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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27

Oliver L. Benton, a young man employ
ed as telegraphsoperat0r at the pumping
station of the-T Water Pipe Line near
Muncy, fell about forty feet on Sunday last
from a chestnut tree, and was terribly cut
and bruised about the face and BODY, and At
first it was feared that ne had sustained in
ternal injuries. In his fall he=landed on a
pile OF stones, and his escape from instant
death was almost miraculous
"A miraculous escape from death occur
red at MckeeSpOTt, Pa, on Sunday evening
A party of young men were on the top floor
of the Opera House, which is in course OF
erection, when one of them, Rem Miller,
stepped on the brick elevator, which had not
been properly fastened and immediately
dropped with him to the ground, distance
of 20 feet, rebouudiug several feet and throw
ing Miller into the street. The crowd below
expected to find Miller dead, but although
severely shaken up and bruisd, his recovery
IS not considered impossible.
An engineer on the New Pine Creek,
jersey Shore 4 Buffalo railroad, climbed
rocky bluH on Pine Creek, Pa, TO make an
observation, He was holding on TO a small
tree, some nifty feet up the almost perpeudic-
ulaT bluff, when he was alarmed al seeing
huge Tattiesnake preparing to spring at him.
In flash he had 20 decide whether to drop
to the bottom Of the bluff and probably
break his neck or 70 grasp the snake with his
other hand. HO chose the later as the lesser
of the two evils. seized the rattlesnake with
a firm grip in the left hand. hurled il from
him down the precipIce and saved his own
life
The WeStmOreland Democrat OF this
week says While driving down a hill yes
teTday morning, Mr.. John Smith. who re-
sides about five miles from this place, on the
Salem road, met with an accident by which
it is most remarkable that he did not lose
his life. Mr., Smith was engaged in drawing
a rubber and while in the act, placing the
whole weight of his body theron, the lever
broke, and, falling in front of the fore wheel,
both it and the hind wheel passed directly
over his neck. The wagon was loaded with
about six tons of lime stone and with all this
weight running over him Mr.. Smith got up
apparently very little hurt, if any.
AT Eastman, Ca, at one O'Clock on Fri
day last, Reddick Powell, Simon OguInn, Joe
King, Bob Donaldson and Ella Moore, ne
grOes were hanged in the jail-yaTd for com
plicity in n riot which occurred at that place
August 9th during a camp-meetingin which
a young white man named James Harvard
was set upon by an infuTiated mob, and after
being shot by one of them was beaten almost
to a jelly by others. The woman raised the
first howl which excited the mob to the des-
perate work. No attempt was made to res
cue them, and not more than fifty negroes
from whom violence was expected were in
town. A detachment Of military from Macon
was present for protection.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27

PHIPP's ASTOUNDING THEFT.-The Record
puollsnes an exposure of Phipp's almhouse
frauds. The article saws that PhiDp's stole
a total OF $3.50, 900 in nine years that he
made bargain when elected superintendent
in July, 1873, to divide the profits of his Of
nee with four members Of the board of guar
dams OF the poor, and that under this agree
ment S75, 900 was stolen every year. He
managed to steal $40, 600 between January
ana Juty of the present year after city coun-
els had instituted an investigation. of the
charges against him. Pbipps supported fif-
Teen families. Among them were those OF
poor guardians, five contractors, and two
discharged employees. A pass book shows
market supplies for various persons at
PhIpps' expense amounting to S29, 900. In
1876 Phipps expended $4,000 for cigars,
which he scattered in electioneering.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27

TIE Johnstown Tribune. on two or
three occasions. Of late. made the charge
that Chauncev T. Black. the Democrat
ic candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
twas drunk and made hog Of himself
at Bedford. UniOntown and several 9th
er places, - and that che is now no bet
ter nor no worse than he has been for
twenty years past - We don't suppose
the editor Of the Tribune knew ANYTHING
about how Mr.. Black conducted himself
at Bedford. UniOntOwn. and other pla-
cess but that being always ready to
pick M a slander against a Democratic
candidate for office. and roll it under his
tongue as a sweet morsel, he quietly
transferred the charge from the Pitts
burg Commercial Gazette to the columns
Of the Tribune and adopted it as his own.
The Lancaster EIrunline7 published the
same story. and Walter NJ. Franklin, a
leading Republican Of that city stated
last week TO the editor of the Lancaster
h1teljqepcer that he had received dis
patch from Mr.. Farquhar, of York,
where lChaUncev T. Black resides, Mr..
Farquhar being a Republican. stating
that the charge i'm the ErnD7iner was
false-that he lFarquhar) had been so
informed by reliable parties in Bedford
and UniOntnwn-thath he had known Mr.
Black for twenty years-knew his hab-
its to be uneXceptionable. and that he
was as good a man as q Democrat could
be made" Besides this. the charge
was promptly denied as a bold ard ma
ked lie by tha Democratic papers pub
lished at the places referred to. Repub-
iican testimony like that of Mr.. Farqu-
har stamps the charge as an Infamous
falsehOOd. The Tribune AYERS that Mr..
Black has1heen in the habit of getting
drunk for twenty years. but Farquhar.
who lives in the same town with him.
SAYS he has known him for twenty years
and knows that his habits are good. or,
in other words. that he is a sober man.
VIII the Tribune do Mr.. Black Justice.
by publishing Mr.. Farquhar's denial of
the charge in his dispatch to Walter NJ.
Franklin We will see.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27

Not he, faix. Some av his dirthy work
an double dalin's got wind the day av the
lection, so that before twilva O'Clock it was
almost murther-to mintion his name near the
polls. l know'd nothin' av it, though, bein'
all the morDin' drummin' up vothers, whin
URhIhon KEN to me an aXed me to go down
an make speech for him an rally the
ooys, as he said some vagabonds were belly
IN MIN so on started like a CANNON as 1
was 10 where the boys was gathered, and
gettn, on stool began: 'Vothers of the
ward, SeZ L, don't be dhrawn away by the
conoquin' av inimies. but vote the regular
Ulcket, for George Washington Cannon, the
poor mans fTiend-tbe honest / had
hardly the words out av me mouth when the
stnool was tripped from unther me an
Ielt meSef sprawlin' in the sthreet. Pitch
INTO MN, seq one 'muTther him. seZ an
other It's lettin' him off chape We are, seZ
Mike Mulligan, maxim a dhrift at me-
'Aisy, gintlemin,' sez I. give poor boy a
chance; : and with that took the measure
or Tim Finnegan's nose wild me fist, and
Knocked Ted O'Brien's teeth out wild me ell
DOW. For fifteen or twenty minutes we had
as purity a runnin' fight as you'd wish TO
see; but they was too much for me. l de-
clare to We that II it wasn't for the blessin'
av heaven and Paddy Doolins cellar door,
that was open, by raison of which fell in
an broke two of me ribs, the sOrra a screed
they'd av left me. But that is not all Six
weeks after, whin KEN out av the hospital
what do you think Cannon towld me ?''
"Troth, dunno, Tim"
"He towld me that he wished meself and
all the bloody Irish was in HI that it was
n disgrace for any dacent man to be con-
sarned wiO them, and if / showed my piaty
face niCh his door agin, he'd set the dogs on
me. From that blissed minute me mind
was made up. I swore agin politics, took
the pledge, and now. thanks he to God, I'm
a dacent man agin, and name to stay sO.'
"Well, dear knows. Tim, but YOU was
badly trated. You've convinced me that
Irishmen 'ud be more respected an bether
citizens II they'd Just vote accOrdin' to the
best av their own thinkin'. When they be-
come politicians they make asses OF them
selves. Like yourself, Tim, [ will take the
pledge and swear off politics." G. Ms.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27

GEN. BEAVER addressed a meeting of
his torlorn and dispiTited friends at
JohD.stown on last Friday evening. Har-
n BOggs, who is about as much of Re-
publican at heart as we are, made a
speech as is a speech. We once read of
/ a Connecticut fiddler who always ended
the tune he began playing with Yankee
Doodle. And so it is with Harry Boggs'
| speeches. No matter what the subject
| is upon which he starts out, he invaria-
| bly, winds up with q dissertation on the
| tariff-that question being his political
meat and drink. Boggs evidently be-
/ lieves that the people are all fools, for
/ in his speech he exclaimed: "MaIk what
| 1 say, if the Democrats are triumphant
your Tariff with a big T) will be re-
pealed, as it was in 1916 ?'' When the
Democrats after the election. in 1874
controlled the lower branch of Congress
for six years and the Senate for a por-
tion Of the same time, did they attempt
to repeal Harry Boggs' dearly beloved
tariff ? Not much. Boggs will find
out on the morning after the election
that the people can't be fooled any long
er by this cheap cry about the tariff.
That kind Of argument has had its day.
and is now as Intellectual as the once po-
tent Republican appeal to the North
against the ''old rebel veil. -" But Boggs
means business and that promptly. Lis
ten to him:
"There is plenty Of time to get warmed MP
IN this campaign. 7 want Won to meet me on
saturday night down Al the Market HOuse
and let MS 90 into this business in earnest
and vou will find that we viii he lust as vic
orlonS as we were during the war: YOU will
@ ulu Lilat we VIII arouse spirit that will
sweep over the entire cOmmnnftv-ove+ the
entire southern DOrtfon Of nur county and
permeate into other counties and we will
ne triumphant at the polls. have no doubt
about Beavers election"
That Market House meeting on Sat
urdav night was NJ doubt a big thing
and foreshadowed the political fate of
Robert z. Pattison in Western PennsvI-
vania. The wall Of Boggs and men of
his stripe in the Hancock and Garfield
campaign, two years ago. was: ''Tf Han
cock is elected. this establishment will
close" eff you want your iron mills
closed and all industries dependent upon
them being brought TO a stand-sti1 vote
for Hancock" Well. Hancock wasn't
elected, hut Garfield was, and ane hun
drPd thousand men for months were
ont Of work. and the present tariff in
full operation all the same. Time and
again has this stale crv about the tariff
being in danger if the Democrats get
into mower been re-hashed and the work
ingmen have too often swallowed the w.
ing bait. But they have got their eyes
open since 1880 and will not now even
nibble at II.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27

Controller Pattison, of Philadelphia,
the Democratic candidate for Governor,
has made a tour of the State, and is
again housed at home. not to leave it un-
til after the election, except te-visit two
of the important points left untouched
in his travels.
Mr.. Patsison was personal stranger
to most of those whom he met. They
only knew him through the story of his
economical administration of his Office,
The public were anxious to see him and
hear him speak. The impression that
he seems to have created is that he is a
practical, unassuming man, who. in Of
fee, would carefully perform his duties.
turning neither to the right nor to the
left to prosecute political schemes. The
popular verdict is that he is not as able
a speaker as Stewart that he lacks even
the readiness of Beaver; that in COM
mon sense and straightforward, business
like views he is the peer or either. This,
in brief, is the estimate placed upon Pat
tisOn.
1t must appear, then, that Mr.. Patti
sons only crime is that he is a Demo-
crat. and this is probably enough to
prevent any Republican from voting for
him. But Republicans cannot prevent
his election by ing for Beaver. The
prospect OF electlng Beaver is complete
ly faded. The only hope of the Stall
warts was that they could frighten the
people into a reaction by howl about
the tariff. This has utterly failed, and
the Stalwart cause is prone upon It's
back. Therefore, if Republicans do not
want even so clean-handed and safe a
Democrat as Pattison elected, they
should 90 in a body to the Independent
ticket. which, none can deny, represents
pure. .old-fashioned Repuhlicanism. This
is all that can save the State to the Re-
publicans.
OF course there is a way by which Re-
publlcans can still prove that they hold
numerical supremacy, even though Pat
tisOn be elected That is by splitting
the party and giving the Independents
and Stalwarts each half. But it would
doubtless be much more satisfactory to
all Republicans to elect Republican
State officers. The only way to do this
is to vote for the entire Stalwart ticket.
Even the most sanguine Stalwart poll
iticians have in their hearts abandoned
all hope, and their only desire is to de-
ceive those who follow them into be-
lief that there is yet a fighting chance,
and thus prevent them from Joining the
INDEPENDENTS. The Stalwarts accuse
the Independents of preferring Patti
sons election to Beavers. Perhaps so.
But will any Stalwart DENY that he pre-
fers PattisOn's election TO Stewart IS
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27

JUST on the eve of All election. saws
the Altoona Sun, Gen. Campoell. who
has not bothered himself much during
his Official term as member of Congress
abOutihiS constituents. comes to the front
with bait for the Altoona people We
are promised free delivery or mail car
riers by the 1st of November. Does
anybody believe that if General Camp
bell were not candidate for re- e-electiOn
he would not have given the matter a
thought No. But something has to
be done to heal the disaffection of his
constituents here and the government is
called upon to assist him by the show Of
free mail delivery. That is all well
enough but the people have very little
confidence in Gen. Campbell's sincerity.
They know the scheme too we'll What
we want is a new pOst-ofice building
one which will afford ample space and
accommOdations-suc building as
city of %, 600 inhabitants needs Had
Gen. Campbell inserted a clause for such
a building in the appropriation bills, we
would think that he cared at least to
some extent for his constituents.
General COffroth, while in Congress,
had a bill introduced for a new pOst-Of-
fice-and had he been retured to Congress
in place of Campbell, the Altoona peo-
pie would now enjoy a new post-Oflice,
but Campbell never gave the subject
thought. Let the people of Altoona re-
member this and support Gen. COffroth, q,
their friend. Let the people of this dis
trict purify the halls of Congress as far
as lies in their power, and let them leave
the small politicians at home and elect
a man like CoffrOth who is an honor to
the State and ration, a man whom the
people can trust and will honestly repre-
sent them.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27
DEMocRArs MAK1rn Mrnnr-rhe 10.

DEMOCRATS MAKING MERRY.-The long
pent-up enthusiasm of the Ohio Democracy
was given full vent in Columbus Friday
night, and the iOlification over the late
election was complete success and thor
oughiy Democratic in all its features, Spec
ial trains were run on the several railroads,
and there was a general outpouring from
Central Ohio. The fireworks and process
sion were unusually attractive. Nearly all
the Democratic Congressman elect, as well
as prominent leaders were present. Some
of the transparencies were decidedly rldicu-
lous, one being Gov Foster on his knees be-
fore the Goddess of Liberty implOring for
giveness. The City Hall was densely pack
ed and the streets at some points completely
blockeded, Ex-senator Allen G.. Thurman
was the presiding officer
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27

Mr.. PATTIsON's reception at the diff
ferent points in the oil regions at which
he stopped during his visit last week.
was equally as enthusiastic as were the
demonstrations in his behalf i'm the an
thracite coal counties during the week
previous. He arrived at Harrisburg on
his homeward trip on Friday afternoon
and in the evening addressed what is
admitted on all hands to have been the
largest political meeting that has ever
assembled at the State capitol for twen-
" years. That one speech of Mr. Pat
tison contained more good. common
sense than all the seventv-fve or eighty
seif-laudatory harangues by which Gen.
Beaver has sought TO bolster up his sink
ing and desperate cause since he first
took the stump. On Saturday Pattison
went to Reading. ir Old Berks' and ad-
dressed a very large crowd of her unter-
Tiied Democracy. Tonight he will
speak in Altoona. aud tomorrow morn
ing he viii make a brief speech from the
platform Of the cars at the Johnstown
station. IH the afternoon he will adj
dress "a meeting at Greensburg and at
night viii speak in Pittsburp. Daniel
Dougherty. the 'silver-tongued orator ,,
who is falsely represented by the Repub-
lican papers as being opposed to Patti
son. viii deliver q speech in JOEustown
IN favor Of his election before the close
OF the campaign.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27
How TO PRTNT THE TICKETS.

How TO PRINT THE TICKETS -
There has been considerable uncertain
ty as to how the tickets for the coming
election should be printed in order that
they may conform to the provision of
the law. The office of COngressman-at
Large, rendered necessary by the fact
that no new apportiOnment bill has been
passed by the Legislature, is to all in
tents a State office. and would naturally
be included in the State ticket, were it
rot that the law of March Both. 1866,
directs that all members of Congress
shall be included in the ticket headed
county" In order that there may he
uniformity in the manner of printing
the tickets. and to avoid disagreement
and grounds for contest. the chairmen
of the four committees, held a confer
ence a few DAYS since, and adopted the
following 1T is agreed between US,
and directions accordingly are given to
all the county chairmen of the Republi-
can, Democratic, Independent Republi
can and National GTeenback-Labor par
ties, that at the coming election the
name Of the candidate for Congressman
at-Large shall be printed on the county
ticket as follows. Immediately under
the word County the title Congress-
man-at-Large. and the name Of the re-
spective candidate for this Office, to be
followed by the title Congress and
the name of the district candidate.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27

THE Democratic conferaes Of the Sem
atorial district composed Of counties Of
Cumberland and Adams. having held
repeated meetings and being unable to
make q nomination the two candidates
a. :. Myers. Of Adams. and s. G. Wag-
ner. Of Cumberland. agreed last week to
submit the matter to Ger. Coffroth
VIM .McClelland. Of Pittsburgh. and Jas
Fl. HOPKINS of the same city. who was
selected umpire. BY the agreement the
decision was 70 put a final termination
to the contest. The three gentlemen
named met at the Hubert House in
Johnstown on last Monday and de-
cided in favor Of Wagner as the nomi-
nee. As the District is largely Demo
cratic James w. Bossler. Of Cumber-
land county. the Republican nominee
will not have occasion to spend near as
much of his surplus cash accumulated
in furnishing beef to the Western In
dians by contract with the government
as he was prepared 70 do if the dead
lock had not been broken.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27
A REMARKAnLEc EcIRcrNsrArcEs is renort=

A REMARKABLE CIRcUHsTANCEs is report
ed from Fort Wayne, Ind. On Tuesday af-
ternoon OF last week Mrs. W. L. Petit wife
of the teller OF the First National bank of
Fort Wayne, apparently died and the under
taker took charge of the body. Arrange
ments were making for the funeral and wat
chers sitting with the supposed corpse. At
10 O'Clock faint sigh was heard coming from
the body. The watchers started to their feet
with alarm, stepped to her side, found her
eyes were wide open, while in a voice that
was scarcely an audible whisper she recng-
niZed :hem and asked for her husband For
a moment the attendants were speechless
with wonder at this resurrection of the dead (;
then, with the revulsiOn of feeling they al
most screamed with excitement The hus-
band came in. and with Joy unspeakable
clasped again his living wife in his arms
The doctor was sent for, and he was as much
astonished as the rest of the household at
beholding living what in his exact medical
science he had declared dead. He admins
tered the proper restOratives. and the patient
rapidly recovered, and wasIdecIaTed at late
hour to be in more hopeful condition.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27

A REPRODUCTIVE COMET. The present
comet in the Eastern sky, which can be dis
tinctly seen by everyone at early morning is
certainly the most remarkable one OF all the
mOd,rn comets. Prof. Lewis Swift, director
Of the Warner Observatory, Rochester, y. Y,
states that the comet graZed the sun so close
~ as to cause great disturbance, so much so
that it has divided into no less than eight sep
crate parts, all of which can be distinctly
seen by good telescope. There is onfv one
other instance on record where a comet has
divided, that one being Biella's comet of 40
Whlch separated INTO two. parts. Applica-
tiOns have been made on Mr H H Warner
bv parties who have noted these cOmetary
otfshoots, claiming the 5000 prize for each
one of them Whether the great comet will
continue to produce brood Of smaller COM
cts remains to be seen.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27

WHEN did the Ebeusburg FREEMAN,
rs the Altoona Radical asserted last
week. ever rfdicuIe the idea Of Jacob
NJ Campbell securing 4 free delivery
system for our lthe Altoonal people 2"
We know absolutely nothing about Gen.
Campbell's efforts i'm regard 70 the free
delivery Of mail matter in Altoona
never cared a straw whether they We're
great or otherwise, not being specially
interested in the questi0n-and never in
any way referred to the matter excapt
to say i'm our last issue that Altoona is
to have a free mail delivery to all parts
Of the city. To use a polite hut vigor-
cur French phrase. when reduced to
English. the Radical is ''innEact."
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27

a CORRESPONDENT Of the Philadel-
phia Timrs, writing from Erie. is re-
sponsible for the statement that the
name and post-OfIce address of every
Catholic in the diocese of Erie have
been forwarded to Quay, at the Beaver
State Committee headquarters. with
the purpose in view OF mailing to each
of these voters. just few days before
the election. the fabricated version of
Mr.. PattfSon's Philadelphia speech of
January. 1881. in which he is made to
use offensive language against the Irish.
As the forgery has been thoroughly ex-
posed by the Times and the aricle repub-
lished by the Democratic papers of the
State. Quay viii doubtless abandon his
programme This low and dirty husi-
ness Of dragging the Catholic Church in
20 every political campaign Of this State
by the Republican bosses. ought to dis
gust every Catholic Republican and con-
strain him TO vote against a party that
counteuances such base and shameless
expedieuts by its leaders.