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PETER s.
Cheap Music.

You can get as much music for so cents
by buying one of our Magazines, as you car
purchase for So in any other way
We have now ready and will send post paid
Nos. 4, 2, 3, 4, and 5, Peters.
PariOr Music. a collection of New
Piano Pieces by Kinkel, Becht, Pacher,
Wagner, etc, ETC., every number containing
at least Six choice Pieces.
Nos. 4, ., 3, 4, and Peters
Household Melodies. A collection
OF Songs and Choruses, by Hays, Stewart,
Danks, Thomas, etc. Every number con
tains at least Seven Pieces.
Nos. 4 10 ~ La Creme de La
Creme. A collection of choice classic and
difficult Piano Music from the very best au,
thors, such as Liszt, Wagner, ect.
Mailed postpaid, on receipt of so cents
per number, or six numbers for So. Twelve
numbers, 81. Address,
j. L. PETERS,
S43 Broadway,
L. y: Box 5429. New York.
April 22-Im.
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What Next?

Be sure and go to the Cheap Auction Store
down town, doors below the Post Office.
DECKER & co.
April 10, 1875. ly.
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Beautiful white Counterpanes only ST q
very cheap; Linens Linen fowls, Napkins
Gents and Lydie's handkerchiefs from s to 25
cents.
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A wonderful big lot of Childrens' Boys
Youths and Mems ready-made clothing, just
received, cheaper than ever.
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tAA-=sss=z- -1A.AsA-- ILL 49, TA4A--
elegant Gray Horse.
Bay Horse
Z first class Alderney Cows, three with
calves by their sides.
3 Alderney yearling Calves.
l Alderney Bull.
Grade Alderney Cows.
Devonshlre Cow.
2 African Gazelles.
CARRIAGES WAGONS Go
-''0' '-'''' "0'
three-seated Brewster Carriage.
two-seated Family Carriage.
Jinney Lind.
Ph@ton.
] two-seated Blackboard Wagon.
Truck Wagon.
! Farm Wagon.
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What Next?
What Nextp

100 Ladies' beautiful Silk Scarfs, from 20
cents to 80 cts, nearly half price,
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What Next
What Next 4?

200 Mems Boys and Ladies' hats. Some
for less than half price.
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April 10, 1875. ly.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27
The stern Statesman in Demand.

IT is amusing to note the number and
character Of the invitations writer! To JET
ferson Davis, from the North, TO deliver
agricultural and other Orations, after hls
acceptance of the Winnebago invitation
had been made public. The St Louis
GIo5e- Democrat prints quite batch OF
them one from GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin; one
from Des Moines, Iowa one from Charles
ton. Illinois one from Columbus, Indiana,
and one from franklin, Johnson county,
in the same State one from Kansas CITY
and one from BOonville, and another from
Charleston. IN Missouri. The above were
agricultural invitations from the North, II
we may regard Missouri as Northern
State and there was one from Nashlng>
ton county, Maryland, and one from Alex
andria, Louisiana. 1t is said that an invi-
tation from Knox county, Illinois, has been
accepted. Pennsylvania also honored the
stern statesman with an invitation to de
liver an agricultural address. This came
from Danvile. Montour county, and was
written by W. X. Holloway, who spoke Tor
the executive committee of the Acricul-
tural Society of that county, and who said:
"NTanv of our citizens would Oe glad to
hear YOU" But the letter, elsewhere print
ed. written in behalf of weak Baptist
Church" in Lancaster, is, perhaps, the
most remarkable, if not the most amusing,
of all the invitations extended to the ''arch
traitor" 1t would seem that the motive
in every case for desiring Davis to speak
was TO get money. II is quite evident that
the agricultural people who invited him
believed that he would prove good draw
ing card and fill the Golfers of their socie-
ties, and the monetary motive is confessed
in the Lancaster invitation. 1t is interest
ing to notice the inducements held out to
Mr. Davis. Mr.. Kemban the secretary
who invited him to Winnebago, promised
him "a grand ovation Of forty thousand
hearers and a compensation of five hundred
dollars" The Janesviile people held out
ont TO him a "kindly greeting - the Des
MONIES secretary assured Mr.. Davis that
1.-THE Hon. ]. 5. CIarksOn, editor of the
Iowa State Register, the leading Rcpubi~
can paper in the State, had suggested the
matter - the Columbus, Indiana, people
assured him that his coming ''waS looked
for with unusual interest" But the cOun-
ty from which the most captivating offer
was sent raised such fuss, after Mr.. Davis
accepted, that he felt il necessary to revoke
his decision. Whether heswill attend any
of the fairs in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wis
consin or Pennsylvania, to which he has
been invited, remains to be seen. The
chances are that Winrebago has disgusted
him with the idea of coming North to tell
the people what he knows about farming,
but lie may conclude to accept the Lancas-
ter invitation and make d speech in behalf
of the ''weak Baptist Church. of that city.
Should he do this, it is to be hoped, for
the credit of Pennsylvania, that he will be
treated with becoming decency, for though
Mr.. Davis has proved himself unable 10
build mp political empire, he may be ca>
pable of aiding in an important degree in
establishing a country church. Phika.
Times.
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conference in his own proper person,
and not By O substitute. They were
appointed to discharge specific duty
which does hot admit of a dtt5oed re-
sponsibilitv. And, besides this, they
ought to be there personality to carry
out their instructions and thus con-
vince a confidin@ Democracy that busy
rumor has entirely misinterpreted their
intentions. We have now discharged
our whole duty to the Democracy OF
the county in reference to this ques-
ton, and it only remains for the con-
ferees to do likewise.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27

a WOMAN DROwNs HERSELF AND HER
THREE CHILDREN-Grent E.rciteBeent at
TIE FHaerdk.-Reading, Pa, was the scene
OF no little excitement the past week, grow
ing out of the drowning and subsequent
funeral of a German woman named Ress-
niger and her three children. 1t seems
from the stories of the people that the wo-
man had lived unhappily with her husband,
owing to the introduction by him of another
woman into the house, and that this un-
happiness resulted in quarrel on Monday,
when the husband ordered bis wife to leave
the house and take the two girls with her,
while he would keep the boy.
The next day she went to the canal with
her children, and after filling the basket
with stones in which operation the children
assisted, she bound the basket securely to
her body, and taking the three children in
her arms, leaped into the canal and all
were drowned. Soon their bodies were
recovered and taken to their former home
The police had TO guard the house to
save the husband from assault, and at the
funeral procession on Saturday, which in
cluded about 900 people on foot, surround
ed his carriage.
When the bodies were lowered into the
graves. the people hOoted Bessinger and
made rush for him. In the confusion,
one shot was fired, when the police hur-
riedly placed him in a carriage and drove
off, On passing the cemetery gates another
shot was fired, which, it is thought,
wounded him, as he was carried into the
house. The police were still on guard on
Saturday, andpeople, including many wo-
men, continued their threats.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27

HORRIBLE OUTRAGE by Two NEGROES.
"A most revolving case was brought to
the attention Of District Attorney Shep-
pard on Saturday, and after learning the
facts he at once caused warrants to be is
sued for the arrest of the scoundrels impli-
Gated. 1t appears that a gentleman, a
prominent merchant aud the head Of a we'll
known firm on Chestnut street, whose name
is withheld from publication out of respect
for the feelings of himself and family, is the
owner of a beautiful suburban residence in
the Twenty fourth ward, West Philadel-
phia. His two children, a bright lad of 10
and a fair little child. aged 3 years, have
been in the habit of rambling at will about
the spacious grounds which surround their
home, and, as children will, made the ac-
qUaintance Of neighbOTs, many of whom
are cOlOred persons. With two brothers of
this class, James and Elwood Scott, the
children became so familiar that last Thurs
day II did not require great amount of
persuasion on the part Of the SCOTS to in
duce the two little ones to accom- pany them
q considerable distance from their home
Then a pistol was drawn, terrorism was
used, and the female infant subjected to
the most brutal outrage. One of the ser
wants noticing the pro-racteG absence of
the children searched for them and finally
found them but though the poor little
girl was evidently suffering, she was so ter
rified 10y the threats which the brutal ne
groes bad used she was afraid to state what
had occurred until she was put in her bed,
when her nurse coaxed the horrible story
from her. The father was Immediately
made acquainted with the facts Of the dis
gusting affair, and on his questioning his
son he became bitterly convinced of the
truth of his little daughters statement.
lie speedily informed the police authori-
ties. and on Saturday the little girl made
an affidavit in court which resulted in the
issuance OF warrants for the arrest of the
Scott brothers - IHf{a Times
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REMARKABLE INCIDENT.-The Lam
caster Examiner says: Yesterday while a
raft belonging to Mr.. Weaver at Marietta,
was passing down the Susquehanna river,
just at the CoEewago Falls, above Collins
Station, it was beset by school of black
bass numbering probably two hundred, all
of which leaped up out of the water and on
to the raft. The raftsmen tried to secure
the fish and succeeded in getting about
twenty-one of them, which weighed in the
average from three-quarters to two aud a
half pounds.
Judge Linhart is our authority for this
item, and he also informed our reporter
that several boys who were lifting out
lines, day or two ago, in the Susquehauua
river, were astonished somewhat when five
black bass leaped into their boat. Those
species or the finny tribe seem to have
remarkable propensity for jumping, and
incidents where black bass are secured by
their leaping into boats and other objects
are not at all rare, but it is seldom we are
called upon to itemize the fact of two hun
dred making the leap all at once.
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:. p
cOuidu'i IeT"at tn- Lord. h
Rev. Cyrus Eut-. 7 -
BIoomiuctcG. Ind. ard
years prcsidrn, cf TIE Irs---
versity, died ou Monday. o.-
DR.. Mutt vas ORC # fhr
educators ~ this cau.rr. r
held p''sitio1 ~ tle fiart ...
and writer's Of tie Nett
Church.
"A hunter named Brurln.-
near Melrose, MINI. was t.i--a ti-a1
bly, month since, while in af'..th
into which he had locked bins.,,5 u
with bis two dogs. Wbetbs-Tl a
or the animals, madders5
killed HIM, cannot be Cic,,-,-.
when his body was found Is..1s
little more than the skelct.1 -.- YEA
-Senor T. {. Afmiip. m. ,--
iionaiTe of New Mexico. sod
pounds of wool lasl wear l--.-
and a business l.aTs.er lie or
600, 600 head of sheer sc...-
range of country more ?
square. BE has had ESQ l...-..
raids, one of -. .l1s head a..
l"'"o., D't, h5 sa.s, 81
them"
There is hi elaae. ep-
Worthwhile, \. 2. ILga77
made on Friday ;la- -a1r
with the fam v Cr EI- E-a--
gone = WY t'Er her a- fhn,
IN tAlH case. however "H ilt
ION, the "o'ntu - nlck
white. hey were servants --...
ana ooth unccr sixteen yaar, ..
Ferry has been .p-ainE 70.
since. bat thus Tar without g-.-..
-tfeV. "tHsT s.7i1-. a -
ia0e'y a'ii'7o IN ans i.ru
ne mace conversion Hslgr uor -.
stances lie was ".-r-u0e.
tered, and il.~ .--- srl arms We
t1chea cH .HsrT horses ~ The On
Abce Is sad to .a -a- -.-.-.
Snd his limbs mas, aa ar.ea-.-
OF the horses s'sT, .-saE Hs.e
weak. Tor he resisted a. l..air, ,=..
perSeCutpf-, wt ara t..9 H.r-s -
alto embraced tha m. tyr a.. r..
ity.
-ElupCuCut r1us i1 fra v-.-.
of Texas County, No. -s-la
away some years e. with tpr -
Law, Aaron Davis be. ha~c~s. -.
to his wife and she married a ---
who el0Ted and left her. Two -..,
her cousin. Ezekiel. ran away We
Winland. both parties Iy.75a5
last month aaron Davis, s-~. e.
bry Of uiH-tren. ran aa-v vislH-.
sister. a woman &C thirty. aaH -
matters his father ha- again
his si-tcr-ia-i8-, S-l.5-.
The Colorado srrv --ar- s
followed UD % . r f.47=.--r- r..--
which in some ,oca'.5.s has -
jured the CON crop The rrE v7
pears 10 have reached I~nrsl o..
with miticat5d Tl-1r 7- II a-a--
Atlantic Clast. Tho r.t--... y
a year Of surnr5,-s. ID I-1
SpIci-us bs- .rr7--. ... I'D
heats and d-1.gl. --..- rea
dcIugiac storms which
swept cvcr t-r e-.-..
been unu=uaTLy 5a=5 --.....f II
perry.
last Saturday. elss-l a 0--
crazy woman was i.3-s : .s .s
day her m..her E.za go. s.. csr
Saline county for the u...l.7 ..
hor release. claiming -l.t she
able To take care rf t#rd .r-.-a
her at bone B'3 E.-- ..t-st
story regarding Ter tr.H .--.
had but ore C.-.a i.ft a.- .f
six. oua having -esl seeded G
second being killed p. la4 .r--
fhid shot and two .ar10g dt
deaths. Her rsmaia!aE child
helpless ard insane, stiii c.l.H+s b.
-Aleeit Nae i''.Ia'c, az '5Sl
ing I'D TieehE.l.e y =. "sit
"ttrfa ION T." N'""' \ Lay 70 is
E.'o'.ti''''' A''ti "'' hi.'S
us t'i'SS 81 Ar'S N'i'e iit..Nt >
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27

T4a Governor OF Tennessee has ap-
pointei y. VI. Key to succeed the late
Andrew. Johnson in the L. ). Senate,
Mr. .I1,sy is lawyer, and IS about 90
wears Of age. He was Lieutenant
Colonel i'm the Confederate service, and
DISTINGUISHED himself in the Constitu-
tforsL convention Of his State in 1870.
ln-isIz he was the Democratic candi-
date III. Congress in his district, but
WIS defeated. He now fills the Office
Of Chancellor OF the Chattanooga dis
t-fct. ana is represented to be gen
tlem9n Of modest and distinguished
betfdg. clear headed and firm on tie
bench. and very popular throughout
East tennessee. where he resides.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27

THE Democratic delegate election in
Blair county will take place tomorrow
and the county convention will be held
next Monday As conferces to nOmi-
nate a candidate for State Senator and
also to elect u Senatorial delegate from
this district to the State convention at
Erie, will then be appointed, we have
Il few words 80 add TO what we said
last week on the subject Of tie Sena-
torial delegate. il view Of the fact
that the confeTecs from this county are
instructed to vote for John IL. Fiskc,
it will no doubt strike with surprise
every good Democrat in Cambria, as
well rs i'm Blair, that we should deem
it necessary to agitate the question.
But it jS vitallv necessary TO the in
tcgrity of the Democratic party in this
county that we should do so. When
a delegate to State or county con-
vention, or a conferee for any purpose,
is instructed for whom he shall vote,
and accepts the position, every d ctate
of honor demands faithful discharge
of the trust confided to him. If he
cannot consistently execute it. he
ought, as an honor able man. decline on
the spot, and thus enable the appoint
inc power 20 carry out its purpose by
selecting another in his place All
this is plain and well understood
Knowing the conferees from this
county so long and so well, and enter
tanning, in common with the DemOcra-
cy Of Cambria, so good an opinion of
tba,n yn arn nc raoorIs oDv noroonoI
knowledge of our own, far from impu-
ting to them deliberate intention to
deceive and betray their party. The
County Committee that appointed
them and instructed them spoke and
acted for the time being for the entire
Democracy, from White township to
Adams township, and if their voice in
the Erie convention is not to be heard
through John H. Fiske, their regularly
constituted agent, but through anoth
er, who is not in sympathy with, but
openly and noteriouslv hostile to them,
then the men who bring about that re-
suit will, speaking in political sense,
fall like Lucifer, never more to rise
If the conferees vote for Fiske, they
execute their trust with the Democra-
cy of the county in solid column stand
ing at their backs. If they refuse to
do SO, they simply crafty the wish of
one man, whose political influence in
this county, as they well know is not
worth row of pins. One road leads
to sure political salvation, the other
to certain political death. We take it
for granted that each of the conferees
will be present at the meeting of the
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27

RrApryG on Saturday came very
nearly being the scene Of a riot at the
funeral of the woman who killed her
self and her three children to escape
from a life which had becom" a burden.
The town was rightly indignant, and
even the women Joined in the hue and
cry aaairst the In band who had
driven the suicide 10 her fate. And
vet. REMARKS the Philadelphia Times,
there are hundreds OF such wives and
husbands in Reading to-day, the one
h9rj-worling, Industrious and honest,
tine other idle. dru ken and dissolute.
The people around them pay no atten-
tion to them whatever, and the husband
may drink and the wife starye for all
thgii' ueighbors care. t Is only when
the Story has some such sequel rs that
of the Bissinger case that theil pity is
stirred and their Indignation aroused.
The Hundreds Of women who are muir
dered in secret have no sympathy.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27

ENEEY .nemb,r of the Cabinet and
the President To boot, was absent rom
Washington last week, and the GOV
eminent was r;n by the clerks. No
wonder defsIcgtiuns aud embezzleo
msuts are OF almost daily occurrence.
Except under Grants administration,
suei thing never before occurred III
the history Of this Government.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27

THE citizen who fails to get assessed
before September lst, and CO assist by
his ballot in ovegthrowing the party
that is dragging the country to de
strmtipn acknowledgements and
dishonesty, Gce not deserve to enjoy
the privilege he refuses to exercise.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27

CHARLESTON, S. c., has white mock
ing bird.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27

GOVERNORS will be elected in ten States
this Fall.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27

WILLIAM WELSH, of Philadelphia, at
one time President of the Board of
lin lien Commissioners, has written an
opeh letter C. President Grant in re-
ference 30 the frauds practised on the
Indians bv Columbus DclanO, Secre-
tary of the Interior, and his friend
Smith. commissioner of Indian affairs.
NF. Welsh understands thoroughly the
subject upon which he writes from his
personal experience among the Indians,
and particularly the tribes of which
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail are the
chiefs. We have not room for his en-
tire letter, but give its conclusion,
which. as will be seen, is sharp, direct
and easily understood:
every suggestion | ever made to you
was promptly responded to, sdce only the
f5ssesff7att0u of frauds aHOoed 6y your dp-
q,5fatess. Even this lamentable trait be-
heye springs from distorted virtue. Your
projection Of General Parker when he was
convicted Of m;sfeasance, or malfeasance,
AZ Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and of
those who now control that Office, seems
wholly unaccoutable, except on the hypo-
thesis that love in you Is blind. II may
seem strange TO others that | should have
written this open letter, but necessity was
Laid unon me to write. and | could not,
svisl, proper self-respect, address you i'll any
other way. as yoU have in every instance
q o ed vour mind TO evidence that must
have Convinced any other man.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27

Two WOMEN SOLD FOR A Ni1As- y
Springfield. Mo. LCd3er says -, ~ /,
the two miserable creatures, W
ell and Ida Jones. alias LaSE' u'o
place according To the annonHSe.Il- -
some week ago, on account OF
non est when the time arm -
turned up a few days since. ana ,.. 7. \
ing were duly offered 10 the NE
at public outcry ut the rom -
Court House. This kind oi F-s II
not seem to be in much deI'"'y NJ
when offered in a public way. ~
first presented. She stood uP ,,rsI
glaring crowd with the n'ii'l'- n
brazen statue. The aucilol.'s.. S
quently of her valuable qoa'''5,,,[, ,,-s.
not receive bid. Mary Ie'''sI 80 :.
disguised. Ida then came ''' The
agile step and smiling iaee, ae,7.r a
again and again asked, a. ?, 4
After complimentary reu'9,, WA u Fi.:
gentlemen, Ida pointed to d rsri
said That's the fell'" I-..,ssl
with" Bud bid five cents. va 81
willing To advance on tins, ,,rf
knocked down to him. ile ps'
nickel from Judge, ann ..g,sriisii I'M !
of his property. Bud oniS ~, hat
one, but subsequently learne" ~
embraced the whole OF e'h. irc'
serious subject. 1t is sin,Gs. a.is spl.
that such things could he 10 'n', i'or
land of churches and beue'", s..
We shall not undertake u :, .srs'
blame. but there Is cestalhi!
when such facts exist.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27

CARDINAL M'CLosKKY is i'm Paris.
The New York herald., 1875-10-27
The Responsibilities OF Railroad Conn

panAes.
The verdict of the Coroner's Jury in the
case of the death of the lamented Frederic
Hudson exonerated the railroad company
from blame, since the evidence proved that
the fagman at the crossing where the acci-
dent occurred used every possible effort to
warn Judge Keyes and the deceased of their
danger and to prevent them from attempting
TO drive across the track But they add to
this a finding 'that the dividing of a train
into two or more parts before passing over a
crossing of public street, as was done in
this case, and which is a common practice
on other railroads, renders such crossing
still more dangerous to the public travel and
ought not to be allowed without sufficient
protection by gate or gates. The practice
alluded to of separating train or of discon-
Meeting the locomotive from the cars while
travelling at high rate of speed is
SO full Of peril that it is difficult to under
stand how railroad company can be
held blameless for permitting it in public
street, or indeed at any crossing. The loco
motive, without slackening its speed, is sud-
denly uncoupled, and when released from
the train darts ahead until it branches off at
what is called 'fying switch" The next
minute the train comes laundering along
the main track with but slightly diminished
velocity. 1t can readily be understood that
person either walking or driving, who sees
an engine 60 rushing by, will naturally fix
his eyes upon it, and as soon as it passes will
be apt to hurry across the track without
thinking that train is following closely
behind. 1t was thus, no doubt, that the ac-
cident occurred which cost Mr.. Hudson his
life
We doubt whether this dividing of trains
is q common practice on railroads at street
crossings. 1t should certainly never be al
lowed unless gates are. provided to entirely
exclude vehicles and foot passengers from
the track until the whole train has passed.
Flagmen are of little use in such case, or
at least their services cannot be fully relied
upon to prevent accidents. Many persons
who consider that railroad which is per-
mitted to run through a city or village and
to cross streets should adopt effectual means
of preventing loss of life will not be inclined
to agree with the jury that no blame attaches
to the Middlesex Central Railroad for the
deplorable calamity at Concord.