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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08
Driven to Suicide.

DR.. Calderwood, Professor of Moral
Philosophy in the University of Edin.
burgh, has, in his work recently pub
lished, entitled The Relations of Mind
and Brain" the following story of a
dog: "a dog belonging to United Pres
byteriau minister, killed the fowls while
the family were at church, and buried
them in the garden. The bodies were
found. The dog was taken to the garden
and Immediately confessed his guilt.
His master took him to the library, and,
having shut the door, began a repri.
mand, after this fashion: What a
wicked thing you have done in murder.
ing the hens! You are minister's dog
and should have been an example to
other dogs, instead of doing such 9
thing a. this. Then this is the Sabbath
day, and the deed is all the worse on &C
count Of the day on which it has beer
done. Thus admonished, the dog wa,
put out of the door and the door shut
Next day he was found dead. A yeteri
nary surgeon was consulted, and de-
clared that the dog had died of broker
heart"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08
OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
summarized from the proceedings of the past week.
SENATE.

The 81 Hoffman "Bounce Bill" was recon-idered,
on the ground of technical llegaty, and after sew
tral hours of spirited discussion, corrected and
again passed, by a vote of 20 to i6 The House Bill
Of Mr. Browndeld, providing for the esttblis ment
OF Children's Home in Licking County, passed
a number of House messages were read, among
them being one containing the General Appropria-
tion Bill, which read the frat and second times
under a suspension of rules.
The folio wing new bills W, introduced: Author
izing the Commissioners of Franklin County to issue
$50 COO 10 bonds, and rebuild the Broad stree,
Bridge; to provide for the punishment of defauting
Clerks and Sherifs, as embexzleis; to conine the
Of obe enoherp 70 IN Was
Vert County 10 build a railroad. The following
bills were passed: uouse bill authorizing the )ni-
missloners OF Darke County to lew a special road
tax; Senate bill authorizing the City ef Sandusky
to build railroad to Fremont; House IL author
izing the village of Celina TO build railr aau House
bill authorizing the Commissioners OF Defiance
County to levy tax for road purposes. -a
Tho following new bills were introduced: Au-
thorizing the right Of appeal to the Probate Court
against decisions of Board's of Education requ ing
security when actions brought for libel SANDER
assault aud battery malicious prosecution, islse
imprisonment Several bills were introduced by
NJ. Atkinson to allow townships to bui ra lroads
The following bills were passed. House bi author
izing the Commissioners of Gallia County to levy
additional poor TAX; House bill auth rizing the
Commissioners II Ross G ,uuty TO chanse certain
Valuations.
House bill providing for the restoration of de-
stroyed records was passed. House hill fixing the
pay OF Assessors at " per DAY was lost AND the vote
afterward reconsdered, and the bill laid on the
table. The Senate went into Committee of the
Whole n the general appropriation bill
The Senate disposed OF the appropriation bill aud
re urned IL to the House. The following bills were
passed: House bill fixing the fees OF unity Treas
urers; House bill authorizing the VILLAGE of st.
Matys, Augla Sc County, to buy gravel; House bill
authorizing the Prosecuting Attorney OF Lucas
County to employ an assistant; Senate bill author
iHlng County Commissioners and munich corpora
tions to act jointly In bui ding retaining walls;
House bill autnoi izing the transfer of bounty funds
10 aid in the erection of soldiers monuments and
monumen al buildings; Senate bill re atins to the
construction of urnpikes; House bill authorizing
the Trustees Of Lane Township Lapan County to
erect n wnship haii House bill preventing taxa
ion of villages having cemeteries for he OF
township semeierics; S.inato nili authorizing the
village Of Bucyru+ to build machine shops
The following bill were passed. Two Senate bills
aut dorzins certain ,ownsh p in Van Vert County
to Issue b0.ds and build railroads.; the Senate blt
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08
A Bow on a Farm.

Say what you will about the general
usefulness of bows, it is my impression
that farm without boy would very
soon come to grief What the boy does
is the life of the farm. He is the facto-
pecred to do the thousand indispensable
things that nobody else will do. Upon
him fall all the odds and ends, the most
difficult things. After everybody else
is through, he has to enish up, HIS
work is like woman's-perpetually
waiting on others. Every body knows
how much easier it is to eat a good din
ner than it is to wash the dishes after
wards, Consider what a hoy on farm
is required to do: things that must be
done, or life would actually stop. It is
understood, in the first place, that he is
to do all the errands, to 60 to the store,
to the post flee, and to carry all sorts of
messages. If he had as many legs as a
centipede, they would tire before night.
His two short limbs seem to him en-
tirely inadequate to the task. He would
like to have as many legs as wheel has
spokes, and rotate about in the same
way. This he tries to do; and the
people who have seen him turning
cart-wheels "along the side of the road,
have supposed that he was amusing
himself and idling his time; he was
only trying to invent new mode of To-
comotion, so that he could economic
his legs, and do his errands with
greater dispatch. He practices stand
ing on his head. in order to accustom
himself to any position. Leap-frog is
one of his methods of getting over
ground quickly. He would willingly
90 an errand any distance if he could
leap-frog with few other boys. He has
a anatural genius for combining pleasure
with business. This is the reason why,
when he is sent to the spring for q
pitcher Of water, he is absent so long
for he stops to poke the frog that sits
on the stone, or, if there is a pen'stock,
to put his hand over the spout, and
quirt the water little while. He is the
one who spreads the grass when the men
have cut it; he mows it away in the
barn; he rides the horse to cultivate
the corn, up and down the hot, weary
rows; he picks up the potatoes when
they are dug; he brings wood and water,
and splits Findling; he gets up the
horse, and puts out the horse; whether
he is in the house or out of it, there is
always something for him to do. just
before the school in winter he shovels
paths; in summer he turns the grind
stone. He knows where there are lots
of wintergreens and sweet flags, but in
stead of going for them, he is to stay in
doors and pare apples, and stone raisins,
and pound something in q mortar.
And vet, with his mind full of schemes
of what he would like to do. and his
hands full of occupations, he is an idle
boy, who has nothing to busy himself
with but school and choresi He would
gladly do all the work if somebody else
would do the chores, he thinks; and yet
/ doubt if any boy ever amounted to
anything in the world, or was of much
use as a man. who did not enjoy the
advantages of liberal education in the
way of chores.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08
A Canadian View.

In speaking of our Indian troubles,
the Toronto Nail says:
1t is gratifying to perceive that there
are at length some signs of an aroused
public opinion on the Indian question.
The outbreak of the Utes in Wet Col
orado, the massacre of the Cheyepnes,
the removal of the Poncas because they
were being decimated by the unhealthy
climate of the Indian territory, the
visits of complaining chiefs to Washing
ton, and finally the decision of the Courts
that Indians have the same legal rights
as white men, have all been SO many
convergent rays meeting in focus to
enlighten with lurid glare the Ameri.
can understanding. How comes it, as
the Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota put
it few years ago, that the Dominion
manages to keep the Indians under it's
charge contented and peaceful? Can
any doubt that the essential difference
In the condition and behavior of the
aborigines is due to the humanity and
straightforward honesty of Canada, and
Indian agents across the border? AS
the National Quarterly Revieao, to which
we are indebted for our facts. remarks ::
E" Humanity is outraged by the wrongs
which our Government permits to be
perpetrated on the Indians" Treaties
made with ali the necessary forms,
are deliberately set at nought by the
corrupt Indian agents; the clothes and
rations, although ordered in abundance,
always fall short, because the purveyors
and the agents divide the major part of
the spoils; and the property of the
Indians is systematically stolen, when
occasion offers, by reckless whites. Any
thing that fraud, violence or bad faith
can do against the poor savage, is prac-
ticed with impunity. The Indian has
taken the place of the negro, and has
no rights which white man is bound
to respect" If he submits, he is
starved by hunger and cold united; if
he is too proud to submit, and rebels,
the military are employed to massacre
him and his family, and to vindicate the
right of white men to cheat and plunder
the red men. No one pretends that
these poor creatures are civilized or that
their natures are humane, still it i'll be-
comes civilized whites to give as first
lessons in Christiao civilization, theft,
ra line, peculation and inhumanty. The
military, of course, simply obey orders :
yet, when we heard of Sheridan or Sher-
man stigmatizing the Indians as ever
min," with whom the American soldiers
have nothing To dc, exceptin the way
OF determination, il is surely full time
that Americans bes irred thems elves to
remove this foul blot from their es.
cutcheon.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

The Cincinnati Commercial is real
angry. 1t says: Should England per-
sist in nosing about in the negotia tions
between the American Commissione s
and the Chin Sc Government, to defeat
the conclusion of a treaty favorable to
our trade and commerce to the Empire,
she may have the useful organ which she
intrudes into the deliberations unpleas.
antly snubbed. England is entirely
competent to make her own treaties, but
she ought to be given to understand that
she can not exercise supervision over
those which our Government makes
with foreign nations.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

To a certain class of readers, and a
very large class, as well, May Agnes
Fleming, who died in Brooklyn on the
oath ult., was one of the best known of
writer's. She began to write under the
signature of "Cousin May Carleton"
and her novels at that stage was very
much in demand by boarding school
girls. Her later works were considered
to be rather dramatically constructed.
Like many Others, Miss Fleming was
driven to authorship by necessity. She
lived in a neat little cottage in the east
ern outskirts of Brooklyn, in very COM
Portable circumstances. She has writ
ten twenty-five or thirty books, and re-
ceived $50 a. week from an English pa
per, and 400 a week from an American
paper, for her stories. She leaves over
800 600
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

WE take the following highly season
able extract from Peck's (Milwaukee)
Sun: Wilbur F. Storey, of the Chicago
Times, announces that he desires to meet
a practical paper-maker to build mill,
Mr.. Storey to furnish a portion of the
capital and the Times to take large
part of the product. If the stakes are
not too high, the Sun would like to
buy stack of chips and set in that game
at Mr.. Storey's left. We are now play
ing against brace game, with marked
cards, and the more money we put down
the less we take up.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

A COOPERATIVE teuement-house pro-
ject has been brought out in st. Paul,
where it is proposed to put up one thou.
sand buildings on a plan which includes
every modern improvement. The fact
that the chief city in Minnesota begins
to feel the want of tenement houses is a
curious illustration of the rapidity of
the growth of that section of the coun-
try
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

KEELY, of motor notoriety, says Edi
sons electric light will not be succes,
until his motor is, because electricity
will never perform what is asked of it
until it has his motor to make it. 1t is
a little discouraging to learn that ait
will take whole year to demonstrate
the secret Of his engine and generator,
and twenty years to fully understand
itD
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

NUMBER NUMlI3;I.; /.

redaiing Ne sd of land sales IN cases Of
execution iii papsfs OF general circulation in the
community wdfe the laid Is situated; the House
making special provision for tue dstius Of 5ea es=
tate in viii ges not in orporat the Senate bill by
Mr.. KIRBY tHamiltonI ,piovidins for the issue Of
duplicate bonds Of the city u Cinsihna the Senate
bi providing for the keeping OF thrss petbooks in
the electo of Justices in cities and incorporated
villages; the Seuate bill to authorize the Cincinnati
aud Eastern p .rrow-Gauge Railroad 10 fund its
q 'ating debt; the Hous, bill BY Mr.. Groom provi :
ing for the publication Of ptitiors fir the sale Of
land befor. the term of court at wtieh tb or is
as well as afe' ward the Hous. bill regulating the
appoint m,nt of Jurors in Lucas County the Hottss
bill by M, Covert imposing fine Of from $50 to $500
for each care Of faiure on part of Ass ssor to
administer an 9th to eac, party when personal
property is list the Hou'e bill by Mr.. Hill au-
thoriz ng the Hamilton Ooenty As ieultural Society
to appropiate private property for the use Of the So
ciety; the House biil by Mr. Covert abolishing the
flee of State Inspector of Illuminating oils and
creating the office ot Sup.rv was postponed
ill next Tuesdty; author xing franklin County to
issue ssa,00l f r rrbuilding Broad street bridge;
making notice bv ietter-c'r.ier sufficient in pro-
tests making testimony in the lnwer urts avail
able in higher court.; creating Board of Fire Com
missioners In aytoni extending the life OF chatt
mortgages by two years. debarrIng no residents of
Ohio from perso al property exemption; prohibit
ing the catching Of brook Trout save by angling.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

A LIMERICK jury awarded $4,000
damages to young woman in breach
of prom ise case. Among the witnesses
for the plaintiff was Roman Catholic
priest, who, it was proved, had been
asked to give sacerdotal document,
known in Ireland as ga certificate of
freedom" to enable the defendant to
marry his present wife. Judge Dowse
said that he had never before heard of
a certificate of freedom except in the case
of slave.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

"INsLow, the sanctimonious Boston
iorger, has turned mp under an assumed
name IN Buenos Ayres, where he has
married again, is publishing a news
paper, and making addresses to Sunday
Schools.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08
A CANADA paper saws tie s'princes,

A CANADA paper says the ''Princess
Louisa attended tohoggan party" the
other night. Suppose we ask what 4
toboggan party is Hold on; we havn't
asked what it is, and we don't intend
to-. We simply say, suppose we ask what
u toboggan party is, will the reply he
such that we-that VEIN short. will
the reply be such that we shall feel we
have not compromised ourself?-PscPs
San.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

"A CHURCH nearly completed in Mos
COW has cost over $4,000, 900. Dome
and Gro are thickly plated With gold
and IT is calculated that millions of this
metal are on Russian church roofs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

TIE number of men killed by accidents
n the It. Gothard Tunnel from the
commencement of the undertaking to
the end OF February, 1880, amounted to
12O; wounded, 400.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

RECENTLY large party of negroes
from the South started for northern
ports to emigrate to Africa, under the
idea that vessel soon leaves for Liberia,
but it is now authoritatively stated that
no boat leaves for sc yeral months to
come. Evidently the negro is paying
for his geographical knowledge.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

The Supreme Court of Indiana has
struck severe blow at the employment
Of experts as witnesses in court, by de-
Gliding that they are not limited to the
fees allowed ordinary witnesses, but are
entitled to charge as for professional
services. As the prospect of getting
valuable service at low price is one of
the chief charms about securing expert
testimony, there will be less of it in In
diana in the future
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

1T is stated that good Land can be pur-
chased in Northwestern Texas (Cresby
county, Tor ffty-five cents an acre. A
Colony of ''hio and Indiana p. ople in
that section report tn mselves contented
and doing well.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

AN interesting suit is now in the
Courts of New York in regard to the
right of firm of carriage-makers to pay
a commission to a mans coachman on
the repairs to his carriage. The famous
Wall-street operator, Rufus Hatch,
noticing that his carriage was constantly
breaking down, discovered this arrange
ment with his driver. He refused to
pay the bill, the Court decided against
him, and he has appealed the case.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

1T is stated as a fact that a candidate
Tor the nomination for Governor of
Missouri is down with the me Sc,
caught in kissing the girl baby of a dele
gate to the convention.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

Mr.. BREWER, of Michigan, presented
a Tetition in the House of Congress the
other day 1888 yardsin length and signed
by 33,1S4 temperance women. II asks
for leginlatiou to prohibit the manufac.
ture and sale Of alcoholic stimulants.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

IHE New York Herald says the Saliva
ton Army already counts sixty captives
converts. rather-and for threescore Of
bad New Workers to abandon mi,cb;ef
within single fortnight is something
unusual.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

LIT must be pleasing to the people of
England to hear that the verdict against
the Beaconsfeld Government has been
received with great qualification in
Ru,sia.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

TIE most conflicting statements con-
,lnue to be received in regard to the
dipiomatic relations between France
and Russia. But the bu k of the reports
Is TO the effect that the status is not at
all improved.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

IT is sad that Prince Leopold is not
to marry Miss Maynard, in spite of her
beauty and her s150,oO0 a year, and the
peers and commoners of England are in.
clined to approve of the arrangement
Princes should not have everything.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

The greater part OF the Indian corn
imported to France from America il
used in making alcohol. All French
wine of last vintage is 10 wretched it
can't be used unless dosed with alcohol.
So we are drinking Yankee whisky for
Clos Vougeot, Chateau Yquem and
Chateau Lafitte, aud while we think our
salads seasoned with olive oil, we have
only Yankee cotton seed OIL This is
really too bad,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

The New York Sun speaks of Louis
vile as beautiful town." whereas,
Louisville is perfectly willing to leave
oil the beautiful part if they will only
call her a city.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

DURING the past year the average
daily receipt of dead letters at the Post
once department. at Washington was
$1,000. The principal reasons assigned
are mlsdirection and badly written or
undecipherable addresses.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

The Consolidated Bank of Mon treal
winch suspended some months age, is
rapidly'paying its creditors in full. This
is something of deviation from the
method of the States.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

1T is estimated that there are at least
10000 Russians of the higher ranks in
life who are either now in Siberia or ex-
lies from their country.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

The experiment of lighting the entire
city OF Wabash, Ind, with electric
lights placed on the dome on the Court
house has been made with successful re-
suits.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

THR Philadelphia Times suggests that
the Congressional Record be suspended
for want of funds, and in all probability
there would be twice as much business
and less than half as much talk in either
house of Congress. There's something
in it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08
Valuable Child's PLAY.

A mine which has recently been pur-
chased in Denver, Col, for 500, 900, was
discovered by two children aged nine
and ten years. They were "playing
mine" !" at the time and had dug down
four feet on the Little Chief, near Rudy
Hill, drilling and blasting FIVE feet
more, until a valuable body of ore was
brought to light. Their father, who
owned the claim, gave them 81 900 each,
and now has sold his interest. m
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

a CHICAGO paper boasts that Mr..
Vanderbilt can do what he pleases in
New York, but he hasn't yet acquired a
mortgage on Chicago. No; it is said
Mr. vanderbilt is very particular about
the character Of his securities.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

The beautiful hill of posilippo, near
Naples, on which is situated Virgil S
tomb, is soon to be tunneled for rail
way. .t... LHr
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

THERE are ten millions of Geneva
award mooey lying unappropriated in
the Treasury, and the Senate is once
more trying to decide who is entitled
toit
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

ENGLAND is still greatly concerned
over the slave trade. but she has 2OO,-
900 people worsc off than any slaves.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

IHE Directors Of the Pennsylvania
railway have ordered that wages of en-
Pioyes be restored to the figures paid
Prior to the reduction and strike in 1877.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

CLEoPArRAs Needle wi be placed
on lighter az Alexandria, Egypt, with
in few days, and started to New
York.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

HERE is another evidence that the
times are improving, and all necessary y
household articles are increasing in
price. A young man in Fredonia sold
his wife to neighbor a few days ago for
$50. They used to be "given away"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

FOR the last two months the average
bullion output of Lcadville has been
100000 per week, or Mt the rate of SoO,-
COCOON per year.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

Miss LAvISA GooDELL, n well-known
lady lawyer of JanesvilIe. Wis, died a
few days ago.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

sENAToR-ELEcT MALONE, of Virginia,
the railroad "boss" of the State, who
defeated the Conservatives, weighs only
ninety pounds. -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

GovEaSoR Lose, of MASSACHUSETTS,.
has just signed a bill chartering the
American Telephone Company, with a
capital Of t10,OO0,OOO.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08

JOAQUIN MILLER is reported lucky
SILVER mine opeator. We hope, if this is
true, that he has done the handsome
thing by Mrs. Miller No. l. ~