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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-01

PITTsBURGH sowed to the WIND
and reapt the whirlwind. If she did
not cater to the strikers, as is now in.
dignantly denied, she temporized
with the rioters, and she has lost i'm
measurably in property, in character,
and 10 all that goes to sus.ain.a good
name and reputation. %
Is The railroad company may replace
the stately buildings destroyed, the
city may restore her waste places,
law may resume its wonted control,
the dead will be buried from sight,
and quiet industry will again take up
the thread of its occupation, bat
nothing can ever efTace the stain
which the savagery of the mob, and
the cowardly conduct of its authori-
ties and leading citizens have affixed
upon its fair fame. There was at
FIRST q mawkish sympathy-engender.
ed by real or imaginary grievances
against the railroad-with the orig.
inal violators of the law, the strikers,
The press, with ~quavering voice, gave
forth uncertain sounds. The civil
authorities, if not c~riminally negli.
gent, were weak and vacillating.
Military aid from abroad was invo-
ked, in self.defence the mob was fred
upon, and then, because through mis-.
chance o few innocent lives were lest,
the authorities abandoned all further
efforts to preserve the peace, a por-
ton Of the local military, like pol.
troons, threw down their arms, the
respectable citizens clasped their
hands and beRoaned the calamity,
hell ragged in their midst, and
murder, arson and pillage reigned
supreme. 4si
The unclaimed devils concentrated
their fury upon the Philadelphia
that had been hurried there to
control them, and during the livelong
these brave men and good SOL
diers, cooped up in the round-ho1se,
were subject to all the assaults by
shot and fire that unbridled thirst for
blood and devilish ingenuity could
and finally, when absolutely
starved out, they evacuated their po.
they were pursued through the
of this christian city, and shot
down from windows and lurking
as if they were vermin, hunted
and slain for the good OF the commu-
nifty. What a spectacle In the
great city OF Pittsburgh not a mar
to aid or attempt to succor the be-
Ieaguered troops sent to their rescued
was there a more fragrant vio-
alton of decency and of honor.
What demon possessed the moral at
that not one of the thous-
snds of veteran soldiers in that city
attempted to organize a relief for
heir fellow men and brother soldiers?
The mere recital of the facts is Pitts
1urgh's condemnation and disgrace.
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south Carolina.

CHARLESTON. July 24.-Investiga-
tios now going on in Columbia Of
the public plundering during preyi-
Gus administrations has resulted in
the issuing of criminal warrants for
the arrest OF number
of the members of the ring. Ex-
GovernorF. j. Moses was arrested
here to-day, charged with having, as
Speaker of the House of Represent.
aives in 1872, issued fraudulent pay
certificates. He will be taken fof trial
to Columbia, where, it is understood.
numerous other criminal charges
swat him. y ss6 ha
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-01

Ir LOOKS now as if the force of the
strike is broken, and the railroads
will soon be surrendered TO the con-
troll of their legitimate managers. 1t
will take months, however, to restore
confidence, and years to make good
the losses sustained by reason of the
arrangement of ali the business inter-
ests of the country.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-01

WI TRUST that no sensible citizen
viii permit bis reason to be led astray
by the blather and. drivel of dems-
gogues and knaves about "the rights
of labor" oppression of capital" &c,
&c, with which it is attempted to.
cloak or extenuste the prevailing in
surrection. The facts are simply
these (: A body Of railroad men ssh
med to fix the price Of their own
labor, and 10 punish any n Uho.
dared set a iotoer uaiue on has oscs.
To enforce their views, they seize
railroad property that does not belong
to them, they place an embargo on
the carrying trade of the country,
thereby stopping the hum Of machin-
cry all over the land, and enforcing
idleness on thousands Of isborers,
while they bring extortionste prices,
IL not starvation, to their doors, BY
preventing the transportation Of food.
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Expissien .er Powder Mtlls-Loss OF
Life.

BosToS, July 24.-Six mills of the
American Powder Company, ct Ac-
ton, exploded. Cause supposed to
have been carelessness In cleaning
out one Of the mills. Phineas Keefer
was killed, and Hiram Drew proba-
bly, MORALLY wounded.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-01

THE State Republican Convention,
which was called to meet on the 29th
day of August, has been postponed
TO Wednesday, September 5, 1871.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-01

Thirteea hundred boys have been
educated 1T Girard college since its
establishment, ct Q cost Of 50. 500. 900
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-01

Nehemiah Miller having made a voluntary
assignment Of all his real and personal estate 10
IN trust for bent 1T Of creditors, ali persons in
usveeu 70 the said Nehemiah Miller viii
claims Will present them to the undersigned A.
sixnee without delay at his residence in Peters.
burg Borough
FL. VIM kODDy,
Juiya Assignee.
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A ssIGNEEsSorIcK

President Hayes speaks the Ger
man language.
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begins to revive with the confidence
the new crop inspires. Orders for
goods are coming in already from The
country that has harvested its wheat.
There will he a good fall trade.
PIETRo.
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LIFE INSURANCE. AGAIN.


The Universal Life Insurance O
this city is nos 10 hot water, th.
State Superintendent having made
il the subject of a special report, in
which he charges mismanagemenl
on the officers and recommends thar
the Company be placed in the hand,
of a receiver. The Company will
resist such a step, and insists that ia
affairs arc in a solvent condition. But
suspicion in respect to other compan
les ha, so often been confirmed that
the public is prepared to believe the
worst, and the Company is already
dead in public estimation. Mr.. Fur.
Der, the Vice President, is also the f..
nancial manager Of the Charter Oak
of Hartford, which IS generally IN.
derstood to be in q bad way ; al
though, as 10 the Ease of the Univer
sal, its ~solvency is insisted upon by
its officers and by some outside ex
perts besides But 0 clean repnta
ton is so vital To Institutions whose
breath OF lite ia the popular conf
dence, that to be suspected of weak
ness or fraud is almost the same a
to be guilty. in disastrous effects
and only those companies can b ps
70 prosper, who stand, like Caesar.
wife, above suspicion.
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evening, there will be three thousand
troops here.
1t was expected they would arrive
here last evening, but owing to OBJ
structious on the road the trains had
to run very slowly. The most seri,
Gus trouble OF the way was encoun.
tered at Johnstown, Pa, as a section
of the train passed the depot at that
place, it was attacked by q great mob
armed vita stones AMI pieces oil
metal, which were thrown at the
windows Of the ears with telling
effect.
Volley after volley was poured into
the train, crushing windows and in-
juring o number OF soldiers. AS the
train moved on several different at
tacks were made, the last and most
serious litter the train had passed be-
You'd the depot some distance.
At this point, the patience OF tie
commanding officer. Colonel Hamil-
ton, gave way. and. reaching up, be
pulled The bell-rope to stop the train.
The engineer and fireman were under
q strong guard Of soldiers, aud they
at once reversed the engine. In all
probability this sa-ed the lives 0! half
on board the train, for, at q point
Just front Of the train. q switch had
been misplaced, and q car heavily
laden with 6re-brick placed on the
switch for the fast approaching train
to q into and be thrown over the
embankment.
a when the train struck the switch
It's speed had oeen greatly slackened.
The engine, tender, and Eve care,
two baggage and three passenger
coaches, left the track and came 10
contact with the car of brick With
such force that rails and ties were
torn up. and the fac ears piled up
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a proclamation notifying all persons
to preserve the peace or take the con.
sequences.
iALBANY, July 24-At four this
afternoon. the workmen having re.
turned from West, Albany, again me,
in Capital Park, where incendiary
speeches were made. Other speak.
ers couuseled forbearance. A com.
mittee was appointed and proceeded
to the freight house of the Central
Depot, on Water street. The mep
were told TO desist, and some refus.
ing, they were put into the street.
Leaving the freight house, the strik-
ers visited 10 regular order the round
house and elevator, and forced the
men to leave work. AT the latter
place grain was being transferred
from cars to boats. From there the
crowd surged across the railroad
bridge spanning the Hudson river. a,
the foot of Lumber street, and when
once on the Greenbush side attempts
was made to tear up the tracks there.
This bridge is one used fol, freight
trains exclusively, aud the designs
on the tracks were intended to stop
freight traffic, The tracks were final
" spiked on the Greenbush side, STOP
ping all movements Of freight from
the West to the East and South.
The freight cars at West Albany
were moved west after the left
there this afternoon.
Il BuFFALo, July 23-5 p. M.-The
mob, reinforced by large numbers.
called 1t the a shops of the Lake
Shore and Erie Companies and order
ed all the workmen there to quit.
which they did forthwith. No ser.
ious demonstrations are as yet being
made. About 4 o'clock this afternoon
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-01

gars description. The two engines
No. 10 and No. &C, one express cal
and two passengers coaches were en-
tirely demolished and burned. Sea:
tered through the ruins could be seer
the mangled forms of these who haG
met such an untimelv and violent
death, while their means and cries
were hearuendiug. Word was i'm
mediately sent to Sharpsburg of the
terrible accident, and soon hundreds
Of citizens were on the spot. The
men went 10 work with a willing
hand, and soon five bodies and q
number OF the wounded were removed
from the wreck. Several other vic.
Tins who had been but slightly in,
jured managed to extricate them
selves aud crawl through q fence,
where they lay 10 an exhausted con,
dition till b-lp arrived ..
INDIANAPOLIS, July 24-9:3r A NJ
strikers took possession Of the
Union depot and t-acks at midnight
and viii allow only the postal cars
to leave the city. Passenger traffic
ON all the roads running cut Of here,
without exception, is stopped. The
Indianapolis. Cincinnati and Lafay.
cite, the Indianapolis. Bloomington
and Western, and the Indianapolis,
Peru and Chicago roads are not 10
the strike, but are prevented from
working. Governor Williams and
Mayor Cayen both decline to inter
fere. except to suppress. or prevent
violence.
ATLANTA, Ga July 2l-Au up
train on the Georgia Railroad ran into
some cows to-day. when the engine
was overturned aod the express, bag
gage RI and two coaches were burn.
Tho engineer was burned tn
death and several others were wound.
ed.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-08-16
coxoNsC CONDITION OF vIR.
s.xSsA FOR TIRE PERIOD fM-
NEDrATELY sUCCEEDfSG
THE REVOLUTION
AIRY WAR.
xuteresting and Hitherto CnpHblisac"
s,ottcr frona q Foreign settler
virginias Supineness in Industrial En-
terprise Predicates and
AHirms Itself.

OF NORFOLK AS DENAstA'
TED BY THE BURNING OF 1776-coNsf''
OFFENCES OF THE wAR--pLANS OF Do
NrsrIc ECONOMY Neutrality-suspicious.
.xAT1oS-T1THABLE PorULATIoN-THE
MERCHANTS or FOREIGN BIRTH-LAND'
aDyALoREN. AND CAPlTAIloN IAN
LARGE ESTATES RUNNING TO WASH E.
TOBACCO AS \ SOURCE OF WEALTH-hA-
poRTs-vALUE or SLAVES-SOii.-MALA-
E1oUs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FABRICS
sor WEARING-APPAREr.- PLANT
ED-CLIMATE- MODE OF CULTURE-TO-
xAcCo THE PRICE OF IUxURIEs-BEVE-
RAGE OF THE COLONISTS t:l-SETTLE-
,,EST OF KENTUCKY-INDIAN TROUBLES.
ASSURED FORTUNES TO MERCHANTS
AND MECHANICS-LEGIsLAT REPRE-
~rSTATI0S.
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.COrrectf0n OF the Types.
W, W. III. VS.. NELL AND II. A.

MesSrs. Editors of the Dispatch:
Since w. w. Fl. refers to me somewhat
solicitously this morning | will relieve his
anxiety. OF the errors i'll his article APP
pcarng in your issue OF the 18th instant,
ascribed by him to the printer-as to the
INSTRUMENTAL as it was to the question
at issue (as mere fgment in loose
Hypothetical flourish)-no one can know
better than himself what attention it de-
served; and as to the second, its origin
could have been but obvious to every intel
ligent reader. or other errors alluded to
by him as appearing in his previous com
municatiops l am perfectly willing to allow
him to decide and exemplify whether they
were due to himself, his handwriting, OF
to the ever-responsible and murh-abused
printer.
Need remind W. w. H. that his news.
paper tasks as to John Smith and others
were all OF his own eager seeking, and that
his challenge Of this morning is Inconsistent
with the concluding expression Of his last
article-viz. /: ~ trust that may now be ex'
cused from further participation in this dis
cusson %
Very truly yours, r. A. b.
august Is, 1877.
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APAISFCL OPERATION.-The Boston GLOBE
OF Monday saws: 4 very remarkable med
ical case has come to our knowledge, and
we have seen no account OF it thus far IN
the Journals Of the profession. \ lady liv-
ing in AllSton was troubled with some az
lection OF the throat. The doctors pro-
nounced it bronchial, and recommending a
trip to the South. She obtained no relief
from the climate, and on her way back con-
suited an eminent physician in Baltimore,
vino said that tumor had formed inside
the windpipe. On reaching home she COM
municatcd this opinion to her physician
here. and after consultation the doctors de-
cided such to be the fact. The lady placed
herself in the charge OF some OF the best
medical talent in this city for the treatment
OF her case, which was becoming very Serl-
Gus. It was with great difficulty that she
could swallow anything, and her breathing
was becoming more and more obstructed.
It was decided that the tumOr must be re-
moved, though such an operation as taking
tumor from the inside OF Windplpe was
unknown, and an instrument must be III
vented for the purpose. tube was put
into the windpipe below the diseased spot,
and the throat subjected to course Of
education" for the operation. An ln-
strument was devised having at the end
combination OF claws. which could be work
ed from the other end, so as to close firmly
over the tumor, and an arrangement was
made for passing current OF electricity
through the instrument. In due time the
operation was successfully performed by
gently pressing the instrument down the
windppe, firmly grasping the tumor in the
claws, and burning it out by tine electric
current 1t was drawn out, and the lady,
who underwent the ordeal without the Use
of any an@stheiic, was doing we'll at last
accounts.
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The First victim or the War was Bna-
ley Brown OF West virginia.
rCaptatn w. =. Cooper In the Ph3ladelpha w eeNly

g.s
Fl Early in May, 1861, George A. Porter
field, u gentleman of Jefferson county, va,
who had received military educatlon ana
seen service in the Mexican. war, was ap,
pointed colonel by Governor Letcber ana
his council. and sent into Northwestern
Virginia to organize the various companies
there being raised under the call OF the
State for troops. A company from Marion
county, under the command of William P.
Thompson, which afterward became Com
pauv A, of the Thirty-third Virginia regi-
mcnt; two companies from Taylor coun-
ty-one under the command OF John
q. Robinson, that became Company a,
OF the Twcnty-ffth Virginia regiment,
and ono under &. W. Hansbrough, that
was afterward Observation-Disclosures at
Tetterman, mile and half below Grafton.
on the Goth OF May, 1861. On the I'D they
were joined by the Harrison Guards, OF
Clarksburg, under the command OF W. Z.
Cooper, which became Company c, OF; the
Tbirty-first Virginia regiment. The whole
force was marched that evening up to Graf
ton and back to Fetternan. In the mean
time Union" company had been formed
in Grafton. That night it marched down
to the edge or Fetterman. halted. ana Sent
Bailey Brown and Daniel Wilson forward
to reconnoitre. They went down the rail-
road till they came to Daniel w. S. Knight
and George Glenn, OF Captain RobInson's
company, who were stationed on guard near
the run at the eastern end OF the town:
Knight commanded them to halt. Instead OF
doing so they continued to advance, when
Knight repeated his command once or
twice; but Brown continued on till he got
close to Knight, and then fired upon nm
with revolver, shooting him through tne
ear. Knight, who was armed with an Ola,
fashioned, smooth-borcd m,lsket, Loaded
with slugs, returned the shot, and one OF
the slugs struck Brown in the breast, pass
ing through his heart, killing HIM almost
instantly. His body was taken to the IoWn
Hall, which was occupied as quarters by the
.Harrison Guards" aud properly cared
for. When this firing took place wilson
ran hack and Glenn fired upon him, striking
the heel OF his boot. This was on the night
OF the 22d OF May. 1861, about O'Clock.
Mr. Brown was a native Of Independence,
Preston county, West Va, and was raised
on farm near there. He was thirty-iYc or
forty wears old when killed. Knight IS a
native of Stafford county. Va, is carpenter
by trade, is still living on farm there. and
is about ttty-ciGht years OF age. Wilson
subsequently became Il captain in Colonel
Latham's regiment, in the Federal army.
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For the Dispatch.J
Who Threw the Stool at the Dean, and
Some Of Its Consequences.

For the Dispatch.J
Who Threw the Stool at the Dean, and
Some Of Its Consequences.
The late assembling Of the Pan-Presbyte-
rian Council in the city Of Edinburgh caused
many events connected with Scottish his
tory to be referred to, and it was, we think,
our own DR.. Hoge who reverted to the stool
which was thrown at the head of the dean,
perhaps in the very building in which this
body assembled.
Jenny GeddeS, who kept stall in the
High-Street, was the heroine of this affair,
which occurred on the 23d OF July, 1857, in
the High Church OF St. Giles. During the
reading Of the prayers by the dean OF the
city she let fly the stool upon which she
was accustomed to sit in her stall at the
head OF the dean, eXcIaimng at the same
time: 1.-THE dell colick in the wame OF
thee, thou false thief! Dost thou say the
mass at my lug?" This was the signal for
q most undevotional scene which followed.
The windows were broken by the mob, the
prelates were assaulted III the streets, and
the life Of the Bishop Of Argyle was with
difficulty saved by Lord RoNbury, who car
ried him home in his carriage, surrounded
by his retinue with drawn swords.
A great many other events connected with
this affair OF course have to be omitted, but
there is one which deserves especial mention.
One Archie Armstrong OF this time held the
position OF jester or "fool" at the English
Court, and an untimely jest Ibis, growing
out of this affair, was the cause Of his getting
into serious difficulty. One day as he saw
the Archbishop of Canterbury posting to
court in grand style, in consequence OF the
news from Scotland, he found occasion to
whisper slylyi in his ear, "Who is fool now,
my lord9" This joke cost Archie Il severe
whipping; and he was afterwards dissraced
and dismissed from court, where no fool has
since been employed in an ayowed and Off
cial capacity. IS u. s
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NEW HOME FOR NEGROES.-The ne
eroes OF Cincinnati are not anxious to be
hacked off to Liberia by their RcpubllcaN
"fricnds.'' At 4 meeting held Monday in
that city they resolved that. as the negro
was not appreciated in either the North or
the South, it was the duty OF the race TO
form colony in some western or south.
western State. AS to Liberia, they declared
that they viewed the scheme with sentl-
ments OF profound dissatisfaction, as rum
GUS to life and capital" Kansas would be
a good State for these people to occupy, or
perhaps Nebraska might suit them better,
there being large population OF radical
Republicans there, who should, according
to their professions, share their houses and
lands with the newcomers - Courier Jour-
nal.
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-
SCHEDULE OF rEsINs TAKrsG EFFECT
SUNDAY Alausr o 1877
THROUGH MAN TRAIN DAILY.
Burksviif 9:46 a. NJ, D,nYiiIs
1875 y. NJ, Greensboro $50
ana Char ioite 7:2G T.M. "'
No. Gigs a. NJ, leaves dlsrIo,tc,; arrive a,
Salisbury Gas a. NJ. Greens
1918 4, 81. BRrkcyiirc Z:0s
T. NJ. au{ Richmond 20 +. n
THROUGH PASSENGER TEAM DAILY.
No 3-1O:5O =. Al. leaves Richmond: arrives Al,
J., Bnrkevi!. IA! A.. ", Dan
s..E S:l5 a. NJ Salisbury iI.to
a.. NJ, ana Charlotte l:l5 =. NJ
No. 1870 r. NJ, leaves Charlotte; arrives n
~ boro' l6p. NJ. Danville l2:20
a. NJ. I;Irkesillc 4:43 A. "
and Islchmond IA A. u.
LYSCHBURCi ACCOMMODATE DAILY.
No $1,000 A. NJ, Leaves Richmond daily and ar
rirts at Burkcyille at 1925 /,
81. connecting itll The A. "
%. r. T.. for all points In the
southwest and the vyr!ou.
springs ald summer r..uri. on
the line o. that road.
No. G-I2:J0 i. NJ. leaves Burkcyilic daily AMI A.
rtres at Richmond al 3d. f.
NJ. connecting with A., " e
.. Il. X. rom al! point, souh
| and soutAwc /, aud from the
various Strings and simmer re-
sorts on that road.
Trains Nos. ] and stop OILY III ChuIi Burke
! vile. keysville brakes BranGt, Roanoke Clover
ScOttsburg, Wolf Trap. BOSTON, btrkstslc'-. Dundee
Danyc. RciCiSviile, Greensboro. Thonasyitlr sails
bury, China Grove. AMI AIRLINE Railroad june
! ton.
| Trains Nos. / and connect ~ Dundee with the
Virginia Midland railroad At Green sboro. for Ia
leigh, Goldsboro' and intermediate points. with v
G. railroad. At AIRLINE junction with Atlanta and
Charlotte AIRLINE. At Charlotte with Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta railroad TO AMI from ali
points North and South.
Trains Nos. 3 and will stop AZ al stations aud
| connect 1T Richmond g"iug North ana >oGlh with
the r., +. & r. K. L. for Washington and all po!nt,
| North and West. and with thr E. x q. x. T.. for
| Greenbrier White sulphur and Other >pring- In
West Virginia. At Greensboro with the y. e. and
y. W. y. &. railroads TO and from salem y. g.. I!l-
| leigh and Gol,lSboro'. and intermediate pun's
Al Salisbury with Wcstcrn y. G. railroad Ihc-"
trains run daily on Rich.nonn and Danvlilc rt-
| road. AMI connect "a above. excerpt going north
on Sunday morning AMI going south Monday
morning. Trains making thu connection run ,ni
! on Richmond. Fredericksburg an! Potomac and
| Chesapeake and Ohio railroads eAc.it SUNDAY.
Trains on y. W. y. G.. railroad r,Ia from i;rcrus-
bOrn' To Salem daily cNccp; sunday. and from >5"m
| to Greensboro daily except Saturday
! Tickets sold 10 all southern anu southeastern
| points, and baggage checked through.
between the points named on the tickcts. W ly-
over checks viii Ire given.
+. VI. Il. ThLCDTT.
General Superintendent.
JOHN II. MACMURDo. General Passenger Agent
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We don't understand why it is that q con-
stable with a search-warrant looking for
.whiskey in a temperance town can search
for five days and never get smell, while
dry aud thirsty man In the same town steps
out OF his office, walks briskly away, and
in three minutes is seen emerging from an
adjacent alley wiping his perspiring moutA
with his ctlfs.-Bnrlington Haaokeye.