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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

Is THERE no limit to be fixed to the
demands on the State treasury for cen
tennial purposes, or is it only neccsea-
~ for those who contemplate having a
nice time OF it to seek and they shall
find, knock and 1T shall be opened unto
them? There are now four separate
raids organized against the peoples
money III the lower branch of the Leo
islcture. First, we have a bill appro-
priating sac 600 for the erection of a
building on the grounds of the exposi-
ton for the use OF the people OF the
State, one room on the second floor Of
which, rs the bill originally stood, was
to be fitted up and furnished for the
exclusive use OF the Governor, heads Of
department, and members of the Leg
islaturc. The last mentioned part of
the project, however, so far as the
members are concerned, was stricken
from the bill, and they will lave to
put up with pot luck like other COM
mon people. 1t would answer the
same purpose and save several thOus-
and dollars of expense, if the members
were to have their photographs taken
and hung upon the walls of the pro
posed room, instead of putting in n
pcrsonal appearance Then we have a
bill appropriating 100000 to paw for
tents, transportation and rent Of ground
Tor the accommodation of our noble
army, the immortal National Guard -
Next, bill to provide for proper
representation Of the mineral resources
of Pennsylvania, for which $1,000 are
demanded. And last, a bill appropIi-
ating Sl5,C go to provide for an educa-
tional display 2nd to erect a suitable
school house or o. yer building, for the
purpose. All these assaults on the
treasury are likely to prove a perfect
success. As the game OF base ball is
peculiarly an American institution, and
has reflected immortal renown upo,.
the country, it would be in accordance
with the eternal fitness of things if the
Legislature, while it is engaged in the
patriotic work, would appropriate
about $4,000 to enable the Athletic
and other crack clubs to make a proper
display of their skill and proficiency in
cur great national game. This is a
subject for grave consideration and
eminently worthy the attention Of tue
Legislature. If Victor f. Piollett and
his associates, instead of making asses
of themselves by asking for tempo
rary loan of $4,000 for granger pur-
poses, had boldly taken the bull by the
horns and demanded al appropriation,
they wonld not now be hanging on the
ragged edge Of despair
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

A FEW days ago Lieut. General
Sheridan issued an order directing
Fred. Grant to report without delay in
Chicago for service ON the plains. The
career of this young pseudo military
gentleman has been thus far brief and
to him no doubt glorious. After he
graduated ut West Point, his father
permitted him to accompany General
Sherman on Il European tour; then he
spent n winter in Washington, attend
lug fashionable parties; after that he
flourished for = while in Chicago and
then went with Custer on his eXpedi-
ton to the Black Hills. Some time
after his return he, with Young man
named ShcrnaR, opened q banking
house in Washington, in which business
he is now engaged. Although he has
naver Seen on duty with the regiment
- which he belongs, as he would have
been compelled to bc had he been any
other mans son. he has regularly
drawn his pay as an army officer,
without having earned it. What other
President than Grant would have per
mitted his son thus to dcfraud the
government by receiving pay for ser
vices that were never rendered
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

GENERAL ScHENcK, minister from
this country to England, has resigned
and is now on his way home. The
President has appointed Richard II.
Dana, jr, OF Massachusetts,, as his sue
eessor Schenck has braycd public
opinion for long time in reference to
his connection in London with the
Utah Emma silver mine swindle, bat at
iengtIit has become too hot for him and
lie yields obedience to its stern demand
and retires from his office There has
not been at any one Of the Courts of
Europe SO well equipped representa-
tive of all the peculiar and odious fea-
lures Of Grantism as Robert &.
Schcnck, of Dayton, Ohio.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

Monday night. between II and 10 o.
clock, while the way freight train with a
passenger car attached, was crossing the
bridge over a narrow passage on the Har-
pers' Ferry x Valley Branch of the Balti-
more Il Ohio Railroad, siXty-three miles
from Harpers' Ferry, the middle span
gave way. aud the engine, tender, and
train fell through and were wrecked.
Eleven persons were killed ana six others
badly injured.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

GEN. BABCoCK has resigned his DO
sition as one of Grants secretaries. IN
obedience to public opinion, anh Levi
z. Luckcv. another secretary ahd tbl
special friend OF Babcock, las JJne
likewise. Luckcy has been appointed
TO good position in the Inferior, De-
partment and Babcock is considering
whether he will resume his place in the
army or resign. ite had better adopt
the hitter course.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

4 SHoCKIvc- CAItNTTY.-Tte House for
Aged People, conducted by the Catholic
community known IS Little Sisters oi tie
Poor" and located in the eastern district
of Brooklyn, was completely bnrncd on
Tuesday morning. The house comprised
four-s:ory building with two wings, and
contained 1SJ inmates. When these were
made aware of the fire, panic seized them,
and the Sisters losing control, they ran
through the building. some escaping to the
street, but others sinking down, exhausted
and overcome by fright and smoke. The
police and firemen rescued all these, but
number who could not get to the lower
floors, by reason of smoke and flames, ran
for the roof. All who reached here were
rescued, but some inmates. too feeble to
run or Chamber. were burned to death,
while two who threw themselves from the
upper windows, were fatally injured. Five
bodies have been taken from the ruins.
Loss on building and furniture, $50, 600 /;
insurance, $780,
LATER AND MORE UORRID.
Later veports from the fire in the ''lIome
for tie iudigcnt." under the care of the
Little Sisters of the Poor, makes it more
disastrous in its results than at first noted.
1t seems the ire was discovered in the south
wing, occupied by the male portion Of the
inmates, and contained seventy two per-
sons, whose ages varied from 60 to 1G5
years. The fire was discovered by person
on the street, who gave the alarm, by ring
ing the bell OF the institution, awakening
the Sisters and the aged inmates.
When the firemen arrived, the flames
were bursting through the south wing in
every direction. and it was not until about
, 8 o clock that the fire had been reduced to
smouldering embers, and that the hrcmen
were enabled, by ladders, to examine the
upper stories of the burned wing, when
they found seventeen men burned in their
beds on the upper stories The bedsteads
were made OF iron, aud rested on charred
beams, which had remained in their places.
I The bodies were burned to crisp. render
ing them totally unrecOgniZable. It is said
that thirty are missing, and it is feared
| that the burned bodies Of some may DE
! found among the debris of the fire in the
! basement. The fircmen succeeded in saw
! ing the main building and the south wing.
| which are occupied by about sixty old
! women.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

FORCIBLE FACTS.-IE2 q
substaGtiared facts are worth a-
ories. ANY one can ct up '-''
the former are the result o, .,'
experience. In 10 science s :
value than in that Of uyet'li--
cine that has cured HUNDREDS :
sumption. in evers sta-eoi !.
the living snhieCts Ci = -.
thronging the streets daii! -
is entitled 10 be credited 0--.
the theories which have rr--.. =, I.
books, and have been mel 49,.
failure. The cures Of ca-S---
DIR. KEYsER'S LUNG OCtA Z I.
weigh all those cures thai li-' y, IA
In the books. and then. be'il->
here in our midst. EuTIls'
SER'S LUNG CURE l. q ~,
eut lung diseases. and nv i. f.
bud. in that way stopnln- =
deposit on its way 10 the .h''7 i, i
its way through the hioo'" 80
LUNG CCEE disSolve~ 'he ,.-..
ter, and stimulates the en-, 4
tories Of the system, to cA,''4 81.
the effete matters Of iie -,
Cure, with the Doctors P5,,
will rarely fail IN any tsi>. Il
reasonable hope Of cure
for $500. DIR. keysrI asf'
100 Penn street; LabcIaIoI!'-- a
Pittsburg.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

1N the State Senate, near the close
of last week, the following remarkable
preamble and resolution were offered
bv Elisha w Davis from Philadelphia,
who has an alarming attack OF ccnten-
NAL fever, and adopted by that body ::
Nr. Davis offered the following resolution
which was agreed to:
WHEREAS, The Hon. John W. FoTney,
United States centennial commissioner in
Europe, having returned from nearly two
years most valuable service in behalf of the
centennial exposition therefore,
ReSOlrcd That committee of five be ap-
poiu;ed Ivy the President TO confer with Col
onel Forncy and request him to report before
the legislature. wherever IL will suit his con-
yeni.nce his address upon The subject of his
centennial experience i'll Europe.
On the day after this farcical per-
formance in the Senate, a similar res
olution was offered in the House by q
Democratic member and agreed to.
The adoption Of this resolution by a
Republican Senate and Democratic
House furnishes an instance of lecisla-
tive abasement fo- which IL would be
difficult TO find {. parallel. A little
more than year ago, John w. For
nev. then being in England. it was
proven beyond all cavil or dispute he
fore the judiciary committee OF the
national House Of Representatives that
when the Paciiic Mail COmpany's sub
sidv bill was beto,'n Congress, this
same John w. Forncy was paid ttccnfy-
tire thousand dollars hv the agent Ot
the Company for the editorial inI Tence
of his (Forney's) newspaper at Was:
inoton, called the Chronicle, in favor of
that corrupt project. That evidence,
together with Il great deal more of a
like character, affecting o.hcr persons,
including two mcmbcrs of Congress,
was published ell over the country,
and ND TO this time John W. Forney
has never denied it's truth. That the
members Of a Pennsylvania Legislature
would stoop so low as to invite him,
under the circumstan to deliver an
address before them npon the subject
of his centennial experience in Europe,
or unon anv other subject, affords
cumulative proof Of the utter political
deoeneracy OF the times. IL will be a
spectacle worthy both Of gods and men
when the recipient of twenty-five
thousand dollars Of the corruption fund
of the Pacific Mail Company stands
before the assembled wisdom OF tie
commonwealth and discourses elo-
ouentlv, as he can do, about the glories
that cluster around the hundreth birth
day of she republic, and recount to
them his personal efforts in the old
world to crown the celebration with
eo;eplcte success. But then this is
flst age. and we boast % having the
greatest country and the best and
5s.,y-est goverhmeat OH the face of the
All hail. Forney! the hero Of
tI,e centennial. and ilOp the favorite
sen7of Pennsylvania,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

"A special from Washington says Mr.
Blackburn, Of the Committee on Expendi-
lures in the War Department, states that
the committee is in possession of evidence
showing that five other post traderships
besides that of Fort Sill were sold for sums
ranging from five hundred to twenty five
thousand dollars year, and that an ont
rageous frauG has been unearthed in the
disbursement of the one million dollars ap-
propriated by Congress for putting head
stones over the graves of Union soldiers.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

On Tuesday the President appoil t.

On Tuesday the President aPpoh t.
Ell Judge Taft, OF Cincinnati, Secretary
of War, to succeed Belknap. This is
the same man who, as q Judge, decided
that the Bible should no. be introduce. 4
into the common schools of Cincinnati.
and who. last fall, stumpcd Qnio for
the radical party and denounced the
Catholics of that State because they
adopted his own judicial opinion.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

woSDERFUL SUCcksSl Sl,E-l
tlat BoSHEE ; GERMAN. - =.
its introduction IN the | ~ l,, M. {;
the immanSe sale ot 49, q
Over 6.0o0 Druggists NTr,.gs
Medicine direct from lh, 80 n
bnry y. J., and NOT one D. .'.',. .r1'
gle failure, Int every ..-- i.-i, -
tonishing success in caTiIA earn. 80
Colds settled on the i''.-4 - 5
any disease of Thr'al -, -, rr.i
wise any person that ha, ,.:: '.'' ~. Z.
weak LungS, TO - 10 -, -, ~
mon \ Murray, Eoen7..,if ~, y
Son, Wilmore, ana s.,,sr .
inquire about u T. re .
sample bottle, 10 cer,.. :. ..,a:.e
lieve any case, p7i
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

--Gessrs. Zug & Co., proprietors OF the
Sable Iron Works, Pttsburg, suspended
payment Oh Friday with estimated liabili
ties amounting to $3.50, 600. The assets Of
the firm are more than sufficient to cover
their Indebtedness and it is thought an ex-
tension will be granted.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

GRAar and Pierrepont drove Marsh
out of the country by their threats,
and now it is proposed to hold Mr..
Clymer responsible tor his escape.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

Its an III wind that 9 81
any good. The floods ia FrI
prnvinC very unfortunate frtrI
II seems. viii result in c1f
overfCwiug IF the Seine la, "a
principal part Of the wheat
reSuit. they viii have 10 is,f
Cor a large supply cf grain. I /
b!e. too. that the foods iu 1t-.I
have destroyed 50 much VII ls7I
result on our grain msrkgt. :
must draw from us ths c7-.
judging from present ind
CItS there y saiG l. ll at 4
cent. under the average ir
years. Under the pT-s>r.e q
prices have gone NJ in II. IS
aud the grain market 3. 1u
dealers IN otIr country llr 4
good season, aud age Cgrr4l
ful.
-IIeIe IS a plain ami r-,
Tor q grand national ba.zl. v.
be EGuE out IN f-c-t uf tie r,
Of The Centennial ExAihil.-rl
phia, "a mark the exact -.---al
have made Ia one huuiigl rssI
tcace - a unitcd leng'c: ii
11t3-'-I ;IuC uot , T'cl iosr. 4
avn, the Ming ~ Great b-,a 4
enough 70 huy na. '-,s
'enBsylvauia. Ia the British 4
The Spirit ~ 1Ss5-.-}.y We
diamonds arG larcs crarsa s
Long Branch and HTsf5rg'
therefore. $ta,1J3 down ard
and yon shall have the cz-.
the soldiers Of the Jui-ea 81
frontier al your osu rates.
DolknaP, Secretary ol Wa- u-
= post trader at IuJt S.L-
It WAS The genersliuu-s
Pitt>buyg Disns..L. -ha- l.sFs
tlie first high c1i..al - i-
] bnt II = Saturday rlCht .-N
Washing; on is reliable at7s
Ccdeuco. direct Chs Ees ni D.
already been lodged aCs'.-s. 81
General. Jewell prrmi~ed
lie began his adrlill,t-s'.1-F
parent plTpose Cf Iec,iEinE
generally speaking in the E,a
trenchment aud ecauOnIy. Ir
has net been above sn>p.eiaa
so far richer than BciEndp =
der the same temptation Ay-
pressure seeiIrI what Il ia,
knap's case, the country VII
Prised if Jewell 60 down o.
the country just now would HA
ed ~ any revelation Of inclH
dishonesty among 'Naslin5.I
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10

BELKNAP, the disgpaced cx-Sccretary
of War, was formally arrested at noon
oil Wednesday and taken before Police
Justice Smell, in Washington City,
where he waived a hearing and was re-
quired to secure bail in tue sum of S25,-
000 to appear and answer at Court.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-10
IKE gAHbHIl THEEHlN.
SaEiss RUEC, pa.

Eliiay Morning, March 10, 1876.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-06-10

ABDUL AZIZ.-Much doubt has been
entertained, both in this country and in
Nurope,. about the alleged suicide of the
Hate Sultan, Abdul Aziz, assassination
Fbeing more than suspected. The follow
hng official report, signed by nineteen
physicians of all nationalities, does not
by any means put to rest these suspi-
bcions. They are unanimously of opinion
Ithat death resulted from the bleeding
hrom the cut vessels of the arms, and
that the scissors shown them might
have produced such wounds; and they
were told BY Others that the wounds
were self-iutlicted. The following is the
Report: .t ..l
aUpon being summoned by the Sultan to as
certain the cause of death of Abdul Aziz Khan,
I'VE found the body lying on mattress. All
parts Of the body were cold anu bloodless ex-
Eept that the outside was covered with coagu-
hated blood. The body was not rigid. The
leyes and mouth were partially open. Limpid
bstreaks OF blood were uD on the arms and legs
Hne veins and cubitai artery below the benti'0f
khe left arm were cut only the small veins OF
Ehe rightfGrm were cut; the arteries we e in
tact. We were shown pair Of very sharp and
blOod-stained scissors, and were Told thai Alb
Idul Azizahmseh inflicted the above-descrbel
wounds Herewith. We are unanimously OF
khs opinion that death resulted from henor-
Ehage Of the vessels OF the arms, and the scis-
tsors might produce the wounds. Lastly, the
direction and nature OF the wounds, and the
Instrument which is said to have produced
them. caused TO come to the conclusion that
the case Is one OF suicide" ID
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-06-10
Native-born Lions.
[Trom the New YORK Heraid.l

| Among the arrivals in the menagerie
attaened TO Howes g. Cushings circus.
noW performing i'll This cl1y, are three
liof s-|Old Parker" tile male African
lion, WHO killed and ate his keeper,
Thomas Jarvis, at Astley's Amphithea-
ter, London, and two females, "katle"
and "Nellle." These animals are kept in
one cage.
Willie going through the performance
ON Saturday night. ''Neltle" was very
restiVe, and finally became so ferooious
as to be utterly uncomfortable, aud the
Keeper was obliged to- leuye the cage.
The cause OF the animals ll-tenlper WAS
surmised by Mr.. Lawson, WHO watched
with, her through the night till y O'Clock
lon Sunday morning, when she gave birth
to three cubs--one male and TWO females
weighing some six pounds each.
| Ii is very dangerous to attempt to- re.
move the young by thfustingi u net OF
|iscrauer with long handle through the
|ibars Of her cage, and the risk was ill-
licreased in the present case, by the pres
Hence i'll tue cage OF the other animais,
which,, it was feared, would attack
them. Fearing these Results, Professor
Law son entered the cage and carried of
| tho cuUs before the mother perceived his
intention. t..
Mr.. Andrew Cullum, manager OF the
show, presented one Of the young atti-
mails 10 Nh. John Hamilton, his press
agent, and ii, with The others, is under
| the care OF Dlr. Lawson, whu feeds them
with milk from IA bottle just as Il child is
fed. By not allowing the mother to see
them no Infringement upon the usua
programme is made. TIe mother wa:
able to perform the customary eyelu-
tions yesterday.
In nine days the eyes OF the cubs VIII
| be opened, and when they reach the age
of seven mouths they will exchange
their milk diet for one Of raw meat
When they attain their fun growth
which will be in about two and hal
years. they will be reduced to submits
sion and take their place in the mehage
rie. The same lioness last year gave
| birth to three cubs, one of which wa:
seized upon and devoured by the man
eater, 'Old Parker" The other two are
now at the house OF MI. Gushing, at st
john, New Brunswick.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-06-10
A ButiAl Postponed The Strange
Post. Mortem Condition Of a
Brooklyn Girls Body.

/ Ida WHlthers, aged twelve PEARS, com.
planned otfheumatic pains ON Friday,
and was soon alter pr0stfated with
paraiysfs. DF. valentine did wkat he
Eoouid tor her at her parentS residence,
|279i iSaekett street, Brooklyn. but she
Edled Within five hours from the time OF
Fthe first attack. The body, however, re.
tanned its color, and was destitute oil the
rigidness attending death.
Arrangementsh had been made for the
burial on Sunday, but a consultation OF
physicians was had, and it was decided
70 defer the funeral. DIR. Valentino
opened a vein in ths girls arm and q
Jew drops of blood tilcklet out. The
physicians unanimously ageed that
While the case was one OF. the most
singular thai mad come under then
notice, there was no doubt that the
child was dead, and the postponed
funeral services were held yesterday
afternoon and the remains inferred IL
Greenwood Cemetery.
| Or. Valentine says that the mother OF
the deceased girl, while about the same
age as the latter, and living with hei
parents in Germany was taken suddenly
Ill, and In . lew hours, 70 all appear
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-06-10

BRILLIANT ENTERPRIsE! We are just
now in receipt per nail of ''No. Vol. i
of The Empire Of the People" a newspa,
per published at Washington City under
date of June 8, 1876. All that is nothing
very remark able;, for newspapers rise up
at W ashington like sparrowgrass, to
De cut down Like hoppergrass." The
remarkable thing about this "Empire oil
she Peopls'' is that it comes out red hot
and f1at-footed for Gen. Grant for the
Presidency. Seeing that its first mum
ber is issned only six days before the
meeting of the RepuDlican National Con.
rention, 1t would seem that it must in
eend to anvoke the coming OF another
Pentacost in order to convert enough
delegates in that brief space of time tt
give Grant "a third term nomination
Somebody by the name Of WEDGEwooI
ds to be the Vice President in this sEm-
pire of the People" Fortunately, it il
announced that "this journal will be is.
sued in numbers, as the public exigen
,cies may demand" We rather guess il
needn't issue any more. The "puplie
exIgencies" DON'T seem to be struggling
In that direction. #t
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-06-10
A Spider Epidemic.
TFrom the Memphis Appeal.

H. X
Last Sunday Mr.. Thomas Walsh, mas
ter ermeehanio at the Louisville Railroad
snop at this point, was bitten, by a spi-
der. The wound infamed, and last even
ling MIR. Walsh was IN a critical condi-
ton OH account OF the poison injected
into his systemby the venomous insect.
To-day he was much, better, aud is out
OF danger. This morning Mr.. j. D. Dam
bury, a well-known citizen, was bitten
also by spider, and he had TO summon
medical aid, as he was suffering intense
pain frem the apparently slight wound.
1t is reported that he also isseriously
|ill from the effects OF the poison. Ga
Saturday last little daughter OF Capt.
s. S. Garret, while attending the. Temp.
Ilars' picnic down the Mississippi and
tennessee Railroad, was. bitten on the
[face by.a black spider. Her tace became
terribly swollen, but no dangerous effects
became apparent. The spider, whose
Iipoison is 50 yenomous- is. a small Dlack
one, which generally has red specks on
ills body. Its, bite is exceedingly. poison
bous, and from it many persons nave
Idied on account Of not attending TO tne
wound in due time.