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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23
THE gun that is ALWAYS supposed to be

The gun that is always supposed to be
unloaded was used with fatal effect in
Cambridge, Vermont. Barney Gray
took it up, and, remarking blandly to
his brother John, "Look out ! I'll shoot
you'll" fired, and John fell dead, his neck
nearly severed by the heavy charge of
shot. The idiot who does such thing
ought to be shot on the spot. If this
festive young fool had waited while a
circus would have come along, and he
could have had little fun without
pointing a gun at his brother.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

A WITNESS in Charleston Court re-
fused TO sign deposition taken down in
short hand, on the ground that he could
not be compelled to put his signature to
any document not in ordinary writing.
The presiding Judge sent him to Jail for
contempt, and the case is to go to the
Supreme Court.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

"BoB +" INGERsoLL, having no belief in
future punishment, is determined that
the unrighteous shall have their reward
In this world. He has brought suit for
damages against Detroit printer for
publishing his lectures.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

A NEW Irish organization against Eng
land Is the United Sons of Liberty,
which has spread throughout New Eng
land. The Head Center is William Con-
ner of Lawrence, Mass, an exile of '4S.
He says that the members intend to
arm themselves and be ready to make an
onslaught on England at the first favor
able opportunity. He is soliciting con-
tributibns from mill hands with con-
siderable success.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

SENATOR MORGAN has submitted con-
current resolutions concerning the re-
lations of this country with Mexico, in
which IL is proposed that the present
boundaries between Mexico and the
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

IF there is anything in this world of a
more uncertain tenure that minister's
salary, it is woman's thimble.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

THE Scientific american illustrates and
describes a novel sailing railway car.
Ehe vehicle is said to average thirty
miles an hour, and with a strong breeze
to travel forty miles an hour. The car
proper very much resembles an ordinary
hand-car, or truck. The sail is three
cornered one, and can be put to the wind
or drawn in like an ordinary boat sail.
The car, like the ice-boat, travels faster
than the wind which propels it. The
ice-boat goes faster with the sail close
hauled, and the sheet kept fat off, while
the car travels best with the wind di-
rectly on the beam or side. The inven-
tor, Mr.. G. J. Bascom, of the Kansas
Pacific Railway, says it has been in act
i've operation on that road for the past
three years, serving to convey repairing
parties to pumps, telegraph lines, etc.
1t is cheaply constructed, and easier
maintained than a hand-car.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

IT costs the people of Great Britain
and Ireland s1S, 500, 900 per year to sup
port and maintain its royal family.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

The British Medical Journal, in speak
ing of the effect of the habit of smoking
upon the general health of boys under
sixteen years Of age, says: "a cele-
brated physician took for his purpose
thirty-eight boys, aged from nine to
fifteen, and carefully examined them.
In twenty-seven of them he discovered
injurious traces of the habit. In twenty
two there were various disorders of the
circulation and of digestion, palpitation
of the heart, and more or less marked
taste for strong drink. In twelve there
was frequent bleeding of the nose, ten
had disturbed sleep, and twelve had
slight ulcerations of the mucous men,
brane of the mouth, which disappeared
on ceasing from the use of tobacco for
some days. The doctor treated them all
for weakness, but with little effect until
the smoking was discontinued, when
health an strength were soon restored
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

United States shall be guaranteed as
permanent and inviolable, and that
both governments shall engage that the
territory of each shall be protected
against conquest by any European
power. The resolutions also propose
mutual agreements for the protection of
citizens on the borders against outlaws,
and favor treaty for the encourage
ment of such citizens of either country
as shall, with the consent of the govern
ment of Mexico, build railroad from
the City of Mexico to connect at the
boundary with the lines of railroad in
Texas or elsewhere in the United States.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-23

The tied of life-the married ones.
, 1878-06-12
NaIsIySvilIc.

This is tie name given to ihe nam toNn'ite
mere Mr.. Comfort has located, near the
routh Of Ebcy slough, Hcis putting up Il
.ore building 2!x36 feet and dwelling hodse
Nt may be used u, a hotel also, eiXe lsA4O
eet.
This is the finest available townsite between
ere and Priest roiut. Within 2lG miles Of
erc over 1000 acres OF open beaver marsh
nd 500 acres Alder bottom re found.
In the township nortn OF IT, nearly 1900
res more of extra bottom land are found
some SOUO acres Of extra tine land is found
lthin five miles Of Marysyillc, OF which but
part has been taken A good road leads 10
&c centre Of this tract Mr. Z. is laying out
&c ctownstc, will got 20 office and so1n
irre will be so or 100 iomilies where none
ow live.
, 1878-06-12
local Items.

A lot ofuica candies and contrctionrl
generally just received at Miss. Elwc'
candy store.
An excellent scaoo is now in scs,io
here ,aught hy Miss Laura j, Gnrln,
formerly from Maine but tur tie pa
year resident OF California, until : =
danu here II short time since.
G. A. Missmer the talented and POI
lar artist has pitched his tent along 81
the STAR building where he is prcpH
to take those cXcellen, photos etc
much IN rcqnest ast season on accom
of-tlie doe yle &c t.,eir sacuti2n.
During tbr fist week, there las benr
great dead OF very ha weather when H.
couh not work in MIS- gallery, that
has given us helping hand. a vcl
ace tad, assistant, as well rs g,nn.
com ,anion.
The steamer Nellie On ThlrslaY o
lnst week, lcfl here prrparatory 10 tnI
ing her final departure for BritlsI Co
umhia A share in her, one third
Shrrfr Strctch's interest, has been So
tn nparty on the Stickeen River, u
which stream it Il iuten led 80 run her
The thanks of this office are cxtcndc
to Mrs. Hubert for hcautilul hrqn,
of flowers presented Inst week. Mrs. i
and family are passionate luvrrs of flow
ers Their collection is always anon
the most benutiIul ia the TER tory. nm
this oince is frequently under ollisation
to them for their kind remembrance
the pfintcrs.
Some idea may I've formed of what
costs to fix up grounds so as to m'l
them look heuutituI, from the fact th
C. w. Lawton ut Seattle nursery cxpen"
del over 5000 in getting his place
six acres in condition, drained level,d
fcrtllizcd etc He now has probahl'
over 10000 different kinds oi fruit flow
ers and trees growing rhere Probably h
colcionnfsirawbrrrics is tlie,inpst in ~
Territory There are q ara dozen dflrrw
varieties. The grounds are So beautiful
will well rcp1y visit from any one ""
goes 10 Scattl',
On y,Junc . Dr. Folsom and N
Iif,"i returned isom lrrr vc,l
cruise over iFs Souu'; di,r p'rasu.
aul s.i,n't they made inc u'p
EHf F|rnr'' hoa' v,fr prepared
tau and 'i-ra.'y live .n thr nua: .i..
e am.n..t points ard H.i,e'.
s..H.fc irruai iumh.r.to toB .Iuera
L-.. aai from fHrr rnn'. a t,u d.,
..-." rnru Oboe sm Jua I'.ul-. o.
l--nae go I.t I,aad o.ro.. %
, 1878-06-12
4 CUHIUSlIl.

SDmr Of the mou lstcrics OF Fr nee
and IHN viii srud curious inventions
to the Paris Exposition. \ Fi"rrntin"
lriar has 60 Nrurlci "a watch only n
quarter fan inch in diameter, 1t Uos
not only third hNnu to mark lh' sec
oud,, hul mlcros, opic dinI winch ln!'"'
cut,s the duys oI the week anal month,
amt the proper urc~. II also contain,
I'M alarm, and, on ITS from, cover, IN in
mgtniuu~y cuD figure ot 81 FrHcIN "t
ASS. Ou lhr h rN cover TWO verses OF
tnr"Tr DNm" arr eat. 4 monastery IT.
B%rtany, France, will contribute - pIoh
looking mahogany t,hIr. with an imIa,d
Itauphts or chr s--holrd on he surface
The invrnl0r SITS the pieces tor
rnmr OF clcSS. and SITS alone ut one sl'r
OF the board. He plays cautiously. and
the opposite pieces move antom 'cal'y
nNd sometimes chr,knntr him. There.
is no mcclm,sm apparent hcnra,h the
table top, which seems lo hcA solid ma
ho.any ourl.
, 1878-06-12

At Reynolds lo.gin., camp recently, with L
''w o six mca, in three and onc half days,
l0,450 feet Of logs were put iuto water, in the
t,c back oltown.
Aslort time since, Dan. O'Lcary, on theN
ioquanic, dis ocatcd his shoulder aud col-'
If bone. He cane to Snohouish City foD
cdical treatment.
, 1878-06-12
0AEk EEMEsEeOas.

100 hundred cows conld be kept within five
lilcs Of Oak IIarbou, and that would welt
lpport cheese factory Ab,u- tha dirt Of
uc Capt Coumbs, of The schooner Granger
lied with II load OF nay for Holmes lIrbon
From there shewll procee to SEATTLE t.
rocurca load of lumber TO hni,d Il wharf in
,eep water
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-04-06
ROYAL RESIDENCES.

Queen Victoria has seven palaces:
Three in Observation-Disclosures, st.
James and Kensington. Her out
of-tOwn palaces are at Windsor, OS-
borne, Isle of Wight, and at Balmo-
raj in the Scottish Highlands.
This paragraph we will not credit
to any one paper, as it has gone the
round of all of them. 1t is singu-
larry inaccurate. The palaces which
the Queen occupies as residences are
four: Buckingham palacein London,
Windsor near London, Osborne in
the Isle of Wight and Balmoral in
Scotland. Now to account for the
others, st. James palace is used
not for a residence but for court re-
eeptions, its large suite of state
apartments adapting it better for
that purpose than buckingham pal
ace, which is the town residence of
the sovereign, Kensington is di-
vided off into apartments for crown
pensioners; Osborne, Isle of Wight,
is not two palaces, but one, Osborne
House being its name and the Isle
of Wight its location.
/. While the author of that para
graph was multiplying English pal
aces it is a wonder he did not men,
ton Hampton Court, which was a
royal residence about two hundred
years ago, but is now partly used as
apartments for pensioners, partly as
a national picture gallery.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-04-06
COL. BAILEY'S SPEECH.

The Central Pacific Railroad is at
present engaged in three great en-
terprises. First-To get an addi-
tional grant from the United States
Government. Second-TO defeat
the building of the Texas Pacific
road. Third-To escape paying its
debts to the United States. The
last of these three is what it has
been fighting for during the present
week and last, and, so far as the
action of the Senate goes, received a
signal check, the bill of the Judici-
airy Committee compelling it to es-
tablish a sinking fund out of its
heavy earnings and to do its con-
tracted work of Government trans
portation, charging accommodation
against its Indebtedness to the
United States, being sustained by
many Of the ablest Senators on both
sides of the Chamber.
Among the convincing arguments
in favor of this important measure
is speech by our own Senator, the
Hon. Jas. f. Bailey, made in reply
to Senator Hill, of Georgia, who
opposed it. Col. Bailey's speech is
in spirit like so many which he has
delivered in our GAINESVILLE Court
House; his strong point is the broad
light of common sense and common
equity, which he has always brought
to bear upon the obscurities and in
tricacies of the law, bringing out
the equitable intention and spirit of
the statute and tearing off the fiimsy
veil which others would weaveabout
it out of fine-spun disquisitions on
the letter of it. Never has this fac
ulty of his been so worthily or use
fully employed as in exposing the
fraudulent purposes of the peculat-
ing railroad company and vindicat-
ing the stringent measures adopted
for compelling it to fulfill its con-
tracts. The whole speech will be
given ia ertenSo next week.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-04-06
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Methodist Revival.

At the revival which hasfor some
time been going on in South Clarks-
vile, and Iere profound religious
impression has been produced.
About twenty-five professions of
faith have been made and thirty
accessions to the Church. The real
spiritual effects of the movement,
however, are believed to be not so
much those which are visible on the
surface as those which penetrate to
the vital organism of the Church
itself; deeper convictions, clearer
faith and warmer love have resulted
from the emotions which have
stirred mems souls to their inmost
depths. The principal preachers
have been the Rev. DIR. McFerrin,
DIR. Kelley Presiding Elder Mooney,
j. w. Hammer, Jr., and, second to
none in zeal and efficiency, the res
ident pastor, Mr.. Brown himself.
DIR. Kelley has impressed us very
fOrcibly as preacher of unusual
force and distinctness in addressing
himself to mems conscience and
bringing home to them the MESA
ges of the gospel. His argument
Tuesday night on the efficacy of
prayer was the strongest we ever
remember to have heard.
Mr.. Brown is now in the third
year of his residence among us and
his influence fer good is, we believe,
stronger than it has ever been since
his arrival here. We are informed
that one hundred and sixty profess
sions of faith have been made dur
ing his ministry here, but accessiOns
from without do not by any means
fill up the measure of his good work;
his influence for good within the
Church itself is probably more
weighty than his power as an apos-
tie to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-04-06
FOUND DEAD IN BED.
A PrOnl5net Gu hrie Physician and
Druggist Dies of Heart Disease.
TNashville Banner, April list. !

NaSnNiiie banner, April
The first part of last week DIR. j.
Limbaugh, a prominent druggist
and practicing physician of Guthrie,
KY, came to this city for the pur-
pose of laying in a stock of drugs.
Last Friday, feeling rather badly,
he went to the st. Charles Hotel, on
Market street, about noon, and
called for room. He was conduct
ed to a room up stairs, which he
entered and locked the door on the
inside. The proprietor and clerks
of the hotel supposed he had gone
heme and did not know any better
until last night. The room was not
needed during two or three days,
and there was no occasion for any
one to go into it. Last night some
person wanted lodging, and he was
shown to this room. The clerk
found the door locked with the key
on the inside. He climed up to the
transom and upon looking into the
room, was surprised to see the body
of a man, in full dress, lying stretch
ed out on the bed, with his hands
folded across his breast. The clerk !
called the man several times, but
received no answer. He then con-
Guided to burst the door open and
ascertain whether the man was
asleep or dead. Upon forcing the
door open the clerks suspicion
proved true. The body of DIR. Line
baugh lay on the bed, stiff and cold,
and far advanced in decomposition.
Deputy Coroner M. S. Combs was
summoned and held an inquest
over the body. He called to his aid
Drs. w. G. Ewing and A. Morrison,
who, after making pest norton
examination, decided that the man
came to his death from heart disease.
The COroner's jury of inquest re-
turned a similar verdict.
DIR. Limbaugh was well known in
this city, and belonged to a highly
respectable. and influential family.
He was a married man about 30
years of age and leaves a wife and
one child. His father has been tele-
graphed the sad news of his sons
untimely death, and the remains
will be sent to Guthrie on the next
train. DIR. Limbaugh attended a
course of lectures at the Medical
College here about six years ago.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-04-06
SUICIDE OF AN INFAMOUS GRIM
H INAL.
Madame ResteIl.

New York is contemplating with
horror and lOathing a CHASTITY sui
eide, browning a life of splendidly
rewarded but revolving crime. We
give the details of the frightful deed
from the New York correspondence
of the Louisville Courier-Journal
New York, April 1.-The police
were startled by the announcement
that the well-known Madame Res
tell had been found dead early this
morning in a bathroom i'm her IMAM
sion, on Fifth avenue. Ex-Judge
Stewart, of the District Attorneys
office, was called by the woman's
family at an early hour and informed
that she retired late last night, feel
ing very respondent about her trial,
which was to have taken place to-
day. She arose in the night and
went into the bathroom, where she
fell dead, The madame stated to a
friend last night that she did not
care what might be the result of the
trial SO far as she herself was con-
cerned she only cared for the repu-
tatiOn and feeling of her grandchil-
dren.
The case was called in the court
to-day, and adjourned.
SUPPOSED sUICIDR.
New York, April Madame
Restell committed suicide by cutting
her throat with a carving knife.
She was found in the bath-tub,
which was filled with water.
DIR. Cushman, the Coroner's ply
stefan, examined the body, and found
that a deep cash had been cut across
jugular vein. A slight cut on the
right side of the neck, little below
this cash, indicated that the first at
tempt had been Intellectual. 1t was
DIR. Cushman's opinion that death
was caused almost instantly. The
knife was long carving knife,
which was used on Madame Restell'S
table, and which she is believed to
have taken upstairs and secreted in
her room last night. The water had
been left running in the bath-tub,
and had run so long that the tank
above was exhausted. The overflow
had passed off through the waste
pipe, and hence there was but little
blood in the water which still filled
the tub. The body was cold, and it
was evident that the woman had
been dead for some hours. Ever
since her arrest she had manifested
great fear and anxiety on account of
the belief that the prosecution in
tended to bring other charges against
her in reference to old cases. This
belief had taken such possession of
her that it almost amounted to hall
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-04-06
THE SCHOOL QUESTION HAP
PLY DECIDED.

The County Court last Monday
took a decided stand for thorough
popular education by substituting
for the tax of five cents, absurdly
inadequate for all beneficial purpo-
ses, one of fifteen cents, which will
enable the public schools 10 be kept
open ten months in the year. The
truth is that our public school sys-
tenn has passed through a crisis in
which the question had to be settled
whether they should be made more
efficient or cease to exist Mt all.
Those opposed TO them loudly pro-
tested that they were drawing the
public money and rendering no SER
vice in return; that the education
they were pretending to give was
no education, was humbug and a
delusion, and that the money would
be better left in the peoples pockets,
so that those who chose could have
schools over which they had some
control, and whose efficiency they
could secure, and those who did not
could let their children grow up
wild in the woods and still be no
worse off than they were under the
inefficient system hitherto in prac-
tice. Thus the antagonists of the
public schools argued, and their ar
oument could not be answered, for
Il was grounded on truth. Thesys-
tenn we have had in this county was
practically inefficient; it taught
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-04-06

Inclination. The members of her
family say that she was very nery-
Gus all day yesterday and showed
symptoms of mental arrangement.
Thessuicide was discovered about
o'clock this morning by a serving
girl, and her screams alarmed the
other occupants of the house, who,
in addition to the servants, We're
Madame Restell's daughter, grand
son and granddaughter, and the lat
ter's husband. The daughter lives
in Harlem, but came to the house to
visit her mother this morning, be-
fore the suicide was discovered.
The courtroom was crowded in
anticipation of the trial of the nOtO-
rious woman; but before the case
was called a telegram announcing
the death was received, and the
Judge ordered pOstponement till to-
morrow, remarking that he could
hardly believe that anyone would
trifie with the court in such a seri-
Gus matter.
If the crimes of this wretched
woman were her own crimes alone,
it would be the duty of press re-
gardful of public morals to bury her
Iifeand death in silent oblivion but,
alas, they were not hers alone; they
were the crimes of a splendid, prof
ligate society, of which she was
simply the paid agent, and the ILL
gotten wealth of which she died
possessed is alone a proof that her
employers were both numerous and
wealthy. For Madame Restell her.
self, she has simply done upon her
self the vengeance which the law
should have inflicted many years
ago. But where are her viler ac-
completes? Haunting in the front
ranks of fashionable dissipation.
Systematic murder was her trade
the murder of the unborn, perpe-
trated to shield the guilty lusts d
the living, and in every one of heI
splendidly remunerated murders
she had one accompliceat least, who
goes unwhipt of justice, but who
was more guilty than she was. We
are using language which win be
blamed as shocking to society, but
society needs to be shocked, and we
refuse to withdraw a letter. Such
malignant ulcers as are now eating
into the vitals of society must not
be plastered over to keep them out
of sight; they must be probed to the
bottom, and society must be in
formed of their malignant and bale
full secrets in order that ii may hall
in its career, know of the disease
which is threatening its life, and
seek the remedy.