The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-05-06
CURRENT NOTES.

During the present year eighteen
Sta,es will elect Governors, thirty
/ five Congressman and twenty-five
/ United States Senators, besides the
vacancy We. TO be filled in Louisiana.
Washington Territory is in want
Of butter for home consumption, not
withstanding the vast are o. grazing
country, and numerous herds of cat
tie all around her
Out West the Democracy have
gone to combing the hayseed out of
their hair, cleaning their boots, and
trying to conceal all evidence of their
having been Changers
The Mayor of ST. Louis says eve
shall gravitate, by an immutable law,
TO the condition of society we have
fitted ourselves for while in this
world" Well, we pity him.
The English coal famine is rapidly
passing away, and the evil cOnse-
quences are beginning to recoil on the
heads of those who brought about
the recent panic.
A governorship seems to be q
stepping stone to the United States
senate. When Washburne takes
his seat there will be seventeen ex-
governors in that body.
\ Colorado paper says that man
out there will ride fifteen miles to
spark" girl Sunday night but the
women out there will ride
double that distance, to see a man
hung.
An inebriate stranger precipitated
himself down the depot stairs, and on
striking the landing reproachfully
apostrophizcd himself with. "IfI
you'd been wanting to come down
stairs, why didn't you say so, you
wooden-hcaded old fool, and I'd
come with you an showed you the
way"
The government Dotanist, who is
surveying in Australia, mentions in
an official dispatch Gg tree which
in size far surpasses the far-famed
in the Yosemite country This tree
three feet from the ground measures
$50 feet in circumference, and at So
feet-wherc it sends forth giant
branchcs-thc trunk measures 50 feet
round.
Some boys in Salem recently bor-
rowed two eggs from neighbor's |
hennery, and after boiling them in
a calico bag returned them to the |
nest. The boiling process left the |
eggs covered with the figures of the
calico, and the excited owner exhib-
tied these curiouities, far and near
and sought in vain, or an explanation |
of this "cGrious freak af nature
a young unmarried clergymen in
Brockport, in conversation, said that
young ladies nowadays can make
rich cake, but they cannot make good
bread. A few days after making the
remark the FishkiIl Standard asserts
the divine received fourteen loaves
of bread, with the compliments Of
fourteen young ladies of his congrega-
tion,
The crusaders carried Bloomington
Ill, at the local election although
they failed 10 almost every other
town in the State. They elected
their mayor and four out of the six
The returns were read
IL the First Methodist church. and
description Of the scene while the
news was coming iii shows thai = aen
the women shall get the ballot
they will vote oftener. cheeer louder,
and stay out later to get the returns
IhaE ihei. hasbands ever did. They
will surely make entiGaastie politi-
clans =
A keokuk paper tells the story of
how clergyman at Keokuk married
Two yoang people in Bonepart on
ast Thursday, BY te4eghapk The
parties assembled in the tefegraph1
offices, questions and responses,
service and benediction were tieked
rapidly os, end the. happy pair left
he Office, one flesh, welded by light
1inr =.