The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-12-22
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adelphia common council, against the
board of public education la THAT city in
yolvinc inisappropriatiou OF school funds
and peijury IN making up accounts Of ex-
pendituies. The publication Of these
charges will probably lead to all ihvestiga-
tion.
William Bright, of Reading. met with
a horrible death on the Columbia railroad,
Thursday night. lie was siauding on the
top of a coal car while the train was in mo-
tion. Suddenly the fasteniDgs Of the car
bottom gave way, tho ccal rushed out and
the unfortunate man was carried down
with it and thrown under The cars result
ing in his death.
MIR. Hewitt. who was at one time the
president of a telegraph company, says he
oW ooIuRtarlly gaze an order 10 any Repub-
hcdb committee for a copy Of ecery telegram
sent or receiued On him az chairman Of tie
national Democratic committee. He thinks
if Chandler & Co. are willing to have the
people know the whole truth that they
should do likewise.
The ground in Jeanesy;Ie. Iehicll
county, recently gave way and four blocks
. OF houses sank a distance of ten feet. and
several others toppled over. The track
of the Lehigh Valley Railroad went down
for distance oeseveral yards. Fortunate
ly no one was hurt as the people of the
town were warned by rumbling noises that
1t is most significant fact that in
those counties Of South Carolina which
were garrisoued by United States troops,
and where fair play secured by mill
tary supervision, the Democratic Ma ioIiiies
were most pronounced and certain, These
are the counties also whose votes it vas
necessary TO throw ont of the count in or
der 20 defeat Tilden and Hampton.
Mr.. Y. Levenwny. of Lehightoi. Tar
bon county, aged 60, had mental troubles
and he determined TO commit suicide. lie
could procure no poison where lie lived so
be went to Slatingtun and bought two
ounces of poison ard returned home
That snme evening he read his viii to his
executors and in their presence swallowed
the poison. In short time the man
breathed bis last in terrible agony.
Mr.. Briggs, of Middeoury. Tioga
county, applied furniture polish To- his cab
met organ and laid the saturated cloth on
the shelf, where il look fire from spoutane-
ous combustion. Mrs. Briggs observed il
and succeeded in saving the house from
burning down. This little circumstance
may furnish a reason for many Of the nys-
terlons fires which occur, that no Mrs
Briggs happens to see in time
The word panic has been i'm every
body's month during the past few years
It has a curious origin. According TO
herodotus the god Pan was supposed to
| have assisted the Greeks at the battle of
Marathon, 100 B. c., striking such a terror
! INTO the Persian hosts that they fed to
| their ships III perfect disrnay. Prom that
| time the Greek term panikon was used 10
describe unreasoning or sudden overpower-
ing fear.
They vote in San Francisco on trans
fers A mani is registered to a cert ain ward
and the books are closed month before
the election During that month the vo
ter goes TO the Office and gets A transfer to
new ward, but .be books being closed
! his name is not erased. Thus he votes
once ON his registry and once on his trans
fer. Thus was San Francisco enabled to
cast Al, GOO votes with a population OF
100, 600, white and colored
-R1ccntly Barnet lie Van obtained
verdict FOR 5000 damages against the
Pennsylvania railroad for being put Of a
train, compelling him To walk eight miles
between Harrisburg and Philadelphia
tle had ticket for his fare. bu. obtaining
no seat in the regular coaches he weutinto
a sleeping car, wheIsupon its conductor
wanted to compel him To Day extra. He
refused and was put of the trim The
court III Philadelphia has granted a new
trial.
The trial of Samuel Josephs. George
McGowan and Henry Marcns, for attempt
ing To issue fraudulent tax recei,,ts was
Z y
guilty" The end intended hy the re.,,lb-
/ lican complainants in this case wns accom-
plished IN charging upon the defendants
an atteinpt 10 pepetrate a fraud in the in
terest or the deiu"cratic party, with "A view
70 lfs luifuence upon the votes of electors
They never intended To punish the parties
to the fraud. which, if concOcted at ALI
was probably scheme Of their own getting
up, OF one to which they were pIivy ficm
the start.
-Bultimore's ''West End is excited
over the elopement of John Ferguson. of
Pratt and Poppleton streets. with his sis
ter-ln-law, Mis-. John Kirby, residing al
100 Hoiln street. Mrs. Kirby is described
as charming brunette OF eighteen. Be
fore her marriage few months since She
was an acknowledged belle in the circle in
which she moved. Her sister, Mrs Fergu-
son, is couple of years older. Ii is cbaro-
ed that Ferguson leaves behind him an in
debtednesS to various persons agCregatinr
over S3, GOO. lie had also with him some
VaIuaole Jewelry belonging to different
persons. No children
1t will be remembered that the infa.
nous Bender family, of Kansas, after mur.
dering nne persons, disappeared mysteri-
ousiy just before their crimes were made
pubic, and since then no trace of them has
been discovered. 1t was thought strange
that they could hide themselves so effectu-
any, out It is now claimed that the mys-
terry is cleared up by the statement that
the whole family of assassins were dealt
with by local vigilance committee, and
their bodies sunk in n pond near the place
where their cabin stood. 1t is also slated
that the State authorities were cognizant
of the facts, but for obvious reasons for
bore to make them public.
An offset to Mrs. PinlIston New York
Sun report of the Louisiana investigation1:
( Then George Johnson entered the room.
lie is colored Democrat. His head was
bound with bloody bandages aud his
clothes were nearly torn off. He testified
that he was beaten nearly to death, on the
day after election. for voting the Demo
cratic ticket, by TWO colored United States
Deputy Marshals. He appealed to the