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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-07

an Injn An you kin shoot me if |
wouldn't cut my ears off ap' eat 'em raw
iather'n do that!
Il know'd just as we'll as knowed any
thing that my hair were goin' to be raised
IN lessn two seconds unless some ~ the
boys seen my fix and made the devil
present % that 1njin. | heard some % the
boys give shout, an knew by .he scatter
in among The sQnaws and yonng ones that
some o. 'em were g COMM herd
shot and a yell, am the squaw that had
yanked me down fell and with half her
body on me. The big injin was game, any
how. He kicked the dead squaw off a. ule,
and then set one % his feet on my chest
The numb fee,in' had almost left me, and
| could see the fringe on the leggins of the
lnjin 4 knowed what he were after, an
II ever man cussed and swore to hisse'i,
that man was me, because none o the boys
seemed to get there, nor to shoot. Two o
the soldiers war comm fur me all the
time, but the business was done SO quick
that they didn't have time to shoot again
after killn' the squaw, till the thing were
over; but it seemed more'u week to me.
The lnjin bent down quick and grab
bed me in rhe scalpIock. Lore how he
jerled. / shut my eyes. Iheu it felt as
if some Cne had ripped cash with dull
par " scissors all round tile top o my
head, an then poured a ladle full o. hot
lead in it. y flash o the awfullest, sharp
est pain thet aiD te jma gined ran all through
me. clean to the END u my toes. Then it
seemed as if horse was hiiched in my hair
en- lie was struck with a whip, give d sud
den spring, an tore the top % my head off
from side to side. | cud feel my knees
draw mp, and my hands 20 shGt and grab
i'll the snow, and l set nay nails clean into
the Hesh. The sensation was jest if
from the top % my head there bad run
cords down through my body, which were
fastened in my flesh all along, and thai
these lad all tore loose from my toes up.
and followed the top o my head when it
was jerkcd off. 1 kmowed | were scalped,
and that were all knowed for three days.
"A bout the time lost my hair the
airy come up, and the Iniins was licked,
aud they want many of 'em got away
The boys who seen the Injin scalp me said
they killed him but If they did, they
didn't git my scalp back. It :nought got
lost in the snow, though. They sent me
to Laramie, an fos,r or five weeks | had
leerle the softest head that ever set on any
mau's shoulders. They let me come East
to get sound, and I've sence been bon ably
discharged, the Gown ment sayiIi' thata man
that had been scalped once by the lDjins
mad done all that cud nat'Iallg lie expected
Of him from his country. I'm itchin',
thoHgli, to git o;lt 'mong them dizzy Eees
Purses, and if the boys had anybody else a
handlin' of 'em but that Gen. Howard. who
dom know 10 more bout fightin' Iujins
than the Prince of Wales .be out there
too, as quick as could get theIe. They's
one thing certain, the devils can't git any
more scalp out o lie if they ever have a
chance
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YOU WANT

--. Nught
n. To lie Bought,
silver or Cold.
Merchandise Sold,
Pace, Goods tn Appraise,
r't--. Opening Days
l"eH.-s, To announce;
- E..auL1S. Houses or y cTcS.
!StctCrs OC Bakers,
Boats,
-Ls- yoie<.
Ur.sS, Skirt or Fl0uucc,
A Cure for Disease,
rr : hrndE NHliSr.
A Muslin JLoiisse,
.--s-a t-i- .td1U>u5
Teas,
Bees.
Bar. Peas;
..I 'r rI.rz, or are prone
r., SO make known
". Your store,
-., Bars, Hosiery,
fH Jars. .yry Goods,
."j 'trdge, q phulstery,
-'t' urrHg., .PicUics,
-ttFI or Bail, Excursions.
huick kuacks,
Diversions.
EygreEtlTcs Cloths ready made,
Is 1ncreuse OF Trade
Goals. Coke and wood,
Pictures,
lectures,
TOT In'lr fCn- Nil kinds of Food
= urkS ON Theology,
.ii 'Hiug, Magic. AStrOlngy,
.i ..I Thing; Wealth or Felicity.
Worldwide Publicity,
Flags,
fritES,
.ttTgs,
ENJgS.
HATS Dress shirts or Collars.
.siVd'S. Almighty Dollars,
"'', Houses To Rent
".-.tI, store. Tenement,
.ia~h 10 bc Lent.
ash 10 be Spent,
Scent,
Tent,
.'@- gr Box, Roman Cement,
.Hr vX, Go
1'- 'itcHd the advice,
wye fIf beyond price,
''''t' " rItteu below
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REMARKABLE CANINE INTEIIAG FKCE.-
Among the passengers lost on the steamer
St. Clair, on Lake superior, was a man
named Stewart, of DuutlI. He had a
small English spaniel, which swan ashore.
Tie dog was well known at Duluth and
along the northern Pacific Iailroad, and
was remarkable fo. las Intelligence and
saeacity. His owner WAS employed by
u,c Northern Pacific road To measure tim
her @eligere.a by contIac o The dog
would take the end of the tape-line and go
TO the end of the log. sixty or seventy feet
long and hold it at The end until his mas
ter would hold il at the other, and do this
all day lcng..lu il the timber was measure
His master would send To tie pos: office,
simply saying To him ''go up-Cet letters
the dog would go To- the postutECe and go
around To one of the clerks, look a him,
wag his tail, aud was 50 well known the
cle,k would give him letters, which he
would carry back to his UaSter, and III the
same way would carry letters which his
master had written to the office 10 be
mailed. His scent was very acute.
Coming home from the woods one day,
Stewart was met oh the road by company
of young people, who had been at a picnic,
about a half mile away. One Of the young
ladies had left er pdIasol on the ground.
Stewart called his dog, and poin ed to the
path said, Ego iind and bring here The
dog gone about ID OF 20 minutes. and
returned with the parasol. y pile of lum-
ber. put in Stewait's charge, Uas being
stolen. Stewart called his dog, took him
TO the pile and SAID, watch il and see WHO
takes it, Two on three days afterwaId
the dog came 10 hiH in the morning, aud
10y signs familiar to- his master, told him TO
follow l,im. Stewart took a policeman
with him. and told the dog tD go on, and
lie led them about quarter OF a mile to
shan,y, occupied 10y Swede on the bank
of "A lake. They looked under The shaniy
and saw large pile Of boards The
Sweoe was arres ed. taken before the jus
tice, and Stew II told lie justice What the
dog had done. The justice at once COLI
Wet ed tie Swede of the larceny.
A great many other doings of The dog
are known to the people uf Rulpth and il
is To be hoped that ie VIII fl j into good
hands.
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fOB SALE.-The under

graG "a. - ! i IL lie unueT-
ts-,s .'r,- - private sale her FARM
,taT b. b. H.aei1-ick t0Snship. seven miles
isre, ,lIll'nu TS. On the Eicktown road.
.sl. r,,It'.gared, partially fenced, and In a
3 rsa 49,. I,'ion: Tie improvements con-
.ri1ri log House. Log Barn, Spring
s-t v,,see., and there is an abundance
y AMI u. On the preinEes. VIII be sold
payments Call on or ad-
- q. El-EANOR Pow ELL,
~--- EbenshlrY T.. -.
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TnEY had d deaf mute's picnic up at
Marblrha.id ID last week. Those who dou't be.
heVe t.s'te Is such thing as uuNi iol<eu pro-
family should have seen the expression of
one oi tlie voiceleSs young in4s. ,'f tie rarity
lust ate, he had sat dON q on good heal
thy bumbls bes.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-07

A YOUNG mas in town woke up the other
night and saw q ghost III his room. Selz-
ing his six shooter, he approached it aud
found il was his collar which was standing
on the floor. He calls it a case of collar in
phantom.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-07

lL.NISTRATOR,S NOTICE

'.rrr ,3.-n ni ALOIS MARTz, decd.
ID. ..,..i ,1,ni inlstration cum fsyfdnietIfo an
60 OF Alois MartZ. late of Cafa5ria
WT ~, county. deceased. have been
81, -,i, '.ariz. OF sait township. to whom
2 ,.g.st''.,,eN 70 said estate are requested
p ..,-..'.sase lSyHeGt, and those having
''l i'r settlement, 'ii0''i property ''u
Va Tvr " VI. Ma RITZ, Administrator.
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~. - lsTRATOR,S NOTICE.

a,l,,,s'.1 y, ,'1-tN STEPHENS, deed.
b AZ Rsiinn nistrstign on the estate of said
agg besrS lrr5ll township. Cambria coun-
e cambria granted to The undersiz ned, re-
/ % ,ad es,,tS'"hship, To whom all persons
aymep, I'e .l are requesi eel to make i'm
i % pres.r,." ",',i y, those having claims or de
sslelt IGem properly authenticated
: III 81 MAKTIN SANDERS,
Administrator.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-07

W4IgTLING SCHOOL. Boston has
whit,ling school III which boys from Twelve
to sixteen years of age are admI&ts-d anc
instructed in the practical features US the
wood caIVer's trade, from 10 O'Clock on
Tuesday and Friday evening of each week.
Each boy is provided With a 4 feet length
at "a BENCH p feet vide, with vice, tools
aud gas lght. The iui ION Is free and
there are moIe applicants than can be ac-
communicated The place uf ANY boy who
is absent for two successive evenings is
filled by another. 4 record of boy 5
progress is kept aud las cd upon the wall
before him, 80 that lie always knows what
progress he is making in tlle estimation OF
his instructors, who are ssllleG mechanics
employed for the purpose The ohJect oil
the school is To take advantage of the nat
ural talent any student might possess
The idea seems TO be a good one AMI Is
even if it accomplisIes nothing more than
teach the boys habits of Industry and
keeping them of the streets at nigut-
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IN
be FREEMA an !!

Vt CAUSES for trial at a
.' Common Pleas 10 be held at
v.y '"uuri1 cu,srs $. commencing
-''' SEPTEMBER 3d. IS7I.
SECOND WEEK.
?. y ,-i So kearncy. fcigned issue :
p -'''',.'..l'. CLARK ys Rauner ct. al;
IS GO. Hollis -S. Gall2g her
,..F; 'rcssun Springs Go vs.. Nc
a..laau s.. Gflleu. AicL.anahan ct.
hlsNiey ". Williams Lloyd y
/, 'rrssweils: Flynn vs.. Gates I:
.-,s. 'hE' y 90. al Bdu rly VS. Hans
N VI. HcReight: Aiexander VS..
-.--l' Masonic Bank vs.. Stineman ;
IT, -. Adams ct al: Mccullough
's ". Mcrtz e.. al; Porter VS.
-a w. ~. Dil!; Rex vs.. Shoemaker /,
,tTy NcNullen vs.. Thomas.
--..-." !" lpLG y. prOthouotary.
s'Nta, EbDnsiurg Aug. s, 1871.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-07

TUE telephone may be well enough as a
mns,cal disseminatrr, but what .he country
needs is the invention of some SOFT oil must
cal conductors which may be applied L"
hand organs and tin-iEn- pianos lii such Il
manner as TO conduct the music n''iSe-
lessly off, aud duu it Ia s''l;'e out oi-,he-
way place, whele II " II ~ oecoiae c-ei4
6lfe,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-07

,cAy pEk TAFT, NJ. d., Ply
+ eog1,H1 III % SURGEON. ST. Augustine,
''iaee S"' cdiis rhouIu pe hlt'iS
fS-l7, 'T1.-itl
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lor' SssCHLER, Attorney al
y irers,in,s burg, Pa Office In Col
-'s.'rs., y 9e1ipiso by WQ Kitteii.
n -2i. 10.-tt.l
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-18
EvartS, Beecher and Cough as
Farmers.

1t has been of late proposed to raise by
public subscription enough to enable MIR.
Evarts to hold the office of Secretary of
State without damage to his private in
come.
One of the features in any such meas
ure would be to abolish the Vermont
farm, which is said to exhaust the best
part of his income. He has 70 head of
cattle, 200 sheep, 16 horses and % swine.
The extent of land is 800 acres. Last
year 200 tons of hay were cut, costing
the proprietor not much more than
double the market price. More than g.
900 bushels of corn were raised, at an es-
innate loss of so cents a bushel, and
therefore ought to be of good quality.
His pork is estimated at 30 cents pound,
and chickens at So pair.
Beecher last year raised about $4,000
bushels of onions on his Peekskill farm.
They cost him $3.50 bushel, according
to estimate, and as the market in this
city was 81, any one can see how much
he made. Beecher can send beef to the
market at 60 cents pound, and can
raise oats at as low market as 81 a
bushel. His butter is reckoned at $1.25
pound, and his eggs at rs cents a
dozen. He cleared $40, 900 by lecturing
last winter, and if he maintains such an
income he will be able to continue farm
ing.
Cough lectures five times a week, his
fee being 5000. He has farm in Wor-
cester, which at one time contained 175
acres. He has no children, but his ex-
penses are very heavy, and, to bring mat
tiers in snug shape, he sold a part of his
land, and reduced the farm to 1875 acres,
which is as extensive as his income will
admit. A few years ago his wife, who
was Yankee girl, undertook to raise
fancy fowls, which some say are very
profitable. She got up very nice varie-
ty, and at rather reasonable expense, for
the Shanghais did not cost more than $15
pair. The Cochin Chinas were little
cheaper, and bantams could be rated at
from $25 to $40. After stocking the
place with these rare birds, Cough, it is
said, found that if they were to be kept
up he would ''be obliged" to lecture on
Sundays as we'll as on week days to make
living. When it costs $l5 to winter a
chicken a man needs a good income. The
system was therefore changed; the fowls
were abolished, and regular crops were
tried with decided success. AS long as
Coughs rye does not cost more than SO
per bushel, and the other crops are kept
at an equally reduced rate, his present in
come will enable him to live in very de-
cent manner. There is nothing like a
farming life for men who have plenty of
money.-Rochester Democrat.
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The Unemployed.

"Three million of unemployed men in
the United States"-that is the text upon
which have been threaded more editorial
attempts at pathos lately than any state
ment that has been made since the panic.
But is it true2 There are in the United
States about 100000 people, 100000
900 males, of whom not over 5000, 900
are mature, able-bOdied men. Of these
S,000,O 900 about 100000 are Southern
negroes, Of whom it can hardly be said
that any are really out of employment,
since there is work enough for all who are
willing to work. OF the remaining six
million, at least three million are farmers,
of whom it cannot be said that any are
out of employment. This calculation
leaves but about 5000, 900 to be account
ed for, and if they are all out of employ
ment, then there is nobody at work in
the United States, except the women, the
Southern negroes and the farmers! But
this, of course, is an absurd conclusion.
OF these 100000 we know that 1,0OO,-
900 are engaged in active business in
professional work, or else supported from
accumulated wealth. And of the remain
ing 10000 at least one-half of 1,OOO,-
900 is engaged in mechanical trades, in
the great business of transportation, in
manual labor, in Government or State
employ, etc., etc. This would leave but
100000 men really unemployed in the
whole country, of whom at least half are
Southern whites who won't work, tramps,
lazy young men living on their fathers,
etc, etc. We then arrive at the conclu-
sion that not over 100000 men in the
United States are really unemployed
PittsburQ Leader.
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Literary Lions.
THE MEAGRE REWARDS OF PENcRAFT.

Longfellow is independent in circum-
stances, probably worth 500, 900 to $780,
600: but the greatest part of it has come
to him through his wife, long since de-
ceased, who was rich in her own right.
Emerson has not made from his re-
markable little volumes over $4,000.
He has gained nearly as much more by
lecturing; and yet, by excellent manage
ment, which one might not expect from
the high idealist, and by serene philos-
ophy of practical Sort he continues to
live on his small property.
Bryant is often cited as an instance OF
rich author. He is rich, but not by
authorship. All the money he has di-
rectly earned by his pen, outside of his
journal, would not exceed, in all proba-
bility, $4,000, Notwithstanding his estate
is estimated at 100000.
Hawthorne was poor to his dying day,
and might have suffered but for his APP
pointment to the cOnsulship at Liverpool,
by his friend, President Pierce.
Lowell is Independent in circumstances
no thanks to his fine poetry and essays,
however.
Whittier, like most thrifty New Eng
landers, owns his own house, and beneath
its humble roof, it is said, he has some
times subsisted-he is bachelor, you
know-on $500 year.
Holmes is we'll off, by the practice of
the medical profession, by marriage and
inheritance, albeit not by poems, lectures,
novels, nor "Autocrats of the Breakfast
Table" All that he has written has not
brought him $4,000.
Bayard Taylor, although be has made,
perhaps, $4,000 by his writings-his
books of travel having been very popular
has not sufficient income to sustain him
without regular labor.
j. G. Holland is frequently named as
an author who has amassed wealth. His
books have sold as largely as those of any
American writer, and, whatever may be
thought of his ability, he still has vast
constituency. He is not at all rich, in
the New York sense; he may be worth
5000, 900, but most of this he got by his
partnership in the Springfield Republi-
can.
George William Curtis is dependent
upon his salary from the Hdrpers'; so is
Mr.. William ID. Howells dependent on
his editorship of the Atlantic;; Bret. Harte,
T. B. Aldrich, James Parton, j. r. Trow-
bridge, r. H. Stoddard, T. w. Higginson,
mainly upon fugitive writing.
Circular.
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good supper, and told them to see thai
their rifles and pistols were all in gooC
order. He then told them that he fel,
pretty sure that the Indians would attack
the camp that night and he proposed to
show EN- another white-man's way OF
fighting. He ordered thirty soldiers to
climb into some low, thick trees on one
side of the camp, and thirty more to lie
fat down on top of some big rocks on
another side. while twenty hid in the
bushes below, and the rest staid with him
back of the tents.
Now, men," he said, 1.-The red devils
will come up the hill so still that cat
couldn't hear EN-, but they'll make noise
enough when they dash into camp. Don t
one of you move nor speak. Don't you
even sneeze. But the instant fire my
revolver every man Of YOU begin to shoot
and keep ut it. Hit the rascals if you
can, but keep popping away. And the
soldier that makes old War Eagle, the
chief, BALD eagle, shall have month s
furlough to 60 and see his sweetheart
and gold medal besides"
SO the soldiers fixed themselves and
waited. 1t was pretty pokerlsh work,
you'd better believe-waiting so quiet,
with the wolves bowling on the noun
tain, the darkness everywhere, and a
couple Of hundred Indians coming.
About two o'clock in the morning, a
most terrific yell started the sleeping SOL
diers, and the whole band of Indians
dashed in at once, as though they had
sprung out of the earth. They rushed for
had 20
tomahawk the logs, "pop," went the
captain signal shot, and from trees, and
rocks. and brush, and from the very
ground itself, where the captains men
lay hat, came the flash and the crack of
the rifles. The Indians tumbed over by
the dozen. and all around them seemed a
blaze of fire, though they couldn't see
single soldier.
Just then two big donkeys, of the mule
train, scared by the noise, set up dread
ful ioise-"ye-haw !-ye-haw-w ah!'
The Indians had never heard this bray
before, and thought they were certainly
in the very home of the worst kind of
evil spirits-with the tree-tops raining
bullets. the rocks on fire, soldiers 80 hard
headed that blow broke their toma
hawks, and a strange, dreadful noise in
the darkness, louder than VOLTS howl,o
a chiefs battle cry.
And so they turned and ran, those that
We're able, and when the captain ordered
the men down to light up the camp-fres,
they found over fifty dead 1ndians-War
Eagle. the chief, among them, though
nobody knew who killed him. And the
band broke up and scattered, and was
never heard of again.-G0lden Rule.
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A PUPIL in an English school was
asked in an examination paper, "Why is
the tropic of Cancer so called, and why is
it situated twenty three and half degrees
from the equator3" The answer, con-
structed on basis of purest logic, was
1.-THE Tropic Of Cancer is so called from a
Latin word cancer, meaning a crab, be-
cause there are great many crabs in
that portion of the globe; and it is situst-
twenty-three and half degrees from the
Equator because there are more crabs
there than anywhere else" Another pu-
pill, asked to define tho word "buttress, "
wrote out its meaning, IA female who
makes butter"
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How He Got It.

The New York Times has learned from
exclusive sources" all about the recep
ton Of Gov. Hartranft's despatch to Gen
Grant, Care of Her Majesty, Bucking
ham Palace" 1t says
AT two o'clock on Wednesday morning
the Prime Minister, who during his term
OF office always occupies the second story
front bedroom in Buckingham Palace in
order to be handy if the queen wakes uu
in the night and thinks she will have a
new title, was aroused by tremendous
knocking at the front door. Hastily
springing out of bed and opening the win
dow he saw boy in the uniform of the
Atlantic Cable Company standing on the
front steps and whistling Rule Britain
MIA" To the premier's excited demand
to know where the fire was, the bow
coolly replied, telegram for your missis,' -
whereupon Lord Beaconsfeld, angrily
exclaiming, "Holy Moses!" closed the
window, put on his trousers, and descend
ing to the door, told the boy to "hand
it over" Now, cable telegram costs a
good deal. There was eight pounds, four
shillings and three pence due on the
telegram, and the boy refused to deliver
it without the money. Hence it became
necessary to wake the queen. The noble
earl had to take this delicate duty upon
himself, since the servants remained in
visible, and with many misgivings he
knocked at Her Majesty's door, and after
informing her that boy was waiting
with a telegram for General Grant, and
that he wanted pounds, shillings and
Spence, meekly suggested that she should
hand him the money through the crack
of the door. The queen may not be
particularly irritable woman, but it was
hardly to be expected that she would get
out of bed, strike light, and hunt up
her purse without betraying some little
annoyance. In fact, she was extremely
angry, and not only sharply refused to
receive Gen. Grants telegram, but in
formed Lord Beaconsfield that if he ever
woke her up in the night again to pay
nine pounds for any one else's telegram,
she would dismiss him without charac-
ter. After this there was nothing left for
the premier to do but to tell the boy that
no person by the name of Grant lived in
that house, and to shut the door in his
face. At that moment the fate of the
telegram seemed sealed. The boy started
to return it to the office, where it would
have been endorsed "not found" and
Gov. Hartranft would have been charged
with its cost. 1t so happened, however,
that Gen. Grant and the Prince of Wales,
who had been attending the Society for
Propagating the Gospel, were on their
way to the Generals lodgings, and pass
ing Buckingham Palace, met the boy de-
scending the front steps. The Prince
stopped and questioned him, and on
learning that the queen had refused to
pay for the telegram, remarked that
"some day mother would get into diff
culties by refusing to pay for kilograms"
and generously told the boy to give him
the telegram and he would call and pay
for it next day. Meanwhile Gen. Grant
had caught sight of the address, and
thereupon paid the boy on the spot,
opened the telegram and read it. Thus
Governor Hartranft's telegram reached
its destination.