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The National tribune., 1882-02-11
SHOT FROM A CATAPULT.

Our fellow-citizen, Bill Jones-so called-was
one among the large crowd that attended the cir
Gus a few weeks ago in this city. The feature
that attracted Mr.. Jones' attention more than
anything else was the wonderful catapult-the
flying machine-and the daring Lu Lu. The
catapult is a wonderful machine, and is so con-
structed that by the agency of large number of
rubber cords it will throw man great ways in
the air, giving him several evolutions before
alighting This trick excited the imitativeness
of Mr.. Jones, and he told Johnnie Doe and Dick
Roe, in confidence, that he could fix up a machine
that would fling him as far as the catapult did
Lu Lu, and a small wager was put up to stimu-
late Jones in the undertaking.
Now, be it known, Mr.. Jones is the man who
has been run over by freight train, and 240
trotter, in full tilt, knocked him within an acre
of the further bank of the dark river, and the
hard side of brick on another occasion came
near taking the half of his head of, yet, being
unbaff1ed he built catapult of his own deEising.
The machine was easily constructed, being made
of two good-sized hickory saplings, bent down and
cut off about fifteen feet from the earth. Across
these plank was fastened, upon which the
would-be Lu Lu was to lay himself At about
the distance he imagined he would fall large
lot of loose hay was placed, so as to make the
descent easy. Everything being put in a circus
like order, Johnnie Doe and Dick Roe and the
boys in the neighborhoed were notified to be on
hand.
The catapult was sprung by means Of a wind
lass and strong rope. Now" said Jones,
putting himself in position in way that would
have excited the envy of Lu Lu the original,
"when say ready, cut the chord and turn it
loose" Everything was arranged and the COM
mand given. Dick clipped the chord, and Jones
went up as if he had been shot from two hun
dred-pound gun, and Johnnie Doe says he went
up as high as the weather-cock on the court
house steeple. He passed forty feet beyond the
hay pile and fell in close proximity to big
stump. The only injury received by Mr.. Jones
was five broken ribs, nose dislOcated, knocked
breathless, and one arm a little out of socket.
His physician says he will recover.-Griffn (GG.)
SuD
The National tribune., 1882-02-11

compelled nv German friend to accept gratui-
ty and waited for the stage.
1t was rare enjoyment to me when the latter
drove up and I entered to study the expression
of the two men who had shadowed me all the way
from ST. Louis and had doubtless arranged the
robbery for the purpose Of making sure Of the
diamonds I carried with me. They never heard,
and unless they come across this sketch, they
will never know how it was that the man who
carried this concentrated wealth and whom they
left i'll in Austin on the 10th day of May, 1876,
stood on the porch of the hotel in New Braun
fels on the afternoon of the same day, when the
stage drove up and iourneyed with them to San
Antonio, where the property was safely placed
in the hands of the owner and by him presented
to his daughter that same evening.
The National tribune., 1882-02-11
To TELL. THE HOUR,

Seat yourself at a table; attach piece of
metal (say shilling) to thread; having placed
YOUR elbow on the table, hold the thread between
the points of the thumb and foretinger, and allow
the shilling to hang in the centre of glass
tumbler; the pulse will Immediately cause the
shilling to vibrate like pendulum, and the
vibrations will increase until the shilling strikes
the sides of the glass; and suppose the time Of
experiment be Z, OF 73O, the pendulum will strike
the glass seven times, and then lose its momentum
and return to the centre. Ifyou hold the thread
a sufficient length of time the effect will be re-
peated, but not until sufficient space of time
has elapsed to convince you that the experiment
is complete. We need not add that the thread
must be held with steady hand, otherwise the
vibrating motion would be contracted. Atwhat-
ever hour of the day or night the experiment is
made the coincidence will be the same.
The National tribune., 1882-02-11
A SPECIAL WARNING

Our Choupique correspondent writes US, says
Louisiana paper, that at ten o'clock on the even
ing of the Goth ult. Mr. Martin Delehaute, one
of the regular mill hands at Rabalais' mill, On
Choupiaue, saw, not far from his house, man
on a white horse, standing perfectly still and
having his arm extended. He went to see who
it was when it vanished into air. He took this
to be the foreboding of some evil to occur either
to himself or his family. He told his wife all
about his vision, and on the next day would not
90 into the swamp to cut logs as he had done
before. On the following day he was sent for,
but did not like to go on account of having
presentiment that something was to happen to
him on that day. However, he took his axe and
went to the chopping, and on finding nobody
there he turned back toward home.
On his way back he met Mr.. Tancrede Mayeux
going to the chopping who requested him to go
back with him to chop some saw logs. He told
him that he did not like to go, but would help
him until ten o'clock a. nl., after which time he
would not hit another lick. They accordingly
went to the chopping and went to work. They
cut one tree, which lodged and in order to get
that tree to the ground they concluded to cut
another tree across the lodged one, which would
tree was nearly cut off he remarked 10 MS COM
ron;on that II was about ten o'clock and that ne
wonld give the tree one more lick which would
he the last one, when the tree twisted around
throwing him with his head against bunch of
roots. and the tree falling on his head fractured
his skull. Mr.. Mayeux just escaped by one foot
of space.
At precisely ten o'clock a. m, thirty-six hours
after Mr.. Delehaute saw the aforementioned
vision. Mr.. A E. Rabalas, seated on white
horse, stopped at precisely the same spot, and in
the same attitude where Mr.. Delehaute had
seen the vision, and gave Mrs. Delehaute the
startling information that her husband was
very nearly killed, and then hastily rode off IN
search of DR.. Cullum. DR.. Cullum arrived, but
the unfortunate man was beyond the reach OF
medical skill, and died at sundown of the same
day.
The National tribune., 1882-02-11
THE KING.
GRACE s. WELLS.

One comes to her in kingly garb and guise,
She hears the wary world his praises sing,
And listening shyly with a pleased SURPRISE
She owns the hope that now at last her eyes
Behold the King.
Yet still doubt her maiden spirit grieves,
Loves perfect trust his presence fails to bring
And in each tender romance that she weaves
Why is it that she never quite believes
He Is the kinge
Another comes unnoticed and alone,
About his life no royal glamors cling;
The world has never branded him her own,
Yet to one heart the certain truth is known
That he is King.
Now can her soul the shafts of doubt defy,
His voice from truth has caught the royal ring.
No substitute can shine when he is by;
Disguises fail and life is grand and high,
For he is King.
The National tribune., 1882-02-11

The Agriculturist recommends wood creosote
for bronchitis and catarrh, with good medical
authority-in accord, for aught we know, with
the microscopic insect germ theory of disease.
C1eosote is the essence of smoke, used, we have
read. for curing hams. Smoky freplaces for
wood and peat are time-honored dlslnfectants
and curatives The sandal-wood incense favored
by the Chinese in their joss houses is doubtless
an evidence of the pious regard of an ancient
race for the curative power Of smoke, and a good
word may be said perhaps, for that curious out
come of modern civilization-the smoking car
since we must account for its existence in some
way.
The National tribune., 1882-02-11

Divide and rule, the politician cries;
Unite and lead, is the watchword OF the wise.
Go north and south on German ground
Eastward and westward wander,
Two nasty things you'll find abound
Tobacco smoke and SANDER.
The National tribune., 1882-02-11

The Census Office has just published a report
on the production OF bituminous coal in the
United States. 1t appears that the total amount
of bitEminous coal mined in the United States
during the census year 1880 was 40 42O, $50 tons,
of which total 90 S42 ,24O tons were produced in
the Appalachian coal-feld. Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania, furnished over one-tenth and the
States OF Pennsylvania Illinois, and Ohio nearly
three-fourths of the entire product. The average
price per ton at the mine in 1880 was 81 %,
while in 1870 it was 81 80, at cost of SO cents
The anthracite product was % 995 tons, nearly
all furnished by the State of Pennsylvania,
making the total coal product of the country for
the census year Il ,O67 $40 tons
England produced Jag, ,122 tons in the same
year.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-12-08

ONE murder and two attempts at
murder having been lately committed
in Dublin, the government of Queen
Victoria has placed that city under
what is known as the ''curfew'' section
of the Repression act. The curfew law
was first established aboute erght hundred
years ago by King William, the Con-
queror, when he came over from Nor.
mandy, in France, and subdued Eng
land. The law became obsolete in Eng
land ages ago, and was only revived at
intervals when rebellion reared its head:
but Ireland has often been subject to
its enforcement. 1t is very instructive
to see this old law Of the Norman con-
queror enforced by a so-called liberal
government against a portion of its own
subjects in the last quarter of the nine
. teenth century. The section is as fol-
lows
Tn proclaimed district n a person is ont
Of his place ot abode at any time after one
hour after sunset and before sunrise under
suspicious circumstances any constable NAV
arrest that person aud bring him forthwith
before Justice Of the Peace, and such JUS
tice, after inquiry into the circumstance of
the case, may either discharge him OF take
the necessary steps by committing him "a
prison or taking bail TO bring him before a
court Of jurisdiction acting under this act
and u such person, on appearing before a
court Of summary jurisdiction, acting under
this act, fails TO satisfy the court that be was
ont of his place OF abode upon some Lawful
occasion or business, he shall be guilty of an
Otfense against this act"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-12-08

SIMON CAMERON was II. the city OF
New York last week, or. what is called
ia politics d "missi0D 81 having FOR its
purpose the recoD ciliation of the two
fighting faction1. of the Republican par.
ty IN the stat that has just elected a
Democratic Governor by a majority of
nearly two hundred Thousand. Gamer
on's err and looks like big thing to un-
derJS'6e in bis old DAYS. and especially
SO 'Vhen the desperate condition OF his
wn son in this State is taken into con-
/. sideration, One would suppose that he
would turn his entire attention towards
putting together theshattered fragments
of the Republican machine in Pennsyl-
vania, instead OF trying to play the part
Of pacifcator between the two hostile
factions in New York, But Simon is
ambitions and believes that if he can
evolve harmony out OF discord in New
York he will be entitled TO the graft
tude of the grand old party al over the
country. It is too soon yet to know what
the outcome OF Simon's New York mis-
sion will be, but time will tell. It is
strange what false and mistaken esti-
mate some men entertain of Simon Cam
eron who ought to be familiar with his
political career. The editor of the Johns
town Tribune, for instance, in referring
to CameTon'S New York mission. speaks
of him as mot only one of the greatest
men the country has ever produced, but
one of the best, most unselfsh. - etc.
thus making political saint out of one
Of the most notorious political corrup-
tionists that has ever been known in
this State. In this connection it is re-
lated of Abraham Lincoln that a few
days before he started for Washington
in 1861 70 assume the duties of Prpsi-
dent, he was visited at his home in IIli-
nOis by FIVE or six leading and we'll
known Pennsylvania Republicans. for
the purpose of inducing him to abandon
what was generally supposed to be his
intention of making Cameron a member
of his cabinet. When they had stated
at length and in very decided terms the
danger to his administration of Gamer
on's selection, Lincoln after moments
reflection. put to them this question :
Gentlemen. don't vOu think that Cam
erOn has made money enough to afford
now TO be honest"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-12-08

Il CHESTER COUNTY cOTresnondart
writing to the Philadelphia Press alleges
that although the State Geological Com
mission has its report upon that county
IN the hands of the PRIMER. no single
member OF the survey has done anv
work within its boundaries. the Com
mission having simply used an old ceo-
logical survey Of the county made nv
Henry Rogers. the State Gpolorisf az
far back rs 1893, We have seen com
plants made in the papers of some 9th.
er counties about the way IN which the
work OF the survey had been conducted
II has been n source Of verv great ev-
pense to the State ever since the Com
mission was authorized by the Legis,a-
ture in 19-. At the last session of that
body, when an unusually large appro-
priation was asked for, it was stated on
the floor Of the Senate upon the author
ity OF the head of the Commission that
If the sum then stipulated was granted
1t would finish the survey. If an effort
is made at the coming session for an
other appropriation it ought to be resfs-
ted and an investigation made of the
charge In regard to the Chester county
survey and others equally explicit. If
the survey has become mere iob &c
seemed 10 be suspected by the1ast 60
lsiature. II ought 10 he exposed and
brought 70 sudden termination.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-12-08

IN Dublin, on last Saturday night, a
summons was served upon Michael Da-
witt, commanding him to appear in the
Court of Queen $ Bench on Tuesday last
and enter into recognizance for his good
behavior. The writ is founded on q
speech delivered by him at Navan on
the preceding Sunday, He promised to
appear and defend himself in person and
not by counsel, and he also stated that
he would decline entering into recogni-
zance, preferring to go to prison. We
are unable to state what occurred in
court on Tuesday. Mr.. Healy was also
summoned to appear az the same time
to answer to the charge of having made
Il seditiOus speech. The friends of both
gentlemen urge them to enter into the
required security.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-12-08

THE Democratic City Committee Of
Philadelphia has turned over new leaf
in the conduct Of political committees
by publishing a statement Of its recefpts
and expenditures during the Iass cam
paign. The accounts were. all audited
bva competent committee, whose report
shows q balance in the campaign treas
ury of $500 after the payment Of all de-
mands. If Mr.. Henssl. Chairman of
the State Committee, deemed IT ncces-
sary to publish a similar statement If
the receipts and disbursements of his
committee, it would Doubtless be alike
creditahle. But as TO Cooper. Chairman
Of Cameron's State Committee. what
would be the character Of his report >
1t 1T were truthfullv made it would af-
ford mighty interesting reading. and
would show what it cost to run the late
Republican campaign with such disas-
trous results. There is no danger. how
ever. that Cooper will ever let the peo-
pie know the financial operations of his
committee. The experiment would be
dangerous.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-12-08

TUE official returns Of the late cleo
tion in this State show that the Probib-
ition candidate for Governor received a
tribe over 5000 votes. A few years ago
the same party was able to poll twenty
thousand votes for it's nominee. Where
have all these votes gone Perbaps
they were cast for Pattison. Beaver or
Stewart, each Of whom is undersrood
70 he practical temperance man. some
% the igUres Of the Prohibition vote are
peculiarly instructive. IN the five conn.
tles OF Adams, Armstrong. Forest In
niata and Pike not single Prohibition
vote was returned. In fifteen other
connties, some Of them quite popu'ons
the total Prohibition vote amounts ooIv
TO 30. In Potter county, in which there
Is not a licensed tavern. lust three votas
were given for Prohibition candidates
and at the coming session of the Legis-
lature the member Of the House from
that county will modestIy ask on Behalf
OF these three voters that a prohibitorv
amendment shall be Submitted to \ vote
OF the people Of the entire State. In
Philadelphia, with population of $50
900, only 80 prohibition votes were cast.
ana IN Montgomery county. where more
noise about prohibitorV amendment
was made than in any other part of the
State, Petit, the Prohibition candidate
Tor Governor, received only 81 votes. If
there really is a Prohibition party in
ms state, il lacks at the polls the cour
sge OF its convictions.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-12-08

TIE German Parliament is now con-
sidering an ordinance prohibiting the
importation from America, thirty DAYS
after its passage, OF hogs, pork, bacon
and all kinds Of sausagss. The object
Of ';his law is, of course, to protect the
people Of Germany against the introduc-
ti"m into that country Of cheap Ameri-
ie an pork. A year ago, owing to the
t9 ,ilure Of the cabbage crop in this conn
Try, a vast amount OF sauer-kraut was
Imported from Germany into New Y ork.
Baltimore and other ports, ard in view
of this arbitrary prohibition Of the
American pig'and its products into Bis
marck's domiuions, the present Bepub-
lican Congress ought to retaliate by i'm
posing a prohibitory duty on Dutch cab
bage and all the forms into which it is
manufactured,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-12-08

THE Pittsburg Post, which knows all
such things, tells how the Democratic
newspapers came TO print the rooster on
the day after political victories In In
diana in 1874 at some local election pre-
liminaTy to the general election in the
state, the Democrats Unexpectedly
scOoped the Wings, and letter from an
active Democrat communicating the
views to the editor began with the in-
junction "Crotg. Chapman, Cro,o, - Sure
enough, Chapman did crow. and using
these words as a headline in his next
days issue, first introduced the Demo-
cratic ROSTERS as the harbinger of vic
tory. The Whig. and later the Repub-
hcan coon was one of the properties in
the log cabin and hard cider campaign
of 1S40, when the enthusiasm OF the
Wings found vent in all sorts of odd
cOnceitS. 1t was the fashion in that
canvass to construct log cabins for poll
tical meetings, ard, in backwOOds style
a cOonskin was nailed alongside of the
cabin door. to be cured CT dried. This
is common sight now in coOn-hunting
regions of the mountains, and in TS40 it
was supposed to sym boliZed frontier l;fe
and the incidents of ''Old Tippecanoe's''
pioneer days. The first paper in the
URi.ed States to use the elephant as a
symbol of Republican victories was the
BeTbS and ScblsylEiIJ olTnal of Reading
1t was in the Lincoln campaign of 1860.
when that animal was first trotted out.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-12-08

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, according
20 the Atchison Champion, is made up
of vices. such as slavery, secession. dis
loyalty, reputation. bull-dOzing. false
counting Of votes, ballot-box stufiing,
intimidation solid South and free trade
But for scarcity of paper in the editor
lal rooms the Champion would have ad-
dsd X b. Hayes, heavy snow-storms,
short crops of peanuts, shoe-tacks Robe
son, John Roach, foods on the Missis-
sippi, Malone, carpet -baggers, worms
in peaches, wooden nutmegs, Butter
worth, Guiteau, Starroutes. comets and
collapse of the grand old party of moral
ideas The World has forwarded to-
dayby express o the Champion office six
bottles of Mrs. Wmslow' s soothing syrup
carriage paid. --Nsss York World, sd.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-12-08

sTweekNahOne's Board Of Canvas
sers Of the Virginia election met at
Richmond and issued certificates to six
Repudiationist and four Democratic
candidates for Congress. The way in
which the Board counted out Gen. Car
rison, the Democratic candidate in the
First district, whose majority over MI.
Mayo. the Malone candidate, was Sc.
was very peculiar. It so happened That
Gloucester county gave Garrison 81 ma
j0rity, Just one more than his entire ma
joritv in the district. The Board threw
out the entire vote Of that county on the
ground that In certifying 70 the returns
the county clerk had used the seal of the
Circuit Court instead os the seal Of the
County Court. although the clerk was
there inperson TO prove that the original
seal was 50 much defacpd that It had
not been used for vearq-tbat the Cir
cuit Court seal was used on all official
d0ruments-that If was considered and
accepted as the county seal. and that
the vote of the county last wear. certii-
ed nnder the same seal as given to Gov
ernor Cameron and the other Mahona
candidates. was received and counted.
II was necessary. however, for Mahones
purpose that Garrison should he cheat
ed ont of his certificates. and it was
done bv disfranchiseing the entire coun-
". In case so fragrant as this, if a
Democratic Congress don't make short
work of MAYO and his false certificate
when his case comes to he heard, an
9 honest ballot and fair count'' is a
meaningless phrase,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-12-08
Remember This.

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If you are costive or dyspeptie, or are suf-
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If you are wasting away with any form Of
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II you are sick with that terrible sickness
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ead'' in the use of Hop BitteTs.
II you are frequenter, or a resident of a
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In short thew cure all Diseases Of the stam-
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Ih3t poor, bedridden, invalid wife sister,
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-12-08

MYSTERY CLEARED UP-The diving
revelation of the late ThurIow Weed. the
veteran journalist, concerning the death Of
william Morgan is a document of absorbing
interest. Il clears a mystery that has over
shadnwed the public mind for more than half
a century, His sworn statement is so clear
that were all the parties now living. the al
legged murderers might be brought to trial
and convicted.
For nifty years has this secret been looked
within the breast of the veteran politician
Inc reasons re manifest. The information
was Vouchsattd by participator i'm the
crime II was given in a friendly spirit to
De used with care as a weapon Of defence
~hen MI Weed was hard pressed in a court
of law. The arbitrary ruling of the Judge
rendered IT'S use unnecessary, and gratitude
TO the friend who preferred it made the Sc
.Cret violate
The death of all who were nearly concern
ed !n the disappearance of Morgan unlocked
the lips OF the only man who retained the Sc.
cret, and It's now given publicly for the first
time in this authentic form