The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-31
CULLINGS.

/ THE young ladies of Greenwood,
S. C., have started successful tenn
perance movement. They organ
lied society pledged not TO have
anything TO do with any young man
who drank liquor. Several we'll
known tipplcrs have already sue
cumbed, and Others are wavering in
that direction.
Nor many years ago the Demo-
Gratis OF Louisiana tried their hands
at constitution making. The rew
constitution is so defective that the
Democratic papers are bowling loud
ly for its amendment. Under it
taxes are evaded, the school system
is running down, and the courts are
inefficient. The old constitution,
framed by the Republicans shortly
after the war, was better.
The Vicksburg Herald confesses
to grave fears that Mr.. Lamar will
he beaten for the United States SEN
atorship in Mississippi, mot because
majority Of his party do not favor
his reelection, but by intrigue and
a prostitution Of power within the
Democratic party" Nice comment
ary that on the Mississippi Democ-
racy. The old managers are attheir
old tricks, with this difference-the
victims are Democrats.
THERE is something very pathetic
in Mr.. Garfeld's yearning desire to
be taken home. He is longing all
the while to be back at the old place
in Ohio where his happiest days
have been spent. 1t is subject TO
which he recurs again and again,
and upon which the doctors are
obliged to humor him as best they
can. Perhaps no one was ever more
anxious TO get into the White House
than the President now is to leave
it. That he cannot have his way is
sad enough, and vet there is some
cause for encouragement in the per-
sistence with which he clings to this
idea. Men in the last stage of sick
ness usually care for nothing
North .AmGicaa.
QUAKEIs are non combatants on
principle. But occasionally they
lay off their coats and DO some va
liant service with their muscles.
The Burlington HGwkye says: " \
large crowd left Indianola to attend
a Quaker quarterly meeting ten
miles away at Ackworth. They
went for the purpose OF a rumpus.
The pitched battle was represented
by four Indianola shoulder-strikers
on one side, and as many broad
brimmed chaps from the Brotherly
City on the other side, who demon
strated their pugilistic accomplish
ments in surprisingly forcible
manner. The Indianola boys got
badly left, and returned home with
black eyes and bloody faces. Sew
eral arrests viii be made to-day"
ONE OF the most successful and
trustworthy farmers in Georgia is a
negro named Pleas Harper, who has
Just paid $4,000 for 200 acres of
land lying on Broad River, in Ogle-
thorpe county. The white man who
sold him the land says of Harper:
There is not a better business man
in Oglethorpe county than this ne
gro. lie can tell you any day to
the cent how he stands with the
world, and as farmer / never saw
better. He is economical, his
family all work, and he can get more
out of a hand than anyone | ever
saw. Pleas, too, is not an all-cotton
farmer. He has been making from
100 to 80 bales of cotton year on
rented land, besides growing enough
supplies to run his place. In fact,
his cotton is nearly all clear money.
You Just ought to see the Bermuda
grass hay he has saved this sum.
mer.'