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The Morning herald., 1876-12-25
THE LICENSE LAW.

AD0 present law regulating VIC rdAc VI
liquors, in 80 far as it effects their sale in
this vicinage, isl disgrace to our State.
The law is openly, notoriously, and popu-
larly violated, every hour Of the dav. Is
this right We at least say no. it is dis
graceful, and immoral, and tends to
bring the laws of the land into disres-
pect. We may as we'll be candid, the
present law was the result Of bargain,
between the Republican members Of the
Legislature from this county, and certain
railway lobbyists four years ago. One
of the members who has conspicu-
ously violated the principle supposed to
underlie the law, from almost that day to
this, said before the bargain was made. Il
know it cant work, SO do the other men,
bers;-it wont hurt anybody, but it will give
us meaning his party )a'beost with the tenn
perance people, ,and We can hold the county
through their aid" This was the States
manship and morality Of the promoters OF
the present license law. How could it pros
PERI. The laws Of the land must be re-
respected, and to be respected they must be
such as popular opinion will, and in their
enforcement the present License Law
in this city has no such sustainment, and
is therefore strain upon our jurispru-
dence, and deadly example to evil doers
We are opposed to an indiscriminate, and
ill.regulated liquor traffic, and such must
continue to curse us, 30 long as the present
license law remains not in force but upon
the statnte book. 1t must be conceded
that prohibition has been heretofore deac
failure wherever attempted. We will no
argue upon its utility, wisdom or morality
J, lit is impractical that for the nresen
seals its doom but doubtless law can b.
framed, that will give power, and practica
s potency to stamp out, the scores ofunlicense
e hops, which now are foci of temptation
s and low. ..debauchery. Ifthe country peopl
are satisfied with the law, and that it ca
# be enforced with them, good and vel
Y Then give us an exceptional law for VII
: mington, that will regulate til
it existence of drinking saloons, and n,
's license them as now, by popular opinio
'r and thereby rob the State Of a revenue
10 There is hardly one Of the persons, WI
a keep presentable bar-room. but woul
+ gladly pay license, the granting of sue
8, is now in the power Of the Supreme Cour
r about the worst place it could bs lodge
as the judges practically know nothir
g. about the matter-and neither shou
h they. Let US have such law, az can
y enforced, and its enforcement support'
J: by popular opinion. 1t is patent that Il
10 present one cannot. There does not ex
, in this county the legal machinery
Y enforce the law, if the liquor dealers !
r. solve to fight every case. Listen TO rea;
n temperance friends-and help to mitigs
%, the evil, you cannot at present cure.
The Morning herald., 1876-12-25

The Mark Lane Express of last Friday
as per telegram, notes on steady improv-
ment in the price, with exceedingly bad
weather throughout England for the crop
III the ground. Indeed corn was also frmer.
It looks as if wheat would be high next
year.
The Morning herald., 1876-12-25

wanted reliable ecorrespondentsin in every
Village in the State, to write the doipgs and
sayings Of the people and the business pros
psos and attractions Of their locality. The
schools, the ohurohe the Arm operations
the eharastsr Of the soil, and the advar-
tagss psssssseA, 10 b the themes for their
conrmunications.
The Morning herald., 1876-12-25

OrR late Managing Editor, Mr.. Crutch-
field, who is trained, and competent
journalist, goes to Dover as general cor
respondent, for whatever papers may need
bis pen, and pay him for bis letters. We
can recommend him a. . careful and dill
gent gentleman.
The Morning herald., 1876-12-25

COOP men, and women, open your
hearts to the poor and suffering. Assessor.
able gift will give you pleasurable sensa-
ton, not. to be obtained in any other way.
The evangelist teaches:
The Morning herald., 1876-12-25

"Give aims.
Make to yourselves bags which grow not old,
A treasurer in heaven which faileth not:
Where thief approacheth not, nor the moth
aorrupted.N
The Morning herald., 1876-12-25
THE HERALD.

THa Meqsnxs HxxALp is ppblished
vwy n9ninG, (Sunaays sxceptsdJ and
delivered in the city af Wilmington and
sur1uunding plasn for six cents per week
payable 10 the sAzTiers. Mail subscriptions
postaeo frse, ,thrse dollars per annum IN
VDYnND BRos., Publishers,
Ne. $50 Shipley Street.
Wilmington, Del.
The Morning herald., 1876-12-25

CEND 25c. to g. p. ROWELL 4 CO., New
- York, pamphlet of 100 pages, contain.
Ing lists OF 300 newspapers, and estima tse
showing cost Of advertising.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24
4 STORY OF 4 DCWPLING.

In the year sixteen ninety-twO, II would
not have been as safe as il is now in .he
State of Massachusetts Cor ones ,atie 10
Gauce upon two Of us legs, or for an orator
to declare ,hdt H. was Mt himself to whom
one listened, but lie spirit cf Demosi honcs.
For i'll those days, any one who would
now only be spoken Of las so odd, poor
DEAR" was in ereal danger of being lied Co
a stale Immediately, and it a malevole'tG
persou ,ook n dislike 10 a neighODr, ,he
mere statement that that neighbor bad
been seen riding on "a broomstick The mig Ut
before was sufficient.
Other neigIbors drowned him ut once.
And in those days there lived in the town
of Salem-where grave judges doomed
people to death for no greater crimes than
being old and ugly, and little cracked in
the upper story, or for making faces at
little BOYS who threw stones at Them, and
being fond of black cafs-there lived in one
house a daue ehter-in-law and mother-in- law
who hated each other.
Grateful all l-your-days ?opllils was re-
spectacle farmer, who having mother
who had not only given him the name re-
corded above, but had made his shirts
aye, and woven the linen for them, and also
the homespun for his trousers and coats.
who had knit bis stockings, cut his bair,
aud washed the back Of his neck every
Sunday morning-went in the widest and
most absurd way and married a young wife !;
as ''bity-tiiy' thing as could come OF
Puritan stock.
She absolutely could not get the crrl out
of her hair, and when her husband had
been absent from home all day, she would
run 10 the gate to meet and kiss bIm-a
most undignilie6 proceeding in the eyes of
her mother-in-law.
Mrs Popkins, the elder, was very pious
woman, and she was one OF those who
believed tl,at .'rVvidence smiled upon the
burning o: n witch, and was well pleased
with whosoever drowned him.
Whenever there was little festival of
the sort in vogue, and some poor creature
died terrible death, because of some
absurd accusation, good Old Mrs. Popkins
was on the grounds in her black silk cloak
ana hood and long, silk mitts, brought
years before from England.
On such occasions Mrs. Grateful-all-your
DAYS Popkins, her sons wife, stayed at
home and wept, and said she could not
bear to see such things, that they were not
right.
This in itself Mrs. Popkins the elder
thought suspicious and in her own mind
she felt sure that her daughter-ln- had
sympathy with witches.
Indeed she was not entirely clear that
the poor girl was not herself in league with
! Satan for how, without some special be
! witchment, could that otherwise sensible
| Young man, Grateful-all- -your-days Pop
! kins have been brought to do such silly
/ thing as marry, when he had such a moth
! er?
! ssVerily," cried Mrs. Popkins the elder
ssshould | discover that one of my own
: household was an evil witch, | would de
/ nounce that person. III wouid gfieVe me
to do it, but would perform my duty
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24
THE HIGHWAY cow.
BY EUGENE j. HAYS.

The hue of her hide was dusky brown.
Her body was lean and her neck WIS si;,,
oile morn turned up and the other down
one was Keen OF vision and long of limb :.
WIN a Roman nose and short stump tail
ANU rl's IKE the hoops of a home made pail
Many mark did her old body bear:
que had been target for all things known:
on n,auy scar the dusky hair
would grow no more where il once had
grown;
Many passionate, parting shot
Had lett upon her lasting spot.
Many and many n well aimed stone.
Many brickhat of goodly size,
"A nj many cudgel, swiftly thrown.
Had brought the tears to her bovine ewes .
Or had bounded of from her bonv hack
WIN noise Ike the sound of a rifle crack.
Many n day had she passed in tbe mound
For helping herself to her neighbor's 5 corn !;
Many cowaidly cur and hou,d
HAD been transfixed on her crunpled horn
Many teapot and old tin pail
Had the farmer boys tied to her time worn
Oh Deacon Gray was pious man..
Though sometimes tempted to te profaue
When many n weary nile he ran
10 drive her out of his growing grain.
Sharp were the pranks she used to play
10 get her fill and to get away.
She knew when the Deacon went to town;
She wisely watched him when lie went by
lie never passed her without n frown
And an evil CLEAN in each angry eve;
He would crack his whip in a surlv way
And drive along in his ''one-hoss shay
Then at his homestead she wished to call,
Lifting his bars with crumpled horn
Nlmbly scaling his garden wall.
Helping herself to his standing corn
Eating his cabbage, one bv one,
ii urrying home wheE her work was done.
Often the Deacon homeward ca ne,
Humning hymn from the house OF
prayer,
His hopeful heart In n tranquil frame,
His SOnl rs calm rs the evening air ;
His forehead smooth n we'll worn plow,
To find i'll his garden That highway COW.
His human passion was quick to rise,
And striding forth with II savage cry,
With fury blazing from both bis eyes,
As lightning flash in summer sky
Redder and Iedder his face would grow,
Ana after the creature lie would go.
Over the garden, round and round,
Breaking his pear and apple trees;
Tramping his melons into The ground,
Overturning his hives of bees
Leaving him angry and badly sfung,
Wishing the old cows neck wTung.
The moss grew on the garden wall,
The years went 10y with their work and
play.
The boys of the village grew strong and tall,
Aud tine gray haired farmers passed away
One Ivy one, as tue red leaves fail,
But the high way COW outlived them ALL
All earthly creatures must have their day,
And some must have their months aud
years.
Some in dying viii long delay
There is a climax to all careers
Aud the highway COW at last was slain
IN running a race with n railway train.
All into pieces at once she went,
like ha inc ha MI hau thpv "a IL .
Out of the world she was swiftly sent
Little was left hut her old stump tail,
The farmers corufields and gardens now
Are haunted no more by the highway COW.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24

The DISCOVERY OF TIRE.-Fire, the
common source of heat, of light, and of
lie, aud tho active principle Of a multitude
OF industries, and of metallurgical industry
III particular, is unquestionably one OF the
greatest conquests achieved by man over
nature.
The discovery offire was more than a ben
eft; it was, in fact, giant stride on the
road 10 civilization. With fire arose socia-
bility, the family, the sacred joys orthe do
mestic hearth, all industries, all arts. to-
getier with The wonders they have pro-
duced, and still p, oduce from day to day.
Hence we can readily understand how it
is that fire has even been and still is. among
many nations, the object of special wor-
shir, (priesis of Baal, Glebers H;ndoo.
Brahmans, Roman vestals, pIiestesses of
the sun in Peru, etc. and that it has often
figured in the religious or funeral rites of
nations most remote from one another,
both in time and space, as the Chaldees,
Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, Peruvians, Mex
icans, etc. But how and when was til is
great discovery made, i'm the absence of
which we can hardly conceive of the posi-
bility of human arts or even of human ex-
istence? Did man, as we are told in the
myths of India and Greece, steal fire from
heaven or did he, as other legends affirm,
take advantage of spontaneous forest fires
arising from the violent rubbing together
of dry branches under The action of the
wind. or hna lly, was man so Ingenious
from the beginning AS to devise one of
those simple and practical contrivances by
means of which certain savage AID half
civilized tribes in our own time obtain the
fire they need for their daily uses Popu-
lar Science MonthlY.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24

MISTAKEN KINDNESS. S.-The father who
Tor great portion of bis life has STRUGGLED
with poverty is unwilling hat his childre n
should have similar experience. So lie
denies himself indulgence in even necessary
Things That he may save and make for his
family The mother, remembering how
irksome household tasks were Ia her i'm her
gilhood, permits her daughters to lead
lives OF domestic ease and Incidence. think
ing that in 50 doing she makes the best
manifestation in her power of maternal
love. As natural consequence of this
view on The part of parents we see grow
ing up all around us young men and wo
men perfectly useless for all the practical
purposes of life-uuable to cope with mis-
fortune intellectual or moral fibre Is not
inherent; 1t must be built up from within
and IS the result of independent tboupbt
and action. The sooner boy can be made
10 wait upon himself, to think for himself
the sooner will the germs of true manhood
begin to develop within him ]. is no
kindness 10 surround him With such atfen
ton and care that he viii not be campelled
10 learn the lessons of selfreliapce. of
patient industry. of persistent hope. The
real crowns of this world are crowns of
labor.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24

lHE BURNING OF MOsCOw.-The burn
ing Moscow, in 1912. is one of the most
noted coniiagrations ON record, not only on
account of its magnitude, but FOR its his
toIical Importance.
The French entered the city November
18th, Napoleon proposing TO make it his
winter quarters. On that very day seyera
fires broke out but little attention was
pad To .hem by the invading army until
the next two days, when they had acquired
great head way. On The seventeenth a hiph
wind arose, aud the flames spread rapidly
IN every direction 10y the eighteenth the
whole city appeared as a sea of flame, and
by the twentieth niue-icnths of il was re
duced to ashes. The total nunll.er of
buildings destroyed is stated at between
13, 600 and -. 600.
The Russians at The time. in order TO
cast odium ON The French attributed tbis
conflagration TO The order of Napoleon IL
Is now, however, generally acknowledged
that the fires we've The volk Of tbe Rus-
sians themselves, and that ihey were kim
died by the order of the governor. Rostopt-
chin, acting, beyond all doubt. under lie
sanction OF The Emperor Alexander. with
out which it is haldly conceivable that the
governor would venture such step. The
object was to deprive the French army of
shelter from the winter. Ample prepar-
atlons had been taken To insure the entire
destruction of the city. Inilammable ma
terIalS were ilHced in deserted mansions
in every quarter, and The torch was applied
simultaneously all over the city.
In burning the French out of their pro-
posed winter quarters, DO provision had
been made for The safety of the inhabitants.
who were driven to seek shelter i'm the sur
rounding woods; and it is affirmed that
more Than 2O,OoO sick and wounded per
ished in The flames.
The direct loss - the French is put
down at 40, OO0 and beyond this il in the
end involved the retreat in the dead of
winter, and The almost complete aunihil-
alton, of the great French amy.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24
NUMBER 43.

ana collated i'm my office, the list of pas
sengers, If there were any such lists. we've
required by law TO be deposited i'm tie
State Department. Upon this he apollo.
gized for his intrusion, aud withdrew
About two hours afterward he came
again-this time with a look of the deepest
detection, almost i'm tears. ''Oh, sill" said
he, 'for the love of Cod, help me to find
my wife, and lac related To me the story
L have Just told. 1t seems that be had
gone To the State Department. and, being
accorded permission TO seal cL the al ichives.
had found them in such utter confusion
letters. newspapers, IeiuIus, copies, books,
maps, all higgledy- pi29 9ledy. without dates,
order or arraugement-aS to render II a
physical impossibiliiy to search them
Presuming ON the interest which he thought
his previous brief visit had awakened in
me, he had come To ask my advice what to
do.
toid bim that, with regard to the arch
ives of the State Department. it did not
concern him, Ia respect of the matter in
hand, what condition they we're i'm thar
his story placed the arrival of his wife in
this country twelve years back, aud that
the Federal Bureau of immigration had not
been established over TWO wears. 1t could
nor. therefore, possess any list IF I,aSSen-
gers upon which his wife's name as an i'm
migrant was recorded. | advised him to
advertise in the personal columns of the
leading seaport and interior Newspapers.
lie listened with what fancied was an air
of incredulity to my explanation about the
state department archives, evidently be-
levlng still that they must have his wife's
name and destination or record there, and
thanked me for my advice. " hich | saw
very plainly was not 20 his liking. \ few
weeks afterwards | read in the papers that
he had committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart with dueling
pistol. Some lines were found in his pocket
addressed 10 'tJulia"
1t is true that this story turns not upon
Tie bad condition of the Federal (but of
the State archives, nevertheless it Incl
dentally even refers to the former, and
shows the archives of the Federal, State
and Foreign Departments are. or at least
were then, in as confused a state as those
Of the TIeasury.-d. PcJgar.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24

HONOR To PARENTS. Parents. many of
them, have ceased to command their bnDsa-
hold alter them. Children at a very early
aSe cease TO honof their parents Bows are
young men, girls are young ladies b.f,ro
they are into their teens And when a l,ov
sets mp To judge for himself as to his hou,s
aud habits, IN spite of his fathers wishes.
a"o giii assumes To Know more than her
mother about her company and her dress.
the rebellion has broken ont and n,lase =
Is put down, the ruin of domestic pease.
and very likely of happiness and hone. col.
lows naturally. Wher heac a boy sneak
ing OF his father, as ''the old man. = or the
governor, / know there is a screw loose
and the boy has taken a lone sten tousrd
the bad. And the giil who pouts when re-
proved by her mother, and jerks off ber
bonnet in pet when restrained from poiney
abroad, has already mutinied against the
raw OF heaven, and entered the road that
leads TO gulf from which there i mo- re
turn.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24
x-IDOWS, APPRAISEMENTS.

Wv -Notice is hereby given that the Tot
lowing named appraisements ot p"rsonal pro- pro-
,s,.s :. ~ dace,icnts selected and set apart ior
he widows of intestates under the act oi AS AS
snn,bIy Of the I4th day OF April, ~ ID 1881; nave
s,,, ,na in'the Reyisrer's Office at Ebensburg
ond will be presented to the Orphans Court OF
Tambria county, for COMBINATION ana ailoW-
auce, on WEDNESDAY, Tue VI" ""S VI
nER A. ID. 1876 to wit;
inventory and appraIsement OF certain P9rsoI't !
property appraised and set apart ior H#aIriss # :
ifoIiphnour widow of ID. W. Goughhour, ia'e oi
Conemaugh borough, dec'd.-Sl5o.65 90
Inventory and appraisement oi certain pers1lin, u
,,-nnerIy annraised and set apart for ElizaDeth
Phristy widow of Francis X. Christy, late oi dai-
Iitzin township. decd.-sill 30: -, =, =,
iitA IA MES NJ. SING Err, Clerk DC.
a C. Clerks Office Ebensbnrg. NOV o. 1870.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24
LIST for December Term,

4tI, day of said month
FIRST WEEK. - =,
Mentzer Hopper * Conrad Kline 1,a VS.. vi; IL.
Nathanson * Co; Myers VS.. NJ IL. Nath"hs"h'
SECOND WEEK.
snul,p vs. Krise, NJ. D.. feigned issue; Burns %
VS. Krise NJ d., feicned issue: Seiden ", Ooh,
rod teiyned issue; Pate Wentroth- telgneu
issue. FIattery VS.. Flattery; Cambria Iron 20
vs. Fisher: White rs. Knoulton: Hugus VS.. MOT
rjSon. Cooper VS. McMulIin: Hamilton VS.. Kay
ior >. Watson VS. Lapsley: Russell VS.. Hochsteln: !:
Wotsnn vs. Kennedy ct. al; Brestle VS.: Hanuon !;
o,NeiII vs. Carney Fronheiser VS.. Johnstown
porouoh. McCarvey VS.. Patterson Kerr vs.
RradIev ct al; Waters VS.. Shoemaker; Grlhth
vs Keim Irwin * Keim VS.. Magic; MeIIon vs..
EInnev s. Johnston Cooper Mellon vs.. fihney
s Johnston: ShafIer Bonacker; FRITZ x 20.
VS. Lynch. Is McCOi1eI ~ = -, ~ ~ q Ijs:s
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24

YOU should see woman try to pass a
millinery store where an advance courier
of fashion in the shape of a new style bon
net has just been placed in the window
She knows her own weakness and looks
resnlutely away, until she is really past
Then one eye lolls a little aud it catches
the tip Of an ostrich feather. Oh such a
lovely new collar T. and she steals Just one
look and the mischief is done When her
husband goes home to supper he has bis
favorite mullins, and she hovers around
him ike humming- bird, and presently
she comes out with that hat on-just tipped
on one side enough to set off the feather,
and says so coaxingly, ''isn't it too sweet.
and so cheap. Won't Georges wife be fit
to die with envy" and he smiles resignedly
and takes out the twenty dollars. There S
diplomacy for you
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24

NOTICE.-The first and partial ac-
Nv count of JOHN a. BLAIR and JOIN
LEWIS acting Assgnees of the Ebtnspurg Nm MIi,
Ing and Manufacturing Company, mas neel vi, nIeu u
,S, 10 prothouotarv's Office of Cambria county
md will be presented for confirmation anu alloW-
ance to the Court oil Common Pleas oil saio eouh
.n On nc 6rst Monday of December next.
~ " " n MCt'OIGAN, Prothonotary.
Prothonotary's Once, Ebensburg, NOV o, 1870
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24

Mistress Anne had ever felt that her hus-
bands name of Grateful all your days Pop
kins really belonged to them