The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-07-09
w. S. KuHLNAx
Sec. of the School Board.
Ursina Pa, June %, 1884.

AuF DE RErsE.-In travelling along the
Bedford pike you meet wagons loaded with
lumber, shingles, cheese, cream. and car
riages, buggies. pedestrians and tramps, in-
quiring the way to the tunnel, though all
the tunneling they will do is through a
loaf of bread and piece of cold meat. 1t re-
minds you of the olden times, and you look
to see the old six-horse Conestoga teams
coming over the hills, and the four-horse
mail coach as it thunders down the hill
with its prancing steeds and gay driver, as
he toots on his horn TO waken up the next
sleepy postmaster.
You would suppose the County Home
was summer resort, with its fine buildings
and green lawn in front, flowers and orna-
mental trees. and from its elevated situation
and the good health of its inmates. Its san
itary condition is as good as any in the
State, which is owing greatly to the good
care and watchfulness Of the Steward and
his wife. With them cleanliness is a virtue
and here it is carried out. The farm ap-
pears to be in q good state of cultivation,
and the stock looks fine. Among the in
beied by nearly everybody in the county
on account of an episode in his life. In his
young days he drove stage on the Stoyes-
town pike and having fallen in love with a
girl who, it appears, did not reciprocate bis
affection, and his mind became affected /;
as he was coming inio Stoyestown, on the
top Of the hill, he threw down the lines and
began using the whip on the horses. Il is
at full speed, the coach plunging and sway
ing from side to side as 1t strlck the
breakers the passengers screaming, and the
crazy driver furiously laying on the whip.
When the team reached the bottom Of the
hill at Capt. Hite's they turned off into an
alley, and were stopped without injury to
any one. Moore was sent to Somerset and
put in irons, where he was kept for some
time and then sent TO the County Home,
where he has since remained. The Steward
has been very successful with the insane in
his care. Sam Arnold, who was always
considered dangerous, is now helping to do
the work on the farm, as well as several
Others.
The S. 2. r. r. crosses the farm a short
distance below the buildings. inclining to
the North as it leaves the farm it makes a
very short curve 10 the West again. To go
along the road from Daniel Kimnel's to the
to the Laurel Hill tunnel you would think
you were going over the old Thad. Stevens
railroad, of which the Democrats had
drawing stuck on every post as an election
eering scheme, the night before an election
long ago. Where the road crosses the pike
there will be cut from fifteen 70 twenty
feet, and according TO the best adyices the
Directors can get. the County is to be COM
pensqted for the land taken in this way.
Judge Baer will appoint three disinterested
persons, to be taken from other Counties,
who are to examine into the matter by
coming on the ground and assess the dam
age.
A brilliant meteor, apparently about the
size of a butter firkin, with a tail about 20
fee, long, few across the sky from East TO
West. about 9 O'Clock, on Thursday evening
1t is supposed 1t was sent as a specimen of
the FIRE works to be used on the 4th Of July
The Wills Church brass band was kept
from going to Berlin to celebrate the Fourth
on account of the bass drummer, Mr.. Frank
Pritz, having cut his foot nearly off while
making cross-tles.
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