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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-07-25

THE selection of Hon. Thos. V.
Cooper as Chairman of the Repub-
lican State Committee, is a compli-
ment well deserved by the vigor
displayed in the conduct of last
years campaign. Last years revolt
had no reference to Mr.. Cooper or
the action of his committee, and
therefore his selection now is gener-
ally acceptable. We doubt not that
he will lead the recruited party TO
victory.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-07-25

THE nominations for President
viii not be made until nearly wear
from this .ime, and yet, the proba-
bic and possible candidates are be-
ing brought forward and discussed
by the politicians and the newspa-
pers. OF course any canvass at the
present time is not worth much, as
an indication Of public sentiment.
A great many things will happen
within the year that must roll
around before the nominations are
made, and the election of this fall,
and the coming session of Congress
wiz largely influence results. But
Notwithstanding all this, there is
much significance in an article pub
lished in the New York Herald on
Thursday last, giving the substance
OF an interview with the editors of
three of the leading journals of that
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ocrats

THE publication Of the list Of pen
sioners viii soon be completed. 1t
will ill ten volumes of 500 pages
each, and will give the name, ad-
dress, disability and the amount Of
pension. of the 100000 pensioners
now on the rolls.
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A Hero Gone.

HAVANA, July 23.-General Z. o.
c. Ord, of tt United States Army.
who took passage on the CITY OF
Washington, at Vera Cruz, for New
York. and was taken sick with vel.
low fever, compelling his removal to
the shore while the vessel was here.
died last evening at 7 O'Clock.
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Suicide of "a Man.

ROCHESTER, Mimi, July 21.-
Charles Fisherman, a patient at the
Second Hospital for the Insane, COM
mitted suicide yesterday morning
by jumping into the furnace in the
bOiler-room. The fireman there did
not recognize him as a patient, and
before be could stop him he had
been burned to death. After getting
inside the furnace Fisherman stood
with his back to the red-hot brick
wall until insensible, when be fell
forward into the glowing Goals.
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Thrown from "a Train.

JoHNsTowN, Pa, July 20.-As the
Mail Express train west on the
Pennsylvania Railroad swung
around a sharp curve east of Will
more, w. c. Moody, of New York,
who was standing on the platform
smoking, was hurled to the ground.
He was stunned by the fall but in a
few minutes he sufficiently recover
ed to help himself from the track.
After waiting there until midday an
empty engine was dispatched from
Gallitzin, taking him aboard, and
bringing him to Johnstown, where
he received necessary medical at
tention. He was ticketed to Louis
vile and attributes the accident to
his own caaelessness, as he had been
particularly cautioned by Conductor
Kearney against standing on the
platform. His wounds are on the
scalp and contusions of the back and
and limbs. His clothing were also
destroyed so that he had to provide
himself with new outfit.
Passengers on the train were in
clined to criticise the conductor be-
cause he refused to stop and pick
the man up, but he said that there
was danger that another.train, the
Pacific Express, might run into his
train.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-07-25

SENATOR COOPER has been re-
elected Chairman of the Republican
State Committee. His election is ap-
proved by everybody but the Dem
ocrats.
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Forest in New York.

Troy, \. y. July 2t.-A subter-
ranean forest, seven feet below tn
surface Of the ground, has been disc
covered in Chasey, Clinton county
Many Of the trees are in an admira-
bic state of preservation.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-07-25

SOME of the Democratic journals
are raising the old Know-Nothingc cry
against Livsey, because he was born
in England.
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Ravages Of The Cholera.

ALEXANDRIA, July 20.-Twenty-
nine deaths from cholera occurred
yesterday a. Mansura. twenty-four
at Samanoud, twenty-eight at Ghizeh
forty four at Chirbip and three at
Camietta. There were sixteen
deaths from the disease at Menzaleh
on Tuesday.
CAIRO, July 20.-There were 14O
deaths from cholera here yesteid day.
Two regiments Of British troops have
gone to Suez.
LONDON, July 20.-The Standards
correspondent at Cairo says that
unless the English authorities
promptly take the direction OF affairs
the checking of the spread of cholera
will De hopeless. Even the simplest
sanitary arrangements are neglected.
The funeral system is most obnox-
ious. The eorpses, encased in very
slight collins, are carried through
the crowded streets on mems shoul-
ders. The clothes of persons dying
in the hospital are often stripped off
and taken for wearing purposes by
relatives. While man stricken
with cholera was on his way yester-
day in a cart to the hospital the dri-
yer stopped opposite cafe and gave
the invalid a drink from a water
bottle used by customers of the place
A few minutes afterwards the sick
man died opposite the largest cafe
in Cairo. The only precaution TAX
en- in this case was TO sprinkle a
little chlorid of lime on the corpse.
The cart then pursued its way.
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FOR POOR HOUSE DIRECTOR:
REUBEN WOY, Somerset Bor.
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The Apaches

ITcsoS, A; T., July lon
can Consul here has ,.is.ll
ter from the frontier. n15 TOS'si
July IA stating that at r',rei y. ]
place where General T, =. u ,rse
hostiles, in the district orr 'lIs &
they attacked a Mexic,,. .'o'''
and killed FIVE persons '.''
ment Of Mexican infsr,,,.A ! q
the savages, but found hs
strong a force, and ws,a 'a Z
with the loss Of seven n'as NC p,
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FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY
f. ". BIESECKER, Somerset Bor.
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Charles A. Dana, editor of that
great Democratic daily, the Sun, says
that Tilden's nomination is abso-
lutely out Of the question, and that
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-07-25

As a wriggier the Meyersdale COM
mercial is notorious, if not eminent
ly successful. Having asserted pos
itively that Mr.. Biesecker was not
eligible as candidate for District
Attorney, and having been fioored
by the publication of the law, by
which it proposes 10 back up its as
se-tion, it now attempts to wriggle
out Of the blunder It committed
through ignorance by shouting that
"he shaves through by fifty-nine
days" and that ''the spirit of the
law is violated" This is q very
small hole to creep out OF, after de-
claring that if Mr.. Biesecker was
elected, 'the Court would be COM
PEELED to declare the position vacant
in January and take proper means
to fiji it" and that by his nomina-
ton, his Stalwart friends exhibited
their profund contempt for the law.
After such display Of malice
and ignorance, the wriggler viii
have to pull his hole in after him.
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REPUBLICANS EourTY TlcKET.
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FOR AUDITOR GENERAL:
JEROME B. NILES, Tioga County.
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FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR:
WILLIAM BAKER, Milford Twp.
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FOR STATE TREASURER
WILLIAM LIySEY, Allegheny Co.
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AT their late State Convention the
Iowa Democrats came out fat-foot-
ed for free trade. So far, their plat
form is the only one adopted this
year, by any Democratic State Con
vention that does not wobble on the
tariff. a number Of distinguished
Democrats from States where the
party had not the courage to pro-
claim its convictions, have been in
vited to take part in the canvass, and
it will be interesting to note how
they will manage 10 straddle and
themselves between avow-
ed free trade and the pretended pro,
lection in "a trriff for revenue only"
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REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET
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LATER.
ALEXANDRIA, July 21.-There were
seven deaths from cholera at Dam
ietta yesterday, twenty-three at
Mansurah, fourteen at Choubar,
twelve at Samanoud, forty-four at
Chirbin, twenty eight at Ghiseh,
146 at Cairo and twenty-six at eight
small villages.
Quarantine has been abolished
throughout Egypt, except at this
city and in the Province OF Fay
oum, where it is maintained at the
request of Sir Edward Malet, the
British Consul General. a revised
list of the deaths at Cairo yesterday
gives the number at 242. Among
the victims were four Europeans.
The European Volunteer Commit
tee has discovered that q canal which
supplies crowded quarter of the city
with drinking water communicates,
in the native cemetery, with a place
used for washing corpses.
CAIRO, July 21.-The cofiins in
which the victims of the cholera are
buried here are covered with only a
few inches of earth. The Minister
OF the Interior declines TO interfere
to compel safer interment Of the
bodies
LONDON, July 21.-The Cairo cor
respondent of the Central Neir8 saws
that the actual number of deaths
during the last twenty-four hours
was nearly 600, and that the official
figures underestimate the number
of fatalities. The Gordon around
Alexandria has been moved nearer
the city. Cases of cholera are re-
ported in places which had not hith.
erto been affected with he disease.
WAsHITGToN, July 21.-The Sur
geon General ofthe Marine Hospital
Service has been informed that a
vessel from Vera Cruz has appeared
off Apalachicola. The Collector of
that port has been instructed tosend
the vessel to Ship Island. The Sur
geon General has also been informed
that smallpox and yellow fever have
appeared in Matanzas and Cienfue-
gos, Cuba, and that cholera exists in
Campeachy and Oaxaca, Mexico.
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EDWARD sCULL, Editor and Proprietor.
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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-12

Hartford Times.
A Bloomfield gentleman who had
been troubled by frequent invasions of
his neighbours hens, one day caught the
proud old rooster, who strutted at the
head Of the invaders, resolving to hum
BILE his lofty feelings by dressing the
captive rooster in suit of stiff of brown
paper, and then letting him 90, When
set at liberty he stood still and took a
survey of himself. The legs of his pam
falcons were not cut in the dude fashion
but we're large and baggy, and were
calculated to interfere with rapid loco
motion. But at last the rooster, in des-
peration, started for home. He put out
his right foot, and as the paper ley
rustled and ratified against its fellow.
chanticleer, still holding that foot aloft.
looked down upon his extremities with
a more puzzled expression that the man
did who was blown across the river by
a cyclone and landed unhurt by the side
of his wife, whom he had left at home
baking doughnuts. He next tried the
left foot, aud in about three minutes
had taken the second step. The ice
was at length broken, and the old
rooster, with slow and measured tread,
and with stately dignity traversed the
intervening space to the home. Here a
new surprise awaited him. The hens
of the flock didn't recognize him, and
ran screaming away. The old rooster
thought something was wrong, and he
started to run, but he changed his mind
right off His leggins were not cut for
a go-as-you-please. Then he sat down
and looked as woe.begone as base
ball umpire who had been hit by foul
and sworn at by both sides. The gen
tleman who acted the tailor and dressed
him up says he was never troubled
more by the rooster coming into his
yard, although the old bird would
mount the division fence once ever,
morning and crow like black blazes.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-12
The Presumption Of Innocence.

Blackwood's Magazine.
We pride ourselves in England on the
dignity, decorum and fairness with
which trials are conducted. In France
and on the Continent generally they
are said to degenerate to wiangle be-
tween the Judge and the accused. The
trial of Guiteau for the murder of Pres
ident Garfield did not proposes Eng
lishmen in favor of the criminal courts
of America, though probably that trial
cannot be accepted as fair specimen
of what is usual across the Atlantic
No such scenes would be possible in an
English court. Guiteau declared that he
must be deemed as innocent as any
man in court until convicted. and raved
and reared ad libitum. With us the
notion of a prisoner being presumed TO-
be innocent merely means that he is
entitled to the benefit of any reasona
BILE doubt, and the trial practically is
to see if such doubts really exists He
is at least three-four.hs on the way to
conviction before he pleads. Take
for instance, man on trial for murder.
A Coroner's jury have Investigated and
found him guilty. A magistrate has in
vestigated and decided to commit. A
Grand Jury on their oaths have found
true bill. The presumption of inno-
cence, i'm the face of those three decis-
ions, in which at least twenty five men,
probably more, have concurrcd, is only
another way of saving that the proof
must be beyond reasonable doubt.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-12

About 20, 900 young cells have been
' posted In the mill pond at Dlmondale, Ing
h IN county
A young girl from Detroit, Miss
Annie Ward, secured employment In hotel In
Marshall some time ago and has been there
since A few weeks ago she sold a quantity
OF surplus clothing TO young lady acquaint-
ance for $40, portion OF the money being
paid down and the rest To be paid In INSTALL
ments. A few nights ago, there being but $40
paid on the goods, and fearing she would De
cheated out OF the clothing, Miss Ward stole
into the girls room and secured the articles.
The next morning warrant was sworn out
for her and she was taken before Justice OF
the peace when she was surprised To learn that
she had committed states prison offense::
She returned the goods aud on pay ment Oh
costs was allowed TO depart, which she did
Immediately for Detroit, gnd TO leave "such a
peculiar city,"
Michael Hickey, resident of Chester
field, Macomb county for nearly so years, died
recently.
Harry G.. Wiley of Lansing, Michi-
gan military graduate, has been made major
In the LIST regiment of state troops
The report has reached Charlotte
that ID. McCutcheon, secretary OF Montana
territory, was recently married to Miss Clara
Follett, with whom his name has been unfav-
orally associated for some since his much
talked of divorce.
The name of Bloomer Center, Mont
calm county, has been changed to Boomer.
Joseph Newman, merchant and
town treasurer Of Dorr, Kent County, is undei
arrest ON charge OF bastardy. The com
plainant is a young Holland woman OF prepos
sessing appearance, who alleges that she was
induce 70 lodge with Newman at one OF the
frst-class hotels in Grand Rapids about sn
months ago.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-12

According TO recent volume on the
fora of the Intoxicating formations
of East Prussia by Messrs. Goeppert
and Menge, there must have existed in
that part of Europe in ancient days
group of conifere which comprised spc-
cimens from almost all parts of the
world. There were present such mag
nificent representatives of the Califor-
nian Conifere as the Red Wood, the
Sugar Pine. the Douglas Spruce; the
scarcely less majestic Bald Cypress, Red
Cedar, Thuya. and Pinus rigida gilmore
eastern states; the Gillian Incense Ce-
dar. the Parasol Fir, the Arbor-Vit@,
the Glyptostrobus and the Thuyopsis
| of the eastern coasts of Asia; the Scotch
Fir, the Spruce and the Cypress of
Eui ope, and the Callitris of Southern
Africa. The causes which led to the
dispersion and extinction in Europe. in
relatively recent times, of so consider
able group of conifere would be in
eresting to trace out.
From generations of these resin-bear-
ing trees along its shores have been
produced the deposits OF dmpcr ioI
which the Baltic is noted. The richest
deposits are situated along a strip OF
coast between Memel and Dantzic. but
the real home of amber has been sup
posed to lie in the bed Of the Baltic be-
tween Bornholm and the mainland. 1t
rests upon cretaceous rocks, and con
sists chiefly of their debris, forming a
peculiar mixture known as blue earth.
which appears to exist throughout the
Province of Samland at a depth OF
eighty to one hundred feet, and to con-
tain an almost inexhaustible supply OF
amber. This strip of blue earth extends
along the coast for sixty miles with q
breadth of twelve miles and an average
/ thickness of ten feet. Immense quanti'
ties of amber are washed out to SEQ
from the coast. or brought down by
rivulets and cast up again during
storms or in certain winds. The actua
yield by quarrying is 200, 900 to 3OO,OO(
pounds a year, or five times the guam
tity estimated to be cast up by thu
waves on the same coast.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-12
The Proper Position for Sleeping.

London World.
A German, Baron Reichenbach, has
occupied many years in studying the
art of bed making, or rather bed plac-
ing, and maintains that improperly
placed beds will shorten mans life.
If a mere magnet exercises an inau-
ence on sensitive persons, the earth's
magnetism must certainly make itself
felt on the nervous life of man. In
whatever hemisphere, you may always
sleep with your feet to the equator, and
let your body lie "true as needle to
the pole"
The proper direction of the body is of
the utmost Importance for the proper
circulation of the blood, and many dis
turbances in the organisms have been
cured by simply placing the bolster in
different point of the compass from that
it had occupied. Let sucE as have
hitherto been in the habit of sleeping
with their heads where their feet ought
to be take TO heart the example of tho
late DR.. Elschwester of Magdeburg, who
died recently at the age of one hundred
years.
The most unhealthy position, we are
told, is when the body lies due east and
west Some observations assures us
that to sleep in such a posture is tanta-
mount to committing suicide, and that
diseases are often aggravated by devia-
tons from the proper pastures.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-12

Sara Bernhardt says in her book that
she was not very pretty as a girl. We
can believe it. We imagine that Sara
at thirteen years of age might have look
ed something like the afternoon shadow
OF apatent fire-escape. New Orleans
Picayune.
See the eternal fitness of things. A
silver dollar of 1904 was recently sold
for Sl04, while the silver dollar Of the
present day is worth about 78 cents.
This is progression City Derrick.
More Oirish.-"Not hang our MUIR
therers. Be jabers! l should like TO
see the spalpeen that murdered me
hung twice. Judy.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-12
The Dental Commission.

Kalamazoo, j. A. Robinson of Jackson anc
Geo. X. Thomas of Detroit, as examiners IL.
dentistry under the law passed at the late ses-
sion of the state legislature. The beard will
organize at once and send circulars to all prac-
ticing dentists in the state. who shall send to
DR.. Thomas statement concerning their
length of practice and other particulars, ac-
companied by a fec OF 25 cents Failing to
respond the board will be obliged to examine
the dclinquents as to their standing and prof.
cheney, etc. DR.. Thomas is appointed for
three years, and is to be secretary of the board,
aud Robinson for two years, aud is treasurer.
and Metcalf for one year, Will be the presi-
dent.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-12
Sanitary Convention.

Arrangements having been madeby
committee of citizens of Muskegon, inconjunc-
ton with a committee OF the State Board OF
Health, a sanitary convention will be held In
Muskegon, on the 23d and Gath of August
Those interested in the important question OF
health, are looking forward to this convention
with much interest. Addresses and papers on
the best methods "elating to the prevention and
cure of diseases are TO be presented. Among
other subjects to be considered, those terribl',
scourges, scarlet fever, diphth"ria and small
pux, will be especially prominent. Sewerage
and drainage will be thoroughly cauvassed,
while ventilation, food, and the disposal of re-
fuse matter will be ably handled by competent
members of the medical profession. Admission
to all sessions of the convention will be Tree,
and the public are cordially invited. DIR. q. r.
Donelson of Muskegon VIII give any further III
| formation.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-12

IF the various countries maintain
their present rate of increase, Says Mr..
Gosselin, Secretary of Embassy at Ber-
lin, Fifty years hence the United States
will have a population of 10000. 900,
Russia approximately 1853, 900, 900, Ger
many $4,000. 900, the United Kingdom
63,000,000 Austria Hungary and Italy
both 100000, France only 40. 900. 600.
N. p. Williams, of the New Orleans
Times Democrat, is the leader of par
ty organized to explore region of
Florida into which remnant of the
Seminole Indians is supposed to have
fed, and where, It is said, no white
man has ever penetrated.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-12
Why He Married the Bachelor.

Chicago Cheek.
A postman left two letters at the resi-
dence of Chicago minister, both of
which contained an application for his
services to perform the marriage cere-
mony at the same time.
Il hardly know what to do" he re-
NAKED 20 his wife. II can't accomnIo-
date them both. Let me see--Mr. A.
has been married before, has he notP"
"Oh, yes" replied his wife, che lost
his first wife six months ago."
'Apd Mr.. b. is bachelorp"
Yes"
THAT settles it, then. ] shall marry
Mr.. b. When a man marries the sec
ond time he never pays the minister
any more than the law allows, but
young bachelors are sometimes very
foolish and the good man rubbed his
hands mildly.