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Sharp County record., 1880-06-24

10 the Toters of the Fourth Congressional
District Of ArkansGS:
am a candidate to represent you in
the next congress of the United States,
snhiect to the decision of democratic
convention, should one be held. In max.
ino this announcement, cannot boast OF
a long experience in congress, or OF spe-
cial familiarity with the details OF business
before the various departments OF govern
ment, and urge these as reasons why 1
shonld be elected. come before you
solely upon nv own merit--the sutficiency
of which leave you to determine. HaV-
ing spent my entire life in this district,
know no other people but you. For what
am and have, | am indebted to your gen
erosity and my own industry and energy.
I had the honor to serve large portion
of YOUR district as prosecuting attorney
for four wears. As to how | discharged
nv duties, ! leave it to those served to
saw. | never held many public places,
bnt YOU have generously given me all l
ever asked; and for the very liberal sup
mort | always received at your hands, l
here return my sincere thanks. Should l
be elected, l promise to serve you honestly
and faithfully, and to devote my entire
time, energy and such ability as possess,
to the promotion of your interests
The Hon. 7. NJ. Gunter, the present In
cumbent, is also a candidate, tie IS an
honorable gentleman and worthy of MS is
trust, and | propose to meet him and all
others who may present their claims to
YOU, in that spirit of frankness ana cour-
tesy that should characterize all aSplranIS
for that positiou. Should you choose an
other | cannot of right complain. The
Office is yours; it is our right to ask, and
yours to say, who shall serve you.
Hoping to receive your generous sup
mort, and to merit your confidence, l am,
Very respectfully,
S. W. PEEL.
Bentonville, Ark, March 29th, 1884,.
Sharp County record., 1880-06-24
ALF. III. JOPLIN.
GENERAL
Fire Insurance Agent
BATESVILLE, ARK.
INDE ENTITIES,
Not Cheap Insurance.

Will insure WOODEN, flour and saw mills,
cotton gins, store houses and stock, dwell
ings, barns, &C., in none but first. class com.
panies. Capital represented, $780, 900.
| am also agent for Capt A. B. Smith s
line of steamers, warehouse and elevator.
Will receive and forward all consignnents,
giving through bills of lading on receipt of
goods. No charge for storing or forw arding
goods consigned to Capt. Smith or myself.
Sharp County record., 1880-06-24
Democratic State Ticket,

For Governor,
GEN. T. J. CHURCHILL.
Secretary Of State,
JACOB FROLICH.
State Treasurer,
w. 4. WOODRUFF.
Auditor,
JOHN CRAWFORD.
Commissioner State Lands,
D. W. LEAR.
Attorney General,
c. B. MOORE.
Chief Justice,
E. H. ENGLISH.
Chancellor,
D. W. CARROLL.
Chancery Court Clerk,
J. ". GALLOWAY.
Sup't Public instruction,
JAMES L. DENTON.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01
A Modern Samson.

If report speaks truly all the astound-
ing feats performed by the strong men
of antiquity, including Hercules, Sam
son and Milo of Crotona, have beer
capped by the recent performances Of a
French athlete, Joignery by name, who
is at present fulfilling, to crowded
Vaudeville 4Theater. Tossing about
huge cannon balls with a sportive grace,
this person appears nightly on raised
platform in the body of the theater,
above which platform is suspended an
ordinary trapeze. His ankels are then
fastened to the trapeze SO that he swings
downward, a few feet above the central
surface of the central stage, and in full
view of every one in the house. A horse,
covered with gay trapping and begirt
with broad leathern surcingle, to
which two strong loops are attached, is
then conveyed to the stage, and there,
mounted by full-grown man. When
all these preliminaries have been effected,
Joignerey seizes the loops in both hands,
and by sheer muscular strength lifts the
".horse and his rider" some inches of
the stage, sustaining their combined
weight in the air for several seconds,
and letting them down again as slowly
and evenly as he had raised them. Upon
the occasion of his first performance the
horse selected for the experiment was
SO panic-stricken by being lifted off its
feet that when it was lowered to the
level of the platform its knees gave way
under it, and the attendants mad great
deal of trouble to make it stand uE
again.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01
The First Banks.

We are generally told in histories of
banking, as, for instance, in that of Gill
bart, that the first National Bank was
that of Venice, founded in the year 1857,
but / agree with Mr.. Mcleod, that this
institution was not at first in any sense
a true bank. The State being deeply in
volved in debt, its creditors were formed
into corporation, and the debts made
transferable, like our consols. 1t was
not until 1887 that the institution began
to take money on deposit. The de-
positors received credit on the banks
books equal to the actual weight of
bullion placed there, which the bank
undertook to keep intact lin its vaults,
and to repay the depositor at any time,
or to transfer to any one else. The
earliest real bank was that of Barcelona,
founded in 1401. In this case, the city
funds were made responsible for any
moneys intrusted to the bank, which not
only received deposits, but exchanged
money and discounted bills. The Bank
of Amsterdam was founded in 1909. The
so called Bank of st. George, at Genoa,
dates back to l407, but does not appe-r r
to have done genuine banking business
until 1875. The Bank of Stockholm,
which commenced in 1868. was the first
bank in Europe to issue bank notes,
which, until that time, were totally un-
known in the West, although, rs we
have seen, they had long been in use in
China. A
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01
He Knew His Man.

AS one of the most prominent young
burglars of San Francisco was walking
out of court the other day Just after
having secured an acquittal regarding
his latest job by prompt and business
like " "divvy" with the powers that be,
at the usual rates, well-to-do, but
anxious-looking stranger touched his
arm and beckoned him into a doorway.
You are Teddy the Ferret aren't
you," asked the gentleman, I" the man
who was tried to-day for rsafe-cracking"
a Well, wot of it?" replied the house
breaker.
Z" Well, just this-you'll excuse me
speaking so low-but the fact is I've
come all the way from the San Joaquin
to look up party in your line Of busi-
ness" @
Have, eh?"
I" Yes-I-well, I've a little PROPOSE
tion to make to YOU"
+" Exactly" said the Ferret camly !;
"you're bank cashier down in the
foothills"
elbow did you know that9" stam-
mered the gentleman, much amazed.
And your cash and accounts are to
be gone over by the directors ON the
first, and as you can't realize on your
stocks you want me to gag you some
time next week, shoot your hat full of
holes, find the combination in your
breast pocket-book, and go through the
safe in the regular way" .a
Great Heavens, mani how did you
find all that out?' sasss sH ssss.9
"Why, guessed ii. It's regular
thing, you know. Got three orders to
attend to ahead of yours now. Lemme
see. Can't do anything for you next
week, but might give you Wednesday
and Thursday of the week after How'll
that suit you?
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01
An Onion.Biting Party.

At an onion party in Rockland the
other evening, a wicked brunette played
high game for kisses. At a party of
this description it is the custom for the
girls TO 60 into darkened room, when
one of the party bites .mouthful from
an onion. A young man is then ad
mitted, and it is his proud privilege to
kis the batch of girls until he is en-
abled by the taste to determine which
one of them bit the fragrant fruit. The
brunette aforementioned in this case
slipped the onion in'o her pocket in
stead of biting it, and the spruce Boston
drummer who was summoned to test
and find, had kissed five times around
the circle and was beginning again,
when a girl, whose jealous lover was
outside, discovered the the trick, and
the game was up Gr4f
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01
ScOtt's First Love.
t0nce a Week.


1t is an old saying, " Whom first We
love we never we'd" and this, Though
not strictly true, may be applied to
Scott, Byron, George Warrington, and
many other men of note. It is interest
ing to observe how poets generally pre-
sent their love matters to the public
The personal experience of such men
will crop out. Scott, for instance, fell
deeply in love, in early life, with girl
of aristocratic family, and as he was
then merely poor barrister, there was
no prospect of success. His father,
knowing this, and being desirous to
bring the matter to close, suggested to
the parents the propriety of terminating
the acquaintance, and this was done in
the least painful manner. The lady was
the only daughter Of Sir John Stewart,
OF Forfareshire, and she afterward
married Sir William Forbes, the noted
Edinburgh banker. As Scott was
velleducated young man, Of fine per-
sonal appearance and agreeable man
ners, there could be but little reason for
giving the banker preference except
his;wealth and social ranks Scott felt
THE keenly through life in Rokebyn Y
h6fevives the episode at some length.
Matilda, the heroine of the poem, rep
resents the object of his love, who
there rejects poet in favor of one of
higher rank. and this scene becomes
doubly interesting as picture of
Scott's early experience. In 1911 Lady
Forbes died; but she lived long enough
to see the once penniless barrister the
first poet in Scotland. Her death was
deeply felt by Scott, for, although he
had been married for twelve years, the
old fame was not extinguished.
'tRokeby" appeared next year, and
Lockbart says " that there is nothing
wrought out, in all Scott's prose, more
exquisite than the contrast between the
rivals for the hand of the heroine"
Six years afterward Scott wrote thus to
Miss Edgeworth Matilda was at
tempted for the person of lady who is
now no more, SO that ! am fattered with
your distinguishing it.' As this took
place nearly twenty years after the dis
appointment, it illustrates the tenacity
with which the author beld to his first
love. When Lady Forbes died, Scott
was so affected that he called on her
mother, and both fell to weeping over
the sad affair. 1t is a curious incident
in domestic history to see a man carry
ing his first love SO tenderly through
life while married to another woman to
whom he always showed great attach
ment. Scott evidently made Matilda
the ideal or dream-wife, who accom-
panied him to the last. Having re-
covered from the worst effects of his
| disappointment, he met French girl,
4 whose father had saved both life and
fortune by fleeing from the dangers Of
the Revolution At the time referred
to Miss Carpenter Tor Carpenter) was an
orphan, and to her Scott transferred his
affections, as far as this was possible.
He appeared, as has been said, much
attached to his wife through life, and
sincerely mourned her death. She was
however, Intellectually and physically
inferior to the Scottish ladies of tha
city, and the rapid degeDeracy of the
family may, in some degree, be ascribeo
to so unfavorable union.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01
A Boy Highwayman.
lsan Francisco ohronicle.l

About II o'clock last Wednesday
night as the stage from San Luis
Obispo was bowling past Oak Grove,
about two miles from Solepad, the
driver, Jim Meyers, noticed line
stretched across the highway with q
white handkerchief tied in the middle.
He had no sooner pulled UP his horses,
than some one cried, "Throw out that
box and he saw a man standing in
the shadow of the chaparral by the
roadside. A campfire glimmering
through the brush indicated probable
highwayman's camp, and the box was
thrown out without further ceremony.
The line then dropped and the stage
proceeded. The box, contained $167 in
money and check on San Luis bank
for $40, with other papers. Sheriff
Frank of Monterey County went to
work on the case and found that boy
named George Adams had left Soledad
that night. He next heard of him in
Salinas, where he displayed considerable
money, and traced him to this city via
Watspnville. Learning that he had a
companion with him, he found the
companion and through him captured
Adams last night on Sacramento street
near Taylor. Adams at once admitted
his guilt. He isa boy of nineteen, and
says he had no thought of stopping the
stage when he left Soledad. He had
no weapon whatever. and was on, the
verge of running away when the driver
threw out the box. He had no money,
he said, and was going to Salinas for a
Job which he obtained at $35 per month.
After breaking open the box and get
ting the money he walked to Salinas,
picked up his companion and came to
this city. He is a pleasant spoken
young fellow, and says he never has been
arrested before for any ohense.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01
M Admit Her at Once.n

The manuscripts of Leonardo da
vinci in the South Kensington Museum,
London, have recently beea subjected
to renewed study, In one of them oc-
ours the following fable: go.
GA man lying at the point of death
suddenly heard knock at his door, and
asked one of his servants who it was
that had knocked. The servant looked,
and then informed him that it was y
person who called herself "a good
woman (Mandonna bonna). Then the
dying man extended both his hands to
heaven in thanks to God, and bade them
admit the person at once that he might
be able to see good woman before he
died. for he had not seen one in the
whole course OF his life." So
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01
A Fox at Business.

Hist! What is that down in the bot
tom? As live, it is grand old fox.
Surely by her lean, haggard appearance,
it is the old vixen belonging to the lit
ter, which is, we know, laid up in the
wood close by. Now lay your rifle
down, lie quietly on the grass, and en-
JOY the treat of obtaining lesson from
one of the finest stalkers in the
world, whose cleverness you can hardly
hope to emulate. See with what care
less swing she trots past those rabbits on
the bare open (these she can not catchy
which start out of her path, but seem
iii no way alarmed, SO little attention
does she. pay to them. The trot slack
ems to a walk, now that she is among
those tufts of thistles and nettles, where
concealment is possible. There! down
she goes like highly trained setter, fiat
on the earth, motionless but for a slight
swayiDg motion of the brush, which
tells you she means mischief. Surely,
she moved little then! She did, but
almost imperceptibly; yet, on looking
again, there is no doubt that, the dis
tance between her and the little clump
of nettles is certainly less than it was.
You now see that close to it on tie other
side are two young rabbits. which, no
doubt, caught her keen eye at the in
stant she dropped. Nearer and nearer
she creeps, the brush swaying regularly
to and fro as she crawis closer, and
yields to the excitement OF the moment.
Her nose now touches the nettles almost
She starts to her feet, and you have Just
time to see the suddenly startled rabbit
! crouch to the earth, when, with one
elastic bound. she has sprung over the
nettles and seized her victim, who yields
up his life with one shrill SOU, al that
sends every rabbit within quarter of 8
mile quaking to his burrow. In another
second she is off her long-swinging trot
bearing her well earned prey to satisfy
her ever-hungry family,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01

OF the $2OO,OOO appropriated by Con-
gress for building the Washington
National Monument, $63, ,903 has been
expended in strengthening the founda-
tion, and $31, 1856 upon the monument
itself. The unexpended amount, $780,
739, issuficientt to complete tie strength
ening of the foundation, provide the
iron framework of the interior stairway
for ESQ feet, construct the shaft, and add
twelve feet to the height of the monu-
ment. To continue work until October
81, 1881. will require $500, 100 additional
and to complete the shaft to the pro-
posed height of 800 feet will require
$677, 81. IL : = : : s.ls.i
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01

Says the Detroit Free Press: When
ever Connecticut has another murder
trial, newspapers will know how to deal
with it. The space generally occupied
by the continued story will be given up
to it; it will receive suitable head, as
for instance, "The Notched knife; q
Mystery OF the Microscope" "Crystals
Of Arsenic; or, Who Bought the
Poison" or any other title that seems to
meet the case After each installment
will appear the well-known words, " :" to
be. continued" until the end rasssess
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01

The Russian and Prussian Govern
ments have adopted a kind o; biscuit for
horses, containing much nutritive mat
ter in small volume. The biscuits are
formed of the meal of oats, peas and lin
seed. A mixture has been obtained such
that one kilogramme of it is equivalent
to five kilogrammes Of oats. 1t has
been found that horses bear fatigue
better when fed with these biscuits than
when fed with oats. The biscuits can
be threaded together by means of an
iron wire; thus horse may carry its
own food four or five days.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01
xEws THE WEEK.

The arrest Of = notorious gang of counter
feiters was made in Chicago the past week.
C1koISxArI, Dayton and Indianapolis are
connected by telephone.E @f2-arl
lRos + still on the boom, rolling mills
throughoutthe country running on fall time
(dsy and snight.) a ,;sali..s5 : .. -
TEE large corset and suspender factory of
West, Bradley Cary, New York, burned the
past week loss, about 100000.
BEsr's brewery, Milwaukee, was partially
destroyed by Ere the past week. The loss is
estimated to be between 500, 900 and $3.50 900.
TIE latest intelligence from Los Pinos says
thai the Utes refuse to surrender the prisoners
demanded by the Commission.
THs President has approved the bill author
izihg allowance for less by leakage or causalty
of spirits Withdrawn from distillery houses for
expectation.
LATE news from San Francisco is to the ef-
feet that the bullet which De Young shot into
Mayor Kalloch last August, has just been ex-
tracted from His Honors left armpit.
Two negroes were lynehed in Russell County,
Ala, fpr the muyaaE ef txo Irish peddlers.
at the hands of the infnzistsd mob.
AN old lady, nansd Adelaide Brewer, at
Lafayette, Ind, VAS found sitting in an old
chair, dead, where She had died from starva-
ton.
The First Reformed Prssby terian Church, at
Pittsburg, was the scene Last Sunday of dis
graceful fsticuff riot among the church officers,
the result growing ont Of q desire to change
ministers.
FATHER DoxsEHoFFER, Of Versailles, Ind,
has been convicted Of assault and battery on
two little boys; aged respectively ten and
eleven years, for having acted as pail l-bearcrs
at Protestant funeral.
FRED r. JAYNEs, of Paris, KY, was fatally
burned while personating Santa Claus, dying
three hours after the accident. A young man
named Lynn at Pataskala, Ohio, was seriously
burned while personating the same character.
THE New York tobacco manufacturers pro-
test against the proposed change in the manner
of printing internal revenue stamps on tinfoil
tobacco wraps, and the Department promises
to consult the wishes of the trade before max
ing alterations. a+s
OK account of the late announcement of the
success of Edisou,s electric light, gas stock
throughout the country is rapidly depreciating. 2.
A late d;snatcb from Canada ysthat stock in
EMontreaI !fel, from 115 to Ilo in ene day on
tb;s account.
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The Secretary Of the Interior has rendered
decision "a ln pr '1. 'anoe = - r.
III.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01

A BRrr1sH officer, says the Persian
Governors make brutal invasions into
the Turkomau country for the purpose
Of securing beautiful women for the
harem Of the Shah and his fsvorites.
The expeditions are made at nlghtupon
some defenseless point; the men are
killed and the women and children ear
ried of into slavery. After the hand
some young women have been selected
for the Shah's pleasures, the resty with
the other spoils taken, are divided
among the raiding party, the old women
and children being held for ransom, and
If not ransomed they generally die oi
starvation.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01
Strange, Very Strange.

khe following notice appeared a few
days ago in the Cleveland Leader
" Lawyers Bible Class-Meetings for
the study of the Bible by lawyers will
be held this week on Tuesday, Thurs
day, and Saturday, from 1880 p. m.
to a. m. The first meeting viii be
held in Justice Peck's office, No. 222
Superior street, and will be held by J..
E, lngersoll, Esq. The Thursday meet
ing, the place of holding will be an
nounced hereafter,i win be led by
Henry Q. White, Esq Lawyers are re-
quested to bring their Bibles.''aa2a ispi
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01

The decision of Judge Ball, at Zanes-
vile, covers ground of importance to
trades unions and employees effected by
them. The Judge holds that such a
union as the Glassblowers' Association,
which undertakes to say who shall and
who shall not work in a given shop or
factory, is in conflict with the laws of
the State and of the United States, and
enjoins its members from interfering in
any way with non-members, or even en-
tering the premises where they are at
work
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01

FATHER ScULLY, the Cambridgeport
priest with advanced ideas on the school
question, in the face of Archbishop
Williams recent instructions, continues
to refuse the sacrament to members OF
his congregation who send their children
to the public schools. His purpose is
believed to be to make up case to carry
TO the highest authorities in the Church.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01

MINISTER'S are paid to work, and
originality in sermon writing is the
leading part OF their work. If con-
gregation merely wished to listen to an
old sermon there are thousands of ad-
mirable ones ia print which could be
read by any gnod elocntionist IN tie
congregation, and the minister's salary
be entirely savaa for distribution among
the poor or other uses.-N. Y Com. ADJ.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01

PAPER ~ . substitute for wood Ia the
manufacture Of lead pencils a belng at
tempted in Germany. The paper is
steeped in an adhesive liquid, and rolled
around the core Of the lead 70 the re-
quired thickness, and IL colored after
drying, when II resembles ~ ordinary
cedar pencil.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01

A DISPATCH from Paris says: The
beet crop is even worse than was antici-
pated, and the price Of sugar has SEN
sibly risen. Many Iefneries have come
to stand-still, and nearly all are likely
to terminate their Of erations BY the end
OF December. The quality of the crop
is inferior and the quantity deficient"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-01

The oldest Masonic relic in the
world was sold for SITS in Toronto,
Canada, the other day. 1t is the Ma
sonic certificate of Souter Johnny, of
Burns "Tam O'Shsnter," and was
issaed by st. James Lodge, Ayr, in 1880.
Pinned to the corner of the diploma is
a lock of Highland Mary's hair.