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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

THE Republican county convention
which met here last June for III. purpose
of expressing it's preference on the ques-
tion of a candidate for Congress in this
district, aud having done SO adjourned, re-
assembled in the Court House last Mon
day to nominate county ticket, reference
to the proceedings of VIII ich will be found
elsewhere i'll our paper. The candidates
composing the ticket are all respectable cit
izens, SO far as we have any knowledge Of
them. Ne intelligent and candid Repub-
lican, however, from White TO \ odsr town
ship has the most remote belief that any
one man ON the ticket has the ghost Of u
chance of being successful at the Novem-
Der election. lie might possibly draw a
respectable prize in the Kentucky lottery,
but to be elected to Office i'll Democi attic
Cambria under existing circumstances is
a story only fit to be told to the inmate of
lunatic asylum. IL is true that some Of
the over sanguine friends of Captain Laps
Icy, Of Johnstowp, who is one Of the noul-
Inees for Assembly, entertain feint hope
that by some political miracle he may be
thought, and if Captain Lapsey himself
eherishes such belief he is laboring un-
der fatal dolusion. Ia no event can he
defeat either John Hannah CT John Buck
except BY about. four hundred Democrats
proving recreant To their duty and cast
ing their votes for him. To suppose for
oue moment that they will do So is tin.
Widest OF political Illusions. Three timss
iii succession Samuel Henry has been cleo
ted TO the Legislature from this county by
D.mocratic votes, but that silly expert
ment would not be repeated lf he were
again candidate at the coming election
and II never can be successfully follow &C
IN tue case OF Captain Lapslsy, Tespecta
bis and worthy a citizen as he is. hs fol
has colleague, Mr.. Johu {. Gates, we in
ier that he was pot on the ticket more fuI
oru.nspt than use. john Buck will at
tcud to ths political dsstinies of John C.
Gates ia tue northern section of the coun
1, and will teach him u lesson which bs
viii ioug ren,eu ber aud which will Of
ise'usily and forever squelch bis politioa
aspirations. Hannah and Buck are the
peers of Lapsley aud Gates in every re-
sPect-they are both well known Demo
Gratis and have both been fairly nomina
ted. ILey will receive the united aud
vigorous support of the Democracy of the
contest.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02
Catholics and Iatenperance.

The Catholics of this country have done |
more, as a distinctive Church organization,
toward stemming the tide of intemparance
than any other Christian denomination.
Perhaps the efficiency of it's work in this
direction is as much due to its thorough
organization, oneness of purpose, and the
perfect control and discipline of its reli-
gious heads over the masses of its member
ship, to any other cause. Indeed,
believe that to the implicit faith and rsli-
ance of Catholics in the teachings and
moral exactions of its clergy is to be attrib-
uted the great success which attends all
movements of the Church in the way of
moral, social, and charitable work. We
are led to these suggestions in view of the
approaching National Con nvention of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Amer
ica, which is TO take place at Chicago on
Wednesday, October 9TH. The societies
throughout the country are making early
arrangements to be represented. The Ne-
tropolitan Union eff New York city, COM
prising fifty societies, sends delegates at
large, as well as others and the Union of
/ the Diocese OF Brooklyn, twenty societies,
has also elected delegates. New Jersey,
under the lead of Vicar General Doane,
/ viii be Largely represented. The Union
| of America comprises five hundred socie-
ties, with a membership of over one hun
! dIed Thousand. The New York, New Jer-
! sey, and New England delegates will leave
/ in body, and as extensive arrangements
have been made by the societies and clergy
! of Chicago, the ceremonies attendant upon
the meeting, which is to take place in the
! Grand Pacific Hall, cannot fail TO be OF a
most impressive character. The first con-
! vention of :his Union was held in Ral;i-
more in 1872, the second at Cleveland in
! October Of the same year, and the thild at
I Irving Hall, New York, last October, at
! which two hundred and fifty deIsSatossand
| sons forty priests attended. The arch
| bishops of the"country have written en-
phatic letters of endorsement and encour-
agemest of this movemsDt--the venerable
| archbishop Purcell taking very decdsd
! position in behalf of total abstinence
F. Though very far advanced III years, he says
he practices total abstinence himself for
examples sake shat he has done SO for
, eleven years, and that he j. still able to DC
| his ''hard days work in TIE vineyard,
his teetotalism.
Much has beon done Sy the Catholic
! Church and the societies connected there
with, alone yet it was noticed with plea
sure that, last fall, during the etemperance
excitement in New York and other cities,
the clergy gave not only their presence,
but their earnest words aud the influence
| of their high example, to movements inau
gUrated by Protestant churches and socie
ties for the suppression of intemperance
and it is to be hoped that the day is not
far distant when not only She entire Pro
testant church will be a unit in this great
| work, but that they W i'll be found uniting
| with the Catholic church and its societies
: all over the land, in this garnd reformatory
moven-ent.-A!t00Hd Tribune.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

The editor Of the Johnstown Tribune
was delegate to the Republican county
convention which met last Monday, and
acted a somewhat conspicuous part i'll its
proceedings. We do not, howsssr, regard
the Tribuns man as much of a success in
a county convention. lie was a mildly
hammered man in that body and no one
would suppose that he was the same indi-
vidual who pours cut the vials Of his i'm
potent wrath on the heads of the Demo
cratic candidates through the congenial
columns of his Tribune. He will sing a
very different tune after the November
election, and will be fully convinced that
his political ways have been dark and his
political tricks have been vain.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

In 1S40, says the Pittsburgh Post, the
democratic party were put out of power.
because OF the then prevailing '.hard
Times. But the Democratic party did not
controi the banking interests of the coun-
try, which were in the hands of the Wbips.
VINO claimed to represent ''all the wealth.
OF the nation. Still the Democrats were
held responsible because they had political
centrel, and out they went How is it nowp
ihe panic of 1910 was nothing compared to
the distress we are now enduring. The
Radical party has a vast majority in Con-
gress. 1t has the President. 1t has large
majority in the Legislatures Of Now York.
pennsylvania, and Massachusetts,, the
states where most of the capital of the
country is concentrated. 1t has the Gov
ernors OF these States. And above all, if
exclusively controls from Washington the
national currency. Now, il the Democratic
party was made to suffer and aodicate in
io4o because of the hard times, what can
OF will save the Radicals from paving the
same penality2 Let us see whether a new
administration will not better things.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

THz OLDEST INHABITANT.-He has been
found. But he comes not as we were wont
to recognize him with ruddy check acute
senses and manly shoulders, upon which
rests head venerable with the hoar of
age and erect with the dignity and hearty
good fellowship, which ares to be found
only in the maturity OF aRhhonorabls ex-
peIienee. lie is deaf and blind, feeble and
halt, sour of visage and bitter in spirit.
lie grsPss IN the muck of the dead past and
In bis dotaSe, builds for the future. plans
which totter as his trembling hands con-
sUruct them. We need not saw that We
refer to the writer of a double leade,i edi
torial in the Philadelphia Press of this
morning, the purpose of which is to inform
the public that the war has. not vet ceased.
that the issues which were supposed to
have besn buried at Appomatox are still
alive, that the hope of peace and recon-
citation between conflicting sections has
been but dream, and that there is a spirit
abroad in the land which is s.outraoipg
human rights and denying the truths we
have written in letters of blood upon the
statute books of the Republic" Who is
1t writes thus? Barnum should secure hin
he would be a greater curiosity than was
Joyce Heath. Joe Jefferson ought to copv-
right him he is funnier than Rip Van
Ninkle. Certainly the bears of modern
Judgment would not devour children for
deriding him as he passes along the street.
-Lane0ster InteLtigencer
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

A QUEER HEN SToRY.-From West
Chester, Pa, there comes the following
sad story of a well-meaning hen: A man
by the name of Lot Fithian, of that place,
had been the owner of a hen, that, to ali
appearance, was just like others of her
tribe, except that she had ceased to per-
form the functions of well behaved mad
am chicken-she didn't lay any eggs This
was all the more singular when it was OBJ
served that she did not show disposition
to ''cluck." The hen seemed to thrive
and ate well, but it was evident she had
something on her mind. She seemed
weighed down with grief of some undis-
charged duty. A few days ago Mr.. Fifth
ian killed the chicken, and on dissecting
her discovered twenty-eight full sized, well
shaped eggs, the only difference between
them and marketable eggs being that they
were minus the hard shell. The cause Of
the poor hens dependency was now ex-
planned. She had done her duty, had pre-
pared her eggs for delivery, but owing to
some obstruction nature refused to perform
her share of the work. What would have
been the ultimate consequences of this
had the hen been allowed to live on we are
not prepared to say but it certainly is q
strange freak of nature, the similitude Of
which we have never before heard of.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02
Republican Economy.

Among other things the Republican
party propose to go before the people with
in the approaching canvass rs the cry of
economy. We copy the resolution of it's
convention on this subject and the spirited
comment of the Allentown Democrat:
Resotued That we congratulate the State
and country on the economy integrity and
efficiency with which the State aud national
governments are now administered.
'Econemyr' Where do you find it.
Mr.. Dawes, the leader on the Republican
side in Congress, i'll his speech in the house
last winter, declared, aud there was no
one there to deny it, that the national ex-
penditures had suddenly risen from 5000
900, 600 to 1919, 900, 600 per annum. This
increase of 500, 600, 600 in a single year
doesn't look much like the ECONOMY" and
efficiency" spoken of in the above resolu-
ton. Nor do we see it i'll the increase of
salaries of officials. President Grant not
only signed the act of Congress which iu-
creased the salaries of the President, Su-
preme Judges and members of Congress-
but he also actively bored in the Senate
and House of Representatives. for the pass
age of the said biz, by which his annual
salary was increased from $25, 900, as for
merly, to fifty thousand dollars per year.
! Then, too, when such men as Skunk, Big
! Ter and Packer were Governors, with a
! Democratic legislature to assist them, we
had no such reckless extravagance. Then
/ the Governors salary was $4,000. Now
/ Sl0,0 goo. Then the Governors S messenger re,
! ceived $400. Now 81, 200. Then the State
librarians salary was 5000. Now 81, 500.
/ Then we had no house messenger, the
deputy door-keeper performing the mes
! sengcr's duties. Now we pay to this new
| officer $500. Then the deputy secretary OF
the commonwealth received 81 200 a year.
| Now 81 500. Then we had no pages in
! either house. Now about seventy-fve
| Then tho public grounds about the capital
were cared for by an old man for $500 a
] year. Now we pay for the same duty $500
! Then our Governor rented a house to live
in and paid the rent out of his $3, GOO sala-
ry. Now we provide a $50, 600 house fol
/ the Governor and make a yearly appropri-
alton for furniture amounting to more than
! the Governors former salary. Then to in
! augurats a Governor it cost some $500 OF
S4O0. Now S4, 600 or So 900. Then when
! an eX-Governor died he was buried at the
/ expense Of his family. Now TO bury an
Ex-Governor it costs the people between
! 81, Geo and So, 0G0. Sec last Auditor, Gen,
! erals report concerning the funeral of ex,
| Governor Geary.l Away with such ''econ-
| omy," The people want no more of it. How
| do our hard listed farmers, our laborins
/ men and mechanics, who have lately haC
their wages reduced to less than living
rates, relish seeing their hard earned mon
ey fieeced from them in the manner above
! shown, and then on top to read such {
! deceptive resolution as that at the polls il
| November.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

HENRY HoPPLE, of Carroll township.
who once claimed 10 be Democrat Of the
first water, and acted with his partv con-
sis'entiy at that time, is now the Repub-
hcan candidate for Poor House Director.
In 1850, this same Henry Hopple was the
Den"erdtic candidate for the Same Office
and was defeated by VIM. Douglass an
oia me Wing, OF the same township. bv a
majority of 2lO. We do not saw arxth;na
against him as man and citizen. for hi.
personal character is without b,emisb h,t
ii is none the less true that he has ba., =,
diligent and constant pursuit Of the Office
for which he has just beer nominated for
fourteen years and the question now pre-.
sents itself to Democrats and Republicans
alike, will yos vote Henry Hopple, chron.
lo ofhce-seeker on both sides Of the politi-
cal fence, who left the Democratic party
because his ambition was not gratified. O,
Will you vote for Charles Flick. an homes,
man and an unfiinching Democrat, who is
fully competent to discharge the dutias y,
the Office with honor to himself and cre.ii,
to the county,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

LORD RIPoN's CoNyERsION.-The Lon
don correspondent of the y. !. World says:
| learn shat Lord Ripon converted himself
and that neither Cardinal Grandson, :"
nor .'Monsiguor Catesby," nor any other
priest had anything to do with it, nor did
any one but the humble priest that received
him into the Church know anything about
the conversion until he had read of it in
the journals. The facts, as they are told
me, are these The Marquis, as a Free
mason, felt himself challenged by the op-
position of the Church to FreemaSonry, and
he began to examine the claims of the or
ganiZation that thus assumed to denouuce
the society of which he was the head in
England. This investigation was fatal to
his faith in Frsemasonry, and he pursued
it until he was convinced that it was his
duty to seek for reconciliation with the
Church of his forsfathers. Then he went
very quietly to one of the fathers of the
Oratory IN Brompton, aud asked to be bap-
tizec and received as y member of the ath-
olc Church. The priest, ignorant of the
rank or name of his penitent, gave him
such instruction as he thought he needed,
and then, as is the custom, baptized him
''conditionally' is, as in the opinion
of the Catholic Church baptisms by clergy
men of the establishment may be void by
reason of deficiency in form or intention
Anglican converts are always rebaptized
conditionally, the form being, "If thou
hast not been already baptized, l baptize
thee" &c. 1t was not until the baptismal
register came to be signed that the priest
knew who his convert was. Lord Ripon
assisted at mass for the first time On Sunday
yesterday at the Oratory. He is the pa
tron Of two livings in the Anglican Church.
Now, according to the English law, an Is
raelite, Turk, a Parsee, or an infidel may
be patron of living in the Anglican
Church, and may appoint a Clergyman to
that living. All the livings owned by Ro-
man Catholics go to the crown, and are
filled by the Lord Chancellor. This is the
case with those owned by the Duke of
Norfolk, and AL the other English Catho-
lies. Lord Ripon, however, before his Sc
cession, took she precaution of transferring
these livings to his wife, who still remains
Protestant, and thus tkey are retained in
the family.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

n TERRIBLE TRAGEDY is reported from
Lower Marietta, Lancaster county. 1t ap-
pears that a man named Strauss, German
by birth, has been living unbappily with
his wife for some time past. He is an en-
ploye at Watts d Sons furnaces, and is
said to have been good and faithful hand
Sevon or eight years ago he was married
to woman named Annie Grady. The
couple never were blessed with children.
and on this account there arose i'll feelings
between man and wife. Strauss is describ-
ed as being tall and handsome looking
fellow, while his wife is his inferior in point
ofphysical proportions. Wednesday night
Strauss came home from his work about 8
O'Clock, and upon his arrival he was greet
ed with a storm of abuse from his wife
He made no remarks, but quickly pulled
a revolver from ono of his pockets and fired
the contents of one chamber at his wife,
She, seeing the revolver, leaped to one side,
thus escaping the deadly bullet Strauss,
upon finding that his aim had proved false,
dropped the revolver and ran into the yard.
He went up into the lot about half way,
drew razor from his pocket and deliber-
ately cut his throat, the cash extending
from ear to ear. In fsw moments he was
a corpse. The alarm was quickly given
and crowd gathered. An inquest on the
remains was held, the verdict of the Jury
being ''suicide by his own hand.'' 1t was
said that the wife, after having witnessed
the suicide of her husband, refused to have
the body of her husband brought into the
house, allowing that she had been badly
treated during life and she cared not to
have any trouble with the body in death
The deputy coroner, however, procured a
coffin and the body Of tha suicide was plac-
ed within it. During all the silent hours
OF the night the corpse was allowed to re-
main in the yard, with but a solitary per-
son to watch over it.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

The New York Tribune of a late date
publishes letters from Benjamin L. But
Ter, Caleb Gushing, and other prominent
individuals in Washington City, to Gov
ernor Kellogg, of Louisiana, acknowledge
ing the payment to them by Kellogg of
certain large sums of money for thsir SER
vices in connection with the contest before
the Senate, in 1873, between Pinchback
and Mcmillan, for seat in that body
The letters are admitted to be genuine,
and open up another dark page in the
corrupt history of radical politicians
These letters were found i'll Kelloggs Office
after he had fled from the State House
during the late troubles i'll New Orleans.
There are other letters yet to be published,
making startling revelations and implica-
ting ut least two Senators.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

A SLIaHT MISTAKE. There is a magis-
trate in town in Indiana named Helser.
A clergyman in the same place was called
upon by young couple, not long since,
who wished him to join them in the hely
bonds of matrimony. He asked the bride
groom IA soldier, by the way) for his mar
rlage license. The man in blue responded
that he had been engaged to the girl for
four years, and thought that would do.
The clergyman thought net, and remarked,
as the speedest way to obtain license !:
You had better take your girl and 60 to
Heiser - "You go to hell yourself - re-
torted the angry veteran.., And seizing the
bride by the arm he arslcsked her from the
house, wondering what manner Of pro
Zane minister he had mot With - IEzchange
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

DAVID c. WETZEL, ex-Burgess Of Car
rolltown, who once claimed to be good
and consistent Democrat, and who was
a delegate from the same town to the Re-
publican county convention on last Mon
day, and also a candidate for nomination
for Assembly before tho same convention,
has no doubt arrived at the sensible con-
cluson that not only Republics, bat Re-
publicans, are ungrateful. Wetzel was
hung on the radical gallows as high as
Haman, and we have no doubt is now
thoroughly convinced that, however strong
may be the love of the Republicans of
Cambria county for political treason, they
nevertheless hate and despise the traitor.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02
Democratic Nominations.

sUPREME JUDGE:
Hon. WARREN j. WOoDN ARD, berks'
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Hox. JOHN LATTA, Westm orslaEd.
AUDITOR GENERAL
HoY. JUSTCS F. TEMPLE, Greene.
SECRETARY INTERNAL ABFAIRe:
GEE. VIM. MCCANDLESS, Philadelphia
AssEMBLT
JOHN HANNAH, Johnstarn.
JOHN BUCK, Carrolltenn.
PRoTHoNoTARY
BERNARD MCCCLGAN, Tilmors-
DISTRICT ATTORNEY:
W. HORACE ROSE, Johnstow1-
COMMISSIONERS:
WIN. d. NcCLELLtND, Jshnstown.
MARTIN L. CAMPDELL, Munster Twp
.PooR HOUSE DIRECTOR
CHARLES FLICK, Allegheny Twp
AUDITOR:
MICHAEL SWEBNY, Cambria Boz.
CORONER:
JOHN BRADY, Johnstown.
SURVEYOR:
HENRY sCANLAN, Carrolltewn.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

The Baltimore An,sr;eo,, doo,.u.
1T has retreated from tb, S.lS .I;a..sl, sua
and resolved to have NOTHING NOR t.s $50 ~.
with party affairs, and that tbo.. w,,o Io
worked to build up the republican nar,v
IN Maryland have no more mfjuenea q,
Washington than a procession of y c,ysI,ous "
and boot blacks.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

Two OR THREE DOSES OF SIcriEa7'i
airy Condition. Posds-s viii cure Al
of any common cough or cold, and Il
worst cases may be cured in . few I
We know this from experience.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

THERE is no disease flesh is heir to more
troublesome to manage than rheumatism.
lt comes when you least expect it, and
generally rsmains till it gets ready to go
away. The most CONSPICUOUS remedy for
TINS complaint is Johas0n's Anedgne Lint
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02

HENRY sCANLAN, Carrolltown.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-11-14

In Missouri the Democratic
State ticket and all the Demo-
cratic nominees for Congress
are elected, aud the Legislature
has also a Democratic majority.
Tilden's majority in New York
reaches 10, 900.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-11-14

The election returns indicate
a small Democratic, majority
on the State ticket in Pennsyl-
vania, and q Democratic Legis-
lature which will elect a sue
cessor to Senator Scott.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-11-14

To make 9 dog add, multi
ply OF subtract, tie up one Of
bis paws, and he will put down
three and carry one.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-11-14
The Quincy (Ill.) Herald tells

The Quincy Qll.) Herald tells
Postmasters, Revenue Collec>
tors and "sich" that they may
proceed to put their books in
order now. The ''ground swell''
that carried such havoc to the
Republican households Of Ohio
and Indiana will reach Wash
ington in 1876, and there will
be an immediate demand for
fewer and better men in official
position.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-11-14

We call attention to the adver
tiselnent of the Texas Gift Concert
Association of Denison in an 9th
er column, which is fully under
way. Tickets are selling rapidly
throughout the United States,
This Association is endorsed BY
the leading citizens Of Northern
Texas, and we recommend all
those who desire to invest in an
enterprise ofthis kind 10 do so al
once and secure the $4,000 prize