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The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-16
SELINsGROVE
MARBLE WORKS.
The undersigned having purchased the So.
lnsgrovo Marble Works, he Is now fully pres
pared to manufacture.
MNlnmHNtS 4 1 4 HnalS.NnES

this summer at prices much lower than hereto
fore, and lower than has ever been done q the
county.
Having Just received large lot OF Designs,
Of ail the latest styles OF Monuments 4 head,
stones am able to give satisfaction IN, styles
and prices, to all that wish to decorate tho
graves OF a departed friend with n meat, cil.ap %
Monument, Tomb or HenIsfOns.
have also made Arrangements, so "a 10 bc
able To furnish on short notice, Earble, sand.
stone, or any "'ser kind OF door and Window
SIS, at prices to suit tho purchaser.
Persons In need any OF the atove articles
VIII save money by calling at the Seinsgroye
Marble Works before purchasing elsew here.
also keep Ranks Patent GALVANIZED Grave
Guards for sale. Five different styles. Come
and see.
geS Mr.. j. II, Long, Of Adamsburg,
agent for the undersigned where all
ders.will receive prompt attention.
Maya, 76-tf. V. L. KANrNER
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WYE keep on hand all kinds o,
Wanks such as Notes. Sums
|varronts, Leases, Ssl1poe-
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kucloneer. &C George II. Hacken'
burg, of Middiecrcek, 7. o., would an
nounce to the people ofSnyder couns
ty, that he will cry sales for real ~
personal property. at short notice apJ
on tho moSt reasonable terms "a
guarantees aatisiaction. Aar'lo""
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Philadelphia and ReadiD,
Rail Road. :
Arrangement Of Passenger Irsl,
MAY Goth, 1881.

Trains keere Harrisburg as follow.
ror New York, via Ailentow n. SOS
:. For New York. via phiiadeiphia ana tin.
Brook R9nte."0N, anj n. M, and 4 Is, ''l
For Phtsdelphis. go. sos, 800 am la al,
ror reading. $40. o.so, sos, $50 a. ma
For Potisviiie. $50. 9 o,, go .. ana,
m. md via Schuylkill n Susqu hanna p,s. y.
at 2.in r. IN. For Auburn, sin q m, 'ui''
For Allentown, 3,2e, sos, ESQ n, m, iis,,,
The SOS =. IN. and t.s5 n. N. ,r,,,,A.
through cars for Nov Yort. via Allento Va "
u.f.. url
Co.. Sundays
For Allentown and way stations, 521, ~
For Re,ding, Phli,dslrhia, aal way ST.,
tions. las p. IN. ''"
7tdi,s for Harrisburg ieare as fo'io,r,.
Leave New York. via Allentown, sga,
90 and $40 y. tn. ~,
Leave New York, via "Hound Brook po-..
aud philadelphia. Z As q. m, 80. 4.O1 ana , o..
y. M. arriving at Harrisburg i.5J, $50, g.5
m, and ~ IS a. IN. ''"P'
Leave Philadelphia, ets A. M, ioo. s.a.,.,
Tl5 pm ''''. '.l
Leave Pottsyllle, 800, 10 =. m. auitp,,
Leave Recalling, 4 80, 7.30, li.5oa m. ~
els. $50, and 10 IS y. m.
Leave Pottsvilio, via schuyiktIi \ su.,,.
hanns Branch, sib .. IN. and 80 D.. m,
Leave Allentown, 600 900 a. M, Ill n,
and 900 p. IN. ="
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npN n NTc $50 TO 81 .0lO 2 to rs Stops
VItOASS - Pianos si25 up. Paper nee
q ddress DAME r. BEATTY, Washington
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-16
Make Home Beautiful,

Fino steel Engraving. Choirs subjects,
Lowest nrices. send tor Catalogue and price
list AGENTS WANTED Address, j. q,
McCt RDY 90, Philadolphia, Pa.
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RUPTURE Ip7sria' yr7,

$ what 20 want The greatest invention Of
nne SEQ our pamphlet. sent iroc. \.
Y EdAN. Ogdensburg, N. Y. Ju 2ly2 so.Iy
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q EOuttit sent free to those who
MsDwtsh 20 engage In tho most pleasant and
VSprontl BILE business known. Every.hing
new. Capital not required. We Will furnish
You everything, so a day and upwards is
over night No risk whatever, Macy new
wor5ers wanted at once. Many are making
fortunes at the business. Ladies make as
much as men, and young boys and girls ma 10
great pay. No one who is willing TO work fails
TO make more money every day than can be
maze In a week nt any ordinary employment
Those who engage at once VIII dnd q short
rita nj, MLias. M. 'i-7T 81 =
NOet ~, lss0.IY. ..f
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~ rr -busincss now before the pab
~ = lie. You can make money
hEnN faster at work for u than
~ - hS y at anything else. Capital
NOT required. We will start you. kl2 a day
snd upwards made NJ home by the iudustrious.
Men, women, boys and girls, wanted every.
wbere to work for us. Now is tho timo. You
can devote your whole time to the WORT or on
~ your spare moments, No other business
VIII pay You nearly as well. No one willing to
work can tail to make enormous pay by engug
ing at once. Costly Outht aud terms tree, A
great opportunity for making money easily
and honorably. Address TRUE6 co, Angus.
Ia, Maine. June %, 'sO.ly
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
a Destructive Fire.

PHiLADELrHIA, July 20. AT hali-
past eight o'clock tonight q fire
broke out i'm in the driving room Of
the pepuea cotton mills, eight in
number, covering about three acres,
and occupying nearly a square OF
territory, bounded by twenty
second and Twenty-hfst streets,
Hamilton and Spring Garden streets,
and Pennsylvania ave. The flames
spread SO rapidly that the general
alarm WAS sounded, aud the entire
fire department summoned to tie
scene. For nearly three hours the
fire burned stubbornly, meanwhile
destToyidg two OF the mill buildings
devoted to dyeing and drying pur-
poses. The property was owned and
occupied by Wm. Wood & Son, by
whom the mills have been operat-
ed foT twenty-five years. The loss
in the burned buildings, with the
stock and machinery DESTROYED, is
estimated to be between 100000
and S150,000, covered by insurance
amounting to the latter figure.
Nothing could be learned tonight
on the subject OF insurance further
than that the policies, ranging from
$3.50 TO S20,G00 each, are scattered
among all the leading United States
AID foreign insurance companies.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
Shot BIZ q Woman,

George ". Coles, the bookkeepcr
employed in Harry Miners Theatre,
in New York, who was shot by a
woman on Tuesday evening, richly
deserved his punishment, If the wo-
mans story is true. Her name IS
Elizabeth Coleman, the wife OF a sea
captain IN the Wes' r0lia trade.
She charges Coles !, 4.ssng her
intoxicated in order 10 am her, and
when confronted by her husband
she told him al. Her husband has.
in consequence, applied fora a divorce
and the custody of her four child
ren, the youngest being only elgh-
teen months old. She admits iiav-
ing sent for Coles, and when he adj
mitted that he ldtold herhusband
all, she held the pistol close to his
body ard fired. She expressed no
sorrow for the act, ana delivered
herself ap to the police. Mrs. Cole
man was arraigned i'll the police
court yesterday. and was committed
TO await the result OF Coles injuries.
She was cool aud unconcerned-look-
ing. Col S lies at the hospital III q
dying condition. His ante-morteaa
statement was takeA by the coroner,
in which he said he visited the wo-
man number Of times, but did not
know that she was married. She
represented herself u him rs Il SIN
gle woman. Coles died yesterday.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
To Tell The Age of sheep

The books on sheep have seriously
mislnd ilock-masters on this subject.
Almost any sheep owner will tell
you tina; after a year the sheep gets
pair of broad teeth yearly, and if
you show that his own three-year
olds have four pairs of broad teeth,
he can only claim that they are ex
ceptions, and protest that they do
not exceed three years of age. Now,
these cases ;re no exceptions, for all
well-bred sheep have a full mouth of
front teeth at three years old. Some
old unimproyed stocks may still be
found in which the mouth is not full
until near four years old, but, fortu-
nately these are now the exceptions,
and should not be made the stand
ard, as they so constantly are.
In Cotswolds, Leieesters, Lincoln 5,
Southdowns, Oxforddowns, Hamp-'
shiredowns, and even in the adyanc-
ed Merinos, and in the grades of all
these dentition is complete from
half a year TO a year earlier. The
milk or lamb teeth are easily distin-
guished from the permanent or
broad teeth by their smaller size,
and by the thickness of the jaw bone
around their fangs where the per-
manent teeth are still enclosed. As
the lamb approaches year old the
broad, exposed part Of the tooth be-
comes worn away, and the narrow
fangs projecting above the gums
stand apart from each other, leaving
wide intervals.
This Is even more marked after
the first pair of permanent teeth
have come up, overlapping each
other AT their edges, and from this
time onward the number Of small
milk teeth and of broad permanent
teeth can usually be made out with
ease.
Another Distinguishing feature is
the yellow or dark colcrations Of the
fangs Of the milk teeth, while the
exposed portions OF the permanent
teeth are white, clear and pearly.
The successive pairs of permanent
teeth make their appearance through
the gums in advanced breeds 1t
about the following dates:
The first pair at one year; the
second pair at one year and half;
the third pair at two years and three
months the fourth and las. pair at
three years. It will be observed
that between the appearance Of the
first two pairs there is an interval OF
six months, while after this each
pair comes up nine months after It's
predecessors. For backward grades
and unimproved breeds the eruption
is about six months later for each
pair of teeth. but even with them the
mouth is full at three years and six
months.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03

1t is asserted that the common
black ant is largely cultivated by
the leading orchardists of northern
Italy and southern Germany. They
believe the insect to be the fruit
growers best friend. They estab-
iish ant hills in their orchards and
leave the trees to the exclusive care
of the tiny colonists, whose time is
devoted to climbing the stems of
fruit tress and cleansing their bark
and leaves of all malefactors, natur-
al as well as embryotic. The spills
thus secured are brought to the
ground, and consumed or safely
stored away. They never meddle
with sound fruit, but invade only
such apples, pears and plums as
have already been penetrated by
the canker, which they remorse-
lessly pursue to its Businesses within
the very he lrt of the fruit. Now
where are apple'and pear trees so
free from blight and destructive in
sects as in the immediate neighbor-
hood of a large ant hill five or six
years old. The favorite food of the
ant appears to be the Larvae and
pupe of those insects most destruct-
i've to the tender shoots and Young
leaves of fruit trees.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
Dust for Your Stock.

As this is the time of the season
when animals are looking their
worst, and in many cases suffering
from vermin, please inform your
readers that no remedy for parasites
of all sorts is equal to perfectly dry
road dust or freshly burned coal
ashes. A quantity should always
be kept on hand, which should be
literally sprinkled over and on all
kinds of stock, from horses to poul-
try, which last will always help
themselves, if given a chance.
Nothing is SO refreshing to an an
imal as a good dry dust bath. In
summer horses will roll and wallow
in it, in the middle of dusty roads,
and cattle will stand and throw it
all over their backs with their feet,
and feel much the better, looking
sleek and shining when the dust is
taken out of their hair. This can
only be partially initiated in sum-
mer and spring, but the little we
can do in this way for domestic
animals that have not had access to
the earth for manv months. will do
a great deal towards promoting their
thrift and health.
A peck of dry dust scattered over
a dozen full grown animals is worth
all the coal oil, mercurial ointment
and other similar nostrums that
ever were bought. The only possi-
bic objection to it is that it is so
cheap, simple and easily obtained
and used, that we can afford to de-
spise It. Those who have lousy
calves or colts can relieve them in
very few days without any cost at
all, and with so little trouble that it
is scarcely worth consideration.
Good farmers never neglect to scat
ter and shake plenty of dust over
their livestock in winter and spring.
One application is worth half doz-
en- extra good feeds, and the more
frequent you apply it the better
Cor. Prairie Farmer.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
Eggs VS.. Meat.

Would it not be wise to substi-
tute more eggs for meat in our daily
diet? About one-third of the weight
of an egg is solid nutriment. This
is more than can be said of meat.
There are no bones, no tough pieces
that have to be laid aside. A good
egg is made up of ten parts shell,
sixty parts, and thirty parts yolk,
The white of an egg contains sixty
six per cent. water, the yelk fifty
two per cent. Practically an ami
NAL food, and yet there is none of
the disagreeable work of the butch
er necessary to obtain it. The veg
etarians of England use egg freely,
and many of these men are eighty
and ninety years, and have been re-
markable free from illness. Eggs
are best when cooked four minutes.
This takes away the animal taste
that is offensive to some, but does
not harden the white or yelk so as
to make them hard to digest. An
egg cooked very hard is difficult OF
digestion except by those of stout
stomachs; such eggs should be eat
en- with bread masticated very fine
ly. An egg spread on toast is fit for
a king, if kings deserve any better
food than anybody else, which is
doubtful. Fried eggs are less whole
some than boiled ones. An egg drop
ped into not water is not only a
clean and handsome, but a delicious
morsel. Most people spoil the
taste oftheir eggs by adding pepper
and salt. A little sweet butter is
the best dressing. Eggs contain
much PHOSPHORUS, which is sup
posed to be useful to those who use
their brains much.-Poultry Gazette.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
Interesting Farm and Garden Notes.
professor Goessman riues the iol

Professor Goessman gives the fol
lowing as curt for yellows in peach
trees. Apply potash salts to tbs
surface under the.tree and rake if in
then mulch with old hay, leaves o.
straw. The German crude murlats
of potash will be the least expensive
Use one or two pounds, according te
size of tree. Apply one pound in
the late tall and same quantity IL
the spring.
A grindstone should be secured te
the shaft by nuts and washers, and
the washers fixed so that they can
not turn with the nuts us they art
screwed up or unscrewed. In hang
ing the stone, great care should b,
taken to hang it true sidewise, not
only for convenience in using it
but because stone that is not tru,
sidewise can i.cver be kept tru,
edgewise.
/ A good way to plant some flower
seeds which you wish to take partic
ular good care of is to take a turnip
cut it in halves, scrape out the shell
then fill with earth and plant the
seeds; and when the time comes to
put the winter plants out doors, dig
a hole in the flower-bed large enough
to set the turnip init will rot in a
short time-and your plants viii
thrive by not having the tender roots
disturbed.
Gas lime contains some sulphides
of lime, some sulphates and little
sulphate of ammonia, but not enough
TO give it much value as a fertilizer
If used in any large quantity il
would destroy vegetation. The best
use to which we ever saw it applied
was upon the gravel walks to pre-
vent growth of grass and weeds,
which it did most effectually, at the
same time making a very firm, dry,
and durable walk.-Calt,rator
Grubs in the head of sheep are
believed to be caused by the Gadfiy,
which deposits eggs in the nostrils 0!
the sheep during the summer and
autumn although they cause much
pain they are not usually fatal. To
prevent them, apply tar to the noses
of the sheep, occasionally, during
July aud August, or smear the feed
ing troughs with tar. To cure the
sheep when the grubs are once
hatched, blow tobacco smoke up the
nostrils or syringe the nose with 4
decoction of tobacco.
June. July and August are the
best months for layering roses. Ii
the soil dries quickly water these
layers twice a day, as they must be
kept moist. BY October they viii
be ready 10 be taken from the parent
plant. Cut them off within two
inches from the tongue. Dig deeply
with trowel to take them up and
transplant where they will remain.
The following spring they should be
pruned down to three or four buds.
Some of them will flower in the
summer.
Our best farmers are beginning to
learn, and in fact, most of them have
already learned, that the time spent
in destroying weeds in the autumn
is well spent, and that if they would
save time in cultivating hoed crops
they must keep the weeds from seed
ing as much as possible in all parts
of the farm little carelessness in
this respect will soon cover 4 farm
with weed seeds. A single root OF
milk weed in a moving field, if left
unmolested, viii spread over and
take possession of a large field in a
few years.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
Eq;ne vs.. Feline.

An amusing scene took place a
day or two since when q gentleman
on his way to the barn to turn his
horse loose for short time, picked
up pet cat and putting her in y
fish basket hung her up on a clothes
line pole about seven feet from the
ground. When the horse was loos-
ed he walked over to the pole and
seeing the cat in the basket put his
nose up to investigate, and the cat
put out her paw and gave the in
truding nose a lively scratch. The
horse Immediately turned around.
looked back over his shoulder as
though to take aim and measure the
distance, kicked, and cat, basket
and all shot into the air like q rock
ct. The horse watched the success
of his shot, then gave a low whin-
ny of delight and walked away to
feed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
d Girls Body.

LEWISTON, \. Y, July 20.-The
body of a young lady, aged appar
emily 20 years, was found floating
on the river here last night. The
clothing was all gone except the
waist and one sleeve of her dress,
which was black cashmere trimmed
with black velvet and bead trim
mings. She had on high, button
kid shoes. The body is about five
feet five inches in height. with long
brown hair, and beautiful, evenly
set teeth. 1t had evidently been in
the water five or six days, and is
supposed to have come over the
falls. An inquest viii be held
here.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
a sharp Desoctiye.

ERIE, Pa, July 19.-James Black
Just arrived here in time to catch
the United States court which open
ed yesterday. Black is a notorious
counterfeiter and was inveighled to
Erie by Detective McSweeney who,
acting the rope Of burglar, said he
had the pals here to assist in rob
bing n bank. Black took the bait
and walked innocenty into L. S.
Commissioner Grants office. where
his companion threw off the dis
guise and charged Black with coun-
terfeiting. Spurious coins were
found on his person. Black has
been tried for murder and arson.
He will be railroaded
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
A Lake PropeI;or Burned.

ST.. PAUL, July 19.-This morn
ing shortly after the arrival at Du-
luth the propeller Winnepeg caught
fire and burned, being towed into the
lake and sunk. The passengers es-
capped, losing most of their clothing
and baggage. Joseph Smith, Ere
man, aged thirty-fve, who leaves a
wife and several children at Collinc-
wooe James Branscom, of Owen
Sound, head waiter; Wm. Howery,
aged sixteen, second porter, and a
pantryman, name unknown, are
missing and are supposed to have
been burned.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
A Madman's Act.

ST. PAUL, MIxy.. July ia WI
mona special saws: Paul Weld, a
Swiss emigrant who lately bought 4
farm in Magic Creek Valley, became
insane through the failure of crops
and homesickness. On Sunday
morning he was found dead in a
front room of his house. His wife
and two children were dead in the
next room three children were dead
in bed upstairs, and the two Oldest
boys in the hayloft were mortally
wounded. All were shot in the head.
One boy may recover. 4 revolver
was found in the house.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
Terrible Massacre,

SAN FRANCISCO. July 21.-Tke Fl
j Times Of April Both says a horri-
bic massacre was perpetratad at
Tapitiwa, one Of the line islands.
The natives were recently Droselyt-
ed by a kanoka missionary named
Kabu, who induced them to give up
their weapons. Latterly the people
of the southern portion Of the island
became dissatisfied at the constant
requisitions on them for cobra, and
Kabu preached crusade against
them armed his followers and led
them IL person. indiscriminate
slaughter ensued. over 1,000 men,
women and children being massa-
cred The bodies were collected in
a pile and burnt. Kabu has been
taken 70 Honolulu to answer for the
crime.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
Hrutally Murdered.

ST.. LoUIs. July 20.-Col. John G..
Wood, an old man OF seventy years,
living aleEe near Grav's Summit,
in Franklin county, this state, was
mvsteriously murdered last Sunday,
His body was found about thirty
feet from the door of his residence,
with the throat cut in two places
and two or three other knife wounds
on his person. He had evidently
been murdered in his bed and af-
terwards carried out OF doors, but
by whom or for what motive is en-
tirely unknown. Wood was a man
of some wealth and lived alone, but
il was not known by his neighbors
that he had anv enemies.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
a Damaging Hal, Storm

BRocKToN. Mass, July 21.-Ono
of the most violent storms ever
known occurred this afternoon. The
storm was accompanied by n terrif-
ic shower Of hailstones, varying
from half an inch to one and . half
inches in diameter, doing large
amount of damage. Hundreds of
dollars worth of glass was broken.
Nearly all the large manufactures
suffered. Reports from the sur
rounding agricultural towns indicate
an immense amount of damage.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
A Hotel Destroyed.

LoNe BRANCH, n. j., July ia
few minutes before three p. m. just
as the guests were finishing dinner
at the Irving House, an alarm of
fire was given, and great confusion
and alarm ensued. BY G o'clock the
hotel was IN ashes. The loss is about
S11,000.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
No Good Preaching.

No man can doagood JOB Of work,
preach a good sermon, try a law suit
well, doctor a patient, or write a good
article when he feels miserable and
dull, with sluggish brain and un-
steady nerves, and none should make
the attempt in such a condition
when it can be SO easily and cheaply
removed by a little Hop Bitters.
See other column,-1i 1ibaay Times.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03

The worn look and miserable
feelings of those closely confined in
mills, or at desks or at work tables
are caused by weak stomach, kid
neys or bowels, and show the neces-
sity for some mild tonic to build
them up. No one need suffer thus
who will use Parker's Ginger Tonic
for without intoxicating it has such
a beneficent action on these slug
gish organs and so cleanses the poi
sonous matters from the system,
that rosy cheeks and good health
and spirits are soon brought back
again.-Erpress.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-03
A Tragedy.

SrPAUL, July 10,-A Winona spec
ial says: Paul Weld, a swiss emigrant
who lately bought farm in Eagle
wreck Valley, became insane though
the failure of crops and home sick
ness. On Sunday morning he was
found dead in the front room of bis
house. His wife and two children
were dead in the next room, three
children dead in a bed up stairs and
in a hay loft mortally wounded, all
shot in the head. One boy may
recover. A revolver was found in
the house.