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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

Ex-Governor EDWIN ID. MORGAN
of New York died at his residence
in the city of New York, on Wednes'
day morning last. Governor Nor
gan was born in Berkshire county.
Massachusetts,, February s, 1911.
At the age of seventeen he entered a
grocery store at Hartford, Comp, and
at twenty became q partner. He
became a member of the Hartford
City Council, and in 1896 be remov'
ed TO New York, and engaged in the
grocery business there. Twenty
years later he was n of the fore.
most merchants of the city. He was
elected President of the board of As.
sistant Aldermen of the city of New
York in 1S49. and subsequently
went to the Senate from the Sixth
district In 1856 he declined to re-
turn to the Senate, and was appoint.
ed Commissioner of Emigration. In
1855 he was elected Governor. He
next succeeded Hon. Preston King
in the United States Senate. In 1865
he was nominated for Secretary OF
the Treasury by President Lincoln
but declined, and he also declined
the similar appointment rendered
by President Arthur. He leaves an
estate valued at from 81 100000 to
x12,000.000.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

TIE Harrisburg correspondent Of
the Democratic Wa,chmaa, published
at Bellefonte, by p. Gray Meek.
Clerk of the House, describing q
number of the members, has this to
say about one Of the Representatives
from this county:
Right across the aisle and in the
front circle, sits Mr.. Andrew Jackson
C0lborn, a veteran from Somerset
county. Albeit Mr.. Colborn is now
a Jealous Republican, he was, until
a few years ago, just as earnest a
Democrat. He lie a man of very de.
eided ability and a good talker. His
old Democratict raining and instincts
crop out in his determined opposi-
ton to any and al extravagant ap-
propfiative measures. He is a fair
man nevertheless. He is 3 Lawyer
by profession, would like to be ON
the bench, and your correspondent
wouldn't object to this a bit, for he
believes Mr.. Colborn would make an
impartial, honest judicial, notwith-
Mcclure, of the Times, calls
him q rooster. Socially, he is
pleasant and companionable.n
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

THE Democrats in the Legislator,
have agreed to support the Nichol
o superintendent bill, slightly
amended, which will give them thir.
teen districts, the Republicans four
. teen, and leave one doubtful, which
is said to be composed of Fayette
Somerset and Cambria, in which
counties the Democrats had a ma
iority of N3 at the last Presidential
election. OF couse the Republican.
Of the Senate will not submit to q
bill of this kind, and if the Demo.
Gratis have determined to stand by il
there viii be no apportionment bill
passed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
Remember This

If you are sick Hop Bitters vii
surely aid Nature in making you
well when all else fails.
If youa III costive Or dyspeptic, Oh
are suffering from any other of the
numerous diseases of the stomach
or bowels, it is your own fault if you
remain ill, for Hop Bitters are a SOW
ereign remedy in all such com.
plants.
If you are wasting away with any
form of Kidney disease, stop tempt.
ing Death this moment, and turn
for a cure to Hop Bitters.
If you are sick with that terrible
sickness, Nervousness, you will find
a Balm in Gilead" in the use O
Hop Bitters.
1t you are a frequenter, or a resi-
dent of a miasmatic district, barri-
cade your system against the scourge
OF all countries-malarial, epidem-
ic, bilious and intermittent fevers-
by the use of Hop Bitters.
If you have rough, pimply, or
sallOw skin, bad breath, pains and
aches, and feel miserable generally.
Hop Bitters will give you fair skin,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
HOW WATCHES ARE MADE.

In q SOLID GUp WATCH, aside from
the necessary thickness for engraving and
polishing, a large proportion of metal is
needed only to stitien and hold the engray-
ed portions in place, and supply strength.
The surplus gold is actually needless. In
jones Boss Potent Gold Wateh Gases this
WASTE is saved, and soLIpITY and
STRENGTH increased BY a simple process.
at one-half the cost. A plate of SOLID
GOLD is soldered on each side of a plate
of hard nickel composition metal, and the
three are then passed between polished
steel rollers. From this the cases, backs.
c~enters, bezels, etc. are cut and shaped BY
dies and formers. The gold IS thick
enough to admit Of all kinds of chasing,
engraving and engine turning.r These
cases have been worn perfectly smooth by
use without removing the gold. This u
hs only case mode under his process. Each
cas as accompanied eth q salid guarantee
s,gaed By the manufacturers ~varraating It 10
xear 20 yeors. 10000 of these Gases
now carried in the United States and
Canada Largest and Oldest Factory.
Established 1854. Ask YOUR .Jeweler.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
A Woman Hermit.

During the past few days there
has been discovered near Cumber-
land, Nd, a most horrible case of
squalor and restitution. A woman,
who is a daughter of Wesley Clark,
a farmer living in the mountains
south of Homecoming, was found liv-
ing as a s9uatter in the mountains
in a turkey pen with three children,
all in a pitiable state of restitution
and filth. The dwelling was an in
closure built of logs, eight by ten
feet, and so low that an ordinary
sized man had to stoop in entering.
There was no floor, and the only
furniture was q small cooking stove
and a broken kettle. There was no
sign of a bed, not even a pile of
straw, and, to cap ali, the filth was
utterly disgusting and entirely indie
scribable. The mother was clad in
rags and the children we're naked,
save as to the thin covering of dirt
which enveloped their bodies. At
the time they were discovered they
were out of fire wood, and the only
food they had was one ear of corn,
and had not had a meal for two
days.
The unfortunate head of this fam
lily tells a pitiablo story OF her suf-
ferings. Betrayed in early life, she
gradually fell lower in the social
scale, and was eventually burdened
with a family of four children.
Shame and poverty at last compell-
ed her to seek seclusion, and for two
years she has lived in the hut de-
scribed, built by her own hands.
The two boys were arrested as va
grants, and sent to st. Mary's indus
trial school at Baltimore. The boys
were in many respects heathens of
the most degraded type. They did
not know the use of knives and
forks, and had never heard of the
Almighty. The mother was induced
to return, with her youngest child,
to her father.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
A Child Shoots It's Mother.

CUMBERLAND, Nd, Feb. 15-Mrs.
Charles w. Smith, living as Folck's
Mills, three miles from Cumberland.
was shot this evening at 6 o'clock by
her fve-year-old daughter. The
child and her brother were playing
with a pistol carrying a No. 1 car
fridge, when the boy said, "Shoot
mother" The pistol happened to be
loaded, and the girl pulling the trig-
ger, the ball took effect in the moth
er's left breast. A physician was
called, but he was unable to find the
ball. Fortunately, the wound is not
likely to prove fatal.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

The bill to indemnify the county
of Allegheny for losses sustained by
the Patsburg riots, was summary
killed in the Appropriation Commit
tee of the House at Harrisburg, on
Thursday last. Like the Border
raid bill, it has a large element Of
justice in it, but it was early tinct'
ured with a suspicion OF fraud, and
members are afraid 10 touch it.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

THE flood in the Ohio valley, on
Thursday last, reached a point at
Cincinnati, tw~enty-eight inches high
er than was ever known in the his
tory Of the country. The destruc-
ton of property all along the river
has been immense, while happily,
the loss of life is comparatively
small. The food has not yet reach
ed the lower Mississippi country,
but as the Missouri river is reported
breaking up, the volume of water
from it and other tributary stream,
of the upper Mississippi, added to
the immense torrent pouring in from
the Ohio, will undoubtedly carry
destruction to the country of the
southern Mississippi valley. Tens
of thousands have been rendered
homeless, and the necessity for aid
liberal aid, is immediate.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

are frpm one to FIVE hours late.
Slides ave also occurred all along
the l.n., ui the other roads. At one
pom. IN In I'ittsburg, Cincinnati q
st. l.ol.is fa.l.. heal this city, the
trac Is % ,;red with "A mass of rock
w.l IL less: ~, tons. Officials
al Is i, burg, Mckersport anu
Youghiogheny report that they will
not be able to repair the damage to
their road in less than two weeks.
LOSSES IN KENTUCKY.
LOUISVILLE, February 15.-The
food continues unabated. The canal
is forty-three feet nine inches, and il
rising ut the rate of half an inch per
hour. 1t is believed, however, that
the waters will come to a stand by
nightiall. No additional loss of life
has been reported, but probably lU
additional dwellings and business
houses are overlooked. All the
manufactures near the river are
closed, and thousands OF workmen
are out of employment. Transfer
and express wagons traverse every
street, stopping at the houses OF cit
liens who fill them with contribu-
tons for the sufferers. The citizens
have responded nobly SO far. The
water works, on the extreme eastern
limit beyond the point and the cut
off, have succumbed, and the ma
chinery has stopped. There are two
large basins containing millions OF
gallons of water, and it is not thought
there is much danger of scarcity.
The gas works still hold out, but a
few more inches will stop the sup
ply. After the breaking of the cut
off dam, lights began springing up
all over the flooded space, showing
that the people were climbing out OF
the roofs of the houses in their eff
forts to save themselves.
At Maysville the river fell six
inches during the night, and is still
falling. The floors of A. Finch &
Co. and Pearce Brothers, grain hous
es, are a total loss. They contained
10000 bushels of grain. At Fal-
mouth, KY, the Licking river is
still rising, and viii continue to do
so all day. At Frankfort, KY, the
river is falling. but another rise il
expected. Fifteen hundred people
are being lodged and fed. The loss
here is estimated at 100000. A,
Marietta, Ohio, there was a heavy
rain all day yesterday. Rain is re-
ported at GAINESVILLE, o., and a food
equal to that of last week is expect
ed again.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
Condition Of Cattle and Wheat in
Michiga. and Indiana.

CHICAGO, Feb. ia Lansing
(Mich.) special says The January
official returns indicate that all kinds
of cattle are in fine condition in the
State. Most correspondents express
fear that the wheat lie injured more
or lees by freezing and thawing. or
has been smothered by the late
SHOWS. About 10000 BUSHES were
marketed from August to January.
A Wabash (Ind.) special says /;
Much live stock and growing wheat
we're destroyed by the floods in this
section. The total damage the past
ten days: is 100000.
An Omaha special says: Large
quantities Of hay have been shipped
over the Union Pacific for feeding
the cattle herds upon the Platte
Valley ranges where the grass is
showed nnder. The trains on the
Denver Short Line are compelled To
run slow, the cattle take to the track
on their way to water and cannot be
drivenoff into the snow banks.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
Shot and Killed.

PHoENIxvILLE, February ia
terrible accident occurred i'll the
North ward last evening, by which
Letitia McNamee, aged thirteen, was
instantly killed. A party of young
friends ~congregated at the residence
of Mrs. Hennessey and while they
were enjoying themselves one of the
party, Matthew Haddington, seized
an old army musket and fired it out
of the front window, telling his wife
he was going to shoot to brighten the
party in the back room. Just as
Haddington fired, Letitia Men; NEE
passed from her residence next door
to enter the Hennessey residence,
and received the charge in the right
side.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
Great Joy.

CrNcISNATI, February 16.-No.
where does the falling water give
greater JOY than at Lawrenceburg
Ind. 1t is estimated that two hun.
dred houses are overturned or wash
ed away. Three thousand people
were driven from home with nothing
but the clothes they wore. The loss
must reach half million dollars.
The generous relief sent them from
indianapolis, Shelbyville, Cincinnati
and other places. was received with
unbuunded gratitude. No loss Of
life is yet reported. but many made
narrow escapes. 4 large furniture
warehouse fell 10. Thirty o. forty
people in the upper stories escaped
safely. The fssrs for the court house
are without foundation.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
A ToothsOme Morsel.

This from the Madison Wis
Democrat, conveys its own moral
Hold on! We are c~ognizant Of the
fact that an aching tooth was last
night cured by the application ofSt.
Jacobs Oil The young fellow got
mad owe his raging tooth in the
ball room, and rushed straightway
to a drug store where he applied the
good old German Remedy in ten
minutes the toothache had gone.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
The Distress at Jacksonville.

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb,,l4.-Privatein in
formation from Jefcrsenville, Ind,
says the city is flooded from two to
twenty-five feet deep and five thous-
and people are homeless. Many
have lost all they lad on earth. A
large number of cottages in the lower
part of the city were swept away and
hundreds of people are quartered in
second stories in public buildings
and business houses. Food is sent
to them in skiffs. The scenes of suf-
fering are appalling. 1t is still rain
ing and the river is rising. The loss
will reach over one million dollars.
The people will have to leave Law
renoeburgh. No lives have been lost
SO far as can be learned.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

A LARGE iron failure is reported
in Boston, and another at Wheeling
which has badly shaken a heavy
firm in Pittsburg, and yet the Dem
ocratic free traders say, there j:
nothing alarming in the business sit
uation of the country, while Demo.
cratic members of Congress ~serenely
continue their hostility to the protect
i've features of the tariff bills now
under discussion.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
Shot From His Horse.

ST.. Louis, February IA des-
patch from Poplar Bluff, NO., says
Jacob Vincent, a prosperous farmer,
was found dead in the woods last
Friday. four miles from his home, at
Campbellton, franklin county. Mo.
The body showed that the deceased
had been shot from his horse and
then brained with the breech of a
rifle. The theory is that Vincent
was murdered for money, and a war
rant has been issued for the arrest
of James Vincent, a cousin of the
deceased, and a stepson and son-in
law"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

IT will be a surprise to most peo-
pie to learn that a military guard Of
United States troops is still on duty
at President Garfield's grave. Surely
there ian be no further necessity for
this, its primary object being, we
presume, to prevent any miscreant
from stealing or in any way disturb
ing the remains of the illustrious
dead.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
Found Murdered.

GALVESTON. February 15.-The
Neaos' Larendo special says: ION
the arrival of the northbound train
from Larendo at Webb station last
night, VIM. Monroe, telegraph oper-
ator and agent, the only person at
this isolated station, was found dead
on the floor in a pool of blood, shot
through the head, and his skull
crushed in with a Ratchet. On his
table was an unfinished letter to his
mother, saying he was saving money
to visit her IN July next. 1t is sup
posed he was murdered for plum
der"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

Our Reform Governor has evil
IDENTIFY been a student of Easop's IA
bles in his youth. After vainly at
tempting to have the Senate confirm
his nominees and political friends
as Recorder, and Sealers of Weights
and Measures, in the city of Phila-
delphia, in place of the present Re
publican officials, be turns around
and by special message, urges the
Legislature to abolish the offices.
When the fox couldn't reach the
grapes, he vowed they were sour.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
S~NEAK-THIEF POLITICS.

The hypocritical cant of the Penn
sylvania Democrats in Congress on
the tariff question is a matter OF
common notoriety. In the cam
paign they were loud in their talk
about protection, and now that they
have an opportunity to give some
substantial proof of their sincerity
they are found with their Democrat
ic colleagues on the side of free trade.
With the exception of Mosgrove, a
Greenbacker, and Wise, the other
Democrats from Pennsylvania vote,
as a rule, with the free traders. In
playing this confidence game they
have been under surveillance. Cur
tin votes in favor of high duty on
charcoal iron for his district, and is
for free trade in about everything
else. On the motion to reduce the
duty on all steel but crucible-Ran-
dali, Curtin, Klotz, Mutchler, BelE-
hoover and Ermentrout voted for
reduction, thus striking at one of the
greatest industries of the Common
wealth. These Democratic Repre-
sentatiyes take advantage of the fact
tina: the yeas and nays are not called
in committee of the whole to vote
with their free-trade friends. The
party lash is paramount to princi-
pie with a Pennsylvania Democrat.
Tariff for revenue only, is the cry oil
the Democratic party. That is what
the Pennsylvania Democrats vote
for. As the tariff bill is not likely
to get into thu House for some days,
if at all, there is a plot among the
Democrats TO rush through the bill
as it comes from committee of the
whole by calling the previous ques.
ton, and thus escape detection OF
the fraud they have practiced upon
their constituency by voting for the
ruinously low rates established by
the free traders of the House.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
Bad Prospects

LONDON, February 13.-The Times
in an editorial article bewails the
farming prospects. 1t says: A cri
sis in field work exists. 1t is water
everywhere. A good sowing time is
wanted. 1t is surmised that much
OF the autumn sowing is rotted, and
that all Europe is in a similar con-
dition.n
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

Dies MONIES, February 14.-Young
Ballard, who robbed his sick and
helpless father a few weeks ago, upon
being arrested disclosed the fact that
there was a large and well organized
band of robbers engaged in all kinds
of outlawry in the northwest. The
leader of the gang, Knowlton, has
probably fed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

BorH Houses Of Congress labored
diligently at the tariff last week, the
Democrats resisting all efforts to set
tie the question. A bill may yet be
perfected and become a law, but the
prospect is not hattering, and bust
ness will probably have to remain
in its present unsettled condition
until after December next.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

She had the jumping tooth ache,
The night when first we met;
Her face was marked with anguish,
Her eyes with tears we're wet.
| told her PERRY DAvIs's
PAIN KILLER was the thing
To cure the jumping tooth-ache,
And take away the sting.
Next evening, when Isaw her,
asked her, did you get i.
That bottle ofPAIN knLER?'
Said she: IAN right-you bet!."
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

THE free traders in Congress wer
delighted the other day to find that
there was a farmer somewhere in
Connecticut who is opposed to the
policy of protection. They cackled
over it with the glee of a pullet re-
%joicing ove her first egg. The Hart.
ford Couraat, referring to the fact
observes that, IF the weight of farm
er sentiment in Connecticut is taken
into account, it will be found over.
whelmingly in favor of a just system
of protection. which, by building up
our manufacturing towns, furnished
the farmers a better market for their
products than they could otherwise
hope for"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

Hon. MARSHALL JEWELL, died al
his home in Hartford Conn, on Sun.
day evening, aged SO years. He was
three times elected Governor of bis
State, was Minister to Russia, Post.
master General, and was twice q
prominent candidate for United
States Senator. His last active pc
litical work was as Chairman of the
Republican National Committee o.
1880. He leaves a widow and two
daughters.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

4 FLEET of AZ vessels sailed from
the port of New York last week, car
rying l06,i70 barrels of petroleum
TO foreign ports. One vessel sailed
from Philadelphia, carrying 547s
barrels.
There were l0S vessels loadingand
chartered to load with petroleum al
the port of New York last week
There were 10 vessels loading and
chartered to load with petroleum il
the port Of Philadelphia
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

READING. Pa, Feb. 14.-Owing to
extreme dullness in trade one of the
Reading Hardware Company's foun-
dries, employing $50 hands, closed to
day until April: $50 ofthe $50 hands
employed at the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad car sheds have
also been indefinitely suspended,
and Wilson's spectacle factory and
the Penn Hardware. Company en-
ploying together over 900 hands
have closed for the week.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

PIrrsBURcH, Pa, Feb. 15-An
Altoona (Pa.) special dispatch says
John L. Mcdowell, Treasurer of the
Young Mems Christian Association
and a prominent commission mer-
chant, has absconded with 800 Of
the Associations money and between
$4,000 and 10000 belonging 70 par
ties dealing with him in the com
mission buoineD.r
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

PoTTsrowN. Pa, Feb. 13.-The
employees of the Pottstown Iron Co.
have been notified that after March
l a general reduction of wages will
take place. The puddlers, who pre-.
vious to January received $3.50, and
since then 81, will receive $3.50 per
ton, and other employees will be re-
duced from II to l24 per cent. This
reduction will be severely felt by the
men, but it is expected they will
accept it rather than be idle. The
unsettled condition of the iron trade
has necessitated this reduction.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21

out .oR and his wife had fire.
uarrels. On one occasion
his = responded to every repreach
winusband-"s scissors" Enraged
CHS, the tailor seized his spouse,
rushing out, plunged her into a
eighboring pool. Bringing her
cad above water to give her breath,
he still eried-"scissors." After sew
eral duckings he brought her to the
surface, when, being unable to artic-
ulate, she raised her hand and uni.
tated the motion of a pair of scis-
sors. This little story is commended
to the person who, in the Meyersdale
Qmmercisl, max es the business and
the appointments Of the Revenue
Office q text for all the false and idle
gossip he can gather up. Although
hehas been repeatedly scused under,
like the tailor's termagant wife, he
still cries-"scissors."
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-21
Families Homeless.

New ALBANY, February 14.-The
loss by the flood here is not less than
a quarter of a million dollars. No
lives have been lost. The farmers
along the Ohio river suffer greatly,
many losing their entire crops. Six
hundred families are homeless, and
many are destitute. All the manu-
factories are stopped.