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Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-02-19

We omitted last week the thanks due TO ouI
friend the Friend for the copy Of his last issue
and interesting AZ usual This time he Akss N
through Potsdsm and il parks aud palaces point,
out their beauties natural and artificial, and re
minds us Of the historical associations with grea
men and events long paced BY.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-02-19

In the artesian we'll bored for Mr.. A. Marques
some time since, water was obtained at depth At
40 feet, but the well was bored 70 feet deeper.
Water was obtained in Judge McCuliy's wen at
feet Mr.. Wards we'll il SO feet and Mr.. Dilling-
hams go feet. All have good streams Of water.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-02-19

Nvu.Hu rrnsrr aud King street west Of Nuuanu
are being macndnmzod.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-02-19

Tng regular meeting of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association was held Thursday evening.
Tho attendance was small and little business other
than the reporting 81 the regular committees WINS
transacted. bome interesting remarks On Chinese
immigration aud It's probable result werc made.
II was proposed to inaupurate n movement 10 have
tho Association add cssed Mt It's different meetings
on subjects Of interest by any person that will
consent to do ~. The suggestion liz n good one
and we hope will DO carried out.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

II was easy as rolling off log 10 get
. majority of the House at Washington
one dav last week to postpone the Con-
gressional ApportiOnment bill, necces-
sary measure and one that will save
Pennsylvania, as well as great many
other States. the cost of extra sessions
of their Legislatures, and to take up for
consideration the swindling River and
Harbor bill-a bill that is emphatically
the sum Of all Congressional yillainies.
The bill appTopriates about eleUeH mil
lions Of dollars, and 80 members with
a keen scent for pluRder voted in favor
of taking the bill up, while the AppOr-
tionment bill could only muster the beg
carly number of 10 votes. Mr.. Cox is
doing the people Of every State in which
biennial legislative sessions are held a
manly service in his efforts to force the
Apportionment bill through the House
in spite of all distractions, so that it
can be acted on in the Senate before the
session closes, and he still adheres to his
belief that he will accomplish his honest
intentions. Congress, however, is very
uncertain body, and Mr.. Cox may in the
end fail in his laudable purpose.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

An EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE Of the
coOlneSs, bravery and ingenuity Of i fireman
is related in the accounts given OF the latest
fire in a New York house five or SIX stories
in height. 4 pOrtiy man was imprisoned by
fire and smoke in the fifth story, and there
were no ordinary means Of reaching him -
The adjoining house was smaller, its roof
reaching about half way between the fourth
ana fifth story windows of the burning
structure. \ fireman reached this roof with
a small ladder. He then slid down the lad
der unUil he could get into the fourth story
window, hut he found it impossible to ascend
to the 9th floor. Then he put the short
ladder on the window sill and held it fiat
against the building, so that il would reach
the story above, and on this support the man
whose life was endangered descended. The
men We're now together, but not out of dau-
ger. The ladder was next put with one leg
on the sill. but aSlant, 50 that il would reach
over to the roof of the adjoining house.
Held in this position by the fireman at one
end and volunteer assistants at the other it
formed very dangerous but, as it proved,
successful means OF escape for the citizen
whose life was endangered. The fireman
was now left alone, but escaped by the same
path, trusting entirely to the grip OF the men
at the top of the ladder. All this was done
at the height OF thirty or forty feet from the
stone sidewalk, in the midst OF excitement
attending great fire.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

WHAT DOEs THIS MEAN We reprint a
letter from Judge Goddard. OF Portland
which exhibits in cold figures the astonishing
degradation Of the standard Of morals in =
New England STATE Ia less than thirty
years tNe number of cOnvicts in the Maine
State prison has increased more than two
hundred per cent. while the population out
side the prison walls has increased Ouiy four
teen per cent In rcSTcct to some OF the
more heinoUs crimes the percentage Of in
crease IS much greater Nor is this moral
deterioration due to foreign elements in tie
population. Less than one-fifth Of the CON
yicts now serving terms at Thomaston are
foreigners. Almost two-thrdS of these con-
victs are not only natives OF the United
States, but also natives Of Maine.
What does this import? Maine is the
State where the policy Of prohibiting by law
the sale OF intoxicating liquors has had the
f2irest and fullest trial that it has ever had
in the world. From time to time, for more
than twenty five years, the prohibitCry stat
utes have been rem0deled and renewed,
but never repeaied-seveTe al their mi!dest
and almost intolerabie in their strictest
forms.
The one great argument in favor Of pro-
hibitOTy legislation has been that drink is
the fountain head Of crime, and that If il be
made difficult, or impossible, to procure alCO-
hol crime viii be diminished and society
benefited
Only from this point of view can prohibit
tory enactments be justified at all in coun-
try where sumptuary laws are held to be odi-
Gus, and where any restraint upon the person
al freedom of the citizen is resisted % the
utmost
Would it be fair or logical to conclude that
this tremendous increase in the amount of
crime in Maine, coiHcidiug as it does with
the period during which the prohibition has
been the policy of the State, is the result of
that policy? Probably not. But it is fair to
conclude that the system has failed i'm its
chief object, while its practical results have
proved the fallacy Of the only excuse for the
eXpedment.-N Y. Sun.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

FRANCES p. BLAIR, from his long
residence in Washington, where he first
appeared as the editor Of the Globe, the
Official organ Of General Jackson's ad-
ministration, was on terms Of intimacy
with most men of note at the national
capital during his day, and numbered
Robert Z. Lee as one of his friends
Blair was bitterly opposed to the doc
trine OF secession, aud his son, MOntgom-
cry Blair, in a recent letter to friend
in Missouri, in which he refers to an in
tervlew between his father and General
Lee at the outbreak Of tie rebellion,
says Lee told my father in the room
in which l write this note, when my
father, at Lincoln 3 request, offered him
the command of our army. that he was
utterly opposed to secession-regarded
IL as anauchy-and said II he owned
every slave in the country he would free
ly surrender them rather than see the
Union dissolved and yet he took up
arms for the cause he himself had pro-
nounoed illegal and ruinous, because his
relatives and friends were involved in
il -
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

In our last issue we published the bal
lot for .. s. Senator taken on Wednes-
day of last week, which was the latest
we could give. During that night Oil
yer and Grow both withdrew from the
contest, and Don Cameron substituted
as his candidate General James A. Bea-
yer, of Centre county. The Grow men
held a caucus and nominated Hon, Thos.
NJ. Bayne, one Of the two present Allie
gheny county Republican Congressman.
The two ballots taken on Thursday, and
also the two on Friday, showed that the
new candidates. Beaver and Bayne, are
simply new riders on the old horses,
the Cameron clan voting for Beaver and
the anti-machine men for Bayne Bea-
yer is a thick and thin Cameron man,
was one Of his plant third term tools at
the Chicago convention, and is as OBJ
noxious to the boilers as Oliver was,
Bayne is, and has been, opposed to Cam
erOn's assumed ownership Of the Repub-
lican party in this State, and for that
reason will never be supported by Cam
eron's henchmen. What the final result
of the contest will be it would be idle to
conjecture, though an impression pre-
walls in some quarters at Harrisburg
that an end will be put to the struggle
to-day wednesday,, but VIC know no
reason to warrant such conclusion.
?. S.-Since writing the foregoing we
have received the ballot of Wednesday,
which was as follows Wallace, "A
Beaver. 79; Bayne, 81; scattering, s.
/ The anticipated break did not therefore
come to head We also learn that on
/ Monday night an interview took place
at the residence and 10y the request of
/ Don Cameron, between himself and
Messrs. Wolfe and Mapes, two leading
boilers, for the purpose of uniting the
/ Republicans upon compromise can
didate, but that no agreement was
( reached, Wolf and Mapes giving Cam
/ eron distinctly to understand that Bea
/ yer never could be elected by the votes
/ of the boiling Republicans. It is also
/ reported that the Beaver men on Wed
/ nesday evening made proposition for a
/ conference committee, TO meet that
/ night and agree upon a candidate.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

BALLOU's MONTHLY MAGAZINE The
March number Of BallOu'S Monthly Magazine
is issued, and contains large instalment of
that thrilling Indian story, The Crimson
Trail, - which is so much admired, There Is
also nice picture of banyan-tree, an Illus
trated article on Shakespeare and his home, a
vivid skating scene, some remarkably good
poetry a dozen or twenty stories, and five
pages of humorous matter, the best that ever
appeared in a magazine. This magazine
gives more Of Il variety than any other publi-
cation of the kind in the country, and yet it
is sold for the low price Of fifteen cents a
copy Every family should have a copy, for
it affords much good reading.
Now Is the time to subscribe for this Dopu-
lar and cheap magazine. Published by
ThOmes & Talbot, % Hawiey Street, Boston,
Mass, at only S1.5O per annum, postpaid,
and foT sale at all the news depots in the
country at 10 cents a copy. Sent with the
FREEMAN one year for S275 for both publ
cations.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

ONE OF the greatest men Of the Re
publican party in Allegheny county,
Hsrry'W. Oliver, has at last passed thro'
the Senatorial flint-mill at Harrisburg
and has been ground remarkably fine.
Another Allegheny county man, Thos.
NJ Bayne, is now going through the
same process as the substitute OF Mr.
Grow, and his fate promises to be equal
ly as disastrous as was that of the"Dun-
cannon Boy" When Bayne is retired
the boilers have made a solemn covenant
among themselves to adopt another fa-
vorite son Of Allegheny, George Shiras,
as their candidate, under the belief that
he will prove "the right man in the tight
place." II this should turn out to be a
delusion, as it is very certain to do, the
boilers as a last resort will be compelled
to bring to the front still another Ale
gheDy county favorite, Gen. J. X. Moor
head, or cold Slackwater,' - as he is ia
miliarIy called. and if he has no better
luck than Oliver, Bayne and Shiras, we
do not know any other Allegheny coun-
ty statesman who could be improvised
for the emergency. We are not with
out hope, however, that when Moorhead
takes his exit from the Senatorial boards
after HAVING played his part, there will
still be found within the limits of what
Mr.. Lincoln called the estate of Ale
gheny' some other son who will rise up
at the command OF the anti-Cameron
men and claim the Senatorship under
the mighty shadow Of her name.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

TIE nomination by Mr.. Hayes Of his
friend Stanley Matthews as Associate
Justice Of the Supreme Court OF the
United States has no. yet been reported
to the Senate by the judiciary Commit
tee, nor is it likely to be, unless the Sen
ate adopts a resolution instructing the
committee so to do. 1t is thought that
the friends of Matthews in the Senate
will attempt to pass such a resolution,
believing that they have strength enough
to confirm him, but some OF the leading
Republican Senators, Mr., Edmunds
among them. are hostile to him, and If
his nomination is confirmed it will be
through Democratic cowardice and
treacheFy
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

GODEY's LADy's BOOK FOR MARCH IS one
of the best issued in many years. The steel
plate engraving is a scene from David Cop
peTfield, and, ike all of Mr. Darlevs draw
ings, is true to life. The Fashion Plates are
superb and natural in ceior. The complete
novel by RObt. G. Meyers, entitled st. Nur-
phys Organ, is well tOid, and will keep the
readers interest from chapter 1. 10 the end.
There Is also a good variety of choice short
stories, poems, and sketches valuable
chapter on Frugal Ant, full of good, sensible
dirPcti0uSthat anybOdycan follow the usual
full array in the Work and Fashion Depart
mentS, of useful hints, directions, and re-
views an array of recipes that make hun
CRY mouths water, and amusements, puzzles,
and games that viii make the children iubi-
liant and happy drawing and plan Of a
picturesque suburban villa, and the genial
Old Armchair. And in addition to all these
there is a diagram pattern for a chid's dress,
and beautiful cOlOTed pattern for a lady's
shopping bag. We can recommend this old
favOrite magazine to our readers, because of
its pure aud elevated tone, as a safe cOmpan-
ion. We viii receive subscriptions at this
Office and furnish the FREEMAN and GCdey 5
Lady'S Book each for one year for the low
price of $500 per annum.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18
a BA1r1moRrAH named MelIon N[itchen

a BALTIMOREAN named Mellon Mitchell
twenty-five years Of age, has just been di-
vOrced from his wife, the decree OTbidding
the latter from marrying again during the
the life of the former husband. The cause
Of this decree was that the father OF the lady
decOyed Mitchell into his daughters room
while the latter was in bed, locked tlIfs door
and then demanded that he should marry her
then and there, as he had wronged her. The
youth protested and denied, but the father
with blood in his eye and a huge revolver in
his hand, swore that Mitchell must marry the
girl OF become without delay subject for the
coroner. \ Methodist minister was sent
for, and after some demur, which was check
ed by the sight Of the fathers pistol the
marriage was performed. The unwilling
groom escaped as soon after the ceremony
as he coulG, and brought suit for divorce
with the result ultannOunced above the clergy
man having been an important witness in
the case
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

THAT there in such a thing as intem-
peranco in legislation which processes to
promote the cause of temperance is
abundantly proven by some of the meas
ures that are annually introduced into
various State Legislatures on the subject.
The mCst remarkable production of the
kind that has made its appearance
during the present period of legislative
sessions, is a bill offered by a Mr., Cody.
a member Of the Legislature Of Kansas.
The bill contains many sweeping penal
ties for violation of the constitutional
amendment, recently adopted in that
State, prohibiting the manufacture or
sale of intoxicating drink. The most
singular feature of Cody's reform meas
ure, however, is provision that in pro-
secutions under the act the accused shall
not be deemed to be innocent until PROV
en- guilty, but shall be required to prove
his innocence ahirmatively. In refer
ring to this popularity in Cody's bill,
the New York San very appropriately
asks why not require every resident
of Kansas to file sworn monthly state
ment that he has been sober every min
ute OF the preceding four weeks, and, in
the absence of such proof, deem him to
have been drunk during the whole of
that period and punish them according
ly?" Temperance bills have fallen fast
and thick during the present session at
Harrisburg, and it is not at all improb-
able that the authors Of some one of them
may, in his aspirations after fame, not
only see Cody. of Kansas, but go constd-
erably better. If, for instance, Mr. Port
one Of the members from Huntingdon
coanty, who has introduced a very inter-
esting bill on the subject, would put
what are vulgarly called his chest licksn
into another bill, it is pretty certain
that when compared to him the Kansas
Solon would be nowhere.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

Hon. VIM A, WALLACE delivered
a very able and lengthy speech in the
Senate, on Friday last, on the subject Of
his proposed amendment to the consti-
tuition providing for the election of Pres
ident and Vice President by a direct
vote Of the people. Mr.. W. stated that
he had no hope Of its adoption at the
present session, but that he had offered
it as a contribution to the agitation of
the question, from which alone a change
can come. II that gentleman's col
league, Don Cameron, were to remain in
the Senate until he was as old as his
father now is, he would never be able to
deliver such q speech to listening and
appreciative Senate on a subject of deep
future concern to the people of the whole
country
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

RoBBING CONTRIBUTION Boxes. Friday
afternoon Policeman Merger, of Reading,
arrested Sarah Albright, young woman of
good character, Il years of age, on the charge
of having committed a series of rObberieS in
st. Paul's Catholic church. In the cdifice
are auumber of Observation-Disclosures boxes
For some time the amounts found in them bv
the church officers have been unusually small.
The church is open at all hours during the
day and evening, and suspicious of robbery
arose. Watch was kept by officers in dis
guise. Miss Albright was seen entering the
church at odd hours With basket. She was
strongly suspected, and, after leaving the
church on Friday, was arrested and taken to
the Central police station, where she was
searched. Coin that had been marked by
the officers and Father BoTnemann were
found in her pocket, with number Of un-
opened contribution envelopes, also contain
ing money, that had been dropped into the
boxes. Miss Albright wept piteously and re-
fused to acknowledge anything. Secreted in
false pocket under her dress was bunch
OF false keys, one of which was of very pc
cuiar shape. That key opened the boxes.
The original was specially made for the
church. The false key was made by an ex-
pert mechanic, but Miss Albright refuses 10
tell who he is. 1t is believed that a suitor of
hers is partner in the crime, and that the
large sums stolen by the woman were divid-
ed between them. Miss Albright is an intel
igent woman, good looking, and dresses
stylishly She was locked UP for hearing.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

The latest scandal in that city of
scandals, Washington, is the reported
arrest by the police on last Friday night.
in general raid on gambling houses, of
two members Of the Senate and four
members Of the House, iuteutly engaged
at the interesting game Of faro in one of
the fashionable hells Of that modern Sod
ON. 1t is stated that they gave false
names to the police officers, but are all
we'll known members OF Congress. Their
names are published, that OF Sharon, the
Silver King Senator from Nevada, head
ing the list. While the name Of one
Northern brigadier, and Democrat at
that, has place in it, no name of a
Southern brigadier'' is 10 be found-a
circumstance that will sadly interfere
with the expression Of a fearful amount
OF Indignation by the loyal press Of the
country.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

PHILADELPHIA AND PITTsBURG both
elected Democratic Mayors on Tuesday,
but neither result is claimed as Demo-
cratic victory, the verdict in PhiladeI-
phia especially being a laundering pro-
test against the rule Of the bosses. -
The majority for King, Dem, for Mayor,
over StOkely, Rep, exceeds 5000, and
the majority for Hunter, Rep. and anti
Ring, for Receiver Of Taxes, who was
endorsed 10y the Democrats, is p, 900
over the Republican candidate. In
Pittsburg Maj. Lyon, Dem, has a ma
jority of Loo over Humphreys, Rep.
while the Republicans elect the City
Treasurer and Controller. In the Lu-
zerne Senatorial district, Eckley b.
Coke, Dem, defeated Edwards, Rep.
by froH !, 800 to 1000 majority.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

a STRANGE PHENOMENA.-M night
thousands Of people were on the streets of
Denver, Col, watching a very unusual phe-
nOmena connected with the moon. When
the moon rose there were streaks Of light re-
fiected from its different sides In short
time these streaks disappeared. Four Tuner
dogs appeared, and soon four beautiful luner
bows appeared on a line with the dogs
Later bows became simply halo with the
moon and the dogs situated at nearly equal
distances apart on the circle. The halo soon
contracted, coming close to the moon and
leaving the dogs outside the circle. About
ten O'Clock the halo disappeared the dogs
sOcn following The weather was intensely
cOlb.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-18

BEFORE commencing tO.ballotfOr Uni
ted States Senator,on,yester week, sew
eral Philadelphia members presented pc
titions from some wealthy manufactur-
ers OF that city in favor of the election
or John Welsh, rich PhiladelphIan,
who was lately L. s. Minister to Eng
land. When these petitions were offer
ed, Mr.. Woodruff, Of this county. re-
marked in a very emphatic manner that
it was ali insult to the joint convention
to ask it 10 elect a man like John Welsh,
and the Harrisburg correspondent of
the JohnstOwE Tribune states that Mr.
Woodruft's coarse remark as he
styles it, caused some sensation. Mr..
Woodruff was right, and was not half
as coarse on John Walsh as he might
have been. John Welsh is the man who,
Immediately after the defeat of the Re
publicans in Mainelast September, which
was regarded As fatal TO Garfield's cleo
tion. put himself at the head Of a secret
movement to raise an enormous cor
Tuption fund from Republican million
aires in the Eastern cities, for the ex-
press purpose of buying the vote OF the
State Of Indiana in October. The mon
ey was Taised-was poured into Indiana
and accomplished its infamous purpose
John Welsh processes to be a moral. re-
ligious man, and yet he knew that the
money he assisted in securing was to be
used in corrupting and dehauching the
voters of Indiana, and in procuring from
them a verdict at the polls that other
wise they would not render. A man
who viii raise or contribute to a fund
knowing that it is to be used in purchas-
ing votes, is not fit to hold any office.
and he is especially not fit to be elected
to the L. s. Senate. The very members
from Philadelphia who presented these
petitions refused to vote for Welsh,
showing that if they did not regard
them as an ''insulJ'' they would at least
treat them with supreme contempt,