The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-08

"Uuto him that hath shall be given
A Brooklyn man, the father of sewn
teen children, found a basket at BIZ
basement door the other morning con
tanning a little gold-headed cherul
about two weeks old. A tag appended
to the handle of the basket bore thi,
legeno: you appear to be fond o
children. l amt. Please accepr
this one"
1t is proposed to purchase and re-
move to the Centennial grounds The
house 10 which Horace Greeley wa:
born. 1t stands on the old Greeley
farm in Amherst, about five mile;
from Manchester n. II.
The Inter Ocean suggests that the
bishop of the diocese in which Faith.
er Byan, the Ohio Catholic priest, is
in Jail, charged with shooting with
intent to wound" should curse the
%jailer, aud, if need be, the Jail.
The largest Touring mill in Amer
lea is owned by Hon. c. c. Wash.
burn, of Minneapolis, MINI. 1t is
seven stories high, and crowded with
machinery from top to bottom. Its
cost was $500, 600, has forty run of
burrs, and turns put 1000 barrels of
flour per day.
Pullman palace-cars have been in
troduced in England, Belgium, Rus
STA, Germany, and now the turn of
France aud Italy has come. Ameri-
a inventions are growing fashiona-
BILE.
Montgomery Queen has purchased
100 African ostriches, and is about
c~olonizing then on his place near
Haywoods, a small town fifteen
miles from San-Francisco. 1t is Mr..
Queens intention to raise ostriches
solely for their plumage, each bird
yielding over 5000 worth of feathers
yearly. He has invested 500, 600
in the enterprise.
Dr.. b. T. Harry, a prominent ply
sician of Bedford, com mitted suicide
on Friday evening last at his resi-
dence, by taking q combination of
poisons which be had prepared him.
self. He had been drinking hard for
some time past, and was supposed to
be under the influence of liquor when
the act was committed.
The Penn Gas Coal Company has
built and equipped a railroad from
Irwin on p. r. r., to the mouth OF
Sewickley on the,Connellsville Rail-
road, below West Newton. This
company nov run two trains each
day from Irwin to the ConnellsvilIe
Railroad and return.
The other day, when a Detroit
grocer. spelled sugar "s-b-u-g-e-r," a
pointed out the word and re-
marked, That word isn't spelled
quite right "Ah!I see," laughed
the grocer; zone would think had
no %edueation! And he crossed it out
AID wrote "s-h-u-g-o-r.n
Hon. Joseph Holt, Judge Advo-
cate of the Army, has been retired
,pon his-ovn application, and will
succeeded by Assistant Judge Ad-
'ocate Dunn.
General James S. Bri-bin writes 10
he Omaha Herald that tie crops in
Nebraska this year have been enor-
nous, aud that the State has been
ulIy restored to the prosperity it en-
Dyed before the grasshopper scourge.
I'll of the grain planted after the de-
'trqction in June matqred perfectly.
William b. Aston, supposed to be
DO richest man in America, died in
Few York city last week, at an ad-
'anced age. His wealth, mainly real
estimated variousIy from
40, 900, 900. to $500, 600, 600. He
aid $500, 900 taxes annually on bis
cal estate alone.
The courts OF Kentucky have Just
ecided the local option law to be un-
institutional, on the ground that it is
ct %dsrsorFrr. and that the State Leg
hss no power by its enact
lents to constitute an Set an offence
J one county or township, aud to
unish it as such, which ia another
ounty CT township may be lawfully i
one. The Court Of Appeals of Cal :
ornia recently took precisely a SINH !
II position in reference to the the To- 4
option law ofthat State.