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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
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DUBUQUE. Iewa., June 16.-ke-
ports from various points Indicate
that Sunday nights storm Saged
most heavily betneen Chsrokes and
Sioux City. At Rsmsen the school
house and Catholic Church was en-
tirelv demolished. Marcus seems
to have suffered severely, the rail-
road freighthouse was demolished.
the freight blown to atoms, and can
not be found. Nearly every build
ing in the town is damaged, and the
Methodist Episcopal Church is COM
pletely ruined. The house of n. 4.
Ames is gone and two of its occu-
pants have been found dead. The
reports indicate great damage to
property, and it is feared other lives
are lost. At Cherokee the new
school house was damaged to the
extent of 81 900.
LRwARs, Iowa. June 16.-This Sec
ton was visited Sunday night by
the most destructive storm ever
known in this part of the country.
The rain fell in torrents, accOmpsn-
led by a terrible wind and electric
storm. The gas house here was COM
pletely demolished. The spire OF
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 1855
feet high, was blown down and the
building damaged to the extent OF
81 600. St. James Catholic Church
was totally wrecked at loss Of $40, :
600.
The Plymouth Roller Mills and
Elevator were unroofed, and smoke
stack demolished, cribs blown down
and all damaged to the extent OF
about $4,000. Many houses and
barns in the country were unroofed
and damaged in q great variety OF
ways. The loss is estimated at $780,
600 with nearly an equal amount in
the surrounding country. No lives
were lost in town, but two mon and
two children were killed in the
country, while the wounded num-
ber six or eight, several of them be-
ing dangerously injured.
Mason Cry, IA, June 16-The
house and barns of Matthew Reddy,
several miles from here, in the coun-
ty, were carried away in the storm
Of Sunday night, and the family had
q fearful experience. There are
hardly boards enough left about the
homestead to build a fire. Not q
bit of furniture nor stitch of cloth
ing can be found. The wreck Is
complete.
Mr.. Reddy's brother was hurled
into field when the house went to
pieces. Mr.. Reddy was left in . sit
ting position on the ground. On
looking around he saw by fash of
that his brother was
stretched dead some yard away. He
picked him up and carried him into
an underground milk house. He
then commenced search for his
wife, and found her some ten rods
from the house in a corn field. She
was also carried to the milk house.
He next looked for his five-year-
old boy searching by the light of
the electric flashes-and at last dis
covered the infant thirty rods from
where the house had stood. The
boy was almost driven into the mud.
When they were gathered into the
milk house their injuries were dis
covered to be sew re, and the moth
er and child will hardly live.
The brother had both ears split,
bis head gashed and his shoulder
cut and bruised. The wife had three
gashes on her forehead, one on her
nose. big cut in the back, bruises
on her legs, and is injured Internal
ly. All three were beaten black and
blue all over their bodies by the
hail.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

WE take no stock in the recent
report that Governor Pattison will
call an extra session of the Legisla-
ture next winter. People don't often
monkey with buzz-saw a second
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

The directors of the West Penn
Hospital at Pittsburg have been
compelled, because of the small APP
preparation voted that institution
by the Legislature, to discharge
about ninety old, crippled soldiers
who had found shelter within its
uallc
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

The newspaper correspondents
are again insisting that Assistant P.
M. General Hay must retire or die.
Meanwhile that gentleman is daily
swinging his official axe with rigor
betokening both health and enjoy
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

LANCASTER, June 18.-This even
ing Casper Weaver, . baker, Of this
city. was hauling in hay, and when
near his stable be Lost his balance
and fell from the load. He stxuck
upon his head and his neck was
broken, causing death. He was q
German by birth, but had lived 10
Lancaster for many yeass. He vas
almost seventy ysa1 Of age and IN
old and respected citi1sn. He lssvel
q family ofgrown children.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
ApJurASr GENERAL Drum. u

ADJUrANT GENERAL DRUM, U. S.
Army, has had completed a list of
the casualties in the Federal Army
during the late war. This shows
the aggregate number of deaths to
have beeen 350. .496, Of which 29,407
occurred among Union soldiers held
as prisoners OF war. The total
number Of troops put in service by
the various States is placed at 2,772,.
400, but as in some cases the returns
were inadvertently duplicated, the
Adjutant General estimates that the
actual number was 100000.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
ST.. CLOUD HOTEL,

The following is the call OF Chair
man Cooper for the Republican State
Convention.
ST. CLOUD HOTEL,
PHILADELPHIA, June /, 1885.
Pursuant to the rules Of the party
and the action of the State Commit
tee the Republican State Convention
will be held in the hall of the House
of Representatives, at Harrisburg,
on the second Wednesday of July,
the Sth, 1885, at 10 o'clock a. 10.
Senatorial and Representative dele
gates will be chosen under the old
apportionment act as Senators and
Representatives are nominated In
their respective districts.
By order of the Republican State
Committee.
THOMAS V. COOPER,
Chairman.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
Wesk - shs LAehselpe ~ CAsssef
Coanev.

Wsr CsnrEs, June 17.-During
. heavy thunderstorm which visit
- Chester county last night the barn
Of Charles r. Brown was struck by
lightning and destroyed. together
Uitb ssSeral Wagons and some farm
Waehipsry Of valpahls character.
The stock we're got out in time. In
sured.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

SIMLA, June 16.-Shocks of earth
quake have recurred in Cashmere
with increased violence. 1t is re-
ported that 2,2Sl persons have per-
ished in the district of Muzufurabad.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
Another German Soldier Dead.

CARLSBAD, June 17.-Field Mar
ehal Baron Won Manteuffel, the dis
tinguished German commander and
Governor of Alsace-Lorraine, died
suddenly here this morning of pull
monary congestion. Baron Won
Manteuffel was born in 1909.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24


The Women's Christian Temper.
ance Union of Ohio, at a State Con
vention held last week, agreed to
oppose the Republican candidates
and particularly that for Governor
Judge Foraker. The alleged Of
fence of the Judge is that be ran on
a liquor tax platform two years ago
and stands on similar platform in
the present canvass.
This resolution has caused a split
in the ranks of the lady reformers,
and the moral influence of the asso.
citation will be largely impaired by
its reckless leap into the arms of the
political prohibitionists. Gail Ham
ilton, in her article Prohibition in
Practice" in the North american
Recie,1 for July, makes the follow
ing plain-spoken remarks on politi-
cal action, that might be studied
with profit by her over-zealous sis
tiers of the w. C. T. U. of Ohio and
elsewhere:
The one hope of an unrestricted
LIQUOR traffic is the Democratic par
ty, and the one hope of the Demo
cratic party is in the Prohibition
party. Before temperance as pub
lie sentiment, as a moral habit, as a
moral principle, as a manly habit,
the saloons must go down. As a
political plank, as an election con-
test, as a constitutional amendment,
temperance is a mere diversion from
the main issue, is not feared, is in
deed desired by the Democratic par
ty. There is not state in which
they do not hail it as a relief from
impending immediate danger. In
temperance apprehends no harm to
its craft from the Prohibition party,
while absolutism is always endan-
gered by the triumph of the Repub-
lican party. the Democratic party,
with its principles outspoken and
its record read of all men, has no
chance before the peoplei In the
South, where the Democratic party
has intrenched itself by force, polit-
ical prohibition is not suffered to
move the wing or open the mouth
or peep. In Georgia ee-fourths
of the counties enforce prohibition;
in Georgia, of a total vote of 143,610
the Prohibition candidate received
1876. But in the Ncrth, where the
Democratic party is weak, it cher
ishes prohibition like a nursing
mother, and its caresses are return.
ed with a collusive fondness. As il
winged from Democratic bow the
Prohibition arrow flew straight to
the States where the Democratic
party had the best show for victory.
Torpid in all the States where il
could harm the Democratic party
and where it could not vitality harm
the Republican party, it was active
in those State where even its small
power could turn the tide against
the Republicans. What has been
done may be done again, but it will
be better understood. Prohibition
lists may continue to be Democratic
allies, but they will not be so well
disguised Democrats.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

The Liberty Bell has returned
from its pilgrimage to New Orleans
safe. and - sound as when it was
loaned 10 the managers of the Ex-
position. 1t was an attraction to
Thousands Of visitors. and during its
absence was the prolific theme Of
unlimited gush for certain Philadel-
phia journalists. The denizens Of
the Quaker City have cause for be-
ing twice glad. Glad that the sa-
cred old relic is safely home, and
glad that . stopper has been put up
on the gushing journals served with
fheir morning meals.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

The air is still vocal with the tune
Jordan am hard road to travel, /"
sung in full chorus by thousands of
Democratic Office expectants.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

ministration for trucking 10 mug
wump squeamishness in the ma1tsr,
and said: 1t has got beyond neoes-
sity of concealment that the killing
of Prent. Matthews was q political
necessity. He was educated, well
of and hard-headed. He held the
negroes up to the Republican rack,
and persuasion to desist had no eff
feet upon him. So long as he re-
fused to quit he had to be killed, in
order that Mississippi should remain
a Democratic State, and that Dem
ocratic president might be elected.
Why make so much fuss about
Matthews, when scores of such men
had to be killed before Lamar could
90 to the Senate and thence to Cleve-
lands Cabinet2 If Meade resigns
on the demand of the president he
is fool, and if the president insists
upon it he is a white-livered hypo-
crite, and only worthy the contempt
of faithful Democrats
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

TaAT the ways Of the Democracy
are pest finding out is- well Illus
zrsted by the action of that party in
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
A DMINIsTRAToR's NOTICE.

Estate Of Thomas Ream, decd, late Of Lower
Tufkeyfoot Twp, Somerset County, Pa.
Letters OF adninistratfon % the above estate
having been granted to the undsrsigned by the
proper authority, notice 10 hereby given 70 all
persons indebted TO said estate 70 make immedi-
sss payment and those having claims against the
element on or before Frtday tha a1st day Of July,
lsss,ist the late resiosncs Of deceased, in Lower
Tsrhsyfoet Twp. -
lunl5. AdmInlserator.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
A UDIToR's NOTICE.
4 EGAL NOTICE.

10 Jeremiah yutzy, Of Sioux City, Iowa. Annie
e drHsssssiis Hc', Mary Bocsss II donssd Sss
Grove. Iowa. 3. n. Yutsy, Of Mount 10y, Ian.
easter County, Pa, and the heirscf Elizabeth
Bocke1, deed, OF Conrad Grove, Ia:
You are hereby notifed that II pursuance OF
. Wit ofParfition issucd out Of tho Orphans
Court Of Somerset County, Pa, will hold an in
Qneet on the roal estate Of Daniel Yutxy. deed,
q 0reenyiIle Twp, at his late residences, on
tsnd II You think proper
JOHN WINTERS,
SHHRryy's OyyIcz, I Sheriff.
June 3. 1y95.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

The undersigned, an Auditor appointed BY the
Orphans Court Of Somerset County Pa, on mo-
ton OF F'W. Biessckef, ESQ.,, council for the Ad-
miuistratof Of Jossph Bsrkoy. decd to ascertain
the advancements and the amount due from the
report distrib1tion Of The fsod h The hands Of
the Aduinistfstors Of mid daeoased TO and among
those legally entitisd thseete. notics is hereby
giyen that will discharge The duties Of said ap-
polntment ut my oflce In Somerset, Pa, on
Thursday, July 2, 1885 at o'clock p. H. of said
day. when and whers al persons interested can
attend It they see propes.
iuneci Auditor.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
TEE STATE CONVENTION.

" EpNEsDAY............ JUNE "a. lsss'
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A UDITOR'S NOTICE.

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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-16
Gen. Shcrman's Attack Oh Jeffe rsOn
Davis

The ingenious efforts of certain republi-
can Senators to get up a sectional debate
over the Sherman Davis controversy was
attended on Monday with some success,
owing to the failure of several Southern
Senators to remember that any chivalrous
effect on their part to secure fair treat
ment to compatriot eminent for his part
ia the civil war of lS6l-65 would be
treated by the politicians with whom they
had to deal in = cynical spirit. and be
utilized for party purposes. The inertia
Of the controversy may be very briefly
stated. Gen. Sherman recently addressed
a long communications to the Secretary of
War to substantiate his assertion that Mr..
Jefferson Davis, while President of the
late Confederate States, abandoned his
States rights doctrines and aimed at .
die atorship. General Sherman endeavors
to justify his position by quoting letter
from Alexander H. Stephens, the opposi-
ton to Mr.. Davis of Gov. Brown, of
Georgia, a letter addressed TO Gov Vance,
Of North Carolina, and by the recital Of
conversations held with him (Sherman)
during his passage through Georgia, to
the effect that Georgia was anxious to Sc
cede from the Confeieracy and so bring
tho war to an earlier close, but was kept
in the league through the intervention OF
Mr.. Davis. General Sherman gives fresh
currency to the charge of fsvoritism shown
by Mr.. Davis in the choice OF military
commanders, and quotes an article from q
Richmond paper to prove that Mr.. Davis
meditated strong measures, and that he
was bold, bad nah, who abused the
power corfided to him, and was the one
gres' cause that the war WAS not brought
Sherman also refers to letter which he
had read, but which was subsequently re-
turned tn the person from whom he got it,
that would show, if it were published. the
inordinate ambition OF Mr.. Davis, and his
determination, if necessary, to use force
against one OF the Confederate States un-
dor certain gwen circumstances. Mr..
Davis has denied categorlcally thai be
ever meditsted such . measure, and has
called upon Gen. Sherman for his proofs.
The letter upon which Gen Sherman
claims to have founded his accusation not
being forthcoming, the proofs upon which
he depended falls to the ground un ess the
public agrees to accept as true the inter
probation be puts upon it. There is res' y
nothing confirmatory of the charge made
by him in his long COMMUNICATION 81 the
subject addressed to the Secretary OF War.
II is difficult to see what motive General
Sherman can have at this time in attack
ing Mr.. Davis. and in reviving old ami
mosi'ies ag,ins, the Sou b and its leaders.
-BIlto Sga
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-16

VI 5 Belys Lock wood the can liH4,e o.
the equal rights party Tor President III,
late campaign. has sent % the Ncna'v
through Senator llnar, petition s,kiny
New Hampshire, Indiana. Iowa. Michigan
Illinois, Maryland and C.liforui. b.,
counted, and that the electors vote If In
diana be given To her. She charges tina
the votes cast tor her were fraululentl'
and illegally counted OF the alleged ma
jorty candidate, the same being antarn
nistic - the letter and spirit Of the aw
and suhversive Of every principle Of tquit,
and justice" She also asks tat IL,
Senate refuse 10 receive the electoral 70
turns Of the State Of New York or corn.
them tor the allcgel majority candidate
for had the | 1886 votes which were police
in said State for the petitioner beer
counted f,r her and not for one Grove,
Cleve land he would not have been AWARDED
a MAORI y of all the votes east A. sac
election in SAID State The reason 70
asking that the electoral vote of Indian,
be cast for her she says is that after Ii,
electoral college of that State had cas-
its vote for the aforesaid Grover Clevelanc
it changed its mind n. it had a lega
right to do, and did cast is unitel b4Iln
for your petitioner
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-16

The year which has Just ended vii
long be remembered for the number and
gravity Of its business failures. Not since
the disastrous year Of 1878 have So many
business houses gone under. II thai
year the number of failures rep"r ed was
10,47S, with aggregate iishi tiles of 234.-
383. 1872. In 1884 the failures were 10 9Gs
the liabilities. however. nggrcga ing or "
1925 343,427. In 1881 the aggregate liza
bilities through failures were only $751;
155,935, or $l45, .495 less than during
the past year
A comparison Of these figures shows
how serious has been the progress down
ward in the last three years With the
change Of administration the general CON
fidence that President Cleveland Will give
= wise, economical, and conservative Gov
eminent, and the natural tendency of bust
ness to brighten after the Presidential
canvass, We have reason to expect an up
ward movement. Indee ), advices from
all sections already show that many man
ufacturing establishments, some of which
have been idle tor several years. have re
sumed operations, and the hope is not vain
that the year 1885, which will inaugurate
the first Democratic President in quarter
of a century. will also inaugurate bust
ness boom OF wide dimensions
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-16

The Philadelphia Press has been at the
pains to gather from official sources in
formation as to the action taken by the
States of the Union in regard to the res
friction of the use, manufacture or sale OF
Intoxicating liquors. Five States have
prohibitory laws-Maine, New Hampshire
Vermont, Iowa and Kansas. Thirteen are
without genera laws upon the subject
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Indiana, Wis
consin and Michigan have tried prohibi.
ton, and finding it ineffective have had
recourse to less drastic measures. Twenty
States and Territories deal with the liquor
question Ivy means of a license or q local.
option system. Local option is the more
popular system, as it comedies to commu.
mites the right to deal with the question
according to the individual convictions or
needs. Rural neighborhoods and popu-
lous cities may have different views and
interests, and it is the merit of the local.
option method that it provides fer this
possible difference.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-16

Two or three weeks ago there appeared
to be danger of sheriff's sale of General
Grants personal effects, consisting of Off
cial commissions, sword', medals, souve-
Mrs from foreign countries and other val
ued effects. Hearing this, and with what
appeared to be sure evidence before them
that the danger of such sale was imminent
some of Gen. Grants friends resolved to
protect these historic and treasured OBJ
jects and also his other personal effects by
buying them at their appraised valuation,
or at such sale if the opportunity offered,
they would have furnished the money for
that purpose. In looking into the legal
points of the case it was found that the
contemplated sale was a friendly action on
the part OF Mr.. Vanderbilt to obtain legal
title free from any further lien, and, after
acquiring possession, to preserve such per-
sonal effects and souvenirs for Gen. Grant.
This he did by turning them over IN q
deed of trust to Mrs. Grant to be held tor
the General as soon as he obtained legal
p ,ssession. This generous action of Mr.
Vanderbilt preserves to Gen. Grant and
the American people the treasured objects
it was the purpose of his other friends to
protect. The amount involved in this
trust from Mr.. Vanderbilt is $4,000.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-16

John B. Clark, c'erk of the House OF
Representatives, has prepared an unoffi-
cial roll of the membership of the House
in the Folty-ninth Congress. That House
will contain 1872 Democrats, 14O Republi-
cans, Greenback- Democrat (Mr. Weaver,
of Iowa. and 1 Greenback- Republican,
(Mr. Brumm, of Pennsylvania A vacan-
cy exists in the nineteenth congressional
district of Pennsylvania. Ofthe members
of the present House 1877 have been re-
elected. Arkansas, Delaware, Kansas,
Maine and West Virginia have made no
change in their Representatives Colorado
Nevada and Oregon, each with one mem
Der, have changed their delegations. Of
the territorial delegates in the prs.en,
House only one. J. T. Caine, of Utah, is
returned to the Forty ninth Congress =
Arizona and Wyoming, which are now re-
presented by Democrats, will send Repub-
lican successors, while Idaho and Wash
ington have elected Democrats to succeed
Republicans.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-16

The conservation of Bishop Paret took
place at the Epiphany Church, Washing
ton, on Thursday morning of last week at
1890 o'clock. Bishop Lee, of Delawar
who is the senior and presiding bishop OF
the United States, conducted the services.
He was assisted by Bishops Stevens and
Howe, both of Pennsylvania. Bishop Ly-
man, of North Carolina, preached the ser
mon. The clergy of this diocese attended
in body and many from adjoining States
were also present. The new Bishop preach
ed his first sermon after his conservation
at Upper Marlboro on last Sunday. This
was done as a compliment to the Rev DR..
levin, who, as chairman of the standing
committee, had SO ably managed the az
1alrs of the diocese curing the interim be-
tween the death of Bishop Pinkney and
the election of Bishop Paret.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-16

We are not concerned about the causes
that have led Dir. Randall to visit the
South That he has chosen to talk pro.
lection is nothing, # the people who com
posed his audiences desired to hear him
on that subject. We think he could have
chosen a theme more in harmony with the
general sentiment of the Southern people
but he does violence to no rule of good
breeding by expressing his views on any
subject so long as he is not offensive to
those who hold different opinions. The
men of the South are not so tickle that
any one need be alarmed lest Mr.. Randall
should convince US all that we have been
wrong as to this very important matter
Raleigh Neus and Observer.