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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-12-19

AN INSANE JoHNsTOwNER COMMITS 81
ICIDE BY DROwNING.-Mr Aug. KoDo, a
well known and much esteemed citizen OF
Johnstown, committed suicide, about tYe
o'clock on Wednesday morning last, by
drowning himself in the Stony Creek at
that place. It seems that for some time
past Mr.. r. has been afflicted with mental
arrangement, and having frequently threat
ened to kill himself, a constant watch was
kept on his movements. On TUESDAY
night the wife and brother of the untortu-
nate man remained up with HIM, but
about the hour of the morning Indicated
above he induced them to lie down, the
former on a lounge IN the room and the
latter on the bed behind him. Having
thus put them off their guard, he suddenly
sprang from the bed and jumped through
the second story front window of his cham
Der, carrying the sash with him. HIS
wife reached him in time to catch him by
one of the feet as he was going through
the window, but being unable to hold HIM
until her brother-in-law came to her assist
aLce, he fell to the ground, striking upon
his head, but Immediately jumped up and
made for the creek, into which he plunged
before any one could interfere to prevent
the rash act. His body was not recovered
until about II O clock on Wednesday morn
ing, when it was found in the Conemaugh
river, about one mile below it's junction
with the Stony Creek. The deceased leaves
a wife and three young daughters.
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DoUGHNUTs.-Take two eggs, beaten,
three-quarters pound ot white sugar, one
tea-sp0onfuI salt half pint of sweet milk
one tablespoonful melted butter, if they
are desired very short mix together with
a spoon, then add three pints OF flour, hav
ing in it one-and-a-h half measures Banner
Baking Powder.
Each can of the Banner Baking Powder
contains a small measure, to be used even
full, according to printed directions. If you
cannot obtain this really valuable article
from your grocer send % cents to Banner
Baking Powder, 2. O. Lock Box 81, Pitts
burgL. Pa, and you Will receive, postage
maid. a quarter pound package, together
with list of fifty valuable Recipes.
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THE HARRISBURG PATRIoT.-The cen
tral organ of the Democracy of the State,
the harrisburg Patriot, has issued its pros
nectus fo- 1874. To say that the Patriot
DISPLAYS marked ability in its columns and
that it is a staunch and uncompromising adj
yocate of sound Democratic doctrine Is sim
nv to EXPRESS the view of every man who
reads il The Weekly Patriot is a mammoth
sheet. and as it is furnished at very low
rate. ought and no doubt does meet with a
liberal patron ge from the Democracy OF
tbe State. Subscribe for it and you Will be
sure to he we'll pleased with its varied and
interesting contents
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EBESSBURG.
SUMMIT, Dec. Is, 1873.

II. \. MCPIKE, EsQ.-DedT Sir: In the
issue of your paper of the 9TH inst there ap-
peared communication dated Summit,
Nov. %, 1873, >" and signed "A Friend of the
Teachers" Now as I am d teacher in Wash
ington township and resident Of Summit,
am suspected and even charged with being
the author of said communication: and as |
had no part, ,eitheTdirectlyori indirectly in the
same, l hope YOU Will make me right on the
subject before the people in your next issue.
l taught last winter in Washington town
ship and was paid my salary. Justice to
myself prompts me to have the matter eX-
planned, for if the charge is not denied the
blame will rest on me.
Yours, truly, JAMES w. CONDON.
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90 q

the election in this county on the new Con-
stituti0n, with four districts to hear from
The majority in favor of its adoption will
probably be between three and four hundred
in this county:
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a DlTTNTSTRATORpS NOTICE.

- Estate of JAIIES CAMPBELL, decd.
Letters of Administration on the estate of
1smbria county, have been granted to the IN
lersipned residing in Summitvile, to whom
all persons indebted to said estate are requeat-
ed 70 make immediate payment, and those hav-
iBy claims or demands will make known the
same without delay.
Summit. Dec 10, lS13.-Gt,'
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OBEE a AIRY.

MOORE.-Died, at the residence of his father
in this place, on Saturday last. after prOtract-
ed illness, Mr.. THOMAS B. MOORE, eldest son of
Johnston Moore, Esq, aged about Il wears.
The deceased was an upright, amiahle gen
tleman, and possessed heart full OF the milk
of human kindness. He had no enemies and
his death is sincerely lamcrteG by hosts Of true
and unsea5h friends.
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NTOTICE.-I hereby caution all per
OF OFFICFPS-No,
Ebensburg. DC. l0, IS.
NOTICE.-In the matter of the Es-

AS tate of JANE WHERRY, deceased.
And now Dec. 5, 1873, on motion of J, Gal
Iitziu Lake ESQ, X. l.. Johnston appointed Au-
ditor to report distribution of money in the
hands of the accountants, to and among the
parties entitled thereto-tO report at the Ar
gumeut Court. By the Court
Pursuant to the above, I viii sit at my Office
in Ebeusburg, Oh MONDAY. the 18TH DAY OF
JANUARY next, at / o'clock, p. N,
Dec Ig-4t r. /. JOHNSTON.
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Communications.
THE OTHER SIDE

To the Editor cf tie Cambria Freeman:
\ correspondent in the last number of the
Freeman" in speaking of our common
school system, says OF it: 1T is a goddess
and therefore immoral system if it be as it
Is pretended; it is an attempt at imposing 4
religious system on US, ii 1t be not goddess
and pagan"
wish to say, i'll the first place, thai [ can
not perceive the force of your correspond
ent's reasoning. 1t seems to me there is
plenty OF neutral ground betwAen these pro-
positions, upon which the school system may
stand. L think your correspondent is eX-
tremely illogical. He argues from prem
ises which he assumes, but are denied. 1t
does not follow that because no positive reli-
gious instruction is given in our public
schools that they are immoral and soul
destroying. 1t is sad begging of the ques-
ton to assert that they are goddess
True, formal instruction in religion does
not enter into the intention of public
school system. Nor need it. There is the
home, the Sabbath school, the pulpit, and
the religious press; if these are not sufficient
to save the sous of men, it is useless to turn
the matter over 70 the teachers of our com
mon schools. If all those agencies have
failed, it is very certain that the common
school teachers will fail also But it is the
mission of the common schools to give in
sGruCtiOn in the elements OF certain arts and
sciences, in themselves highly useful but
not in themselves either moral or immoral.
But l take the position that our common
schools, as a whole, are moral in their ten
denotes. In the first place. there is the con-
stant example of the teacher, who, we will
take it for granted, is such a person as the
school law cOntemplatcS he or she shall be-
In The second place, the pupils are taught
that it is wrong to lie, to cheat, to quarrel
to steal, to use profane language, etc Is
not that morality? and will any person OBJ
ject to il that it is sectarianism? Finally.
in all our school reading books, so far as |
know, and have knowledge of a good many,
there are selections from our best authors,
inculcating and illustrating virtue and mo
rality. Are these the characteristics of
schools that are Immoral, " goddess" " and
pagan?
Yours, truly, EBESSBURG.
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-18

A FIENDIsH ATrEMT TO BLOW UP
A SCHOOL HOUSE AND Is OR 20
PERsoNs.-A correspondent informs us
that diabolical attempt at Wholesale
murder was made in Huston township,
this county, on Saturday evening, Sep
tember 9th: awhile the Good Tenn
plar Lodge was in session at Mill Run,
an explosion OF powder occurred beneath
the floor of the school house in which
the organization met, with sufficient
force to tip over the tables and lamps,
while the fire burst through the crew
ices in the floor and filled the house
with a stifing smoke. A futher exam
ination by daylight revealed the fact
that the building had been lifted enough
to allow the foundation to be pushed
out Of place. A powder can that would
hold about 25 pounds was found under
the house, torn to pieces. Bushes had
been cut and placed over the opening
made in the wall to introduce the can.
The floor being a double one it was
strong enough to withstand the
sbock-even to slightly lifting the
house and pushing out the wall-thus
enabling the powder to expend its force
literally, and thwarting the evident in
tention to blow up fifteen or twenty men
and women" No punishment under
our laws is too severe for such a das-
tardly outrage, and We hope, the fends
who made this attempt to injure aud
main, or destroy the lives of SO large a
number of innocent persons, assembled
in a peaceful and social capacity, may be
discovered and punished to the utmost
extent Of the law.-[Raitmans' Journal.
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NICE BUTTER. .-Have everything
scaldod clean skim as soon as the
cream is firm leave no milk with the
cream, which must be kept in stone
crock, with tablespoonful of salt in the
bottom, in cool place in summer, and
stirred with wooden spatula once day
which insures quick and easy churnings.
IF not allowed to stand over four days,
the butter will come in ten minutes.
Work in thoroughly. Let it stand only
twelve hours, then work out.the moisture
and your butter can't be excelled.-A. B.
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LETTER FROM BENEzETTE

BENEzETTE, Sept. 18th, 1878.
DEAR ADvooATE.-T take the liberty of
again troubling you with few notes from
our side, The opening of r. R. conmuni-
cation through cur village is working a
radical change and resusitating and recon-
structing business generally.
Parties from the older mineral regions
of this and other States are exploring and
purchasing land and leasing mining privil-
eges, in iron ore, zinc, fire clay, and coal
all of which al being developed in great
| abundance.
The enterprising citizens of Benezette
have bridge over Benefits Branch well
under way, to communicate with the rail-
road and are raising the stamps by SUBJ
scription, they generously offer any out.
sidars, who feel SO disposed, an opportu-
nifty to aid in the good work. Our town is
looking up and wears lively appearance.
We have in expectation, not far distant,
steam saw mill with such facilities for
dressing lumber, and doing other necessary
machine labor, as is usually attached to
| frst-class establishment, Shook factory
and tannery. We have now three stores
of general variety, one drug store, two
shoe shops, two blacksmith, one harness,
one wagon shop, and one dried-up peanut and
| lager beer stand. One hotel, the Benezette
House; it is large and commodious, newly
| fitted up, and Boniface is at present es-
pecially jubilant over the ne'o drrivals one
of which he counts worth at least
thousand dollars to him.
Our locals are not very exciting at
present; no marriages; no deaths, and only
FIVE or six births since my last communi.
cation. The monotony is occasionally
broken by littlesstreet wrangle (no stabb-
ing) or by runaway horse or something
of that sort. A day or two since, our
clever friend, Bob johnson, from Medock's S
Run, came to town with a thin. SKINNED
horse that could not stand the fly bites, so
he broke loose and ran down the street
with one of Dan Oysters Fredonia buggies,
running off the bridge into the mill race,
ana morse anu buggy were suuuenly caugnt
up in deep water amongst floating sawlogs,
the horse was badly scared but the buggy
was not faxed. Dan can recommend these
buggies as just the thing for runaway
| horses.
Politically we are under a dense. fog
| (the Democrats L mean.) There is a gen.
eral dissatisfaction with tn G ticket through,
out, excepting the commissioner. Leaving
out the candidate for commissioner, a re-
mark l once heard from learned cdunseL
pettifogging case before Justice of the
Peace, is so applicable to the Democratic
nominees that you will pardon me for
making the quotation, although it is some
what vulgar, speaking of the witnesses of
bis opponent he said, 'pour eppicac into
the bowels of HI and you could not
sp ew out such another lot of
witnesses" candidates. Pardon me for this
little political squib. ] think most of our
Democrat friends out here intend to vote
| for Andre0 Jackson this fall.
| ARCuELAUs,
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TO THE CITIZENS OF PENNSYL-
/ VANIA.-Your attention is specially
invited to the fact that the National Banks
are now prepar I'd to receive subscriptions
to the Capital Stock of the Centennial
Board of Finance. The funds realized from
this source are to be employed in the cree
tion of the buildings for the International
Exhibition, and the expenses connected
with the same. 1t is confidently believed
that the Keystone State will be represented
by the name of every citizen alive to patri-
otic commemoration of the one hundredth
birthday of the nation. The shares Of
stock are offered for $40 each, and sub
scribers will receive handsome engraved
Certificate of Stock suitable for framing
and preservation rs a national memorial
Interest at the rate of six per ce mt. per
annum will be paid on all payments Of Cen
tennal Stock from date of payment to
January l, 1876.
Subscribers who are not near National
Bank can remit check or post office order
to the undersigned,
FRED'K FRALEY, Treasurer,
90i Walnut St., Philadelphia.
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The Democracy are very anxious to
have it understood that l. G.. Gordon,
the Republican candidate for Supreme
Judge is merely backwoods lawyer
a Jefferson county practitioner of no
value. Be it So When Lincoln was
nominated he was derided as an un.
calmly boor-when Grant was elected
he was ridiculed as a novice in civil at-
fairs-when Judge Agnew was elected
to the same bench, he was looked upon
by the dainty Democrat as man of no
ability, because from the country-when
Hartrauft was nominated, it was pro-
claimed that he had no capacity-and
yet the people will elect these plain, un-
pretending men, and the Republican
party continue to make them its candi-
dates. 1t is singular how little regard
is entertained for Democratic opinion OF
public men and measures by the great
mass of people.-[State Journal
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-18

A GENUINE WESTERN BOoK-We
are in receipt of the September number
of the Pittsburgh PEOPLES MONTHLY.
The illustrations are fully up to mark,
and the literary contents-most Of them
original-have the usual excellence and
variety. The thrilling serial of Oscar
let," which has given such wide salts
faction, is continued in this number,
while series of letters called "Hearth
and Home Topics in the Old Country"
by John Northcott, London, writer of
repute, is commenced. 1t also an
nounces that the historic serial Of "Old
Fort Duquense, or Captain Jack the
Scout" written by the editor, ana which
ran through the Monthly for nearly a
year has, at the request OF many readers
and the Pittsburgh press, been pub
lished in book form, aud will be sold
only by agents. This book will doubt
less fnd very numerous readers, as it
treats of the stirring times of the old
'pioueer dsys, when this region was but
a wilderness. We understand the price
of the work is $3.50, but sample copy
sent to would-be agents for only S2.OO
postage paid.
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RUNAwAY.-Last Tuesday, about
noon, team belonging to W. H.
Schram, became frightened and started
for run, but were checked just as they
were turning down the alley at Powell Il
Kime's store. A little son of MIR.
Schram was in the wagon, and had the
team not been caught would have
shared badly.
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THE Gazette has hoisted the Modoc
ticket to its masthead, and in last week s
issue, goes for the Democrat in two
column leader. No doubt the aforesaid
article was intended for squeelchre tc
the opponents of the Modocs, yet il
seems no one was hurt, and that notwith.
standing the mighty efforts, of our
brother of the GAZETTE, the man who
said he "could beat the devil in He'll, in
Elk county," stands on a slippery founda
ton, and that the gust of popular oppin-
Jon, which will pervade the atmoshere
the 14th of October, bids fair to fill
lis eyes with dust Don't be sanguine
brother Brandon, this counting chickens
before they are hatched, don't always
turn out well.
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PROTECTING REGISTERED LETTERS

PROTECTING REGISTERED LETTERS.
The Third Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral is making arrangements to secure
better protection to registered letters in
their transmission through the mails.
At present the railway postal clerks are
obliged to receipt for each package, and
the registered letters are often mixed
with other mail matter. 1t is now pro-
posed to forward all through registered
matter in separate registered pouches,
with special lock to which only the
postmaster Of distributing officers will
have keys. The postal clerks will then
be required to receipt only for the regis
tered pouch. 1t is expected that the
danger of loss will be less by this sys-
TEN. Two thousand special registered
pouches have just been ordered The
receipts for registered letters during the
last fiscal year were s225,0O0, yielding a
net revenue to the Government of $751;
900. The custom of sending gold pack
ages by mail from the Pacific slope is in
creaslng.
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The Dundee Record gets off the fol-
lowing good one: A man who was too
mean to advertise land which he wanted
to sell, put up written notice in one of
the hotels. A man who was inquiring
for a small farm was referred to this
written notice, when he replied: "Can't
buy land at faid price of man who
does his advertising in that way. He
would steal the fence, the pump handle
and the barn doors before he gave mp
possession"