The Somerset Herald. BDWAD 8CTLL, Editor and Proprietor. EDKESDA.Y. ..MAT , !. Thk health of ex-President Ar thnr has improved e much that h is able to drive out, audio receive calls from a few friends. Some of our local politicians ar profoundly impressed with the con viction tbat when the party is smit ten on one cheek it should turn the other. The latest thing afloat is that Jsmes G. Blaine is a Knight of La bor. Jeesos has had many a night of labor, but it wasn't of the man ual kind. Thk Washington papers say tbat the President has purchased a cozy house and grounds on the highlands overlooking that city, in which to ensconce his bride during the hot summer months. A Philadelphia correspondent of the New York Timet says that it is now quite certain that Mr. Wolfe will accept the Prohibition nomina tion for Governor of this State, if it is tendered to him. Wolhs and Barker, both of whom are spoken of as Prohibition candi dates for Governor, are in search of revengs on the Republican party for not appreciating them according to their imaginary worth. The Presidents intended wife is in Parii" and woman like, is buying her bridal outfit at that fount of fashion. This does not correspond with the Jefl'ersonian simplicity professed by this administration and accordingly the young lady is be ing subjected to some criticism by a portion of the Bourbon press. Mr. Ma Km Irons who ordered the great strike on the Missouri Pacific railroad system, appears to have lost his grip on the Knights of Labor. At least it is reported, that a crowd f strikers at Sedalia gave him notice that his room was better than his company, and he suddenly dropped out of that thriving city. The Supreme Court of this State on Monday of last week, handed down an opinion deciding that the primary and delecate elections of this State are under the protection of law, as much as are any other elections by the people. As the dif ferent party primary and delegate elections are rapidly approaching, it may be well that party politicians and candidates take careful note of this fact. The Secretary of the Treasury es timates that the ordinary expenses of the government inclading the sinking fund for the fiscal year 1SS7 is S3a9,5S9,000, and the total esti mated revenue of the United States for the same peried is (315,000,000. Tht deficit therefore for tbat year will be 124.589,001). Yet in the face of this anticipated bankruptcy of the Treasury, Congressional cranks are urging an additional pension list aggregating 1100,000,000, and the reduction of duties on imports from which we derive the balk of our income. A bill has been reported to the House proposing a constitutional amendment creating and defining the office of Second Vice President It provides that in case of the re moval, death, resignation, or consti tutional disability both of the Pres ident and Vice President the office of President shall devolve on the Second Vice President, who shall be voted for on distinct ballots at the same time and in like manner and for the same term as the President and Vice President by the electors appointed by the several States. In case of the removal of the Vice Pres ident from office, or his death, resig nation or constitutional inability, or when the Vice President shall exer cise the office of President, the Sec ond Vice President shall be Presi dent of the Senate, and he shall also act as such in the absence of the Vice President from the Senate, but shall have no vote unless the Senate be equally divided. The report accompanying the res olution says: TtMMeMittY for aa additional offtoer ta tba ltn of Ptsiihia1 wi i nm has ba fcmwd ua tha ronaiitrrmU'Wt of thoughtful Modonu of oar politi cal ayateia liy tba easaalttes whit -a have oceurrod stnos' tba adoption ot tba Federal OonstitnUou. ttt of atftiteeB persons elected dlrwtly to the PieeMeotlal otaoe. Umr fee died belare filllns; oat tbetr rpeotire Mau ai President, three ol them carina the Drat Tear of thair term, and the ather during his strand ar. Out of treoty-tte pereuos elected a V lev President, five d led during their tana ofooVo. eejeof tbem resigned hlsettkoe, and four ueoasjie President. Hut the (treated neecarity for an additional Vtoa Preatdeal Is illustrated la the aoxietjr which all of as have shown durina- tLe present arrow la macine; leaisUllve provision for an actinic Pmetdenl la ease ol the death or disability ol both President and Vlee President. Vet this law Is but a asakeshlft. It Is dcteetlre ta this that It anables Ilia President to dasijmate who shall suc ceed to the powers ot this office, ao that whan tha President appoints his Cabinet ha at the same ttoM execute a poll) leal will and taetameat ' dinnoslmr ol his unexpired term ia ease ha to t President. At the Republican Convention in Frauklin County last week. Colonel Grimeson received the following handsome endorsement at the hands of his party friends, and he is well worthy of all they urge in behalf of his nomination : Whereas, Cel. Ttos. J. Grimeson is a candidate for tha position of Auditor Ireneral, and Whereas, During tne late war Oil. Grimeson enlisted at a private in tbe United States army, and serv ed during the war, until the rebellion had ceased to exist ; and, WKerta CoL Grimeson was not only a brave, patriotic soldier but bat tilled tht po sition of Supervisor under the United States Government with executive ability unsurpassed by any one, with not only credit to himself, but fidel ity to the Government, and witk the confidence and respect ot his superi or officers ; therefore, etc Betolved, That this Convention moat earnestl and cordially urge the nomination of Thomas J. Grinae- on, a worthy son of Franklin Coun ty, for the omce or Auditor uenerai. His character as a man, his faithful services U the party, his business experience and capacity, his splen did record as . a soidier and his abil ity as a campaigner all combine to make him one of the most worthy and strongest candidates that could be placed in nomination by the State Convention. The hearty commendation in a third of the series was as follows : The came of CoL Thomas Grime son, a native and a lifelong citizen of Franklin County, will be submit ted to the coming Republican State Convention for nomination to the office of Audi'or General of the Com monwealth. The best evidence of fitnees for a nnblic trust is found in a record of other public duties thoroughly well performed. In both his military and civil ser vice the conduct of CoL Grimeson exhibits an nnbroken s tries of acta resulting as well to the irofit of the Government and country as to his own credit, his coolness, intrepedity and sound judgment as a soldier be ing matched by his official integrity and intelligent zeal as a civil officer ; faithful and efficient in both capaci ties, he merits renewed confidence and trust "The Bedlord primaries will be held on "Saturday, June lAh. and the County Con " reotion on June 15th. Voters are required " to express their choice on their ballots for "the various candidates to be nominated. " Wbit is a little singular is that J. H, Jong "enecker, the Chairman, and L. W. Min- nich. on of the Secretaries, both trained " with the Independents in 1SW, and yet " there is leas trouble in that County and it " has under their wise Management been " redeemed from Bourbon rule. Bedford is " now a Republican county. Wnat a scathing "comment thin is on Kculhsm and Boodle "tiane methods V'Hn'rtdnU Commercial. Lord! Lord! how this world is given to lying ! Every voter in this county whose memory will extend back four years, knows that in the campaign of 18S2 the Commercial constantly denounced Mr. Longen- ecker as a stalwart, and supported Captain Conley as the Independent candidate for Senator, even refusing to take down the Captain's name af ter he had withdrawn from the con test. Nothine but the well known maliciousness of an idiot can account for so false a statement at the pres ent time. The Commerotal well knows that Mr. Longenecker is a prominent candidate for the Con gressional nomination in this dis trict, and it maliciously and devil ishly tries to damn him by profess ing to commend his course as an Independent In its crazy malice it must suppose that all recollection of the campaign vf 1SS2 has faded from the memory of the Republicans of this county, else, while hoping to impoe upon the public its lying charge that Mr. Longenecker was an Independent, it must also have cal culated upon their forgetting that its own candidate for Congress, Francis J. Kooser, Esq., bolted the State, district and county tickets and assisted to " purify the party " by placing the present Democratic State Administration in power. Only on the ground that it is " possessed of a devilish malice toward all mankind " can the course of the Commercial in knocking the scab off the old and slowly healing sore, be accounted for. The former Inde pendents who are now seeking nom inations at the hands of the Repub licans of this county, if they hope for success, should have its editor im mured in a mad house, or, better perhaps, in an asylum for the feeble minded, until after the election is over. If this cannot be affected, let them fall to praying to be saved from such friends as is their former organ, the Meyersdale Commercial. A Good Mas) Gone. Yokkers, N. Y., May 21. Dr. Dio Lewis, author and reformer, died at his home here this morning at 8 o'clock, after an illness of two or three days from erysipelas. He was thrown from hie horse several weeks ago, and sunered a contused wound below the left knee. He had recov ered sufficiently on Wednesday of last week to come lo New 1 ork on business. On his return he was car ried past Yonkers station to Has tings, four miles above this place, and to save a long delay he walked home. His wound began to swell and pain him, and bis physician said that erysipelas had set in. He steadil" sank until this morning. when death came to his relief. Dr. Lewis was born in New York in 1S23, studied at the Harvard Medical school, and practiced for a time at Port Byron and Buffalo. At the latter place he published a monthly periodical, in which he ad vanced the idea that diet and exer cise should take the place of drugs in the treatment of disease with a course of light gymnastics for the preservation of health. In 18G3 he founded a school at Boston for train ing teachers in his system. Later he established a seminary for young teachers at Lexington, Mass., in which he sought to carry out his ideas. His building was burned in 1807, when Dr. Lewis engaged in medical practice in li iston. In that city he introduced the Turkish bath, which he reirarrled as a ttowerful sanitarv aeent. He was the author . . of several works on hvniene and kindred subjects. Oterbram't Crarr. Nkw York, May 23. The com mittee in charge of the memorial day observation at Gen.. Grant's tomb, has assurances that President Cleveland and Secretaries Endicott, Whitney, Vilas, and wrobablv Sec retary Lamar, will be present. Mayor de Vieber, of St Johns, N. Bn will come to bring a shaft of laurel eight feet high. Florida has already shipped her oleander and poneegranite trees, and from Ber muda date palms are on the way. Ex-President Hays tends regrets. From Michigan will come a design eight feet square, of laurel, oak and other leaves from all of Grant's bat tlefields, especially of Vicksburg, and Mission Ridge. The Fenciblea. of Philadelphia, are coming. Aa I row Bridge Moved Bodily. MiefluiTowk, May 16, The feat m . . . I of moving bodily the iron railroad J bridge across the Tuscarora creek at Port Royal was accomplished to-day in two hours and forty minute. No trains were delayed. The bridge is two nunarea ana tixteen leet in length and was moved twenty feet further up the stream, to permit the building ot a new stone bridge in its place, the old one being considered ( unsaie. THE B. AND O. BRIDGE Authorised to be Unlit Across Arthur Kill 1st Spite or Oia Pewosy and lis Allies). Washington, May 20. The Sen ate to-day resumed consideration of the fctaten Island bridge bill, and, after consuming almost the entire session in its discussion, passed it unanimously. The tunnel amend ment received only five -votea Bow en, Hampton, McPherson, Plumb and fcewell. But these Senators did not vote against the bill on its final passage. While the interests involv ed in this Measure are, oo doubt, very treat, the discussion of it to day was not quite thrilling enough to nil up the galleries or keep sena tors in their teats. Tha speeches were very good, in their way. Sen ator Vest made one of his strong ar guments in favor of the bill, and urged its importance to tne com merce of the country. Among Mr. v est a other forcible points of argu ment were such as these : The river men of the conntrv seemed not to appreciate the great change that had taken place in the tiansportation business of the country. The strug gle in the present case was intensi fied by a struggle between tba Penn sylvania and the Baltimore and Onio Railroad Companies. The Pennsylvania Company was anx ious to Keep ine caiumore ana Ohio out of New York City. It was the old story. Mr. Vest said the plea that this case would be taken as a precedent against building any bridges at all. 1 he steamboat inter ests of the Mississippi river had op posed the bridge at t Louis, and prophesied tha destruction of the commerce of that river. Even the Engineer's Association had held a convention and declared that the So. Louis bridge would be a failure as an engineering work ; yet it was still standing, and would stand, ap parently as long as the banks of the river. Was no bridge to be built be cause the Pennsylvania Railroad, and even the State of New Jersey opposed it? The commerce of the whole country had to be considered. Senator Sewell, with a large parch ment map spread out over several desks before him, attempted to dem onstrate the detriment to commerce and the inadvisability of the bridge. Other speeches were made, no less thrilling, though in a commercial point of view, no bill of greater im portance has passed this session. There seems to be no doubt of its passage in the House. Being re garded in the interest of cheap trans portation, as it will aid competition between the great through lines, it is likely to capture the votes of the large granger element in the hourie from the West, and this in itself is almost enough to pa?a it. A Terrible Drouth In Texas. Sxjf Antonio, Tex., May 19. Ma jor D. M. Bash, of the United States army, has just returned to depart ment headquarters from an extend ed trip throughout southwest Texas as far west as Ft. Davis. He passed through the centre of the great sheep grazing section of Texas, and reports tbat a terrible drouth prevails in Presidio, Pecos and Cio.kett coun ties. These counties embrace an area somewbat exceeding the area of the State ef Maine. Until a fort night ago the larger part of the coun try has not been visited by a heavy rainfall for ever IS months, and the recent rains prove to have done but little apparent good, as the wa ter, Instead of filling the small steams and reservoirs was soaked up by the burning prairie?. Major Bash says that for many miles, as far as the eye can reach, the country is bare of vegetation, not even weeds are growing. Hundreds of small streams are dried up, and water, even for living purposes, is sparingly dealt out at the ranches. He relate J several in stances that came under bis observa tion, showing the terrible effect of the drouth on sheep and cattle. On the Meyer Halff ranch, outofG.OUO eattle, 3,000 have died within the past month, and the prairie is liter ally strewn with carcasses, surround ed by myriads of huge buzzards. On another ranch 3,000 sheep have died, while on one of the largest the 11 ock master was compelled to kill 5,000 lambs, and a neighboring herder 3,000 lambs because their mothers were too weak from starva tion to afford them nourishment Bath describes the situation in Ibis far west country as terrible be yond description. The shepherds told him that unless rain fell shortly every human being and domestic animal would be compelled to va cate that district and move to the north of Texas. Mormons l'nt to llont. Fayette City, Pa., May 20. Sev en Mormon missionaries from Utah began a serieaof proselyting meetings at the Valley Schoolhouse in Wash ington townsbip,one mile south of this place, last Sunday. Their meetings were largely attended and they baptised several converts. The citizen became indignant and de manded that the schoolhouse be closed against them, but this was not done. Last night the house was "over flowed," and at the conclusion of the services Parker Claybaugh, a justice of the peace, arose and denounced Morraomsra in a speech of half an hour. He procured a glass of solu tion of areni and challenged the preacher io drink it, the Mormon having aai.l in hu sermon that he ij j . . con iu oo so wunoui 4iarm He him refused ; Ciaylmugh branded as an impoMtnr, and the meeting broke up in a tumult, during which club, stones and other missiles were used on the misrionaries. They fled for their lives, but were ho closly pursued by the mob that they im plored the protection of the Justice, who succeeded in calming the tur moil and conducted them in safety to tneir stopping places. It is not known whether they will seek to continue their meetings or not. The converts were good citizens. A Child Thrown Into a Well. Littlk Rock, Ark., May 21. News of a fiendish crime committed in Lawrence county this State a few days ago, reached here today. A lady, (whose name is withheld) of high standing in the county, gave the alarm that her seven-year old step-sen had fallen into the well. A neighbor soon rescued the little fel low, who was in a dying conditio. - -a uvwfvi. tunic CUUUKU W tell that the woman had beaten him tie Jived, however, long enough to nearly to death and threw him in tbe well. A Colored Caadiaats). Hakrisbobo, May 23 George H. Imes, a colored teacher in the Steel- ' ton school announces himeelf a ran. didate for Lieutenant-Governor on (the Republican ticket M lalater PemdletM'a Wile Killed. New York, May 21. As Mrs. Alice Pendleton, ife of Hon. George B. Pendleton, our Minister to Ger many, was driving with her daughter yesterday afternoon, the horse be came frightened at a locomotive on the elevated railway, but was soon brought into subjection by the driv er. He remained very . . nervous. however, and en reaching Central Park, near the Webster statue, took fright at something again and tried to run away. He plunged so fear fully that the driver was thrown from hit teat, but he pluckily held to the lines and was dragged one hundred and fiftv feet When the driver fell both ladies screamed and jumped from the vehicle. Miss Pendleton, who sat on the right waa first She fell on the grass border. Mrs. Pen dleton fell on the road, upon her head. The horse ran furiously four or five rods further, and brought op wilh its bead in a lilac ousb. Meantime. Mrs. Pendleton had been picked up, quite dead, from the gravel, and laid on the grass bv the roadside. Policemen Hall got some water, and with that and the practice of artificial respiration taught him by the Society for First Aid to the Injured, he restored Miss Pendleton to consciousness. She was suffering from shock and from severe bruises of the face and scalp. An ambulance took her to the Pres byterian Hospital. A wagon from the park stables removed Mrs. Pen dleton's body to the Arsenal. Driv er Reilly was not much hurt Tbe harness was not broken and the car riage was uninjured. A policeman arrested Reilly. It was not known that the dead woman was the wife of ex-Senator Pendleton until Frank K. Pendleton came to the arsenal in the evening. He had learned the news by going to the livery stable in search of bis mother and sister, having become anxious at their long absence. An inquest was held and the driver was exonerated from all blame. The body was removed to Mr. Pendle ton's house. Mrs. Pendleton and her daughter left Mr. Pendleton in Berlin two months ago and came to this city The wife of a son of Mr. Pendleton, Frank K. Pendleton, lawyer, of No. 105 East Thirty-fifth street, was sick, and they came to nurse her. She died recently. Mrs. Pendleton and her daughter intended to return to Germany very soon. Mrs. Pendleton was 61 years old, and was married in 1S46. She was Miss Alice Key, daughter of Francis Scott Kev, tho author of " The Star Spangled Banner," and a sister of Philip Barton Key, who was killed by General Sickles. She was the niece of Chief Justice Roger B. Ta ney. The family have fine houses in Washington and Cincinnati, and a cottage at Newport Miss Jane Frances Pendleton is twenty-two years old, aad there is another daughter. Mr. Pendleton, after serv ing many years in Congress, was a candidate for Vice President on the McClellan ticket in 1S64, and was a United States Senator from Ohio from 1S79 until 1S85. The condition of Miss Pendleton was to-day reported much improved. She was said to be out of all danger and only suffering from weakness consequent upon the shock. Sad Ilisaaier iu Ouio. Akron, O. May 22. The little home of Mrs. Mooney, a widow, about three miles north of Akron, wag burned to tbe ground shortly before midnight last night and four of her children, the oldest 12 and the youngest 4 years, perished in the flames. Mrs. Mooney awake in the night to find herself choking with smoke, and snatching up her baby of two years told tbe other little ones, who were almost 9tifled, to follow ber. Mrs. Mooney sprang out of the window with the babe in her arms, and landed almost un hurt. The baby alse received but slight injuries. Lawrence Mooney, aged sixty, brother-in-law of Mrs. Mooney, was awakened by the children's cries and rushed out of the house only to be told by the frantic mother that her four little ones were still in the burning build ing. Both mother and uncle rushed into the flames time and again, but were beaten back, Mr. Mooney at length falling exhausted and terri bly burned, while tbe flesh on his hands hung in shreds. It took hut a few moments longer for the crack ling flames to consume the little building, and this morning bits of flesh and the larger bones rf the bodies of the four little ones were found in the ruins. Lawrence Moon ey's injuries may prove fatal and his two grown daughters living in this city are wild with grief. The nine hundred dollars insurance and little patch of ground is all tbat is left to the stricken mother. The fire caught from an overheated stove. Hart I a Irons In Danger. Sedalia, Mo., May 22. J. H. Daley, of Little Rock, member of District Assembly 101, of the Knights of Labor, is in this city for the purpose ef investigating the charges made by several of the strikers that tbe relief funds sent to this city had been improperly dis bused. He will check up the books to-morrow, and if there has been any crooked transactions they will be brought to light. Ma. tin Irons, it it claimed, bad a narrow escape from a. mob of strik ers last night or early tbi morning. The men are very hitter towards him, and it it asserted that they visited hit residence for the purpose of warning him to leave the city. He must have received an inkling that he would lie called upon, as he passed tbe night at the house of a friend, and boarded the southbound Minsouri, Kansas and Texas train east this morning for parts un known. - A Woman' Ad Ten tore. ' St. Johns, N. S., May 20. From St George's bay en the west coast of rtewloundland, cornea tbe following extraordinary story : . A French vessel arrived here yes terday from St. Malo, bound to Point au Choix. She came for the pur pose of landing Mist Louise Journ eaux, who was picked up at sea from an open boat about 20 milet off the Island of Jersey. The lady, with a gentleman named Fame, went boat ing on Sunday evening, April 8th. Her companion let one oar slip, and j in attempting to recover it be lost tbe other, and jumped overboard to recover them. v - The wind was fresh, and there was a strong current setting in from the laad. The boat fast drifted be yond Faroe's reach, and be was com pelled to twim for land. MissJourn eaux, alone in the beat, drifted to tea, and for forty hour the lived in solitary agony until rescued by the French vetael. i Chicago, May 21. The Grand Jury is now in possession of all tbe material facta in the dynamite con spiracy, so far as tne presumption shows the guilty parties to be Au gust Spies, Schwab, Parsons and Fielden. Evidence that would im plicate others not vet apprehended and among them the man who hurled the bomb, has been withheld bv the authorities for their own rea sons. Tbe testimony at the hour of adjournment yesterday, when most of the Arbeuer Zeuung printers naa been examined, made it plain that for months oast the Auarcbists bad been secretly preparing to attack the police with dynamite and other sgents of destruction. The jury de sired to know tbe extent of this conspiracy before indicting the lesser conspirators whose guilt might be equal to the others if the evidence was forthcoming, ine ponce, many of the jurors thought, were keeping something back, perhaps to make their case the stronger when brought into court One juror said that the evidence is overwhelming; but he meant the evidence against the elder bpies, Schwab, Fielden and Parsons. There is little evidence that would warrant the jury in indicting Lingg and three or four others for the same offense alleged against the. first named. At the same time there is good reason to believe Lingg and his fellows are as guilty as the other crowd. Strong testimony tending to support this view was given by R. B. Fuller, the manager for Pribyl Bros., dealers in guns and fixed ammunition. He testified that for some time previous to the riot purchases of guns and heavy revol vers were made at his store by poor ly dressed men whose actions excit ed the firm's auspiciona. Some times these men would call in a party, four or five of them together, and lay out their money for weap ons and ammunition. These men some members of the Grand Jury think, according to Judge Rogers' instructions, can be indicted for a capital offense, provided the, police disclose more evidence. The police, it is understood, claim to have the bomb-thrower in custo dy. It is further said that the evi dence bv which they hope to con vict him is made up mostly of the confessions of Anarchists who were induced to talk on the promise of immunity, ibe police deny this Tho testimony of Captain Schaack and the Detective who have been working to apprehend the bomb- throwers ia beh.g beard to-day, and it is expected tnat before evening indictments will be found.' This morning Theodore Fricke, Seen tary of the Socialistic Printing Company, went before the grand jury. He toot with him the books of the Arbeuer Zeuung. I he jury wanted to find out how much moa ey had been expended by the man agers of the pa per outside of the reg ular line of the publishing busiueff. John A. Henry, who was arrested for distributing Socialistic pam phlets on the streets, was before Judge Collins Ibis morning, when his petition for release on a writ of habeas corpus was argued. The Judge refused to grant it Henry was then brought before Jurtice Meech and fined ?15. Kcmarkaule Death of a. Woman. Greenville, Ind., Msy 23. About eight years ago Abraham Van Horn bought a farm in Crystal township from a Mrs. Lyons. While the trade was pending Van Horn indicated suspicions as to the 'clear ness of tbe title, and so expressed himself. Mrs. Lyons grew very in dignant, and in angry voice cried out: "'If I am trying to cheat vou. I hope God may strike me dead !" The tiade was consummated, and during all these years Mr. Van Horn has remained in undisturbed possession of the land. Mrs. Lyons removed to a neighboring township. A few days since Mr. Masten served a notice of ejectment upon Van Horn ; claiming to have a clear title to the property. Van Horn advised with a lawyer, who suggested that be call upon Mrs. Lvons at once and demand that she should secure him from los?. Yesterday Van Horn visited Mrs. Lyons and made the demand. The woman heard him through, and then, as if in answer to the hope ex pressed eight years ugo, she gave a loud cry and dropped dead. The neighborhood is greatly excited over the event. An Arkansas Tragedy. Little Rook, May 22. Particu lars of a tragedy which occurred in Lawrence county have just been learned. On Tuesday last a man naned Picket leased a ferry boat from a Mr. Jones, of the above county, but before doing so another residhnt of the community, named John Lane, had assisted Jones in raising the sunken boat from the bottom of the river, and agreed to take his charges for so doing in ferriage across the river, Tuesday, when lie with his family drove to the ferry. Picket, hearing of bis as sertions about crossing the river free, dernandrd pay in advance. Ltne tohl him that would be fii.ed after the crossing, af1 started to drive into the boat, when Pit i et stepjied before th team and pre vented him. Etch one of them picked up a rock, but Picket drop ped his, dodged Line's as he threw it, and rushed upon him with u knife, cutting a gash fiv r t-ix inches in his antagonist' side nml cut one rib in two. Lane died Thursday night. Picket is in Law rence county jail. Great floods in South Carolina. Colcmbia, May 21. Yee'erdav morning a terrible ruin storm vsiited this city and the upper part of the; State. Seven to nine inches of wn ter fell, and the highest freshet ever known in South Carolina is now raging. Many of the railroads will be impassable for a week. The wa ter works here haye been swept away, and a water famine is immi nent Tbe Columbia Canal, which the State has been building for fiv.r years at a cost of millions, h almos, a complete wreck. One hundred and forty convicts hired out on a plantation near the city are in a very dangerous position The plantation has become an island and the water is still rising. Boats are being Bent to their assistance. Cotton in low lands has been des troyed, and the loss of cattle is very great. One cattle raiser, a few miks above Columbia, lost 1 10,000 worth of live, Cattle, sheep and hogs are floating down the river. The man ufactories in : tbe city dependent upen water hae been obliged to suspend operations. The Conga ree River hers it still rising at the rate of an inch an hour, and the railroad bridges are in great danger. . Crops la tbe Northwest. St. Paul, Minn., May 23. Tbe special crop reports of the North west, compiled by C. M. Shultz, commercial editor of tbe rioneer Pre, state that the weather for the past few days has been fine and tho condition ef the crops is generally good, the exception being in the low ground of the Upper Red River Val ley, in Southern Minnesota, along the Mississippi river aad particular ly in Iowa, where the rains have been heavy and frequent and seed ing and corn-planting are backward. Some of tbe farma in Southern Minnesota will not be seeded at all. In James River Valley crops never looked so well, and the prospects along tbe Northern Pacific are also brilliant. In Central Minnesota the usual excellent crops are promised. Corn-planting will be generally fin ished this week, with the exception of the lower grounds iu Iowa and Nebraska. married. TEDROW HOUGH. On Thursday. May 30, ISM, in the M. E. Church at Dawson, Pa., by Rer. Rufus HoWt, Mr. Charles Tnl row, of Somerset County, Fa., to Mita Mag gie Hough, of Fayette County, Pa. DIED. SLICK. Ou Mutiday, May IS3C, in Shade, Soiavrset County, Pa., at the residence of bis father-in-law, Jesse Slick, Esq., Mr. Henry Slick, aged 43 years, 1 month and 20 days. The home of the deceased was at Madridt Boone County, Iowa. He came East a few months ago, hoping to regain his health. He was a soldier, having entered the service August li 1.S62, and was honorably dis charged June 20, 163. He was a niembor of the O. A R.-J. FiliuerPost No. :M7. Iowa Department chartered June .".0. 1884. Tbe Post of Storestown, in honor of their departed comrade, were present at the fu neral in a body. He leaves a wife, three children, and an aged father to mourn bis death. W. D. L. RHO.VDd.-Oa Tuesday May 20th. of paralysis at bis residence in Somerset. Jefferson Rhoads, aged 73 years, 8 months and J ! days. His companion and 11 children remain to mourn over their loss. Mr. Rhoads had been enjoying about bis usual degree of health, when be arose in the morning be complained of headache, and his son-in-law urged him to sit down till be would kindle the fire. He took his grand-child in his arms, and in few moments compiained ; the child began to fall from his embrace, the son -in law cauuht the child and grand parent in time to prevent the fall. A physi cian was summoned bnt it was in vain. In uTteen minutes life was extinct. He was a faithful member of the Evangelical Church for a na ruber of years. His consistent life though so suddenly ended is a source of comfort to those left behind. He was buried Saturday, May '22, at the Lichty (".lurch, on Somerset circuit in the presence of a large concourse of friends and neighbor!). F. W. B. AN ORDINANCE For Ikt Government of Ike Borough of jiiiEiTowi. amsn ci n Bo il Ordained Oy the Burgeto and Town Coun cil of Jennenown Borouqh, and il it hereby Ordainedond .'sorted by ihe Authority of tht lame: Sac. I Tbe Street Commissioner, amler the ill- n etloB of the Uaivxs. shUl establish the grade at wiih-u kii i,eiDeuis ami siuewaiKft snail De lata, to which grade all lot-holders shall conform. Sac. 2. In all cases when lot owners neglect or refuse to make, renew, or repair a pavement, and tha same is dona by tha Borough authorities, a penalty of twenty uer eent on the costs thereof shall be collected from such owner as provided for u, iuq an A8vmDir. Sac S. Tha Street Commissioner shall have ehsixeof the streets of the Borooich and be shall from lime to time, under tha direction ami oontrol of the BurKess and Town Council to do, or cause to he dona, all necessary work and repairs thereon and Is authorised to employ all necessary labor. oMi-, s. iu snan, also, in in ansence or inahtu ty ol the Hitch dmstuble to Derlorm his dutr. serve the dltferent notices of the Borough required uirier wo eniinances. Sac. . The pavements or sidewalks to lie laid shall be or stone, hard burned brick, or tile, or KOjd plank of tha required lengtb. inches tnlrk and from four to eight Inches tnwidih, at the op tion or tha owner of tbe lot. If made of stone, brick or tile, the pavement or sidewalk shall have straight I'Urb. enacted and Subscribed the dau of . last. J A. li. KAVTZ. maygo. Burgess. OJMPARATIVE WORTH ROYAL (Absolutely Pure) GUAM'S .'Alum Towder) . Bl'MFOIiD'S, when fresh.. BAN FORD'S, when fresh... J BEDHEAD'S E CHARM (Alum Powder) C ASAZ05 (Alum Powder).. E CLEVELAND'S, short wtrotC PIONEER (San Franciaco)....E CZAR C DR. PRICE'S. E SNOW FLAKE (Oroff s) E IJEWIS'. E PEARL (Andrews Co.). BECKER'S. BILLET'S. ANnREWS&CO."RegI"Ca Mli.wUM, (Cousins Aloak t BULK (Powder sold loose).... E3 BTJXFORD'S.when not frealiB REPORTS OF GOVERNMENT CHEMISTS As to Purity and Wtaoleaomeneaa of the IJoyal Baking Powdeiv " I have tested a package of Rnj.il Baking Powder, which I purchased In tha open market, and And it composed of p jre and wholesome ingredients. It Is a cream of tartar powder of a hign degree of merit, and does not contain either alara or phosphates, or other Injurious substances. . Q. Love, Ph.D." " It la a scientific fact that the Bcval Baking Powder is absolutely pure. " 11. A. Mott, HuD." " I have examined a package of Royal Baking Powder, purchased hy myself ia the market. I find it entirely free from alum, terra alba, or any other Injurious sub-. Stance. Hekbt Mobton, Fh.D., President of Stevens Institute of Technology." " I have analyzed a package of Royal Baking Powder. The materials of which It la composed are pure and wholesome. & Daja Hatxs, State Assayer, Mass." The Roval Baking Powder received the highest award over all competitors a the Vienna World's Exposition, 1873 ; at the Centennial, Philadelphia, 1876 ; at th .American Institute, New York, and at State Fairs throughout the country. No other article of human food has ever received such high, emphatic, and uni versal endorsement from eminent chemists, physicians, scientists, and Boards of Health all over the world. J Note The above Diagram Illustrates the comparative worth of various Baking; Powders, as shown by Chemical Analysis aad experiments made by Prof. 8chedler. A pound can of each powder was taken, the total leavening power or volume ha each can calculated, the result being as indicated. This practical test for worth by Prof. Schedler only proves what every observant consumer of the Royal Baking Powder knpws by practical experience, that, while It costs a few cents per pound more than ordinary kinds, It is far more economical, and, besides, affords tbe advant age of better work. A single trial of the Royal Baking Powder will convince any fair minded person of these facts. While tho diagram shows some of the alum powders to be of a higher degree cf strength than other powders ranked below them, it is not to be taken as indicat ing that they have any value. All alum powdtjs, no matter how high their strength. are to be avoided as dangerous. for Infants lsowaadaparfsoelilldrorho I aaameHortoanTrirnavi Usira I tome." H. A. Aacsza, K. D I BU' prma, fcivea sleep, and promnraa di- Taa Ctertica Con-ran, 13 rotten Bum. H. T. ALL READY: -FOR- Spring trade Most Complete Stock We Have Ever Shoicn, Colored Silks at 85c. and 95c.; un equaled value. Our 75c. Colored Surwbs are the best Printed India Silks, $2.00 to 75c. Checked and Striped Summer silks, 50c. to 75c; not flimsy, worth buying. Checked Louisine Silks, at 81.00. Black Silks, absolutely best values, at $5 to 75c. Black Sarah Silks, special bargains. Rhadames, Armures, Silk Grenadine". Lew prices for Brocade and plain Velvets. tt I! H f 1 H il II h H H l! It li i rt -ELEGANT NOVELTIES I ci Hi hi ii l n m ii l :n hi mm h I ii I n i m a I in Imported Wool Dress Fabrics, from 81.00 up. Kachmyr Sublime, the best plain wool material at 50c. a yard. Cheviots, flomespcng, Boucles, Cloths, all in Soring color ings. Hosiery Underwear, Muslin, Silk, Lysle and Cotton. Ladies and Misses Wraps and Suits, Jer seys, coat backs, at $1.00. Lace Cnrtains from $1.00 a pair to finest. Curtain Materials of all kinds. Embroider ies, Laces, White Goods, Seersuckers, Crazy Cloths, Satines, Percales, La?ns. We make a specialty of best and finest Good. NO TRASH. OI R MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT Mends samples and information. JOS. HORNE & CO.'S Retail Stores, IV ii ii Avenue, PittMbiirgb, Pa. POUTZ'S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS o Hnm Till rtls of Colic. Bars or Lr Fa tbs. If Pima's Fuwders are nsed ia time. ton til Pow.irrewlllroresiKtpreTCTtHooCHnLMU. loiiu i Powiltrs will prevent Gaps i Foku. Foqu's Fnwilers will Incresss the onsntity ot mils: anil rresro twentj per ceaL, aad make Uta twuer Ana Silt SWIM'S. Fontx Powders will enre or prevent almost ktsbt to whirli Hones snt CstUe Are subject. Fovts's Powr.su wilx aiva SATisTACTioa. Solit everrwbers. David X. TOUTZ. Proprietor. BALTIMORE. MB. uaras-'M-l. Marvellons Sewing Machine Invention! Wonderful Blessing to the Ladies! 5(11? im hs A MAKES WORK Twice as rapid aa on other machines. Twice as easy as on other machines. Genuine Improved Bent Wood Work. Beautiful and Practical Attachments'. Send for descriptive circular. bC.W PITTSBURGH, PA. Wholesale neater ror western i-ennsyivama ana Yi est era Alar? land. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. ZUutte of Levi Knepper. deceased, late of Somer set township. Somerset Co.. Pa. letters of administration on the above estate having been granted to tha undersigned by the proper authority, notice Is hereby given to all persons Indebted to said estate to make Immedi ate pavment and those having claims against tha enme to present them duly authenticated for set tlement on or Deinre rrmay, tne zausy oi juiy IsSo, at the late residence of deceased, at Lavans- ville. w. v. HAY. mayM. Admr. Cum Teitamenlo Annexe, l?OR SALE "TEAM ENGINES. CLAY sM I (II) L- I a HTsj tKkIT VUG ... AlU L I. T nun iritis i nii, rjviiaiyrio auu on i . l. i IKON WORK. Servm.-t.aml Kcirin and Boll- rs od batxl. Hoisting Eoeines nod Mauhinvri dfrtfOviyr. AilheDT, Ftv of BAKING POWDERS. msgjga and Children. Cssrtawtat enrea PoBe. Oooatrpatfon. I Boor Stomach, Diairncm, Kroetataon, AND BECHEli'B Immense Stock ot CIoUiiDg, Hals, anfl Geats' FurnisiilDg GooQs Which we are offering to the people at prices never before known. Clothing. We have all the latest novelties in Four Buttoned Cutaway, Trince Albert, Straight Cut Sack, Cassi. mer, and Worsted Suits. GRAND ARMY ChHdrens' SuitS. ment is more complete now from $2.00 to $9.00 per suit, to$JMU. HatS. A glance at our that we have the handsomest er seen in Somerset. Cents' Furnishing Furnishing Goods consists oi Plain and Fancy Ualf-hose, Suspenders, Underwear, White and Fancy Shirt', Collars and Cuffs, Straw Neckties, and a number of other articles too numerous to mention, all of which we are selling at prices lower than any house in the county. 33. BECHEE, JR., The leopIe Clothier, SOMEIISET, IPIiN'X'A. LOUTHER'S JD'SSUG- STORE. IvTrVIlsr STBEET, SOMERSET, FA. Tais Jiodel Erug Store is rapidly b:conhg a G:-:at Favarite witi Fja pie in Search of FRKSti AND PUEE DKTJOS MEDICINES, DYE STUFFS, SPONGES. TOILET ARTICLES, PERFUMES, TRUSSES, SUPPORTERS, &c. &c. THE DOCTOR GIVES PtRSOSAL ATTESTIOS TO THE COMPOlXDISO Of PHISiCUNS' PRESCRiPTJONS HID FAMILY RECEIPTS, GREAT CARE BEISQ TAKES TO LSE O.VtV FRESH AXO PI KE ARJK LF.S. SPECTACLES, EYE-GLASSES And a Full Line of Optical Goods always on hand. From such a large assortment all can be suited. The Finest Brands of Cigars Always on hand. It is always a pleasure to display our goods to intending purchasers, whether they buy from us or elsewhere. J. M. LOUTHER, M. D. NEW STORE J. M. H0LDERBAUM Has removed his Store from Xo.4, Baer's Block to his new rooms in the and has added a full NEW Everybody is invited and the low prices. COVNTRY Taken in exchange for Goods. Wool espt d"! ly, of ich'ch ice want 5,000 -minds, for whirl ice will pay part rash. J. M Holderbaum, CENTRAL HOTEL BLOCK, Main Street, J. lillt WHOLESALE NOTTOif a o r irr lfininitji v nun sc. r z z ij . f' wrt L. Si. UK .V-t HjLl w ea7 in I ip5 s v 'JAriiaJil'iSii eD IS HEBE, SO IS SUITS AT $5.50. Our Children's Clothing Demrf. than ever before. Prices rani'n.r ardthem aid Pant, .Jo i t J stock of Hats will convince , line of Straw and Fur Goods pv Goods. Our line of Gent.- all the latest stvles of Xeckwor AND NEW GOODS Central Hotel Block, line of GOODS. to call and sec the stock PRODUCE SOMERSET, fV. D. BERND & CO. THE LEADING AND- j the ahoT. line the largest stock in the elir. guarantee oar pnees w rie iwu rwx-A. -UlJo8u (T itemized UtscripSJon ot our immense stack. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO ORDERS
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