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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14


THERE is no use in deluding ourselves
into the idea that the last century was
better than this. The American system
of mixed drinks was then in its infancy !;
the language was poor and inexpensive.
They had no such facilities for singing
slang as we enjoy now. The popular
idea of dress was unfairly hard on man
with thin legs. Lager-beer was unknown.
If any man wants to satisfy himself
about the advantages of the Revolution
ary era, he can do it easily. Let him
for one week conine himself to apple.
brandy, wear knee-breeches, and model
his conversation on the fluent style of
the Declaration of Independence. At
the end of that time he will come out
bowling for gin cocktail and pair of
spring bottom trousers, and calling G.
w. snide old one-horse galoot, and his
country circusless fraud.-Puck.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14
Casey Co., KY, Visited by Hurricane.

A Stanford (Ky.) special to the Courier
Journal says: A terrible tornado, with
width of four hundrad yards, swept through
Casey County, between the hours of two
and three Saturday afternoon, doing fright
full damage in the neighborhood of Rich
Hill and Mount Olive. The whole of the
family of Vincent Wesley, near Rich Hill,
consisting of himself, wife, two grown
daughters, and boy named Sloan, nep-
hew, and VIM. Taylor, a neighbor stopping
at his house, were killed outright. Another
man named Richardson had his shoulder
and collar bone frightfully crushed. Mrs.
Wesley's body was blown four hundred
yards, and her clothing was entirely
stripped off. The two daughters were
carried fifty yards, and were found
locked in each others arms. The father and
nephew were fearfully mangled, and all
must have been killed by the first force of
the tempest. The dwelling, stables, and
outhouses were blown entirely away, the
logs being scattered for many yards along
the sweep of the tornado, ap d the hearth
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

miles per hour when Mr.. Allender was
struck. The deceased paid no attention to
the signal, and it was the belief Of speeta-
tors that he purposely stood in the way,
with view to suicide, theory supported
by the fact that he had recently been COM
PEELED to make an assignment of all his
property, and was very respondent. Mr..
Allender lived ten minutes after the acei-
dent, in an unconscious condition.
THE steamer City of Chester was burned
at the wharf in Memphis, and the passen-
gers made narrow escape for their lives
Only two persons are known to be lost,
John Herman, mail agent, and the colored
barber. A. n. Simpson, second clerk, and
one of the pilots saved themselves by leap
ing from the hurricane roof into the river,
and were picked up. The boat had cargo
of some three hundred tons of general
merchandise, and large number of mules
and hogs, all of which were lost. The cries
of the animals were terrible, and i'm
pressed the crowd which had gath.
cred on the bluff with belief
that the sufferers were human beings
The boat was owned by the Memphis and
St. Louis Packet Company, and valued at
$4,000.
A TERRIBLE gasaline explosion took
place, recently at Harrison, Ohio; the
following are the casualty lists: Killed
Councilman Fred. Rupp and Katie
Roll, little girl twelve years of age.
Seriously burned and in very critical con-
dltion-Anton Probst (since dead) and
Frederick Fisher, both Councilmen
also Postmaster Charles Harwood and
c. Popham. Badly burned - Alexan.
der Wescott, Arthur Hollowwell, L.
Parker and Charles White. Slightly in.
jured-Joseph Rice, Granville Yeager,
Sherman Howard and Anna Zimmeyer.
Nearly all of the above persons were in and
about the Post-ofice to get the evening
mail. The lights in the Post-office not burn.
ing well, the Councilmen named went into
| the cellar to examine the gas generator. II
is supposed the burner in the cellar had
been carelessly blown out instead of being
| turned off, and when Probst and Rupp en-.
tered the escaped gas had filed the cellar
Probst struck match for a light, and the
result was terrific explosion. The floors
| above the cellar were torn off by the fol ce OF
| the explosion, and the large doors of the
Post-office were torn from the hinges and
| thrown into the street. The flames rolled
up into the Post-of1ce with terrible rapidity
and for a time it seemed ALI was lost. The
panic and CONSERVATION were of the mos
exciting nature.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

BISMARCK is said to be intangled in
pecuniary embarrassments. He bought
Varzin and the adjoining estates after
the war of 1866, and it was generally as
serted that the purchase money far ex-
ceeded the real worth of the land. In
order TO obtain an interest correspond
ing TO the large funds invested, he di-
vided the estate into various small parts,
which he let out to farmers, and further
more plunged into speculative enter
prises. He was instrumental in starting
aioint-stock company for the erection
ofa large paper mill, to which he ex-
clusively furnished wood and other
necessary materials. This company
failed about year ago, inficting a seri.
Gus loss on Bismarck, who, besides hold
ing the greater part of the shares, was
one of the largest creditors, owing to the
non-payment of his claims for some time
previously. As his Louenburg estates
presented TO him in acknowledgment
Of his great services after the late wal
against France, despite their immenst
value, only yield comparatively small
interest, his pecuniary embarrassment
are now quite enough to account for hi
increasing irritability.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14
FOREIGN SUMMARY.

THE Pope, ON receiving the parish priests,
recommended them to preach Jesus Christ,
His life and teachings, and to guard their
focks against the infdelity and immortality
SO generally prevailing, the result of a
corrupt press. The Pope in all his ex.
hortatIons avoids mention of the Virgin,
with the purpose of misunderstanding
Mariolatry, which his predecessor SO long
encouraged. 1t has shocked most people
that the Pope in his coronation speech made
no illusion to the late Plus TX, although
Cardinal de Petro, in addressing the
Pontiff, had been eloquent in praise of the
deceased Pope The omission could not,
therefore, be accidental, and has keen yari-
ously commented upon. The Pope and
Cardinal Franchi have determined ON the
policy Of reconciling, as far as possible, the
interests of Church and State in questions
pending with the various governments.
The preliminary terms of peace have
been signed. The treaty bears the title,
+" Preiiminaries of Peace" and contains
twenty-nine articles. The opening articles
relate to Montenegro, Servia, and Bulgaria.
The indemnity is fixed at /, ,410, 900 rou-
UAUb, Uub 1,lVV)OOO diC CONCICo ny bCIIlIO1ldi
cessions. Nothing is fixed concerning the
terms and period of payment of the 31O,.
100000. No guarantee is stipulated, nor is
there mention of Egyptian or Bulgarian
tributes, or the Turkish feet. The treaty
simply states that Russia and Turkey shall
agree subsequently about the payment
Navigation of the straits is declared free fol
merchant vessels during peace or war. Six
| divisions of Russian infantry and two Of
cavalry will occupy Bulgaria until the
formation of the Bulgarian militia, the
| strength of which shall be fixed later by
Russia and Turkey. The Russian army o.
occupation will preserve its communica
tions both through Roumania and the Blacl
Sea. The expenses of the Russian occupa
ton are to be borne by Bulgaria.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14
Mistaken for Another.
Editorial Cor. of the Burlington Hawkeye.l


Not many weeks ago | went down
from Buda to Elmwood, ILL.,, and while
waiting at the latter place for the Peoria
train / went to the Neosho or Keota
House, I never could remember the
name, right by the depot, to take sup
per. There was another passenger,
several other passengers, in fact, went
over at the same time and for the same
purpose, but noticed that this one par
ticular passenger was an object of great
veneration to the clerk of the hotel.
He helped this passenger off with his
overcoat; he took his hat from him and
hung it up; he bowed him into the din
ner-room with grand flourish that i'm
pressed all the rest of us with sense of
our own utter worthlessness and the il
lustrious strangers magni6cence. Well,
after supper / sat down in the hotel
office and burned up a soul-destroying
cigar while / waited for the train, but
this illustrious stranger went immedi-
ately over to the depot. And the clerk
of the Keota took down his overcoat
and helped him on with it, and opened
the door for him and bowed him out,
reverently and graciously. Then he
shut the door, and as he took his place
| DehlnQ tne counter, ne Sdlu W tne
loungers in the Office:
"That was Bob Burdette."
"Sow asked the loungers. "The
HaaDkeye man."
eyes," replied the clerk, that was
the Hdaokeye man."
And I sat there for ten minutes and
heard myself abused, praised and Sian.
dered. And when ! got up to go
jumped for my overcoat six times before
| I could get it down from the hook te
which had thrown it, because am moi
very tall man, and got my arms be
hind me and wrestled with it all arouno
that office before could get it on, be
cause the overcoat is much larger anC
heavier than l am, and / opened thu
door for myself and went over to thu
depot unwept, unhonored and un
sung" as Craney used to say.
Well, that was all right. That WASH
what made me mad. But what manne
of man do you suppose it was that guile
! less clerk pointed out for me?
: A great tall fellow, with high chez
} bones, blue eyes, big red mutton cho
whiskers, a voice like bass drum;
man SO big that my ulster wouldn'
more than make him vest pattern, ano
| oh crowning injury, by heaven, he wor
ashawll sl sT
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

JAKE HosIER and Joe Brown shot q
lynx near its rocky lair in the noun
tains, nearWurthboro, Sullivan County,
N. Y, recently. The hounds had run
it into the rocks and tried to dislodge it,
but were badly beaten. The hunters
then decided that one of them should
enter and shoot the beast. Taking an
army revolver in his right hand and a
torch in his left, one of them entered
the rocks, and seeing the lynx's eyes
flashing fire, fred his revolver at it, the
bullet entering the brain and killing il
instantly. 1t was as large as an ordinary
hound. The Canada lynx is larger than
wildcat, and its tail is shorter than 8
catamount's. Several have been killed
| in the valley. Monticello Wdtchmdn.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

Mrs. MELUsINA Fay PIERCE, in an
address before committee of the Mas
sachusetts Legislature, suggested novel
solution of the woman suffrage ques-
tion. She considers women the pro-
tected class, " for so their Maker has Or
dained," and she is opposed to placing
women on political equality with man !;
but she thinks it hardship that the
seven or eight millions of women in this
country Fhould be arbitrarily governed
by men without ever being consulted.
As remedy for this hardship, she urges
that the women of every town be re-
quested to elect advisory councils and
school and charitable boards in con-
nection with the local authorities, and
she adds that, while to confer manhood
suffrage or law-making power upon wo-
men would be revolutionary, to confer
the advisory power recommended would
be natural-would be simply to enlarge
the conception and scope of the actual
and immemorial relations of women with
the governing half of the world" Hel
ideas appear TO have the merit of origin.
atty.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14
Purchase of Silver Bullion.
The following circular relative to the
purchase of silver bullion has been issued !:


purchase of silver bullion has been issued:
"TREAsURY DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF DIRECTOR OF THE MINT,
WASHINGTON, March 6.
"Notice is hereby given that the Treas
ury Department is prepared to receive, at
all times, offers in writing, or by telegraph,
for sale of silver bullion, in quantities of
not less than 10, 600 ounces, delivered at the
mints of the United States at Philadelphia,
San Francisco and Carson. All offers will
be addressed to the Director of the Mint at
Washington, D. c., and will state the guam
tity, price per ounce, 1000 fine, and when
delivery will be made if the offer is accepted.
"The value of silver purchased will be de-
termined by mint assay, and until further
notice payment will be made in gold or sill
yer coin of full legal tender. Where bullion
acter requiring parting or refining, the seller
will pay the usual mint charges.
(Signedl "H. r.. LINDERMAN,
"Director of the Mint.
"Approved: JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary
of the Treasury"
Under direction of Acting Cashier WHEEL
ply, the vaults of the Treasury are being ar.
ranged for the reception of large quantity
of silver now in the mint at Philadelphia
Seven hundred thousand dollars, the weight
af which will approximate 10000 pounds
will be received at the Treasury here in the
present month. The removal from Phila
delphla is for the purpose of affordins
space for bullion, from which new silver dol
lars will be coined. Mr.. Whelply is of the
opinion that new silver vault will be ne
| cessary for the proper storage of additional
coin in the Treasury building.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14
HON. B. r. WADE.

Benjamin Franklin Wade was born at
Springfield, Mass, in October, 1900.
His father was a soldier of the Revolu-
tlonary army, and in poor circumstances.
Benjamin received very limited educa-
tion, and in his youth was employed on
the Erie canal. Removing to Jefferson,
Ohio, in 1921, he taught scchool for a
period, and then studied law. He was
admitted to the the bar in 1928, and
seven years later was made prosecuting
attorney for Ashtabula County. Two
years thereafter he was elected State
Senator, and in ls47 he rose to the pre-
siding judgeship of the Third Judicial
District. In 1851 he was sent to the
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

A CORRESPONDENT Of the San Fran
cisco Bulletin maintains that, notwith-
standing all the apparent reforms
effected within the past few years in the
empire of japan, there is no genuine
change in the character Of the Govern
ment or of the people. "The Govern
ment," he says, "was always a cruel
despotism, nor has its nature changed
because it has changed hands. The lib
eral men who control the Mikado to-day
may fall before the sharp knife of the
assassin tomorrow, as others have done
before them. The naughty amurai, so
recently disarmed and thrown upon
their own resources, are the same in
torpid men, ready as ever to strike a
blow for their lost prerogatives or to
commit hari-kari."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

THE Dutch seem TO have advanced
much further toward the solution of the
tramp problem than the Americans,
having hit upon contrivance for the
cure Of laziness which, if generally
adopted, wsuld be likely soon to ex-
terminate the genus tramp, either by
actual destruction or reformation. If
pauper who is able refuses to work they
put him into deep cistern and let in a
sluice of water. 1t comes in just so fast
that by briskly plying pump, with
which the cistern is furnished, he keeps
himself from drowning.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

PLAIN gold wedding-rings, which are
at present used as visible pledge of
mattrimony, seem to have descended to
us in the mere course of Evolutionary
practice from the times of the Saxons,
without any impulse from written au-
thority or ecclesiastical law. At the
marriage of Queen Mary with Philip of
Spain, in 1864, the wedding-ring was
laid on the Bible to be hallowed. Some
discussions had previously taken place
in the council about this ring, which the
queen decided by declaring that she
would not have it adorned with gems,
"for she chose to be welded with a plain
hoop of gold, like other maidens."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14
AT the opera in Paris, the other even

AT the opera in Paris, the other even
ing, a colored lady, very elegantly
dressed, sat in one Of the boxes, sur
rounded by other dark-visaged persons.
Itwas the Princess Celia, daughter Of
Soulouque, once Emperor of Hayti, and
her family. The Princess lives most Of
the time in England. Soulouque could
write his signature only, and could read
nothing but print. He declared himself
Emperor In 1S49, and created among the
negro population four hundred mobiles,
of whom four were Princes, ffty-nine
Dukes and twelve Marquises. The
others were Counts, Barons and Knights
He also created two orders for men: one
military, that of Saint Faustin; the
other civil, the Legion of Honor: also
two for women, those of Saint Madelaine
and Saint Anne.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

The English have lately been testing
the effect Of projectiles upon steel plates,
and the following is the result: Low
steel is better adapted to resist the blows
of heavy ordnance than hard steel, which
stars and cracks on impact, and the Con-
structive Department, so far as can be
.at present seen, will have to determine
between iron armor, which, though it
does not fissure, allows the projectiles
TO penetrate, and steel armor, which,
while IL breaks up the shot, is also itself
broker up by repeated discharges.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

WE find the following passage in the
speech of an Elko (Nev.) lawyer to
Jury: "Here we have a physician,
man who frem his high and noble calling
should be regarded as one who would
scorn to stain his soul with perjury. But
what did he testify, gentlemenf | put
the question to him plainly, Where
was this man stabbe&f And what was
his reply. Unblushinely he replied
that the man was stabbed about one
inch to the left of the medal line, and
yet we have proved by three unimpeach-
able witnesses that he was stabbed just
below the Young America hoisting
works"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14
nd foundation stones b'own from their

and foundation stones b'own from their
places.
wife of ]. w. Morgan, was killed, and the
dwelling and outhouses of F. Floyd were
completely swept away, the timbers being
scattered in every direction. In the village
of Mt. Olive, several houses were swept
away and the remainder otherwise injured.
Fences were blown away along the whole
being drawn out, torn into splinters, and
utterly destroyed. Large trees were twisted
from their roots, and carried hundreds of
yards.
A considerable number of horses, catt' e
and other stock, and nearly all the poultry
in its course, were killed. The peeuniary
damageis not less than $50, 900.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

The new Pope intends, it is intimated,
to devote himself especially to the
spiritual welfare of the Church. The
political complaints Of pilgrims who
journey from afar to see his Holiness
are quietly ignored, and he has ex-
pressed a desire that addresses on such
topics be withheld
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

DURING Suleiman Pasha's retreat to
the sea, Colonel Valentine Baker, Cap
tain Barnaby, and other officers OF ms
command, while dining at the Greek
Archbishop's residence near Lagos, on
the Egean Sea, narrowly escaped death
by poisoning. The wine, upon analysis,
was found to have been lmpregnated q
with arsenic, and the intended victims
we're relieved by copious draughts of
salt and water. The Archbishop is fully
exonerated, but the servants in atten-
dance, habited as monks, are suspected.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14
TOPICS OF THE DAY

.LosDos covers 700 square miles and
contains 100000 Of inhabitants. 1t
contains more Jews than the whole OF
Palestine, mor.s Roman Catholics than
Rome itself, more Irish than Dublin,
and more ecotchmen than Edinburgh.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

THERE are puns and puns, and some
are worse than others. This is from the
New York Graphic: A child inquiries in
the Hartford amateur Sun, "Why is 1T
that you pay $40 for theater box to see
the stars when you can see stars by
merely taking box on the headT Be-
cause, little one, the former belongs to
the gal-act-sees, while the latter is a
part of the side-ear-ial system.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

The number of British subjects in
Constantinople is under 1000, and of
these more than half are not English
men, Irishmen, or Scotchmen, but
Greeks, Levantines, Italians and Turk
ish subjects, who have clothed them
selves with British nationality.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

Poor JOB" Job printing Job print
ingv exclaimed Mrs. Partington, the
other day, as she peeped over her spec
tacles at the advertising pages of a
country paper. "Poor Jobl they've
kept him printing, week after week,
ever since i learned to read; and if he
vast the patientest man that ever was
he never could have stood it so long, no.
how"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

THE latest idea in Keramics is to dis
play advertisements instead OF pictures,
flowers and mathematical lines upon the
porcelain. Will this have the effect of
killing off newspapers that rely alone on
the advertising columns for sustenta-
] tion7
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

WE find the following item in an Illi-
nois paper: " Mr.. -, who has been
in retirement for few weeks after mar
rying and burying three sisters, came
up smiling to the altar again yesterday,
having begun on a new family"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

IF only he without sin would throw
stones, there would be no windows nor
heads broken.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

KENTUCKY proposes to take no step
backward. The public whipping post
will not be revived on the clark and
bloody ground"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14

FREE canals will result in an untolled
amount of business.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14
. PRINCESS SOUyORAFF.' y

She was also compelled to submit to
an inAowing of curious and inquisitiye
persons, to one of whom she made full
statement of her case. She then or
dered her trunks packed and passage
engaged by the first steamer leaving the
country E
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14
PASSING SMILES,

A CELEBRATED wit was asked if he
knew Theodore Hook. eyes" re-
piled he: "Hook an eye are old associ-
ates."