The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11
NEWS zAD xozEs,
THREE-FoURTHs of the lard used in
Germany comes from America. .

IT is said that of fifty Chinese residents
vt Memphis none were attacked with
oellow fever last year or this.
The increase of our export trade is
considered one of the best evidences Of
business recovery and hopeful prospects
Of the future.
A WISCONSIN boy fired at what he
thought was scarecrow, and hit a tramp,
whose ragged clothes were Tapping In
the wind as he crossed field.
The Union Theological Seminary of
New York has x2O0,0OO in buildings and
grounds, $75O,000 in invested funds, and
an income of $50, 900 a year.
NEARLY foot (11.72 inchesl of rain
has fallen at Cincinnati since the 1st Of
August. It is the heaviest fall known
since lie keeping of record was begun,
in 1870.
Miss BAKER, of Calvert City, KY,
aged sixteen, attempted to stop SWING
with her foot and was thrown from the
swing with such violence that she died
in half an hour.
IT is said that an old man and his son
in Independence County, Ark, have
found $4,000 in silver buried in the
ground, some of which is Spanish coin
dated 1904.
IRON bridge-building is fast becoming
one of the most active and important
industries 1t rivals iron ship-building
in the consumption of iron. The market
is limitless sgsf tkEf s
A LATE resident of North Carolina,
Mr.. Jesse II. D. Reed has given by will
his whole property, amounting to $40, 900,
to three old slaves as reward for their
care of him in his declining years.
THE London newspapers tell of belle
who paid s25 to have the initials Of her
lovers name tottooed on her arm, and
later, having quarrelled with him, was
offering $500 for a means of obhteration.
ACCORDING to return made to Parlia-
ment, there are 72, 800 members of the
Church of England, 7,125 Presby terians,
1886 other Protestants, and 20,S73
Romanists, in the British army. s $.
PHILADELPHIA papers tell of the
arrival in that city of party of Italian
children, all of whom had been purposely
MANNED by the loss of an eye or Ia limb,
in order to ct them for the purpose of
begging. 4
A SON of Charles E. Jewell, of the
New York police force, who was visiting
his grandfather near Poughkeepsie,
while gathering apples in an orchard,
was stung by number of hornets, and
died from the effects of the stings in half
an hour. 5qa.3n g5Vs9 f s1e
A FLORIDA man who owns 10000
cattle, and is richer than anybody else in
the State, is recluse, living in a shanty
which has neither fireplace nor chimney.
He sells his surplus cattle in Cuba; he
seldom sees men, and hides his money in
cans on his land. b53l"
BOB MCCoRKLE,t lately hanged at
| TaylorvilIe, n. c., was one of the few
murderers who did not feel sure of going
from the scafold direct to heaven.
Kind friends" were his last words,
remember me in your prayers tonight,
for don't know where Pll be-"
| THE Rev. Mr.. Munson, who lately as
tonished a Worcester congregation Of
Adventists by stepping down from the
platform and marrying himself to
| young woman, is now astonished to find
himself in Jail on a charge of bigamy.
| He is said to have a wife and four
children in Kansas.
IT is quite remarkable fact that the
ladies of Boston are not generally quail
flying themselves to take advantage of
their rights as voters. 1t is not popu-
lar idea with the ladies. A few who
conceive it to be their duty to do so
press the matter, but the large majority
feel no interest in the subject.
Mr.. HORACE BREEs, of Horseheads,
exhibited a seven-inch, cannon ball at
the Free Press Office this morning, which,
/ = I,,or he
| Horseheads upon which General Sulli-
vans forces encamped century ago.
The farm upon which it was found is now
the property of Mr.. Peleg Taber.-Fres
| Press. ...--.
CHINESE diamonds are found chiefly
| in the providence of Shantung. The
diamond-hunters put on thick shoes OF
straw, and then simply roam about. the
valleys and the rivers. The rough and
pointed gems penetrate the straw and
stick fast. The shoes are heaped to-
gether and burned, and the diamonds
are found in the ashes.
| The Rutland (Vt.) Herald of Monday
says: The "oldest inhabitant" now pre-
diets an early fall, giving as reason
that robins, meadow 1arks and swallows
usual, preparatory to their migratory
flights The present weather appears to
sustain the old residents theory, for a
more chilling and disagreeable rain is
seldom experienced.
| A YOUNG student, who was recently
arrested in Moscow after he had fired
four shots at his captors, was asked his
name. He answered boldly, Russian
Revolutionary Alexander Nicolaeyitch
Pletnef, aged twenty-four." When
asked why he fired the shots, he replied
that by the laws of the society to which
he belonged he was bound to take some
body's life before resigning his own.
| THOMAS H. SToPFELL and Helen
Reed were married at Ebensburg, Pa,
against the Reed family's wishes, the
brides brother, particularly, having op-
posed the match. The young couple
were at the village hotel, getting ready
to start on a honeymoon tour, when the
brother dashed into the room in great
rage, and attempted to shoot Stopfell.
The girl saved her husbands life by
seizing her brothers pistol; but the ex-
citement speedily caused her death.
ONE of the latest novelties, combining
both use and beauty, is the invention OF
a Frenchman. 1t is tiny gold lamp,
small enough to be suspended from a
watch chain, which will actually burn
for twenty minutes, giving sufficient
light by which to go to bed. 1t is car
ried more by gentleman than by ladies,
as the latter are less apt to be placed in
circumstances where it will be needed.
I Mrs. VILET, who lately died at New
Albany, Ind, divided the mature part
of her life into three distinct and con-
trasting periods. She was for ten years
washerwoman, working hard for a bare
subsistence, Then she went into busi-