The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-07-24
CURRENT NOTES.

| ne Eric OOSeTCeT, the DemOcratlc
organ of Erie county, refuses to put
up the Greeley and Brown ticket.
The entire Greeley party in Mead
vile got drunk the other night and
was committed to the lookup. He
was discharged next morning on pay
ment of fine and costs.
The Bloomsbury Republican inti-
mates that the reason why Buckalew
held on to the portieo railing when
making his Philadelphia speech was
that some one had put too much sugar
in his tea.
There is hotel in California CON-
posed of ten immense hollow trees,
standing few feet apart The lar
gest of these is sixty-fve feet around,
and is used as bar and kitchen. For
bed-chambers there are nine great
hollow trees, whitewashed or papered,
and having doors cut to fit the shape
of the holes, Literature finds place
in leaning stump dubbed ''the libra
ry"
Bolting Democratic journals are
multiplying. The Terre Haute Un-
diana) Journal and the Seymour
Democrat, leading journals in Indiana,
refuse to support Greeley. The Sa-
vannah (Georgia) Ne,cs of the same
party, SAYS that Grant will beat Gree
ley 10000 in that State.
Nearly 3,O00,0O letters went to
the dead letter Office last year. Four
hundred thousand of them had no
stamps, and 5000 had no address
They contained $92, 1000 in cash, So
000,006in drafts and checks, and 8,
OO0,O26 photographs.
The Allentown Chronicle saws
there are two hundred and thirty-sev-
en- Democrats in that city who will
not vote for Greeley. The old Dem
oeratic party is dead, and they do not
intend to vote for an "expediency" at
the imminent risk of bursting up the
country.
A little boy in Shreveport recently
asked lady who made her teeth
She replied God" WELL" remark
ed young Shreveport, "Dr. Kendall
made mothers and they beat yours
by sight.
The Times and Dispatch saws =
Hundreds of Democrats in Reading
are expressing disgust for the action
of the Baltimore Convention, and
hundreds will not vote for Greeley,
notwithstanding the strenuous efforts
of representative Democrats to con-
vey different impression"
Reports from Iowa state that the
present promises to be the most abun-
dant season for grain ever known in
the State Grain of all kinds is rapid
ly ripening, and crops, it is said, were
never better
Halifax, n. s., has q brave girl Of
seventeen, named Emma Longard-
er Hfather's house being attacked BY
q burglar the other night, she dressed
herself in an absent brothers clothes,
and with poker so belabored the
rascal that his recovery is considered
doubtful
The people of Maine held a snow
picnic on the 4th of July. In the
northern part of the State there is a
snowdrift of enormous dimensions,
which, although the mercury in the
neigborhood ranges from ninety to
one hundred degrees, bids fair to last
all summer. The drift was originally
seventy feet high.
A Wisconsin man writes that he
has voted the Democratic ticket for
twenty-one years, and adds: II have
Numerically differed with Horace
Greeley on every political issue he
ever made; and though he received the
unanimous Endorsement Of every man
in the Baltimore Convention, and be
then and there baptised, parboiled
in Democratic blood, through and
through, he shall never have my
vote"
Mr.. Jessie r. Grant, father of the
President, last week paid a visit to
Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio, Of
which place he was for many years a
resident, and from which the Presi-
dent went to West Point. The old
gentleman is exceedingly feeble, de-
crepit not only from old age, but also
from recent attack of paralysis. He
is in charge Of a servant, who watch
es over him at all times.
The Washington Republican, states
as a fact, taat "of the twenty-seven
Republican journals that went into
the Gratz Brown revolt some two
years ago, only one, the organ of
Carl Shurz, now approves the Balti-
more nominations. This does not
look as if there were many Liberal
Republicans in Missouri and is omin-
GUS for that 100000 majority Gratz
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