The Somerset Herald.
EDWARD SCULL, Editor and Proprietor.
WED3ESDAT..
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Republican State TicKEtiEevwue in, Lis report .tp the Secreta-
WILLIAM LIV3EY, Allegheny Co.
FOK ALTUTOB OEXEBAX :
JEROME B. NILE?, Tipsa County.
TEPUEUCAN COUNTY JlCKET.
FOR PISTKICT ATTOHSEY :
F. W. LIESECKEU, Somerset Bor.
mil POOK HHSE IUKECTOU!
REUBEN' WOY, Somerset
Bor.
FOK COUNTY H'KVKYOH :
WILLIAM MAKER, Milford Twp. !orierwi!l be made' to takee'iect in nearly
1 all the districts affected by it. In some in-
we""" m (J.aIHl;!1 tj(C ina;(4.r wji ne-ssarily lie delay
er, ,. , i , ed bv the ditliculties incident to the execu-
The new liquor tax n saloons in tion-pf ,he ew wnd reqllirej of each col
Ohio will yield the State Upwards of lector designated for a district ucwlv con
82.W0,(W annually. Formerly theee bUtutt'J- .
ruin shops jiaid co license.
Tne death of Hon
Mont"omerv '
Blair leaves General Simon Cameron
the only living member of the first
Cabinet ol President Lincoln.
Gen. ShkriI'An's mother, who is
bA years of age, still lives in the name
house in .ornerset county, Ohio, in
w hich her famous eon was born.
Gtji. E. O. C. Okd, under whom
many of our SSomer.-et ''boy sv fought j
during the late w:ir, died at Havana
of yellow fever ,on Monday last, 23rd
insL
The delegates to the next Repub
lican National Convention will be
elected by districts. This will give
the people a chuuee to express their
choice.
Captain Werb, the celebrated
English swimmer, lost his life last
week in a fool-hardy attempt to
swim through the terrible whirlpool
below Niaittr.i.
Mr. Bf.echer thinks truth telling
is an acquired habit, like learning to
thoot a rifle. Some men go through
life with no more skill in marksman
ship than would eutble the in to hit
a barn at ten paces.
Ekulano, with her free trade, has
over a million paupers. It is no
wonder bhe indulge in "assisted
emigration" to aland where laborers
have "protection" and can feed and
clothe themselves.
The Democratic State Convention
meets at Harrisburj to-day, (August
1st.) , 'There is no pressure for nom
inations. What little life the party
had, has leen crushed out by the
weight of the Patti6on administra
tion. The old method of working out
the road tax has been abandoned in
Ohio, and roads are now repaired
under contract and paid for by tax
receiyed from the county and town
ship treasuries. The results are said
to be excellent
Ex-Commissioner Raum thinks
that the revenue from distilled and
brewed liquors will reach $ 100,0m .
00ayear,and all other internal reve
nue taxation oujht to be abolished.
The course recommended would
greatly simplify the service and re
duce the expense of it.
Senator Gordon, the administra-1
tion mouth pieoe in the Senate, has
announced that Gabriel's hist trump
'will blow before the Iegislature will
adjourn without pissing the appor
tionment bills. Very well. Now,
let the Senator get down from his
high horse, or don his ascension
robe. It won't be Gabriel's, but the
people's trump that will soon give
huu notice to quit.
The Senate has declined to con-
cur with the House in passing the the Independents had broken with
Stewart Congressional apportion-! their party and could not return to
went bill. The Democrats have J it, and forgetting apparently, that
shifted their position half a dozen i the alleged cause of this breach, was
times. The Republican of the Sen-j dec lare.Ho be a desire to einanci
ate hold that they have offered a bill jpt themselves from boss rule,
which, is entirely . fair and reason- jthry attempted to whip them into
able, and that-anything beyond it is jtubmisf ion to the purely personal
a surrender of a part of their just government established by this Ad
rightsi and there they stand. ministration. Preferring to endure
: the evils thev have if there are anv
The telegrapher s tstrike still con
tinues, and the companies except
the "Rapid Transit" which has
compromieed with iu men are
much trippled and are doing but a
email portion of their former busi-
ness. Both parties appear to be set-
tling down for a protracted struggle,
For once the sympathies of the pub-'
lio are on the side of the f-trikeratud
there appears to be a general dispo
sition to aid them so long as they re
frain from any attempts at violence.
The Burlington Hawkcye nays :
"lown in Tama county laet week, a
cat was born with two heads. It is
lively and healthy, and can yowl
, with one mouth and waul with the
' other.",
t If the llauleyc man thinks this a
rare breed of cats he ia mistaken.
The country has been infested for
the last twenty years with a breed
of double-beaded Democratic cats,
that incessantly yowl "protectiou"
with one mouth and waul "free
trade" with the other. :
Hon. Montgomery Blaib, who
was Postmaster-General under Pres
ident Lincoln, died at bis borne in
Maryland, on Friday last He was
the last of a family that has taken a
lare share in the politics of the
country. He was a son of the once
famous editor,Francis P. blair, and
a brother ot' General Frank Blair,
Democratic candidate for Vice Pres
ident a few years since.
The Commissioner of Internal
the last; feven yt?are. nearly 5'JUO,
1(00,000 have been collected from
' g!e cent' He further adds :
I have tiie nonor 10 report uiai wc iuu-
r ail collectors of inu-rnal iwonne, one
hundred aud twenty -six in number, were
carefullv examined before the close of the
lai-t fiwal vear. endine June JO, 1S3 and the
enure collections of internal revenue lor
that year, amounting to il44."M.!.;Wj. have
not only been accounled lor, but iid into
the Treasurv of the I'iiited State.
Sttwithstanding the material changes
made in the law bv the act of Cotigres of
the 3d of March. yet so larpe was the
increase of taxes derived from distilled spir
it! that for the vear ending June 13,
there was colieOed $l..VW,3iio of iutcrnal
revenue. The collcvtion of this vat um
exist the Government about $".li,Oti), a Jer-centaf.-
of 8J, and the money was disbursed
without any loss to the I luted States. It
gives me pleasure to state that the retiorts of
collectors and internal revenue agents imli
cHte cot onlT a Terr satisfactory condition
. ot the service u retfards eihciency, but also
, that no combinations exist to defraud the
j liovernnient of its internal revenues, nor is
j it believed any itniortant erlorlsare making
for the illicit manufacture of either liisky
' tobacco or cigars. Much praise is justly due
I theofiicers in the rervice for the zeal and
!et"U'-iency with which their very important
j duties are di-charged.
The executive order of June -'5, lv-3, di
j rectinp the consolidation of revenue districts
J is Mng executed as rapidly us the great la
bor of doinp no wiil permit. It U to be bop
. I iIimi in m f..w ilav. or weeks at ni'tst. the
j One of the interesting and amus-
inS phases ol politics m tnis Mate,
is the battle raging just now between
the Democrats and the leaders of the
Indeiendenb;, who so lately were
their allies. Apparently forgetting
that they carried the State last year
by dividing the Republican forces,
the Democrats set up an intensely
partisan, bulldozing government,
and cracked the party whip so vig
orously about the ears of their Inde
pendent allies, that Senator Stewart
and his colleagues could no longer
stand it. During the regular session
of the legislature the' could have
had a Congressional apportionment
on the basis of a bill offered by
Stewart, but they would have none
of it, and bo forced an adjournment
and the calling of an extra session.
Xow, having discovered that Stewart
and the other Independent Senators
cannot be further bulldozed, and
that in their creed, they have played
the fool, they have turned upon
their late allies, and are denouncing
them with bitter fury. Stewart
Lee and their fellow Independents,
have been late in realizing the fact
that the Democracy were never
know n to do anything except upon
a strictly partisan basis, but having
at last discovered that power, not
justice, is what their late allies de
mand, they have taken up the posi
tion which they should have assum
ed at first, and refuse to be further
dictated to by the Governor and his
personal advisers. Their present
position is right and manly, the
Democrats, in their hearts, realize
that fact, and in their rage at having
overreached themselves, and driven
away their allies, tbey are making
themselves ridiculous, by exhibiting
their malice and disappointment
The Democrats in the legislature
are still play ins at their game of
"Ireeze out They occupy precisely
the same position they did during
the regular session; they know ab
solutely, that the Republicans can
not le bulldozed into yielding to
their demands, and yet they persist
ently refuse to adjourn. The simple
truth is, they are in a hole, from
which they are vaiuly trying to wrig
gle out. It was perfectly apparent
after struggling tbreugh a protracted
session cf one hundred and ftv
i days, that au agreement on an ap-
portionment of the State could not
be arrived at, but inflated with end
denly acquired power, our youthful
Governor and his advisers, came to
the fool conclusion that they could
coerce the Legislature into comply
ing with their demand for more
members of Congress and of the Sen
ate than they were entitled to, or
could keep if they had them, and
accordingly the present extra session
was called. A large element in this
scheme ot iorce, was the idea thai
to fleeing to those they know not
of, the Independent Senators refuse
1 to be lashed into measures, and thus
j the hope of Buccess founded ujwn
i expacted assistance from them, has
vanished. Every day of this extra
sessioaii coating the tax payers over
j three thousand dollars, the total ao
far, amounts to many thousands,
and hoping against hope, with a bull
dog persistency that will die before
it lets go its grip, the Democrats re
fuse to adjourn.' They 11 be d d
if they do and be d d if they don't
They are in a hole of their own dig
ging, and they can't wriggle out and
so the extra session drags aimlessly
and hopelessly along at a fearful cost
to the tax payer. 'Reckoning with
out the hocV'i proverbially a very
foolish experiment, and now the
Democrat know it from bitter ex
perience. When at the next general
election, the taxpayers audit the
bills for the expenses of this extra
session cf the Legislature, our Dem
ocratic brethren will "hear something
drop."
A Cleveland nhvsician makes the
statement tnat one oi nis pauenw, a
lady, has been dangerously poisoned
by washing her husband's shirts.
Cincinnati Tivut-Slor.
We have thought for some time
things were in a bad way over in
thin hntnntso bad as that The
7 . ' , . -
Cleveland pbvsician should have
stated whether "her husband" was a
Democrat Inter Ocean.
"The Republican party must go."
The demand was made in lbGO.
But the party didn't go. The de
maud was repeated in 1SG1. But
the partv remained. The demand
was encored in lbGS. But the party
staved. The demand was again en
cored in 1S72, But the party was
still there. The demand, with a
colossal arpttited annex, was yet
again pressed in 1S7G. But the par
ty retained its place, ine uemana,
gaining voice, if not strength, from
a famished stomach, was the vocifer
ation that fatigue the echoes of 1SS0.
But the party continued to do busi
ness at the same old stand. The
demand is to be made again next
year. The party will continue not
to go, by a large majority. But, as
usual, something will go. As usual
it will be the Democratic party. -V.
V. Tribune.
It is stated that Samuel J. Tilden
has given oO,000 toward the Dem
ocratic campaign fund for the Ohio
election. This is the gentleman who,
through the columns of the New
York i'un, declines to be a candidate
for the Presidency. It is probable
that he makes this contribution, if
he makes it purely for patriotic rea
sons, and because he has more mon
ey than he knows what to do with.
Mr. Tildea is a bachelor, without
any dependent heirs. His family
are all well off, and he has a fortune
of many millions. If he proposes
to distribute his money among po
litical committees, as other philan
thropists have distributed theirs
through boards of charity, friends
will rapidly increase. Inter Ocean.
XOTli FROM AX ORGAN.
The New York World seems to
regard it necessary to assure honest
and honorable Republicans that
they ure not alluded to when the
rascals of politics cry out, "Out with
the rascals !" it may be necessary to
assure honest and Honorable Demo
crats that they are not the persona
who are intended to supply the va
cancies to be made by putting the
rascals out It is then agreed that
no honest men are at all interested
in putting the rascals out or in fill
ing the vacancies with seven fold
worse rascals. So honest men being
excepted out of this wordy war on
suppositious rasc;ds, they can look
on and listen and be amused.
The Republican party has very
little to apologize for since it obtain
ed control. It has much to regret,
no doubt, and it is assuring to knew
that it has moral character and con
science enough to feel genuine regret
for many things strictly incidental
to political domination. But the
party has nothing to apologize for.
No party ever wielded so much pow
er in this or any other country dur
ing so lon a term with leess to re
gret. It has not always selected
honest men for places of responsibili
ty. But what party ever did? It
has fallen into some errors in admin
istration as well as in legislation.
But what party with equal opportu
nity has ever avoided like errors ?
The Republicans have almost abso
lutely shaped the fortunes of the
Republic for twenty odd years.
Has the party shaped those fortunes
well or ill? How is it? How are
men to arrive at judgment in pass
ing upon the work of a political par
ty? They must go back to the be
ginning of the rule of that party, and
having ascertained the condition of
the country at that time, contrast it
with the condition of thing?, in a
national sense, at the present time.
In doing that what do we find? We
find at the beginning of Republican
supremacy sevon States as complete
ly out of the L'nion as they could by
their own acts take themselves out
We find the country in the throes of
civil war, a bankrupt treasury, a
large floating debt, and a nation
absolutely without credit among its
own people. And this, remember,
was tne closing out of more than a
quarter of a century of Democratic
rule. We tind, also, an Administra
tion about to retire from power mem
lers of which were clearly guilty of
wholesale waste of government prop
erty and acce.-sory to the robbery of
trust fund..
Thus the Democratic party round
ed up its long period of control with
rascality on a gigantic scale. When
the people turned it out, it turned
out the most inveterate lot of rascals
this county ever tolerated. From
the ravelled edges of this party comes
the cry, "Turn the rxcals out!" Why
not? Can we look for anything else
from a rascally party? Who has
ever found a genuine rascal who did
not think everybody else a rascal?
We are quite ready to admit that no
party monopolizes the rascals. But
the difference between the Democrat
ic and the Republican policy of ad
ministering government is " that in
the case of the former the rascals con
trol tne administration while in the
lattf r case the administration con
trols the rascals. The difference is
considerable. The Democrats sel
dom tried to punish its rascals. The
Republicans have punished a good
many Republican rascals, and would
have punished many more but for
the fact that the Democrats themsel
ves have obstructed the way in order
to save themselves. For it is no
secret that there has been a Demo
cratic rascal yoked to every Repub
lican rascal for the last twenty odd
years. The friends of the rascal
Democrats have rallied to their de
fence invariably, and this has aided
Republican rascals to escape just
punishment in many cases. JNorfA
American.
Vict ima of a Tornado.
Detroit, Michigan, July 2T. Re
ports somewhat of an indefinite char
acter have been reeived that the lit
tle village of Onondaga, in the south
eastern part of Ingham county, was
almost entirely swept away by a
tornado, accompanied . by a very
heavy rain-storm, which visited that
section on Monday. A woman
named Hurtley is reported to have
been killed. The buildings belong
ing to John Rush, two miles west of
Leslie, were demolished. A vast
amount of timber is reported to have
been thrown down. Fences were
leveled, and roads and fields were
strewn with limbs of trees which
were carried a long distance. The
house of Mrs. Elizabeth Barlow was
picked up by the wind and torn to
faeces, and Mrs. Barlow was killed,
tue Perrine's house, on the line be
tween Eaton and Ingham counties,
was also wrecked. " His wife was in
jured.
CAPTAIN WEBB DROWNED.
Eocvlfted In Niafra Whirlpool.
Buffalo, July 24. Captain Webb,
the noted English swimmer; met an
untimely death this afternoon in at
tempting to swim the Niagara whirl
pool rapids. He was to go over the
course which the Maid of. the Mist
ran many years ago in 'escaping an
attachment No craft but this ever
survived the perils of that terrible
channel and no human being 'save
her crew ever passed alive through
the rapids., . Captain , Webb and iaa
business manager, Fred Kyle, of
Boston, left Bullalo this morning and
spent most of the day at the hotels
and about the falls, taking but a
cursery feurvey of the rapids. At
one o'clock the press representatives
and others immediately interested
were informed that Captain Webb
would enter the rive at four o'clock.
The number of spectators was email,
there being not more than five hun
dred scattered along the banks to
witness the hazardous undertaking.
The failure of the railroad companies
and hotels to co-operate with him
rendering the enterprise a failure
financially. It was precisely two
minutes past four when Webb sprang
from his boat, about a third of a
mile above the railroad suspension
bridge and close to the old Maid of
the Mist landing. He was entirely
nude, save a band worn around his
body for the protection of his stom
ach. THE STRUGGLE IN THE RAPIDS.
The daring and accomplished
swimmer gave himself no artificial
assistance whatever. Ills leap from
the boat was greeted with prolonged
cheering. He struck boldly into the
middle of the river and buoyed him
self gracefully upon the surface as
the mighty current carried him to
ward the deadly whirlpool, nearly a
mile and a half below. It was a
thrilling spectacle and the brilliant
performance lasted thirteen minutes,
by which time Captain Webb had
reached the whirlpool. His object
was to hug the American side of the
river, although many contend that
hi3 chances would have been better
on the Canadian side. By the pecu
liar formation of the channel at this
point, with its curves and ridges of
rock, the water is dashed upward a
distance of forty or fifty feet, resemb
ling the billows of an angry sea.
Then it whirls and seethes as if lash
ed Dy a thousand demons. In the
frightful vortex thus formed a vessel,
a stick of timber, an animal or a
human being is carried under and in
some cases will remain for days
before escaping into the river below.
THE LA8T SKEN OF THE SWIMMER.
As the intrepid navigator came to
the whirlpool he was seen to throw
up one of his arms. Whether this
was intended as a signal of distres?,
fear, or danger, or merely to exhibit
his strength to those on land can on
ly be connected. Nothing was seen
of him afterward. The search was
kept up until dark, when his man
ager announced that there was no
hope.
Captain Webb was forty years of
age and was born in Shropshire,
England. He leaves a wife and two
children in his native place. He
was a man of medium stature and
nicely proportioned. He was very
intelligent-looking. His national
exploits began in 1S73. During that
year he was serving before the most
on the Cunard steamship Russia.
One day a shipmate fell overboard
from the rigging. There was a gale
blowing and the Russia was booming
along at fifteen knots an hour. Webb
sprang into the water in an instant
and made a gallant effort to save the
drowning sailor. He could not
reach him however. Webb's strug
gle in the water lasted upwards of
half an hour. He was given a
purse of $-500 on the spot and after
wards a medal. In 187o he accom
plished the remarkable feat of swim
ming the English Channel from Do
ver to Calais.
Xpert nantlara.
New Bloom field, July 26. By
the use of hammers, braces and chis
els, stolen from the smith shop of
Henry Sheafer, robbers last night
forced an entrance into the extensive
general store of Frank Mortimer, of
this place. After abandoning a side
window, which refused to yield, the
robbers concentrated their efforts on
the main entrance door, which was
jimmied open. Having effected an
entrance the burglars devoted their
attention to the safe. The combina
tion readily yielded to the manipu
lation of experts or some one famil
iar therewith, and the safe was rob
bed of money, mostly trade dollars,
to the yalue of nearly four hundred
dollars. One package of fifty trade
dollars was overlooked. Ninety dol
lars of the stolen money was the
property of the telegraph company,
of which Mr. Mortimer is the mana
ger. Checks to the value of between
thirty and lorty dollars were also
taken. Pyment on them has been
stopped. No merchandise was dis
turbed. There is no clue to the rob
bers. 1-olk.' Heavy Sentence.
Nashville, July 2G. The jury in
the case of ex-treasurer Polk brought
in a verdict of guilty of embezzle
ment, fixing the penalty at impris
onment in the penitentiary for 20
years and imposing a fine to the full
amount of the embezzlement Mar
shall T. Polk belongs to one of the
most prominent families ia Tennes
see. He was a neohew and an
adopted son of the late ex-Presjdent
Polk, and might have been the heir!
of the Polk mansion, a very valua-!
ll-: . c . . i i, , .(
oie piece oi property mai i resident
Polk provided in his will should go
to the most deserving of the Polk
family whom the legislature should
3elect The amount of Polk's em
bezzlement reaches about $400,000,
and if the portion of his sentence
which requires his restoration is en
forced he will probably stay in jail
all his life. At various times it has
been rumored that his friends were
willing to make good the amount of
his thefts, in consideration of the
withdrawal of the criminal charges
against him, but nothing came of
these alleged attempts at compro
mise. . '
. Set on Fire.
Schenectady, July 2i A pas
senger train which left this city at
5:20 this afternoon,tn the Saratoga
road, collided with a wildcat freight
train, coming from the North, about
four miles north of this place. Selvin
Ravmond. of North' CVwlr Warren
county, N. Yn was fatally scalded,
ana six outers were seriously injur
ed. Both engines were wrecked,
setting fire to and burning one pas
senger ar, the- baggaf car and four
ireignicars. in accident ia said to
have been caused by the telegraph
operator at iast (iienville ' giving)
wrong directions to the conductor of,
the freight train. -: '? . I
A Great Gna Finished.
Reading, July 24. What is de
siinied to be the trreatest improve-
' inent in modern warfare, "The Ly
man Haskell multicharge gun, was
finished at the Scott Foundry to-day.
It has been undergoing construction
for over two years and to-morrow
will be shipped to Sandy Hook,
where it will be tested Jn the prea
encs of leading officers of the army
and navy of the United States and
foreign countries.. The last Congress
made 'a special 'appropriation for;
this purpose. Since the invention of
Mhe rnrmon, four hundred years ago,
they have all been constructed . on
tha Bamo principle of placing the
powder in the breech, and the Ly
man Haskell is the first deviation.
The gun contains four "pockets" un
derneath. each of which holds 2S
pounds of powder, while the breech
itself holds but eighteen pounds.
As the projectile starts from the
breech the force of this entire 130
pounds of powder is concentrated on
it, one pocket after another rapidly
discharging its content".
The gun is 25 feet long and weighs
2o tons. It is rendered doubly strong
by a steel lining and it is thought
can hurl a projectile through a solid
piece of iron two feet thick. It will
shoot, so it is claimed, from twelve
to fifteen miles, and it is intended
for both harbor and naval defense.
The present gun was manufactured
at a cost of over $50,IXJU, and Mr.
Haskell has yersonally supervised
its construction. The projectiles
with which it is loaded weigh from
one hundred to one hundred and
fifty pounds. A company with a
large capital has been organized for
the manufacture of the gun. Ex-
Governor Cornell and ex-Senator
Piatt are some of the interested par
ties. Death From Cholera.
Alexandria, July 24. A Euro
pean has died here from Cholera. It
is reported that cholera has appear
ed among the British soldiers at the
citadel in Cairo. One soldier has
died in the Military Hospital at
Abassiee. The British Royal Artil
lery and the Nineteenth Hussars,
which are statiened at Abassies, are
preparing to co to Oshmooneyn
Suez, J uly 24. Cholera has brok
en out among the soldiers of the
British Forty-second Regiment,
which ; recently arrived here from
Cairo, lwo members ot tne regi
ment have died from the terrible
disease.
London, July 21. A dispatch to
Reuters Telegram Company says
that during the 24 hours ending at
IS o clock this morning, there were
4G3 deaths from cholera at Cairo, 23
at Zifteh, 1(5 at Tantah, 1) at Shirbin,
13 at Mansourah, 117 at Chibin, 43
at Mehollet, 95 at Ghizeh and 7
at Chobar.
Cairo, Julv 24. A British Lieu-
tenant
dav.
died here from cholera to-
Bridge Hroken by a Jam of laog.
Detroit, July 2G. A calamity
that has been threatening at Grand
rapids for the past two or three days
took place this morning. An im
mense jam of logs-extending along
the Grand River for miles, has been
lodged against th Detroit and Grand
Haven Railroad bridge near this city.
It was hoped the bridge might resist
the tremendous pressure, but it suc
cumbed this forenoon and went
down with a crash. The bridge of
the Grand Rapids and Indiana and
the Chicago and West Michigan
Railroads followed suit Millions
of feet of logs have gone down the
river with the flow, and are most cer
tain to keep on, sweeping everything
before them, and go into Lake Mich
igan. If this proves true a large ad
ditional number of logs will be car
ried out at Grand Haven and all the
bridges there will be destroyed. The
losses, it is feared, will reach many
hundred thousands of dollars. The
calamity is unprecedented.
Beheaded on the Rail.
Wilmington, Del., July 20. John
M. Bennett, a bricklayer, residing in
Trenton, was run over and killed by a
train on the Philadelphia, Wilming
ton and Baltimore Railroad early
this morning. He was discovered
by three men walking on the track
lying asleep on the ties, with his neck
across the rail. A train was ap
proaching rapidly from an opposite
direction and before the men could
render him aid the entire train passed
over him before it could be stopped.
The head was completely severed
from the trunk and his body consid
erably in -inled. A man answering
his description threw himself in
front of an approaching train on
Tuesday, but was rescued by an olli
ccr before his suicidal purpose hud
been accomplished. The coroner's
jury rendered a verdict of accidental
death.
ladianii at a Ounce.
Chicago, July 25. A special dis
patch to the Times from the Rosebud
Agency, D. T., says: The annual
sun dance of the Sioux Indians took
place yesterday afternoon at the
camp, near the agency, about 10.0JO
Indians being present from all parts
of the reservation as well as a num
ber of white visitors. Fifteen war
riors took part in the dance, having
fasted four days before entering into
it. Their bodies were frightfully
lacerated, according to the usages of
the tribe in testing the "game" qu il
ities of th p:rtioip int. It is prob
able that this i the last time these
cruelties will le permitted, as a
strong effjrt will be made to have
the government interdict the barbar
Ou practices.
A I'itchfjrlL Duel. '
Louisville, July 2G. Intelligence
has been received hereof aduel I with
pitchforks in a house at High Grove,
Nelson county, yesterday, between
two farm laborers in which both are
believed to have been mortally
wounded. Their names are Daniel
Wilke, colored, and John McDou
gal, white. They were working to
gether and got into a quarrel, which
they desired to fight out Wilkes
procured a long handled, two prong
ed fork and the other a short haur
died one with four prongs. They
fought it out alone and both are
likely to die without being able to
descrilethe contest :
Four lluudred Death From Cholera
, in Cairo. .
London, July 2G. Lord Harting
ton, secretary of war, stated this
afternoon iu the House of Commons
that there had been fourteen cases of
cholera among the British troops in
Egypt, eleven of which proved fatal.
There were 422 deaths in Cairo, 2 in
Alexandria, a in Damietta, 23 in
Mehnlla, Q in Chobar,7 in Samanond,
5G in Mehallet, 21 in Zifteh. 12 in
Mausourah, 55 in Ghizeh , and 3 in
Mentaleh.
Five Skeletons in a Carriage.
Galveston, Texas, July 24. A
speial dispatch to the Anri from
Ijtmpasas says a carriage containing
the skeletons of three adults and two
children, sitting upright, as if in life,
has been fonnd near a road in Elno
county. A tree, . under which the
carnage stood, . was scattered Dy
hghtuinz. - It ia supposed, the car-
-:. I.. V1. . 1- iK.
riHVB milJL'Ilk MIlf-lLt:i UUUCTl UJD 11 CT?
and was struck, the bolt killing the
inmates and the horses, lheweath
er beaten appearance of the carriage
and its trimmings indicate that the
evwit happened a year or two ago.
In a small trunk was a letter address
ed to "James G. Chamberlain, Lon
don, England." The remains were
found by a ranchman driving cattle
and the discovery was reported at
once to the authorities. The parties
are supposed to have been tourists.
The spot where they were found is
very secluded and far from any
habitation.
Hanged by a Mob.
St Paul, Minn., July 26. A
special dispatch from Miles City,
Montana, says : A party of masked
men proceeded to the county jail last
night overpowering the jailor and
seized a prisoner named Rigney.
The mob took him about a mile and
hanged him to the projecting end
of a railroad tie over " a culvert
Rigney had been lodged in jail the
day before for disorderly conduct.
and was believed to be a hard citi
zen, being accused ol robbery and
other crimes. He was a bartender
in the saloon of the Cosmopolitan
theatre. Two hours after the hang
ing the theatre was burned, together
with six other buildings, entailing a
loss of $50,000. It is generally believ
ed that the fire was the work of an
incendiary in retailiation for the
hanging of Rigney.
A Daughter of vice-President Kins
and Wife of Gen. Hunter In DiatreKS.
Wheeling, W. Va., July 2G. This
evening an aged lady, well dressed
aud in financial distress, appeared
at police headquarters and asked
peculiaraid in reaching Washington.
In answer to inquire as to her name,
etc., she stated she was a daughter of
Vice-President King, of Pierce's ad
ministration, and wife of General
Hunter, Jackson's minister to St.
Petersburg. She gave her age as
seventy-four, and said she had come
from Memphis, and was on her way
to Washington City, where she had
friends naming W. W. Corcoran as a
playmate in childhood. The old lady
hatl every evidence of refinement
and culture. Her story was authen
ticated, and she received the neces
sary aid.
A Murderer Hanged by a Mob.
Des Moines, July 23. Hardy,
the Polk City murderer, was taken
from jail at Harland and hanged by
about fifty masked men about 3 am
The mob came from toward
Marne. They tied their horses in a
grove about a mile from town and
came in regular order, with arms,
rope and sledges. They bound Jail
er Walking and made his wife give
the keys. They then unlock
ed the cell where Hardy was and
took him out and hung him. While
he was hanging they shot him and
afterward took the body down and
threw it into the river. The mob
then dispersed quietly The Sheriff
recovered the body and an inquest
will be held.
Death of Ex-Governor Swanu.
Baltimore, July 24. Specials re
ceived in this city to-night state that
ex-Governor Thomas Swann, of Ma
ryland, died at his estate, near Lees
burg, Loudon county, Va., at eight
o'clock to-night Governor Swann
was a Representative from this city
in the Forty-second, Forty-third,
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Con
gresses, and during the latter was
chairman of the committee on for
eign affairs. He was at one time
(resident of the Baltimore and Ohio
iailroad Company, being elected to
fill the vacancy caused by the resig
nation of Louis McLane. He was a
native of Alexandria, Virginia, born
in lbOo.
Normn.
Galveston, Tex., Julv 27. Details
receiyed of the storm of Wednesday
night in the out skirts of Fort
Worth show that it was disastrous
all through the southwest. Three
men were injured, perhaps fatally.
Three building were blown from
their foundation, and three other
in course of erection blown down.
A number of sheds and out-houses
were demolished and two resi
dences and one ware house more or
less damaged. A tent raised as a
temporary hospital was carried
away, leaving the patients at the
mercv of the elements for some time.
Severe Storm.
Dktroit, Mich., July 2o. Addi
tional particulars of Monday's torn i
do in Ingham count show that it
was fully as destructive as had boen
previously indicated. The horse of
Mrs. Elizabeth Birlow was torn to
pieces and she was instantly killed.
Eugene Henry's house, near Win
field, was blown to atoms. His wife
aud seven children were inside at
the time. Two of the children were
found dead foty rods distint, and
three others and the mother were
badly hurt
A Highwayman Arrested.
PiTTSBCRd,July 2(. United States
Spec'iA1 Detective Perkins, assisted
by a number of officers from this
city arretted John S. Gordon. Rob
ert Met' re.irv, Albert Curzon and J.
P. Buck tbi? morning ner Sir John's
Run, Morgan county, W. Va. The
parties are members of an organized
gan of highwaymen who have been
depredating in Pennsylvania, Mary
land and West Virginia for several
months with considerable success.
,, Turns Murderer. ,
' Nashville, July 2C Near Sparta
on Monday last James Smith was
killed by hi step son, David , W.
Duiges. Smith had beat his wife,
who is Duiges mother, with a chair,
and when Duigs heard of it, he at
tacked Smith with stones, one of
which struck him on the head and
killed him. Duiges gave bond and
waived an examination.' Smith was
fifty years old. His wife is seventy
and quite feehte. Duiges is a wealthy
merchant of Alexandria.
i ; Kreight Wreck.
Lancaster, Pa., July 27. Sixteen
freight cars on the Pennsylvania
railroad were thrown from the track
and badly damaged near Leaman
Placd to d iy. All trains were con
siderably delayed. :
Benjamin Wallover, of Harrisburg
a freight conductor was thrown from
his train near DiUerville thin after
noon and instantly killed. ;
Horrible Lota of Life.
London, July 29. The town of
Casamicciola, on the Ischea, near
Naples, was almost entirely destroy
ed by an earthquake last night The
neighboring town on Tonio and Lac
ceameno were greatly damaged. It
is impossible, as yet, to give the
number of the dead. In the latest
accounts the number is estimated at I
-ftm llnUl PiKonhi Sentinpll.i !
i V.V. ', tllV llU'tl A ..vrt. . .
sank in the earth and buried many
of its inmates. Some of the inhabit
ants of the town escaped to the sea
at the first shock and made their
way to Naples with the news of the
calamity. The centre of the area of
the shock was the same as that of
two years ago, but the radius was
wider. The shock was felt at sea,
and, according to some accounts,
even at Naples.
A gentleman who was staying at
the Hotel Piccola Sentinella,and who
escaped with his life, relates that he
only had time to secure some candles
for use in the darkness of the night
The ground opened at many places,
while in other places there was no
movement Water gushed out of
springs. Several boilers in the bath
ing house burst
The excitement in Italy may be
imagined from the fact that there
were two thousand visitors in Ischia,
including wealthy Roman and Neap
alitan families and several deputies,
who were taking the baths there.
The Naples correspondent of the
Eereagliere telegraphs : "I have just
returned from Ischia. Casamiccila,
Lacco and Forio have been destroy
ed. There were three of the most
flourishing communes on the island
which was half overthrown. The
road between the towns of Ischia
and Casamicciola is impassable."
The Prefect of Naples telegraphs that
the town of Casamicciola has ceased
to exist.
A person who lives near the now
ruined bathing establishment says
he escaped from the place amid
falling walls and balconies, the ter
rified people shouting " to the
sea
i"
The theatre,, which was a wooden
structure, was literally torn open, al
lowing the audience to escape. At
Lacco, there are many dead and
wounded. At Forio the churches
were ruined, but no one was killed.
At Serrara fifteen were killed. The
troops have recovered the body of
Signor Fiorentini, perfect of Las
siri. All steamers plying between Is
chia and the main land were imme
diately chartered by the Govern
ment to bring the wounded from
the Island.
Carey Killed.
Loxdox, July 30. Intelligence
has just been received here that
James Carey, the informer in the
rhenix Park murder cases, was
shot dead yesterday on the steamer
Melrose, while she was between Cape
Town and Port Elizabeth. The did
was committed by a fellow passen
ger named O'Donnell.
Carey was shot while landing from
the Melrose at Port Elizabeth. O'
Donnell, his slayer, is in custody.
The Government had taken special
and expensive measures to protect
Carey.
O'Donnell took passage here by
steamship Kinfauns Castle, which
left Dartmouth on the 6th for Cape
Town, where she transferred her
passengers who were destined to
port Elizabeth, Natal and other coast
ports to steamship Melrose. The
report of the shooting of Carey caus
ed intense excitement in the Weit
End of London and in the House of
Commons.
It appears O'Donnell dogged
Carey from London. Both landed
in the steamer Kinfarn's Bastle. The
Daibj Telegraph says the Govern
ment have little doupt that Carey
was followed from Dublin. They
believed that the Fenians had taken
the most eloborated measures to
prevent his escape. According to
the latest accounts the murder
was commited on the ocean.
Carey was not killed cutright, but
died shortly after he was shot.
O'Donnell surrendered quietly. He
was placed in irons and handed
over to the police when the Melrose
o rri ved at Port Elizabeth.
Thenew's of Carey's death caus
ed many exhibitions of delight in
the streets of Dulio. A large crowd
gathered to-night in front of James
Carey's late residence, cheering
loudly because the informer had
been "killed. The Dublin authori
ties believe that O'Donnell is the
man implicated three yearn ao in
attempt to blow up "the Mansion
I House, in London, and who escap
ed with Coleman to New York.
The Government selected Africa as
the safest place for Carev. It is
nation before sailing. It was not
revealed to the police who took him
from Dublin to London.
Death of the Spanish Minister.
Washington, July 29. A despatch
received at the state depart
ment to-day announces that Senor
Barca, Spanish mioister to the
United States, committed suicide bv
shooting himself this mornintr at
the Albemarle hotel, New York. '
There is no one at the Spanish lega
tion in this city this evening. Senor
Barca leaves a wife and one daugh
ter who were with him in New York
and one daughter in Europe.
Funeral of Governor Swann.
Baltimore, July 20. The funeral
of ex-Governor Thomas Swtum took
place to-day from St Paul's Protes
tant Episcopal Church, in this city'
and was attended by a l.ug; number
of his frienda. The body left Lees
burg this morning und reached the
church about 11 o'clock. The inter
ment was in Greentnont Cemetery.
The flag on the City Hall was at
half-mast during the obsequies.
A Fight fur Money.
Wilkesbarre, July 2o. A des
perate prize fight for ioOO was fought
near Nanticoke last evening. The
principles were Paddv O'Brien, a
saloon keeper, aud Mike Breeze, a
miner. Eleven rounds were fought,
when a crowd of women broke into
the ring brandishing knives and pis
tols, and put a stop to the fight
Onondaga Uaaly Damaged.
Detroit, Mich., July 25. Reports
somewhat of an indefinite character
have been received that the little
village of Onondaga, in Ingham
county, was almost entirely swept
away by cyclones on Monday. A
woman named Hartley is reported
to have been killed.
Sewlnjc Machine Work Burned.
Bridgeport, July 20. The exten
sive works of the Howe sewing ma
chine company were nearly destroy
ed by fire this evening. Loss, 8:5.30,
000? insurance, S 275,000. About
4,000 hands werl employed.
Heavy Kalna.
WiLKEsn.vRRE. July 20. Number
ten colliery of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal Company, has
been flooded by iho recent rains
to-day. There is seventeen feet of
water in the mine and four hundred
miners are temporarily thrown out
of work. The miners of the Hanover i
Coal Company, at Sugar Notch, stuck
last evening. They have experienced
considerable trouble with a doing'
boss and refuses to work till he is i
discharged. !
' i
A Hondrri! People Poisoned.
, Joust, Iil, J uly 2G. Over I'M pe r-
sons in attendance at a lawn party i
here last evening were made seriously ,
ill by eatiiig ice cream, which is be
lieved to have contained poisim. !
None of the victims have died, though ,
several are in a critical condition.
SOMERSET CIH FACTORY.
J. & COFFKOTH,
Proprietor.
:o:
I am dni-1'iiitly inriniifiiiturin I'lioiie;
liratxls of the !
FINEST CIGARS,
Ami make a specialty of
HAVANA TOBIES,
the verv let in the market.
OUR HAND MA DK STOGIES
Are unexcelled for excellence. The se 1
t.lEsand Havavh pive the reat-t
value for the money of any Ci
gar Manufactured.
None hut the purest and best TOUACCo
twed, and all CKiAlLS manufactured by
me ure wumntal to smoke.
ORDER KOW
Retail Dealers Solicited,
which will receive prompt attention.
I can
compete m prices with ( ity r:
toric.
In
connection with my manufacturing I
have a Firt-e!ass Uetail
Cijrar & Tobacco Store !
iK'sof!
In which are kept all the Superior bra
ClflARS, CUEWIXG and S.VOAV.V; T
BAro.t. VIPES, STEM. TOP, AO 'O
Store and Factory on Diamond,
Somerset, Pa.
julji5.
MilOSER'M SALE UP
Unseated Lands in Soiner-I
set County, Pa. j
-:o:-
The Coram iMloners of Sosereet County herebr
gtra notice that they will Mil at public aale In
me loart noum, in sonseraet Boruugn, on
Friday, Awfiut 24, 1SS3,
Ui following; ennmeratftl tract ol T7n.eate!
Lan.ld, wbU-h b;ive tea puivrjaetl from tb
1 re&jurer if &itl County and reuiainel nnre
deaiHl for t year ami at.wnnln, avreeahiy to
tne At-tui Aurmtilr l .Murrti 13. IMi. anJ the
supplemental act thereto f March. IvM.
Stmt of Tact .V. f Acrri tml Lot.
A!D IS OX TO H S SHI P.
Cliorch Macua 4 O
Cuery Tb Jr 41 ;
ALLEUUESr TUU'SSHJP.
Cotfroth &. Schell (Flh-k) 1W
UROT 1ILRSVALLEY TOW X SHI P.
John V. Yuuik Ii
ELKLICK TOir.WHp.
P. D. WoirenlwrrerS 4.-.'-
Tbooiwi'lUtre.T ',. 47s
Manm .Mev.-r. rrn-t
Rtu lie J. N 1
Oatlen .lanms. i
'ounir,nmn lir;ck. 1
l.l-.ile S a
Ktnifl.T John i
Nwanirer John
i!uri Utah l
Oiuriney Halr'.ek 1
Oltit Frank 1
JF.VVf.R TOU'XSIIIP.
Mt'hler .Tohn 4n
Miller Jacub 4iJ
LiklMLH TOH'XiHIP.
Row mm a Hurkley H
.Meters a Krnhaui. Uuu
O Karney 1
LOU EH TLREEYroOT TOirXSlilP.
Bell William 412
UUtfttJ UiiC 4
Kuhly Juhn 1 74
Same 140
Hniillppl.lara.bll Is
Herriuu Sylvester '-V
HoUx'tlrrS. W
Oiena'ivorKaui-ir,
MEi LRSDALE BOROVCH.
Hrnhaker Oconee I
Bril K. A i
Kerr! William. 2
OriaaJuhn. I
Hanlun James,. ....... ............ 1
Heinerjohn I
JohnMjo Henry... 'J
Jut-tlaa Lett. ................. ...... 1
Layman George a
Nauale Fred a
Kyan John t
Saddler Jsph 1
Tnrman:harles 1
Wiser Frederick 1
Walker E C... 4 i
WUa. Frederick 1
Younic John a
lfcmse William 1
Ttliller Norinun 1
; Philtert Joseph ;
MILFoRl) TOH XSMP.
Witt a. Wolfereherger. l.M
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Same
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NerT John ..',
Same 'pi
Harsh widow and heirs luo
Bowman Henry .444
HuUmao W. 6
PA 1ST TO IVSS111P.
Bonnet Jacob.
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SOMERSET BOROLGH.
Ross Charles. 1
Sl.M.lfir TOWSSUIP.
FlsherS 1
Fern Francis.......... 1
. . Williams '. Vi.
SAL1SBIRY BOROICII.
Smith John 2
Keller Jaeub. 1
IPPER TIRKEYFOOT TOWXSH1P.
IVirk Oeorare........
lnhehl John
Harrah; .Miller.
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Sale to earn m en at ia .vin-k
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continue from day f day until tb lands are dU-poa-d
of.
ADAM S SHS.FFER,
JIWKFH Hi'KNKH.
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to
ncK-MAa ".MitiAku
u. j. noina. Clerk.
lalyja.
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of Joseph Co i rnlns. ilra.t !
woOMrwt iJoruagh, Scmeraei o P
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keen gnat to the aaderslaned ., , he proper
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iul offer fur sale
in ij-oa;;
to suit purchasers
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1 Bbl. Copperas,
1 Carbov Ammonia
1 Carboy Sulphuric
1 Carboy Muriatic
2 KEGS BAKING
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The Druggist,
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PUBLIC.
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amonit the best
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