The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-04-07


WE clip The following Items iron. the
TaHeg r. 2cpead5l'
On S.erday- sal morning
Fred Nau.le. nfiHr hos " The Dale House
stepped 6aNn ard ont while Mr.. Walter
% UFsina stepped up aud in. aIr.
Sauele H,anae, the Dale House ier Il
ul wears. AID was Il Of the most
popular landlord That ever he'll forth in
that l,osleiry.
Ca "Wednesday, as the keystone coal
train wa crossing the trestle work. east Of
ii rave way near the eastern end.
throwing the engine tender and two cars
en- The bank. Engineer Hauk and FIRE
man RGppel went down with the engine,
were overturned with IL, and escaped IN
injured. Albert Graves and Ishmael
Baer were riding or the tender and Graves
thrown upon Baer dislocating his
wrist. No other persons were injured
The engine and tender are badly damaged;
the road viii be placed in running order
in a very short time.
WE copy the following from the Rock
County Herald, published at Luverne.
Minnesota Lieutenant Alexander Oglc
is the elder son Of the late Hon. a.. j..
Ogle, ~familiarly known as Jack. He has
been engaged for some time in distributing
Government supplies to the sufferers from
the terrible grasshapper devastation which
visited Kansas and Southeastern Mime
sofa.
Lieut.. Ogle viii complete his labor in
- . = u - ~ - L. I -a.r - H..
entitled to aid under the recent act ofCon-
Cress have been forwarded to headquar-
tiers, and not many days will elapse before
supplies will be had. During his stay
here Lieut.. Ogle has labored with untir-
ing zeal. visiting MI The towns Of Rock
County, receiving applications for relief
during the day, and spending the hours
usually allotted TO sleep in perfecting the
rolls. so there need he no delay in for
warding supplies. He is fairly entitled
10 the gratitude oil the people for the
prompt and efficient manner in which he
has discharged his duty in this matter.
A letter from Beaver Falls, MINI, pub
lished in the same paper, says:
Lieut. Ogle was in town to-day. He
seemed to lie the most popular man with
many Of orr citizeEs-nearly all were
courting his favor. Call again, Lieut."
CasselIaan items.
Cur candidate for sheriff for Somerset
County has ordered and received from
Baltimore an out ftot rubber over clothes
to enable him to perform the duties as
sheriff to a "gnats heel" lie also receives
daily weather prognostlcaticns and makes
his arrangements accordingly.
Look out for him, he is on his rounds;
request him TO relate his numerous hugh
able Jokes and have a cheap entertain
meni, only asking your support ~ the
election. We wish hiin abundant success.
Our town is on q stand SIN relative to
business, and we think il a bridge was
constructed over the Casse!man River at
this poiat i. would be the making Of the
town; as it is now. people who live about
half a mile on the other side OF the river
must make a journey Of three Or faur
miles to reachUs. How unhandy without
Il. Uusiaa pattern suits US. We wish this
important matter urged.
Our three men who worked enc and n
halt days for the removal of a fox and
her young, were disappointed when they
beheid it was a small ground hog; they
say 'fhjs fellow wont have any thing 10
DO with next Ground Hog Day" How
can he when he was divided into three
partsr
YoEAS.
ORIGIN or THE POSTAGE srAap.-
But few persons who complacently afix a
three.cent stamp 20 a letter that comes
within the proper weight, knowing that
It win be carried safely 10 its Destination,
even if beyond the SierFas, have ever taken
the pains to Inquire the origin Of the post
age stamp. II seems almost improbable
that stamps to be attached to letters only
came into use thirty-fiye years ago, and
that for ten years England alone used
g.cm. Such appears to have been the
case, however, rs we learn from = publ
cation to which attention was called
this morning.
In an article under the above caption
the statement IS made that the postage
stamp was born in London. on the 10th Of
January, 1870. 1t did not extend beyond
England until the first of January. 1919,
and Germany adpnted the system in 1850,
According % NJ. AlphoIse ErQGeros, a
writer on the subject, i was a curious in
cident that gayo rise TO the idea Of postage
stamps. a traveller was crossing, about
forty years ago, 4 district in the north Of
England. He arrived al the door of an
inn where a postman had stopped to de-
liver q letter. \ young girl came out 20
receive IL; she turned it over and over in
her hand ard asked TIE price II the post
ase. iAS was 4 large sum, and evidently
the young girl was poor, for the postman
demanded q shilling. She sighed sadly,
and said that The letter was from her
brother, but that she had no mercy: and
so she returned it to the pOstman. The
traveller was q man who rambled about
the cath Tor observation and instruction.
Having o good heart he offered to pay the
postage OF the letter, and, in spite OF the
resistance Of the young girl, he paid tie
shilling. This resistance made him re-
fleet. Scarcely had tne posnnan turned
his hack than tAe young innkeeper's
laughter confessed that it was a trick be-
tween her and her brother. some signs
marked on the envelope had told her all
that sha wanted TO know, but the letter
itself contained no writing,
Eve are both so poor. she added.
.and SO We Invented this mode of CORE
spending and prepayin- our letters The
traveller, continuing his road. asked him
self if a system which gave place to such
frauds was not 3 vicious n
The sun had not set when Mr.. Rowland
Hill THAI was the name CT Inc traveller
had planned to organic the postal service
upon : new basis. He said that in En-.
gland, where Amily ties are strong, and
where tie members Gi;en live far apart;
where, tQa the spirit Of commerce knows
do limits, the correspondence was onIv
limited by the cost of the post; esd ,hat by
lowering this barrier q great service
would be rendered 10 society without
hurting the resources Of the treasury.
These views were agreed TO by the En-
glish government, and on the .O.a Ct
january. 1870, not more .han a penny was
na;d g. le.i5Ts which circulated over the
Whole extent of the British isles. This
bold scheme soon surpassed the hopes cf
the legislators. Ten years LAYER, an 1850,
Che number Of letters increased IRON
1 800 010 Is T,2y9 500. Mr.. Rowland Hill
occupied in England the post OF Secretary
10 the Postmaster General.
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