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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-08-21
A Roy Burned Co Death.

READING, Penns., Aug PA
stable in the vicinity of Lancaster
Junction was consumed by fire about
4 o'clock this afternoon. The body
Of Henry 9th, a boy alb Iut 5 years
cd, was discovered in the debris.
burned TO a shapeless mass. An ell
der brother was barely saved by u
woman, who passed just as the flames
burst from the building. The cause
If The fire il nnknoMn
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-08-21

WI publish in another column the
proceedings-which We fnd 10 the
Johnstown Tiribane-formally plsc-
ing in nomination General Jacob NJ.
Campbell
The battle is now opened, and II
the Republicans of the district viii
lend their best energies to the task
as we feel assured they will, we viii
send our faithful representative bach
to Congress, endorsed by q much
larger majority than we gave him
before.
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TEE HeyGI1. the Republican paper a Somerset
county. says the independent movement in that
oaunty has attained such proPortions as to threaten
the success Of the Republican county ticket
yShnsfoNE Den0crcf-
III The Court knows itfef. and
it thinks it does, that's an Internal
no-such-thing. Why didn't the Dem
ocrot announce that we admitted
that Coffroth would poll 100000 in
dependent votes in this county. Some
muIlet-head of q Democrat who
doesn't know anything of the State
of the Glsdes" might have swallow
ed that, but as to the success Of the
Republican ticket being endangered,
any burned fool would detect that
LIN
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TyI.eSfHS3:

BAN FRANCISCO. August l6.-Last
evening Austin, New. was visited BY
cloud burst, which flooded the bust
ness part Of the town, doing damage
to the amount Of sbost $l00. 900 A
man named Spartan was swept down
. rsvine and drowned. The Keueilie
Office. and many businsss buildings
were wrecked. The residence por-
tion Of the town escaped.
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Another Molly Found Guilty.

SUSBuRY, Pa, August l5.-The
jury in the case of Peter McManus. a
Molly Mcguire, on trial here for the
past week tor The murder of Coroner
Hesser at Shamoken, in December.
1874, returned a verdict of murder 10
the FIRST degree.
John O'Neill, an tecomplice in the
C ime will be tried next week for the
same Otfepse
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Flood at Eureka, Nevada.

SAN Francisco, August ia
Eureks, Nevada. dispatch SAYS +:
This tosn was visited last evening
II fTeshet, caused by heavy rain
III the mountains. The food swept
down the rsvine in which the town
is built, carrying away everything
movable and destroying stables, out
buildings, etc. One MAJ is supposed
TO have lost his life"
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Fearful work of the Famine

LONDJN, August l3-The Hon.
Edward Stanhope, under Secretary
for India, when introducing the In
dian budget in the House OF Com
mons tonight, gave the Cf6cial es-
innate Of the number Of deaths from
famine in India az I $50 OAO
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-08-21

LEr's zee! wasn't General Cof-
froth in full communion with the
Democratic party at the last Presi-
Dental election? We have 9 faint
recollection of bearing him sohorous-
~ howl for "Tilden, resumption and
REFORM at all events the Democratic
platform Of that year declared that .
"a reform Is necessary to establish a sound cur
~rency, ressre the public credit and maintain the
national hosor. We denounce the financial imbe.
-Aciiity Of that party, which during eleven years OF
.-peacc, has made no advance toward resumption,
s.Dut instead, has DISTRACTED resumption"
In . speech accepting the uomina-
ton for Congress LAST week, Coffroth
said.
.sHe stood squarely with the Democratic party
ION the a~nsncial issue yauored fhe repeal n Me
ResumPfisz act, Ae-, &c, &c.
In the face Of his record, and that
of his party less than two years since,
how could Mr.. Coffrotb have the
u~rblushing impudeoee TO make the
appeal for the greenback support,
which be did in his little speech &c
'cepting the nomination? And how
can the Greenbackers trust Q politi-
clan who can SO readily turn bis
'coatf
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Hon. A. II. Coffroth has been nom
mated by the Democrats of the Sew
enteenth District as their candidate
for Congress. The choice of the dis
trict appeared to be Mr.. Baer, Of
Somerset the choice of Mr.. Bser ap-
peared to be Mr.. Coffrotb. Mr.. Baer
prevailed and Mr.. Coffroth was nom
mated. Mr.. Coffroth has been in
Congress before and his record is not
altogether fine reading. At the last
election the race in this district was
a clnae one. as fnlloYa:
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-08-21

BLACKBURN, of Kentucky, is cred
tied with being in favor Of Wallace,
of this State, for Vice President.
What a magnificent campaign the
Democracy would make with South.
ern shot-guns, and Pennsylvania cof-
fee-nots
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a ose sIded EIecsiou.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, August ID
The Tot for the Democratic State
ticket last week was ablut 80. 900.
There was no opposition. The Leg
is!aturs will be almos, entirely Demo.
cratic.
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One of the economies Of the late
Democratic Congress was its refusal
to provide pay enough for the cleri-
cal force to arrange for the payment
of about twenty-five thousand pen
sioners. These men suffered and
bled for their country, but under
Democratic rule it lie better that they
should starve, than thst 9 little polit.
ical capital for cheap economy should
not be made for the Democracy.
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BULL-DOzING WITH CANNON
How an Arkansas County IL 10 be Car
Pfed for the DeBoc rats.

MEMPHIS. August S.-An attempt
AT b~ull-dozing in politics on a grand
scale has come to light here. A few
days ago the Mayor of Helena. Arb,
w. X Burke, editor of the World,
and half q dozen other Democrats of
Helena, came to this city and applied
to Captain Rendelhuber, of the Bluff
City Artillery. for two pieces Of ord
nance. These guns are The property
of the State Of Tennessee, given to
Rendelhuber under q heavy bond as
to their use. BY consent OF his bonds
men Rendelhuber gave the two piee-
es Of artillery to the Helena delegs-
tion upon their executing q bond to
return them in thirty days in as good
order as received.
These guns have been taken to
Helena with the open and avowed
intent Of overawing all opposition
aud carrying Phillips county for the
Dem crsts; besides, two cavalry
companies nightly gallop over the
county with the same intent. Phil
lips county has hitherto polled 2,S00
Republican votes to 900 Democratic.
The present Office holders are all Re-
publicsns, and against no one of them
has any charge Of official corruption
or incspacity ever been entered The
Democrats boast that they will carry
the county in spite of everything.
Burke, one of the signers Of the bond
for the guns, is Democratic candi-
date for the Legislature. There
comes o report from Helena that the
guns were placed in the open square,
and that while their four guards were
sleeping some q slipped 10 among
them 10 the darkness and spiked their
guns. 1t is the most brazen piece Of
bulldosing aver attempted in this
section, and public opinion is down
on it here. Rendelhuber and his
bondsmen will be held to q rigid re-
sponsibility for allowing Tennessee
guns to 60 out Of the State for SO in
famous u purpose.
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Conferees of Bedford County

We, the undersigned, duly appoint
ed Congressional Conferees, repre-
senting the Republican voters Of
Blair County, recognizing the action
of the Conferees from the counties OF
Somerset, Cambria, and Bedford, full
ly concur therein, and ratify the
same, thus making unanimous the
nomination of Hon. j. M. Campbell
as the Republican candidate for Con-
gress in the Seventeenth Congress
sional district of Pennsylvania.
S. B. IsENBERG.
W. d.. Couch,
JACOB hurley,
Conferees of Blair County.
-JohRstown Tribune.
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fee-pots.

AFTER q struggle of forty years the
county of Luzerne has been divided
and a new county erected to be call
ed Lackawanns, Of which the county
seat will be Scranton. The matter
was decided BY q popular vote on
Thursday Of last week.
Lsckswanna is the ~sixty-seventh
county in the State. In point of
population It is the sixth.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-08-21

CHICAGO, August BE. Is. CLARK,
resident Of Lagrange, was murdered.
last night. BY . horse thief tramp
who shot Mr.. Clark as the latter vas
going into his stable. The murderer
escaped.
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COMMISSIONERS:
DENNIS COOK.
c ~CRITCHFIELD.
POOR HOUSE DIRECTOR:
GILLIAN K00NTZ.
AUDITORS
JACOB NJ. BAKER.
HIRAM -. MCCOY.

The Republicans of Fsyetse coun-
ty have nominated Col. AMI 5.
Fuller as their candidate for Con-
press.
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A VENERABLE Democratic seer in
our goo6ly borough is 50 delighted
with the prospect OF & boiling Re,
publican ticket being put ia the field,
that he announced q few days since
that be would live TO see Somerset
a Democratic county. Let's calcu-
late !: a crow is said to live a humid
red years, and Methusalah reached
nearly q thousand. Is it the crow or
the venerable gentleman all Of the
olden time, whose longevity our
political Nestor expects to emulate
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WE have information from q large
portion of the county, going to show,
that the delegate elections, called
for Saturday last, with a view Of
nominating another Republican
ticket" were not attended by the
voters. In Somerset township, with
her $50 Republican votes, q poll was
opened, and twelve votes, two Of
which were cast by Democrats, were
polled for a couple of delegates, both
Of whom, we are assured, repudiate
the movement and are indignant at
the use of their names. In one or
two other townships, from three to
half q dozen votes were polled, and
in all the balance heard from, cleo
tons were not opened, nor were any
votes cast. In view Of this signal
failure and most significant evidence
of a determination to accept the ticket
in the field, had not the discontented
few better abandon their disorganiz.
ing project, remain in the party fold,
and bide their time! The evils Of
our method of nominating are many
and gross, and we stand pledged to
lend our best aid to eradicate them
or to "bust up" the system but the
knife could not be applied to the root
of the evil now, without endangering
our party supremacy at the supreme
moment of assured victory. Our
doctrine is, better for o time bear the
ills we have, than fly TO those We
know not of. While demagogue:
were fostering this movement, good
men, hitherto active working Repub
~licans, were at first blush induced tt
aid it, but on second sober thought
they saw the proposed remedy would
be worse than the disease, and with
drew their count enance from it. LIE
us all once more unite to overthrow
Democracy already Boosting of
victory they hoped to obtain through
our dissension, and devote our at
tention to scourging from the temple
of Republicanism the money changer
by whom it is alleged to be polluted
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-08-21

The Nationals may possibly turn
in and help pull Coffroth through.
He is loose jointed enough as to his
principles to be Indifferent about plat
forms-PhtL. Record Dem
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s
Republican majority.
- Mcpherson, Rep.-..---.--....Zso
O"NsHh COtrOth,
Republican majority.
Democratic
Thus it will be seen That the
Republican majority in Somerset
county was not fully 400 as the
Freeman pretends to remember, and
that although Mr.. McPberson's ma
jority fell short of Cochran's 1873
votes, yet he ran but IS votes less
that Cochrsne, ana Cofroth only led
Slenker SO votes.
In 1864, there being no State ticket
10 the field, the vote was as follows /:
Koontz, Rep...-....-"",-.Sgo
OoSSEkss Cofiroth, Dem
Republican majority
The addition Of the small soldier
vote that could be reached at the
time swelled Mr.. Koontz's majority
to $50. But Coffroth did not reduce
his majority down to TIL, because be
did not run q single vote over his
party strength; in fact be fell short of
it; Tor while B. F. Meyers, then Of
Bedford, now editor Of the Harris
burg PafriSs, who was q candidate
for the Legislature. polled 1859 votes,
precisely as many 90 CoGroth did,
Hiram Findlsy of this county. also a
Legislative candidate, polled 1854.
Iu 1862 when Cofroth ran the few
Republican votes of of Mcpherson,
the latter vas an entire stranger to
the people Of this county, and there
was considerable dIssfectiou with the
district which had then been lately
formed; besides, Cohroth then bad no
political record to weigh him down.
Now, with Q VIGOROUSLY bad and Oh
noxious record, with scores of Demo-
crsts 10 the district vowing they will
not support him, always ready to
stoop to conquer, with no principles
that be viii not 1t any time trade for
place, ready TO fall into the arms Of
the iniationists, and to corrupt the
principles Of the old time hard money
Democracy Of the State, the bench
man Of Wallace and the ally of
Salary grsbber" Speer, there can
not be begged. bought. OF stolen for
him . single vote OF of General
Campbell. who is personally vel
known TO our people, whose worth is
appreciated, and whose political
record is endorsed by the Republic
ans Of this county whom he has 30
well represented.
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nee for Congress in the Seventeenth
Congressional District, to be voted
for in November next, and urge up
on the public his Jealous support.
JOHN Il. EDIg,
JOSIAH KELLER.
WM. ii. KooNTZ,
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WM. NJ. JONES,
JOHN c. GATES,

The undersigned. duly appointed
Congressional Conferees for Bedford
County, do concur in the foregoing
action of the Republican Congress
sional Couferees of Somerset and
Cambria Counties, sad unite with
them in declaring the Hon. Jacob NJ
Campbell the Republican candidate
for Congress in the Seventeenth dis
trict at the election in November
next.
j. b. WILLIAMS,
NJ. G. MILLER,
j. b. CESSNA,
Confefees of Bedford County.
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Gen. Campbell Reno@inssed Tassi.
mousIy.
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Conferees of Somerset County
SOMERSET, July 25, 1873.

The undersigned, duly appointed
Congressional Conferees for Cambria
County for the present year, concur
in the foregoing action of the Somer-
set Conferees, and hereby unite with
them in declaring the Hon. j. NJ.
Campbell the Republican candidate
for Congress at the election in No
vember next.
WV. NJ. JONES,
JOHN G. GATES,
ROBERT BARcLEY,
Conferees for the County of Cam
bris.
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STATE TICKET

A TICKET
GOVERNOR:
HENRY NJ. HOYT,
OF LUzERsE COUNTY.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR:
CHARLES " STONE,
OF WARREN cousY.
SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
AARON X. DUNKEL,
OF PHILADELPHIA
or THE SUPREME COURT;
JAMES P. STERRETT,
OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
COUNTY TICKET.
CONGRESS:
JACOB N. CAMPBELL,
OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
SENATE:
ENOCH d. YUTZY,
Subject to the decision Of the District Conference
ASSEMBLY:
ANDREW J. COLBoRN.
EDWARD NJ. SCHROCK.
PRorHoNoTARy:
HENRY F. SCHELL.
SHERIFF:
EDGAR KYLE.
REGISTER AND RECORDER;
WILLIAM B. FREASE.
TREASURER:
HENRY F. KNEPPER
COMMISSIONERS:
DENNIS COOK.
JACOB ~CRITCHFIELD.
POOR HOUSE DIRECTOR:
GILLIAN K0ONTZ.
AUDITORS:
JACOB NJ. BAKER.
HIRAM d. MCCOY.
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REGISTER AND RECORDER:
WILLIAM B. FREASE.
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THE Cambria Freeman is siuffing
its readers with the of exploded
story of General Coffroth's great
political strength in this county.
From an editorial article in its issue
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-08-21

AAn NTtl- NNITtAl lU III otDltt1NN ia - vas
generally conceded Mr.. Baer could have done had
he received and accepted the n0ninathn-that IL,
greatly reduce the usual heavy Republican ma
iority in that county, His friends confidently
claim that he can, and appeal In proof Of the fact
10 what he has heretofore done In his own county
when he was a candidate, and alleging that he
can effect the same result again Gen. CotrOth
first becamea candidate for Congress In 1881. an
was elested over Edward Mcpherson OF Adams
county, the district then being composed Of Som
crset, Bedford, Fulton, Franklin and Adams. Our
recollection ia that the Republican majority in
Somerset was fully Loo. fnOt over Ii, and that
Gen. Cofroth was only beaten 500 In the county.
In 1874, az the Presidential election, he was again
a candidate, and had for his opponent, Gen. Wm.
II. Koontz, of Somerset, who is conceded 10 be the
most popular Republican In the county. The
soldiers voted at that election for the first time,
and every one remembers how shamelessly the re-
turns Of their votes were manipulated in favor Of
the Republican party. To this was added the eE-
forts Of the provost marshals. who then swarmed
over the country doing the work Of the Republican
party. And yet, although Somerset rolled up her
accustomed majority, Gen. CofrOth reduced Gen.
Koontz's majority down to al votes. Gen. Cot
froih claimed that he was honestly elected, but
the certificate was given TO his opponent. Having
thus shown Gen. COfiroth's strength in Somerset
county, and therefore the prcpriety of his nomi-
natien, We leave any other questions in relation TO
him 10 be discussed az they present Themselves
q uring the campaign.
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ANDREW j.
EDWARD N. SCHROCK.
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Wsiyipe the alleged concession o

WAVING the alleged CONCESSION OF
Mr.. Baer's strength in this county,
which is not true, let US knock the
stufing out of the Inflated story Of
Cofroth's great popularity by an
exhibit of the figures taken from the
Official record.
In 1869, when be was first elected
to Congress, the following vote was
polled:
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TREASURER:
HENRY F. KNEPPER
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JUDGEoFT THE SUPREME COURT;
JAMES P.
OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
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-PRoTHONoTARY:
HENRY F. SCHELL.
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The Edgeieid Is. c. hdrertiser
has reached that point in Cancellation
when it advises Democrats 10 kill
Independent members of the psrty,
1t says: do not be satisfied With
abusing and ostracizing them, but
hang them ?" Wonder il this is in
accord with the Southern policy?
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EDGAR KYLE.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-08-29
The Speeches on Monday.

A full synopsis of the speeches delivered
by the three candidates for Congress in this
District-Messrs. Paul, Harris and Massey
in this place, on Monday last, will be found
elsewhere in the VIRGINIAN. They all
hold to pretty much the same views on the
States debt, and, with some modification, as
to national finance, with difference be.
tween Messrs. Harris and Paul as to State
banks-Harris favoring the repeal of the
tax on them and Paul opposing.
We cannot agree with either of the: gen.
tlemen in the general views expressed on
this subject, nor do we believe the people
of the district will. They will have to mod
lily their notions very greatly, or compel
the announcement of another competitor
for the position they seek. The peopl e
have no idea of running wild on this sub
ject, and are seriously and cautiously think
ing about it, and because of this manifested
very little enthusiasm during the discus
sion. The indications Of sympathy we're
about equally divided between the three,
so far as any were given, but a decided ma
jority of those we conversed with, were not
particularly pleased with the ideas ad
vanced on national finance.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-08-29
For the Virginian.]
Honor to Whom Honor is Due.

Messrs. Editors "A controversy has arisen
among several distinguished gentlemen of this
Congressional District, each claiming that he is
the father of readjustment'' in Virginia. Now,
without any disposition to disparage the SER
vices of any of these gentlemen, all OF whom de-
serve the highest credit for their efforts to re-
Iieve the people of the Commonwealth from the
unjust and oppressive burdens imposed on them
by the Funding bill, desire to call your atten-
tlon to few facts which will doubtless be re-
membered by many of your readers. Soon after
the adjournment of the Legislature by which this
ubiquitous and disastrous measure was passed,
and the popular Indignation was at its height,
many of the most sagacious and patriotic of our
public men became seriously apprehensive that
the inability to fulfil the odious contract" and
sense of the injustice OF measure which pressed
them to the very earth under the burden of a
taxation which does not and can never pay even
the interest of the funded debt, would eventually
lead to serious clamor for the reputation OF
the whole. Hon. John F. Lewis, who was at the
time one of The Senators from Virginia in the
Congress of the United States, was one OF those
who shared this apprehension, and was earnestly
DESTROYS of devising some plan to relieve the
people, and at the same time save the credit OF
the State. Meeting with George E. Deneale,
Esq. in Harrisonburg, they, on comparing views,
agreed upon scheme OF readl ustmeut in winch
was embodied all the elements of the resdjust
ment policy. Colonel Deneale consented to be-
come candidate for the Legislature, and, after
expounding the principles OF the scheme to the
people of Rockingham. was elected to
the Legislature, where he delivered some
of the ablest speeches ever made in that body on
questions of finance in support of reimbursement.
The agents of the bondholders, however, became
alarmed, and, by charging Deneale with design
to break up the Conservative party, succeeded
during period of excitement in regard to Fede-
raj politics, in depriving the people of his SER
vices in the councils Of the State.
1t is livery meet and right to award honor to
the men who now fighting the battle of the
people, but we should not forget to be grateful to
the champion who first raised the banner of re-
adjustment in the State.
JVcT