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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15
Wheat Growing Maxims.

Somebody has been at the trouble OF
| condensing a great deal of information
about the wheat growing, as follows, into
very small compass. and somebody else has
SET it ahoat without giving credit TO the
author:
The best soil for wheat ia rich clay
loan
2. Wheat likes good, deep, soft bed
g. Clover turned under makes jnst such
he'd
The bes seed is heavy, oily, plump and
clean
5. About two inches is the best depth
for sowing the seed
g. The drill puts in the seed better and
cheaper than broadcasting.
7. From the middle Of September to the
last of October is the best time for SOW
ing.
s. Drilled, one bushel of seed per acre
If sown broadcast, two bushels.
9. One heavy rolling after sowing does
much good.
10. For -four, cut when the grain begins
to harden; for seed, not until 1t has har-
dened,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15

hearts. 1t is the bower of retirement and
the home of the family.
Our rural homes should be as beautiful
as our purses and tastes will enable US to
make them. II our means have provided
ample space for a comfortable house, ii
should be surrounded by lawn and orna-
mental grounds, planted with fruit and
shade trees, shrubs, flowers, a well appoin.
ted garden filed with the choicest vegeta-
bles for the use of the family; and if our re-
sources and tastes permit u- to keep a
horse, we ought by all means keep a COW,
as the care of keeping both Will add but
little ITO the mans labor who cares
for the ground and garden. If the family
is large, and horses are kept, good COW
will be a comfort and pleasant feature Of
the place at but little expense.
1t will be better to have an experienced
gardener lay out and occasionally superin-
tend the garden and grounds, unless you
can afford to keep good gardener through
the summer. knowledge of garden and
lawn decoration is an accomplishment suit
ably becoming the lady and gentlemen of
any well conducted rural home. For, un-
less the proprietors understand their busi.
ness, both within and without doors, the
employees soon become masters and mis-
tresses of the situation, and the manage
ment of the place will be perverted to
the interests of others. How much of the
happiness of rural life depends upon the
care bestowed upon the house, the grounds
the garden, the fruit, the flowers, the horse
the COW, aud the birds by ourselves, can
only be estimated by him who has bestow.
ed that care, and who reaps the pleasure
flowing therefFom.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15
How to Avoid q Bad Husband.

Never marry for wealth. A woman's
sesses.
Never marry a fop, who struts about
dandy like in bis kid gloves and ruffies,
with a gold headed cane, and rings on his
fingers.
Never marry niggardly, close listed
mean, sordid wretch, who saves every PEN
ny, or spends it grungingly. Take care
less he stint you to death.
Never marry a stranger, whose charac-
ter is not known OF tested. Some girls
jump into the fire with their eyes wide
open.
Never marry a nope or a drone-one
who draggles through life, one foot after
the other, and lets things take their own
course.
Never marry a man who treats his own
mother or sisters unkindly or Indifferent
ly. Such treatment is sure or indication
of mean and wicked man.
Never on any account marry a gambler,
a...profane person, one who in the least
speaks lightly of God or of religion
Such a man will never make good hus-
band.
Never marry sloven, a man who is
negligent of his person or dress, and is FL
thy in his habits. The external appear
ance la an index to the heart
Shun the rake as a snake, viper, demon
Avoid him.
Finally, never marry a man who is in
Spirits. Depend upon it you are better
off alone than you would be tied to man
whose breath is polluted, and who ia being
destroyed by alchehol.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15
Hints About Rural Homes.

Happiness is the grand aim of life, and
to secure the fullest blessings we must cul-
tivate the mind and all the graces of the
spirit. We always associate leisure, inno-
cence and peace with rural life, combined
with the kindred joys which competence
and contsntment bring. Almost our first
thought of country home is one of pure
air, green earth, gentle breezes laden with
the breath of many flowers and whispering
pleasure, and where every shade promises
cool and sweet repose. The thought of
rural is fnll of promises of the fond ideal
and of cherished meditation. Every per-
son of sentiment reverts to the country
with the pleasant anticipations; it is feel
ing inbred in our very natures. Fields,
meadows and groves, singing birds and
fragrant flowers, running brooks and gra-
zing herds, are ever the delight OF man
kind.
Money making is not one of the incenti-
tiyes of . country residence upon which q
practicrl or sensible man builds ardent
hopes. NOk uOeh q Llhu Vi bOuuu JuORIuenL
seek country home upon which to fool
ishly squander the fortune his industry
and economy have enabled him to accumu-
late through years of toll and sacrifice and
self denial. But il is the place where he
can realize the cherished tastes of cultiva-
ted thought, refinement and study-the
place where is fond ideals, long antici.
pated, lbecome the real real, epjoyments
Of rational realities-the quiet abode Of
requirement and domestic ease--the place
of rest-the place where the alter is sa-
cred to the affections, and where love ra-
diently reigns supreme, and peace spreads
even the frugal board, and joy is reflected
from face to face, making home happy
where freedom and Independence proclaim
the man king, the woman queen, and their
darlings princes and princesses, in this ru-
raj Kingdom. Here the greatest fortune is
the wealth of domestic affection, and the
sweetest sounds the cadences of loving
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15

named after the idea of your life; you are
becoming SO.
In all right courses of life, man reso-
lutely desirous of becoming wiser, q bet
ter informed, better disciplined, more use
full individual, will find his thoughts, both
of the end and way, get clearer as he pro-
ceeds IN his work. He sees more truly and
more brightly what it ia that he wants; be
sees more fully the means for its attain
ment. And with better prospects, both OF
the end and way, there comes inward mo-
tives for the self improving effort of the
journey.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15

The people should understand the
difference between greenbacks and
bank notes. Among the most impor-
tant we will mention the fact that the
greenbacks bear no interest Except
in individual transactions) while the
bank note is perpetually drawing in
terest from the people, whether it is
in the channels of trade or locked up
in q vault; and all this interest, too
comes from the toiling millions that a
few privileged ones might live in idle
ness and luxury. 'Tis this taxing the
workers to support the drones that all
Greenbackers protest against. There
is no excuse for the accused policy,
and the American industrial classes
should submit to it no longer.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15

Richard NJ. Bishops power of doing
mischief by turning criminals of the
worst classes loose toprey upon society
is at end. 1t wonld be a righteous
retribution If every burglar pardoned
by him would rob him professionally,
if the beastly villainous manner would
call and operate on him, if those con-
victed of manslaughter and pardoned
by him, the pardoned murderers finish
him; the goughls resurect him, and
the young saw bones dissect him and
make a dancing jack of his bones
He can retire to his grocery store and
congratulate himself on having the
execrations of every community in
which he has turned loose condemn
ed criminal.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15
List of M0rgan's Men Who We're Con.
fined In the Ohio Penitentiary.

The following comprises q complete list
Of the Morgan Raid men that were in the
Ohio Penitentiary:
Brigadier General ohm H. Morgan.
Colonel Basil w. Duke, 2nd Kentucky
cavalry:
Colonel R. S. Clarke, Eight Kan lucky
cavalry.
Colonel D. H. Smith, Fifth Kentucky
cavalry.
Col. R. c. Morgan, Fourth Kentucky
cavalry.
Col. w. w. Ward, Wards Tennessee
cavalry.
Lieutenvnt Colonel C. Coleman, Eighth
Kentucky cavalry.
Lieutenant Colonel J. T. Tucker, 9TH
Kentucky cavalry.
Major R. S. Bullock, Eighth Kentucky
cavalry.
Major W. G. Bulitt, sixth Kentucky
cavalry.
Major J. B. McCreary, eth Kentucky
cavalry.
Major W. G. Owen, Tenth Kentucky
cavalry,
Major Thomas Steele, Third Kentucky
cavalry.
Major T. B. Webber, second Kentucky
cavalry.
Maj. w. p Elliott, Davidson Commits
sary.
Major H. A. Highly, Division Commis
sion.
Captains D. R. Williams, P. H. Thorpe
w. G. Shane, E. F. Chatham, Thomas 8
Morgan, staff officers. Lieutenant J. T
Cole and T. A. Moreland, line officers.
Second Cavalry-Captain r. Sheldon,
E. W. McLinn, Lieutenants T. w. Bullitt
Andy Berry.
Third Kentucky Cavalry-Captain E
D. Warner, J. H. Wolf j. B. Aaker, M
D. Logan.
Fifth Kentucky Cavalry--Captains c
G. Campbell, l.. D. Hollowald. Alex
Thomas, f. w. Combs, J. L. Jones, E. S
Dawson. First Lieutenant J. NJ. Bowman
Sixth Kentucky cavalry-Captains R
" Logan, w . EuWaros, M u ferklns,
E Roberts, E t Rochester, T H Shanks
Seventh Kentucky Cavalry-Captain {
c Mullins, ] w Mitchell, B 8 Barton, /
A Tracy, Gus Magee J S N Dickens.
Eth Kentucky Cavalry-Captains Johl
B Hunter T L Eastin, J s Ambrose.
Ninth Kentucky Cavalry-Captain
Thymas II. Hines, g NJ Coleman.
Tenth Kentucky Cavalry-Captain
Jake Bennett, John s Chapman, j I
Hawley, 8 d Hockerwaith, H Clay
Merriwether, s B Taylor, y Taylor,
| w Trafton.
Wards Tennessee Cavalry Captains
L Bennett, II G Rllis, II Griffin, J
Hooper.
The afficers were in all respects, excep
as to labor, subject to the most rigit
convict discipline Of the prison.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15
The New York Times says:

Before new National party springs
into existence at the south, the death
and burial Of a certain other National
party should be clearly ascertained.-
Just now, the contemplated creation
must be declared premature, or the ii
tie to which it aspires viii have to be
fought for with a vigorous opponent.
The National party proper-that, we
moan, which with various modiica-
tions of title has been the recognized
exponent of the genuine Greenback
doctrine--not only lives but is SO lusty
and pugnacious that it it preparing
to enter next years contest. X X \
Fairly judged, the fundamental idea
Of the National party cannot be re-
garded as either dead or dying"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15
Fun at an Election.

Shortly before noon on election day
chap whose boot heels showed four kinds
of Clay and streak of plank road soil
besides, and whose general make up was as
fierce as that of any Texas Jack on the
prairie, appeared at the upper precinct of
the Eleventh Ward. Some folks thought
he was a candidate. but he wasn't Others
thought he voted in that ward, but he
didn't.
II come to see the fun and like enough
to square off to few myeelf," he replied
to those offering. tickets, and he took
call some one else liar and row to be-
gin.
Nothing transpired, however, to disturb
the general peace and harmony, and after
about half an hour the young man slid
down off his perch end sain to citizen:
"What in the blazes do you call this,
anyhow"
1T is an election was the reply.
mighty thin this for an electionl Why
out in my town we only poll 120 votes but
We are all day doing it, and we average
one knock down for every five ballots put
through the window! Pm just dying to
see row, but you are all SKINNED milk
folks around there"
The good citizen did not want the stran-
ger to carry home bad impression of De-
troit, and after looking around bit he
said:
"Down around the corner is a saloon
I shouldn't wonder if you'd find some OF
the boys in there, If you want to rouse any
of them just smash their hats over their
ears and tell them that your wild cat
from the oak openings"
"Good -wildcat-hanged if don'tp
chuckled the young man, and away be
danced.
In about twenty minutes a boy came
running for an officer and said that man
had been killed. In the roadside ditch was
a barrel. Jammed into the barrel, head
first, was the wild cat from the interior,
and the man who jammed him sat on the
saloon steps singing "My Grandfather's
Clock" squirting up and down for lost
overcoat button. When the wildcat was
pulled out of his retreat his overcoat was
split in two, his Shirt was nearly torn of,
and his nose and ewes had butcher sh op
look:
whats all this?" demanded the officer,
as he rendered the loan of a handkerchief.
"Been licked" was the humble reply.
"Who by?"
81 dunno. / didn't git to see morn half
of him."
"Arent you the chap who was blowing
around up at the polls sbott the fun at
your town meetings?"
~ are."
"And what do you think now"
II think your darned old town is one
ahead fus," replied the young man as he
pulled some grass to wipe his nose. "This
is the 6rst time ever saw man barreled
up for market after being licked! l am
ready to 60 home as soon as find my hatl
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15
From The Chicago Sentinel
PARNELL IN AMERICA.

Parnell, the agitator and reformer
has arrived in New York.
His visit to America is for the pur-
pose Of obtaining assistance, political
and pecuniary, for Ireland.
While here the old political par
ties will vie with each other in ma
king political capital out of his mis-.
sion to America.
Democratic orators, who have new
er been known heretofore to have said
n word, performed an act or contrib
uted a cent to the cause Of Irish enan-
cipation will be loud in their profess
sions for sympathy for down trodden
Ireland.
Republican orators who have never
uttered word against the oppression
Of English Landlords, will grow elo-
quent over the wrongs of the tenant
farmer of Ireland.
The New York Times, that only a
few years ago advised American far
mers to surrender the titles to their
farms, and become tenant farmers,
will sing their praise to Parnell and
his mission.
The New Yord World, that only
few years ago informed the work
ing men of America that they might
as well make up their minds first as
last, TO come down to the level of Eu-
ropean workingmen, will throw up its
hat and hurrah for Parnell and down
rodden Ireland.
The New York Tribune, that able
organ of Jay Gould, who three years
ago would have given million dollars
to see u military monarch in the
White House, will land Parnell and
his cause to the skies.
The Chicago Tribune, which only
three years ago advised giving strich'
nine to tramps Americas evicted ten
antry will ring all the possible chan
ges on the glorious work of Parnell,
the agitator and reformer.
The Chicago Times, that declares its
preference to the English system Of
imprisonment for debt in place of the
American method, will applaud Par
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15
Self Improvement.

Propose to yourself noble object; pur-
sue i. from motives that are high. Let
what is best in you take the mastery. You
will be ranked with likewise and good long
before you are either.
And as you go ON in the course OF i'm
provement, the idea of your better self
shall become more definite, and the life Of
this idea of wisdom and goodness shall be
dearer and stronger in you. You shall be
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15
Treatment Of Consumption.

Three millions of persons die annually
of consumption. Medical resources seem
to be baffied by this malady. DR.. Talbot
Jones confesses in the New York Medical
Journal that climate is the Physicians on =
ly dependence for the cure of his consump-
tive patient. The article expresses the fol-
lowing opinion:
1. No Zone enjoys entire immunity from
pulmonary consumption.
2. The popular belief that phthisis il
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15

The Greenback conference held in
Washington City on the 9th was at
tended by delegates from all parts of
the country. The best of feeling pre-
vailed throughout the convention and
speeches were made by a number Of
representative men of the party
Wright's bill, which favors the gov
ernment loaning $500 to actual settlers
who wish to locate on government
lands was unanimously adopted.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15

Is life worth living for? or, rather, is it
worth while to live forty Eve years in a
dull little town, rising every morning with
the lark and going to bed with the chick
ems, attending church every Sunday in old
style clothes and squeekey boots, just to
have the papers say, when at last one turns
his weary toes up to the daisies: eve
have lost one of our oldest and most re.
spectacle citizens,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15

The first bill that passed the legis-
lature was an appropriation to pay
the members and clerks of that body.
It was feared that this important
item would be overlooked, which is
supposed to be the cause of the hurry.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15

nell and condemn the English landlord
system.
Every Democratic and Republican
newspaper in the country, that fol
years has been repeating and retreat.
ing the teachings of Money Oligarchs
and Land Monopolists ring take up
the shout of the ring-leaders and 90
fantastic over Parnell and his great
work in behalf of the Irish tenantry.
Every small headed, narrow minded
penny-souled, nincompoop politician
In the land-men whose thoughts have
never extended beyond the limits of a
ward or township caucus will put
themselves to the front, chatter full
some fatter of Parnell, and repeat,
parrot-like, few sentences concern
ing the wrongs of Ireland,
The great mass of people who have
never before reached out their hands
or uttered a word to aid Ireland in its
struggle against the monstrous system
of English land laws, will shout them
selves hoarse when listening to Par
nelPs denunciation of the system,
These are the men land the news
papers that will monopolize Parnell
while he is in America.
What for?
In order to manufacture political
capital.
In order to win the Irish-American
vote in the next election.
For years these men have fostered,
upheld and protected the American
system of giving lands to railroads,
interest bearing bonds to moneyed
capitalists, special privileges to ma
tional banks, subsidies to manopolies,
fat Offices to political scoundrels and
public plumbers, power to usurers po-
litical preferment to unprincipled ad-
Yenturers. legislative aid to the rich
as against the poor, whereby the peo-
pie of this country are fast drifting
into the same condition which exists
in Great Britain, where the MANY
sow.and the few reap, where the few
absorb the earnings of the many,
where the few live in luxury and splen-
dor, while the many suffer for even
bread and meatl
The only men and only newspapers
(chief among which is the Irish
World that have had the manhood
and courage to denounce the English
tenant system and extend aid and
comfort to the Irish people in Ireland
are the labor and finance reformers,
found principally in the ranks of the
Greenback party.
The Greenback cause in America
runs parallel with the Irish cause in
Ireland.
The Greenback fight against the
Money Powerin America, is the same
as the Irish fight against the English
landlords.
The Greenback fight for the enfran-
chisement of American Labor is the
same as the fight in Ireland for the
emancipation OF the Irish race.
Opposition to the money o1igarchs
of America is the same as the opposi-
ton to the titled "aristocrats" of G., eat
Britain.
The war against the wrong in Amer
lea is the same as the war against the
wrong in Ireland.
The great struggle for the Right in
America is the same as the struggle
for the Right in Ireland.
The great struggle for Liberty, Fra
ternity and Equality is the same the
world over-in Ireland, in Russia, in
Germany, in Cuba and in America.
To .Parnell and to all his co.
workers in the glorious cause of the
emancipation of Ireland from the ty-
ranny of British rule let Greenbackers
throughout the United States extend
q hearty greeting.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15
Notice to Trespassers.

Notice is hereby given that any one
hunting or shooting on my premises will
be prosecuted TO the full extent of the law:
A. r. Heck,
Our charges are 25 cents for each name
attached TO this notice.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15

The National Greenback Conven-
ton will be held in Chicago on the
20 of May.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15

A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature reducing fare on the rail-
roads to two cents per mile.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-15
Somerset Ohio, January Is, 1880.

Hon. James A. Garfield was elec-
ted United States Senator yesterday.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-16

The Republican program, as indicated
in Congress, seems to be to obstruCt busi'
ness, probably with view to an extra
session of the next Congress, when they
will have the majority in the House,a and
will have more of chance to swing
things to suit themselves as they used to
do years ago, when rings and lobbyists
run things in Credit Mobilier, DeGol.
yer way. Those we're happy, Republi-
can times, which they hope will soon
return. Their horde of punderers are
hungry, for, during the last six years Of
Democratic Houses of Congress they had
poor picking.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-16

SECRETARY of State Barnes is accused
of paying thirteen cents pound for pa
per for the state, when the ruling price
was n. Under date of Dec. 9Th, the En-
q,irer says:
III, W. Derby, contractor for the state
paper, drew his first money from the
Treasury yesterday on his bonanzi
contract. His bill was for $32 $50 II,
"the first installment. of some $50, 600 or
100000 he proposes drawing, provided
"the Legislature takes no hand in stop
"ping the suave and disinterested gem
"tleman's little game"
Derby's bid was just small fraction
less than the others on each kind of pa.
per bid for-just enough to get the con-
tract from Secretary Barnes. 1t would
seem kissing goes by favor.