davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

II 50 able a journal as the Pottsville
lSkIHdtrd should see proper hereafter, as
ii did last week, to copy an editorial arti-
Gle from the FREEMAN, it toughtto conform
to the well recognized rulo among gentle
men of the press and give US the proper
credit. 1t is scurvy practice, this thing
Of appropriating other peoples literary ef>
forts, and one which with some obscure pa
pers has become Il second nature but we
trust that tho Standard, which has a rep
utatiOn to sustain, will not take stock here
after in practice which manifests a lack
of brains and gentlemanly attributes in
any oditor who INDUCES in it.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

JUDGING from tse uuanimity with which
the press of both parties Throughout the
State has spoken on the subject, popular
opinion demands the repeal Of the Act Of
Assembly providing for the election Of
Jury Commissioners, the repeal to take ef
feet on tho first Monday of January, 1876.
The object in passing the original act was,
that the minority party in each county
should have a representative i'll the board
of Jury Commissioners. The seventh sec
tion of the fourteenth article Of the new
constitution provides for the election in
each county of three County Commission
ers and three County Auditors at the elec-
tion in November, 1S75-each electOr vot-
ing for 10 morei, han s,oo ersons. his will
secure to the minority one member i'll each
board. The board of County Commission
ers thus constituted will be quite as COM
petent, and we think more so, than the
Jury Commissioners TO select the best men
to serve as jurors. We therefore favor
the repeal, which will restore to the Coun-
ty Commissioners the duty of iiing the
jury wheel.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

A SOUTHERN CURSE IN NORTHERN
HoME.-Commentingo on a fiendish outrage
perpetrated only the other day upon a
young daughter of Judge Lowell, of Boston,
Mass, by black scoundrel in human form,
the N. Y. World draws picture which
it would be well for all lovers of the negro
and haters of Southern white people to
contemplate. Here it is
"And now will all the men in Massachn-
setts who felt this divine rage, this saofed
and virile ~rath in the defence Of helpless
ness against hendish brutality, of gracious
elling crime tingling hot in their veins on
Saturday last, as they read tho miserable
story Of j Judge Lewell's outraged home, but
do themselves and their country the whole
some service of refiscting that this horrible
thing at which Massachusetts stands to-day
aghast has been stalking fer years past by
night and by day over the length and
breadth of all the Southern States Of this
Union? No doubt there are many men at
the South hot of spirit and slow TO learn,
who have ehce and again since the close Of
tho war manifested . disposition TO deal
ever harshly with tho race which they and
their fathers before them, and our fathers
before u.s. as we'll as ,heirs, were trained to
regard and to treat as inferior by the Divine
appointment to the ruling race OF Europe,
of America, and of the werld. But the vast
body Of the Southern whites are of auether
strain. They accepted the results of the
civil war honestly ava naniuiiy. Aney
knew that the majority of the Southern ne
groes were neither in themselves savage
and cruel nor disposed to live on ill-terms
with their white fellow-eitizens. Bat they
knew too that as they arc in all ignorant
and long brutalized races, tho lower passions
especially strong, and the intellectual
forces by which the lower passions, If they
are to be controlled at all, must be controll-
ed, are especially weak in the negroes
A nd they looked forward then with peou-
liar anxiety to the increase at tho South of
precisely such lntolerable offences against
society az this which has just desolated one
of the best of New England homes, when
they found that the bonds of public order
at the South were to be suddenly relaxed
by an ignorant passionate, and dishonest
political interference of tie North in the
affairs Of Southern society. Their bitter
ticipations have been mere than realized.
Naturally enough the consequences has
been that maddsned outra ges have provoked
signal and summary chastissments. If the
men of Massachusetts will but put the case
of tho South to themselves to-day in the
light which is thrown upon it by this aw
fal incident at their own doors :he future
may easily be made far better than hve
years ago 1t threatened ever again to be for
theu, for the South, for tho Repablic, and
for the nsgrs race itself.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

TIE discussion of the merits and quail
fications Of the different candidates for
United States Senator from this State, has
latterly been conducted in much better
spirit than was manifested as soon as it
was known after the November election
that the Democratic party would have a
majority on joint ballot in the next Leg
lature. This is commentlabe, and we trust
will continue until the question is finally
settled. The names of five gentlemen have
been prominently mentioned, and it is safe
to assume that one of them will be the sue
cessor of John Scott. They are jeremiah
S. Black, William A. Wallace, Charles K.
Buckalew, Hester Clymer, and Edgar
Cowan. Others have been suggested from
a feeling of local pride and as personal
compliment, but the contest will really be
between the gentlemen we have named.
We have heretofore said that Judge Black
was our first choice, and it is not necessary
now TO repeat the reasons for our prefers
ence. They will readily suggest themselves
to every man who is familiar with his ju-
dicial and political career. While this is
our position, we have not sought by any
words of ours to detract from or depreciato
the just claims Of any other aspirant. 1t
is fortunate that the candidates referred to
are all competent for the position, though
in different degree, each one possessing
one more qualities in which tho others
are deficient. Some Of Judge Blacks ear~
liest efforts at the bar were made in the
courts of this county, where he is well
known and kindly remembered. Then he
was a rugged, stalwart disciple of Black
stone and Kent; in legal learning he is now
an intellectual giant. Nor is William A.
Wallace a stranger to the Democracy of
Cambria county. At the October election
in 1862 they aided in electing him to his
first term in the State Senate, and also in
1871, when he was elected for the fourth
time. For twelve years he has occupied a
conspicuous and leading position in the
politics of the State, and has fought the
battles of his party with upfiagging energy
and courage. We have never heard his
personal integrity truihfnily assailed. In
our judgment he has committed some mis-
takes as a Senator, bu. who has not, since
it is human nature to err?
We have no kind Of sympathy with any
Democrat who, to promote the success of
his own favorite, will attempt to strike
down Mr.. Wallace. We have no taste for
that sort Of guerilla warfare in politics, as
no party benefit can result from it, and it
will always react on those who resort to it.
There is no leading Democrat in the State
whose political record is perfect and against
whom some plausible objections could not
be urged. If there is such a man we
would like to hear him named. Although
we prefer Judge Black for Senator, we
cannot quietly consent to see Mr.. Wallace
unjustly assailed, nor his services to his
party ignored. Let justice be done though
the heavens should fall, and let the Demo-
cratic press so conduct the struggle tina.
when it is over no eubittered feelings will
survive as a legacy of discord in future
contest of the same character.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

THE Pittsburg Dispatch deems it ques-
.ionable, after all, whether the shooting
of Mosier and Clarke alias Douglass, ana
their discovery as to the abduction of Char
lie Ross, has not made the case more pain
full than before. With the death of these
parties the police seem to have lost ali
chance of obtaining clue to the where
abouts Of the boy. Already the parents
are distressed by narrowing surmises that
he has been drowned, murdered or other
wise put beyond reach. A declaration was
made in kilograms from Philadelphia last
evening that the authorities proposed em-
ploying Mrs. Mosier to act in the capacity
of detective. If she does not know
enough about the case now to lead to the
discovery of young Ross, it is not at all
likely that the parties interested in hiding
him away will permit her to know more
particularly since her engagement by the
police has been thus publicly advertised
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

WE strongly suspect from recent politi-
State, that the Speaker of the House at
the approaching session of the Legislature
will be a gentleman who, whatever amount
of intellect and education he may possess,
is entirely without legislative experience.
If this should prove to be the ease, it will
be a fatal 6lunder. We undertake to say,
and we have some experience on the sub
ject, tha. man, though he had the brains
ef Webster, but without a knowledge Of
the rules of legislation, weuld make sad
failure as the presiding officer of the House.
1t is mistake to suppose that only n man
Of rare ability can be an efficient Speaker.
The SpeakershiP requires three requisites
first, a correct knowledge of the rules
which govern legislative bodies second,
astrong, rim ging voice and, third, prompt
ness of decision. Any member who CONS
"a n Speaker. We do not know of an in
stance in which the Speakers chair has
been filed by a member who had not pre-
viousy served i'll the House. The Speaker
is to the House what a main spring 10 to a
watch, and if the new members do not
wish to turn il into 4 perfect Redlam,
where confusion will be worse confound-
ed," they will not risk the untried expert
ment of electing one of their own number
to preside over their deliberations.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

THE contested election for State Senator
between William p. Schell, Democrat, of
Bedford, and Z. ID. Yutzy, Republican, of
Somerset, was heard last week at Somer-
set before Judge Hall, and resulted in a
decision favorable to Yutzy, who held the
certificate of election.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

THE Democratic State Convention which
met at Pittsburgh last summer pledged the
party by one of it's resolutions to san honest
and economical gorsr nment, tho topping of
Of erery need!sss srpenss, and a reduction
Of the number Of office holders" This was
a pledge which cannot be lightly disre-
garded, and the people will demand its
strict fulhlment. The Democrats will have
control Of the lower branch Of the Legisla-
ture, and that is one of the places in which
to inaugurats retrenchment and reform and
reduce the number of office holders. There
are over fifty offices to be filled in the
House-just about oue-hd!f the number of
members uador the old constitution. In
the Senate there are about forty subordi-
nate positions, making over ninety in the
two houses. Their aggregate salaries
amount to $50, 900. f. II. Rauoh. editor Of
Lancaster city paper, who has been Chief
Clerk of the House, declares that less than
one half then umbero of subordinates would
lie amply sufficient, and that their pay
should not exceed SOS, 400, which would be
a saving to the taxpayers of s56, 900. y
cures, the incumbents having little elso to
do than draw their salaries. Under radi,
cal rule it was the practise of almost every
member of that party to take his man
Friday will, him to Harrisburg and install
him in comfortable position at the ex-
psnse of the people. Will the Democratic
members of the next House initiate their
example? We hope not. This horde of
useless Office holders was provided for by
the radicals by an Act passed in 1878.
1t made Harrisburg the Mecca of broken
down and disappointed politicians.
In their caucus tho Democrats ought to
fix the number of offices to be filled in the
! House, and that number ought to be far
below the present extravagant list. if there
is any virtue in the Pittsburgh pledge and
if it was not ''made TO the ear only to be
broken to the hope" From all that we
can learn, tho avalanche of Office seekers
that will be precipitated on Harrisburg be-
tween the first and fourth days Of January
will 6e fearful to contemplate. They will
go not single, but it batalions, 1t will be
sorry sight and n scandal to the Demo
cratic party, and while we know how diff
ficult it Will be to resist their importuni.
ties, we trust the Democratic members will
unfiinchingly meet the terrible onset-that
they will fill tho Offices they may deem alb.
solutely necessary with competent and de-
serving applicants, and thus prove that the
State convention was honest when it com.
mittcd the Democracy to a reduction of the
number of office holders as well as true
and genuine reuchment and REFORM
The people demand a strict enforcement o
the Pittsburgh resolutions.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

CoNGREss adjourned for the holidays
from Wednesday last until Tuesday, the
9Th Of January Thus far it has not trans
acted any business of national Importance,
and we think the same remark will be ap-
plicable 10 it's proceedings when the ses-
sion terminates on the 4th Of March, 1875.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

THE Pittsburgh Gazette and some of the
rural Republican papers have taken ground
in favor of the nomination of United States
Senator John Scott as the next Rcpubli-
can candidate for Governor. This is a
timely warning to Hartranft to ''step down
and out" We are unable, however, to see
wherein John Scott would possess any OF
the elements of strength as a candidate.
That he has ability no one who knows him
will question. but in this State since 1866
this qualification has not been deemed es-
Sc initial by the radical party in the selection
of its candidate for the Office of Governor
Mr. ScOtt's career in the Senate, while it
has boon respectabls, has by no means
been brilliant, and has fallen far short of
the predictions of his most intimate friends.
As chairman Of the Kuklux committee of
the Senate, no visited some of the South
eIu States few years ago at heavy ex-
pcnse To the Treasury and took an immense
amount of testimony, most of which had
been prepared to- order by carpet-baggors
of the John J. Patterson stripe. 1t was
all published in book form and for time
.
to the author, but it soon passed out of
recollection.
Huntingdon county, the home of John
Scott, was reliably Republican until ho
undertook the leadership of his party, and
the result has been that he has split it into
two warning, irreconciliable factions, the
result whereof at the last election was the
election of u Democrat and an anti Scott
Republican to tie Assembly, as well as a
Democratic State Senator and a portion
OF the Democratic county ticket. If he
ever had any political influence i'll his secs
tiou Of the State, he certainly has none now.
On the whole, therefore, his prospects for
q nomination for Governor are not flatter-
ing, and even if he should receive it, his
chances of being elected are infinitely
wuise.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

Mr.. CHRISTIAN X. Ross, father of the
stolen child, Charles Brewster Ross, being
satisfied that the burglars killed at Bay
Ridge, Long Island, were the ahduc.ors,
now offer n reward Of 81, 600 for the return
of his child or for in foi nation that will
lead thereto. He designates six places in
Baltimore. Boston, New Yo'k and Wash
ington, 10 either of which the child may
be taken or sent, and mo question asked"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

Col JOHN VI. Tho oMrsoN has been elect
ed to congress tor the unexpired term OF
M'Junkin in the Twenty third district.
I he vote was very light.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

TIE GREAT EJECTMENT SUIT.-The
ejectment suit of Meister ct. al. rs. Bissell
ct, al, for some seventy acres of land in
the city of Pittsburgh, which had been on
trial in the United States Circuit Court
during .he last and previous week, was
brought to sudden and unexpected ter
mnation on Monday morning. The whole
question turned upon the validity of the
marriage of one William A. Mowry-in
whom the title of the property in dispute
was previously vested-with an Indian wo>
man in the State of Michigan about the
year 1S45, by whom he is alleged to have
had two children, one of whom is still liv-
ing, and party to this suit. His Honor,
Judge McKennan, informed the counsel in
the case that unless they desired to address
the jury, he would relieve them of the ne
cessity of doing SO; that upon careful
consideration of the law applicable to the
case, ne had come to the conclusion that
under the statue Of Michigan the alleged
marriage of Mowry and the Indian girl was
not valid. Under this instruction the jury,
without leaving the box, rendered a verdict
in favor Of the present owners of the prop
erty. This, however, does not end the
matter, for the plaintiffs will appeal the
case to the United States Supreme Court.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

"A singular story, but a true one, is OF
the serious harm which has como to Mrs.
Mary Caron, dress maker, in Springfield,
Mass, from the bito Of a rat. Some two
months ago, while she was assisting in
killing one of these troublesome animals,
it seized her finger with its teeth, and
would not be removed until it was kicked
off, In few days her hand and arm swell
ed frightfully, and the whole side Of her
body was paralyzed. She was at times
thrown into commissions, and for many days
had 10 be kept under the influence of NOR
phine. -Four physicians we're in attendance.
She has now recovered to some degree from
the more terrible effects of the bite, but
her hand is still paralyzed, and she is much
emaciated.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

JEFFEHsoN DAVIS is seriously i'll.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-11-12
Crop Review.

The October report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington
shows that the wheat crop is equal
to if not greater than that of last
year with few exceptions. Wequote
from the report as follows:
The wheat crop is equol to or
greater than last years 10 all of the
states except Maryland, Virginia,
Texas, Kentucky Wisconsin,, Mn
nesota, Iowa and Kansas. In Hi
nois, Delaware, South Carolina and
Connecticut, it is about equal to lasl
years crop. Other states have 10
creased their yield. The New Eng
land : .ates aim st reach the splendid
crop of the c-nsus year, approxlmai
,ng to / 10000 bushels. Maine has
increased her yield 33 per cent. The
qaallLy vi the crop III these states Is
considerably improved. The Middle
States have considerably enlarged
and improved their yield. New
York repo' ting an increase of 16
Ger cent. Of the South Atlantic
States, Maryland falls Ii per cent
and Virginia 6 per cent. below last
year, but their deficiency is more
than made up by the other states
Georgia shc wing an increase of Il
per cent. The qualify is also i'm
proved. Of the Gulf States, Ala.
oama reports an increase of % and
Mississippi 2 per cent; Texas a de-
crease OF Z per cent. In quality Ala
anna improves % per cent. and
Mississippi declines 8 per cent. aud
| Texas 6 per cent. All four of the
inland states show an Improvement
10 quality from 4 per cent in Arkan-
sas TO II per cent. in Tennessee. La
| quality Arkansas presents en- in
crease OF Sc per cent, Tennessee 20
| per cent. aud West Virginia % per
cent. Kentucky declines 5 per cent.
| rhe crops of these states are a third
| greater than that of the census year.
North OF the Ohio, Illinois equals
hat OF last years crop, while Wis
consin, on account of chin bugs
fails 80 per cent. short, which re-
iuces the aggregate yield of this
section below last year. Ohio 10
1reases her yield 18 per cent. Mcn-
gan ~ per cent, Indiana per cent.
All show an improved quality except
Wisconsin, which declines % per
cent. The aggregate yield OF the
states west of the Mississippi is also
short Of last years. Missouri in
jreases 20 per Cont. and Nebraska l
per cent, but NJ nnesota declines 16
per cent, Iowa 2 per cent and X m
sas 5 per cent. The grasshoppers
nave destructive to spring wheat in
hese states, The quality is below
ast years in all except Minnesota,
which improves ~ per cent
| On tho Pacific coast the crop is
greatly increased, ami is fully so per
cent. above the census year. Cali
tornia increased her yield 40 per
cent. and Oregon equals the quality
Of last years crop, California inn
proves hers by per cent. The
total yield will nea ly, if not quite,
equal the census wear.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-11-12

NORTHWESTERN DAIRYMEN' Asso-
cIATIoN.-The Executive Committee
of the Northwestern Dairymen's As
sociation will meet at Elgin, H., on
Tuesday, November 10, at 2 p. m. to
arrange Programme for the Annual
meeting of the Association, to be
held at EIgin, Feb. II, II, 13, 1875.
1t is especially requested that each
member Of the Sen GG@paHFssss Rs Is
to topics for discussion. or on any
subject connected with the Annual
Meeting, or other work Of the Asso-
citation. Such letters may be address
ed to Vice Pres. ]. r. Mclean, EIgin,
Ill, or to S. Faville, Pres, Lake Mills,
Wis, and G. e. Morrow, 6ec'y Madi-
son, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-11-12
The Congressional Vote.

From very plain indications WIS
consin elects five Republicans and
three Democrats to Congress. This
ia a loss of one to the Republicans.
1t is very evident that up in the
eighth district there was great
potato crop, and that McDill's forces
were all in the fields. The following
gives in round numbers the majority
for Congr IS 10 the several districts
of the State:
First Observation-Disclosures (Republ-
CAM elected over Fratt by 5000 ma
iority. Second district-Caswell
(Republican) elected over Cook by
$50 majority. Third district-Ma-
COON (RepubIican) elected over
Thompson by 1900 majority
Fonrth District-Lynde (Democrat)
elected over Ludington by $500 ma
iority. Fifth district = Burchard
DEMOCRACY over Barber, elected by
only 5 900 majority. Sixth district
-Kimbali (Republican) elected over
Bouck by go majority. Seventh
district-Rusk (Republican) elected
over Fulton by $500 majority.
Eighth district-Cate (Democrat)
elected over McDil by 100 majority
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-11-12

Accommodating upon the Repub.
lican reverses ia New York, Massa-
ohusetts, Ohio. aid other states, the
Milwaukee Wisconsin says: eve
have not the remotest idea that the
reverse of IA will be renewed in 20
provided always the Republican
leaders learn wisdom from this cleo
ton. Too many of the Democratic
leaders are genuine Bourbons-thst
is, they learn nothing and forget
nothing, therefore are incapable of
wisely using power unexpectedly
vested n their hands. They have
also the very serious element of re-
pudiation strong in their midst. Not
less than thirty members of Congress
from Ohio, Indiana and Missouri have
been elected on the Pendletonian
platform. They constitute sufficient
number to control the next Speaker
ship. Already We perceive that
Gov. Allen, of Ohio, has been nomi-
mated by the Repudiationlsts for the
Presidency, but Seymour and Tllden,
of New York, and CASTOR, of Massa-
chusetts, cannot long CO operate with
the Repudiationists."