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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-27
The Rest of the District of no Consequc,

The Rest of the District OF no Consequence.
Faribault Democrat-Dem.
A jolly row is breeding in the third Con-
gression district over the nomination. It
seems to be question of whether st. Paul
shall be represented by DR.. Stewart, or Min
neapolis by Mr.. Washburn. The balance of
the district is left out anyway.
He'll of u Fir Gets the Start of Three Card
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18

TERRIBLE MARCH THROUGH MONTA Ma
Mrs. Rosa Griffith, wife of Captain d. A
Griffith, Third L. 5. Infantry, Co. ID. of
which is commanded by Capt. James II.
Gageby, of Johnstown, sends to the Read
ing Edgte an account of the terrible march
of the regiment 10 their new post at Mis-
soua, Montana The account says:
The regiment, which had been stationed I'm
the south for some years. was ordered to the
Pennsylvania coal gou during the 81 riIxc riots
last summer, and was then suddenly ordered
West to assist in subduing chief Joseph and his
Nez Perces Indians- They went to Corinne, u
several Of the companies being ordered to Hell
ena, and the balance of the regiment TO the
new post at Missouia. The hardships endured
10y the troops during the tramp OF over six
hundred miles were terrible. The men of the
command were i'll prepared, by reason OF their
long residence i'm New Orlt ans. for the rigors of
early winter in the Rocky Mountains. and their
suneriDgs were acutcly intense. During part
OF the journey they were exposed to violent
snow storm. with the thermometer fifteen de-
the regiment was pro, ided with oversboes or
gloves. Not q few of the men were nearly
pare &baretnoted' and addeh to the agony of freezing
leet was Tue additionnl torture OF being forced
to grip the cold steel of their muskets with
naked hands day after day. Wien the regiment
lett New Orleans there we're not five doIlare in
possession OF officers aud men. The women
aud children belonging 10 the command, in
cludlng the wives and o1~prings OF the officers,
numbered thirJy-two. and transportation for
these OF course had TO be secured at individual
expense Ii is said that out ior the timely aid
OF friends, who. understanding the impecuni-
Gus condition of the rank and hie, advanced a
little money out OF their own private mea iis,
/ these dependent and d, stitufe followers of the
camp must have suffered abandonment in the r
time of greatest need. On the ma,ch north
ward TO Corinne several of the women aud
children fell sick under the terrible exposu re,
and for weeks their lives were almost despair,
ell OF. The transportation outfit allowed the
command was limited to three ambulances.
AS there was not a dollar of money i'm the reoi
ment. the simplest wants oi the sick could not
be gratiiipd, as the isolated ranchmen and hun
tiers in thai country refused to part with any
thing wuen the cash was not forthcoming. FL
naly, as the regiment was nearing the end of
their march, ragged, footsurr, penniless and
shivering, some OF the officers sold their pa
rolls Tor cash, bni not without the sacrifice OF
discount of b per cent. on the dollar.
Mrs. Griffith and her little daughter left
Reading in November to join her husband
at his new post.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18
-~-A-R~R~E

GEORGE II. PKNDLRToE was elected Oh
Tuesday of last week by the Democrats of
the O-io Legislature to the United States
Senate, as the successor of Stanley Mat
thows, whoss term will expire on the 4th
Of March, 1879. The contest, which was q
triangular one between Mr.. Pendieton,
Gen. Thomas Ewing, ard General George
W. Morgan, was warmly fought by their
respective friends, and resulted in Mr..
Psudleton' S nomiustion on the third ballot.
He is SO prominent a member of the Dem
osratie party, and is so we'll known through
"ut ths country, that 1t isquite unnecessa-
~ TO refer at length to his merits and his
peculiar qualifications for the high position.
His ability is unquesioned, and his services
TO the Democracy of Ohio in sunshine and
in storm placed them under great obies-
tons to him. AS Senator he will occupy
place in the foremost rank, and no State
in the Union will be more ably Represented
in that body than Ohio with Allen 6. Thur
man and George II. Pendleton.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18

THE serious charge is made by the Har-
risburg correspondent of Pittsburgh daily,
that member of the House one day last
week offered bill in his own proper hand,
writing for the pensioniug of soldiers of
the war of 1912, ''disrespeetire of kanqth Of
time of service" copy of Webster's
dictionary would be more useful to the
gentleman from than a COPY Of
Purdon's Digest, for if bad spelling by a
legislator, which approaches very near to
= crime, was an indictable offence in this
State, his case would be sad one. No.
satisfied with the laurels he has won at
Harrisburg, he is fatally bent on the nomi-
nation for Congress in his district. All of
which reminds us of story told some
years ago OF a well known member Of Con-
gress from the western part of this State,
who in writing letter to one Of his con-
stituents, and having occasion 20 Use the
words physician and photograph, boldly
commenced them with the letter "F."
Thinking that he might possibly be mista-
ken, and afraid to ask for information lest
be might expose his ignorance, he sought
. book store and purchased copy of Web
ster. A careful examination of its pages
beGipning with tbesIetters $50" only pro-
Aucsd confusion worse con founded, and re
farming to the store for the purpose Of ex
ehanQipR Webster for Worcester, and sta
ting bis reason for SD doing, the man Of
books promptly cat the Gordian knot by
directing his sttsntion TO the letter Up. y
a. kept bis Wsbs&--r. but The man who
DID IL could not keep tue Joke.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18

OS tho discussion Of q motion made in
the L. S. Senate last week, but which was
defeated, TO allow n dozen or SD Of fanatical
females 20 appear on the floor Of .he Senate
a,d express their views in favor OF an
amendment 10 the constitution conferring
on women the right OF suffrage, Mr.. Thur
man, OF Ohio, spoke piece of his mind RS
follows:
The idea had been conveyed that the ladies
~ making this application to be heard by
Senate represented the women OF the
United States. He denied that th' y represent
sd one-twcntieth, or an huDdTedth part, OF the
~oman OF the United States. Undoubtedly
they were very worthy women, but one OF them
sIid in convention at Lincoln Hall that they
4 rtended to carry the Senate 10y God! Nay be
tIey would, but IL would be long after some oil
the old loGies were out OF the chamber. uhugh-
teri He did not W ISM to be understood swami
ing in respect for these ladies, but he Was free
e. confess that the woman who sat Mt her fire
. de and took care OF her children wss rather
mo v respectable In his mind than the woman
vile threatened to carry the Senate 10y God. Ii
was for the States to declare who should vote
ju The States. Let them BE- gin with Nassaohu
k3tte.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18
TEE Turkish Minister Of Foreign Affairs

TEE Turkish Minister Of Foreign Affairs,
accompanied by another high officer Of the
government, left Constantinople on Tues
day last for Kezanlik to meet the Grand
Duke Nicholas, of Russia, and commence
negotiations for peace between the two
countries. kezaDlik, where the conference
il to be held, Is town IN Roumelia, at the
foot of the Balkan mountains on their
southern slope. All military operations
will OF course be suspended until the result
Of the negotiations is known, which will
probably not be for some time TO come.
The Brii ish Parl ament reassembled yester.
day. and il is said in London that the
views of the English government on the
question Of the proposed treaty of peace
will be declared in few days. Since the
fall Of Plevna one disaster after another
has befallen the Turkish army. Sophia,
south OF the Balk ans, fell into the posses
sion of body of Russian cavalry without
any resistance, and the entire Turkish ar
my, about 25, 900 men, that was defending
the celebrated Schipka Pass, was captured
by the Russians after a short engagement
With Turkey, therefore, peace has become
q matter OF absolute necessity, even though
England may protest against some of its
terms.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18

THE action Of the Republican State con-
vention of New Hampshire last week Was
! . complete victory for Mr.. Hayes and his
Southern policy, and a signal defeat for the
radical wing of the party that still nights
under the banner of the bloody shirt. Three
or four weeks ago William +. Chandler, OF
| that State, a restless political demagogue
| and the mere shadow of Blaine, addressed
a lengthy letter to the Republicans of the
State in which ne bitterly denounced Hayes
ana his administration, and reviewed with
much detail the alleged bargain, or agree
ment, made last February between Mr.
HAYES personal representatives from Ohio,
Stanley Matthews, John Sherman and Chas.
Foster, on the one side, and certain Demo-
cratic me III bers Of Congress from the South
on the other, by which it was arranged
that the count Of the electoral vote should
be completed, which would result in de
claring Hayes elected, and that II this was
done Hayes would Withdraw the troops
from New Orleans and Columbia and per-
mi: the totteriDg governments oi Packard
and Chamberlain to fall from their own in
berent weakness. ChanCler's sublime inn
peoence will be properly appreciated when
it is stated that he was one of the conspir-
ators who, with Bob Mackey, OF this State,
and others Of the same stripe, went down
to Tallahassee Immediately after :he Presi-
Dental election, and through their corrupt
operations with HcLiu, negro, and Cow
gill. n white man, the two forming ma
iorisy of the Returning Board, cheated
Tilden out OF the vote of Florida and de
clared j: for Hayes. In his letter Chandler
was very careful not to Sc y anything about
the part he himself played in this infamous
business, as reward for which he asked
Hayes to appoint him Minister to Spain.
His demand was no. complied with and
hence bis letter, which was intended to al
ray the Republican party in his own State
against the Southern policy OF the adminis-
tratiun, aud revive the spirit of sectional
hate in the rnuks of Northern Republican
ism. The letter and it's author we're both
treated with contempt by the State con-
veution-Governor Prescott, warm Hayes
man. was reuominated-a resolution square
" endoIsi sing the pacific course OF Hayes
towards the Sou,h was adopted, and Chand-
ler was branded by one of the delegates in
a speech as "a political tramp" This
ought to be the last appearance OF Chandler
Oh the political stage, aud be warning TO
him and all others like him that if there is
any one thing that the people of the whole
country desire more than another, and are
determined to have, it is peace, with all
it's uunumbered blessings, between the
North and the South, and that any man,
10 matter how high may be his position,
who undertakes to inauguraie an era OF
strife and dscord between tie two see
tious, will be overwhelmed By the irTesi.ti-
ble power Of public opinion.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18

Mr.. LoNG, member Of the House from
Allegheny county, offered joint resolu :
ton on Friday last for the appointment of
a committee to investigate the facts con-
nected with the origin of the Pittsburgh
riots last July, and report the testimony to
the Legislature. After brief discussion,
motion was made to postpone the resolu-
tion indefinitely and carried by a vote of
So yeas to "a nays. A motion to reconsid-
er the vote was subsequently made and if
that motion should prevail and the original
resolution be adopted, the committee pro-
posed by it viii have a very large contract
on its hands and the State an enormous
bill Of costs to pay. The Pittsburgh pa
pers have claimed, for reasons which we
will state at another time, that on eauita-
BILE grounds the State is liable for the dam.
ages caused by the riots, and the purpose
Of the friends Of this investigation is TO Law
the groundwork for the passage of a bill
a. The next session requiring ter payment
out Of the State treasury. 1t would be a
waste OF time to discuss the question Of
the liability of the State until it is presented
to the Legislature, aud we will simply ex.
press our belief now that it will be a huge
undertaking to coax Legislature of this
State to vo,e away over three millions of
dollars to pay for losses to property caused
by the blundering aud iueficiency of the
civil authorities of Pittsburgh, aided and
assisted by officers Of the National Guard
and others more intinstely Interested in
tbe saving Of property ifuut In the preser-
vation OF human lives.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18
LIZ SI4nN CAMEROH. Lis SO

If SIMON CAMERON, his son Don, and
their political retsiuers throughout the State,
have quietly decided, as it is reported they
have done, that Henry NJ. Hoyt, OF Luzerne
county, shall be the Republican candidate
for Governor, all the other fifteen or twenty
patriots, each one Of whom supposed that
the honor was specially reserved for him.
self, may as well prepare their letters OF
declinatiop and put on the Cameron collar.
In the approaching political contest i'll this
State the Cameron clan has but one su-
preme object in view, to accomplish which
il will exert all its energies and resort 10 all
its prculiar appliances, aud that object is
the reelection Of Don to the United States
Senate. Their objective point will be the
| Legislature, and in order to make that a
sure thing, every other consideration will
! be made to bend, or be brushed aside. II
! United States Senators were elected by q
| dilect vote of the people, Don Gamer on
/ would be defeated by majority of more
/ than fifty thousand, while under the pres
eut infamous apportionment bill a Legis-
/ lature may be return ed. that will send him
| back to the Senate, where he has not yet
and never will give any evidence of his
! fitness for the place. Luzerne county will
! elect one Of the two Senatrrs and all of the
nine Representatives to which she is en-.
titled at the next election, Once reliable
/ Democratic county, it is now essentially
rotten and demoralized, and opens up al
inviting field for the political debaucheriet
of Cameronism. Hence the proposed nomi
nation Of Hoyt, che of its citizens, ano
then an effort to form coalition on a cor
rupt basis with tho Greeu5ack- Labor party
which at the last election swept the county
The prize is ten votes for Cameron. Car
be win il? We will see
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18

POLYASDR0Us PlgFr-s -rr -...--
Tile town Of Coventry. C1,-s-.--. /
brought . suit aEaius. tae f..r r.. n
chester. for the -llpur # 7rs.s-.s =
per uarued farE.s Pamela s-.t-.- =
the woman herself has m.fsa s5.. =
which Shows remarkable rs-s- n u
ried life. The case 8, bsrrs r-s-.r j
penter, of liarfa.d. rs arrt--
cordIng to hrr STORY. s.s -ssrs-l FL
1885, William Bis. 4 ~.r.-.a-.s ~
WHO left hrr three Gsrs afsr >-r
later she heard he va, dead .-5
ruarv 1 Il tha a-y- year ,as .4.a-4
l.. Rogers. 81 lIa5'sua.fCm.. >-s
with Rogers SIX m.a-.ls. wien Bis
dead man. appeari, Oar aas
and gave Qll--c.aIm %. r lE--. l.s
watch and hye dollars. aIaa. %.
af er RHgegs vent - Sea. and sr-
following his departure N.s 3 yes |
that he had been laased as
Finding single life hanging ar,y5
hands sire Uauet. H Har-a. -,-.
sgick i. Nlec.ar. vhu nos .5-,
chcEter. Mass SIX months sf-al 81.
riaCe Rogers. the hanged as 1
5ack- oaefeC Nn-eisr, and 't-5
mylIa TIL Dc.algL I,=t SEel l5l
March. 1861. she married larr Er.
. Williamsburg. y. =. and g1- q l,Hl
March. 1857. aui in lie sane rr
ried James DAVIS and urssi 30 Hg
Size lived uilh I.u ssre-a. Fs-.s
divorce. Size hen mauisi .l--
slE.l. Somewhere ont Nes'. .-5i El
seven ySals. and Got agH.g -1
. Then cau,r- back ta -lG5
marri,t Emanuel artt.lr. % aa
and lived w.-a him SIX l l..s 7
( ran away. Ia.s record s-Hr, -l
bad seven husbands I- %. Sic ra
married when f.ute-r Eaas .. z.a
saws she Is uoy -l.y gears aa.
. tIv sues Na-Cltstrl f.- -s. z1
jnE that her settlement isi1 .la
. where her third ll,asu-, 3 .sH
lives. Iue H.-e.- u.rllaE= IS --
be vo.d. - By WAS s-.. .,rs
Biv died before tie Wheeler -.
. latter zas lr-al N102Hs---. ss7i
she married IS -.l .-s s. sa- IS
be dead. trt aa l-=r man. ~. .'
IioL - vas live ~s7r '.- "-
rage tr.S place s... -ls.' -
l. Is also held l4E. t.= Wee
il of no eT.s- gn.-r -a-.-.
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18

GENUS OK A TRAMP.-A wonderful
piano player with romantic history is
citing the musicians of Bridgeport. Abont
two weeks ago shabby tramp entered
we'll known music store on Main street and
asked permission o use piano for short
time. The proprietor refused at first, but
afterwards consented because the mans
manners were much better than his cloi hes.
| The tramp sat down and played a difficult
composition with great ease aud brillaucy.
The pity and contempt OF his listeners were
at once changed % admiration. Friends
sprang up around him, and they are trying
, to get him once more on his feet. II is his
tory. as told by the Furmer, is as follows ::
/ He belongs to titled German family. aid
had for his godmothcr and patroness Ho
! less parsonage than the Queen of Wtr-
/ TEN burg. lie received auuiversity educa-
! tion aud became lawyer. He was at one
/ time Consul to Paris from Wuri emburg,
and moved in the highest circles of the
capital when Napoleon and Eugeuie were
onsthe throne. The cause OF his fall from
/ all this high estate was dissipation of tie
/ widest kind. AS a result of his wild and
reckless courses he lost his official position
and his standing in society, aud not only
| squandered the income from his family ss-
/ tate fast as il came to him, but, in order
I TO raise more money. sold his claim to
/ what should be due him Cor twenty seven
years ahead. When he had exhausted his
/ resources at home he came to this country.
and engaged in some kind of business or
occupation in New York. His ignorance
| of the language, or the dishonesty of his
associates, or both, caused him TO fail, how
ever, and left him utterly destitute. 1t
! was then that he started out from New
! York on the tramp, picking up an odd job
now and then on the road, but growing all
the while more ragged aud wretched. His
aimless tramping journey had brought him
/ as far as Bridgeport on the morning when
he passed the music store, and was irresisti-
bly, impelled, by sight Of the pianos to go
in and ask to be allowed to play. -Neo
/ Hdpen Palladium
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18

In 1864 George B. Mcclellan was the
Democratic candidate for President and
George II. Pendleton for Vice President.
On Tuesday last General Mcclellan was in
augurated Governor OF New Jersey at
Trenton, and on the same day, at Columbus,
George II. Pendleton was elected to the
United States Senate by the Legislature of
Ohio. This is rather n remarkable coinci-
Geuce.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18
Little Nellie Reapen is n ssmusical pro

Little Nellie Reagen is ''musical pro-
digy' OF which the innocent town of
Bloomfield, Indiana, justly is proud. A
local ci rouicler of her extraordinary DOW
ers states that '-at The early age of ten
years she acquired the rudiments of music,
which she is as familiar with as with her
A. B, C's, gone on through thorough basis,
aud is pretty we'll up in harmony" A
veritabie little Mics Won Bu'ow, eviaentfy.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18
Remarkable L0a0erity.
THE DEATH OF WOMAN ONE HUNDRED
AND NINE YEARS OLD.

at her house on Court street, at 1:15
q clock last evening, says the CIncinhati
Star of Saturday, Mis-. Angela Podesta-
Onetta terminated most rematk Die lie
for longevity. being one hundred and niue
yeals and one day old. She was utldoubted-
ly the oldest person ia this Stae, probably
in tue United STATES. The incidents of 50
remarkably long an experience III this vile
world can but bo Of interest.
She was born January 10, 1860. You
will better appreciate this statement when
you consider that she Was twenty yeais Old
when George Washington was inaugurated
first President of the United States, and
was old enough To have taken cognizance
of all the events of the struggle FOR Inde-
peudence. She WAS contemporary of Ma
poleun aud wellington. Deceased was
native of Italy, having migrated to this
country in 1S45
At the age of twenty years she was mar
red to Podesta, by whom she had eight
children, four boys and fuur girls. All the
children, save one, are still III the old coun-
try. The youngest child, John Podesta,
who is now in his tifty-trst year, is the
proprietor of a beer saloon at No. AT Main
street. This son, when quite youth. came
To this country, aud during the gold ex-
ctement of IS41 went 70 California to seek
his fortune. lie was but moderately sue
cessful aud few years Later made his
NOME III thiS
Before she came to America her bus-
band, Podesta, had died. After wander
ing for some months from place TO place III
this country, she finally joined her SON i'll
this city.
A few years after coming here, and in the
eighty-siXth year of her age, she was mar
ried n second time 10 one Ouetta, n wander
ing musician, who died some years ago,
since which time she has lived with her Son
John.
She was in possession Of all her mental
faculties TO the Last, and before this last
Illness was as spry on her feet as many
women fifty years her Junior. Her physi-
cal strength may be appreciated when you
remem 5er that at the age OF one hundred
she danced all night at n ball III Mozart
Hall.
In her old and wrukled face she bore
unmistakable marks OF beauty in youth.
Her eyes were bright and sparkling, ami
her household duties were performed with
out The aid Of spectacies. She WAS always
quite hushy, and her face WAS full but
after death her checks sank in aud other
transformations were made in her appear
ance that her own son could hardly recog-
nize her.
SEa had been unweli for three months,
but was not confined 10 her bed until asI
dnesday. Her last hours were free
from pain. aud she died as calmly as If only
falling asleep.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18
1Hk CAMBRIA FREEMAN.
BURG, Pa,
FRIDAY, JAN'Y lS. 1878.

THE annual business meeting OF the
Peunsyivania Editorial Association VIII be
held at Harrisburg on Thursday next, tho
oath inst, at o'clock, P. NJ, at which
tine and place editors and publishers
throughout the State are cordially invited
to attend and connect themselves with the
organization.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18

TIE annual repor. Of the Secretary or
the Senate shows that the Investigations
made last winter, in regard TO the Presi-
Dental election in the States Of South Car
olina, Louisiana, Florada and Oregon, cost
the government S95, ,212, to enable Mr..
Hayes TO ste. into an Office to which the
people had never elected bim.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18

THE Galena Oll.) Gazette says One of
the most singular curiosities in nature tha.
has ever come under our observation is the
nest of a tarantula. a species of spider. 1t
rs constructed of clay and stones, and is
about four inches long and two inches wide.
a bole three quarters of an inch in diane
ter passes through it lengthwise, one end
of which is closed by trap door, beveel-
ed on the sides and top, and ii ting so GER
fectly that when closed scarcely q sign of
the opening is visible. The door is round
ing at the top. perfectly straight a. the
bottom and working on a hinge construct
ed on :he same principle as the joints on
which the door hangs. The nest is lined
with soft gossamer substance, and is as
round az IL bored with an auger. 1t is
said that the iarantula, when attacked
clawls into its nest, and closing The door,
secures itself by inserting one OF it's legs
through staple scarcely discarnib,e by
tile baked eye.