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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-25

License Ia Rdo7ers Of lSpiritVous or Fermented
LiQaers or Layer Bclr.
The amount of license to be paid by retailers
of spirtuous or fermcntcd liquors or lager beer
are as follows:
II The valne of fhcir stock IN trndn ~
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-25
Sore Throat and ouinsy

The causes which usually induce Sore
Throat are those which give sudden
check 10 perspiration, and thus obstrnct
Natures regular work, quickly producing.
IN consequence, All infammatorv condi
ton which, involving the tonsils, and
rapidly spreading over the whole mucous
membrane OF the iauces will cause Ouinsy.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-25
On or before the FIRST DAY
of MAY, 1878,

under the penalties prescribed by said laws for
the infraction thereof
Those interested are no fed of the following
requirements OF the Lice8 Law;
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-25
g valne Of their stock IN trndc hc

No license shall be granted to sell spirituors
or or, iermen'ed liquors or lager beer, in quanti-
yes not less than pint for the sum Of eighteen
dollars and sixty cents. unless tho nors0n an.
plying therefore shall also obtain license 10
s 81, goods, thaltles, wares and merchandise;
p mi 'et re, tho sum hercnbeforc prescribed
according 70 me amount Of his stock in trade.
L'censc 10 Oic"ers and heeers Of .Sloliionx a,,,i
,jackS
The owner keeper Sv"ry stallion or
jack shall before being permitted to stand or
station such animal, pay to the clerk of the
circuit court OF some one ofthe counties in this
State, the highest sum which hcintcnds to ask
or receive for the season Of one mare; and the
receipt Of the said clerk, with the seal of his
court attached thereto for said sum. shall be
the license for sntionng or standing such stall
lion or jack for one year from the date thereof
provided, that in no case shall the sum direct
ed to be paid by this section for such license
be less than ten dollars: and that every stallion
or jack upon which the said tax is paid shall
be exempt from all other State tax.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-25
Inflammation of the Breast,

This distressing complaint nav he
cured, or entirely prevented by the timely
use OF this remedy. 1t has never failed,
when applied at the commencement. or
before the gathering takes place.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-25

- ALE and HORSE BILLS neatly executed
! at this Office
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-25

An act to regulate the issung of licenses for
the sale Of spirituous aud lermcntcd liquors
In Ills Stntn
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-25

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Z at amy Thing else. Capital not required ~
y will start you. Sl2 per day AT home mad
by the industrious. Men, women, BOYS and CIR
wanted eyeryW here to Work for Now is Il
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23
FOREIGN SUMMARY.

A TERRIBLE explosion has occurred at an
ammunition manufactory in Rue Beranger,
Paris. The building was completely shat
tered, and serious fire ensued in the
neighboring houses. The number of VIC
tins by the explosion is not stated, but it is
believed to be considerable.
AN earthquake at Qua, Venezuela killed
six hundred persons. Heavy shocks were
felt at Caracas. The heat at Laguayra was
intense, and the health of that city bad.
The recent drought on Demarara Island en-
tails direct loss to planters of between three
and four millions of dollars.
ALL the followers of General Maceo, in
Cuba, have signifed their intention to sur.
render, and some of them have already
given themselves up. General Maceo has
also sent to advise Vicente Garcia, princi.
pal chief under Maceo, to surrender, Garcia
having remained neutral.
IMPORTANT dispatches are said to have
been received by the Government of Canada
from their agents along the frontier, with re.
spect to the Fenian movements, and some
excitement is still manifested in couse.
quence. From orders issued by the militia
department and preparations making from
one end of the Dominion the other for
coast and frontier defense, to the intention
Of the Government is to be fully prepared
for all emergencies. Four gunboats, armed
with twenty.nine pound guns, and manned
] with twenty-four gunners, are ordered te
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23
"Ohl Bijah give US rest!
Give us a week to sleep;
And We'll give you pull on your vest
Solar Light and Heat.

A writer to one of the foreign reviews,
speaking of the nature and source of the
SUMS light and heat remarks: That so
brilliant display is kept by the COM
bustion or destruction of something, ap-
pears to be generally, if not universally,
maintained; but, as to what the matter
is or may be, and how supplied, no
probable determination has yet been ar
rived at. Further the intensity of the
solar light and heat is easily proved, and
that it resides chiefly, if not entirely at
the surface,-the latter also, on close in
spection, being found to be in state of
excessive agitation, and experiencing
periodical disturbances and alterations
of most striking character. When,
too, periodical changes are seen, secular
ones may be expected also, and, if the
former were of a regular character, the
latter may be necessarily inferred: but,
although no regular law has yet been
made out for the sun, the probability of
their slow variations through long
periods of time is great, and is increased
when we turn our attention to those
other suns, the stars, and find some OF
them increasing and others decreasing,
or going through regular periods Of
various lengths, and many degrees OF
gradation in brightness. The same may
also be inferred from the geological dis
coveries of there having been formerly
glacial ages in the world, and agair
torrid ones,-there being no other known
cause equal to producing the effects OBJ
served. Such, in word, is the grea
problem which yet awaits solution.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23
GEN. TREPOFPS ESCAPES.

General Trepof, the Prefect of Police
at St. Petersburg, had suffered from
several assaults before he was attacked
by Mile. Vera Sassulitch. Fifteen years
ago, in 1868, the General, who was at
that time chief of the police at Warsaw,
was the object of formidable onslaught
on the part of some half dozen insur-
gents disguised as peaceful rustics. These
sham peasants had taken care to arm
themselves with hatchets, which they
carried loosely in their girdles as part of
their ordinary equipment. 1t was Sun
day morning, and General Trepoff was
returning from church in company with
his daughter and his daughters gov
erness, when these disguised revolu-
tionists approached him. A general at
tack had probably been intended, in
which case Trepoff must have been
killed. Only one, however, of the band
had nerve enough to strike the blow and
he, instead of inficting mortal wound,
only succeeded in bruising and lacerat-
ing Trepoff's shoulder. The General
seized his assaiIant, disarmed him, and
gave him in charged the police, who,
of course, were at hand. The rest OF
the band took to flight, and endeavored
to escape through shop which had a
double entrance in front and in rear oi
the house. Five, however, of the sham
peasants, who turned out to be" execu
tive agents." or, as the Russians put it
"hired assassins +" of the revolutionary
Government, were caught, brought be
fore tribunal, and-not being tried
like Vera Sassulitch, by jury of theil
own countrymen, but by commission
of Russian oficers-were sentenced II
death and hanged in ghastly and fantas
tic costumes said to be of traditiona
medieval pattern.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

the River st. Clair and Lakes Erie and
Ontario. All militia on the frontier are be-
ing supplied with arms and ball cartridges.
In proportion as the news from st. Peters
burg is more pacific, that from CONSTANT
nople is more warlike. The Russians insist
that the movements of their troops are not
intended as hostile, but the Turks are, not
withstanding, hard at work strengthening
their lines and bringing up guns. This is
not easy, as the Turkish line of defense,
from the Sea of Marmora to the Black Sea,
is so long; and while the Turkish force
about the Capital is superior to the Russian,
it is hardly sufficient to man such length
of line. The Turks will be soon reinforced,
however, by the forty battalions released in
Thessaly, and twenty battalions from Varna
ADvICEs from Bucharest state that de-
tachments of the Russian reserves and re-
cruits continue to pass through Roumania
for regiments in the field. Some OF these
men are totally ignorant of military drill.
Trains of ammunition also are passing to
the Danube. The Russians are making ad-
ditional contracts in Roumania for transport
carts and animals. 1t is said three thousand
moIC OIuSIeu W Hc Teduy LOT SERVICE
south of the Danube. Renewed activity
prevails in the Servian arsenals. Orders
have been issued to the factory at Kragu-
ievatz to increase the production of the
Peabody Martini ammunition to the amount
of forty thousand per day. All serviceable
artillery in store has been ordered to be
mounted and sent Immediately to the front.
REPORTS are current at Vienna of fresh
complications in Roumania. 1t is stated
the Russian Eleventh Army Corps has been
pressed forward SO as to entirely isolate
Bucharest from Little Wallachia, where the
Roumanian army is concentrated. Russian
diplomatic representatives used every effort
to prevent Prince Charles from going to the
army, but the latter's position has been
made intolerable by the military and
political control assumed by the Russians
in the capital and throughout the country.
1t is asserted the Russians are urging the
Roumanians to refuse to pay taxes, and to
dethrone Prince Charles, whom they de-
nounce as German and Catholic, but
that the popular feeling is entirely in
sympathy with the Prince. The Roumanians
are looking anxiously to Austria, which
does not seem disposed, for the present at
least, to go beyond concentration of troops
and Strengthening of fortresses on the
| TransyIvanian frontier.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23
Vampire Bats.

South America also has its large bats,
of one of which every body has heard,
the vampire. Much nonsense has been
written about it, but there was some
foundation for the stories of its sucking
the blood of men and animals until it
killed them. In the interior of South
America nearly every body sleeps in a
hammock, either out of doors or with
the windows open, and the weather is SO
warm that little covering is used. The
vampire comes in on silent wings, and,
finding toe exposed, gently pricks it
with his sharp tooth, and draws the
blood until he can swallow no more
The sleeper rarely is awakened, and
does not know his loss until morning.
He may then feel weak from the flow OF
blood, but we are not aware that a man
was ever known to die from this cause.
Horses are very greatly troubled by
them also. Mr.. Charles Watterton, an
enthusiastic naturalist, now dead, who
spent several years in New Guinea, has
told us much about this ugly bat, but
could never induce one to taste of his
toe, although he would have been very
glad to be able to say that he had been
operated upon. For eleven months he
slept alone IN tne lOII OF deserted WOOu
cutters hut in the deep forest. There
the vampires came and went as they
wished. He saw them come in the
moonlight on stealthy wings and picl
the ripe bananas; lay in his hammocl
and watched them bring almost to hi
bedside the green wild fruit of the wilt
guava; floating down the river on othe
moonlight nights was struck by the fall
ing blossoms of the lawarrinut tree
which the vampires pulled from tn
branches to get at the tender seed-ves
sci or the insects that lure in the dee
corolla. He lay night after night wit
his bare foot exposed, but could neye
get them to lance it, although hi
friends and companions were all ble'
by this nocturnal surgeon; and excep
that he once caught one fastened to tn
shoulder of one of his animals, he cam
away no wiser than when he went OF hoy
the vampire does his horrid work.
The vampires measure about twenty
six inches across the wings; frequen
old houses and hollow trees, and repos
in clusters, head downwards, from tn
branches of forest trees.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23
Biiah's Cueumbers.

The Detroit Free Press says that some
fend in human form gained access to
Bijah's farm the other night and left
abundant proof of his meanness. He
dug up nearly all the cucumber seeds
which had been so carefully blown into
the earth with hand-bellows by the old
man, rolled each separate seed in cotton
batting, tied tag to it, and then re-
placed it SO deftly, that the damage was
only accidentally detected. One tag
read: "Call me when breakfast is
ready" another: "Please give me a
pull" another: "I can be coaxed, but
not driven"
"I do not now remember that l ever
teok a man by the ears and unjointed
every hinge in his body, at one shake"
mused Bijah, as he picked up the last
in this brutal work has got to be hunted
sleep againp
His Honor heard of the outrage and
endeavored to console the old man by
advancing the theory that some savant
desired to cross cotton and cucumbers
and produce fabric heavier than fac
tory cloth and not quite as heavy as all
wool
"Did a say-vant leave thatT' de-
manded Bijah, slapping down a tag
which read: "We had to get under
the ground to get away from his feet!'
Cor this:
"Ohl Bijah give us rest!
Give us a week to sleep;
And we IL give you pull on your vest
As soon as ever we creep"
Well, you keep quiet" admonished
the court, the brigand will return
sooner or later to put rubber springs un
der your potatoes, and if you are on the
alert you will trap him."
"Such deeds of dastardy are worthy
of Old Fargo himself!" growled Bijal
as he went into the corridor and banged
open the door of cell No. 8.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

Two brothers lived in a village in Jer-
sey. They were twins, and their extra
ordinary resemblance to each other
caused many queer mistakes. The fol-
lowing story is told of them, but we do
not vouch for it: An Irishman was
offended by one of the brothers, and was
a long time watching his opportunity
for revenge. The twins were constantly
together, and although Pat was pretty
well able to manage one, he considered
that the whipping of both together was a
luxury he could not afford to indulge in.
At last, however, he met one of them
alone, but was not quite sure he had the
right man. He determined to inquire
into the matter. els that your" said
he, cor are you only your brother r'
The fellow, taking in the situation. an
swered, "Oh Pm only my brother" !"
"Then it's well for you it isn't yourself
that's in it," said Pat, as he walked of
with clean conscience.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

A SCIENTIST of the East, for a col
lection of numerous cases and data, has
arrived at the scientific conclusion that
the good health of American women is
in inverse ratio to the number of SER
wants employed in any case. That is to
say, lady having one servant is partly
invalid; having two, she becomes a
valetudinarian; having three, she is
confined to her room; having four, she
gets up TO have her bed made; having
five, she dies Of servants, and is COM
mitted to an early grave by an over-in-
dulgent husbandl Thus it will be seen
that il is kindness amounting to cru.
city for husband to employ servants
at all. He should rigidly insist on his
wife doing her own work, and in in.
stances in which her time is not fully
occupied by that, she might be put out
TO service for wages.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

The Americans who have married
into royal families abroad are by no
means SO rare as many people imagine.
One of our Boston Perkinses married
Bourbon, and his children are god
children of the Queen of Spain's mother
and cousins of the King of Spain and of
the Orleans family. Miss Polk recently
became niece of the Count de Cham
bold and Duchess of Parma and Modena
and cousin to the Emperor of Austria
and of the Orleans family. The Prin-
cess Murat and the Duchess de Mouchy
have American mothers; three princes
of the Bonaparte family (Achille and
Joachim, Murat and Prince Jerome
Bonaparte) married American girls.
Daniel Webster's and Samuel Apple
toms granddaughter is the wife of
Jerome Bonaparte's grandson. Miss
Torres, of New York, married Guelph,
cousin of Queen Victoria and the heiress
apparent of the German Empire. What
an invasion of the Almanack de Gotha
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

The interior of the Rev. George FL.
Hepworth's church in New York is thus
described: An usher opens the inner
door noiselessly, and you look down
upon an immense cirque whose axis must
be at least one hundred and fifty feet.
1t is exactly like looking in upon some
vast playhouse. The amphitheater is
an enormous parquet, with pews instead
of chairs. And for stage there is q
narrow carpeted platform, with tables
and chairs, and an arcade behind,
through the openings of which the back
of the organist is seen as he seats him
self at his instrument. Galleries there
are none. Decoration is almost entirely
absent. The gray and drab walls and
fiat blue roof will not catch the eye.
Save the conventional gliding and pris-
matte touches on the organ-pipes, no
color is visible.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

IT has been frequently said of the
Turk, as an individual, that he is a
very estimable person as long as he does
not come under European influence.
Midhat Pasha confirms this view. He
was talking the other day to an English
statesman about the national character
OF the Turk. "You are mistaken" he
said, in assuming the Osmani to be
effete, degenerate, corrupt, and so forth.
On the contrary, he is, as a rule, brave,
sober, frugal, and upright. In fact, he
is capital fellow until he knows how to
speak French"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

The buz-saw is still on duty, and per-
forms its work with no lack of vigor.
John Lent, of Toledo, is the latest vic
tim. Before a crowd of spectators he
exhibited the faculty with which the
noted instrument could perform its
labors by cutting a stout cord in two.
He wrapped the cord tightly around a
finger Of each hand, to hold it securely,
and applied it 70 the buzzer. The cord
was separated beautifully, and one of
Mr.. Lent's hands went with it. Mr.. l..
will hereafter let the buz-saw do its
legitimate work, if he knows himself.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

The telephone played singular part
in the fire at the Office of the Detroit
Free Press. The instrument connecting
the editorial rooms with the house of the
managing editor, one and a half miles
away, rang the bell at the residence
violently, so that the increasing and
diminishing of the flames could be cal
culated by the rising and falling of the
anger of the bell. The clamor at last be-
came 80 unbearable in the room that the
bell was stuffed with cotton, when from
the speaking tube came the swish of the
water, the roar of the fire, the cracking
of burning timbers, until the sudden
stoppage Of all sound showed that the
communication was broken.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

Mr.. HENRY w. SHAW Josh Bill
lings) is reported to have made more
money than almost any other American
author by persistent working of his
peculiar vein of humor. Some years he
has got "a, 900 from a weekly newspa per
for his exclusive contributions; has
made 5000 or Sc, 900 by lecturing, and
has made profit from his Almanac of
$1,000 or $1,000 more-$1S, 900 or $780,
600 per annum. That is five or six
times as much as Emerson, Hawthorne,
Lowell or Holmes has ever made.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

A SINGULAR instance of the ingenuity
of birds was noticed at Detroit the other
day, where two robins were seen to be
toiling away at a small toy basket which
had been left in the doorway. Evi-
IDENTIFY thinking it would make palatial
nest, the birds were pulling and drag
ging it along over the grass, but were
unable to get hold of it in such way as
to fly off with it. They accordingly left
IL, but soon returned with string about
eight feet long, which they drew through
the basket, and, each taking one end in
its bill, few briskly away with the
basket hanging on the swing between
them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

THE layers of wood in what are known
as the annual deposits are often thicker
on one side of the tree than on others,
and very often when it is thin or thick
in one part of the trunk in any one year
IL will continue in the same proportion
for many succeeding years. These
phenomena are frequently discerned.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

A FARMERS daughter living near
Cleveland answered a personal in a
newspaper, entered into correspondence
with the unknown" finally met him,
was married, went to the city to live,
and returned to her fathers house in
two months, dressed like beggar and
looking twenty years older than when
she went away. Her husband was a
amber and loafer. This is a "per-
soma" /" romance in a nutshell.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

WE'VE heard of reversible collars, re-
versible cuffs and reversible bosoms, but
it remains for some future genius to in
vent a reversible shirt that can deceive
the eye of coniding public into the
idea that you haven't turned it the
same as the Binghamton editors do
theirs.-Eimira Gazette. If our neigh
Dor would only take advantage of the
high water in the Chemung, when it oc-
ours, and take bath occasionally, he
could reverse his shirt just as well as
Binghamton editors can. You have to
keep the body clean, friend, to have a
shirt reverse to advantage, and-have
the shirt.-Binghamton Times.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

THE Western Advocate takes the ground
that the collection of tax on liquors
made or sold does not give legal status
to the business. II might be called
either tax or fine," and is different
from license, which is an approval or
permission for continuance of the traffic.
This seems to us pretty sensible tenn
perance view.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

In England the class among whom
the rate of mortality is highest are the
innkeepers. For this there can be but
one e.cause-drink. The class highest in
the scale of vitality are the barristers,
who are not, as class, distinguished for
habits Of total abstinence. The death
rate is higher among clergymen than
among lawyers. 1t isa curious fact, too,
that Immortality is greater among solicitors,
who lead a much less stirring and bust
ling life, than among barristers.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23
THEpresenti is most undoubtedly an age

THEpresentls most und0ubtedIy an age
of thought, research and reason; old
dogmas are being long lived
fallacies exposed, and superstition ban
ished by the regenerating light of
science borne aloft in the onward march
of progress-but-see here-do you sup
pose we shall ever be any nearer know
ing how it comes that the homeliest men
are always the ones who adopt their
own photos for trademarks?