The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-06-13

s., 100000.
Mrs. Hendricks and Mrs. McDon-
add are said to be better politicians
than their respective husbands.
The thermometer at Portland:
Oregon, last Tuesday stood at 920-
the hottest day since June, 1876.
1t is now said that Queen Victo-
ria has symptoms of dropsy, and
suffers from serious fits of depres-
sion.
Gen. d. B. McCreary, Of Erie, has
been spoken of as a candidate for
the Republican nomination for the
office OF State Treasurer,
Out of 10000 paper car wheels
running on the railroads in this
country during the past year, only
three failed or broke, q rec ord which
iron wheels cannot approach.
The excitement continues in re-
gard to the Lower California gold
fields. The exact location of the
fields is said to be known only to
the Indians in that locality.
The Vanderbilt family have pur-
chased the Bedford Springs property
and will use it in connection with
their new railroad line through the
southern tier of counties as a noun
tain summer resort
The Hessian fly is making sad
havoc in the wheat fields of Berks
county. In the southern section of
that county farmers report that they
do not expect more than four bush
els per acre from many tracts.
1t is said by officers ofthe Depart
ment of Agriculture that hog chole
ra has been practically extermina
ted. Unsuccessful attempts hav
been made for weeks to secure viru
from infected hogs for experimental
purposes.
A child was born to Ben Brook
ms unmarried daughter in Baldwin
county, Georgia. She confessed that
York Cooper, negro, was the
father. Brookins thereupon killed
Cooper, and the coroner's jury
returned a verdict of justifable
homicide.
Adelaide S. Smith brought suit
under the civil damages act in
Brooklyn against Patrick Dempsy
and Cornelius Clarke, liquor deal
ers, for $4,000 for selling her hus-
band liquor and causing him to be-
come a drunkard. The jury gave
her a verdict for $500.
The grand jury of Austin, Texas,
indicted forty or fifty members of
the legislature for gambling, and it
is reported that some one entered the
county Clerks office and stole all of
the indictments, including those
against the gambling legislators.
Sporting circles are greatly elated
over the event.
The drought in the neighborhood
of Lynchburg. Va, has resulted in
incalculable damage. Information
from the southwestern part OF the
State represents an alarming state of
affairs. The cattle raisers have to
purchase food for their stock, the
pastures being all dried up. The
crops are suffering greatly.
From Cumberland, Nd, come
rumors that horrible outrage has
been committed on colored boy
by stable boss at the Ocean mine.
Being angry at the boy he gave him
terrible beating, and then mutila-
ted him in a barbarous manner and
fled. He came from Virginia, and
has not yet been captured.
George H. Corliss, at whose works
in Rhode Island the big centen-
NAL engine was built, is building
the engines for the first cotton mills
to be erected in China. The Chi
nese are becoming so civilized that
they will soon be able to compete
with the rest of the world in making
silks and satins nine-tenths cotton
and one-tenth shine.
In the family of s. B. Cherry,
Cherry Valley. Washington county,
there is aspoted child, three months
old. On the child's body are several
spots. each one about the size of
nickel. One leg is entirely black.
The skin is smooth on the dark
spots. and il in no way different
from the rest of the body except in
color. The child is well developed
and bas good health. It's parents
are among the most highly respect
ed people in the township.
The tenth annual interstate pic
mic and exhibition under the auspi-
ces of the Patrons of Husbandrv Of
Pennsylvania. Maryland, West Vir-
ginia, New Jersey and Delaware
will open at Williams Grove, Cum
berland county, Pa, on Monday.
August %, 1888, and continue until
Saturday, August 18th. Agricultu-
raj and scientific addresses, by
prominent farmers and statesmen,
viii be delivered on Tuesday, We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday.
The bust of Garfield. the gift Of
the deaf mutes of the United States,
arrived from Italy just in time to be
put in place and decorated at the re-
cent anniversary exercises at the
National Deaf Mute College, Wash
ington. 1t is placed, embowered in
roses. in the niche in the wall imme-
diately above the spot where the
living Garfield had sat two years be-
fore. 1t is described as an excellent
portrait, and is the work of Daniel
G. French. son of the Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury, author of the
famous Minute Man" a. Concord.
DR.. S. J. Ford, of Hagerstown,
Indiana, died last week. Before his
1T L. horxa,nad for a ar,ocial ffl-