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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

Communications are constantly being r.
ceived by the Yorktown Centennial Commission
from military organizations, making inquiries
about transportation or announcing their in
tention of participating in the ceremony.
Among the organizations which have recently
signiied their intention of participating, are
The Mayors Guard, Of st. Louis, which took
part in the Inauguration parade company
from Clarksville, Arkansas, and the First Bat
talon Of the Virginia Militia, comprising three
batteries of artillery. The expected COM
pletion of the @. Il o. Railroad branch to York
town, removes the annoying difficulties regard
ing the wharfage facilities at that point.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
A SHEFFIELD England) firm are max

A SHEFFIELD England) firm are max
ing steel-faced plates, by a process not
yet divulged, which are apparently de-
stined to work revolution in the matter
of armor for ships of war. The iron
plates hitherto used have had to be OF
enormous thickness to Withstand the i'm
pact from the heavy shots used, and the
ships have, therefore, been of unwieldly
size to bear the weight, while the armor,
even il it stopped the projectile, has in.
variably been cracked and split in all
directions. Experiments recently made
on behalf of the English Government,
and by the French as well, show that
the new steel plates not only shatter the
proiectile itself, but show no wounds be-
yond the dents caused by the collision.
The French ships of war now being
built will, therefore, be protected by the
new armor.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
Another Theory.

The New York World, commenting upon the
sad and mysterious death of Jennie Cramer, at
New Haven, says that she spent the night at
the Malley mansion. Wine had been prepared
(drugged) for her with view to communicating
her ruin; that the wine failing to have the
desired effect, her despoilers used chloroform,
and being intoxicated, used it to excess that
death ensued, and finding corpse on their
hands, to rid themselves of the appearance of
murder, they took her body and threw it into
the water.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
DEACON DAY AND THE HIGHWAY
By EUGENE J. HALL.

The best O. bein's will hev their cares
There's alwus sumpthin' to cross our way,
To Wary an fret us in our Affairs
An sech wus the lot o. old D aeon Day;
He he'd his trials-I'll tell you how
He wus tempted an tried by highway COW.
The hue O. her hide was dusky brown;
Her body wus lean, an her neck wus slim;
One horn turned up, an the other down.
She wus sharp o. sight, an wus long O limb,
With peaked nose an a short stump-tail,
An ribs like the hoops on q homemade pail.
Many day he'd she passed in pound -
Fur meanly helpin' herself 10 corn.
Many a cowardiy cur an hound
He'd been transfxed by her crumpled horn,
Many teapot an old old tin-pail
He'd the farm boys tied to her stumpy tail.
Old Deacon Day was a pious man,
frugal farmer, upright an plain;
All many weary mile he ran
To drive her out o. his growin' grain.
Sharp were the prauks that she used to play
To git her fill and to git away.
He used to sit on the Sabbath-day
with his open Bible upon his knee,
Thinkin' O. loved ones far away,
In the Better Land that he longed to SEQ
When distant beller, borne thro' the air,
Would bring him back to this world O. care.
When the Deacon went to his church in town,
She watched an waited till he went BY
He never passed her without frown,
And AM evil gleam in each angry eye.
"whayI"
Then nt his homestead she loved to call,
Liftin' mis- bars with her crumpled horn,
Nirnbly scalin' his glrden wall,
Helpin' herself to his standin' corn,
Eatin' his cabbages one by one
Scamperin' home when her meal was done.
Often the Deacon homeward came,
Hummin' hymn, from the house o. prayer,
HIS kindly heart In tranquil frame,
His soul ez calm ex the evenin' air,
His forehead smooth ez = well-worn plow-
To find in his garden that highway COW.
His human passions were quick to rise,
An stridin' forth with savage cry,
With fury blazin' from both his eyes,
Ez lightlin's fash in q summer sky,
Redder an redder his face would grow,
An after the critter he would go
Over his garden, round and round,
Breakin' his pair an apple trees,
Trampin his melons into the ground,
Tfppin' over his hives O. bees, .
Leavin' him angry an badly stung,
Wishin' the old cows neck was wrunG
The MOSES grew on the garden wall:
The years went by, with their work an play;
The boys o the village grew strong and tall,
An the gray-haiIed farmers dropped away,
One by one ez the red leaves fall
But the highway COW outlived 'em all.
The things we hate are the last to fade;
Some cares are heightened thro' many years,
The death o. tine wicked seems long delayed,
But there is 4 climax to all careers
An the highway COW ct last was slain
In runnin' q race with q railway train.
All into pieces at once she went,
Jest like savin's banks when they fail;
Out O. the world she was swiftly sent;
Leetle was left but her own stump-tail.
The farmers gardens an corn-felds now
Are haunted no more by the highway COW.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
The Little Dory City Of Ratb.

The little dory City of Bath arrived at Fal-
mouth from Newfoundland on the 25th inst,
and at once departed for Hamburg, from which
point its reckless crew-two in number-will
attempt to recross the Atlantic. They capsized
when few days out from Newfoundland and
lost nearly all their provisions, and came nearly
perishing. On account of the waves constantly
washing over them, they stated that they did
not have on dry clothes from the time they left
here until they arrived at Falmouth.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
HyhrophOhfm from a Panther Rite

Dora Frazer, a negro woman, while going for
q bucket of water, near Hutchins, Texas, a
short time ago, was bitten on the head and
neck by panther, which leaped on her from a
large oak tree. She has just died in East Dali
las, having gone there for medical treatment.
The,strangest thing about her death was that
fine had all the symptoms of hydrophobia.
She screamed and clawed at the sight of water,
srothed at the mouth, and died in great agony.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
The Last Ray OF Hope.

On the 25th inst. the evidence of blood
poisoning in the Presidents case was SO mani
fest, and the progress of the disease Sc
virulent that even the physicians gave up all
hope but Mrs. Garfield, clinging fondly to the
last ray of hope, would not give up. 81 still
have hope still have hope" she repeated,
hoping against hope. Brave woman, standing
firmly with naught but utter despair staring
her in the face, burden of grief too great for
her frail body to bear.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
Apache Horrors.

Not less than twenty-five settlers have been
killed fifteen miles north of Mutt Station within
ten days, by Mescalero Apache Indians, now
moving south in Chihuahua. They crossed the
Southern Pacific Railroad fourteen miles east
of Gage, about seventy-fve strong. Ahundred
soldiers and fifty Indian scouts struck the trail
and are in close pursuit. Regular trains are
again running, but slowly, as the track is much
damaged.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
Foolish Hot Heads.

In Cook County, Texas, Benz. Blanton,
ex-Sherin of the county, and a desperate man,
quarrelled with James Todd, who had appeared
in law suit as q witness against him, insulting
him in most outrageous manner. They sep
arated, each vowing to meet the other for a
final settlement. They subsequently met, both
drew weapons and fired. Todd was shot through
the heart and in the breast and Blanton's
head was blown Off. Both men were lying dead
when discovered
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

A Peoria Qllinois) dispatch says the will Of
the late Captain Hall devises to the wife of
the noted humorist, Bob Burdette, one-seventh
of the estate of the deceased, who was her
grandfather. The property is now worth some
thing like 10000, but as it is not to be divided
until 1889, and meantime is to be sold and the
proceeds invested, it will probably be much
more when the several shares are set off.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
The President. suffering,

President Garfield is evidently great suf
ferer. With two great holes in his back,
lanced gland that Is freely emitting pus, and
other glands about the body swollen and de-
manding the lance, stomach given to nausea
and consequent irritation, long confinement
without change Of scenery-all these affiic-
tions are almost too much for human endur-
ance. 1t is little wonder that the President at
times ID delirious That his life is spared thus
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

General Hazen has caused a further charge
to be placed against Capt Howgate, the de-
faulting Signal Service officer, of an additional
embezzlement Of $50, ,0OG. The detectives found
vouchers for the payment of supplies in large
Sums furnished by parties in New York. These
parties positively disclaim all knowledge of the
transactions, making affidavit that the supplies
in question were never furnished by them, and
that no such money had been received from
the disbursing officer Of the Signal Corps.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
A Simple Cholera Cure.

eft is SIM" said the late Rev. DIR.
William Tracy, who spent the whole Of
his adult life as missionary in India, and
who had experience of many hundreds
symptoms he lies down at once and sub
mits to treatment the principal part OF
which consists of q patient and persistent
rubbing of the abdomen, to be kept up
even after apparent collapse has occur
red, he is certain to recover. ."-Pttsburg
Leader.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
OhtO,s Full Of 'em.

Louis l.. Hyde, of Ashtabula, Ohio, pre-
sented himself at the White House, a few days
ago a messenger to Mrs. Garfield of peace
and good will. He was taken in charge by the
authorities, and conveyed to Police Headquar-
tiers. where he was pronounced a "crank" of
mild type, and, not being considered dam
gerous, was subsequently shipped home.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

The city authorities of Chicago have under
taken to force the peanut, fruit and candy
stands from the corners of the streets, and all
Italy, SO far the population in that city is
concerned, is up in arms against the movement.
1t does beat all how heartless the powers some
times are. Now, what are these poor Italians
to do for living? They can't work, dare not
steal, and-it's down right dirty shame.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
Cool and Deliberate.

Jack Hayes, st. Louis butcher. and terror,
walked into the saloon of Philip A Mueller
and called for and drank two glasses of beer,
after which he coolly walked out without pay
ing. Directly he returned and again called for
beer. Mueller stated that "that kind of busi-
ness had played out, whereupon Hayes coolly
drew bis revolver and shot Mueller dead. He
attempted to escape, but was captured.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
us.btn,u.,. str.,~, yyor..

Near Fulton, Illinois, during heavy thunder
storm, Mr.. and Mrs. H. Temple were killed by
lightning. They had risen on account Of the
violence Of the storm, and were Just retiring,
or had retired, when they were struck by the
bolt. An infant between them was uninjured /;
four other children, sleeping in the same room,
were uninjured also.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

A MAN in Dresden has discovered new
lubricant for shafts, which he claims is
superior to the best oil. It is made by
mixing the whites of eggs with the finest
graphite powder, until of the form of
dough. The mixture is then boiled in
water until the whole is coagulated,
when it is reduced to powder.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

Parnelrs manifesto to electors at North Dur
ham is most violent. 1t entirely ignores the
Land Act, and declares it impossible for the
Irish party to enter into alliance with any sec
ton which allows itself to be used in support
of the Coercionist Ministry who banished per-
sonal liberty from Ireland and reduced it to a
worse condition than that of Russia, under the
third section.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

The swelling of the parotid gland ("the
salivsry gland situated nearest the ear, which
pours its secretion into the mouth during
mastication y the surgeons found it necessary
to lance to release the accumulating pus and
on the oath inst. an incision q half inch in
length and half inch deep was made. The
inconvenience from the lancing slight, but
the relief obtained was considerable.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

Two men named Folsom and Hobbs, il Scott
County. Ark, after losing all their money by
gambling with a country store keeper named
Stewart, returned in the night and woke Stew
art, demanding whisky. While he was draw
ing it they shot him dead, and then dragging
him into the road, put six more balls into him.
Billy Messingale, visitor, who arrived on the
scene justin time to see what had occurred,
returned to the house and was telling Stewards
wife. when one of the men stepped up, and
with an oath shot him in the back of the head,
the ball passing through the head and out the
mouth, killing him instantly. The men then
departed. r., -.. -..
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

The pork packing establishment of John G.
Hately, Chicago, was last week destroyed by
fire. Considerable pork was in the house at
the time making the entire loss between $3.50,
900 and q, ,OOO, 900, on which there is an insur-
ance of $780, 900.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

A cablegram from Cairo, Egypt, says that in
Soudan an ARRAY occurred between the popu-
lation and soldiery, caused by the preaching Of
a false prophet One hundred and twenty
Egyptian soldiers were killed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

Agent Llewellyn, at Mescalera Agency, New
Mexico, says half the reports sent out detailing
Indian massacres are infamous lies. Every
thing is quiet there. He also says that the
depredations committed are generally the work
of rowing Indians and lawless white men.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

The soldiers and sailors held a reunion at
Portland, Me-, August rs, at which there were
fully Is, 900 visitors. A sham battle between
the Americans and their French allies and the
British was an important feature Of the cele-
bration.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

Advices from Bangkok, Siam, says: "Asiatic
cholera is raging. 1t is variously estimated
that from one hundred to three hundred ma
tives are dying daily. Very few foreigners
have died, but several have fed TO Singapore
and Hong Kong. Every one feels as though
he were living in q graveyard"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

The continuous rains throughout England
and Ireland has caused the price Of wheat to
considerably advance in the English market.
It advanced four cents at Liverpool on the 26th
of August.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

The explosion Of a portable boiler at Bay
City, Michigan, killed James Keeiey, the man
ager, and William J. Abrams, the engineer,
and injured two others.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
.n N.x.r R.,u. Rut II Pour-. ''

Great apprehension is felt for the harvests
in England and Ireland. 1t has been raining
80 continuously in those countries that the cut
crops can not be garnered, and the conseqnence
is, the grain is sprouting in the fields. All root
crops, particularly potatoes, are taking second
growth.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
The MR.. Garfield Fund.

Thus far s156, 1875 has been subscribed to
the Mrs. Garfield Fund. The United States
Trust Company, who has the fund in charge,
bought United States 4-per cent. registered
bonds Of the value of $125,0O0 for which was
paid s145 2s1 25, on which the interest is 5000
per annum.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
The H.rve.t. OF the world.

volume of reports on the harvest of diff
ferent countries throughout the world, brought
out annually, is now issued. The reports Of
the wheat crop in France are this year, from
over large area, an indication of better crop
than last year. This years barley is not so
good as in 1880, but it is fairly good. Maize
is very ordinary, oats and rye fair. On the
whole the crops are not up to those of last
year, but wheat is not much below the average.
None of the crops will be very bad, but
none will be very good. The crops in
Great Britain are described as follows:
Wheat 10 per cent. below the average and
likely to realize only 10000, 900 quarters. Bar
ley 10 per cent, above an average, and oats 20
per cent. below the average. The year is one
in which farmers are not likely to recoup them
selves for the loss during the past five years.
In Austria and Hungary crops are good all
round. Wheat and barley are both above the
average. Rye is very much, and oats slightly
under the average. The reports from Italy
agree that the crops are of medium quality,
and much below the abundance of those of
1880. In the Turkish provinces on the Danube
the wheat harvest will be medium. Rye good
and abundant. Barley good, as regards guam
tity. but bad in quality. Oats very much above
the average. All the reports from Russia
agree that barley is the best crop of the
year, doubling that of 1880 in quantity,
but not plump and weighty Rye is
is abundant. Wheat is good throughout
Germany. Winter and spring sowings IN
marked contrast, the former yielding good
and the latter very defective crops. Oats are
very good. Barley is thin. None of the crops
are of an average. In the Prussian States the
crops are fair. The Swiss wheat crop is very
poor in quantity, owing to the drouth, but in
quality it is very fine. Oats and barley are
good in quantity and quality, but there is a
small area sown of the latter Belgian wheat
is far below the average. Barley is good. Rye
and oats are fair. ALI the crops in Spain are
bad. All cereals in Holland are in good condi-
tion. All the reports from the United States
agree that the yield will be under the average.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
Yellow Fever.

!, The Norwegian bark Bellona, now in quar-
antine at New York, had four of its passengers
TO die from yellow fever. Nearly every one
aboard was afflicted with the disease.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

A political conference at Jackson, Mississippi,
of Greenbackers, Republicans, and Independ-
ents, nominated Ben. King, of Copiah County,
for Governor, by acclamation.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

long can only be accounted for in the fact that
he is possessed of wonderful mental and
physical constitution, and should he recover,
he will as much owe his life to that fact - to
his physicians.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

The elections in Cuba, for members to tn.
Spanish Cortes, resulted in the return OF Z
majority Of Conservative candidates.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

The Mexican Government will appoint
Commission to design basis for new COM
mercial treaty with the United States, Italy and
Belgium.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

WHAT pity flowers can utter no
sound |! A singing rose, a whispering
violet, murmuring honeysuckle-oh,
what rare and exquisite miracle would
these be@Beecher
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

Arrangements for the removal Of the Uncom-
pahgre Utes to their new reservation in Utah
has been perfected and the removal Of the In
dams began on the 25th inst.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

A movement is on foot having for its object
the appointment of Prof. yennor, the weather
prophet, to supersede General Hazen as Chief
of the Signal Service.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
the m....chu.e,s. areenb.cker..

The Massachusetts, Greenbackers, in State
Convention, repudiated the two old parties,
monopolies, national banks, railroads, etc.,
and declared that suffrage is the right Of all
citizens without regard to race, color, sexes or
taxea
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
Dean Of wessu. insaer.

1t is said that the Rev. George Granville
Bradley, NJ. A., Master Of University College,
Oxford, and for some time Honorary Chaplain
to the Queen, has accepted the Deanery Of
Westminster aLl AZ 1
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

Little Brow jug at Hartford, the other day,
lowered the pacing record of Sleepy Tom by
half a second, pacing three consecutive heats
in 2:11sl, 2:11s and 21211 respectively.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

An effort is being made by some one to pub
lish the life Of Charles J. Guiteau. Surely
the less of this thing the better.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
Alaska

Alaska proposes to elect delegate to Con-
gress and ask for Territorial form of Govern
ment to be set up in that part Of the United
States.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

wmN an ancient Greek poet felt
good he used to say, I" 1 feel as lovely ar
: new blown nosep Nothing like the
severely classic.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

dog named Mansfield, in New York, in a
spirit of anger, threw his wife into the
street from third-story window, injuring her
mortally.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
The Report Doufed.

The report that the Cincinnati hotels will
raise in their rates during the Exposition is
publicly denied by the leading hotel propri-
stors
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
A Canadian DefAnIter Ab.conds-

A. J. Whitton, head Of the Weights and
Measures Department Of Montreal, has become
heavy defaulter and absconded to the United
States.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
-Nesp York Herald.

AN Ohio joke A young man in this
city, short time ago, proposed to Ia
dy several years his senior, and for an
swer she said: ST guess / don't want to
take boy to raise I" The young man is
now raising a fnustache. - Youngstown
(lhi0l NeapH
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
Very WARM


Adyices from Tunis state that the heat h
excessive and that the hospital at Goletta and
Manouba are crowded with sick soldiers.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

The only amaranth flower ON earth Is
virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
-Co,cper.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01

A fire at Evan sville, Indiana, last week, d.
stroyed property TO the value of $500, 200.