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Ir appears that Hon. Carl Schurz
is troubled with q defective memory.
Having lately denied that be had
received any pecuniary compensation
for speeches made at different polit-
ical campaigns in this State, Hon.
W. II. Kemble of Philadelphia ad-
duces the evidence to prove that in
1860 be was paid by the Republican
Central Committee $500 and all
his expenses for a weeks tour in this
Commonwealth. and that in lS6s he
was paid $500 per week for speaking
in this State. While Mr.. Kemble
admits that Schurz has a perfect
right to sell his wares at the highest
prices, be insists that the facts show
that be is untruthful, and q mercenary
politician, and that it is in bad taste
to set himself up as the executor of
political reform ; in which conclusions
the general public will agree with
him.
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Killed with n Scythe.

CLINTON, ILL.,, August S.-A week
ago last Saturday Eli Bell and W.
w. Davenport, both farmers 10 Creek
township, Dewitt County, had an al
~tercation about two dollars which
Davenport owed Bell for work done
on a barn Davenport finally struck
Bell across the back of the head with
a seythe be had in his hand. The
blow cut through the skull bone, leav-
ing the brain exposed Bell died to-
day. He was unconscious from the
Time the fatal blow vas struck till be
died. Davenport was out on bail for
the assault, and this afternoon be
was re arrested and is now in Jail.
Bell leaves a wife and FIVE children.
He was a ~peaeeable and Industrious
man.
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RuMoRs are rife of contemplated
strike by the railroad engineers Of
the country.
They lack authorization, but there
is undoubtedly an uneasy feeling
among the railroad engineers, and q
-restlessness and unsettled condition
among the employees that is ominous
of further troubles.
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Successful Resistance of United states
Mnrshals I'm Tennessee

MEMPHIS, Tenn, aug. Last
Friday night Deputy United States
Marshals Harris and P.Ctl-s were
sent by General Patterson. Collector
of the district, to seize the tobacco
factory of John A Burton, 10 Henry
county, Tenn. They bad W men
with them and seized the factory.
They began loading the machinery
OF a wagon, when suddenly they
were surrounded oy twenty-five arm
ed men, ordered to unload the wag-
on, some of the desperadoes insisting
on killing the officers, who were fore
ed to abandon the work and leave.
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Railway

ST.. JOSEPH, Mo-, August l0.-A
serious accident occurred yesterday
afternoon on the st. Joseph and West.
ern railroad at Troy, Kansas, IS
miles west of this city. A coach fill.
ed with passengers jumped the track
and went over an embankment.,l5 feet
high. Twenty-Five persons were
wounded, several Of them, it is be-
lieved, fatally.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-15

TRUE to the rascally instincts Of
their party, the Democrats of Geor-
gia have adopted a section into the
constitution of the State, r~epudiating
that portion Of its debt created by
the reconstruction Government, and
prohibiting the Legislature from ever
paying any portion thereof. The
scoundrelly section was adopted in
convention by a vote Of Ice to 16.
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ST JOSEPH, Mo, Aug. "A sori-
Gus acciddnt occurred this afternoon
on the st. Joe and Western Railroad
at Troy, Kansas, fifteen miles west of
this city. A coach filed with passen-
gers jumped the track aud went over
an embankment fifteen feet high.
Twenty-Five persons were wounded.
several, it is believed, fatally.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-15

A shooting affair took place al
Hopewell, Greenup county, Ohio,
yesterday afternoon, between David
Floyd aud his two sons and Lick
Floyd. an old man aged so, Oh the
n side, and Joseph A. Martin ard
two sons on the other. David Floyd
was shot through the bowels, aud
Lick Floyd shot in the forehead.
The Floyd boys were both shot-oue
thought fatally, but the extent of the
others Injuries is not known. The
afTiir originated in a dispute between
the parties in June last.
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THE Democrats of this State aftei
considerable backing and filling, have
finally decided hat no further post
ponement of their convention shall
be made, and it will accordingly be
held at Harrisburg on the 22d inst
1t is said, that Wallace and Randall
desired a further postponemeDt, fear
ing to make an expression in regard
to the labor troubles, until after the
Republican convention had met and
made a d~eliverance of its sentiments.
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HARRISBURG, August S-Tboma:
Campbell. who was to have been ex.
eeuted at Wilkesbarre, tomorrow, for
the murder of a man named McNul-
fy. has been respited until Sept. 10.
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Fatal Quarrel.

CINCINNATI, Aug 9~.-Benjamin
Burr Cox. a dissipated character,
living at Elliston station. seventeen
miles from this city. on the Cincinna-
ii, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad,
was q 10 the arm and side by bis
son, William, last night, and hled to
death in ten minutes. eek had fire.
quently threatened the lives Of men,
bers Of the family, and yesterday
sharpered a Ratchet and threatened
to kill them all. The deed was com
mitted while Cox had his 0 down
on the fl bor with his band % his
throat, and the young man used his
pocket knife efectually- The patri-
eide made fort to escape.
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rur presideut and cabinet base

THE President and Cabinet base
at last awakened to the idiocy oil
selling arms to the Indians where
with to fight our troops, and a gener-
al order has been issued prohibiting
it hereafter. Had this order been
issued long since. many valuable
lives and much money might haze
been saved the country.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-15

The Republicans of Maine held
their State Convention on Thursday
last, and the present Governor-Gen.
Connor-was re-nominated by ac-
clamation. The convention, which
was q very full one, was call to
order by Hon. James G. Blaine,
chairman of the State Committee,
and q platform adopted Affirming
steadiast faith in the old party doc.
trines. Two resolutions, one endors-
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ing, aud tie other aniagonizing and
condemning the Presidents action in
regard 10 South Carolina and Louis
lana, we're offered. Mr.. Blaine 10 q
brief speech opposed both resolutions,
and they were laid on the table, The
resolutions adopted by the conven-
ton, therefore make no allusion to
the President or his Southern policy,
and can in no way be construed into
an endorsement thereof.
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Valuable Property
IN MT. PLEASANT.
70 : T..

The Fret National Bank OF Mt. Pleasant. Pa.
offers for sale the following property at said place
viz:
One LOT Of ground on corner OF Main and Church
streets, 90 feet front by 49, hack, having thereon
erected a three story brick Hotel. with al neces-
sary Outbuiliings and known as the -Hitehmau
House.
ALSO, one lot adjoining the above, fronting ~
feet on Main street and $50 feet back To an alley.
ALSO. one lot on other eJrner Of Main and
Church streets, o. feet front and i3J back, having
thereon a large frame stable on the alley.
ALSO, one lot fronting - feet on Church street
and running back lJ3 feet TO IA alley, having
thereon "A two story brick and frame dwelling
house, stable and other outbuildings.
ALSO. one-half interest In the four lots and
Foundry Buildings formerly owned by MeCaleb
* Hurst, near the Railroad.
These several properties are offered at Private
Sale and il lot previously disposed Of, will be Of
fered at public sale on Friday, the 3lst day OF Au-
gust, 1871, on the premises. Title perfect. For
price and other particulars applyto the officers OF
said Bank, Mt, Pleasant, Pa.
July7 4.
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ssiGNEEs SALE.

N
By virtue Of an order issued out Of the Court Of
Common Pleas OF Somerset County, 10 me direct
ed, Twill expose 20 public sale the real estate Of
John A. Eoust, en- Htr
Saturday, august Is, 1877,
at l O'Clock, on the premises, the following real
estate:
A certain tract OF land situate in S;0nyereek
Township, Somerset COunty, and State Of Penn
sylvania, adjoining lands of Henry Stull, Solomon
hingleT, Henry Maurer, and jeremiah Ringler,
containing SIC Acres, with the appurtenanees.
There is a good two-st0ry house anu bank barn
thereon erected. This Is Il very desirable farm,
the cleared land in good cultivation and the bal
ance well timbered.
TERMS-s5lO in hand, $40 in six months:
$40 In one year, with interest from day of sale /;
$3.50 On the first day of April, 1873 ESQ en- the LIST
day Of April, 1850 $40 ON the LIST day OF April.
1881 800 on the LIST day OF april
lss2 100 on the first day Of April, 1Ss3; 500 an
the LIST day OF April 1854 500 on the LIST day OF
April, 1855 1914 On the first day OF April 1850,
500 on the first day Of April lSsT.
WILLIAM STULL,
July. -. Assignee Of John A. foust.
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WASHINGTON, August lO-TbeA At
tori es-General to-day received the
following telegraph in relation to the
shooting of Unired States Marshal
Purnell:
austin. Texas, August lot.
F. Purnell. United States Marshal of
our district, was met and afterwards
tired upon twice by f. Button. He
was badly wounded but will recover.
No blame attaches to PurneIl. The
excitement is great but subsiding.
A. j. EVANS,
"uaited States Attorney
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nuLE TO ACCEPT or RE

ltFUSE. es..
Lewis Sreicher ami sarah infernsrfied viii
VIM. Peniman Eve Speichcr. uilsw Of JAcvi
Spcisher. DEED, jefferson Speiehsr. RESTING u
Us. Iowa, iehaS peirher, Jdsah >pcieiicr
sarah Speichcr. iuternaarrie.l with Josiah
Yuizy. Lewis q, Susanah. infermsrried viii
Jacob WeayerD. now deed, leaving three ctii
dren. LRsjEia, Mary Ann AIT Angelina. =. VI
Sehrock. guardian ad Item Of Nm. Js Il. rssi
Chas. Augustus, Clinton NJ and Mony. Justa,
Joseph Speicher, now deceased, leaving to sur.
v.ve MIN auidow Rcbccea, no~ kebecea -.
and the following children. Jefferson. residing
In - 10, lad, Margaret. internarried
with iona, frsntz. residing In Somerset To-,
Pa. Julia Ann. intermarried with Tobias Mus
ser. now deed. residing In Black Hawk Co.
Iowa, Sally. intermarriei with Christian Berk'
ef, Hulda- residing In Somerset Co., Pa, MARY
resting In Garrett Co. Md, Austin. residing
in Garrett Co. Nd. Alexander residing IN SIM
crsct Co, Pa, Annie, intcrmarried with Angus
tus Jacobs, residing in Somerset To-. Pa, Do
seph, residing in Svnpc rset 10, Pa, Laura A.,
Minor, OF whom T. NJ. Sehrock, is guardian nd
item. sarah, of when III. A. Ross, Is guardian,
Elizabeth Speichcr, tntermarrsct with Joseph
Yoder, now deceased, leaving sir children. 1obi-
as, residing in Somerset Co., Pa, Joseph. resid-
ing in La Grange Co. Ind, Elizabeth, inter
married With Jacob NJ. kaufman, Isaac. resid-
iHg in Somerset Co.. Pa, Levi Toder, residing
In Somerset Co., Pa, Polly Speiclier, interBsr-
ried with David Blough, now decd, leaving nve
children, David. Joseph. Moses and .Jaeob. re-
siding in Wayne Co, Ohio. and Henry. resting
in Jefferson Co., Iowa, solomon SpeIehcrsSarah
Speleher, intermarrtci with Tobias lcier,
Abraham Speicher, collateral heirs VI Tobias
Speieher, deed, and all Other persons interested
You are hereby notified to appear AT an Orphans
Court, 20 be held at Somerset, on Monday, the
day Of August next, to accept OF refuse
TO take the real estate Of Tobias Speicher. deed,
at the appraised valuation or show cause why the
should not be sold.
GEO. W. PILE.
JulyrS Sheriff.
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IulylA
LADIES' SEMINARY

EVANSVILLE, PA.
Fall Session opens Thursday, Sept. 18th, 49,.
LOea ton very healthful, easy OF access, terms
moderate. Fail G urse Of instruction. For Cata-
l0gue. please address
August J.JEwETT PAIRS, Principal
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The Seventh regiment n. G. Of
Maryland, has orders to move up the
canal to Hancock and will g, this
morning. The United States troops
will cooperate with them at that
place.
The Fifth and Twelfth regiments,
Pennsylvania militia, stationed at
Altoona for the past two weeks, were
reviewed and inspected by Governor
Hartranft yesterd ay and will leave
for home this morning.
All was quiet at Shenandoah yes
terday, and the collieries were all at
work. At the other mining centres
ofthat region the men are generally
at work and no trouble is apprehend-
ed.
At Mahanoy City. yesterday morn
ing, a number of men and boys with
drums entered the place, trying to
get up q meeting. The object was
to inaugurate a strike al the mines
in that vicinity. Being on the Phil
adelphia and Reading Railroad prop
erty they were requested TO leave,
and not doings 80 the Sherif's posse
promptly ordered them to disperse,
which they quickly did, running 10
all directions. Richard Northy and
Michael Dooley, the two principal
leaders, were arrested and put under
bail. The men had arranged to meet
the miners as they went to their
work, and were determined to pre-
vent them from entering the mines.
The Sheriff's force, with a lumber of
citizens, will remain on duty for the
present to protect the men who are
willing TO work.
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SINCE the recent strike the dema.
gogues of the country are attempt.
ing to organize a 'labor party" and
meetings have been held, and infam.
matory addresses made in several OF
the principal cities. The working class.
es will soon discover that their griev-
ances are not to be righted by the
clap-trap of sixpenny demagogues,
who rely upon appeals addressed to
their passions instead OF their reason.
We take it, hat the truly intelli-
gent working-man will not be bam-
boozled by the newly awakened in
terest these eharlatans take in their
affairs, and that they understand that
a solution of their troubles is not TO
be found in arrayiDg themselves
into a distinctive party organization
for political purposes.
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Ne~ Advertisements.
A DMINIsTRAToR's NOTICE

Estate Of Peter Coleman, late of Jenner Twp.
deceased.
Letters ofadministratio On theaboye estate hay-
Ing been granted to the undersigned by the prop
er authority, notice Is hereby given 10 those in
debted 10 II to make in meiiate payment. and those
having claims against IL will present them duly
authenticated for settlement without delay on
Saturday, Sept. J. 1871, at the la:e residence Of de-
ceased.
NOAH 5. MILL Il,
july administrator
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MORE

. There was more trouble at Pvr.
johnson and Bergen Point yoster
day, among the coal beavers. In
the morning twenty-five of the Ole
hands returned to work at the old
wages. At O % they went home tC
dinner and were met at the end u
the Plank Road by their wives aud
the wives Of the other strikers, who
attacked them with stones. They
did not dare to return to work In the
afternoon. About 5 O'Clock 10 Ger
mans, who have been working in the
strikers place struck, as the vol
was too hard, and they We're only
making about sixty ceuts day, in.
stead Of $I.50, as promised. Foul
hundred strikers called at Mayor
Meigs, accompanied by Father Xii
len, and asked him to call on the
coal company and request him to pay
decent prices. The Mayor promised
to do what be could for them, and
urged them to keep the peace.
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Az the recent election of members
of the Legislature in Kentucky, the
working mel in Louisville nominated
their own ticket, and carried four OF
the seven Legislative districts by
handsome msjorities. The Courier.
Journal is very much cbagrined al
this result, and denounces it as q vic.
tory of the mob over the conserva-
tive Democratic elements of socie-
ty. We expect to see the Philadel-
phia Times and the New York Tri-
bane, hotly denounce the Courier.
Journal for this %vili6cation ofthe ain.
dependent voter" whose especial
champions they are. "Mob," quoth-a.
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POLITICAL.

The action of the Ohio State Con-
vention 10 giving an honest and de-
cent endorsement to the President
meets with decided approval here.
No one a know how much the mon
ey and business centre of the coun-
try is interested in the settlement of
the troubles that have so long pros
trated business. Hayes policy, as it
is called, has certainly given the
South peace, and has restored conf
dence in the future of the South.
Southern merchants are here buying
goods, which is enough for the bust
ness man. He comes with o smiling
face and a look of confidence that be
has not worn since the war. Speak
to him of his affairs and he says, ~
know what We are going to get" and
be buys and trades accordingly.
Hence the business men are all enthu-
siastic supporters of the Presidents
policy, for they see in it an escape
from the terrors of the past four
years.
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THE EXODUS.

If you read the daily papers you
will suppose that everybody is out of
town during the Summer months.
Nominally everybody is,-practically
d great many are not You shall see
10 the society papers a great many
names reported as at Swampscott,
White Mountains, and all over the
cool spots. who are Safely ensconced
in their own houses. To keep up the
impression that they have followed
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A DEMONSTRATIONS NOTICE.

A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE.
Estate Of George Brubaker. late Of Stovstown
Borough deed.
Letters Of administration on the above estate
having hee- ''~snted by the proper authority notice
sincerely. given to thUsriHdebted to IL ouak el,nme.
iiate payment, AMI those having claims against il
10 present them duly authenticated for settlement
and allowance at the office Of Augustus HefI-y.
Esd, on the lSlh day OF August. 1877.
JOHN IL ZIMM ERMAN,
Administrator with the will anne xed.
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A SslGNEES' SALE

A SeiGNEES' SALE
by yirsue OF an order issued out Of the curt nf
Common Pleas OF Somerset Co, Pa, the under
. gned Assignee 0. ~m-A A. Border, will sell at
public sai;, On ths premises, an
Saturday, .Apgust IS. 1877,
atl o'clock p NJ, the following deseri5 u real cs-
tate. via:
Iwocertain lots oil ground situate In the Bar
OF heyersdale, Somerset Co, known "a lots Nos
! anu :, fronting on Salisbury ST with a twO-sto-
ry frame dwelling hUuse anda one ana one.heir
story addition erected thereon.
TERMS:-One-third in hand on day Of sale.
o~ne-tlird In six months, AMI ne third Ia one wear
from day OF sale.
$50 5. M0RRELL,
Jun Assignee.
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OUR LETTER.
New YORK, August 3, 1871.
THE CROP PROSPECTS.

NEW YORK, August >, 1871.
THE CROP PROSPECTS.
1t is curious, but the mercantile re.
porters know more about the crops
than dothe men who grow them.
Dun, Barlow & Co. report that the
wheat crop in the West will make an
average of twenty-five bushels TO the
acre, and that the other crops prom
Use an equally large yield. II this be
til case, and they know, the yield
will be simply enormous, AID there is
no reason why the West should not
be enormously rich, this season. And
it will not be a big crop with no price
to it. The granaries in this country
are bare, and the Crimea, the great
competitor Of America in grain-pro-
duciDg, is, this season, practically
barred cut. The Turkish wal has
shut that of, and America has this
this year to feed the world. Hence
there cannot be that diminution in
price, that otherwise would follow d
crop so immense; we have our TWEEN
ty-6ve bushels to the acre
with the price the same hat Il
would be were it only The average Ct
nine or ten. The West viii be made
rich this year, aud there cannot but
be general prosperity.
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DULE TO ACCEPT OR RE

lOftSE.
To Solomon Boucher, Aaron Boucher, Hanah
intermarried WIKI Samuel =. Geiger, residing
il. SOmsrset Co, Pa, Sarah intermarried with
Jonathan Lyons, residing in Fayette Co, Pa.
Josiah Boucher. residing in GrantsYille, Nd,
David, Henry, Samuel and Jeremiah Boucher,
resting in jackson To-, Ill r
GU are hereby notified 10 appearatan Orphans
Cgurt, to be held at Somerset. on Monday, the2Tth
day OF August next 10 accept or refuse the real
estate OF Henry Boucher. deceased at the apprais
not be sold.
GEO. ". PILE.
Jaiy4A sheriH-
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PRICE AND TERMS.

No. /. Price $4,000. Terms 5000 in hand.
$500 a year.
No. . Price $1,000. Terms $4,000 in hand.
$500 a year.
No. j. Price 81 200. Terms $40 in hand.
500 a year.
No. 4. Price sl,soo. Terms 500 in hand.
50 Ga year.
As the Government has reduced her interest to
! per cent, n lower rate will necessarily prevail in
business, hence the safe and profitable investments
OF the future will be real estate. Possession of
No; and 2as desired, of 3 and on April next.
July IL W. j. BAER.
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TnE D


is entirely over. The Demagogues
who attempted to excite the tramps
and thieves to a riot failed signally,
and the city is as quiet as a mill
pond. The credit for this is due, en-
tirely, to the mayor and the police.
Twenty-six hundred men, thoroughly
armed, were on duty all Of last week
as policemen. and all the militia regi-
ments of the city were at their posts.
At the first intimation of o riot the
mob would have had that enormous
force to meet, and every rife and re-
volver was loaded with ball a r
fridge. The instructions were def
mite to shoot al the rioters first, and
over their heads the second volley.
There YVES TO be killing if the riot
was provoked. The communists uD-
derstood this, and they were very
careful TO give no occasion for militia
ry interference. The communists are
very shady now, and claim that they
did not intend any trouble. But it is
well known that they did intend to
raise q riot and sack the city. They
hadtheir preparations all made. They
expected the railroad people to strike,
and then all the communists would
them, and the thieves and tramps
falling in, there would be force
enough to take possession of the
city. Then buildings would have
been fred, and the city would have
been plundered. But no mob dare
face an organized military force, and
as soon rs the conspiritors knew that
the authorities were prepared for
them, it all died out. Mayor Ely is
entiued 10 s great deal of credit for
nippiDg in the bud what was intend
ed to be 3 rery dangerous affair.
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is cooler, and business has revived
perceptibly. There is every indica-
ton OF a good Falls business.
PIETRO.