The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-06-27

Inc late Judge Iearre, oil Cum-
berland. Nd, lett an estate worth
s175,OO0.
Laborers are scarce in Maine, and
there is brisk demand for men in
the hay field at $3.50 a day-so an
Augusta paper says.
! Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was II
years old last Saturday. She still
gets u fair income from the sale of
Uncle Toms Cabin"
The quantity of wheat raised in
Maine last year was 695, ia bushels,
of oats 2.265,575 bushels, and of po-
ltatoes 7,999,625 bushels.
!. The Governor of Michigan is in
beautiful accord with the Legislature.
He has vetoed but one bill, and
rather apologies for that.
The floods in Missouri, Kansas
and Nebraska have about reached
their climax. Large tracts of land
have been submerged, and great
damage done to crops.
Mrs. Southworth, the writer. hay-
ing completed a a ten years engage
ment with Mr.. Bonner's story paper,
has made another ten years contract
with the same publisher.
There are S00O0,0O0 acres of un-
surveyed lands in Montana, and
numerous sections viii have TO be
resurveyed, owing to the imperfect,
worthless character Of the work done.
7 Last Thursday a lady made dec
laration at the Clerks office OF
Waterloo, Iowa, to become citi-
zen of the United States. She claim
ed that she was a widow, and that
she could not transact the business
devolved uDon her by the death of
her husband unless she was natural
lied.
John Rufiy, on Sunday last, found
his brother in an abandoned saloon
at Kenton, Ohio, with his throat cut,
still breathing and perfectly con-
scious. William Hall, late partner
of the wounded man, has been ar
rested. Rufiy, it is said, told his
brother Hall cut his throat and then
clubbed him.
United States Circuit Judge Nc
Grary's opinion in the case of the
Philbrook heirs, who claim owner
ship TO the lard on which nearly all
the city of Little Rock, Ark, is
built, has been received. He de-
cides that whatever the merit of the
claimants, they slept too long on
their rights, and are now without
remedy.
Huntington, Tennessee, was visit
ed by the most disastrous fire on
Monday of last week ever known
there, ten business houses and three
residences being destroyed. Fire
was discovered at a very early hour
in the morning, and is supposed TO
have been the work of an incendia-
~. The total loss is between S30,-
600 and $4,000, and the insurance
light.
The Mormon immigrants who but
recently landed in New York from
en- route for Utah, are not to be re-
turned as paupers, as they are well
supplied with money by the Salt
Lake Saints to meet their necessary
expenses. The Mormon priests are
well posted on the requirements of
the immigration lows, and see to it
that more Of their proselytes are
driven back for lack of money.
The Brooklyn bridge proves to be
a crowded thoroughfare on which
twenty policemen find it hard 20
keep order, and almost hourly blocks
occur. As it is a serious open ques-
ton whether the bridge is not load
ed to its full weight, it cannot well
be widened but it is curious COM
mentary on past prophecy that the
first practical result is TO prove the
bridge scarcely adequate to popular
demands.
The Orphans Court at Philadel-
phta last Tuesday admitted to the
bar the first woman lawyer" in
Pennsylvania. The applicant was
Mrs. Carrie Burnham Kilgore, 4
graduate of the law department of
the University of Pennsylvania, and
wife of Damon J. Kilgore, a we'll
known member Of the bar 1t WAS
the opinion of many lawyers that
Mrs. Kilgore would meet with some
opposition, but upon the motion of
her husband and the exhibition of
her diploma the Court, as is the Gus
tOmary practice, permitted her to be
sworn in. Mrs. Kilgore has not yet
presented herself for admission to
the Common Pleas Courts.
Miss Sophia King, of Manyunk, =
had promised faithfully to marry
Billy Heron but her father had re-
solved that this particular Heron
should not swoop down and carry
off his daughter, and accordingly he
and his two sons waylaid the young
man and assaulted him violently
with clubs. They were promptly
thrawn into isil, and would doubt
less have languished there all sum-
mer but for an ingenious magistrate,
who suggested that the young man
should Withdraw the charge and the
old man extend the paternal palms
and exclaim, God bless you :" The
father said that it was a nausea.ing
dose, but a dungeon yawned before
him, no bail was offered, and he
to swallow il.
Ten suits were entered against
the cities of New York and Brooklyn
bridge trustees. for alleged negligence
in the construction of the bridge,
there by contributing to the recent
by which a number of
persons were killed and many MAIN
ed. Damages TO the amount of s2O,-
coo are claimed in each case. Ii is
held that the trustees were clearly
res ponsible for the accident, in hav-
ing thrown open the bridge for travel
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