The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
OLD NEWSPAPERS.
Some Extracts That May be Interest
ing, With Comments by
Correspondent.
lContinne,l from last week.l

$500, go 90 Of specie on hand and a cir
culation Of SIS, ,37T.sG.
Joseph Young, John Ryan and
Abraham Pantor are victims Of tbs
law of imprisonment for debt. and
from Somerset Jail give notice of their
desire to seek the benefit Of the insoly-
ent laws.
The commissioners for 1919 appear to
have been John MostOller, Jonas Hartz-
ell and George Meese, with Michael
Wilson for clerk.
The amount of the tax duplicate Of
the several townships was 81, ,9S4 %.
The actual expenses Of the county
were 81, ,976.9s, of which the principal
items were for grand and petit jur-
ors, SS6S; county expense, 81, ,525. -;
elections, Sl7s.40; road viewing and
bridge building, s765.4l; assessors, ,Sl6S.-
50; for wolf, fox and panther scalps,
So -; schooling poor children, Sl2l.39;
commissioner pay, S346; clerks pay,
S95; coroner, s24; uncoIlected taxes
outstanding, 81, ,932-s9; cash in treas
ury, sls9.O2.
In the legislature Mr.. Hindman,
presented petition for the incOrpOra-
tion of the town of Berlin into bor-
/ Ough
Mr.. Estipp presented - petitions for
new county from parts Of Westmore-
land, Fayette, Washington and Allie
gheny, although "a years have passed by
since that time, this project was unsuc-
eessful, numerous efforts 10 carry it
out having failed. In 1895 it was car
/ ried through the legislature only to
/ fall beneath the veto axe Of the Gov
ernOr.
A bill declaring StOnycreek, in Som
erset county, public highway was
passed in the house on 4th February,
1920. whether it ever became a law
editor is unable to say.
In the Legislature Mr.. Ogle, of SOM
erset, and Mr.. Bower had an amusing
controversy about lots and lotteries,
Mr.. Ogle eOntended that lotteries were
authorized by the Bible and produced
the case Of Jonah where they drew lots,
&c. Mr.. Bower eontroverted this doe
/ trine of lots and lotteries being the
same thing.
On the fourth debate of the bill for
the promotion Of Agriculture and Do
mestic Manufactures, Mr.. Hindman,
the other member from Somerset Co,
! spoke as follows:
Mr.. Hindman said he considered
that the passage of this bill would be
of considerable advantage to the east
end Of the state, but a considerable dis
advantage 10 the west, inasmuch as
great part was wilderness, thinly in
habited, and farmers had to turn their
attention to clearing land and improving
their farms. This causes them TO lab
our under difficulty. a number of
| them are poor, and can not afford TO
pay additional taxes in these hard
times. In forming these societies,
Tom, Dick, or Harry might become
member, if he would subscribe one dol
lar. He could go and slip his hand
into the treasury of the county, and
draw money from it without any Sc
curity, and make frolie of it. In my
district, what funds we have to spare
we lay out in erecting b. 'dges and in
making good roads to pave the way to
| market. Our lands are fresh; and if
/ become poor, We know very well that
they will want manure. If the sOcie-
ties that are to BE- formed, would turn
their attention to clearing land, and
would take their axe and their pick
axe and help the people to clear land,
certainly it would be a great aecommO-
dation to the farmer. | for my part
can not see any good that would arise
from the passage of this bill, except
draining the treasures Of the different
counties; and that is not very accept
able to the people. | feel somewhat
opposed to so many interpretations;
and on these grounds am opposed to
the passage of this bill:
John Kurtz, county treasurer, adver-
tises the unseated land list for ls20,
which covers l6I tracts of land in the
different townships.
Richard Green, of Addison town.
ship, offers for sale a lot in Reams-
town, on which is erected a halter
shop, &c. Where was Reamstown?)
Chauneey Forward, Esq, represent
ed Somerset county in the Lewiston
convention, held on the 7th March
1870. This was Democratic Republi-
can convention. William Findlay was
re-nominated for Governor.
An Electoral ticket in favor of James
Monroe and Daniel ID. Tompkins, for
President and Vice President, was also
named.
The general appropriation bill, as
passed by the House of Representa-
tives at Harrisburg, contained an item
of 200 for the Somerset, Bedford II
Washington Turnpike Co.
George Pile and John Kurtz, of SOM
4 CiSStf INuu ClCiSCuf VI SutiltAiOHluSf "
and Bernard Connolly, Jr., of Turkey
foot, were appointed Justices of the
Peace for Somerset county.
The same number of the "Whig"
contains the announcement of the
death of George the Third, King Of
England, which took place January
~, $50; while the succeeding issue
contains full particulars of that event,
rs also of the death OF the fourth
son, the Duke of Kent, who
was father of Queen Victoria.
This issue also contains tile vote in
detail on the final passage of the bill
since known as the Missouri COmpro-
mise, in the House of Representatives.
The vote stood 80 for the bill and 81
against it, Gen. Robert PhilsOn, the
congressman from this district, voted
| no.
But two acts of assembly relating "
Somerset county were passed at the
legislative .ession of lSl9-20, viz: An
act declaring Stonyereek public high
way, and another act prohibiting the
holding of fairs in the borough of SOM
erset.
The issue of April Is announces the
death of Rev. +. III. friedman, in his
4 odd x-aar ~ paIf,r.l D. ,,;D;yfar Of