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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
FOREIGN SUMMARY.

The Turkish government has received in
telligence that Saad Detden Pasha, on an
nouncing that he had received orders to
surrender Podgoritza to the Montenegrins,
was killed by the Albanians, and one hun
dred and tfty-six officers and men under
his command massacred.
THE Norwegian brig Patriot, Captain
Ingwalde, from Wilmington, N. c., Sep
tember IA, for Dunkirk, arrived in London
England, Saturday morning, with all hands,
captain and four men. down with the swamp
fever. One seaman was buried at sea on the
25th ult., one on the 2Sth, and the first mate
On the 30th.
THE firing of cane fields in Santa Cruz
has been renewed. A large number of
insurrectionists have been shot. A French
frigate has arrived at the island and landed
troops. Fugitive women and children have
been shipped to st. Thomas. Forty estates
have been burned, and only fourteen are
left.
FROM Kingston, Jamaica, October 4, we
receive the following intelligence: The in
surgents in Santa Cruz are burning estates.
Frederickstadt has been reduced to ashes,
and several leading planters have been
murdered. The Governor has arrived from
St. Thomas. Only fifty soldiers are avail
able. In engagements at Anashope estate
the negroes were routed, and two hundred
killed. The town of Bassen is threatened,
but is yet safe. English and French frigates
are daily expected at the island
A DISPATCH from Bombay says: Troops
have been ordered to advance from Dera-
Ghagi-Khan, thus threatening Afghsnista
from new point. 1t is reported that dis
sensions have broken out among the great
Afghan Chiefs. The death of a powerful
Southern Chief is also reported. The
Ameer has asked the Tribal Councils for as
sistance. 1t is believed that tribes muster
ing one hundred and fifty thousand fighting
men have assented. The other tribes, with
about thirty-fve thousand warriors, remain
neutral The Ameer has freed his son,
Yakoub Khan, who is a noted General.
The whole garrison of Peshawar is marching
against Ali Musjid. 1t is even reported that
the place has been captured. The Govern
ment will issue proclamation announcing
its intentions.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
Farming on q Big Scale.

Fiction shrinks before the magnificent
facts in agriculture presented by the
management of the Dalrymple farm in
Minnesota. This year it was broad
golden plain of wheat heads, a plain
twenty-five miles square. The yield
will, it is estimated, average twenty-five
bushels to the acre. To harvest this
grain, the expected amount of which will
be over 400, 900 bushels, employs so self
binders which cut and bind the grain at
the rate of 700 acres per day. The reap
ers are drawn by $50 horses. and 200
men work in the field. These figures
are imposing enough, and read like an
extract from an Aladdin-like tale.
There is another Dalrymaple farm on
the Red River, which it is thought will
produce 200, 600 bushels of wheat, max
ing for two farms 600, 900 bushels, which
with wheat at 81 per bushel, will bring
100000. This is the monarchial agri-
Culture of only one farmer, but it is 80
great as to be almost incredible.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
THE; FORREST HOME.

Some Philadelphia actors sent letter
to the Mayor asking him, as one of the
trustees of the Edwin Forrest Home, to
explain why that institution was not
opened to the persons for whom it was
intended. The Philadelphia Times gives
the reason, which is that the estate has
not yielded sufficient money to carry out
the provisions of the will. Forests
personal property in Pennsylvania, in
Guiding the library, statuary, paintings,
and all assets, amounted to about $780,
900, The personal property in New
York amounted to $106, 200, but the ac-
count of the executor, Mr.. Lawson, has
not yet been settled, the impediment to
its final auditing being that Lawyer
Dougherty has filed an exception to Mr..
Lawson's account, objecting to pay
ment of $15, 900 for counsel fees to Will
liam Allen Butler. As to the real es-
tate, the Broad-street mansion, after be-
ing held in the market until the early
part of 1876, was sold for 5000, but
the purchasers failed to pay the interest
on the mortgage and the trustees were
compelled to purchase the property,
which is now held by the trustees at
100000. An unproductive property
Forrest purchased thirty-fve or forty
years ago at Covington, KY, and which,
when he died, he supposed was worth
from $50, 900 to $50, 900, the trustees can
not get an offer of $4,000 for. Thirty
three acres near Philadelphia, supposed
to be worth $4,000 an acre, no bid at all
can be obtained for. 1t will not bring
$4,000 an acre. Springbrook cost For
rest about 100000, and the income
from it is very small. Another cause
of expenditure was the agreement be-
tween Forrest and the Rev. William
R. Alger, by which the latter was to re-
ceive $4,000 annually for three years in
return for writing the tragedian's life.
Forrest at that time expected to live to
see the book in print, but he died soon
after the agreement was entered into.
Lippincott & Co. were also to receive
pay for publishing the book. Another
important thing was the claim of For.
rests divorced wife upon the estate.
The verdict of the jury made divorce
that prevented Forrest from marrying
again, while granting her that privilege
and allowing her as alimony $1,000 q
year. The executors proposed an abso
lutte settlement in lieu of the alimony
Mrs. Forrest agreed to accept $95, 900 al
quittance.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
Northern New York Bear Stories.

L.
Bears and squirrels are more plenty
this season than they have been for many
years past; and from this fact it is
adduced that an early and severe winter
is before us. Those who have made obser-
vations in nature say that the near
approach of those animals to the dwell
ing of man, in early fall, is an almost in
fallible sign. In the ,neighborhood of
Norwood they are more numerous than
ever before, says the Register, and al
most every farmer in the township of
Dummer has seen bear. One followed
a farmer who had honey in his buggy
some distance, and even approached the
door of the house.
IParis IN. " Mirror.I
Monday afternoon Miss Cora Harter
saw black bear crossing lot near her
fathers residence, and Immediately
communicated the fact to the house
hold. Her father and brother gathered
together their munitions of war, con-
sisting of two shotguns, and sending
Cora to summon the neighbors' assist
ance, were soon joined by George and
Frank Thayer, when all gave chase to
his bearship. They soon had him treed,
and Frank blazed away with an old
howitzer" and filled the bears mouth
with buckshet, but he merely shook his
head at the introduction. He then re-
ceived like dose from one of the party
in the back which caused him to seek
another tree. They followed him up
and kept pouring shot into his carcass
until he showed signs of fatigue, and
turning partly round to the hunters, as
if to appeal for mercy, he inadvertently
lifted a forepaw. Frank took advan-
tage of the position and planted broad
side from his blunderbuss, which brought
"bruin" tograss. They then fell upon
him and belabored him with clubs until
he died. His weight was one hundred
and eleven pounds-the half pound we
allow for the lead that had lodged in
his body. This is the fourth bear that
has been seen in this section within a
short time, and we may hear of other
captures ere long.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

A YOUNG lady of this city, day or
two since, in movinga -four barrel came
young ones. The mother ran away, but
the little ones, which were too young to
move, were taken up and put in wire
trap, which was thus baited and set to
catch the old nous. 1t didn't work
very we'll, though, for on looking in the
morning it was found that in so far as
catching mousey was concerned. mousey
had played it on them, for she had sue
cessfully entered the trap and carried
away the entire six without springing
the trap. The family dog afterward
found them in the chimney.-NetcbtUy
port Mass) Herald.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10


A BRITISH Consular report from Per-
sia says that almost every child in that
country is taught to read and write.
The Koran is the text book. But as
there are no printed books in Persianchar-
acters among the people, the condition of
popular intelligence is that of five CEN
turies ago. Few new books are read,
thecost of manuscript being too much for
popular circulation, and few are written.
The Persians adhere in chemistry to the
old idea of four elements. In astron-
omy they believe that the sun moves
around the earth. In other sciences, as
presented in printed books, their posi-
tion is the same; although, of course, the
highly educated are better taught. In
the actual processes of art and mannfac-
lures, with samples of Western products
before them, they are skillful imitators.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

SAND floors are frequent near sea
shores where the wind carries the sand
on the beach, and thence over the land.
In Africa vast tracts of native sand are
thus carried over adjoining districts, and
have gradually encroached so as to
threaten all Egypt with their sterility,
having since the Chistian era narrowed
the Valley of the Nile as we'll as the
northern States of Lydia, Cerene, etc.,
while the sands of Arabia have en-
croached in Central Asia. These sands
float like waves before the wind, and at
distance resemble the waves of the
sea, while tornadoes in them are fatal to
travellers.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

A WISE man will never rust out. As
long as he can move or breathe he will
be doing for himself, for his neighbor,
or for posterity. Almost to the last hour
of his life, Washington was at work, so
was Young, Howard, and Newton. The
vigor Of their lives never decayed. No
rust marred their spirits. 1t is foolish
idea TO suppose that we must lie down
and die because we are old. Who is
old? Not the man of energy, not the
day laborer in science, art, or benevo-
lence; but he only who suffers his
energies to waste away and the springs
of life to become motionless; on whose
hands the hours drag heavily, and to
whom all things wear the garb Of
gloom. Is he old !? should not be asked
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
A Husbands Hobby.

Mr.. Waite is model husband that
is to say, in good many respects. He
neither drinks, smokes nor chews, stays
home at evenings, never CANDLES, and
gives his wife all the money that she
wants. 1t is said that all men have some
idiosyncrasy or hobby. Mr.. Waite has
his. 1t is a deep-rooted mania for at
tending auction sales and buying articles
of every description, Ia Toodles, with
out regard as to whether they will ever
be of any practical or imaginary use to
him. AS long as he gets them at bar
gain he is satisfied. A good joke about
this peculiarity of his was related to me
the other evening by friend of his.
Mr.. Waite went to an auction sale of a
dealer in sporting goods. He bought
two hundred dumb-bells at twenty-five
cents pair and carried them home in
triumph. He stored them in the cellar,
where they remained for six months or
So, Mrs. Waite got tired of seeing
them occupying so much space, es-
pecially as she wanted the cellar for
some purpose of her own. So, imagin-
ing that her husband had forgotten all
about his novel acquisition, she sold the
dumb-bells for a mere song to an
auctioneer. That evening MIR. Waite
returned home with hand-cart. His
face was flushed but triumphant.
"What have you got in that hand
cart, my dear?' asked Mrs. Waite.
Dumb-bells, darling"
What2"
Dumb-bells. Bought two hundred
pairs at thirty cents pair. Paid more
for them than for the others got; but,
price of dumb-bells drop"
Mrs. Waite took one look at the
articles. Her worst fears were realized.
They were the same dumb bells that she
had sold in the morning. Mr.. Waite
had CHANGED to be in attendance at the
sale where they had been offered, and
had bought them in at one-third ad-
vance over the price he had first paid
for them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

Or all the ruins in the vicinity of
Killarney. the Abbey of Muckross is by
far the best preserved and most beauti-
full. This abbey was founded in 144O,
and rebuilt in 1902. The picturesque
ruin consists Of the abbey and church
adjoining; and although this ruin as a
whole is not of as ancient favor as
some we have seen, it is much more in.
teresting. The walls are thickly COW
cred with ivy. The growth of this
vine in Ireland is perfectly astonishing.
walls, houses, and even the trees in the
woods are all covered with profusion
of its beautiful leaves. In the old
churchyard are many moss-covered d
stones, whose inscriptions have become
illegible through the ravages of time
and many of the O'Sullivans and Nc
Carthys, and other illustrious families,
are here buried.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

POSTMASTER JONES, of Crook City, in
the Black Hills, has fallen into disgrace.
A local newspaper tells the story. The
people Of Crook City believe he has gone
for good, and petitions are being circu-
lated for the appointment of a new
Postmaster. AT the last game of poker
he played there he made grab for the
pot, said 10 represent one hundred and
twenty-five dollars, and claimed it as his
money, accusing the other players of
cheating. He made good his grab by re-
fusing to give it up at the point of a
revolver, daring the holder of the
weapon to shoot him. 1t was clear
case OF desperation, as he had invariably
lost, and probably this was his only
chance TO secure sufficient money to
leave the country with.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

MANKIND loves to be humbugged in
no way so much as by the three card
monte-man. 1t was a Broome County
farmer this time, and he was eighty
years old. Two men met him with
samples of cloth in the streets of Whit
ney's Point. Their prices pleased him,
and he readily followed them into their
hotel, where other and better samples
were TO be shown him. Once in the
room, the three cards came forth with
the usual assertion that no card could
be followed in the shuffling. The old
man saw the corner of certain card
was bent, and felt confident he could
follow it. He accordingly made wager
Of $40 and lost his meney. Then he
offered TO wager 81, 900 that he could
not be beaten again, and went into "a
bank and obtained the money. The
$1,000 went the way of the $40, and the
two men left the village, to be seen by
the old man no more.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

SAMUEL l.. RocKFELLow went TO the
Office of the County Clerk in Rochester,
and ordered search upon property he
was about to purchase. He received
the search and paid the fee. Relying
upon the search, he made a purchase of
the land, farm. II subsequently ap-
peared that the record of mortgage of
about $500 had been omitted by the
clerk or deputy in his search. Mr..
Rockfellow brought suit against the
clerk, claiming $500 damages by reason
of the neglect. The case was sharply
contested. The issue seemed to turn
upon the liability of the clerk, based
upon the question as to whether his act
in making the search is judicial or min
isterial. The decision by Judge Sill
gave judgment against the County Clerk.
The case will undoubtedly be appealed
and, as it is said to be the first reported
case of the kind in New York, will settle
the law on that question.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

The disease known as anemia is a
serious malady among coal miners. Its
cause is not fully determined. DIR.
Reimbault, of st. Etienne, does not con-
slider the deicterious gas, the coal dust,
or the want Of light in the mines suffi-
cient to produce IL. Taking the ordinary
number of blood-disks in healthy man
TO be 100000, that in an affected miner
is frequently "a low as 100000 Want
of an adequate supply of fresh air has,
1t is thought, uruch to do with the dis
ease.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
Disraeli.

The London Jewish World prints
some new and interesting facts in con-
nection with the family and history of
BENJAMIN Disraeli, Earl of Baconsield.
1t sets at rest, once for all, the ques-
tion as to whether Disraeli was ever
baptized. 1t seems that he was &C
tually baptized in the city of London
on July 81, 1917. According to one
authority, it was the poet Rogers who
persuaded him to submit to the Chris
tian rite; according to others, it was
Mrs. Ellis, the wife of literary man of
some repute, who took advantage of the
temporary absence of his father to lead
the thirteen year old boy to the
baptismal font. However this may be,
there is still to be seen on the parish
register of st. Andrews Holborn, an
entry certifying that con the last day
of July. 1917, Benjamin, son of Isaac
D'Israeli, gentleman, and Maria, his
wife, residing in Kings Road, was
baptized by J. Thimbleby." Three
years later young Disraeli was an arti-
Gle clerk with the firm of Swain & Co.,
solicitors, in Frederick's place, Old
Jewry, firm still in existence at the
same place under the name of Naples,
Teesdale q Go. he left the Old Jewry
to write Vivian Gray" and, as he
told Lord Melbourne, Ito become Pre-
mier of England" His place with the
firm of Swain & Co. was filled by his
brother Ralph, who is his only living
relative, and who is now chief Clerk to
Sir George Jessel, Master of the Roll.
Sir George is an Orthodox Jew and a
pillar of the Anglo-Jewish Synagogues.
Our London contemporary also refers
to an uncle of Lord Beaconsfeld, also a
Mr.. Benjamin Disraeli, who, in the
early part of the century, kept lottery
Office in Dublin, and was probably
buried in the cemetery of the Dublin
Jewish Congregation. The fruit and
colonial trade commission house founded
in London by Benjamin Disraeli, the
grandfather of Lord Beaconsield, still
exists, though it has passed into othes
hands, in Mincing Lane, E. G.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

The talk in Leadville, Colorado, is
about a vagabond Of miner, Bassick,
who tramped into town without cent
in his pocket and jumped into an income
OF two thousand dollars day. He be-
gan to dig in Tyndall Hill, and three
feet below the surface struck rotten,
chalky substance that formed the entire
eminence. Everybody laughed at the
'beggar and derisively called his find
" Bassick's Whitewash Nine" But
Bassick found the stuff rich in car
Donate Of lead carrying silver, and, dig
ging down, found boulders and pebbles
that were coated with silver chloride.
From the surface down two hundred feet
the mine has paid richer than any other
IN the county, yielding thus far $64, 900
a month.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

A. BOY Of ten years, who had two hun
cfed dollars IN a savings bank, and be-
ing asked by his father how much of
his own money he would give to help
the fever sufferers, burst into tears, and
with heart full CT charity, exclaimed,
/" Father, send it all p The writer adds:
-'And the whole two hundred dollars
the sum total Of the boys slow savings
was sent next day OIL its errand of
mercy. We happen to know the boys
father, in drawing out these two hun
dred dollars, put four hundred into
their place." It does pay.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

Should you desire to assist in defraying the
cost of this undertaking, beg to request
that may be advised of the contributions
forwarded to Mr.. Riggs for this purpose.
am very respectfully,
JOHN NJ. WooDwoRTH,
Surgeon.General U. s. Marine Hospital
Service.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

but is he active can he breathe freely
and move with agility? There are scores
of gray-hesded men who we should pre-
fer in any important enterprise, to those
young men who fear and tremble at ap-
preaching shadows, and turn pale at Q
lion in their path, at harsh word or a
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

The largest plow in the world has
been built for the Chicago, Milwaukee
and 81. Paul Railroad Company. 1t is
to be used for dltching for railway con-
struction IN Iowa, and is to be drawn by
a locomotive; twill cut furrow thirty
seven inenes wide. That will be steam
pIow, indeed
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

/ THOUGHT you had dreadful row
with X, but you always seem to be
together now have you made it up with
him?" I" My dear fellow, detest him
cordially, but determined to make him
uncomfortable, 80 I've become friends
with him again 80 as to have the chance
to say disagreeable things to him.
Paris Figaro.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

This is the age for such bagatelles. A
gentleman down East has made of ff-
teen grains of gold and silver perfect
steam-engine, which will run for twenty
minutes with the steam generated from
only three dops of water.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10
TOPICS OF THE DAY

AN inventive mariner has launched
at Wiscasset, Me-, a acknowledged
vessel, with five mssts, a great number
of triangular sails, and rudder of un-
common length. He believes that the
odd craft will make great speed
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

NOTHING" says the Bosar, looks
sweeter on little girl than awhile mus
lin princess dress" Doesn't it, old lady?
If you will just happen around here
some time when our young man is look
ing his sweetest on a little girl about
seventeen years old, you will blush for
the tame, expressionless stupidity of
muslin dress. And we'll leave it to the
little girl herself which of the two looks
sweeter on her.-.Bwlingto HaDkeye.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

AT Long Point, Texas, the colored peo-
pie put bells upon the necks of their
children to keep them from getting. lost
in the high weeds that surround the
town.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-10

CYRUS CARD was married the other
day, and on his wedding notices were the
words, No cards." But then he doesn't
know what might happen.