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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

TUESDAY last was the one hundred
and fOrty-ninth anniversary of the birth
of George Washington, of whom it was
said by one of the prominent actors in
our revolutionary struggle that he was
''first in war, first in peace, and first in
the hearts of his countrymen," This is
the highest eulogy that could be pro-
nounced upon even so great a man and
patriot as Washington, and it is as true
to-day as when it was first uttered, and
will remain true as long as the Republic
which he did so much in establishing
continues to exist Since the close of
the civil war an attempt has sometimes
been made by his fawning admirers to
place Grant alongside of Washington in
the affections of the American people,
and one of them, Governor Cornell, of
New York, lately so outraged public
opinion in Grants own presence, and
without any rebuke from him, as TO re-
fer to him as more than Washington
in the esteem and love of the country.
The people everywhere, from Maine to
Oregon will. however. insUinctively re-
sent such an insult and will continue in
the future as they have in the past, in
common with the civilized world, to
look upon Washington as the puresU,
greatest and most illustriOus man this
country has ever produced.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

OK Wednesday last the joint legisla-
tive convention at Harrisburg elected
John I. Michel, of Tioga county, as the
successor of Hon. VIM, y. Wallace in
the L. 6. Senate, the vote standing as
follows Mitchell, 150; Wallace, %;
Brewster, l {; McVeagh, 1. The Gamer
on and anti-CameIOn committees of con-
ference settled on Mitchell as the candi-
date on Tuesday night, after several in
effectual meetings had been held be-
tween Yesterday week and Tuesday for
that purpose. Mitchell is a lawyer and
is 43 years old. He was a member of the
lower branch of the Legislature from
1872 to 1876, inclusive, and now repre-
sents the Sixteenth district in Congress,
having been elected in 1876 and re-elect-
ed in 1878. He possesses very respect
able abilities, and although he is not
neary so gosSy as Wolfe, of Union coun-
ty, we think they are men of about the
same mental calibre. Just who Nit
chell belongs to is a conundrUm that
the future must answer. The Cameron
clan claims him as one of their own,
while the anti-machine men declare that
he is the very man they were looking
for. As both these claims can't be
well founded, it is q legitimate pre-
sumption that one of the cOntending
factions has been badly cheated. Wheth-
or Mitchell is Christian Statesman, -
as it was claimed Gen. Beaver was, we
are not able to say. Great indeed is the
Senatorial fall from VIM. y, Wallace to
John I. Mitchell,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

THE Harrisburg Telegraph, Cameron 8
organ at the State capital, is completely
disguised at the failure of the machine
to control the election of United States
Senator, and has reached the conclusion
that through the protracted struggle Of
the two contending factions ''the organ
ization of the Republican party is ruin
ed, and so thoroughly ruined, that an
election of any man to the Senate will
not be able to repair It." This is un-
doubtedly true, and it is equally true
that no Republican paper in the State
has done more to bring about the ruin
over which it now howls its lamentations
than did the telegraph itself.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

KILLED BY A MANIAC FATHER.--Adam
Hessler, with his wife and pretty nine-year
old daughter Jennie, have for eight years re-
sided in a neat farmhouse near Hines Cor
ners, Pa, whence they moved from Rhode
Island. In September last a large payment
came due upon the place. The funds reali-
zed from the sale of grain and prod ice were
found insufficient to pay one-half of the debt
HessleT thought that he would lose his home
and feared his family would suffer. He be-
came respondent. On Friday morning his
wife went six miles to her brothers, in the
hope of getting assistance from him. While
she was gone Hessler raved like madman,
and declared that his daughter must be got
ten out of the way. He carried the frighten-
ed, CRYING child to a well at the rear of the
house, and binding her wrists together with
a piece of heavy rope, threw her in. She fell
twenty-ninef feet, striking upon the rocky bot
tom with a force that was fatal An invalid
lady neighbor saw the proceedings, but could
do nothing as she had not been able to leave
her room for twelve years. Hessler was gone
when his wife returned, and nothing has
been heard of him since. It is believed he
wandered to the mountain and perished in
the snow.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

The exact popular vote at the Presi-
Dental election, which has been sub
ject of much dispute, seems at last to
have been ascertained by the Cincinnati
Enquirer, whose editor placed himself in
communication with the proper officials
in every State in the Union and has OBJ
tanned from them the full returns of the
whole vote. The result is as follows
Whole vote cast, 9,1G9,2 Hancock's
vote, 4, 42t, $50 Garfield's vote, 4,416,-
584 Weaver's vote, 1888; Dow's
vote, 10, 791 Phelps vote, ,133 seat
tering, 2,122. Hancock's majority over
Garfield, S,1O6; Garfield's minority,
336. .O4j.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

B. X. BRUCE, the colored Senator
from Mississippi, appears to be the unan-
imous choice of the negro politicians
throughout the country fer a place in
Garield's cabinet, and Bruce has said
chat he thinks he is competent for a sat
isfactOry discharge of the duties either
of Postmaster General or Secretary of
the Interior, but would prefer the for
mer. Bruce has made good reputation
in the Senate by his modest department
and strict attention to his business, but
he stands a far better chance of being
translated some night, as MahOmet was,
on the back of a mule to the Seventh
heaven and returning before daylight,
than of ever sitting at a meeting of Gar
fields cabinet. Senator Lamar, who is
Bruce's colleague, entertains for him
feeling of genuine respect, and on more
than one occasion has given emphatic
expression to it. When Bruce'S name
was first suggested in connection with
the Cabinet, the Republican papers as
serted that the Southern Democrats
would regard his selection as an insult,
but MI Lamar, in referring to the mat
ter few days ago in Washington, said:
$50 far from objecting to the appointment
of Senator Bruce, the Mississippi delegation
and think most of the Southern members,
would choose him as the representative South
ern Republican. Neither | nor any other
Southern Democrat has taken an active part
in his behalf but we all feel enough friend
ship and regard for him to make it "a plain
as words can put it, that if Southern Repub-
lican is to go into the cabinet no nOappointment
would please us more than that of Bruce.
He is modest and intelligent-in short, a
noble negro"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

"WHAT is the duty of a member of
the State Legislature?'' was the weighty
question recently referred to the Judi
ciary Committee of Brother Gardeners
Limekill Club, a debating and literary
society in Toledo, Ohio, composed of
colored philosophers and statesmen.
After patient investigation of the sub
ject the committee submitted the fol-
lowing report, which is as applicable to
any other State as it is to Ohio:
81. To take free pass from ebery railroad
in de state. This puts him in posishun to
vote against railroad mOnOpOleS an subsid-
les. 2. To be absent as often an as much as
he kin, an to draw his salary wild prompt
ness an dispatch. 3. To push frew bills
fayOrin' de interests of himself an friends
4. To spin out de seshuns as long as possi-
bic 10 order to draw de salary. 5. To let no
occashun pass widout maxim a speech, an
to have ebeTy one Oh desc speeches printed
an sent bone 70 an anxshuS constituency"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

TENNESSEE has a Republican Governor
and Legislature controlled by Republicans
and RepUdiatnrS. Yet Tennessee within the
last week has been the scene of terrible and
unrepressed mob violence which, if it had
occurred in State governed by the Demo
cratic party, would have caused howl of in
dignation to issue from the Republican press
throughout the country. Not in any South
ern State has there been such disorder since
the war as that which dSgraced Tennessee
last Saturday at Springfield, in that State, in
the lynching of ten persons charged with
the crime Of murder. The victims of the
mob were negroes, the crime of which they
were indicted was clearly traced to them,
and they undoubtedly deserved the gallowS.
But the law was cheated of its proper vndi-
cation by the unTestrained fury of the popu-
lace Ithas been urged in behalf of the res
toratiOn of the Republican party to power in
the South that the negro has no chance
under the administration Of the laws by the
Democrats. But it seems he has a poorer
show right under the nose of the Republican
Governor of Tennessee than anywhere else
in the South. 1t is only fair to conclude
from this that the Republican argument just
referred to does not rest on a sound basis
Harrisburg Patriot.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

OK last Monday evening, at Cooper
Institute, Judge Black delivered an ad
dress to a large meeting of the citizens
of New York who, in the language of
the call, ''believe that the principles
upon which our government is founded
are worthy of preservation, and that
corporations should not be permitted to
run this country for the benefit of fav-
ored few" This is a subject which
Judge Black is peculiarly well fitted 70
discuss in al. its length aud breadth-a
subject that is fast enlisting the earnest
consideration of the people of the coun-
try, and which will vet stir them as no
other subject which has undergone pop
alar agitation during the last quarter OF
a century has ever yet stirred them.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

a SAD and melancholy interest will,
says an exchange, attach to the 4th of
March next because on that day the
venerable Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine,
will for the first time in the history of
the Republic become a private citizen.
Perhaps the Legislature Of Maine will
elect him to the vacancy which will be
caused by the accession Of Senator Blaine
to the cabinet. The people may depend
upon it that something will happen if
Hannibal Hamlin is left out in the cold.
What the Wandering jew is to the old
en- time Hannibal Hamlin is to Ameri-
can politics. He must not be permitted
to retire for q century or two yet.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

NEARLY all Of the Republican poll
ticians in this State who have made
pilgrimage to Garfeld's residence at
Mentor, Ohio, concur in saying that his
preference for United States Senator
from Pennsylvania is G. w. Scofeld, of
Warren county. How perfectly natural
this is Scofeld was in Congress with
GARFIELD, and both were tarred with the
same Credit Mobilier stick, the testi-
mony of Oaizes Ames showing that when
he paid Garfield dividend on his stock
Of 1929, in June, 1865, he paid Scofeld
at the same time dividend on his stock
Of 5000. 4 fellow feeling makes a man
wondrous kind, and why shouldn't Gar
field cling to Scofeld and want him for
the purpose Of playing Senator to his
Presidency
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

THE nomination of Stanley Matthews
as an Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court has not yet been reported to the
Senate by the Judiciary Committee, and
the chances now are that it will not see
daylight Matthews left Washington for
Ohio at the close of last week, regard
ing himself as about the only visiting
statesman who helped to cheat Tilden
out of the vote of Louisiana who hasn't
received his reward, although Hayes
did all he could in that direction by
sending his name to the Senate.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

GARFIELD A MINoRITT PREsTDENT.-The
Cincinnati Enquirer has been at pains to pro
cure from all the States the official figures of
the popular vote for President. The result
is for the first time accurately determined
As regards the total vOte-DemOcratic, Re
publican, Greenback, Prohibtionists and
scattering-Gen. Garfield is in a minority by
more than three hundred thousand ballots.
His vote was about eight thousand less than
Gen. Hancock's.
This showing is of interest, but really of no
practical importance. Gen. Garfield's title
is perfectly good He was legally and fairly
elected by a majority Of the Electoral Col
leee, and that is what makes President.
The trouble with HAYES was rot that he
lacked about a quarter of a million Of a ma
jOrity on the popular vote, but that he lack
ed nineteen votes Of majority in the Elec-
tOral College. These nineteen votes were
stolen, and we bave had for two hundred
and six weeks Fraudulent President-N.
\. Sun.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

4 CASE OF INTEREST To SCHOoI. BOARDS.
"A ease of more than ordinary interest has
been decided by Judge jerks, of the Jeffer-
son county Court. 1t was the petition of Dr.
NJ. B. Lowry for a mandamUs to compel the
School Board of BrOokville borough to admit
his children to the public schools, they having
been dismissed by the principal because Of
n refusal On the part of the father to allow
them to comply with the rules of the school,
the point at issue being the desire on the part
of the doctor that the children should not
take lessons in writing while in attendance
at school The case was ably argued, the
whole scope of the teachers authority being
reviewed, and great interest surrounded the
case. The opinion of the Judge was quite
lengthy, in which he cites the law relative to
the case, and concludes by refusing a man e
damus, and ordering that the party shall pay
their own costs, but no personal responsible
ity on the part of the directors. This ending
of the case will be valuable to other Boards
of Directors and to teachers generally, as it
defines their power, and parents will also be
guided by it, the conclusion arrived at being
that they surrender all authority over their
children when they pass within the doors of
the public school building, the teacher assum-
ing authority to dictate their studies as
well as their department.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

THE official majority of Eckley B.
Coke in the Luzerne Senatorial district
is 1899. At the election last November
his majority was !, ,OOj. There will be
an effort made by some of the Republi-
can roOsters IN the Senate to prevent
him taking his seat, based upon his ad-
missions as to his having used money at
the November election in a way not Eek
pressly authorized by law" but the OBJ
lection will not prove to be an obstacle
in his path.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

OWING to the rapid progress of the
Appropriation bill in Congress during
the past week, and to the passage of the
three per cent. funding act, all fear of
an extra session has been removed. 1t
is true that the Congressional Appor
tiOnment bill has not yet passed the
House, but it will probably do so to-day
"wednesday under the operation of the
previous question, of which Mr., Cox
gave notice last Saturday he would avail
himself should it become necessary.
The proposition to fix the number of
members at BOZ, an increase of II over
the present ratio, seems to meet with
more favor than any other number, and
will pretty certainly be adopted.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

IN the pursuit of big Office under
difficulties John Cessna possesses won
derful powers Of perseverance. During
his crooked political career, commene-
ing say in 1864, Cessna has done as much
dirty work to promote and build up the
supremacy of Cameronism in Republi-
can politics as any other man in the
State. OF course he expected to be re-
warded. and believing that now was the
time when the Camerons ought to do the
handsome thing for him by taking him
under their protection and sending him
to the L. s. Senate as the successor of
William A. Wallace. he went to Har-
risburg early in January and has been
hanging on the ragged edge Of the Leg
islature ever since, hoping and expect
ing. Micawber-like, that something
would turn up, through the interference
of Don Cameron or with his acquies-
cence. that would make his calling and
election sure. But Cameron didn't feel
like shouldering such heavy load as he
knew the Bedford demogOgue would
prove to be, and Cessna's Senatorial
hopes have therefore been rudely blast
ed. He must now turn to Garfield for
his reward for services rendered as chair
man.of the Republican State Committee
in the late campaign. The Philadelphia
Record sums up its estimate of Cessna
as follows IF there is anything in this
world that little John Cessna would like
more than any other thing it would be
to sit in the Senate for Pennsylvania,
If there is any place in the world for
which he is less fitted we can't name
r. =.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25
GagIria 9rerman.
EaENseURc. Pa,
FpDAH FEB. 25, 1891.

AN appropriate farewell address by
Mr.. Hayes to the American people will
be found on our first page. In this ad-
dress, as every one who reads it will
discover, Nr. Hayes neither extenuates
nor sets down aught in malice, but sim
ply unfOlds plain, unvarnisned tale N
language which is a like creditable to
himself and eminently beftting the oc-
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

THE census Office announces the fol-
lowing distribution of the total popula-
tion of the country among the seyera.
classes Males, %, $40. SO females,
"a, ,632, PSI ; natives of the United States.
43. AIS. sos foreign born, 6,617, $50 a;
white, 43, ,4O4, ,S77; cOlored, 6,5T7, ,151; In
dians not in tribal relations on reserva-
tions under the care of the government,
Go, ,122 ; Chinese, los, ,463; other Asiatics,
9 555
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

DIsAPPEARAScE OF You've MAN
Christian, son of Mr.. &. Oberholtzer, resid-
ing one mile below Greenvillage, disappear
ed from his home on Wednesday morning
the 9th inst. He is aged Is years, is about
feet high, rather heavily set, has dark hair
and wore grayiSh coat, corded pants and
wooden shirt. Through a severe spell of
sickness his reason has been somewhat i'm
paired Any Information that viii lead to
his return to his father will be gratefully re-
ceived, and should be addressed TO Christian
Obelholtzer, Greenvilage, Franklin CO., Pa.
Exchanges please copy.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

a FAMILY living on North Front street
Kingston, n. Y, were startled recently by
queer sounds proceeding from a room il
which was a chid's rocking horse. Going
cautiously to inquire the cause, they were
surprised to see that number OF rats had
Jumped on the horse, causing it to rock, and
were evidently enjoying themselves. AS
they were not molested the operation mas
been repeated nightly, and has become the
marvel of the neighborhood.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

FEES OF DoCToRs- fee Of doctors is
an item that very many persons are interested
in lust at present We believe the schedule
for visits is $500, which would tax man
confined to his bed for year, and IN need OF
a daily visit. over 81 900 year for medical
attendance alone And one single bottle Of
Hop Bitters taken in time would save the
81 600 and all the years sieknesS.-PoSt.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

In 1879 Illinois produced one-ffth of all
the corn grown in the United States, and ac-
cording to the latest adviees the crop of 1880
will bear about the same proportion to the
corn crop of the country. The value of the
hogs marketed in 1880 was SD, ,137, 600; in
1879 it was $40. $40 OO0. The value of cattle
in 1880 was S17 ,026, 600 in 1879 I was S16,-
III OoO
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

EIY's CREAM Balm for the cure OF CataTrh
and Hav Fever is having large sales with me.
l pronouDce it the best article | have ever
sold for the treatment of these diseases, and
take pleasure in recommending i TO my pa
irons, as / am from day to day hearing the
most favorable reports of its beneficial effects
HENRY 2. SENIPIE, Druggist, Easton, Pa.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

TRAGIC FATE OF a YoUSG HUNTREss.-
4 number of our exchanges contained an
accOSnt Cf the killing, recently, of two black
bears by LOttie Merrill, young huntTesS,
aged Is years, of Wayne county, this State.
The following account of her death is from
the Elmira Gazette: 4 fearful tale is told, in
the Port Jervis Union of the fate of LOttie
Merrill, the young huntreSS Of Wayne cOun-
ty, Pa. According to this account she met a
most tragic death on the Sth OF FEBRUARY,
being attacked il her hut by SIX bears, kill
ed and eaten 0y them, and her body burned
with the caTcaSSeS of some OF them in her
cabin. \ party Of hunters, it is said, at the
close Of the day found her cabin still burn
ing, and the proofs of the HORRIBLE death she
had died. Itappears that she had been hunt
ing that day, and had killed a fine buck deer,
which, after she had removed the entrais,
she had dragged home on the snow. Six
hungry bears drawn bv the smell of blood
had followed the trail 10 her hut, and after
deyouring the carcass of the deer attacked
the huntreSS, killing her and devOuring her
body. The Girl had evidently made a heroic
defence. An examination of the caTcasses
of the SIX bears in the cabin showed tha1 she
must have killed two of them before being
OverpOwered. The carcass of one bear had
fallen against the closed door and imprisoned
them all within the cabin, which took fire
and burned the others to death. In The
cabin was found one of the huntreSS'S heavy
boots with the foot sJll in it, bent hunting
knife EeaT the bones, and the antlers of the
deer she hdd Drought home, Whlch with the
carcasseS of the bears furnished a complete
key to the mystery. Her funeral took place
on Wednesday, the 9Th At.lsast 800 people
were present at the funeral, and the old
preacher William Budwick, preached the
sermon, relating the story of her death and
eXtOlliug her bravery and virtue to the skies
The remains We're buried near her burned
cabin, and over her grave was placed pair
of antleTs and hemlOck slab with this rude
epitaph:
I
Lottie Merrill lays hear she dident know wot I:
lit to afeered but she has he'd her last ::
.tussel with the bars and they've scoOped her
she was good girl and she is now in heaven. !:
/ 1t took six big bars to get away with her. ::
she only IS years old.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

FROM a prominent Wash
ingtonviile, OHIO, June 18th, 1850. Reading
the advertisement Of hendalrs SPAWN Cure,
and having valuable and speedy horse
which had been lame from SPAWN eighteen
months, l sent TO yon for bottle by express
which in six weeks removed all lameness and
enlargement and a large Splint from another
horse, and both horses are to-day as sound al
colts. The one bottle was worth to me one
hundred dollars. Yours truly II. a. BERT
oLETT NJ. D. Read the advertisement.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25

HEADACHE. all Bilious Disorders, Dyspep-
sia, and Constipation cured by DIR. NET
TAUR'S HEADACHE AND DYSPEPSIA
PILLS. Price p cents. T2-2I.-1m