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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-12-02
Wlndon sure.

MiNNRApnILs. Dec. "A careful San
vass of the Legislature shows Window,
for United States Senator, will surely
receive 81 out of the 108 Republican
votes, and perhaps more. Dunnell will
get IL only. Seventy six votes are re-
Quired to elect.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-12-02

60er11eee.
Pans Dec. 1.-Several churches In
the Department Of Main Loire have
been robbed. Seven valuable paintinRs
were stolen from the church at Font
Eraplt.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-12-02
N.ltitude Of 6a1es.

WASHINGTON, dec. 1.-The Garfield
Board of Audit virtually concluded the
consideration Of all claims. The prin-
eipal difficulty was in regard 10 claims
0fphysioians 90 much in excess Of the
appropriation Of thirty-five thousand
dollars. All allowances wsro agreed
upon. bat will be withheld for a time.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-12-02

-! -! iolx, Dec. The executive
s~sss;ao ~ o. the New York land league this
n passed resolution OF conf
ss.s e Dewey. The question Of the
~. and The refusal of Dewey 70 an
sRracts the general attention of
mootD Of 90, N eoc;ox;a~
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-12-02

CINCINNATI, Dec, 1.-Frank Frayne,
who shot Miss Van Beren. passed rest
less, frenzied night. He paced the nool
in uncontrolled grief. He will go East
to inter the body il the case 10 disposed
Of Tomorrow,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06
A

The Democrats celebrated their
victory in this State at gettysburg,
shortly after the election and in the
procession had a wagon on which
was IA gallows to which hung IA one
legged soldier labelled Beaver"
This instance of Democratic brutal
ity has been widely published, but
has received, so far as We know, no
condemnation from the Democratic
PRES, or lis guerrilla assistants.
No words can be written that will
FLY describe such low brutality. A
pirty whose adj erents IAN do sucl,
acts and escape severe condemna-
zion from their own party adhere hts
and their allies, is not fit to be trust
ed by decent people. When graft
tude and respect for a brave and pa
triotic soldier of spotless character
no longer exists among a people,
that country is not worth saving. A
party which represents such a phase
of character should be as carefully
avoided as a poisonous reptile
Lancaster Enquirer.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06

would put to blush the most shame
less political demagegues. By Sian.
der and lies, the most vicious and
unprovoked, the living and the dead
have been illuminated. Character,
thought unassailable, reputation
without blemish, courage that bore
the test of twenty battlefi-lds, in the
heat of this unnatural strife, became
the footballs for the characterless
scribbler aud the public scold. The
MANNED body was but the evidence
that the instincts of the "bull-dog
aud tiger" prevailed. Aud To add To
the modification, many OF our own
households whose faith had borne
the test of previous Conflicts, weak
ened and gave way b-f re the fire Of
this unholy war. But the battle is
over, SO far as General Beavers con
nection with it is concerned. He has
retired from an honorable canvass
tn the privacy of his " home, and
whether be takes his defeat philo-
>opfricdliy or not, IA tie of no IN
terest To the public. To expect that
he would go about the streets within
ing like "a whipped schoul boy, Is to
put faith in the ISLANDERS of the cam
paign. which represented him as a
weak man. Would it not, therefore,
he just as well not tn sneer about his
'toasling his foot" before his own
ireside and not in the Executive
Mansion, and to abandon the homi-
lies ain,ut his mistakes, his failures.
his future and his friendship? The
time for these have passed. The cup
has been drained and if there are
bitter dregs at the bottom it is no
body's bushes. but his own. The
people vino forgot, when remember
my might AVE been of service, that
he had heretofore born the character
rt a Christian, "A gentleman aud "a
brave man, must not now insult
INN with sneers, advice or homilies.
-TeiegraDh
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06

II should lower the pride and tenn.
per the policy of Democratic admin
istratiou in Pennsylvania to refeci
that Democracy only comes into
power as a choice of evils BY a ma
jurity of 10000 the people prefer Il
different rule, but cannot agree as to
choice of rulers. The Democrats are
in the position of the spaniel which
ran away with the bone while the
bull dogs are fighting over it. Ii
they can make their accidental pros
perity inure to the public advant-
age they may possibly persuade the
voters to let them keep their bone
Bone.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06
"BOUNCED."

A profound sensation has been
created in Washington and through
out the country, by the action ofthe
President at the special meeting of
the Cabinet on SATURDAY. IN anncune-
ing that he had determined upon the
removal from office of Marshal Hen
ry, Postmaster Anger, Assistant
Postmaster Parker. Foreman Helm
of the public printing office. and ex-
Senator Spencer, government direct
or of the Pacific railroad. The Pres
ident's action in this matter was
passed upon reports by Attorney
General Brew~ter and Special Coun-
sci George Bliss. which charged in
effect thst Marshal Henry was neg
ligent and irregular in selecting the
talesmen atthe last trial, and irdulg-
ed in gross abuse of the govern
ment's counsel; that Postmaster
Anger and his assistant, Parber,
were in. pugned by two postolfice in
spectors In a report as to the certif-
catian of bogus bonds in Utah route
cases, in which cases they WERE eth
err guilty or criminalIy careless that
Foreman Helm of the public print
ing Office. has in his newspaper per
sistently abused and slandered all
who have been interested in bring
ing the defendants in the star route
cases to justice, sparing neither
Judge, counsel nor jury ; that ex-
Senator Spencer has persisted in alb
senting himself from Washington in
contempt of the court, when wanted
as a witness, and that all of these
parties have by word and deed given
aid and comfort to the star route de-
PENDANTS, thus bringing reproach up
on the administration.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06

The Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia Press reports Sena-
tor Mitchell as saying that he does
not believe that 1.-The unloading Of
Cameron, as il is called, would cure
ell ills of the party" and as to dis
barring him from being a candidate
for reelection two years hence, he can
see no sense in such a cnurse. There
are wrongs in the party manage
,nent against which the Independ-
ents can direct their effprts, and al
though Mr.. Cameron has been the
exponent of many of these objection
able methods Mr.. Mitchell is persua-
ded that the Independents will err
if they make their fight "a personal
one.
The returns Of the late election
seem to have opened the eyes of
Senator Mitchell to the wretciIed
fasco made by the petty faction with
which he trains. He favored the
unloading of Cameron" and the
declaring" Of General Beaver,
from being a candidate" but now
in the bright sunlight of the revealed
will of the people, '-he can see no
sense in such a course" 1t is said
that experience teaches a dear school,
but that a certain kind of people
will not learn in any other.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06

BALTIMORE, Nov. 29.-Corporal
Gephard Leberecht Butcher, Second
artillery. post school master at Fort
McHehry, a few DAYS ago received
an offer from Baker Pasha Of a ps>i-
ton ON his staff, to aid in tie reor
g nization of the army ofth. Khedi,e
Of Egypt. Corporal Butcher. by
permission of his commanding Off
cer, took the letter to Washington,
and as soon us certain conditions are
complied with bv the Egyptian au-
thorities, he will seek his discharge
from the Emitted Slater army. Cor
poral Butcher is a iineal descend mt
of the famous Marshal Butcher of
Waterloo fame, after whom he is
named. He graduated at the uni
versities of Bonn and Heidelberg.
He was a military attache of the
German legation in Egypt. and r e
sided for a long while at Ramleh.
While in Egypt he acquired the
Arabic language. In 1880 he came
Ia America. Sixteen months ago he
enlisted in the Second artillery as
He Was six months
in the barracks at Columbus. Ohio,
previous to being sent to Fort Me
Henry.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06
Horrible Murder.

PITTsBURG. November 2S.-This
evening John Mueller, a well-to-do
saloon-keeper, while shaving him
self, sent his little girl out on a triv-
ial errand. When she returned ff-
teen minutes later. she saw her faith
er and niother lying On the floor in
great pools OF blood, their throats
cut frum ear to ear. She ran out in
the strert, and her screams summon
eel the police Ia the scene. They
found on the piano the raz,r win
which Mueller bad killed his wife
aud himself. II WAS covered with
blood, aud had partly been replaced
III its case. There had been no wit
nesses to the tragedy, but it is sup
posed that after the child had gone
out Mueller, seized with a sudden
impulse, had crossed the room to
where his wife was sitting on the
sofi, and before she had time To give
an alarm had cut her throat with IA
raztr With which he had been shay
ing. and immediately afterwards had
it across his own throat.
MuelIer's motive is unknown, but it
l. supposed that he was niaddened
by jealousy.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06
Killed.

LocusT GAP, November 29.-Mrs.
Thomas Moore died here to day
from the effects OF IA wound received
under peculiar circumstances. Her
husband WAS employed at Loe
Spring Colliery a. night watchman,
an on diff rent G c,-ions while ma
king his rounds an apparition APP
peare 1 &, hrn He disilked to make
revelation OF the strange occurrences
either to the colliery officials or his
family. He became so u~nnerved
that h- WAS forced to give up his pc
sition and make known what he had
Z The visitors We're SEED period
ically for d year and were in human
shape, silently fitting about and al
ways preceded by a Sitting smell of
sulphur. After leaving the colliery
the visitations appeared at his house
and were witnessed by his wife, who
last night saw the apparition in her
bed room, and in her fright to arouse
her husband a revolver which they
had und- r the pillow went off, the
ball entering her left side. After
suffering great pain Mrs. Moore died
at noon. She leaves sever children.
The affair CAUSES much excitement
here.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06

DURING the late campaign the In
dependents placed themselves on
record as opposed to bartering with
the Democrats, but now there is
much talk of the Democrats and In
dependents fayoring q coalition to
elect n of their number Speaker of
the Senate. This reminds US OF a
Southern darkey who started to mill
astride a mule noted for its ine
baking qualities. Afaer going a dis
lance the perverse quairuped ceased
to exercise his functions Of travel,
and Sambo could by no means per-
suade him to GO ahead. Il reckon
you amt gwine to move no mo-, is
you7' asked Sambo OF the mule.
But the Eule said never a WORD.
Den Use gwiss 10 stretch myself
along yo' back an'kstcb a spec O
By the time Samho bad bis
arrangements made to get the better
of the beast there vas a sudden agi-
tation of inertia, and he found him
self ia the corner of a fence with a
great scattering of shelled corn about
him. Reaectively rubbing his shin,
and looking down the road at a rap
idly Diminishing object, Sambo re-
marked comprehensively: dat
mule hit changed he mind.r
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06
Sale of Mercer County Bonds.

MERCER, Nov. 29-The county
bonds issued by the commissioners
to paw for the erection of the aims
house were sold at auction Yesterday,
in C ,rdanee with a decree of court.
The bonds were issued in sums of
500 each, and they were the second
issue for that purpose. The demand
for them was 81 great that it requir-
ed hut a short time to dispose Of the
whole amount at various rates of
premiums ranging, from 81 to Al per
cent; most of them, however. were
hid off at 4 per cert. The finances
of the county are in excellent condi-
ton. and the surplus tax of one
more year will pay the whole debt
without increasing the rate of coun-
ty tax, which is now exceedingly
low.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06

In a recent article on "The Hun.
cry Brigade" of the victorious Dem
ocracy, the Philadelphia Times
says:
"The Democrats have been long
out of power, and they have hut IL
tie in the way of party spoils by the
election of a Democratic Governor
and House. Governor Pattison has
a few unimportant appointments in
addition to his cabinet"
How is this? For months before
the election, the prodigious power
growing out Of the official patronage
controlled by the Governor was held
up as the means by which Cameron
was to boss the State" in the event
of Beavers election; anu this was
the reason why the defeat of Beaver
was necessary to defeat Cameron.
But now that Beaver is defeated, the
office of Governor seems suddenly
shorn of patronage. Or was Beaver
a man of such personal power that
he could have controlled the State
with only a "few unimportant APP
in addition to his cabi-
net III Citizen.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06
Bold Robbery.

WATERBURY, Conn, Nov. ga
bold robbery was committed during
the night at the house on the Walcott
road. two miles from this city occu-
pied by Mrs. Olive Converse, a
widow, and her brother, Lanrins
Warner. Three men forced the
door, gagged, bound. and severely
pounded Warner, nearly killing him,
and then beat and gagged Mrs.
Converse, dragged her down stairs,
and tied her to a lounge in order to
force them to reveal the whereabouts
of $4,000 which the robbers claimed
was in the house. They carried off
three bank books and a check for
$3.50. Mrs. Converse succeeded in
loosening the ropes with which she
was bound and united her brother.
Neither dared leave the house until
daylight, when they made known
their condition to the neighhors.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06
Shooting his wife's Escert.

ST.. LOUIS Nov. ga shooting
affray occurred here last night be-
tween Frank ]. Iglehart, formerly
cashier in the banking house of
BarthalOw, Lewis Il Co, and very
highly connected and Rush H. Tevis.
a well-known merchant. Tglehart
and a woman closely yelled came
from a house on Singleton street
known as an designation house, ear
ly last evening, when Tevis and a
companion, who, it seems, had been
lying in wait, appeared from an alley
near the house. Tevis fred at
lglehart, wounding him in the arm.
but not dangerously. The latter fell
and the woman helped him up.
while his assailants ran to a livery
stable a block away and, procuring
their rig, which had been left there.
drove rapidly away Iglehart. sup
ported by the woman, walked a few
blocks, when a passing carriage was
hailed and they were driven to the
residence Of the former. The woman
then drove away in a carriage. It is
supposed hat the man with Teyis
was a private detective that the
woman was Tevis' wife, and that it
was the intention of Tevis to kill
lglehart. All the parties are very
~reficent. hut the affair has caused
much excitement, as the persons in
volved r all well known. Mrs
Tevis was a Miss Reese and is a niece
of Gen. Sherman /; also a niece ofthe
late Judge Samuel Reber. Her
father is a colonel in the United
States Army. Mr.. and Mrs. Tevis
had a meeting this morning and
they have separated, he taking their
only child, a little girl three wears of
age. He will institute a suit for
divorce Immediately, which will he
allowed tn go by default. The
bones of Mr.. Iglegart's left arm be-
low the elbow are shattered and the
ball ranged upward, but the wound
IS not serious. The scandal is the
topic OF general conversation in town
to day.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06
Gagged and Beaten.

WATERBURY, November ga
bold robbery was committed during
the night at a house on the Walcott
road, two miles from this city, occu.
pied by Mrs. Oliver Converse, a
widow, and her brother, Laurius
Warner. The men forced the door.
gagged, bound and severely pounded
Warner, nearly killing him. and
then beat and gagged Mrs. Converse,
dragged her down stairs and tied her
to a lounge, in order to force them
tn reveal the whereabouts of $4,000.
which the robbers claimel Wa in
the house. They carried off two
bank books and a check for $3.50.
Mrs. Converse succeeded in loosen
ing the ropes with which she vas
hound and united her brother.
Neither dared leave the house until
daylight, when they made known
their condition to their nearest neigh
bors.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06

THE talk which one hears nova
days in certain quarters about the
great things which the Democrats
are to do in the direction of civil
service reform is simply amusing.
The Democratic party as a party is
no more likely to constitute itself
the champion of this variety of re-
form than the Ethiopian is to change
his skin or the leopard its spots. To
the victors belong the spoils is the
motto upon which the Democrats
vert the first to act in regard to the
public offices, and if they were to
come into power two years from now
after a fast of more than twenty
years. let any man of ordinary com.
mon sense ask himself whether it is
likely that they would keep their
hands off the flesh pots. Their re.
form would begin in making a clean
sweep of the Republican office hold.
ers, and filling their places with fam.
ishing adherents, and there it would
stop.-Norh american.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06
Murdered.

CHARLESTON. Nov. 30.-A horrible
murder vas committed about thir-
teen miles above Camden this morn
ing. Mr.. F. NJ. McDowa!l. a gen.
tleman well known and highly es-
teemed throughout the county, was
'hrutallv murdered by a negro named
doe Wilson. The weapon used was
40 axe. The negro, after commit
ting the bloody deed, dragged the
dead body of his victim to a ditch
near by and covered it with brush.
The body was found this afternoon.
The negro fed. The county is being
secured and if caught it is not inn.
probable that be viii be lynched.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06
The Philadelphia Press of Novem-
Der 23d, contained the following,
purporting to be a special dispatch
rom its WASHINGTON correspondent /:

WASHINGTON, November pa delegation
! from Somerset visited Washington to-ca,
Its neinbers are Robert Scull, son of the col
iector of internal revenue; Elias Canning
ham deputy collector; George w. Snyder.
| George II. Snyder aud II. 5. +. Picking.
These gentlemen are friends of C,durcIor
SOUL. and favor his retention in office. They
have visited the commissioners of internal
revenue and the Secretary of the Treasury
in Collector Sculls behalf.
We INDUCED in a quiet laugh
when this very important dispatch
first met our eye, and proffered to
bet IA cigar with a friend then in our
office, that it would be copied into
the Meyeredale Commercial aud be
made the subject of snarling com
ment.
W. were not mistaken in our
opinion of the animal. The sub
stance of the dispatch, with the name
of Senator Cameron dove-tailed into
it, appeared in the last Commercial,
and "Snarleyow" took his fling at
it.
The single grain of truth in the
whole dispatch is the fact that, tn,
gentlemen named, who were guests
of the B & o K r., on the llti-
more excursion, stopped off at
Washington between trains, as did
many Others, "to take in" the city
and visit personal friends. They
did not call upon or see the Secreta-
ry of the Treasury, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, Senator Cameron
or any other officials.
Deputy Collector Cunningham
alone, as etiquette requires, paying
his respects to the Commissioner, ia
a very brief call not exceeding two
minutes, at which nothing but an
exchange of civilities occurred. The
Commercial knew of the excursion.
and it knew that none of the gentle
men named profess to exercise the
slightest political influence. 1t was
willing to seize the merest pretext to
grid at the editor of the HERALD
and therefore grasped at this idle
story. Perhaps we can ease the fret
ful soul of the CbmmerriaT's editor
by assuring him that we have not
been at Washington for more than
three years, that we have not by
ourself or through others, solicited
any one in authority to aid our con-
tinuance in Office, and that the a
gerness of himself and allies for u
removal has excited no sentiment.
save M of contempt. We believe
with Governor Pattison that public
office is a public trust, and not a
personal perquisite," and we have
been content to perform our duties.
under the assurance of the Commits.
sioner that we had no superior, in
the discharge of our official trust.
When the President deems it wise
to appoint our successor, we will re-
tire with the consciousness of duty
well and faithfully performed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06

WHILE the Independent journals
that assisted to place the Democrats
In power, are babbling about there
being no danger to our protective
tariff from that party, and daily as
sorting that the stoppage of oar iron
and steel mills is only the effect Of a
business scare" got up BY the Re-
pablicans, the English journals
unite in rejoicing over Democratic
success in this country. They also
Irejoiced o4er the rebel victories dur
ing the And for the same rea-
son. Then they believed if the
South won, and the country was d.
'vlded, the Confederacy would adopt
the policy of free trade sId thus
furnish them a market for their sur
plus manufactures. Now they think
that with Democracy in power, free
trade will be adopted, with accom-
panying benefits to their country, to.
the prejudice of the United States.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06

PENNSYLVANIA ranks first in the
number of its p~ostofhces, having
more than any other State in thu
Union. The number is 1886 as
against 30i2 in New York. Ohio
stands third on the list, with 2,542
offices, and Illinois comes fourth
with 2,015. Although fourth III the
number Of post offices, Illinois has
the largest lumber of money order
offices of any State. The report of
the First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral shows that of money order Off
ces, Illinois has 496, New York 1872,
Ohio 81 and Pennsylvania 30l.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-12-06
An Infant Fed to Bears.

ELNIRA, Nov. ga small colony
of Italians have been Camping and
begging near Wellsi,urg; n few miles
from the Penns, lvania line. They
observed sypsy-like habits. the com.
pany being composed of about equal
numbers of men, women, bil,its and
trained black bears. They departed
Thursday in their rude dog carts,
passing through Elmira. The police
drove them out of town quickly.
Now Il statement is made by a citi-
zen of Wellsburg, who observed
their habits. that one OF the Italian.
infants died H. camp. ard WIS H..
lieu of a burial, fed to the be; Is.
There Is good evidence that the IN
human parents stood by and saw the
beast Is tear and devour the body.