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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
The Oldest Letter.(,arrfer,

The oldest letter-carrier in the United
States is living at Washington. In 1916
he helped organize the Foundry Church,
of which the ex-President and Mrs.
Hayes were attendants. In 1923 he
was given the place of postman. His
charge for carrying was two cents let
ter. He had also to collect the postage,
which was six cents for distances under
thirty miles, and four cents for each ad-
n shry shnsa mss ts He drove Soe "SE%s T@s
Mr. Kennedy. 1t was named Desire: sire,
ing in its bill a letter. President Van
Buren, SO admired the turnout that he
purchased it, put IL on runners, and used
it for . grand state sleigh.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
WashfngtOn's Secretary.

An important feature in Washington's
family was his Private Secretary, Tobias
Lear. He was a native of New Hamp-
shire, and in his twenty fifth year became
acquainted with his famous patron, who
wished tutor for his adopted children.
Lear soon became more valuable as
Secretary. Heaccompanied Washington
from Mount Vernon to Philadelphia,
where the National Convention was to be
held, and on its close returned with him.
He also accompanied him to the inaugu-
ration, and was his most intimate associ-
ate during the eight years of Presiden-
tial service. Lear was the only one that
witnessed the explosion of the Presi-
dents wrath on the defeat of st. Clair by
the Indians, and he also witnessed the
incessant annoyance which Washington
suffered from the attacks made by the
aurora, paper edited by Jefferson's
tool, Philip Freeman. When the old
hero returned finally to Mount Vernon.
Lear was retained in service and was
present at the death scene, which he de-
scribes in o very affecting manner. He
received the last words of his patron and
superintended the funeral. He was af-
terward engaged in public service, and
died in Washington. in 1926.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
Ice and the Stomach.

The use of ice as luxury, in the form
of ice cream or of iced water, is beeOm-
ing more prevalent in this country.
Used in these ways they are generally
taken, especially by the young, reck-
lessly, without thought of any serious,
possibly fatal, results that may follow.
An average stomach has an immense
deal to do to digest three full meals
day; especially when, as is frequently
the case, it is disturbed and irritated by
food that is indigestible because of its
quality or its quantity. Let it be remem-
bered that there is nothing in the body
blood, muscle, membrane, bone, ten
don, nerve, brain, or secretions- which
has not come of the contents of the
stomach. Neither is there thought, a
feeling, an emotion, volition, or an act,
which has not derived the material force
back of it from the stomach.
Such an organ must, therefore, be
highly organized. It has countless
arteries, veins, nerves and glands. 1t is
| lined with delicate mucous membrane,
as much so as the air-tubes.
It is studded all over with glands
which elaborate and pour into it that
wonderful fluid, gastric juice. Its coats
| consist of different thin layers of muscles
arranged crosswise, and these are con-
stantly at work giving it that peculiar
rolling motion by which the food is
thoroughly mixed with the saliva Every
organ and muscle when in action must
have special supply of blood. This is
especially true of the stomach.
Food, therefore, fails to disgest if the
blood is withdrawn from the stomach,
as, for instance, to the brain by study,
or close thought, or by anxiety, imme-
diately after eating.
Now, it is the nature of cold to con-
tract all blood-vessels and drive back the
blood, and to paralyze, more or less, ali
nerves. OF course, the flow of gastric
juice is checked, and digestion is arrested
and the proper motion of the stomach
interfered with, by an ice-cold fluid in
troduced into it.
Further, when the reaction sets in, the
blood-vessels become over -distended
producing often dangerous congestion
and an increased thirst, with demand
for more ice-water, thus inducing {
"vicious circle"
From what we have said, any reader
can see that iced water, or ice cream
should not be taken into the stomach a
the same time with food. Serious con
sequences often follow q disregard o
this physical law Youths Companion
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
The &C Year without n Summer"

We continue to receive occasional in
quires concerning the "year in which
there was no summer" Some persons
appear to have a wrong idea rs to the
time. It was the year 1916. 1t has
been called the ''year without o sum-
mer;" for there was sharp frost in every
month. There are old farmers still liv-
ing in Connecticut who remember it well.
II was known as the ''year without
summer" The farmers used to refer to
IL MS eighteen hundred and starve to
death" January was mild, as was also
February, with the exception Of few
days. The greater part of March was
but grew colder as it advanced, ending
with snow and ice and winter cold. In
May ice formed half an inch thick, buds
and flowers were frozen and corn killed.
Frost, ice and snow were common in
June. Almost every green thing was
killed, and the fruit was nearly all de-
stroyed. Snow fell to the depth of three
inches in New York and Massachusetts,,
and ten inches in Maine. July was ac-
companied with frost and ice. On the
9th ice was formed of the thickness
of window glass in New York, New En-
gland, and Pennsylvania, and corn was
nearly all destroyed in certain sections.
In August ice formed half an inch thick.
A cold northwest wind prevailed nearly
oil summer.
Corn was so frozen that great deal
was cut down and dried for fodder. Very
little ripened in New England, even here
in Connecticut, and scarcely any even in
the Middle States. Farmers were
obliged to pay "a or $5 bushel for corr
of 1916, for seed for the next springs
planting. The first two weeks Of Sep.
tember were mild, the rest of the month
was cold, with frost, and ice formed 9
quarter Of an inch thick. October was
more than usually cold, with frost and
ice. November was cold and clustering
with snow enough for good sleighing
December was quite mild and comforta
ble.-Hartford Times.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

The Greek Patriarca at Constantienople tell
graphs the Greek Committee in Liverpool as
follows: 1.-THE news from Chic is heartrending.
The catastrophe surpasses all belief. 1 implore
of you to form committees to receive subscrip-
tions in aid of the sufferers. The need is
urgent" In Kastro, town of four thousand
inhabitants, only one hundred and fifty are
known to be alive.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
A Convict Killed,

Four convicts in the Michigan Penitentiary
assaulted one of the guards, seriously wound
ing him, after which they made rush for the
wall with three ladders tied together, with
which they proposed to scale the wall. Lynch,
one Of the convicts, had reached the top of the
wall, when another guard shot him dead. The
others yielded and were recaptured after des-
perate struggle.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

The overhows in the Missouri River by reason
OF the formation Of ice gorges, has submerged
for second time good portion Of Yankton,
d. T. Within six miles Of the town, below,
seven families were swept away. The village
Of Green Island is completely washed away,
and water stands in its stead to the depth of
twelve feet. 'Vermillion, . point on the
bank, is also washed away, with q loss of
thirty lives. The river at Yankton is about six
miles wide, and the surface is covered with ice
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
The Army Of Che reuuee.ec,

The fourteenth annual reunion of the Society
Of the Army Of the Tennessee, held at Cincin-
natl on the 9Th and 7th of April, was largely
attended by members Of the Society and promi-
nent veterans of the rebellion. On the 9th the
unwilling of the bronze statue of General J. B.
Mcpherson In Fountain Square took place,
with impressive ceremony, and in the evening
the Society enter tained invited guests at Music
Hall. Ozro ]. Dodds delivered the annual
grafton, and short and spirited addresses were
delivered by ex-President Hayes, Governor
Foster, Of Ohio, General W. T. Sherman, Gen.
eral Sheridan, General Pope, General Cox,
General Legget, General Belknap, Judge Taft,
and others.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

A Seville dispatch says the Guadalquiver Ii
nine meters above the ordinary Level, and it is
believed if it continues to rise the whole city
will be inundated. Many houses are already
undermined. Fifty houses in Malaga were re-
ported on the 7th to be in imminent danger of
destruction, eleven having fallen. Eleven
sailors we're drowned while assisting the people.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
The B.rbed.wir. MONOPOLY.

large meeting Of Iowa farmers has been
held at Des Moines, in opposition to the barbed-
wire monopoly. Resolutions were adopted de-
claring their intention to unite and make COM
mon cause against the monopoly; also calling
upon Senators and Representatives in Congress
to use their influence to secure such changes in
the patent laws as will relieve the people from
the outrages now perpetrated by unscrupulous
sharpers and wealthy corporations under their
protection
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

1t would perhaps be wholly impossible to
even try to imagine the great distress in Chic
now being suffered by the people in conse.
quence of the terrible earthquake occurring
there. Only fifty houses, in a town having
10000 inhabitants, are left standing. On all
sides cries of distress are heard from the ruins,
but nobody dares to approach to render assist
ance.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
A Chinaman HANGED.

All Luck, a Chinaman, was hanged at Nevada
City last week for the murder Of q fellow-coun-
tryman in May, 1879. He was baptized by
Catholic clergyman, and seemed resigned to his
fate, but affirmed to the fact that he did not
commit the murder. On the gallows he spoke
for O few moments calmly, but broke down
completely when the straps were being adjusted
to bis limbs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

The Cologne Gazette says: 'The Russian
Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovitz, notori-
ous in connection with the theft of diamonds,
was arrested Tuesday night in the village of
sublinv, on the railway to Moscow, and in
termed in the castle belonging to his father, the
Grand Duke Constantine, brother of the late
Gar, nesr st. Petersburg, on suspicion Of be-
ing concerned in political intrigues in favor of
his father. 1t is not known whether the latter
was privy to the intrigues."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
Matte W. a Rather.

A correspondent at Washington, Indiana,
writes: Matte Martin brought suit against
Gus. wellinger, charging him with being the
father of her illegitimate child. Esquire Smith
acquitted Wellinger. When he gave his de-
cision, Miss Matte became very ry.indignant, and
threw bottle at his Honor, and tried to knock
Prosecutor O'Neal down with . chair. She
then went to the library and commenced firing
books at the Court, running everybody out OF
the room"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

Wallis, who wrote one OF the first
grammars of the English language, laid
down in verse a rule that is frequently
violated. 1t is worth quoting, and many
writers as we'll as speakers will find it a
. useful thing to memorize:
In tho FIRST person simply shal foreteils;
In tciU threat, else = promise dwells,
shall in the second and the third does threat;
wa simply there foretells the future feat
This will explain that Charles Summer
would call the ridiculosity of the French
mans remark when about to sink for the
third time: 'I tUiR drown; nobody shall
save me-"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
For the Good OF tine Community.

At Sidney, Nebraska, Reddy Mcdonald,
noted cut-throat, and for several years the ter
ror Of the town, was taken from the Jail and
lynched. The citizens gave as a reason for
their course, that Reddy was about to make
good his escape, and they did not care to take
any chancea
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

In Russia the Polish peasants refuse to
swear allegiance to the United Greek Churches.
They demand TO be sworn before Catholic
priests, and have driven away the Greek
priests. The Governor Of the Province de-
clares they must take the oath in Russian
Churches
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
A Suicidal Fast.

When Miss Hattie Deuel., at Iowa City, Iowa,
had reached the forty-third day of her fast
april g. the Medical Society of that city in
meeting passed the following resolution:
'Resolued, The Iowa City Medical Society view
with the deepest regret the present unseemly
and disgusting exhibition of the misfortunes
Of a human being in this city, and that in our
opinion those who aid and abet the prolonged
suicide of an insane individual should be held
responsible, according to the principles of COM
mon law.
[Signed] ~. C. SoHRADER, President,
''S. G. LYTLE, Secretary"
At this resolution her brother-in-law, also a
physician, at whose house she is living, declared
every possible way, except force, has been tried
to have her break her fast, but all to no pur-
pose, and that this criticism is harsh and not
justified by facts.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

A story of profound pathos is told of poor
ly dressed tramp who asked at the basement
door of No. 231 Madison avenue, New York,
for bread. He walked slowly down the avenue
steps, the picture Of misery and want, and
leaned against the grated door as il tired and
weak. What he asked was given him, and he
sat down on the steps to eat. A servant, look
ing on behind the door, saw him put the bread
to his mouth with hungry look, and suddenly
his hand dropped with the crust, and the man
fell over on the tagging rs If fainting. When
the servant ran out to help him he was dead.
Hunger, want, and exposure had done their
perfect work.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

Switzerland has taken 1t upon herself, as
have many other Of the foreign governments,
to send to America her paupers. One Of this
kind, who arrived here . few days ago, from
Zurich, named Felix Trachsler, will be shipped
back. He said the authorities of his native
place paid 100 francs for his passage and gave
him an order for 30 francs upon his arrival here.
He drew the 30 francs upon his arrival, but had
not proceeded far from Castle Garden before
he was attacked by roughs and had it wrested
from him.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
A War OF RaceA

The P anama Star and Herald says war OF
races has broken out in the Valley of Canote,
where more than two thousand Cinnamon have
been barbarously murdered by negroes and
Cholos. On one plantation six hundred inof-
fensive men were murdered in cold bl ood A
the cane fields, sugar houses, machinery, ETC.,
were burned, and property to the value Of mil
lions have been wrecked. All foreigners fled
the valley, one of the most fertile and produc-
tive in Peru. Some Of them have been killed.
The work Of murder and plunder is still going
on. It is feared that the adjacent valley OF
Chinca will suffer next. The Chilians refuse to
send troops to quell the disturbance.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

by The explosion Of a saw-mill boiler ut Berk-
ley, North Carolina, Andrew Brown (white),
Thomas Creek, Moses Conway, and Luke
Whitehurst (colored) were scalded to death.
Robert James and Robert Brown (colored) will
die. Leo Mingo, Lorenzo Backus, and Edward
Morton (colored) were badly scaldcd.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
A slight Distarbanee.

While dozen policemen were escorting
process-server at Ballinamore, County Leitrim,
Ireland, they were attacked by twenty women
with stones and sticks. A girl, aged twenty.
was fatally shot and another wounded. Sew
eral police were seriously injured.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
F1oridln Shtp Canal.

A company has obtained . charter from
Florida to construct o ship canal across the
State by way Of Caloosahathee River and Lake
Okeechobee to the ocean, near the mouth Of
the st. Lucie River. Capital, $3O, ,00O, 900.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
rhe nox Wnnted Enourh ,o En,

At sunbury, Penn, while Mrs. Hover and
family were at dinner, her daughter OF seven
teen and son Of fourteen quarreled. The boy
left the table, and In q moment returned with
a shotgun and killed his sister. His reason
for committing the crime was, "they would not
gfvo me enough TO eat"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
An ARRAY In Ireland.

Intelligence from Ballaghaderin, Ireland,
states that the police fired into gathering of
people without provocation, killing two men
outright, wounding two fatally and three 9TH
ers aeriOuRlY.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
MOOnsNiners.

Four Illicit distiilers have been captured in
Somerset County, Penn, named John Hook
stetter, VIM. Miller, Samuel Ryle, and Joseph
Nicklaw. One hundred and fifty barrels Of
whisky were also captured.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

Later intelligence from Las Vegas, New
Mexico, states that the Jim Currie killed at
that place was not Jim Currie, the murderer of
the actor, Porter, but James NJ. Currie, q
freight conductor.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
Failures.

According to Bradstreet, the total number Of
failures in the United States for the first
quarter OF the current year is 1885, against
1894 during the corresponding period of 1880,
and 1850 for 1879.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

partment, dated March 80, says: "Havana is
healthy, but lawlessness prevails, and goes on
unrestrained. Murder and robberies are Of
daily and nightly occurrence, and recently the
British Consul was nearly murdered by ruf.
fans"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

The striking carpenters in Cincinnati, who
demand an increase of wages, have had ten
dered them %. .25 per day. which offer has been
rejected by the Union.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

The authorities Of the Custom-house at Lon
don have received notes of warning from Liv-
erpool, saying that an attempt will shortly be
made to blow the building up.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
How an Enthusiastic Dog Was Rebuked
by q Parrot.

A gentleman living near this village,
says the Port Jervis Union, has parrot
who knowns q good deal more than the
law allows. A friend of his, whose name
we withhold for obvious reasons, called
at his house one day. A valuable young
dog, . pointer, was with him. The two
gentlemen sat on the porch smoking,
and the parrot, which is very tame, was
seated in an interstice in the trellis about
the porch. The dog was lying OIL the
floor at his masters feet and finally his
attention was called to the bird, which
was looking steadily at him. The dog
sprang up, drew on the parrot and
fastened. There he stood, still as q
statue, for full three minutes, when the
parrot, with a contemptuous flirt of his
feathers, screamed at him, "Go home,
you cussed foolI' The dog dropped tail
and ears, wheeled round and struck q
beeline over the fields for home. Since
that time he has refused to point q bird.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

Tho floods in the West have been the most
disastrous for years. The Missouri River has
done incalculable damage throughout its
course, and at latest accounts, was still rag
;,o
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

''KNow what good society is3 Ireckon
dol' cried Mr.. Griff. "Why I've been
put out Of more than twenty as swell A.
fairs a. ever were gotten up in this city. :"
-Boston Post.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

Reports from the South state that heavy
frost has destroyed early vegetables in North
ern Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and it
is feared the peach crop is entirely cut of.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

The Indiana House of Representatives has
passed joint resolution, by vote Of sixty-twc
to twenty-four, amending the Constitution Civ
ing women the right to vote at all State cleo
tions.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

A Madrid dispatch says bomb was exploded
under the windows Of the palace OF Duke
Stantona, but nobody was hurt.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
Gus,,burr,ssBIble,

Gutenburg's Bible, the first book ever printed
from movable types Q450-55) was sold in New
York, at auction, last week, to lawyer named
Hamilton Cole, for $1,000.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

Senator Smiths BILL TO settle the State debt
OF Tennessee at 1908, passed the Senate by on:
vote, and will be signed by the Governor.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

An Athens correspondent says that there no
body believes in peace, and that an anti-war
Ministry could not remain in Office q week.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14

"AxD in France, You know, Parker,
they speak French. Instead Of saying
'Yes,' Tor instance, they say Vice."
'Ixos. missi How paltryp
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
Tanner is Surpassed.

Miss Hattie Deuel., at Iowa City, Iowa, on
April 8, had tasted forty days. She had gradu-
ally grown weaker, but her intellect was as sound
as ever. She drinks an ounce of water every
hour
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
Edurnfinx the Indlan.

Meetings arc being held in Boston and sub
scriptions literally made for fund to be used
10 educate Indians.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

Mr.. Wilkins, of Fulton, introduced joint
resolution that the General Assembly ad-
journed sine die Friday, April Is, 1881, at
O'Clock a. m.," which, being put to q vote, was
lost.
House bills were passed to pay certain
claims Of Company A, of the Sixth Regiment,
Sill Guards, of Chillicothe, for injuries sus-
tanned by services at Coalton, Jackson County;
authorizing the Commissioners of Morrow
County to build Jail; regulating the holding
of municipal elections; providing that where
two counties constitute children's home dis
trict two trustees from each county shall con-
stitute an Executive Committee of the Board of
Trustees, regulating the transportation Of SUBJ
jects for dissection, and providing that such
subjects shall be packed in suitable cases.
The bill which passed the House, reducing
the salary of the State Librarian from 81, 500 to
1900, and increasing the salary of the As
sistant Librarian from 81 900 to 81, 200, was de-
feated in the Senate.
The following bills were passed:
House bill, by Mr., Moore, Of Washington, to
authorize the Trustees Of Fearing Township,
Washington County, to take charge of the
burial grounds of said township.
House bill, by Mr.. Leggett, to prevent and
punish fraud in making butter and cheese.
The Senate concurred in the House amend
ment to Mr. Fleischmann's Senate bill provid-
ing for the relief Of fremen. The amendment
makes the bill applicable to Dayton as well ss
Cincinnati.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
Irelnnd,a LanA mn.

Agitation upon the Land Bill has already
commenced in the North of Ireland, where
meetings are now being held.