The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17

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Tor the family circle-adapted to both the
juvenile and adult people, and meeting the
special wants of the housekeeper Besides. II
supplies very useful chapters for the garden
and farm, and an important news sheet giving
n valuable RESUME of the news for a week mn
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tavorably known by his writing in SCRIBNER's
MONTHLY, and many other Magazines and
Journals, and especially as the chiet superin-
tending Editor of the New YORK INDEfENDENr
for soEle time past. With this notable addi-
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al force, HEARTH AND HOME can not fail to
merit and command prominent place in every
household, in city, village, and county,
Specimen copies can doubtless be obtained of
the publishers, as above. Terms only SO
| year. Single numbers s cents. HEARTH AND
S4 year. Better add one or both of them to
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| Infinitely more than the small cost.
| TOWNSHIP ACCOUNTS We have already re-
! ferred to the law passed at the last session of
! the Legislature, by which township clerks are
required, within sixty DAYS after the annual
election, to make out and publish a full and
complete statement of the financial condition
| of the township, under penalty of $50
| There are many townships in every county of
| the Commonwealth of whose financial cond-
| tion nothing whatever is known, and of which
but little could be learned from the records as
| they have been or are now kept. This is not
| only a source of great inconvenience and en-
| barrassment, but of great dissatisfaction among
| the people, and discredit to officers, which
| it is the purpose of this law to remedy. Let the
new law be enforced, then, that the people Of
! each township may have a detailed statement
| of how their money is collected and expended,
| and of the way their accounts are kept. If this
enactment is lived up to as it should be 1t will
prove a source of profit and satisfaction to every
| township There is nothing better calculated
! to make men careful and honest than knowl-
! edge of the fact that their accounts must be
placed before the public for critical inspection.
| SERIOUS CHARGE.-From Altoona, that city
| of denominations, comes another criminal case
! which, If half the revolving details connected
| with il be true, is the most outrageous and i'm
moral affair which has ever disgraced the an
| mails of this county. AT present, however, we
| have to do with only one feature of the case
| and that briefly. Wednesday morning last was
| brought from Altoona and committed to the
| county Jail middle aged man named JOna-
| than Davis, charged, on oath of his wife, with
| the commission Ola dastardly outrage upon the
person of his step-daughter, young girl bout
| thirteen years of age. Mrs. Davis, who
widow and the mother of two daughters when
! she married her present husband, alleges that
she learned from her child some time ago of
! the brutal occurrence. Fearing q repetition of
| the outrage, she sent her daughter from home
| Upon discovering the absence of the child, Da-
Wis. il is asserted, Hew into 4 passion and made
! such terrible threats of what he would do un-
| less she was brought home that his wife, alarm
| already referred to. As we have limited there
are other circumstances connected with this
case which render it peculiarly revolving, but
TO these do not deem it eXpedient to refer
at Observation-Disclosures Standard.
| DR. WILLIAM A. SMITH, formerly Of this
place, now resident Of Philadelphia. is here
Oh visit and intends remaining for a few
weeks. He is in the enjoyment of excellent
health, and looks but little older than a dozen
years ago. No former citizen of our town has
! warmer or more sincere friends among our
people than the Doctor, all Of whom are plea sed
| to see him in their midst. 1t is quite unnece5-
sary to say that DR.. Smiths faith in the prin-
| ciples Of the Democratic party is as firm and
| unwavering as ever, and that his political con
| victions have grown in their intensity as the
passing years have added to his age. Against
! any mputation of want of fealty to the great
party of which, he is so enthusiastic a member,
DR.. Smith can literally say:
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