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The National tribune., 1878-04-01
LAND WARRANTS Sqsq,s4s Wss sa,. Sl ssS sns

all other Wars that have occurred from l79O TO
March 3, 1850, their Widows, former Widows (if
they applied during widow hood) or Children
Of under age March 3, 1851 who have not re-
ceiyed Land Warrants. arc entitled 10 100 acres
provided the soldier served FOURTEEN DAYS, or
was in a battle or skirmish, in which last event
ONE HOURS service would give title.
No Bounty land has been provided for soldiers or
sailors of the late War Of Rebellion or their heirs.
They only acquire title 70 Government Land by
Purchase or sctual Settlement
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nESERTT0N does not operate as a bar
O&LJAxAs AVAS TO pension in cases of UoL-
u9steeT soldiers OF the late war, but does in the
cases Of regulars and enlisted men of the Macy
and Murine Corps.
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EXECUTIVE MANSION, Boise CTY,
In rrr, gTa..y s,,,. p. 49, Z


Captain GEORGE e. LEMON. Attorney and
a gent for the collection of war claims at Wash
ington City, is thorough, able. ana exceed
ingly well-informed man of business, of high
character and entirely responsible. / can
assure all having war claims requiring adjust
ment that their interest cannot be confided to
safer hands.
NJ. BRAYMAN
Governor Of idaho and tate Mai Gen. Vols.
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RESTORATION TO PENSION

p0T C, Pensioners who have been uniustly
At0AsAS6 dropped from the Pension Rolls, or
whose names have been stricken therefrom by
reason Of failure TO draw their Pension for pc
riod OF three years, or by reason ofre-enlisfmcnt
are advised 20 communicate with this House ut
once, with view TO having their Pensions RE
STORED or RENEWED
PENSIONERS IN STATES LATRIN IN REBELLION
can now be restored TO the rolls.
The National tribune., 1878-04-01
OF 1872:

WAR OF 1912. aSnr.aeG BY act Of Ssa Congress 8
1878 all surviving officers and enlisted and
drafted men, including militia and volunteers
of the military and naval service, who served
IA days, or were In any engagement, and were
honorably discharged, and the surviving wild
ows of such officers, enlisted and drafted men
are entitled to pension at the rate of eight dol
lars per month from date of the act. PROOF
OF LOYALTY NO LONGER REQUIRED.
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PRISONERS OF WAR: Kos94 EtTS9F
promptly collected
FURLOUGH RATIONS: AmSant' SSg
promptly collected.
promptly collected,

All such claimants are invited to send me
their BURROUGHS and extensions of same, as in
absence of such papers no collections can be
made.
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a monthly Journal deuoted to the
interests of soldiers and sailors
Of the late tcar, and all pen
sionerS Of the United States.
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PRIZE MONEY sSs pSeSPtg SSSFs eoiesfea eGS sfeGen
INDEMNITY for EFFECTS i ! e sss is

sinking, or destruction in any other manner,
of vessel, collected in short time
The National tribune., 1878-04-01

The attention Of the former clients of
b. +. Pritchard, Esq, of Indianapolis,
Indiana, who have not written to me since
December 1876, is again called to the fol-
lowing
INprANAPoLis, INDIANA, NopenabCr ls 1876
GEORGE r. LEMON, Esq. Washington, y. g.
DEAR SIR. You arc hereby authorized 10
notify each Of my clients that have trans
ferrcdtoy you all their claims, evidences SC, and
that IL is my desire they should correspond
with YOU hereafter. and forward such evidence
as you may need 10 complete their claims
(Signed) u. y. PRlTCHARD.
This proposed transfer was submitted TO
the Hon. q. Chandler, Secretary of the In
terror, for his consideration and action.
The following extract from his letter writ
ten to the Hon. J A. Bentley, Commits
sioner Of Pensions, explains itself, and TO
it your attention is invited
DEPARTMENT or THR INTERIOR,
WASHINGTON, ID. &. December 6, 1876.
SIR:
In view of the peculiar state OF facts existing
in the case, and the good standing OF Mr.. LEMON
as his apparent good faith in this entire trans
action, am OF the opinion that IL would be
proper 10 allow the transfer to be made.
The National tribune., 1878-04-01

The objecss OF this journal are TO secure to
soldiers and sailors their rights, and to expose
their wrongs to public inspection so that cor
rection may be made. In its columns win be
advocated
The National tribune., 1878-04-01

TNNpr ACT. Pension laws are now more
1ANOlt1lhbA liberal than formerly, and
many are entitled to better rates Apply al
once for list Of questions TO determine right to
higher rate.
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DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE

Docs not operAte as bar 70 pension IN any
case Of the late war
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3. CHANDLER,

2. CHANDLER,
SesTet0rU.
Hon. j. A. BENTLEY,
Commissioner ol Pensions.
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Claims! Claims /!
THIS CLAIM HOUSE ESTABLISHED 1865.

Ifwounded, injured or have
\ contracted any 0isease
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-09-19
LIFE OF ALEXANDER HI. STE.
IlHENS.

Messrs. Richard Malcolm Johnston and
sWilliam Hand Browne have just issued
Efrom the press of j. B. Lippenoott & Co.
IAN exhaustive life of tho Hon. Alexander
Eli. Stephens, covering the period from his
Sbirth to the present time. The entire
$tnanusoript Of the book was carefully read
Rby Mr.. Stephens, who pronounccs the facts
Ssubstantially correct. In n letter to his
&biographor he Gays, W yiod my consent to
#the publication of tho work in my lifetime
&only upon tho ground of tho many misrep-
presentations of my motives, objects and acts
|&on several occasions in my not uneventful
Spublio ourse." The writors Of the biography
|Shaye enjoyed unusual facilities for their work.
SSMr. Johnston has been oloso friend to
Stephens for quarter Of century,
35and, like Boswell Of old, took notes of his
Friends conversation. He had a large and
syaried correspondence with Mr.. Stephens,
many of the letters being answers to dircct
sSipquiries. A curious correspondence was
SSSparried on between the two, in which each
8 Wrote as though ho were anothor man.
wv riting of himself as on outsider Mr..
65SSStephons has said things that he would not
s sshavo said in any other way. Mr.. Johnston
8 Ealso had 10 his possession diary kept by
Mr.. Stophens whom he first oame to the Bar.
The first of Mr.. Stophons' ancestors to
& come to America was one Alexander Ste-
i phens, an Englieh Jaoobite, who settled ncar
u Chambersburg, Penn. Alexander Stephens
waabornn Georgia, In 1872 From his sixth
j so his sixteenth year Alexander spent
more timo at toll of some sort than In oither
/ study ot play. He was not at school at oil
until th6, year 1890, and ID tho succeeding
seafs oaly whom bis services could be spared
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-09-19
Tho Bachelors Hall.

'Tis difficult task for pencil or pen
To attempt to describe an old bachelors
With its contents so strange to please or
disgust,
And its mud.dauber mouldiugs and oobwobs
aud dust.
But VIC glanoo at the room, and without any
structures,
Proceed to examine somo wonderful pic
a lures;
Cheap prints, whose bright colors onoe
served to illumine
The beautiful forms of bird, beast and
Aud wonderful fishing and hunting and
boating,
Aud prise.fghting bruiscrs, who practice
garroting;
}iOf fast trotting horses aud pointers and
Aud fancy young men, with their aids and
abettors.
On dry land tho fishermen seem to be sport
ing,
And crazy old boats on the hills arc cavort--
ing,
While women, once proud in their beauty
uuu opIouNoAt
Look frightful and sad as witches from
Eador.
Tho prize fighting gentry, the thio7es and
l garroters,
And fancy young mon, are all like Che
boaters;
The pointers and settlers, and fast trotting
horses,
Seem running race on invisible courses.
lntersperscd mid such pictures
II, them and under
Hang seedy old clothes and bachelors
plumber;
7 There are sabres and broad swords, old hats
and old rifles,
And odds of all ends that arc hung thorc
as trif1cs;
There are trappiugs for hunting and sailing,
Brass horns and guitars, aud hammers for
mailing;
And many strange things that would claim
your attention,
Which wo pass by as too tedious to men
Aud, hastily glancing from window to door,
Shall attempt to describe the contents Of
tho floor:
It's musty and dusty, and stumps of cigars
Lie scattered between tho old bottomlcss
chairs;
There are surgical instrumeuts, brides and
saddlcs,.
Aud blankets for buggics and boat hooks
and paddles;
There arc tables hoped high with odd
gloves and old books,
And instruments useful to surgeons and
cooks;
A bed and its bedding, all covered with
dust,
And psh's and sbot-guns half eaten with
rust;
Old coats and old pants, which seem to re-
fuse
To part from old hats and old boots and old
shoes; Y.
Cigars and tobacco and pipes Orieutal;
Stuffed birds and stuffed dogs, and things
ornamentol:
AnasomiSai specimens, jointcd with nickel,
And African babies, put up in pickle;
There are skeletons, grinnipg in horrid dc.
light
Il At monkeys and cats, that seom roady to
bite;
There are things diabolical, fancy and mys-
tic,
4 And things miscellaneous and antagonistic-
4 But we stop in disgust, and shall never
Il again
4 Attempt to describe on old bachelors den
y Gone to hunt vito.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-09-19

An old Citizen in o country village being
asked for subscription toward repairing a
fenco Of the graveyard declined, saying:l
i"I subscribed toward improvin, that bury.
ing ground nigh onto forty years ago, and
my family haipt had mo lleneft from msit yot.N'
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-09-19

A SINGULAR CoMMUNITY.- Judge Jack.
son, of Georgia, writing from Iowa to tho
Wesleyan, says: "In Iowa, some hundred
miles before you roach tho Missouri, there
is singular community, composed Of from
ono. 1rod and fifty to two hundred people,
called Ioarians, and their village loaria.
They eat in common, having one dining
room, ono mill for grinding, ono property
in 10 ds, and arc ono in all things save in
wives. Every man is required to marry;
unlike tho Mormon, ho can have but ono
wife. They eleot President annually, who
rules tho community and apportions tho
profits. They are French in desccnt and
have been located at Icaria for some thirty
yoaIs or moro.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-09-19

AS for back as 1913 ho wrote:
DECEMBER d. Few ohangos
in the votes to day. / am moro and moro
convinced every day that the slavo question
is rapidly approaching q crisis. If the
South intends really to resist the abolition
Of slavery liz the districts and the forts and
arsenalsit is, time they were making the
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-09-19

Hero is an extract from a boys frat COM.
position: "W'ens oats is o swearin and a
blasfcmin' and q trSin' the cages of their
b'lors In the hack yard at nite, il max .s
ifollor ofilo ftade' he ism d sleopia' wits
his biz brot Y e
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-09-19

eff I should marry Eliza Jano," said
the prospective son.in.law, "I should
frankly confess one thing in advahoe----I am
of rather haety temper and apt to got
mad without oause." "Oh, thatll be all
right" blandly replied the dear old lady;
81 shall 60 and live with you aid m 500
that you always have cause,'
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-04
no CotoRED LABORERs FOa BRAZIL

No CotoRED LABORERs FOR BRAZIL
A telegraphic dispatch from the Brazilian
government was received few davs ago by
our whilon townstnen, Mrssrs. =. & 7. Col
lins, Informing them that negroes would not
be permitted 10 enter that country As labor
ers on the Madeira River Railroad. of hich
they are the contractors. The reason AS
signed for this refusal Is that it mi ight create
trouble among the slaves IN that country.
The contractors will not, therefore, send ont
the large body of colored men they had en-
gagged as la borers in Virginia. This stesmer
Nercedita chartered by the Messrs Coli.s;
sailed from Philadelphia on W Wednesday last
for Para. at the mouth of the Amazon, and
from there will proceed up that river and the
Madeira river. distance of over 800 miles,
to where the work on the road will be com
menced. The entire trip will take about
thirty days. 1t is the intention to send out
a steamer once every month. The Mereedi-
Ia had on board between two and three hum
dred laborers, about $40 tons of railroad iron,
portable engines, and an immense quantity
of railroad tools. We learn that Mr.. Thos
Collins, who was here last week, will take
passage with his wife for Brazil in the next
steamer and will remain there permanently
to superintend the work.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-04
Letter from Kansas.
sALISA, KAN, Dec. 81, 1887.

SALTSA, KAN, Dec. 81, 1887.
DEAR NAC-It must be nearly a year since |
promised send you q correspondence, and
want of time Is ebout the only excuse have
to ofrer and f.want of time will compel M to
make 1t brief even now. We getting so
many Pennsylvanians, and especially Cambria
countiaus, into SnIna county now. that q few
FREEMAN. ] will proceed at once. The year
drawing to close has been queer one in the
history or Kansas, meteorolog icaly and eRri-
culturally speaking. tust think OF "a State that
had the reputation OF heing droughty and dry
asspowGer II few years ago. being nearly Hooded
this ycar-thc floods, however. doing very little
damage to crops. Wheat was somewhat injur-
ed by the excessive rains last spring, while
corn greatly benefited. Or the forme r
cereal, Kansas this year has ii fair crop; and OF
acre Of winter wheat this year in Salina county
exceeds that of any other county in the State
all ODDS the best wheat-grOwing county in the
State, and, am happy TO say, among the most
are Penusylvauiuns. Generally speaking, they
are workers" 1t is astonishing how our coun-
" is filling up. o. Never before has emigration
poured in go rapidly during the last twelve
mouths, and Pennsylvania takes the lead
Commercial travellers, or 'drummers," as
they are sometimes called, who travel our
State over. do not hesitate in pronouucing Sa-
lima by far the best business town in Kansas.
Though small iD population Cess then 3.0t1), an
immense amount OF business is done here. 1t
counter ten thousand dollars per day cash for
wheat au1 broom corn marketed here. SHlina
has I'VE grain elevators and two broom corn
worehouses imagine a single store in oar
town depCsiting with us s29,SI4 iu thirty-four
consecutive uuslGeSS uaiS--uOt iar from Nln0
hundred dollars per day. People always COM
plain OF hard times even when the times are
sod, and so they do here. Still, when | COM
pare what see daily in Salina with what saw
in Pennsy lvania last December should say
onr farmers, well as merchants should I've
COW whided tdOu consider me SeVercl If they
complain of ard times.
You have no idea how ma ny letters | receive
from all over the east from parties wanting 10
know "all about Kansas, and don't fail to
answer hy return mail rs me and my brother
isl-tJiC intend coming oHt, etc.
Well, in order to be brief, as [ said l would, /
will conclude for the present.
Respectfully. w. r. GEIs.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-04
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

OvR TEBns.-All vhe pay for the COM
i.g volume Of the FREEMAN on o" before
lie EOib day Of February next, can have
th,T choice OF receiving the paper alone
i0T sl50 per year, or the paper and preni-
ga book for Sl.75 those who do not pay
Entl after that date and do pay on or be-
sle The 10th OF April, will receive the pa
ler and book for S1.75 those who pay
,hsir subscriptions between April Goth and
lsy sJ,h will be charged S1.75 for the
paper alone and all who neglect to pay
gat After the latter date will be charged
he fuA S2 90 for the paper, without the
psnium, provided they do not postpone
payment until the close Of the year, when
IS cents more will be added with interest
nall paid. Subscribers outside Of the
county vill be required In all cases to re-
ml Is oents extra - prepay postage, and
under 90 circumstances whatever will the
above terms be- departed fIom.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-04
P0ctic0E Contribution.
VARIOUS VERSES

VARIOUS VERSES.
I did myself brown
. And i went into town
To view all the sights could view, sir:
The Institute there
was the bon ton affair,
And I'll tell you just how they did do, sir.
CaoRUs-O, how they did do. sir:
Now this is all true. sir,
The things l have seen,
They are not very green,
And I'll tell you just what they did
Co. sir.
The school ma ans were there
With their beautiful hair
Their checks, cherry red
Like bright posy bed.
And eyes that did sparkle like dew, sir.
Chorus.
Now. professors were there
With their boards like bear,
And they showed US some ri les that were new,
The boys they couIi fog
Alta pretty good jog,
But that is between me and you. sir.
Chorus
They taught us 20 read
On a new plan indeed,
And cat we could like a mice" sir,
While any small word
That they put on the board
We "gobbled il up in > trice, sir.
Then objects were showed
. And instructions bestowed,
Which paid right we'll to be there, sir;
For what did il enhance,
a II could see at 4 glance
Twas given by lips that were fair, sir.
Chorus.
Then renmansbip, too,
Was presented tn flew,
With elooncnce manly and true, sir;
And notes they did sing
In n sol fa-ing ring
Which sprin&led our spirits like dew, sir.
Chorus.
They showed on the board
There. 10y line and by word,
By angles ootuse and acute, sir.
How teachers cOuld draw
without making flaw
And teach object lessons TO boot, sir.
Chorus
PyrotcChnics were there
In the hands Of the fair,
While she made a big fire on plate, sir
And W hilC she at it
Some hearts went pit pat-it,
| And thought she would make q good IN tie, sir
Chorus.
As we came near the line
When the people do dine,
| Uf grarruler they gave us Il dose, sir;
For all kinds of verbs,
Like a hash of good herbs.
| To stick TO our stomachs so close, sir.
| Chorus.
| The dircctUfs were there.
And they made quite = fare.
| For one of them Inade quite speech, sir:
| Tne teachers he'd pay
| In a cleverUr way
! And furnish tneru tooie for TO teach, sir.
| Chorus.
SO let every one fttitt.
! When the time doth srriys,
| To go TO the institute carly,
| Instruction ht II find
| Both for manner and mind
| Repay ing e1 penses SO fairly. A. D. Il.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-04

MIR. T. Fl. Heist, the indefatigable pro-
prietor of the Mountain House in this place
never wearies of well doing in the matter of
substantial and needful Improvements IN
and about the popular hotel which he knows
so well how to conduct to the entire satis-
faction of all who tarry with him. His la
test achievement in that line is a we'll laid
plank-walk on Centre street, which is = de-
elded Improvement on The old one aud
source of qualification TO all who have occa-
sion to pass along that leading thorou2hfare,
especially after night fall.
AS the beginning of a new year is al
ways the accepted time for forming good
Resolutions, It is now In order 10 remind peo-
pie who have never been in the habit of buy
ing goods at the cheap cash store of Myers
K Lloyd that no better time than the pres-
ent could he selected for taking n new de-
parture in that direction as the enterprising
firm above named, cheap the cheapest
tn rugh their prices at all times, are now
giving greater bargains than ever the object
m view being 10 close cut their large and
e. CANT stock of winter goods as soon as poe
siole. Call soon and buy nbundantly.
Mr.. J. X. Russell foreman Of the Pitts
hurSh division round house at Altoona, has
been presented by the Pa r. r. Co. with
$1,000 i'll consideration of his valuable
services in saving property that would other
wise have been destroyed by the mob during
the July riots; and Thos. Ridley, passenger
engineer on the Pittsburgh division, has re-
ceived gold watch and chain, worth S40c,
and check for SlO0 from The same source,
as a recompense fo- his fidelity during the
Pittsburgh riots and in recognition of his
| twenty-five years faithful service in the
! employ of the company. John l. Smith, OF
! Nineveh and Daniel Williams of Greene
/ bnrg, the first engineer and conductor who
entered Pittsburgh after the riot, have been
! presented with $500 and $3.50, respectively,
while each of the crew received 800
! MIR. Jas. j. Murphy, the we'll known
! clothing man OF Johnstown, accompanied by
! his eleven-yeSr old son, spent w ednesday
! last in our town as the guest of his brother
| in-law, Sheriff Ryan. MIR. Murphy, it is
! almost needless TO inform any of our home
readers at least, is one Of the most respected
! and mos. prosperous citizen of the Cambria
! county metropolis, and the good name and
! substantial position won by him has been
! HONESTLY earned by long and prosperous
business career, which has at all times been
marked bv the surictest integrity and this
! most faithful adherence 10 honest dealing
! No one wishing to purchase ready-made
| clothing or other articles in his line can dc
better anywhere than with Mr. Murphy
| who keeps an immense stock of the very bes
! goods and never asks more than fair living
profit on what he sells.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-04
4 C1R RID.

In our Clock Department we have reduced
the prices or all our Fine Foreign Novelties
embracing the latest shapes and materials
imported.
SEALCOATS REDUCED.
SILK MATALASSE COATS RE
DUCED.
FINE WOOL MATALASSE COATS
REDUCED.
PARIS AND BERLIN CAPES AND
WRAPS REDUCED.
REAL INDIA and PAISLEY SHAWLS
REDUCED.
FINE CAMEL'S HAIR CIRCULARS
REDUCED.
Visit our Cloak Department for real bar
gains. HUGUS Il II JACKIE,
Fifth avenue and Market street,
PitIsburgb. Pa.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-04

DoUG UGHNUTS.-Take two eggs, beaten
three-quarters ponnd white sugar, one tea
spoonful salt, half pint OF sweet milk, one
tablespoonful melted butter, Il they are de
sired very short mix together with a spoon
then add three pinis of -four, having in il
one and a half measures Banner Baking Pow.
der. Each can of Banner Baking Powder
contains measure to use instead of spoon.
Ask yonr grocer for the Banner Powder and
take 10 o.her.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-04

MOUNTAIN CAKE.-To the yolks of six
eggs, well beaten, add two cups of white su-
gar, three-quarters cup butter, one cup sweet
milk, three and a half cups Of -four, having
in 1t one measure Banner Baking Powder.
Whites of two eggs, beaten stiff Bake in
jelly cake pans. When cold, spread each
layer with an icing made with the whites of
four eggs, beaten stiff, one pound of powder
ed sugar, and one tablespoonful extract OF
lemon. Each can of BANNER Baking Pow
der contains measure, to use instead of n
spoon. Ask your grocer for the BANNER
Powder, and take no other