The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-18
Let Him Run the Cify.

! A contemporary is right in saying that
! Col. Thomas \. Scott has Just claim tC be
called the model contractor OF the age. w
have already recorded his rcuarkable feat
in building the Market street bridge i'll Phil
a,ephia in an almost incredibly short time
and now he has done y thing fully as Won
derful in these days OF contract thieVtnS>
Under tie contract the city was to pay Sc5,
900 for the bridge when completed. The
, money paid over, but now comes Col.
Scott with a statement that the actual cost
/ To the Peunsy lvania Railroad Company OF
the improvement was but So, 405 to, and en-
closing u check from that corporation for
s., 934 "a, being the surplus over the outlay
made 10y the comrany.-Edcitonge.
And what good thing it would be if
| Col. Scott could be induced to take Il CON
/ tract to run the city government of Phila-
delphia. Its seventy millions of indebted
ness would melt down like butter on u buck
wheat cake. It's taxation would be reduced
so that its citizens would have sCmo other
object to live for than to earn enough to
keep their properties from being sold at de-
linquent tax x-sales. Its mayor wouldn't be
allowed 10 'tget into a hole = its policemen
wouldn't be bummers; its cDuncilmcn
thieying contract ors, aud its officials gener-
ally, the most corrupt and Yorst ciass Of
men within its borders. It's streets wouidn't {
be left III the condition they now are
worse than country roads--ur its rharves
dilapidatcd, its parks, its dusty commons,
its sewers caving i'll and its water supply
doubtful. There would be no gas ring TO
run the elections, no street ring To fleece
the people, no paving jobs To corrupt the
council. The city would waken up to a
respectahility and prosperity 1T has not
known for the past decade, and that it
will not know for the next Thousand years
If i: remains in the clutches Of such vam-
pircs dS now control it. Pcnnsy lvani2DS
would not be ashamed to admit that it was
within the limits of this commemorative, as
they now are, nor would people be afraid
to attend the Centennial and shout round
Independence Hall, for fear Of being robbed
by its officials? Give Col. Scott the con-
tract to run it. and in five years New York
and Baltimore will be iGs suburbs, and
London will sink to the position of a conn
try crossroad, compared to onr city
BetLefo7ste Wdtchm0H.
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RUBESsTEtE CONVICTED. The jury in
the case Of Pesach n. RubenSteu On trial
in New NOrk last week for thc mtirtEer of
his cousin, Sara Alexander, brought i'll a
verdict of guilty of murder in ihe first
degree on Saturday afternoon after an
absence from the box Of an hour and a half.
Rubenstein received the verdict with great
composure, apparently unaware Of its char
court and asked if be had anything TO say
why sentence of death should not be passed
upon him, the assistance of an interpreter
having been secured, he com pretended his
situation and burst forth in German and
| Hebrew in a wild and impassoned appeal
in " hich he asserted his Innocence uf the
crime. He pulled down the long dark hair
from either side of his palIid temples-.a
| custom among the Hebrews i'll making a
solemn statement-and looking the picture
of misery and despair, proclaimed, IN ST RI
dent tones, his innocence. lie almost
Sbrieked out words to the effect that he had
never scduced Sara Alexander, that lie had
I never laid a hand upon her aud that he was
/ as innocent as the child unborn.
| Meanwhile the crowd collected around
! him, and his remarks became SO confuse d
! as to be unintelligiblc.
| 'IIave you anything else To- say ?'' ask ID
! the court.
| the prisoner throwing up his lands,
shouted, ''Ies, yes, and again loudly as
/ serted his Innocence.
| lie was sentenced to De banged OIL the
| oath of March next.
/ New YORK, Feb. 13.-ShortIy before
! eleven O'Clock last night some Brooklyn
/ police officers, while passing through Cam
/ berland s'ro ct, saw a crowd, and on going
mp to the spot they found that some parties
! had hung the efiigy of Rubeustein, the
condemned murderer To the limb of a tree
! The officers cut it down and destroyed it.
! RGbens:ein still maintains his innocence
and insists that the guilty perpetrator oI
the murder Will yet be discovered.