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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24
The Strike Investigation.

As a rule, Congressional investiga-
tions do not bring in such profitable
return o. information as TO encourage
their promoters. The flsgrant miscoD-'
duct of the Reading corporation is
much more a State than a Federal al
fair. For years the authority OF the
State has been set at naught and us
laws have been Systematically dehed.
The injury indicted upon the consumers
of coal by tne late unnecessary strikes
has been mainly borne by Pennsylvania
consumers. and there is no DOUBT that
the State authority should be exerted
for the protection of the public interest.
Congressional investigation should have
been confined to the disturbance CT in
ter state traffic. The Federal law pro-
hihits unreasonable charges. The
Reading charges are unreasonable. The
Federal law prohibits determinations
for like service and discrimination In
favor OF particular traffic. The Read
ing Company discriminates between Ite
Philadelphia and its coastwiSe trade for
a like service and between New Jersey
AID New England. The Congressional
Committee investigating the strikes
would have done well TO have kept these
particular offenses in view, because
Congress is armed with power to cor
rect them.
But we cannot join our esteemed con-
temporaries in this city and New \ ork
in the furious onslaught made against
the investigating committee because OF
the manner of its dealing with Mr..
President Corbin. To the grea. major
ity OF ;he people OF the United States
the abject condition of the. State OF
Pennsylvania in its relation to its great
carrying corporations is a matter or
profound surprise. They cannot COM
prehend how the creature should so far
dominate its creator. They are as
founded that corporations chartered 10
subserve ends of public benefit should
be- turped into engines OF oppression for
the many and of benefit tor the few. A
millionaire railroad President IS not
generally esteemed in all parts of tie
country as anything more than the ser
want of a public servant. with one vote,
who owes proper respsct to constituted
authority, and whose management OF a
great railroad is deemed a public and
not private affair. This condition or
the outside public mind may be pleaded
in behalf of the members of the commit
tee, who have been anxious TO inquire
into Reading affairs. Our Z-alouS con-
should not deal too harshly
with Mr.. COrbin's inquisitOTs. That
suffering gentleman, considering his
deserts, co. off very easily.-Phil'd
Record.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24

THE striking miners of the Reading
Coal and Iron Company resumed work
on Monday last under an agreement
made by President Corbin and Master
Workman Lewis, the latter represent
ing. the strikers. IL was feared on
Monday evening that the strike
would be renewed, owing 20 a
belief among some of the miners that
the Comp ny was violatingtke agree
menb7 refusing to take back at some OF
the collie eI certain men Wh had gone
on the strike, but all difficulty on that
score has since been removed. In pur-
suance OF the agreement conference
between the superintendent Of the
Company and the miners will be held
on next Thursday, to settle the question
OF wages. With that question settled
all the trouble will be finally ended.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24
Over Three and II half Million dollars.

1t is estimated that the strike cost the
railroad men miners, iron workers, con-
sumeTs and Reading Company together
over three and a half million dollars,
which is a dead loss. There is not q
feature that affords the slightest COM
pensation, without it is the value of the
experience. Considering how strike
after strike has begun and ended in
about The same way, it is TO be question
ed whether this kind of experience
amounts to anything.
Apparently il is only a question of
Time when another strike, perhaps OF
equal magnitude, will be proclaimed
under, similar circumstances. Strikes,
like epidemics, that carry of their vic
tins by the score. are liable to
come and go regardless of consequences.
As rule strikes fail, the exceptions
being just sufficient to Prove the rnle.
The cost of the one we are considering
was Lot OUT Of proportion to other
strikes. Twelve or fifteen millions of
dollars, 1t is estimated, would not
more than cover the cost OF strikes with
in as many months. Why an abate-
ment of This kind of experience may not
be reas Ouab!y looked tor is about tie
strangest thing in the world. Perhaps
Jhe change VIII be without Fremont
tinn, and after all is near at hand. Let
US hope so at least.-Pittsb arg Times.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24

THE attitude OF both political parties
in Congress in regard to the admission
of the Territories of Dakota. Montana,
Washington and New Mexico as States
in time to vote for President this year,
is accurately aud iutelligentIy set forth
in the following article from the Phila-
delphia Times of Monday last. That
paper says
The House committee on Territories
has decided 10 recommend the aGmis-
sion OF ID ,kOta, Montana. New M-Yico
and Washington Territories as States.
which Means. in plain Euglisn. that no
new states will be admitted 10y the
present Congress in time 10 vote for
President this year.
The Republicans want Dakota al l.
mitted, chiefly bec4nss it IS strongly
Republican, and they want Us Elector-
ial vote for President. The Democrats
don't want Dakota admitted, and IN
stead of voting il down, they compile il
with the two Democratic Territories of
Montana and New Mexico and the
doubtful Territory of Washington.
The Republicans don't want Montana,
New Mexico or Washington admitted
any more than ;he Democrats want Da-
knta. and as the Democrats are likely 10
stand for all or none. the Republicans
will accept none. Both sides are so
nervous about the national battle of
1883, that they won't take any new
chances and that settles the question of
new States for The present.
Common sense would say that we
ought To have "a higher standard OF
craftsmanship to decide the question OF
the creation of sovereign Common
wealth, but we haven't, and that
ends it and that's about all that need
be said about the admission of new
! States this year.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24

TIE number of Republican candi-
dates for President in the field up to a
few days ago was eighteen. without any
"favorlte son" OF Pennsylvania on the
list, when nineteenth aspirant appear
ed in the person or that eInin, MT Chris
tiau statesman, Governor James ~
Beaver. We had been anticipating the
advent of Hartrauft who through the
management Of Don Cameron at the
Cincinnati Convention in 1876 defeated
Blaine. But neither HIrtranrt nor his
friends have MADE any sign, thus leav-
ing Beaver withOu. a competitor. y cor
respondent from the central part of this
State writing 60 the New York World
outlines the Governors plan of cam
paigu as follows:
The present program Is that Judge Kirk
patrick. the attorney general is 10 be select
ed a delegate from the Northampton district
Pierson, the governors private secretary, is
to be a delegate from the Mercer district
Adjutant General Hastings is 10 report from
the Centre district, and Stone. OF Warren,
promises to take care OF that section. Gov
ernor Beaver expects to be made one OF the
delegates -at-large through the aid OF his
friends. lie also expects to be made chair.
man Of the Pennsylvania delegation.
He believes there vii! come crisis in the
Chicago convention when he may be men
toned with n hurrah, as General Garfield
WAS eight years ago. In the event of his
nomination, Senator Cooper Is 10 be made
chairman Of the National committee and 70
be provided for under the National Admin
istraiicn II the ticket should be elected. In
the event Of the election of General Beaver
to the Presidency, Lieutenant Governor
Davies will become Governor for the re-
nRinder OF the term.
Beaver is a great man in his own esti-
nation, and if he is nominated and
elected il will go hard with the old
Keystone State TO part with him.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24

JOE MNNLEY Chairman of the Re.
publican Committee in Maine and
Bla!ue's mouthpiece in that State, has
no difficulty in Interpreting his letter OF
declination 10 mean that he (Blaiuel is
Just as much candidate as he was be-
fore 1t was written. In an interview
with a World correspondent after the
letter was published. he said
'Mr. Batue's letter" he said with dellb-
eIatlon ''it' is not to be considered final
He does not decline the nomintion or say
that he will refuse TO head the ticket. 1t
means that Mr. Blame will not have his
name presented TO the convention as an as
Prant for the honor. IL the convention gets
up and demands that he take it he will DO
so. Mr Blaine las made himself public
man, and as'such owes the public some thing
He has no right TO say that he will not
assume trust that the party de-
mands him to take. Ifit is Thought
that Mr.. Blaine is the man needed to win
the fight he will have to take it., and he will
win"
Chairman "Tom" Cooper, Of this
State, says ditto TO Manley. When
these two political trImmers take the
same view OF the letter and the bulk of
the Republicans regard it in an ent ire
Iy different light, there seems 10 be a
vast amount of truth in the saying OF a
celebrated French dipiomatist that
language was given TO man to enabl e
him TO conceal his tn Oughts."
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24

TIE account of the havoc wrought
by the terrible Cyclone that visited
Mount Vernon. III, on last Sunday af-
ternoon, which is published in another
part of our paper, will be read with a
feeling of deep and profound SORROW.
The town, which is situate about seven
ty miles east of st Louis. cOnta ined
about three thousand inhabitants and
almost in an instant 800 residences and
places OF business were destroyed, from
1900 to 1900 people rendered houseless.
about 80 killed and over $50 wounded
Seldom, il ever, has there been so sud-
den and swift an exhibition OF the ire
sistible forces os nature against which
man is utterly powerless.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24

THE Philadelphia Record OF Tuesday
last says: 1t was reported from the
Schuy.kill coal region last evening that
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company's officials had discharged and
suspended large number of returning
employees, in violation of Mr.. Corbin' IS
pledge not to discriminate against the
men because OF their connection with
the strike. Possibly these reports were
nnfounded or partial. The company
should keep its contracts 1t cannot
afford ID trifie with its own interests.
But. above and beyond the interests of
either the company or its employees. the
vast interests OF the industries of East
ern Pennsylvania must not be ignored.
The consuming classes will not much
longer allow themselves to be made the
sport of designing Spectators or hot
headed agitators. Mr.. COrbir must not
seek TO wreak his vengeance at the pub
lie expense.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24
worth Knowing.

Mr.. W. II. Morgan. merchant, Lake City,
Fla, was taken with a severe Cold, attend
ed with distressing Cough and running
into Consumption in its first stages. He
tried many so-called popular cough remedies
and steadily grew worse. Was reduced In
flesh. had difficulty In breathing and was
unable TO sleep. Finally tried DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption and found
Immediate relief, and after using about
half dozen bottles found himself we'll and
has bad no return Of the disease No other
remedy can show so grand a record of cures,
as DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump.
tion- Guaranteed to do just what Is claim.
ell for it. Trial bottles free at Z. Jame,'
drug store, Eoensbnrg. OF w. W. acAteer's S
store, LoTetio.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24

THE result of the special election N
Michigan on last Tuesday week to ill
the vacancy caused by the dea h of Con-
gresham, :. e. Moffat, Republican, has
fallen upon that party with the same
surprise that is caused by clap of thun-
der out Of clear sky. The district has
been one of the Republican strong holds
In the State and four years ago when
the Republicans at the Chicago Conven-
tIon declared themselves in favor of a
revision of the tariff and reducing the
surplus IN the treasury. MOffat was
elected by a majority of 7,475. At the
next election in 1886, the Republicans
in Congress having in the meantime
practically abandoned all pretext in fa-
vor OF tariff revision, Moffatt's majori-
ity was reduced 10 2,243. At the re-
cent special election Seymour was the
Republican candidate and Breen was
his Democratic opponent. Both parties
and their respective candidates made an
active and thorough canvass and al
though the official result has not, yet
been declared, it is admitted on all
hards that If Seymour is elected at all,
which Breen's friends do not admit, it
is by so small majority as 20 render it
merely nominal. Breen planted him
self squarely on the views of Mr.. Cleve-
land as set forth in his message IN oppo-
sition TO the taxation OF the necessaries
of life and in favor of the free admis-
sion of the raw materials of our varied
industries, and on that issue he has
wiped out more than SeUsH thousand of
the Republican majority in the district
little over three years ago. 1t is sim,
ply the fOrerunner of what will take
place next November all through the
Northwest if the Republicans continue
to denounce a moderate and jud.cIous
re-adjustment of the present high tariff
rates as democratic free trade"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24
Bravery worthy a Soldier.

FINDLAy. O., Februsry 16.-There died
in this city, this morning, a man who in his
life displayed in a more eminent degree
that peculiar heroism of which poets sing,
than was ever attained by the immortal
E1loea Arden. His name was DIR. d. May
and prior to the War OF the Rebellion he
was resident of Fairfield county, this
State. where he liYed happily with his wife
and two children until Lincoln called fol-
men TO put down the rebellion. when he re-
sponded TO his countrY's call and went to
the front.
At the battle OF Stone river be was taken
prisoner and was ssnt to Andersonville.
from where reports soon afterward came,
announcing his death from exposure and
starvation, and his family mourned him as
dead. His wife, believing these reports,
and hearing nothing from him. married
again. and to all concerned, May was but a
blessed memory. He was not dead, how
ever, aDd at the close of the war was ex
changed. and at once started for the North
to reioin his family.
When be reached Columbus he accident
ally heard that he was considered dead, and
that his wife was living pleasantly with a
second husband, who was treating her and
the children we'll. Here is where May dis
played true heroism. Without proceeding
further on his way. or making himself
known, he bought ticket for the far West
where he Renamed for Is years, his wife
in the meantime, dying without knowing
that her FIRST husband had not died at An
dersonVIlIe. but still survived her.
Upon the death of bis wife May returned
to Ohio and made himself known to hi
children, one of whom, a daughter, nov
Lying near Tiffin, wac with him throughou
his last Illness. DIR. May was we'll known
throughout Ohio, as a vender OF Indial
medicines. and had many friends, to WHOM
( this story of. his life will be great sur
| prise.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24

The outrageous prosecutions and
foreordained conviction and imprison-
ment of the IRISH leaders, including
many priests, go on with redoubled vig-
OF, with logger sentences and the prison
treatment more brutal. How the Irish
people with such provocation haye been
able to restrain their fighting proclivi
ties instead of rushing into organized
rebellion, is one of the wonders of the
age. Surely a brighter and better day
will soon dawn upon her. 1t is best
that her brave and generous sons should
patiently bear their present ills than fly
TO others that they know not OF.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24

SINCE the publication last week of
BlaIne's letter Withdrawing from the
Presidential contest two other candi-
dates have taken themselves out of the
race, and the emphatic way in which
they have done SO leaves no doubt
about their sincerity, which canno: get
be said of Blaine's manifesto. George
W. Childs, OF the Public Ledger, who
had a very decided following among the
leading Republicans of Philadelphia.
declared in his paper OF Friday las. that
he would oe compelled TO decline the
Office, honorable aud exalted as II is, il
by any chance in the chapter of unfore-
seen accidents, he should happen to be
elected General sheridan, whose
Presidential boom was becoming some
what formidable, declared in Washing.
ton few days ago that he would no.
under any circumstances accept a NOM
inatiou for the Presidency, should it be
rendered him. Nothing" he said,
'could induce me 10 leave the pro!es.
sion in which nearly sorty years of NV
life have been srelt, to enter upou a
civil career" In this connection it
may also be stated that DIR. McGIynn,
the business member Of the late firm OF
George X McGlynn, engaged in the
anti-P0verty business in New York,
stated the other day TO reporter of the
World that it was the sheerest nonsense
70 talk about him as the anti Poverty
candidate for President-that he didn't
want it and wouldn't touch It with a
ten foot pole. This is not important.
however, as the MoGlynn boom was
''suCh little one"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24
remarkable Reseues by ST. Bernard
Dogs.

1t is only within the last few days that
particulars have been published in the
Swiss papers of brave rescue effected on
Mont st. Bernard on the night of the last
Sunday In November While violent snow
storm was in progress, Grand, the mans ger
of the hospice noticed that his own special
dog that was alone with him In lis loom
became very restless, and made signs to him
To go out He took the lantern and toy
horn and went out on the mountain the
dog leading him. In a very short time he
beard q call and groaninR, and, helped by
the dog, dug out OF the snow an Italian.
whom he carried on his back into the
hospice. The rescued man stated that hIs
father, two brothers, and another Italian
all lourDeying home with him oveI the pass,
lay buried in the snow. He had pushed on
TO obtaiE help. but had been overpowered
by the storm. Grand made ready and went
out again This second search was more
tedious and led him further away but at
last the barking of the dog announced a
discovery. 1t was the Italian stranger who
was now saved and carried up TO the
hospice- a third time Grand and his dog
sailed out into the tempest, end after a
quarter of an hours search found the others,
near where the second man had been dts
covered. They were quite buried under
the snow and almost insensible. He took
the most feeble on his own shoulders, aud
with difficulty conducted the others to the
hospice- 1t WAS now past midnight, and
bis toiisome task had occupied Grand over
four hours, in q bliLdlng snow Storm
London Times
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24

THE farmers of Minnesota, without
distinction OF party, understs nd what
hurts them Among the resolutions
adopted at the recent meeting of the
State Farmers Alliance in St. Paul was
the following, which we commend to
the attention OF all whom it may con-
cern
We demand The revision of the present in
iQuitOus tariff and ask our Minnesota dele
gates in Washington to use their utmost en-
deavors to have placed upon the free list
lumber, Iron, salt, wool. coal, and all arti-
ces tor which trusts" have been or NAV
hereafter he formed. rs the producers of the
Northwest are forced to sell tLeir products
In competition with the producers OF the
Old World. They ask also TO be allowed to
purchase IN the cheapest markets without
paying this no longer necessary Tribute to
our own Government
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24
THE parliamentary election in South

THE parliamentary election in South
wark, one OF the London boroughs
which resulted so gloriously for the
Gladstonians, is accepted as the most
important electoral result since the gen
eTal election of 1886. Southwark is on6
of the poorest and most densely crowded
quarters o: Lcudon on the Surrey side
of the Thames, and in 1886 il was only
held from the Tory landslide which
swept away the most of the South Lon
don boroughs by the slender majority of
l13. The Tories gain this year nine
votes. The Liberals gain l,072. II is
by long odds the most important OF the
by-elections, chiefly because it shows
the working OF the leaven in the very
heart OF the metropolis, which has been
the central stronghold o. opposition TO
Gladstone, Its effects will be felt in
many ways, and especially in booming
radicalism inside tine Liberal party
Scuthwark's victory is really the tTI-
umph of the Democratic wing of the
party, and as much a protest against
police dictation in London as police ty-
Ianny in Ireland. Post.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24

TIE fact that Governor Beaver and
his Attorney General, says the Repub-
lican Pittsburg Dispatch do not consider
it necessary to make any very strong
efforts for forcing railIoad and tele-
graphic corporations to obey the Con-
stitution, is beginning to provoke the
inquiry with regard to the Governors
motto in his inaugural address, Yours
for service. =" whose service he referred
70
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24
Trade in Ginseng.

Ginseng IS altogether an article of export.
There is small amount consumed in this
country, it is true. and nearly every drug
store has 1t 10 stock, but the demand from
abroad regulates the high price. Green
ginseng brings from 40 cents per pound
spring dug to 60 cents per pound fall dug.
1t is gathered up by buyers, wlo sell it to
the large exporters. The biggest ginseng
houses are In Cincinnati and Baltimore.
The wholesale drug houses OF Chicago
handle some ginseng that they receive from
the country drug stores of the North
west with which they trade. The whole
sale price of the dry root is from S1.75 to
81 25 per pound according TO the quality.
The annual production Of the United States
is abou. four hundred Thousand pounds
and amounts to $4,000 600. In China the
profits must be enormous. Beside the high
price paid for it ordinarily a root in which a
fancifuI Imagination can trace a mans shape
will sell for $500 or s5OO-easily for its
weight in gold.
In the Celestial Empire ginseng has been
in use for neutrality-suspicious. thousandS-of
years. Its value, wholly fictitious. is clear
ly. firmly established. The demand is firm,
steady and Increasing. The supply of the
wild plant cannot hold out long. The
spring digging OF ginseng, practieed for
years. Is rapidly depicting ginseng IN the
United States. UltimatelY-and soon-it
will be exhausted. It's cultivation will
doubtless be speedily undertaken. The
cultivated root. it is said, is net as valuable
as that which grows wild. Nevertheless,
men who have handled 1t are agreed that it
! is worth trying to raise here as 1t is abroad.
Our present annual production is about
four hundred thousand pounds, which is
obtained from great number of States.
Much comes from the mountains of West
I Virginia and Pennsylvania. little from
North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, and the
! States of the Northwest furnish the rest
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-24
MEETING OF DEMOCRATIC COUNTY
COM MMIrTFF.

The members OF the Democratic County
Committee are requested to meet in Armory
Hall Building. opposite the Court House at
Ebensburg Pa, on Monday, March 18th
1883. at half past O'Clock +. NJ for :he pur-
pose OF electing five Delegates 20 the State
Convention, to be held at Harrisburg Pa.
on May 3lst lsss. and transacting such
other business as may be necessary.
JAMES NJ. Walters;
Chairman.
InhnStnMn- Ia Eah 90 1858