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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

THE principal Italian journal of Nj
Ian describes Queen Victoria as " a most
simple, unpretending, respectable look
ing lady, attired in deepest moul ming,
too short and too stout for royal dig
nifty, but bearing somber aspect not
devoid of charm. The features, some
what dropping, are imprinted with a
saddened, panied expressio !, indicative
of inward physical suffering rather than
of mental sorrow, to which it has been
ascribed. Her walk is that of person
more advanced in years than she is, and
she advances slowly, her gait being un-
equal, like that of person suffering
from rheumatic pains; but there is
about her that air Of distinction, ac-
quired by the habit of command, which
renders it impossible to mistake the
Queen for an ordinary person."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08
FROM THE MUSE.
ny eEoRsE cooPKR.

cavi eavp' sang CROW on the edge Of q wood;
The corn that you gave us is wonderful good;
But Why don't you lay II there all In heap.
You scatter II round and you plant n 20 deep,
Gccd farmer it's tiresome TO hnd IL, you know,"
Said this eomical CROW.
"cavi eavi You have stretched, in a ssrraggy
way,
a string round your acres. ! see IL to-day.
They'll think IL snare said you, ehuekins out
right.
Your cord IA no use, 90 I'm not kite.
sweet farmer, I'd have you continue 10 SOW"
said this eomical crou.
"Csri eawi You hive set little boys on the
Theyyshout and anus, us-our 10y is intense.
You givs yourself plenty Of trouble for u.s.
We're only plain folks. P.ithee, don't make a
fu.sI
Kind idrrner, we're not used 10 much Of Q show
Sid this comical crow.
"Civie eavi You have put an old coat on some
sticks
You want 10 delight u, With all sorts Of tricks.
Unmeritcd Kindness We tenderiy feel;
But why don't you leave rill we finish our meal7
Dear farmer, you're not In q hurry to CO."
tald this comical crow.
"cawi eawi You have brought out a neat little
gun.
You're going 10 shoot at the sparrows. for fan.
Oh, bet We shant walt till you've loaded IL up,
Bu' his us away 10 the next held and sup.
nd rmsr, sad farmer. your end will bs woe"
eaia this comical crow.
-Iadependenf.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08
A Chapter from Beecher's Experience.

Writes Mr.. Beecher in the Christian
Union:' Vance Noel, proprietor of the
Indiana Journal, one day said: "Mr.
Beecher, who is there who could edit an
agricultural department in the Journal"
I said, +" don't know of anybody but
myself Well, will your" Yes"
Of course it was done without compen-
sation. We never thought, at that day,
of paying for lecturers or literary work.
We gave everything free and boarded
ourselves. So he sent for exchanges to
agricultural newspapers, and l COM
menced to furnish every week column
or column and half of matter on this
subject. 1t soon occurred to him that it
would not be bad plan to put the type
once set into pamphlet form, and in a
very few months this issue developed
into the Farmer and Gardener. Well,
this had circulation in the West, and
went to the principal florists in the Fast
amongst others to Wilder of Dorches-
ter, Bosten, and Hovey, who Just then
was engaged in a controversy ON straw
berry culture with Longworth of Gin
cinnati. l took Longworth's side, and
was known to many of these men solely
as Henry Ward Beecher, editor of the
Western Farmer; they had not the
slightest suspicion that 1 was clergy
man. Wilder of Dorchester had good
gardener who knew the western Farmer
and Gardener, and had great respect
for its opinions Invent there one day
to dinner, and Wilder introduced me to
| his gardener as its editor. The man
took me all round the greenhouses. ]
knew all about the calceolarias, gloxinias
aud achimenes, but yet had never seer
single one of them in all my life.
knew them by their names. When
entered the fower-houses saw whole
banks of them in bloom. l asked
What are they?' co." he replied
they are the Van Houten, and they
are the Lady Alice Peel" l said
Yes, yes, but what is the fower?" Ht
did not understand what 1 meant.
said: q" know all about them from
books, but 1 have never seen them il
growth" had actually to inquire fol
the oinerarias and other flowers that
had written articles about; although
was acquainted with their origin
method Of cultivation and names, I die
not know them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08
A BOYS Leisure Hours.

A great merchant once remarked,
Tell me how young man spends his
evenings, and will tell you what sort
of man he will make" The merchant
knew that the leisure hour is as impor-
tant in the formation of character as the
employed hour.
A boy was employed in a lawyer s
Office, and had the daily paper to amuse
himself with. He commenced to study
French, and at that little desk became
fluent reader and writer of the French
language. He accomplished this by
laying aside the newspaper and taking
up something not go amusing. but far
more profitable.
A coachman was often obliged to wait
long hours while his mistress made calls.
He determined to improve the time; he
found small volume containing the
Eclogues of Virgil, but could not read
it, and SO purchased Latin grammar.
Day by day he studied this, and
finally mastered all it's intricacies. His
mistress. came behind him one day as he
stood by the horses waiting for her, and
asked him what he was 80 intently
reading
"On1y a bit of Virgil, my lady"
"What do you read Latin r.
"a little, my lady"
She mentioned this to her husband, |,
who insisted that David should have 8
teacher to instruct him. In a few years
he became learned man, and was a use
full and loved minister in Scotland.
A boy was hired to open and shut the
gates to let the teams out of an iron
mine. He sat on a log all day by the
side of gate. Sometimes an hour would
pass before the teams came, and this he
employed so we'll that there was scarcely
any fact in history that escaped his
attention.
He began with little book on English
history that he found in the road hav.
ing learned that thoroughly, he Dor
rowed of minister Goldsmith's History
of Greece.
The good man beanie greatly interested
in him, and loaned him books, and was
often seen sitting by him on the log con-
versing with him about people of an
cient times
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08
He Was Waiting.
IRockland Courier.l

A citizen on his way home late the
other night, espied boy sitting on the
gate in front OF a house ON UniOn-street.
What are you doing there, bub ?" he
inquired, in surprise.
"Sh! keep STILL" said the boy in a
hoarse whisper; "I live here"
Well, why don't you 60 into the
house?" said the citizen.
Waitin' for the fun" replied the boy.
" Mother JUS sent me down town after
father, an he has JUS gone in. He told
me to wait outside till after he had told
her he'd been to lodge, an then / could
come in an say couldn't 6ud him an
not mention his bein' in billiard hall,
but know mother, an If you wait g
minute you'll hear somethin' kinder
bang against the side of the room like" "
And just at that instant a muff1ed
sound issued from the room where q
light was visible.
"Thats him-that's father" ex
claimed the boy, in great glee. "Bime
by you'll hear lamp smash. an ther
Pm goin' to rush in an look out fol
fire."
The citizen passed on and left the boy
sitting on the gate, with the livelies
interest depicted on his countenance.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08
suuu,.s. the sa.sx,.h Kianey..

In addition to its tonic and cathartic prop.
critics, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters exercises
beneficial influence upon the kidneys and
bladder, when they are inactive, by stimula-
ting them to renewed exertion, thus reopen.
ing, as it were, sluice for the escape Of i'm
purities whose regular channel of exits the
organs of urination. Among these are GER
tain abnormal and infammatory elements.
productive of irreparable injury to the sys-
tenn if not entirely expelled. The kidneys
and bladder themselves are also benefited by
this stimulus, as their inactivity is usually
preliminary to their disease and disorgan-
ization. They also experience, in common
with other portions of the system, the potent
invigorative effects of the -Bitters which,
furthermore corrects disordered conditions
of the stomach, bowels and liver.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08
Killing q Cougar.

A young man writes from a sheep
rancho in New Mexico description of
shooting a cougar, or mountain lion.
Forest and Stream publishes the letter
from which we make the following
extract:
/ have at last succeeded in getting
what have so long promised you, a
mountain lion (cougar) skin, and fine
specimen it is too.
Ihad quite tough fight before kill
ing him. had brought my herds into
this canyon (the Garesoso) about the
fifth of this month, and knowing that
there were lots of lions in this part of
the country, had been very watchful for
fear they would jump the herds.
They did not trouble me at all until
the night of the tenth, when one camc
into the herd and killed one sheep.
He had no time to kill more. or even
"lug" off the one he had killed for az
soon as the herd ran 1 sprang from the
tent, rifle in band, and rushing to the
place where he had jumped the herd,
found the dead sheep, but it was dark and
cloudy, in fact raining little, and the
lion got off before could get glimpse
of bin.
Well, the next night l stationed my
men around the herd and took my posi-
tion near where he had entered the might
before. We watched all night long, but
he did not come back.
The next pight made the same ar
rangements, aud secreted myself under
an overhanging rock behind bunch Of
brush, wrapped in blanket, for it wal
cold.
The night was clear except once in ,
! while wind cloud would obscure the
moon, which was just past the full.
Just after one of these clouds hat
| passed heard the loose stones rattle OF
the side of bluff Just in front of wher,
was sitting.
l Just drew myself more into tn,
shadow of the rock, strained my eyes il
the direction from which the sound came
and held nay breath.
And, behold, there on the side of tn
bluffin front of me, about eighty yard
of, was the man wanted to see."
wish you could have seen him as did
l tell you it was noble sight, although
it made fellow have a sort of 60
observation-disclosures feeling.
He stood with his front feet on rock
broadside TO me, looking toward th'
herd. had a Springfield rife in m!
hand. Well, 1 assure you l had it tt
my face in less than half the time hav'
been telling this.
When the ball struck him he jumped
into the air and gave one of the most un
earthly scrsams l ever heard, and came
tumbling down the hill.
By the time he arrived at the bottom
l was there and stood over him with m,
shooter
50 ended the BATTLE. the victor,
was certainly not to the strong, for h
was strong enough and big enough t
have chawed" me all to pieces.
skinned him this morning and nov
have his hide to dry. As near as ca
tell by measuring with my hands tn
hide was eight feet nine inches fror
tip of nose to tip of tail, and si
feet from front paw to paw as it Ia
stretched on the ground.
He must have weighed three hundre
and fifty pounds at least, for two of u
could only just raise him from th
ground by clasping our hands under h
body.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08
The Long and Short of 1t.

A teacher, in illustrating on the ques,
ton why the fingers are of unequal
length, made the scholar grasp ball
of ivory, to show that the fingers are
equal. 1t would have been better, says
Sir Charles Bell, had he closed his fin.
gers upon his palm, and then asked
whether or not they correspond. The
difference in the length of the fingers
serves thousand ends, adapting the
form of the hand and fingers to different
purposes as for holding rod, switch,
sword, hammer, pen, a pencil, en-
craving tools, ETC., in all of which a Sc
cure hold and freedom of motion are
admirably combined.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

A CHURCH steeple at Richmond, Ind,
on which lights appeared at night, was
believed by superstitious people to be
haunted until the other day, when some
body suggested that broken lightning
rod might cause the illusion, and the
sexton climbed up above the bells, and
found the two sections of the rod apart
and a rap of an inch or more behind
them. The passage of silent electricity
over the gap caused spark, which seen
swapping and jumping in the moist air,
assumed phantom forms, and played the
deuce with the imaginations of all who
saw II.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

Now doth the suburban farmer ap-
ply the sulphurous match to the garden
brush, which, after all day long hiding
the sun by its smoky cloud and choking
the neighbors by its pervasiveness, sud.
denly bursts out into blaze about mid
night, waking the terrified citizens from
their sleep, calling out the fire depart.
ment and putting the town to an ex.
pense of some hundred dollars. And
yet the $. f. growleth loudly at the fire
department appropriation.--Bostor
T,.1,, ecr;nf
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

SAFETY, efficiency and reliability are the
three cardinal virtues of remedy, whether
in the hands of physician or in those of the
people at large. For the cure of all malarial
or miasmatic diseases, such as lhills and
Fever, or Intermittent Fever, Dumb Chilis
and Chronic Enlargement of the Spleen, we
have such remedy in DIR. F. .Wilhofrs Anti.
Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic, the com.
position of which has been published by its
proprieters, Wheelock, Finlay & Co., of New
Orleans, and is approved by the medical
prof. ssion, aud for sale by all Druggists.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

They tried to kill book aeDnt at
Omaha last week. He WAS 4obbed,
thrown into the river, knocked off the
cars, tossed from high bridge into the
river again, and in two hours he was
around with an illustrated Bible, trying
to get a subscription from the head Of
the attacking party.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08
The Cultivation OF Rose
Gro ,es are her cheeks,
knN a xoo. har liz. -

And rose her lips"
The best way for ladies to cultivate this
rare species of roses is by studying and
practicing the rules of hygiene, as taught in
the Peoples Common Sense Medical Ad
wiser, only 81 so. Address the author. R.
v. Pierce. N. D., Grand Invalids' Hotel, Buff
falo, N. Y. If suffering from those painful
weaknesses incident to the female organism
use DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescriptions
never failing remedy for these complaints.
WE may Judge mans character by
what he loves-what pleases him.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

The Mendelssohn Piano Co., No. 81, East
18th Street, N. Y, sell Pianos at Factory
Prices. Write for catalogue.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

CAREFULLY AVOID THE Use of rasping
cathartics. They weaken the bowels and
leave them worse off than before. Use in
stead, that salutary, non-irritating aperient
and anti-bilious medicine, DR. Morris VKeE
TABLE LIVER PILLS, which will not only
achieve the desired object, relaxation of the
bowels, without causing pain or weakening
them, but promote digestion and assimila-
ton, and depurate the blood. The pills are
sold by all Druggists.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

DR.. n. B. WOLFE, of Cincinnati, gener-
ously offers as FREE GIFT, his able work,
Medical Common Sense" to all who suffer
with Consumption, Asthma, Catarrb, and
similar troubles. Read wba; he says in an.
other column
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08
CHEW Jackson,s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco

IT isn't every bridge builder who
wants to be tried by jury of his
piers.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

For COUGHS, COLDS, AND THROAT DIS
ORDERS, use Brown's Bronchial Troches, u
having prored their efficacy by test of many
years. % cts. box.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

A MICHIGAN man is m aking system.
attic canvass of Indiana for a wife.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

HELP somebody worse off than your
self, and you will, find that you are bet
ter off than you fancied.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

RAILWAY frogs never croak, though
their owners Otter. to.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

A BURLINGTON blacksmith has Just
established conservatory of horse
shoeing."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

THE daintiest and most spirituelle
lady at tea party will sit on the hind
leg of her chair and eat pickles when at
home.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

THINK less of the vipers that may
attack you, and more of the duties that
lie before.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

MASON & HAMLIN Cabinet Organs are
certainly the best of this class of instruments
in the world, and at the prices at which they
are sold, which are only little higher than
those of very poor organs, they are also
cheapest.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

EIGHTY feet below the earth's sur face
at Sycamore, ILL.,, is an underground
lake,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08

A WISE man will make more opportu
mites than he finds.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-08
CHEW
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The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
BY TELEGRAPH.
MAINE.
NAME.

Kennebec Republican Convention.
AUGUSTA, June 2S.-At the Republican
County Convention today the following coun-
ty officers were nominated:
Senators-Joseph S. Berry, Wayne; c. c.
Cornish, Winslow
Commissioner-Ge George II. Andrews, Mon
mouth.
Attorney-He NJ. Heath, Augusta.
Treasurer-Mark Rollins, Albion.
The towns were all fully represented. The
resolutions of the state convention were
adopted.
Superior Court in Kennebec.
The Superior Court adjourned today. The
work of the term consisted of IA jury trials,
10 verdicts, one settled after evidence out;
3 decisions by the court; 40 cases otherwise
finally disposed of; on the old docket 100 new
entries, of which 60 were defaulted.
Church Struck by Lightning.
In the thunder tempest this afternoon at
o'clock lightning struck the spire of the Epis-
copal church, splintering it from pinnacle to
tower. Fire burst out, but was suppressed by
several pals of water rightly directed
Serious Fall.
Ichabod Sturdevant of Leeds, an aged gen
tleman, while descending flight of stairs fell
headlong, breaking his nose and cutting his
face in horrible manner and nearly killing
him. He was taken up and carried home.
A Maine Seaman Drowned.
NEW YORK, June Craftsmanship City of
New York collided with the iron bark Helen
off South Barnegat Saturday and sunk her.
The captain and four seamen were drowned.
The cook, who was drowned, was from Maine
Postal Changes.
WASHINGTON, June 29.-Offices established
Churchill postmaster.
Postmaster appointed IL. Towle,
Buxton, York county, Me. -
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
How Mr.. Daviss Nomination was
Made.

Col. q. A. Smith, one of the associate editors
of the Boston Journal, gives the following ac
count of how the nomination of Mr.. Davis for
Governor came about: AS there will be many
versions respecting the influences brought to
bear to secure the nomination of Mr.. Davis, it
may be well to give the true version. At 0
o'clock the morning of the convention, there
was meeting of the delegates of the fourth
Congressional district, with view of agreeing
upon a candidate to present to the convention.
The meeting was not numerously attended.
The city of Bangor had very few representa-
tives in the meeting, but there was pretty
full attendance of those residing in Piscataquis
county and the northwestern towns of Penob-
scot. At that meeting Hon. Lyndon Oak re-
fused to have his name used, and thus it came
about that the prediction in last nights dis
patches was not fulfilled. There was some des-
ultory talk until delegate by the name of
Ham, well-to-do farmer, took the floor, and
made speech full of enthusiasm in which
the nomination of Mr.. Davis was urged. He
had known the gentleman from boy, and peo-
pie up his way wanted "honest Frank Davis. 3"
A ballot followed and Mr.. Davis had a large
majority. That action made Mr. Davis can
didate in the convention, and the convention
related because it will be said that some ring
political heaters wef4sea- wifes-8s
a spontaneous movement of the delegates OF
Piscataquis county and the towns of Penobscot
adjacent The candidacy goes to Mr.. Davis
unSought.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
MINOR TELEGRAMS.

The Sutro tunnel is in working order.
Cox, Mrs. Hull's murder, will be indicted to-
day.
The old Arctic ship Resolute is to be broken
up.
There were five sunstrokes in New York,
Saturday
Proceedings in the Antonelli will case have
closed.
Chapel street cotton mills in Manchester,
Eng, are burned Loss $4,000
A boy named Cahill, six years old, was
drowned at Fall River, Saturday.
California merchants are opposed to the pro-
jected reciprocity treaty with France.
John W. Doud, a law student, was killed by
lightning at Cohoes, N. Y, Saturday.
Gov. Roberts of Texas has sigued the bill
makingian appropriation for interest due Jul
The Wilder collection of minerals, at Troy,
N. Y, has been purchased for the Williams
College
House of Mrs. Crowell in Tewksbury, Mass,
was struck by lightning and demolished Satur-
day night.
Exports from the Nnited States for II months
of the fiscal year exceed those of last year by
$25S, 4S1 1856.
Hon. Moses Chandler Russell, respected
citizen of Great Falls, n. H., died Saturday
night suddenly.
Margaret Martin of Gilbert vile, Mass, was
burned to death Friday; while trying to kindle
a fire with kerosene.
The boiler in Bonnells mills at Youngstown,
Ohio, exploded Friday, fatally scalding two
men and badly injuring six others.
The store of c. Robert Linke, iewelry and
watch repairing, in Prominence, was robbed of
$4,000 worth of watches Saturday morning, by
burglars.
The 70 hour pedestrian contest at Chicago,
Saturday, between O'Leary and Grassland, was
won by by the former making $50 miles laps;
Grassland 225 miles laps
Sloop Abbie S. White has arrived at row.
incetown with the body Of an unknown man
taken from the forecastle of the schooner Chas.
s. Rogers, before reported run down and sunk.
Chiverton Pierre, Frenchman, committed
suicide in New York, Saturday. The customs
officers had secured lot of jewelry belonging
to him and he became desnondent in eosasa-
quence
A Cincinnati dispatch says letters received
there state that E. B. Humph reys who is in
Holland collecting testimony for the Anneke
Jams heirs, has been threatened with ass assina-
ton unless he returns to this county and
gives up the search.
Sttphen r. Kirby recently appointed and
confirmed as supervising inspector of steam
vessels for the second district of the United
States, entered Friday upon the duties of his
office. The district includes New York,
Albany, Philadelphia, Boston, Portland and
New London.