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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20
ARuined Girls ReYenqe.

Miss Anna Hoff, of Newport, KY, shot and
instantly killed Charles Scheuer, young man
twenty three years old, of the same place, on
Friday last. The shooting occurred little
after 6 o'clock in the morning. 1t appears that
Scheuer had long been keeping Annals COM
pany, and under promise ofmarriage had ruined
her. Approaching her advanced condition,
Anna had repeatedly demanded of seheurer
that the marriage ceremony be per-
formed. As often as she made that
demand did he refuse to grant it, his plea
universally being that he was unable to sup
pore wife. Finally, at an early hour last
Friday morning, Anna went to the house OF
her brother, revealed to him her condition, and
requested him to accompany her to Scheuer's
boarding house, declaring her intention to COM
pei him to marry her to protect her honor.
She showed him a weapon which she carried,
and he advised her to leave it behind, but that
she refused to do. He then told her he
would not go with her. She said, every well,
them can go alone" He finally accom-
panied her. When they arrived at Scheuer's
boarding house he was not up yet. AT her re-
quest the young man was called. He soon ap-
peared in the room in which the brother and
sister were waiting, and sat down upon chest
The girl made known. the nature of her visit,
and asked him again if he would marry
her to protect her honor. He said he
had NO money to support her. She told
him she would not ask him to sup
port her. She would live at home with
her parents where she had good home. All
she wanted, she told him was for him to pro-
tect her honor by going through the marriage
ceremony. He then refused upon the plea that
he did not have the money to pay for the sim
plest ceremony. She offered to go before a
squire He did not have the money even to
pay for that. Her brother then offered to pay
the expenses. He replied by sayiny that he
had firmly made up his mind in the matter.
This was too much, and Anna, who held her
pistol concealed in front of her under her
shawl, shot without taking the weapon from its
place of concealment, killing the young man
almost instantly. She and her brother then
left the house. Miss Hoff went directly to the
Chief of Police and surrendered herself. Upon
the body of the young man was found $195 in
green backs, a note for $50, and silver watch.
Besides, he had money coming to him from
neighbor to the amount of $50. Scheuer is
from Canton, Ohio.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20
A Holocaust in New York.

A fire in New York few days ago resulted
in seven deaths, the building burned being
tenement house at No. so Cannon street.
Mary Babiska, who occupied apartments on
the third floor, leaped to the street, and was
probably fatally injured. Joseph Botzkie,
who lived on the fourth floor, unable to escape
by the roof stairs, threw himself from a
window and was killed. His entire family
consisting Of wife, two children and mother
n-law, were suffocated. When the cries of the
neighbors brought the police and fremen
to the house, Botzkie was seen rushing
wildly to the window of his bedroom and re-
turning, asst endeavoring to drag something
with him. The smoke drove him back, but he
returned again. This time sheet of fame
shot into his face, and with despairing cry he
seized the window frame and sprang out. The
distance was not so great, but in his descent the
mans feet were caught by the Intel of the win
dow below, and he was turned head downward
Thus he struck the pavement with a sickening
thud, and was dead before he could be raised.
Flames and smoke now poured through the up
per story windows from which not groan was
heard, and no sign of life was seen after the fall
of Botzkic. But the fremen were Mt work, and
soon the flames were under control. When at
last the top floor gained four human bodies,
closely huddled together on the bed in the
little side room, met the cyes of the fremen.
Half conscious, probably, and struggling
to rouse herself, with the cries of her
husband ringing out from the window, whether
he made his two Intellectual attempts to come
to her assistance or not is not known but
the wife had rolled upon the floor and
reached her chidren's room, her first thought
being for them. Then the smoke had over
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

The moonshine distillers of North
Carolina are giving the federal officials
OF that State a world of trouble. AS
fast as their Illicit whisky is seized the
moonshiners recover their property by
means of writs of replevin issued by the
State courts. The government officers
have adopted another method of deal
iug with the trouble. They have
secured the indictment in the Federal
Courts of quite number of the State
officials who issued the writs of replevin,
and now the Supreme Court of the
United States will, in all probability, be
called upon to settle another question
involving conflict of jurisdiction
between the Federal and State Courts.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20
Sorrows Of Genius
Homer was a beggar,
Spencer died in want.

Spencer died In want.
Cervantes died of hunger.
Terrance, the dramatist, was a slave.
Dryden lived in poverty and distress.
Sir Walter Raleigh died on the scat
fold.
Butler lived life of penury and died
poor.
Bacon lived a life of meanness and
distress.
Plautus, the Roman comic poet,
turned mill.
Paul Borghese had fourteen trades,
and yet starved with all.
Tasso, the italian poet, was often dis
tressed for five shillings.
Steele, the humorest, lived a life of
perfect warfare with bailiffs.
Otway, the English dramatist, died
prematurely, and through hunger.
Chatterton, the child of genius, and
misfortune, destroyed himself at Is.
Bentivoglio was refused admittance
into hospital he had himself erected.
Savage died in a prison at Bristol,
where he was confined for debt of $40.
The death of Collins was through neg
lect, first causing mental arrangement.
Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield :"
was sold for trifle to save him from the
gripiof the law.
Fielding lies in the burying-ground of
the English factory at Lisbon, without a
stone to mark the spot.
Milton sold his copyright of "Para-
disc Lost" for $75, at three payments,
and finished his life in obscurity.
Camoens, the celebrated writer of the
Lusiad,' the great Portuguese epic,
ended his life, it is said, in an almshouse,
and, at any rate, was supported by a
faithful black servant, who begged in
the streets of Lisbon for him.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20
AN ALASKAN GLACIER
Plucktng Flowers from the Edge of tho
Mighty Mass of Ice.

San Francisco Bulletin
Arriving opposite the mouth of the
ford, we steered straight inland between
wooded shores surprisingly beautiful,
and the grand glacier came in sight, ly-
ing at home in its massive granite valley,
glowing in the early sunshine, and ex-
tending most noble invitation to come
and see. After we are fairly between
the two majestic mountain rocks that
guard the gate of the ford, the view that
was unfolded fixed every eye in wonder
ing admiration. No written words, how
ever built together, can convey anything
like an adequate conception of its sub
lime grandeur the noble simplicity and
the fneness Of the sculpture of the walls;
their magnificent proportions; the cas-
cade, garden and forest adornments; the
placid waters between them; the great
white ice wall stretching across in the
middle and the snow-laden mountain be-
yond
Sailing directly up to the sunken brow
of the terminal moraine, we then seemed
to be separated from the glacier only by
a low, tide-leveled strip of detritus, a
hundred yards or so in width; but on so
grand scale are all the magnitudes of
the valley that we afterward found it to
be mile or more.
The Captain ordered the Indians to
get out the canoe and take as many of
US ashore as wished to go, and accom-
pany us to the glacier also, in case we
should desire them to do so. Padding
to the nearest and dryest looking portion
of the moraine we stepped ashore, but
gladly wallowed back into the canoe, for
ho 70 do
the mountain meal and kept unstable
by the tides, at once took us in, swallow
ing us feet foremost. Our next attempt,
made nearer the middle of the valley,
was successful, and we soon found our
selves on good gravely ground. 1 made
haste in direct line for the huge ice
wall, which seemed to recede as we ap-
preached. The only difficulty we met
was network of icy streams, at the
largest of which we halted, not willing
to get wet in fording. The Indian we
had with us promptly carried us over the
difficulty on his back.
Standing in the gateway of the glori-
GUS temple, and regarding it only as a
picture, its outlines may be easily traced.
There is the water foreground Of pale,
milky-blue color, from the suspended
rock-mud issuing from beneath the
grinding glacier-one smooth sheet
sweeping back five or six miles like one
of the lower reaches of great river At
the head the water is bounded by bar
rier wall of bluish-white ice from 500 to
600 feet high, few mountain tops cov-
cred with snow appearing beyond it. On
either hand stretches series of majestic
granite rocks from 5000 to 1000 feet
high, in some places bare, in some for
rested and well-patched with yellow
green chaparral and fowery gardens, es-
pecially about half way up from top to
bottom, and the whole built together in a
general, varied way into walls, like those
of Yosemite Valley, extending far beyond
the ice barrier, while their bases are
buried in the glacier. This is, in fact, a
Yosemite Valley in process of formation,
the modelling and sculpture of the walls
nearly completed and well planted.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20
The Rain Tree.

Some travellers in Colombia, South
America, in traversing an arid and
desolate tract of country, were struck
with strange contrast. On one side
there was a barren desert, on the other
a rich and luxuriant vegetation. The
French Consul at Loreto, Mexico, says
that this remarkable contrast is due to
the presence of the 1amai caspi, or
the rain tree. This tree, which grows to
height of sixty feet, with diameter
of three feet at its base, possesses the
power of strongly attracting, absorbing
and condensing the humidity of the
atmosphere. Water is always to be seen
dripping from its trunk in such quantity
as to convert the surrounding soil into
veritable marsh. 1t is in summer
especially, when the rivers are nearly
dried up, that the tree is most active.
If this admirable quality of the rain tree
was utilized in the arid regions near the
equator, the people there living in misery
on account of the unproductive soil
would derive great advantages from it's
introduction, as we'll as the people of
more favored countries where the climate
is dry and droughts are frequent
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20
Result of Absent Mindedness.


Aha! you won that bet, l see," said
Main street man to his neighbor as
they. started for the train yesterday
morning.
Won that betp" he wonderingly re-
piled; what do you meanT'
Oh, you know what mean; let me
congratulate you upon looking so sweet
this morning"
Selling his friend by the arm, the
astonished man who was "looking SO
sweet" turned purple with rage as he
yelled:
Look-a-here! Pm not going to take
any taffy" or nonsense from you;
what are you giving me?'
" You needn't get mad about it," said
the tatfy tosser; was only compliment
ing you on your new hat"
The sweet looking" man yanked of
his head covering, gazed at it abstract
edly moment, and exclaimed:
!" By jingo! it's my wife's Derby"
Then he lifted up his voice and bel
lowed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20
A lightning Picture OF Death.

A New York correspondent says of
the sights to be seen from the elevated
road: In a room whose windows were
flung wide apart to catch cool breath
from without, woman had lain down
to die. The engine was turning curve
with us, and we went at pace so slow
that we could see the terrible tableau Of
that death scene, and almost hear the
sobs of the living. The room was on
the corner; with small effort l might
have touched the window as we steamed
along. 1t was close and stuffy She
lay stretched on her bed, which was
drawn near the window for air. Near
her a tallow candle tiickered and flared
and cast fitful rays of light on brass
crucifx. The family knelt, except a
slip of girl, who stood near, tanning
the dying creature for whom life was so
soon to be happily ended"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20
AN interesting decision has lust been

AN interesting decision has just been
rendered at Springfield, Mass, in which
Joseph Parker, Holyoke liveryman
has been awarded 50, ,433 against Father
Andre B. Dufresue. Parker sued the
priest, whose parishoner he was, for
$4,000, for breaking up his business by
telling his flock that they must not pat
ronize him, and forcing them to obey
his commands by threats of excommuni-
cation, purgatory and other dire evils.
The case will be appealed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

A SINGULAR case has just been de-
cided at Pomeroy, o. William Tucker
sued the Board of Education and re-
covered $35 damages for depriving his
daughter of the privileges of the public
schools. The Board having decided that
all pupils should study drawing, and
Tucker having notified the teacher that
his daughter must not study that branch,
she was expelled. Tucker then sued
the B ard, with the result already
stated.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

A WOUNDED man sitting up in bed
and taking medicine from a teaspoon,
while he grasps a revolver in each hand
to guard against surprise and assassina-
tion-this is the grotesque attitude in
which visitors now find Shepherd, who
last week killed his brother outlaw and
desperado, jesse James, in Missouri.
Shepherd was about as notorious q
scoundrel as James, having robbed sew
eral banks with him and killed his man.
He slew bis comrade in the name of the
law, and will probably have the doubt
full credit of it, but it is not surprising
that he keeps a lookout for the next
avenger.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

ANTHONY CoMsToCK, employed by
the Government to look after it's morals,
has procured the arrest of number of
the leading lottery dealers of New
York. Between these direct attacks,
and the ruling of the Post Office De-
partment that business letters addres; ed
to them are not mailable, the lottery men
are having a hard time. Lotteries were
long ago decided to be contrary to the
public veal, even waen most fairly con-
Quoted
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20
ME-. DE LEssEps delivered a lecture

M. F. DE LEssEPs delivered lecture
recently at the Sale on the Boulevard
des Capucnes on his favorite subject,
the Panama Maritime Canal. The emf
nent engineer read several documents,
among them decree signe by Don
Gerardo Ortiga, Governor of the State
OF Panama, ordering the Minister of
Finance to provide for all the costs
necessary in NJ. de Lesseps' American
journey. The lecturer announced his
departure for the commencement of
December; he will be accompanied by
his wife and children. In the front row
was the Marquis de Molins, the Spanish
Ambassador, who attended to show his
gratitude on behalf of the sufferers by
the inundatioDs in Murcia, for whose
benefit the lecture was given.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20
Changing the Color of the Eyes. S

The strangest news coming to us from
Germany even stranger than that the
efleminate Viennese should welcome the
man who conquered them at Koniggratz
lis that learned doctor has discovered
means of dying human eyes any color
he likes, not only without injury to the
delicate orbs. but, as he asserts, with
positive advantage to the powers of
sight. He can not only give fair ladies
ewes black as night or blue as orient skies
by day, but he can turn them out in hue
of silver or gold. He says golden eyes
are extremely becoming. Nothing goes
down without grand name; therefore,
the German doctor calls his discovery
"Occular Transmutation." He declares
himself quite ready to guarantee success
and harmlessness in the operation.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

THE Saltwater Lumberman knows
about how it is. 1t says: strangers
judge town or county by the appear
ance of local papers. A good home
paper has a constant influence in draw
ing people and money into a place. A
poor paper, if it has any influence,
rather drives them away" 1t is evil
IDENTIFY then a city's duty to support q
good paper in such liberal way that it
can afford to be first class in every re-
spect.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

NOT only are European powers fear
fully Increasing the number of their
armies, but they al'o are busy in build
ing lew fortressea. Thus, in order to
neutralizs the stronghold of Belfort, on
the French frontier, fortified camp is
to be constructed by the Germans at
New brisach, ON the Rhine. This is
evidently one Of the many measures for
defence r commended by Won M,ltke,
who has just finished Lis inspection of
the military situation of Germany, in
h newly ann, xed province of Alsace.
Lorraine.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

AS AN illustration as to what degree
men will 20 to crafty an unnatural
viciousness in human nature, we need
but cite to q recent care of litigation at
Plain City, Ohio. A lawsuit has been
going on there for sometime over an iron
bolt worth forty cents. The cost to the
htigants have already amounted to
over $500
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

A LITTLE boy tumbled into barrel
of molasses. He was fished out by a
gentleman who said: "Boy, what is
your name and how do you feelY' The
lads reply was "Short and sweet" The
gentleman remarked that he was in a
hurry, and he could only stop long
enough to assure the boy that he stood a
fair show of being president some day.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

ANOTHER secret printing office has
been discovered by the Russian police
in St. Petersburg, and this time in one
of the most fashionable quarters of the
capital. When the police entered the
house they found about twenty persons,
some of whom are supposed to belong
to the best classes of society, engaged
in printing a forbidden pamphlet.
Among them were three women.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

The Government of President Diaz
has again received the support OF the
Legislature, despite all the rumors to
the contrary, relative to probable
change in the Ministry. The Cabinet
question was settled OH the 31st ult. in
Congress, when at the election of the
presiding officers of both Houses the Ad-
ministration candidates received de-
cisi We msjorities. The Ministerial crisis
therefore is over
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

Nine. Nilsson is to sing twelve times
in opera at Madrid during the festivi-
ties in connection with the royal mar
riage. She will be paid eighteen thou
sand dollars. For singing in single
concert, at Cologne on December 6, Patti
and Nicolini will receive twenty-five
hundred and fifty dollars. Great sing
ers are scarce nowadays, but they
know the value of their voices and make
the public pay accordingly.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

THE New York Commercial Advertiser
says that according to the opinion of At
torney General Devens, Postmasters
have no right to seize OF detain letters
suspected to relate to lottery business.
This upsets the order issued by the Posi-
Office Department, aud gives the lottery
gam blers longec lease of lie.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

AsoTHER curious fact is that seeds
especially w@eat--will stand an i'm
meuse amount of cold without injury.
Some wheat left in the polar regions by
Captain Hall, of the Polaris, in 1871,
and found by Ciptain Mares in 1875,
gerniDated and produced healthy plants
when sown under glass ON board ship.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20
challenge on condition that the Minis
ter proves that the reports are untrue.

THE editing of newspapers in Russia
will hereafter be an ca y ta-k-if the
editors OBJ y the orders of the Govern
ment. II they don't, they will go to
Siberia, and there's an end Under the
new ukase the journals may discuss no
political questions except the affairs of
England, and those "judiciously."
The Interpretation of that term in Mu'-
covite savors of the knout.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

LORD BEAcoNsFIELD's assertion that
thousands Of our Western farmers were
mavin into Canada was due to his ig-
noranc1 of North American geography.
Sir John A. Macdonald told him that
there was a large movement from the
western provinces" into Manitoba, and
he thought these provinces were our
Western States.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

FATHER ScULLY, of st. Mary's Ro-
man Catholic Church, Cambridge,
Mass, denies the sacrament and con-
fession to parents who do not send their
children to the parochial school. The
disahected members of the congrega-
tion have made formal complaint TO
their Archbishop.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

come her, and with her last strength feeling
about for her boys, she had fallen upon them
and died there. Their drawn up limbs showed
the agony of their death struggle together.
Their checks were slightly scorched, otherwise
the fire had not touched them. The smoke had
done the work effectually.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

ACCORDING to late dispatch from
Rome, the 1st number of the Aurora, a
daily Newspaper, planned and issued by
the Vatican, will appear on the 1st of
January next, as more authoritativee ex-
ponent of the Pope's views than the ex-
isting clerical newspaper.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

The Hayden trial in Connecticut
promises to take first rank among cases
purely decided by science. Thus far
all the evidence has been of that kind,
and it has been of a character calculated
to beiog the experts themselves and
bewildered laymen generally.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

The Glasgow (Scotland) News says
that 2S,0O0 householders in that city are
so poor that they cannot pay their poor
rates, and, consequently, are debarred
from voting. Glasgow never saw such
hard times as it is now passing through.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

DrELs are excessively frequent just
now in Europe, as we'll in political as in
Literary disputes. The latest case is
challeI ge sent ly the Hungarian Min
lister oi Ire Interior TO Deputy who
asked him VI the Diet whether or not
he was engaged in unlawful stock job
bing. The Deputy has accepted the
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

The amount OF lumber foated down
the Mississippi River this season is sim
ply immense. In the month of Octo-
Der alone 46, 900, 900 feet of lumber and
5000, 900 feet of logs passed through the
Government canal at Keokuk.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

The whe at producing States stand in
the following order this year: Indiana,
5000 900 bushels; Illinois, As, 700, 900 f;
Wisconsin, $4,000, 900; Minnesota, &c.
100000; Iowa, 1000; Nebraska,
25, 400, 900; Dakota, IL, 100000.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-20

The revision of the Bible now in
progress is expected to entail an ex-
pense of about 5000, 900 before the first
copy is printed, notwithstanding the
fac. that the committee on revision get
nothing for their labors except their
travelling expenses.