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Another Fire in boston.

BosToN, March 21.-Thc works of
the Tucker Manufacturing Company,
at the State prison, Charlestown,
were entirely consumed by fire to-
day, with their contents, consisting
oi large srock of gas fixtures and
other bronzed goods, besides much
raw stock. Loss 100000, partially
insured. The convicts were forum
ately at dinner at the time, and were,
therefore, locked in the large hall Of
the east wing, thus preventing their
escape, which otherwise would have
occurred. .-
LATER.-The loss to the State by
the burning Of the building at the
Cbarlestown penitentiary to-day was
$4,000. The Tucker Manufacture
ing Company lose Sl50,000, with
small insurance, and Averill Il Hunt
ing, brush manufacturers, 900
The fire is thought to have had al
accidental origin. --
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A Specimen OF the Way Justice is
Administered in Mississippi.

MEMPHIS, March l6.--Detective
Watson left for Nachvillc to-day with
Robert Bates, arrested at Bartlett
yesterday for killing young Briarly
near Nashville, j this anuary, at dan
cling party.
A lew days ago two colored JUS
tices in Desota county Mississippi
near Commerce, gave judgments
against parties residing in rival beats
or districts, led to a clash of authori-
ty, one charging the other with hav-
ing changed his docket after hearing
of his rivals decision, and forthwith
issued a warrant for his arrest.
When the constable, with colored
posse, arrived at the residence of the
justice, be found an armed party
awaiting their arrival, who fired up
on the posse, badly wounding two
of them, and capturing the constable,
who was taken to Austin by the war
like justice, to be turned over to, the
sheriff, who arrested the entire party.
The case was being tried at last ac-
counts, and caused intense excite
ment among the culored popula-
ton.
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CURRENT NOTES.

New Hampshire boasts that its
State Prison never contained cler-
gyman, lawyer physician, editor,
deacon, steward, church warden,
class leader, or son Of clergyman.
At Slatington, Pa, recently, a
man was locked up in the station
house by his friends, while his son
was prepared fer burial, so that the
father might keep sober for the fu-
neral.
Johnny attends school, which will
explain the following short Dialogue
between him and his father: John
nv, didn't know you got whipped
the other day." said he. "YOu
didn't? Well, if you'd been in my
breeches you'd have known it."
Local Option was defeated in the
Maryland House of Delegates last
week. The comptroller reported that
last year the State received lG9, ,TlS
for licenses, and the opponents of To-
cal option seemed to be very much
troubled as to how this amount Of
money was to be raised if liquor-sell-
ing was to be prohibited.
John Paul says when they want
to find out in the country if girl is
courting or not, an old lady steps in
and remarks: II say, there amt
no one sick in this here house or
nothin', is there seen light
burnin' nigh on to twelve O'Clock last
night. but | don't smell 70 camphOr
nor nothin' round
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Murder Of a Boston Missionary by
Catholics.

CITY OF MEXICO, March l0.-A
fearful outrage was perpetrated by q
mob at Ahualulco, in the State Of
Jalisco, last Sunday. In the morn
ing a priest delivered an incendiary
sermon, in the course Of which lie ad-
yocatcd the determination of the
Protestants. This SO excited his
bearers that an armed mob Of two
hundred persons gathered in the
evening and proceeded to the resi-
dence Of Rev. John Stevens, aeon
gregatiohal minister sent out by the
Boston Board of Foreign Missions.
With cries of "long live the Priests, .
they broke into the house and, seiz-
ing the clergyman, smashed his
head to jelley and chopped his
body to pieces. They afterwards
sacked the house and carried off
everything ofvalue. After much de-
lay the riot was suppressed by the
local authorities. The government
has sent a detachment of troops to
the place. a rigid investigation has
been set on foot, aHd orders have
been issued for the arrest of all
the priest in Ahualulco and the
neighboring town of TTeshitau. A
mob in Saguayo, acting under simi-
lar religious frenzy, attacked the
small garrison Of the town, burned
the public archives and pilIaged the
houses Of the authorities.
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Mr. Mckee 4 new lianor law.
FIRE i'm indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS, March 22.-The
most destructive fire that has ever
occurred in this city, broke out
about O'Clock this evening, in the
new four.story block of buildings
known as the Mercantile row, on
Pennsylvania street between Market
and Ohio. The Mercantile row,
consisting of six store-rooms almost
completed, was entirely destroyed.
From the Mercantile row the fire ex-
tended across the street to the Sheets
block, on the corner Of Ohio and
Pennsylvania streets. This was also
a new block of ten large storc-rooms
and hotel above, almost seady for
occupation. The next building in
the course of the fire was the Mar
tindale block, on the corner of Penn
sylvania and marke; streets, of nine
stores and a number of Offices which
was entirely destroyed. From thence
the fire continued to Chaffee's livery
stable on Wabash street, and several
similar buildings in the rear Of
Martindale's block were destroyed. At
halfpast eight the fire is apparently
under control, and probably will not
extend further. The correct amount of
loss cannot be ascertained at present
but it is estimated at between three
and four hundred thousand dollars
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Hurricane I'm Illinois.

CAIRO, ILL.,, March ia terrific
hurricane, accompanied by thunder
lightning and rain, passed over this
city at three O'Clock this morning,
causing considerable destruction to
property. The centre of the storm
seems to have passed south of Cairo
as the wires work as usual north,
and no damages are reported from
that direction. 4s4a-.
CAIRO, March lS.-Telegramsf.om
points adjacent report no damage
from the storm this morning indica-
ting that its area was quite narrowtt
Eight houses were unroofed or scri-
ously damaged in this city.
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The adoption of the local option
law" by many of the counties in
this State, considerably lessened the
receipts OF the Internal Revenue Bu-
rcau, and now the Cincinnati Gazette
publishes q statement showing that,
owing to the late temperance cru
SADIE, the income in eleven of the
largest liquor districts in Ohio and
Indiana, for the months Of January
and February, has fallen off s343,-
I20 Il.
Thi. viii be gratifying news TO the
temperance people," but as accord,
ing TO the estimates of the revenue
officials, eighty per cent. of the taxes
collected are obtained from spurious
and malt liquors, all the falling OF OF
receipts from this source, will have
to be made good by taxation in some
other quarter. Congress viii soon
have TO restore some Of the abolished
taxes, ss a certain yearly amount OF
revenue must be obtained to defray
the expenses Of government ard pay
the interest on the national debt.
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An Altoona Engine on the Rampage.

ALTOONA, Pa, March l1.-An
engine, standing in the Pennsylvania
Railroad Companies yard, got start
ed to-day in some way and ran
through the round house, across the
open space and into large machine
shop, in which over five hundred
men were at work. One nan was
killed and another wounded The
engine, smashed everything in its
course.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-25

THE traus-Allegheny canal eoh'en-
,ion held in Pittsburgh last WeeA'
while attended by respectable dele-
rations from this and adjecen. coun-
ties in Pennsylvania and Maryland
attracted but little attention IN the
Smoky City. The feasibility OF the
pronosed canal was demonstrated by
a rcport from the eminent engineer
making the survey, but its necessarily
large cost gives the matter an imprac-
ticable cast at present. Government
aid is not Immediately to be hoped
for. nor the undertaking Of the work
in the near future, but something is
to be gained by directing public at
tention to the subject, and We are
gratifed to note that measures were
taken for the reassembling Of the
friends of the project at Washington
at an early day, with the intent OF
Congress on the sub,
icct.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-25

INSTEAD of Hon. ii. III. Meteor
mick, Speaker Of the House, being
nominated for L. S. Attorney to I'LL
the vacancy occasioned by the death
Of H. Bucher Swoope, Esq, the
President on Friday last nominated
David Reed, Esq, of Pittsburgh, for
the position. The opposition to Nc
Cormick was so strong that it is al
legged he voluntarily withdrew from
the strurple.
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SHEAhlNG OF lhe pOlltlcdl Outiooh,
.he Germantown Telegraph well says:
Last year was what is usually
called an "off year" in national poll
tics. no Congressman being elected
and no great State elections being
contested. But the present year is
half way toward the Presidential
campaign of 1876, and is also import
ant on account OF the elections Tor the
next Congress. Accordingly we be-
gin it with unmistakable evidences OF
a general effort 20 organize an oppo-
sition sufficiently powerful TO defeat
the friends Of the Grant administra-
ton. As in 1872 the ball opened
with an insidious attempt to defeat
General Hartranft by most outra-
geous and bare faced charge of cor
ruption; so now in 1874 the campaign
opened with a furious assault upon
the great Republican citadel, Phila-
delphia, and on the same spurious
pretext, corruption.
BY this time the game is pretty
well understood. But it continues
with the same reckless audacity. All
manner of charges Of mal-administra-
tion have been trumped up, mountains
are made out of mole hills, and even
in a case where in the regular en-
/ forcement of the civil service code, Z
new collector Of customs was appoin-
/ ted in Boston, u tremendous uprOal
has been raised about it. 1t is truly
/ lamentable that at a time when the
country sorely needs repose in order
to regain the mischief wrought by
the panic of last fail, we should be
afflicted with another political agita
ton that has nothing on earth for it;
object but President making. And
the prospect Of three more years o.
this agitation is anything but pleas
ant.
There is, however, one reflection
that is a consolation. This agitation
at the rate it is going on, must weal
itself out before the time comes fol
the Presidential election. This wa!
the case with the assault on the adj
ministration prematurely begun il
the Senate by Sumner, Trumbull anC
Schurz. 1t burnt its own force on
by its violence, and when the Prcsi
Dental canvass came neither the as
sailants nor their charges proved o
anv account. The net result was tha
Mr.. Trumbull lost his seat in the Sen
ate, and Horace Greeley lost hi
senses and his life. From all presen
appearances two more Senator'S ar,
likely to lose their seats as the resul
of the present agitation. The Re
publican party sloughed OF some @
its troublesome elements in 1872. /
can spare more of them in 1876, ant
there are apparently quite numbe
anxious to try the Liberal dodg'
again. The worst effect Of all thi
agitation is that it prevents the sue
cess of any administrative policy, for
eign or domestic. But what do thes'
desperate political gamesters care fo
the policy of the Republic? For (
long time .hey have been playing til,
game Of principle, but now they have
changed it to the game Of interest.
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Desperate Conflict Between Detect.
tives and Robbers

ST. LOUIS, March 1s.-The Dem
ocrdt has a special from Sedalia.
Missouri, which says reports have
reached there that the notorious
Younger brothers, who are supposed
TO have been engaged in the Iowa
railroad train robbery some months
ago, were attacked yesterday at
Monagaw Springs, st Clair county,
this State, by party of detectives,
and desperate conflict ensued, in
which one Of the Younger brothers
and two detectives were killed.
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Colliery Accident.

PoTTsvILLE, March 2l.-While a
car containing ten men was descend
ing the slope of Lloyd, Glover Il cos
colliery at Phoenix Park this morning
the rope broke and the car fell.
John McAbe, John Davis, and Arch
lie McMichael were Instantly killed,
several others received injuries,
which are not thought to be serious.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-25

This indicates that,,th session will lat
well on to the midle of May.
At the afternoon session a large
number of petitions were presen ted
principally for and against Local OPP
tion.
Bills were read in place as fol
lows.
Mr.. Ramey Relative to the sup
port of the sick and poor.
Mr.. Toner of Westmoreland, An
act to repeal the Local Option law
for that county.
Mr.. Cross, making an approprla
tion for pensioners.
Mr.. Mylin, an appropriation to the
State hospital at Warren.
Mr.. Little, Extending mechanics
liens.
Mr.. Mckee A new liquor law.
Mr. Gerwig, presented the report
of the commissioners appointed TO
inquire into the removal of the Wss-
tern Penitentiary and moved a COM
mittee of three to carry the views
of the commissioners. M
The Chair appointed Mr.. Gcrwis
of Allegheny, Mr.. Thompson, Of
Fayette, ard Mr. Touer. of West,
mOreland
The following bills We're negativ-
ed: For a Geological survey; for
appropriation to the Allegheny Pris-
on Society; to prevent banks from
paying interest on deposits.
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LATE advices from Harrisburg say
that the liquor question has taken a
"nm turn. and that all hope of pro-
curinr the repeal of the local option
Low has been abandoned by its oppo-
,or,s The new license law report
ed to the House has been recommlt-
.oa .o-tbe committee on Vice and I'M
- ...aE.,.-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-25

ABILL establishing a uniform sys-
ten of school books for the State has
boen introduced into the Legislature
We trust it. will be enacted into a
law. and the frequent changes made
for the benefit of rival publishers and
speculating book agents, thus be bro
ken up.
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MISS Ara C. SWEET, daughter o'
the late General Sweet, Deputy OVi"
missioner of Internal Revenue mas
hccn nominated by the President ana
consrmed by the Senate as Pension
mont At Chicago, position said to
- 18th sc 600 or $1,000 year.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-25

THE Pittsburgh Commercial di-
rects attention to one feature OF the
recent New Hampshire election which
is worthy of special consideration Of
Temperance people in other States
our own among the number. 1t is
that while the Republicans boldly
adopted a prohibitory plank in their
platform, the so-called prohibitory
party voted for their own men and
prevented the choice Of representa-
tives in the Republican towns of
Rochester, Newport, Bristol and 9th
er places. Had they acted with the
Republicans in those towns, the Leg
islature would have been Republican
and the prohibitory law saved. But
as it is, they aided in securing a
Democratic triumph, and the repeal
of the law and year of free rum
viii be the reward Of their fanatical
folly
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BY one stroke of lightning in q re-
cent storm in Spencer county, Ky..
three hne cows, young stallion. a
blooded mare, and young jackass,
under one tree, were instantly killed.
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TIE official returns Of the vote IN
New Hampshire are practically COM
plete. The town of Ellworth, not
vet heard from, has about forty-hve
votes. thgee-courths of which are
Democratic. The vote now stands
Weston, 35,573; McCutchins, "a, l3l'
Blackmar, 2,095; scattering, 40. Al
fer the vote of Ellsworth is in, Yves,
ton will lack about ESQ of a majority.
The House stands, Democrats, l1si
Republicans, lG7; which, of course
ensures Weston's election IN June.
The Granite State is in the nands ol
the Democrats.
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ONE of the surest proofs that the
business interests Of the country have
not yet recovered from the effects oi
lie late crisis, is to be found in the
f.ct that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company has lately Withdrawn four
t en- engines from work on the middle
and eastern divisions Of its road, and
mat within the last two weeks over
three hundred men have been sus-
pended from work in the shops at Al
toona. Another striking evidence OF
.lemoralized business interests is the
farther fact that the Cambria Iron
Works at Johnstown have again sus-
pended work, it being publicly an
nounceG that the books of the con-
pany do not contain a single untitled
order for any of their products.
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BAILEY. Of the Danbury Nctrs, puts
in his word on the new temperance
movement thus: There can be no
harm in praying for or with saloon
keepers if it is done in the right
spirit: but to threaten to pray at them
in public if they do not abandon the
traffic is 10 grossly pervert a sacred
ordinance into an instrument tor rldi-
cule. Why threaten them at all with
PRAYER? If they need prayer-li
PRAYER is to break them up, then pray
and dc it at once. But it is not nee
r-,ary TO 20 to their saloons"
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WE regret to notice the total dc
struction by FIRE, few days since o.
the Beaver Radical printing establish
ment The building, a very fine one
was ownedby Col. NJ. 5. Quay, Sec
retary of the Commonwealth, and in
the printing establishment Senator
Rulan was a prominent partner
Our own bitter experience Of a siml
lar calamity has taught us how tC
svmpathise profoundly with onl
friends in the heavy loss and inconve
nience which they must suffer.
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WASHINGTON, ID. c., March 22.-
Judge Dent, brother to Mrs. Grant
died this morning at six O'Clock, at
his residence in this city, of tumor in
the stomach. The funeral will take
place on Wednesday. u
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Or the th. see thousand postoillces IN
Pennsylva-nia one hundred and my my
aro held by women. Among these
are some of the largest Offices as
po.d;no Lancaster, Columbia Mauch
Chunk. and other important cities anu
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Death Of Governor Hart, orPIorid.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 49,
Hon 0. B. Hart, governor of Florida
after lingering illness, died at his
residence in this city at seven O'Clock
this evening.
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MONEY! --WAcES

no, TO al having spare time = to :l2 day: .,
risks: home OF abroad: day or eyeniDg - %
making money. Particulars ant slrnries i.,'-'l g
p ~ mailed free. Address + N Dt,t,,IIs. IIs.aly
igh 9Th StTeet. Now York -I-D ~
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
New YORK, March is, 1874.

NEW 1 ORk, March is, 1919.
THE OLD BUILDINGS.
There is no city in the world that
has better or worse buildings than
New York. The buildings Of recent
date are commodious, airy, and sup
piled with ventilation and the other
requisites for health and life. But
those dating back thirty years in the
time past Of the city are fearful.
These houses are hives, swarming
with people, and possessing absolute
ly no conveniences. Imagine the
condition Of a house twenty feet
wide, sixty feet deep, and six stories
high, in the centre of a block, with
openings only in the front and rear,
in which are packed ten large fami-
lies in the upper five stories, and i'm
agine the condition of the people
who live in them! In one such
house twenty cases of typhoid fever
occurred in three months. Philan-
thropists have in this a wide field for
effort. The crying necessity of New
York is for houses that can be rented
cheaply, and that furnish light. air
and water, and in which cleanliness
is a possibility.
And writing of poverty and tene-
ment houses, what springs so natur-
ally to the point of ones pen as
PAwNBRoKERs
who are a queer set and drive q queer
business. The pawnbroker is a man
Who lends money on short time on
collateral security. Are you a wild
ow and is your boy sick? You take
shawl to Moses, and he advances
you about one-fourth its value at q
tremendous rate of iterest, ,25 per cent
per annum This supply gone, ycur
best dress, your extra pair Of SHOES,
your wedding ring, your Bible, and
finally your bed. He takes them all,
for they are all salsble. You get a
ticket for each article, and if you
come within year and redeem them,
all right; if not at the end of the
year they are sold. Inside one OF
these shops you will see a satin dress
hanging ticketed beside a calico skirt,
shoes, Bible; revolvers, musical in
struments, tools, clocks, kettles,
skates, every species of portable
! property under heaven s;da hy O;do
But IN the big safe in the back room,
you would, if you could get q peep
therein, see other kinds Of property.
You would see diamonds. costly lew
elry and silver plate. For the poor
are not Shylock's only customers.
Madame, on Fifth Avenue, has spent
more for dress than her pressed hus-
band can afford, and she does not
ask him for money. The obsequious
dress-maker shows her that her dia-
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HARRISBURG, March l7.-Mr.
Humphreys introduced an act regu-
lating the manner Of advertising for
the State.
Mr.. Rutan, To enable banks to
consolidate.
The General Bank law was debated
nearly the whole session.
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SENATE.

HARRIsBURG March 19.-Mr. Rutan
introduced a bill appointing CON-
mittee to report to the Legislature
uniform system of school books.
Mr.. McKenley offered a resolution
fixing the date offinal adjournment at
April Isl.
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use the pawnbrokers If the thief
has stolen q watch or table linen, or
handkerchief, be does not keep it, So
the pawnbrokcr gets them at one
fourth their value, knowing that they
viii never be claimed. The marks
are taken out of the articles of cloth
the cases of watches are melted, if
the material is good enough, and 9TH
ers are su5stitutcd-in short no mat
ter what the article is, it is disguised
so that the owner wouldn't know it.
1t is a curious profession and full of
curious incidents
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'PARLoR ARTILLERYu y

About these days look out for ped
dlers, with a new toy for children,
called "Parlor Artillery" This cheer
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