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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

CRUNIBs OF CoMFoRT.-Nr. Greeley Con-
graduates HimSeLf eLf.-There has been no
time, until now, within the last twelve
years, when the Tribune was not supposed
to keep, for the benefit of the idle and in
capable, a sort of federal employment agen-
cy, established to get places under gov
ernment for those who were indispoSed to
work for their living. Any man who had
ever voted the republican ticket believed
that it was the duty and the privilege of
the editor of this paper to get him place
in the custom house. Every red-nosed
politician who had cheated at the caucus
and fought at the polls looked to the edi-
tor of the Tribune to secure his appoint
ment as gauger, or as army chaplain. or as
minister to France. Every campaign ora
tor came upon us after the battle was
over for a recommendation as secretary of
tie treasury or the loan of half a dollar.
If one of our party had an interest pend
ing at Washington the editor of the Trf-
6nne was telegraphed in frantic haste to
come to the capitol save this bin, crush
that one, promote one project or stop an
other. He was to be everybody's friend.
with nothing to do but to take care of
other folks business, sign papers write
letters, and ask favors for them. and to
get no thanks for it either. Four-fifths of
these people were sent away without what
they wanted, only to become strai0htway
abusive enemies; it was the worry of life
to try to CRAFTY one demand in a dozen
for the other fifth.
The man with two wooden legs con-
graduated himself that he could never be
troubled with cold feet. 1t is a source of
profound satisfaction to us that Office seek
ers will keep aloof from defeated candi-
date who has not influence enough at
Washington or Albany to get sweeper
appointed under the sergeant-at-arms. or
a deputy sub-assistant temporary clerk
into the paste pot section of the folding
room. At last we shall be let alone to
mind our own affairs and manage our own
newspaper, without being called aside
every hour to help lazy people whom we
don't know and to spend our strength in
efforts that only benefit people who don't
deserve assistance. At last we shall keen
our Office clear of blatherskites and politi-
cal beggars, and 90 about our daily worl,
with the satisfaction of knowing that not
the most credulous of place hunters will
suspect us of having any credit with the
appointing powers. That is one of the
results OF Tuesdays election for which we
1rt5uRe. /
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15
The Great Boston Fire.

The great and appalling calamity which
befel Chicago thirteen months ago, and
which struck o sympathetic chord through
out the country, has had its counterpart in
the terrible conflagration which on Satur-
day night and Sunday last scourged the
fair and wealthy city of Boston. The very
business heart-the commercial centre-of
that city has been destroyed, and where a
few days ago stood massive and solid gran
ite buildings in all their splendor, with
their millions of dollars worth OF rich and
costly contents, nothing now remains but
ashes and ruins. The fire commenced at
half-past seven O'Clock Saturday evening
fury. 1t extended over about si1ty. fee
acres of ground and destroyed nearly ono
thousand stores and other buildings, involv-
| ing a loss variously estimated at from $780,
900, 900 to 800, 900, 600. When the com
paratiyely small extent of the ground burn
ed over and the enormous loss sustained
are taken into consideration, an adequate
conception of the princely wealth of the
city will readily suggest itself. Although
the ground swept by the fire at Boston is
not more than the One-strte6nth of the ex-
tent of that burned over at Chicago, yet
the aggregate loss is very nearly, If not
quite, half as much. In Chicago large
proportion ofthe houses burned were frame,
or otherwise of little value, while in Boston
the finest and most substantial mercantile
structures in the country fell prey to the
devouring element. Buildings of solid
granite, with iron doors and shutters, and
which were supposed to be fire proof, were
melted like SO much lead, and were swept
away by the fire in its onward progress Al
| though they were stubble. Unlike the
cont1agration in Chicago, where thousands
of poor people lost their houses and then
all, the destruction at Boston has been con
fined almost entirely to costly and elegant
edifices occupied for mercantile purposes
and although many wealthy men have beer
made poor, yet as a general rule most OF
| the sufferers will no doubt rebuild and
| again resume business. 1t is a dreadful
visitation, but as indomitable western
| courage and perseverance have caused
| Chicago to rise from her ashes with in,
creased splendor, so will Yankee energy,
sustained by Boston capital, speedily re
store her to her former proud position a.
the queen city of New England.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

THE Constitutional Convention assem-
bled at Harrisburg last Tuesday Hon.
WILLIAM NJ. MEREDITH, of Philadelphia
who owas member of the Convention of 1887
which framed the present Constitution,
was unanimously elected President A
motion was made and carried that after
the lst of January next the Convention
would hold its sessions in Philadelphia. In
our Judgment this is a grave and serious
mistake. Why not provide for an djourn-
ment Immediately preceding the meeting
Of the Legislature in January, and meet
sgain when that body adjourned, (which
ought not to be later than the first of April.
The Convention could then finish its work
by the first of August, which would give
the people ample time to discuss and re-
feet upon the new Costitution before the
October election. A committee of nine
was appointed to report what subordinate
officers were necessary and to fix the amount
of their salaries. The committee reported
on Wednesday. Every name on the list is
that of Radical, with that well known
and accomplished--bl --blackguard, the notori-
Gus JIM ONsLow, of Pittsburgh, for Ser
Reant-at-arms. If the Convention is to be
run as Radical machine, and not in the
interest of the people, it were better it had
never met. Its first days proceedings are
by no means indicative of an auspicious
and satisfactory termination.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

IN view of the admitted fact that about
sight hundred, thousand negroes voted for
GRANT at the recent election, that element
IN the radical party has commenced the as
sertion of its right to Presidential recogni-
tion. 1t demands a seat in the Cabinet
for one of its own race and color. JOHN
N. LANGsToN, a colored lawyer in Ohio, is
the coming man, and it is said that his po-
Gtical ambition will not be satisfied with
anything less than the Attorney General
ship of the United States. We have heard
of LANesToN as clever stump speaker,
but are not well informed in reference to
his abilities as Constitutional lawyer
We presume, however, that they are at least
equal to those of A. T. ACKERMAN, that
bright legal luminary from Georgia who,
until very lately, held the Office to which
LANGsTDN now aspires.
IN making this demand from GRANT, we
think that the celored troops are right
Eiq6t hundred thousand r0ters are not to
be sneezed at or treated with contempt
They are political power now and will be
so in the future. But Will GRANT appoint
Langston? There is the rub If he has
any of the milk, not of human, but of po-
htical kindness in his veins, he ought to do
so from a sense of gratitude to the s1man
and brother" WILLIAMS, the present At
torney General, says that he could have
been elected United States Senator from,
Oregon if he had wished, but that he nre-
ferred remaining in his present position. IF
LANGsToS is successful, then Wu1,,>,s
will not be in the Senate and will have 70
vaeate the Attorney Generals office-au Of
whiesa would be very hard on WILLIAMS.
In this LANesToN business GRANT viii be
to show his hand, so that it can
be seep whether it is uAtte or black.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

a Boston GENTLEMAN ELoPEs WITH AN
IRISH HEIRKss.-NewtownB Barry, County
Wexford, Ireland, has been set by the ears
by the reported elopement of Miss Agnes
Barry, only daughter of Hon. Hugh Barry,
an ex-member of parliament of this place,
with an American tourist. a Mr.. Fitzhenry
of Boston. Miss Barry is the absolute
possessor of the richest estate in the county,
and heiress to over e30O, 900 sterling, a sum
represented by 81, 5000 gold, which she
inherited from her uncle. The old gentle
man refusing his consent to the nuptials
the young couple left the house secretly on
the night of the 21st ultimo and were
driven to the residence of clergyman near
by and married in proper form Thence
they travelled to Killarney, from which
place the bride wrote a number of entreat-
ing letters to her father. The old fellow
at length relented, and rendered the en-
raptured pair his paternal benediction.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

THE sudden death of Major Gen. GEO.
G. MEADE, of this State, has caused feel
ing of profound regret throughout the
country. His death took place at his resi-
dence in Philadelphia on last Wednesday
week, after an illness of only six days He
was in the Seth year of his age. His mill
tary career is familiar to the whole country
He commanded for short period the
Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, which en-
braced a company Of young and gallant men
from this county. He was thorough SOL
dier of the very highest type of the military
character. He was brave and self-reliant
and few, if any, officers in the army, were
more completely versed in the science and
art of his profession. The confidence of
the army of the Potomac in Gen. MEADE
was unbounded. He had risen steadily in
it and had rejoiced with it in it's victories
His name viii be forever associated in his
tory with the bloody and stubbornly con-
tested battle of Gettysburg, at which he
was the Commander-in-chief and where
he displayed military skill of the very high
est order. He was soldier, pure and sim
pie, and loved his profession and, unlike
many of the would-be heroes of the late
civil war who now control the radical party,
he cast politics far behind him. The name
of MEADE will rank in history as one of the
greatest and most disting uished officers of
the great rebellion.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

IN our local department will be found
the official vote of this county at the late
Presidential election, as well as the vote
east for BUCKALEw and HARTRANFT in
October. The same table will likewise
show the Democratic and Radical losses in
November on the vote polled in October.
1t will be seen that the entire vote of the
county in October was G, 353, while in No
vomber it was only 5,3SS, or 965 less
HARTRANFT received 2,S23 votes and
GRANT 2,841-just II of gain for GRANT
BUCKALEw received $3.50 and GREELEY
2,547-showing that 983 Democrats refused
to go to the polls at the late election
These figures fully and satisfactorily dem
onstrate the reason why GRANT has ma
jority of 294 in the county, and any further
comments are entirely unnecessary. The
cause and effect are perfectly apparent.
1t will also be seen that in eUery election
district in the county GREELEY loses on
BUCKALEw's vote, with the exception of
the immortal East Ward of Ebensburp,
where he gained one, and in SummitviIle.
where he received precisely the same vote
IN November that BUCKALEw did in Octo-
Der. AS we said last week, Cambria coun-
ty is Democratic by a clear majority of 700.
if every radical vote is polled, and it is not
TO be denied that they were all cast for
GRANT. She has proven her ability to give
that majority in the past and she Will make
it good in the future, if wise and prudent
counsels prevail.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

the promptitude of authorities in explod-
ing two large stores adjoining, after which
the fire was speedily checked The entire
district burned over is sixty-five acres of
ground, embracing the best business por-
ton of the city. Upward of seven hundred
buildings are in ashes.
LOSS OF IIFR.
Rut little definite information can vet be
gathered concerning the loss of life Many
have perished in attempting to save goods.
The falling of walls and timbers crushed
to death numbers whose bodies will never
be recovered. The police stations are
crowded with anxious inquirers for missing
friends and relatives.
TWELVE THOUSAND MEN OUT OF EMPLOY
MENT.
The engines from other cities did most
effective service and the people are CRATE
full. 1t is estimated that over twelve thOus-
and men are thrown out of employment.
- DoINGs OF THE THIEvEs-
The owl train from New York due at
o. clock this morning arrived at I q clock,
with several car loads of roughs and thieves,
who cleaned out all the refreshment saloons
| I'm route, with other robberiCS ard outra-
| qes The military force in Boston will be
increased if necessary. A battalion of cav
airy has been added to the military guard
! OF the burnt district, which now mum bers
! fifteen hundred men. Attempts at rob-
berry and incendiarism will be summarily
dealt with The streets are almost impass-
| able from the crowds of people in the vi
! cinity of the fire.
ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS.
The morning papers are almost e1clu-
sively filed with details of the great con-
faeration The ddUertiSer estimates the
total loss at $50, 600, 900; the Post, on au-
thorIty of leading insurance company, at
$100 600, 900. The Journal gives full list
of individual losses, and estimates the total
at considerably over 500, 900, 900.
sTIL1 LATER.
BosToN. November 12.-The number Of
firms and business houses burned out i.
nine hundred and thirty the number o.
dwelling and lodging houses sixty-four.
The fire is now confined to the ruins anC
no fears are felt of new outbreak.
large number of steamers continue to work
reliefs of firemen taking them.
Among the newspaper Offices burned ART
the Pilot, T'rare!er, Globe, Journal, Tran
script and Post.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

THE CHICAGO AND BosTON FIREs.-The
Boston fire burned over sixty-five acres,
consumed about nine hundred and ninety
four houses and buildings, and occasioned
a loss of 800, 10000 The Chicago fire
began at nine o'clock on Sunday evening,
October 8. 1917 and burned till mid
night, Monday, lasting twenty-seven hours.
The value of the property detroyed, in
Guiding buildings, merchandise and house
hold property, was $193. 600, 900. The fire
burned over an area of about four miles
in length, and an average of two-thirds of
mile in breadth, destroying II, $50 build
ings and rendering $4,000 persons house
less. The property destroyed was insured
for 800, 600, 900; the losses claimed amount
ing to about 81, 600, 900 less. Of the sum
due, S37, 900, 900 has been paid, and there
is a fair prospect of $l2, 900, 600 more, is
some companies are not overwhelmed by
the great fire in Boston. The loss of life
was happily small in Chicago, and the
generosity of the world enabled the local
committee to disburse more than So, 600, 600
in relief.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

Monday evening week, Charles A. Kel-
sey, wealthy young farmer at Hunting
ton, Long Island, was tarred and feather
ed by party of masked men. The rea-
son was, his attentions to certain young
lady. Since then he has disappeared, and
it is feared he has committed suicide, or
has been murdered. He was the owner
of a large property, and member of the
Presbyterian Church of very high stand
ing. A shirt he is known to have worn
has been found on Lioyd's Neck Beach,
over a deep creek which connects with
Cold Spring Bay. A large reward has
dead or alive.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

The Centennial Commission has issued
an address to the people of the United
Esates, signed by the President, Joseph R.
Hawley, for subscriptions to the fund of
ton million dollars required to make the
Centennial such a success as the patriot
ism and pride of every American demands.
Te shall publish the full address next
week
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

JOHN w FoRNEY in his Press of yester-
day week speaks as follows Of the return
of HORACE GREELEY to the Tribune 1t
is alike creditabie both to the editor of tho
Press and the veteran Of tho Tribune:
Horace Greeley, the greatest editor that
America has ever prod uced, comes hack to
his old place at the head of the Tribune
to journalism. Like all else that he has
written spoken, his card, published in to-
days edition of his paper, has the strength
and ring which ever accompanies the words
of a true man. "Courting the favor and
deprecating the wrath of no one has been
Horace Greeley's life long motto. When
he has arrived, after long and careful
thought, At any conclusion on matters of
governmental or party policy, he has never
feared to put that conclusion into his own
strong, terse language, and give it to the
world, ready and willing abide by and
take the full consequences of his utterance,
no matter what those consequences might be-
He is, in word, true and honest man.
Under his rule the Tribune rose TO its pres
ent high position-under his rule it will con-
tinue to rise, and will ever be the exponent
of views which, although possibly not in ac-
cordance with those of majority of his fol-
low-countrymeh, will at least be honest able
and pure, the result Of patient investigation
and profound conviction.
May his success journalist be as great
in time TO come il has been in the time
that is past may he long continue to give
utterance to those sabre cuts of Saxon
speech" which have won for him fame and
honor, and may he stand for many many
years at the head of the list of the editors of
America.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

wE believe it is now definitely asce r.
tained that at the late election HoRA CE
following States Maryland, 8 Kentucky,
IA; Tennessee, 12; Missouri, 15 Texas,
6 Louisiana, s; Georgia, 11-:naking in
all "a. GRANT has all the balance-192
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15
The CAMBRIA FREEMAN.
E5ENSEvae, pa,
Friday Morning, November Is, 1872.

THE complete official vote of the State
at the late election has not yet been an
nounoed at Harrisburg. 1t will be- how
ever, before our next issue. GRANTS esti-
mated majority is put down at 135, 900.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

THE city of Philadelphia, at the recent
election, polled 11s, 900 votes and out of
that number JAMES BLACK, Temperance
candidate for President, received exactly
ten. Ebensburg gave him precisely the
same number of votea-sight in the East
Ward and taco in the West Ward.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

1t is claimed that Grants majority on
The popular vote will be 500, 900. If that
is SO he is the negroes President, as their
vote for Grant was far above that figure
On the white vote of the people, the vote
that has heretofore always elected Presi-
dents, Grant is beaten candidate and
the people of the United States must sub
nit to what may emphatically be called
negro rule, allied to vote procured by
the same means which changed the vote
of the 9th ward in Philadelphia from 993
counted, for 2, 993 returned for Hartranft
The blackest fraud united with the black
est men have dirtied the old flag all over
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

SCRANTON gained 264 votes at the No
Vemoer election over the election of Octo-
ber
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15

THE election frauds unearthed in Phil
adelphia already amount to fifteen thous-
and votes i'll the aggregate.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15
LATER REPoRTs.

Boston, November 11.-At ten o'clock
this morning the fire was thoroughly under
control Upward of fifty engines were
working, pouring continuous streams of
water. The wind has not increased, and
1t Is believed the fire will not again break
out. The firemen, police, military and
CITIZENS, committees and others, are all
thoroughly exhausted by the superhuman
efforts of the past thirty-six hours. The
city presents strange and excited scene.
State street is still piled with goods, now
being removed, and everybody appears to
be on the streets. Sleep and rest are un-
thought of.
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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-03
Preserving Turnips i'm Winter.

David Landreth & Son of Bloomsdale,
Penn, in treatise on the turnip, gives
the following instructions as to preserv-
the roots and feeding them out to the
stock:
For winter feeding we preserve all
roots in pits,-not mounds, as made in
some localities-narrow pits after this
fashion: Select a suitable spot, near
. the stables, if practicable, but surely
where the drainage is good, indispensi-
BILE prerequisite dig a trench sixteen
inches wide, and as many or more inches
in depth, the length as convenient or
necessary. In this place the topped
bulbs, and cover with the earth dug out
of the trench, using little more in adj
dition as winter approaches. If cold
may be expected in severity, place over
all long stable manure, or anything that
impede the entry of frost, without Gre
ating warmth. Thus we have found
roots of any and all descriptiOn-ruta
bagas, common turnips, carrots, beets,
parsnips-to keep well. They are aces
sible at all times, and when needed
may be removed in larger or smaller
quantities as may be desired. AltOgeth-
er, it is better than mounds, which being
elevated, are exposed to frost and re-
quire care in construction. In the pits
described we annually keep beets and
carrots far into spring-indeed, we have
fed our working oxen with beets, to
their great delight, up to July 1st.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-03

CHARCOAL FOR SICK CATTLE.-The
following we clip from the Country
Gentleman
Nearly all animals become sick from
improper eating. In nine cases out Of
ten the digestion is wrong. Charcoal Is
the most efficient and rapid corrective.
1t will cure majority of cases, if prop
erly administered. An example of its
use-the hired man came in with the
intelligence that one of the finest COWS
was very sick, and kind neighbor pro-
posed the usual drugs and poisons. The
owner being i'll, and unable TO examine
the cow, concluded that the trouble
came from some over-eahng, and order
ed a teacup of pulverized charcoal given
in water. 1t was mixed, placed in a
junk bottle, the head held upward, and
the water, with its charcoal, poured
downward In five minutes an improve
ment was visible, and in a few hours
the animal was in the pasture, quietly
eating grass. Another instance of equal
success occurred with a young heifer
which became badly bloated by eating
green apples after a hard wind. The
bloat was so severe that the sides were
almost as hard as a barrel. The old
remedy, saleratus, was tried for the pur-
pose Of correcting the activity; but the
attempt to put it down always caused
coughing and it did little good Half a
teacupful Of powdered charcoal was
next given. In six hours all appearance
of the bloat had disappeared, and the
heifer was well.