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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08
Two Skeletons Unearthcd.

ERIE, March 2.-The gale of We'd
nesday uprooted tree on Presque
Isle and dragged up two skeletons
with it. One skeleton was that OF
James Bird, who has been the SUBJ
ject of cheap, sentimental poetry all
through Pennsylvania for the last
seventy years. During the war of
1912 James Bird and Edward Ran
kin were shot aboard the Niagara
for desertion and were buried at the
spot over which the tree grew and
tlourished. Birds death was poet
lied and he was invested with hero
ic and martyr-like qualities. He
fell beneath a dozen bullets mo-
ment before his pardon arrived.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08
REMANDED FOR A WEEK.
Train Thieves Foiled.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March Be
tween nine and ten o'clock last even
ing the conductor of the west-bound
lake Shore freight train which had
Just left Erie discoverd that TIVE men
had broken into a box car loaded
with valuable freight. He succeeded
in fastening the door, and at the
first opportunity telegraphed to
Ashtabula for officers to be at the
station. When the train arrived at
Ashtabula the officers and train
hands found the men in the car had
sawed the door and were preparing
to escape. Seeing the demonstra-
ton to arrest them the men in the
car suddenly drew two revolvers each
and began shooting rapidly. The fire
was returned and soon twenty shots
were exchanged. The officers man.
aged to secure one of the thieves
and speedily handcuffed him. The
other escaped and fled to the woods,
dropping one of his revolvers. The
handcuffed man when taken to the
station made sudden dash for liberty,
jumping through the window, car
rying the sash along. He was imme-
diately captured. The other robber
went to Say5rook, a small village
four miles distant, and inquired for
a adoctor to dress his wounds. Their
being no doctor in the place, a tele-
gram was sent to a .htabnla for asur-
geon. The robber, however, bought
a ticket for ClevelanI and took the
first train. also freight. The Off
GERS at Ashtabula, suspecting that
the man was the escaped thief and
wanld be along. watched the train.
and on its arrival surrounded the
caboose and prepared for a repetition
of the desperate fight. But the man
surrendered and begged that he be
not roughly handled, saying he was
wounded. An examination showed
that he had a bullet in his right side,
one in his arm, and one in the neck,
though neither of the wounds are
necessarily fatal. None of the Off
GERS or train hands We're seriously
injured
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

THE Democrat last week, like the
dog. returned to its vomit, and gave
its readers another proof OF how low
it can grovel in its zeal for its new
made allies.
While all the newspapers of the
country, without distinction of party
save few, whose editors like its
own, are controlled by personal ma
lignancy,were bearing testimony
to the fitness of Roscoe Conkling for
Judge of the Supreme Court, and
dwelling upon his admitted purity
of character, it was hurting charges
of murder against him with the
volubility of a fish-woman. A dog
baying at the moon is quite as likely
TO do it injury, as is the currish
snarling Of the Democrat to injure
Conkling or affix a hideous crime
upon him or upon the President.
1t is but a couple of weeks since the
Democrat informed its readers that
its uncle would drag several news
paper editors into our next Court of
Quarter Sessions for libel, in pub
fishing an article rejecting upon his
public and official conduct, and now
it is laboring to teach the public,
from which a jury to try the case
must be drawn, that any citizen,
once in public life, may be libelled
with impunity. The logic which
enables the Democrat to claim that
the publication of loose and virulent
newspaper charges, convicts Mr..
e,uni.iing aIie, vvfIcr leaa;-e panrh-
publicans of completely in the as
sassination of the late President,
would enable us to rake up from
our files similar loose charges, and
claim to convict Hon. A. H. Cofi'roth
of gross official misdemeanors. We
recall these unpleasant reminiscen-
ces simply to show how silly is the
pretext for the devilish malignancy
1t displays. However, it is impo-
tent to do any respectable man
harm, and its course forcibly re-
minds us of a remark we saw the
other day, that there is always one
refuge left for the small dog: it can
hnrlr y
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

WITH the determination of polyg-
amy every pledge of the Republican
party will be fulfilled. In 1861 Mr..
Lincoln started with the pledge that
the laws would be enforced, that the
Union would be preserved, the Gov
eminent upheld, and as the struggle
proceeded it became necessary, to
secure these pledges, to abolish slav-
cry. With the overthrow of slavery
came still another pledge, to sustain
the freedman in his new relations to
society and politics, and this was as
sured in comforting the ballot on
him, and putting him on an equality
before the law. All of Mr.. Lincoln's s
pledges made in the name of the
Republican party have been fulfilled.
The credit of the Government has
been maintained. All the covenants
made with the soldiers of the Union
have been carried out faithfully.
The terms on which every Republi-
can candidate for President was
elected have been carried out strict
ly to the letter. What Gen. Grant
subscribed to in accepting two nom
nations and elections to the Presi-
dency has been maintained and en-
forced with a fidelity which never
for a moment swerved from the
right. Grants administration was
the crowning triumph of Republi-
can policy and fidelity to principle.
He did all that he pledged himself
to do, and sustained the Republican
party in doing all that it was bound
to perform. The labor of the coun-
try was made prosperous, and the
credit of the Government carried to
a height of commercial and financial
confidence not surpassed in any
country in the world and equalled
in few. During the Hayes admins
tration, thanks to John Sherman,
the policy of resumption was faith
fully adhered to, by which the Re-
publican party became the author
of low interest on Federal securities,
thereby inaugurating a like system
in all the States and cities of the
country. 1t was the Republican
party which for the first time ip the
history of the National Government,
and the States of the Union, reduced
interest on their securities below 6
per cent until L. S. bonds now on
y pay 4 and 81 per cent. interest,
md the bonded debts of nearly all 7
he States only 5 per cent interest.
This is fulfilling Republican pledges.
The last now remains to be perform
ID. With polygamy overthrown, as
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

The Hoensdale Citizen a Republi-
can journal very jealous of what is
fiippantly termed ''Boss rule" has
this to say in regard to the abuse
which certain newspapers deem it
necessary to heap upon Senator
Cameron, thinking thereby to prove
their independence:
AS to Senator Cameron, he is to
be Judged and treated as other men
are; by the same test which we ap-
ply to Garfield, to Grow, or to Wolf.
He is entitled to the support of the
party when he advocates a measure
that deserves support, and not other
wise. The late Attorney General
Samuel Z. Demmick, in converse
ton with the editor of The CITIZEN,
with Congressman Jadwin, and with
~si----s -"h;in oandcrs.n:s.s 1orno VI
the methods employed by the elder
Cameron, habitually spoke in the
highest terms of the personal integ-
rity and ability of his son, the pres
ent Senator, and predicted for him a
brilliant and honorable career in the
event of his entering political life.
This prediction has been verified in
a marked degree. Even his enemies
have never charged that his hands
were soiled by any taint of corrup-
ton, whatever direction his personal
ambition may have taken. Since he
has been among its leaders the par
ty has won some of its most notable
victories. On every question of par
ty policy, except that of the third
term, it has been united and harmo-
nious. But the third term battle is
ended, and no good can be done by
bringing it into the discussion of 9TH
er questions. The issue now at the
front of debate is on the question of
protection to American industry.
On this question Senator Cameron
has shown himself in accord with
his party, and a powerful champion
of its policy There is assuredly no
principle Of independence, nor even
any demand of faction, which re-
quires us to oppose him now, mere
ly because we once opposed him on
another question on which the party
was divided, and which is now at
rest. On the question of protection
the party should stanc shoulder to
shoulder, and welcome all the aid
that any of its member can give.
In all the contests on the tariff ques-
ton, since the close of the rebellion,
Mr.. Cameron is the first Pennsvlva-
nian whose voice has been heard in
the Senate in support of the protec-
tive policy. When he thus per-
forms his duty to the party which
has placed him in position of lea
dership, he is entitled to the sup
port of all who sincerely desire Re-
publican success. The party, in
turn, is entitled to the best service
he can render, and should accept it
without caviling at his former posi-
ton on question no longer open.
On vital issues like that now before
US, the welfare of the party demands
the cordial cooperation of all who
desire its success and the ascenden-
ency of its principles. So far as
any man labors Cor this, whether his
nane be Cameron or not, every true
Republican may properly endorse
his course.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

it viii be, the crowning actof the
Republican party viii be done, when
it may be rated as defender and pre-.
server of the Union and the Govern
ment-upholder of the equality Of
man before the law--the champion
of universal freedom-the advocate
and founder ofan impartial ballot
fosterer of labor-promoter of pros.
perity-sdvocate of the rights of la
bor-and at last the force by which
the pollution of polygamy is to be
removed from the social and relig-
ious interests of the land. Such is
the Republican party in the fulfill
ment of its pledges.-Harrisburg
telegraph.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08
Mr.. Blame Taken to Task.

WASHINGTON, February 2S.-Gen-
eral Rosecrans furnished last night
for publication the following card /:
Mr.. Blaine, in his funeral oration
before the two houses to-day, said :
"When General Garfield assumed
his new duties lac found various
troubles already well developed
and seriously affecting the value
and efficiency OF the Army of the
Cumberland" l was commanding
general OF that army, General Gar
field was my chief of staff. Had
this been the fact | certainly should
have known it; General Garfield
was bound to tell me of it. Justice
to the truth of history and-to the
Army of the Cumberland requires
that [ should declare that | never
heard of such state of things until
the statement came from the lips
OF the orator to-day. The distin-
guished gentleman has been wholly
misinformed, and the statements
above quoted have no foundation in
fact. Ga the contrary, it was the
general sentiment and constant
boast OF the officers and men OF that
army that the Army of the Cumber-
land was singularly united and free
from dissentions, and therefore, no
ones genius was required to heal
those dissensions. Iappeal to them
to bear witness to this fact"
A few sentences further on Mr..
Blaine says: His military duty
closed on the memorable field of
Chlckamauga, a field which, howev-
er disasterous to the Union arms, gave
to him the occasion of winning i'm
perishable laurels." He might with
Justice have added, ''and to us the
key OF the South, the objective
point of the campaign of Chatta-
nooga.
W S. RosEcRAys.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

a Hotel Containing Ten Persons Is
Hurled Into n Heap OF Ruins.

GALVESTON, Tex, March IA
special 10 the Nuss, dated Valley
Mills, February %, says:
"A severe cyclone struck this
place ut 8 o'clock last night, almost
com lpletel, destroying the town, only
one business house being left stand
ing. BrinkInans : hotel, Il two story
building, was carried some distance
aud hurled into a confused heap,
Ten persons were in the hotel at the
time of the accident, all of shom
were injured, but none seriously
rhere was 10 loss of life, but the
damage to property viii amount to
$4,000
The wires to the northern portion
of tnis State were prostrated by the
severe storm on Monday night, and
reports from the different available
points show that great damage was
done by the rain and wind.
A special to the Neles from Hemp
stead says:
"A heavy wind came up, the sky
was illuminated with lightning,
fences and outhouses were blown
down, and trees and buildings were
unroofed The Baptist and Catho-
lie churches were badly injured.
The residence of Mr.. J. ID. Cochran
was lifted from its foundation and
carried ten yards, and number of
other residences were partly de-
stroyed. At the chapel the students
deprived of all other means of exit,
escaped from their rooms by lad
ders, trees, etc. The damage here
will reach 5000 and the damage at
Prairie View $1,000.
A Bryan special says considerable
damage was done there by the
storm on Monday night, church
property being most seriously in
jured.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

THE Craw ford Journal, a good
Stalwart Republican paper, is in
clined to poke little fun at the
/" Independents" Imagining itself
gone over to the boilers, it says:
This thing of Cameron and Quay
meddling in our politics must be
stopped. 1t is sufficient if they are
allowed to contribute money to the
expenses of the campaign. 1t is
money and not advice we want from
them, other Republicans can ex-
press an opinion, but their business
is to keep silent. 1t is now under
stood to be the unwritten law of the
party in this State that no one can
be nominated if Cameron and Quay
want him nominated. We believe
this is what we independent voters
believe in. We have been an indie.
pendent so short time we may
have got it wrong. If so, they will
please correct US. Beaver won't do.
He is a man of ability, a fine speak
er, Christian and likewise a gentle
man. He bore an honorable part
in the struggle for the Union and
left a leg on the field of battle. His
mutilated form is a vivid reminder
that he wears in his breast the heart
of hero, and that, wherever he
may be placed, he will do no harm
to the institutions he periled his life
to defend. But we can't have Bea-
yer as our candidate. The bosses
want him and that settles it. When
our convention meets, We shall in
sist that it appoint a committee to
wait on Cameron and Quay and ask
them to name the man they don't
want. That is about the only way
we can get the man We do want.
We suggest that our name be chang
ed. The regulars are governed by
what Cameron & Co. want. We are
governed by what Cameron e. Co.
don't want. We are no more inde-
pendent than they. One is ruled by
their likes and the other by their
dislikes of Cameron. Why not call
ourselves the " fernensters " instead
of independents
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08
Terrible Accident.

BRADFORD, March John Grant,
shooter in the employ of the Rob-
berts torpedo company, and Will
liam Orcutt. oil well digger, were un-
loading nitro-glycerine near Boliver,
n. T., last evening, when an explo-
sion occurred. The cause of the
explosion is not known, but it is sup
posed that one of the men dropped
can of the terrible compound.
The report which followed was very
heavy, causing the earth to tremble
within radius of full half mile
breaking windows and throwing
articles from shelves in houses.
Both men, of course, were torn to
fragments. The horses were so shock
ingly mangled that they were kill
ed to end their misery, and the wag.
on was reduced to fragments. The
explosion occurred about fifty feet
from a magazine containing one
thousand pounds of glycerine. Al
though boards were ripped from the
magazine and the ground torn up.
the great body ofthe compound did
not explode. 1t was at tae same
place where Charles Berridge was
killed few weeks ago in a similar
manner. 1t being already quite
dark last night when persons arrived
on the ground but little or nothing
could be found of the remains of
Grant or Orcutt. The exact amount
of glycerine exploded is unknown,
but it is believed To be about one
hundred pounds John Grant was
aged about thirty-seven years and
was married. He had been in the
employ of the Roberts company in
the Bradford field, and was regarded
as a very careful handler of the
dangerous compound. He previ-
ously resided at CORY. Orcutt
was about thirty years old and had
lived in the oil regions a pumber of
years, his occupation being drill
Ter. His mother is a widow, resid-
ing at St. Clairsville, New York.
He was idleon Monday. and was with
Grant merely to pass the time away,
the latter being friend.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

WHEAT is now held in larger
quantities in the United States than
was ever stored here before. The
excess of the crops of 1880, larger
than that of any year of the last de-
cade, was not exported by one-hali
because there was no demand fol
it in Europe. This enormous ex-
cess, added to that of 1881, leaves a
bulk in storage which cannot be full
ly estimated. 1t is so great that
there is no way of getting to it
Thousands of bushels are held by
individuals, because there isnoroom
for it in the warehouses, elevators
and other storage points. And this
immense excess, now to go into the
production of 1882, will make an
aggregate Of breadstuffs so great
that the holder will be glad to dis
pose of it at any price. But just
what the effect of this will be is
now question of much solicitude
to holders in all parts of the coun-
try.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

The Democracy have at every
recurring election for years past,
been in the habit of pointing with
PRIDE to the immense niajorities
which they have polled in Ken
tucky. Late revelations furnish the
secret of this ever increasing vote,
which is explained as follows:
There is in Kentucky, under the
rule of the Bourbon moss-backs, .
a variety of local Officers known as
the fifteen-cent Assessors. The
Assessors are charged with the duty
of returning the number of legal
voters in the State, for which service
they are allowed Is cents per head.
This remunerative payment is too
great temptation for the average
Bourbon official. The " fifteen-cent
Assessors have not only ransacked
the alms-houses and the graveyards
for subjects. but they have drawn
on their imaginations for legal voters
at l5 cents per head. The result is
that while in every other State in
the Union the number of male per-
sons over 21 years of age is largely
in excess of the number of legal
voters, in Kentucky there are more
voters than adult males. According
to the tables in the Auditors office,
there are in Kentucky 1000 persons
who are illegal voters and who are
not males over the age of q years.
A single county-that of Lewis
has 1,031 of these nondescripts. If
a census of male persons over the
age of q years could now be taken,
the census-takers being allowed 10
cents per head for their returns. there
would undoubtedly be an increase
of population Con paper that would
make things even.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

THE New York Tribune states
that Grant inaugurated the practice
of appointing civilians as paymas.
tiers and appointed many such
The fact is, that this custom had
been common before Grant became
President; bat the only person we
believe outside of military life, that
is, who was not in the army or bad
not served in the war, appointed
paymaster by him during his two
terms of office was brother Of
James G. Blaine. The Tribune
should make q correction.-Lster
Ocean.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

EX-SENATOR BUTLER B. STRANG, of
Tioga, this State, was nominated by
The President for U. S. Marshal of
Dakota. Mr.. Strang has been for
years an anti-Cameronite, and was
candidate for the State Treasurer
against Robert W. Mackey in 1878.
He is an able lawyer, and a man of
INTEGRITY
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

One of the most popular medi-
cines now before the American pub
lie, is Hop Bitters. You see it every
where. People take it with good
effect. 1t builds them up. 1t is
not so pleasant to the taste as
some other bitters, as it is not "a
whiskey drink. 1t is more like the
old fashioned bone-set tea, that has
done a world of good. If you don t
feel just right, try Hop Bitters.-
Nundd Nacs.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

IT is announced that Hon. George
Y. Lawrence is putting himself for
ward again as a candidate for Con-
gress, in opposition to Hon. w. S.
Shallenberger. Does any one re-
member the time when the Honora-
bic George was not putting himself
forward for something?
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

VIZ give our readers to-day the
oration Of Hon. James G. Blaine,
So far as our observation goes it has
met with universal commentator.
1t bears the evidence of being care.
fully prepared, is moderate in tone
and in its illusions to popular top
ics, and gives lucid insight into
the history of the late President.
TITS free from fulsome eulogy and
an accordance with the gravity OF
the occasion and solemnity of the
theme it presents its subject in the
Eight of history. II is decorous and
appreciative and worthy the occa-
sion.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

WASHINGTON, March 2.-The Sc.
lect committee of the House on the
payment Of pensions, bounty and
back pay, agreed to-day to report
favorably TO the Houss. Mr.. Whit
thore's hill to pay to invalid pen
sioners of the Mexican and In
dian wars, whose names were strick
en- from the pension rolls during the
late war, but subsequently restored,
the amount of back-pension money
which would have accrued in tI.e
interim.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

VERY many people do not under
stand the cause of the terrible Der
secution of the Jews in Russia
1t is principally this. In the dis
trict where it occurred and is occur
ing the people are ignorant and big
oted. The use of Intoxicating
liquors is more extensive thar
in any other nation of Europe. They
are also very superstitious. When
a misfortune befails them of any
kind, the first thing done is to drink
deeply, and the next to wreak their
vengeance on some victim, and il
has become the common thing to
find that in the Jew. A food or fire.
sickness or failure of crops, is the
occasion for prompt and brutsl
persecution of these helpless people,
and the soldiers, being drawn from
the poPulace, join the mobs, SO that
before their officers can stop them
the injury has been done. North
Amerscdn.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-08

AT the special election for State
Senator in New York, held on Tues
day of last week, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Senator
Wagner, the Halfbreeds voted for
Baucus, the Democratic candidate,
and he was elected by a majority OF
about one thousand over his Repub-
lican competitor. This district last
fall elected Wagner bya Republican
majority of 6,7S2.