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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-29
Rather Previous.

''Were you acquainted with the muir
dered man?' asked the prosecuting
attorney of witness for the defense
in a murder case. The willingness of
the witness to say all that he could in
behalf of the prisoner was very appar-
ent, by the way.
Il know'd him; he was de honestest,
best
'.Never mind about his honesty.
You say you knew him.
'"Yes, sab, an rs proud ter say
nebber know'd SIGH noble
Nobody asked you about that.
What was the condition of his health?
Was he not in robust health?''
.'No, sab; he was de feeblest niggah
Iebber seed
..He was killed by the accused, was
he notp''
81 can't say so, sab. NV idee am
dat he was in SIGH bad health dat,
chen if he hadn't been killed when be
was, he would have died anyhow al
least two days previous. sab. Teas
Ssttings.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-29
England's Great Guns.

The Woolwich correspondent of
The London News writes: The new
guns which have been designed to
maintain the naval supremacy of
Great Britain are in an advanced state,
but they have to undergo a course of
experiments to settle the range tables
and other particulars, and it will prob
ably be the beginning of next year be-
fore they are ready for sea. This will,
however, be earlier than the ships
which are to carry them can be COM
pleted. and there will be ample time
available for full and leisurelv study
of their requirements and capabilities.
The first OF the four 63 ton steel breech
leaders for her majesty's ship Rodney
will be shortly finished, and will be
used as an experimental gun, care
being taken not to damage it in the
process by any of the surgical opera
tions to which experimental guns are
occasionally subjected. Although
seventeen tons lighter than the 8O-ton
muzzleloader on board the Infexible,
the 63-ton gun is expected to surpass
the older weapon in Its destructive
power. 1t will probably throw 49,
inch Shot of 1,25O pounds weight, with
a powder charge of about $50 pounds,
and the estimated velocity at the muz-
zle is to be 2,10O feet per second.
The 8O-ton projectile weighs LOO
pounds, but the cartridge is but $50
pounos, and the muzzle velocity re-
corded is 1000 foot seconds. Should
the new gun realize expectations i,
will penetrate twenty-nine inches o.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-29
Exempt from Taxation.

There is in New York City s265, 694,-
060 worth of real estate exempt taxa
ton. OF this S17S. 1874, O6O is city prop
erty, S12,64O,OD0 is United States
property. 40.211.5O0 is church proper,
ty, and S33, 94S, 500 comes under the
head of miscellaneous, belonging to
schools. libraries, and charities. At 2
per cent-and the taxrate in New Y ork
City is usually higher than that-the ex-
empt church and miscellaneous proper
ty would pay nearly S1,5o0,OOO a wear
toward the expenses of government.
As it does not pay it, others must, ano
in this way secular realty is made
pay, by force, $1,000. 900 year for til
support of churches, etc. This is
pushing the exemption doctrine pre-
tF far. The same rule prevails. in
preportionate measure, throughout the
country. And that it does prevail.
and with little or no protest, is a strik,
ing proof OF the tolerant and kindly
feeling of the American public toward
religious and educational enterprises
of all sorts.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-29
How We Judge q Novel.

Nearly all the stories printed to-day
have in them an attempt at something
beyond the mere telling of tale with
trappings of scenery and puppets to
bear out the illusion. But we do not
examine this scenery to know if it is
real, or stick pins in these puppets to
learn it they are merely stuffed dolls
to play upon our fancy. liz this we do
ourselves an injustice, both losing the
fine flavor of a good novel and failing
to penetrate the tinsel and stage eff
fects of a poor one, in much the same
way as befuddled drinker swallows
We. Cliquot and champagne cider with
the same approval. Then, too, in order
to catch a page or two of ssconversa-
tom or ''action' that is valued only
as it carries forward the plot, we are
prone to run hastily over descriptive
writing that paints vivid bit of land
scape with cameo fidelity and beauty.
Or chapter filled with life and color
is voted dreary and slow because only
Indirectly it aids in tangling the
threads of the romance. 1t is the
amount of ''thrill'' in the concluding
chapters and the agreement in. doc.
trine and sentiment of the writer with
the readers personal beliefs and tastes
that settles the novel as good, bad o.
Indifferent. Current.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-29
We. Us & Co.


tits always best to be careful and
precise in given directions to servants.
Col. ferger told his colored servant
SAM
60 and get us couple of tickets
for the performance to-nig ht.''
one ticket. ~
where is the other tiekete''
u has done disposed ob nit
what do you meana''
BOSS, you tole me, $50 and Get as
two tickets. Oars your ticket, and
done guy my ticket to a cullud lady
met on de street. She will be dar,
BOSS. You bet she will be oar. Oars
no danger oh de ticket bein' los o,
wasted. Teas Siftings.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-29

In an essay on the '.Poor Man, Burdeste
makes the following Shakspearian remark ::
"Ihe father OF Shakespeare couldn't spell and
couldn't write his own name-neither can
you, even his iliustrious son couldn't spell it
twice alike.''
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-29

Ferd. Ward is not yet the ward of New York
state, nor likely to see the wards Of Sing Sing
for some time.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29

THE Lancaster Intelligencer says: The
biography of John Kelly, the well known
New York Democrat, contains much of
interest to the student of American
politics for the reason that he was an
actor in one of the most heated periods
of American political history Kelly
won his maiden spurs in the days when
native Americanism was at the zenith
of its power. He and Bishop Hughes
were the men who prevented the meet
ing of the native American leaders in
New York, which had it occurred as in
tended, would, in the then excited state
of public opinion, certainly have ended
in wholesale bloodshed. Thus in fight
ing the battles of his faith and bis race,
young Kelly quickly climbed the polit-
ical ladder, and sat N Congress for one
OF the New York city districts ID 1854
when he was only 80 years old. He was
Que Of the great moving spirits that led
the bulk of the Whig vote into the
Democratic party after and during the
time that the latter party was waging
its successful war against Nnow-N Moth
ingism. 1t was then that the Alticks
and other well-known local families
Joined the Democratic ranks. Yoicing
this exodus of the Catholic Wings, Kel-
ly said in a speech in Congress The
large Catholic vote o. Kentucky and
Maryland had always been found with
the Whig party, unit! the Know. Moth.
ing monster and it's protean brood of
platforms drove them in self-respect, as
well as in self.defense. into the ranks
of the nstionsl Democracy, where they
have found repose and peace Under the
N=ess shadows of the Constitution. y
And under its shadows the great bull
of this vote still reposes.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29

CHRISTOPHER L. MAGEE, the Pitts
burg boss, may be, and in point of fact
is able to mould the present Republican
Legislature into any shape he wishes, in
order to carry out the personal aims of
the rirg he represents, but when he un-
dertoOk to control the next Republican
State Convention in favor of an obscure
and unknown friend of himself, named
McDevitt, for State Treasurer against
Matthew s. Quay. he entered very
large field of corn with very small hoe.
This is quite apparent from the tone of
the Republican press throughout the
state, as well as from the action of sew
eral counties that have elected delegates
to the Convention. Magee and Quay
are both bosses of the worst type and so
far as we feel any possible interest in
the contest we are for Quay. He is a
man Of brains and in that respect has q
big advantage over the Pittsburg states.
man.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29
ICEBERG IMPUDENCE.

Senator John Sherman at a recent po-
litical serenade in Cincinnati, pumped
up an extra allowance of cant about
election frauds
~ think" said he, ,"tbe vilrst crime in the
catalogue OF crimes, worse than any In the
seT1 7-s1,.T>''s NJ mo mPanPr than stealing
worse than burglary, as bad as MURDERS
to break down the elective franchise. A
man may steal because Of his hunger; ne
may commit ether crimes because of some
reason. but the man who cheats his neigh
bors OF the right to govern themselves com
mits meaner crime than any other that can
be named"
We are glad honest John" has been
converted. because by virtue of his DO
sitiOn and pnblic career, in 1876. he was
the leading instrument. afteT such vul-
gar scoundrels as Wells, Anderson.
Kenner and Casenave. in making the
Presidential theft a success He ad-
vised and sustained these knaves of the
Louisiana Returning Board IN refusing
/ the Democrats representation on the
Board in tie canvass Of the vote. as re-
qnired by law, and thus. during the
whole count, there was s vacancy on the
Board and the game of perjury and for.
gerv went on unchaileUged. If Sher-
man had said the Democrats shouId
have representation IN it. it would
have been conceded. He refused, His
part was to promote fraud, not to pre-
vent il. Again. he gave a certificate
of tTuihfTlDess TO the negro struInpet
Eliza Pinks'on. and fonded the North
WITH her perjuries to iIflame his party
[ to- the sticking point of standing by the
/ theft OF DOuisiana's vote. She died ir
prison a convicted felon. In other
/ ways not necessary to recount. Sherman
( promoted, advised and made successful
/ the greatest election fraud of history
/ he was chief agent in a crime he nov
I whines to the people of Cincinnati j.
/ the worst and meanest iD The catalogue
/ OF course it is. and therefore Sherman
/ is the meanest and guiltiest of the lot
/ of visiting statesmen" because hi.
! power was greatest. He gilded crime
! will moral maxims in Louisiana inst a:
/ he is throwing Dust in the ewes of The
| Cincinnati people. He exacted his price
/ too, from the miserable tool the crimes
\ he made successful put in the Presiden
| tial chair, and Hayes got a receipt II
| fulI when be made Sherman Secretar,
of the Treasury. The devil quoting
scripture and John Sherman deuounejue
crimes against the elective franchise
are parallel instances Of superlative anC
snperhuman impudence. p PittsbaroI
Post.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29

Oh Friday last the House at Harris
burg spent more than half the time of
the session in considering a preamble
and two resolutions eulogIstic of John
A. Logan, and eoDgratulating hun on
his re election TO the United States Sem
ate. This Republican performance cost
the taxpayers OF the State about fifteen
hundred dollars, which is nearly oue-half
the daily cost of the two houses. It re-
quires very lively Imagination 10 con-
ceive what possible connection there is
between Logan's election and the du-
ties which the members Of the House
were elected to perform. This Logan
jollihcation was carried on in a HJuse
containing 141 Republicans TO 60
Democrats, the latter, OF course, being
IN too great minority TO prevent it,
Aud yet in view of this shameless waste
OF time on Friday and like action on
scores OF other previous occasions, Re
publican papers have the effrontery 10
charge the Democrats in the House
with proloDging the session by unneces-
sarily consuming time. If "A House con.
tanning a majority of 81 can't take care
of Itself il isn't fit to be At Harrisburg
and Republican organs shouldn't plead
The baby act in its defense.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29

MAHONE's POstmasters in Virginia
are now being crushed between the up
per and neither mill stone at Washing
ton at very lively rate. The President,
who may be regarded as the upper stone,
suspended as high as Haman ten or a
dozen of them one day last week, and
Malcolm Hay, First Assistant Postmas-
ter General, who is the neither stone.
and whose field of operation is much
more extensive than that of Mr.. CIeve-
land, rolled up his sleeves on Monday
last, dismissed eigbty-eight of Mahone's
POstOffics henchmen and named their
successors in Office. More removals of
the same kind will speedily follow until
the entire Malone crowd is swept away.
Whatever necessary delay may occur i'm
making removals in other States. Mr..
Hay will take good care that not a sim
gle one of Mahone's appointees shall be
permitted to remain. We don't believe
that fair minded Republicans who are
familiar with Malone and despise his
political methods, will make any seri-
Gus objection to Mr.. Hays summary
style in dealing with the dishonest gang
who have aided and abetted Malone in
his piratical crusade against the invio-
liability Of the public debt of Virginia.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29

THE United States Marshal for the
Southern District of Iowa, Mr.. r. Root,
believes in the doctrine that ITO the
victOrs belong the spoils,'' and so be-
heving, has rendered his resignation to
the President in the following frank and
manly letter
KEoKUK, Ia. April 13. 1885
To HIS Excellency, Grover Cleveland President
OF the United States. Washington. d. c.
SIR: L have the honor to tender you my
resignation as United States Marshall for
the Southern district of Iowa, to take effect
the hrst day of July, or as sOsn as my sue
cessor may be appointed and qualified l
teEder my resignation, Mr. President, for
two reasons. viz. First | believe that the
Dem ocTats OF this district. who have WORKED
night and day for the success OF their ticket
with you at their head. while did all in my
power to defeat them and you ought 70 be
rewarded Dy receiving the offices within the
gift of the Democratic party second, have
been elected by my fellow townsmen of
both parties to an hOnOfa ble position of trust
aud profit and l shall accept the position
In conclusion, Mr. President permit me to
hope that the great God OF this universe NAV
give YOU health and spare your life and that
you may rule over this great nation success
fully for four years, and that at the end of
that time good, sound Republican may be
elected to take your place. | am Mr. Pres
ldents your most Obedient servant,
r. RooT
While every government Office holder
in the United States acted in the last
Presidential campaign precisely as Root
admits that he did, and while he resigns
his Office in obedience to the adverse
fortune of political warfare, they, or at
least the most of them, hold on TO their
places and seem to think they have
right to do so during their naturarlives.
Mr.. Cleveland, however, is turning
those out who won't resign as fas: as
the nature of the business will admit,
and it won't be many months before the
verdict of the people at the last Novem-
Der election in favor of "a change' will
be carried into execution in every State,
as all honest, candid Republicans admit
is ought to be.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29

A JOINT Committee of the Legisla-
ture consisting of fire members went to
Pittsburg about three weeks ago, to take
testimony in res ard to the mental and
physical ability Of Judge kirkpatrick,
Of that city, to discharge his duties as
one of the Judges of the Courts of Al
legheny county. The Committee was
absent from Harrisburg about a week
and has fled a bill against the State
amounting to 81 ,O61.6 which is at the
rate of 1912 for each member. The
items of which this bill is made up,
would, if published, make mighty in
teresting reading. Only one of them
has been made public and that is a
cGerge of 1886 for mileage, OF 500. 20 for
each nember of the Committee When
1t Is keDI'n mind that they all travelled
on their free -ailrOad passes this mile
age grab to the e4sant of nearly $500. is
the most shameless Usplay of rapacitv
that has ever been made by a ronrnft-
tee of the Legislature. 1t is the lowest
and the meanest way of getting money
from the State treasury without an
consideration, and yet we venture The
prediction that it will be paid wiShou
a word of protest.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29

A FRAUDULENT BUREAU.-It can
not be possible that an intellIgently and
honestly conducted agricultural de apart
ment connected with the Government
should not be productive of beneficial
results. The farming interest is so vast.
aud there is such scope for improve
ment in agriculture, that # properly
directed the operations of a department
devoted to that object would be OF very
great value. But so far the Agricul-
tural Bureau at Washington has been
productive of nothing but the disap-
pOintmeDt that results fIom failure and
useless expense.
The impression was quite general
that, as managed by DR.. Loring, the
bureau was inefficient in its operation S
and entirely too expensive for the am
cunt of good it was doing. But it was
| not known how tnoTou9 Sra udsaJ mt
was the pretensiOD that it cosprC-
to the Improvement of ag i11afp,i,o"
Since there has been a change in It's su
psrvisiou the fact has been divulget
that its chief object was to spend tn
appropriations made to sustain it, will
a regard mole for the personal benefi
of those who had the management tha
for the promotion of agricultural inter
ests.
Large amounts of money were squan
dered on worthless seeds purchased fror
favored parties. These frequently wer
OF such questionable varieties and Doc
quality that they were more of an iniur
than benefit to those who used then
The sorghum mania that took posse:
sion of Commissioner Loring absorbe
thousands of dollars which might hay
beer put to practical use, while muc
OF the annual appropriation was waste
on experiments which were criminaIl
Impractical if those engaged in tbeT
were endowed with ordinary sense. TIL
object was Indirectly to use the none
to the best advantage of those who ha
the handling of it. Nearly three-qual
ters OF million was appropriated annI
ally to the maintenance of the bureau
but ignorance, pretension, speculation
faVorltism aud downright dishonesty S
prevailed in it's management that not
quarter of the amount was properly e1
pended.-Hdrristurg Patriot.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29


q. THE CATHOLIC The
council of Catholic prelRtes who met
in Baltimore recently for the purpose of
selecting a place for the new Catholic
university decided that it should be built
in Washington, d. @. Although the
Catholics Of o. her cities, notably Phfla-
drlphia. offered very large moneta-
~ Inducements towards securing il
the fact thai Washington possesses the
Nat onal museum, the Congressional H.
Urary and other advantages, and is fast
becoming literary and scientific cen
ire, caused the pre.ates TO decide in favor
OF iocating the university at the Capt.
tai.
Rev. DIR Chappelle. Of 81. Matthew's
church. who was selected as one of the
trustees, and who was among the fore
most 10 urge the claims of Washington
10 The university, ou Sunday made a
strong appeal to his congregation to con-
tribune At least $50 600 to endow a chair
In tie p o osed university.
The institution will be of the highest
order. aud will not interfere with the
work Of colleges that impart only a sec
ondary 'dncai ION. The ground for the
building has been secured, and building
OPERATIONS will begin early next spring.
The location OF the university will be
adjoining the Soldiers Home, about two
miles from the city.
L. IS a piece of ground known as the
Middleton estate. contains sixty-five
acres. is we'll wooded and OF it Is located
ihe spring that supplies the Capitol with
water. The price paid for the ground
Is not stated
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29

THE bill prohibiting the granting or
receiving of free railroad passes, under
a heavy penalty, was defeated in the
State Senate on yesterday week by a
vote of 13 yeas, to Is nays. This result
is not surprising for similar bill has
on several occasions heretofore been de-
feated in either the Senate OF the House.
Every member of the Senate took an
oath at the beginning of the session to
support the Constitution Of the State,
and that Constitution declares that mo
read, railway, or other transportation
Company shall grant free passes, or
passes at a discount, to any person ex-
cept officers or employees of the COmpa-
n.y." and commands the Legislature to
enforce the prohibition by appropriate
legislation. No man of ordinary capac-
ity can possibly mistake the plain mean
ing of the Constitution on this subject,
and yet Mr.. Biddis, Democratic Sena-
tor from Pike county. claimed during
the debate on the bill that every man
had the right of private interpreta-
tion. Biddis evidently took the oath to
support the Constitution with a mental
reservation. What earthly use have the
people of this State for a Constitution
which can't execute itself. if the Legis.
lature, as it is required to do, refuses C
pass the necessary laws to carry it into
effect 1t is an inspiring spectacle tC
see the Legislature treat the Constitu
tion with contempt, accep. free passes
from the Pennsylvania Railroad, ant
! when Committee of is members goei
to Pittsburg, as recently in the Judge
Kirkpatrick investigation, learn tha
they each charged the State almost on,
hundred dollars for mileage, although
they didn't pay one cent of fare. Ere,
railroad passes cost the taxpayers of tn,
State over one hundred thousand dollar
at every session of the Legislature.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29

CORN FED CARP.-The West Chester
Local NelCs says: A gentleman, form
eTly resident of the southern end of
the county, Dus now living in York
county, has carp pond which is about
an acre in size, in which he put a very
few carp two years ago. He has now
over 5000 young ones, and the old ones
are, to use his expression. as large as a
small man and he thinks would weigh
about fifty pounds each. The carp are
SO tame that they will feed from bis
hand, and they will come up like pla-
toon OF soldiers to get their rations.
which consists of sheaf oats and eaI
corn, the carp doing their own sheiling.
He has TO tie the sheaf of oats TO the
oank IN order to keep the fish from
dragging the straw into the pond.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29

No man makes money so fast as a
member of the Legislature when be goes
TO Harrisburg on free railroad pass at
the beginning of the session and returns
home &c its final adjournment on the
same pass, and is paid mileage by the
State at the rate of ttcenty cents per mile
both going and returning. If there is
any other way of making money easier,
OF more handy than this, the man who
succeeds in discovering it ought TO take
out patent. His fortune will then be
made
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29
Attention. Doeforu

Every body knows that the life of the av.
erage physician is hard one He is often
compelled TO ride great distances through
mnd and rain for merely nominal fee I,
Is not mt nor praper for us to condemn anv
physician for his work. but we do assert
that his practice can be made easier. and he
can effect more cures by the j0djeious use
OF Ferdna- 1t he will Obly add this great
remedy to his medicines. his usefulness will
De greatly Increased. Full directions for lis
use will be found in the Ills of Life" and
he slIonld at oncr procure this valuable book.
Read the following
CHILLICOTHE. o.
DR HARTMAN Peruna sells very well
here. | have ordered several lots sjnce vnn
were here. 1t Is fine remedy.
". W. STEELE, Druggist,