The Somerset Herald. KOWAiD 8CTXL, Editor and Proprietor. WEDJtESDAT... . . KAUAI MAIM NATIONAL. fob rBBSiMnrr. HOW. JAKES O. BLAINE, of Maine. FOB TICB rBCSIDBVT, OEX. JOHN A. LOO AX, el IUinoll. STATE. r-eBBMKA-AT-LABOK, O EX. E. A. OSBORSE, of Lwerne. BUttTOSS-AT-LABGB. John Lelsenrtn:. of Carbon. Jm-i l.Non. of Philadelphia. Calvin Well, of Piiuiwrgo. U11TK1CT ELETTOKA. 1 Edwia J. Stuart. 1&. JofcT. Jenning. S. John MundeiL 1. J"- A- 1. wm J. McLaughlin. IT. Jo- B- Hilemaa. 4. Eim U Levy 1. K-F. J on kin. Joe. K. AlW-mus. 1- Tbom K B Horace A Beat. - Wm. If t. AFackthaU. OL Wm. J . Hitrhman. (.. Isaac McHoe. at T. Oliver. J. P. Vkkmbin. . JosSaa C"Jien. 10 Seat. H. Tliatrber. a. Michael W 1L John Reaboidt Jr. . Chai A. RandalL 12. laniel Ldwarde. "." Kj!l'i?1- , U. P. W. S!ieter. iT- Lamau B. owl. 14. Lane S. Hurt. COUNTY. IKiK AaS-EHBLT, AXI'KEW J.WLBOKV. of Sememt 15-T-WILLIAM S. MORGAN, of JinnerTwp. fob tsothosotaRY, NORMAN B.CKITCHFIELI), ofJenJKTTwp. F1K BHEB1FP, JOHN WINTERS, of Sumerwt Twp. FOX EKileTIB AD UBC OBJ-EB. CHAELES C. SUA FEE, ofSomer-t Eor. FOB TaXAFrKEC 'Y RVS C. SCHEOCK. of Somerset Twp. FOB COXWIfiSIOXERS. PET EE UTMBAVLD. of Kilf-nl Twp. ADAM C. LI.PLEY, of EUiltck Twp., FOB FOOB BorSE PIEBCTOB. J (SlAli A.VKEXT, Sunonrt Twp. FOBCorsTr ArniTons, J A COB K. WlffM AX, of S.rr.erct Twp JOSETH W. MEYKKS, of Milf-TdTwp. For the Campaign ! The Herald will be mailed to any address from now until Novem ber 1 5th for Fifty Cents. The cam paign now opening will be an excit ing and moft important one. As the Herald never gave forth an uncer tain sound, it will be found as usual, in the fore-lront of the column wa ging battle for the principles and can didates of the Republican party. It will aim to keep its readers fully in formed on all important features of the campaign, and to preserve its well established reputation for being the leading journal of the county. Now is the time to subscribe only Fifty Cents from now until the close of the campaign. Cleveland and Hendricks will be elected every day, easy, until No vember ; then it will be Blaine and Logan. The Tammany members of the State Central Committee of N. Y. did net attend the meeting of that body last week- John Kelly is not reconciled yet Hon. W. 11. Barn urn, of Connec ticut, lias been re-elected chairman of the Democratic National Com rnittee. The price of mules will rapidly advance. Ix the National Prohibition Con vention held at TitUburg, last week, i ex-Governor John P. St John, of j Kansas, was unanimously nominat ed lor President, and William Dan iel of Maryland, for Vice President. The Democracy of New York are casting about them for some method of disciplining John Kelly, the Tam many leader, and one ardent friend of the cause has written a letter threatening him with assassination if he opposes Cleveland. Ges. Phil. Sheridan, U. S. A., has accepted an invitation to review the National Guard of Pennsylvania on August 7, during the encamp ment at Gettysburg. Gen. Hartranft eays that this honor has never before been extended by the commander of the Regular Army to the militia of any State. The Republican convention for: the nomination of local candidates will be held at Hollidaysburg, Blair county, on Tuesday, August 5. As all the other counties of thi6 Con- pressional district have held their conventions, we presume that bo eoon as action is Uken in Blair, the district conference will be convened, and a candidate for Congress will be placed in the field. In 1S7G George William Curtis i. eaid of Thomas A. Hendricks : "Dur ing the war he was a copper head. He left the church when its minister preached a loyal sermon. Is there any good reason why he should be selected from forty mil lions of people to be the possible head of a government which he did his best to destroy?" Will Mr. Curtis answer his own qmstions ? The same Hendricks is again a can didate, and Mr. Curtis is supporting him. The chief of the Internal Revenue Department has just made his re port to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, in which he eays : "With in the last eight fiscal years the total collections of the internal revenue taxes, aggregating about $1,000,000-, 600, have been accounted for and covered into the Treasury, tritiioul anylo$or defalcation. During the same period f 38,000,000 have been expended as salaries and expenses, Ac, without loss to the Govern ment" And yet with this splendid record for honesty and ability the Demo crats are continually jabbering about the dishonesty and inefficiency of! Republican officials, and bowling "tarn the rascals out" ' i Tri Mnnminir Rrirnh whfl edits the Commercial congratulates hiraelf upon the alleged fact that we have dropped General Beaver's name from cur columns. He may pass the remainder of his life in prayers for an act of blivion to obliterate his record of treachery to that gal lant soldier and true Republican ; but uwi!l all great Neptune's ocean wash this stain clean from his hands ? The New York .Sun, the ablest Democratic journal in the country, insists that General Butler will carry New Yo, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio and Indiana. This is aban doning all claim for the election of Cleveland by the people, but would throw the election into the House, where the Democrats have a major ity, and could elect him. The idea that Butler can carry any one of these States is nio?t preposterous, and the suggestion only proves how desperate the Sun considers the chances of Cleveland's election. -" 1 We devote a large portion o f the outside of the Herald to the letters jof acceptance from the Republican candidates. Of Mr. Blame a letter j we spoke in our last issue. The lef- j ter of General Logan properly sup-j jilements that of his colleague on the ticket. He also devotes consid erable space to the tariff question, and the subject of our foreign rela tions, and in plain and vigorous lan guage calls attention to the necessity of protecting and defending the freedom of the ballot in the South ern States. The two letters fully cover and ably discuss the pregnant issues oi me campaign, i uej -uuuW . -r : n 1 1 1 not oniy ne careiuay reaa, uui should be laid away for future ref erence during the campaign. No abler discussion of the subjects re ferred to by their authors, will or can be put forth in the canvass. In them is to be found the Republican confession of faith, tersely and plainly, set forth, and to thti the Republican voter can always safely turn for argument and for support The more they are read the greater will be the reg-ml of true mea for the candidates whose sentiments they set forth. As Maine holds her State election in September, the eyes of the people naturally turn to her watchfully, as her action then, will be taken as measurably indicative of Mr. Elaine's strength at home, and the resulting influence upon the coun try at large. The present indica tions are that the Republicans will carry that State by an old-time ma jority. Indeed, this is virtually ad mitted bv the Democrat, as ise vi- j denced by the fact that they are argu ing that if tne Republican vote is not unprecedentedly large it will show great lack of strength on the part of Mr. Blaine. It is to be remembered that many of the Greenbackers. the Prohibitionists, and, indeed, the Democrats, who will support Mr. Biaine in November, will, of course, vote for their own candidates in September, and therefore, his great personal strength will not be made apparent. But when the decks are cleared of all side issues and local (juestions, and when in November, the sole question will be, as between Mr. Blaine and bis rivals, then it is within the bounds of reason to pre dict for him an overwhelming ma- j0rity That the Republicans will carry the State in September by a handsome majority there is no doubt, but a sweeping victory then for the reasons above mentioned is not to be anticipated. No Republican need lose sleep over the probable re sult in Maine. The much talked of conference of the Independents was held in New York on Tuesday last. Outside the delegations from the cities of New York and Boston, the representation was insignificant, there being but a few self-constituted delegates from the adjoining States. A verbose platform, or rather address, was adopted, in which an attempt is made to prove that no issue of pub lic importance divides the two great existing parties, and to turn discus sion from principles to the person il : character of the Republican candi date. The outspoken advoc.icy of free-trade by the Democratic leaders is slurred over with the declaration that there is no issue between the ; parties, the attempt of those leaders in Congress, and in the Chicago con vention to force free-trade upon that party being totally ignored. These professed Ropublicans, after thus at tempting to evade the controlling issue of the campaign, then declared in favor of Cleveland for President, and while disclaiming all sympathy with the Democratic party marched openly into the Democratic camp. Instead of showing that they are in dependent Republicans, they clearly prove by their action that they are Dependent Democrats. .tm i ri ti-- tlx ",cu" - themselves on tuis deliver- ance. Mr. ueorge uiiani Curtis, the only kicker among all the dele gates to the Republican National Convention, has departed to his proper place, and leaves not a wrack behind. Gen. Logan's allusion to the per version of popular franchise in the South, as he concisely defines it, has drawn upon him the wrath of the Democratic press, and sneering com ments upon the revival of the 'bloody shirt" issue. That the freedom of the ballot has been sup pressed ia several of the Southern States is undeniable ; and that this flagrant wrong is not exclusively confined to the colored citizens is equally true. A greater outrage cannot be found in all our history, and the annals of crime furnish no grosser acts of diabolism than hare been perpetrated upon the citizens of several of the Southern States. The Nation is bound by every dic tate of honor, honesty and self pres ervation to secure all its citizens a free and untraraelled ballot, and ev ery constitutional means should be evoked to maintain this right The Constitution prescribes the penalty for suppressing the rights of the col ored voters. It is reduced repre sentation in Congress, and the Re publican party, nay, all good and true citizens, should demand now and always, the infliction of the penalty for the denial of free suf frage to all its citizens, by the peo ple of any State, If they cannot vote they must not be counted for representation. Thus saith the fundamental law of the land. With a free ballot, sev eral Southern States are undeniably Republican, without the electoral votes of these States the Democratic party is in a hopeless minority, and it is because General Logan calls to public notice the suppression of the ballot there, and thus directs atten- tion to the fact that through this onlTf does the Democratic . maintain it nower. that Le is charged with waving lhe "bloody e,-t nH,. kt) co,jnlry an invaluable service bv his , gnment of the Democratic par- ty for stifling the voice of the people in many portions of the South, and i the Democratic leaders and editors who willingly acquiesce in accepting and holding power obtained at the cost of violating th letter and spirit of the Constitution, cannot distract public attention from their fcuilt by vilifying him. Let the people with one voice call for the enforcement f t, Constitution 0r demand the penaltv gleamxgs. A man in Pennsylvania while out in the woods the other day, was at tacked by sevea large polecats. He must have felt like a Presidential candidate at the height of the cam paign. Chicago Times. The West Chester Republican eays: The difference between Logan and Hendricks is this : John A. Logan, the Republican candidate for Vice President, resigned his seat in Con gress and went to war to help sus tain the United States Government against the .traitors who sought to destroy it Thomas A. Hendricks, the Democratic candidate for Vice President, made copperhead speech es in Indiana, and in the United States Senate did what he could to embarrass the Government in its struggle for life and give aid and comfort to its enenres. Cleveland and Hendricks have a past as well as a hereafter. Thev remind one of the story of a strap ping big fellow who was pulled out of the Mississippi river after asteam- boat explosion. "Lose much?r' asked a sympa thizing bystander. 'VD piigrim "lost all inv bassaie." "Much of it?" "Well, (hesitatingly,) there wa3 a pair of stockings and a dirty 6hirt." Then brightening up he added: "But, thank God, I saved my war record." With which he pulled out of his breast pocket a very wet pro vost marshal's certificate that he had furnished a substitute. Inter Ocean. DEMOCRATIC COMBUSTIOX. Two important rebellions against the Democratic party on the part of those who have hitherto worked with it are now spreading, and con stitute by far the most important feature of the political situation. One is the rebellion of out-and-out protectionist Democrats in the South, and the other is the revolt of labor Democrats n the North. In the parish of Concordia, Louisiana, out of 375 white votes usually Dem ocratic it is announced that not fifty remain who will vote for Cleveland. The stampede to Blaine and protec tion is almost unanimous, and is placed on etrictly business grounds. At the same time these stampeding Democrats, including the President of the Jouisiana Senate, denounce the election methods by which the State nas been held under the power ot the Democrats in terms well worth reading. In Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina a like feeling is rife, but to what extent it will be heard from at this election is not yet apparent The labor stampede in New York and Ohio involves large numbers. Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland, leads the revolt in Northern Ohio. The Catholic Union, of Buffalo, and the Irish Xaliun speak its voice in New t York. The Jrith Yiti savs : The triumph of the men who nominated Cleveland was as much a slight and insult to the old leaders of the party as to the Irish, the workingmen and the anti-monopolists who opposed his nomination so strenuously. The intellect and ex perience of the party were contempt uouslv pushed aside to make room for a dull and j-loddiny country law yer telto ts the merest tool of an illiber al aadcorrupt ring, having no affin ity with the able men whom the party loved to honor in the past and whose dark and devious meth ods are a disgraceful parody on the statesmanship which ones ruled the councils of the Democracy. Irishmen of spirit hart no choice. Ckttla nd m ust be defeated, and the only trow to d) that effectually is by toting for Jitnet G. Llaine for President Ijtl us organtu for the Jfgra and crush f.noir-nolhingiinn for all time. DEMOCRACIES BLUNDERS EPITO MIZED. From the Judge. They have selected Grover Cleve land, a man without any record of any kind, a man who has never served a term in a deliberative or legislative body in his life, a man whose past is almost a blank and whose future is altogether a guess, to stand against the strongest man that the great Republican party ever nominated. And indeed it is a mis fortune for Democracy that Grover Cleveland has not been altogether as blank as his future promises to be. His public life has been short, it iB true, but he has contrived to press into its brief space more mistakes than even Democracy, the mother of errors, has ever beard of. He has estranged the workingmen by his cruel and ill-judged vetoes, he has offended Kelly and the working pol iticians, and he has been, during bis incumbency of New York's Guber natorial chair, the slave of as cor rupt and unscrupulous a ring as Albany ever saw. Poor Democracy ! She epitomized the whole of her long series of blunders when she took her stand under the ticket For President, Grover Cleveland; for Vice President, Thomas A. Hen dricks. Adrtsett to Iiuj- op Bailer. Atlanta, Ga July 24. A promi nent Southern political manipulator whose counsels are always law in Democratic conferences in Georgia is engaged in urging upon the man agers of the Democratic campaign the advisability of making terms with Butler, tie has already urged his views upon several members of the National Democratic Committee now assembled in New-York, and they will be duly considered at the meeting of that body. The theory is, in brief, that Cleveland's chances for election are close; much too close to justify the confidence felt by Democrats who have not studied the situation. Let a fusion be made with Butler in Connecticut, Massa chusetts, and eyen, if he insists up on it, in New-York. If by this fu sion, as the gentleman quoted ex pects, no one candidate has a clear majority of the electoral vote, the election will be thrown into the House of Representatives, which is Democratic Butler is evidently waiting for terms, and he might as well receive bids from Democrats as from anybody else. If this plan is not adopted, it is felt that in the several States named Butler and Cleveland would simply cut into each other's ranks, leaving the Re publican forces intact, and thus giv ing the electoral college to Blaiue. In Massachusetts the Democrats should run no ticket at all, but swallow Butler whole, with secret satisfaction in what is to come here after. This plan has been much talked over by local politicians; and is generally felt to be almost an in spiration at to what course should b pursued. Tbc Cboleraln Franco. Paris, July 24. The aspect at Marseilles is becoming more sombre. The customs offices and quays are deserted. Many funerals take place during the night, the burials being performed by the aid of lantern lights. The Mayor has interdicted the national fair and forbids proces sions August 15. There were 45 deaths during the 24 hours ending at 9 o'clock to-night At the Pharo Hospital five have died and five have been discharged cured since last night Eighty patients still re main in the hospital. At Toulon last night there were twenty deaths and four to day. The condition of Toulon is greatly im proved. Eighteen fresh cases were admitted into the hospitals there to day. The Mandrief Hospital in that city contains one hundred and twenty-two cases and only a few of them are serious. There were seven deaths to-day at Aries and three at La Vallette. The number of deaths at Aries reached thirty-one in two days. The major ity of the people at Rouen have fled from their homes. An official in quiry into the deaths of twelve Sis ters of Charity and the Father Al moner of the Nunnery Retraite showed that the last services were performed over the body of the first Sister who became a victim to the disease without disinfecting the cell or clothes of the deceased Sister. It is officially announced in Paris that the cholera epidemic at Mar seilles and Toulon is decreasing. The health of Parts is good. Plans for Keceiviag the lairing and tbe Dead of the Greclr Party. Washington, July 24. According to a programme agreed upon by the Secretary of tiie Navy, the ves sels of the Greely Relief Expe dition, with the survivors and dead of the Greely party, will sail from St Johns on the 25th or 26 inst, and proceed direct to Ports mouth, N. H where they will be officially received by the Secretary of the Navy, the officers of the North Atlantic squadron, now at that port and the State and local authorities. Lieutenant Greely and the other sur vivors will disembark at Portsmouth and the vessels will proceed to New York, with the bodies of the dead, which will be landed at Governors Island and placed in charge of Ma jor General Hancock. The latter will transfer them to the care of the relatives and friends upon applica tion. The vessels are expected to arrive at New York about tha 1st of August Should any of the bodies be unclaimed, which will probably prove lo be the case with some of the foreign born, they will be buried with appropriate ceremonies at the National Cemetery, in New York. Theoflicers of the relief expedition will probably report in Washington early next month. tJrwIy and His Parly. Washington, D. C, July 24. Ac cording to a programme agreed upon by the Secretary ot ar and the Acting Secretary of the Navy, the vessels of the Greely relief expedi tion, with the survivors and dead of the Greely party, will sail from St. John's on the 25th or 2('th instant and proceed direct to Portsmouth, N. II. Lieutenant Greely and the other survivors will disembark at Portsmouth, and the vessls will pro ceed to New York with the bodies of the dead, which will be landed at Governors Island and placed in charge of Majar General Hancock. The latter will transfer them to the care of the relatives and friends upon application. The vessels are expect ed to arrive at New York about the 1st of August Should any of the bodies be unclaimed, which will probably be the case with some of the foreign born, they will be buried with appropriate ceremonies at the National Cemetery in New York. The officers of the relief expedition will probably be in Washington early next month. Bntlcr Will be a Candidate. Port Huron, Mich., July 21. The secretary of the anti-monopoly na tional committee has written to the organization here that upon the as surance of the gentlemen who have been in consultation . with General Butler within the past few days he can state that that gentlemen will stand for election. Your Money or Voqr Life. Lebanon, Pa., July 23- Levi But ter, a farmer, living in this county was attacked by a couple of tramps at a late hour fast night while on a public road near Meyerstown. One of the highwaymen pointed a revol ver at Mr. Rutter and demanded his money or his life. Being unarm ed he handed over his watch, several checks and $113 in money. They then cut the harness of the tamer's team and escaped with their booty. I Milwaukee, July 24. An unusu ally severe wind, rain and hailstorm passed over Wisconsin on Tue-day night, making a wide track diagonal ly from the northwest to" the south east and passing clear across the tate. The damage to the growing grain is very heavy, and the proper ty damaged alreadv reported will amount to $100,000. At Jefferson, near Watertown, there was a famous tornado, uprooting many buildings and doing great damage generally. Tho track of the storm was through the eastern part of the city. The following business houses were unroofed and stocks damaged : An drew Puerner & Co., merchants; Finch it Co., furniture warehouse ; Muck & Co., grocery store, and Stop penbach'a saiokehouse, and the Methodist Evangelical Church and Roman Catholic Church were un roofed and badly damaged. The Fair Ground building was totally demolished aud scattered to the winds. A German by the name of Foundre was killed four miles north west of the city by the blowing ever of a barn. At Racine a new Metho dist church not quite completed was demolished and many small build iugs were more or less damaged. At Kewaskuiu a large saw mill and dam were wrecked and several barns destroyed by lightning. The giving way of the dam overflowed the town causing muoli suffering and destroy ing the stocks of goods in several stores. A large new stone Catholic church was struck by lightnin? and demolished near West Bend : lo-i about $15,000. deadly work nY LIGHTNING. At Whitewater, the winds and rain did great damage to growing crops and fhade trees. Barns were un roofed and chimneys blown down. Lightning struck one of the churches ani damaged it considerably. The wind at Fond du Lac was as strung as a gale, and barns and outbuild ings were blown to pieces pretty generally. At Ashland a man was killed by lightnincr and considerable property was destroyed. At Lake Miles two men were killed by light ning. Around Milwaukee the storm was very severe, but it had spent its fu ry before reaching the city. Several houses were struck by lightning, but there was no loss of life, and the property destroyed is comparatively small. The greatest damage is t" the crop of ripening grain. Wheat has been swept to the ground, and as the weather is hot and muggy the gnin will spoil before it cau fi ly ripen. A heavy electrical wave parsed over the northwest hist night and the lightning, like the rain, fair ly descended in sheet3. The storai swept over Western, Central and Southern Dukoto and Southwestern Minnesota abaut three o'clock vesterday atternoon and Val ley City suffers" $100,000 worth ot wrecked property. A carpenter was killed and several other people injured. Workmen are actively en gaged in clearing the rubbish of the demolished buildings, the treight cars that were ditched at this place are on the track again. 1 he breadth of the storm was from five to seven miles. Hail stones were as large as hen eggs and dashed through the windows on the north side of the buiidinci. Woolsev and Carthage suffered greatly in this respect killed and wounded. At Dell Rapids the greatest ruin was wrought So far as learned there were four persons killed one woman and three children. The woman's name was Mrs. John Hale sixty-four years old, who lived four miles east ot Dell liapids. Iter hus band in the field saw the storm com ing. It carried the house twenty feet and crushed it Then the wind blew it fifty feet further. The wo man was dead when her husband reached her. Had she not been she might have escaped. Cora Hahn, a girl twelve years old, who lived with the family, was badly hurt and is unconscfoas. It is thought that she will recover. The ten-year-old daughter of Samuel Duckins, who lives three and one half miles west f the town, was out on the prairie playing. The wind took her up in the air and carried her more than a mile dropping her in a slough. The family soon followed and found her dead there. Six miles southwest a boy was killed and another west of the town. Seven miles southeast a man named Elverson was blown out of a wagon aud had an arm broken and his team was frightened and ran away. H. Hendrickson was away from home. His wife saw the storm coming and took her aged mother and her two children into a six foot hole under the house for safety. After gettins inshe thought she needed a quilt over her baby and went up after it Just then the house was blown over and sne was under it and badly injured and has been unconscious since. A kitchen stove fell through the floor upon the oi l woman and the two children, hurting them tdightly. Eight miles west Mr. Walters was crushed un der a biirn and his shoulder blade broken. Tom McConnelPs house, to the north, was ruined. The barn fell on him, inflicting severe injuries. He was held there until the railroad hands helped him out. Loss to buildinss, 8S00. O. H. Richardson was badly hurt by timbers falling on him. Five or six houses were razed there. Mr. and Mrs. Sohefy, Mr. and Mrs. Tallers and Airs. Curtiss and her children were all injured. Mrs. Curtiss had her ribs broken. Mrs. Richardson, in the same vicini ty, had her back badly hurt and is in a dangerous condition. Dexter Brown's wife was hurt by the up turning of their house in the coun try. Storm-cloud was cyclone in character. During the storm it was impossible to see across the street. Hail destroyed three-fourths of the window glass on the north and east side of tbe houses. Whisky in a Dlaze. Cosnellsville, Pa., July 24. A. Overholt & Co.'s distillery caught fire last night at 11 o'clock, and in le?s than three hours the main building together with three bonded ware houses and seven thousand barrels of whisky, was burned. The origion of the fire was either spontaneous combustion of mill dust or from a cigar left by a workman. The gross value of the whisky was $550,000, aud loss iq buildings and machinery $115,000. One warehouse with six hundred barrels of whixky waB saved. Everything was- fully insured. Nearly all of the whisky A Cyclone 1 (he West. wai owned by Philadelphia i nil ; cartridges and immediately hurled New York parties. j the bucket and its contents away. The heat of the fire was Intense, j It struck a tree and a terriSc explo and the flames lit up the country j sion followed, badly shaking op the for miles. Burning whisky flowed j neighboring houses on Washington down the river. Twenty-five bar-! and connecting streets and breaking rels were rolled away and the whisky j a large quantity ot window-glass, dipped up by a mob. There were ' One lady was thrown down but ea hundreds of drunken men. caped without serious injury. END OP THE RETXIOX. The Grand Army Boy ISady to Break Camp at Minneapolis. Minxeai'olis, Minn July 24. This was the last day of the annual reunion of the Grand Army of toe Republic The principal feature was a gathering of prisoners who were confined in Anderson, Libby, Belle Isle, Florence and other pens during the war. The meeting was called to order by Captain I. C.Sealy, who said it was entirely informal, but he hoped that it would be the nucleus, of an organization in Min nesota of the war prisoners, whose object would be to lijeet once a year in social gathering and talk over the days gone by. The last camp-fire was held this evening, at which sev eral speeches were ma le and songs rendered by different members. Probably no member has attracted more attention during the re-union here than Mr. Hector, a colored com rade of Pittsburg, Pa. At the camp fire last night his was the most no table speech. In it he said : "The sight that was witnessed in this city this morning was one that would thrill the heart of any man. You can't conceive how it thrilled the heart of the man who was re minded that it was to free him and 4,0W,0W like him that those men fought and their comrades died. You gave my people freedom. You took your place in war for our sakes ; you languished in prison. Our Col onel told us, when we were at White River, that if we would be true to the old flag he would make us citi zens and cive us the full rijjhts of citizens. We went in shoulder to shoulder; we were true to that flag, and you have been true to your promise. We have come out into the golden lightof libertvand peace, The silvery sunlight of freedom fehone down upon four and a half millions of slaves and we came forth free men, never more to return un; der the shroud of slavery. Let me tell you, there were no traitors' hearts beneath the black skins. "The Grand Army of the Repub lic is to-day the most fraternal order beneath God's heaven. 1 do not except the Christian brotherhood. I am myself a minister, and I once made this statement to an Episcopal rector. He questioned its truth. I asked him if he would let me go into his pulpit next Sunday, and he shook his head. I thank God there is no G. A. R. post in the country that I cannot go into It matters not how black my face i if I wear the star- upon wv breast. The churches have got to become a good . deal more liberal beiore the same thing is trne mong brother minis ters.'' Congressman W. D. Washburne, at his residence this evening, gave a reception to Generals Logan, Sher man and Beath, who received hun dreds of their friends. Generals Sherman, Logan, Beath and Nesley, Congressman Washburne, Governor Rusk, ex-Governor Fairchild, ex Secretary Windom and others were given a dinner last evening by Hon. Thomas Lowry at his residence. Drought in The Ohio Valley. Cincinnati July 24. Since the 4th of July there has been scarcely any rain within a radius of some 200 mile3 around Cincinnati. Through Southern Ohio and Indiana and in Northern Kentucky the roads are inches deep in dust. Early sown oats have escaped injury but late sown oats are suffering. Timothy has had its growth checked. Every where in upland and lowland the outlook for corn is discouraging and is glowing worse every day. The crp on lands that are wont to yield from forty-five to seventy-five bush els per acre is now not more than three or four feet high. In limited areas the common meadow grasshoppers invaded the garden? and vineyards and cut down everything before them. The pas tures are dead, the large streams have shrunken to rivulets and the brooks and marshy places are dry ing up. Sparks from the locouio motives fire the dead grass along the railways. At Wellsvilie, O., the dry spell had so thoroughly parched vegetation that a fire to-day started in Cedar Hill woods, an extensive tract of pine is burning fiercely. At Canton, O., a swamp fire is raging fiercely through the hills Northwest of the city. Twenty-five acres have been devasted and the fires are spreading At 1 iqua, O., the plants are wither ing so fast that even if rain comes soon they will l9 worthless. At New ark, O.. the ground is literally burn ing u;. Stoning Hungarian. Uniontown, July 27. The bitter feeling existing against the Hungari ans by the native workmen in the coke regions resulted last night in another murder, the victim being a Hungarian named PaulVelas. The murder was committed uear the Redstone Coke Works, three miles South of this place. A party of four Hungarians were moving their household goods from Moore's woods to Hutchinson Station, when an en counter took place between tbem ami rive natives, named King, Mc Knight, Fell, Schaffer and Ramage. The Litter party began to stone the Hungarians, who at first showed tight but on one of them beiug knocked down with a stone the others fled. It was found that Velas had received a fa tal blow on the head from the stone, causing concussion. He was about 35 years old, and has a wife and four children in Hungary. The five men will probably be arrested in the morning. Trying to Mob an Kngineer. IIcxti.vgdo.v, Pa., July 22. A girl named Boyce. aged fourteen years, was run ever and killed to-day on the bridge at Saxton by a passenger train on the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad. The citizens of Sax ton became enraged at the engineer, William Grow, and a mob collacted at the depot for the avowed purpose of lynching him on tne return trip. Grow, however, hearing of his dan ger, left his engine in charge of an other person, and escaped at a station below Saxton. GUoceNter Shaken tJ PjaaRiite. Gloucester, July 34. A workman carrying a bucket ot dynamite pack ages discovered a spark among the Indiana Armed. Dcrango, July 24. Captain Per rines, commanding the detachment of cavalry sent in pursuit of the In dians that made the outbreak on a cattle camp a short time ago, found the Indians entrenched in their stronghold, tne hundred miles west ot the Blue Mountains, on the loth instant After a sharp fieht he was compelled to return, with the loss of one scout, named Wormington, and James Higsius, a cow-boy, killed. There are 2i x Indians, well armed and so well protected in the bluffs that it was found impossible to dis lodge ihem. Captain Pernnes will probably await orders from head quarters before making any further attack. It is only throwing the lives of his men away at a disad vantage to renew the fight with the Indians. Wreck ofBarnam a Circus. Cortland, July 24. Barnum's circus has been for some days past advertised to give an exhibition here. Last night while six thousand persons were seated witnessing the performance, one of the guy ropes gave way and a panic ensued. The audience rushed for the outlet, and another rope and a pole breaking, the entire tent fell on those inside. A number of persons were trodden under foot many badly injured, and it is feared some of the large num ber present were killed. Great excitement exists in the city, and the injured people, among whom are several women and chil dren, are receiving every attention. Chewed V'p by a Dog. Cleveland, July 21. While j playing in his father's yard to-day, James Copely, the young sn ofj Georse Copely, a railroad man, liv ir.gjiear the lake, was pounced upon by a large Newfoundland dog, a pet of the family, rod chewed to pieces. The dog was not mad and had al ways been docile, especially to the children. The child's body and head were terribly bitten and the flesh on his legs was chewed away from the bones in many places. The mother was also terribly injured by the dog, when she attempted to res cue her child. The boy's life is de spaired of. The Crawd Grawing. C'lfAUTAiyi A, July 24. The warm weather is bringing large accessions by every boat and train. At the close of Professor II. H. Rogan's in teresting lecture on "Picturesque Ireland" last evening the first genu ine manifestation of Chautauqua en thusiasm was exhibited, the audi ence giving the lecturer a vote of thanks for his four entertainments and adding thereto the famous ! Chautauqua salute the waving of white handkerchiefs by all present On Sunday afternoon Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, of Brooklyn, will preach, and Rev. Dr. William Kin kaid, formerly of Oberlin College, will preach in the morning. What Dudley says. Washington, July 24. Commis sioner of Pensions Dudley says that he went to Pittsburg on oilicial busi ness. Nevertheless-, he admits that he talked to Prohibitionists with a view to persuade them to indorse Blaine and Logan in place of the nomination of a separate ticket, and that he was disgusted witli their failure to agree with hiin. He says the Prohibition convention is con trolled by Democrats, and that the effect of its nominating a separate ticket will probably be to elect the Democratic candidates. father and Son Killed. Meadville, July 24. About 1:30 o'clock this morning, while driving across the New York, Penn sylvania and Ohio Railroad near Orangeville, Ohio, Albert Hays, aged 75 years, and his son, Enos Hays, aged 50 years, were struck by the St Louis limited express, bound west The eldest one was almost instantly killed, and the latter is thought to be fatally injured. The usual signal was given for the cross ing, but as they were in a top buggy they evidently did not hear the ap proaching train. The Warsaw Conspiracy. Warsaw, July 24. The inquiry into the conspiracy to blow up the palace during the Czar's visit to Warsaw shows that elaborate and far-reaching plans were adopted. I Evidence is adduced to prove that the conspirators, after murdering the Czar, intended to provoke a re bellion in Poland and Western Rus sia to plunder Jews and rich trades men of Warsaw and to seize the aTms in the arsenal Destructive storm. Chicago, July 21 Specials from various point in Iowa and iscon siu report that destructive storms prevailed in those States last night. In many places small grain is re ported to have been beaten down and badly damaged. A- special to the Journal from Knoxville, Iowa, says that a tornado visited that town last night. Trees were uprooted and out-buildings demolished, but as far as reported there was no loss of life. ConTinuing. The proof of the pudding is not in cnewing tbe string, but in having an opportunity of testing the article di rect. C. N. Boyd has a free trial bot tle 01 Dr. JiosanEos Cough and Lung Syrup tr each and every one who is afllicted with coughs, colds, asmma, consumption, or anv iuie ... anecuon. Blown Cp. Sabisa, July 24. Two houses of ill-fame, kept by David West and Daisy Williams respectively were blown up by citizens yesterday with giant powder. The inmates were al lowed to depart No one was injur ed. Drowned Himself. Erie, July 2i This afternoon an elegantly dressed stranger hired a rowboat and rowed into the middle ot the harbor, when he was seen to divest himself of his coat, knee) down in the attitude of praver, and then spring into the lake. Tte body has not been recovered. ileurwctloa in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. July 24. A spe cial dispatch to Tfte Press from Wat sontown, Penn.,says forest fires have been raging in the mountains in Union County, west of here, since Monday. All yesterday men were fighting the flames, and with the aid of a heavy rain succeeded in putting out the fire. NOTICE! lO Per Cent. Reduction ! IO Per Cent. Reduction ! ! IO Per Cent. Reduction I ! ! Experience has taught us that it more profitable to dispose of all our SUMMER GOODS before the season is too far advanced, at reduced prices, than to carry a stock over from year to year until the goods become shopworn aiuj undesirable when half-cost may not be realized. We, therefore, from THIS DAY ON ALLOW A REDUCTION OF IO Per Cent. From the marked price on JIEU GOODS. We will exchantje any unsatisfactory pvr. chase or refund money. L. M. WOOLFE, Pqmlar One-Price Clothkr, Hitter, FuruUher. Johnstown; Pa. FARMERS' HARVESTING TOOLS Can Xow lie Found At Jas. B. Hoiderbaum's, Consisting Of GRAIN, GRASS AND BRUSH SCYTHES, SCYTHE SNATHES, STONES AND RIFLES, Walker, and Other Patent Hcrse Hay Forks, Two, Three and Four Thud Forks, Grind stones, Oil for Your JIaci inert, MOWERS, REAPERS AND BINDERS, HAf TEI'DERS. M1LLLK S HAND RAKES, RepairsForY our Machinery, AdU Mjjthlm lo the Hardware Line at Low Prices. U before PurchuiD EUewhere. JAMES 3 Baer's Block. No Never Equaled in Workmanship ! Competition Defied I LOWEST PRICES GUARANTEED! EDWABD W. HOBNEBS MAEBLE AND GEAXITE WORKS, UNION STREET, SOMERSET PA. 'I alwavs keep on hand a larpe selection of heautiful JIOXL'JfEXTf AXD TOMBS 1'OXES, in All Colors, wtwch make the fine.t display of memorial work ever seen in Somerset County. Parties deairing a hind some Monument or Tombstone, will do well to give me a call, as my work is the finest and cheapest. Seeing is believing. Give me a call. E. TV. HORNER. WHUL 2 Marfck pr9 mrm JB:A.-TOjN'-K:A. The Great Blood Purifier, Has been nse.1 for centuries br the ln.li:n. nl br nht br them rlirert froai thetr Wonrra b-m' ln.lims athr tberu-l, hertw. Brns nd nuuw, and ship ihein east to as. A few uf the ni't kir ed and tU!lni of thus twile re wot here lo prepare twi remarkable mtxlloiM tor tbe white ma use. Tbe Indians ribuv t-ilere that THE ISLOOD IS TIIE X.IFK, And that to keep it pure it the trail to health. Tbe science f chemistry or of medicine 9'"' produ. ed wraliutde remed. ur-oe to potent l cuivi.l I'lsejMee arising from itnpanty! blood. this Indian preprj'.i'on. Nsutferer I rum aorof Uie atUietl need rfeepalr who give It a fair trial. 1 DISORDERED LIYES MO STOMACH. UNLESS CURED BY Ii-TQN-U Cause sab I diseases as Drspetwia, Sick Helaehe. Soar Stomach. Ime of aipetite. Heartbsra. enraMa. Ketnale lia..rders. Kidney lNeasea. ;onjtiti.. Liver Ch. IndMrw; damnations. Pile. InianitT, Jaundice. Melancholy, Impure bkl. Sleepleaene. preftioa. I ear and Ane. Sciatica. Hheauttism. N -rooness, LWer Insease. IMls, Pleurisy, al a host of other llts. Tbe medicine of the druicnist Uken Internally, will do no nod. The ol safe and sure core." la the om or ft A-TO at A. It aids the lier and stomach to rwame Mlnnl afc. dris poisons from the system, tones up. the nerroo Icthienree. punnea the body, and restore p bealtu. AskTourdruicicistforKA-fV.KA. Take nothinif else, a yoo Taiue your healtk. ha U not, tell him to scud for It to the OREGON INDIAN MEDICINE COMPANY, COBBT, IFIEOsnSP-A- rrict $1.00 Per Bottle, Six Bottle fur $S.OO. THE INDIA! COUGH SYRUP Ie.Mitr the best Remedy ef tt kith! exer htrodwretl. and tbe people who are suBerinif Coogn, Colds, and Lung Troubles should not Oeiay. , Will nerer be (brrttea by those who saw the wonderful erM f' rjl nnnn IJ 1 1 formed m pablle by the Indian Medicine Men.'lt relieves d I"- a"r..TZ .7Z..TZ.Z7?, t. Indian (ML Takeaotaer. llisthebest. a'.eeni'P ottls. Lira;e buttle jocenis. rw)'in". ; ESTABLISHED I88O. FISHER'S BOOK STORE SOMERSET, lV. Cba. H. FUber. Wholesnle and Retail Healer and Jotber Stationery. Always in .lock a well eltd r0"". u.V." T.eitTliwI H"" . cf Trar J and Adventure. Novel and Standard Vtam Work. Bible. Teunetit. tJ-pei "f Lutheran and Dlwiple1 Hymn Book. Dletlona-le. and C.l.lr.. . Toy BtJ "'"Var NovelsVDa.ly Paper, and (ieneral Fertodicl Litertre. Sheet M te and ? W day school od lavehool Reward Card. A Lr and Complete Stork of B.aak Book. Blanks and Marriage Certiorates. Fine Albaia. i-asts and box Paper. SCHOOL TEACHERS' HEADQUARTERS. CJwrAiT-. obders soiuicrrxEO- the tickets of all our SUJ. HORSE HaY RAKES GRAIN t KA1LES, Ac. B. HOLDERBAUM, Somerset. Pa. IF. SHAFER'S and Granite Wcrb. MOM VESTS. NEADSTOSE, TABLETS and TOST, TAULl t TOPS, SHELVES. GUAM IE MUSI VESTS Iarnithe.1 to orlr. rntl to ifive Stl.UctKn or M-mrv Keiun.irrf. Work IS pr - Cheaper Ihjn "n ! In the bounty. All 'nlM by m:ill i.nii;i!'7 utt-nJeJ tu. tleen rti,iiT t the hu!r.es. A.i.lrt. W3L - SHAFi'KU, SoKirT, Pi th CostlfeuesJ, Bilious Attack, raws in tne It edeet are ouuctcal. oUeent per oati"-
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