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, 1880-10-31

the dealers onlthe Mississippi In keeping them up
THE COMMITTEE TO FIX WEIGHTS
reported the follow Ing, the estimates befcG Tor
drv lumber:
Joists, scantltng. and timber, 2,5oo pounds:
boards nnd fencing, rough. :: 4O: surface
lumber 2l00; u IL Surface lumber, :0: siding
mud N-ceiiing, At}; .z-inch siding and ceiling.
1.10O: 4s-ineh siding anti ceiling. 400: dressed
vc5 jr-dric ~; shingles, kitn-lried. 20: luth,
kiin-dr1cd 500: thick lumber. surfaced, 2>::.:aO:
The report was adopted without = dissenting
Don of the price-l}st- 31r. Ferguson moved the
ro,doutfou Of tho August list ami it was. after
considerable discussion, taken up scrtattm mud
retlupted with very few changes.
1t was expected TINT the question Of tttscon-
tinuing tho employment Of travelling sales:nen
would be taken up, but tho whole mnttcr was
10 stponcd. and the meeting adjourned.
, 1880-10-31
Huk{OR,

Actors shonld be watched closely on elec-
tio1l-tlay. They are professional repeaters.
Form of Telegram to Your Shoemaker
Make me another pair exactly like my last.
The bobtailed horse spends his whole ex-
istencc in lamentlng bis lack OF terminal fn-
cllities.
A little girl sent out to hunt eggs came
back unsuccessful, complainln. that Is Lots Of
hens were standing round doing nothtng.''
4 sail-boat upset OIL Like Huron 4 few
days ago, and the first person saved was
dressmaker: Survival OF the tlttest, as usual.
After election is over our stump-speakers
will be chewing green persfmnons and alum
to shrink the lr mouths into their natural
shapes.
It is said that sharks will not bite SWIM
mer VINO keeps his legs in motion. 1t you
can keep kicking longer than shark can
keep waiting, You'll be NIL right
Even the wiscst is sometimes fool. For
example, the philosopher who wore his spec
tacles when asleep that le might recognize
the friends he might see In his dreams.
a French artist gave his last work to q
porter to eonyey to saloon: BE careful:
dry" 20 never mindr' said the porter;
tiny clothes arc DID,"
A Galveston woman. Just married, wishing
to impress her, r,hnsband with her ability as q
housekeeper, b;.wlett out to tile servant rs she
entered the door, "AIatildy, bring me the
,aaa2 Sxasn69ard; want to wash the potatoes for
A handsome lady entered a dry-Eoods
house and inquired for 4 bow" The polite
clerk threw himself back and remarked that
lie WAS at l,er service. Yes, but want !
buff, hot Il green one" was the reply. The
young man went on measuring goods 1mne-
diately. 49,
lie appeared to be almost gone Boiling
his eyes toward the partner Of his bosom, l.s
gsEped, ''Eury me- 'neatl, the weeping VII
low, and plant 4 single white rose above my
heat" 20, it's no use!' she snapped out;
"your nose would scorch the roots! lie
got well.
"Sum1nfng up." Captain" What's the
charge, Sergcant?" Sergeant-"This umo
it's drunkenness, sir. Eut this man Is tie
must troublesome fellow iii the regiment. SIR.
He goes out when he likes. and comes In
when he likes, and gets drunk when he
likes; In fact, lie might be Il l1ort1cer!"-
London Punch.
A young eel. that had been rated a nui-
sance, and toltt by its relatives two nr- three
times one morning to t'gpt ont, +" tied 4 knot
in it3 body and slid part way through It. Its
mnthers sisters coming up and eXclalinln5.
''What now!'' the young eel observed: 10
you needn't concern yourselves about lne;
I'm moose, auntsv' This fable teaches
whatever yon like
, 1880-10-31

Judge Gary occupied yesterday in sentenc-
ing the prisoners convicted during the Octo-
Der term Of t;1S Criminal Court Following
is the list:
Jail Sentences-Jancs Coleman, assault,
months; Richard Moffatt, larceny, thirty
days; William Brown, larceny, ten days !;
James Connolly, larceny, three months;
Wesley Grove. larceny, six months; Thomas
Cummings, resisting IN officer, thirty days;
man, assault, six months; James Higgins,
larceny, three months; John Ryan and Peter
Roach. larceny, ten days each; John Walsh,
lar""ny ;.$ !,:,if,'o, three months.
A4uuas Ut Gvr1eeIivu -Jalues Barton, as
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30
TIE death of John G. Lake, Esn..

THE death of John G.. Lake, Esq.,
Register and Recorder of this county,
more than three months prior to the
next general election, creates vacancy
in the Office which must be filled in No
vember by the election of his successor,
for the full term of three years from the
first Monday of January next. How
shall the Democratic candidate be NOM
mated =? The Crawford county system
of making nominations was adopted by
a majority of the votes polled at the del
egate elections on the 10th of June last,
but as this system cannot enforce itself
without the aid of certain rules and reg
ulations, and as they have not yet been
established, and we presume will not be
until some time during the coming win
ter. it is manifest that nomination N
the present instance under that system is
entirely out of the question. Nor would
it be satisfactory to Teassemble the coun-
ty convention for the purpose, even if
that course could be legitimately adopt
ed. The only mode, therefore, Of max
ing a nomination is by the County Com
mittee, a method only to be pc rmitted in
an exceptional case like the present one.
The Committee consists of ffty-tco mem
bers. one from each election district, and
is consequently just half as large body
as a full county convention. tits a very
difficult thing, although it ought not to
be so. to get a full attendance of cOun-
ty committee except through Substitutes,
who are invariably manufactured by
parties interested in the action of the
committee, We have on former occa-
sions protested against packing the coun-
ty committee with substitutes for spe-
ciic purpose, and we here renew our OBJ
jectiOns to the practice, which is uncall-
ed for and sure to produce unsatisfactory
results. The committee is composed of
intelligent men, who are fully competent
to discuss the fitness of candidates, as
we'll as their claims upon the party, and
to make a satisfactory nomination, as we
have no doubt they will do for the office
of Register and Recorder, as well as for
Coroner and Surveyor, which the county
convention failed to provide for, when
they meet in this place on next Monday
week, in pursuance of the call of the
chairman, printed elsewhere.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

LUKE p. POLAND, of Vermont, who
was chairman of the Credit Mobilier in
yestigating committee, is now trying to
hedge on his report, which declared that
Gen. Garfield took ten shares of stock
from Cakes Ames-that he received div
idends on the stock sufficient to pay for
it and 1929 besides, which sum he paid
to Garfield, and says that he never
doubted Garfield's personal integrity.
This is purely an afterthoUght, and as
Poland, when he made hisreport in 1878,
never dreamed that Garfield. would be
the Republican candidate for President
in 1880, he is only now stretching his
conscience somewhat violently to get
Garfield out of very tight place But
Poland does not pretend to say that the
sworn statement of Ames before the
committee was not true, and on which
the committee reported Mr. Garfield
guilty of perjury. If Poland thinks that
his partisan opinion in 1880 can wipe out
the official record of the committee of
which he was chairman in 1873, he is
not as shrewd as Vermont politicians
generally are. He cannot now alter the
record or fritter away its plain meaning.
There it is and there it Will remain, be
yond his or any other mans reach to
change il or set it aside. lie signed the
report in 1873 recommending the expul-
sion Of Ames for bribery. Dribing
whom? Why, ColfaX, Garfield. Patter-
is it not equally true in 1850 ?-and if it
is, then Luke p. Poland and his Repub-
lican committee were liars and SANDER
ers in 1873. There can be no other con-
clusion, nor any imaginable intermediate
course, and Poland can take whichever
horn of the dilemma he prefers.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

THE Congressional Committee ap-
pointed to investigate the Credit Mobi-
lier scandal made its report to the House
on the 10Th of February, 1878, The three
members composing the majority being
Poland, Banks and M'Crary, all well
known and prominent Republicans
How was that report received and view
ed by the leading Republican papers of
the country Did they repudiate it or
cast a doubt upon the truthfulness of the
statements made by the committee y?
Did they then come to the rescue of Col
fax, Garfield and others who were impi-
Gated by the report, and attempt to pal
late or excuse their conduct When a
Democratic paper now repeats the very
language of the report in reference to
Garfield, the Republican press cries out
that it is false and libellous, although
three Republican members of Congress
said over their own signatures that every
word of it was true. The New York
Times and the New York Trib1me were
the two leading Republican organs in
1873, and the following extracts from
their columns Immediately after the Po-
land report was made, affords mighty
interesting reading 4:
From tie NetC York Times, Feb 20, 1878.
The character of the Credit NIobilier was
no secret The source of its profits was very
well known at the time Congressman bought
it. Though OakeS AmeS may have succeed
ed in cOncealing his own motive, which was
to bribe Congressman, their acceptance OF the
stock was not on that account innocent Ihe
dishOnor of the act, as participation in an
obvious fraud, still remains.
Some of them have INDUCED in testimony
with reference to the matter which has been
contradicted. The Committee distinctly re-
This caf, only be done on tie ground that IL IS
untrue. But untrue testimony gtceH under odH'
IS morally # not legally perjury.
1t IS the clear duty OF Congress to visit with
punishment all who took Credit MODIIeT
stock from OakeS Ames.
From tie NeoC York Tribune, Feb 10, 1873.
James ~ Garfield, of Ohio, had ten shares;
never paid a dollar; received S529, which,
after the investigation began, he was anxious
to have considered as loan from Mr.. Cakes
AmeS to himself
Well, the wickedneSs of all of it is that
these men betrayed the trust of the people,
deceived their constituents, and by evasiOnS
and falsehoOds confessed the transactions to
be disgraceful.
From the NeJC York Tribune, FEB. %, 1873.
Mr. Ames established very clearly the point
that he was not alone in this offence. II lie
Is expelled for bribery the men 0cdo 1rerc brtjed
should 90 1Citt him.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

WHILE boarding at the st. Cloud Ho-
tel, in New York, in 1874, a quantity of
valuable jewelrY belonging to Gen. Han
cocks wife and daughter was stolen from
their bureau drawer. General Hancock
brought suit against the proprietor of
the hotel to recover its value, but owing
to that ancient and vexatious impedi-
ment known as "the laws delay" the
case has never yet been finally disposed
of by the Court. This trihing circum-
stance, however, does not shield General
Hancock from Republican abuse and de-
nunciation for having instituted legal
proceedings to recover the value of his
property. BY way of contrast to this
jewelry loss, it is made a matter of boast
that Garfield was never able to own any
thing of the kind, but if he wasn't he
was both able and willing to own ten
shares Of stock which he received as a
perSUddcr from Oakes Ames, and from
which he derived some enormous divi-
dends
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

MORE ABOUT TEE BURNETT ABDUCTION.
"A GreenSburg despatch OF Monday last
gives the following additional particulars OF
the recent abduction and repeated OutrageS
committed on Miss SalOam Burkett aged Il
years, of Somerset county, and of the disno-
Sltion made of the several parties arrested
on suspicion OF being participants in the ter
riblc crime:
At $3.50 p. ". the thl-tv-f1ur additional men Of
Boyd 8 Peters SLOW. who had been arrested at
I.Cechbur-, were marched into the crow lei C'1r-.
House 1Cr hearing before Judge Hunter in the
Burkett abduction case from Somerset county II
was with diHculty that the deputies and riHstaves
Kept the anxious crowd from pushing their way
over the rail into The bar. whore the accused vp-g
well guarded They were motley crowd. big and
niue. Old and EUu1g. black and white. well dress
ca ana ln tattrrS ana harefeet. General CofIro-h
John I ll and John Scott. District ATTORNEY, am of
I.atrohc. and H 7. Laird and District Att0rnev
lNine. OF Green SbUrg. an appeared for the Conn
nouwealth, while A. \. Stewart. Hon Eduar Gov
aH ana > ck tlcl uiluugh were retained for the de-
lcHse. Alter rVc or six witnesses for the Common
Weilth had been heard. the girl Sarah Burkctt
testified that she had been outraged several fffr-
enL times by from one To tycu men nj haulz
vie she was then hauled I'm the ticket yyarsu t1
Jenner Gross Roads. where she was again subject
70 Ihcir ueastF passions at will after which She
I-IHonleT lwhcre she seen 10y frfcufsa or f1
somerset She has not yet rCgained. her reason
ehtlfely ana Is unable % answer intcllircnffv any
questions put by her counsel. In an alo1f fr-a
day last against the VruIr fetor \ G Peters ~.
IuGinlster. and two OF the attaches Twenty +yvo
were discharged to-day and twelve rernar,lrF to
li 10 ne taken 70 Somerset for trial i'm August mn
ol whom were identified by Miss Burkctt The
week. - '---9
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

TIE sum- and substance of the defense
set up by the Republican papers against
the testimony of Oakes Ames implica-
ting Garfield i'll the crookedness and cor
ruptiOn of the Credit Mobilier business.
Is that although he was bribed by his
fellow Congressman, Ames, he was of
such an unsuspectiug nature, and Of such
a purely literary turn of mind. that he
didE t know it. This conclusion, which
is a sorry compliment to Garfield, is ar
rived at on The familiar theory that she
who is robbed, not knowing it, is not rob-
bed at ALL
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

TIE position of Republican contem-
poraries in the matter of Judge Swayne
and General Garfield, as described by the
New York World, seems to be that as
Judge SwaYne did not make for tie head
Of General Garfield a cap which he un-
doubtedly made, and which happens to
fit the head of General Garfield exactly,
it is proof of political GepTavity to state
that the cap its General Garfield This
may be. But as the cap which Judge
Swayne made and which fits Gen. Gar
field is kind of cap which American
citizens do not like to see worn by can
didates for the Presidency of the United
States, it would seem to be more to the
pIrpose for our Republican friends to
show, if they can, that this cap does not
fit General Garfield.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

y NATIONAL CONVENTION was held
in Indianapolis some days ago whose
proceedings seem to have fallen still
born upon the country. 1t was called a
convention of "Irish-Americans, - and
the few political adventures who COM
posed it hada great deal to say about the
generosity Of the Republican party in
appointing to the Office Of Postmaster at
New \ ork prominent and representa-
tive Irish American, General Patrick II.
Jones. Two or three days after the con
Fention adjourned, General Jones. the
Irish-American in question, published a
strong letter ayowing his determination
TO vote for Hancock and English.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

The Republican press is just now
raising great outcry because an ex-
confederate soldier has filed claim for
a pension at Washington on account of
WounCs received while in the rebel army.
1t has been ascertained that he is a poor,
halt-witted fellow who was induced by
some enterprising Republicans to make
his claim, and told that it would be paid.
The papers We're prepared by Republi-
can claimagent at Washington, and, it is
believed, at the suggestion Of the Re
publican Campaign Committee. 1t is
the case OF a drowning man grasping at
n straW
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

At a meeting of John KelIy's Tam
many Democratic State Committee held
at Saratoga, New York, on Friday last,
the State electors placed in the field last
April by that branch of the Democratic
party was withdrawn, and a resolution
adopted pledging the hearty support of
the Tammany organization to The regu-
lar, or Tilden, electoral ticket headed bv
Abram ). Hewitt. The union of the
two factions of the party ia New York
is now complete, and assures her vote in
November in favor of Hancock beyond
all shadow of doub5.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

THE latest and most singular phase
in the Democratic politics of Blair coun-
ty is the fact that at a meeting of the
Democratic County Committee, held on
Saturday last, a resolution was adopted
expressing confidence in the Chairman
OF the Committee, John y. Doyle, Esq,
OF Altoona, and requesting the Chairman
OF the State Committee sin all matters
appertaining to the conduct Of the cam
paign in this blair county, to consult
him lthe chairman of the county con-
mittee) regardless of the wishes or opin-
ions of outside parties. -
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

TWINS FOUK MONTHS APART.-Tn our
general news department mention is made
of two children being born of the same moth
er in Montgomery county within four months
Of each other, and here is a similar case re-
ported by Mr.. Coleman, a correspondent of
the Philadelphia Ledger, who writes to that
paper from PheniXYille, Pa, under date of
July 2lst:
DIR. Hawley, OF this town. has now under his
care young married woman aged y years who
gave birth on Saturday last a male child lust
four months after the birth of q female child. 1t
appears that the woman resided in Philadelphia
when her first child was born. prematurely. in
March last, the infant being eight months
child. 1t was puny at birth that fears were en-
tcrtained for its life but it rallied, though the
mother was only able to nurse it for about two
weeks. The mother did not regain her strength
and exhibited according to her physicians state
mcnt. symptoms Of dropsy, with swelling Of her
limbs and feet She removed TO this vicinity. and
was able to attend to household affairs unit! last
Saturday. when she give birth to a healthy male
child, Just four months from the birth of the first
one. The mother Is doing well, and Is now able
TO nurse both children. This case. though cOnSid-
cred a very curious one. and far not accounted
for satisfactorily, Is not the first OF the kind even
in this neighborhOod. A paper upon the subject
viii be prepared by DIR. Hawiey to be read before
the County Medical Society.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

ANOTHER CONYERT.-The PittSbuTg
Critic gives the particulars of a straw
vote taken on a train near Pittsburgh,
the other day, during which those en-
gagged in it met with a surprise. The
Critic tells the story as follows:
Among the passengers was Col Henry 3.
Hays. and when the self-cOnStituted commit
tee approached him, he in answer to their in
quiry said, Il am for General Hancock" "
Considerably surprised, one of them said,
Colonel, are you in earnest - u never, -
replied the Colonel, "put my name to paper
unless | mean to stand by it, / am for Han
cock and don't care who knows it." 1t is
well known that Col. Hays has been one of
the Stalwart Republicans of this end of the
State, has been for many years member of
the county Republican committee. and has
represented his district in every Republican
convention for twenty years. The Colonel
has long been known as Coal King" as
well as the fact that he has always been lib
eTal to his men in every way, and as q natu-
raj result his influence among them Is very
great. The Colonel was an officer in the reg
ular cavalry during the war, and prior to that
time was private secretary ID the Hon. Wal
ter Forward when he was minister TO Den
mark. The Colonel will be followed to the
Hancock column BY many Of his "old vets. ."
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

III Is surprising how suddenlya Union
soldier who votes the Democratic ticket
falls from grace in the estimation of the
Republican party and il is no less as
tonlshing how patriotic an ex-rebel be
comes the moment he joins this same
Republican organization. Ii is vital
doctrine Of that party, that a rebel who
votes its ticket outranks in patriotism
and loyalty Democratic Union soldier.
and hence the Republican press to-day
regards Longstreet, who vas repuIsed by
Hancock at Gettysburg. as a better man
than Gen. a. /. Pearson, Of Pittsburg.
who fought through the war and has al
ways been a Republican, but who OH a
recent occasion publicly declared him
self lOE Hancock.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

4 TERRIBLY Fatal DISEASE COMING
ENsT.-FoT two months or more a form of
disease has prevailed among children in Gin
cinnau resembling diphtheria in some of its
forms. 1t seems to differ from diphtheria
mainly in its virulence, many OF the cases re-
sulting fatally i'm two or three days after the
development of the first symptoms. While
the disease resembles diphthe.a in many Of
the types of that disease, yet it does not yield
to diphtheTitic treatment. 1t shows entirely
new features, with which the medical pro
feSsiOn are not familiar. The symptoms are
an extraordinary swelling Of tie glands, ac-
companied by high fever. The disease seems
to be confined to children between two and
ten years of age. In families Of three OF four
children under ten years OF age where the
disease broke out, an average of two were
attacked, while the others remained exempt.
The disease has been prevalent i'm Cincinnati
and vicinity about six weeks, but is now hap
PLY waning. 1t seemed to be epidemic for
time. Some deaths occurred from suffOcation
alone. The disease seems to have come from
the West, and appears to be travelling east
ward. About two months ago it attracted
attention in Chicago, where it then baflled
the skill Of the physicians.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

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