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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05

ELECTIONS took place in ten other
States besides Pennsylvania last Tues
day. In Massachusetts,, the Rcpubli.
can succeeded in defeating CASTOR,
who was elected Governor last year
by political miracle In New York
the Democratic State ticket was elected,
but by what majority we cannot now
definitely state New jersey elected n
Republican, Legislature. I'm Maryland,
Carroll. Democrat, is elected Cover
nor by a small majority. with a Dem
ocratic Legislature. Wisconsin, Min
nesota and Kansas went for the Re
publicans Mississippi cut loose from
oupet-bag rule and elected four Dem
ocrats to one Republican to Congress.
Virginia doubtless el' cted Demo
cratic Legislature, although we have
vet seen but few returns from that
State. The majority for the Repub-
lean ticket in Pennsylvania will prob
ably reach $4,000.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05

THE political battle in Pennsylva-
MIA has been fought and the Democra-
ey have been Defeated. Whether the
result has been achieved by fair means
or foul, remains yet to be developed.
Haitranft's majority in Philadelphia
is II, ,352 That city has population
of about 7SO, 900, and the registry lists
contained the names of Ill 900 per-
sons as legal electors; but no one who
is not a fool doubts that the lists en-
braced forty thousand illegal or ficti-
tious names. Judge Ludlow, upon
whom was imposed the onerous task.
fraudulent registry lists over tcelre
thousand names, and if the work could
have been continued long enough,
t,centy thousand more would have dis
appeared. 1t is simply incredible
that Philadelphia, with more than two
hundi ed thousand less population than
New York, should have on the regis
try lists almost thirty thousand more
qualified voters, the number i'm New
York at the late election being I44,-
OOO 1t is now the first time that
fraudulent votes in Philadelphia have
cheated the Democracy of the State
out of their candidate for Governor
1t was done i'm 1869 when Asa Packer
ran against John w. Geary, and the
fraud has been admitted by some of
the very scoundrels who took lead
ing part in it's perpetration.
The meaning of last Tuesdays cleo
tion,.is, that a majority of the people
Of the State have proclaimed their op-
position to rctrenchment and reform
in the administration of their State
government, and that the system Of
reckless and profligate expenditure of
the public money which has prevailed
during the past three years shall have
uninterrupted sway for four years
longer They have said by their votes
that they do not object to being plum
dered. but that having become accus-
toned to it, they are rather pleased
with it, aud desire that the amusement
may he continued The taxpayers of
the State, by their verdict at the polls,
have given the thieves of the treasury
ring a new lease of power and they
will have no right to complain Of any
thing that Hiay be done in the future
They have paid their money and have
made their eh0ioc, They acted de-
liberateIy and with a full knowledge Of
the past history Of radicalism in the
State, and the responsibility there
fore, is all their own. Let it rest
where it properly belongs,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05
A Br0re Boy.
4 DOMESTIC CTRAGEDY-THE TERRIBLE EF-
FECTs OF PLAYING WITH KERosENE.

WARREN PA, Oct. 30, 1S75.-On We'd
nesday last Mis-. Charles Ginty, living on
the Oil Creek road, left hei home in charge
Of her three children and neighbor's
child while she went 10 make some pur-
chases. The Ginty children were Charley,
aged ten Maggie, three years old, and
Edith, baby, eleven months old. Sarah
Smiley, the neighbor's child, was aged
seven During the absence of Mrs. GInty
the girls, Sarah and Maggie. got the kero-
sene oil can and were playing with it near
the stove.% Charley was out doors and the
baby asleep i'm the cradle. The little girls
in some way spilled the oil out of the can,
and spark swapping from the stove igni-
ted it before it could be taken up. The
blaze of the burning oil filed the room,
and the screams of the children attracted
the boy Charley, who rushed into the
house. The flames were between the door
and The children, but he rushed through
them and first snatched the baby from the
cradle and bore it back through the flames
and laid it, badly burneo, on the ground
outside. The Smiley girl got out Of back
window, and escaped with slight bruises.
AS soon as the boy had deposited his baby
sister in a safe place, he hurried back to
bring out Maggie, the three year old. He
fought his way through the wall of fire,
and as he reached the space on tie other
side saw his little sister enter a closet on
that side Of the house and shut and fasten
the door. Charley hammered on the door
and called his sisters name, and begged
her to open the door SO that he might res
cue her, for lie saw that the house was
doomed. The little girl seemed to be
crazed with fright, however, and did not
open tie door. The brave boy WAS finally
compelled to abandon his sister to her fate
and fly for his own life. Before assistance
arrived the house was all in flames, and
the boy was found lying on the ground
near the baby, almost unconscious, and
was unable to tell the men who were try
ing to pu: the fire out that his little sister
was locked in the close: in the burning
house. A portion of the bedding and fur
niture was removed, while the child was
lef: to be consumed. 1t was not until the
house was burned up that the terrible an
nouncement made that ons of the
children was missing. search was made
among the ruins and the charred remains
of the unfortunate child were found.
The injuries received by tine brave Ginty
boy in saving the baby, and his attempts
at rescuing his other little sister, it is
feared, will prove fatal. His clothing was
nearly all burned off and his hair singed to
the scalp. His face and hands are also
burned to a blister. The baby Edith is
burned badly about the head and face, and
is also in very critical condition. The
latest accounts from the scene Of the shock
ing occurrence state that Mrs. Ginty has
become a raving maniac. ....
=. 8. Charles Ginty, the brave boy, has
since died. -
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05

Nelson Griggs, the old man now under
arrest at Springfield, and who is said to
be one of the most accomplished counter
feiters in the United States, was convicted
of counterfeiting in St. Louis twenty years
ago and sont to the Penitentiary. United
States Commissioner Hoyne, who was at
the time Clerk Of the Recorders Court,
says he was present when Griggs was con-
victed, and when he was arrested counter
felt bills on the Canal Bank Of New Or
leans, reaching the sum of $50, 900, was
fonnd on him. The prisoners age is six
ty-five years, and Special Agent Brooks re-
ports that he has made counterfeiting
BUSINESS from boyhood. When a young
man, he made large number of bank
notes and secroted them in a barn, where
some children found them. and they we're
thus circulated among the neighbours
Prone to temptation, several of the men
who got the notes signed them, and in at
tempting to pass them were arrested and
sent to prison after conviction for the Of
Tense, Of passing counterfeit money.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05
-nS-4-e~N-~

THR Agricultural Department re-
ports the condition of the corn crop,
as given on the lst of October, as ex-
cep.ionally high. Its average status
in several of the States is above the
standard of good condition; 1. e in
extra thrift and productive vigor.
This is the case in all the Southern
States except Louisiana and Texas /:
i'll all the Middle States except New
York and in Missouri and Kansas
in the West. In the remaining States,
with few exceptions, the averages are
higher than usual of late years, after
the customary ravages of insects and
withering of drought Wisconsin ap-
pears to have sustained most injury
from frost. In the Ohio Valley
States the extraordinary promise OF
September has been somewhat re-
duced by frost in low lands, or in the
area planted late and slow in matur-
ing. There will be large quantity
of understandable corn soft and loose
on the ear, and considerable proper
tion of unsound fodder The crop
will be comparatively large in quanti-
ty, but poor in quality, except in the
Southern and Pacific States, Some in
jury from frost. between September
Goth and Both, resulted as far South
rs Tennessee in the West, and from
Maine to Virginia on the Atlantic
coast. In the South, the principal
losses resulted from storms. The
equinoctial in Texas was very de
structive in the Southern part of the
State Worms caused some damage
In Florida, and drought was injuriou:
in portions of the State
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05

THE indications, in the opinion Of
the Pittsburgh Post, are very strong
that President Grant is going to SO
shape the Cuban and Spanish ques-
tion as to re-elect himself for Third
Term, A foreign war during the
Presidential canvass next year, or
even the imminence of foreign war,
would furnish the Imperative necessi-
ty'' that Grant speaks of for breaking
over the 1.-TWO term" rule and setting
up for an Indefinite number of Presi-
dental terms We are at present fully
convinced that this is the object OF
the Cuban policy now being fore
shadowed.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05
AN ASPIRING Two-YEAR OLD.-Tht

AN ASPIRING Two-YEAR OLD-The
Troy Wing says "a day or two since
one of our tOwnsmen was engaged i'm paint
ing the tin roof of his dwelling house. A
sixteen-foot ladder stood mp against the
house, the top Of which projected about a
foot and a half above the caves. While
busiy engaged at work he was startled
by hearing childish voice say, "Papa, me
up high" Looking up, to his horror and
astonishment he saw his little two year old
boy standing Dr. the caves of the house
with one hand on rung of the ladder.
For moment he hesitated as to what to
do, but finally he spoke quietly to the boy,
telling him to stay there and papa would
come and get him. The boy obeyed, and
the anxious father reached him and taking
him in his arms descended the ladder. lie
did not paint any more that morning.
How the child managed to climb the lad :
der to the roof and then step off on the
caves, and turn round and take hold of
the ladder, all without falling, is mystery
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05
James Martin. a farm laborer. thirty

james Martin, farm laborer, thirty
years old, visited Terre Haute, Ind, on
Sunday to see his mother, and got in.o an
alteration with his sisters husband, John
Trader, by whom he was stabbed fatally
He was then chased by Trader and Ira
der's father, who had gun. He climbed
the fence of his mothers house, and fell
near by, expiring Immediately. The mur-
derer ran to the river aud escaped in a
skiff. Mrs. Traders first husband, named
Andrew Miller, killed her father, who was
named Irwin, about three years ago. Old
Trader last winter, while intoxicated, shot
this same son John, aud was imprisoned
for it some time.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05

THE FOTE FOR GOVERNOR IN PENSsYL-
vANIA SINCE 1190.-NOw .hat the election
is over and everybody is interested in fig
uring up the results, the following state
ment of the vote cast and the majorities
given in the several Guberhatorial contests
in this State since the year 1890 will at
tract no little attention
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05

TUE Baltimore Ne,os says Grant
should not have a third term because
we are out of cx-Preesidents.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05

W w w
the Other--there was nothing left.
The board of education of Union Hill,
New Jersey, after an exciting and proloug-
ed meeting on Friday adopted resolution
by vote of eight to one, excluding the
bible from the public school in that town.
Some Of the citizens declared the bible will
never be allowed to be taken from, the
schools, even at the risk of bloodshed
IS. X. Billings and F. w. Knox recent
ly sold their coal properties at Gaines and
Pike, on Pine creek, to the Geneva, Hor-
nellsvilIe and Pine Creek railroad COM
rany, says the Potter Enterprise The
properties comprise 12, 900 acres and were
sold for $360,0 A coal company is to
be organized at once and the railroad built.
-Four ladies of Sunbury hired a horse
whose character IS fully described by his
name, "Thunderbolt,' for a ride i'm the
country. They almost with a thunderbolt
had struck them. One had both collar
bones, thumb and a finger broken, an
other had her head broken and the other
two sustained painful, but not serious in
juries.
The editor of the Orbisonia Leader
says that during visit to Mapleton last
week, he became acquainted with an old
lady, who is 65 years old, and never wore
spectacles in her life, who make. way
flowers, hair and feather flowers and dur
ing the war she pieced silk quilt contain
ing over 13, 500 patches, and is now at the
second one.
"A Binghampton On. " dispatch says
while party of six persons were boating
on the Susquehanna river at Unadillo, on
wednesday, the boat upset and all were
precipitated into the water. Maurice Good
rich and wife, of Worcester, N Y, and
Mr.. Morehouse and wife, of Unadillo, were
drowned Tho Goodrichcs were on their
wedding trip.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-03-11
TRUST sale.

TIIE undersigned, Trustee, viii on the
l5ru DAY OF MARCH, 1875, at the
front door OF the Court House OF Mason
county, State OF West Virginia, offer for
sale at public auction, for CASH, to the
highest bidder, the following tract OF land
situated in said county, in Clendinen Dis
trict, and bounded as follows: Beginning at
a stake in the back line OF the military land;
same a corner to the land known as the
Morgan Moore farm, thence with line OF
the same n S7!0 c "a poles to stone pile
on hillside; thence n $50 80, Q so poles to
a locust stake, chestnut oak pointer, same
a corner to the K. Mitchell land, thence
with the same II 81 S0 W ll9 poles to a
large black oak stump in the military line
OF the same, S 2l' c $50 poles, TO the place
oil beginning. containing F0RTY-FlNE
ACRES ONE ROOD AND FIFTEEN
POLES, more or less, the same being q
tract OF land conveyed by Lewis ]. Cook
to Alonzo Gushing, in trust, TO secure to
Hiram Dale the payment oil S225. 90 eviden-
ced BY note dated the 10th day OF May,
1872, due one year after date; principal and
interest due and unpaid $2i9.90. Saidtrust
deed is dated the 18th day of October, 1872,
and recorded in the Clerks Office oil the
County Court OF Mason county, West Nir-
ginia, in trust deed book No. l, folios 5Is,
&c. ALoNZ0 GUSHING, Trustee.
ian. 2S-iw
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-03-11
The .Den,nitlon- Total.

In his recent speech in Congress
on the tariff bill the Hon. Frank
Hereford, Of West Virginia, gave us
some astounding totals as to the
amount of money expended by this
government during its existence
In the course of his argument he
showed that from 1779 to 1874 there
had been expended by the govern
mcnt, inround numbers, the vast sum
DISC OO,0O0O0O-six hundred thou
sandmillions.and that ofthisastound-
ing expenditure s400,0000OO have
been disbursed since 1866, or three
thousand four hundred millions in
eight years. As the Norfolk Land
marx well says, it is not necessary to
enlarge upon this fact; indeed it is a
"demnition total" which staggers
conception just as Niagara does de-
scription, and we leave it for our
readers to ponder over, in the con-
viction that no honest man OF any
party can contemplate it without the
conviction that party capable Of
such gigantic extravaganza is unfit
to govern this rcpublic.-lder5Org
Ud.) NcirS.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-03-11
Iron Interests.

a lengthy editorial on this subject
appeared in the Richmond Dispatch
a few days since, from which We take
the following extracts. 1.-THE Kama
wha coal can be taken to the Virgin
il iron fields at such cheap rates,
that State can make iron cheaper
than Pennsylvania.
'If the Kanawha Goals could be
brought to the iron deposits Of the
James River valley pig-iron could be
produced at the iron mines Tor sll Il
ton, at the present prices Of labor
It cannot at this fgurc-or for less,
indeed, than $40 or $25 per ton-in
Pennsylvania. 1fVirginia can turn
out large supplies of pig iron at ST
per ton Git is now made for less at
at one point on the Chesapeake and
Ohio road)our future is assured; We
shall rival Pennsylvania in our iron
industry. We shall produce this pig
iron at points within easy access of
Richmond and the Atlantic cities by
water, the demand for the iron ore
and for the Goals of West Virginia
securing. the very lowest possible
transportation in virtue of the
amount of the tonnage necessarily de-
veloped.
We understand that one Of our bu-
sincss men has within week or so
past received an inquiry from Eng,
| land as to the terms on which 10000
or 10000 tons of iron ore can be de-
1 livered here in Richmond for ship
ment to England, where the scarcity
of iron ores and the consequent high
prices are being more and more Sc
verelv felt every day. a similar in
quiry was sent to the office OF the
James River and Kanawha Canal
| Company. We took the trouble to
ascertain the reply Of this Office, and
we were gratifed to learn that the
company offered to bring the ore from
| Lynchburg to Richmond Q50 miles,
for s1.10 per ton, carriers, charges
and tolls included. We merelymen-
ton this and the other facts which
we have given to show where the
wind is setting. Attention is direct
ed to the iron deposits of Virginia,
for in England, and in the eastern
States of this country, the cry isloud
for cheap iron ores"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-03-11
U.EST VIRGINIA, Putnam County;
A T Rules held in the clerks Office OF the
A county court OF Putnam county, on
the first Monday in March, 1873.
f. ". Foster, Plaintiff,

J. T. Wood, \. Il. Childsand Thomas Mar
selliott, partners. doing business under
the fin name and style OF ]. P. Wood
& Co., Defendants. In ASsumpsit and
Attachment.
The object OF this suit is to recover
from the defendants the sum OF Sl24.70
with interest and cost, and to attach their
estate sufficient to pay the same.
This day came the Plaintiff, by his At
torney, and on his motion, and it appear
ing BY affidavit filed that the Defendants,
J. P. Wood, and A. Fl Childs are non-res-
idents OF the State OF West Virginia, it is
ordered that they do appear here at Rules
10 be held in the Clerks Office Of said court
on the first Monday in the month OF April,
1879. and do what is necessary to protect
their interest in this suit. Teste:
]. L. MIDDLETON, Clerk.
Tomlinson 1; Cargill, p. q. inch l1-iw.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-03-11
The Bounty BiiL.

A good deal of enquiry has been
made for the past week or two for IN
formation concerning the bill for the
equalization of bounties which pass
ed the House, and was considered IN
the Senate just previous to the adj
iournmcnt. As the bill was defeat
ed in the Senate We presume much
of the interest attaching to it has
vanished, and We refrain from pub
fishing the act proposed. The As
ISOLATED Press dispatches state that
the proceedings Of the Senate show
that the bill for the equalization Of
bounties was not in proper shape for
the signatures of the Speaker and
Vice President. 1t being held by old
and experienced Senators that the
motion to lay the conference report
on the table, which was agreed to by
a vote of 80 to "a, was undeniably a
refusal on the part of the Senate to
accept the report, much surprise was
expressed that the bill, though not
finally agreed to by the Senate,
should find its way to the President
signed by the presiding officer Of each
house. The President was informed
of these facts, and he withheld his
signature; but even if the bill had
come before him in an unquestiona-
| bic manner he would have returned
it for the reasons, first, the bill ap-
propriatcd from the treasury large
sum of money at time when the
revenue is insufficient for current
wants; second, he did not believe
that any considerable portion of the
ex-soldiers, who, it was supposed
would be the benefciaries of this ap-
preparation, were applicants for 1t,
but rather that it would result more
in a measure for the relief of clam
agents and middle men," who IN
tervcne, or would intervene, to col,
lect or discount the bountles granted
by it.-Standard.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-03-11
The Montgomery (va.) Ne@ense'

The Montgomery Ta) NeSensF'
says:
Some two years ago Mrs. Morgan.
who lives on Wolf Creek, in GILES
county, gave birth to FIVE male child n
rcn at one time. They are still Nv
ing, are not the slightest detormed.
are ofgood constitution andassPrlght'
ly as well-fed kittens. Mr.. Morgan
is laborcr and quite poor. Inc
ncighbors frequently visit this tami'
", andncvrc without taking supplies
Of some kind. DR.. Miller, OF Mechan'
icsburg, Bland county, was the at.
tending physician. Morgan stock Is
at q premium.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-03-11

A recent decision Of the patent of
flee indicates that no more patents
for medical compounds will be grant
cd. The examiner refuses patent,
first because the applicant had not
invented or discovered anything;
second, because the alleged invention
was not useful, and third, because
the production of this and similar
preparations lisa mere matcro fskili.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-03-11

The West Columbia Coal and Salt Compa-
ny, James II. Young, surviving trustee,
the Crescent Coal and Salt Company,
Frederick II. Wolcott and George ".
Gerard. trustees, and Henry L. Young,
James Fl. Young, and Mason Young, ex-
ecutors Of and trustees under the last
will and testament OF Henry Young, de-
ceased, Frederick H. Wolcott in his own
right, Charles \. Townsend, Mrs. D. ".
Spooncr, Hugh J. Jewett, Joseph Buck
man and Alexander buchanan, partners
in business under the firm maine OF Buck
man Brothers & Co., Rece G. Bynan Adj
ministrator OF John VI. Johns, deed, and
the unknown bordholders OF the Ores
cent Coal and Salt Company, Defendants.
In Chaneqy.
The object OF this suit is to foreclose q
mortgage or deed Of trust bearing date
July lst, 1865, executed by the West Col
umbia Coal and Salt Company to Russell
Sturgess and James H. Young, trustees,
upon certain real estate conveyed to said
Company by B. P. Cheney, to secure bonds
OF said Company, to the amount Of One
Hundred thousand Dollars, the said Com
pany having made default in the terms and
conditions OF said mortgage or deed OF trust.
And it appearing by affidavit filed with
the papers in the cause that the Defend
ants, the West Columbia Coal and Salt
Company, James II. Young, the Crescent
Coal and Salt Company, Frederick II.
Wolcott, George W. Gerard, Henry l..
Young, Mason Young, Charles A. Town
send, Mrs. D. ". Spooner, Hugh J. Jewett,
Joseph Buchanan, Alexander Buchanan and
Reece G. Bynan, areall non-residents OF the
State OF West Virginia, tina. the West Col
umbia Coal and Salt Companyand the Cres-
cent Coal and Salt Company, are both for
eisn corporations and have no office, agent,
attorney or employee upon whom process
can be served, in said State OF West Nir-
ginia, and that the names oil the bondhold-
ers OF the Crescent Coal and Salt Company
are unknown, IT is ordered that they do
appear here at Rules 10 be held in the
clerks Office OF the circuit court OF Mason
county, on the last Monday in the month
OF March, 1915, and do what is pecessary
to protect their interests in this suit.
Teste:-CHAS. B. WAGGENER, Clerk.
Knight & Couch, Soils. [mar. 4-4w.