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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
The Apaches.

Tucson, Arizona, April ia dis
patch from Hermosillo, Mexico
says. The detachment of troops
which followed the Apaches from
Southeast Ures had several running
fights with the Indians from Ures tc
Candies, and claimed to have killed
nearly the whole band.
Alter losing the trail of the rest
some of the soldiers visited Candies
where a soldier, who, was in the
campaign last year, recognized a
white man who was with theIndians
at that time acting as chief. In one
Of the fights this soldier was wound.
ed and left on the field for dead but
was conscious.
From his description of the Apa-
chs chief, it was thought to L. N,
Ttreeter, formerly q United States
agent. and a most desperate charae-
ter. For more than two years be
has been the leader of a band Of
Apaches. His capture proves the
soldier was not mistaken in the man,
Governor Torres ordered him to Be
brought to Hermosillo, but it is
oubtful if he will be alive wher the
order reaches the troops.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
Four Persons Drowned.

WILLIAMsPoRT, April 19.-During
a heavy rain and wind storm about
SIX o'clock this evening two boats,
in which a number of men were re-
turning from work on a boom in the
river here, capsized and four of the
occupants, Herman Hartman, Del.
Rhoads, Grant Moore and --
Wits. We're drowned. The others
narrowly escaped. The unfortun-
ates We're all young, Wits being only
twelve years DID. The body of Hart
man has been recovered and search
for the others will be continued to-
morrow.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

Last fall the people of P~ennsylva-
MA heard a good deal about political
'bosses" and in the midst of it all
the Democracy, under loud profess
sions of reform" stole into power.
The result is the substitution of a
new bossism of the most offensive
kind. Mr.. Cassidy and his man
Pattison" 10 claim The right 70
boss the legislature, and it is no un,
common thing TO hear their repre-
sentatives in the legislature imperi-
ously demanding that legislation
must take such and such shape
otherwise there will be an executive
veto. Well, the Democracy of Penn.
sylyania have been accustomed
from time immemorial TO dance TO
whatever music their leaders pre-
scribed. At one time Wallace had
the hoor-and another Randall.
Now Cassidy has the call.-Gettys.
burq Star and Sentinel.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
Popular Clergyman Under a Mule.

1t was il the Yosemite on a steep
and rugged mountain road. The
party numbered about dozen, and
the %jolliest of all was a well-known
dominic. Somehow or other his
mule stumbled and rolled over and
oyer, the dominic clinched fast to
him. When they come TO a stop the
mule was on top. Both the dominic
and the mule were badly bruised.
One of the party happened to have
a bottle of PERRY DAvIs's PAIN
KILLER. In a few hours they were
ready to proceed on their journey.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
Come of Very Lucky.

New CASTLE, April 20.-While
Richard McCready. William Burns,
John Norris and Patrick Finn were
employed on a s0ffold at Etna Fur
mace, this city, to-day, at an altitude
of forty feet from the ground, the
scaffolding gave way. Norris, Burns
and Finn seized a cross beam in
their descent and hung on until they
were relieved from their periions po-
%sition, but McCready was. precipita-
ted to the earth, the lumber falling
on him and burying him out ofsight.
He was dug out and taken home
unconscious, but an investigation
failed to find any bones broken, nei-
ther is it believed that he received in.
ternai injuries.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
4 Severe storm.

ST. PAUL, April photographic
communication with the west is al
most entirely cut off. The indica-
tons n that q severe wind and
rain storm is prevailing all through
that territory. The Missouri and
smaller rivers are high at present,
and if the storm lasts a destructive
flood must follow. The storm pre-
vents any positive information being
received. The river is rising slowly
and the chances are hat West st.
Paul will be inundated.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
Large Sale of Mexican Land.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April 20.--One
of the largest sales of Mexican lands
ever made has just been effected by
A. B. Linderman to a London syn
dictate. The estate, which is known
at the Bustament tract, comprises a
million acres in Zacatecas Mexico,
and was sold for two and a half mil
lion dollars. Mr.. Linderman leaves
here for London tonight.
A New York lumber merchant
has purchased forty square miles o.
lumber land in Michoacan, Mexico
and intends to place powerful ma
chinery thereon.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

1885. when the next Legislature Will
assemble. This defeat will not kill
the measure, but will only r the
friends Of prohibition to renewed
energy. There has been more mis-
directed zeal expended on this subject
than any other we know Of, and We
suppose SO will it continue to be.
The evils of intemperance, on which
SO much eloquence is wasted, are
universally admitted it is the
method of prevention or cure, on
which men radically differ. That a
cultivated public sentiment has done
much, very much, within the last
quarter of a century, towards the
eradication of this evil, must be adj
mitted, while on the other hand,
sumptuary laws have always been
unpopular, the worldover, and their
practicability is doubted and denied
by many who r friendly to the
cause. A law unenforced, openly
evaded, a dead letter on the statute
book, works far more harm than
will non-legislatien. 1t is the reas-
enable doubt, the uncertainty Of
the benefits of sumptuary laws-not
hostility to the measure-that large
ly tends to prevent their enact
ment. Take for instance, the widely
different statements which are TO be
daily found in many respectable
journals, concerning the condition Of
affairs in the State of Maine, usually
held up as an example of the sue
cess of legislation prohibition.
While on the one hand, the oppo-
nents of prohibition assert the anti
license liquor laws to be a failure.
General Neal Dow, the father of the
movement in the State, declares that
Just the reverse is true. And yet
the official records show that, during
the present year, the Collector of In
ternal Revenue, at Portland, has
issued seven hundred and seventy
four Federal liquor licenses, of which
two hundred and twelve were issued
10 persons in Portland, and one
hundred and fifty-four in Bangor,
being one for every 155 persons in
the former city, and n for every
10 in the latter; and of course, there
is in addition, many unlicensed
places where liquor is sold. 1t must
aforementioned in this connection,
and it so expressly provided, that
the Federal laws do not, and they
cannot, guarantee against, or pre-
vent, prosecutions under the laws of
any State. To the frozen facts dis
closed by the records of the Internal
Revenue office, General Dow replies
that liquor selling has been driven
to cellars, and low holes. and dens,
frequented by base people but the
facts remain that the liquor is sold,
and the laws OF the State ere disre-
garded. That a similar state of af-
fairs prevailed in this Common
wealth during the existance of the
Local Option Law" is well known
to all Internal Revenue officials. 1t
is facts like these that stagger legis-
lators, and many others, when the
subject of prohibition comes TO be
considered. The evils of intemper-
ance, and I'll its resulting crimes,
are admitted, and the arguments
against them are worn threadbare ;
the question to which the advocates
of the cause should address them
selves is this: Does prohibition
prohibit? Here is a field for investi-
CATION, and here, in u judgement,
lies the main point for solution.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

THE Senate Committee having the
Congressional apportionment in
charge, have reported a bill by which
Somerset, Cambria and Blair, con-
stitute the Eighteenth District. Ii
this bill passes the Senate, it, with
the bill which has already passed the
House, will be referred TO a com.
mittee of conference, and then will
come the tug Of war.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
Improperly stamped.

LANCASTER, April 17.-Martin H.
Fry, of East Cocalieo township, Lam
caster county, has been arrested and
held in $1,000 bail by U. s. Commits
sioner Slaymaker, for further hear
ing on the charge Of removing from
his factory improperly stamped CT
gars. The contents of three factories
belonging to the defendant were seiz-
ed, the capture including all the
machinery, $1,000 cigars, and sever
al hundred pounds OF tobacco. The
coniseated articles were taken charge
of by Revenue Collector Kaufman,
of this city.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

Col. Quay, late Secretary of the
Commonwealth, publicly asserts bis
belief that the Republicans of this
State will all pull together next fall
and elect their ticket by not less
thar 10000. He further expresses
his belief that Senator Cameron viii
not again be Il candidate, and says
that he Quay wouldn't take a gift
OF the Senatorship.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
Result ola Pistol.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, April IL
About 4 o'clock this morning a mar
named VIM. Dorsey, a machinist
shot his wife under distressing cir
cumstances. He had been on the
look out for burglars, and put a pis-
toll under his head to be ready for
them. During the night his wife
left the room in the dark while Dor
sey was asleep. AS she was coming
back he awoke and hearing a noise
in the room fired in that direction.
The ball struck her in the breast,
and she died in a short time. Dor
sey is overwhelmed with grief.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
The Queen.

LONDON, April 17.-Queen Victo.
ria left Windsor this morning for the
royal residence at Osborne. She
was unable to walk and had to be
lifted into her carriage. The route
along which the Queen passed was
carefully guarded by police and
troops. The Queen has intimated
that she will open the Universal
Fisheries Exhibition from her car
riage if, when the time for the open
ing arrives, she is unable to walk
into the building.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

Colonel Ingersoll condensed into
a sentence his creed and his hopes
when he stood at the grave of his
friend, John G.. Mills. He said
"He lived, he loved, he was loved.
This is enough. The longest life
contains no more. This fills the
vase of Joy" The Rochester Demo-
crdt adds in the way Of comment /;
As a greater preacher than lngersoll
has said: "A fool also is full of
words /; a man cannot tell what shall
De; and what shall be after him,
who can tell him?" LET us eat and
drink and be merry, for tomorrow
we die" is the old, old philosophy
of fools. Which is the better philos-
ophy, to live by and to die by-this,
or that which on Easter morning set
the joy-bells pealing around the
world?
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
COUNTING THE MILLIONS.
A sULpIUs OF THREE CENTS
FOUND.
Only One Slight Discrepancy Found
; Overcome Hundrnd Million DOL
lars Counted by the Com.
mittee in three Weeks.

WASHINGTON, April 19.-The com.
mittee appointed to examine and
count the money and securities Of
the United States Treasury complet-
ed its work to-day. This count,
which is the only absolute vertical
ton of the condition of the Treasury
made since 1872, was required by the
retirement OF Treasurer Gilfllan, who
had not yet been released from his
official bond. A discrepancy ofthree
cents only was discovered between
the Treasurer's accounts and the
cash and securities on hand, and
this sum is in excess of the amount
stated in the books, and belongs to
the Government. If the balance
had been on the other side Mr.. Gill
fillan would have been required to
make good the deficit.
The committee that made the
count is composed of two civilians,
j. X. Upton and S. Z. Middleton,
Washington bankers, and E. B.
Cuskary, chief Of the Public Moneys
Division of the Secretarv's office.
Sixty clerks were first detailed to as
sist the committee, and the count
was begun on the afternoon of the
41st of March, As the count prog
ressed the force was gradually reduc-
ed, first to thirty and at the close on
ly fifteen persons were engaged on
the work. Each day the countmade
by the committee was verified by
clerks in the Treasurer's Office, thus
insuring absolute accuracy. The
figures published below will give an
idea of the amount of work perform
ed. In round numbers s100,000,000
of paper money were counted by the
committee, exclusive of bonds and
other securities, in the reserve found
alone the committee counted $780,
GOO pieces of paper money. Sixty
tons of silver coin and three tons of
gold coin were also gone over, though
most of the silver was counted by
weight.
The number efpieces in a bag, con-
tanning, say, $500, would be counted
and weighed. Other bags OF new
coin of the same amount were then
placed upon delicate scales, and if
the weights correspondent the results
would be regarded quite as ~satisfac-
tory as if each piece had been sepa-
rately counted. The small silver
coins and those which might have
lost weight by abrasion were sepa-
rately counted, as also were all the
gold coins. The result of the count
was made known as soon al ascer-
tanned and the clerks in the office OF
Cashier Whepley were highly de-
lighted. While the officers of the
Treasury were morally certain that
everything was right, they feared
that during the past ten years, when
hundreds of millions of dollars were
handled, some error might have oc-
Cured. The following is the result
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

UNIoNTowN, April 1.-THE resi-
dents of this place were much anus
ed to-day owe a little episode that
occnrrid in front of the Jennings
Hotel. Miss Annie, fifteen years of
age, younger sister of Miss Lizzie
Mutt, was passing along the street
on the opposite side OF the hotel,
and Dukes was standing near the
door. The sight seemed to have so
enraged the girl that she caught up
a cobble stone and threw it at him
with all her strength. He first dodg-
ed behind a man, aud afterward ran
into the hotel.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
Labor Troubles.

PrrrsBuRG, April 17.-Four hun
bred tanners of Allegheny City have
decided to strike against a reduction
of one dollar per week on their wa
ges. The railroad coal miners had a
secret meeting to-day. 1t is believ.
ed a strike has been decided upon.
Work was resumed to-day in all but
three coal mines along the Pan
Handle Railroad, the miners agree
ing to work for . reduction during
the summer months, provided three
and a half cents per bushel be paid
them after the FIRST Of November
next.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

BRADY and Curly, two of the
Irish assassins who participated in
the murder of Lord Frederick Cav
endish and Secretary Burke, in
Phenix Park, Dublin, were last
week tried. convited, and sentenced
70 be hung. The testimony of the
Crown was SO conclusive that the
iuries were out but q few minutes in
each case
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

The bill proposing a @ Constitution.
al Prohibition Amendment has been
defeated in the House at Harrisburg
by a sweeping vote. 1t is true, how.
ever, that this vote does not repre-.
sent the fRli sentiment of those VINO
would willingly favor such an
amendment. The bill was burth-
ened by a rider providing for com.
pensation to the manufacturers Of
spirits, and on this account some ar.
dent Prohibitionists voted against it.
The important fact however is, that
the bill is defeated, and that the
question is virtually settled until
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

The statistics of emigration show
that during the month of March last,
no less than 1853 Germans arrived
in this country. fthis thing goes
on. we will soon have all Germany
over here, and the Emperor William
and Prince Bismark will have to
shut up shop.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

SHORTLY after the murder Of Cap
tain Mutt. the citizens of Uniontown
passed resolutions in public meet
ing, that Dukes, the assassin, could
not live in hat place, and so notified
him. Dukes is now in hat place,
in his old qYsrters, attending to his
business as usual, and he says he in
tends TO stay there.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

An insurance agent named Pyle,
I'm running fell over the stiie.
st. Jacobs Gil gave relief
And the pain was 80 brief,
He got up and said: II should SMILE
A lame old lady at Keyser,
Had no one to advise her,
Till Doctor John Boyle,
Tried st. Jacobe Oil,
Its action did simply surprise her.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

THE Cincinnati Enquirer, the lead
ing Democratic journal of Ohio, is
bitterly opposed to the new Civil
Service Reform law, and insists that
it will keep poor men out Of Office.
This is a government of the people,
it says, and the places belong to the
neonle.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

A drive of Il 100000 feet of logs,
from Kettle creek for a Williamsport
firm, was successfully landed in the
boom at that place on Monday. The
time occupied from the head OF
Kettle creek to the boom was ten
days, which is said to have been the
fastest drive ever made in the State.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

The bill past at the last session OF
Congress, increasing the pensions OF
one armed and one legged veterans
of the war, has already borne plen-
tiful fruit. As many as eleven thou
sand applications from one-armed
soldiers alone, having been received
up TO date.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
Seriously Injured.

WASHINGTON, Pa, April 21.-Ar.
thur Shutterly, a young man aged
about twenty-one years, was very
seriously, if not fatally, injured al
his home in California, this county.
He was hauling manure and the
pitchfork in his hands ~accidently
struck the horses foot. The animal
kicked back causing the handle Of
the fork TO strike MI. Shutterly with
great force in the stomach, knocking
him ~senseless, in which condition he
still remains.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

A great many fathers smile and
say: 1.-THE young man is only SOW
ing his wild oats, and will come all
right after a while" They forget the
wrecked bodies, the diseased mind,
and the dwarfed soul that too often
comes from wild oat sowing. Seeing
the world" in the meaning of the
term, has brought sorrow to a mul-
titude of homes, and disgrace and
personal misery to myriads of young
men which q whole life time bright
living could not correct. The moral
and physical wrecks in view attest
the truth of all this. This is not
sermonizing-it is not cant--but it
remains true that sowing wild oats"
means a whole harvest of sorrows.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

For twenty-three years the Re.
publican party has had charge OF
the L. S. Treasury. The count OF
the funds in that concern, amount
ing to over one hundred millions
Of dollars, has just been completed
and an excess found of three cents.
Pretty good evidence of honest ad-
ministratinn. this.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

Gov. PATrIsoN has issued a proc
lamation removing all sealers OF
weights and measures from office.
This is in accordance with a law
passed by the Legislature abolishing
the office.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

If the Democracy honored Thorn
as Jefferson and Old Hickory in
their acts as much as they do in
their oratory it would make a Won
derfully different party. 1t is up
hill work to convince reading people
that the present organization, run
mainly for free whisky, love the
memory of Jefferson.-Intcr Ocean.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

EX-SENATOR. and present Goa.
gresham kellogg, of Louisiana. has
been indicted before a grand jury in
Washington, and a true bill found
against him, for receiving money,
while a Senator, for services render.
ed in relation TO contracts with the
United States. a true bill has also
been found against ex-Assistant
Postmaster General, Brady, for re.
ceiving money while in Office fol
similar services.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

In the middle of Grants second
term there was a general revolt
against his administration, and the
Democrats carried the seven States
Of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana by an aggregate
majority of i17,000. In 1876 Mr..
Tilden, the Democratic candidate
for President, carried four of these
States, namely. Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey and Indiana, by
making reform in all departments Of
the government the controlling idea
of the struggle.
-Four years later, in the contest be-
tween Hancock and Garfield, the
Democrats were sanguine that the
four States above named would 20
for Hancock. This would have given
him the victory, with electoral votes
TO spare. But at a critical stage OF
the campaign the Republicans man.
aged to change the entire aspect OF
the conflict by abandoning the is
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

THE people all over the country
that followed the reform leaders last
fall, are fast beginningto understand
that professional reform means only
a change of bosses, and that the
fruits OF the reform promised, Is the
possession OF power by a democratic
ring, hungry, reckless and desper-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

The Richmond Wing, in sounding
the keynote of Southern Liberalism
for 1884, declares for arthur, be-
cause Arthur is for the Virginians
who fight for Nationalism against
sectionalism )" declares in favor of
free ballot and popular education in
Virginia, in favor of the protection
of American industry, and gives no.
tice that the Malone men will have
no alliance with bogus Democracy.
This means that in the Presidential
fight Of next year Virginia will not
be a Democratic State.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

AFTER faithful service for thirteen
years, the three-cent green postage
stamp will soon disappear. 1t will
be succeeded by q tw%o-center, with
the face of Washington on it.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

The editor of the Washington Re
public is worried over modern esthet,
icism, and fears that "very soon
from some pulpit in Washington We
will be startled by an esthetic preach,
err announcing how Enc ate the APP
pie and gave also to her husband,
how Mollie chose the better part,
how her sister Matte gave her atten-
ton to household affairs, how Ruthie
cleaned in the fields of Boaz, and
how Sadie by faith gave birth to
Isaac at the age of go"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
wEDNEsDAy..........-

The Board of Pardons has COM
muted the death sentence OF Silas
Gray, the Westmoreland county
murderer, into imprisonment Tor
life.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25
HELegislatures of Massachusetts

The Legislatures of Massachusetts,
and Connecticut, have both rejected
bills for a prohibitory amendment to
their constitutions, and a similar
bill met the same fate at the hands
of our reform" Legislature on Fri.
day last. The bill was defeated Oh
third reading, and a motion to re.
consider was rejected by the very
emDhatie vote of Isl to q.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-25

IT is announced that Jay Gould
is about retiring from active bust
ness, having accumulated the snug
little fortune of one hundred million
dollars-s100.000,000.