The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-06-06

Senator Anthony is improving in
health.
There are 800 women employed as
journalists in the United States.
Thirteen prisoners in the Lancas-
ter county Jail are down with small
pox.
There are 5000 people in West
Virginia who do not know how to
read or write.
General Grant and Hon. William
+. Gladstone have been elected hon.
orary members of the American
Peace Society.
A demented man, found wander
ing about Chicago, proved to be State
Senator Thomas Fish, of Marshall
county, Iowa.
The Tabor Mining Company's
stamp mill at Denver, Colorado, was
burned last Saturday. Loss, sixty
tnOuSdnu uOllarS.
The Society of the Ninth Penn
sylyania Veteran Volunteer Cavalry
will hold its fourteenth annual re-
union at Huntingdon, Pa, on June
IA.
Samuel P. Kersteller, a prominent
grocer of Lewisburg, committed sui.
eide on Sunday by shooting. He had
become respondent because of i'll
ness.
Abraham o. Hickman, Postmaster
at Pipersville, Pa, has been sentenc-
ed to nine months imprisonment
and S10O fine for using washed
stamps.
Ira Z. Howard, of Franklin, Pa,
was yesterday nominated for State
Treasures by the Pittsburg Conven-
ton of the Prohibation Home Pro-
lection party.
A 100000 acre purchase of land
in the panhandle Of Texas by an
English syndicate is reported, price
S3,000,000. The tract borders two
hundred miles on the Indian terri
tory.
William Lanzendorfer, of Indiana
county, is said to have absconded
after forging several notes and hav-
ing them discounted at the banks in
Indiana. He run q mill near George
vile.
Gen. Adolph Bushbeck, who COM
manded the Twenty-seventh Penn
sylvania Volunteers, and First Bri-
gade of the Eleventh Corps in the
late war, died last week at Florence,
Italy.
A forty-dollar Continental bill
issued by authority of Congress at
Philadelphia. September 26, ITS,
was found in tearing down the old
Marble property in Sunbury few
days ago.
A species of green worm is said to
be killing all the copperheads in
Texas. What a blessing it would
have been if these green worms had
only scattered all over the South be-
fore the war.
A preacher named Byerd was tar
red and feathered by a mob at
Nebraska, for beating his
who had informed her
mother of his adulterous relatione
with other women.
During a fierce wind and rain
storm at Beloit, Wisconsin. last
week, a number of live fish, one of
them weighing a pound, dropped in
the business streets, and hailstones,
the largest four inches in circumfer-
ence, fell.
The wife of James Heron, of
Ohioville, Beaver county, died last
xesk.-after giving bitth to a ninth
chiid. Mrs. Heron was so convinced
she would die, that months ago
she began to make preparations for
her funeral.
Alexander HI. Stephens, the late
Governor of Georgia. could not walk.
Henry d. Mcdaniel, the present
Governor, is a very bad stammerer
and cannot :alk. But. like Stephens,
he is a man of great ability and ex-
alted character.
Garfeld's tomb in Lake View
Cleveland, was decorated
with flowers on Decoration Day by
a committee, like other soldiers
graves, and in addition with beau
tiful wreath sent from the Garfield
school at Des Moines, Iowa.
Sarah Jane Hunt, very respecta-
BILE and wealthy lady Of East Allen
Northampton county,
suicide one day last week
by hanging, in the cellar of her res
idence. She was 81 years of age, and
her mind has been unbalanced for
several years.
Patrick Hoar was arrested last
week at Scranton for killing James
Norton at wedding Sunday night.
Hoar was one of serenading party
who enlivened the occasion by
revolvers. He confessed to
having shot Norton, but says the
was accidental.
The Cochranville Creamery, Ches-
.er county, Pa. receives 1856
pounds of milk daily, from which it
300 pounds of butter
md 1850 pounds Of cheese 1t also
200 bounds of ice daily
md one ton of coal per week.
The skeleton of a man was dis
covered last week in the woods near
ramaqua- Theremains are believed
% be those of James Campbell, q
Brooklyn lawyerwho wandered from
nome in a state ofmental alteration
N April, 1882, and was last seen in
ramaqua, where his wife, who had
,ome on in search of her husband,
ost all trace of him. Campbell's
friends have been notified.
This morning was warm, and he
mprudently made a change of his