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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

y EiED's tHARITT.-T.aSt >ummera poir
OF robin rcd-breaSts built their i,cSts in ihe
v'cIHiiy Cf fashionable country bua,din,.
huASe. In due inc the heads OF f,ur yo,,nr
r"oiiS were observed by some of tho
o'aidcrs, pecring above The sides Of the
nest, when some tiouGll;less boys pasSiu.r
tHat way sfet both the parent t,tttiS
ieit The young ones to perish.
The ladies and gentlemen, moved to ni.v
by the harless condition of the io,r birds
we're dcyising plans for their relief when :,
little brown wren flew to the nest. srrvr.,cJ
the unfortunate state of things for 4 M.
ment and then disappeared ina few min
uteS II returned, bearing food of some kind
Tor the starving robins
Much surprised al this. the human sym
pathizers resolved 10 await further deycl.
olmcntS before proceeding to put their
plans OF reief into operation. and were do
liShted to find the wren had i'll real rood
earnest assumed the care of that orphan
I'ihiIy. Ith untiring energy it hunted
worms and iooa Of such kinds a.; was suised
TO the wants ard tastes Of its pro;eoes. and
continued its kindly offices until the robins
were fill-fledged and able to take care OF
themselves. -
Strange asst this story may appear. we have
IL from the most undoubted authority. and
submit the question whether reason or in
stinct was the governing power with that
Kind hearted, moiherly little wrene-FH.{0.
Star.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

FIENDIsH FANATIcIsM.-An atrocious
ira ycdy was recently committed i'll Toquer-
VILE, Utah, which, for some unaccountable
reason. was not reported by telegraph.
Richard Fryer, who has lately labored un-
der the hallucina,ion that he was a second
Jesus Christ. entered his house in the even
ing and found Thomas Batty, n friend of
the family. lighting fire in the CRATE.
Believing that Batty was an eniissary of the
devil, who was trying TO bum his premises,
the lunatic rushed for a pistol and shot him
through the head. Mrs. Fryer, paralyzcd
with fear, crouched in a corner, aud was
shot through the heart by her demouiac
husband The next thing he did was to go
to a cradle where his infant child was lying
asleep. and deliberately blew its brains out.
This was the crowning act of the almost
unparalleled tragedy. Fryer then sailed
forth into the village, armed with revol-
vcr and a gun, proclaiming himself as the
Lord, and saying that he had slain the
devil and several of his inps. The sheriff,
being unable to arrest Fryer and fearing
that other lives might be sacrificed, killed
him with shot from navy revolver.
Batty, Mrs. Fryer, tie babe, and the slayer
of them, all were buried OH st. Patrick s
dav from the same house.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

o. Wednesday Of last week the New
Haven RePnd!I'ancT, the leading tie
pnblican German newspaper of Jonnec-
ticut, threw a boonshell into the Rad
zeal camp - follows:
The principles Of the Republican party.
rs established and carried out frorl 1850 10
1853, could not have bccn better. bat since
Grants administration came in. the worst
political elements have been thrust into
power, AMI nothing bnt thorough weed
lnI out Cf the same viii ever restore tkc
country TO It's former prosperity. There,
l"!" lt IS highly necessary that tie i;epuh-
hcan party at this time should receive a
reminder 10 reflect. The much nee ded re-
form can be had only when the German
IeluJhcanS cast their votes fpr such Dam
ocriitlc candidates as aye i.uosgn t. be men
OF honor and sound Judgment. Tpa3staiu
from voting would not have the desired
elective must make our vote y telling
one
The editor of the Repu6ljhape,. gives
among other reasons why the Radical
party should be defeated IS the general
stagnatiOh OF business. which the Adj
ininistrat:on does nothing TO remove.
icing intent only on selfish orattica-
ton. This is the conclusion at which
large majority of the people are rao p
idly arriving.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

On Saturday morning last, says the
Lewistown Democrat, Lieutenant uiram
McClenahen, residing on James II. Browns 3
farm near Siglervillc, took his own life bv
shooting himself with navy revolver.
The ball entered the top of his forehead.
and passed downward, causing almost in
slant death. The act was committed in n
dark, back cntry of the barn, soon after
breakfast. lie was found before life was
quite extinct 10y IL brother in law, who en-
tered the barn To attend TO some work.
Mr. McC. was about ~ years of age, and
stood very high among his neighbors as an
industrious, upright man. During the late
war he was a member of the PENNSYLVANIA
Bncktall regiment, ana afterward of the lst
Penna. Reserve Cavalry, in which he be-
came Lieutenant of Company 2. Deceased
left wife and live children to mourn this
sad event
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

"A special from New York to the Phil
adefPhia ftnses says that Matthew Mans
field AMI Net;io Ga,e, both members of
the graduating class of Public School No.
2. in Ionkcrs, went to New TUr, together
last September, OH the occasion of the Ic-
ception of the Grand Lodge of the Sons of
Temperance i'll the Academy Of Music.
On their return they declared that they
had been married while III New York. and
the young lady said she had burue,i the
certificate OF marriage. On account Of the
equivocal position in which she was placed,
Mr. Gale insisted that the marriage cere-
mony between the parties should be pcr~
formed by the Rev. Lewis Mudgc, of the
Second Presbyterian Chuicli in tho pres
ence of witnesses. This ceremony was per-
formed on tie fifth of March. The youuo
husband is the son of Mr. NJ. ID. Mansfel
a confectionery on Broad way, Tonkers, and
is only sixteen years of age !; and the bride,
who Is only fourteen years of age, is a
daughter OF Mr. Ebert Gale, a carpenter.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

Tom SCCTT's FIRST RAPID TRASsIT
S.,HEME.-N pw that Iino. Thomas 4. Scott
has become the Acknowledged "itdiirrad
King" cC TIC void amd his railway :Iani3-
nlltiOns ale attracting no small share Of
the public Il: :tcntion, it would not be un-
IGtcI estiug - relate an epis-it.e IN his life
that took place in S'GIcerSJurg, y hen he
WAS simply Il d:y goods clcIk and long
before his giant enterprise were dreamed
OF. Arnold Brooks. nov deceased, a col
OrCd hOSticr, wci-kuOnn in MercCISburg
and / universal favOrjte, had charge If he
stables connected with one Of tiie hotels of
that I'iace, the owner Of which had some
Si,lcndid trOttinG stock in which BruukS
took great pride, aud the speed Of which
formed Il great staple i'll his conversation.
One day, Wien I've was d!iatng on tic
merits of his respective animals with more
than usual u"cti0n, Scntt III: Cri uDicd him
with the rather startling banter: Brooks
I'll bet you live dollars That | can prJducc
Il pony that can pace faster than any horse
YOU have got in The stable can trot -
Brooks accep ptcd ;he banter Immediately
prcliminaiieS were arranged ,tnd u handful
of fps and ''levies' the perIaisites of
his poSiton--waS put up by the enihuSI-
aSilc hoStler. The race came off. Ii was
Tom Scott's first triumph iii RAPID travel,
and Brooks was badly disappointed aud de-
tcaicd, and as he often remarked in tells
ing his story, '',l--n it, he took de money,
dat vas dc wus.'' But the unfortunate
hoIseman not forgotten, and up to the
time of his death lie received from the
great railroad magnatc, at unexpected
times, many largcss Of no mean amou Mt.
-fuLtOa Democrat.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02
A dog ut Utica, n. Y. has been trai

A dog ut Utica, n. Y. has been trained
20 carry the little daughter of his owner to
aud from school in IA sled made especially
for the purpose. When the time for clos
inu the school at noon and night arrives
the dog is htched to the sled and staI is
alone for the school house after his young
mistress, whom he either waits for her
outside or meets on her way home. The
dog is 50 proficient that often when the
lime for going after the girl arrives he
quietly slips away and is nowhere to be
found. Upon being discovered he will
look very much ashamed, aud Immediately
submits to harncssng, and tro:s off as fast
as possible to perform his duties.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

THE New York Time, if we may believe
the Philadelphia Times Of the 3lst, which
of course we are disposed to d.. gives I'm
COnnecticutrnce a day now, and is libor;,,g
Inadvancc tocSpiain lhc cgenorallyexpcct,I Il
oefeat Ofthe third term ticket in ,hat State
One day the State is likely To be lost be-
cause muddy roads may keep the Connect
cut centcnaIians away from the polls. and
yesterday the sponge was thrown up be-
cause ''the Temperance party are not acting
with the Republicans" aud therefore. saws
the sc'ni-organ. ''we have no right TO ex-
pect to carry the State" Woull it not he
wholesome for the Times to try the honest.
candid truth jnst one day, and say that the
republican ofiiceNh"lders of Connecticut.
having loaded u distracted party with the
Presidents insane ambition, RepubIicans
must lie defeated in a decidedly Republican
state 1t would probably go little ayyil
waid for the ItEses tn tell n truth that is so
nnfai table to many of its political associ
ates. bu: thc venture might be n Good one.
just because of the novelty of The thing.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

The Supreme Court Of the United
Stats5, IN the case OF Miner against
Hopprrsatt, involving the political
st2tus Of women under the war amend
melts, follows. SAYS the philadelphia
Times. the line already laid down in
the New Orleans and other recent
cases. Women are citizens now, pre-
cisoly IS they were before the adoption
of the Fourteenth Ameniment, and
have the same privileges u0w that
they had before. But suffrage is not
one of the privileges of citizens, as
snch. and the Fourteenth Amcndmeut
does not apply 20 it. a citizen is y
voter under the Constituticn anI laws
of his State, and all that The recent
amendments provide is that the right
of 4 citizen to vote shall not he de-
MED for certain specific reasons. 4
number of very important constitu-
tional principles arc iaiI d0wn with
unusual force and clearness in this de
cisiOn. principle more important il-
deed, than the point directly ruled
that the political position of women
under the Constitution is not in any
wav affected by the amendments
This is the most interesting decision
that Chief Justice Waite has yet dc
livored, and it will be received with n
great deal OF pleasure by all but the
suffrage refOrmers. who have been in
sisting that the trainers Of the amend
ments "bulied better than they knew
a most mischieyous political idea.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02
Eleven years age Mr.. Chauncey Lewis

Eleven years age Mr.. Chauncey Lewis,
of Union, Ellie county, lost his pocket book
containing thnteen hundred dolaps in
notes and currency. Two years afterward
he received letter enclosing him the
notes and securities amounting to nearly
one thousand dollars. Last week Father
Loneigan, of Cory, sent foI him and
handed him three hundred and sixty dol
lars III currency. the same identical money
that was IN his pocket book at the time
he lost It, The pocket bool, had been
picked up by man in his employ. a Cath
ollc, whom he did not suspect of dishon-
esty, and for eleven years the unba,pv
thiet wrestied with his uneasy conscience,
until he could keep his guilty secret no
longer, and confessed it to Father Loner-
gan.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

SIMON CAMERON, Senators Morton.
Anthony and Dennis, Thomas A. Scott.
and few others of the same sort. lcfL
Washington by railroad last Monday
for New Orleans, OH their way to the
city Of Mexico. Several DAYS before
they set out, The accommodating See
rotary Of the Navy sent the Despatch
q government vessel, from the Wash
ington navy yard around the coast to
New Orleans, where she would receive
the members of this seltct parry OH
board and deddAeGd them to Vera
Cruz, from which place thev would
proceed to their destination by rail.
1t is not necessary to speculate on the
object Of their visit, as that is their
own affair. But it is pertinent to ei,-
quire bv what authority tie Secretary
of the Navy orders n first class gov
ernment steamer all the way from
Washington to Vera Cruz for the es-
pecial accommodation and convent
ence of Simon Cameron, Tom Scott
Il Co. These enterpiising travellers
will all live well aud nave high time
generally on board the Despatch with
out having to pay dime Cameron
and Scott are too sharp for that, and
the only wonder is that they did net
modestly ask Congress to agree to
pay them q liberal per diem during
their absence. If the request had been
made, it wonld have been granted.
This is one of the many ways In which
the present head of the Navy Depart.
ment prostitutes and degrades his Of
fee md rnhs fhf, uiIlllin IranSurv
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

TuE election i'll Connecticut for
Gu;ern0r, lie gislatarc, AMI folr mem
hers Of Congress, VIII take place next
Monday. Both parties are making
an active and thorough canvass, and
as il usually the cIse in that State,
both claim !, victory. IL is prudent,
therefore. before expressing any opiu-
ion "a to the result, TO wait for the
returns Engersoll, Democrat, who is
81 candidate for reelection, was chosen
Governor last April by majority of
l,GO9 over tho Republican and Tenn
rerance candidates The delegation
in .hc last Congress consisted of three
Republicans and one Democrat.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

CArDIDATEs for the Democratic
nomination for Governor are multi
plying with fearful rapidity, and by
the time Of the meeting of the State
Convention III September promise to
he as "thick as leaves in Vallamhrosa y
: When Winter ceases to linger in the
tap OF Spring and May day is fairly
ushcred in, almost every county in
the State will be able, rs well as proud
to point to its own candidate as the
one combining ail the elements of sue
cess and just the man for the crisis.
If Pennsylvania cannot boast tha5 she
is the mother of States and OF states
men, she bids fair very soon to be
able to rejoice over the fact that the
number Of her embryo Governors is
legion We have no doubt that most
OF the gentlemen named in connection
with the nomination have been sur
prised ut the Sudden discovery Of
their own fitness for the Office, as well
as their peculiar strength and availa-
bility with the people.
This dcluge of aspirants for guber-
Material hon0rs is the result OF the un-
expected success of the Democratic
State ticket at the lest election and
the widespread political revolution
throughout the country. If any Dem
ocrat, however rests secure in the be-
lief that the victory of November,
1874, is a sure Indication of like tri-
umph in November, 1875, he fails in
tellig;bly TO comprehend the political
"a 4. 20
ordinary judgment and sagacitv who
will consult the official returns of the
election for Governor in 1865, 1869
and 1872, and compare them with the
vote cast by the two parties st the
State election in 1874, can have no
difficulty in arriving at n correct in
depreciation of the figures. They will
make it rs plain to hin as n simple
question in arithmetic, that the ability
Of the Democratic party Of this State,
alone ard by it5 Gic:3 unajdei efforts,
to elect its candidate for Governor, is
by no means as certain as some i'm
pnlsive and enthusiastic party leaders
suppose. The very reverse OF this Is
muc: nearer the truth. or at least the
probabilities as coukl lie readily shown.
If a victory in Pennsylvania is to be
achieved next fall, it will not be gain
ed by the mere cry Of party watch
word or By stale and improbable par
ti;jan appeals. The contest Will lie
waged on other and different issues,
which more directly concern the best
interests Of the people That there
are political clements in this State
sufficiently strong, if used with 4 rca-
scnHble share Of common sense. to
crush out Grantism in the candidacy
Of john L. Hartranit, we DO nos doubt.
Aye, aDre than that, we firmly believe
that it will he done just as sure as tic
sun is now shining, if, at the Erie COZ
vcntion, when the nomination CONES
to be made, the old Bourbon leaders
q the party are ordered to Tie rear.
and the true representative Of the
people march to the front.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02
is James g. Blaine e Catholic?

This question has recently assumed
vast Importance in certain radical cir
| cles in view of the fact that MIR. Blaine
is prominently mentioned as tie next
Republican candidate for the Presl-
dency. 4 correspondent Of the Pitts
+ buryi GGzeNe is painfully distressed
I about the matter, an | writes to thrt
paper for information on the subject.
Ii Blaine was disciple of the school
of Bolingbrohe and Hume, it is quite
likely that this sensitive cOrrcspOr-
dent would qnictlv conione his offence
and support him. but that the Repub-
lican party should think for moment
of placing in nomination n man of the
s7ule religious faith rs Charles Carroll
of Carrollton and Roger b. fancy,
the eminent jurist, would be a blundsr
worse than crime and something
more than was ever dreamed Of III his
political philosophy. The Ga1ette
promptly relieved the tnxicty of its
correspondent and it may be assumed
that he now breathcs freezer and deeper.
James II. Hopkins, Of Pittsburgh,
one Of the Democratic Congressman
elect from Allegheny county, Judge
Stowe and John II. Hampton, a Pitts
burgh lawyer, were all schOolmatcs OF
Blaine at Washington College, in the
western part of this State, Blaine him
self having been born in Washington
county. \ reporter OF the Gazette
was directed to interview these three
gentlemen and to ascertain from them
preciselv V what they knew about Blaine's
early religious proclivit;es, From
these interviews, "A published i'll the
GlzettP, it would seem that Biainc's re-
ligiGus views when he was college
student were unknown, or at lca5: not
we'll defined; that Hopkins, Stowe
and Hampton never understood from
him that he was a Catholic, and had
no reason to believe that he was, but
we're inclined to think he was Il Pres
byteriln. Air Hopkins, who knew
the Blaine family il im1tely, further
stated that Mr. BIainy's mother, who
is now dead, was strict and JEALOUS
member of the Catholic ChUrch-that
her tao daughters, one of whom is
dead and the other married - Col
~ sitsNt, VI ..S-lN LCts'b bNi1 i4t}'
Il resilient oT nac0ta, followed in their
mothers footsteps AMI were educated
at Il Catholic school on Webster street,
i'll Pittsburgh. The reporter Of the
GIzii' also called on \. l.. Russell,
formerly Secretary Of thc Common
wealth, but living near Pittsburgh,
who stated that he knew Mr.. Blaine
well and that he feic very confident ne
was a Presbyterian.
We cannot but regard the state
ments Of these four gentlemen as coli
elusive OH the subject. Iti very graf
flying to know that this vexed quas-
ton, 80 important to the future well
fare of tie country, has been thus ear
ly and definitely settled. # it had
turned out otherwise, James Giilcepie
Blaine might as well hang his poIiti-
cal harp on the willows kut as it is.
il Grants third term project should
fail and Blaine receive the nomination
all honest and God-teariug Rcpubli-
cans can 60 to their beds with tie
sweet consciousness that their pleas
ant slunbers will not be disturbed bv
the frightfll appartion Of the old gen
tlemcn who dwcil5 in the city of the
seven hills"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

ACCoRDING to Il special despatch to
the Chicago Mfer-O ocean, the gret te It
excitement prevails in Salna county,
Kansas. where several former citizens
of Cambria, among whom we may
mention Messrs VIM. II. Gels, L. Ii.
Berg. =. p Dunmirc. Jacob II. Sti:iler,
and y. T. Carroll, are now located,
over the rumored discovery of gold il
the hills north Of the city Of Salina-
Miners ere in demand, and the Wild
est enthusiasm il shown by solid busi-
ness men as well a. incoming adven-
turcrs. The ASSAYS Of surface rock
found there, as certified to by tie
United States Assayer at Denver,
showed a percentage of S2S in one
specimen and $50 in another per ton.
Active measures are being taken for
ascertaining the real value OF the de-
posits. Companies are organizing.
Land buycrs o!f,r fabulous prices and
land holders are ~ q consequence very
jubilant.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

Tx magical effect on the business
prosperity Of Arkansas produced by
the passage in the House Of judge
IoiaHd 5 resolution, protesting against
any interference in that State by Grant
or any other branch of the government.
i thus referred to in a late number Of
the Little Rock Gazette:
Two weeks ago not a merchant, plant
er or business man in all Arkansas could
have obtained indulgence to the amount Of
one cHnt IN st. LpaiS, Cincinnati, Louis
vile, Memphis or any other city of the
North or West. To day they can get all
they want IN any Of those cities on such
time rs will enable them TO pay. Theadop-
ton OF The Poland report has givon an inn
petus to everything. The Iron Mountain
an6 the Little Rock and Fort Smith road
are pushing things, while every other char
acier of business has improved. Those
who have money are nov willing to loan
10 their neighbors. Merchants arc WILLING
To Accommodate planters, because they i'm
turn can get accommodation, and so in cvery-
thing"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

TIz Philadelphia Inquirer, high
Republican authority, pays the follow
ing we'll deserved compliment to Hon.
Wm. y. Wallace. Penusylyania's dis
tingmshcl son and able representative
iii the United States Senate:
NJ. WalIace's maiden speech in the
United States Senate on the Louisiana res
oluti0n was notable triumph. anl rave
assurance that. after long waiting, Penn
sE'"auia has NJ last a member in that body
VII" >ht.l have something 0 say, and VIII }
AH;,,i S.lJ" hI." - 80 3. "a sDch manner
rs to command the respect of his fellow
members. Mr.. Waliace's experience as 4
dcbatcr i'll orr State Senate has not been
without its good results. It gave HIM fit
trimming fur the higher place and ,rrayer
duties which he was elected to DISCHARGE.
Besidcr bis ripe scholarly culture, his ma
tu'ai ability aHd his proiound knowledge
OF American politics, Mr.. Wallace pos-
Sess2s reputation of inviucible integrity
and unL'em;Sheti truthfulness Of characfe er
which cannot fail to be appreciated in =
body like the United States Scuate. Alto.
gcther, Pennsylvania has good reason to
c2ngTatulntc itself upon its new Senator.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02

.ToIN PErER CLEAvER SHANSs,
Php5us! what q name y n defeated
candidate for reelection to Congress
from Indiana noisy advocate ct
the Force Bill, Grants Louisiana i'll
fanny and Il FREUD Of the third term
has been appointed travelling Indian
Agent at a salary of $1,000 year,
all expenses paid and stealings not in
quired into. The record of Shanks in
Congress has not been clean, but that
trifing consideration never tr0uhi"s
Grant. The appointment Of discarded
congressman ID well-saIaried Offices
has become 50 common since the tth
of March, that it has ceased to create
any surprise.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-02
The CAADRIA FnEEaAH.
EgENSECRc, Pa,
Friday Morning, April 2, 1875.
IIoS. JoHv !ffckM,y died in West

Hon. JoHy !ftcku,y died in West
Chester on the 23d March, in the 65th
year of his age. Mr.. Hickm IN was 4
man OF ability and strong opinions, but
the Cleard II Il publican is right in
saving that lie wrecked him as Il
poiitician when he sided With the Re-
publican plrsy in 1854. IL had
tOrrnerly acted with tho Democrats and
was Il membs. of Congress faOm 1854
to 1862. Nlter he left the Dem ncratic
party, he drifted into II ).hingness,