fj The Somerset Herald. WEDNESDAY, July 22, 1K KepuWican County Ticket CONGRESS. Ruhtrrt to dcclidon of District Confcrenea. VT. II. KOONTZ. STATE SENATE. SuMeH to decision or District Conference. E. P. YUTZY. ASSEMBI.T. Wm. enpsley. JOSEril P. MILLER. MTBICT ATTORNEY. JAMES L. FUG II. COMMISSIONER. OLIVER W. BOYER. POOR nOCSE DIRECTOR. SAMUEL TRENT. AUDITOR. DANIEL S.MILLER. I-OR COUNTY 6LRVEYOR, JONATHAN II. FRITZ. a WASHivriTOV pneeial eavs: The onlv loss sustained by the govern tnrnt. hv the Chicago fire is that oc casioned by tho burning of the tem nrvrarv nostoffiee. This loss is est i- mated by 000. i Mr. Mullet at about ?iV Tnnrc tr-WrnDic cables are now - n i in workin? order across the Atlantic, and a fourth and fifth are soon to be loM Tin. eornnctitiou in this busi- ncss will before long, make commu nicalion with the old world nearly as cheap as it is throughout this country. Ut the breaking away of another rnenrrnir in llamnsbire countv, a v . . . f largo tract of country in Massachir setts has again been flooded, and prop crfy of the value of Lundrcds of thou, sands of dollars las been destroyed, Fortunatelv. however, no lives were thio time destroyed. It tohould be remembered that the ten days assessment business is abol ished by the new Constitution, and all voters must be registered sixty days before the election. As the election is to take place on the 3d day of November, it will be well for ev ery voter to see that he is registered by the first day of September. A new and startling crime has made its appearance in Philadelphia a lit tle boy a son of Mr. Christian K. Ross, one of Thiladclphias most es teemed merchants has been stolen for the purpose of extorting money from the father for his recovery. The" Mavorandthe entire police force of the city have been Etraining every nerve for the last three weeks to re cover the child and capture the kid napper, but so far without success. A full and interesting account of tho rrreat fire in Chicago will be found in another part of this paper. It is not nearly so great a calamity as was the fire three years since, but its extent and consequences are ap palling. The area burned over docs nnt much exceed fifty acres, and a majority tf the buildings destroyed were not -of great value, but fully eight thousand people, principally of the lowest and worst class, arc left without shelter. At Dubuque latwcck during a norm a ball of fire the size of a man's Lead descended from the sky into the centre of the street, directly on the head of Taul Ilennis, and there ex ploded with a terrific report The hair was burned from L'i3 scalp, the blood oozed from his cars, a gash an .rub and a half long was found un der his chin where the electric current had apparently made its exit; the shock had broken Lis neck, and his body was literally sk inned. All down his back and chest and limbs to the soles of Lis feet, the cuticle was peel ed from the flesh and rolled and curl ed upon itself, leaving the corpse a shocking spectacle which those who Eaw could never forget. The Democratic conferees of the Twenty-first Congressional district Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene counties met at the St. Charles, Pittsburg, on Tuesday last, and nomi nated Hon. Jacob Turncy, of Greens burg, for Congress, on the twenty sixth ballot His competitors were non. C. Boyle, of Fayette, and Hon. A. Tatton, of Greene. If everything is harmonious in the ranks Mr. Tur ner will be elected, as the district is strongly Democratic. Mr. T. is a gentleman of considerable abilfty, and has Lad experience a3 a legisla tor. Laving been a member of the House of Representatives and State Senate. A report was started in Washing ton and circulated throughout the country that Vice President Wilson is about to rcsijrn on account of Lis impaired Lealth. The Boston Adver tiser squelches the canard as follows: "Mr. Wilson is now at home; he Las not been in Washington for several weeks. His health is steadily im proving, and he has the best reasons to Lope for a complete recovery. If the object of the canard was to draw out 6ome expression in favor of Lis resigning, it will fail. The Vice Pres ident bas the entire confidence of the country, and its best wishes for Lis recovery and return to active public service. Practically, his office re quire? very little of bim, and affords do excuse for resigning under any circumstances. Tlis counsel and in fluence are wanted in the administra tion as it is; and the contingencies of life are such that Lis withdrawal from it could not be regarded without very Pcrious apprehensions. The insurance upnu the jiroperty destroyed by the fire in Chi.-o amounts to $2,72",2'J0, and is diotrib uted among nearly two hundred com panies. The foreign companies are the heaviest losers. The provisions of the new postal law appear to be illy understood throughout the country, and much annoyance is caused publishers. Sections 5, 6 and 7 are the import ant ones to the publishers and sub scribers of weekly papers and are as follows: Sec. 5. That on and after the 1st day of January, 1875, all newspapers and periodical publications from a known office of publication or news agency, and addrcssed to regular sub scribers or news agents, postage shall be charged at the following rates: On newspapers and periodical publi cations, issued weekly and oftener, 2 cents a pound and fraction thereof; les3 frequently 3 cents a pound and fraction thereof. Sec. 6. That on and after the 1st day of January, 1875, upon the re ceipt of such newspapers or periodi cal publications at the office of mail ing, they shall be weighed in bulk, and postage paid thereon by a spe cial adhesive stamp, to be devised and furnished by the Postmaster Gen eral, which shall be affixed to such matter, or to the sack containing the same, or upon a memorandum of such mailing, or otherwise, as the Post master General may, from time to time, provide by regulation. - Sec. 7. That newspapers, one copy to each actual subscriber residing within the. county where the same are printed, in whole or in part, and pub lished, shall go free through the mails; but the same shall not be delivered at letter carrier offices or distributed by carries unless postage is paid there on as by law provided. Latest accounts show that the at tempt to assassinate Bismarck Las stirred up a mighty enthusiasm amon the Germans. He appeared in the pul- lic gardens on the same evening and was enthusiastically received by the people. In response to demands he made a brief speech, in which he said that it was not Lis person that was attacked, but the cause which he rep resented. As all the world knows, there is a bitter controversy now going on in Germany between those who hold that the citizen must under all cir cumstances be subject to the civil au thority, and those who place the au thority of the Church above all ha man government. Bismarck is the head and front of what might be call ed the secular party, and he has on Lis side the entire Protestant element of Germany, as well as all the liberal thinkers and skeptics who oppose ec clesiastical pretensions on philosoph ical principles. The Ultramontane bishops and priests lead the Church party. It must'be admitted that they had gained a great deal of sympathy in the non-Catholic world because they seemed to be pcrscc uted. Prot estants who do not understand the peculiar structure of the German Government and the reasons of State which have influenced Prince Bis marck, look upon Lis treatment of the Jesuits as unnecessarily harsh. Tha attempted assassin is a young Catholic zealot, and no doubt the act was his alone, but unfortunately for the church to which he belongs, it will be held responsible by the ex cited public, and the fact that its wrongs were attempted to be aveng ed by one who grew up under its teachings will weigh heavily against its cause. A priest has already been arrested on suspicion of having insti gated the crime, and in the wild state of public feeling he is likely to be dealt with barsblv. OI R NEW YORK LETTER. New York, July 20, 1874. The Fourth of July passed off with more than tlio usual number or acci dents from those relics of barbarism, fire-works. The boys of this great crowded city commenced exploding fire-crackers, and setting off all sorts of fire-works, the day before the Fourth, and they continued it, des pite the Police, with the most fiendish persistency, till late ia the night of the great day. Consequently the papers are full of casualities. The summary of the "accidents" and dis asters oi last fcaturday shows some forty-five fires in New York and Brooklyn; more than two score of children injured and maimed in vari ous degrees of hurt from eyes de stroyed to fingers blown away; a riot, balf a dozen affrays, a child burned to death, and three persons killed. Be yond these were the thousand minor disasters unreported to the police, but which leave their marks in suffer ing mutilation of greater or less ex tent One rocket went through a window in DeKalp avenue, Brooklyn, and killed a child outright It seems to me as though this childish habit of playing with fire on the glorious Fourth ought to be prohibited by law. It is altogether too dangerous an amusement. The roofs are al ways dry at this Beason of the yeai, and everything combustible is in the best possible condition to burn. In such a season, to fill the air with ex ploding gun-powder enveloped with paper, would seem to be a folly very nearly akin to madness. But so strong is habit, that I suppose the dangerous game will go onto the end of time.' HYDROPHOBIA continues to be a prominent topic of discussion. There are thousands up on tnousanas or curs or all decrees. roaming the city, and any number of people nave been bitten by them. There have been several well defined cases of hydrophobia, and several bitten men have died from 6heer fear, as was evident from the fact that the dogs that bit them were all shown not to have been mad at all. In one case, that of Mr. lfcCormick, the symptoms were those of rabies, the patient refusing to eat or drink, and going into convulsions, in one of which he died. The dog who bit him was kept in a secure place and never showed the first symptoms of madnesi It had probably been worried till it bit everything that presented itself. MeCormick belie ed it to be mad, and it so worked up on bis imagination that Le died. Of course, ther are thousands of cores for the disease promulgated. One young woman of Hoboken, who Laving been bitten by a mad dog, was taken with the rcry worst symp toms of the rabies. A physician was called in, who found Ler in con vulsions. He at once inserted the lancet, takiug from her no less than 75 ounces ot blood. Tbia was the only treatment, and it is asserted that in five days thereafter the pa tient was convalescent. The various "mad-stones" in the country have been sent f r; but none of thera effect ed cur. .s, aay more than the regulars have, with this one exception. Whoever a person has been bitten by a mad dog that person has died. ICE. The ice question is next in impor tance to hydrophobia. The whole business is in the hands of two or three companies, and they are as merciless as monopolists always are. Taking advantage of the mild winter, they run up the price of ico from $1,00 to $1,50 per hundred, and the people, as a rale, were compelled to submit to the extortion. But an association in Brooklyn decided not to. They 6ent an agent to Maine, and he secured ice enough for the summer, which will be delivered at the Wallabout Dock at 40 cents per hundred, and at the door of the buy er, from wagon, at 60 cents and honest weight, which the monopolies never thought of doing. As these as sociations are forming all over the city, and as Maine is full of ice it is probable that the companies will Lave ice to sell this winter. So mote it be. THE beecher-tilton scandal. The Beecher Tilton matter remains as it was. Beecher is as cunnin? as a fox. He knows that his church will sustain him under any circum stances, or, rather, that his flock will not believe the statement made by Tilton, and ho goes on gaily paying no attention whatever to it. He has never opened his lips, and does not intend to. And Tilton is weak in not usine: the amunition he Las. He asserts that the unpublished portion of the famous confession, is enough to satisfy the world of Beecher's guilt; but Le docs not publish it AVhy, no one can understand, for if he does not make his case, he stands before the world a slanderer. He cannot wait for Mr. Beecher to act he has gone so far that to stop now is ruin. Teople who are in position to know say that Tilton can convict the great preacher of the grossest immoralities, if he chooses to do it. They say that he has in his posession documentary evidence that Beecher did attempt to debauch not only Mrs. Tilton but other women in Brooklyn. If this be so, why does not Tilton give it to the world: He bas made charges in a vague sort of a way, specifying noth ing and making nothing direct lie docs not state what it i3 that Mr. Beecher has been guilty of he only asserts that be has done bim a wrong. Now what the public want is the particulars. They want to know what this wrong was. They want to know, in short, whether Henry Ward Beecher is or is not, a proper man to occuoy a pulpit in Brooklyn, and as Mr. Tilton has said he is not, they demand that he make good his statement. And until he does this he is in a bad position. For the public believe that there is some thing in the matter that holds him back and prevents him from saying all that he could. It is not a pretty quarrel as it stands. hayemeter The Mayor, has fallen from his high position. Elected as a Reform er, he has filled all the offices in his gift with men of whom Tweed would have been proud. And when two of these men were convicted of mal administration Charlick and Gard ner and removed Ilavemeyer with a blind stupidity not easy to account for, immediately re-appoints them. It is curious how thoroughly corrup tion permeates everything in New York. When Ilavemeyer took the reins, the city breathed with more freedom. Here was an old merchant, a man who was supposed to bo hon est, if such a thing was possible, an honest administration was loosed for. Bqt the thieves got him as they got his predecessors, and reform is post poned till after another election. An epedemic something like .the yellow fever that devastated Memphis, is all that can possibly purify New York. So long as rotes can be bought by the thousand, and the great city has millions of revenue to be stolen noth ing short of an epedemic will do any good. It is probable that the Mayor will be removed. Governor Dix has been urged so strongly to do it, and so clear a case can be made against him, that it seems that nothing can save him. the weather. It is hotter than has been known here for years. Tietro. CHICAGO ON FIRE. ANOTHER CONFLAGRATION A LARGE DISTRICT IN ASHES CniCAGO, July 14-8 P.M. Anoth er conflagration is raging in the heart of the city. The fire started about 4:30 r. M. in some small frame houses near Fourth avenue and Polk streets. It was first blown south ward by a stiff breeze, but the wind soon shifted, and by sunset it blew gale from the south, sending the fire towards the central part of the city At half-past C o'clock this afternoon the flames had made almost a clean sweep up to the corner of Third ave nue and Polk street, burning up the homes of thousands of people. At the above corner the fire Department commenced the process of blowing np nouses with gunpowder, but those ex perimented with were most all wooden buildings, and the process only had the effect of making a quicker blaze The wind is blowing very fresh from aoout souin-soumwest A tie tire is now on the verge ot the fire-line of our big fire at Harrison street The west side of Wabash avenue is now in full blaze, which takes in many stately building in its course, which onerea a naven ol reiuge in tee win- leroiisu. ice nre is lust imme diately in the rear of the first Baptist- Church, and should that structure go down the fire will have a clean sweep to the northward and east ward, the exposition building will in all likelihood be the final prey of the fire, and as that is immediately on the lake shore, there will be noth ing for the fire to feed upon, provided we have the good fortune not to have a change of wind. A dense pall of black smoke is passing over the ex pected course of tea fire, dropping it advance messengers of tinkers on the roofs of buildings. ylthough private citizens are doing their ut most to prevent the fire from getting a told opoa tLcir houses, ret the ef fort id as futile as for a child to make the attempt The roar of tho advancing furnace Las the sound of our old ca lamity, and nothing short of its final plnnge into Lake Michigan will quench if Our street ? within a mile of the conflagration are crowded with teams of every description, loaded to their utmost capacity with hou&Iiuld goods. Although store-keepers who are so fortunate as to secure teams are ea deavoring to save their most valua able stock, wherever vacant space north of the fire can be found it is at once filled with goods of all descrip tions and varieties, mcu, women and children are doing all they can to save their little all and bring it to some place of safety. The fire from this on will burn up as much in five minutes as it has previously done in fiftecu, considering the value in dollars and cents. Tho heat is very great, and no doubt in addition 10 pecuniary losses we will have to mourn the loss of lives, as it i3 next to impossible for a fire of this magni tude and fury to burn through as closely a settled district without hu man sacrifice. - 10 o'clock P. M. As wa3 expected in the previous despatch, the fire swecpt into and over the elegant First Baptist Church, on Wabash ave nue, and what was this evening be fore sundown one of the most elegart and most costly church edifices in our pifr is now a smoulderin? heap of ruins. As it was very evident from about C:30 P. M. that our Postoffice building was doomed, General 31 c Arthur, the Postmaster, made ar rangements at once to remove the mails to a place of safety, and all needed teams were at once pressed into service by him, and by 8 o'clock tho last loaded wagon left tho buil ding. At ten minutes past 8 o'clock tho building took fire, and by half past 8 o'clock it wa3 a mass of flames The wind oy 8 o'clock had almost died away, which assisted the fire de partment greatly in becoming mas ters of tho situation. At the corner where tho Postoffice was situated, at Wabash avenue and Harrison street tho very point where the previous great fire was stopped, our firemen seemed to be inspired with superhu man efforts to prevent the fire from spreading into the rebuilt district, and hero it was thafall their ener gies were concentrated to bar its further progress. The building on the southeast cor ner wa3 a large brick dwelling house, and by makiner a bulwork of this against the ever oucominjr sheets of flames, the prospect of holding this building and saving it thereby pre venting the progress of the fire through to Michigan avenue, was quite promising at 8:30 o'clock, where at the northeast corner of these streets, occupied by our postoffice was then a mass of flames. As a very heavy and high brick building adjoined the postoffice on the north, there is no doubt that the spread of the fire north of Wabash avenue from this point has been checked. Pailicnlars of tlis Great Eire. CmcACio, July 15. Our citizens arc reviewing the situation this morn ing, and congratulating themselves that they have escaped the destruc tion of the most important business portion of the city, which appeared at onetime imminent, ibis time tne fire originated in a low frame build ing, used for storing rags, and ad joining an oil factory that stood be tween iourth Avenue and Clark Street, on Taylor Street. The great fire of 1871 originated in a stable. In both cases the fire commenced in the center of a oeigbborbood occupi ed by wooden buildings. There was also a stiff southwest breeze, so that by the time ihc flames had consumed the small dwellings, stables, carpen ter shops and buildings filled with oil, paper and rags, and reached State Street, where there were substantial business houses, they were like the heat of a furnace, and all-consuming in their power. Thus the conditions for a great conllagration were not wanting. Fortunately after burning up nearly twenty bloek3, and destroy ing tue rirst unptist enured, two other church buildings, the Postoffice, Michigan Avenue and St. James' Hotels, the Inter- Oceanic and other elegant blocks erected after the fire of 1871, and a number of fine residences, the flames were staved riffht at the very doors of the heaviest business blocks and three or four of the best hotels. The Tribune says, cditorialiy: Every cool-headed observer of the fire must have felt that we have paid a light penalty for allowing our mag nificent business centre to be sur rounded with wooden rookeries, and we have come off cheap. The great gilded martyr around which the fag gots have been so profusely piled, has not yet been burned to death. Perhaps this calamity will show us how to save it, perhaps not There arc some 6ixty acres of burned terri tory between tho faggots and the victim. This gap may be the means of saving what is left; if so. thank God. The predestinated fate of every wooden building in the large cities is to be burned sometime. We have now offered up sixty acres of combustibles as a sacrifice to the ireni us oiTrce institutions, meaning thereby the frtedom of every man to keep a- tinder box and an oil factory where it suits him best Would that- we could say this is the last of such mad folly. It is not Chicago still has thou sands upon thousands of wooden suaniics 10 ieea miure ures, ana go aown they will, ail m good time Ihe limes and Inter-Ocean also speak in strong terms cf the fully of allowing the erection of wooden buildings within the city limits. The following are the exact limits of the fire as viewed this morning lhe nre burned a small portion ot ciai K btreet, near iwelltn, where it originated: thence took Thiid and Fourth Avenues between Peck Court and Twelfth Street, and burned them as far as Harrison Street State Street was burned from Harmon Court to Van Buren; Wabash Ave nue, from No. 452, near the corner of Peck Court, to No. 1C7, near Van Buren. Michigan Avenue has been burned from Harrison Street to Van Buren Street, a short distance. The business buildings burnt out on the east side of State Street number 29 on the west side, ninety-six ; on the east side Wabash Avenue twenty -six i 3 .1.. . on me wesi siue, inirty-iour; on Michigan Avenue, twelve; on the east side of Clark Street, fourteen : on the north side ot Van Buren Street, six; on the south side. six; on the norio me oi roiif otreet, eight; on the south side, four; on the north side of Harrison Street, twelve; on the south side, sixteen ; on the south side of Twelfth Street, thirteen ; on the north side twenty-two. The following general description of the progress of the fire, and the enorts of the fire department to get it under cocjrol, is furnished by the Timet: Nearly eact cjT the shanty where the fir,e originated waa tie large brick oil factory of Fitch Bros., the interior of which, with the large tanks of oil, was all ablaze before the arrival of the second engine. The heat emitted by tho burningof its in flammable contents was intense, and when the walls first full, but a few Middlefield stream enters west, a minutes before the first stream began ' woolen mill, formerly used as a shod to play upon it, the whole neighbor- J dy mill, and at Chester, there Is the hood for a radius of thirty rodd Hampden Emery mills. From Mid around seemed to burst forth in ooei dielieid tswht-li the flood passtd down simultaneous blaze, just norm oiitowuru ciesU:r, where u did very the rag shop was a story and a half barn filled with bay, which flamed up in an instant, and the flying wisps of burning Lay lit on the roofs nearly a block away. With such rapidity did the fire spread after it was first dis covered that two horses in this barn were burned to death before they could be rescued. The eight or ten engines in the first district were speedily on the ground, and the, most of them took their stations on Clark Street, where Marshal Benner at tempted to check the spread of the flames. Engine No. 21 and, one other were stationed on Fourth Ave nue, and a vigorous fight with the advancing foe was commenced. At this point, in ten minutes alter the first alarm, the pine shanties, stretch ing eastward toward Fourth Avenue, were all aflame for nearly half a square. In less than half an hour the en gines that were, posted on Fourth Avenue, directly in the path of the fire, were compelled to beat a retreat All succeeded in beating a retreat ex cept Engine Company No. 21, the colored company of the forco, who de layed a minute too long, and the flames bursting upon them before they had attached their horses to the en gine, they were compelled to abandon it, and the handsome steamer was warped and twisted into a mass of half melted iron and steel in the fiery furnace that girdled it. The fire had swept diagonally across the block to the corner of Taylor Street and Fourth Avenue, and was rapidly eat ing its way through the remainder of the block fronting Clark and Tay lor Streets. The Marshal stationed a number of engines on Clark Street, and every effort was made to stay the northern progress of the flames along that thoroughfare, but the shan ties, from which poured a swarm of fallen women laden down with ward robes and furniture, were ripe for destruction, an no sooner had the torrents of water extinguished the fire on one building than the roofs of tinder-boxes still further to the north would burst into flames. But the most of the Marshal's attention was directed to the front of the fire, and every energy was exerted to stay its eastern march. At the corner of Taylor Street and Fourth Avenue a large amount of hoso was concentra ted, and every effort was made to keep the fire on the west sido of the avenue, but tho driving wind was laden with the burning brands, which lit on the roofs beyond and kindled them in an instant. The Olivet Bap tist Church was the brst building to go on the east side of the avenue. In a little over an hour after the first alarm, the fire had swept over the pace between Clark Street and Third Avenue, and had reached Polk Street on the north. The southern boundary of the burnt district ex tends east in almost a straight line, running nearly parallel with Twelfth Street, and about thrco hundred feet north of it. Accordingly telegrams wero sped over the wires to Milwaukee, Racine, Joliet and other places. They read : "A great fire is raging. Chicago is threatened with destruction. Send up your fire department" In the course ot the nignt came a response in the shape of stalwart men with ap paratus, and they did valiant service in fighting the flames to a smaller and smaller limit. Having reached Wa bash Avenue! with the wind blowing from the southwest, Michigan Ave nue seemed to be in danger of de struction, in fact tho thought of sav ing a portion of it, from Eldridge Court to a point at least as fur r.orth ; as Harrison Street, was abandoned, and yet, contrary to all expectations, every house in that limit stands in tact. Every bouse on Yv abash Ave nue parallel with this is destroyed. But the narrow alley between the two avenues stood as a barrier, as if id been an intervening mountain. Every house on Michigan avenue was vacated. The streets were lined with trucks backed up against the residences, but about nine o'clock most of the people moved back again. Ihe ordeal was safely passed and our handsome lake front was pre served. A regular srale was blowing:, tho beat wa3 intense, and the firemen could not stand within a hundred feet of it The pollicy seemed to be to fight it into the lake by closing in on its sides. This policy was adopted, and at six o'clock all danger was passed. The Tiines makes the following es timate of losses, which will bo found to bo pretty nearly correct. . The area burned over covers fifteen squares. Taking blocks and half blocks here and there and lumping the whole, the burned area is about bait a mile long and a little less m- widlh, and embraces tumble down shanty and palatial avevue residences Clark Street, $30,000; Fourth Ave nue, $175,000; Third Avenue, $250,- 000; State Street, $1,300,001); Wabash Avenue, $1,700,000: Michigan Ave nue, $150,000; Taylor Street, $50,000; Polk Street, $40,000; Harrison Street, $50,000; Congress Street, $75,000; Van Buren Street, $50,000, Court, be tween Wabash Avenue and State Street, $150,000. Total, $4,025,000. Another fire broke out this after noon about 4:30 in the northwestern part of the city in the vicinity of the junction of Mi'waukee and Chicago Avenues. Fifteen or twenty build ings, comprising stores, saloons, planing mills and carpenter shops, uurneu in a short time, the flames be ing fanned by a brisk northwest breeze and fed by very inflammable material. The fire department was promptly on the ground, and by the most vigorous enorts succeeded in checking the progress of the fire be fore it did further damage than al ready stated. Considerable excite ment prevailed for a time, and a repe tition of the scenes of last night was expected. " - . i Two More Reservoirs Give Way-Great Destruction of Property. SrRixariELD, July 13.' Details are coming to hand of a second flood iu Hampshire county, Mass., caused by the giving away of tho reservoir of a factory at the village of Middle field. The Union gives the follow ing particulars in its noon edition : The reservoir was Bituated on Mid dlefield brook, which empties into the west branch of tho Westfield river at Middleford switch. It covered nearly one hundred acres, and was built about thirty years ago. The reser voir was used for the storage of wa ter for the Church Brothers, who were running two broadcloth mills, William Blush's felloe, thill and Btave factory, and for a mill owned by Oli ver Blush and iormerly used as a wooh3n mill, but lately as a grist mill. These were all tha mills situated on the Middlefield branch below the res ervoir. Between Middiefiejd switch and Chester, there ia upon the west branch of Westfield river into which serious damage. Ihe water swept over fiirms, gardeus and woods, aud several house were tiKjwd sumo dis tance. The heavioot Ium.t at Ches ter is Dr. Ilewans Lucius, who esti mates his loss at ten thousand dol lars by the partial sweeping away of his emery mill. The wa'er went through tho lower story, carrying off about 3,000 worth of emery. The water also did considerable damage to the Hanum Edge Tool Company. The water power of this company is entirely destroyed. The Lucius Farm of fifty acres, was badly damaged; also a large farm of Newton Cowles. Nearly all of the valley residents in tho vicinity of Chester have suffered more or less by damage to farms and gardens. . Bradford Palmer's barn and Samuel Otis' shoe shop were moved some distance, and William Fay & Son's furniture warehouse WB3 badly flooded. ' An ont-building wa3 undermined and turned partly around. High water continued at Chester for about an hour. The town of Chester suffers heavily in loss of bridges and damage to roads. Four bridges were carried off, and to re place the bridges will cost about ten thousand dollars, besides several thousand dollars to repair the roads. The Boston & Albany Railroad is very badly damaged for a distance of nearly twenty miles. Every bridge between Middlefield and Huntington is wholly or partly destroyed. The road bed is also washed out in many places, and travel between this city and Albany will be suspended for several days. The wires are still down beyond Chester, and no defi nite information has been ieceived as to the loss of life at Blush Hollow, which, it is now thought, must have been considerable. SECOND DISPATCH. Springfield, July 13. A special dispatch to the Union, from Chester, gives the following additional partic ulars of the flood: About twelve yer.rs ago a second reservoir was built about three miles further up the stream, by the Church Brothers. This was smaller than the lower one, and covered from fifty to sixty acres. The upper reservoir broke away first, and swept over the lower reservoir with an immense volume of water, making a break of about four rods in the Highway dam of the lower res ervoir. The upper reservoir was 'juilt of earth, and the whole dam suddenly gave way. Harry Meach am was at the reservoir at the time, and made haste to warn the people at Blush Hollow. His warning, and the fact that but part of the lower reservoir dam gave way, prevented the loss of life and also very much lessened tho damage done. The Bos ton and Albany Railroad Company suffers heavily at Middlefield switch, the long two-arched 6tone bridge, un der which the Middlcton brook and turnpike run, wa3 swept away and also a considerable length of tracks, amounting in all to about two hun dred feet. It will cost about one hundred thousand dollars to repair this break, and will require a consid erable time. Between Middlefield switch and Chester depot," there are eight railroad bridges, five of which are either unharmed or but slightly damaged. Two of these are of stone, costing each $75,000. Of the three bridges which are so badly damaged as to need to be entirely rebuilt, one is a stone bridge, costing $40,000. The two others are those next west of Chester, one of which was to have been replaced this fall by an iron bridge. The los3 on these bridges is about fifteen thousand dollars each. The bridge next east of Chester station, which is soon to be replaced by an iron structure, is"damaged by the loss of one of the abutments, but it will be repaired by noon, so that tho trains can run between Springfield and Chester. The track is washed out in many places west of Chester, but little or no damage of any amount is reported west of Middlefield switch, Work will bo prosecuted on the bridge as fast as possible, but the Superintendent says it will be several days beforo the road will be passable. It will probably cost ?li0,000 to re build the bridges and repair the road, while the loss bv the interruption of business will be very heavy, particu larly as this is the week of tho col lege races at Saratoga. The mills of Church Bros, are standing, but U is reported that their new mill ispanly undermined. The wool-house and barn belonging to them were carried away, with their contents, among which were several valuable car riages. Oliver Blush's old woolen mill and William Blush s barn were also-carried away. The barn con tained a new $400 carriage. Several other barn and outbuildings were carried away, and three or four houses are reported destroyed or bad ly damaged. The highway between Blush Hollow and Aliddlelield was entirely obliterated, and six bridges, two of then private ones, and four belonging to the-town, were carried away. It is not known at this time that anv lives were lost, but several narrow escapes from drowning oc curred. 1 hree or four persons are reported missing, but it is hardly probable that they are drowned. THIRD DISPATCH. SrRiN'GFiELD, July 13. At Mid dlefield switch two unoccupied housss, one of them new, owned by West, j Bulklcy & Co., paper manufacturers, were swept away, and also an old red house used a3 a pay office when the railroad was building. Several barns and out buildings were ajso carried off at the switch, and farms and gardens were badly damaged. The woolen . mill midway between Middlefieid and Chester, owned by John West Jr., of Pittslield was not injured, but both ends of his wooden dam and the head of his race way were destroyed. A tenement house, occupied by the family of Leon Jauzaux, was swept away. He was absent, and bis wife and mother-in-law and four children were, with con siderable difficulty, persuaded to leavo the house just before it went off. ' The Village of Chester owes its escape from an almost entire destruc iton, to tho fact of there being so many stone-arch bridges above that place, by which the flood was stayed for a time, accumulating in little ponds to be let down in instalments on the village below. A second cause was the ' wHth'of.the valley a mile above the village, where the waters spread out somewhat, as they did in the Mill river floods on the Florence meadows.- A JIuntington there was but lit tle damage done) -je flood having mostly spent its force before it reach ed there. Some of the farms were flooded, and lhe water broke over the bulkhead of the Highland Manu facturing Companie's mills, swept through the lower story and did some damage to the finished goods stored there. At Westfield, the next town below Huntington, the island and some low lands were flooded, but great harm was done. The total amount of d image to in dividuals and to the town of Cheater, is estimated at twenty-five thousand ' dallars. The latest figure! indientej that the total loss will n-.u-h three; hundred and fifty tbousauJ d Il;ir.-. j Attempt to AftAinate Bivmarek. Kissexge.v, July 13. As Prince Bismarck was driving in the country towards the Saline Springs, at noon, to-day, he was fired at by a young man. Tho ball grazed "his wrist The wound is insignificant. The would-be assassin was promptly ar rested, ne Las not been -identified. At 1:30 p. M. Prince Bismarck drove through Kisscngen and showed him self to the people. The populace were with great difficulty prevented from lynching the man after his ar rest Berlix, July 13. The idemnity of the would-be assassin of Prince Bismarek has been established. His name is Knllman. He belongs to Magdeburg, and is a cooper by trado. He is a member of a Catholic jour neymen's society of that city, and has been observed of late freouentlv in the company of a Catholic priest New Advertisement. Have now opened A Large and Complete Assortment o (ioodg for Fall and Winter Wear. Tbey have a complete assortment ol Xjndics' Furs, Drewt CmmhIn, Felt Skirts If oop Skirts, Bustles, Gloves, Shoes. Cum Sandals, And Felt Over Shoes. MEX AND BOYS' Clothin Boots and Shoes, HATS AND CAPS, GLOVES, ScC Underclothing for Men and Y'omen A large assortment ot HARDWARE QUEENSWARE, Carpets, Oil Cloths, &e. A large itock ot fine ami i-oarso SALT IXy the Karrel or Sack Prices as Low as Possib'e. C. & G. IIOLDERB AIDI, Somerset, Pa. Oct. 80. ill, FOLLANSBEE & CO, Merchant Tailors, Autl ManufiU'turcM t Gent's, Youth's and Boys, MiaUe Clotttf and FmisM: 121 Wood Street, corner Fifth Avenne, PITTSBURGH. aprl. 's Corsat Siirt SnBuerter. For Health, Comiort ami Style, is acknowledged the Uest Arti cle of the kinil ever mails. Nn merons Testimonials in its fa Tor are hcinir receive! frwm all r5iSir,iI i""3 o i"e k. nueti aiaies. 13. . iM LADT AOESTS WASTED. FOT A IIARHOV, Sole Manufacturers, New Haven, Conn. ARNOLD U AN NINO. New York Asrcnts. WEAVING. 1 am prepared to weave Single and Double Coverlets, BALMORALS. SKIRTS. TAKLKPT.OTHS TOWELS. BLANKETS. Ac. Persons harinic any kind of wearing to be done are invited tn mil and examine niy work. Woolen and flax yarn taken In exchange for work or irnods. julyli New Lexington, Fa. jESSEHrsTra, J. A. Ems, J. H. McKkoivx, President. Sec. Trsaa. Vice Pres. "yESTMORELAND MUTUAL LITE STOCK INSURANCE CO., OF GREENS BURG, PA. L1T8 Stxi Insured Against ftalii ana TMt. OFFICE Weat Pittsburgh street, GHEENSUUKa, PA. Agents wanted in all adjoining counties, julylo LLEOHEY CITY STAIR BUILDING & WOOD TURNING SHOP. Newels, Balusters. Hand Rail, with joints cut and bolted ready to hang, fumi-hed on short h tico. WM. PEOPLES, Oor. Webster street and Uraham alley. julyli Wmm Maflame Fov julyia HOPPM SEMINARY FOR YOCtftf IPIFS, " noUldaysburg,l?a. Rev. JOSEPH WAUGIl' jnlyli AV w Ad errt i.e menti iioriaiinolMiflEj, JUST PUBLISHED, Essays on Chronic Diseases,! Dr. J. W. SYKES, FOU J YEARS EXCLUSIVE PRACTITIOX EH IN CHRONIC MSEASES, AND FOR IS YEARS LOCATED AT 191 Penn Street, Pitisburqh - - Pa. Price, (by mail.) 10 rriit. Add rcss l'R. J. W. SYKES. Pittsburgh, Pa ESSAYS Cl CHRONIC DISEASES A Largo l'ampltlct ef rases. TABLE ( F CONTESTS. Oil tho Nature of Cata.nh. Nasal Catarrh. Chronic Sore Threat if.;tr !ip;is.) Bronchial Affections. Treatment cf Catarrhs. Curability of Catarrh. Tubercular Consumption. Nature of Consumption. Curability of Consumption. Treatment of Consumption. Asthma, or Phthisic. Curability of Asthma. TJeart Diseases. Dyspeptic Disordei'3. Diseases of the Liver. Diseases of the Eowcls. Urinary Disorders. Female Complaints. Scrofula and Skin Diseases. Invalids desirina: truthful inf. rmali. n ewern inx t lie atMtve, and otln-r C-lirv-ui Attcflii'ttS, should send tor thus twk, and Waste No More Time on Patent MHi'h.'', r Inh.i!:ttin. (r 'Water lK.t':r.V or uu any punia 1 --r iaiMii'-ii-nt tn.MtiianL. II :I EMBEE, that while Ton are "trv'n-.:" ? no "Cro'.Jt n Dis covery" or 'Lung Cure,'' or treatment based on iu halations. YOU ARE M8 YOUR TIME OF CCEABI in, rr Mode of Treatment is the fruit of over twenty ye.in of exclusive at tention to Cliroiiio akcuiious, and an experience embracing ninny thousands of cases, and lias been blessed lu the recovery ot numirens who were deemed past hope. It consists in selecting for each case the remedial means best adapted to its euro. His patients have the benttit of every new discovery and theory of value. His remedial re sources include medical inhalations lxth of va por and of atomized tluids, together with tonic, cleansing anil retfulatinir medicines of unsurpass ed eiticacy, and hygienic and mechanical rtine- lies of irreat value. R ESVL T S tif Dr. Sykes' Moda of Treatment. ( ase cf S. If. Mlirr,IV., or Lrcionin, Ohio, Sifk Fifteen Year, Dixense of Luii n:ul Heart. I're qnent Hemorrhage, Ac. Lkkton'a, Olii", December 2, K . Dr. J. W. Sykks Dear t-ir: I reel it my duly to make a lust acknowlo-lirMicnt to y-u of the Umi- eht 1 received of your treatment lnm April lu September, ltw'J. vv nan I resorted to you i nau but little hoi of a recovery, as I had hemorrhage ol the lui)"S almost daily during twenty-two mouths previous, together with an arI e;ioii ol the heart, so that I could not lie on my lelt side dur ing a period of fifteen years. The cough, pain, and constant oppression of tbe breast made iilo a harden. Alter takiusr your treatment lor three months, I telt a decided improvement: the hemor rhage of tiie lungs had ceased altogether; the op pression of the breast, couh, &c, were tnueii bet ter, with a decided improvement of my general health: so that 1 commenced the second course of three months' treatment with mure h'i. After coniinumg the treatment (ai:oether live inonths) I felt myself entirely well, could lie on cither side and breathe freely. Yet I could hardly believe the cure a permanent one. But now. 10 mouths have passed, and no reeurreuee of hemorrhinres, or cou'h, and I have retained my former weight 9 that 1 now feel thanklul to (rod and to you tor your invaluable treatment in my case, and shall not eease to recommend others similarly ailiicted to your treatment. Yours respectruHv. .s. h. sul;:il Home I'slimalion of Dr. Sykcx Amonirothers received bv us. w tae p.easnre in transurring to our coluuis the loilowiiii testi monials from the editors of the ftttsburxu LAti daa iliroraeand Lnitei Prtibjterian: riTTsaumiH, May 11, 1-6T. Pullithcr BrliyiQsi Telescope: Dkab nsoTiiisa: I take pleasure in s'atir.g. for ! Touriulormation, mat ir. J . w . rVKOs. :'. trus city, is a reliable and skillful medical practitioner and justly distinguished in his speeialty ihe treatment of tho lungs. He will not dishonor anj words of commendation you may make in ids in terest In the Keltijioui Telescope. iio.-peetfullv. S. 11. NKSUir, Editor rittshar'h Cfirisliat Advocate. OJlceo lhe VsiTnn Pkeriiytkria.i, ) Xo. ' Tmnn Strekt, FiTTSBi u'oii, .May 3), l.oT. ) tdilort Rcliyiout Teletcope Oestlewks: Dr. J. W. Sykes having; applied toni for a letter of recommendation, we take pleasure in staling that he has the reputation here ol being at ihe head of the medical school in tiie treatment of the luniis and other kindred diseases. And further, we are stratified at beiir able to siy that he is a Christian irentleman, and in every way worthy of any commendation that you may icive him iu your influential au 1 widely circulated paper. With much respect, we are Vourotiedient servants. D. li. KKKK fcCO., Editort end Troprie'ort Lniled I'rctl'jterian. ORDINANCE. At a meeting of the Council of Dcrlin Njr.ush, the following ordinance was by resolution revived: onntsAJCE x. 8. He It ordained hy the RurcreM and Town Coun cil of the borough of Kerlin that an annual tax of one dnllartle imposed on the owner of each and every doe Kept witnin said nurousrit, which shall bo collected oy warrant from the owner iu the ' usual way with other taxes, for tho use of said i boro3h, pro ided, however, that if the owner of any do sliaO on or Dehne the iac rty of J xiijury, in any subsei.nent yea pay to the- treasurer loo doa: lax, shall be entitled to a deduction f '4 lJ firotnpt payment, and ench tax shall beomitted n tho making out of tho annual list to the col lector. JAC. J. ZORX. julyS liurxes. Ad,;rl; US ' - 1 1 , :. AWARDED Tlis "Medal cf Pr: AT VIEX.YA, is T!ieHii?l:est Opler of Medal" i)r.. Eipo!!l..n. Va Si icir.g Machine Rceeivi i A FEW GOOD BrASo.1t I--A New Invention ihor.u . cured by Letters fatent. 2. -Makes a perfect Ix k S i: h . 9i(lcsf, on allkio.uoi iro,vij. ' ' 3. kuns light, smooth, n. ise!. . best c..iii,.ii)i!;io of tiialiti s. . d.il ,-.( vjiicti' of Wr S:i'c.' i' i : Mtierir manner. ' 0. I " .(! e!dijr manage,! hrt:, Lemr'i. oi vi:.'h niay te alterci and u M t o threaded wi ll, thread i l.r. r.h hol-s. . i'. -'l simnle. fmrrrilon !...... the st: i-'.i w i V ut the us" ofci'wu.. lary c.i::- r b-ver arms. H is the Air. -. eed. insures u:ii!rin h-nirth any siiev.i. Uns our nrw T'ir..-..: t allows easy movement of needle bjr ai ururv io:::reai. &. t'oilSTrilelion m!lt PlPllnl nrwl . is Rl:ltm!;l tunil bv th. ..... L-. ; t o. ! ' eiu-ed mechanics, at the celebrated Ketr New Firn SHOE STOEI SfJYDER & UK Having purchased the i Store lately owned bj II. V. lleerits Yv'e take pleasure In calllnir the miir.-; public to the fact that we have now ue ; . keep constantly on h.-.nd as complete t nieut of Boots, Shoes and Gaite BOTH OF Eastern and Koma Manufa: as can !c found anywhere. V.'e also w; hand coiisiantly a full supply of POLE LEATHER, MOROCCO, CALF SKIX. AND LINING SKINS Of all kinds, with a full line "f Shoe Findings. The HOME 5fATrtlTI Bf t,rs M EX T will be in charge of " !iN". 13. Snyder, Es Whose reputation Tor making Cood Work and Good Fits ' Is second to none in tho State. The pnHi' spect fully invited to call and examine our as we are determined to keep goods as ir..l ,. best and sell at prices as low as the lowest. SNYDER & UHJ dec-24 ADAMS' Pound Butter Case iff Supplied by C. i. fr. Holdrrhanro. KnaM'. i ton fi Co.. A. J. tJascbeer K Co., Somerset V. yi. lloldcrbanin f reosmtv. O. A. JULLEE, DIPPY a '. i'hiiadclpi.i Cook & Beerits' FAMILY GBOGEE Flour and Feed STORE. We wm:M most T-ntthv ir,f. t.i i friends and the publ ic sreneralfv, in the town i vicinity of Somerset, that wo fiave opened 1 1 jSiStoro on MAIX CROSS STREET. An I in addition to Q full line of the twjt CoiifecUonerleK, .otloii Tcbaceo, Cigar, tt. We will endeavor, at all times, to fupply our "." turners with tiie BEST QUALITY Of- FAMILY FLOUB? CORX-MEAL, OATS7 SHELLED COKy, OA TS d- CORN CHOP, IWAX, MIDDLINGS And everything pcrtainltiini to the Feed Vtf nicnt, at the LOWEST POSSIBLE PBICR FOR CASH ONLT Also, a well selected stock of Glassware: S'.onewaro. Woodcnware, Brush ' al kinds, and STATIONERY ; - . . ' ! Which wo will sell as cheap as the cheape ! Please call, examine our poo.13 of all Wad M ; he satisfied from your own judgment. . ' Don't foriret where we stay On M A m-CKliSS Street, Somerset. P. Oct. X ISTi I I I nc new IW?aOVt. BIIISJO SifBS j t 3 -sae T,:'r" ft
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