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Is She Bewi,ched.


The good people among the hills
Of Morris county, n. j., have found
excitement in the case Of . Young
girl said to be "grieyously vexed of
the devil" and whose condition is as
unaccountable as it is deplorable.
The girl according 10 the Horld's
informant, is q daughter Of Elijah
Nichers, blacksmith of the Glendon
Iron Company at Hnrdtown. She
predicted evil against her fifteenth
birthday, which befel or the 18Th of
October last, and since that date she
has been bed-ridden and paralyzsd.
AT times there appears under the
counterpart of her bed a presence as
of a rat, a RABBIT, or a cat swiftly
moving from place to place aud elu-
ding detection. In vain is the bed
stripped, or the patient removed to
another place; the presence" is on
ly powerless 60 act when the mother
sleeps with the child. The physi-
clans, no less than the clergy, and
the common folk of all the country
side are baffled. Crowds come dali
ly to see the mystery. Ga one recent
occasion, DIR. Richards, Mayor of
Dover, held his stiff hat above the
presence" and the bat received q
blow that crushed it. Violent blows
have been given to the hand, to q
cane, and other objects held out over
the place where the presence" was,
and, needless to say, attempts to
grab the presence have failed. All
the while the girl lies moaning as if
Ia terror or pain, and her position in
the bed would be plainly such as to
show that the mysterious move
ments were not caused by her. The
girl has been known to abstain all
food for the space of fifteen days, and
for some weeks past she has only re-
a little milk daily, yet her
face is fair, and when the visitation
is not nigh her sleep is apparently
beautiful. Her parents are plain
and honest people, who view this as
an affliction not to be turned TO ac-
count for notoriety or money. The
unable to accoun; for it in
any other was, have solem1ly de-
creed witchcrafts sgainst an old wo-
man living among them, and charms
are in active demand-Neto York
World
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Cheap Gfris.

A girl who makes herself too cheap
is one to be avoided. No young man,
not ever the worst, except for a base
purpose, wants anything to do with a
cheap young lady. For a wife,
none but q fool or q rascal will ap-
proach such a woman Cheap Jew
elry nobody viii touch if be can get
any better. Cheap girls are nothing
tut the refuse and the young men
know il, and they will look 10 every
other direction for q life long friend
and companion before they viii give
a glance at the p~inchbeck stuff that
tinkles at eyesy turn for fascinating
the eye of any that will look. You
think il is quite the correct thing''
TO talk -coarsly aud loudly, be bolster
GUS and hoydenish in all public pla-
ces; to make yourself so bold and
forward and commonplace, every
where. that people wonder if you ev-
er had a mother, or q home, or any
thing to do, So be it. You will
probably be taken for what you are
worth. and one of these years. if you
do not make worse than q shipwreck
of yourself, you will begin TO won
der where the charms are that cnce
you thought yourself possessed Of,
and what evil spirit could have be-
fooled you. Go on, but remember
cheap girls attract nobody but fools
and rascals-M Millan's Magazine.
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Around Ihe world in A Hurry.


Major Rabe Allen, the veteran en-
gineer Of the Central road, always
carries something interesting with
him, il nothing more than his good
natured face. Last night on the
front Of his locomotive was a goadly
sized block of California pine. Ii
was started ON the front Of q locomo-
tive from San Francisco, May 18th,
by some genius, and has passed from
locomotive to locomotive until il
reached Major Allen, at Syracuse,
last night, and be carried it through
Utica on the Atlantic express al l0:30
p. m. The block bore this inscription:
II want to go around the World in a
hurry. Please pass nae along III New
York and put me on board some
steamer and keep me moving In
all its travels this block will not have
a faster ride than Uncle Reuben gave
it last night. The raiIrord men will
be curi3us , o know how the block
in its trip ard what time ii
made Utica n. Y. Herald.
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Sevada Court.


d. C. MeKenuy, District Judge OF
the Fifth District, comprising the
counties of lander, Nye, and Church
bill, will shortly take bis departure
fer Saltwater, county sest Of Church
bill county, to open the regular term
of court ia ,hIt county. The follow
ing are the ceremonies iueideat to q
term of court in Churchill county.
The Judge arrives at the county seat,
puisup bis team and sends an Indian
runner In search of the Sbria and
county Clerk. The Sheriff and Cletk
arrive, and the Sheriff, standing up
ia bis stirrups, proclaims: Hear ye,
hear We. hear ye; the District Court
of the Fifth Judicial District in and
for Churehhill County is now open"
Then the Judge bitches up his tear,
gels Into bis buggy aud says "Mr,
Clerk, this ciurt stands adjourned for
The term Then the Sheriff and
Clerk and The Indian sit down ia the
sagebrush aud play Indian poker. and
the Judge bids them a pleasant good
by and drives OF
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BY snn.

dol snarsln' boys and hav Is salz-- I'm =
seedy laoking tramp.
Yon see, Iast night my .liuie boa was iast q tri-
ne damp.
Unused tho t~raia-ihatis funny, tcs-aHs hen
walked the rail;
Hound my bed, rs l always do. when inn eonnee-
Lions lail.
Last night ] aresnf = dream. and 1 wish ia mr-
CT woke
sYcF, .bcyR = / dremps 1 lived again before !
took this yokes
raw the forms Of ether dass-they'ye climbed
the golden klI
/ mingled VIII = hone,y thrOng-I wish it were
50 SIN
Twas a hznque; spread In TIA; old home, and all
~ere gzihersd there
To crowd the festal ~boArt.-pareuial blessings
share -
You sec 1 lived ny life sgain, o harry days 50
bright,
As slept on ny deu-samP bed in the shadows Of
iastnight.
printer has a heart beneath his rag
gci garb,
-Hzrd Times is roaming through the las4d and
VIC LAtt tr-t 0A~ t@ED
And. strangers. when / woke this morn. with
cramps and mental pain
May God forgive my wicked wish-to never wake
again
IYs made some -1as;ihcAtoa in this ancient
battered @f0ra-r
AMI my sbeuzine wash I've fhroan aside. rs
bought 70 INC much harn
Ny proof has been corrected, > a .revise" win
needed be,
Fer He that sesreheth hearts will many errors
sec.
ny tramp Is almost ended now-Old age viii win
The race,
You see my hands are 'trembly' and l cannot
a'hold a case =
But I've made an application at the ~ciiy built
Of gold'1
And 1 long to hear the answer " lis a ease that
you can hold"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-06-20

In all parts Of town the singular
freaks of tie storm caused by its pc
~caliar whirling motion. are still az
distinctly visible as ever. Passing
along Main street, one looks into the
rocms on the second floor oia double
dwelling. The wall and The gable
end ofthe front has been tcrn away
from the roof and the drst-siorv CELL
ing, leaving The chambers open to the
ohtInsise gaze OF all who pass. The
remaining walls androof are sound
and untouched by the storm. In
one OF the rooms a bedstead stands
in the corner, with the covering neat
ly tucked in and the sheets thrown
back OF the pillows. just as it we're
before the cyclone struck All the
other furniture in the room lie also in
place; but in the adjoining room
there is not a piece. Everything
was scooped out by the wind or the
suction, or whatever it was.
In several places the wind has
left a shaky old house standing.
while a substantial, solid building OF
each side would be utterly swept
away.
At the base Of the depression on
Fourth street, east oftown, is a spot
where no house stood, are heared
up the rubbish Of probably q
DOZEN DIFFERENT HOUSES,
from all sides Of the place. As a ma
tive graphically expressed it: 1T
looks as though the wind had gone
around scoopin' in all the houses III
the neighborhood, and whea
it got here, the bot
tom dropped out and let it all drop"
In a back yard a c~lothes-iine is
seen with a pair of long stockings
hanging just where the housewife
left them, but the house is gone, and
even the boards are torn from the
posts to which the line is tied.
The tin covering of the Grand
Central Hotel was stripped OF folded
up and neatly hung across the ridge
pole of q real wing.
The Pioneer Hook aad Ladder
truck, which stood in the engine-
house, back of the court house, was
found after the breeze passed. stand
ing almost 10 its tracks. but the en-
gine-house bsd gone, no one knew
whittier. The truck wore a most
woe.begone lock, its tongue beiag
broken and paint hacked of ia -
rions directions; il needs repairing.
The court house bell was graceful
ly lifted off the belfry and carried
about sixty feet directly against the
wind. TIE bell weighs coo pounds.
Several men state that the sub
ufbs OF the town evea more thaa Ia
the city, it could plainly be e 10
the wreck left behind that the lorna
do gathered ell moveabies ia its
track from each side towards the
centre. In one instance the lower
story Of a building was ripped out
and carried oG, while the whole up
per part Of the house just dropped
down upon the foundation. The
house had been simply cut down one
atorv
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Indian Anecdofe.

Years ago when The copper faced
natives had mingled with the whites
Just enough to confuse their ideas of
proprieiy, when Judge Johnson
held a court on the banks of the Mo-
hawk, Big john, a prince OF the ro-
vel family kiaickinic, aasarraingned,
tried aud convicted of the larceny Of
a jug Of hre.water. According to
the laws in operation at that romantic
period, Big John was sentenced to
pay a fac OF five dollars, which was
duly forked over Whereupon the
aboriginal culprit was Informed that
be was at liberty to go, John gather
ed his blanket around him and ap.
preached the Judge. and demanded a
receipt for the five dollars.
There's 20 occasion for 9 receipt,
john" said the Judge, you'll never
be called on to pay it again"
ugh big Idiaa steal WHISKY
pey FIVE dollars-want 'um receipt"
"We don't give receipts here
john
But the son OF the forest was not
to be cheated. He bored the clerk,
sheriff and every one connected with
the court, until the Judge concluded
10 give him a receipt to get-rid of
aim. he called him up TO the bench,
and said;
John, if you tell me VIA; you
want with a receipt, III give you
one.n
Upon which the red ma delivered
himself as follows:
"Big John die one of these days.
lie 60 up TO Heaven-knoek at the
gate. Peter say, Who knock at the
gates of Heaven? big Johnn"JohD,
You pay for that whiskey you stole 7
yes" I'Sbove the receipt under the
gate, John.n Then Big John have
to hunt all through hell to find
Judge Johnson aud get a receipt
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The Uses -ofInsects.

We often talk of the plague of in
sects. They are often great pla CUES,
but we must not forget that we owe
insects a great debt of gratitude as
well. Only a very small portion of
the insect world are noxious, the
others are engaged in good work for
us; some engage in warning against
the same insect foes that we war
against, and the others in clearing
away dead and injurious matters.
On the last head an English scientif-
&c paper well says
Insects are useful in destroying
dead vegetables substances, which
are wen mor pernicious to man
than animals in the same condition,
and not only the soft and suceulent
portions, but even the solid wood is
destroyed by them. la the immense
forests of the tropics the ground
would be covered, and shoots be
choked up by the ruins of trees
which had fallen by accident or age,
and which it would require ages to
dispense without the aid of insects.
But no sooner is a tree fallen than a
tribe of insects cot its bark 10 pieces,
another bores holes in it In all direc-
lions, 50 that the moisture from rain
'ir dew may stand, decompose snd
Others come TO eat off the
parts that are softened, and so on
until il is entirely broken up aad
scattered and this is done with such
that they viii in a few
weeks destroy and carry away the
trunks of iirge trees without leaving
a particle behind, and in places where,
two or thee years before, there was
Iopilous town, if the inhabitants.
as is freqaently The case, have cho-
sen {" aba, lon it. there will be a
very .hick sood, and no, q yestige
Of posi- TO be seen"
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Fredesfinafion

ITa H.-N- --.U. =
"Doycu bslievein pred~estination Z"
said the captain of Mississippi steam
er 20 a Clergyman who happened to
be travelling with him
"0f course do"
And you also believe that what
is to be will be?.r
"Csrtaisiy."
"Weil I am glad 70 hear ~
"Wty?.
Because ! intend to pass that boat
ahead in fifteen consecutive minutes,
iftbere be any virtuein pine knots
aud loaded s~sfety-vaives. So don't
be alarmed. for If tie boiler amt to
burst, then it won't"
Here the divine began putting on
bis bss, and looked very much like
backing out, which the captaia observ-
ing, said:
II though yoi said you believed in
predessination. and what Is TO be
viii be-
So do. but | prefer being a little
nearer TO the stern when it takes
place"
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Robert ID. Yates, the champion
checker player of the world, who
has just accepted the challenge Of
James Wylie, Of Scotland. 10 play a
match for $500 a side, is a boy IL
years OF age, employed at the cash
desk OF his fathers eating saloon,
under Fulton Market. His forehead
is broad, square, and high, and the
part Of the head in front Of the ears
looks oyerw eighted Mr.. James
Wylie, tine ingincible herd laddie,'
so called because be learned TO play
checkers while watching cattle in the
field, is IS years Of age. He has al.
ready had a taste Of the champions
quality. Las, year be came to New
York and played twenty-four games
with Yates. The youth won two
games and the rest were drawn. OF
twenty-six games played in Brook
lyn, Yates won Eve and Wylie one.
In a match for $50, Yates won two
games, Wylie one, the rest of the
fifty being drawn. Yates, in his re-
cent match with Thomas Martins,
who crossed the ocean to defeat him,
won three games, and Martins but
one.
Five wears ago a school companion
of Yates came back from a visit 10
Sullivan County enthused with the
game. He taught Yates the moves
ave used to play around on stocps
in those days. the champion said
yesterday. Afterwards l went to
the Union for Christian Work, in Ful.
ton street, near Dufield street, Brook
lyn. There | first learned that |
could take two men a. a time. i
thought that was a big step gained"
Several years ago a gentleman in
Albany wrote to a Brooklyn friend
that be wished to play with some
good player by correspondence,
Yates, under the name Of II. c. Mac
donald, agreed to accommodate him.
After the Albany gentleman bad
been driven into close quarters by
his antagonist, the correspondence
ended in an angry dispute. Recently
be wrote to the checker editor of q
New York Journal to inquire whether
Mr.. Wylie had ever been defeated.
He received I'D editorial reply: yes,
by your old antagonist, H. c. Mae
donald" The letter was signed
Robert u. Yates"
Two famous players from an island
city, while visiting New York, not
long ago, routed all competitors, in
the rooms Of the Young Mems Christ
ian Association, at Twenty.third
street and Fourth avenue. One of
them casually met and played with
Yates, in o Nassau street Office. At
ter he bad been defeated. he induced
Yates to visit the Young Mems
Christian Association rooms, TO play
with bis friend Yates was introdu-
ced under the name of Craig. The
rural champion tucked his legs under
his chair and got to work. After
short, sharp defeats, be gave up the
contest, complaining that he had mo
luck Then Yates was introduced
as Yates.
Yates has q dry humor, bal fire.
quently leads him TO stroll into re-
sorts Of checker players, and engage
strangers in play. lie has q slow,
unpretentious manner, that, added
to his youthfulness. throws stran-
gers entirely off their guard. After
be has enjoyed their chagrin at be-
ing beaten by a boy, he engages in
conversation with them, and relieves
their annoyance by letting it leak
out that his name is Yates. There
are no stakes in such games.
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JOHN F. BLYMYER.
DEALERfH
Hardware, Iron, Nails, Glass, Paints
Oils sc, &c.

The following is a partial LIST Of goods in stock: Carpenters Tools,
Planes, Saws, Hatchets, Hammers Chisels, Plane Irons , izes, &e- Black
smiths Goods. Bellows. Anvls, Wees, Files HamnaeFs, Re SadAery
Hardware, Tab Trees, Gig Saddles, iiames, Buckles Rings. Bits and Tools
Table Knives and Forks. Pocket Knives, Scissors, Spoons and Racers, the
largest stock in Somerset County. Painters Goods, a fall stock White
Lead, CoIored Paints for inside and outside painting, Paintsin oil, all cciors'
Varnish. Turpentine. Fiaxsecd Oil, Brushes, Japan Dryer, Walnut Stains
&c. Window Glass of all sizes and glass cut to any shape The best Coai
Oil always on hand Our stock of Coal Oil Lamps is large and comprise,
very elegant styles. Dftston's Circular, MGley and Cross Cut Saws. Mil
Saw Files Of hebest quality. Poreelainlined Kettles. Handles Of all hndss
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SO many hotel clerks haze gone
into bankruptcy in Philadelphia since
the Centennial that a very fee clus-
ter diamond pin can be had there
from fifteen cents down.
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ecrFNcE ArrLIEp ro rAa,nNa.

SCIENCE APPLIED TO FARMING.
Science. as that term is generally
applied, has not effected for agricul-
ture whet farmers have been led to
expect; and in stating wherein it
has failed, | claim that / confer a
greater benefit on agricultarists than
| could by urging upon them the
theories advanced by those who
claim that the failure Of farmers u
grow large, profitable crops every
season is owing to their neglect to
follow the rules laid down by agri-
cultural chemists. | claim that no
man exists who can give a formula of
commercial fertilizers for the differ
ent crops grown with certain and un-
changabIe results in different local.
ties-that the best formulas for fer
t~ilizers that can be given arc liable to
fail as profitable investments in per-
haps half the cases where applied.
Professor Atwater, in an article in
the AgricEitUraiist. gives the result
Of the application ito one plot a CON-
plete fertilizer, to another the same
with the omission of nitrogen, while
from a third pbosporic acid, and from
a fourth potash "a omitted, and so
on, the last Of the plots, seven 10
number, being left u~nmanured."
That The reader may understand this
case the more fully, / will add that
the complete fertilizer" was that
known as Prof. yillers, which is ex-
tensively sold. 1t is said 20 be adap-
ted to all crops, and is composed of
the following:
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sHoyELs, FORKS. SPADES. RAKEs.

Mattocks, Grub Hoes. Picks, Seythes, Sneaths, Sledgess Mason Hammers,
Cast Steel. Step Ladders, Carriage and Tire Bolts of all sizes LoookiBg
Glasses. Wash Boards. Clothes Wringers. Meal Sleeves, Door Mats, Baskets,
Tubs, Wooden Buckets, Irvine, Rope all sizes, Hay Puleys, 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 and everything
in the Builders line. Gaps, Lead, Shot, Powder and Safety Fuse, &c, Sc,
The fact is, keep everything that belongs to the Hardware trade. | deal
exclusively in this Kind Of goods and give my whole attention to it. Per-
sons who are buildi g, r any one in need Of anything in my line. will fd
it to their advantage to give me q call. / will always give a reasonable
credit to responsible persons. I thank my old customers for their patronage.
and hope this season to make many new ones. Don't forget the place
No, 3, BLOCK"
Apr. 8 IA. JOHN F. BLYMYER
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gloss and freshness Of youth. Thin
hair is thickened, falling hair checked,
and badness often, though not always,
cured by its use. Nothing can restore
the hair where the follicles are de-
stroyed, or the glands atrophied and
decayed; but such as remain can be
saved by this application, and stimu-
lated into activity, so that a new
growth of hair Is produced. Instead
of fouling the hair with a pasty sedi-
ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. The
restoration of vitality it gives to the
scalp arrests and prevents the forma-
ton of dandruff, which is often so un-
cleanly and offensive. Free from those
d~eleterioGs substances which make
some preparations dangerous and inju-
rious to the hair, the Vigor can only
benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for a HAIR DRESSING,
nothing else can be found SO desirable.
Containing neither oil nor dye, it does
not soil white cambria, and yet lasts
long on the hair, giving it a rich, glossy
@.ustre, and a grateful perfume.
Prepared by DR.. ]. c. Aver & Co.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists,
LOWELL MASS.
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@THEr put him in a show ease,r
was the remark Of a rural lady who
recently attended a city funeral.
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RURAL TOPICS.

Written for the HERAID by a farmer, gardener
and fruitgr0wer Of great experience.
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HOMES FOR ALL.

Gt0 4 Jay al home. Agents wanted. Outfit
u AMI tcsms ifes. TRUE x co. AUGUSTA.
Maine. NAYS
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This composed the complete fer
%tilizer," as applied to plot No. l.
Here are the general results with a
T of oats:
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coLoRrNc BUTTER.

An experienced dairyman gives 10
the Ohio Former the following rules
for coloring butter:
No. /. Four ounces of lump an
natto, one-half gallon of water ; mix
and stir one day or until dissolved.
No 2. Four ounces of carbonate
of potash, two ounces sal soda. three
pints water; mix aud stir one day or
until dissolved.
Mix Nos. l and 2 together. Ii che
cream is taken from deep cans, use
two tablespoonful to four gallons of
cream If the cream is taken from
shallow pans. use one tablespoonful
to four gallons of cream, 10 winter.
In spring and fall use less. Cut the
annatto in small pieces so it will dis
solve easily.
Having tempered the cream and
added the coloring matter. let the
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-06-20

Ihave for sale, on terms within the reach Of lev
cry sober, industrious individual, houses. lots,
farm, timber lands mineral lands, building lots,
SC. in different parts Q. shs s0Unty. in parcels Ct
from ouc-foGTth % an acre up 10 loo acres. Ii
les warranted. Terms-O3e nth in hand and tn
balance in ten equal annual payments properly
secured. Non need apply who IL pct Of sob.r
and adjust rishahits. Gall soon. es so-nc OF the
eh21 .WEYAND.
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NOTICE.
Having this DAY purchased from j. W.
fatton, his entire stock OF merchandise. l
propose continuing the mercantile business
oy carr ing on a general stock. aud most
respectfully solicit Patronage from the PEG
pie OF this town and vicinity. and all others
ID want Of goods | intend adding from
time to time, such goods as will make the
stock 50 complete in all departments that il
VIII be to the interest Of those in want OF
goods 10 cal and see me before purchasing
elsewhere.
I'm T. PATTON.
SOMERSET, Pa. Dec. &c. 1876.