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New-York tribune., 1874-11-30

MIDDIRTowE. - There is considerable surnrise
.uoss the dscO'ee, that some Interested person. hv.
~pse4sc,d In having The gmesdei that wh ~ il
Be t.lo for . improvement Of the roads what iso-n n.
road distinct OUtde tie district sy
shr,. fourth Of the eut Supervisor bss already ,e
tesds, amounting 10 5000.
EAoTVs,ulLs-Tus ~ school distinct p.
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30
RAVAGES OF SMALLPOX.

THE DISEASE BREAKS OUT IN DEAF AND DUMB
AsYLUM-THE vACCINArING CORPS AT WORK.
The Sanitary Superintendent has received
information that the number OF cases OF smallpox has
been greatly increased in the past week. Tue yaccina-
ing corps have been instructed to investigate and see
that everybody in districts to which each pector
has been assigned Is properly vaccinated. Under the
new law those who refuse to take proper measures TO
be vaccinaed and have their children protected from
the ravaSes OF smallpox can be compelled 10 suont 10
the ion OF the 65 reported 10 the sanitary
superintendent in the past week. IL have occurredin the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum at e-hundredant-sixy-
second-st and Elevcnhave. On Monday last the first
one was taken with the disease. At thci beginning
doubts were expressed whether the disease at
tack OF varolod not Every precauon was taken to
prevept the spread of the contagion, out the disease
spread rapidly and in very short tne eight OF che III
mates were attacked with smallpox. One Of the nurses
who had been in constant attendance upon The sick was
attacked By the disease and on Friday two OF the ser
wants we're taken with smallpox All the sick were
transported to the smallpox hospital on Blackwell's
Island, and the buildings OF the asylum have been
thoroughly disnfected and fumigated under direction
OF the Board of Health DR.. Day. the Sanitary Slpcrin
tepdept directed T. Taylor Chief OF the VaccInatng
Corps TO that the inmates Of theAyum were prop
ery protected against smallpox, and about 600 have
been carefully vacCnated. This will undoubtedly, DR..
Day SAID yesterday, put immediate stop TO any fur
ther spread OF the disease among the inmates Of the
Asylum.
A peculiarly hard case was reported at the Police
Central Ottce yesterday. nan named Schneider OF
No 4l6 West Forty nnth-s called at the FOrysCyenth
S. station at 10 m on Saturday and SAID that his son
Charles IL of age, mad died sud ieny at
Friday without the attendance Of physician Sanitary
superintendent Day telegraphcd TO Dr. Ewn OF No 15i
West Forty st. the Sanitary Inspector OF the dis
tsct, saying. Schneider dead with smallpox" Upon
receipt of this telegram Dr. Ewn once called upon
schneider To investigate the circumstances of the
case and learn why medical attendance had
not been sought. He Gscertaincd that
the bov had been sick with smallpox for 70 DAYS
During this time he had been SHUT up In
hvestory brick tenement in which his father Ives. His
father reported 10 be good circuns' arces
the in which he lives and the lot upon
which built. DIR. Exin said that ne considered
where the fathers treatment had been cruel
and inhunau toward hs He added thar II medical
had been provided for the boy his life might
have been saved WHAT the fathers reasons were for
not calling physician could not be ascertained. IL
inferred that Mr.. Schneider WAS afraid that his
tenants might he frightened away If they knew that
there "A Of smallpox in the house The body
OF the boy taken 10 tue AorgHe and Coroner Kess
Ter is to hold inquest.
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30
STRIKES IN WINTER.

The state of affairs between the striking
ongshOremen and the OF vessels has undergone
no change during the past 4S hours The former evnce
DO disposition to recede from the position they have
taken and the latter obtaining such assistance as
can be found There il difficulty in obtaining mer'
and nearly all the OF sailing vessels are as well
supplied as the prOpretors Of steamships The strikers
place great reliance upon what they call the moral
effect" of the meeting which is to be held tonight
at Cooper Institute and at which the Hon. s. g.
Cox. Richard OGoman. AlgcrnOn g. Sullivan. Gen. 7.
II. Jones' Leon Albeit, Judge Hoffman, and Gov. Bedle
are announced to speak, and declare that with
such supporters they will ultimately exercise in
fuence upon the vessel owners, and compel them to
pay the desired rates. Nearly all tie steamships sailed
time on Saturday. Among the exceptions, however,
was CITY of Montreal OF the Inman line. She had
extraordinary cargo of heavy machinery on board.
and this fact taken connection with her late arrival
DELAYED her departure She will probably he ready TO
sail tomorrow afternoon The Ongshoremen proposed
grain bag few days ago that they should
unto with them in striking and embarass the mer-
chants in every conceivable The bag we're
generally opposed 10 taking any such action. but they
Saturday night and adopted resolution in eli ct
that they were satisfied with their present rates OF
fusng to unto with them unless non-society mon shall
be induced join the strikers. declaring that in OF
a a present their places would he Immediately
filled with other persons. Committee was appointed
TO call upOn the long gsluTcmeu, aud sec what action the
latter would the matter.
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30
TyyrEDs DREAM OF LIBERTY.

TWEED'S DREAM OF LIBERTY.
A HABEAs CORPUS TO BE APPLIED fo'-AiiH
HAVE TIE SENTENCE AS PRONOUNCED BY 'oD"-
DAVIS REVIEWED.
For some time past rumOrs nave oeeh oui
rent that william NJ. Tweed would be released o" 'o''.
LEG Al nrocess at the OF the first term OF one year
bis tweve years sentence. The first OF these rnors
reached THE TRIBUNE before the election ana WIS '"
ho .gct that 8 J. Tilden then candidate for Governor
bod held from the first that Tweed's sentence was
Illegal though JUST and that he could not DC he'o "nuei
the indictment for misdemeanor longer thah one 'c
Mr. Tilden was informed OF this rumor, aud In reply
authorized the reporter OF THE TRIBUNE who conveyeu
the intelligence to say that there was No truth "n"'
ever in the statement aud that lie held no such theory
OF the law. 1t also reported at the time hat Ar'
Tlden had for political given Twecds friends
assurances that when In authority he would commute
the rest Of the sentence. Mr.. Tlden reped mat 10
such assurances had been given, that ne ala not expect
Tweed's friends to support him, ana that he khe"
Tweed had no political influence or party organization
These runors again been set ahoa ana II may De
as well to deny them at this late date.
But the later rumOrs Indicate resort to civil pro-
cess for relieving Tweed the end OF his first term
This expired Saturday last. lie was sentenceu Oh
Nov o. ls73 but not confined in the Penitentlary
nntii Nov o. following, the Sheriff having allowed him
a week under strict scrveiancc In whlch 10 settle his
business affairs. He is now to be brought down from
legal punishment for tho crime OF mlsdemeanor has
been expated This Is. of course for the purpose OF
having The decision of Judge Davis, that Tweed could
be sentenced every four OF the counts which
he was found guilty reviewed 10y higher court. His
counsel claim that he could be sentenced only once Tor
each Indictment After the second trial OF Tweed all
the many previous indictments against him were em-
braced in indictment known at the time as the ON
nibus indictment" 50 that while he was charged with
different Oenses he indicted for only one. Such
claim OF his counsel. They claim moreover that
pre- yious constructions of the law justify this vew aud
that Judge Noah Davis himself. who sentenced
Tweed, had previously held that the "omnibus indct-
ment covered only ofense to be punished by
single term of Imprisonment The following Is Judge
DaviS's language the time the question having come
up whether or not the indictment covered more
ofenses
In my Judgment the party who is thus charged with
variety Of misiemcanoT- In single indictment instead
Of having forty fifty indictments against him, IL
greatly relieved from the consequences OF the onses
from the fact that they brought IN single IN
Gctmcnt. III this there might be 50 ndictm MS II
these counts all true and there were 50 indictments
found, while the single act of uniting them in
single Indictment rs understand, Will reduce tile pun
lshment to single one.
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30

HOLINESS BURGLAR ALARM TELEGRAPH, j71
protects -seh door sad wndog Of your You
sHrIt, he viii hOut /
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30
A HOMICIDE IN jersey CITY.

VIM. Livingston of No. 9Sa Fifth-st. Jersey
Oy and James Bennett were attacked about i.3O D.
Saturday by three Philip Reilly. lanes HUT
and Dick GilligaH. ia front OF L9ndrines hardware
store Grove and Bayss.. aud one OF them dealt
Livingston blow IN the face telling him TO the side
walk 10 such inauHet THAI b. head suuck heavily
upon the cuTistouo Il was noticed that be made
attempt to arise, snd the rOughs fsd Officers Sichol-
and Doyle we've attracted to the spot hy
the noise. and with the assistance OF Ben
nett they ccTveyed Livingston TO drug store.
Twenty minutes after aray occurred the inaa died
Dsath caused hy fracture of thc skuil Tue
officers arrested Gngdp at Lie house yesterday
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30
NEW-JERSEY.

she m James S.on Collector their reception every
osy snl Dee Is, after winch percentage will be added
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
A CUSTOM-HOUE OGRE.

A CUSTOM-HOUE OGRE.
PROSPECTIVE REORGANIZATION IN THE SURVEYORS
DEPARTMENT THE INSPECTORS GREATLY
ALARMED.
Since the election there have been at the
Cus,om-house many rumors Of contemplated changes
among the employees, but they have only served to
excite the apprehension Of those who did not feel we'll
supported politically. Not few clung to Civil Service
reform as protection. and easy in mind until Sat
urday last when the following mysterious notice was
posted In the Surveyors Department, which is the
head quarters of the Inspectors
CUsroMHOUsE, NEw-YoRK CITY.
SURVEYORS DEPARTMENT, Dec. /, 1874.
NorJCE-InspectOrs OF Customs will, within the next
three DAYS hand ia to Mr. French slip OF paper con
tanning their residence. giving the street and number
and Assembly District or ward If in Brooklynl Also,
from whence appointed giving the assembly 50 %
brooklyn By order of the Collector.
''''" j. L. BEsEDIcr SPECIAL Deputy surveyor;
RnaIdo II French is Chief Clerk OF tie Surveyors De-
parmon and an active politician Of the Seventh Ward
of Brook yn Those who first saw the notice applied 10
M French ascertain its purpose but he claimed to be
OF no more information than the notice
When became generally known among e inspectors
that such an order had been issued, there was much
conjecture and more cOnsternation There waS great
diversity OF opinion in regard to ts exact AIM Dut an
agreed that it meant the decapitation OF consider
able number of force Some claimed that there were
Of Ss SS now whG mac n R
Jersey END that t1s e % e! nen nG Oh
suggested that tie order was issued for ihe
PURPOSE of furnishing information for tue new Treasury
name. designation OF office, place Of birth. date of
appointment aud salary. the Assembly and Ward clause
The hest informed among them stated that 1t was in
tended to remove from the service large nnmher OF
inspectors Who sympathzing with the spirit 0 Civil
Service Reform baYe refused TO take any active part IN
. ana to pat iu their places men who would be OF
snu cling to the delusion Of Cyil Service
Reform said that it made no difference where
formed his duties but they looked no happier after
this declaration. The general feeling among the IN,
specors is one of great uneaslness ana alarm ana All
who were spoken to declined to allow the use "l theF
names because If it known that they had cHtl-
cised the order OF their superior ofhcer IL WOnd cost
them their position. 1t Is rum0red that similar Oruer
is soon 10 be issued to the other departments al the
Guafo
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30
THE BROOKLYN SCANDAL SUITS.

Counsel on both sides in the Brooklyn
.yruosi ,,at say: .nrormed chiefJuige Nelson that
they will be ready to with the trial Of the case on
they fully expect that the Court of Appeals
will have decided the question as to bill of particulars
before that time. Judge Nelson has told George W
Knaebe Deputy Clerk Of the City Court to prepare
requison to the Commissioners of Jurors for special
panel OF petit Jurors assemble in Room % Of the
Courthouse at 10 o'clock Dec O. 1t first thought
that 500 Jurors would he sufficient but the Court iu
sure the securing OF jury TO have double that
number summoned.
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30
THE sTREErCAR CONDUCTORS CONSPIRACY.

Hewitt alias Gibson, the conductor on the
Sixth Avenue Railroad, and May the bell-hanger at
Flryninth-st. and Secondave, who were arrested on
Friday charged with consplrng to deraui the horse
railroad companies as related in Saturdays TRIB-
UNE were taken before Justice Morgan In the Tombs
Police Court and May held in $500, and Hewitt
alias Gibson in $1,000 The idea OF nvenng something
hy which the conductors who wished to defraud the
ra road companies still could do In spite OF the
duction Of the punch had been entertained by many
s,hcming persons. The who made the punch
heater used by Hewitt alias Gibson He'd nearly week
ago, having feared trouble.
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30

Innuvincenent.
Assure relief rasthma-WuITCoMB's REMEDY

For an elegant fashionable Hat of superior
quality go direct the Manufacturer ksPESscaEID lis SAsau
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN HAMILTON COUNTY.

TROY, Nov. ga terrible tragedy, enacted
last week Friday in Hamilton County. has just been
made pubic in The G'orersre Adrerfissr It occurred
in the woods 16 miles north OF ,Wcllstown. Elijah Will
lians and George smith, while building house, had n
drunken sht. during which Williams threw Smith
a saw. buck. severed his head IRON his body with -
haudsaw, and then cut his own throat with the same
saw. A lad witnessed the terrible affair and informed
the nearest neighbOr two miles distant. Both men
were buried OH Sunday. Williams 80 years Old
and leaves a wife and child Smith was % years old
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30

ing and conveyed him to tho Becond Precinct
He was admitted 10 bail last night Reiliy ana nun
have thus far evaded the Officers but It Is believed nst
they will captured to-day Tue deceased Was Wn
C. Whyie. builder in Jersey CITY, He has LETT WIS
,udse
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30

Al FURNITURE AUCTION SALR.-EVcTy variety
OF FURSITuGE aud fancy pieces suitable Holiday Peents
will be AUCTiON. TCKsD Dec
o'clock and continuing th,ugh WEDNKsDAY be- at the
g. L. kELTr Co, lSi Efhave Twenty hirlt
HKNKY d. MINER, Auttoneer
New-York tribune., 1874-11-30
HOME NEWS.
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-04
Singular Case OF Human Petrifac-
tiOn.

A we'll authenticated and rather as
tonishing case of petrifacation of hu
man body has recently been reported to
the writer, but names and localities are
omitted in Difference to the wishes of
relatives of the deceased lady whose re-
mains furnish the phenomenon herein
alluded to. The circumstances of the
case are substantially as follows: A la
dy residing in the southern portion of
the State died about eleven years ago
and was buried--the body remaining
undisturbed until a few days ago, when
her husband and friends deemed it ex-
pedient to remove it to another burial
place. Workmen were employed to dis
inter the coffin inclosing the body, and
in due time they had uncovered the
coffin, but on attempting to lift it to the
surface, were surprised to observe that
it was of extraordinary weight. Sub
sequent investigations revealed the fact
that the body, instead of showing the
decay which is presumed to be the lot of
all humanity, and actually been petri-
fed during the eleven years intervening
between its burial and disinterment-
the body and features retaining their
bony outlines, but completely solidifed
or turned into stone. The friends of
the lady, some of whom are now resi-
dents of st. Paul, for good and suffi-
cient reasons, dislike to have the name
given to the public unless some good
and useful purpose can be subserved
Paul Press.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-04
Horrible Wife Murder at Clover.
dale, Ind.

TERRE HAUTE, November 30.-At
Cloverdale, in Putnam County, Indiana,
yesterday, man named Thomas Martin
became offended at something said by
his wife, and gave her three minutes to
retract. At the end of that time he
stood in the door of the house and shot
her with a pistol, the bail taking effect
in her head, killing her instantly. A
man named Stanton was in the house,
and interfered to save the woman, when
Martin shot him, the ball taking effect
in the shoulder. He is expected to die.
The wife of Martin had her baby in
her arms when she was shot, and fell
back dead clasping it. 1t is not believ-
ed that Martin made any charge of in
fidelity against his wife. He had been
trying to get rid of her, and had offered
her $500 if she would consent to be di-
vorced from him, as he wanted to marry
another woman. After the shooting
Martin pretended to be crazy, and went
about telling that he had killed man
named Harris whom he had not touched
at all. There is great excitement in Clo-
verdale, and strong probability that
Martin will be lynched tonight.
INDIANAPOLIS, December George
Martin the man who murdered his wife
at Cloverdale. day before yesterday, was
brought to Greencastle on the ) o'clock
train this afternoon, and is now in Jail.
There is no excitement, and no proba-
bility that any attempt will be made at
lynching. Martin is an ordinary look
and does not appear capable of doing
such deed He is said to be feigning
insanity. and told several person before
being arrested that he had killed man
by the name of Akens, who he said had
been palying caros with him, and they
got into trouble, and Akens tried to stab
him. 1t seems Martin and his wife were
visiting one Riley Stanton, at whose
house the deed was committed. Stanton,
upon hearing the shot, interfered to pre-
vent further shooting, when Martin tri-
ed to stab him, but did not injure him
seriously. The woman was sitting in a
rocking chair, with her babe, aged about
eight months, in her arms. He had
given her ten minutes to retract some
thing she said few days before. At the
expiration of the time ne placed a revel-
yer to her head and shot, killing her in
stantly. He had been drinking quite
hard lately, and was under the influence
of liquor at the time.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-04

the existing financial distress, with SO
ployment, and wages everywhere re-
duced, | most earnestly renew the re-
commendation / then made The State
should not embark in new building en-
terprises until the public buildings now
in process of construction shall have
been completed new Offices should not
be created; and your present session
should be brought 10 a close at the earl
lest moment when, in your judgement,
the public business will allow. The
evidence you gave at your last session of
determination to retrench, by reducing
the tax levy S474,000, and by other acts
of Legislation, has encouraged the people
of the State TO believe that economy and
prudence will govern all your actions in
the matter of public expenditures.
1t is a question for your serious con-
sideration, whether the compensation of
our county officers is not disproportion-
ate to the salaries of other public officers
and of persons in private life. Public
servants should be reasonably compens-
ated but salaries and fees should not be
so high as to make the getting of Office a
profession, and TO enable candidates and
applicants to buy their way to public
places.
1 conclude by expressing the hope
that your session may be pleasant and
harmonious, and that it may be produc-
tive of great good to the State.
w. ALLEN, Governor.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-04

MIR. H. w. Beecher says concerning
chow the Swiss live" "As much as
anything am surprised at the places
deemed habitable and actually inhabi-
ted. On the sides of mountains, on the
edges of precipices, upon sleeps which
the children of the plains would hesi-
tate to climb as feat of daring, are
seen not single houses alone, but groups
of them and large neighborhoods. In
deed, half the people ofSwitzerland love
to live on shelves, and 1 suppose they
can crawl along perpendicular places by
some such provision as the flies have;
otherwise it is difficult to see how they
ascend and descend. And how children
are ever brought up, can't imagine. /
should expect four out of five, the mo-
ment they stepped out of the door, to
fall down into some brake or gorge. Yet
the population continues to increase and
maintain it's numbers. They are chill
dren of the air. They are forever sur
rounded by mountains, than which moth
ing is more beautiful and nothing is
more sublime, except the clouds that
solemnly sweep their tops and hold my
sterious communion with them"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-04

ELASTICITY OF MAsoNRY.-The elias
ITCHY of walls and piers of masonry has
been shown in the great bridge at St.
Louis. There is a centre span of 500
feet in the clear, and two side spans of
SOP feet each, with heavy stone piers and
abutment. The spans exert thrust on
the abutments and piers, the effects of
which were accurately. noted in recent
experiment. Fourteen locomotives were
run on one of the side spans, and the
crown of the arch over the middle span
was observed to rise one-quarter of an
inch. It returned to its former eleva-
tion when the load on the sides span was
removed. The horizontal detection of
the pier is estimated to have been one
twelfth of an inch. This DETECTION
must have taken place between the
spring of the arches and the part of the
pier firmly imbedded in the river bed
or in body of solid masonry thirty-six
feet wide on an average and sixty-fve
feet long.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-04

CLOSE CONTESTS was an un-
usual number of close contests in the
Congressional election. :".Cutler beats
Phelps in New Jersey, by 4 votes; Har-
rison, in one of the Chicago districts,
has majority, and Gale, in Wisconsin,
majority. The Erie district of Penn
sylvania elects Egbert over Curtis by II
votes. Ainsworth. in Iowa, has SO ma
jority; Walsh, in Maryland, 7s majority,
and Baker, in Indiana, So majority.
Foster in Ohio, Dahney in Georgia, Far
we'll in Illinois, Tufts in Iowa, Boone in
Kentucky, Frost in Massachusetts,, and
Goode in Virginia are elected by less
than 100 majority Out of these close
runs will grow crop of contests for
seats in the next House of Representa-
tives.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-04

EMIGRATION STATIsTICs.-The sta
tistics of emigration certainly do not
show that the natives of Great Britain
feel any frantic sort of alteration for
her. During the past sixty years she
has seen population of exactly 7 1871 :
897 depart to other lands. In 1873
alon9 the number of emigrants was 31O,-
612. The greater part of these people
came to this country, while the rest tried
fortune chiefly in Australasia. 1t is
curious how completely French senti-
ment is the reverse of English on the
subject of emigration. Only about 13O,-
900 French people have settled in AL
geria, and France has had possession of
that country for forty years. French
population is, however, constantly de-
creasing. During five years, and for
reasons independent of emigration and
the cession of Alsace, it has declined by
half million.