The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-08-17
CUIiLINGS.

ture Democratic conventions in that
State. at makes it a misdemeanor,
and imposes a fine, for carrying any
intoxicating liquors to any public
gathering"
THE Registry lists are now posted
up at the different polling places.
Assessments, to entitle person to
vote at the November election, must
be made at least sixty days before
the election. Republicans should at
once make sure of their names being
on the Registry list, by personal ex-
animation. If not there call on your
Assessor at once. Neglect may lose
your vote.
A CORRESPONDENT OF the Cincin-
natl Commercial thinks 1t will be n
difficult, if not impossible, matter
TO secure twelve men who are suili-
GENTLY uninformed to qualify them
as Jurors in Guiteau's case. If such
be true, is it not an unfavorable
commentary on our jury system
which forces ignorant men into the
jury box to decide questions of life
and death.
THE Baltimore pyrotechnist who
received from the Congressional
committee the contract to furnish
fireworks for the Yorktown celebra-
ton win display eight set pieces on
the evenings of October IS and 10
from RATS or canal boats in the river.
The representation of the surrender
of Lord CORVALLIS will be forty feet
square. Six hundred of the largest
rockets have been ordered and sixty
twelve-inch shells.
/ We have one strip of land in the
/ United States that appears to be un-
claimed by the adjacent State, and
Territorial governments, and which
has never been given much atten-
ton. 1t is 100 miles long and 30
miles wide, and lies north of the
panhandle of Texas. 1t is marked
on the maps of the Land Office as
Public Lands" An appropriation
was made at the last session of Con-
gress of $4,000 for the purpose of
having it surveyed.
IT appears that the Star mail
routes in the National postal service
numbered ten thousand, and have
been investigated over and over
again, but thus far the frauds have
only been exposed on about two
hundred routes, where they extend
to millions of dollars dishonesty
obtained from the public Treasury.
The system appears to date back for
two generations, and was the real
cause OF the enormous postal deficit
| in the ante-war times.
A SINGULAR barter and sale took
place IN Toronto recently. An en-
ploye in a brewery at that place
fell in love with the wife of a fellow
laborer and offered to buy her. The
husband agreed to the price, provid-
ed the two children should also be
taken off his hands, the bargain was
concluded. A bill of sale was drawn
up and signed, a rope was plac-
ed around the woman's neck, and
she was handed over to the purchaser
in full belief of all the parties to the
transaction that everything was in
regular form and was legally bind
ing.
Property holders will do well to
scrutinize their insurance policies
closely and obey them to the letter,
if they would recover in case of loss
by fire. A New York man insured
his country residence, shut it up,
and went to the city during the win
ter. While thus deserted the coun-
try residence was burned to the
ground. The court decided that the
policy.could not be recovered be-
cause it was conditional ou being
occupied The plaintiff showed
that the house was visited weekly
by servant; but taking good care
of building does not fulfill, it
would seem, the condition stipulat-
ed for by the clause occupying
it."
OK Thursday the Cincinnati Com
mercial announced that Capt. c. A.
Cook, of Brownsville, Ohio, who
slapped George Morrison's mouth
for saying he hoped the President
would die of his wound, had been
fined $40 and costs for assault. The
fine and costs amounted to S32.
and the Commercial proposed that
the sum be raised by citizens of
Cincinnati, no citizen being allowed |
to give more than a cent. The re-
sponse was lively. On the following
morning the Commercial announced |
that before the afternoon of Thurs /
day had gone the number of cents |
contributed reached tho sum of
s32, and by night there was a hand
some surplus which it announced |
will be devoted to q gold-headed |
cane or gold watch, or, pefkaps, a
farm adding: Captain Cook is
the hero of the day. 1t was slap
that went to the right spot. 1t was
the right thing at the right time and
place" So say We all Of US