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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

CAPTAIN EADs, having got the Miss
issippi jetties off his mind, is looking
around for some new enterprise to take
up his time, and has revived the scheme
of building ship railway, instead of
ship canal, across the Isthmus of
Panama. The idea is to lay track
forty or fifty feet wide, construct car
big enough to float a ship, and locomo-
tive powerful enough to draw the load,
and then Just take the vessel out of one
ocean, carry it across and dump it into
the other. The scheme will probably
strike the average reader as rather
chimericaI, and it is not likely anything
will come of it, but in these days hardly
any thing is to be set down as impossible.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14
Fiat Justitia, Ruat Jurymen.
tPuck.l

Gentlemen" said Kentucky judge
to the Jury in murder case, "have
you agreed upon verdictF'
,"We have" made answer the fore
man. ag
At this moment twelve men in the
audience rose, pulled out their shooting
irons, and covered each man in the
box. ?~i4 io bc4 raf5 aE 80
There was an omiuous silence in the
court, broken at length by the voice of
the Judge from behind the desk where
he had dropped.
Gentlemen, the dignity of the law
must be respected. The first great
principles of Justice and Jurisprudence,
must and shall be maintained at all haz-
ards. Do you find the prisoner at the
bar guilty or not guiltyf"
The foreman looked at his fellow
Jurors. They glanced nervously at him.
There was hurried consultation that
lasted less than half a minute, and then
the foreman spoke up like a little
man:
/" Not guilty, your honor"
And thus they did emphasize the
fundamental principle of jury's pru-
d6uc6. s.~N
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

SHORTLY after the tragic death of
General Custer, his fellow-townsmen
of Monroe, Michigan, organized an as
sociation having for its object the col
lection Of funds TO erect a suitable
monument to the gallant soldiers men,
ory. Some time after the New York
Herald proposed a fund for similar
purpose, to which liberal subscriptions
were made. Recently the amounts col
lected by these two movements have
been combined, and are sufficient 70
carry out the object. The monument
will be erected at West Point, and be
ready to unveil some time during the
present month or early in September.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14
The Monarch Still a Man.

Who forgets the anecdote of Napoleon
and the village bells of Brientz? He
was riding late one day over a battle
field, gazing stern and unmoved on the
dying and the dead that strewed the
ground by thousands about him, when
suddenly !" those evening bells struck
up merry peal. The Emperor paused
to listen his heart had softened; men,
ory was busy with the past; he was no
longer the conqueror of Austerliz but
the innocent happy schoolboy at
Brientz; and, dismounting from his
horse, he seated himself on the stump OF
an old tree, and burst into tears. The
rock was smitten, AID living waters
came gushing from it
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

GENERAL LoNGsTREET informs the
Philadelphia Times that, in his opinion,
the organization of the Northern armies
was far superior to that Of the Southern
during the Rebellion. He accords
Grant the credit of being the best Gen.
eral, exceeding all others by his policy
of concentrating men and forces on one
point and hammeripg at it until he won.
Longstreet repeats his former opinion
that Gettysburg was lost to the rebels
by Lees blunder, in ordering Pickett
to charge Round Top with $4,000 men
against three times their number.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

COUNT DE CHAMBoRD's Manifesto is
q wonderful example of the personal
hallucination that he is necessary to
France. The Counts hobby is that
France will not really prosper SO long
as his family are not permitted to con-
troll its affairs. Like American politi-
clans who make similar pretence with
regard to this country, the Count thinks
he is alone commissioned to save his
eountrymen. But they turn deaf ear
TO his last-century entreaties. and scorn
the paternal authority of lineage
which is synonym for the most stolid
tyranny that has ever borne down the
populace Of any land.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14
Suppressed Bibles.

The following are notable examples
of suppressed Bibles: 153s-An English
Bible in folio, printed at Paris, unfinished.
1542-Dutch Bible by Jacob Van Leis-
Welt. The sixth and best edition given
by Leisvelt; and famous as being the
cause of this printer being beheaded.
1556-French Bible by Rene Benoist,
Paris. 1566-folio, three volumes, COM
pleted. 1922 Swedish Bible, printed
at Lubbock, Alto, very defective. 1866
A German Bible printed at Helmstedt,
in part only, Alto. 1671-A French Bible
by Marolles, in folio containing only the
books Of Genesis, Exodus, and the first
twenty-three chapters of Leviticus Sd
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

The yellow fever is curious disease,
and the more it is studied the less we
seem to know about it. One Of the
grearest curiosities in connection with
this plague of mankind is the case Of
the Island Of Jamaica, where the disease
prevailed for years, but where during
the last half century it has not been
known. Yellow fever is around it on
every siie-iu Cuba and in San Do
mingo but in Jamaica it is unknown.
Jamaica has no State Board nor Ma
tional Board, and consequently does not
quarantine
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

THERE is fun in being an Emperor or
Prime Minister in Europe. A CORES
pondent in describing Bismarck's visit
TO Kissingen mentions the fact that the
mans daily debut at the springs was
announced by guards in citizens clothes
running through the fields and beating
the bushes for assassins as be approached
over the grounds between his residence
and the Cursaal. The cable news now
say that q special batch of detectives
has Just been sent to the Prince at Kis.
singer. He has been playing game Of
politics, the past winter and spring
that might make an ordinary mar
afraid to stay alone with himself o
nights. IlI -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14
NUMBER u \ 4 )! 49,.
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Napeleon's First Interview With Eu-

[Correspondence New York Herald.l Z a''s
A few nights before the coup, Getat,,
President Louis Napoleon gave grand
ball at the Elysee. The wealth sand
fashion of Paris were represented there.
Perfume of flowers and strains of sweet
music filled the air. Magnificent as the
scene was, the President tired of it7and
longed to be out under the calmer light
of the stars; SO taking his friend, Edgar
Ney, the Duke of la Mowska, by the
arm, he started out through the iconserv-
atory for the cool gardens. AS he
stepped through the doorway picture
met his gaze that almost took his breath,
and for moment he stood as one in a
dream 1t was not long, however, before
he saw that the beautiful vision was
reality Standing before mirror in the
creature he had ever seen in his life. A
young lady, whose golden hair had
fallen from.its confining comb down over
her white shoulders, was trying to ar
range the truant caflsi with nervous FIN
gers. The gallantry of a Frenchman
would not permit him to stand staring
in the doorway even at so beautiful a
sight; SO, stepping quickly to her side,
the future Emperor, with courtly bow,
offered his arm to his future bride and
conducted her to a dressing room, where
she could repair the rayages of the dance
1t was case of love at first sight, and
the ardent Napoleon hastened back to
the ballroom, where he awaited with
impatience the return of the beautiful
Espagnole. Nor did his regard for Mile.
de Montijo prove transitory. His atten-
tions became so marked that one day
Mme de Montijo asked private audi
ence of the Prince, and told him that
his attentions to her daughter was the
subject of comment, and she thought
they had better leave France. This was
at st. q Cloud, where the mother and
daughter were both paying q visit. No
doubt the Prince had made up his mind
what to do, but Princes can not always
lay bare their plans The mother was
told to stay until the next day. that he
would have, something of Importance to
communicate on the morrow. Did the
ambitious old lady suspect? S. s.if lai.i
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

IT appears to be the fashion at the
present day for the young people to ar
range for picnics while enjoying an
arm-in arm walk these beautiful even
ings. We would suggest that the Car
rangements" be made at home where
the old man car be consulted on the lit
tie details, with word of advice from
mamma. Mary Ann, though enjoying
the fun at the last picnic, always re-
gretted that the whole family did not
On
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

A MAN in the insane asylum, on
Blackwell's Island, believes himself to
be steam engine. He moves one arm
backwards and forwards like piston
rod, and sounds "choo-choo" with his
mouth. If spoken to no screws his ear
around to turn off steam, whistling
loudly, which he supposes necessary be-
fore he can answer. He Immediately
starts the machine after replying. -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

be compelled to pay neither tithes, poor
rates nor rent. One or the other of
these two things is inevitable, for it is
now conceded, even by the English
landowners, that farming has ceased to
be remunerative, chiefly in consequence
of American competition. The best
thing that the British farmer, therefore,
can do, is to sell what he has there, come
here, buy a farm and become a com
petitor with us. 1t might not be alto
gether patriotic, bu. it would certainly
be profitable.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

OF this country generally the Duke of
Argyle is reported rs speaking in the
very highest terms, and declaring that he
has passed q most agreeable time in the
United States What does the Duke
know of the United States? asks the
Chicago Times. They don't really begin
until after one passes the Alleghanies,
and the Duke has been hugging tho
Northern Atlantic seaboard.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14
Slang.
Boston Herald.l

WHAT'S usually denominated slang"
is the use of sharp, short, epigrammatic
words or sentences, invented and used
by the masses, the best of which become
current in common parlance, and end
by being incorporated into the language
and recorded in the dictionary. 1t is a
notable fact that most of these strong,
incisive phrases are thrown up from the
so-called lower classes, instead of origi-
mating among the wealthy and educated,
and that we are indebted to the former
for much that is terse and strong in our
vocabulary.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

THE lawsuit instituted by the heir of
the late Dictator Rosas against Buenos
Ayres, to recover sequestrated property
valued at $4,000, 900, has been finally
decided in favor of the plaintiff. This
decision was quite unexpected, and is
looked upon as creditable to the purity
and independence of the bench. The
suit lasted fifteen years. Mrs. Terrero,
daughter of Gen. Rosas, is the successful
litigant. .
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

THE boys of Holyoke, Massachusetts,,
slide down the incline of the big dam on
their faces, the foot or so of water car
rying them with frightful velocity, and
plunging them into the deep pool below.
One of them ran silver into his abdo-
men, and had to be sewed up afterward,
but usually the sport is funny. 's'7
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

Mr.. TlLDEs Ia reported to be appre-
hensive that he may notbe able to Sc
cure the nomination for the Presidency
next year. He is said to have expressed
the fear that the defeotionsin the South,
added to the opposition in the West,
may ruin his chances.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

The demand for silver to coin the
two millions OF standard dollars per
month, required Of our mints, begins to
pull the market upward. Then it is
clear that Germauy's ruinous policy of
selling silver has been terminated, and
the demand In Austria, Italy and India
will have its influence.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

AND still they come. A company of
German capitalist, have completed ar
rangements to come to the vicinity Of
Baltimore TO engage in the manufacture
of sugar from beets. It has been demon
strated that the sugar-beet will grow to
perfection in Maryland. ra...---..
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

IT is little wonder that Memphis peo-
pie fee from the yellow fever. The ter
rible scourse ha, killed q 900 people
in this country within the past ten
years. or this number 1900 died last
year. hMf E.fH ~ -ftm
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

PROFESSOR TIcE is still predicting
that this will be the hottest summer for
two hundred years and T Professor Smith,
of Scotland, announces that . hot wave
of sesthing, biistcring sunshine is yet to
sweep down upon us.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

TIE result of the continued monopoly
Of the land by the British aristocracy
must sooner or later drive the sons of
the farmers either into the towns to en-
bark in trade, or to America to engage in
agricultural pursuits, where they would
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

FEMALE preachers seem TO have q
faculty for plunging their congregations
into hot water. What Is still more cur
ious, they plant themselves in Brooklyn
to do it. Is this sympathetic imitation ?
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14
TOPICS OF the DAy.

MEMPHIS doctors have sent their
families to places of safety, but very
few of the profession have left.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

In the view of Russian trouble it is
believed that Europe is at this moment
in an extremely critical and dangerous
condition.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

The President declines to pardon
Bennett, the disseminator through the
mails Of questionable literature.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

The Mississippi River Commission
has been organized for the purpose of
recommending river jetties and levees
costing 800 200, 900.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

JEFF DAVIS is resolved to hold on to
the property bequeathed to him in spite
of the protestations of the heirs, which
is entirely natural.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

The Chinese in San Francisco have
Marine Insurance Company of their
own and are doing good business.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

EVERY mans coat" says the Oil
City Derrick, fits fool" We don't
believe it, says the Buffalo Express. Let
the editor of the DERRICK try on some-
body's coat and see. =
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

The bee is full of beesiness in the
summer time.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

THE eucalyptus tree (the blue gum)
has for a long time been acknowledged
as natural agent antagonistic to ma
larial fevers Is it not possible that if
the eucalyptus tree were planted in the
yellow fever districts of the South it
might, if not prevented by. very bad
drainage, have good effect? 1t grows
tall and is not very pretty. In Algeria
the locust spares eucalyptus forests, and
the sea-worm never bores the wood of
Australian ships made from the "blue
gum" York Herald.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14
Conversational Prophecies.

The term "genteel people" y this,
that, or the other is every genteel" are
terms not to be used, or very seldom.
Substitute for them such words as
highly accomplished" "good taste,"
" gentIemanly, etc. It is not well for
a lady to say yes sill, and ono sir" to
a gentleman acquaintance, or frequently
to introduce the word Sir at the end of
her sentences, unless she desires to be ex-
ceedingly reserved towards the person
with whom she is conversing. Such
words as "I CUES" 81 calculate" and
4" I reckon" are to be avoided as much as
possible; and. when relating conversa-
tion, it is scarcely refined to use the sex-
preston "says he," or "says she," or
"you know" Interrupting one who is
speaking, even though it be an intimate
friend, is graceless and unbecoming.
Laughing at ones own story, isla short
way of spelling tiff it have any wit it
will be appreciated. Speaking of any
person who is at distance within sight,
it is rude manners. to point at him.
Forgetting names, or mistaking one for
another, often indicates iIl-mannered
heedlessness-thus, to say, Mr.. What
d'ye-call-him, or You-know-who, What's
her-name, or, How-d'ye-call-her.s Anoth-
er most offensive practice, is, that of
taking a person aside to whisper, in a
room where there is company. Looking
one another in the face in CONVERSE
tion is essential to secure life and in
terest- In speaking of ourself and
another person, whether he is absent or
present, propriety requires us to men
tion ourselves last, in all cases and un-
der all circumstances; thus we should
say, he and l, you and L" rs
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL'S DEATH.
Was It Planned?-SfgnincAnt Develop
7


NJ. Hellepulk, of Client, gives the lat
est description of the death of Prince
Napoleon to this effect: The Prince
gave the word to saddle and
away, and every man did the best to
obey quickly. He saw the Prince trying
to vault into his saddle "a custom he was
fond of and the saddle turned round on
his horses side. The Prince came to the
ground and Immediately drew his sword
to defend himself from the Zulus, who,
to the number of forty or fifty, were
close upon him. The horse galloped on
as soon as the Prince had lost his hold,
and Joined those of the others who were
in front. On the following day NJ. Helle-
pulk was with the force when the body
of the Prince was recovered. 1t was
found lying on the side, in recumbent
position, with one leg bent under, him,
and close to him were found three empty
revolver cartridges thus showing that
he had died only after defending him
/ self against such fearfuEodds to. the very
last. NJ. Hellepulk added that he should
not omit to mention one fact which
might be signiticant-the native who
went with the Prince party is supposed
to have been killed, but neither his body
nor his horse, saddle or bride have been
found. He wasa Natal Zulu. ssa5.na.
The Prince, it was well known, was a
famous horseman. He could vault in
his saddle while the steed was running
full speed. In the light of recent de
velopments, the slipping of his saddle
and the mysterious disappearance of the
alleged friendly Zulu who accompanied
the party, the case now appears as if the
Princes horse had been tampered with
and the friendly Zulu was really in col
fusion with the enemy. .-sisac.. - j
The following paragraph may not
prove uninteresting: There is an old
soldier now employed at the Royal Mill
tary Academy, Woolwich, who was pres
ent at the funeral of Napoleon /, at St.
Helena, in 1921. He was also at the
funeral of Napoleon III, at Chiselhurt,
in 1873, and on Saturday, July II, with
the gentlemen cadets, he attended the
funeral of the Emperor's only son. He
was in the Royal Artillery, and his name
! is Henry Weathers ..--= --.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14
Two Changers Discuss.
detroit Free Press.l


Granger A" Well, l was up in New
England last June and found them
planting-such late planting beets all
ever seed-its narrowing fact, but its
SOW, all the same" 1s-.e .- b.
Granger B." Hay day! 1 wouldn't t
give straw to farm in such slow coun-
try they ought to emigrate to Texas
and raise Cain"
A.-"That'll dew; don't rake up any
more yarns, you may get me all in a
maize. Lettuce have peas"
B." You'd better take that ear corn
of yourn to mill-et will relieve your
mind"
A" Oats is wheat to hear the early bird,
To listen to the lowing herd" I'd.
But neither is half as sweet rs seeing a
fresh Yankee girl of radishing beauty
and trying to cultivator acquaintance by
singing hoe Emma, ETC."
National Republican., 1879-05-30

"rder" placed upon this bill takes from
the supervisors and marshals all power to
enforce the laws which are designed to pro-
tect the national elections against fraud and
wrong of every character and to render them
n free, pure aud honest expression of the
popular will. The President cites re-
peated instances in which elections have
been corrupted TO an extent that called for
the safeguards which now exist, and which
it is the purpose of this obnoxious measure
to overthrow He calls the attention of
Congress to the fact that the constitution
ality of the existing law has no where been
questioned, and that no sound argument
can be brought against it. Further, he re-
minds Congress that it admits the fact in
this bill that Congressional elections are not
State elections, but national elections, and
that If the power TO supervise these Con-
gressional elections resides in the Consttu-
tion and laws of the United States, at is n
powerwhich, like every otherpowcr belong
ling to the Government of the United
States, is paramount and supreme, and in
cludes the right to employ the necessary
"means to carry it into effect"
The message is strongly put and ably de-
Tended throughout. 1t seeks to impress
upon Congress the Importance Of retaining
the existing laws relating to the purity of
the elective franchise as a matter of right
and duty, and if it possesses modicum of
candor and principle the majority which
affixed this obnoxious measure will recede
promptly from an untcnablc, if not corrupt
position, and give the Government the
needed appropriations for which they were
called specially together to provide, and
then, at an early day, return to their con-
sttuents to give an account of their UNI
proiitable Stewardship.
National Republican., 1879-05-30

TtiE same spirit that throughout the
North last summer cxcrted itself to help
thousands of the cx-mnsters who were suf-
ftring from Il terrible scourge now excrs
itself in behalf of few hundred poor ex-
slaves, who are in search of II freedom that
has been persistcntly denied them ut
their old homes. What different commcnts Is
the two facts call forth; yet in what II
broad light they stand together, and what
comment will they receive as the ages roll
by and the spirit that prompted the giycr
predominatcs over the ioolishness and weak
ness of those who sought to cnslave their
weaker fellow-men, and who now seek topre-
vent them from advancing toward q higher
goal, whcre,they may truly become citizens of
the great Republic. The givcr of money
and freedom may well stand against the op-
prcssor of mankind and blush not for the
future. The future will see these things in
their true light, and u light that will exalt
liberty and cause the descendants of the
slave power to blush for their ancestors.