davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
New Railroads.

Articles of consolidation of the Evansville
and Seymour and the Evansville, Seymour and
Bellefontaine railways have been filed in In
dianapolis. Directors Henry B. Hammond
and Charles W. Kohlsant, of New York; Mel
colin Peters, Philadelphia; 1. N. Bette, Chicago:
R. Pattison and A. W. Carpenter, Evansville;
E. G. Devsre and c. B. Cole, Seymour and Fl.
c. Kimble, Brookville. Also, articles of asso-
citation of the Indiana and Michigan Railroad
Company have been filed capital stock, $780,
900. Directors: George G. Kimble, Henry H.
Getty, Oliver P. Pillsbury, Andrew NJ. Nichols,
Hugh Park, John W. Chaplin, and Frederick
A. Minis. The line is to run from La Crosse to
the Michigan State line, a distance of about
forty miles
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
The Rapid Telegraph.

The capacity of single line of tele-
graph wire has always been limited by
the quickness of the operator. The
electricity passes from end to end of the
longest line without appreciable loss of
time.
A sender Of average ability can trans
NIT twenty-five words a minute, or fifty
messages an hour. This being the limit
Of q single wire, many lines have be-
come necessary between large cities, to
provide for the constant increase in the
use Of the telegraph by all classes.
A few years ago, Mr.. Edison discov-
cred and applied the quadruplex sys-
tenn. By this invention, four messages
can be sent at one time over the same
wire, two each way. As its name implies,
it increased the carrying capacity of a
wire four-foid.
But the new system Of the Rapid Tel
egraph Company is oven more wonder
full. By this method the messages are
transferred to q paper-tape which is per-
forated by machine with a keyboard,
operated like typewriter. Many per-
sons are kept busy at these machines
preparing these messages. When the
tape is ready it is wound on a wheel.
Now, instead of the operator making
each letter by successive clicks of the
telegraph key, he simply turns the
wheel, and steel points, like the nibs Of
pen. trace their way over the perforat-
ed tape, and wherever there are holes
the circuit is completed and the electric
current reports at the other end of the
line, in dots or dashes, long or short, as
the perforation may be.
The messages are then translated from
the telegraphic code and printed in full
by the aid Of the typewriter, ready for
delivery.
By this invention, the capacity Of q
wire is increased thirty-fold. In min
ute 900 words may be sent, involving
800 pulsations second of the electric
current. Ap these improvements are in
the direction Of cheap andefficient teleg.
raphy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
A Much-COmposed Youth.

Among other compositions recently
produced in the Columbia Grammar
School was the following on the rhi-
noceros
"The rinozerus lives in Azhar and
you kant stick q pin in i'm cause hiz
werskut is bilt ov ole stoves. Wen
rinozerus liz gonter be kid you mus al
waze go up to him from before so az
he'll kno somthin OF it an try an max
place for built to git in. His nose
is got upper teeth that's got no bust
nez ware it IL, an if boy shood set
down on it he better sta plugd up with
the tooth rels he'll be all won pore.
I'd rather be polliwog if / wuz a ri
nozerus, tho spose if 1 wuz I wood
ent."-New York Mercury.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
Taste.

An expensively furnished room is not
always attractive. A lady of refined
instinct and training, by means of a few
cheap but of their kind good pictures,
book engravings, cartoons, and such
like, n bundle Of strips and straws, some
pretty Japanese or Chinese decorations,
tho judicious appliance and arrangement
Of such pretty things as artistic taste
will suggest-will do more toward max
ing little parlor charming, homelike
and artistic than thousands of dollars
spent on vulgar and inartistic arrange
mont
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
Three Thousand Four Hundred and FIT.
SIX Dollars Obtained n Forged heck.

Three Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty.
six Dollars Obtained ON n Forged Check.
forged check for the above amount, pur-
porting to have been drawn by the cashier OF
the Springfield National Bank, of Springfield,
H., has been passed at the Hartford Trust
Company, Hartford, Conn, by man who
called himself Albert B. Fischer. He pretended
to be grain operator, and dealt considerably
in stocks through brokers. He was accompanied
by fashionably dressed woman, whom he
called his wife. He presented two genuine
checks with the forged one, and as Hartford
citizen, who had made his acquaintance accom-
panied him to the bank and introduced MIN,
the forged check was cashed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
NUMBER II.
How to Dress the Children.

The capacity of our ancestors to ac-
commodate themselves to every climate
depended not only on their physiological
faculty of adaptation, but also on their
skill in protecting themselves by artifi-
cial means from the inclemency of the
higher ATTITUDES. Houses and clothes
are blessing if they answer this pur-
pose by close imitation of natures own
plan in sheltering her children from at
mospheric vicissitudes, but in degree as
they deviate from that plan their hygi-
enic disadvantages balance, or even out
weigh, the gain in other respects. A
swallows nest protects her brood from
cold and rain without debarring them
from the fresh air a human domicile,
too, should combine comfort with the
advantage of perfect ventilation, and our
clothes, like the furrt a squirrel or the
feather-mantie of hawk, should keep
us warm and dry without interfering
with the cutaneous excretions and the
free movement of our limbs.
Measured by these standards, the win-
ter dress of an American schoolboy is
nearly the best, the summer dress of the
average American, French, and German
nursing about the worst that could be
devised. At an age when the rapid de-
velopment of the whole organism re-
quires the utmost freedom of movement,
our children are kept in the fetters of
garments that check the activity of the
body in every way; swaddling- clothes,
undershirts, overshirts, neck-wrappers.
trailing gowns, garnitures, founces and
shawls reduce the helpless homunculus
to a bundle of dry goods, unable to move
OR turn, incapable of relieving or inti-
mating its uneasiness in any way save
by the use of its squealing apparatus,
and consequently squealing violently
from morning till nil ght. Outdoors, in
the baby carriage, "cold draughts !"
have to be guarded against, and load
OF extra wrappers completely counteract
the benefit of the fresh air faint with
nausea and suffocating heat, the little
dummy lies motionless on its back, re-
splendent in its white surplice, a fit
candidate for the honors of life whose
every movement of a natural impulse
will be suppressed as revival of bar
barism, and an insurrection against the
statutes of an orthodox community.
Hence, in a great degree, the dispropor-
tionate mortality in all northern coun-
tries of Christendom among infants
under 2 years. In Spanish America,
where infantile diseases are as rare as in
Hindoostan, babies of all classes and
sizes toddle about naked, nearly the
year round and the Indians Of the
Tamaulpas, between Tampico and Mat
amoras, raise an astonishing number of
brown bantlings who are never troubled
with clothes till they are big enough to
carry garden-stuff to the city, where the
police enforces the apron regulation. -
Popular Science Monthly for Jane.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
A ROOt.Rut,tOner.

"Please draw upon the blackboard an
interrogation point" said teacher to
one of her pupils.
"Can't make good one," replied the
boy.
"Draw boot-buttoner," said the
teacher; "that will answer"
The boy took the crayon and drew
hair-pin. Sharp rebuke by the teacher.
Other pupils smile,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

An organization of ex-Confederate soldiers
has been effected at Chattanooga, Tenn. Col.
J. B. Cook; President; Hon. d. M. Key, and
Capt. ]. A. Caldwell, Vice Presidents; Maj. G.
G. Conner, Secretary. The organization has
been effected for the purpose of rendering
reception to the Army of Cumberland, which
has its reunion in that city next September
the first time the society meets in the South.
1t is the programme of the ex-Confederate
soldiers to have present on the occasion the
most prominent Confederate Generals and
several thousand ex-Confederate soldiers, rep
resenting every State in the late rebellion.
The citizen soldiers of the South are to be in
vited, and many regiments will be there. A
formal reception will take place on the battle
fields at Chattanooga, or at the National Ceme-
terry in that city. The action of the ex-Con-
federate soldiers has caused much enthusiasm,
and their plans will be successfully carried out.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
The Point Well Taken.

81 object, your Honor, to this witness
testimony" "Upon what ground?"
said the Judge. "My point is, your
Honor, that evidence from person oc-
cupying the professional position of the
witness is unreliable" "What did l
understand the witness to say his occupa-
tion WASP" asked the Judge. washington
correspondent of New York daily pa
per-" was the reply. "Ah !" said the
Judge, "the point is well taken; the
court sustains your objection, Mr.. Coke
stOnan
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

Hayes White, who murdered Sheriff W. r.
Beattie, of Crittenden County, Arkansas, April
81, was hanged at Marion last week, in the
presence of 1900 persons, 1,50O of whom were
colored. The condemned made speech from
the gallows, confessing to the killing, but
denied the knowledge that it was Beattie whom
he shot until he afterward saw him lying dead.
The rope was cut at 2 o'clock, and White
launched into eternity. The fall, although six
feet did not break his neck, and he died of
strangulation. The body, after hanging eigh-
teen minutes, was cut down and delivered to
friends for burial
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
The Ute Indians.

The United States Commissioners met in con-
sultation with the head chiefs of the Ute tribe,
at Los Pinos Agency, few days since, for the
purpose of arranging for their speedy transfer
TO their new reservation, in obedience to treaty
stpulations entered into last fall. The Utes
were disposed to be ugly, but a large force Of
military being at the agency, it is likely they
will 20 to their new reservation.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
What Ia Mani

This little ife-boat of earth with its
noisy crew of mankind, and all their
troubled history, will one day have van
ished-faded like acloud-speck from the
azure of the sky. What, then, is man
He endures but for an hour, and is
crushed before the moth. Yet in the
beginning and in the working of faith-
full man is there already (as oil faith
from the beginning gives assurance) a
something that pertains not unto this
death element Of time; that triumphs
over time, and is, and will be, when
time shall be no more.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
Chlorfde of TIN.

Allison Spence, a farmer living near Muir
dock, Ohio, and his family, were quite seriously
poisoned q few days ago, by eating canned
sausage, the action of the salt on the tin in
which the meat was put causing it to corrode
thus forming chloride Of tin. By the spe, iy
administration of antidotes their lives were
saved.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
DOgRed BR0.

A strange and deadly disease has made its
appearance among the dogs in the vicinity Of
Somerset, Kentucky, the last few days. When
the epidemic first takes hold the dog will run
and jump, and give vent to the most frightful
howls, and then drop down and die in convul-
sions. Science has been brought to bear upon
this new wonder, but as yet has failed to ex-
plain it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
Mexico 90 be CoIonixed.

A charter has been filed in the office Of tie
Secretary Of State at Topeka, Kansas, for
cooperative society to colonize old Mexico. 1t
is proposed to buy land there for colonization
purposes on capital stock of 5000, 900, divided
into 5000 shares Of s25 each.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
Poverty No bar 10 Immigration.

Secretary Blaine, in reply to a question by
Brereton, the Irish Emigrant Agent, at Dun
dalk, as to whether the landing of able bodied
paupers in New York would be objected to,
has written that poverty is no bar to immi-
grants willing to work and obey the laws, but
that the immigration Of dissolute paupers and
criminals is certainly Objectionable.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
Quick Time.

On Saturday evening Of last week, Charles
Latour snatched Mrs. Meade's pocket-book
containing $25, was arrested on the charge,
brought before the City Court and placed un-
der bond of $500 to answer in the Circuit
Court. Wednesday following he was indicted
by the grand jury, and Latour entered a plea
Of guilty, and the jury fixed his punishment at
three years in the penitentiary.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
Killed ON the Basl.

Nicholas Schmidt, near Wharton, Wyandot
County, while in a state of intoxication, sat
down upon the track of the c., 8. q G.
Railroad, near that place and went to sleep.
He was run over by an express train in the
night. His head, right arm and shoulder were
SEVERED from the body.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
muraer I'm Kentucky,

Last week, in Barth County, Anderson john
son shot and killed Isaac Alfrey. johnson and
Alfrey are cousins, (well-to-do farmers) living
within half mile of each other. The killing
was in consequence of a quarrel over some Of
Alfrey's hogs running in Johnson's fields.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

District Attorney Richards has written let
ter TO the Department at Washington recon-
mending the acceptance of the proposition to
compromise the Ambrose matter by the pay
ment Of $4,000. The chances are that his re-
commendation will be accepted.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
Death.

Last Wednesday six men in Van Buren,
County, Arkansas were arrested for stealing
beegums. tried before Justice of the Peace
and acquitted. Louis Sweeton reported them
to the Grand Jury, which indicted them
Shortly afterward six men went to Sweeton's
house, and, stopping at the front gate, called
him. Sweeton was at the time nursing his
babe and reading the Bible. When he heard
the call he laid the child and book on the floor
and stepped to the door. As soon as he made
his appearance the murderers fred hitting him
In several places. He turned and ran through
three rooms and fell dead on the back porch
The neighborhood was soon alarmed. An
armed posse went in pursuit They came on the
scoundrels in an old house asleep. Their guns
were already cooked and laid beside them. but
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
A New Administration Ore.u-

The Daily Critic, an afternoon paper at
Washington City, has been purchased by
number of gentlemen, who, it is said, intend to
publish it as Administration organ.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
Judging from Appearances.

"Mother, 1 shouldn't be surprised if
our Susan gets choked some day."
"Why, my son p
Because, young Smith twisted his
arms around her neck the other night,
and if she had not kissed him to let her
go, he would have strangled her."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

George W. Hubley, of Philadelphia, a mail
route agent, convicted of stealing from the
mails, was refused new trial, and sentenced
to pay fine of 800, the costs of prosecution,
and undergo an imprisonment of one year in
the penitentiary.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

Says Liverpool cablegram of the 10th: Gan
attempt was made last night to blow up the
Town Hall of this city, but only resulted in
breaking the windows of the hall, and in
Browns building on the opposite side of the
street. 1t is reported two men were arrested
with quantity of dynamite and loaded re-
volvers in their possession. The persons cap
tured in the attempt have been identified as
Liverpool Irishmen, named McKevett anG
Roberts. Both were well supplied with money.
Documents were found in their possession con-
Meeting them with Fenianism. Roberts has
been for some years in America. The prisoners
will be charged under the Malicious injuries
to property act, !" which provides that punish
ment may, under the circumstances which ap-
ply in this case, be life long imprisonment"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

PARTIAL records Of the livestock in
terests of Texas show yearly yield Of
something over 400, 600 head Of cattle.
Eight dollars per head In about the av-
erage price Ut San Antonio.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
had ON Gabriel.

Charles Mande, farmer near Salem, Conn,
was arrested a few days ago for beating his
wife. When asked why he did it he replied he
did it in obedience to orders from the angel
Gabriel. He was sent to the hospital for the
inaane
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

A telegram from Vienna published in Paris,
asserts that the European powers are confer
ring with view to secure the complete neu-
trality of the Panama Canal.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

A heavy hail storm passed over Allin, Illinois,
last week, destroying the wheat in many places,
and doing considerable damage to other grow
ing crops.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
statue to Victor Hugo.

The members of the Paris newspaper press
intend TO raise statue of Victor Hugo in tho
street where he lives.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
Ole0margarine.

Governor Cornell, of New York, has vetoed
the bill to regulate the manufacture of oleo-
margarine" and provide 'for better protec-
ton of the public health
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
They Are Coming.

During tho past week $500 German emf
grants arrived at the port of Baltimore, about
1000 of which are already in the West.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

James G. Crane, defaulting Postmaster at
London, o., was last week sentenced by Judge
Swing to one years imprisonment in the Mont
gomery County Jail.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

The Ohio Women's Christian Temperance
Union met at Akron last week in annual con-
vention. There was full attendance of dele
gates from all quarters of the State. Public
addresses were made by Mrs. s. NJ. J. Henry,
of Illinois, and by Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Of
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
The Pennsylvania Legislators Refused
PAYMENTS Of iheir Demmnds.


The State Treasurer last week refused to18S1
the members of the Legislature the full salary
claimed by them, 81 500 for $50 days service.
The law under which the members have been
drawing their salaries, provides that they shall
receive 81 200 for a regular session not exceed
ing 100 days, and $40 day for not exceeding
fifty days, but the Attorney General has de-
eided that the per diem feature of the law is
unconstitutional, and has advised the State
Treasurer not to pay the members more than
1000. The latter have determined to bring
suit against the State Treasurer, next week, for
the money which he has refused to pay them.
The Attorney General says he will abide by his
opinion until the court of last resort convnces
him that he is in error. The suit for the un-
paid services will be instituted under law
passed by the Legislature which adjourned a
few days ago.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

Arobbery of between $50, 900 and 800, ,ooo
in bonds from the Erie County Savings Bank
Mt Buffalo, N. Y, has just been discovered.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
The KentucHy Central Railroad Bought
by the &'heaapenke aud Ohio.

President NJ. E. ingalls,, of the Kentucky
Central, and of the c., l., st. L. and C. Rail-
ways, announces the sale of the Kentucky Cen
raj Railroad to c. P. Huntington and friends,
of the Chesapeake and Ohio road, at sixty
cents for common, and par for preferred stock.
The Kentucky Central will be extended to Liv-
ingston, but in the meantime will be at once
operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio, whose
cars will be running into Covington within
sixty days. The road will be made all steel,
narrowed to the Northern gauge and newly
equipped. As c. P. Huntington already OWL.
the Elizabethtown and Paducah and Paducah
and Memphis, $50 miles in ALL and has survey
ors upon the line sixty miles in length from
Lexington to Elizabethtown, it will be readily
seen what a vast system he will soon control as
tributaries of the Kentucky Central.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

prominent lawyer and politician. 1t Is sur
missed that the attempt to get away with him is
due to having aided in the prosecution Of Gala
ahan, who was hung last fall.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

A murder was committed at Berlin, Ky. last
week, a small place sixteen miles from Augusta,
among the hills. A Mr.. Mellow, a carpenter,
had contracted with a Mr.. Moore to build
small building for S400. He met Mr.. Moore
last week and stated that he wanted 5000 more
to finish the job (having been paid 5000 previ-
ously) and was given check on the Augusta
bank for the amount. During his stay in Au-
gusta he imbibed freely during the day, and in
the evening left for his home in company with
his brother-in-law, VIM. Sims, and a bottle of
whisky. On arriving at Berlin, Mellow missed
his money, and accused Sims of having stolen
it and would listen to no argument nor make
any effort to find the money. Sims body was
found in the woods, about two miles from Ber
lin, with nine stabs. On getting sober Mellow
found his money on his person, and confessed
that he had done the killing. He was arrested
and lodged in jail at Brooksville.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

IneIr pursuers got the drop on them, ana wnen
they awoke they were powerless. One, how
ever, managed to escape.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16

The Republican State Convention Of Ohio
renominated Charles Foster for Governor by
acclamation. State Senator Reese g. Richards,
of steubenville, received the nomination for
Lieutenant Governor, and Judge Nicholas
Longworth, Of Cincinnati, was nominated for
Judge Of the Supreme Court. For all the
other places on the ticket the present incum-
bents were renominated. The platform in
dorses Garfield and Foster, and winds mp with
plank rsfering to the liquor question.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-16
Mrs. Abrnham Lfncoln.

The condition Of Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the
eI-President, is such that her physicians have
given up all hopes OF her recovery.