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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23
MontreaI's Great Peril.

MONTREAL, Sept. 1.-THE death
rate from smallpox to-day was the
greatest since the outbreak, forty
two French Canadians falling VIC
Tins to the scourge. The contagion
is spreading at an alarming rate. AT
a meeting of the Board of Health
to-day, it was resolved to endeavor
by providing for families attacked,
and by furnishing the best hospital
accommodations, to prevail on them
to isolate themselves and if by the
end of the week this was not done
to force compulsory isolation. A
French Canadian member of the
board intimated that if this was at
tempted riot would ensue. The
number of cases is so alarming that
the authorities refuse to furnish in
formation to the press.
The widespread nature of the dis
ease is strongly shown by an Incl.
dent that occurred to-day in one OF
the high courts of justice. The
Criminal Court was trying man for
killing a police constable in street
row. The jury had been sworn in,
and half the testimony had been
taken, when the officials of the Pro-
vincial Board entered the court and
announced to Mr.. c. P. Davidson,
@. c.. an eminent lawyer, who rep
resents the Crown, that one OF the
Jurors named Guilimette had con-
fluent smallpox in his household.
They demanded that he be imme-
diately isolated, as his presence
among the other jurors would be a
sure means of spreading the scourge.
The Judge held hasty consultation
with Mr.. Davidson, and they finally
agreed that in the interest of society
the jury should be discharged. The
whole court room and the eleven
Jurors were thoroughly fumigated
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23
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Big Fire ar Altoona.

ALTOONA. September 20.-At four
o'clock this morning a & e broke
out in the planning mill of J S. Fries,
destroying the mill and It's contents,
the Office across the street, and an
adjoining she'd also three dwelling
houses bel ,hging to the O'Neil heirs,
one belonging to S. ]. Fries. and one
belonging TO Mrs. Maggie Detwiler.
Five families we're rendered home
less. The loss is $4,000; insurance
$4,000. The fire was of incendiary
origin.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23
Jumbo's Body Stripped and Cremated


ST.. THOMAS, Ont, Sept. 17.-Pro-
fessor H. A. Ward, proprietor of
Wards National Science establish
ment. Rochester. and w. J. Critchley
and c. E. Akely, taxidermists, ar
rived this morning, and removed
Jumbo's hide in three pieces. The
hide will be cured here and then
shipped to Rochester, mounted, and
sent to Tuft College, Boston. The
skeleton will be sent to the Smith
sonian Institution, Washington. A
funeral pyre was built with four
cords of wood and the flesh taken
from Jumbo's bones slowly burned
up.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23

work forfeiture Of the charter, and
a new company may be organized
that can take possession of the un-
finished work, but this involves a
delay of years, and thus the aim of
the monopolists viii be secured for
a term of years, during which they
can hatch further plots to delay and
hinder the work, and set at naught
the constitution and laws of the
State.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23

HARRISBURG celebrated her GEN.
tennial most gloriously last week.
Three days were devoted to parade
and jollity. Thousands of specta-
tors from abroad thronged her streets
and enjoyed good time.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23

GOVERNOR PATTIsoN has wisely
decided that as Thanksgiving day
has become a National institution,
he will not disturb the hon ored us
age by changing the date of its re-
currence.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23

DEGISTER'S NOTICE.

DEGISTER'S NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given TO all persons cnsi le. n
as legstees, creditors. or Otherwise tbal ~;
lowing accounts have passed register 80 ~ ,,i
the same will be presented Tor evnnfms n.
allowance at an Orphans Court % pe nei1 80 ;s5
erset on Thursday, the LIST day o. Oe'g1s'N g Mn,
l, First and final account Of VIZ H. "-
Executor of Jacob j. Miller, deed. ,rm,,
2. First and final account 91 Josepl ~ "'
Administrator Of Jacob = Miller d-c D. ..,rl
3. First aud final account OF jacob u'i'-'
Executor Of Jacob May, decd p,.,hlF.
4. The fourth account OF Dr. 4 M' W.
Executor Of Daniel Beaehiy, dee a. -, G.,L
5. First and rnal account OF Nilnssi
Administrator of John ". Geiger' dec q, l,c,s.,r
o. First and final account Of James ~ 90
Administrator and Trustee OF Ms JaHe
decd. HWE HfE- ,s,irt
:. The account OF Henry 2. Barnett AN'
traitor Of George Ogiine. dec ID -.,, "a sttss
8. The second account Of Aaron " H. 0H'
Executors OF Henry Sechler. dec Ill q.
9. FIRST and fnai account of. ]. hiliHi''
eeutor Of Sarah Kimmel. deed ~., ops &
10. First account OF Danlei ~. Ej"'
the Executors OF Joseph HOim1n- 'iee -. .. A.
II. First and final account OF Peer
ministrator of Valentine Shater dse 4 EsgE
L. First and final account o. .iAo.1 :, fes1
man. Administrator OF John kalhl,@g kalh-. gsg-sf
10. First and final accou1t u -
Executor vi AlAIu LlmmtlllhAf n..frf.rTI
II, The account OF Samuel berse!i hu'-'-
tor Of Sarah Brown, deed. 8, f.isss,ss.
is. First and nnal account oi Jonh ~ 80
Administrator c. L a. OF JOHN B9!sf' rios e.
10. First and finai account 0i Jofu a. S'f
ecutor Of Magdalena Sipe. oeo'd -, ur.'It
L. First and final occult q - l.l.ss sst
took, Administrator Of r. 4 r. u v5ss-ui5f
IS. The account Of james O0"er'
T.. j. Collins. deed. ,-,.1 { Th0s
~. First and dnal account oi EdS-is IA
as. Administrator Of Joseph In9in >, 7 IIeblF
20. First and anal account Of Sal s'.,S
Administrator OF Sally Llven zooJl 80 ~. md Hss
a. First and final account oi ME- -, 1scd
~ Long. Administrators Of Henry ,a'5a,.ter A.
q. Second account Of Henry r. J.
ministrator Of Henry Custer, deco N-,,ev gs-
q. The first and f1nai acroui, 9I Nlst
YER acting ADMINISTRATIVE q nH-"
decd E,e,ekpss
"a. The second account Of L. - H Hs-s. A.
Cornelius Burkholder and Christitn p...,,.hol1r.
illustrators and Trustees Of MOAB
decd. u.tsf and Sar
uel Baldwin. Administrators Oh lsA@'
decd. ,5miris,rr...f
20. Account Of Henry +. Sehell, A.a.sSlE AolHs1ilE \
and Trustee for the sale OF the reAi e'''
Kimmeli, decd. .sirrirlssrsi~
~. Accounrof Samuel BresInan' A'''
Of samuel Buekman. deceased su.yER.
Registers once, CHAs. T. Rsslsisr
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23

The annual fair of the Pennsyl-
vania Agricultural society viii be
held in Philadelphia from Sep
tember oath to October 14th.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23
A TINY BULLET
From James Stewards Revolver Ends
the Afe orCoopcr Percy at Dawson.

PrrTsBURG, Sept. 21.-Late on Sat
urday night Cooper Percy. an engin-
eer on the Pittsburg, McKeesport
and Youghiogheny Railroad, was
shot by James Stewart, weighmas-
ter for the same road. q Dawson
station. Percy only lived about 30
minutes after the shooting. The
principals in the affair have always
been good friends until about q
week ago, when both ran for the
same office in a lodge. Percy was
elected by a large majority, and
Stewart was badly disappointed.
On the night of the tragedy the men
were at their work near the railroad
station at Dawson, when they be-
came involved in a discussion over
the resent lodge election. Stewart
finally became angered, and draw
ing a revolver from his hip pocket,
he fired without giving an instant's
notice of his murderous intention.
The victim threw up his hands and
fell over backward, only utteIing
one sharp cry. The employees of the
road, who were in the vicinity, heard
the shot and rushed TO the place
where Percy was lying. Medical
aid was at once summoned, but II
wss eviden. from the first that the
wounded
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23

THE Philadelphia Bulletin says
"the new Democratic Postmaster,
Mr.. Sigfried, appointed at Bath, Pa,
can neither read nor write. "
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23
FALL AND WINTER. 1885,

Having fully prepared ourselves for Large Fall Trad
desire bring before the public notice ability and ,
to please them BY long and careful study we have b
thoroughly acquainted with the wants of the people, and
feel confident that with present Tasefuy Selected
in position to show you exactly what you need
control the productions here of the renowned ms
in the country whose regulations for producing M
fitting and reliable garments, stand unequaled These h
enable to provide YOU with later styles and better &
clothing than the majority ofcstom taors and u
less We anxious that you should for yourself
the basis which claim your patronage. Give us r
We working to please you, and must have You know
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23

THE ladies especially go into &C.
stacies over Parker's Hair Balsam, y
writes Mr.. J. II. Decker, druggist. of
Findlay, Ohio. They say it is the
most elegant dressing they ever US
ed" Stops falling hair, restores col
or. promotes growth.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23
MAN COULD NOT LIVE.

He remained in semi-conscious
state for 30 minutes, when his life
passed away. When Stewart saw
what he done he stood for minute
as though stunned. Then placing
the revolver in his coat pocket he
started to walk quickly up the rail-
road track. He was soon overtaken
by the constable of the town and
placed under arrest. The news of
the shooting spread like wildfre
oyer the little town, and it was only
a short time until crowd of several
hundred had gathered about the
depot. A number of the more ad-
venturous talked loudly of lynching.
The feeling against Stewart finally
became so strong, and the demon
strations SO ominous, that it became
necessary to remove the prisoner to
the Jail at Uniontown. Procuring a
buggy, the constable left the town
with his prisoner by the back streets.
The prisoners life was probably
saved by this action, as about mid
night gang of men from Connells-
vile invaded the town and clamor-
ed for Stewards blood.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23
"A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE.
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COUNTY.

FOR POOR HOUSE DIRECTOR,
JOHN C. BARRON, Of Somerset Township.
FOR JURY COMMISSIONER,
IRWIN @. CUSTER, Of Somerset Township.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23

STATE

FOR STATE TREASURER,
MATTHEW S QUAY, Of Beaver County.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23
ORPHANS COURT SALE
Of
Valuable Real Estate.

By virtue OF an order of sale Issued out of the
Orphans Court Of Somerset County, Pa. to us di.
rected, we will expose to public sale on the home
stead, on
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-23

scULL. Editor and Proprietor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-26
ABad Woman.
ArkansaW Traveller

'Now, the best think you ca do"
said the Judge to an old negro WHO
had applied for a divorce, is to 60
home and behave yourself"
''Yas, sab"
II do not zee why you should not
get along all right"
''Yas, sab"
1--WE shall have to make sacrifices. -
eyes, sab, so I heah 'em say, but
mighty few men haster put up wild
SIGH err wife ez Use got. [ ken stan'
de common run o wimmen, but, dat
pusson, Jedge, is rank pisen. Wy,
sab, if she wuz err sleep an wuster
dream dat [ Wuz enjoyin' myself,
she'd wake herself up an see dat de
enjoyment wuz stopped right dar. She
like ter died some time ergo. Wuz
mighty la hopes dat I wuz gwine tel
lose her, but when she foun' dat [ WIZ
pleased, blame eff she didn't turn obel
an git well. She's a bad oman,
sah."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-26

blood was shed. In the course of the
combat the fourteen States lost their
power and slavery was annihilated
from their borders. Then a monar-
chial government arose and establish
ed nation of religion, and made all
societies tributary to support its ex-
penses. / was amazed at beholding
all this, and I heard a voice proclaim:
This power shall not always stand,
bat with this power will | chastise
my church until they return to the
1althfullness of their forefathers.
Thou seest what is coming on thy
native land for their iniquities and
the blood of Africa, the remember
ance OF winch has come up before
me. This vision is yet for MANY DAYS y
| had no idea of writing it for many
years, until it became such a burden
that for my own relief / have so writ
ten. JOSEPH HOAc Sp
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-26
A QUEER OLD MAP.
Peculiar Notions of the Geography of
North America.
Toronto Globe

Toronto GlODG.
Among the most recent acquisitions
to the collection az ancient and curiN
Gus works 10 the legislative library at
the Ontario parliament building is an
atlas printed in in London somewhere
just before the beginning Of the last
century. The title page calls it "a
new sett Of Maps both of Ancient and
Present Geography, wherein rot only
the latitude and longitude, of many
places are Corrected according to the
latest Observations, but also the most
remarkable Differences of ancient and
present geography may be quickly
discerned by bare inspection or com
pairing Of corresponding maps; which
seems to be the most natural and easy
method to lead young students for
whose use the work is principally
intended) unto a competent sskDowl-
edge Of the geograph1 cal science, by
Edward Wells, D. D., sometime stu
dent Of Christ church, Oxon., and
late rector of Cotesbach in Leicester,
shire. Each. Of the forty-one maps
bears a dedication to His Highness
William Duke of Gloucester, the
young son of Princess Anne of Den
mark, afterward Queen Anne" who
died in the year 100, and as ne was
only II years of age at that time the
work could only have been prepared
very few years previously. All the
maps in the collection are curious, to
say the least, but the most peculiar are
those relating to America. The ma p
of North America has been laid out
according to Mercator's projection, as
far as latitude is concerned. but longi-
tudinally this is charged to.the regular
method, giving the map an even more
distored appearance than it naturally
would have with the errors which have
been made.
Among the plumbers are the placing
of the eastern extremity, Newfound-
land, In the 45tn degree of latitude,
Instead of 50 degrees, and Cape
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-26
Gold Facts.
Merchant Traveller.

We've had a very cold white r,
said travelling man to a westerner
on train between Milwaukee and st.
Paul.
eyes" was the response, ''purty
cold. Colder up here, guess, than
it was in your state"
81 don't know about that; it was SO
cold along the lake shore that stove
lids froze to the holes, and when
man went to bed at night he had to
break the covers with a club before he
could turn them down to get under
them"
"That's rawther cool, but it's not a
patchin' to what we have up IN this
country. I'll tell you a little expert
ence [ had in January. [ run a
livery stable, and a mountain tough
came in to hire a rig. It was SO darn
cold that I wouldn't let anything go
out, and the cuss got mad and begin
to tear around. I followed him out
on the street, and the first thing |
knowed he had his pistol out, pointin'
it right. at me. I thought I was d
goner and backed off about twenty
feet when ne blazed away"
did he hit you?"
mo and that's the funny part OF
it. The air was froze so hard around
the muzzle of his gun that the bullet
bounced back and Knocked one OF his
eyes out, and I had to pay the blamed
fools doctor bill TO keep him from
sum me for damages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-26
She Struck an Idea.
New York Times.

Jerome Bardolph Smock was SLOWLY
paradins down Fifth avenue, dream
ing Of the days when he had danced
over the floor Of a great dry goods
house in answer to the magic call OF
Cash" Now he was a sales gentle,
man and wore dogskin gloves and
| five-button cutaway English cork
screw coat. As he moved on vision
of beauty burst upon his sight. 1t was
Flosshilde Juliana Montmorenci. Her
real name was Sch ait, but Montmor-
enci was her pet name.
"Why, Flossie, said Jerome, what
a swell you are! What are you doing
now9"
I'm professional beauty now my
boy"
ga professional beauty, my lamb"
"Oh, [ say now, how the deuce can
you be professional beauty? Only
a month or SO ago you were selling
ribbon"
''You don't seize upon the scheme,
dear chappie. [ sit for photographers
for celebrated beauties. To-day, for
instance, sat as a famous ballet
dancer. I wore a jet-black wig with
the hair coiled up on top of my head,
tartletan dress, tights, and dancing
slippers. Next week my pictures
will be for sale as Signorina
Pillicoddi, of the ballet at La
Scala, Milan, and lots of young
crushers, like you, who love to decor
ate their rooms with photographs of
pretty women, will buy copies and
tell their friends they received them
from the fair ballet dancer herself
when they were on the continent last
summer, don't you know? Tomorrow
7 am going to sit in 3 magnificent ball
costume, with extra double low neck
and short sleeves, and blonde wig,
as Lady Mary GraveIberry, the new
English beauty. And that picture
will sell like smelts, because its En-
glish, quite Engliih, you know And
that's the sort of thing I'm doing now,
and that's how I come to be a profes-
sional beauty, old chappie."
Does it pay?"
'Well, I should jingle my shekels, "
she replied; 'tra la la"
''Hoop de doo," said ne.
And thus they parted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-26

Charles, the eastern point of Labrador.
is placed IN the same 45th degree. in
stead of the seth degree. Iceland is
represented as long, narrow island
extending from the 5tn degree to the
21st degree west longitude, instead of
from the 18th degree to the 25th degree.
but these are comparatively small
matters. The extreme eastern point
Of the continent is at the 45th degree:
the western is unknown, but must
have extended almost back to Europe,
as Cape San Eugenio in Lower Cali
fornia is given at the 145th degree, or
80 degrees west of It's proper location.
The source of the Meschasipi or Mis-
sissippi river is gwen in longitude
west from Greenwich 125 degrees, so
as TO throw the western boundry of
OntarIa from Cape Beale. in Van
couver island. Illinois lake, or Lake
Michigan, is apparently by far the
largest of the great lakes, with an ex-
treme breadth of over five hundred
miles. TRACT or Upper lake, as Lake
Superior Is called, is shown as being
the same size as Lakes Huron and
Erie, and Lake Ontario is given as
about one-fourth The size of the latter.
Lake Timagaming is shows as the
source of the Saguenay and Rupert
rivers. The Ottawa river on the map
receives the waters of Hudson bay and
of Lake Huron to carry to the st.
Lawrence, and there was apparently
no knowledge of the Niagara Falls.
Five towns only appear to have
been settled IN what is now Canada
Port Royal and Touqumet. the latter
now called Yarmouth, in Nova Scotia,
then called New Scotland; Brest. at
the extreme eastern point OF Labrador;
Tadousac and Quebec. The errors
which are observable in the northern
are reproducing in the southern part
of the map. Baltimore town is given
as being some distance north of Phila-
delphia, and Plymouth is much near
erto Boston than is Charlestown. The
Appalachian mountains run nearly
due east and west on the map,
through what are now the states Of
Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois,
thence across the Mississippi, and
trending southwark into New Mexico.
Lower California is an island, and the
upper part OF the island is called New
Albion. New Orleans would appear
to have just been founded, as there
is an island shown at the mouth of
the Mississippi called New French
Settlement, but the mouth of the river
is no nearer being in it's right position
than the sources, it being shown at
the Gulf of Mexico" Ohe more res
ference to the north may be allowed,
''Frobisher's'' straits are given as be-
ing south of "Gr6en Land" and
James bay is divided into two parts,
one of which is called James and the
other Hudson bay. Carolina is
credited with possessing a lake as
Ontario, and the Susquehanna river
is represented as running due north
and IN an exactly straight line. Many
of the towns in Mexico are located
tolerably accurately, but the lay of the
land is terribly out of proportion.
Other maps in the atlas are equally
interesting to lovers of the curious,
and will well repay a comparison
Dy those who have time and cppor-
tunity-