The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-08-27
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHISGTOS, Aug. l.. 1850.
G Editor Of the Cambria FreemaE

1 o the EuttOT OF Nte LulilJFfu frccHt...
Washington CITY is to the maiori.. 1l l.a..
pie who visit it an unknown city Ii.. 81.
tician and the editor generally run h. L.Ia sam.
groove, from depot 10 hotel and baC I- from
the capitol to the hotel or to some a. -la -.-
paTtments, back and forth and the. Scr va..
little of the city OF its Inhabitants. Ir 5art
ly very beautiful place. j am gls I -la E.-
publcans have put il in such good order ..
the Democrats, but il has been ye-r -E-..
Siye.
The summer season shows Washir tar s
i'm its gayest cOlors to the ordinary ey. E-
rybOdy seems to live out Of doors L.E
along the streets OF a summer even.
see them lined with people dressed l e.
and light clothes, seated i'm chairs ll 81.
green plots i'm front of their houses. l.a.-.r-
the very picture Of well-fed cOmfo--
De GOlyer wooden pavements haVu Ia-
nearly all removed, and replaced wi some
kind Of black cement pavement tta- i- .-
smooth as a planed board. You can-rf hear
the wheels of amy kind of vehicle on .-. ..r
from the number Of carriages to be seen --
every street YOU would imagine they H-srl =
great a necessity with the average Nr-h.-
ton family as sewing machines are with "-
There viii be plenty of horses and carrie lra.
and houses too, for sale here about tn .. .-
November
Washington city is not, ss suppo=.5
many, a very expensive place to live. a-.-
have here a good market cheap meat, nt
er fish, and low rents. 4 large nun .ur
handsome dwelling houses have beer "....
here during the past five years, the o---..-
mp of streets and throwing into the -l.-
Of many blocks and squares of lots having
compelled these Improvements. Ao- .a-
rent a three story preSsed-brlck hDUsa- E#
and water, for twenty dollars per U1u-r
which is very much cheaper than i'm j. .-
places. The same kind of a house in i'..-z.
burg would bring $50 per month. wash
ton Is more like Philadelphia in the mat
rents.
THE WASHINGTON NoSUMENr.
They have once more commenced wCrE .
the Washington monument, and any on .--
/ wishes to commemorate any Organi.- .--.
with which lac may be connected had bette
forward at once his memorial stone, as r..-
are now building into the walls all TIN --
lets on hand. There Is not q stone here fr.--
the oil country, nor one that has any =.
cnce to that wonderful discovery, which
been developed since they quit work OF ..--
monument the last time. The various Oi --.
changes ought TO send forward their tai a'.
and the big spOuters ought 10 GO dow
monumental history, 50 that future CeI----
tiOnS may know something OF sucker rods EE-
sampson posts. II Uncle Jake ZieEler
the western oil field, viii look into TINS l-=
next time ne comes to Washington he can IS
it in shape.
BIG SEWER.
Before Boss Sheppard bid adieu to We
ington improvements he got mp big sevz=s
cutting of a creek that flowed through
city from north TO south, and at high wat
flooding everything about the Baltimore az.
Potomac depot. The new sewer viii Trr
from west to east. emptyinC into the cas-
branch of the Potomac up opposite Blade
burg. 1t will be larger in diameter and l0I
, er than the HooSac tunnel.
ANXIOUS FOR NEws.
Almost any kind Of a report is seized
now i'm Washington as reliable news abe
the election. ii y0u say anything il VIII
repeated and hashed over so many times tn
it viii likely be told To y0u before You lea-r
town as a matter of great Importance
puts one in mind Of the confusion worse &C
founded which sometimes gets into the
ports of Indian Outrages- 4 fracas VIII ha--
pen little west OF san Antonia. Texas, an
the news VIII 80 10y stage west through
4 PaSo to the end of the r. r. track. near Tu
son. in Arizona. and be telegaphed fro
there through Ft. \ una to Gen. Mcdowell &
san Francisco, and sent east 10y the watchfI
/ associated press and heralded as n piece L
. new business.
/ PENNSYLVANIA AHEAD IN A GOOD CAUSE.
\ rather curious table has been prepare
H by some one connected with the Phila. Pre-
showing how many times the several State
voted for and against the Democratic candi.
dates FOR President in the various elections
4 BY that table Pennsylvania leads an the re-.
Of the Northern States i'm support Of the De
mocracy, having voted thirteen times foF auC
seven against while New York has voted
twelve times for and eight against and New
Jersey ten for and ten against Pennsylya-
mia has gone for the Democratic nominees
tor President oftener than any State iR the
and South Carolina. Georgia and Virginia.
She outranks Kentucky in her support of the
/ Democratic candidates. the latter State hav-
T ing voted twelve times for 10 eight against
. the party.
I Up to the breaking ont of the war Illinois
was q steady Democratic State. she having
cast her vote ten times for the Democratic
candidate for President to five times against
. Illinois got demoraliZed on the Douglas and
Breckimidge fight and has been Republican
. ever since. Sheehan. who was Douglas right
bower with the Chicago Times, which he then
. owned, in answer To some cool advice from
Pennsylvania editor, replied that every
State i'm the Union had fiickered I'm the firht
but proud, glorious Illinois that she had
. stood steady 10 the Democracy when Penn
. Sylvauia had got drunk on hard cider and
went to sleep i'm coon skins The table.
+ which / suhJOin. Is an Interesting one and q
hopeful study for Democrats of Ppuusylva-
MIA and especially for those whose votes or
. active participation goes no further back