The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-01-10

he had no money to pay Tor them. A few
days ago he returned and paid the bill.
Tho banking house of Bennett & Co.
made an assignment Thursday morning,
2d inst. The cause alleged is the presen.
inability Of the Forty Eort Coal Company,
Riverside Coal Company, J. II. Swayne
and Others to meet .heir obligations
The firm is confident that creditors will be
paid In full.
The third semi-1nnuaI meeting of the
Pennsylvania Millers' State Association
viii be held at the Stevens House, Laucas-
ter, on Tuesday, January il. a number
/ of important topics will be brought before
the meeting, such the claims of paien-
tees, the formation of a State millers' fire
insurance company, etc.
"A six days pedestrian contest has
been arranged between o. Leary of Chica.
90. and Hartman, Of Massachusetts. for 90.
600, to take place in New York within the
next SIX weeks. It is the result of cIaI-
lenge from Hartman. and the agreement
is that the winner takes ali the gate mo-
ney, in addition to the stakes.
DIR. Alonzo Garcelon, elected Governor
of Maine on Friday, by the Senate OF that
STATE, was formerly = Republican, aud
while acting with that party was elected
member Of the State Senate. He went
over to the Democratic party in the move
ment led by President johnson, and has
since been defeated several times as
Democratic candidate for Congress.
On Sunday night, at Carbon, Wyorn-
ing. twenty five or thirty masked men
broke open a baggage car and took out
and hung to telegraph pole Dutch Char
ley, who was en- route 10 RawlinS, to stand
his trial on charge of participation IN
the Widow Field murder ISst fall lie
vas notorious character and had been
identified with number Of stage robberies
President Pullman, of the PuIman pal
ace car company, received q cable dis
patch recently from Lisbon. stating that
/ Chas. w. Augell. the defaulting secretary
of the company. had been delivered 70 Gen
eral Henry Starring, the I.andon agent Of
the company. General Starring alsn has
the $4,000 found ia posseSsion of Angel
and be tslsgraphs that he will start ut
once with his prisoner in a clipper ship for
New York
The assessed valuation of the Girard
estate for 1873 was Sc, 037 290 %, and {, ON
this there was realized S745,2T2 %. The
surplus. after cxpendiEg $500, 667 81 WAS
S44S, 500 Al. The expenses of maintaining
Girard College for the year were $3.50, ,355.-
33. The fund left by GiraId for the i'm
| prOvement of the eastern front OF tho city
now amounts to S63I, 1917. The mum
ber of pupils at Girard College was increAs-
ed from $50 to- SO.
There is said to be little love btweeu
'he Dukeiof Edinburgh and The Marquis of
Lcrue. The Duke denounces the Prime
Minister of England and praises his father
in-law, the Gar Of Russia, in semi public
conversations. The Marquis was at nl,e
time strong Liberal man, but deserted
! the party on the ESs ern question, aud
clinps TO the Jingoes or Conservatives now
with zeal. This il the cause Of the jll-feel-
ing between the brothers in law
"A dispatch to the St Paul MIMI
( Fionter Press says: The jury in the case
of William Chase, who was on trial ut
I Chippewa Falls, Wis. for the killing Of
Frank Goodhuc. on Dec. 10, ON TUESDAY
/ brought in verdict of muider in The first
I degree. and the prisoner WAS immediately
sentenced to imprisonment for life. The
/ case has created much excitement in Chip
/ pewa county. Chase was once taken from
( Jail by the mob, and barely escaped with
( tis lie. lie was strongly guarded during
/ the trial.
/ Hon. Morton McMIchael died at his
( residence in Philadelphia Monday, at
( Z. NJ. He was about seventy one years Of
/ age, and, until recent period, had enjoyed
( robust health. He had been connected
! with the North american newspaper. of
: that city, since early manhood, aud occu
i pied at intervals many important public
/ positions. He WAS widely known through
/ ont the country as q prominent politician
/ of the old Whig school, and was conspicu-
! Gus for his kindly intercourse with his
/ fellow citizens.
Lieutenant Flipper, the cOlored yonth
/ who attracted some attention a year or two
/ ago, is about to write a book detailing his
I sufferings on account Of his color at the
/ West Point military academy. This is
really too bad. The yonng man undoubt-
edly underwent many iudignities, aud the
pigment of his skin was very likely the
groundwork of all his troubles but why
should he write book Has he graduated
! from school where the hrt Of war is
taught only to give a fresh illustration of
/ the Old adage abUut the pen being more
I potent than the sword
! Webb Hayes is said to be something
/ of wag. At one of the Western receptions
i given MIR. and Mrs. Hayes last fall, While
! hundreds were shaking hands with the cou-
/ pie, he pulled bis hat down over his face
drew his coat tie ht around him, and falling
+ into line, gravely walked mp 10 his mother
and, taking her hand to shake H. as the
others did stood for amoment and gravelv
said, in clear, raised tone, so that ali
might hear: Good bless you, Madam. for
/ your noble adherence to the Temperance
! cause" Mrs. Hayes, though taken una
/ wares, thanked him gravely, without any
/ appearance of recognition, and he passed
/ on with the crowd.
/ -Ex Secretary Usher says that he once
! spoke To MIR. Lincoln on the danger Of as
/ he adds. ''He would go out of his house
at night and walk over to the war depart
meut where Stanton was receiving dis
! patches, unattended. l said II him
/ Lincoln, You have no business to expose
yourself in this way. 1t is known that
you go out at midnight and return here
sometimes at O'Clock in the morning
from the war department. 1t would be
very easy to kill you.' The President re-
piled that if anybody desired to assassinate
him lie did not suppose any amount of
: care woul Id save him.
Captain Sam Brady enlisted at the
first orum-tap in Boston, fought in all the
heavy battles of the Revolution, was twice
promoted by the Father of his Country.
boIe musket on the frontier until Wayne 5
treaty ia 1874, made a celebrated leap for
freedom that passed into the chronicles,
and - never got cent for his services.
"Sir," said he, in his old age, when asked
why he had never asked for pay ''<ir