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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-09

| of the House of Represented yes, and en- the
| other h7ni to obtain "a friendly committee
from the Senate to investigate its affairs for
| The purpose of seeing and reporting them
| fayorably. 1t had the power to conyulse the
| country in all its borders and to command the
| devoted services of transceIf1ent talents; yet
it had g ne too far in its spirit of domination,
| and have before me most significant and
| instructive picture of its condition as it fell
| from its h gh estate. In Benton's Thirty Years
| View e tn Senate w IL be found c pied from
| the Philadelphia p p rs of that period the fol-
| lowing extracts p 'rtraying the dying throes of
once omn potent financial corporation.
81. Reso!Ued, Iby the stockholders, That it
| is expedient for the Bank of the United States
| to make general assignment of the real and
personal estate, goods and chattels, rights and
| credits whatsoever and wheresoever, of the
said corporation, to five persons, for the pay
ment or securing of the debts of the same
agreeably to the pr2visions Of the aSts of AS
| - 1t is known that measures have been
| taken to rescue the property. of this shattered
cover as much as possible Of those hose enormous emo m m
| bounties which it was conceded had been paid
by the late managers to trading politicians and
| rendered to it during its charter-Seeking and
| electioneering campaigns
80 The amount of the suit instituted by the
| Bank of the United States against Mr.. N
| Biddle is Sl,0ls,00O, paid out during his admin
stration for which no vouchers can be found
~. The United States Bank is perfect
wreck, and ia seemingly the prey of the ofiicers
and their friends, VIII ch are making away with
Its choicest assets by selling them to each
other, and taking pay in the deprecated paper
of the South.
'5. Besides its own stock OF thirty-ive mill
| ions, which is sunk, the bank carries down
with il a great many other institutions and
companies, involving II loss of about twenty
one millions more-making loss of ffty-six
millions--besides injuries to ind V duals
"6. There is no price for the United States
Bank stock. Some shares are sold, but as
lottery tickets would be. The mass of the
stockhDd rs stand and look on, as passen-
gers on ship that is going down, and from
which there Is no escape.
~. BY virtue OF writ of re1dittOIt frpO1ldS
directed e. the Sheriff of the City and County
Of Philadelphia, will be exposed to public
sale to the highest bidder, on Friday, the 4tl
day of November next, the marble house and
the grounds known as the Bank of the United
| States, etc.
"s. by virtue of IA writ IsUdrt JdcSds to me
directed, will be exposed to pablic sale the es
tate known as "Andalusia," ninety-nine aud
a half acres, one of the most highly improved
places in Philadelphia; the mansion-houst
and out-houscs and offices, all on the mos
splendid scale; the greenhouses, lighthouses
: and conservatories, extensive and useful
: taken us the property of Nicholas Biddle.
~ To the honorable Cour. Of General Ses
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
A Cavalry Charge.

The cavalry charge which decided the
 battle of Kassasin is noteworthy as 8 very bold and successful accomplish ment of what might well have been thought impossible. The use of heavy cavalry in sandy country, broken by irregular ridges, with such effect as liter ally to sweep t @ opposing force from the field would nave been laughed at as an absurdity had any one predicted it a month ago. But such 8 use of horse men is by no means unprecedented. At Borodino, in 1872, the Great Redoubt,
 forming the key of the Russian position, was carried by the cuirassiers of the French Imperial Guard, who charged up hill into the work. leaped their horses over the parapet, and sabered the artil- lerymen at their guns. In Algeria the Trench mounted chasseurs repeatedly dashed up ascents which even foot sol dier would have found trying. These daring riders afterward distinguished mstheelves under d'Allonville at Balak- lava, where they greatly lessened the havoc inflicted upon the "Light Bri- gade" by charging up oneof the fankine ridges and driving the Russians from the batteries which were slaughtering the British cavalry. Such feats, however, must be regarded as brilliant exceptions rather than as established precedents, and the verdict of the great German
 strategist still holds good, that " war i
 now to the infantry and the artillery"
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06

"But you are1ich," said Emily, with little tremor in her voice. "Job is rich-we are all rich together with Cou- sin Shadrach Seely's money"
 ''But," cried Mrs. Torrance, "I thought he left it all to the Baptist Widows ond Orphans"
 "Not all, said Emily, "It's secret, but may tell you now. Half was left to the Refuge-the other thirty thou sand is mine, to be paid over to me on the day on which I marry man who, ignorant of Cousin Shadrach's bequest, has loved me Loyalty and well. It was the old mans whim, and have respected it. Oh, Aunt Doreas, I came to you because in loneliness and bewilderment knew not where else to go-but little dreamed that I was entering directly into the kingdom of noble heart.
 It was true, Shadrach Seeley, eccentric in life, had been equally eccentric in his death--and when MT. Mustybid, the lawyer, paid over the legacy, he said chuckling:
 "It's all right :! It's exactly as my pcor client would have it I congratu' late you, Mrs. Job Torrance" And Mrs. Torrance, the elder, had g higher opinion than ever of her daugh ter-in- laws attractions, now that they were set in background of gold.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
The Belgian Bar.

Professional etiquette is strictly in- sisted on at the Belgian Bar. At re- cent session of the Appellate Court at Brussels young advocate who was about to address the Judges was inter- rupted by the presiding magistrate with the remark that it was violation of precedent and propriety for counsel to appear before the Court with mous- tache. ''I was under the impress sion," replied the advocate, "that my moustache was of such mi croscopic magnitude as not to be likely to attract the attention of the court." ''It is not question of quan- tity," said the magistrate, "but one oi principle" Somewhat afraid of giving ofense, and reluctant to have the inter. ests of his client prejudiced, the young lawyer suggested an adjournment of the hearing to enable h1m to betake him
 self to barber but the magistrate re
 piled that that was not necessary. Hi
 remarks were intended for consideration
 on future occasions.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
A Traveller Shot and Robbed.

Fred. G. Ango, of Milo, was robbed by highwaymen of $480 while driving from Levant to Bangor. He had re- turned from the West. He stopped in Levant on Tuesday night, and started for Bangor Wednesday morning. When on the new road just above Six Mile Falls, in the town of Glenburn, riding through bit of woods, he met tall, dark man, with moustache, who &C., costed him thus: "Say, Captain, can you give me change for BIO bill ?'' Ango replied that he could not, where upon another man, red faced and thick set, came out of the wood, and, stepping up with revolver in his hand, said: "Give us what you have then" Ango replied, 'I shan't do that" whereupon the tall man seized the horse by the bit rein and the short man fired at Angc with his revolver. The first shot tooH effect in Ango's left jaw, and another in the small finger of the left hand. The highwayman fired several shots ani Ango returned the fire several times but without apparent effect. Ango the1 jumped out of the buggy and handed the man who fired the shots his pocket book, containing $48O in money an
 some papers. The highwaymen the took to the wood and the victim drov to Bangor as rapidly as possible. 1 surgeon dressed his wounds at the Cit
 Marshal's office
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
Distress In Iceland.

The famine and disease now threat. ening grave disaster to Iceland combine to form the severest aff1iction suffered by the island since the volcanic erup- tion of 1875. A succession of two unfa- vorable winters, the first extraordinarily cold and the second series of storms, with an intervening summer that yielded only half 8 hay crop, brought ruin to many of the population. Snofelisnes- sysla and Dalasysla, with other dis tricts, are greatly distressed, as their cattle have perished in great numbers for lack of fodder. Another calamity came this year in the Greenland pack ice, which filled the ocean and every inlet on the north and west until the beginning of July, thus again killing the hay crop on the western half of the island. A virulent epidemic of measles has now set in, redoubling the miseriee of the Icelanders. MT. Eirikur Magnus- son gives pitiful account of this wretch. edness, accompanied with appeals to American charity.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
A Bad Find.

Last April, in the wall of house at Diion, in France, carpenter found 8 quantity of gold coin, representing 3O7, ,0OO francs, wrapped up in copies of the Moniteur newspaper of the time of the first Revolution. One Dr. Ohanut, who owns the house, made claim to the money, but the descendants of the Vicomte de Moussier, who owned the house at the time of the Revolution, sci up a counter claim. Besides this con temporary ownership of the house they proved that the on the wrap pers were in the Vicomte's own hand writing. The case went, at the time before the Dion Tribunal, and has jus been decided in favor of the descend ants, on the ground that the Vicomt must have hidden the money betwee the years 1794 and 1916, for reasons UT known. The owner of the house had
 pay all costs in the suit.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
He Preferred to Waltk.

The other day an Arkansaw man se- cured free pass over railroad. He was very much pleased at first, but after discovering that if injured in an acci- dent he could not recover damages, he approached the Superintendent and said
 "Look here how about this thing 2
 ssWhat's the matter with it 2"
 "Why, if get killed on the road my wife wouldn't recover damages"
 "No, sir"
 'Then don't want the pass. l ain't got no wife nor no relations, but I wan to feel that if I had wife she'dget pa. for my death. I'm much obleeged tel yer, but reckon I'll have to walk. '- Ark0 ,aS aaO Irnveler.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
An Encouraged Lover.
"My own darling." :"

My own darling" George W. Simpson says these words softly to himself as he lies in the ham, mock under the linden trees, the soft breath of June zephyr kissing the pearl -colored pants that fit him so sud denly, and then rioting among the soar let bank of roses that are climbing in fanciful ways around the pillars that guard the entrance to Distress Warrant Castle. She of whom he speaks them is beautiful girl with dusky, piquonte face "a face that is arch, sparkling and bright, as only brunette faces can be, and over the laughing face is fluffy mass of dark, waving halr while pair of pansy-dark eyes with golden lights in their soft depths, and sweetly curv- ing lips tinted with the velvety crimson of the rose complete 8 picture that would mako your head swim.
 t Reine McClosky is indeed beautiful and as she comes singing along the graveled path with the golden light of 8 summer day falling upon her uncovered head, the very birds that are caroling among the branches of the lindens seem to pause and look at her. She sings in a low, sweet voice that is tremulous with dinner little Breton love-song that she had heard in Milwaukee:
 Mary Ann Mclaughlin, don't you cry,
 Wipe the tear-drops from your eye:
 You'll be happy by and by
 Mary Ann Mclaughlin, don't you cry. The pure, Madonna-like face of the young man lifts itself from the depths of the hammock and he looks at the girl with 8 weary, wistful, two-hot-days and-no- white-vest.i in the house expres sion that would move plumber. Sh' sees him and runs eagerly to the ham mock. Putting her dimple arm around his neck she kisses the rosebud moutl and then seats herself by his side.
 "Do you love me as much to-day a you did last Thursday ?" she asks, while the brown eyes sparkle with merriment But back of the laughing look there i tender, loving, I-must-not-let-h -him-get away expression that tells how she wor ships this man.
 "Yes, sweetheart" replied George s'I love you more every day of my life for you do not sing as muck as you use to-" Chicago Tribune.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
Fancy Hair.
THE DEM4ND FOR PURE WHITE HAIR AND PRESSES THAT RESEMBLE VIRGIN GOLD.

THE DEM4ND FOR PURE WHITE HAIR AND
 PRESSES THAT RESEMBLE VIRGIN GOLD.
 There is at present scarcity of fancy human hair in the market. The scarcest hair is pure white, and it's value IS con- stantly increasing, and if it is unusually long, that is, from four to five feet, the dealer can get almost his own price, while if it is of ordinary length it is worth from $75 to to $10O an ounce. The fact that pure white hair is the court coiffure in Europe keeps the de- nand for it very high. Moreover, it is much prized by American women whose own hair is white, and who desire to en- rich it's folds, for white hair is held to give certain distinction to the wearer. There is no fancy market for gray hair. It is too common. It is used to work into wigs of persons who are growing old. What is described as golden halr, blonde. The gold color so much valued has no relation to red hair, except in the vlvidness of it's coloring. The de- mand for the virgin gold color is great in the capitals of Europe. A woman who gets a coiffure of it is considered fortunate. A young Brooklyn lady of much beauty possesses splendid wig, which she chanced to find in shop in Nice. She was blonde, but had a soanty supply of dall hair. It did not take her an instant to decide to have her hair cut short and to wear the wig.
 There are four type, colors of hair white, blonde, black and brown-and each of these has been sub. divided into sixteen different shades. The common est types are black and brown, and these are cheap. Golden brown IS much in favor, as is pure black, or what is called blue black, or whose natural hair, streaked with gray, shows in contrast with the false covering. Next to pure ] white hair the demand is for hair of the color of virgin gold. There are many braids made of hair colored to meet the demand with certain preparations, but they prove unsatisfactory. Many foolist women have sought to change the colo1 of their own tresses, but they have uni formly repented the attempt. A fin' suit of hair of the purest blonde typ' will sell for from $500 to $500. It Ii said that the Empress Eugenie pait 1000 francs an ounce for braid o golden hair that exactly matched he own.
 The largest supply of hair comes iron France, Switzerland and Germany. Tn country fairs are attended by agents o merchants in London, Paris and Vienna who ingratiate themselves into the favo of young girls and persuade them t sell their tresses for glass ornaments o other gewgaws. Only at intervals prize like perfect suit of golden hai obtained, and it is said that there ar orders ahead in the shops of Paris an London for all the golden hair that ca
 be obtained in the next seven years
 When a stock of hair is collected b
 travelling agents, it is assorted, washe
 and cleaned. Then each hair IS draw
 through an eye of aneedle and polished
 When the stock is ready for the markt
 in Europe, the nobility is permitted make the first choice.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
In Case of Emergency.

"Here's that yeast" said little girl to the lady of family which had re- gently moved into the neighborhood.
 "Why, couldn't your mother use it2' inquired the lady.
 "Oh, we buys all our bread at the baker's."
 Buy all your bread. Then what did you want with my yeast ?"
 "Oh, ma said she couldn't think of anything she needed to borrow just then, and she wanted to see if you could be depended on in an emergency, SC she tried you on the yeast.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
Tomato Preserves.

Gather the tomatoes when barely half ripe (the large round kind), wash in cold water, and cut them in half, cutting at right angles from the stem instead of through the stem this will enable you to take the seed out with great nicety the fingers can be used to press out the seed better than 8 knife or anything else. As you divide the tomatoes and take the seed out drop them into alum water. Now make ginger tea by boil ing an ounce of ginger root with one pint of water, using as many pints of water ss you intend making pounds of tomatoes. Having boiled the water until it is strong with the ginger, make a syrup of white sugar and the ginger water, using one pound of sugar to one pound of tomatoes, and one pint of water to each pound of sugar. Stir the white of egg to the sugar and water, one egg to every pint of water, and boil until clarified remove all impurl- ties from the surface, and then strain the syrup through muslin cloth.
 Now pour the syrup on the tomatoes, put them in porcelain kettle and boil until the tomatoes are clear ; this will require two or three hours {; take the tomatoes out, put them on large dish in the sun, and if the syrup is not al ready thick enough, boil until quite thick, then set off the fire to cool. Put the preserves up in air-tight glass jar' Gf convenient), andif nothing has gone wrong you will have beautifully coloret preserves, equal to any from the In dies. I failed to mention one yer.
 important thing Take the ginger tha
 was boiled in the water, and put 1t Il
 the syrup when ths tomatoes are frs
 put on to boil, and preserve with tn | 4ovootoas -THe Household.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06

By THE WoMEN.-It is asserted that prohibition was carried in Iowa through tho efforts of the women. They organ ized associations in nearly every county, and, by diligent and importunate ap- peals to individual voters, induced a large proportion of those who were languldly opposed to the proposition to support it at at the polls.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06

A P1ANER.-An immense planer has been constructed at Pittsburg capable of blaming piece of iron or other metal ten feet wide, ten feet high, twenty-four feet long, and so arranged that four out ting tools may operate on the work at one time, two being on the crosshead and one on each upright.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06

ssAnd then went and left his money to the Refuge for Baptist Widows and Orphans p said Mrs. Torrance. "Thats Cousin Shadrach all over."
 s'He had right to do as he pleased with his money" said Emily, a faint glow rising to her cheeks.
 "Well, it's all over and gone," said Mrs. Torrance. "Ihere's no use talk ing about it now."
 And she sighed softly to think how many of lfe's hard angels might have been avoided in the future, if only ested in the Baptist Widows and Or phans.
 At the end of month, Mrs. Torrance was forced to 8 knowledge that Emily had we'll earned her six dollars a month and board. The girl certainly had about her that wonderful magnetic power, (which philosophers dub ''executlve ability" and New England housekeepers call faculty She was natural cook she did. things without seeming to take any trouble at all.
 "I don't understand it," said Mrs. Torrance. ''A little, dark, slim thing that was always brought upssto sit with her hands folded"
 And one sultry day in July when Job and Emily came in from strawberrying, with crimsoned fingers, laughing faces, and baskets heaped high with the fra grant fruit, Mrs. Torrance started in the solitude of the dairy where she was making sscottage cheese"
 "I declare" she cried, 'I wonder I never thought of that before. Oh, dear oh, dear I never can consent to it in the living world"
 Job came to her that same evening.
 "Mother," said he, "Emily has prom ised to be my wife,
 Mrs. Torrance burst into tears.
 "You're only six-and twenty years old, Job," she faltered.
 "Just two years older than when my father married you, mother. Now don'i turn your face away; but tell me plain ly-have you any fault to find with my choice?"
 "No-no," confessed Mrs. Torrance s'Do you think I could possibly win { sweeter girl than Emily Alden ?"
 ''No, don't suppose you could," an swered the mother-in-law elect; "bu it's natural, Job, to feel little jealou when you see some one else taking tn first place in your child's heart" But when Job brought Emily in t receive her kiss of greeting Mrs. Tol | rance had sufficiently conquered herse to bid her new daughter welcome. t "Though s'posed, Emily" said she little bitterly, ''you looked highe than farmer once."
 "I never looked higher than one ( \. nature's noblemen,' said Emily with D smile that fairly won the old lady
 heart.
 l. That same evening as they all sat t. @ gether in the orange twilight, with tt @ scent of tall white air, Emily suddenl d broke the silence. d "Job, said she, would you like @ be rich?"
 1t "Weu, yes," said Job, '1'd lii d money enough to keep my wife in lu B. ury."
 "Would you, Aunt Dorcas ?" ga i'd Emily, turning to Mrs. Torrance.
 "Of course should, {" said that m 5. troD, vigorously plying her knitti le n eedles ssbut don't ever expect 1t.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06

had just got the frame out of the way, the dishes washed, and the apartments generally ''tidied.'' when there came meek tap at the door, and there in, the yellow April twilight stood a small figure in gray travelling shawl, and holding bag.
 ssSakes alive p said Mrs. Torrance, sswho be you?'
 sT am Emily" said the girl. 'Please let me in, for am tired and cold. I've walked all the way from the station, end I've had nothing to eat since noon." "Well, never !" said Mrs. Torrance. ssYou're the city schoolma'am, ain't you, ss went ont to live with Cousin Shadrach? !? And he's dead, and the money has all gone to the Baptist Widow and Orphan Fund You didn't make much by that move, did you? And you've come to us now, though we wasn't stylish enough h for you before. We'll, come in, come in !"
 tially kind-hearted woman, albeit she could not repress the sheer that rose to her lips, moved the low rocker to the fire, and flung another log on the and irons.
 Cousin Shadra ch had been the family Apple of discord ever since they could remember. He was rich, he was eccen- tric. he was crabbed. He had shut the door in the faces of all bis relations, until, toward the last, sick and fee b!e, he had signified his desire that Emily Alden should come and take care of him. And Emily had gone.
 There had been spice of jealtusy 1T the family as regarded Emily, for long lime. Emily had bsen looked upon 8: "proud" and "stuck up," because, in stead of entering factory, or learning the dressmaker's trade, she had elected to bs teacher. She had never visited Job Torrance's family until now-noV that Cousin Shadrach had willed bi money to the Baptist Widows and Or phans-her own mother was dead, apt her step-father, pompcus old whole sale grocer, objected to step-children, s' that there seemed to bs no other havel of refuge lef6 to her.
 Who could blame Mrs. Torrance 10 momentary feeling of triumph, whe1 Emily Alden came thus to her doorston in the twilight of that April day.
 But she helped her off with he things, made 8 cup of tea for her, an finally escorted her to little room uu der the roof tree, where the floor wa covered by homemade rag -csrpet, an the bed decorated with rainbow 'Job troubles 9 quilt, and you could look ou of the window into greening meadow where a whip -poor-win planted it's me ancholy refrain.
 1T hope you'll sleep we'll" said MT Torrance. "We eat breakfast at five
 And then she went away.
 Early as was the breakfast hour, En fly was awake at least an hour befo it. As if the tumultuous glee of tl robins and blue- birds in the old orchal would permit any one to sleep. Al as she lay with her cheek against tl pillow, watching the rosy dawnlig creep up the wall, she heard the soul of voices in the meadow below her cas nent.
 "What is she like mother ?" ss Job, Junior, who was milking.
 Oh, she looks we'll enough" M Torrance caxelessly responded. Lit