The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-08-06

Srron 0ur Regular Core ponaeni.,
NAs1nserox. July Is, 1879.

in a hurry bg the government. A.o
warrant division Of the Secfetarys
Office treasury department this week
issued warrants on the last batch oil
reouisitions received from the Sec
retarv of the interior for arrears OF
pensions amounting 70 Sl,SU5,ooo,
which amount added to sS,035,o0O,
already paid since the first of the tis-
cal year. mskes a total Of S4,S40,00
maid since July LIST, which is a pretty
good showing of rapid work on the
part Of the Treasury department to
promptly pay this meritorious class
Of public creditors when il is 1922 in
the shade. or the Se5 .0oo, goo appro-
priated and made available in April
last. there hes been paid Up to date
$lO,2l9,000-
The Secretary Of War mas nov be-
fore him q letter from the command
inp General at West Point recon-
mending that several cadets there be
dismissed from the institution Tor
bazing. Secretary McCrary, in speak
ing about these unruly fellows, ex-
pressed a determination TO put q stop
to such proceedings, and 1t IS ex-
pected they will be bounced at once.
The returns to the Department oil
Agriculture for July LIST show q con-
tinued depression in the prospects OF
the oats crou. While the average IN
June shows O decrease of four 4 per
cent. the condition Of the crop is stun
lower. The New England States
have fair prospects, but the drought
has been very detrimental in the Md
die and Southern States. In the
West only the most northeriy States,
Minnesota and Wisconsin, report ID
vorsbly.
On potatoes, the Department re-
ports the acreage three per cent. more
than in 1873 for the whole country
An report q decrease in T e planted
In the West, Michigan reports ca Ia
crease of seven per cent, Illinois
four. Iowa FIVE and Missouri five
The condition of the crop was more
favorable than at the same tine N
1878.
The condition of the fruit crop foI
the whole country is bad. In the
east and north Atlantic States the
crop both for apples and peaches il
good: but from North Carolina &c
Texas the peach crop is almost q to
tai failure, and the apple crop very
short, caused by frost in April. IL
the large fruit regions bordering OF
the Ohio river, the failure is quite
universal, but the apple crop will al
most be half q crop. In Michigan.
both peaches and apples are reported
good, and in Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Iowa the apple crop is at az
average California has a full CROP
OF peaches.
There is now in progress OF lorna
ton in this city q company ior the
introduction of the Holly system O
heating by steam, q new method thai
supplies heat for dwelling houses
both for the parlor and kitchen, and
power for light manufacturing, with
the same facilities for easy use thai
gas is utilized. The Holly system
consists in the generation OF steam
ut a central location, its trsnmlssion
by well protected mains TO Localities
more or less remote, and its supply
to the consumer in the same manner
as gas, and is paid for in proportion
70 the amount used, as indicated by Q
meter. /. d~ispenses with fires and
their attendant annoyances and dis.
comforts resulting from servants and
all trouble Of storing coal and keep
ing up ranges and furnaces, and Il
claims as an advantage the ability &c
warm buildings with uniformity o.
temperature, at a cost not exceeding
the usual cost of coal to the consum'
er. Besides this, it almost entirely
dispenses with the liability OF lire
from defective flues and its us'
would reduce the rates Of FIRE insur
ance materially.
The National Amateur Press AS
sociation, which held a three days
convention at the National Hote
last week, adjourned sine die Oh
Friday, and the next convention vii
be held in Cincinnati in July, 1880
An exciting feature of this session
was the annual election of officers
particularly as relating to the presl
dency. Mr.. j. Z. Briggs, son Of tn
lady correspondent "Olivia," wa
elected to that Office after a most de
termined opposition on the part of tn
adherents of the other candidates
one of whom it is said to have spen
one thousand dollars in electioneer
ing. The business transacted by tn
convention related entirely to ANA
teur newspaperdom. There are near
ly three hundred amateur newsps
pers published in this country, ant
among them FIVE are written an
published by girls, all of whom or
members of the association.
The application CT Majors John J
Upham, 9Th Cavalry, and Alfred Z
Bates, pay department for mutua
transfer, has been disapproved b,
General Sherman. who fails to Sc
that Major Bates has so distinguish
himself since bis promotion from cap
tain in the Fad Cavalry to major il
the pay department, that he shoull
be jumped over the heads OF at leas
fifty captains of Cavalry who ranke'
him in that corps.
There is at this time some thirty
FIVE vacancies in the army as second
lieutenants, caused by last Congress
authorizing the President to increas
the retired list of officers. These Va
cancies will be filed from civil lifC
the candidates being chosen by Id
President, after an examination mad
by q board of army officers. Ger
eral Sherman recommended that non
over twenty-five of age be Above
TO 60 before the board, but the Pres
dent extended the limit to thirt
years. The War Department has il
sued regulations to be observed i
the examination. No candidate wi
be examined who is under twenty G
oye thirty years of age; who, in th
judgment of the board, has not til
physical ability to endure the expos
ure of service; who has any deforn
ity Of body. or mental infrmity, Q
whose moral habits are bad. tn
board, being satisfied on these pre-
liminary poiats, viii examine eac