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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

CHEEKY TRAMP.-The followin, -.
gular, not to say doubtful, story comes fro,r
Richmond, Va: -'0'n
The latest tramp sensation hero fs +bo-.-,
and the best. On Church HIN. which tIlsst
lofty ard picturesque locality Of tbfs ci,is = the
"A wide fashioua Bile avenue. and on tbi =, - y, runs
stands among other stylish residences a ,e .ile
II. Smith and family. Last night AZ a ls,.'ti - N
Mrs. Smith. as is hec custom. went into -. .uT,
chamber occupied by her two daughters oei
Mary and Bertha. to see if the pTpcfot,- - s7es
were covered up and tucked in. The Ns5'.gs
carried taper in her hand. az she saw fbr-atle
the hall open door that the gas i'm tha iEA
ladies' room had been put out When ~ es4hg
glimmer of the light fell upon the lei 1ut a1lut
did she see? Oh, horrorsl There fast ,,.flat nat
under The cover, in between the Two trs-ilp,
sleeping girls, lay strange, bearded ma ',ss
contfast' now great IL was Mary and RartEs
nave recently bloOned into lovely wOr1srf,-.I3''
Mary is eighteen and Bertha is seve,1,.J'l-
Their faces are finely chiseIed, their CONN.,
marble The strange bearded man ses,,...',55 as
be between thirty and thirty-tlye year, gf 90 20
When Mrs. Smith beheId the scene. she ,-,---,
rapidly back to her own chamber ana tittei
her husband. In hurried whispers ~. - " t,e1
of the awful situation. Mr. Srif6 -'.l diiHl
beheid the stranger and his two yf-r. gu
asleep. three in a row. Heru-b II ,,,, ,- s,Ind
street for policeman. Officer 'rsIIrr,sr. h----7
pened To be passing. and the two hsSrarli -
to the ladies chamber. a o this tirn,. rho ~
slept quletIy. OTneer Iallman jerketl tl. St.
ger out of bed. The daughters arrl,s.5 ! -.n- an
one shrieked and then the other ma, 80 ,,
out together. No Que could ewni.5- a.lrl
daughters tainted. The stranger was s8rTe,rh5s
IN hls cups ana greatly embarrassed H.,
pOilceinan made him put on lis clothes e-s
marched nun To the first police station. yy1.ra ~.
This morning the prisoner anneors7
justice hite. on charge OF vlx-tuay "a
unlhwfuliy trespassinZ. He explained rr ls.
Honor that his name was Kelly: thar he III 4
when at nome, near Hanging Rock Dbf, ,rt5,1
i a Few miles below IrOntOn on the Ohio -f--l-'
but that he was now a regular tranp. ma r-t.,
night, Whlle little tight. he was us-sf-,, -.
nne house described, and, thinking il va - '
be, boarding house. ne tried to p-t fr .. -t,.
be was successful. the door being Unra.-,-..s..
that ne crept upstairs ana found his Wv i7.,
the chamber or the young ladies. th5t -
light being turned low he took the fair sr'.-.--e -
10 be men, and wishing warm place ~ ..r,
put out the light and crOwdJd d in between tfs
lnllNluuaiS whose gender he had sa7Iv ~
taken. Justice White said as no harm s.r.--[
u nave been done he would only give him a.
months ia jail for making the mistake XII
as ne called himself, was tOlera bly, well rssai
and looked like he had seen better davs -
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

The national convention of the G reen-
back Labor party met at Toledo last Fri
day, and was presided over by Francis w.
Hughes, of this State. Tweniy-three out
Of the thirty nine States were represented.
An extreme greenback platform was adop-
ted, the first resolution Of which declares
that the party shall hereafter be known as
the ''National Party" The word ''Bank'
ought to be inserted after National" so
that the party might have its true name,
because greenbacks, and plenty Of them,
constitute its alpha and omega-the begin
ming and the end of its creed. The Presi-
dent of the convention, Frank Hughes,
was its ablest but not its best known men,
ber, for it contained that political mounte.
bank, Sam Carey, of Ohio, Biauton, or
more appropriately, Blatant Duncan, Of
Kentucky, and the notorious Brick"
POmeroy-a trtJ whose presence is well
calculated efcctually to damn any couven-
ton, no matter 10y what name it may be
called. After the resolutions. which we
publish in another column, were adopted and
an executive committee appointed, the
convention adjourned sine die. On tie
return trip from Toledo and while passing
through Ohio, q novel performance took
place in one of the cars, which was filed
with delegates from Pennsylvania and
from States further east. A meeting was
organized, officers elected and speeches
made, the cars running meantime at the
rate of twenty-five miles an hour Samuel
Calvin. the greenback oracle of Blair
county, made the first speech, and the
telegraph reported that 'his powerful
voice was raised far above the rattle of the
car wheels in eloquent defence of the doc
trines of the National rarty" 1t must
have been glorious spectacle to see Cal
win standing i'll a railroad car running at
the rate Of twenty five miles an hour, and,
with stentoriau voice, heard far above the
din and clatter of the swiftly revolving car
wheels, pleading eloquently for an unlmi
ted issue of greenbacks. They are his
present pdndccG for all the business ills
which affiict the country, though there was
time, not very remote, when he rolled d
high protective tariff, which is simply le
gallzed robbery, under his tongue as
sweet mOrsel without which the best in
teTest of the country would surely perish
But times change aud men change with
them.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

DR.. ST.. CLAIR, of Indiana, who is a
member of the State Senate, occupies a
high rank in his own profession, but is not
likely to achieve distinguished honor as a
legislator. Some time ago he introduced
o bill into the Senate imposing tax of one
cent per gallon on petroleum oil, to be
paid by tho producer. This tax would
ring into the State treasury about IRE
millions Of dollars annually. The tax be-
ing paid 10y the producer would Of course
be added by him on his sales, and thus
the people themse Ives would eventually
pay it. But what does Dr.. ST. Clair pro
puse to do with his five millions after lie
succeeds in getting them into the treasury
They are not wanted there just now, as
tie present revenues OF the State are amply
sui1icien: TO meet the annual demands on
the treasury and to- pay the interest Oh the
State debt. In any possible aspect large
surplus ia the treasury is not desirable, for
the reason that the State Treasurer, and
not the State, derives the interest arising
from its loan to banks and similar institu-
tions-a practice that Colonel Noyes will
change when lie takes charge of the Office.
We do not imagine for one moment that
Dr. st. Clair's bill will PASS, aud the Ouly
difficulty we have had about it was to even
guess What good purpose lie expected to
accomplish by it. If the bill ever comes be-
fore the Senate the consumers uf petroleum
will call upon tie doctor to give some good
reasons for his proposed tax on light.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

THE members of the invest eating COM
mittee appointed last year by tue South Cat
oliun Legislature, To- ascertain what frauds
had been committed on the treasury, and
to what extent the money of the State had
been mshapplied, made a report last week
which reveals a mass of corr upton and ez-
poses an amount of systematic fraud on the
part of the officials of that State which
even in these degenerate days is without a
parallel. The system of robbery practised
was not confined to any one branch of the
government, but included every official
from The Governor down through both
houses of the Legislature, The evidence
upon which this report is based all comes
from Republican witnesses, aud was taken
before a committee whose chairman is a
Republican. The investigation covered
the period from 1868 to 1876. Perhaps the
most interesting portion of the report is
that which relates to the thieving opera
tions Of the members of the Legislature,
who adopted the convenient doctrine that
the State was bound to pay for everything
they ate, drank, or wore or, as 1t vas well
expressed by col"red Senator in bis tes-
timony, "Th, Estate had no right TO be a
State unless she could take care of her
statesmen" Costly wines, high-priced
liquors and the very best cigars were fur
nished to members, under the head OF
supplies without limit and during one
short session $3.50, 900 were spent for re-
frcshments alone. 1t is estimated that the
State paid for enough liquor to furnish one
gallon per day to each of the 156 members.
The clerk of the House, Jones by name
and black 10y nature, testified that sup
plies were furnished to members under the
head of Legislative expenses" and ''sta-
tionery," and that they included refresh
ments, groceries, dry goods, clocks, horses,
furniture, carriages and merchandise of
nearly every description and that at one
session these amounts reached the euor-
nous sum of $3.50, 600, as appears fIom the
vouchers III the State Treasurer's office.
with 4, 4,G5S yards of the most expensive
Burssels carpet, when it was shown that
1900 yards would cover every room in the
State House. Costly jewelry was furnished
the members, and kid gloves, corsets, gar
ters, chcmises. parasols, bustles, and o;her
articles for their wives and mistresses,
were literally supplied. Such is sample
of the manner in which the intelligent and
property y-holding white citizens of South
Carolina, who paid all the taxes, were
robbed and plundered by successive negro
Legislatures. And yet when Hampton oe-
came Governor and undertook to inaugur-
ate an era of honesty and responsibility in
State affairs, i'll which he has fully succeed
ed, Blaine and the rest of the Republican
leaders proclaimed that the colorod people
of the South had been betrayed into the
hands of their enemies. The delusion
under which for years thousands of honest
Republicans labored as to the true charac-
ter OF negro government in the South is
rapidly disappearing i'll the light of facts,
and they are beginning to comprehend it
in all the length and breadth of its great
enormity.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

THRILLING ADVENTURE AND Won
pERFUL ESCAPE.-The Crude Local. pub
lished at St. Petersburg, Clarion county,
is responsible for the following:
4 strange occurrence. indeed we might say a
miracle almost, was related to us the OF her day
10y gentleman from Clarion. AS told to rs
the story runs: On Tuesday a fternuon a drum
mer for Pittsburgh boot and shoe house hired
livery rig from Messrs. Lowry Montgomery,
OF Clarion, for the purpose of going to Fry
burg. He went tC his destination all right, but
having imbibed pretty freely. fe.l asleep in his
wagon, while on the journey back that even
ing, and when coming down the hill which leads
left the road and travelled along the railroad
Reaching the trestle W hich crosses the ra vine
Just before getting to the railroad bridge, tn e
horses went boldly forward, dragging Sehind
and reaching the opposite side in safety, when
they were discovered by the people living i'm n
house close to the track and both horses and
man were rescued trOm the dangers inevitable
upon a further pursuit of the dangerous path
the river bridge only q few short rods
ahead and there could be no chance of passing
that in safety. The danger of the trip and al
most miraculous preservation from an instan-
taneous and awful death vouchsafed to the
drOwSy drummer can be better appreciated
when il is understood thar the trestie passed
over was $50 feet long, sixty feet high in the
middle, aud only five feet wide top, while
the wagon tracked four feet eight inches, leav-
ing only four inches. two on each side, betw cen
safety and death. The only hypothesis upon
which the wonder can be eX planned is that the
horses both travelled inside the rails which are
only three feet apart and, consequently, crowd
ing close together. went exactly strai2 hJ ahead
The space between the ties on the trestle being
bHt three inches no great difficulty would be
experienced on that score. We must acknowl-
edge the story savOrs a great deal of romance
nut coming to us from the source IL did we
nave no reason to doubt It's Truth
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

The wonderful convenience of sauai,,
ana receiving packages by mail and express
Is inst beginning TO he appreciated
fackages weighing four pounds or less
can g, be sent 10 the most distant States and
ierrltorles for The trivial cost of one cent
per ounce, and express charges are cores
pondingly low.
ferceivlne the very great use to which
these low rates of carriage could be put bv
lne people Messis. Strawbridge & Ciothier.
Oh fnliadeiphla, some time ago, established
a Mail Order Department. thereby eiying 10
consumers all over the land the advautaoe
OF procuring dry goods at the same low prices
that nave always characterized their i'm
n'onse re'aii establishment in Philadel phia
This enterprising firm desires MS 10 Inform
our readers that all orders for goods and re-
quests for samples intrusted TO their care
VIII receive careful and immediate attention
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

THE Republican Legislature at Harris
burg, after having been in session almost
two months, has succeeded in sending
three bills to the Governor for his action.
1t is well that such s!iould be the meagre
harvest of legislation, for the fewer laws
that are enacted the less likely are the i'll
terests of the people to suffer. One OF
these BILLS, which provided for the election
of an additional law Judge in Northumber-
land county, was promptly vetoed, for the
reason as stated by the Governor, that the
business of the courts in that county did
not require the services of another Judge.
At the last census the county contained a
population of fraction over 1000, and
by itself constitutes separate Judicial dis
trict. There are large number of coun-
ties in the State with a much greater pop
ulation and having more judicial business
than Northumberland, in which one judge
has been found amply sufficient to preside
over the courts Judge Dean in our own
district succeeds admirably, although the
task is a severe one, i'll keeping the judicial
machine in good running order in three
counties, each one OF which is nearly as
populous as Northumberland. 1t is pleas
ant thing to be Presiding Judge with a
consciousness of fitness for the office, and
this vetoed bill was simply intended for
some lawyer who thinks himself compe-
tent, although Others may not, for tie
bench, the question of necessity, as it
seems, not having any connection with it
whatever. The Governor has now opened
the way FOR veto, upon the same grounds,
of the Philadelphia Recorders bill, and
the Bank COMMISSIONER bill, intended
for the respective benefit of his friends
Quay and Hart, when they pass both
houses, as they undoubtedly will. That
he will prove equal to the occasion and
sustain the outspoken opinion of the press
and people Of Philadelphia in opposition
10 both projects, is, however, not to be
hoped for.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

How PIUs TX. ABOLISHED THE TAX ON
SALT.-Among the stories told about Pic
Mono since his death the following deserves
place:
shortly after his election tn the Papacy.
and when Cardinal Antonelli held his first Of
nee under him, that of Finance Minister, the
Romans. meeting their POntiH in the street
complained to him of the tax on salt. The IN Y
was monopoly farned by one Of the specuia-
tors who thrived IN earlier days. Pho Nuno
sent for the speculatOr. i suppose that Sa IL
tax is very valuable to you,' said he. The spec-
ulator tremtlcd, fearing the price of the mon
opoiy was about TO be raised protested thar il
was dead loss. How much would compensa 20
you for being relieved of your loss z asked His
Holiness Tue salt-iax farmer named n ridicu-
lousy low sum. Then said the pope, Won
shall nave the money! and calling for ntou-
ell, ordered him TO pay il. The rogue of q
specuiator refused; but on being infor ned nv
the Pop' that ne would publish the fact that
ne mao offered him his own price for the mon
opoly, at last took the money, and went away
saider, a wiser, and, prospectiveIy, a more
was abolished -
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

THE amendments made by the Senate to
tie silver bill were cUncurred i'll by the
House on yesterday week by an average
vote Of zoe yeas to Z nays, whic! is more
than two thirds. The leading belief at
Washington is that Mr.. Hayes, will veto 1t.
which would not prevent its becoming
law by two. thirds vote Of each House,
uuless a change of opinion has come over
two members OF the Senate, as is alleged,
but which is not very probable.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

FASTER THAN a MILE MINUTE
Every one acquainted with the Dunkirk,
Warren and Pittsburgh Railroad knows
how rapid is the descent flUm Laona into
Fredonia. Last Saturday evening, about
IL . clock, an accident happened at that
place. The night was intensely cold. and
when the regular freight train pulled out
of CaSsadaga all the brakemen but one
were i'll the caboose warming up, prepara-
tory to standing guard over the long train
Of twenty-nine cars when the heavy grade
should be reached. Just after leaving the
station lhe train broke in two, the last five
cars being left behind, the others, with
only one brakeman, going ON, unaware of
the accident. The top of the hill was
reached and the descent begun. The en-
gineer, finding himself impelled along at a
terrible rate, reversed his engine though
he says be expected to see the cylinder
heads blown out and his locomotive a
wreck-and wh;stled for brakes. The cars
were covered with ice and snow, and the
solitary brakeman took his life in his hand
when, IN the darkness, and the train thun-
dering along at the rate of about mile a
minute down grade thai increased the
speed every second, he sprang from one
car TO another aud set every brake on the
whole twenty-three cars. The run from
the top of the bill to Fredunia was made
in an Incredibly short space of time, and
to the bravery of the brakeman, the quick
discovery of the impending danger 10y the
engineer, and the good work of the loco
motive and every brake, is due the fact
that the train was kept from a plunge into
the Dunkirk depot aud total ann:hilatiou,
( -Jdm6st0CR Democrat
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01
a FAMILY BECOMES INsANE-Tbe D,
buque Telegraph tells the following "a.
markable story

markaDle Story
one OF the strangeSt occurrences on rar-r4
TOOK place q Few days ago, some miles ggeS- -
jamestown. IN Grant county Wis A German
farmer named Mat. johnson. togerh hfr yyfrE Is
vile and brother, J JOhn Johnston. aII become
insane at the same time. John johnston. ,.tr.
Is also q married man. resided al some rffIa
distance from his brother Mat. TIE latter 4--r
showed dangerous symptoms at night when
both he and his wife arose. dressed Themselves
IN their best clothing, and went into the aa4
To pray. They continued this for a i4I- ar. ~
neSiecttnE their stock and their five Irrr. rhsr-
drcn. Finally their condition was Frsr1va-a4
Nv nciEhhOrs- who tried 10 quiet them Fr-
Mat armed himself with an a ne and Threatened
TO klil any one who came near. HIS rrr-ls-
aud younger brothers tried i'm vain 10 er5v r.--
10 he quiet or TO permit them To care for hfs
children and furnishing animals. HIS wife
thGuEn less violent, was also raviaE IN l-.sa
and paid not the slightest attention t6 her chill
dren, VINO were crying with cold and hunger
\ large number Of the ueighb0rs dsslr-rai
Johnston. took the children To friends ,vHT
would care tor them. and ATTENDED 10 the horses
that had been stabbed for DAYS vitEUut food or
water. Johnston. when at liberty. insisted on
keeping all the windows in the house omen. and
on nav ing lamp burning AT the same time
Mrs johnson has been taken To the home n
heT father. Mr., Hugo. who resides near Dick
eyvile, Wisconsin Her husband j. - violent
that i i necessary To keep him tied aU the
time Both Mat and John IOhu~Uu have been
pronounced insane, and viii be sent 20 the slsy-
lum at Madison.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

The treaty of peace between Russia and
Turkey hasanot yet been signed, the delay
being occasioned by the efforts of Turkey
to secure a change of some of the severe
terms demanded By Russia, which she
may possibly succeed in doing.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

AT the election on last Tuesday week
the voters in six wards in Philadelphia, in
which tley have a special local option law,
passed ON the question whether or not
license should be granted in their respec-
tive wards and here is the result
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

SIN AND SHAME.-''l tell yOu the girl Is
all right, aud | am not bound to answer
any questions about her" So said Miss
Maud Stanley" the proprietress of one of
the abOdeS of fallen women ON First avenue
to a reporter of the Pi;tsburg Dispatch on
Sunday night last. Yet at that time a
yOuuggirl, the subject of the reporters in-
quiIies, was ravng in the widest delirium
i'll Madame Stauley's house, and it is not
unlikely thal she is dying now. There aIe
but few visitors admitted to see the poor
destroyed child, Belle Williams, who is
slowly dying because of the infamy prac-
ticcd upon her by wretch called ii man.
The doctor who goes twice every day to
visit her is the only individual, aside from
those personages of doubtful virtue among
whom her lot is cast, who is admitted
Professional man that he is, he has no Sc
crets to tell now, but it is not a secret
that the child lfOr she is less than fifteen
years old is sick almost unto death. 1t is
said that it is only because she, being a
child, has been treated sbamelessly by bru-
tai men that she is lying as related. But
there are reports abroad reports that it is
to be feared there will be an opportunity
for Coroner's jury to investigated that
/ the case in some Of it's features is not un-
like that of poor May Kavanaugh 1t is
but just to say that these reports do no,
have reference to the proprietress of the
house where the girl now is. 1t appears.
! from all the stories. that really the child
has met only with kindness in this place.
/ The poor dying child in her delnium has
repeated time afeIt time "a coherent story,
! It. is briefly that her brutal drunken faith.
er, with whom she lived in Sharon, sold
her for 500 to the equally brutal though
} not equally besotted son of hotel keeper
there, who accomplished her ruin and in
Jured so that she is near death door He
sent her to this city and to the house men
toned. 1t is stated that the woman, Stan
ley, would lot receive her as an inmate
but gave her work i'll the kitchen. There
she took sick few hours after her arrival
and i'll that house of shame she is now dy
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01
a DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE

- Estate of Christop'r EckenrOde, dec dec IL
Letters of administration on the estate 81 ~,
topher Eckenrode. late OF Allegheny toNhsL..t3
cambria county, deceased. having been sTa sTai.Sd
to the undersigned. all persons indeh-ed 20 -
estate are requested to make payment. anu ,S,g
having claims against the sane VIII presen. 49, N
properly authenticated for settlement, 10 ihe "-
dersiRned.
JOSEPH ECKENRODE. Administered
Allegheny Twp, Feb. Is, ls7s.-6t.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01
EOTEL PROPERTY AT PUB

-A Lie SALE.-The undersigned WILL o. W
Ter at public sale on the premises, at 10 80 "a
A. M, on "Wednesday. March 18Th, is. tu'
well known TAVERN STAND at Sunmil' nv
The house is a new one well hnl shed throughout,
ana the cellar is properly drained. while Wy
attached is large and in good state oi cu,,. cui@-
tion. Possession will be given TO the pUroh"'
on the first of April next s, cha
TERMS OF SALE.-OHe fourth in hand ana - ~
balance in three equal annual payments. Nttn y.
terest, secured by bond or mortgage oI ths
chaser. HENRY FRITZ
JohnstOwn Feb. 81 lS-s-St
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

1O RNtra Fine Mixed Cards. with name. lc cts
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