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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-03-10
A Youthful Thespian.

A few days ago young Gurley,
whose father lives on Croghan street,
organized a theatrical company and
purchased the dime novel play of
Hamlet" The company consists
of three boys and a hostler, and Mr..
Gurley's hired girl was to be the
ghost if the troop could guarantee
her aftF cents per night.
Young Gnrley suddenly doomed
out ss q professional, and when bis
mother asked him to bring in some
wood he replied:
Though | am penniless, thou can-
not degrade mel"
"You trot out after that wood or
III have your father trounce you'll"
she exclaimed.
"Tbe tyrsnt who lays bis hand
upon me shall die !" replied the boy,
bpt be got the wood.
He was out on the step when a
man came along and asked him where
Lafayette street was.
Doomed for a certain time to roam
the earth!" replied Gurley in a hoarse
voice, AMI holding his arm out very
straight.
al say-youl Where is Lafayette
street 2" called the man.
"Ah cou d the dead but speak
all" continued Gurley.
The man drove him into the house,
and his mother SEN him to the
grocery after potatoes.
81 go most noble Duchess" he
said as be took up the basket, 'but
good sword shall some day
agenge these insults! !"
He knew that tie grocer favored
the atricals, and when he got there be
said.
art thou provided with a store
of that vegetable known as the 'tateF,
most excellent duke ?"
What in thunder do you want !"
growled the grocer, as he cleaned
the cheese knife on a piece Of paper.
"Thy plebeian mind is dull of CON-
prehension !" answered Gurley.
Don't try to get off any of your
nonsense on me, or I'll crack your
empty pate in a minute J" roared the
grocer, and Hamlet" had to come
down from bis high horse and ask
for a peck Of potatoes,
What made you SC long 7" asked
his mother as be returned.
Thy grave shall be dug in the
cypress glade !" he haughtily answer
ed.
When his father came home at
noon Mrs. Gurley told him that she
believed the boy was going crazy,
and related what had occurred.
q see what ails him." unused the
father fthis egpl2ins why he hangs
around Jonson'. barn 81 GGeh."
At the dinner table young Gurley
spoke of his father as the Industrious
count" and when his mother asked
him if Le would have some butter
gravy he answered:
"Tbe appetite of the warrior ean-
not be satisfied with such nonsense"
When TIP meal was owe the father
went OUT 10 Ais iaFoTite shade tree,
cut a sprout, aud the boy was askeq
to step to the wOodshed and see If
the pumpstock was frozen up. lie
found the old man there, and he said.
"Why, most noble lord, | had sup
posed thee far away"
Pm not SO far away but what I'm
going to make you skip" growled
the father. I'll teach you to fool
around With ten cent tragedies! Come
up here !"
For about five minutes the wood
shed was .ull of dancing feet, flying
arms and moving bodies, and then
the old man took a rest and inquired:
''Tbere, ycur highness, dust want
any more?"
"Qhi no, dad, not a darned bit!"
walled the young manager" and
while the father started for down
town he went in and sorrowfniiy il
formed the hired girl hat be must
cancel her engagement until the fall
season.-Deiroh Free Press.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-03-10

WOMAN does a great deal to dis
courage lofty sentiments of patriot
ism. When a Gaa leaning over the
back fence telling a neighbo. bow be
would shed bis last drop of blood
for suffering Louisiana, it disturbs
him to have bis wife yell from the
kitchen: Look a here are you
coming with that bucket Of water,
or shall | come on. and see to you!"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-03-10

A Missouri weRag who applied
for a situation as car dryer Icing
asked if she could manage mules,
scornfully replied. "Of course |
can, I've two husbands"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-03-10

WY am de pen dat Sir Walter
Scott wrot wd like a ribber in Maine2
Cause it am the Pen-ob-scot.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-03-10
JOHN T. BLYMYER.
DEALERIN
Hardware, Iron, Nails, Glass, Paints.
OILS, &c, SO.
OILS, &C., sc.

The following is a partial LIST of goods in Stock: Cupenters Tools,
Planes, Saws, Hatchets, Hammers, Cbsels, Plane Irons ) Dies, &c, Black
smiths Goods, Bellows, Anyils, Vices, Files, Hammers. &c Saddbry
Hardware, Tab Trees, Gig Saddles, Hames, Buckles, Rings, Bits and Tools
Table Knives and Forks, Pocket Knives, Scissors, Spoons and Razos. the
largest stock in Somerset County. Painters Goods, a full stock White
Lead, Cobred Paints for inside and outside painting, Paints in oil, all coOrs,
Varnish, Turpentine, Flaxseed Oil, Brushes, japan Dryer, Walnut Stains,
&c Window Glass of all sizes and glass cut to any shape. The best Coal
Oil always on hand Our stock Of Coal Oil Lamps is large and comprises
very elegant styles. Ditstons Circular, Muev and Cross Cut Saws. Mill
Saw Files of thebest quality. PorcehinIined Kettles. Handles of all kinds
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-03-10

Mattocks, Grub Hoes, Picks, Seythes, Sneaths, SIedges, Mason Hammers
Cast Steel, Step Ladders, Carriage and Tire Bolts Of all sizes. Loookine
Glasses, Wash Boards, Clothes Wrngers, Meal Sleeves, Door Mats, Baskets
Tubs, Wooden Buckets, Irvine, Rope all sizes, Hay Puneys, Butter Prints
Mop Sticks, Traps, Steelyards, Meat Cutters and Suffers, Traces, Cow
Chains, Halter Chains, Shoe, Dust and Scrub Brushes, Horse Brushes. Cur
ry Combs and Cards, Door Locks, Hinges, Screws, Latches aud everything
in the Builders line. Caps, Lead, Shot, Powder and Safety Fuse, &c, &c
The fact is, keep everything thatbelongs to the Hardware trade. | deaI
exclusively in this kind Of goods and give my whole attention to it, Per-
sons who ar building, or any one in need Of anything in my line. will find
1t to their advantage TO give me a call viii always give a reasonable
credit to responsible persons. 1 thank my old customers for their patronage
and hope this season to make many new ones Don't forget the place
No, 3 ,"BAER'S BLOCK
April 8 IA. JOHN F. BLYMYER
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-03-10

intrin d, yir'ue-, aul sri ta;- ay is re-
maI&a5.c earas. So mi +. 81 e. lcs .e and
bcneGeij 20 children ana y,ts5 searching
as 20 eiccia7ilY pai. ar r
rupticls tnc blood SSH >-Lc s,.oIuba-
and syphiIic contamination. impurities
or dis6ases that i-re itpkel IN the syslfi.,
for years, soon 81 20 90 iiis iswrrfuf aBti.
do;e, and Disappear. Hence il wonderful
cures, many of which n.e puJij-ly known,
Of ScrOluia, and all scro&lJus diseases,
Ulcer, ErUPti0ns, ami t@rup:i,c us
orders O. thr skin, Tuners. BiOteics,
BOilS. iSiH'pirr, pf;ssi..gj. Stss7,a.S al,
Authtiis Iirs5 lose o. isfySiFts-
Ia, Tet.cr. salt lsheunL. ScaiI
Head, kiugwOrm, and .nttrnal JIs
ceratiODS Oh the Uterus, SfDWaciI,
and Liver. Il also cures other cons.
plains. to whiyh It wOull not seem e.iesk
ally adapted, sueh a. Dropsy, DySpcD-
STA, Fits, Neuralgia. Heart Disease.
Female Weakness, Debility and
LeucOrrliCea, when hsy He m.uics.a-
tioas Of the seroialous 20: 5rs
lt IS m ozceli1st les,yrr az hca b and
s.rcagth in tie Sprfpe. r, ruue a-l MD
ap9etite and viror Of the Cd s~.sti'n crn-
% dis-ipaies tlfe Gea7essi31 EMIL Ian.
ci,aro Of tie Season. Eveawha-o o. disa~jeF
a97cars, people itei better $50 Ills longer,
for cleansing tie t'oaL Ii.. >ys-celaJ,es
on with rere~eI yi-or AM . ne @ Of
lie.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-03-10
Miscellaneous.
ANDREW PEBBLES,

G II,
Cor. Sixth Ave. and Liberty Street,
PITTSBURGH. PA
Entrance no. Sixth Avenue. sop25
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-20
SHARKEY, THE MURDERER.

News received IN this city yesterday by the
steamer Crescent City from Havana Is to the
effect that the statement that Snarkey, the muir
derer, who escaped some time ago from rha
Tombs, had left Havana on the English steamer
Corsica, bound for st. Thomas, is incorrect LIS
believed that he Is lying concealed in Havans
or In the suburbs. A report was also
rife when the Crescent City lett that
United States Consul General Hall had written to
washington Tor instructions IN the matter.
whether this government desires that Sharkey
should be surrendered and sent back to this city
to be executed.
IL Is understood that Assistant District Attorney
Rawlins ely went TO see the Secretary Of state
at washington on Inc subject, aud that District
Attorney Phelps Is working bard In the matter.
Detective Henry W. Davies, who lett this city IN
the steamer City OF Vera Cruz, eight days ago, and
10 now IN Havana, Is believed to have been sene
out to Havana to arrest Sharkey.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-20

AS matter OF comparison in the aggregate
weights Of the crew, with ana without coXswain,
Without Average
Colsacain Of (retc.
LBS Lbs Lbs.
Cambridge ........,.... L4y l,so7 1917
Oxford. -. ....,......... L4G6 1850 1851
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-20
GERMAN IN THE SCHOOLS.

The German Republican Central Committee held
meeting at ITS rooms, No. $40 Bowery. last night
Judge Dittenhoeer presided, and resolutioni
were passed indorsing toe action OF tho
cooper Institute mass meeting in references g
the question oil preserving tue German langu
Is a branch OF instruction In the schools, An(
action " as taken TO give additional eject to W
principlos advanced on bat OCCASION.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-20

The Cambridge crew made their appearance on
the Thames on Monday Marcn 8, the Leander
CLUB, us III former years, taking In their boat.
Tue Oxonans were three days later to arrive at
their old quarters, the Fox ana Hounds, at Put
ney, when, as usual, they made the London Row
ing Club boathouse their quarters.
BETTING.
In London. at the latest advlces. Cambridge was
the iavorite III to 10, and n the bettng market
Is any criterion their chance OF success Is good.
Here in New YORK. however. the betting Is even,
as at the New York Turf Exchange last evening
OF the l46 mutual pools solO there were seventy
three marked Tor each. This shows that oxford
stl has her friends among the oarsmen ana bet.
ting fraternity or this city.
THE WINNING CREWS.
The following Is q tabular list OF the different
races pulled between the Oxford and Cambridge
unIversittesf crews:-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-20
SMALLPOX IN JERSEY CITY.

The report OF tina Board OF Health OF Hudson
county N. j., SHOWS that during the past month
there we're ten deaths from smallpox. Scarcely
day elapses without new case being reported.
The latest case was reported by DR.. viers, In the
house OF man named Berry, on Grand street.
near Library Hall, Jersey City. By tue time th1
Heath Inspector mad reached the mouse the pa
tient mad lett for New YORK. The tvtal NUMBER a.
deaths in the county OF hu0son during the month.
Was xD3s
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-20
FIRE IN GRAND STREET.

Al thirty-nve minutes past four O'Clock yester-
day afternoon IRE was discovered on the second
floor OF the Two story aud attic building No. l0A
Grand street. occupied BY Horneman Co.. man
ulacturers or nats and caps Before the ames
were extlnRuished their stock was mi ufed ~ the
amount OF $4,000 and the damage aoae 10 sns build.
lav 10 Estimated ~ el,o0Q
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-20

The lust with the unjust alike will be punished accord
ing TO law. Then you will never more hear OF me in
this county or the state-neither OF my com
pany. II he has mitigations given him let II be pub
lished Ia the papers, with nothing more,
CLEuVARA CHAVEZ AND COMPANY
THE MURDERED MAN, DAVIDSON
had relatives or friends living in Nova Scotia His
wiies maiden name was Burton. She has connec-
tiOns also In Nova Scotia.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-20
A CIVIL RIGHTS DEFEAT.
THE PROPRIETOR OF RESTAURANT IN GEORGE
TOWN JUSTIFIED IN EJEcrsNo AN OFFENSIVE
WASHINGTON, March 10, 1877

WASHINGTON, MArcn ~, 1875.
In tho Police Court to-day william Rotterbury
was charged with assault and battery on Thomas
Luckett, muatto man. 1t appeared In the evi.
dence that RotterDury Keeps . restaurant IN
GEORGETOWN. Last evening, as he with some Gus
toners was sitting In the back room OF the shop,
Luckett came IN and stationed himself in front OF
the proprietor in an offensive manner, and when
asked to step aside refused to move. RoLterbury
put him out as witnesses testified. without per-
sonal violence. In the tusSle, however, Lucket0
had his mouth hurt for winch ne charges assault
and battery.
Alter q careful hearing OF the case on Doth sidea
the Court ruled that the defendant had G right "a
eject offensive customers from nis place, anG
ordered the case dismissed.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-20

or the above, Messrs. hilbert, Aylmer. Benson
and Rhodes are ola hands, having all Jour r0wed
III last years winning crew. Messrs. Dlcker and
Michel DUtn come OF a good rowing stock, and can
each boast OF brother who won the diamonds"
at Henley and the Amateur Championships; while
MIR. Close, as we have stated, Is brother to the
two well known Cambridge "Blues," the elder OF
whom, lt Will be recolected, formed one OF the
London Rowing CLUB Jour who deieateu the New
York Atalanta crew.
THE OXFORD CREW.
The selection OF the OXFORD eight caused almost
as much trouble as that or Cambridge. Alter
many changes the crew were finally decided upon
as below named ana they went TO work vigor.
Ously, falling into good rowing, ar least SO 1t Is
about the stroke but unfortunately, this does not
win q race. Alter practice on the Isis Tor three
weeks 1t was the opinion OF ali competent lockers
on tnat their Improvement was marked. They
rowed long and clean, like the good old Oxford
style. AS crew they are lar better than
any OF their eiGnts Tor some years past,
II the crew OF 1873 Is excepted, which was so
weak that II had no chance against the first and
successful crew OF the Cantabs OF that year. Tne
present eight row quite as evenly as did those OF
1878 and are a finer LOT OF men than they. In
weight they are by no means desptcaDle, Tor they
average more than the Cambridge men; but the
latter nave the advantage in the weight o. their
coxswaln, wno Is lighter BY twenty-five pounds
than hopwood, OF the oxford, which lar more than
counterbaances any extra weight on the side OF
the oarsmen. "Min or lose," say the latest az.
Wees told OxOnlans Will allow that they have
wed more OF the good old style Than any OK
lord eight Tor years past, and t.at Tor O crew or
young hands, Tor the most part they nave an ele.
ment Of steadiuess and Workmanship In them
perlenced." The eight, as made up ~ the latest
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-21
SPECIAL NOTICE.
To shake. or Not 40 sbnl,ag

Aye, that is the question. Is 1t better 10
quiver from head to foot in the paroxysms Of
fever and ague. or TO Danish the atrocious
disease by a course Of that standard anti.
iebrile remedy, Hostetter's Bittors2 There
cannot be much doubt as to the response OF
the malaria stricken to this inquiry. From
every locality on this continent whose inhab-
itants ere tormented with the shiyering
plague comes an increasing demand for tn
only genuine preventive and eradicant OF
malaria provided by science. The denizens
OF fever and aguo districts well know how ut.
terly inadequate to do more than give brief
resfite are the s0-called remedies ef the fac
nlty. Quinine, arsenic, bismuth- what are
these but poisonous paliatives, which cease
after time to produce any beneficial effect
whatever, and If persisted in wreak irrepara-
bic mischief upon the systemY Everywhere
they are being abandoned by intelligent per-
sons, and that genuine vegetable spe ihc for
Intermittent and remittent disease, Hostel
ter's Bittors, substituted in their place.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-21
An About Herzegovina.

chicago Tribune.l
Who is this Herr Zegoyina, anyway p
said young lady the other evening at a
mixed party; us he the new tenor that
came out with Titiens, or is he in the
Salvini liner" why, how absurdly you
90 talk, Phoebe" replied another young
lady, Just as if every one didn't know
1t was new sort of dress. / saw the
pattern in the Bazaar, and it's just lovely.
1t s shirred, and gored, and cut bias, and
folded on itself, and trimmed with knife
pleating Of the material" Here she
was interrupted by corroborative young
man who remarked that she was
just talking Her zegovina," said this
gentleman, is French for her pull. back
you know. Another young man, who
had had the advantage of foreign travel
set them all right with the lotiness Of
conscious superiority. Herzegovina" I"
he explained, lis the national dance Of
the Hungarian peasantry, like the ca
chuea, or the boero, or the fandango,
or the RAM des Vaches, or the balalaika,
you know. Many time have seen
them bounding in its airy measures,
while the heavy minarets aud mimosas
waved their tops in" II beg your
pardon, observed another innocent who
had been abroad; 81 think you are CEN
founding IL with the Hogoverizini-a
sort Of polka which | saw danced by the
Hungarlans, and also by the Dalmatians
and Dardanelles; Herzegovina is light
Albanian wine, a good deal like
Rudesheimer" "Ah, you are right"
admitted the first traveller the
similarity of sound deceived me. The
explanation did not, after all, prove sat
isfactory, and the young ladies, who
lhlrsted after knowledge, prosecuted still
further inquiries. Damfno," responded
. truthful young man; I" / thought from
the fuss the papers we're making about it
it was a new game like bunko.' Finally
an appeal was made to the wealthy aud
experienced old gentleman who was the
host OF the evening, who from his wide
knowledge Of men and things was sup
posed to be well-posted on every subject.
" Run away, children, run away" said
the good and wise old man, as he beamed
blandly on his two fair daughters, run
away and don't bother your heads about
the currency question"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-21

held out against the innovation because
it came from Rome) until the year 1900
at which time the Lutherans of Germany
and Of Switzerland also acceded to it;
but from the time that had lapsed it was
then necessary to omit eleUen instead OF
ten days.
In the year 1885 a bill to adopt the
Gregorisn Calendar was brought before
the English Parliament, reached a Sec
ond reading in the Lords and then fell
through.
Again, in l75l, chiefly through the
good sense and perseverance of Lord
Chesterfield, who was a man of sense and
science, as well as of fashion, bill was
framed and passed for the cessation Of
the old style, as it was called, and the
adoption Of the new style, such as now
prevails in all Christian countries, Rus
sia excepted.
II was enacted that the legal year
should, for the future, begin on the lst Of
January, and not, as previously, on the
25th of March; and that, to correct the
old Tor JULIAN calendar, eleven nominal
days should be suppressed in Septerlber,
1852, so that the day following the sec
ond of that month should be styled the
fourteenth.
The difficulties that might result from
the change, as affecting rents, leases and
bills Of exchange. were likewise carefully
considered and effectually prevented.
Incredible as it may appear, but indi-
eating the boorishness of the British
commonalty at that time, the trainers of
this bill we're often greeted in public
with shouts of Give us back the eleven
days we have been robbed OF |" and sew
eral years later when MIR. Bradley, who
had helped to make the calculations and
frame the measure, was dying, literally
worn out by the labors in the cause OF
science, many of the common people
openly ascribed his sufferings to a judg-
ment from heaven for having taken part
in that "impious undertaking.
Hogarth, the great satrcal artist of
the time, immortalized the vulgar oppo-
sition to the reform of the calendar in
his picture of IAN Election Feast" in
which the popular prejudices are fat
tered by the Wing candidate in his ban
ner, inscribed, Give us our eleven days"
The adoption OF the new style in Eng
land had the effect of changing the
birthday Of George Washington. He
wss born on the llth of February, 1872
long before England had adopted the
Gregorian calendar, and by the addi
tional eleven days thereby added to all
preceding dates, Washington's birthday
is celebrated on the 22d instead of the
llth Of February.
Contemporary with the adoption of the
new style by England was its being
taken up by Tuscany and Sweden. At
this moment Russia alone adheres to the
old Julian calendar.
By decree OF the Republic in 1893
France adopted new-fangled and not
very accurate calendar, by which the
year was divided into twelve months,
each of thirty days, with FIVE holidays
thrown in, to make up the number Of
8b5 Soon after Napoleon Bonaparte
became Emperor he issued an order for
the abolition of this new system and the
resumption Of the Gregorian calendar
which was done on January l, 1906.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-21
Poisoned stockinr..

The recent introduction and extended
use of eolored or striped stockings, and
the evil effects experienced by the wear.
ers OF them, have served to direct the
attention of the physician and analyst TO
the question of the dyes used in coloring
them. The Pail Mall Gazette, in motto
ing the evil effect of wearing colored
hose, cites several instances where the
FIRST symptoms were intense irritation in
the skin of the feet, swelling, and an in.
iiamed appearance; then an outbreak of
watery blisters Of all sizes, from groups
Of the size of hemp-seed to single blis-
ters on the sole OF the foot larger than a
five-shilling piece. This condition was
accompanied by general feverishness,
rigors, loss of appetite and sensation
OF pervadlng malaise. In severe attack
the patient was rarely able to walk for
three weeks, and after one attack passed
off it was often followed by another of
milder type. In one case a gentleman
was obliged to wear cloth shoes for
upward Of eight months, and with
other patients the system has been so
impregnated with the poison that
blisters have reappeared at intervals,
not only on the feet, but on the hands,
ears, etc., for more than three years
There was no doubt as to the cause and
method Of this b!ood-poisonng, for the
blisters first came in stripes correspond.
ing to the colored stripes on the
stockings, and the laundresses com.
planned Of the irritation and in
famed condition Of their hands after
washing these poisonous articles
A Scotch lady who suffered from a
like cause brought q successful suit
against the firm which supplied her
with the goods, and it was for.
mally announced by them that hence
forth the use of arsenic in the compost
tion of the dyes would be discontinued.
Although having no wish to appear as
alarmists, yet it is evident that the occa-
sion is one calling for watchtul care on
the part Of both purchaser and manu-.
faatlrer. AS We have suggested above,
these faots are worthy of special consid-
Grafton at present For, where the fash
ion of wearing striped stockings will,
without doubt soon be confined to gem
tlemen alone, yet the use by them of
questionable colors may result in the
disastrous effects above described.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-21

Six trunks of large fossil confer trees
have been obtained so far at the Crag-
leitb qusrries in Scotland. The largest,
&c feet long and IL feet in circumference,
has been taken to the British Museum,
and is to be set up there erect Another
is nearly 30 feet in length, and has been
removed to the Botanical Garden The
SURFACE Of each is bituminous coal, vary
ing from one.twentieth of an inch in
thickness to two inches, The trunks in
side of this ooaly exterior consists ol
carbonate Of lime, magnesia, iron and
free carbon in varying proportions. The
coaly exterior is attributed to bitumen
passing to the surface as the destruction
OF the wood WINS going on within.