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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-05-22

n A. STEPHENSON WILL ATTEND TO
W. my business during my absence.
my10 Nv II. 3. KEMP.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-05-22

ST.. LOUIS. May 21.-The jury In the
case Of Charles +. King. who has been on
trial during the past week for the murder
Of Mrs. Dora Droemser on January Is.
1875, returned . verdict this morning,
after being out all night, Of murder in thu
first degree, but all the jurymen Joined in
q petition to the Governor asking him to
commute the sentence to imprisorlna nt foI
life. This is the fifth time King has been
tried for this crime. and the second time
he has been found guilty. A motion for q
new trial by his counsel will be made early
next week.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-05-22

LAKE C1rx (Col.). May 21.-The Sheriff
of Rio Grande County Last night captured
three Of the gang Of highwaymen near this
place, among them the notorious criminal,
Billy Leroy, who escaped some time ago
from the Deputy United States Marshal,
on the Kansas Pacific train, while being
taken TO the Detroit P~enitentiary. Leroy
resisted capture, and was badly wounded
in the leg by the Sheriff revolver. This
gang robbed the mail coach on the 18th
inst, and killed . passenger named
Frank Bartlett. The citizens threaten to
lynch the three.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-05-22
For Sale or Rent.

4 HOUSE OF SIX ROOMS ON sp bsr.
"A Avenne viii be leased. or sold q At /.
gain. For particulars apply 70 nSstf
cHELMAN, Agent for II. BiShoF
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-05-05
The DAYS of HumbugS.

Is it possible that this can be the
Nineteenth century? is the question one
asks oneself as the eye settles upon the
longs lists of astrologers, clairvoyants and
other humbugs, which have prominent
place in the advertising columns of our
dailies. There is probably no other
country in the world where such impos-
ters could ply their nefarious trade with
impunity. ''Of course it is only the ig-
norant who patronize such peofae," is
the usual remark passed in connection
with these charlatans. But such is far
from being the case. People, ladies es-
pecially who should know better, visit
the offices of these imposters, in the fond
belief that they may geta ''tip" on stocks
which will make their fortunes, or, by
some exercise of witch or wizards power,
be able to marry the man they love.
There is not cause to waste pity upon
this class for fools will be fools the world
over, and the astrologer might as well
have their coin as any one else. It is
from the laboring class, however, that the
fortune-te teller chiefly gets his living, and
many hard-earned dollar has been
paid-for what? For nothing and worse
than nothing. It is this class that needs
protection, and it is to be hoped that, ere
long, instead Of granting them licenses
as at present, some law will be passed
which will sweep them, with other use
less rubbish. into the gutter of oblivion.
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Opinions Of the Press on Kissing.

The subjoined "Opinions of the Press
on Kissing" relate to the text which tells
us that Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted
up his voice and wept:"
If Rachel was pretty girl and kept
her face clean, we can't see what Jacob
had to cry about. t.-Daily Telegraph.
How do you know but that she slap
ped his face for him.. Y. NJ. C. As
socidtion NeWs.
The cause of Jacobs weeping was the
refusal of Rachel to allow him to kiss her
again.-Nonconfornaist
1t is our opinion that Jacob wept be-
cause he had not kissed Rachel before,
and wept for the time lost.-National
ReforDaer.
The fellow wept because the girl did
not kiss him.-PaW Mall Gazette.
Jacob wept because Rachel told him
to do it again and he was afraid to-
Methodist Recorder.
Jacob cried because she threatened to
tell her mother.-Christian World.
Jacob wept because there was only
one Rachel to kiss.-.Southern NeaOs.
He wept for joy, because it tasted so
good. Chronicle.
We think Jacob cried because Rachel
had been eating onions.
A mistake. Not his eyes, but his
mouth watered. Chester Chronicle.
Our opinion is that Jacob wept because
he found it was not half what it was
cracked up to be. -Manchester Er-
anainer.
Jacob thought it was fast color, and
wept to find the paint come of.-Fine
Art Gazette.
He was a fool. He did not know what
was good for him.-,Sat,r1ay Revie,O.
Jacob thought she might have big
brother. Church Times.
Because there was no time for another
-SWord and Iro,Oel.
When Jacob lifted up his voice and
wept, he found he could not get it as
high as he expected. .-Musical Notes.
Weeping is not unfrequently caused
by extreme pleasure, Joy, happiness: it
might have been SO in Jacobs CASE
HordaOick's Science Gossip.
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SOUTHERN TOWNS.


The Mushroom Places DeveloPe0 since
the War-Kron Manufactures.
-a IGath's Southern Letter.J
The average Southern town which has
grown up since the war, surrounding
railroad station, consists of two to five
drinking saloon, few stores and a series
of cabins or shanties of planks or logs,
set hither and thither, without much
reference to q town in the future.
Through long range of country there
are no fences on the side Of the railroad
track The trains are kept constantly
whistling to avoid running over cattle or
mules. This is the case within sight of
Montgomery, Ala, where there are some
10000 inhabitants. Occasionally one
finds a steam saw-mill put up since the
lumber The rivers are full, almost to
the level of the landscape, in high water,
and they are principally efficient as to
flooding the surrounding bottoms and
creating new soil for agriculture. Alto
South, for various occupations, is along
the mountainlines of Alabama, Tennessee
and Georgia, where I saw o number of
iron furnaces, and in two or three cases
cotton mills, built by Northern capital
which gives the name to the railroad
station was called ''Stonewall," after
Stonewall Jackson. The next was called
''Tecumseh, after Gen. William Te-
cumseh Sherman, and is operated by ex-
on Gen. Sherman's staff. Warner got
into the train at his station and talked to
me as far as Rome, Ga., and said to me:
"There are just four towns in the South
which are picking up rapidly-Chat-
ham, Ala My b1other-in-law, Justice
ested with me in the Tecumseh furnace.
We worked along for some years during
hard times without much returns, but
the furnaces generally in this section, of
them are charcoal furnaces, and two of
these are said to be the largest charcoal
furnaces in the world. We have orders
for iron long way ahead. The ad-
vantages of making iron here are cheap
ness Of materials and of labor"
He said that they paid about one dol
lar day for labor, and paid about forty
or fifty cents for cut wood per cord I
hlSO uuucIStOOu lAIh W oAnO Ui1C
terial entering into ton Of iron procured
on his land cost only about sixty five
cents. I presume he meant without la
Dor. This was disputed by Mr.. Folger,
who thought Warner must have had said
six dollars and half, but I am pretty
sure he said sixty-fve cents. Warner
said that the present Governor of Ala
bama was pretty fair man, and that,
while the State was not improving much,
industry would soon start up. A bank
had just burst at Rome, Ga, and Sena-
tor Warner was just going up to see
what had become Of So, 900 of his furnace
money deposited there. Throughout
the South there is rising opposition to
any more State banks, and general op-
position to my further noise about what
is called Estates right. have shown
you in another communication how the
evaporation against Estates rights, so
called, has broken out among the most
dogmatic soldiers of the rebellion, who
want better living for their families and
less political theory.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-05-05
The Postal Card Fiend.

s.There is new kind of fiend in exis-
ence, said a post-office detective recent
ly toyour correspondent; "the postal card
fiend, who came into existence with that
species of epistolary effusion. The
nuisance is much greater one than you
can imagine. No one who is not con-
nected with the service can imagine the
number of scurrilous cards sent out.
Ladies come to us-some of them be-
longing to the first families in our city
who are almost heartbroken over the open
missives they have received. They do
not want to expose the matter-often it
is the result of some family feud-and so
all we can do is to stop the cards here,
while the villain is allowed to go free. +"
1 have heard Of a case lately where a
young wife was assailed in reputation by
n former lover-rejected, of course-who
kept just within the boundary of the law.
The insinuating language was sufficiently
veiled to keep the young husband un-
easy, while it ate deep into the young
brides heart. 1t will kill her, as she is
dying slowly of the inward wound. OF
course ten years in prison would be light
punishment for such fiend, but these
people always calculate upon an unwill-
ingness to prosecute ON account of fears
of publicity.-M. Y Cor. Philadelphia
Record
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-05-05
I" Going to School,"

Glass in geography, stand up. Now,
who can tell me who was King of the
Cannibal Islands 400 years ago? What,
can no one answer this gravely important
query? Is it possible that you have
knowingly kept yourselves in the dark
on point which may one day decide the
fate of the nation? Very we'll; the
whole class will stay for an hour after
school as punishment.
The "B'' class in geography will
please arise and come forward for trial
and sentence. Now then, in what direc-
ton from San Francisco are the Man
grove Islands? What! can no one an
swer? And you boys expect to grow up
and become business men, and you girls
to become wives, and yet don't know
whether the Mangrove Islands are north,
east or southwest of San Francisco! |
shall send the boys up to the principal
to be thrashed, and the girls will have
no recess.
The class in history will now take the
prisoners box, and tell the jury whether
sunfiower seeds are among the exports
of Afghanistan. No answer? None of
you posted on this momentuous ques-
ton? Two thirds of you on the point of
leaving school to mingle in the busy
scenes of life, and yet you do not know
whether Afghanistan exports sunhower
seeds or grindstones! For five years l
have labored here as teacher, and now
I find that nay work has been thrown
away. Go to your seats and I will think
up some mode Of punishment befitting
your crime.
The advanced class in mathematics
will now step forward. One of you
please step to the blackboard and illus
trate the angular rectangle northeast
corner of quadrangle. What! No one
in all this class able to make that simple
Illustration? James and John and Joseph
and Henry, you expect to become mer-
chants, and Mary and Kate and Nancy
and Sarah, you are all old enough to be
married, and yet you confess your igno-
rance of angular rectangular quadrangle
lers before the whole school! John,
suppose You become wholesale grocer.
Do you expect to buy tea and sugar and
coffee and spices, and sell the same
again without reference to quadrangles?
Mary, suppose you go to the store to
buy four yards of factory at ten cents
yard. How are you going to be certain
that you have not been cheated if you
cannot figure the right angle of trian-
gle? All, me! might as well resign my
position and go home and die, for the
next generation will be SO ignorant that
all educated persons will feel themselves
strangers and outcasts. Detroit Free
Press.
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Discriminating Against Authors,

Manuscript is merchandise, and often
goes to dozen possible purchasers, and
then returns to the author to fill his
waste basket, or lie in his secret drawer
till-sI Iord knows when" But the post
Office officials discriminate against this
particular kind of merchandise. Ores,
dry goods, nursery stock and the like
may be sent through the mail for q cent
an ounce. It makes no difference whether
these commodities have actually been
sold or whether they are sent as samples.
Nearly all sorts Of books and other
publications require only half cent
postage to the ounce, and the rest one
cent. The classes chiefly benefited by
this cheap rate are corporations, such as
mining companies, factories and whole
sale dealers, and the publishers of books,
periodicals., newspapers, novels, pam
phlets, advertising sheets, etc. Now it
the departments of Government must
discriminate against some class, why
should the wealthy escape and the needy
be oppressed by this discrimination?
After a book or an article is once in
type, no matter whether it is yet pub
lished, it has, in degree, changed
hands; it has, in part at least, become
the property of the publishers. Then it
goes through the mails to the eproof-reader,
who may be the author, for half cent
an ounce. The same book or article,
when it belonged wholly to the author
and wss still in manuscript cost him
each time he sent it to publisher six
cents per ounce, and he had to enclose
the same amount in stamps in order to
secure the return of the work if not
accepted. Cor. Springfield Repubti-
cam
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-05-05
An Affecting Lie.

An early settler in Chicago relates
an incident in which he was an actor:
Gas I sat there in the long ago, and,
shrouded in the September haze, was
dreaming of fortunate future for my.
self, heard the muffled tread of innum.
berable feet drawing nearer and nearer
to me. The sound was like the football
of regiment of infantry approaching,
and rose to see what was the cause. !
had not long to wait, for very soon there
hove in sight very singular spectacle.
First came large Illinois hog at the
head of long column of Illinois hogs,
all marching Indian fashion, and grunt-
ing with that gentle, placid grant which
the hog carries with him. On closer ex-
animation into the singular phenomena
saw that all the hogs, except the leader,
were blind, each animal having his pre-
decessor's tail in his mouth throughout
the long line, consisting of thirteen thou
sand five hundred and twenty-one
unfortunate, sightless hogs, cheerfully
following their leader to the water.
was never SO struck with the wonderful
instinct of the brute creation in my life,
and my eyes filled with tears when I
saw the child-ike faith and confidence of
each blind animal following with implicit
trust the more fortunate guide. Soon,
however, great dazzling three-cornered
idea worked its way into my intellect.
Dashing away my idle tears drew my
revolver and shot off the leaders tail,
leaving the long line Of disconnected and
aimless hogs in the middle of broad
prairie with no guide but the dephlogis-
ticated tail of hog who was three-quar-
ters of mile away. Then stole up,
and taking the CORY tail in my hand I
led the trusting phalanx down to the
stockyards and sold the outfit at eight
cents live weight. This was the start of
my dazzling career as capitalist, q
career to which now point with pride.
Thus from poor boy with one suspender
and poor toe have risen to be one
OF our leading business men, known and
respected by all, and by industry and
economy and borrowing my chewing to-
bacco have come to be one of our solid
r,oy, -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-05-05
An Artistic Heaven.

A retired manufacturer, one Of the
practical sort of men, who had more of
the love of display than aesthetic taste to
properly sustain it, strolled into the
studio of New Haven artist few years
ago, and after examining some Of the
paintings, thrust his thumb into the arm
holes of his vest, and clearing his throat.
said to the artist.
"Ahem! I have thought for sometime
that would give you ON order for pic
ture."
''Should be happy" replied the artist
modestly.
''What I should like would be picture
representing child at prayer, with an
angel lowering over it, and O view Of
heaven in the distance. Could YOU
paint picture like that?"
"Y-e-es, I think so, was the rejoinder.
Every well, you can paint it. I care
nothing about the expense if it only suits
me. I'll pay $3.50 for it."
Now the artist was trife perplexed as
to the detail of the work before him.
The child at prayer and the lowering
angel were simple enough; any dabster
with brush could paint those. But the
''heaven in the distance" was not so
easily overcome. Calling in friend he
consulted with him. "How do you sup
pose heaven looks, anyhow"
''Well," said the friend, waggishly,
81 suppose it looks something like the
first view Of the City Of Albany, the
great dome Of the Capitol in the center
and"
"That's t',e idea" exclaimed the artist,
II see. will paint the figures, and q
sky full of clouds with hole in the GEN.
ter, and put Albany in for the heaven. !"
A pictorial sketch of Albany was i'm
mediately sent for, the artist finished
the picture with that ancient city of the
Dutch as the distant heaven, the patron
of art was delighted, paid tho bill, and
the picture hung in his parlor in this
city for long time.-Ne,0 Haven Regis
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rME rMBEBnER3.

rAh = - rbsss- b
The wheat veil grown, mans lawful spo1.
The nev-plucked fruit Of patient toll;
Pledge me the farmers' dnevy hand
His goodly acres waiting stand;
Pledge me the hands his force can Weld
To plov, TO SOW, TO reap the field
Bruise the bright heads and break them sore
Scatter the chah from door 10 door,
SHOW me the kernel sound and sweet
This is the fail
The noisy fail, whose loud uproar
Wears the oaken threshing-hoor;
measured beat, noGing round,
hardened resonance Of sound
The long, lou scafiolds waK and wane,
Drop down the nheaves Of earnered grain,
And empty. careless, lsughtsr-wild,
. he yellow straw is loosely piled.
Those level crashings tell the tale
Swing round the hail, the mighty aan
v Thess are the men
The men Who eIeave, With sturdy stroka
The fallen giants hear Of OAK, D.
Now build Tor life and life's demands,
And al with bread the waiting lands.
Clash rhyme with rhyme, the threshers' song
Deal blows on blown, strike loud and long;
The wrench of hunger drives at length
The iron Of unyieiding strength;
WELD the beni blade--sgain, again.
And serve the puny rsce Of monf
= Ezaiss Gsodaie IN kks Critic.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-05-05
Opium Smoking.

San Francisco is not of the opinion
that the article in the new Chinese treaty
prohibiting citizens of either country
from importing opium here, and vessels
flying the flag of either nation from
carrying it, will destroy the trade in this
article. Opium smoking, on the Pacific
coast, is not confined to the Chinese, for
American youths have acquired the
habit. Saysone Of the importers: "The
Chinese will get it, if it ia on the top of
the earth"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-05-05

sFor ten years my wife was confined to her
bed with such complication of ailments that
no doctor could tell what was the matter or
cure her, and used upa small fortune in hum
bug stuff. Six months ago saw U. s. flag
with Hop Bitters on it, and thought would
be q fool one more. tried it, but my folly
proved to be wisdom. Two bottles cured her,
she is now as well and strong as any mans wife,
and it cost me only two dollars. Be ye likewise
foolish. H w.. Detroit Mich,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-05-05
A Relic Of Washington.

An old walnut cabinet of antique de-
sign has been discovered in the store of
Frank Ware, secondhand furniture
dealer in Staunton, Va, to which un-
usual interest attaches. In moving the
desk Ware turned it up and his eye fell
upon singular looking Inscription, to
decipher which he called in the aid of
several gentlemen, to make it out as fol-
lows: "To George Washington by D.
Webfter in ye year 1777,D and in another
place: eye desk was presented to George
Washington in ye year of ye Lord 1777
by q. Webfter." The INSERTION is
quite distinct, except the I'D" preceding
Webster. The cabinet was bought re-
Gently at q sale of the effects Of the
widow of theslate Samuel Clark, former
Mayor of Staunton, and is about three
feet long and one deep and stands upon
four slender crooked legs. A drawer
runs the whole length of the cabinet at
the top and there are smaller shallow
ones beneath this, with an old fashioned
brass handle. It has been found that
Samuel Clark married daughter of
Sampson Matthews, who was the first
man who ever kept tavern in Staunton.
His tavern, which has long since disap-
peared, was rendezvous for Continental
soldiers. General Matthews, a brother
of the tavern-keeper, was friend Of
General Washington and was Governor
of Georgia after the war;. The old desk
evidently passed from General Washing
ton into the hands of Governor Matthews
and SO into his brothers family Its
identity is much Strengthened by the
strong resemblance between the inscrip-
ton upon it and the handwriting of
Washington as seen upon an old auto
graph letter of his which has been
hunted up and compared with it.-Phil-
ndeLphia Times.
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CURED OF DRINKING.

"a young friend Of mine was cured Of an in
satiable thirst for liquor, that had 80 prostrated
his system that he was unable to do any busi-
ness. He was entirely cured by the use of Hop
Bitters. 1t allayed all that burning thirst; took
away the appetite for liquor; made his nerves
steady, and he has remaineda sober and steady
man for more than two years, and has no de-
sire to return to his cups, and know Of num-
Der of others that have been cured Of drinking
by it."-From leading r. r. Official, Chicago,
Ill.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-05-05

INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostration
and all forms of general debility relieved by
taking MENsMAN's PEPToNIzED BEEF Tonic, the
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. It contains blood-mak-
ing, force-generating and life-sustaining prop
critics; is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions,
whether the result of exhaustion, nervous pros
tration, overwork, or acute disease, particularly
if resulting from pulmonary complaints, Cas-
well, Hazard d Co., proprietors, New York.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-05-05

WONDER if the wretched old bachelors
who get together to growl over the way
women are swindled by their dressmakers
and milliners realize that shirts made to
order for So apiece cost but sixty or
eighty cents, and a SO necktie really rep
resents but seventy-fve cents worth of
labor and material.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-05-05

PRor. TDY, in q paper read before the
London Chemical Society, restates, in
reply to DIR. Frankland, his firm convic
ton that fairly rapid river, having re-
ceived sewage in quantity not exceeding
one-twentieth of its volume, regains its
purity after run of q few miles, and be-
comes wholesome and good for drink
ing. v4
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-05-05

ONE Remedy for One Dollar-Thereis butone
way to cure badness, and that is by using CAR
BoLrNE, a deodorized extract of petroleum, the
natural hair renewer. It will positively do the
work, and it is the only article that will.