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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-18
The Markets.

r1NrrNN Fancy az 5om6 Is:
fam;iv a SOAK. superfne. AZ 15G3 IS: spring fam.
% y s5a5 3 80: s choice M Minnesota, IS q. Rye -four
wintsr red. 81 O4@1 c6: prime amber, 81 o5; and
fair DO a. % GSrnVNo , mixed shelied. 44Lc,:
NJ . Yellow 45o and No / do 46c New ear
4Oc. Rre-No. 2, 91c. Oats-Prime white, 35c.;
No. mixed, 321a@ 33c Barley-No 2 fall, 95c.;
prime do, s5@9Oc. Hemp-Rough Kentucky, S125
@l3O per ton. Hay-Prime timothy, Sl5@16; rye
straw, $7@S; oats, $9@10. Hogs-Common, SS S5@
30; heavy packing $4 40@4 IS. Pm,ltry-Ful
grown hens, S2g2 80; geese. " 1903 So per a9a. ;
pork, Va Lard-Prme steam; eloe. oasarSeureu Ssas
Mans shoulders, u.s. Packeu' ..S essS
0a1Ic Standard !. A }, asIasgIc. eranulated' 1o@
i0i%es WoolwUnwashed. merrino, 2302lc; fleece
washed do. S6Ns3Sc. Cotton-Middling 1O5Ic:
good middlinp 11c =
NEW YORK- -Fro1p-Sunerfne Western State.
10 on0a Ok nn,,,,nn ~ 900 ay tro do SI 60Gd ss.
yood 10 cbo;ce eo do a ESSS 10. Minnesota Satent
5rocosS cod TO do,,hia cysrs sS 25lIs Ok GpIM-
W%oat' suu I1n.radaS W snTina 1s%I *. nnaradad
winter red & ia1 1pH No winter rcd sI i5I|G
16i%. NJ . w;n,ar raa et15IL. No I white Si II
nj X Corn-IIngraded 5ssIM5gsIc No. q 56Ga
S7e No 2 white Soc oats44M,xed Western. 40S
ice white western ii a45c. Cotton-Middling up-
lands, lie.
PHILADEJpH1A. PA-F1ouR Western ex-
tras "a ~ o. Nii,nrosnt, artro family ssms Ss.
Wheat-No winier red, 81 16L. Corn VI estern
high mixed on track, 56c Oats-No. white, 42c.
No 2 white 40c Mess pork SI5 SO.
BALTIMORE,-FLouR--W Western superfne, So so
"a; Western extra, 81 25@5. Whe.t-No. " est
ern winter red, 81 15s4QI1 1874. Corn = Western
mixed. new and old, 5654c. Oats--White Western,
S7@3sLac Rye-Good to prime, sl@l w.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-18
InsImeient Aii::

No matter how perfect are all other
hygienic conditions good health can
not be maintained if the air supply is
insufficient The purest air will become
vitiated, resulting in disease, especially
in consumption, unless there is con-
slant means of supply.
When the mortality from all causes
among the metropolitan police of Lon
don was only 80 in 1000, that of the
Fost Guards was t41 from consumption
alone. The barracks furnished the lat
ter only about one-fourth as much air
per man as is allowed in prison cells.
The armies of Europe generally are,
from similar cause, characterized by o
large mortality. During the Crimean
war: the rate IN the. English army was
1872 per cent. of the total strength /;
that Of the French 80; while in our
civil war, with its open-air life, it was
less than 6. Camp-fever may be almost
banished by cleanliness and fresh air.
In 1850 DR.. Brocklesby, having built
large shed as hospital for wounded
soldiers, and the mortality proving Won
derfully slight, though the treatment
was otherwise the same as elsewhere,
said, I" candidly ascribe their fortunate
escape more to the benefit of a pure,
keen aif; which they breathed therein
every moment, than to all the medicine
they took" Thus, over century ago,
he stumbled on a law of hygiene now
universally accepted by experts.
Z No expense was spared in the erection
of new house for monkeys in the Lon
don Geological Garden, to make it as
much as possible like an English gentle
mans drawing-room. These animals
had been wintered in England several
years, and were healthy on entering
their new house. But in one month fifty
OF the sixty were dead, and the rest
were dying, of consumption. The whole
trouble was that the room was not prop
erly ventilated.
Before 1886 the loss of horses in France
by death was from 16O to 1877 per ], 900.
Enlarged stables reduced the loss to 68
nearly two-thirds. In England the
loss is reduced to 20 in Germany to Is.
Let it not be forgotten that, where the
lack is not such as to produce fatal re-
suits, it may variously impair the health.
-Yoaah's Companion.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-18
..nuchwheat Cake. and the Measles.

''Ruckwheat Cakes and the Msasles.''
When a young husband had gone from
home, and with fond solicitrde tele-
graphed his little wife, what have you
for breakfast, and how's the bady y?"-he
received, the brief suggestive reply
''Buckwheat Cakes and the Measles" ;"
We have the report of case i'll our midst,
not where measles was in the bill Of fare,
but where Sciatic Rheumatism confined
Mr.. J. Dawson, the well-known druggist,
to his room for long period. It was
stated to our reporter in the following
words: The senior of this firm was at
tackled with Sciatic Rheumatism, Decem-
ber last, and for four weeks could scarcely
leave his room. He used st. Jacobs Oil,
and is now able to be at his place of bust
ness, feeling no worse for his recent af-
fiction. The inference is convincing
Rochester Sentinel.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-18

The thoughtlessness of people is SO great in
regard to watchfulness against Colds, ETC., that
were it not for the wonderful curative power
of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, we should shudder
at the fate of such
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-18
NEWS SUMMARY.


At Bryan, Texas, boiler in an oil mill en-.
ploded, killing five men.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-18
Not a Beverage.

They are not beverage, but medi-
cine, with curative properties of the
highest degree, containing no poor whis-
ky or poisonous drugs. They do not
tear down an already debilitated system,
but build it up. One bottle contains
more hops, that is, more real hop
strength, than barrel of ordinary beer.
Every druggist in Rochester sells them,
and the physicians prescribe them."-
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-18
saxen Man EransataxA

At Borden City, twelve miles south Of Brad
ford, Pa. a number of men at boarding house
we're sitting about stove in which the fire had
become very low. -Four of the men finally re-
tired to bed up stairs, and of the five remaining
one of them dipped tin in bucket of oil and
threw it in the stove to rekindle the fire. Tbs
oil remaining in the cup caught fire, and the
person holding 1t threw the blazing mass away
and it fell into the bucket. An explosion i'm
mediately followed, and the burning fluid scat
tered ali around the reom; dsiuging tie cloth-
ing Of the men with oil. The men rushed out.
enveloped in sheet of fire, and writhed on the
ground in agony. Meanwhile the house burned
rapidly, and in the embers were found the
charred bodies Of the four who were upstairs
Their names are Elliott, Brown, staley and
Hyde Of thcse down stairs, Joe Dannock,
Henry Monroe, Frank Welsh and another man,
name unknown, are dead, and the fifth one is
not expected to recover.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-18
A HANDSOME boy of IA was seen lvi,

A HANDSOME boy Of "A was seen lying
by the roadside, at Carrollton, La,
early in the evening, by many persons
on their way to political meeting. He
was moaning, and would not reply to
their Questions. They concluded that
he was drunk, and let him alone. The
fact was, that he had shot himself be-
cause Of a failure to get work or food.
He belonged 20 wealthy New Orleans
family, but had run away from home.
The first attempt at suicide was not sue
cessful, but when the people returned
from the meeting they found him dead,
second shot having completed the
work.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-18

Frank Lammens and Mrs. Margaret Meier
hoffer, convicted of the murder of John Meier
hotter, the woman's husband, at West Orange,
New York, year ago, we're brought into Court
last week for sentence. Judge DePue pro-
notinced their doom, which was that they should
be hanged on january 9Th. The mwderers
took their sentence with comparative csolness.
Lammens was quiet even to stolidity: but the
woman seemed fairly petrifed. By the advice
of counsel neither of the prisoners said any
thing to the usttal question of the Judge as to
whether they had anything to say why the sch.
tence of death should not be pronounced
upon them. The murder was cold-hlooded,
prompted by avarice and sensual lust, ard with
out any provocation or extenuating eircum-
stances. The woman's husband was shot down
with a gun while he was descending the cellar
stairs. Lammens had been hired by the mur-
dered man, and had been living on criminal
terms with his wife. After they had killed the
old man they left his body lay in the cellar all
day, and when the officers, hearing of the muir
der, came, they found the guilty couple shar-
ing the oldman's bed. 1t is, therefore thought
not probable that the Court of Pardons will in
terfere. The hanging will be private.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-18

The Veltafc Belt Co., Marshall, Mich.'
Will send their Electro-Voltaic Belts to the
afflicted upon 80 days trial. See Their a4ver-
tisement in this paper headed, "on oo lays
Trial. .- l., sz
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-18

GET Lvon's Patent Heel stiffeners applied 70
those new boots before you run them over.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06

A petition is circulating in Lancaster
county for the signature Of Republicans,
protesting against the manner in which
delegates were appointed from that county
10 the State Convention, and declaring that
the action Of the latter convention did not
represent the wishes Of the majority Of the
Republican party in Lancaster county. The
protest goes on tc say that, as it Is under
stood the Chairman does not intend TO call
the county convention until late, as many
of the County Committee as are willing to
represent fairly majority of their eonstitu-
ents shall issue a call for the annual primary
meetings, to elect delegates 10 the National
/ Convention and nominate officers to be vot-
I'd for in November.
/ The Williamsport breakfast Table" re,
ports that a number Of gentlemen from Nc,
kean county have effected a long lease o
/ 10000 acres Of land, beginning at Trout
/ Run, that county, and extending toward
the Bradford region. The land is said /,
contain evidences Of oil.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06

sober-faeed woman who wanders about the
city and the Capitol, wearing the dress Of
man, even to the boots and walking stick
She formerly assumed the bloomer costume,
but has within a year or so past adopted the
male attire without reserve. For years she
has been claimant against the Govern
ment, now for pension and then for some-
thing else. She was not long ago appointed
to place in the Treasury Department but
not allowed to occupy a desk in the room to
which she had been assigned, and after a
long contest succeeded in collecting several
months pay, on the ground that she had
been ready to perform the service and pre-
vented from doing so through no fault Of
her own.
The Senate Pensions Committee has just
rejected this woman's application for an in
crease of pension. She sought at Chatta-
nooga, in 1864, the position of Assistant
Surgeon, but a board of medical officers
after examination, reported that her know
ledge of medicine and surgery was very lit
tie, if any, more than that of the ordinary
housewife, and assigned her to duty as hos
pital nurse. The Union officers allowed her
to wander outside the lines and to be taken
prisoner, an arrangement having been made
that she should act as a spy while in the
hands of the enemy. She was gone about
four months, and upon her return the War
Department allowed her $50 per month for
her services. She was then employed a few
months in the female prisoners hospital at
Louisville receiving 800 per month. She
then claimed that insufficient food and ex-
posure while a prisoner had affected her
cyesight Upon this ground she was allow.
ed pension of $3.50 per month, which she
now receives, although the examining sur
geon expressed some doubt as to whether
weakness of the applicants eyes was caused
by exposure, or was the usual accompani-
mcnt Of advancing age.
The House Ways and Means Committee
gave dinner last Saturday evening to two
of its members, Garfield and Gibson o! La,
who have just been elected to the Senate.
1t was jolly affair and Randolph Tucker,
the most facinating table-talker in Congress
surpassed himself in that occasion. Mr..
Tucker, who is inmitable in the narration
Of humorous anecdotes, in which he shows
much dramatic talent, SO excited the ad-
miration of Judge Kelly that he exclaimed,
perfectly carried away by his enthusiasm:
81 declare, Tucker, you are as great man
as I am. have heard all the best comedi
ans, but l never heard your equal" Judge
Kelly lately sand to Mr.. Blackburn: 'l have
seen something in the papers about youl
having a monkey, but presume its only q
satire on your private Secretary This he
said not knowing Tat there is a genuine
monkey owned by Mr.. Blackburn, and thai
the son of the latter is his secretary.
DON PEDRO.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06

The "Iron Age" in explaining the alb
normal increase in the price of nails, due
primarily to the great demand caused by
an increase IN building operations and the
fact that stocks had been allowed to get to a
low point, says that there is no dread Of
foreign importations to bear the market.
"Nails made abroad could not be sold in
this market; they could not even be given
away except as scrap" That is an extra
ordinary assertion but doubtless true enough,
for American nails are certainly very much
superior to those made in Europe. The
machines that make them are wonderful
pieces of mechanism, and were among the
most curious exhibits in Machinery Hall
during the Centennial.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06
TIE PArER NIONOPOLY.

The New Orleans Democrat says: 1t ap-
pears that The paper manufacturers through
out the country have by concert Of action
raised the price Of paper over forty-tive per
cent above previous rates There is no
justification for this action whatever, as
there has been no appreciable advance in
the material used in the manufacture, and
it looks like bold and inexcusable attempt
on the part Of those who control the bust
ness to extort money from newspapers and
publishers generally. The result of this
species of blackmail will be most disastrous
to large number Of newspapers, as the
heaviest item of expense with many jour
nails is the paper used in their publication.
If a new tariff of prices is to prevail there
fore, not only will it cause the suspension Of
very many newspapers, bat will also neccs-
state an increase in the prices of subscrir-
tion and advertisement, which will bear
heavily on the public, which has so long
been accustomed to low prices that an in
crease will not be borne very patiently. In
NiSN Va bnG ldtS CAtIdOluludly IIoS III tlS
price of white paper the Chicago Times has
advanced its price of subscription to $40 per
annum-a course which will necessarily be
followed by other journals, as no publisher
will care to print a paper at an actual loss
TO himself. In this condition Of affairs it is
very serious question as to what the news.
papers should do to protect themselves from
a monopoly that seems bent upon destroying
them by stand and deliver policy that vii
certainly achieve the object Of the paper
men unless offset by some very vigorous re,
taliatory measures. If there are any manu-
facturers not in this ring, and who are will
ling TO sell at reasonable rates, they should
make themselves known at once, in order
that they may receive due credit and not
be Disseminated against hereafter. There
are number of measures, in the nature Of
retaliation, that may be adopted by the con-
sumers, and we strongly urge a concert OF
action in this matter upon the proprietors
ofnewspapers throughout the country. 1t is
quite possible that the formidable combina-
ton of producers can only be combated by a
similar organization on the part of consum-
ers, and the time may not be far distant
when the former will see (ond not through
glass darkly ether !he unwsdom of their
course.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
QUE WASHINGTON SPECIAL

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S, 1850.
The Senate Committee on Agriculture
has lately been giving considerable attention
to the subject of producing rainfall by ar
thcisl means. Gen. Daniel Rugglcs, OF
Virginia, has been before them two or three
times explaining his method, for which he
has recently obtained patent, and which
consists Of sending to the cloud realm cart
ridges of dynamite or smaller explosive ma
tePials, in skeleton balloons, and TO explode
them either bv the fires, or by magnetic
electricity through little metallic wires cou-
Meeting the balloons with the earth. Gen.
Ruggles, as the result of many years OF
study and investigation Of this subject,
claims that the diiTused mists passing over
arid regions or localities suffering from un-
usual drought may readily be consolidated
into rainf,lls by conclusions and vibration;
thus srtiieially produced, and he has there
fore suggested TO the committee that Con
gress may provide a small appropriation fo
expenditure by the Commissioner of Agri
cultura to test the praciioability Of aiiinl
the agricultural interests Of the country il
this manner The committee has lstene,
TO Gen. Ruggles' statements with much in
terest, and requested him to prepare an am
pli6ed memorial on the subject,
One of the eurosities Of Washington
DR.. Mary L. Walker, whose name and fam
ought by this time TO be known in the r,
motest quarters Of the Union, for she be
been much written about ana every visit,
10 the Capital asks 10 have her pointed on
ehS Is q Slim, undersizad, short haire'
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06

Philadelphia Ledger: The report of the
Auditor General on the finances of Pennsyl-
vania comes with new feature this year
in the list of corporations in the State, reg
istered under the act Of June last, which
imposes penalty of $500 on those that fail
to register Building and Loan Associations
form the most numerous class of corpora
tions now registered. They number alto
gelher 800 in the State, and, Of these 400
have their offices in Philadelphia. Each
o! these societies has an authorized capital
of$l 100000, and they probably have an
average paid up fund of from $4,000 to
100000 each. the average ofPhladelphia of
societies being considerably higher than that
of societies in the smaller towns Of the State.
The fund really means the savings such as,
in other cities, s,would be put in savings funds
so that it may be assumed that thrifty Penn
sylvanans have at least $50 900 900 invest.
ed in these cooperative societies. Probab-
ly ninety per cent. Of this money goes to
buy or build houses for the members, many
of whom succeed in purchasing homes fol
themselves. The five hundred societies in
Philadelphia have probably two hundred in
diyidual members each, making one hun
dred thousand members, but some of these
belong to two,three or more societies, so tha
the actual number of individuals belongin.
to the societies is somewhat less. They in
clude men, women and children, housewife
and young folks preparing for marriage FIRE
questly taking few shares that they ma,
save money for special objects. It is ais
customary for fathers to take a single shar
for each of their children, which investmen
while not a heavy monthly tax, would Civ
to the sou or daughter quite a nice littl
sum at the end of twenty one years, ethe
for a marriage dowry or to start them il
business.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06

The public debt statement, issued Mon
day, shows decrease of S5,672,Ol9 since
February 1st.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06

The total cost of the Brooklyn Bridge,
across the East River, at New York, is set
down at Sll ,4s3,979 to date.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06
New Advertisements.
MERCANTILE APPRAISEMENT

Made by II. II. MCBRIDE, for the County
Of Carbon, for the year 1880.
AN APPEAL DAY will be held on tho
25th day Of March, 1880, at the COMM1S-
SIONERs' OFFICE, in the Borough of
Mauch Chunk, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06
WEISSPORT RORoUGH.

p. Clauss, stove and tin store... II 100
Mrs. M. Guth, millinery. y....,.... IA 90
NJ. Hageman, dry goods and gro
CtIlCo Northumberland. ii w
p. j. Klstler, dry goods and gro
CCIleS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. IL w
W. IL. Knecht, boot X shoe store II 90
q. w. Lent2, drug store. e........,. Il 90
j. S. Miller lOur and feed store. II 20
NJ. Raudenbush, tobacco stOre.... Il 90
j. Strauss berger, groceries and
confectionery. ery..........,........ ii 10
Fred Schmidt, merchant tailor. II %
A. IL. Sedel, -four and feed store Ii 90
Bernhard Vogt, dry goods and
groceries neutrality-suspicious.. II 20
WeisspOrt Planning Mill Con-. Ii 90
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06

General Agent for carbon, Monroe and Pike
counties, County Buildings Mauoh Chunk,
Carbon county, Pa feb. l4-ti.
CHARLES LhNTE, agent for WeisspoIt
PaTryYllle and FIankln township,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06
Now Advertisements.
I1O WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN.

=
All persons arc horeby forbid harboring or
trusting my son. WILLIAM HILL, as will
not be responsible for any debts or other liabil-
tiles contracted by him after this date.
WILLIAM HILL, SR.,
March g. lssO.swA franklin twp, Pa.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06
Hotel, Restaurant and Liquor Store
Appraisement.
EAST MArcu CHUNK RoRouGH.
MAUOH CHuNK BOROUdH.

Lewis ArmbrusIer. hOtel......... 8 so 90
John Behler, hotel SO 90
Samuel Behler, hOtel...,...,.... 90 OO
p. Chardon, hotel. 80 OO
Thomas Carr, ,hutel............, 90 OF
WIN liehring, hotel ............. 90 OC
John InImun, hOtel.............. 90 OF
Lafayette LentZ, hotel .......... 90 OC
/. 5. Keiser, ,hotel............... so OF
Bernard McGee, hotel,.......... s 90 VI
Michael McGeady, restaurant, 10 20 OF
Lanes McElroy, liquor store. 80 OF
Thomas NowcOmb, hOtel......... so "
paul Schweibinz, hotel .......... 90 OF
MIS-. g. J. Sharkey, liquor store. 80 o.
Mrs. SchulenbeTg, hotel ......... so 0,
los .ph Schmld. hotel ............ 90 o,
William Thompson, restaurant. 10 20 q
l.. s. Wtbert, hotel. 90 o.
Michael Martin, liquor store..... 8 90 0t
Leopold Reiss, hotel...........,, 30 "
Mrs, Fred Roth, hotel........... 90 "
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-03-06
A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE.

ONOBlCO for TPoSaoeG PtSSnsSR' tha9 EMPHASIZES instes
and smells like Tobacco and is cheaper.
Everybody is highly pleased with It. II is
suitable either for hewlng or Smoking, and
II improves the Health, and restores the Con-
stltutiOn, and is recommended by Physicians
in place of Tobacco. Throw Tobacco away
and use ONOBICO, il will prove blessing
full size pack by mail for lOc. in silver. or
l6c in STAMPS. or 81 for a dozen. AGENTS
WANTED in every town. Terms liberal, Ad-
dress, +. q. REM ER, New Midway, Fred
eTick Co., Nd. feb. 2l.-lt.