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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-03-19

~ A clever writer. has to say Coon
corning Dress" TO come to the conclil-
sion of the whole matter: 70 be welt
dressed requires, first, to be neatly
dressed; last, but not least, to be dress
ed within ones means. The costume
that is unpaid for is not a becoming
costume to anybody; and robbing Peter
to pay Paul is poor policy at best.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-03-19

s.A1ady asked an uptown gentle
man, who was suffering from inIluen-
"a, :'My dear sir, What do. you use for
your coll?" Give handkerchiefs i
day, madam"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-03-19

~ Rest satisfied ID With doing &&eag
and leave others TO talk of you as they
please Pythagoris.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

FEARFUI. AccIDENT.-On Thursday last
Benz. Rhodes, of Wayne township, was at
his son David's residence in Oliver town.
ship, helping to thresh. Whilst the thresh-
er was in motion he threw the straw into
the bern-yard. As is generally the case a
platform walk had been erected to enable
him Co throw the straw into the middle OF
the yard. WI hilst at work the platform
gave way, prec7pitating him to the ground
below, and (altho6gh how it could so hap
pen is almost unaceouHtable, J he fell back
ward against the fork. both tines penetrat-
ing about five or six inches just back of
his shoulder, one of them even reaching
the lung. He screamed for help, but the
noise of the machine preventing the thresh-
srs from hearing, he, with his own hand,
by two desperate efforts drew out the fork
and then walked around the barn, where
he called to the men to come to him, and
tEen fell to the ground unconscious. He
was picked up and carried into the house,
and when DIR. Rothrock arrived he pro-
nounced the wounds dangerous, though
there was a possibility of recovery. On
Sunday the unfortunate man was thought
to be easier, though his ultimate recovery
was still considered doubtful. l.-Leuisto,c u n
Democrat.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.-Near BoydsvilIe,
In Weakley county, West Tennessee, last
week, eight or ten armed men went to the
house OF citizen and took negro girl out
into the woods, and each in turn outraged
her person. They did not attempt to dis
guise themselves, and carried their victim
but short distance from the house. The
people with whom the girl was living were
powerless to prevent the outrage, and were
compelled to listen to the agonizing shrieks
OF the helpless creature. Her BODY was
found soon after the beasts had left most
horribly mangled and life extinct. n Is
stated, in connection with the horrible af-
IAN, that the facts We're never reported to
the authorities, and the BODY was hnr;sd
without any legal examination. and the
crime was sought to be hushed up becanse
of the alleged responsibility OF soma of the
parties who perpetrated the -fiendish ont
rage. O"'-
The Dresden West Tennessee) Dsmo-
crdt publishes the above particulars, and
appeSls TO the grand jurors of the county
the Governor of the State, and ali law,
abiding citizens to wipe the foul stain from
that community. '''''1 y 0'i'
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

ONE OF those romantic stories of love and
Jealousy which occasionally strike athwart
the prosiness of life, is just approaching an
end in Western Maryland. Near the pleas
ant town of Lonaconing, last summer, a
rustic courtship was progressing, with John
b Coleman and Miss Orphe Miller as the
parties. The swain was ardent, and the
country beauty just the shade of a CO.
quette. The green-eyed monster came be-
tween them, and the despairing lover at
tempted her life. The shot was not a fatal
one and the girl recovered. Coleman was
arrested, and last week he made his an
pearance before the Court at Cumberland
to stand his trial for the crime which he
had committed. With him was the younr
lady, and between them the most Affection
ate relations had been restored. She ac-
companied him from their country home
and remains by his side until the twelve
men good and true shall have passed upon
his fate. If they are impressible enongh
20 be affected by the sentiment of the af-
fair, the two win be married Immediately.
II not, their love will be put to the test of
endurance for the time in which he will
have to serve out possible sentence.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

A REPORT of the movements and dam
age done by the great storm of Aupust
24th has been prepared at the Signal Office,
Washington, ID. c., which will be given in
full to the public in a few days One thou
sand and thirty-two vessels, of which four
hundred and thirty-five were small fishing
schoOners, are known to have been des-
troyed during the Gath and 25th August in
the neighborhood of the Gulf of st. Law
renee aud the Atlantic shores of Nova SEQ
tia, Cape Breton and New Foundlanti. In
addition to this large number, over ninety
vessels were destroyed by the same storm
in its course before reaching Nova Scotia,
making a total of one hundred and twen-
ty-two vessels destroyed within few DAYS.
Two hundred and twenty-three lives were
definitely reported lost, and a most moder-
ate estimate of the humorous cases in
which whole crews were stated to have
been lost, swells the number to nearly five
hundred while if to this be added the
loss of life on land and in the earlier histo-
ry of the cyclone, the grand total amounts
to at least six hundred lives. Records
also show that about nine hundred build
ings were injured or totally destroyed by
this storm.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17
Il UTO1d to the Farm e1.s.

In 1860, at the termination Of the
rule of the Democratic party, and
prior to the advent of Republicanism
in the spring of 1861, the farmers con-
stituted nearly one-half of the whole
population of the United States, and
were the owners of very nearly the
one-half of all the wealth in the coun-
try. In that year the census shows
the total value of farms and of farms
ing stock and utensils to have been
seven thousand nine hundred and
eighty millions, four hundred and
ninety-three thousand and sixty-three
dollars (S7, 1880, 0,493, ,O63) while the
total valuation of all the property in
the country Excluding slaves) was
fourteen thousand one hundred and
eighty-twO millions seven hundred and
thirty-six thousand and sixty-eight
dollars, ($14,1S2, 1886, ,O68,) proving
that Of every dollar of wealth the
farmers owned fifty-six cents Thus
the official returns of the census of
1860 prove, that while the farmers
were less than fifty per cent. of the
population, they owned fifty-six per
cent. of the wealth.
In 1870, fifty-two out of every
hundred of all persons engaged in
gainful occupations were farmers, and
had they held their own from 1850.
they should have owned fifty-eipht
cents out of every dollars worth of
property. In that year the valuation
OF all the property footed up $50, ,O68.-
| 5lS,5 and fifty-eight per cent upon
that would have been $17,439. 600
But the value of property held bv
them was IL 124, 95S,74 or over six
thousand millions less than their fair
proportion, had they prospered in the
same proportion they did prior to
1860 OF course these figures show a
nominal actual increase over the fig
/ ures of 1860, but that is owing to the
influence of an inflated currency and
besides, II the farmers had grown in
/ prosperity equally to all other classes,
they would in 1870 have held their
fifty-two cents on the dollar and not
have dropped down as they did to
! thirty-seven cents.
Here are the plain figures, derived
from the official records of the govern
ment, proving that under the rule of
the Republican party the farmers in
terests have suffered to sum double
the whole public debt! While the
other industries have grown over two
hundred per cent. in nominal value in
these ten years of Republican rule,
over one hundred and thirty per cent.
in gold-the farmer has added less
than forty per cent. nominal in those
ten years-equal to twenty-six per
cent in gold-to his accumulations.
Do the farmers see exactly how Re
! publican legislation helps them? Please
take it into consideration
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

THE list of the sufferings of Memphis
during the current year is very extrAoroli-
nary and saddening. First, commerce by
river was impossible on account of ice for
two months. Next, as soon as the river
was navigabie the epizootic prevailed to
such an extent that there were no horses
to haul freight to the steamers fact
which absolutely paralyzed trade and in
dustry. The third calamity was the small
pox, which so frightened people that Mem
phis was left in want not only of necessary
aid and attention but of food. Fourth
came the indigenous" cholera, whose
ravages among an already disheartened
population were as severe as those of the
smallpox. The cholera had not fairly run
its course when tho yellow fever made its
appearance as the fifth scourge within ten
months. Then as the sixth cause of suf-
fering, came the financial panic. These
calamities certainly entitle Memphis to the
largest measure of aid and sympathy, for
nothing except Lisbon earthquake or a
Chicago fire could cause greater suffering
than that known to tho people of Mem
phis during this year.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

THE result of the Ohio election IS
not certainly known. The Democrats
claim to have elected the Governor
and other State officers. 1t seems to
be admitted by the Radicals that the
Legislature will be Democratic, which
will insure the reelection of Hon.
Allen G.. Thurman to the United
States Senate. Iowa elected the Re-
publican State ticket by a greatly re-
duced majority.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

LAST week the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union held in the city of New York its
third annual session. Among the resolu-
tions passed at those meetings were some
providing for grand celebration and pa
rade in 1876 in honor of the Centennial of
American Independence, and for further
commemoration of the daybythe erection in
Fairmount Park of costly fountain, from
which the water is to flow for the first time
on the one huudredth anniversary of the
nations birth. Should these resolutions
remain unchanged, as they probably will,
another proof will be furnished by our Cath
olic fellow-citizens of that patriotism which
has distinguished them from the earliest
period of our history. They compel our
respect by their devotion to their religion
and by the amount of good which they are
quietly accomplishing through the agency
of religious establishments and organiza-
tions as varied as the exigescies that call
them into being. Since so much of what
is done in this way is done on the principle
of not letting one hand know the deeds of
the other, it often escapes observation.
Some idea of the power and success of the
temperance movement under the auspices
of the Catholic Church may be gained from
the fact that it maintains two hundred and
tifty-five total abstinence societies, with
membership of over twenty-seven thous-
and, representing all North America
PhiIG. Press.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

PLAGUE-STRICKEN MEMPHIS Let
ten. from the Scene Of the Pest.-A pri-
vate letter, dated October 1st, written
by a gentleman residing in Memphis,
says: -.
''Poor Memphis has suffered terribly
There are hardly enough well people to
bury the dead and attend to the sick in the
northern portion of the city. 1t is heart
rending to witness the distress here
Whole families have been swept away in
few days, and the dead lay unburied and
unattended to in houses, where no one
cares to look after them. God help the
poor! This is the most distressing cpl
oemic that has ever visited this country
No one knows the suffering of the poor but
those who have boon AMONG them Whan
taken they live but short time, and there
is no one to tell the tale.
81 could write a hundred pages and
then could not tell you all. The blame
rests with one of our own daily papers. 1t
stated there was no yellow fever, and it
knew better, for the people in Happy Hol-
low were dying in scores. / can't blame
other cities for not contributing to us when
our own papers refused to acknowledge
there was aEy sickness among us and
don't know their object in miSrepresenting
us, unless it was that the sickness was
ShLChy dulOuS Guc poor, anu Iney W0Ie IOL
worthy of any notice but now the sick
ness has spread nearly all over the city,
and the rich and well-to-do people are
dying, and the undertakers arc not able
to bury them, and the poor are carried off
IN wagons, sometimes as many as nine
at time. | saw that number on Sunday
in one wagon.
81 am at the station house. where see
and can learn everything that is going on.
We are compelled to send prisoners, under
guard of policeman, to lay out the dead
and put them in their cofins. Father
Garry died this morning. Father O'Brien
Is reported sick and two more of the good
sisters: God bless and spare them They
are ali Dominicans. The Fathers of st.
Peters Church have suffered most, and
they, with the good sisters, have stead
fastly watched by the bedside of the sick
until completely worn out. Poor Father
Daley, who died, was ir Happy Hollow
until he had to be carried away' and one
of the franciscan sisters was carried awav
from there in a blanket, and died in a few
hours after reaching the convent. There
are now about 90, 600 white persons in
Memphis; the others have left. On an
average there are about sixty-five or sew
enty deaths reported day. How many
more can't say
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17
Count De Chana6ord.

Count De Chambofd, who is now.
with his partisans in France, using
every effort to gain the French throne,
is the head of the elder branch of the
house of Bourbon (the New Orleans
family is the young branch) and was
born in Paris in 1920. He Is the son
of the Duke De Berri, who was assas-
sinateds on Sunday, in 1920, as he was
escorting his wife out of the Paris
Opera House. The Duchess was q
celebrated woman of her time, and
after her father-in-law (CharIes Ky
was replaced on the French throne by
Louis Philippe, engaged in numerous
adventures and intrigues in the Legit-
imist interest, as the claims of the
house of Bourbon were styled. Cham
bord's name has always had pecu-
liar fascination for 'Frenchmen, owing
probably to the adventures and fasci-
nations of his mother. He was bap-
tized with great pomp IN water brought
from the Jordan. He was denomi-
mated "The Child of Miracle" and he
has never suffered himself to be for
gotten in the political changes of
France, nor allowed the early splen-
dor of his life to be eclipsed.
In 1880, his grandfather, Charles
X, abdicated in his favor, proclaiming
him King as Henry V, but Louis
Philippe gained the throne in the rev.
oIution of that day as the Citizen
King, and Chambord and his mother
we've banished. He lived for some
time at Holyrood palace in Edinburg
He then travelled through Europe in
king1y style. In l843, he established
court in Belgravia Square, London,
and there received the Legitimfsts in
royal style, as Henry Y, of France. In
1853, he formed compact with the
princes of the House of Orleans, very
similar to his recent compact with the
Count of Paris, by which the claims
of the elder and the younger branches
of the house of Bourbon were arrang-
ed, but until now no attempt has been
made to carry out the compact by
putting forward candidate to be sup
ported by both parties. His present
movement formerly commenced in
1871, after the capitulation of Paris,
at which time he issued proclama-
ton under his title of Henry V, in
which he expressed his determination
to save France under the white flag,
and to maintain the temporal power
of the Pope.
The first serious step towards this
result was the recent fusion between
the Bourbons and the Orleanists i'll
support of what is called Constitu-
tional Monarchy. The Count de Cham
bord is the last of the elder branch of
Bourbon, and childless, and he effect
ed this fusion by consenting to nomi-
nate the Count of Paris, grandson of
Louis Philippe, who was a member
of the Assembly under NJ. Theirs, as
his heir. Chambord, however disas-
trous or otherwise it may be for France
should he be successful, is nevertheless
to be credited with perseverance and
undaunted determination.
1t is not altogether improbable,
however, that the National Assembly
may be forced by the monarchial fac
tiOn to proclaim a monarchy, and
choose Chambord King, but the Re-
publicans are making gallant fight
to avert the purposes of the monarch
lists, in which they are assisted by the
few Imperialists or Bonapartists. A
few days will solve the problem.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

The Associated Press courier, who
carried the report of the Modoc execution
from Fort klamath to the telegraph sta
tion at Jacksonville, Oregon, rode q dis
tance of ninety-two miles in six hours and
hfty-five minutes, over mountain road of
more than usual roughness, employing
only three well selected horses. The last
iorty-two miles he accomplished in exactly
Two heurs, beating his principal competitor
by thirty minutes, and getting control of
the wire, which was necessarily occnnied
in the transmission of the Associated Press
report until it was too late to forward any
other message.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

IF unofficial reports can be relied
on, only two Democrats have been
elected to the Legislature in Philadel-
phia, and one of those Democrats (God
save the mark y is the notorious and
infamous Sam Josephs. The Repub-
licans elected the remaining sixteen
members, not including Josephs, whom
they can have any time for the asking
Gordon's majority in the same city is
put down at 1851 and Mackey's at
25,l09.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17
SENATOR THURMAN Of Ohio doll

SENATOR THURMAN, Of Ohio, deliv-
cred speech last week at Greenville,
in that State, from which we take the
following extract. 1t contains more
truth and sound common sense than
We have seen embraced within the
same brief compass during the pres
ent era of radical rant and fustiap.
1t is plain truth admirably expressed ::
"There can lie no oproduction of wealth in
n country except by labor. There is no
way under the sun known to man by which
one single dollar can be added to the
wealth of any country except by labor
This is a principle that every political
economist recognizes. 1t is the fundament-
nj principle of political economy. \ dozen
men in this beautiful town Of yours may
speculate with each other the whole year
round. and some of them may grow rich
out of their speculatiOns and the others
may become impoverished, but they do
not add one single dollar to the wealth of
the country. A man may be great cap
italist and live on the interest he draws
from his capital, and on that alone, and do
nothing whatever of either manual or in
tellectual labor. and he may grow rich day
by day, but he q Ids not one cent to the
wealth of the country. No, my friends,
he does not benefit the country half as
much as the poor boy that follows his
fathers plow and drops grains of corn into
the furrow, for those grains of corn will
spring up and become lofty stalks and bear
their yellow fruit, to the wealth of the
country; and therefore, it may be said
tina. as all the wealth of the country comes
from labor. the laboring man is fairly en-
titled to have n Voice in the government.
for which he laborS,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

THE Harrisburg Patriot announces
that henceforth that paper will be
published by the Patriot Publishing
Company" and that the connection
of B. F. Myers and Jno. w. Brown
has ceased. The name of no particu-
lar person appears in connection with
the future editorial management of
the Patriot 1t will doubtless be ed
tied with the same ability and adhe-
renee to Democratic principles which
has characterized it in the past
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

Hon JOB MANN died at his resi-
dence in Bedford, on Wednesday, the
8th inst, aged about SO years. He
held the office of State Treasurer from
1842 to 1915. In 1916 he was elected
to Congress by the Democratic party
in the district then composed of the
counties of Westmoreland, Cambria
and Bedford, and in lS4S he was re-
elected. While he never sought the
honors of Office, he faithfully served
the people in every position to which
he was called His life was blameless
and his honor and integrity were with
out stain or reproach. Job Mann will
long be remembered as one of the
purest public men that this State ever
produced His whole life was beau
tiful illustration of the poets saying /:
"An honest mans the noblest work of God. -
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

1HE MURDERER
NOVEMBER .,.,' 6TH.-Tbe I w5,s 20 b H.,,>|
sette and Bulletin Of Ss,nes,l e,llIia'a.or-
following item: Goyernso,a,a eOc,,, eOc,,,,
designated THURSDAY N NJ havtarS' 4
tween the hours of Ia t'Ussnbef GI &
the time for the execute, !, sad ? Z
" ade, the flendish nurds,.o sn ot SslsS y
Isabella Mcbride, on tbs S5 q Joil, |
The warrant is in the u,,,.S1 -. "a Of Jsl, :
received g by the Sheriff on ~ Ts5sa ,oIa u !
read to the condemned : r0 sc0e'i, !
evening about four e'clo.Ilaa J.aa ys,.,,
Sheriff entered his cell bs - VIE
by Deputy Blair, Chief C,.s gas acc11;,.
dreUs and Piatt. BeForo u 97sfessS
the warrant, however, the ~. ,,e Isaiit: sai:;
with an iron bar of abo1,. -ss 81 ala3s alais, !
to separate them-wbicb - utica hS
"Wednesday last, and NJ sP7ss Z
John Vance. YOrce-were nia.Sta's ,,,.'actt'';
wrists and securely rivi,s%J ~ qe
iron Is designed to keen II, 4bs =
and to prevent him from ,,;-.l.s - md >
tie as possible. During the bs rs.S %
warrant Wade listened with 80 s.sa',ii { 3
ence, and at the conclusion ,v,Oa ,,-' q 9
it was correct, and written - ','-i'
of paper. He was then rsmo-os .
cell on the opposite si6e N ~ u. e,
the chain which is attached ' ~
securely fastened to the fio,r =
officers withdrew and left him =
over his fate.
The officers had scarcely Isf q
this desperate and hardened c,i.
he set about devising a plan = I
new handouts, and, making -
dous efforts, soon succeeds ~
covered he was entirely free 80
iron collar, which, thus far h ~
unable to divest himself Of -
time the Sheriff returned witb,.-J
OF wristlets, which he PLACED -
when Wade remarked that L, - -
them off before morning. ApdU.-
he was found this morning wiz
free.
1t is rather surprising that TIA,
not be handcuffed, having slrs,s
every pair, some six OF seven, -
him.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17

ALTHOUGH the Democratic county
ticket, with the exception of Henry
Scanlan for Assembly, has been elect
ed, the majorities are not what they
ought to have been, nor what we were
led to expect. Henry's majority, as
will be seen by the official returns else
where, is 800. Banner for Shtriff has
200, and Criste for Treasurer 20. The
rest of the Democratic ticket is elect>
ed by majorities ranging from 600 to
600. The most desperate efforts were
made by the paid understrappers of
Griffith to defeat \. D. Criste for
Treasurer, and when we take into con-
sideration the amount OF money that
was lavishly expended for that pur-
pose, the wonder is that their efforts
were not successful. We will refer to
the election in the county and State
more at length in our next issue.