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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-01-31
CONFESSION MERCHANTS,
sEy A. JOHNSON 6 CO.,

WHOLESALE 4EOOERS.
GENERAL COhNl9SION MERCHANTS,
And Deslars in
ALL Kinds OF LIQUORS.
Hsvo on hand GIBSON s XIX, Xxx, XXXX
snd PURE OLD Rye, OLD CABINET
snd MONOGRAM WHISKlE6; .iso BAE.
ER'S snd THOM PSON'S PURE RYE
WHISTLES, 70 which they invite The attention
Of the trade.
Orders from The ccunt:y for merchandise shall
tecove promp: attention.
Consignments Of Flour, Grain and Country
Produce solicited, for which ths3 guarantee the
hishes. market prices and prompt returns
Nortbeas; corner Of Cameron sn6 koy6l eta
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-01-31

IN TONS CHOICE TIHOrHY AND
w CLOVER Hay for sxle By
Oh AS. s. TAYLOR, Jr,
noV2o Nos. q & a3 King at
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01
CURIOUS BUSINESS.

One of the most singular of all avoca-
tions is described by an English journal
in way to indicate that it has an es-
tablished existence in London. 1t is
nothing more nor less than the bringing
off of prize-fghts, and the business gives
employment to number of middlemen.
The middleman has his regular beat and
calls on regular customers. He also has
his pairs of gladiators always at call.
Supposing that set of men wish to see
a genuine combat, they simply subscribe
H2O or ESQ or ESQ, and place the money
in the middleman's hands. A s2O "mill"
is not very sanguinary affair, but ESQ
will buy good deal of bloodshed. When
the money is deposited the agent picks
out "two lads that want to have turn"
The "lads" are mostly lazy louts who
do not love work. They train for week
on money supplied by the honest mer-
chant who arranges the meeting. When
they are finally placed in the ring they
really do hurt each other good deal,
and the spectators have the pleasure of
battle and conspiracy simultaneously.
There are half an hour of heavy hitting,
a few spirited rallies on the cords, a
large amount of bad language, and then
one man gives in. The. middleman
pockets half the money, and the rest is
divided between the battered ruffians
who afforded the entertainment.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

TEE Gear proposes to give Russia q constitu-
tional form Of Government.
MRS. BERGER will contest the will of her
brother, the late Cornelius J. Vanderbilt.
THERE is talk Of putting up General W. 8.
Hancock as Democratic candidate for Governor
in Pennsylvania.
The attorney for the assassin of President
preme Court for writ Of habeds corpus.
IT is stated that Frank James has nominally
surrendered under flag of truce, and that
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, has promised
3 full and unconditional pardon to the famous
outlaw.
Daily Gernad,,id, Of Quincy, ILL.,, was assaulted
by A. b. Helltake, Casper Helltake and DR..
Speer, and, it is thought, fatally shot. Hoff-
man had published an account Of an attempted
suicide Of sister of the Helltakes.
SECRETARY TELLER has Just made an i'm
portant ruling, holding that timber can be cut
and removed from the public domain in Colo
RADIO, Nevada and the Territories for home use,
mills, mines and pioneer towns, such coming
under the construction Of the words of the act,
" for domestic purposes"
The London Ne,os says it is the first duty
of the Government to protect the lives Of
Englishmen resident in. Egypt without delay
It hopes the ironclads at Alexandria are equal
to the task, though the English Admiral admits
his inability to land men. When this primary
obligation is discharged, then the real difficult
culties Of the situation will only begin.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01
LONGFELLOWS FIRST LITERARY
EFFORT.

LONGFELLOW'S FIRST LITERARY
EFFORT.
"My great ambition once was" he
remarked, one evening, to edit mag
azine. Since then the opportunity has
been offered to me many times-and /
did not take it, and would not" That
same night he spoke of his first poem
the first that ever was printed-and des-
cribed his trepidation when going in
the evening to drop the precious man
uscript into the editors box. This was
at weekly newspaper Office in Port
land, Me. when he was boy. Pub
location day arrived and the paper came
out--but not word Of the poem. But
I had another copy" he said, "and I
immediately sent it to the rival weekly,
and the next week it was published. !"
And then he described his exultation
and inexpressible Joy and pride. when
having bought copy OF the paper,
still damp from the press, and walked
with it into o by-street of the town-he
saw, for the first time, poem OF his
own actually in printi "I have never
since had such Ia thrill Of delight" he
said, "over anv Of my publication"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

JAMES GoRDEN BENNETT through
whose Arctic Expedition project DeLong
and companions met their death-in
reply to articles in the New York Tribune
and Sun on the subject of caring for the
widows and orphans of the victims of
the fated Jeanette, says editorially in
the Herald:
The Sun and Tribune may rest satisfied that,
with or without the action Of Congress or Of
the public, care will be taken Of the widow and
orphans Of DeLong, and not of them alone,
but OF every widow and every orphan of the
men who sailed with the Jeanette and have per-
ished. We request the Sun and Tribune to
accept our acknowledgment Of their kindness
in affording q suitable opportunity to make this
statement without being liable to the reproach
OF intruding it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

DURING the marriage ceremony (that
Of the Duke of Albany says the London
Truth, the Queen happened to look up
at the knights banners. and. to her
amazement and indignation, she discov-
cred half dozen opera glasses peering
from behind them, all pointed straight at
her own face. An inquiry was speedily
made, when it turned out that promi-
nent official at Windsor, at the last mo-
ment, had secretly constructed a small
rrivate gallery up behind the carving at
the top of the knights stalls, from
which, after reaching it by the aid of a
perpendicular ladder, his friends had an
excellent view. perched up like owls in
an ivy bush. The Lord Chamberlain
and the Lord Steward, supported by q
posse of their subordinstes, summoned
the erring official before them, and not
content with administering the question,
ordinary and extraordinary, ordered him
to come up for sentence at the London
office Of the Board of Works. But be-
fore being again racked, he is under
stood to have gone down on his knees to
John Brown to induce him to "repre-
sent the thing properly" 80 he got off
with tremendous wigging.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

The New York Herald says editorially
of that which has been proven in the
Cramer case:
Jennie Cramer, after . nights carousal in
the Malley house, on he- return home, was
virtually thrust out by her mother; second,
that she passed the evening of Friday, two days
after her experience Of Malley hospitality, at
Savin Rock, riding q "fiying-horse," and be-
having, with her party, 80 boisterously as to
attract general attention, and 30 annoy one
particular Hartford matron that she requested
her husband to take her home; third, that Jen-
ME Cramer WAS found in the shallow water,
dead, at an carly hour, ON Saturday morning
and, fourth, that she died of the effects Of
arsenic in solution.
The theory Of the defense is that Jen-
ME Cramer killed herself ON account of
the treatment she received from her
mother.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01
church." Mr.. Barnum took the seat
amid the smiles of the congregation.
Mr.. Collyer then began his lecture.

SENSATIONAL stories are cheap articles.
The information has been telegraphed
over the county to the effect that upon
the return of Governor Crittenden to
Missouri from New York he will con-
clude negotiations for the surrender of
Frank James, and possibly other men,
bers of the James gang, and thus put an
end to the organization of brigands in
Missouri. Frank James is now said to
be in jackson County, and instead of
meditating more mischief, is represented
as being anxious to make the best ter ms
possible for himself.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

The Senate amendment to the House bill
agreed to authorizing the receipt Of United
States gold coin in exchange for gold bars.
Mr.. Calkins then called up the contested cleo
ton case Of Mickey vs. O'Connor, of the Second
District of South Carolina. Mr.. Randall stating
that there were reasons why his side did not
desire to consider that case then raised the
question of consideration, and on division the
Democrats refrained from voting, leaving the
House without q quorum. A call OF the House
was ordered and the Sergeant-at-Arms was
ordered to bring in absentees to the bar OF the
House. Several votes were taken without find
ing quorum. Mr.. Hiscock reported the gen.
eral deficiency bill. Ordered printed and re-
committed. It recommends appropriating
&c. I6, 319. This does not include pension
claims, for which . special appropriation Of
S16, 600, 600 has been made. Another call Of
the House was then ordered. At the couclu-
sion of the call, Mr.. Calkins remarked that it
was impossible to get voting quorum present
and moved to adjourn. Carried.
In the House the struggle over the contested
election case Of Mackey vs.. Dibble, was pro-
ceeded with, Mr.. Randall raising question of
consideration in antagonism to an effort Of
Mr.. Calkins to call up the case. The vote re-
sulted-yeas 129 nay, Phelps), seventeen
less than quorum, and call OF the House
were dispensed with, and the vote recurred on
the question of consideration result, yeas,
127, nay 1-no quorum. Another cali Of the
House resulted in no quorum, and the body
adjourned for the day.
A movement was made in the House having
for its object the breaking Of the deadlock that
prevails over the Mackey- -Dibble contested cleo
tion case. The Democrats proposed that the
allegations made in reference to corrupt altera-
tions in the evidence in the inter est Of Mackey,
the Republican contestant, should be referred
to q special committee. This met with decided
opposition from the Republican side, and .
scene of great confusion was precipitated,
which continued for about an hour. Finally
the House adjourned in order to allow the
Republicans to assemble in caucus, and at this
caucus it was determined that the Republicans
would entertain no proposition that did not
recognize the right OF the House to consider
the election case; that the COMMITTEES on Elec-
tons having fully investigated this particular
case, it must be discussed by the House, and
that after such discussion . proposition to re-
commit would be entertained and acted on.
Mr.. Dunn introduced, through the petition
box, joint resolution appropriating e1o0, 900,
to be expended by the Secretary Of War for the
relief of persons rendered destitute BY the recent
overflow of the Mississippi River and its tri-
butaries. Referred. Tho joint resolution was
accompanied by . letter addressed to Mr..
Dunn by Commissioner Mangam, Of Arkansas,
under date Of May "a, stating the present
overflow ID In many respects more disastrous
than that Of February and March last, and un-
less Congress comes to the aid of the destitute
persons in the overhowed sections, starvation
is imminent.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

WHEN the Duke and Duchess of
Albany left Windsor, while they were
still within the private grounds, the
bridegroom's three brothers and Prin-
cess Louise and Princess Beatrice ran
across part of the lawn inclosed within
a bend of the drive each armed with a
number of old shoes, with which they
pelted the "happy pair" The Duke of
Albany returned the fire from the car
riage with the ammunition supplied him
by his friendly assailants, causing the
heartiest laughter by a well-directed
shot at the Duke of Edinburgh.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

A CIRCUS is a decidedly important in
stitution-to take money out OF COM
munity. Says the Newark IN. j. Call:
The visit of a circus to a manufactur-
ing city like Newark is both costly and
demoralizing. The actual money loss to
the community by the visit of Barnum's
show. last week. approximates $50. 600. +"
That amount of money devoted to some
needed local public institution would be
alasting benefit. but given up to circus,
it goes as affecting SHOW" Circuses
are decidedly expensive American insti-
tutions.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01
Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER the other
day, in Plymouth Church, said:

Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER the other
day, in Plymouth Church, said:
81 have never asked a collection here, except
when it has been ordered by the Official Board.
But to-day want you to give q collection for
me not for my personal use, but for my sake.
When was about twenty-three years Of age
yes, my wife says so docking down at Mrs.
Beecher, who nodded her head in her pew),
knowing little of life, and having much to
arm, / went forth as q preacher. went across
the Ohio to Covington, to little Presbyterian
Church, for was . Presbyterian then and am
still, all but their confession of faith. Then
Martha Sawyer-that isn't her name now 80
no one will know-came for me to go to Law
renceburg, Indiana, about twenty miles from
Cincinnati, . town which has sent out more
whisky than any other in the United States.
There Miss Sawyer was the trustee, deacon and
treasurer Of the little church, with twenty mem
bers and one man among them. They raised
f150 the first year, and with the aid of the
American Home Missionary Society, God bless
1t forever, had $400 salary. There began to
learn to be preacher and learned for two years,
and then went to indianapolis for eight years
before came here. There, in that little church,
which would seat one hundred persons and
where, If / wanted to hold communion, i had
to send to the next town and borrow deacon,
l was sexton as well as pastor. used to sweep,
ana bought the lamps and filed, trimmed and
Lit them. There that little church has stood
till now, and now they hope to build larger
one. want you to help me to help them. The
collection will now be taken to rebuild the
Presbyterian Church in Lawrenceburg, Indiana,
where began my ministry"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01
The Census Bureau has issued bulletin con-
FLBRED BANK-NOTE PAPER.

The fbred bank-note paper on which
American legal tenders, national bank
note currency and Government bonds
are printed, Is made at Dalton, Mass,
in an old mill. whose existence dates
back to Colonial times. If you should
stop at the old paper mill, with proper
credentials, you may, perhaps, be al
lowed to handle sheet of the crisp fibre
paper, or take peep at the pulp press,
where, the wet, grayish pulp is pressed
between heavy iron cylinders, bits of
blue and red silk thread are scattered
over it's face and silken ribs laid on its
surface. You may go beyond into the
counting-room, where each sheet as it
comes from the drying-room is carefully
examined and counted and then returned
to the paper-cutter to be divided into
smaller sheets. If you trace this paper
still further you will find that from the
cutters hands it passes again to the
counting room, is separated into little
packages containing 1000 sheets each,
the amount recorded in register, and
then packed into bundles and stored IN
fire aud burglar-proof vaults to await
shipment to the United States treasury.
From pulp room to vault the precious
paper is watched and guarded as care
fully as though each sheet we're an ounce
of gold. Its manufacture is one of the
greatest secrets connected with the Gov
ernment's money making.
From the vaults of the paper mill at
Dalton to the guarded storerooms of the
treasury at Washington is but jour
ney of two or three days. In the capa
cious vaults of the treasury building,
among gold and silver and copper and
nickel coins, bullion, paper currency
and official records, you will find thou
sands of packages of the bank-note
paper that is manufactured at Dalton.
It comes in little iron safes, such as are
used by the Adams Express Company,
and each package andevery sheets care
fully counted before the emanufacturera and
the express company are relieved from
further responsibility. The paper that
arrives to-day may lie in the treasury
storerooms for years, or it may be sent
to the Bureau Of Engraving and Print
ing tomorrow, to return in the course
of a months time, alegal tender or bank
note.-Neos York Sun.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

The robbin has red breast. They
have plaintiff song and sing as though
they were sorry for sumthing. They
get their name from their great ability
for robbin' cherry tree. They kan
also rob currant bush fust rate. If it
was not for these robbers we shud all be
eaten up by caterpillars but I think
the robins might let us have now and
then just one of our own cherriz, tew
see how they did taste. The bat They
fly very much unsartin, and ackt as
though they had taken leetle too much
gin. What they are good for I kant
tell, and 1 don't believe they can tell
neither.-Josh Bftlin0s.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01
OHIO STATE NEWS.

Sf1 men were injured, two Of them fatally.
while engaged taking down barn, near Shiloh.
THOMAS PRESTON, an aged farmer, was run
over by train at Port Clinton and instantly
killed.
IT is reported that the United States Rolling
Stock Company intend locating their works At
Urbana.
A Two-YEAR-oLp child Of Charles williams,
New Philadelphia, fell in . cistcrn and was
drowned.
ELDER JOHN DusHANE, one Of the pioneer
citizens OF Ohio, died suddenly at his homo In
Bellafontaine in the ninety-third year Of his
age.
In SPITE Of the rainy weather the two-days'
picnic at Cincinnati held by the Trades Unions
was largely attended. Four thousand men ap-
peared in the street pageant.
medicine under Dr.. Henry, at Napoleon,
last week went violently insane, supposed to
be caused by too close application TO study.
PHILIP CHARLIE, . thirteeu-year-old boy of
p, Fl W. and @. yards, was caught between
the bumpers and instantly killed, his head
being crushed to jelly.
AN ORGANIZATION composed of delegates
from over thirty local lodges and societies has
been formed in Cincinnati for the purpose of
resisting by legitimate means the Sunday and
other laws held to be unjust.
ScHoF1ELD, the young Piqua jeweler who
recently absconded, taking with him . large
quantity of valuable jewelry sent him by
Cincinnati house to be sold on commission, hss
been heard from by an acquaintance. He is
at some point in Canada. His wife and children
are still 1t Piqua.
ATTORNEY GENERAL NASH has commenced
proceedings in quo todrrdnto in the Supreme
Court against the Pioneer Live Stock Com
oany, of Champaign County, doing business as
live stock insurance company, the object
Icing to test the right OF the company to do
this kind Of business.
AT CANTON, Thos. J. Orr, book-keeper, wss
summoned to his door at an early hour in the
morning and revolver shot fred into his face,
producing . very painful and perhaps fatal in
jury. Chas. O. Traphagen, dangerous char
acter, has been arrested on suspicion, and it is
thought he suspected that his wife had been on
too intimate terms with Orr, by whom she had
been employed to do work. .
The wife Of A. W. Robinson, who recently
procured . divorce from her husband on the
ground of extreme cruelty and has since been
living with her son in the village Of Brooklyn,
near Cleveland was visited by her former hus-
band, who professed to be on 3 mission Of
reconciliation. His overtures being rejected,
he fred two shots at Mrs. Robinson, one Of
which is supposed to have caused fatal
wound. He was arrested by his son and is now
in Jail.
CHARLES z. McBRDE, Of Shsronvile, aged 45
years, has absconded with e2300 Of his wife's
money. A few years ago Mcbride obtained q
decree of divorce from his then wife who was
ship, married Mrs. Phoebe Rosser, Of Sharon
vile, a widow aged seventy-fiv years and
possessed of some money. They have not lived
harmoniously together, and Mcbride, it seems,
has taken the first opportunity offered to show
the old lady why he loved her.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

THE letters of Benjamin Constant to
Madame Recamier, which have Just been
published in PARIS, are full of frantic
sentimentality. This man, approaching
30, wrote to the spirituelle lady that he
had been crying all night because she
did not care for him; "career, ambi-
ton, study. intellect, diversion, all
have disappeared. I ana no longer any
thing more than . poor creature who
loves you"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

OAxxxu EADs is going to Europe.
Meantime Il the Government refuses to
she,l ouH some $50, 900. 900 for him to try
his hand constructing ship railway, he
will bring some "bloated Englishmen"
hers p do II for m, and then we shall
feel swfnl bad.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

a CONTEMPORARY says Jennie Cramer
should have minded her mother and she
wuud nothave met with violent death.
Yea, and as Malley's should have been
gentemen instead Of murderous pimps
surrounded by riches and the influence
Of good society.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

Tn post Longfsllow once wrote to
vouthful post - follows: "No man. I
think, should devote himself to poetry
- means Of making . living. True
poetry In the offspring Of our best hours.
II you mako . trade Of il you may be
sure taas 1t will degenerate into mere
verse making. Therefore, follow some
calling or profession for o liveh-
hood, and keep the gift of song sacred
and for itsef alone"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

A SAD young man, after taking meal
st New York coffee house, after much
searching in his pockets, produced q %
greenback from his watch fob, and with
. sigh said: "Here she goes" After
his departure the note was examined,
and on the back appeared, written in .
Ans hand: "Ssve your salary; don't
gamble; never play ct q faro-bank.
The Last Of . fortune Of $4,000"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

Two cases Of arsenical poisoning by
sleeping in . anewly-paperedr room in Cam
bridgeport, Mass., are said to have oc-
CURED Last week. The manufacturers of
the papsr warmly dispute the correct
neas q tho explanation of the illness.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

KAn CLAxroN, the actress, had Q
lady visitor At Cleveland hotel. and the
head waiter, mistaking her for maid,
placed her ct . servants table. After an
explanation had failed to rectify the
error, the waiter was thrashed by Kate
Clsxton's husband, who was fined IS in
Q police court
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

TEz Texas Supreme Court has given
. dssision In the long-pending suit of
the Grigby heirs, 10 recover about three
thqusand acres of land In and near Dal-
laa. The dsoision ID in favor Of the heirs,
and givss them property valued at nearly
q, eco. 600.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

The late james Wick, Rochester seeds
man, gave away $40, 900 . year. After
the grasshopper invasion in Kansas, he
gave SIS, 900 worth Of seeds to the suffer-
ers Of that State.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

Rev. RoBzHr Comm spoke in New
York Sunday night upon Emerson"
Whsa he rose TO begin his lecture he
ssid: "I SO p. T. Barnum sitting in .
back row Of this church, and 1 invite
him 10 como forward and take seat in
my family pew. Mr.. Barnum always
gives mo good ssst In his circus and I
want 10 givs htm . good one in nv
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01

The English and French Governments
disavow interference in Egyptian affairs.
They only send their fleets to Egyptian
waters TO influence the Khedfve to re-
store order.