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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

''WE denonnce reputation of the public
debt in any form or disguise as a national
crime, said. the Republicans in their nation
al convention Of 1872 and John Sherman
while he was Secretary Of the Treasury
threatened in a letter to remove certain Fed
eral officers in Virginia for operating with
the Malone and Riddleberger readjusters.
And yet in 1881 the Republican Senators en-
ter into a corrupt bargain with Malone, who
would never have been heard Of as a Senator
had he not rolled the reputation of more
than one-third of the public debt Of Virginia
under his tongue as a sweet m0rsel, and
John Sherman stands up in the Senate and
not only endorses the shameless,c coalition, but
welcomes Malone, with all his dark and
damning record, into the Republican camp
as the friend Of "an honest ballot and a fair
count" in the South, Could hypocrisy wear
a more bIazen front?
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

y SET OF TEETH TRAVELS ALI. OVER A
LADY's BODY.-FrOm AIidd letown Orange
county, y. Y, comes a most remarkable stO-
Ty. On the 9th of January. 1865, a maiden
lady at that place swallowed a new set of
false teeth, which became separated from the
rubber mould in which they had been set
while masticating her food Before she
could eject the food from her mouth the
teeth had gone down into her stomach.
Ihe family physician was summoned but
all his efforts were unavailing. The teeth
cansed her no discomfort and in a short time
the matter was entirely forgotten A few
days ago Miss Cole, the lady in question. felt
sharp pain near her left shoulder, and
upon examining thespOt found what appear
ed to be wen under the skin. With the aid
of penknife she extracted a hard substance.
which proved to be a tooth She was at a
loss to know how the tooth came to be i'm
such an unusual spot till size suddenly re-
collected that she had, twelve years ago.
swallowed her set of teeth. During the past
four days the lady has been cutting teeth all
over her body and had at last accounts recov-
cred twelve of the fourteen teeth that had
formerly constituted her fun set She is
anXiously awaiting the arrival of the other
two She has placed the teeth in a glass
case and will keep them as momentoes
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

IT is a great mistake to suppose that the
debt of Virginia, more than one-third Of
which Malone and his dishonest crew at
tempted to repudiate, was created by carpet
baggers, like the debts of so many other
Southern States. The debt, which was hon
estly contracted, amounted to nearly thirty
three millions of dollars, and when II. II
Riddleberger, now the Republican nominee
of the Republican caucus for Sergeant-at-
Arms of the L. s. Senate, was member of
the Virginia Legislature, where he was rec
ognized as MahOne's mouthpiece, he put
through a bill that would have become law
but for the veto OF a Democratic Governor,
''readjusting'' the debt down to about nine
teen millions and reducing the interest thereon
from sir to three per cent. On this issue
Malone was elected to the Senate by COM
bination between the repudiating scoundrels
Of both parties. When this repudiat!on ques-
ton was before the Legislature, a colored
member named Moss delivered a speech, the
following reference to which was made in
Mahone's organ, the Richmond Wig:
Mr.. Moss (coisred) bad not learned from the
speeches that had been made whether Virginia
owed the debt at all. II she did she should act as
an individual would act in her situation. Was for
paying every dollar the state owed yet had not
tracted; Gid he forget that the destiny of Vir-
ginia was his destiny His property was as good
for taxes any other mans property. Some said
the State WAS bankrupt, others that the debt was
contracted on the faith OF slave property, and ~
that property had been swept away, the debt was
no longer binding. He thus summed up: If it Is
Just debt, we owe and must pay it Being
asked by Mr.. Goodman {cOlored) whether he was
for or against the resolution, he replied he was
against anything like reputation"
This was the speech of a colored man who,
if he was uneducaJed, was at least honest
While Moss was speaking Riddleberger re-
quested him to give way for a resolution.
Moss politely did so, and the proceedings as
published in the same paper, the Wing, read
thus
Mr.. Moss finally gave way for Mr.. RiddIeberge1
to offer resolution. which turned to be TO ex
pei the member from Buckingham (NIr lIOss) as
nuisance
Riddleberger couldn't stand the sight OF
an honest negro uphOldng the good faitI
and fair name of Virginia, but meanIy anC
basely tried to eXpel him from lis seat in the
Legislature cas- nuisance" Moss WASH
expelled, however, and if he is Yet living III
is better man to-day than either Riddleber
ger or his master, William Malone.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

Mr.. WOLFE, of Union county, is chairman
of the House Committee on the Judicial APP
portiOnmeut, and although one hundred days
of the session expired yesterday, Mr.. W. has
not yet made any report from the committee.
We are at total loss to understand why this
matter, which is one of constitutional re-
quirement should have been so long post
pOned. We believe there are eight counties
in the state, Cambria being one OF them,
that are entitled to separate judges under
the census Of last year, and they would like
to hear from Mr.. Wolfe's committee, while
the counties of less than forty thousand in
habitants would also like to know how the =
are to be disposed Of.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

a WRITER in a recent number of the Phil
adelphia Times says that he happened into
an old book store in that city the other day,
where he noticed a large supply of the Sec
ond Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, and
upon counting them found nineteen sets, of
fOrty-One volumes each, making in all 779
volumes, and wonders where such a large
number of the works were purchased outside
of the Survey Offices. There is no mystery
at all about these 779 volumes of the Sur
vey Reports finding their way into ''an old
book store in Philadelphia. The publica-
cation of the Geological Survey has been
enormously expensive to the State up to
this time, and no man can tell where it will
stop. There have now been published forty
three volumes Of an average thickness of over
an inch. The law authorizes the publication
Of 5000 copies of each volume yearly, and
when the work is finished, if that is to hap
pen during the present century, the whole
Number of volumes is estimated at sirt1. At
every session some member, of the Billingsley
stripe, offers resolution and sees that it pass
es, authorizing the Commissioners Of Survey
to furnish the Senate aud House with enor-
nous numbers of each volume OF the reports.
which Of course is a good thing for the prin-
ter. Sam Josephs was a member Of the
House straight along for about twelve ses-
sions, and as regularly as the session met,
sam offered and had passed a resolution di-
recting the clerk to furnish each member
with a copy Of Purdou's Digest, and it was
alleged against sam that he sold his Pur-
don at the end of every session to some ''old
book store, ~ knowing that he was sure of a
fresh one when he went back the next year.
We have we'll grounded belief that large
proportion of the books authorized by the
Legislature to be printed and distributed,
eventually find their way into Old book
stores in Philadelphia, to the clear profit of
such members as will stoop to traffic in pub
LEGATIONS paid for Dy the State.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

THE lower branch of the Legislature of
the state contains 122 Republicans, IS Dem
ocrats, ana / Greenhacker; and yet, on last
Monday, only little over a month after
Garield's Inauguration, this Republican ma
jority of 43 in the House refused on a call of
the yeas and nays to pass resolution endors-
ing Garfeld's administration and requesting
the two Senators from this State to do all in
their power to have the Presidents appoint
ments confirmed without unnecessary delay
If Republican House thus withhoIds its con-
fdence from Garieldbefore he is fairly warm
in the executive chair, it is not doubtful what
the verdict will be at the end Of his term.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

a BILL has been introduced into the House
at Harrisburg to regulate the salaries of
County Commissioners all over the State up
on the basis Of population. In counties hav-
ing a population of one hundred thousand
and less than one hundred and fifty thousand,
the salary is to be 1000 per annum; in
counties having seventy-fve thousand and
less than one hundred thousand, $500, and in
counties having less than fifty thousand,
SfOO. There IS not much Of a chance that
this bill will pass at the present session, and
even if it did it would not make any change
in the pay Of the Commissioners of this
county
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

IT appears from the testimony of State
Treasurer Butler, taken last week by the
House committee appointed to investigate
the motives which prompted Attorney Cen
eraI Palmer to publish his recent opinion on
the subject of the members salaries, that the
Governor was acting in concert with that Of
ficer in relation to the matter. The Treas
uTer stated to the committee that previous to
the time the opinion was published, the Gov
ernor sent for him and asked him whether
he had paid any of the members more than
a thousand dollars, the compensation allow
cd for one hundred days. lie replied that
he had not and the Governor expressed his
satisfaction i'm as much as the Attorney Cen
eral was about to issue an opinion that the
members were not entitled to more than a
thousand dollars a session Mr. SchelL the
Auditor General, also testified 20 having had
a conversation with the Governor and At
tOrney General about the matter before the
opinion was published. If the true Gin
wardness" of Henry W. Palmer was to dis
perSe the Legislature and thereby prevent
certain bills from passing, as has beenalleged
against him, Henry NJ Hoyt was engaged
with him i'm the business. What motives
actuated Palmer no man can tell, for the rea-
son that the committee refused to permit
him to appear before it to testify, although
he had addressed letter to the chairman ex-
pressing his anxiety to do so. If the ques-
ton of motive is so all important, why not
examine Palmer and Hoyt, who talked the
matter over before the.opinion was prepared,
and could therefore tell what purpose they
haG in view. Without their testimony the
the report of the committee, so far as it in
wolves the motives of the Attorney General,
the unearthing of which was the very object
OF cts appointment, will not be worth the
paper on which it is written.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

WANE OF THE ADNIINIsTRA ATON-NO man
thinking well of General Garfield, mindful
OF his ability, his ambition and his high IN
tent can fail to be painfully struck 5v the
sudden loss OF popular respect i'm the general
newspaper discussion of the past forfnigbt
To be hated and disliked is one thing but
to be talked of as Blaine's man, to be pitied
for his 5lnnders and charged, on too good
proof, with using Offices, which are a trust
TO pay on campaign debts, build up a person.
al party and promote personal ambition.
this must be harder to bear, and there are
other harder things in store for President and
Premier who shirk a reform which the pee-
pie want in the interest of decent admins
tration. Plot and plan as thew may, reform
Will have its revenges in the simple outcome
Of events The tide is on its side swaved bv
moral forces President can neither alter nor
avoid. SpTiu0sfe'a Rcpu5iicqn
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

WORTH OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES that GOOD
times are again ppOn'us before indulging in
eXtravagant show, it is worth remembering
that no one can enjoy the pleaSantest sur
roundinEs if III bad health. There are hun
dreds of miserable people going about to-day
with disOrdered stomach, liver Or kidneys. or
q dry, hacking cough, and one foot in the
grave, when a 90 ct. bottle of PaTker's Gin
ger Tonic would do them more good than all
the expensive doctors and quack medicines
they have ever tried. 1t always makes the
blood pure and rich, and will build you up
and give you good health at little cost. Read
of it in another column, and buy it at James
Drug Store, Ebensburg, Pa.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

A HARRISBURG correspondent of the
Pittsburg Post referring to tie passage by
the House Of the Prohibitory amendment to
the constitution, confirms the general and
well founded belief that in legislation all is
not gold that glitters, and that what is known
as "Juncombe" had much to do with the vote
cast in its favor. lie says:
one OF the members Of the House last night. af-
ter recording very loudly his vote in favor Of the
UIlprivately remarked that the act fauaticism,
and II the thing ever came before the people he
would not vote for It, He is HspIraut for Con
gresstonal honOrs in the sweet byc-andbye, and is
sitting on the tOpmOst crest OF the reform wave.
yelling for reform with all his might and . strong
pair Of lungs.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

OK yesterday week Mr, Gladstone, in a
three hours speech in the House Of Com
mons, introduced the Irish Land bill. He
reviewed she whole question of land tenure
in Ireland, and said the cardinal principle of
the measure was the establishment Of a co&rt
to regulate rents and other matters likely to
form the subject Of dispute between land
lord and tenant He concluded his speech
with the emphatic declaration that Justice
is to be the principle to guide England in re-
gard to Ireland" ." These are fair words Ger
tainly, and it only remains now to be seen
whether Mr Gladstone possesses strength
enough in the British Parliament to make
his promise good.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

Is the L. S. Senate, one day last week.
Rollins, of New Hampshire, asked Vance,
Of North Carolina, chow long it was neces-
sary for a man to live in a Southern State be-
fore he would be recognized as anything but
a caTpet-bagger." Mr.. Vance replied that
if he came "with trunk" twenty-four
hours would do, but if lie came with carpet
bag, and hunted around the purlieus of the
cities looking for q colOred man to cooperate
with him in cheating the people, twensY-four
years would not suffice.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15
MEDIUM WOOLEN DRESS GOODS.

There are three notable woolen dress fab
ricS at 81.
Melange pin checks, of five colOrs. The
warp is of a uniform light shade in each
the wool is of alternate clusters Of threads,
three or four being light the next three or
four having twisted with them thread of
darker shade.
Wooden sateens of eight colors, more or
less mixed in carding. The sateens effect is
produced by heavy warped threads thrown
almost wholly on the surface they jump
three or four of the fine warp threads, and
pass under only one. The warp scarcely
comes to the surface at all, as you can see
by the selyaCe.
Croise cashmere of fifteen plain cOlors
differs from ordinary cashmere in the twill.
This is probably no better moneys worth
than the others but almost exactly the same
has Just been offered us at wholesale for a
little more money than we are selling it at.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third circle, south of centre.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

THE Harrisburg correspondent of the
Pittsburg Dispstcb, in speaking of the per
formances in the House of Blllingsley, of
Washington county, styles him "a superser-
viceable tool of the Ring who of late has dis
played a remarkable faculty for making an
exhibition of himself, " and the Dispatch adds
edltO-ially "The statesman from Washing
ton county, Mr.. Billingsley, will have to be
suppressed He is getting entirely too fresh. "
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15
SILKS.

Heavy rich damasSe silks Of all cOlOrs, 81
40 last seasons 50 and Sc goods are now
selling in preference to the latest novelties
of course on account OF richness and price
Plain silks of the same cOlOTs to combine
with them.
The following are just received from om
buyer resident in Paris
POngees, richly embroidered by hand, will
sprays of flowers and with birds. The pri-
ces of those ready today are SIS to $50 pei
piece of +5zyaTdS. More are coming.
New designs in French foulards g..
Bayadere ombre stripes. Here's one, for
example gaTnet-Ombre into-gOld alternat
ing with Observation-Disclosures stripes halt
an inch wide and no interval between.
ChequeTed damasses. GeOrgeOus with
color; variety of designs, the only feature
common to them all being the arrangement
in squares, not unlike a chequer board. &
to S4.75.
JOHN WANANTAKER.
Next outer circle, Chestnut-street entrance.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15
DEBEICES,

Everybody knows, are staple goods. One
looks at novelties and buys staples. Staples
means something that almost everybody
buys.
What everybody buys IS certain to be a
good thing somehow. The way debeiges are
good is this: the money goes AL for use and
none for show OF rather for that kind of
show Which limits use.
Why, last spring we brought in one lot of
debeiges and have been buying in debeiges
ever since. And now we have more de
beiges than you win look at, all browns and
grays and nearly all new. The prices are
all the way from % cents for 22-inch to 81 70
for 46-inch A particularly good quality is
so cents for 43-inch.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Second circle, south from centre.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15
LACES.
Southwest corner Of building.

Not every day are our lace counters filled
with buyers. They would be, if every lady
knew two facts, viz, first that we have the
newest and choicest of laces Of every grade :
second, that we sell them below the market.
The difficulty is that every merchant saws
the same two things and YOU don't think it
very saUcy to doubt just q little, because ad-
vertiSinG does paint things too rOsysOmetimeS.
We much desire you 20 find out how care
ful we are to say exactly what we mean,
neither more or less For example, see to-
day a torchOn at 10 cents, which sells else
where at 20 cents about. How DO we know o.
Why we sold it ourselves for 10 cents last
week. Not one in q hundred of our regular
customers knows how We crowd prices down.
How can we expect others 20 believe that
our policy Is lOT prices, when almost every
merchant studies how to keep them up2
AS to aSsoTtmeuts, what do yoU suppose
we do with nine lace counters Why, there
IS no such stock I'm Philadelphia. We have
thousands Of dollars worth of fine laces shut
up in boxes. We have very poor facilities
for eXhiOiting them but we shall surprise
you If you ask to see them.
JOHN WANAMAEER.
Nine counters, southwest Of centre.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15
Gambria freeman,
EsEHssURc. PA,
FRIDAY, APRIL ID, 1881.

CHARLES CUNSINGHAM BoYCoTT, of Lough
Mask, Ulster county, Ireland whose treat
ment by the Land Leaguers gave rise to the
now familiar term, "Boycotting," arrived in
New York one day ,ast week. His object in
coming to America is merely to see the coun-
try and to visit some friends in the State of
VIRGINIA
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

THE trial Of the six Nihilists for the muir
der Of the late Emperor Of Russia occupied
three days, and ended on last Sunday morn
ing with verdict of guilty against all and
their sentence to death by hanging. One of
the prisoners, Sophie Pieofsky, a woman Of
noble birth, asked the Court that she be
dealt with regardless Of her sex.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15
a WONDERFUL DIsCOvERY.-A dispatch
from Los Angeles (Cal.) saws

IfOm Los Angeles lJaI. says
"A great discovery has been made on the Moiave
desert, which seems destined to revolutonize viii
culture in Southern California. It has been found
that grape cuttings inserted into the trunks of the
cactus on the desert grow and thrive as vigorously
as in cultivated land. This fact is Of great i'm
portance 10 the people. BY the use Of chiSel
man can plant large vineyard in day. and the
vine so planted will climb the cactus and grow
luxurtOusly without cultivation OF irrigation. The
d-y, hot sands Of the desert will afford fine place
Tor drying ratsins. In addition to grapes, it has
been ProTed that melons cucumt ers and tona toes
viii grow from cactus stock so that the desert may
soon bloom the rose.'
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15
UNDERWEAR.

fihe muslin cambric underwear, richly
decorated with lace and embroidery. care
fully, finely and skillfully made This we
have in greater variety than you will find
elsewhere but there is no difficulty in get
ting this grade of work
Underwear of a palmer sort is difficult to
get carefully and skillfuly made but we
have a really great collection of it. For
more than a year past we have been raising
the standard Of manufacture and cultivating
simpler styles We have work the like Of
which is in no other house. here or in New
York. The ideal OF it is the best of home
made underwear at such prices as will cause
it to be preferred TO homemade and stop
home-making as fast as the work becomes
known.
JOHN WANANAKER.
Southwest corner Of building
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15
BLACK DRESS GOODS.

New things in black dress good Of almost
all sorts are ready.
Silk grenadines came some time ago ; now
the wool and sik-and- wool grenadines are
here and the variety is greater than we
have had before, greater than anybody ever
had, so far as we know.
New armures, plain and figured, are no.
table, especially the latter. Among them are
armUres, with small figures and plaids, that
can be seen only when looked at in certain
ways. The draping Of a dress of these would
appear to be partly plain and partly figured
or plaid. The figures and plaids seem to
have no existence at all. You can't find
them except by accident.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Next outercircIe, Chestnut-street entrance.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15
FURNITURE,

\ clue to the character OF our fu-r--
without seeing it. Take, for erampIe. =
room suite Of three pieces.
Lowest prices
Ash, wood tops--..----................. so
Another style, walnut OF ash
marble tops 90. ....---. n
Such as are in every furniture store --
mon wood and common work. we Il
also q small assortment Of 'tco+tara
painted sets.
Lowest prices in Irst-cIass work.
Walnut, wood toUs.-.-.............. So
same style in mahogany. Il
OF plain style, but proper for some rooms
any house, no matter how rich.
Lowest prices I'm elegant work.
Maple OF walnut, TguuesSea-ua--
Dlt lul .------. .--------. ......-...... : 81
Lowest prices in luxurious work
Walnut, Tennessee c-marblet1rs s-Zr
Same style in mahOuauv...-..-.. -s=
a very chaste and noble stvle. perfect
of work
Maple, wood tUps.--..................srFF
Same in mahOgOnv. v................. r-r
We have very large asS0rtneut- both
low 500, and between 500 and 500
higher prices there is no higher eu-Ht
only more costly decoration.
JOHN WANAAIAEER
The western gallery.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

A FOOLISH MIsTAKE-Don't make A mis-
take of confOunding a remedy of acknow-
ledged merit with the numerous quack med
lcrnes that are now SO common. We speak
from experience when we say that Parker's
Ginger Tonic is a sterling health restorative
and will do all that is claimed for It. We
have used it ourselves with the happiest re-
suits for rheumatism, and when worn out
by overwork. See adv Times Sold by Z.
James, Ebensburg, Pa. E3-21.-lm.