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AMERMAN, the Democratic leader
in the House, reported to that body,
and had passed by party vote, a
bill to 60 outside the Legislature
and select half a dozen citizens to
frame an apportionment bill. The
adoption of this proposition is a
clear confession of Democratic lack
of brains to manage public affairs.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-05

THERE is just at this time s403,-
100000 in ready cash in the United
States Treasury, and more piling in
every day. 1t is the full Treasury
and the general prosperity which
makes the Democratic mouth water
and fingers itch.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-05

The Greenbackers held their State
Convention at Williamsport, Pa,
on Thursday last, and nominated
I. P. Rynder, of Altoona, for Aud
itor General, and A. q. Marsh, of
Eric. for State Treasurer.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-05

THE first appointment under the
new Civil Service system was that OF
a woman, Miss Mary F. Hoyt, OF
Connecticut, whose standing was the
highest in the recent examinations.
She is a graduate of Nassar.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-05

UNDER the amendments to the
Revenue laws, lowering some OF the
taxes and abolishing others, the
revenues were decreased during the
month of August s6,094,009.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-05

DAKOTA has an area of 96,500,000
acres, and a population reaching
very nearly 100000, and yet there
are statesmen who try to make the
people believe that the Territory is
too small to divide, and too sparsely
populated for a State.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-05
What the Postal Guide Will Show

WASHINGTON, August 2S.-The
September Postal Guide will show
that there are now 4S,046 post Off
ces in the United States, of which
number 2l76 are presidential offices
and 1913 money order offices. Since
the year 1875 the number of post
offices has been increased 40 per
cent. The next issue of the Guide
will be compressed inso sc pages,
the number fixed by the contract.
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Death by a Burtsing Grindstone.

RICHMOND, Va, Aug 2S.-Spencer
Coleman, colored, was instantly kill
ed here to-day by the bursting of a
large grindstone which was being
tried for the first time. Coleman
was standing about thirty feet from
the stone, when a piece weighing
seventy-five pounds struck him,
knocking the top of his head off.
One piece of the stone went through
a nine inch wall, making whole
almost as large as an ordinary door
and another piece went through the
endof the building, tearing up planks
right and left.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-05

The value of California's wheat
crop this year, is estimated at $780,
100000. This beats her mines a long
EaU
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-05

THE trial of young Mutt, for the
killing of Dukes, commences at I'm
iontown tomorrow, Thursday, the
9Th inst
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-05

THERE are now 4S,046 post offices
in the United States, of which 6,3l3
are money order offices.
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Railroad Accident.

WHEELING, w. Va, Aug. 27.-At
halfpast IL o'clock this morning a
collision occurred on the Pittsburg,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-05

THE decrease in the public debt
during the month of August, was
S6.671.S51.
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FOR POOR HOUSE DIRECTOR:
REUBEN WOY, Somerset Bor.
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VI"HTpe people are always on the
NM l. lookout tor chances to n
" NT crease their earnings. and n
i VI time become wealthy; those
who do not improve their opportunities remain in
poverty. We offer great chance TO make mon
ey. We want many men, women. boys and girls
10 work for Us right in their own localities. ANY
one can do the work properly from the trst sat
The business will pay more than ten times orr
nary wages. Expensive outfit furnished free
one who engages tails to make money rapidly
You can devote your whole time to the work or
only your spare moments Full information and
all that is needed sent free. Address STINsoS *
Co, Portland, Maine. deeply
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FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY
F. w. BIESECKER, Somerset Bor.
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REPUBLICAN, GOuNTY TICKET
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FnR cnI-NTY SURVEYOR:

WILLIAM BAKER, Milford Twp.
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REPUBLICAN STATE TIcKET.
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FOR AUDITOR GENERAL:
JEROME b. NILES, Tioga County.
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FOR STATE TREASURER
WILLIAM LIVSEY, Allegheny Co.
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EDWARD scULL. Editor and Proprietor.
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wFpNEspAY. September 5. lsss.
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as to the departure of her train, the change Of
cars in Chicago, checking baggage, ETC., aud
went from the ticket office smiling at the man
ner in which she would surprise her husband.
few minutes later the ticket-seller found on
the counter the ticket he had sold her with the
change.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND has just CONF
pleted a novel that has been accepted by Har-
per Bros. 1t will be brought out next February,
The title is ''The Entailed Hat" The scene of
the story is laid on the east shore of Maryland.
The time of the story is during the slavery
period and 1t deals with several historic cases
of kidnapping The book is a fine sketch of the
political history of the time and is said to be
very dramatic.
ALEXANDER, the Ohio eolored cadet who was
admitted TO the military academy upon passing
the examination after the white boy, whose al
Uernate he was, had failed to pass, occupies a
very different position in the academy from that
OF ripper and Whitaker Alexander is treated
as an equal by the boys of his class in their work
and play. No difference ia made between him
and any other boy by his comrades All this
without constrant on the part of the authorities
OF the academy and in the most natural way pos
sible. The instructors think we'll of him.
THE Auburn Advertiser says that the Hon. A.
N. Cole of Wellsvine, who has been called the
rather OF the Republican party, has written it a
letter In which he remarks 81 have for years
been saying to James G. Blaine, John Sherman,
Reuben E. Fenton and Others that the first emf.
nent American to move for such a reform in our
caucus and convention systems as would enable
voters to record their choice by ballot touching
nominations would deserve the presidency I
now say that if the Republicans of the country
| can be permitted to name their candidate in this
way for 1884, the man thus nominated Will be
elected by majority greater than has ever been
given since the foundation of our government"
MR.. ALGERNON GRAVES has drawn up o tabu-
lar statement of the number Of times portraits
OF eminent persons have been put on exhibition
| in England, between the years 1850 and 1880.
At the head of the list is Wellington, the "Iron
Duke" with 13S portraits; second is Queen
Victoris, with H. and third is the "frst gentle
man in Eureps," George ", with lis. Lord
Nelson follows close after some other royal per-
souages with As, and is in turn followed by Mrs.
| Siddons with 43. On the other hand, Dr.. Sam
uel johnson, Sir Humphry Davy and Alfred Ten
| nyson narrowly escape being left off the list al
| together, for it does not include any one whose
| portrait has not been exhibited more than six
| times
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

Harrison and Briggs have not considered the
interest of the public. They have removed
Dr. Wright from the care of the sick and in
stalled in his place one whom the pub
lie knows but little or nothing about DIR.
Wright was peculiarly fitted for the posi-
ton he had occupied for years, and his re-
moval was an outrage upon the people of
the State, as we'll as upon the inmates of the
public interest, but to pay for personal de-
votion. The people understand this matter
in its true light, and will administer to Har-
rison and Briggs and the party of which
they are the opponents and instruments a
rebuke they will never forget.
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ABOUT PEOPLE.

THE Count de ChamhOrd left 400, 900 francs
to the fund of "Peters pence"
PROF SCHILLING took his own daughter as
model for the great statue Of Germania, to be
unveiled next month by the Emperor
DR.. GRIFFIN, the stepfather of Miss Mary An
derson writes to Louisville friend as follows
"While we are boating on the Thames me and
Mary is the synoshure of all eyes"
GERALD MAssEG will deliver during septem-
Der four Sunday afternoon lectures philo-
sophcal subjects in st. Geor ge's Hall, London,
and will then come to this country.
Mr.. WILLIAM SwIsToN, the well-known jour
nalist and writer of school textbooks, is about
to begin the publication of Swintons Story
teller which is to be devoted to short stories.
A CABLE letter says Tennysoa's income has
fallen off His publishers used TO guarantee MIN
Sis, 900 a year, but are able to do it no longer
His efforts to write for the stage have been no
advantage to him financially.
Mr.. WALTER ". SKEATs. the English lexicog-
rapher says that popular etymology is salts
fled with explaining only half word. Grow
lock" he believes to be pedantc spelling, and
that the proper form is "oar-lock."
MRS. KATHARINE CHASE, as the European
hotel registers give the name of the lady who a
few months ago was known as Mrs. Catherine
Chase Spraguc, has been staying at Carlsbad, in
Bohemia, with her three daughters.
AUGUST HEINRICH RIEDEL, the "Nestor of
German painters" who has just died, was
eighty-four years of age and lived for over half
a century at Rome His special artistic distinc-
ton was his influence upon the German school
from his studies of sunshine upon human fig
ures.
WOMEN and girls "doing" the European resorts
are seen with the Mother Hubbard caue which
they hold before them, leaning on it with both
hands. These canes are often seen in London
parks during the season, carried by elderly and
young women, large bows of ribbon being tied
near the top of the cane, the same color as the
dress.
A LADY entered n ticket office in Toledo and
bought a ticket for Milwaukee. She told the
ticket-seller that she had never travelled alone,
and thai her husband had always told her that
she could not without trouble. She desired to
dispr0ve it by making this trip alone. Accord
ingly, she asked for and got all the information
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

BERTHA BRADSHAW, of Louisville, aged
eighteen, has gone violently insane over re-
ligion. She was Converted" few months
ago, since which time she has almost con-
stantly read the Bible and prayed. When
her father, who seems to be a sensible man,
demonstrated with her, she would drop to
her knees and pray for his conversion. IN
fortunately, her mother encouraged her in
her excessive zeal, until at last her mind
gave way under the unnatural strain, and on
Wednesday she ran screaming into the street
under the hallucinaton that she was in
heaven in the presence of the Creator. Re-
ligion is common-sense if it is of any value
to humanity, and commoa sense forbids un-
natural, unreasonable religious excuses as
clearly as it forbios overtaxing the mind or
body in any other direction. Nat Thornton,
well-known citizen of Chattanooga, went
insane on the same day, on the same ac-
count These and numberless other cases
are to be charged to the account of the relig-
ioas mountebanks who go through the coun-
try under the name of evangelists and are
sustained and supported, in large measure,
by many churches.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

THE Shelbyville Democrat says that eff
Democratic House all professions for tariff
reform and pledges for reduction of import
duties become the merest subterfuge and a
shallow mockery" The Democrat should
not rend its intimate linen in this manner
1t will be able to talk with more sense and
discretion after the Democratic caucus is
held. If Mr.. Randall is the nominee it will
speedily discover that he is the one Demo-
crat specially fitted for the place sans peur
1t sans reproche.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

THE Chicago banks can not kill the new
postal notes. The notes are in the interest of
the common people, and will speedily be-
come valuable and valued medium of ex-
change for small sums. Mistakes, of course
in their use, are unavoidable at first, There
will be mistakes when the two-cent letter
postage goes into effect next month, but
these mistakes do not affect the value of the
system. The postal notes are here to stay,
with such improvement as use suggests
They are already in the peoples currency to
a noticeable extent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

OF course neither Mr.. Tilden nor Mr.. Hen
bricks is a candidate" They are not sit
ting in the market places, with white robes,
or any other colored garments upon them,
soliciting the suffrases of their fellow citi-
zens. Neither one is a candidate; but he is a
very dolt in politics who does not know
very well that, like Byron's Spanish duenna,
they will be in a state of hopeful expectancy
to be forcibly overpowered by an excited
party convention. The Cincinnati Enquirer
has reached the point of saying that tits now
too late to pooh-pooh at the "old ticket"
and unless all signs fail in dry weather, Til
den and Hendricks is the team which, at
present, is in better condition for the race
than any other in the Democratic States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

THE final proceedings in the famous Kring
murder case have just been taken at st. Louis.
The death of the defendant has made further
prosecution futile, and the costs are being
fgnred up. They are expected to reach $40, 0OO
The story of Kring's case, briefly and finally
summed up, is as follows Charles F. king, a
ST. Louis druggist, became infatuated with Dora
Broemser, the wife of his business partner,
Jacob Broemser. The woman rejected his pro-
position To abandon her husband and family,
and for this, in fit of frenzy, he shot and killed
her in the rear of her own house. He ar
rested and committed to Jail Jan. IL, 1875, and
occupied cell for over eight years. He was
tried six times, was twice sentenced to death,
once TO twenty-five years in the penitentiary,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

THE Philadelphia board of education dis
cussed the question of women's wages this
week, and bel ng composed entirely of men,
it was decided that women. were inferior
mentally and physically, and should not re-
ceive the same pay for doing the same work
Besides, the responsibilities of men were
greater, and the tendency would be to drive
them out of educational pursuits should
women be granted equal salaries. After
these logical conclusions were reached moth
ing remained but to fix the salaries of the
Observation-Disclosures assistants at $500
and those OF the female assistants at 81 ,600
the latter being afterwards raised by the eff
forts of a respectable minority of the board
to 81, 800.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

THE Temperance" question will sooner or
later be solved by the demands of business
without regard to legislative enactment or
the moral feature of reform. The Erie rail-
way, following the Wabash. has decided to
employ no man addicted to the use of intox-
icants. But it goes step further than the
Wabash management did, and refuses to keep
on its pay rolls any man who regularly drinks
at ALL whether he gets intoxicated or
not. The argument is that the
man who drinks even in moderation
is affected thereby. A glass too much or
glass too little would weaken his judgment
the discharge of important trusts, such as
devolve upon trainmen, switchmen, operat-
ors etc. But the order applies alike to all,
from track-layers 10 the highest officer
There can be no question that many of the
accidents that have occurred, to the serious
loss of life and property, have been the
result of mudded brains, confused
by liquor, These two great corporations en-
ploy something like 10000 men, and when
an order of total abstinence goes out to such
an army, the influence is sure to be felt, and
the example will undoubtedly be initiated
Drunkards and drinkers must go. The dan
ger of employing them is too great, and the
simplest economy demands that they be not
given in charge of the lives and property of
Others
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

Ext osTMAsTER-GE NERAL CREswELL is a
warm advocate of the postal telegraph sys-
tenn. He says that the government came
very near building a telegraph line from
Washington to Boston at the time the West
ern Union company refused to make favor
able rates for the transmission of weather
reports. He thinks that if the line had been
built it would have prepared the way for ex-
tending theiwires all over the country, and
postal telegraphy would to-day be an accom-
nlished fact
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

ANOTHER gigantic land steal has been re-
vealed in California Schemers have secretly
and fraudulently gained possession of mil
lions of dollars worth of timber lands in the
northern part of the State, and will soon
have the lumber interests of that region
was made by means of dummies" that is,
by men assuming several names so as to Sc
cure title to as many homesteads, pre-emp-
tons, or timber claims as their perjuries
would permit. This case should be promptly
and thoroughly investigated and the guilty
parties brought to punishment. 1t may be
were frauds but i ought to be required of
these land-grabbers that they prove the I'M
questionable character of their claims,
otherwise let the land revert to public do
main. This vast evil should be throttled
now. The people of the United States want
no landed aristocracy and no immense
ranches like the Dorsey and other
ranches, which extend for fifty or
sixty miles across the most fer
tile region of the West. 1t is not popular
to see Englishmen buying up great tracts of
wild land. They never expect to become
citizens, and should not be allowed to own
an acre of the ground that belongs to the
people of America As it is, it will not be
long until British capitalists will own and
control land in our western territories to
lars. The evils of landed arts
tocracy and absentee landlordism
will weigh heavily upon the people
of those Territories, and trouble is certain to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

PRoF. GREGORY says that if the members of
the proposed national colored convention
are not properly treated at Louisville they
will adjourn to Indianapolis. where they
will be sure of respectful consideration. 1t
is a great mistake to attempt holding the
9onve ntion in State which even white Re-
publicans are compelled to leave. Indianap-
oils, by every consideration, is the one place
for national conference of the leading men
OF the colored race
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

Mr.. KAssoN states, with clearness, the true
position of the Republican party of Iowa
upon the prohibition question The party is
not in favor of prohibition as party, believ-
ing that to be question not properly in the
domain of party politics. but the people,
irrespective of party, having voted in favor
of prohibition, and their verdict being multi
fed through a technicality the Republican
party declares that the people have the right
to another submission of the amendment 10
their consideration. The party distinctly re-
pudiates prohibition as party issue, and in
this respect stands in position very similar
to that occupied by Indiana Republicans in
1882 but which was purposely obscured and
misrepresented by the Democracy and by a
few Republicans as well, for reasons which
may be better left to thought than to express
sion. Mr.. Kasson thinks there is no doubt
of Republican success in the Hawkeye State
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well-written biographies of prominent men
who have passed away, and makes special
mention of Martin Van Buren, and James
K. Polk. The great desideratum of existing
works of this kind, Mr.. Harper thinks is the
lack of authentic personal details. Another
instance OF which Mr.. Harper spoke was
President Harrison, concerning whom there
are two or three books in existence of very
little value except as to his military record.
The shrewd publisher intimates that it
would be desirable thing if Senator Harri-
son should address himself to the work of
writing life of his distinguished grand
father The Senator would make an excel
lent biographer, and such work would re-
ceive careful attention and wide reading.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

THE condition of the county jail as re-
vealed in the report of the grand jury, Is
disgusting and disgraceful, and it does not
help matters at all, if it be true as Sheriff
Hess says, that the jail is cleaner than it has
been for twenty years. The grand jury
says the bedding is infested with vermin,
and this seems to be conceded by the action
of the comm issioners yesterday in buying
new supply. This filthy condition of the
bedding has been contin ued for how long
can not be told, but the report states that
the fact has been called to the attention OF
the authorities twice at least, and one of the
jury said, with the bark on, that if there
was no improv ement some one would
be indicted for neglect. The state
ment of the report as to the
closet facilities for the inmates is shocking
those who would make jails and peniten-
hares such pleasant resorts that there would
be strife on the outside for places within
their walls, but that such a state of affairs
exists in the Marion county Jail as indicated
by the report of the grand jury, and that
with so little care or effort to remedy it, is
disgraceful to the county and to the State,
and particularly so to those who are charged
with the care of the prison and inmates. This
duty, by law, is devolved upon the sheriff,
and he is liable to fine and
other punishment for neglect of
it. The sheriffalty of Marion
county is understood to pay very handsome
ly, and when the public reads that bill for
more than So, 700 was paid for the keeping of
prisoners during the month of August, they
have the right to expect that something bet
ter than infested beds shall be supplied, and
not be necessity because of the niggardli-
ness or negligence OF those who coin scores
of thousands of dollars out of the Office every
year.
There is a growing sentiment in the land
that public Office must be administered as a
public trust, and not regarded as private
right to be used for personal gain simply
This sentiment has been developed and slim
ulated by the frequent and repeated in
stances of official misfeasance or malfeasance
exposed through the press, and it is senti-
ment which should be and will be encour-
aged. The party whose servants are in power
becomes chargeable with every misdeed and
shortcoming, and, speaking for the Repub-
lican party, and in its behalf, we feel war
ranted in saying plainly that men elected to
office by the suffrages of its members must
so conduct public affairs as to strengthen
and not weaken the hold of the party upon
popular regard.