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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Intense Suffering.

As day succeeds day the accounts of suffer-
ing from the Mississippi Valley become more
and more alarming. The river between Vicks-
burg and Helena is said to be higher than it
was ever before known, by at least foot, and
the levees are of no service to stay the food.
Whole counties are submerged, and people and
stock exist on ridges without shelter, and in
many instances without sufficient food. Whole
families are said to be seen aboard of RATS
floating down stream, passing steamers rescu-
ing as many as it is in their power to. Starva-
ton is only question of time unless provisions
are promptly supplied.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

A dispatch from Paris says M. Victor Hugo
has issued q protest against the sentences
passed on the Nihilists at st. Petersburg. He
says civilization ought to interfere, and warns
tho Czar to spare the people; If not God will
not spare the Gear. News from Vienna says
the authorities of Cracow, learning Of the III
tended demonstration by students Of that city
against the sentence Of death recently passed
ON ten Nihilists at st. Petersburg, attempted
to suppress it. A fight ensued, in which two
students and four gems darmes were killed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

England, It will be seen, makes the
chief contribution to Mormonism, and
next to England come those Scandina-
Wan countries to whose people the
Anglo-Saxon stock is close akin. The
infrequency of Irish or German
Mormons is very remarkable, and the
Latin races of Europe never have been
hospitable to Mormon missionaries.
The number of proselytes made among
Americans during the last twenty years
is very small. They are few and far be-
tween. The recruiting ground is Great
Britain and Scandinavia.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Slammed nud sptt Upou-

For speaking Of the wife of professional
gentleman as an untruthful woman, Rev. B. J.
Jennings, Of the Episcopal Church, Green's
burg, Pa, got his fsce severely slapped and
spit into by the indignant husband. A CORE
spondent says that owing to former troubles
which the pastor has been involved in-one at
the grave of q member of the fiock-his pun
ishment by the professional man is conceded ON
all sides as Just and merited.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Adelina Patti.

Adelina Patti was born at Madrid,
April 8, 1S43. Her full name is Adelina
Maria Clorinda Patti -Nicolini. She was
educated at New York, and on Nov. "a,
1859, she made her debut as a singer in
Donizetti's Lucia ali Lanamermoor.
She made her first appearance at Lon
don, May IA, 1861, in La Sonaaana-
bula, and Nov. 16, 1862, appeared at
Paris in the same role. Patti afterward
sang at Paris, London, St. Petersburg,
and in some of the leading cities of
Europe with great success. She was
married at London, July 80, 1868, to the
Marquis de Caux. but the union was an
unhappy one, and the parties separated.
The Marquis, although a titled indi-
vidual, was not all that was to be ex-
pected, and was long virtually supported
by his wife. Not long since Patti was
married to Nicolini, who is singing with
her.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Respectfully Declined.

Mr.. Roscoe Conkling, nominated by the
President to the position of Associate Justice
of the United States Supreme Court, and con-
frmed by the Senate, has declined to accept
the position. His reason for refusal is that it
will interfere with his law practice, which seems
to be of a renumerative nature.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

The Star Reuters were called into Court at
Washington March 9, to give bond for their ap-
pearance. General Thos. J. Brady, ex-Second
Assistant Postmaster General, by whose acts, it
is alleged, the Government was swindled out Of
o., 000, 600, was required to furnish $4,000.
The bail in other cases was fixed at from 81, 900
to 81 500.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
N0h0hv Wnnta IT

Since Mr.. Conkling has seen fit to decline the
Supreme Judgeship, it appears that the posi-
ton is not particularly in demand. Senator
Edmunds, of Vermont, has also declined the
appointment. A friend of Senator Edmunds
says, however, that had the appointment been
originally rendered him, he would have ac-
cepted it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
The Gar Goes for skobelen:

The Gear, on receiving General Skobeleff,
said: 81 am displeased with you. You doubt
less wished to glorify Russia. Look at the re-
suits obtained. Before your speech, Russia
enjoyed certain authority to Europe; now you
see her forsaken-Austria irritated and France
distant; Gladstone has his hands tied, and the
Russophobist English party trlumphs at finding
q foundation on which to base its invectives
against what it regards as the belllcose disposi-
ton and grasping tendencies Of Russia"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

OF the considerable number of boys
sent to Virginia by the Children's Aid
Society of New York, comparatively few,
it seems, have turned out we'll. Many
have run away to take mp the vagrant
life of the cities some have got into
Jail others were discharged by their
employers; some few adapted them
selves to the rather harsh requirements
of farm life, and have attained good po-
sitions as overseers, superintendent,
etc
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
The Sugar Business.

The United States Supreme Court, in what
is commonly known as the "sugar case" has
decided against the Treasury Department,
holding that the dutiable quality of sugar is
to be determined by their actual color, graded
by duties standard, and not by their saccharine
strength, ascertained by chemical tests. The
Treasury Department will have to refund to
importers, under this decision, in the neigh
borhood of 81, 100000.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

At Austin, Mississippi, between Memphis
and Helena, the river has cut through the
town, destroying the principal buildings, among
the number the Masonic Temple. The Centen-
NAL Block, al large brick building, is almost
demolished, the water being twenty-five feet
all around it. Several stores and dwellings,
we're washed away and carried a distance of half
a mile.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
A Bank Failure.

The bank of Charles A. Sweet 4 Co., Boston,
has failed in the sum of 50, OOo, 900 or more,
caused by the bank advancing money on Mas
sachusetts Central Railroad bonds, which have
shrunk on the market. The house will prob
ably pay dollar for dollar, but will not make an
effort to resume business.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Fatal Powder ExplOsion.

The Lake Superior Powder Company's pack
ing-house, at Marquette, Michigan. blew up
the past week, completely demolishing every
thing in the vicinity. Four men, Peter Doyle,
Chas. Hatch, Herman Eckstrom and another,
name unknown, employed in the building at
the time were blown to eternity.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

Director Condict, of the Mechanics National
Bank, Newark, N. j., has been arrested on q
civil suit the charge being that through his
crooked transactions the bank lost 100000.
His bail has been fixed at s250, 900.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
ernor for thirty days. He will hang the 7th Of

Will Not Celebrate the DISASTROUS Stream.
Congress has concluded not to send a COM
mittee to New Orleans to participate, ON April
9, in the celebration of the 2O0th anniversary
of the discovery of the Mississippi River by De
Soto. In fact, we guess the country is rather
sorry now that De Soto ever discovered the
Mississippi.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

sindrsm, the printer who in New York shot
his landlady because she asked him for board
money, and then gloried over the fact that she
fingered in great agony several months before
relieved by death, was reprieved by the Coy
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

The Cumberland River has been on another
tear, and reports from Nashville state that in
that city not less than three hundred houses in
the depressions are submerged. The water
reached several feet above the Signal Service
danger line. Only one street between North
west and Southeast Nashville was passable.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

Hazel, who won the last pedestrian contest
In New York over all competitors, making
record of 600 miles in 140 hours, realizes, his
share Of the profits, about $4,000 This
places brains at discount.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
The Greenhackera.

Greenbackers held convention in st. Louis
and elected National Executive Committee.
The object Of the convention was to devise
means to harmonize and strengthen the party,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

r. II. Cornwall loan clerk in the Fourth Ma
tional Bank, New York, has been detected in
raising bonds passing through his hands, the
loss TO the bank thus accruing aggregating
e700o0. Cornwall Is aged sixty-fve years, and
was at one time broker in Wall street.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Wanfed-Filfhx Lucre.

Miss r. M. Scoville, Chicago, announces by
postals sent out promiscuously through the
country, that autographs Of Charles J. Guiteau
will be supplied by her for the small sum Of
TWENTY-FIVE cents.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
rh. Chinese pmmt~r.ttou Bul.

The Chinese immigration bill passed the
United States Senate on the 9th inst. 1t pro-
vides that from and after the expiration Of
ninety days, after the passage Of the act, and
until the expiration of twenty years after its
passage, the coming of Chinese laborers to the
United States shall be suspended.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Sale Of RiedmOut.

8. J. Morgan, of Chicago, owner of the cele-
brated trotting stallion Piedmont, record
2:171S. sold him last week to Ex-Governor
Leland Stanford, Of California, for $50, 1000.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
The Liquor Tramc.

The United States Senate has passed by
vote Of "a to IA, the bill for the appointment
of commission to thoroughly investigate the
liquor traffic from the prohibition standpoint
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

One Of Pinkerton's men, sent to Philadelphia
for the purpose, has brought to light the fact
that the Philadelphia detectives, for . series Of
years have been In eollusion with the worst
thieves in that city, protecting them in their
operations and dividing the spoils with them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

Advices from the west coast of Africa report
that ferryboat, while crossing lagoon of
the Lagos, capsized and forty-seven of sixty
persons on board drowned.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

IT Is one of the unexplainable things
of moral ethics how people decide so
promptly as to how little rain and bad
weather it takes to keep them away from
prayer meeting, and how much is re-
quired to keep them away from good
show. Herald.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

The Gillian troops defeated the Peruvians at
Pivesrs, killed their Chief Of Staff, Colonel
Tafur, Lieutenant Colonel, several other
officers and eighty-seven soldiers The Chilians
had one officer and fifteen men killed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

The finding OF the court-martiai in the case
Of sergeant Mason, who shot at Guiteau, is
dishonorable discharge from the army and con-
fnement at hard labor in the penitentiary for
eight years. The penitentiary at Albany, N. Y,
is designated as the place of confinement.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Aid for the Sufferers.

The Legislature of Michigan has appropri-
ated $3.50, 900 for the further relief Of tbe suf-
ferers by last falls forest fires.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

On entering her home, Mrs. Harriet Bell, Of
Boston, was confronted in the hallway by .
burglar, who drew long knife and plunged it
into the womans neck, after which he made
his escape. Mrs. Bell bled to death in q few
moments ..r
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Lynching Matinee,

At La Lunas, N. M, Chas. Shelton, Jno.
Redmond and Harry French, three murderers,
were taken from Jail by mob and hanged.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Fatal lightning.

Mrs. J. W. Dickinson and Mrs. Chas. Sturgis,
two ladies Of Battle Creek, Mich, were struck
by lightning on Sunday, March 5, and. it is be-
lieved, were SO severely injured that they can
not recover
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

During January and February the rainfall at
Memphis exceeded twenty-seven inches, which
is full one-half the annual average Of that
vicinity.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

The traveling-show-fat-boy named David
Navarro, aged twenty-one years, died in the
Pittsburg Pest-house, the past week, of small
pox. He weighed 72O pounds.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
That Speech OF SkobeIen,s.

The German press is indignant at General
Skobeleff's speech at Warsaw, in which he fat
tered the Poles, saying if there was no Russian
garrison at Warsaw there would be German
one. The Voss Gazette says: EITHER the Gear
agrees with General Skobeleff, or he is power
less against him. The peaceful assurances of
Prince Orioff, Russian ambassador at Paris,
therefore, have no value"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
More Plain Word. by General skobelen

More Plain Words by General skobelen.
Berlin dispatch says: General Skobeleff
delivered an address to a number of Russian
officers, stating the best Russian is the Czar.
Europe knows, he said, what he thinks on the
Slav question. His recall was only new
humiliation, proceeding from the man who,
with blood and iron, had founded an empire
which must be destroyed by Russian blood and
iron
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

Mr.. Bradlaugh, who has again been elected
10 the British House Of Commons, has been
again refused permission to take the oath of
Office. The obstacle between Mr.. Bradlaugh
and his Office is his disbelief in Supreme Be-
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Death OF senator wilG,nsov.

Senator Wilkinson, representing Trgg County
in the Kentucky General Assembly, died at
Frankfort, KY, on the 7th inst, aged seventy
years.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Capt. Eads' Project.

Here is the Eads proposition as he recently
described it: "To build ship railway from
point about twenty-five or thirty miles above
the mouth Of the Coatzacoalcos River to the
Pacific Ocean, for the transportation of large
loaded ships. offer to carry the commerce of
the United States for ninety-nine years across
the isthmus at half the rates that shall be
charged on all other commerce but that of
Mexico and for this I ask the guarantee of
six per cent dividends for fifteen years on $780,
O,00O Of the capital stock of the company.
For any money advanced under the guarantee
the government is to receive bonds payable in
fifteen years, and in the event of their nom
payment at maturity, they are to be received at
ten per cent. premium in payment Of tolls on
American vessels Certain rights also are to be
given to the United States by which the divi-
dends Of the company are not to exceed eight
per cent" That is to say, Eads proposes that
the Government shall pay six per cent. for
fifteen years on fifty millions of his paper.
With such guarantee, of course, any one could
sell bonds
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

In EUROPE copy Of the first edition
of the Decameron has been sold for $l1,-
600. and one Of the Gui FL berg Bibles on
velluD FOR el7, 900.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Memorials from Polygamis.s.

The Mormons are evidently getting uneasy
about national legislation respecting their i'm
moral practices. The past week the United
States House received four memorials from
citizens of Utah, one from 10, 966 young ladies,
one from 13, 035 young men, one from $4,000
women, and one from Il, 378 men, for suspen-
sion of further action ON all bills relating to
Utah. and for the appointment of commits
sion of honorable and unprejudiced men and
women to inquire into and determine upon the
state of affairs in that Territory.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

Constantinople dispatch states that accord
ing to present indications war between
Russia and Austria is inevitable.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

A BosToN correspondent asserts that
Daniel Webster was a rejected suitor Of
Thoreau's mother,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Ger man I'm n,igrants-

The well-known pugilist, John Dwycr, died
the past week in the Brooklyn Hospital
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

1t is estimated that 43, 900 people have been
rendered destitute in the Lower Mississippi
Valley by reason Of the food.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

The Queens assailant, Roderick MacLean,
has been committed for trial on the charge Of
high treason.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Where the Mormons are Recruited.

The proportions in which foreign
countries have contributed to Mormon
ism are shown in the following figures,
which are compiled from the censuses
of 1870 and 1880:
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
The Pond BiII In Ohio.

Snow fell to the depth of six inches in the
vicinity Of Abilene, Texas, March 8.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

TIE present is the living sum total Of
the whole past.-Cdriule.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

Five men were drowned of Race Point, near
Boston, by the sinking OF a dredging machine
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

dry, last January, we're hanged at Lakeport,
Cal, last Friday.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Atheists to He ExcIuded.

A bill excluding atheists from the Houses of
the British Parliament has had first reading
in the House Of Lords.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
River Disasfer.

A fatal explosion occurred on the Steamer
Sidney, of Wheeling, plying on the Ohio River,
when near Goose Island, few days ago. The
steam pipe exploded under the ladies' cabin,
instantly killing Mr.. Still and bis grandmother,
Mrs. Lytle, who were en- route to Parkersburg,
to visit friends, and Mr.. Cain, from the Big
Kanawha. The wife of the pilot, James Steph-
enson, was also killed. Mr.. William G. Mills,
wife and son, from Bellaire, Ohio; Mr..
Faulkner, who was returning from Colorado to
Pittsburg; Green Testers and Toby Nash, deck
hands; Alonzo West, deckhand, and both
chambermaids, were badly scalded. Mr.. War
rick of Ohioville, Pennsylvania, slightly injured
in the hand. The steamer Emma Graham
arrived at the scene of the accident short
time after the occurrence, and returned to
Ravenswood and secured physicians and such
necessaries as could be hastily secured, and re-
turned with them to the sufferers. The scene
is reported by an eyewitness to beggar descrip-
tiou.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

PLAYING on the violin is claimed to
cure nervousness,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16

Important Arrest OF Nihilista-
The telegraph announces that important ar
rests Of Nihilists have been made at Odessa,
and . secret press discovered.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A Dampener I'm Kanaas-

Snow fell in Northern Kansas, March 9, to
the depth OF five inches.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Assassination in Kentucky.

At Roundstone, seven miles from Mt. Vernon,
Kentucky, Mary sigman, notorious scarlet
woman, and her mother, Rhoda Sigman, were
assassinated at midnight the pact week by un-
known persons. Mary was shot nine times, five
of the wounds being of a fatal character.
Mary's children gave the alarm after the de-
parture of the assassin. James Bishop has
been arrested for the crime, and A. s. Hender-
son and William Hysinger as accessories. James
Bishop is q brother of Wat. Bishop, who was
killed at Mary Sigman's house more than year
ago. VIM. Hysinger is brother Of Adam Hy-
singer, who was killed at the same time with
Wat. Bishop. The Bishops and Hysingers are
cousins. The circumstantial evidence against
these men is very strong. Henderson is brother
in-law of Hysinger. The general opinion is
that Mary Sigman was murdered as a gratifca-
ton of vengeance for the death of Wat. Bishop
and Adam Hysinger, who we're killed by Alb.
Fisher.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
A Politician I'm Had Luck.

The number Of emigrants leaving Hamburg
during January and February was L, ,655.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
win Fight No Moro.

The Ohio Senate has passed the Pond Bill,
providing for a tax on the liquor traffic.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Government Extortions.

By q report made by the Treasury Depart
ment to Congress it appears that the enormous
sum of $500. 900 had to be refunded during the
last fiscal year to persons from whom excessive
and illegal customs duties were exacted. The
number Of merchants, firms and passengers
who had this experience at the Custom-house,
New York, was about 1, 200, and the amount
unlawfully exacted from each from 81 to $780,
600. The articles on which illegal duties were
exacted comprised all sorts of personal effects
from q collar-button to Bernhardts wardrobe,
and all kinds of imports, from jewsharp to a
steam engine. High as these figures are they
represent only in part the number of the vic
Tins and extent of exactions. Many Others
doubtless, suffered the same grievance through
ignorance of their rights, or because they
shrunk from the vexation and expense Of as
serting them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
Photogrnphing the Pre.idena's ",

Richard Jhar, of Berlin, a student of the
noted photographer, DIR. Vogel, has succeeded
in photographing the vault of President Gar
field, at Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, by
moonlight. Jhar has labored for some time
and expended considerable money in an attempt
to secure a negative, with no other light than
that of the moon, and it was not until one
night last week that his efforts were crowned
with success. The camera was left in position
seven hours before the negative was perfected.
The photograph is perfect in every respect
Shadows are cast in two directions, as the moon
moved from East to West. The value Of the
discovery to science, and the place where it
was made, surrounded it with peculiar interest
at large.