The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-02-24
OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
[ Regular Correspondence Of THE Freeman.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20, 1882.

lieT eve upon the amuSemeEJS OF youth, /
and will not issue an order to prohibit /
the picking of eggs on Easter, The !
bows will therefore be permitted to pick /
eggs without molestation. The Phila- I
deiphia small boy is correspondingly /
happy.
By the time this communication
reaches you, and before it appears in
print, the interminable agony Of balls,
receptions, and other large public social F.
entertainments, will be over. The so /
cial paths of the fashionables of this I
city, which have been thick with festal /
roses, viii all have the faded aroma and /.
the perishable quality of pleasures view /
ed in retrospect. When the patrons of
the FREEMAN are reading this, the /
pleasure path along which the fashion
ables of oureity have been travelling
will be strewn with head aches and
heart aches. The season has been one
of the gayest ever known in Philadel-
phia, and there is but one night more
to wind up the blilliaut winter, which
it is presumed there will be a sort of
Lenten resolution that only the highest
and noblest aims of social intercourse
will be aspired to. The most fashion
able of our citizens will 90 out of the
city until Lent is over. The fashionable
ladies who remain will fall back upon
| and making preparations for Easter
| dress and bOnnets.
I The distressing intelligence has been
/ received that Mrs. Langtry has abandon
/ ed society for the stage that Mrs. Corn
/ wallis West has been attacked by pleur-
! iSy and must go to AlgierS for the win
/ ter, and that the Earl of Lonsdaie
/ throws his widow into weeds for the
year. Thus unfortunately has London
/ lost it's three leading beauties. An of
/ these beautiful women will be missed
by the gay world Of London. Oh, how
sad a cable dispatch also announces
that the Marquis of Scotland, who has
| been cruising about the Grecian Islands
for month or two, intends coming to
the States and hiding himself in the
/ Rocky Mountains, where some OF his
pastoral compatriots will give him a job
of herding cattle The Marquis is thir-
ty-four years old, and a great favorite
socially, but ran away between two days
to avoid arrest on a charge of obtain
ing $50, 600 by false pTetenses.
Guiteau was sane enough to be a cam
paign orator and worker, but not sane
enough to be remembered in the divi-
sion of the spOiIs. He was an hOnOred
and trusted leader of the Republican
party in the last Presidential campaign.
, He was a constant visitor at Republican
, head quarters and WAS put upon the hus-
{ tings, to educate and persuade the mass
es to cast their ballots with the God and
morality party. He sat at the feet OF
GamaIel. He was of the lambs of
Beecher's flock, the high priest of Rad
} icalism. Still he is not remembered in
the division Of the spoils.
] | The Progress of this city says A: The
D | Press and Times are hard at it, ''disfg-
uring the face of nature" Along The
route of The Pennsylvania Railroad
q ! from Philadelphia to New York, these
{ | digni6ed journals are running a race
4 | with Billiards. Pills and Thompson s
Cough Syrup. If Thompson and Biz.
> zard advises the people of the great meT'
I it's Of their syrup and pills in letters two
e feet high on one fence, the virtues Oi
4 the Press are sung on another in fOul
: feet letters, and the Times goes two feet
i bigger. So the people have their choice
s whether to take enterprising newspa
d pers, or syrup, or pills. Both the Pres
and the Times are now silent about wha
some time ago they made a great outcrl
: against what they called the ''dis igur
ing of the face of nature" by adyeTtis
ers who glOrifed their wares whereve
) in the open country it was possible t
. apply paint.
= Many Democrats at first excused Mr.
was working only for ''VindicatiOn.
! At first Mr, Pattison very shrewdl!
1t caused many good Democrats to toleT
: ate, in a passive sort of a way his can
vass for the GOveTnOrship by pretendin!
= that he was not really desirous of oh
- tanning the nomination, but that he sim
% plv wanted to show what influence h
e had in Philadelphia against that wini
J. of the party which opposed him; bu
g now the very men whom he deceived
. are turning on him. Mr.. PattisOn CAV
J. his friends to believe that he would
a quietly withdraw from the field, whel
+ he had asserted the extent of his leader
ship. but instead of withdrawing he in
,, tends to carry his fight into the Stat
q convention, and thereby render Phila
d delphia poweTIess in that body. Honest
q ly, Mr.. Pattison is not the choice O
: | one-half of the Philadelphia Democracy
% and if he had the real interest of tn
y Democratic party at heart he would a
y once withdraw so that the Philadelphi
= Democracy may unite on one acceptabl
candidate and on a harmonious policy
~ He can save the Philadelphia Demo
y cracy from much bitter feeling by with
i drawing from the canYasswithOut della
1t was for a long time supposed tha
Mai. Phipps had something to do in th
management of the Almshouse, but tn
IL people now learn that he was merely a
y ornamental officer, whose duty was t
IS hand round he cigars. 1t was mOreOYe
ar presumed that Major PLipps was an in
pOrtant man about the Almshouse, bU
10 it appears that he was not. To ham
&c round the cigars and see that his thre
in horses did duty for the institution wa
,e his principal business.
Public sentiment is not at all mealy
: mOuthed in expressing itself in regaT
e, to the AlmShOuse exposures. From bt
ly ginning 30 end the developments hay
IT been a series of blistering shames. Thel
= is not a feature in it that will bear e.
io cuse, Nothing more shameful and hl
IL initiating than the disclosures made
)y | regard to petty larcenies of public pr
"a peTty and the stinting in the matter
;, food, clothing, ETC., to the wretche
creatures entrusted to the Guardians {
oL this Board cannot well be conceived 0
he Every Christian citizen feels humiIiate
n and indignant at the disclOsuI es of pett
"a neanness and heartlessness of the BoaI
of Guardians of the Poor.
IL The news now is that the colored ma
u is no longer wanted as a soldier in Il
th army, and it is proposed to disband II
~. only negro infantry regiment in the sc
vice. And yet the coloTed man b;
u not received his forty acres and
n mule.''
is An Ohio mans last undertaking. ]
erect hotel in Washington CitytI /
teTtain the office-seekers from tha