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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07
A Catholic Pastoral Letter.
WHAT THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL SAYS
ABOUT CHURCH AUTHORITY,
LABOR AND IRELAND.

The Catholic Provincial Council re-
Gently met in Cincinnati and among
other things prepared lengthy pastoral
letter to be read in all the churches. It
received its first publication on Thurs
day in the Catholic IeleqrdDb. It begins
with review of the progress of religion
since the last council, twenty years ago,
and congratulates the Church on its
transition from a mission epoch to a con-
ditiOn of fixity. 1t then goes on TO speak
Of the necessity of obedience to author
ity. It holds that all men are not equal
and that men ordained to rule as kings.
magistrates, bishops and priests have
rights which their subjects do not. It
laments the disposition to try God be-
fore a court of human reason. and SAYS
that no man has right to teach false
hood or to change a jOt or little of the
law of God. 1t is very outspoken on the
subject of labor unions, and says that a
mans labor is his own as much as the
gold Of the rich man and that he has a
right to sell it as he pleaSes at a fair
price, and as long as men accede to 9TH
erS the same freedom as they claim for
themselves, there is no sin in labor band
ing together for self-protection but la
Dor unions are liable to fail and cannot
be sustained when they attempt to force
a man to join union, or to work for a
price fixed by union. Catholics cannot
b9 partners in any attempt to coerce 9TH
ers against their just rights or to do in
jury to the person or property of others.
The letter has a long paragraph on
newspapers, in which it specifically de-
nounces what it calls the illegitimate
means used by the Irish World in its ad
vocacy of the cause of Irel and, but adds:
10 = L.
Bishops Of Ireland in any legitimate eff
fort to ameljorate the present unhappy
condition of the Irish people," The let
ter condemns much of tie modern
church music and says that the Gregor-
ian chant IS the recognized form. It di-
rects that all music that savOrs of the
sensuOus and the prOfane, the theatre OF
the opera, shall be excluded from choirs,
as also all music that attracts the atten.
tion Of people from the altar to the choir.
Much is said condemnatory of secret so
cieties, especially such as have a reliqi.
Gus hierarchy or form of liturgy. Re.
verting to the subject of authority the
/ letter says "It is not Catholic doctrine
/ that all power comes from the people
and that rulers do not exercise author
! ity as their own. but as trusted to then
{ by the people, The Catholic doctrine i:
/ that the grant of power is not given By
( the people, but they only designate who
/ is to WELD it. As to the priest, the peo
/ pie are commanded to seek the law fl on
his lips, and in all matters of civil life
/ appertaining to faith and morals. tn,
/ priest has right to speak and the peo
/ pie are required to listen" This doc
trine, it is said, may be unpopular will
modern liberalism, but that does no
prove it untrue.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

THE New York World expresses the
opinion that if Sergeant Mason should
''be pardoned for having tried to kill
Guiteau and failed, he might consistent
ly ask 20 be promoted if, encouraged by
pardon, he should try it again and sue
ceed," What an immense amount of
gush and sentiment have been INDUCED
in over Mason's sentence Even old
Thurlow Weed. who is over eighty
years Of age, speaks of Mason's offense
as having been prompted by right feel
ings and impulsively committed; :; Ma
son, or th5 contrary, expressed a desire
to shoot Guiteau before he came to
Washington, and in carrying out his in
tention was guilty of betraying the
trust reposed in him as one of the pris-
soner's guard. His offense was not nit
igated one iota because of the inramy of
his intended victim.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

If the scalawag who edits the Bur
lington (IOwa) Ha,rbeye should ever Wis
it this place during one of his lee
turing tours, we leave our large Welsh
population to square accounts with him,
in any way that may seem the most eff
fectual and summary, for having in a
recent number of his scurriIlous journal
deliberately and maliciously published
Of and concerning the children Of Wales.
the following false, scandalous and de.
famatory libel Statistics disclose the
fact that to every ten children born in
Wales, less than seven ever reach thei1
twentieth year. The others are worn
out trying to speak Welsh
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

THERE is great force in the annexed
paragraph taken from the Philadelphia
Record on the subject of fish culture by
farmers and we commend it to the care
full consideration of those of that class
of our citizens through whose land small
streams of water flow. The experiment
is cheap one and would undoubtedly
richly compensate any one for the little
trouble and trifing outlay attending it,
The Record says :.
Since 1t is said that an acre of fish pond
Will produce more food that five acres of
ground, why should not farmers raise their
own fish as systematically as they do hogs
or cattle? And why should they not turn
their attention to fish culture as a regular in
dustry and source Of profit, especially those
who have the advantages of good markets
There are few farms that with little labor
and expense could not get water to supply a
nsh-pOnd
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

AT the city and town elections in
Ohio, on Monday last, the Republicans
were shaken up as if by a regular polit-
ical earthquake. In Cincinnati their
ticket was defeated by more than eight
thousand votes. Results equally disas-
trous overwhelmed the grand old Re-
publican party'' in Cleveland, Toledo,
Columbus, aud many other large cities
and towns, All this was brought about
in consequence of the passage by the
present Republican Legislature of IL
cense law which is specially obnoxious
to the German Republicans, hundreds
of whom refused to vote the Republican
ticket on Monday, and swear since in
the toughest kind of Dutch, that they
have Joined the Democratic party to
stay. The result of this Ohio election
is very significant when we reflect on
the cause that produced it, and fore
shadows the utter defeat of the Repub-
lican party in that State next Novem-
Der. In Indiana, Illinois and Wiscon-
sin, in all of which similar elections
were held on Tuesday last, the Repub-
licans in many of the cities aud large
towns met with the same disastrous de-
feat that overlook their political breth-
ren in Ohio.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

A BEAUTIFUL GIRL DIsFIeURED WITH
NITRIoL.--hiss MOilie Boyer, aged Il, with
handsome eyes, fair complexion, and q
wealth OF dark tresses, was dreuched with
vitriol on Saturday evening as she was en-
tering her fathers residence, 1910 Mervine
street, Philadelphia. Miss Mollie was blind
ed by the shower, and fell with a cry Of
agony into the arms of her sister, who had
come TO the door to admit her. The girl was
taken into the house, and the vitriOl as quick
" as possible was wiped from her face. One
of her eyes was dreadfuliy burned, and 3
portion OF her hair was burned from her
head. Her cheeks were blistered, and her
shoulders were badly burned Her sister
escaped injury, but new silk dress which
she was wearing for the first time, was com
pletely ruined. The motive for the assault
IL a mystery. Mr.. John E. keyes aud his
wife and 4-year-Old son occupy the house
from which the vitriOl was thrown. Some
OF the victims friends who saw the vitriOl
thrown, say that they saw an old lady, who,
Il is supposed, was Mrs. Keys, lean out Of
the third story window, fiom which the Wit
Tiol came, as though watching the effect OF
the deadly shower. The two families are
not acquainted, and no trouble Of any kind
has occurred between them. A warrant for
Mrs. Keys arrest was tworn out The gen
eral belief is that she is crazy.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

MISS MARY POWER O'CoNNOR, sis
ter of Thomas Power O'Connor, mem
Der of Parliament for the city Of Gal
way, ireland, was indicted at the Ros-
common county sessions on Saturday
last for advising the tenants of a land
lord not to pay their rents, and was or
dered to give bail OF go to Jail for six
months. She elected to go TO Jail, and
went. Miss Mary is supposed, like every
other person, to know her eEn business
best, and as she saw fit to open her own
prison door any comments on her choice
would be entirely superhuous.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

ONE of the most successful methods
with members Of Congress for squander-
ing the public money, and one which
they all eagerly embrace, IS by procur-
ing large appropriations for the erection
by the government of postofices thro'-
out the States. Bills for this purpose
are passing through Congress in fright
full numbers under what is known as the
clog rolling system of legislation, and
the amount of money which is in this
way flched from the treasury at each
session is enormous, reaching many
millions of dollars. AS one Of a score
of instances of these reckless assaults
on the treasury, there is now before
Congress a bill appropriating $50, 900
for the erection Of a postoffice building
at Montpelier, Vermont, a town con-
tanning about the same population as
Hollidaysburg. This sort Of legislation
will continue just as long as the short
sighted policy Of the government keeps
up the present enormous surplus in the
treasury vaults. One of the country's
greatest statesmen said in a speech in
the Senate thirty years ago, that large
treasury surplus inevitably leads to in
considerate, extravagant and profigate
appropriations.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

The MISSISSIPPI FLOODs.-FrOm Morgan
city, La, to ChuCahOula, nineteen miles in
the direction Of New Orleans, the country is
one vast stretch of water varying in depth
from three to six feet. The water through
out this section has risen FIVE inches and Is
rising at the rate of one inch every four
hours. At Fayetteville, fourteen miles east
the water is eight inches below the flood OF
1874. From Chucahoula there is no land
visible save a small mound at Tigerville, and
as you approach Morgan city some small
sections Of land barely showing above the
surface of the water In many places the
wafer reaches half way to the ceiling of the
houses. Five-sixths of Morgan CITY is under
water, varying from six inches to six feet in
depth. Skifs and pirogues are utilized on the
streets for communication along the princf-
pal business blocks and sidewalks have been
erected some four OF five feet above the ban
quets, and in most of the buildings false
floors have been improvised.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

LAST weeks Scientific american. .con-
tanned an elaborate and interesting de-
scription, with illustrations, of the New
York Worlds new five story building
into which that successful newspaperre-
Gently moved its quarters. AS the
World Is a model journal in all its de-
partments, it is in accordance with the
fitness of things that it should be issued
from what is probably the best equipped
and most thoroughly complete newspa-
Der establishment in the country.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

gress to make no change. No stop is to
be put to the robbery which impoverish-
es the labor of the country by unneces.
sary burdens to build up pampered in
terests.
HE SETS PLATES FOR BOG.
When Arthur gave his big Grant din
ner he set plates for BOG. True there
would have been a vacant chair, but as
favor Chum Bliss was induced to take
it, and Dave Mouatt's victuals were sent
him to the penitentiary in tin-pail
While the White House was ablaZe on
that memorable occasion, when music,
wine and wit flowed freely, a man passed
by who paused for moment and gazed
and then with weary, white scared
face, fed with a shrek. The fiying,
shriekiug man, was the once famous
MISUNDERSTANDING of Mrs. Hayes
iced tea and Graham bread administra-
tion.
ABOUT TO REAP HER REWARD.
South Carolina seems to have got bad
/ ly worsted in her trade with the Fraud
/ ulent Hayes and is about to reap her re-
| ward. It will be remembered that Con-
/ gresham Small, and a lot more of higher
and lower officials, were convicted and
/ sentenced to the penitentiary for various
crimes, involving theft, bribery, coIrup-
ton, ETC., most all of whom were par
doned on certain conditions. Now, at
/ the instigation of Smalls and other South
/ Carolina politicians, Attorney General
/ Brewster instructs his subordinates to
| prosecute all the election indictments in
! South Carolina with the utmost severity.
/ Instructions are emphatic to the extent
/ that the best and highest citizens shall
/ be convicted by negro juries in the Uni
/ ted States Court. So South Carolina is
about to reap her reward for the exhibit
( tiOn of an ill-timed clemency.
G. n. s.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

JESSE JAMES KILLED.-A despatch from
st. Joseph, No, of April Sd, says ''Chas.
and Robert Ford, who at one time belonged
to the Jesse James lgang and were engaged
in the Winston and Blue cut train robberies,
purpose Of arresting Jesse James hut be-
ing afraid, as it is alleged, TO make the at
tempt they shot him down at Thirteenth
and Lafayette streets to day and then sur.
rendered TO the authorities and were lodged
in jaA, There IS great excitement over the
affair, several thousand persons being in The
streets. The wife Of the desperate was OF
the spot in few Winutes after the shoot nG
and wept copiously over his remains. TIL,
body was taken in charge by the police. \
lot OF ammunition and several weapons
including pistols and a rife, were found II
the house where. the outlaw had been stop
ping"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07
Cambria freeman.
E5ENsBURc. Pa,
FRIDAY, APRIL Z, 1882.

GEN. STEPHEN A. HURLBUT, Of Ill
inois. United States Minister to Peru,
whose name has of late figured so con-
spicuously in the newspapers in connec-
ton with the peace negotiations between
that conntry and Chill. died suddenly OF
heart disease at Lima, the capital OF
Peru, on Monday-of last week. He was
a native Of Charleston, 5. c., was sixty
FIVE years Of age, and has resided in Ill
inois since 1S45.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

The New York police were notified Sun
day night that Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, the
brother of William II. Vanderbilt, who con-
tested the probate of the will of the late
Commodore Vanderbilt, had committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the head,
at the Glenham Hotel. The coroner was no
titled, and gave permit for the removal of
the body.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07
CONCORD GRAPE VINES.

Fine, vigorous Vines. Two, Three and
-Four Years Old, for sale by the dozen or
thousand at the lowest prices.
These Vines are raised on the famous Mt.
Prospect Vineyards, at Passaic, Y. j., where
the we'll known Port Grape Wine is produced
that is SO highly esteemed by Physicians.
Enquire Of ALFRED SPEER,
L2-10.-2m. Passaie, y. J.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

THE President sent to the Senate on
Tuesday last his veto of the Chinese
bill. In our next issue we will state
his reasons for doing so. 1t is conced-
ed at Washington that the veto renders
certain the success of the Democrats at
the next State elections in California,
Oregon and Nevada.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07
Throw Physic to the Dogs, I'll nOne
0FVnss

We do not feel like blaming Macbeth for
this expression of disgust. Even nowadays
most of the cathartics are great repulsive
pills, enough to "turn ones stomach" Had
Macbeth ever taken DR.. Pierces "Purgative
Pellets" he would not have uttered those
words of contempt. By druggists.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

After quarreling with ber husband, in
Lincoln county, Arkansas on Monday OF last
week. Mrs. Ballard broke the neeks of two
of her children, aged respectively seven and
four years, and threw theiI bodies into a
pond. She then jumped into the pond with
her baby in her arms and both were drown
ad
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07
A CLEAR COMPLEXION

can be had by every lady who will use Par
ker's Ginger Tonic. Regulating the inter-
nal organs aDdpurifying the blood it quickly
removes pimples and gives healthy bloom
10 the cheek. Read about it in other column.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

WHEN / pnblicly testified that L had been
culed OF terrible skin humOr by the Cuti-
cura Remedies, did so that others might be
cured, and DO not regret the time given TO
answering inquiries.-Hon. Wm. Taylor,
Boston.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

The wife of Sergeant Mason is desc ribed
as rather tall and slender, between % and 80
years of age, with dark hair, blue eyes and
with a gentle and modest air.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07
VICE PRESIDENTS CHAMBER,
WARRINGTON, March 9S, 1882.

DEAR SIR: l regret extremely that the
demands of public duty will deny me the
personal satisfaction of being present at the
Cooper Union meeting on April 8.
My sympathteS are earnestly enlisted for
the object which has made that meeting ne
cessary, not only for the protection of Amer
lean citizenship abroad, but as an emphatic
protest against the violent action of the Brit
isb Government in treating Irish American
citizens as criminals, without hearing and
without trial, against their reiterated dec
laTatiOns of innocence.
If there was no treaty to protect them in
ternational comfy, and the constantly-pro-
fessed friendship between Great Britain and
the United States, entitled these imprison d
citizens to at least the rights under the boast
ed common law.
England may suspend hdbeas corpus in
time of profound peace. and, unoer that sus-
pension, she may assume to violate the letter
and the spirit of existing treaties But when
she touches the person, and restrains the lib.
erty of an innocent American citizen, she
does it at her peril, and should be made to
feel the consequences of that arbitrary and
indefensible act,
Congress explicitly directed fourteen years
ago what should be done IN cases like those
which have justly provoked deep resent
ment. That duty has yet TO be performed.
and 1 hope the strong voice of your meeting
will prevent any further postpOnement of
the plain command of the law.
The time has come when the fullest rights
of American citizenship must be asserted.
The neutrality-suspicious. and other examples
equally trying to public patience render this
assertion now an imperative obligation,
without which the United States would de-
servedly lose position before the world.
Very respectfully. DAVID DAVIS.
A. E. Ford, Esq, Sec'y Of Committee, &c.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

GoOD FOR DAVID DAVIS. The fol-
lowing manly and eutspoken letter was
addressed by the President pro tenn of
the Senate, Mr.. Davis, of Illinois, to the
mass meeting held at the Cooper Insti-
tute, New York, on Monday night. to
protest against the arbitrary and pro-
lOnged imprisonment of American citi-
zens in Ireland under the coercion bill.
Mr.. Davis letter is in marked contrast
with the weak and iEdecisive course of
Blaine, as well as that Of his successor.
FTelinghuysen, and especially with the
cOwardly inaction of Lowell, the Amer
ican Minister to England, and its vigor-
Gus statement of the duty of the Gov
ernment will command universal ap-
proval
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07
ANOTHER STEAMBOAT DISASTER.
THE PACKET GOLDEN CITY BURNED AT HER
WHARF AT MEAPHIs-OvER TWENTY
OF THB PASSENGERS, PRINCIPAL
II WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
LOSE THEIR LIVES.

MEMPHIS. Tenn, March 30.-The Gin
cinnat and New Orleans packet, Golden
CITY, en- route from New Orleans to Cincin
natl, was burned at her wharf at 4:30 O'Clock
this morning.
The Golden City left New Orleans last
Saturday with a crew Of about sixty and
forty cabin passengers, including fifteen wo-
men and nine children. When she was ap-
preaching the wharf here at 4 80 this morn
ing she was discovered to be on fire. She
was Immediately beaded for shore. and in
four minutes touched Beal street wharf -
The line thrown out parted, ard the burning
steamer then foated with the swift current
down stream. Some OF the passengers had
already leaped of. but many of them were
still confined in the burning mass, as /;
drifted away.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-07

To1 viii be eisAppointsd = -
cheap PlastsrE, Lininsnts, Pa 81
trioal EAFnstio toya
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Have Signed or Endorsed
Following Remarkable

1snsoa,s CAeeins Pl.zssr haF-'
Pharmaceutical product, q ne p
order Of merit, and 50 rsooTniE
physicians and dTurEiFsE
The Portland daily press., 1882-08-02


Hon. Jason M. Carleton, who died yesterday
at his home in Deering, was born in White
field March 9, 1876 He came ofgood revoiu-
tionary stock as his grandfather was captain
in the patriot army. His father was Samuel
Carleton, who died about six years ago at
Whitefeld, aged 92 years. Mr.. Carleton was
school teacher in his youth, studied law and
was admitted to the bar in 1845. He had a
large and lucrative practice for many years in
Lincoln and Kennebec counties, and was for
seven years County Attorney of Lincoln coun-
ty. Between 1851 and 1871 he served ten terms
in the State Legislature, six in the House and
four in the Senate. He voted for the first
Maine law in 1851 He occupied many other
positions of honor and trust in town, county
and state, always with ability, force and in
tegrity, and was man of great mental and
physical power During the war he was promi-
nent and active in filling quotas and otherwise
assisting the good cause with labor and money.
He married Lucy w, daughter of Reuben
Lewis, Esq, of Whitefeld, who survives him.
He leaves also two daughters, one the wife Oh
o. f. Glidden of Deering, and the other the
wife of Francis A. Libby of Deering. About
six years ago he removed to Deering, where he
has since resided. Five years ago he was
thrown from carriage receiving injuries from
which he has never recovered.