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

A correspondent Of the Moulton
Gala Advertiser writes of his visit
to an aged couple in Winston County
in that State: On Thursday | bad
the pleasure of dining with Mrs. Sc
lima Walker, of Winston, who is l03
years old. She cooked athe dinner
herself aud waited on the table.
She informed me that she had twelve
living ehildren-uine boy. and three
girls-sixty-two grandchildren, and
twenty-eight great-grandchildren.
Her husband, Buckner Walker. is
l04 years old, and attends the duties
of his mill. Both are lively, healthy,
and hearty.
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THE Government sold the Phila,
delpbia Navy Yard at public auction
on Thursday last, and realized for it
the sum of one million dollars. The
purchaser is the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company. Previous 70 the sale
the buildings, machinery, etc, had
all been removed TO the new Navy
Yard at League Island.
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Attempt TO Murder and Rob ia . San.
Francisco Hotel

SAN Francisco, Dec. "a bold
attempt at robbery and murder was
made at the Palace Hotel this after.
noon. A young man, calling him
self S. FL. Harrington, requested
Hopkins 4 Haley, brokers, to send
$3.50 in greenbaeks to his room at
the Palace for exchange. The firm
sent a boy with the money, accom-
panied oy dIcers, ~snspecion being
excited. TIE officers Waited Outside
and the boy went in. While count.
ing the money, the boy was attacked
by Harrington with a Ratchet. The
officers rushed 10 and arrested him,
Harrington bad previously pnsuccess-
fully attempted 10 lure Michael Reese
to his room, on the pretext of nego.
tiatins o Joan. From entries in his
note book, be seems 10 haye been Of
good connections in some portions Of
the West and was impelled to the
act by a desire to obtain means to re-
turn home.
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FoRTY-EIGHT Of he Internal Rev
enue districts have just been abolish
ed by order of Commissioner Pratt
acting in concurrence with the Secre
tary of the Treasury. BY this &C
ton a saving of s25O,OOo a year in
collecting the ven will be effected.
This will make a total reduction OF
$500. 900 in the expenses of the
bureau since Mr.. Pratt came into
Office q few months ago.
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Flre .ss s.sEesse in 2 Lecture Hall.

WTLMS6ReS, DEE. Dec. a.
While Mr.. Cough was lecturing on
"Blunders' to q crowded house This
evening the Opera House caught Ere
from a superbeated steam pipe in the
o5cs. A stampede followed, aud
several ladies isin;ed, but no one was
hurt. After the flames had been ex-
tinguished the audience nervously
returned and the lecture was finished.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-08

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 1.-The
steamer Phil Sheridan took fire, wher
a short distance from Buffalo, at
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon. As the
efforts of the crew to suppress the fire
were uuvailiDg. they took to the
boats, and were picked up and
brought here by the steamer Craig.
The Sheridan was a freight boat,
belonging to Wards Duluth Line.
She was insured against fire for Sl0,-
900 in the Detroit Fire and Marine,
and $40, 900 in the Royal, and was
valued at $40 600
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The Chairs Followed Them.

The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press
says: AT the Conservative banquet
in Montreal last Wednesday evening
Sir John Macdonald spoke for four
hours. All the chairs had been new.
ly vanished, and when at the con.
clusion Of Sir Johns speech. the au.
dience rose to cheer, nearly every
ore lifted his chair with him. One in.
dignant diner who left part Of bis
coat on his seat, engaged in single
combat with the waiter. Altogether
it was a very pleasant affair"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-08
Connecticat River Frozen over

HARTFORD, Dec. 1.-The ice which
was floating in the Connecticut Riv-
er in large quantities yesterday is
blocked at various points to-day, and
above the bridge here the river is
frozen over solid. This is the second
occurrence of the kind by Dec. l in
forty years.
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Two Girls sent to the Pcnitentiary.

PATERSON, n. j., November 30
Two Italian girls, aged fifteen and
eighteen respectively, who were ar
rested here recently for passing
counterfeit money, were to-day con-
victed and sentenced to three years
Imprisonment.
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Illicit Rectinsss Of Milwaukee Pun,
shed.

MILWAUKEE, Dec. l.-Schiliz &
Bergenthal, rectiEers. convicted oil
shipping goods without entering the
same as required by law, were, this
morning, sentenced to a fine Of 81, 900
each and four months imprisonment
in the County jaijs
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prevent any legislation calculated
to strengthen the Republican party
in the coming Presidential canvass,
and of course will launch upon q sea
of Investigations, hoping to make
capital by damaging disclosures and
charges against the party in power.
Little Of great public moment is ever
done by the Congress Immediately
preceding a National election, and
less than usual is under the circum-
stances TO be expected from this one.
We trust that on all questions of in
vestigation the Republicans viii vote
with the majority. W. should have
nothing 10 fear from any fairly con-
Quoted examination, and as the ad-
ministration has r~elentlessly punish
ed all evil doors, wherever they
could be reached, there should be no
obstruction thrown ia the way of the
Democratic ferrets that will be turn
ed loose among the rat holes with
which Washington is honeycombed.
For years the sole capital of the
Democratic party has been its con-
tinuous howl of corruption and fraud
against the Republican sdministra-
ton, and now that they have the
chance, let them make true the eharg-
es, il they can. "Let no guilty man
escape" say we. If any Republican
officials have corrLpily abused their
positions let them be mercilessly ex-
posed and punished, the good Of the
party, aud of the country both de-
mand it, mauger the exultant shouts
Of the enemy.
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AFrrst Of q Geyernment OgIcial.

CHICAGO. December ID. II.
MuEn. formerly an internal revenue
supervisor from the Southern district
OF Illinois, was arrested to-day and
his trial on q charge of committing
frauds on the revenue will be COM
menced this afternoon.
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Senator e III.

CHICAGO, November Ex-senator
Logan is in a somewhat precarions
condition at the Palmer House in
this city, being afflicted with acute
rheumatism of the brain.
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Governor ~INGERsoLL, Of Connect
cut, has appointed Ex-Governor Eng
lish to ill the Senatorial seat vacated
by the death of Mr.. Ferry.
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T EGAL NOTICE.

IL
WI Baer, In the Common Pleas Of Som.
VS.. erset county, alias writ Of par
VIM. Earnest. StitiOn-
To William Earnest, defendant above named.
You are hereby notified that an alias writ OF
partition Issued out Of the Court of Common
Pleas OF Somerset county, with an order for pub.
~iication to me directed, commanding Won TO auDear
and show cause why partition should not be made
between you and the plaintiff above named Of the
following lands in Somerset county, at or near the
town of Garrett, in said county, which YOU and the
said plaintiff together and undivided do hold,
viz:
Mol A tract Of land known as the Peter p
less.
No. 2 A tract in name Of Lewis Meminger.
containing 452 acres.
\ No. ). A tract in name of John Stein eontain-
ing $50 acres.
No. 4. A tract in name of Charles Marqudant.
containing-40 acres.
No. S. A tract in name of Martin Dubbs, con-
No6. A tract in rame of Nathan Luffborouvh.
containing 3T acres.
MOI. The southern portion Of a tract in name
OF Aoram Stein, containing 2l9 acres and .
No. A tract in name of Peter Benson con-
tanning 426 acres.
Ne.9. A tract in name of Vim. johnson, con
tanning i24 acres.
No.l Il. A tract in name of Thomas Wilson.
containing 20 acres,
H. A tract in name OF George Buryher. con-
tanning S3 acres and . pershes.
no. IL tract in name of Henry Baker. con-
taining 20 acres and % perches..
40; K. a tract in-naue of Rachael Tom and
oman Ton, containing $50 ac4es.
You are hereby n0tily to appear at a Coart al
common Pleas to be holden on the lth Monday OF
January next and show cause why partition be
tween yeu and said plaintiff should not be made.
OLIVER KEEPER.
SharfH
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DRIDGE SALE.

The Commissioner Of Somerset county will Of
fer TO let at public cutlery TO the lowest and best
bidder. on the premises, on Thursday, the 10th
day of December, 1875, at 1 o'clock, the building
Of a bridge over Middlecreek near the German
Baptist Church, in Milford township. Also on
Friday, the 18th day of December at 10 o'clock.
the building of a bridge over Laurel Hill Greek
near the house OF Peter Whipkey, in Middleereek
township. Plans and specifications will be exhib-
tied on day Of sale.
VAL. J. MILLER,
+. j. COUNTRYMAN,
ULIEER W. BOYER,
nova Commissioners.
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Neu Advertisements.
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that an application will
be made at the next session Of the General As
sembiy of Pennsylvania, for a charter TO incor-
porate a company to be called the Pair Hope
Boom Company" the object of which is, by au-
thority of said charter, to erect and maintain a
boom In Wills Greek, at Fair Hope, in Somerset
county. Pa, and TO use the waters of Wits creek
and Brush creek in said county, as far as practice
bic for floating logs into said boom to be manuiae-
tured into lumber.
]. NJ. MACOMBER,
decl and others.
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YORK, December ], 1915.
THE DEATH OF NONRESIDENT Will

NEW YORK, December !, 1875.
THE DEATH OF NONRESIDENT Will
SON.
The flags all over the city are still
flying at half-mast for the death OF
Vice President Wilson, an event
which causes sincere and universal
sorrow. His simple manliuess of
character, his unaffected patriotism
and unquestioned honesty have year
by year won for him among ali class
es a regard, which death easily ex-
ats into a tender memory. Like the
late President Lincoln he sprung
from the very dregs, of the people,
and yet attained to the second hon.
or of the Republic, as the other did
to the first. The career of sboth ad-
mirably illustrated the free genious
of our institutions, and the absence
of those barriers of caste and priv
ileges which block the way in less
favored lands.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-08
UDITOR'S NOTICE.

The undersigned duly appointed auditor ~ the
Orphans Court Of Somerset county, to distribute
the funds In the hands of Michael Long, executor
and trustee Of Magdalena Long, deceased. to and
among those legally entitled thereto. hereby gives
notice that he will attend to the duties of his ap-
pointment on Friday, the 10th day OF December
next. at his Office in Somerset borough, when and
where all persons interested may attend.
II. l.. BAER,
novel Auditor.
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NOTICE.

Fhe'e Eil be a special meeting % the Pitt
ossgh = Conneiisvilie Railroad Conn any at the
ouice o. the Company, In the city OF Pittsburgh,
az Twelve tl2) o'clock noon on the thirteen Q3) day
OF December 1873. This meeting IL called By the
directors OF The Company to authorize the issue
OF toe bonds OF the Company, TO be secured by n
eonsoiiiutsd mortgage. and 10 consider an ar
rSngement for the operating Of the road by the
Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad Company and the
guaranty by the said Baltimore and Ohio Rail
seadcolspany oftfe complicated mortgage n9nd
J. KING JR- MrNDF. codEn
HUGH TISSON. u SMITH.
WIN. H. PERKINS. VIM. KEYSER.
CHARLES WEBB H a.. VICKERY.
GEO. r. DENNIS. us BISSEL
H,L FErrERMAN, W n. BALDWIN,
ueci Directors.
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DUBLIC NOTICE,

Notice Is hereby given, that an application will
De made at the next session of the General Assem-
bly, Of Pennsylvania for the repeal of the Act ap
proved April sth. 1859, entitled A Act to attach
Somerset County tn the Middle District for tn.
Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania and for authority
TO restore said county TO the Western District Of
said Supreme Court.
SAMUEL GATHER. John R. EIDE,
l. O.. OOGBORN. w. I.BAER,
Ed: SCULE~~ Id CyLBuRN,
H. y. SCHEIL- n. L. BAER.
J. q. OGLE, W. ii. RUPPEL.
VAL HAY, J.. Ii. UHIA
: J. kOOSER, j. kIMMEL.
A: H. COFFROrH, w. II. KOONrZ,
ISAAC G. JAS. l. PUGU-
w. ". POSTLETHWAIrE
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NOTICE.

~
Notice is hereby given that Samuel Ii. Hanger.
OF Somerset township made an assignment u
Solomon j. Baker, Of sane township, for the ben
eht OF his creditors, ali persons kiowins thea;
selves 70 be indebted TO the SAID Hauger vii
Please call either at The Office Of Baer 4 Baey "a
Somerset borough, or at the house OF ne sssisnIa
and make settlement.
novs ssf-nSe
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SHERlttS SALES.
-
BY virtue Of n writ of Fieri FIcias issued ost Of
the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset county,
Pa. and to me directed, / will expose to sale by
public cutlery, at the Court House, IN Somerset, on
Friday, December 10, 1875,
the following described real estate, TO wit:
All the right, title, interest and claim Of +. H.
Marshall, OF, in and to the following real estate,
via:
A certain lot Of ground situate in Somerset Dor,
Somerset county, Pa, containing - acres, with
a three story brick store house thereon erected
bounded by lot of II. G. Beerits on the north. II.
F. Schell on the east, Main street on the south.
and Main Cross street on the west, with the ap
pUrtenances.
Taken in execution as the property Of E. II.
Marshall at the suit of Patton < Hurst CT al.
TERMS.-Any person purchasing at the above
sale will please take notice that ten per cent of
the purchase money will be required as soon as
the property 10 knocked down, otherwise IL will
again be exposed to sale. The residue of the pur-
chase money must be paid on or before the 9th Of
January, 1875, the day fixed by the Court for the
acknowledgment of Sherifss deeds, and no deed
will be acknowledged until the purchase money is
paid in full.
OLIVER KNEPPER,
novel Sheriff.
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CURRENT

"Uuto him. that hath shall be given''
A Brooklyn man, the father of sewn
teen children, found a basket at his
basement door the other morning con-
tanning a little gold headed cherub
about two weeks old, A tag appended
to the handle of the basket bore this
legeno: you appear to be fond of
children. / amt. Please accept
this one"
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ses. req COL.

1T has been said that the woEr. use
to pst Q usp to is to hang him; but
that can't possibly be true in this
city. 1t nov and then happens that
. criminal is promptly hunted down,
fairly and promptly tried, and if his
offense is q capitol one, promptly u
per col. And be was never worth SO
mpch in his life as in his death, for be
bangles from the gibbet. q terror to
his kind. and lie is safe for a good
while after. Iii is not : pleasant
thought that o man may meet on the
streets of New York in an evenings
promenade 9 hundred men, who, if
they had . good chance, would cut
his throat for two dollars and q hall,
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1t is proposed to purchase and re-
move to the Centennial grounds the
house 10 which Horace Greeley was
born. 1t stands on the old Greeley
farm in Amherst, about five miles
from Manchester n. II.
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The Inter- Ocean suggests that the
bishop of the diocese in which Faith
err 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.
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President Grant and Mr.. Henderson.

There was n sly bit OF satire in the com
plmentary letter addressed by the st. Louis
Grand Jury to President GRANT. They
commend him for his instruction 70 Secre-
tary BRIsrow, Let no guilty man es-
cape;" but they make no comment on the
agonizing cry by which II was accompa-
med See 10 IL that no innocent man is
implicated" Gen. GRANT at that time
professed to believe Gen. BABcocK limo
cent
Our Washington dispatches leave no
doubt that the removal OF Mr.. HENDERSON
from the prosecution OF the whiskcy casos
at st. Louis has been peremptorily ordered.
On every account we regret that this has
been done.
Mr.. HENDERSON Is a lawyer OF note was
formerly United states Senator, and has
distinguished himself by the zeal and abili-
ty which he has shown In these prosecu-
tons He is said 20 possess ia
millarity with the complicated facts
OF the case which no one else has.
Mr.. HENDERSON may have trodden near
enough TO barely touch the Presidents
oorns; but in the report of his remarks
which we have seen, there was nothing
which seemed TO make his removal neccs-
sary
The President occupies an exceedingly
delicate position in this matter. I'm
portant officers appointed by hm-in-
Guiding the Chief Clerk OF the Treas
ury of the United statcs-have al
ready been convicted. And now his
own private secretary and almost CON
slant companion stands indicted in the
same court. The removal of Mr.. HEN
pERsoN at this time would I'M
doubtedly greatly weaken and en-
barrass the prosecution. Can the Presi-
dent afford to do an act of that kind ?
Would it not hurt him more than all that
Mr.. HENpERsoN could say about him
no matter what il might be-in a
life time The President cannot
spread out n mantle now over any one
without nrousng general suspicion that
there Is som thing TO COY er up. We think,
upon second thought, he will see that it is
better for him TO bottle his wrath
against Mr.. HENDERSON for the
time being, and let the prosecutions pro-
coed, uninterrupted. He can settle his
scores with Mr. HENDERSON at some flu
'"'' 'iHi' ""N IL no uOrau IL Will NOT
make much difference. His adunnistra-
ton is so overloaded with fraud aud
crime in the Revenue Department that il
the President docs anything which has
even the appearance OF trying to block or
delay the course OF justice, il may result
disasIrously 10 HIM. He will do well to
forogo all trifing and personal CON
sideIgttions for the present, and ex-
ert all his powers to purify the Govern
ineut of which he is the responsible head.
II his Cabinet or the journals processing to
support him can give him any better adj
vice than this, let him take IL in preference
to ours; but we think the country will
agree with US.
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tary principles OF finance, and ought to
have been wound up on the spot. Yet
they were suffered TO run on neail y two
years, piunging deeper and deeper into
the mire, until finally they were stuck
beyond extrication. Their fate suggests
the interesting question, rs to how many
more such institutions are pursuing the
same career, and are bound to come to
the same end. If the Bank Supcrintcnd-
ent does his duty, the public Will soon
have the figures before them and he ena-
blcd 10 judge for themselves; but In the
mean while the sound concerns have II in
their power to satisfy their customers, by
anticipating his action and publishing
detailed statement OF their condition. In
few weeks, too, they are TO declare their
semi-annual dividends to depositors, and
that will be the test OF the honesty OF
their management. If they courugeously
tell the truth and divide no more than
they have earned, whether IL he two per
cent, one per cent, or nothing ut all, IL
will do them much more good than to
divide three per cent and over, aud take
IL out of the principal.
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THE FoRrY- rouRrn coNgREss.
Bill Correcting the Postal LcgIslatIon Of
the Last session.

WAsHrNGToN, Dec. 10.-In the House to-
day. on motion Of Mr.. Gibson Dem. Lad. y reso-
luton was adopted adding to the committees Of
the House a committee of eleven TO be known
a. the Committee on the Mississippi Lcyecs
Mr.. Hopkins Dem, Pa offered a resolution
that - much Of the Presidents message MS re-
lates 10 the Centennial be referred to n select
committee OF three members, the object being
to got early action on the Centennial. There
being no objection, the resolution was received
and adopted.
MIR. Holman Dem, Ind) moved an adjourn
meut, but yielded to Mr.. MacDougali crop, N.
W who asked leave TO introduce aud put upon
its passage a hill rerealing so much Of the act
OF March B. 1876 as had been construed to cover
postage on printed matter.
Mr.. starkweather uiep.. Comm said he had q
bill which had been prenared by the Post ONCE
Department. and which he desired to offer as q
substitute for Mr.. MacDougalls.
MIR. Starkweathers bill was read. IL provides
that from the LIST Of January, 1876 postage shall
be charged on pamphlets, transient newspa-
pers, periodicals, magazines, handbills posters.
unseoled circulars, prospectuses, proof sheets
and corrected proof sheets at the rate OF one
cent for every two ounces or fraction thereof;
and IN the postage on all other mhilable mat
YER % the third class shall reD ain as now pro-
vided bv law.
the measure was exactly correct, but that II was
a very important measure aud should receive
due consideration. lie would not, therefore,
withdraw the motion to adjourn.
MIR. MGcDOugall said he would accept Mr..
StaIkwoather's bill AZ substitute for his own.
Mr. Holman thought that the hill was perhaps
little too broad In Its provisions, and that
proper time should DO taken for it, due con
sideration.
Mr.. Stukweather said that hls bill had been
prepared At the Post ONCE Department, aud
That II ought to he considered immediately.
Mr.. Cox Dem, n. Y.)-YOu committed n
blunder last session about this matter. Do not
hurry Us now.
Nj llolman-Tho bill Will be printed In to.
morrow's Record. 50 that members can read IL
ana De prepared TO ACT uuon II az next meeting
Mr. Starkweathsc-DOI understand the gen
teman rom Indiana TO obJoct To "A reduction Of
pustagcy
Mr. ilolman-G do not. have said frequently
that thought the measure right. You passed
the bill last session, ana am anxious to have It
corrected
Nil Starkwenther-You voted for II YOURSELF
ana made a mistake, and now wo want thai
mistake corrected.
he motion to adjourn was then put and car
rel, ana the House thcrcuuon, at l2.,O. adj
Jnurned until Tuesday next, the adjournment
since last Tuesday being for the purpo.e Of Civ
lng the Speaker time to mako up his list " com
mtttecs.
IL was announced that Democratic caucus
would be held In the hall Of the House on Mon
day Lt2R. NJ.