The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-05-19
OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER.

OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
THE CAMBRIA RACKET DANCE-A STIR
RING UP OF THE BOssEs-AN AGRI-
CULTURAL COLLEGE--TNYEsTI
TION-sKTLL AND ZEAL REQUIRED
SLIPPERY sAM-NoBLE AND IGNOBLE /
-sTRFW THEIR GRAVES IN SILENCE. /
PHILADELPHIA, May Is, 1882.
Regular Correspondence Of THE FREEMAN ] |
DEAR MCPIKE-The weather here
for the last two or three weeks has been
abominable so much so, indeed, as to
terribly interrupt the budding spring
festivities The raw and rainy weather
has caused many of our fashionables to
keep indoors, in place of being out in
the streets. The subtle sympathy cTea-
ted by the cruel weather over the proud
spirits has had a most depressing influ-
ence upon fashionable society. There
is, however, a happy attempt to put
cheerful face on the matter in the way
of dancing schools. A Professoress
from the Alleghenies, somewhere i'll
/ the neighborhood OF "Hart's Sleeping
/ Place, y is teaching our Philadelphia
| bellies the Cambria ''Racket Dance"
/ called hereaway the Highland Fling"
/ The Cambria pTOfeSsOress is teaching
/ our Philadelphia ladies to bounce and
/ spring and dance in reality the good old
/ fashioned way, instead of gliding to
! stately measures without lifting their
/ feet from the floor. The Cambria rack
/ ct, or the Highland quadrille, as it is
/ called, is going to be the dance of dances
/ in Philadelphia, There is a figure in
/ the dance in which the gentlemen lock
1 arms with the fair partners and dance
! back to back. The ladies who have al
/ ready been taught to dance this new fig
ure declare it to be ''toO awfully Jolly
for anything" The season of engage
ments has rolled around, and is being
auspiciously opened by announcements
/ that interest very large and fashionable
! circles. Quite a number of delicate ac-
acknowledgements have already been
made. The nun Der of people of wealth
and fashion that are making arrange
ments for the Newport season is un-
usually large, while the summer hegira
to Europe has begun in earnest,
SHAKING Up OF THE BOSSES.
Mr.. Charles 5. Wolfe may now be re-
garded as an unattached Pennsylva-
MIA politician, His name was not men
toned in the Republican convention,
nor did he receive that expected dose of
! soothing syrup, a promise Of the Attor-
ney Generalship under Beaver. Poor
/ Wolfe, instead OF being placed on the
bosses ticket as candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor, he was most contemp-
tuously cast aside. From his recent eX-
perience Mr.. Wolfe can for the future,
in making speeches on ''bOss rule" and
machine methods, give very flippant
episodes. He will have less respect for
"boss power than formerly. Though
kindly favored by boss rule. - he did
not find it powerful enough to crafty
his ambition to be placed on the Re
publican State ticket 1t was a queer
turn when the failure of "bOss rule'' un-
hOrsed him. If Mr. Wolfe is TO be be-
lieved, however, and it is to be hoped he
is, he was only in fun about wanting a
place on the boss ticket Had he
been nominated by the bosses he would
"neither have accepted nor rejected the
nomination without iTSt consulting the
Independents" The Philadelphia Rec
ord says that Wolfe's explanation of
that little piece of political work ire
calls the experience of the Old lady who
tried to make ice-cream, but finding
that it wouldn't heat satisfactorily, she
accepted the situation with the compla .
cent remark We'll. I'll heat it for Gus
tard. " Senator Mitchell, has entire
confidence in Mr.. Wolfes fidelity to the
cause of the Independents. and If there
is any dependence to be placed in Mr.
Mitchell's war declarations, ,CamerOnism
and the spoils system are going TO have
a vigorous shaking up. Senator Mitchell
should how take Mr.. Wolfe's place and
let the Independents have the benefit Of
his counsel and courage, Ever since
the death of Garfield, Mitchell finds his
recommendations to Office treated with
diSdain and the most obnoxious appoint
mentS made in spite of his earnest pro-
test Seuator Mitchell is now in a po-
/, sition in which he must fight for the ele-
ment of the party which he represents
or retreat with discredit. He now has
it in his power to make an effective
warfare upon his colleagues, and judg-
ing from the way he is firing off his war
, bulletins it looks as if he was in earnest
about leading the revolt.
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE INYEs-
TIGATION.
The Committee investigating the Ag
! ricultural College this year seems TO be
= finding out some new things, The com.
mittee of 1879 only found out that there
were eleven professor employed to teach
foTtY-SiX pupils. The present commit
tee has discovered many things, but has
/ been unable to find one graduate that
, the College has turned out. The com.
mittee. however, has found out as much
as it wants to know about the college
this year. Next year Will be better
year 1Or NeStl9aLlQg. ne NUMBER Ol
! students that the BellefOnte college has
. graduated in agriculture is only known
to General Beaver, and not wishing tC
2 trouble him at this time, the committee
will conclude that the investigation is
one of those things which ought to gC
I over till next year, this. not being {
good year for investigating Gen. Beav-
3 er's Agricultural College. The boss
5 es are beginning to think they had bet
/ ter have nominated Farmer Butler fol
p Governor. He is fTeer from cOmpToDl
ising affiliations than Gen. Beaver. L
the later don't know more about the du.
5 ties of Governor than he does abou
( | farming or the affairs of an AgricultuT
; turaI College he would make a sorry ex
: ! ecutive officer.
SKILL AND ZEAL REQUIRED.
Experience and tried fidelity to tht
7 best interests of the party is at this time
especially needed. If there is to be g
: successful Democratic campaign il
I Pennsylvania this year it viii requir,
= the services of our best men. One oi
the great needs of the Democratic paTty
! is a chairman of the State Committee
! who possesses the requisite skill and
f zeal to develop its full powers in tn,
' coming great conflict. It needs jus
5 such men as George MCGOWAN, of Phil
l adelphla. The Democratic party of thi
; State has no man to day, who possesse:
to a greater degree the requisite qualif
I cations of a chairman. The head of tht
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