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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-04

T. Secretary and Treasurrr OF the Soule7s''
County Agricultural Society. ~.
Received by Freas. from ssleof tickets si-s ~
George Cohaash- - "
asa 50
Disbursed per orr rs 81 E.Nccstise joninii's'
and Premium Committee,
For work material en Il. eiruuDd. s652 II
" watehlaen arht glatekespers-..- - 9"
' Journal premianis- = sl45 a.
" silver prems. exPE. 59c. 90 50
china ware premiums. Il 70 ,,, -
- printing, Hoffman ....-.. 80 90
" Scull ..-....s-. 800 o.
" Band -.-.-. s...-.....s. s...s- - %
- books, stationery h postage, e.. .,.,a 4
W. BentOr,l - O5: H. Sehell - 25-lO 5o-tI'Ss -
Leaving in the hands of the Treasurer. ~ d.
Cash Premiums uncaled tor. ..... .....--.
p,n.u. .-. $50
Besides the above statement for work
. material ON Fair Ground, there Was ih --s IS
nishej bin Of lumber by Roberts \ stnnst 80
Upon which ayments were msste bs ths M
Executive CO-gmittee Of services that elN
not pass through the hands VI tbe lreas
urer, as fellows, 50 = -.--. Al. %
Paid by 10. CONS under net of Asseuiii Z! =. hi
Borrowed Of County Commissioner "a ID
fromt q. &. NIusselman
s.75@
Leaving the debts of the Socety,as ioos.-s a
To Roberts anl Sannsr balance on bll. .r-.T -
" Josiah ShaTer MS per bill approved 7S1 10
- County .....-..... ~ 10
% q. G.. Musselman- .-'--'' = %
'st}cOrge Cobaugh. ..---...-.--...--''
SIS IS
C MUSSELMAN, IT...s
HENRY r SCHE1-L- Ir'A'
rebas FL KOOSER- Secret1''-
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OIL Refinery Burned

BALTIMORE, Feb. 25.-This Morn
ing the still in the coal oil refinery o.
Robert Reed, corner Of Eden stree.
and Canton Avenue. exploded with
terrific force. the still being carried
several feet into the street. In few
minutes the entire building was en-
veloped in flames, and by nine O'Clock
it, with the three stills. valuable ma
chinery, etc, were totally DESTROYED.
The burning oil ran down the cutters
in the vicinity, and several narrow
escapes of pedestrians were made
Fred. LOutebach, cooper Of the ref
merry, was fatally burned. The coop
ering establishment OF Kimball, Schaf-
fer & Co, adjoining, on Canton ave
nue. was also burned. The entire
loss is estimated at from s2000O %
S2j, 900, mostly covered by insurance
\ FINE distinction was that tie
preacher of the Richmond First Bap-
tist Church made: NV brudier>
said he, when yeu was all slaves
dar might ha' been some sense 70:
euttin' a slice off o. de mars bacon or
hookin a handful o cornmeal or rob
bin de hen rUost, for YOU all work
den, nv brudiers. an YOU earn i
my brudders and sisters , But now
YOU is all free men, dar amt no s'cuse
whatever, you's all on your own
'spOsdibilitv :"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-04

all ambitious politicians beware the
rock on which he split Remember
we men who climb to Office through
devious ways, that the rural press
represents no real public sentiment,
it buyTeHeesF the potent thunder, of
the great dailies. tslg4
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lnOnn a NONIH-OVer HHfI .v,ry
SOUU best selling articles, neeueu eut..sir, of Is
family. A valuable sample sent ON f''Sf
f''' q. W. SNEAD VI;
dee2t --.e a. Sixth ST, Pittsburgh H.
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IFF fcSN AAhs Co.,.
HARRISBURG. February 24,-Mr.
Mcclure offered o supplement to the
Election law. a,,...... t...-.- ..
Mr.. Graham, sked and Obtained
the use of the chamber tomorrow
evening for the committee appointed
by the colleges of the State to address
the Assembly in reference to relieving
them from taxation.
|. The bill fixing the compensation
Of members was discussed the rest of
the morning hour.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Newmyer presented lengthy
petition in favor Of appointing Coal
Commissioners in Western Pennsyl-
vania, and then called up and passed
the act.
Mr. Mccormick called up the law
Of entails, and had the first section
stricken out, and the bill passed.
Mr. Ramsey called up the Judi
cial salary bill.
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- moxTu-oxrr Half profit.

&C. MUSSELMA An, IT,, T.,,s
HENRY =. SCHEIL,
FL. KOOSER- Secfe''l-!.
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aIting influences of the new Constitp
lion. Mr.. Dimmick permitted himself
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DEPoRTof THE PRESInENg.

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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
How to Get at a Mandarin.

BIuntness of manners and lack of cOur-
teOus forms between visitors may not seem
so amiable; but much time and talking
are saved by hOnely intrOductiOns. The
Chinese higher classes do their inter
viewing by rule. If it costs as much Ia
bored pOsturing and circumlOcutiOn as is
here stated to meet a Mandarin, it must re-
quire weeks education to get at the En-
perOr:
Rules OF pOliteness are all regulated at
Pekin by the tribunal of rites. In case you
wish to nav visit to a Mandarin, the
proper thing to do is to send in your card.
on a small piece of red paper, on which Is
your name, followed by polite sentence
like this:
..The tender and sincere friendship OF
YOUR lordship. and the perpetual discipline
of your doctrine, thus presents himself 10
pay his respects and bow before you to the
earth"
If the Mandarin is willing to receive
YOU. he asks YOU TO pass before him. GU
are expected to make the humble reply,
81 / dare not - and after an infinity of geS-
lures. which are all arranged, and obllga-
tory phrases. the master OF the house bows
to a chair, and slightly dusts it with the
corner of his robe, upon which you are at
length seated.
The difficulties are much increased wnen
ten or a dozen Mandarins call upon an
Englshman at once, and. according TO the
custom. tea is offered, beginning at the
one of the highest rank. He pretends to
offer it to the next, then 10 the third, and
so on to the last. All having politely re-
fused, he permits himself TO drinkit. The
second. in his turn has TO offer his cup %
I the others: and thus the farce proceeds
until all have gone through the wearl-
some task. The whole scene passes with
7 imperturbable gravity, and il requires the
/ greatest self-command not 70 smile at such
etiquette,
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Frog and Alligator.

Persons i'm the habit Of walking along
Charles street, near Beacon, are familiar
with the tank in Shows apOthecaTy store,
with its numerous gold fish, which, with
a monster frog. two alligatOrs and turtle,
formed what seemed to be a harmonious
and happy family. Butappearances in this
case, as in so many Others, were deceptive.
The huge frog, whose swollen figure was
so conspicuous at the side OF the tank to-
ward the window, was a most voraclous
monster, devOuring other frogs, as well as
making a dainty meal off the delicate gold
fish. A few DAYS ago one Of the aliigators,
eleven inches long, was missing, and alter
search bad been made everywhere else, It
occurred TO the owner Of the tank 70 eX-
anime the inside of the frog. though It
hardly seemed reasonable TO suppose that
he had swallowed the alligator. But on
opening his mouth il was clear that this
was the case, and by putting the fingers
down the frogs throat the body OF the alli-
gator, somewhat sOftened. but not decoul-
posed. was brought up from the unDound-
ed stomach Of the huge crOaker. we are
glad to be able TO state, for the Satisfaction
Of mothers with small children living IN
the neighbOrhOOd, that the frog Is 70 De
sent aWay.-BostoH GLObs.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
Fast Time on the Hudson River Rail-
road.

William H. Vanderbilt and family and
the President Ofthe New Haven Railroad
and family reached Albany from Niagara
Falls in special train of two drawing
room cars about , O'Clock yesterday after
noon. We do not know what time they
made on the New Y ork Central, but at )
p. m. locomotive No. 46. James Paul, en-
gineer, hitched on the train at West Al
bany and started it for New York. Their
coming had been telegraphed ahead, and
there was clear sailing. Ii took about ten
minutes to do the slow travelling over the
bridge and down along the yards, and then
Jimmy pulled her out' and away flew
the train like a meteor. At CastletOn,
COXsackie and other points people gaZed
with terror rs the cars thundered by at the
rate of a mile minute. They could hard
ly be seen. but looked like one piece of
wood and iron rushing through the air.
There was a slight slow up at Hudson,
and in three minutes after the train dashed
| by Catskill station with ''whir ~ that
was astounding. Gravel stones, dust and
dry sticks whirled along in the wake of the
! lightning train in clouds. Three minutes
were consumed at TivOli for water, and
once more ''old 49, was measuring iron at
/ the rate of mile a minute till Rhinebeck
was reached. There they were repairing
the telegraph wire and part of it was across
| the track. Five minutes were consumed
there. when the wire was cut and the train
dashed on again. the cars rocking on the
rails like cradle and the dust flying in
every direction. Over bridges and trestle-
work, around curves. through deep cuts II
ratified away. rushing over the Fallkill
/ bridge into this station at a forty mile an
hour gait, having made Poughkeepsie in
one hour and thirty-eight minutes from
Albany, and deducting eighteen minutes
fer stops the actual running time was one
/ hour and twenty minutes the best time
ever made on the Hudson River Railroad.
/ i-P0K0hkeeySis Eagle.
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Max Adeler on Grapevine Culture.

| have not been very successful with my
experiments in grape culture. bought
vine some time ago, and the man who sold
the cutting to me enjOined me to be care
full to water it thoroughly every day. |
did so, but it didn't seem to thrive. One
dav | asked my neighbOr Pitman what
he thought was the matter with it. and
when mentioned that l watered it daily,
he said
=. Be gracious. Adeler, that'd kill any
one, A grapevine don't want no artificial
waterin'."
Then he advised me to discontinue the
process and to wash the vine with soap
Suds i'm order to kill the bugs. Ny anxiety
to know why it still didn't thrive was re-
lived some time aftCrward BY OyerhearinG
a man in the cars remark that - some men
kill their grape-vines by their burned fool
ery in putin sOapsuds on en- He said
that all a grapevine wanted was to have
the earth around it lOosened now and
then with a spade. Then | began to DIG
around nv vine every morning, but one
day, while engaged in the exercise,
Cooley came and leaned over the fence
and said:
'sAdeler, you'll kill that there vine if
you don't stop diggin' at it. NOthin' hurts
vine wuss than diSturbin' the soil around
the roots. now mind me. That vine don't
want nOthin' but to be trained up on q
trellis an fastened with wire"
| ordered a trellis that afternoon, and
tied tender shoots of the vine to the cross
pieces. The job cost me S3l. On the fol-
lowing Tuesday ! read in my agricultural
paper that if a man wanted to ruin grape
vine, the quickest way is to tie it up with
wire. as the oxidation destroys the bark.
So | took off the wire and replaced it with
string. | was talking about it to the man
who came over to bleed my horse for the
blind staggers, and he assured me that there
was only one sure way to make a grape
vine worthless. and that was TO run it up
on a trellis. In France. he told me, the
yineyard owners all trained their vines on
poles, and that was the right way. So |
got the ak and knocked the trellis to
pieces, and then fixed the vine to a bean
pole. Still it didn't thrive very well, and
asked a nurseryman near me to come and
look at it. He said he couldn't come. but
he knew what was the matter with that
vine as well as if he saw it. 1t wanted
pruning. | ought to cut it down within
ten feet of the roots and then manure 1t
well. did cut it down and emptied bag
of guanO over it; but as it seemed sort of
slow, insisted on the nurseryman COM
inc over to examine It. He said that his
fee was $40 in advance Ipaid him and nc
came. He looked at the vine a moment;
then ne smiled; and then he said: BY
gosh, Adeler. that isn't a grapevine at all
It's a Virginia creeper."
So have kind of knocked of on grapes,
and am paying more attention to cabba
-Ddnbury Nel0s.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
Scenes Along the Nile.

We have been long away from Cairo.
with its busy streets and scenes so like to
those of the " Arabian Nights" and now
for weeks have been sailing along the
strange river Nile. How | should like to
have you all with me-and what fleet it
would be. We should need such a num-
Der of diahbeahs pleasure boats as never
sailed on this river before, and | think the
Arab children. in their amaZement, would
forget their constitutional cry of = backs
hush" with which they ever salute the
traveller.
There are many scenes on the river-bank
that would attract your attention and fill
yOu with surprise. All day, but more es-
pecially morning and evening, long files
of women, in their dark blue robes. come
to the rivers brink to fill the large baLIdS
Jars, so called from the village where they
are made. After a little gossip and merry
laughter, they help one another to raise
the vessel to the top of the head, where it
is placed on a hollow pad, and so they 90
back to their homes, up hill and down,
perhaps distance of half-a-mile or more,
without ever touching the jar with their
hands. 1t is feat which surprises the
traveller. and can only be accomplished by
daily practice.
Here and there may be seen buffalo,
black, ugly in appearance, apparently sui
len and surly. but in reality gentle and
obedient to the naked little boy on his
back.
Sometimes. in the warm afternoons, | sit
and watch the waterfowl and listen to
their varied cries huge pelcans tapping
their immense wings far overhead: grace
ful cranes stalking over the flats herons,
StOrkS, and the whole race of ducks in
myriads, swarming on every sand-bank: :
and, very rarely, the beautiful red flamn-
go. which we have to observe through the
double glass, as it is too shy to come near
our boat.
Occasionally we see camels looming in
the background, growing hideOusly as
they are forced to kneel to receive their
burdens.
1t was a strange sight-that of the vast
number of wOrkmen, as we saw them 90
ing to their labor on the railroad which is
being built from Cairo up the Nile. Each
man had a palm-leaf basket into which he
scraped up the dirt with his hands, and
then poising it on his head, carried it to its
place of destination. 1t is said that some
body once imported some wheel-barrOws
for the benefit of these poor fellows but,
some time after, coming to see how the
new improvement worked, he found them
| filling the wheel-barrOws and putting
them upon their heads, where they car
ried them just as they did the baskets. |
don't say this is true, but it does show the
| lack of keen wit in these people, and the
way they cling to old customs ; and be-
Iieve if somebody should give one of them
a wheel-barrOw, he would use it in just
that senseless way.-Sdrah ReabLes Hunt,
in St. Nicholas for October.
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Nickel.

We all know what nickels are, in the
plural, for we are continually handling the
five-cent coin known by this name. and
our five senses may all take note of it /;
but as to nickel in the singular, it is a sin
gular fact that most people know very
little about it. 1t is only of late that it has
come into general use, the Swiss Govern
ment being the first to use it for coinage,
some thirty years ago. Its recent discOv-
cry is, however, Il re-discOvery.
DR.. Flight, of the British Museum, in
London, found three whitish cons there,
which had the appearance of silver. But
he had his doubts as to their genuineness,
and subjected them to tests, when they
cOnfe sed themselves to be but nickel.
As these coins bore date two hundred
years before the Christian era. the learned
doctor put to flight all idea of the discOv-
cry of nickel in modern times.
1t is a curious circumstance that the
name ''nic el'' was originally a nickname.
The workmen in a German cOpper-mine
found a reddish ore, which was of no use
to them, and which they, therefore, I'M
agined was put there by that mythical per-
sOnage. supposed TO live in German noun
tains. called d" Old Nick" in order to de
ceive or hinder them. They, therefore,
gave LIle ore Illc Htliic VI hupiti i-illchtl, j,
or eopper-nickel. When the metal came
into Hse the miners nickname was adopt
ed, and even for scientific purposes turned
into the Latin word nicoL,lng.
The same is the case with the ore from
which cobalt is made, and which is often
found in conjunction with nickel and cop
per. 1t was called cobalt from its sup
posed production by the elves, who, ac-
cording to German legend, guard the trea-
sures of the mines, and who are known as
CObbOlds.
Nickel is valuable chiefly on account OF
its hardness, and its freedom from liability
to rust. In many cases it takes the place
of silver, and when brightly polished looks
almost as well. In its common form, it is
mixed with large proportion of copper.
1t is highly magnetic, and serves for the
needles of compasses, but for other needles
the verdict is, mot sew well."-Yo1eth's
Companion.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
A Singular Discovery.

II. HOrnschwanZ, living in GilberttOwn,
Iowa, commenced digging a well on lot.
When about twenty two feet down he
came to a broad flat stone, which was re-
moved with much labor. Underneath it
was found sarcOphagus, of which 1t ap-
peared to be the cover. In this receptacle
were found many articles which will prove
of important interest to archBOlOgist5.
The skull. vertebra, and some ribs partial
ly charred, of a man. An iron circlet or
crown. bronze dagger and battle-aX, the
first instance of the two ages being thus
combined, several fingcr-ringS, a peculiar
instrument of music resembling a modern
iewsharp, but without the vibrator. and
small panel of wood much wOrm-eatcn,
but that having been done before inter-
ment, on which is partially engraved and
partially printed a nude figure bound 70
tree. with an arrow stuck in the side-and
around the head a glory similar TO that
seen around the heads Of saints in the pre-
Raphaelistic pictures. These ancient re
mains are now on exhibition and Will
eventually become the property OF the
Academy of Sciences.-DaOeHP0rt Demo
cr0f
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lodgings. being unwilling to incur any
risk of a similar experience with such a
desperate character, and therefore knew
nothing of his further actions.
ANY number of places have been deslg-
mated As his probable abode, but no one in
the community knows anything of, nor
has hear anything from him. The only
thing they feel certain about is. that he has
not taken his life into his own hands again.
Miss Fripper still looks disconsOlate when
his name is mentioned, and is often heard
to sigh over her dear lost POdgers. She
has addressed numerous epistles OF an IN
tensely loving nature TO the lost object OF
her affections. and sent them to various
post offices, in the hope of finding him
again. In these letters she censures her
self for her weakness, in not bein" more
positive in her answer to his proposal, and
implores his forgiveness and return. As
vet, however. so far as we know, none OF
them have met his eve, but all have doubt
less fallen into the hands of the clerks in
the Dead-letter Office. who are as unmoved
by the sorrow and anxiety of Miss Ange-
lima Fripper as they are sublimely obliy-
ious of the existence of Joseph POdgers,
Esq.-LOltis UiLLe Couyier-Jou17aGt.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
" The Dead Alive"

Some time in the early part of last win
ter a Mexican party by the name of An
tonic Bruno Lujan. living down in Taos,
left his wife's bed and board and made of
TO parts unknown. without telling where
he was going. His wife appeared to fret
so little at her lords absence that the
neighbOrs came to the charitable cOnclu-
sion that she and her relatives had muir
dered him, and accordingly hauled her,
with a brother and cousin and an Indian,
who seems TO be relative on the wrong
side of the blanket, before a justice of the
peace, and by dint of a good deal of hard
swearing proved the murder against them
beyond peradventure. Their testimony
perhaps would not have stood the test of
cross-examination by Ben. Butler inasmuch
rs, while half dozen swore stOutly that
Luian had been beaten to death with an
Indian war club, six others aSseverated on
oath equally strongly that he had been
strangled to death with a rope, much in
the same way rs the Thugs Of India dis
pose of their victims but all of the twelve
agreed that, after the life had been let
out OfpOOr Luian's body by either of these
modes, the remains were cremated to de
StrOy the evidence that he had met with
foul play. 1t was not made very clear
how they became acquainted with all
these particulars. but all the witnesses
were of such good standing in the COM
munitv that the magistrate had no other
alternative than to commit the entire party
of prisoners to await the action of the
Grand Jury. Encouraged by their sue
cess, our dozen indefatigables went to col
lect proofs of what they had alleged. the
holders of the rope theory hoping to find
the cord that had twisted Luian's neck.
the pr0mulgatOrs of the club hypothesis
seeking the fatal billet of wood which had
dashed out what brains the murdered man
had. Neither club clOtted with blood nor
rope wound in a suggestive moose was
found, bet lot of half-buried bones, evi-
IDENTIFY those of a wolf or animal of some
sort, were unearthed, which confirmed the
theory on which both parties were united,
Of the vulcahian end TO which the deceased
had come. These, ''handling tenderly,
lifting with care" they put in an urn, a Ia
the style of the ancient crematiOniSts of
diSpOSing of the ashes of the dead, and af-
:er shedding regretful tears and Offering
piOHs prayers for the peace of the owners
soul over them. they locked them in the
safe in the County Clerks office to await
the period when they would appear as
dreadful and incOntrOvertible witnesses
against the false wife and her unnatural
relations. Unfortunately. just as the case
was coming to trial, and, it is said the ac-
cused would have probably been convicted
Of the terrible crime alleged against them,
SenOr Luian turned up alive and well, and
very much surprised to find that he had
been murdered and afterwards burned. OF
course, even in Taos, the word of the
man himself that he was alive and well
was sufficient to cOunterbalance that OF the
twelve good men and true that had sworn
the contrary, and the accused were at once
Immediately liberated.-DenUer (CoLorado)
Ne1pS