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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
The Lie to Senator Bayard

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 10.-The
Press Will publish tomorrow a let
ter from George A. Boutwell,, C. A,
arthur, Noah Davis and Roscoe
Conkling, in which, after referring to
an editorial that appeared in the
Press of October %, 1880, in which
it was alleged that Senator Bayard,
in a speech delivered recently at
Dover, referred to the case of Phelps,
Dodge Il Co, who were compelled
some years ago to refund the gov
ernment the amount of duties I'M
paid on certain under-valued in
voices, and declared that Senator
Conkling, Noah Davis, the District
Attorney E; Mr.. Arthur, the Collector;
Mr.. Jayne, the Special Officer, and
George 5. Boutwell,, Secretary of the
Treasury, were present in the Gus
tom House when this money (s26,-
700 was paid, and they devided it
among themselves, and concludes {:
"a month has now elapsed since
you thus published and character
lied this reported utterance as
false. The State Sentinel, a news
paper published at Dover-the
place where the speech is said to
have been made-contained only
one day later than your issue like
report. Yet, up to this time, no
disclaimer or retraction by, or on
behalf of, Mr.. T. F. Bayard has APP
peared so far as we know.
1--WE think it time to notice so Sc
rious a SANDER, purporting to come
from a member of the Senate of the
United States. We, therefore, pro-
nounce the statement, by whomso-
ever made, truthless calumny.
fit was made with the assertion
that the men who made it had
knowledge, and means of knowl-
edge of its truth, besides being a
falsehoOd it was a wilful and wicked
falsehood.
Signed GEO. S. Boutwell,.
c. A. ARTHUR,
NOAH DAVIS,
Roscoe CoNKLING,
New York. Nov. 20th. 1850
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15

THE Commissioner of Internal
Revenue in his annual report shows
that the government can raise sufli.
cient revenue without the tax on
bank-checks, matches patent medi.
cines, bank deposits and bank capi.
tai, and he recommends the repeal of
the tax collected from these sources.
He says that sufficient revenue can
be raised from the taxes on spirits.
malt liquors and tobacco. The taxes
proposed to be abolished on the
above articles amounts to sll. 100000
per annum, and the fact that the
burdens Of the people can be light
ened this much, shows not only the
prosperous condition Of the country.
but the natural fruits of the sound
Republican administration of the
National finances.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
What an English journal say

LONDON. Dec. 9.-The Tjmcs. iu
its financial articlcsay-: The tium-
ces of the UniIed States may excite
the envy not only Of England but of
Europe. The unprecedented rate of
redemption is having It's annual
effect of raising the credit Of the
United States to q level with the
most staid and best paying commu-
mites of the old world. In reaching
that level the United States viii only
attain a rightful position. \ coun-
try which Is so faithful to its engage
ments, whose resources are so limit
less, and whose population increases
with such remarkable rapidity,
ought to enjoy the best credit ac-
corded to any State.
In all probability, should the con-
ditions remain favorable, Secretary
Sherman viii accomplis his refund
ing operations at a rate nearer three
than four per cent. The very rIpidi-
" with which he IS able to pay off
the debt must aid him most matcri-
ally by reducing the supply otstock.
This, acting p1rj pqSst with the
augumenting demand for sound IN
vestment, viii give him inclIcuable
advantages IN his operations.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
Explosion.

ALTOONA, Pa, Dec. S.-An explo-
sion with damages amounting to SO,
700 or S15,0S0 occurred Yesterday at
the paper mill of Morrison, Bare &
Cass, at Roaring Springs, several
miles from this city. One of group
of five boilers, used in cooking wood,
burst with terrible force, the boiler
tearing out through the roof and
rising to height of 400 feet, lodg-
ing on hill some distance away.
A hole was scooped in the ground
four feet deep where the boiler
struck the earth. David Mckee.
an employee of the paper mill, was
afterwards found beneath the debris,
and some time elapsed before he
was rescued. His injuries soon
proved fatal Weakness of the
boiler was the cause of the accident.
The proprietors have insurance of
$4,000 with agents in Altoona.
This is the third explosion that has
damaged these works, and they
were once destroyed by fire. Work
will be suspended for three months.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15

Vice President, who thereupon de
clared 1t 10 the assembled Congress
Now the Democrats want to in
troduce a new method of declaring
the result of Presidential elections
which may perhaps be rightin itself
hut to say the least, the introduc.
ton of it at this time when no dis
pute az to- the result of the late elcc
ton is made, and the attempt tc
force it through under the gag of the
previous question, looks more than
suspicious, and in the light of the
attempts of the Democratic party to
carry the two last Presidential clec-
tons by bribery, fraud, forgery and
perjury, the Republicans naturally
fearing that some trick is intended,
steadily resist the change.
Much valuable time that ought to
be devoted to matters of weighty
importance is likely to be wasted
over this at present, useless measure
but that the Democrats, just on the
eve of going out of power, should be
permitted to cram this vital change
on so important a question down
the throats of the victorious Repub-
licans, without debate or chance of
amendment, is not to be tolerated.
If by this useless waste of time an ex-
ira session Of Congress is forced upon
the country, the Democratic ma
jority Of the present House must be
held responsible for il.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15

Those who thought that the re-
suit of the late election had taught
the Democrats a lesson were badly
mistaken. Your regular Bourbon
Democrat is as thoroughly incapa-
bic of learning anythingnew, as is an
old dog of being taught new tricks.
Instead Of the present short session
of Congress being strictly devoted to
the transaction of necessary busi-
ness as was hoped by the country,
the Democrats have forced a pro-
tracted debate, which has already
wasted three days, over a proposed
new rule for counting the electoral
vote. Ifthere was any dispute like.
ly TO arise over the counting of the
the vote cast last month, there
might be a necessity for speed
lily adjusting the manner of the
count, but as the election of the Re-
publican candidates is admitted
without the slightest cavil, and four
years must elapse before the ques-
ton can again arise, it might well
and most properly be deferred to a
more fitting season. The time hon.
ored custom from the organization
of THE government TO the election of
Mr.. Lincoln. was for the two Houses
to meet in joint convention, each
House selecting teller who SUNNI
ed up and delivered the result TO the
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
Crashing INTO a Street Car.

CHICAGO Dec. Sat midnight
last night, as an Archer avenue
street car was crossing the Michigan
Southern tracks, at the Clark street
crossing, 1t was struck by an engine
backing upon the tracks, overturned
and completely wrecked. There
were about twenty passengers on
the street car, eight of whom were
injured. Cornelius Hallraham, the
driver of the car, had his leg broken
and received probably fatal internal
injuries. James McGrath had his
thigh fractured. Others were badly
cut and bruised. Newell J. Ford,
the engineer in charge of the wreck
ing engine, has been arrested toawait
the result of an investigation into
the circumstances of the accident.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
Tripel Murder.

ST. Louis, Dec. "A triple mur-
der was committed by an insane
man this morning near Chester,
Illinois. Louis Tockstun was YES
terday adjudged insane and ordered
to be sent TO the Jacksonville Assv-
lum last night. Two guards kept
him at the hotel. This morning
when water was brought him to
wash ne dashed it in the guards
face, broke through the window of
the front room and ran away. About
a quarter mile from the town is the
house of Thomas Ryan, aged sixty
eight, a widowed daughter living
with him, with her two children
n girl thirteen and a boy younger.
Entering this house naked, he or
dered the inmates to kneel and pray,
as they had but fifteen minutes to
live. All obeyed but the boy, who
escaped and alarmed the neighbors.
When they reached the house they
found Mr. RYAN and his daughter
with their skulls crushed by an axe,
and the headlcss body of the little
girl on the floor. The maniac rush
ed to the next house, swinging
over his head the bloody head Of
the child he had murdered, and
finding only a servant girl there or
dered her to kneel. She screamed.
and help arriving, he was overpower-
ed and secured. He was brought to
East st, Louis tonight, on the way
to Jacksonville.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15

THE electoral college of Georgia
assembled last week, and of course
cast the vote of the State for Han
cock and English. As the law says
the electors shall assemble and vote
on the first Wednesday of Decem-
Der, they cannot therefore legally
vote on any other day, and having
failed to vote on the day fixed by
law, their subsequent action amounts
to nothing, and the vote Of the State
is lost. As well might Somerset
County have refused to observe the
State law, and held her election on
the Third Tuesday of November,
and then demanded that her vote be
counted. Georgia having clearly for
feited her right to have her vote count
ed, we insist that there is no power
existing anywhere that can now
authorize or legalize its being count
ed. To court it is to violate plain
provision both of the Constitution
and of the law, and it is no excuse
to say that this thing has been done
before, or that it can make no differ
ence as TO the general result. To do
so is not only adding strength to a
bad precedent, but is a most fla
grant violation of the law that can
not be justified. and we trust that
no sentimentalism will induce Re-
publicans to countenance the effort
that will be made in that direction.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
Roller Explosion.

BosroY, Dec. S.-A dispatch from
Orange, Mass, says one of the most
distressing accidents that has occur
red in that section for long time
took place this morning, by which
seven persons lost their lives. In
the northwestern part of the town
of Nendell, Messrs. Marble d, Clark
had a portable steam saw-mill, with
which they were engaged in clean
ing off timber lot. This morning
the boiler exploded with terrific
force, demolishing the mill, and a
portion Of it was hurled against a
building occupied by those at work
on the lot, which was set on fire and
entirely consumed, and Messrs. Mar
bic & Clark, the proprietors, Oscar
Brown, George Brown, Willie Brown,
all young men, from seventeen to
twenty-one years old, sons of Hosea
Brown of New Salem, and Mrs. Eel
ton, who was keeping house, were
killed. A young child named
George Reynolds had leg broken,
and Charles Reynolds shoulder
smashed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
Powder Explosion.

CHICAGO, December 9.-An cx-
plosion occurred at Union Lime
works, corner Nineteenth and lin
coin streets, this afternoon, result-
ing IN the killing Of aRe man and
fatally woundipg of another, The
dead man. whose name is John
Maugh, was engaged in the 'pump-
house making cartridges for blast
ing purposes, when the powder-keg
exploded, killing him instantly and
dangerously wounding Walter Hall.
Windows oi houses within two
blocks Of the accident were shat.cr. I
by the shock.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
Murd cred in the Woods.

CHICAGO, Dec S.-A special from
Wadena, Mimi. SAYS: News has
been received of the brutal murder
OF Ort Hendrics in Todd county,
twelve miles southeast from here.
On sunday morning last he started
deer-hunting with his brother, and
they parted company in the woods
TWO miles from home. In about
hall an hour three shots were heard.
and when the brother reached the
spot he found Ort's dead body, with
three rifle balls in it and IA knife
plunged to the hilt through various
places. The brother followed the
trall OF the murderers six miles and
then lost 1t. The cause of the crime
Is unknown
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
Into a snow Bank.

Sioux CITY. Iowa. December To-
An east bound trim on the For,
Pierre line Of the Northwestern road,
consisting of seven coaches, two
baggage cars AID two locomotives,
containing three hundred and thirty
passengers was thrown from the
track five miles cast of New Ulu-,
by the breaking of an axle. Tie
accident occurred on the level pr.,i-
rie, and the cars were tipped over i'm
a snow bank. breaking the force a-
the train, which was running at the
rate Of thirty miles an hour None
Of the passengers We're injured, bG.
they suffered much from the cold.
the thermometer indicating - ic-
low zero. The road vas blockaIei
for four days, until a track coUij hr
built around the wreck.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
America in the Future.

LONDON, Dec. Mr.. Clare Jewell
Read, who went to America recently
to inquire into American agricul-
ture, in addressing the Farmer 5
Club in London, said he would not
fear American competition in wheat
twenty-five years hence, as exhaust
alton of the land would ensue in
that time and the cost of produc-
ton increase; but in regard to beef
there were serious prospects of com
petition from the vast herds of cattle
in the far West. Mr.. Read deemed
it likely that the American nation
would become the greatest in the
world.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
Judge Strong and His Successor

WASHINGTON, Dec. Sit is given
out authoritively tonight that Judge
Strong has written his resignation as
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court. and that it will be handed
to the President at an early date. 1t
Is, however, expected that he will
not relinquish his seat for a few
months, so as to keep the place for
Attorney General Devens, who is to
be appointed to the place as soon as
his term as cabinet officer ex-
pires.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15

once renewed and to cut It off a
motion to adjourn prevailed. Con
ger led the Republican side and
Randall | guessed wished the Mich
igandcr was in the other end of the
capitol before they got through
Conger should be kept in the
House. Won't he give it to An
Sin Hewitt and Sin Joss Randall
when he gets them on lie floor about
that Chinese forgery He will make
Rome howl.
The Senate met in great dignity
as usual, if not more so, everything
being conducted with the solemnity
OF funeral. The message was read
and then an adjournment took
place. Blaine, Thurman, Bayard
and Wallace, were the most promi-
nent senators on the floor. Conkling,
Cameron, Carpenter, Edmunds and
Logan did not put in an appear
ance.
People generally remarked that
the quietude of the Senate amount
cd almost to indifference. The lost
vote of Georgia, the mistakes OF
Louisiana1excited not a ripple of re-
mark. The hand-shaking took
place of course, everything was
pleasant There were no anxious
faces, no raised and angry words,
no gloomy brows in the counte-
nances of Senators.
The Secretary of the Inaugural
ton Committee has received notice
from DR.. II. Clay Mckinley. of Mey-
ersdale, President of the Garfield
and Arthur club of that place, that
his club will attend the Inaugural
ton on the 4th of March with one
hundred and twenty men. He has
also been notified by Lieutenant. J.
Forsyth Harrison, of Cumberland
that his company, Hamilton Light
Infantry, sixty muskets will be on
hand.
Colonel CorbOn has received no
tice from fifty four other organiza-
tions, military and otherwise
throuhout the country of their inten-
ton to be present and participate in
the Inauguration ceremonies. The
prospects OF a great crowd is having
lis effects on hotels, boarding houses
&c, already. Even the windows of
buildings on Pennsylvania avenue
are being already engaged by peo-
pie who want TO witness the process
sion.
l would suggest to the military
and civic organizations coming on
that their best plan if they want to
have a nice time all to themselves Is
to charter a car or as many as they
need and sleep in them. All you
want to eat can be had for % cents
a meal, but with such 4 crowd,
sleeping accommodations will be al
most out of the question.
PICKET.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
OIL Refinery Explosion.

HUNTERS PoIyT. l.. l.. December
10.-Great excitement was caused
yesterday afternoon bv the cxplo-
sion Of a still at the Brooklyn Oil
Refinery, Newtown creek. Thesu
rounding neighborhood was shaken
up and thousands attracted to the
spot. Windows were broken at a
long distance, and pedestrians were
lifted from their teet by the force of
the shock. Fortunately no one was
injured. Damage TO the property Is
very GREAT
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15

PENNNFIELD, Pa, Dec. S.-On
Saturday last a party of men were
hunting on "rhe Barrens," q few
miles south of this place, came upon
the dead body ola man. A revolver
was lying a few feet from him, and
it is evident that he had killed him,
self, either by accident or purposely
\ gold watch and 1860 in greenbacks
were found upon his body. 1t was
decided that he was man named
Mclaughlin, whose home is in Eli
county
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
hIShty-Five Dollars IoSr.

ou do not tell me that vau-
husband Is up and about again. and
entirely cured by so simple a RENE
dy as Parker's Ginger Tonic?~
! es, indeed do, said Mrs. Ben
Jamin to her enquiring neiehhor
and that too when we had f1oIisE
ly paid eightly-fve dollars in de-
tors bills and prescriptions. and ,f
Yer he had been given up by his
physicians to die. Now nv bns-
Dand feels as well as ever, ei,tireIv
cured by this excellent Tonic 4nS
many sick man might be well !,
a week If they would only trv u
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15

CONGRESSMAN HURD of Ohio, who
is an out-and out Democratic free
trader, and believes in the doctrine
of "a tariff for revenue only" has
introduced a series of resolutions in
the House denouncing our present
protectivesystem, and is mercilessly
whipping his Democratic colleagues
into line against protection. With
Watterson of the Louisville Courier
Journal and other Bourbon Demo
Gratis. he believes that true Dem
ocracy means free trade, and is de-
termined to make his party toe the
mark. Mr.. Speaker Randall and
other professed protectionists in the
party, viii have 10 do some tall
dodging and squirming in their at
tempts to serve two masters. The
result of the late elections is not
very encouraging to Northern Dem
oceats who have the wit TO under
stand the drift of public sentiment,
on the question of protection to
home industry.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15

ARRANGEMENTS are being made
for representation of the volunteer
militia from every State in the
Union at the Inauguration of Presi-
dent-elect Garfield. For the first
time since the war the people of the
South viii take an active part in
the ceremonies on Inauguration
lav
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
\ Fire at Custer City.

DEADW1oD, d. T. December "a
IRE at Custer City, this mornin. de
stroyod the principal hotel, store
and postofiicc, and the surrounding
buildings were greatly damaged.
Six incendiary fires have been dis
covered and extinguished in this
city during the-past fortnight. There
seems to be a determined effort to
destroy the town
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15

THE late James Z. Brown, the
kittanning millionaire, in his viii
makes a distribution of 100000,
and bequeaths s25 TO every widow
in Kittanning and an equal amount
10 every wife who shall become a
widow. \ large portion of the es-
tate goes to Presbyterian church
boards.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
Tragedy.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. S.-Police Officer
John W. Martin was dismissed from
the force last night, after an exam
ination before the police board.
Leaving the room where the board
sat, he stepped up to the railing in
front of the captains Office, drew
his pistol and sent a bullet crashing
through his own skull. lie leaves
a wife and five children.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
"eorgia Electors.

AILANTA, Ca, December ST
presidential electors OF Geo-,,;. ! ~ \.
E. Gooh to-day, cast the eleven votes Of II
georgia for Hancock and E.nsI;s6 IS H'
ana appointed 7. r. Ogleshv r. ',., 10,
as special messenger fo s3rr,, ~ AZ .ioe
vote to Washington ."lfy lhe
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15
Lynch Law.

CHARLESTON, s. c., December g.
The three negroes, one women and
two men, who murdered Mrs. Ken
nedy, in Clarendon County last Sun
day, were captured yesterday and
hung TO the nearest tree to the place
OF the murder that would hold
them.
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REPRESENTATIVE Wolfe has gone
to the trouble of being interviewed
for the purpose Of saying that Mr..
Grow cannot bc beaten for Senator.
Of course Mr.. Wolfe knows, and
that settles it. Big Ingun me!
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15

lT is said that Senator Blaine viii
introduce into the Senate a bill re-
ducing the rate of postage to two
cents instead of three. He argues
that it viii greatly add to the in
come of the department.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-15

GEN. BEN HARRISON, of Indiana,
a grandson of odd Tippecanoe, "
appears 10 have the inside track for
United States Senator. Old Tip
was another Ohio man who was
President forty years ago.