The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-05-30
Miscellaneous Items.


c. F. Huntington, a lawyer from
Pa, committed suicide in
New Orleans last week.
Walter Evans. who succeeds Gen.
halm, was a prospective candidate
for Governor of Kentucky.
Senator Cameron's Washington
residence has been leased TO Repre-
sentative Washburn, of Minnesota.
The French Chamber of Deputies
has adopted the American postal
service bill in slightly modified
form.
Most of the Treasury girls at
Washington are said to have their
salaries mortgaged three months
ahead.
Smallpox of a virulent type has
broken out in the Lancaster county
prison, and the institution has been
placed in quarantine.
The Keystone Lock Works, ewn-
ed by Fraime Bros, at Lancaster,
this State, were destroyed by fire
last Wednesday. Loss, $4,000.
Dean Bradley has made arrange
ments to place the bust of Longfel-
low in Westminster Abbey, between
the tombs of Chaucer and Dryden.
Dorsey. the Star Reuter-, wears a
polka dot shirt, standing collar, and
sportish looking clothes generally.
He is agreat story teller, and always
has bevy of congenial spirits
around him.
Abram Hackman, the postmaster
at Pipersville, Pa, pleaded guilty on
Tuesday before Judge Butler to the
charge of using postage stamps the
second time, and pocketing the pro-
ceeds. Sentence was deferred.
A Scotch parson said somewhat
sarcastically of hard drinker, that
she puts an enemy in his mouth to
steal away his brains, but that the
enemy, after a thorough and pro-
tracted search, returned without any
thing"
There is justice of the peace in
Allamakee county, Iowa, whose
marriage formula is this "Them
as this court has joined together let
no man put asunder, but let little
children come unto them, so help
me God"
An Iowa editor, being asked by a
correspondent if hogs paid, looked
over his subscription list, and de-
cided that they do not. The treas
urer of one Of the Boston churches
has come to the same conclusion.-
Boston TraUeler.
The large tunnel on the Low Grade
Division of the West Penn Rail-
road, in Bell township, Westmore-
land county, is nearly finished. 1t
is expected that trains will be run
ming through the tunnel by the first
of July.
General Brady. one of the princi-
pal characters of the Star Route
business is big man of Al years,
with coarse, beefy frame, round
head. animal features, thick neck,
red face, cold, blue eyes, small nose
and heavy jaw.
Missouri people generally approve
the high license law of the State,
which makes the minimum license
fee for selling liquor $500, and the
maximum $1,000 per year, the
courts having discretion to fix the
fee at any intermediate sum.
The Attorney General has given
an opinion that under the provisions
of the act approved May 3, 1888, no
tax can be collected on the capital
and deposits ofnational banks since
January, 1888, and no tax on the
capital and deposits of State banks
or private bankers since December
/, 1882.
Colonel M. S. Quay, while in
Philadelphia. said that none of the
delegates of that city to the Repub-
lican Convention were instructed.
nor had they been approached. He
also asserted that Eve had one
Democratic victory too MANY, and it
is now proposed to nominate a
ticket that can win"
When the color on fabric has
been accidentally or otherwise de
stroyed by acid, ammonia is applied
to neutralize the same, after which
an application of chloroform will in
nearly all cases restore the original
color. The application of ammonia
is common, but that of chloroform
is but little known.
Aaron Burr's original commission
as attorney at law. signed by Chief
Justice Richard Morris, of New
York, February 1, 1872. is now in
the relic room of the Ohio State
House. 1t Is written on vellum,
eight and a half by ten inches IN
size, and bears a red wax seal with
the motto "Laudem vincit."
Last Wednesday the Postmaster
General issued an order discontinue
ing the postoffice at Benton, Mimi,
on the ground that the business
transacted would not justify its con-
tinuance. This office was established
in 1886, and the postmaster who Is
to be guillotined by this order, has
been the incumbent since that
time.
One of the curious freaks of the
Southern cyclone was on the farm
of Henry Glendenning, where a To-
Gust tree about foot in diameter
was turned half around, leaving 1t
standing otherwise apparently un-
harmed. A mortise hole through
the body, which before the storm
opened to the east end west, now
stands north and south.
Cumberland municipal election
resulted in the election to Council of
Messrv 4 w Griffith First ward