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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27
WORSE AND WORSE,

The Irish news is mOurnful in what
ever aspect it may be viewed. Despite
the encouraging assurances of the min
IStry as to the acceptance Of the land
act, the number of agrarian outrages in
creases. Fifty thousand British troops
are insufficient to stamp out the spirit
of destruction that public events have
bred on that "distressful" isle. There
are mutterings as to what will happen
whenParliament recOnYenes. Gladstone
IS to be harried more than ever, because
of the state of Irish affairs, by those
who would have all dissent against Eng
lish measures crushed out by an iron
heel. Suppose for a moment that these
efforts should prove successful through
the aid of the Irish contingent of Par
lament, who would take the places of
the Liberal ministers By a logical
necessity, men who would go for eradi-
eating from Ireland by fire and sword
every symptom of enmity to British rule,
No other alternative remains Glad
stones ministry has filled the Irish jails
with political prisoners, yet seems to be
pOWerless to restore reasonable degree
of peace and order in the infected dis
trictS. 1t has now turned its guns up
on the Ladies' Land League. What
more could a Tory minister do, except
to initiate the treachery ard brutality
of EllZabeth's and Cromwell's time
Yet the English public daily evinces
more dissatisfaction at the turn of af-
fairs in Ireland. This is not an omen
of good for the latter country. Glad
stone, with a savage public opinion thus
far latent behind him, but gradually be-
ing awakened into activity by Tory APP
peals for something effective to be done,
stands between two fires, the Tory bonn
bardment and the Irish fuSillade, Then
his merciful disposition and his desire
to deal justly lead him to concessions
which the Conservative critics term
weaknesses. The Irish policy is to
strengthen the hands of the opposition
to the Liberal ministry, and so hasten
the inevitable conflict between the two
races. Earl Derby said some months
ago that no doubt could exist as to the
universally OF the sentiment for a sep
arate government, entirely free, enter
tanned by IriShmen. This is the under
laying cause of the confusion and an
archy prevailing in parts Of Ireland,
which some maliciOusly assert to be its
normal condition, the object being to
tire out England, and compel it by
sheer disgust, to give up its control over
the Irish soil. This it viii never do, and
when the conflict comes for English
it will probably prove as ter
rible and merciless as Raleigh's raids or
CrOmwell's successes. Boston Tran
script.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

THAT veteran Democrat, John Nc
Keon, the newly elected District Attor-
ney of New York city, don't believe in
travelling over a railroad on a free
pass, as he plainly indicated last week
by returning to the New York Central
and Hudson River Railroad Company a
pass which had been sent him, and
which was good on that road for one
year. In speaking OF the matter to
reporter Mr.. McKeOn said ''If men,
bers Of the Legislature would refuse
passes they would come home less fire.
quently and stick more faithfully to the
duties that the people entrust to them.
When was in the Legislature L went
to Albany on the 1st of January and
stayed there until the 1st OF May, when
L came home on the hrst boat that
could make ITS way through the thawed
ice" II has been long time since Mr..
McKeon was member of the New
York Legislature, and as the times
have changed somewhat since then, so
have men, especially members Of State
Legislatures, changed with them
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

CoEGRESs has been in session since
the first Monday in December. Keifer,
the speaker, kept it waiting two weeks
and more for the purpose OF arranging
the standing committees, and in doing
30 disgusted all the Democrats and over
two-thirds OF the Republican members.
Then two more weeks were lost by ad-
jOurning over the holidays, in order that
the members might visit their oonstitu
ents on free passes and ascertain what
would be the popular thing for them to
do. Since their return most Of the time
has been consumed in trying to find out
who is the Republican leader in the
House, and in offering about four thou
sand bills embracing all imaginable pro-
jects for consideration and final action.
'Go forth, my son, into foreign lands, '"
said the Swedish chancellor, OIenstern,
land see with what little wisdom the
world is governed"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

THE Allegheny county Democratic
Committee, at its meeting on Saturday
last, adopted resolutions warmly en-
dorsing Hon. James II. Hopkins, of
that county, as the next Democratic
candidate for Governor, and authoriz-
ing him to select his own delegates to
the State convention. That portion of
the resolutions empowering Mr.. Hop
kins to appoint his own delegates not be-
ing acceptable to several members of
the Committee, although nine-tenths OF
the committee favored his candidacy, a
motion was made by one Of his friends,
DR.. Wood, to reconsider the vote, which
was agreed to, and the duty Of electing
the delegates entrusted to the district
conventions, which are called to meet on
Tuesday, the 14th of February. There
does not seem to be any doubt that Mr..
Hopkins will be supported by the entire
delegation from Allegheny county.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

JUDGE PORTER began his address to
the jury on behalf of the prosecution in
the Guiteau trial on Monday, and proba-
bly, got through on Wednesday evening,
and certainly not later than yesterday,
so that a verdict may be expected before
the end of the week. On Saturday Gui-
teau delivered his speech to the jury, it
being substantially the same as the one
he published a week ago, and which
Judge Cox at first refused permission to
him to make. 1t is j most extraoTdina
nary spectacle to see a criminal delibeT-
ately arguing his own insanity and max
ing a!very shrewd speech on the evidence
to prove it. p. S.-Judge Porter con-
cluded his speech at p. NJ. on Wednes-
day, after which Judge Cox charged the
jury, and at zen minutes past O'Clock
they returned verdict Of guilty.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27
THE UNION VETERAN CORPS.

A Union Veteran Corps, composed eX-
clusively of honorably discharged Union
soldiers and sailors, of the Grand Army
of the Republic, will hold military and
/ civic fair at Masonic Temple, in the city
of Washington, commencing February
| 81. 1882. The object of the fair is to
| raise funds for the purpose of increasing
the numbers of the Corps. There is no
militia law and no provision for main
tanning military organization in the
District of Columbia, and the purpose
is to build up first-class military COM
pany in the capital ofIthe nation. The
Corps embraces in its membership re-
presentatives from nearly all the States
in the Union, as well as from every
Corps in the army during the war Con-
tributions of money and articles Of any
character are respectfully solicited, and
will be duly acknowledged through the
press and by mail. Contributions can
be sent to Hon. John w. Thompson,
Treasurer of the National Metropolitan
Bank, who is President of the Finance
Committee, which is composed of thirty
six Of the best known citizens and bust
ness men of the District.
Season tickets for the fair, 81. Prizes
to the number of one-third the number
OF season-ticbets sold will be distributed
at the close Of the fair among the ticket
holders. The prizes will range in value
from 81 to $500. All orders for tickets
from abroad will be promptly filed, and
prizes drawn by ticket holders residing
outside the District will be promptly
sent to any address.
The Corps is under the patronage of
Hon. Robert S. Lincoln, Secretary of
War. and fifty other of the leading gen
erals and soldiers Of the late rebellion.
The members of the Corps make a con-
hdent appeal to their comrades and
friends without reference to locality to
aid them in their efforts to build up and
maintain at the capital of the nation a
trst-class military company. The OBJ
ject is one worthy OF the attention of
every true friend and lover Of the Union
ion who is able to contribute in any man
ner towards establishing a permanent
Union Veteran Corps at the seat Of gov
ernment.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

SAMUEL BUTLER, the present Repub-
lican State Treasurer, has addressed a
letter to one of his political friends in
Chester county, in which he states that
he has concluded to become a candidate
for Governor before the approaching
Republican State convention, having
been assured, as he says, ''by friends
from different parts of the State in whose
judgment l (he) have implicit confidence
that there is public sentiment in my
(his) favor that would Justify this ac-
tion. The Pittsburg Disputcb, which
is very independent in its attitude and
terribly in earnest in it's hostility to Cam
erOnism, has very strong impression
that Butler is simply candidate for the
purpose of capturing few delegates not
within the reach of Beaver and turning
them over to the candidate of the ma
chine when the proper time arrives
The same paper, in referring to the fact
that on Saturday last the Lebigh coun-
ty Republican Committee elected dele
gates to the State convention who are
"solid for Beaver, - says that the Le-
high Committee have contributed their
mite ''toward forcing the nomination of
a complete Independent ticket"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27
THE TRUNK LINE FIGHT.
SOME OF THE ADVANTAGES OF THE PENyc
sYLyANIA LINE.


The Pennsylvania Railroad seems to have
goI az an early period somebody with taste
ana elegance about them. Take the color OF
its cars-a rich, royal magenta, with gold
Dand through ito Degin with. Then their
experimenting on splendid new engines,
some Of which make mile a minute. They
oHer prizes to SuperintendentS for the best
piece OF rOad-bed. All the new air brakes,
patent platforms, internal fiXings. the Penn
syIvanla Railroad adopts before ANYBODY else
thinks of them Along the line of the road
there are men constantly inyenting improve
ments. Its StatiOn-houses are almost all OF
stone or brick, built to last into the twenty
first century. Some of these statiOn-h houses
viii probably be seen five hundred or six
hundred years hence. A constant premium
is put on people living on the Pennsylvania
line. Trains between terminated points sell
dom or never stop at the suburban points,
which have their own system Of trains, the
one never running into the other. The block
signal system is on their whole main system,
and they carried all the passengers to the
centennial Exhibition without the loss Of a
life. Wherever the Pennsylvania Railroad
enters it either sweeps away competition or
compels it to get up and dust itself. Polite
ness is enforced along all the line, and full
information is given to passengers.
Mr. Vanderbilt knows that it will cost him
money to put his railway system on the Penn
sylvania basis, and he probably designed the
railroad war to affect the dividends OF the
Pennsylvania Company, so that its stock
holders would make fuss. He has not done
any OF these things, The mild winter has
extended railroad building up to the present
time, and the two railroads through Middle
New York-the Lackawana Extension and
Hudson River West ShOTe-are making gal
liant time while the Buffalo and Chicago
Railroad at the other end, is fastening along
side by side with the Lake Shore. Mr.. Van
deTbit has, however, invaded Pennsylvania,
If Mr.. GOwen'S triumph last week was due
to him. Yet the principal thing he can ac-
complish there might be to reduce the Penn.
sylvania's passenger traffic on the Jersey
lines which have to earn \ big dividend, hav.
ing been leased at a high figure. The Penn
sylvania system is so extensive, however,
that deficiency at one point is made VI, bv
surplus at another It's terminal facilities
in the larger cities are magnificent It is
building the last of its prominent depots in
Chicago. The Philadelphia station is one of
the finest in the world, and is in the very
centre OF that city, right under the Courts Of
Justice and the city offices. All trains from
New \ ork to the West and South run into
the middle Of Philadelphia. -Gat6's Letter
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

FIVE PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH-A
special dispatch from Clinton, No saws the
house of George &. Smith, at Lewis, five
miles north of that place, was burned at s
O'Clock Thursday morning, and five of the
inmates perished, namely: Elizabeth Smith
aged seventeen; Rachel aged thirteen; Ella,
aged SIX ; Theodore, aged sixteen, and the
mother, aged forty three. The fire Is sup
posed to have been started from clothing
hanging by the kitchen stove, or from a coal
oil explosion. Mrs Smith was first TO ava
ken, when she aroused her husband, who
made his escape with the little daughter, of
neighbor, who was staying there for the
night, and one OF his own daughters. aeed
ABOUT eight smith and his daughter were
seriously burned. The house was a story
and-a-half structure, and the family were'aH
sleeping in the second story. Mr White. a
suitOr of Elizabeth, was at the house after a
O'Clock, and thinks that the fire caught in the
Kitchen. Miss Smith was to have been mar
RED IN a-few weeks. An inquest was held
and a verdict returned in accordance with
the above facts. Mr.. Smith was employed by
the Usage Coal and Mining Company.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

IL the suburbs of Scranton, at l O'Clock
Friday morning, n miner named Cook was
dying Of smallpox. His wife and babe were
in the same room on the ground floor Mrs
Cook, in accordance with her belief as Cath
Ole, placed lighted candle in the hand Of
the dying man, and then knelt beside him to
pray. Being overcome by the fatigue and
worry of several days and nights of constant
attendance on her husband, she fell asleep
The candle burned down between the rigid
hngeTs OF the dying man and set the bed on
fire. Mrs. Cook and the babe were soon
overcome by suttOcatiOn. A crowd gathered
at the window outside, but no one would 90
IN, so great was their terror of the pestIercp.
AT length TWO men broke through the door
and carried out the mother and child i'm \
state of stupOr. Cook was dead. and the
flesh was failing from his bones because of
the heat. The body was removed with difi-
Guilty and the fire eXtinguiShed His wife is
now able to tell Oflthe circumstance leading
to the tragic affair, but it is thought that she
cannot recover, and the child will also die.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

IHESADDEsT TALE TEr TOLD.-For some
days the children Of Mrs. Teresa. Heddv. so
years old, have been carrying her from one
OF their homes to another and depositng her
each time in front of the house, each family
OF children claiming that the others ought
70 take care OF her, She is very feeble and
paralyZed on one side, so that she could not
move from where she was left. Last week
one OF the families applied to have her sent
TO the poor house, but the request was re-
FUSED, because the children were able to take
care OF her. A lawyer told them that if they
took her to the police station and left her
there the city authorities would have to take
her IN charge, They followed this advice and
LETT her in front of the building. In compass
SION the poormaster sent her to the almshouse
but he will proceed against the children. One
son only IS willing to do something toward
ms mothers support, but he canuot take en-
tire charge of her because his own wife Is
sick and feeble.-N z Sun
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

KILLED HIS Own CHILD IN ANGER,--Ar-
instead Gray, a colored man who occupies a
house on the premises of Mr. 'Chas. II. Jones,
near C@sartown, Powhatan county, Virginia,
bad two children living with him. a son aoed
thirteen and daughter aged ten Grey had
been complaining of being sick and sent his
son to get him five cents worth ofFmolasses.
The boy drank half the molasses and fearing
punishment filed up the bottle with water
thinking thus to conceal his guilt. Armis-
tead discovered The trick and waS.sO angered
that he set upon him with heavy stick and
felled him to the floor, fIacturing the skull
and producing death in a few hours The
father then carefully removed the clothing
from the dead body and secreted them Grew
was arrested, his little daughter testifying
against him. Lynch law is threatened. This
IS the second murder of this kind that has
been committed in Powhatan county recent
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

SOME DIVORCE FACTs.-Divorce
statistics in England show one petition
in every 300 marriages, and although
the proportion has doubled in the last
few years, it is not to be compared with
the divorce rate of Connecticut, where,
of Protestant marriages, one in every
eight is annulled by the Courts. But
although England has not yet reached
the rate Of New England-even in Mas
sachusetts the Protestant divorce rate
is one in fifteen-lt seems to be on the
road. TheiConnecticut omnibus law of
1S43-which, however, was found to be
too wide even for New England-grant-
ed divorce for ''any such misconduct as
permanently destroys the happiness Of
the petitioner and defeats the purpose
of the marriage relation" AS yet moth
ing Of the kind is proposed in England,
but even under the existing law the
number of divorce cases has enormously
increased. In France, where the Re-
publican party is pledged to legaliZe di-
vorce, legal separations have gone up
fIom one in 81 marriages in 1S40-50 to
one in 80 in 1S50-70. In Belgium the
ratio of divorces has risen from one in
576 in 1S40 to one in 2e0 in 1874. The
evidence as to the effects of the faculty
OF divorce is siugularly incomplete.
Strange to say, it seems 70 make little
or no difference in the average tate Of
immortality. SOnth Carolina allows no
divorces. North Carolina has divoI ce
law that is singularly Lar, yet no one can
ind the moral difference between the
two. Divorce is nOt legal in Franc e,
but ParisiaEs are not more moral than
Bostonians, who aunul one marriage in
every fifteen. New York has the strict
est of divorce laws. Maine gives every
Judge liberty to divorce whom he pleas
es, yet is New York as pure as Maine
Whatever may be the result of social
morals, facility of divorce by seriously
threatens the family institution.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

WATERNELOEs N JANUARY. The family
OF Peter MatsOn, living near Burlington, n.
J., eat watermelOns for dinner every day
and expect to 90 so all winter. MatsOn laid
away go melons during the season, preser-
wing them by a process which he processes to
have Invented, He vanished each melon
all over and then sealed up the stem Not
long ago he invited number Of his friends
to dinner and brought ont three large water
melons for desert. His guests all united in
saying that they never tasted more delicious
melons even in the regular season The
news of MatsOn's preserving powers reach
ed large fTuit-dealeT in PHILADELPHIA. and
a representative of the dealer went to Bur
llngton and requested the privilege of tasting
some of the fruit. He pronounced them de-
hclous, and at once negotiated for fiftv of
the melons. MatsOn hesitated some time
but has at last concluded to part with a nor
ton OF his stock, as the price offered was
very large. They are to be placed on sale at
fabulous prices in Philadelphia in a few
days. The dealer wants Matson to preserve
several thousand next summer or else sell
him his process Local physicians declare
that the varnish used to preyeut the melons
from spelling is sufficient to have poisoned
all those who have partnken of them. vet
the members Of the family never enioved
better health-N T. World
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

DR. +. Y. PIERCE, Buffalo, y. Y. : Dear
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Prescription has done Tor me, / had been
great sufferer from female complaints, es-
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during much Of the time unable to work.
paid out hundreds OF dollars without any
benefit tin I took three bottles Of the 'Fa-
vorite Prescription" and never had any
thing do me so much good in my life. I ad-
wise every sick lady to take it.
Mrs, EMILY RHODES, McBrides. Mich.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

CLARKsoE \. POTTER, an eminent
citizen of New York, whose reputation
was national, died in shat city on the
23d inst, in the 56th year of his age
Mr.. Potter was an ardent and influential
Democrat. and first engaged the .atten-
tion of the country by his constitutional
arguments during the dispute over the
election of Fraud Hayes, and later by
his work as chairman of the now cele-
brated Potter Committee of Inquiry ap-
pointed by the House OF Representatives.
After leaving Congress lie was not con-
spiouous in politics, but took an active
part in the affairs of the country in a
quiet way
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

IT has been a superstition among the hum
tiers of Pike county that to kill white deer
would take away all good luck from any one
80 thoughtless as to fire the fatal shot White
deer are among the rare animals that roam
the woods. They are so rare, in fact that
many people believe them to be myths. Old
hunters declare that they have seen deer as
white as snow bounding over the pike coun-
tY ridges in years gone by, and relate in
stances of the fate which overlook men who
were so lash rs to kill them. HOrnbeck
ShrlneT killed the last one, despite the warn
ings of the old hunters his health, rugged
as an oX's began to fail him and his $50, 600
fortune all melted, and he died in the midst
Of domestic trouble. Two companions shared
an almost similar fate. So speaks the cold
hunter in the New York sun
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

a $50 BIBLICAL REwARD.-The publish
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

COvIDS'T Fool HIN.-A newly-married
pair on their wedding tour stopped at Hotel
Bennett on Friday, says the Binghamton u.
/ } Leader, and, being given a room, were
escorted TO the elevator. After viewing the
interior Of the little room in the elevator, the
groom stepped out and asked the clerk if he
took him for a EreenhoTn. The clerk replied
in the negative. "Then give me room with
a bed in II" replied the uEsOphisticated
young man. Matters were explained, and
the elevator shot upward to the third story
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-27

CONSIDERABLE excitement exists at Leba-
non, Ohio, over the eIhuming Of several hu-
man skeletons found under the old Bilmyre
house, now being torn down. The building
has probably stood 50 years. Several theO-
ries are advanced as to how the skeletons got
there, but no satisfactory conclusion can be
given at present The excavation for eYi-
dence to further unrayel the mystery Is in
progress, and some new light may be let in
upon it in a few days.