for danger signals on
railroads, and it always means e Stop
On a mans nose it ought to give the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-11

An adjourned meeting of the Augusta Monu-
ment Association will be held at Grand Army
Hall, over Myrck's drug store, tomorrow Tues
day. evening. at IL o'clock. The ladies are re
specially and earnestly invited to attend this
meeting, as the preliminary arrangements are to
be made for the Monument Fair. The Execu-
tive committee have selected the following very
excellent Stage committee; (. McMurdie. L. b.
Hill, 4. b. Capen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-11
lNAUe OF THE LORD
MAYOR OF LONDON.


LONDON, November 9. The annual ceremonial
of swearing in the new Lord Mayor Sir Charles
Whitham, was performed Saturday, in the Gus
tomary manner. and banquet followed the in
auguraton.
Eord Beaconsfeld was enthusiastically applaud.
ed on rising to reply to the toast, "Her Msjesty's
Ministers. After = review of past events, he
touched upon the alarnist theories relative 70 the
| imminent invasion of India only to be averted by
| entering into struggle with some great and an.
known power. He declared that the government's
opinion was that the invasion of India was hardly
practicable as the base OF operations of any pos.
sible foe was so remote. 1t was true that the
| northwestern frontier not scientifically round
ed and q Toe might be able to cause embsrrsss-
| ment be compelling us to maintain large and ex-
pensive force thereon. This possible evil had &C.
cuped the attention of successive administrations
| and circumstances had arisen again which forced
| 1t on the government. They believed that the in
vasion would become possible if Asia Minor and
the Euprates valley were held by very strong or
very weak power, and had therefore taken meas-
ures which he believed would soon be consummat.
ed Of which the Anglo-Turkish convention
which secured the possession Of these localities to
our ally, chief, To remove the causes of the ap-
prehenslon concerning our frontiers. We shall
| live hope on good terms with oar immediate
neighbors, and perhaps with some who are more
| remote.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-11

AN EXPERIENCED TEACHER desires to en-
"A gage school for the winter term. Address,
fla. A. HEATH,
sept2.ttf Hallowell, Me.