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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30
Who is Responsible.

Every indication to severe financial
strlDRency during the coming month.
Inc crops throughout the West are
much heavier than usual, ard the move.
ment OF the new grain 10 market. has
commenced a fortnight earlier than
IS customary. General business has re-
sponded to the stimulus, and the iron
industries OF the country, which are
the most reliable index to the situation
display improving symptoms which
promise to develop into a degree of ac-
tlVlty that has Geen long absent.
but unoer these circumstances the
business and financial worlds are con-
lronted with serious obstacle. Owing
10 the absorption OF funds by the Ma
tlohal treasury, the supply of funds to
meet thlS emergency is entirely made
quate. The surplus reserve of the New
York banks was down to two miiIion
dollars on Friday. The financial nres.
sure already created is responsible for
several of the recent failures of husi.
ness and manufacturing concerns.
Speculation tends To widen and prIces
10 advance. They are necessarily
checked ty these demons. rations. But
on every side, bo;h IN the business
world and in Wall street, the cry is
that the Treasury should and must
come to the rescue.
Cnder these circumstances, what is
the Harrison Administration doing >
Ihe Secretary of the Treasury has run
away from his responsibilities. and is
protesse dly resting from the onsIaup hi
OF the ofieeseekeTs. President Hsr-
rlson s unfortunate remarks about Gov.
eminent de oosits in national hanks nra.
vents relief to the money market in that
direction Secretary Window is appsre
en!ly AFRAID to take the responsibility
OF increasing the purchase OF bonds by
tne only available means, and no one IN
authority seems to think that the in.
terest on the national debt couId he
anticipated. ~
The sufferers are the mercantile and
manufacturing community. Already
they are beginning, irrespective of mar.
y. 10 charge the present condition OF
affairs 20 the Administration. Office
brokerage, and not national concerns
Is the limit of the mental horizon oI
WINDOWS and Harrisons.-N Y SIR
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

n WASHINGTON special to the New
York World, of Wednesday says that
some astounding figures came to light
on Tuesday in the matter OF increased
and rerated pensions. 1t appears that
during the month of August Commits
sioner Tanner has paid out the enor-
nous sum of $4,000 in seventeen re-
rated cases. Richard Whiting, of St.
Louis, received the largest amount,
S12 ,251 80. Hiram Smith, Deputy
Commissioner OF Pensions, has himself
been rerated, and pockets S6,O35 ~.
Cardenio Bruce, of Kansas gets So
34l, -. John ). Fay receives So, 341 .S5.
Heny Funking shares in tie big garb to
the tune of So, ,231 O5. Tanner basses
this wholesale distribution of the sur
plus upon a recent decision of Assistant
Secretary Chandler in the case of
Henry Schmidt, in which the Secretary
ruled that a man might be pensioned
for double disability.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

The Mills bill, says the Pittsburg
Post, proposed to reduce the duty on
pig iron from So ~ per ton to S.. Taat
was denounced as free trade. Blu. Gov
ernor Ames, of Massachusetts,, lone os
the largest iron manufacturers in the
Union elected on the ticket with Har-
rison last November, and every R-pub-
lican manufacturer of iron and steel in
New England, have signed petitions 10
Congress asking that the duty on pig
iron shall be reduced to the ante war
rate or 24 per cent--that is, about S3
per ton. These Republican manufact-
urers also ask that Coal be admitted
duty free, instead of paying 70 cents a
ton, rate that the Mills bill did not
disturb, ard very foolishIy in our judg-
ment, as 1t would clearly open new
markets for the bituminous Of Western
Pennsylvania in Canada, il we should
repeal the duty on coal. the Dominion
making no secret that in that case it
will repeal its duty of 90 cents a ton.
New England is determined, not as a
question of politics but as necessity of
her industrial situation, TO have free
coal and iron ore, and a marked reduce
tion in the duties on crude manufactur.
es of iron and steel. She has the votes ir.
Congress. with those of other tariff re-
formers, to make certain the result.
But The movement for free raw materi~
al will not end with the success of her
demands. Free wool is of even more
importance 10 manufacturers aud con-
sumers. The silence of the trust and
monopoly papers OF this region as to the
extraordinary movement in New Eng
land for tariff reform is about as sig
nihcsnt as the Yankee uprising. We
commend TO them especially the state
nent of Governor Ames, that "there is
reason in all things, and when the sys
TEN tprotectionl has been carried as far
as it has in this case, so that many in
dustries have been Tuined, it is time for
a chaDgeS'
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

not a single person in the country who
is competent to have an opinion upon
the subject who believes that all this
money was legitimately used by Mr..
Quay. There has never been any ac-
counting of its use and there never will
be. Undoubtedly it went to meet Mr..
Dorsey's soap" But however it may
have been used, Mr. Quay's candidate
was elected by magnificent" and
honorable" leadership OF this kind.
This Is the leader who is now the Re-
publican hero of Pennsylvania. His
conduct, which the Philadelphia Press
and the New York Tribune have de>
scribed as we have seen, is praised with
an enthusiasm of acclamation to which
there seems to have been no dissent. 1t
is also announced that he is TO be urged
by Pennsylvania as its candidate for
the Presidency. Should the movement
succeed. we may expect Mr.. Dorsey to
be associated with him as Vice PIssi-
dent, and il the event of their election,
probably Mr.. Platt would not be again
disappointed in securing the Treasury ;
nor could Mr., Dudley's equally magni-
hcent and honorable services be over
ioaked.-Harper's Weekly.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30
A hakeshift IN the Treasury.

When Mr.. Harrison urdArrooL ,ba
formation of Cabinet he resembIed a
theatrical manager W hose business ab,i-
y and financial standing were in donbt
Meuiocre veterans and inexperienced
amateurs were willing and anxious to
JON MS troupe, but the lights of pro-
,ession fought shy of him. And the
peiior rnances which the aggregation
nas since oeen giving are in keeping
Win It's composition. The report that
the leading man threatened To huv a
ticket and hiss the shows if IN com
tlnned 10 be so bad, would be entiraIv
lustlhaole by the facts.
considering the Importance which
nnanclal problems are assuming. il he
nooVed Mr. Harrison to have ont ar the
ueao OF the Treasury man of real
strength and financial experience. The
Lender OF the position to Senator Ali
sun soh vi iowa was recognition of this
iac'. but MI Allison apparently had
10 Ueslre TO court the prospect of
mahlhg nome" when the HARRISON
comedy company became stranded
Manager Harrlson's onIv resonrca ~.
TO I'LL the place with .ssuner,3 anI
trust to luck to carry him through To
Tue enc or the season. Hence It was
mat William Window O. Minnesota and
"ail street was dlsinterred f1om the
political graveyard.
speaking seriously, the financial end
or the Harrison Administration is not
one OF which the country can be proud.
performances like that of the redoubt-
able Tanner or Robespierre Clarkson
prevent it from receiving due atten-
lion. But at his present rate. and on
me existing lines of his policy, Mr..
Secretary Window bids fair to create
more real trouble than spy of them.
lie is apparently doing al! he can to
bring about first>class financial dis
turbance. When general business suf-
fers, as there is more than a prospect
that 1t will, the excuse of Incompetence
VIII scarcely answer.-N. Y. Star.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30


THE Campaign of Education goes
right along, rain or shine, winter or
summer. The failures OF the woollen
manufacturers are causing many per-
sons to think and out Yves. great
meetings are being held for the purpose
of dissocisting Tariff Reform from poll
itics and of discussing It on merits. At
Plattsburg, Mo-, on Wednesday, some
10000 people who had met TO look into
the question greeted with applause the
following letter addressed TO tie Chair
man OF the Committee on arrange
ments
have received your cordial and
earnest invitation to attend a Tariff
Reform picnic at Plattsburg on the
2lst instant, and am exceedingly
pleased to learn that such an active and
efficient measure is to be adopted to
arouse the intelligence of the people of
your locality upon question so vital to
their interest and TO the good of the
entire country. The time is opportune
for instruction and information upon
the subject of Tariff Reform and for the
correction OF misapprehension and pre-
Judice. The question is so deep and
has so much 10 do with the welfare and
happiness of the American people that
its consideration ought not TO be re-
strained within the limits of party sub
serviency, and 1t will not thus be re-
strained il it is understood.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30
HhiskeH Kills.

How often are we yet to be told that
whiskey kills Arsenic kill opium kills,
and 50 do hundreds of other good remedies
Kill If abused instead of used. But ask the
question, "Will whiskey cure ?" Eyes - is
the positive reply of the most eminent ply
sicians of all the land. Disease steals into
your system like sneak thief into your
house, and often by neglecting a bad cold,
we end our days in lingering, and wishing
for health-when, indeed, one bottle of Pure
hhtskeu or Brandy would have cured the
cold. Such goods may be scarce. but they
can De found at Max kleIns, 50 Federal
street, Allegheny. His "Silyer Age" is the
only whisky endorsed by the doctors You
can get the pure Guckenheimer. Finch or
Gibson Rye at LOO per quart or six quarts
for $500 Send for price list.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

THE Democratic primaries were held
on Saturday last and on Monday the
return judges met and counted the
votes. AS will be seen by the official
table of the votes polled, published on
this page, James c. Darby, of Cone
maugh borough, was nominated for
Prothonotary CeIestine J. Blair, Of
EbensbuTg, was nominated for Regis
ter and Recorder Francis J.O'Connor,
of JOhnstown, was nominated for Dis
tIict Attorney Raphael Hite, Of Car
Ioil township was nominated for d.
rector of the Poor Peter M'Gough of
Portage township, was nominated for
Coroner and Henry Scsnlan, of Carroll
town was nominated for County Sur
veyor. The ticket is a good one. CONS
posed of Democrats worthy of the sup
port of every Democratic voter in the
county and having been nominated in
accordance with the rules of the Demo-
cratic party the entire ticket should be
voted in November without being de-
faced by scratch, by every Democrat,
and triumphantly elected. We will
refer to the ticket again at some future
time.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

The United States, says the Toronto
tCanads) Nal. according to the latest
Interpretation of the alien labor law
viii allow no more clergymen of foreign
birth to accept invitations to preach to
American congregations. There was
more enlightment among the Macedop-
ian heathens than there Is among the
American Christians. Had there nor
been Paul would haye been turned back
when responding to the cry from Mae
edonia for help. 1t is to be hoped other
countries will not follow the American
example and resist the arrival of min
listers of the Gospel. Suppose the pa
gans were to take leaf out of the
Christian book and order out all he
American missionaries. what a terrible
outcry there would be from Sandy Hook
to the Golden Gate.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

THE farmers have this year says the
Philadelphia Record, rasised a tremend-
Gus wheat crop for which they will get
portatiOn. But when they buy sugar.
lumber, clothing, salt, tools, medicines,
tinware, or any other of the thousands
of necessary things taxed in the tariff
schedules, they must pay American
prices. They sell in the cheapest mar.
ket and buy in the dearest market. AS
long as they a:e satisfied with this kind
OF trading there is no reason why Har-
Iison shouldn't be President.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

AT the meeting of the new County
Committee held at the Opera House on
Monday, w. A. b. Little Esq, was
elected Secretary for the ensuing year
w. II. Rose, was elected member of the
State Central Committee, and G. y.
Sharbaugh, of CarrOlltown, DIR. J. B.
Noonsn, of Chest Springs, G. n. Grouse,
of South Fork, NJ. Fitzharris, of Gal
litziD, and DIR. Geo. Wagner, of Johns
town were elected delegates to the State
Convention.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION,

The Democratic State Convention will as
semble in the Opera House, in the city of
Harrisburg, on Wednesday, September 4,
1850. at IL O'Clock, NJ for the purpose of
nominating candidate for the Office of
State Treasurer and transacting such other
business as may properly come before It.
The rules of the Democratic party of
pennsylvania provide that "the representa-
tion in the State Convention shall consist of
representative delegates, one for each ], 900
Democratic votes cast at tue last guherna-
torial election, or for fraction of 900 such
votes amounting to 900 or more, in the re-
spective representative district provided
that each representative district shall have
at least one delegate"
ELLIOTT +. KIsNER,
Chairman Democratic State Committee
BENJI. M. NEED Sacratary.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

SEPTEMBER oh is the last day to
nave your lame registered in order TO
get vote at the general election
November 5sh. II you are not positive.
~ sure that you are register ed go and
attend to this duty at once. 1t might
De well enough to see your neighbor
ana remind him of the necessity OF hay-
ing his name registered in time.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

IHE last Legislature was kind
enough 10 set apart September , as a
legal holiday to be known as LABOR day.
This Will give the protected working
man an opportunity to spend some OF
his surplus earnings. The generosity
OF the Republican Legislature should
not be permitted to pass unnoticed.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

IN view of the pledge of Mahone's
platform in Virginia, says The Pittsburg
Dispatch (htPUblicda) that the Rspu5li-
cans will secure financial aid to ex,
confederate soldiers and their widows
and:orPhans, it becomes rather perti-
nent inquiry whether Republican plat
forms are intended to state Republican
principles or To catch votes.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

lHE gallows did CHASTITY work in
New York city last Friday morning
nut 1t seems as If the lesson it conveyed
had not been given quickly enough.
But few hours before the four men
plunged through The fatal trap young
rutiian in Brooklyn, surprised while
roobing house, plunged dagger re-
peatedly into the heart OF the man who
bad detected him.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

The United States circuit court Al
San Francisco, California, was officially
informed on TuesdBy that the charge Of
murder against Justice Stephen J. Field
growing out of the shooting Of Judge
Terry had been dismissed by the Stock
ton Court. Judge Sawyer, according
dismissed the habeas corpus proceed.
lngs In the case of Justice Field.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

TANNER boasts says the Boston
Herald, of the amazement he is to bring
upon Congress by the extent OF his calls
Tor money from the Treasury. Serious
ly' did the Grand Duchy of Gerolstein
itself even furnish such parodies of men
IN public life as our nation is now af>
tording at the Pension Office and the
Post Office ?
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

AN international American Congress
VIII meet aG Washington, at noon on
october 2nd, 1889. 1t will be attended
by some fifty to sixty delegates, incIud-
ing some of the most distinguished men
In Central and South America.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

JOHN LEES, one OF the pronipsp,
wooilen manufacturers of PHILADELPHIA.
says IL have come to the conclusion
that the only salvation for this country
must be found in free raw materials.
Unless Congress removes the tariff ON
wool 1t won't be long before some OF
the largest factories in this country
VIII be compelled to close their doors. y
Next
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

"A PENNSYLVANIA crank, remarks
The Chicago Herald, has made three
hundred clay idols of various gro
tesque shapes, which he worships de-
Voutly every night and morning. The
general supposition is that the only idol
worshipped in Pennsylvania is protec-
tion.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

a meeting Of the Democratic State Com
mittee will be held at the rooms of the Com
mittee. No 800 Market street, Harrisburg
on Monday. September I'd, 1889, at 4
O'Clock, =. NJ.
BENT. M. MEAD, ELLIOT 2. KIsNER,
Secretary. Chairman
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30

THE Prohibition State Convention
met at Harrisburg on Wednesday, and
nominated j. r. Johnston, of Pittsburg,
for State Treasurer.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.

FOR PROTHoNoTARY
JAMES &. DARBY, of Conemaugh
Borough
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER.
CELESTINE j. BLAIR, of Ebens-
burg.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY
FRANCIS j. O'CONNOR of Johns
town.
FOR POOR DIRECTOR
RAPHAEL HITE, OF Carroll Twp.
FOR CORONER
PETER McGOUGH, of Portage Twp
FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR
HENRY SCANLAN, of Carrolltown.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30
Democratic state Committee Meeting.

Chairman Democratic State COMMITTEES
BENJI. M. NEED. Secretary.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-07

IN one thing Corporal Tanner is con- siderably better than President Harrison he keeps his word. When he was made pension commissioner he remarked that he intended, if his good right arm held out, to make big hole in the sur plus. He has been doing his utmost to fulfill his pledge. When Harrison con- sented to become president he amour ced that it would be his ''sincere pur- pose, if elected, to advance the (civil ser vice) reform" He has done everything in his power to impede its progress by removing fifteen thousand officeholders in the first six months of his administra- tion. He has consistently and stead fly violated his pledges, while Tanner has steadfastly adhered to his. In this respect Tanner is better than Harrison.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-07
ADMIRABLE ADVICE.
WHEN fortune smiles on YOU. don't O.

WHEN fortune smiles on you, don't exam inc her teeth.
 BE neighborly; be honorable. Make sac rifices rather than dispute with neighbors.
 BEWARE of those who do not show their love for humanity by their every day acts and utterances.
 BEFORE we passionately desire any thing which another enjoys we should examine into the happiness of it's possessor.
 SHOULD misfortune overtake you, re- trench, work harder, but never fly the track; confront difficulties with unflinching perseverance. Should you then fail, you will be honored; but shrink, and you will be despised.
 LEARN from nature not to divide your energieo unduly. Her compromises ire quently look like fsilures. The land is good for men to live on, tho sea is good for fishes to live in; but sea-marsh is good for nei- ther, being too wet for men and too dry for fishes.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-07
A Patriarchal Land Turtle,

A merchant named Leon Santelli, residing at Carupano, Venezuela, has in his posses. sion giant tortoise. It is called the ''morrocy" by the natives there. The phenomenon weighs sixty-fve pounds and is over hundred years old. Ordinarily this species do not weigh moro than seven to eight pounds. Its shell is dense mass o1 laminated plates and the little children o1 the owner ride about on it. When it eats any thing 1t shows preference for bananas or leaves of any sort, but it is not particu lar, and can beat George Francis Train fast ing and give him three months start. A proposal was made to MT. SantelG to send this ancient" to the Paris exposition, but this was declined.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-07
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

PROFESSIONAL rat-catchers get s1,5OO A year, and there are only ten in this coun- try. The average income of a lawyer is s7OO, and the woods are full of them.
 PIERRE LoR1LLARD has a scheme to cover Jerome Park with glass and light the in- terior by electricity, so as to allow racin g in winter. He figures the cost at S20O, 900.
 AUGUST is the month for the Catskills. The travel in that direction continues larger than what it was a year ago, and it is said of the visitors that they are of the 'permanent" kind.
 AN umpire for ball game at L'Anse, Mich, paralyzed q crowd of people by ap- bearing on the field armed with cutlass, an axe and a spy-glass. On his back was painted big sign: "You will please side with me-"
 JAY GoULDs home at Lyndhurst on the Hudson is the center of circle of wealth such as probably no other country in the world can match. Within radius o1 twenty miles resides dozen big capitalists whose combined riches are not less than $500, ,0O0, 900.
 PENNSYLVANIA brags of the oldest twins They are George and Jonathan Buckman of Bucks County, who were born on April 9, 1903. There are two other twins who are nearly as old; Samuel and John Nice of Germantown and Jenkinstown, who were born in 1895.
 THE great bridge which is to cross the St Lawrence at Quebec will. with it's ap breaches, be 34, 600 feet or nearly six and g half miles long. The top of the bridge vii be 40S feet above high-water level, allowing the largest ocean vessels to pass under it One span in the bridge will have a lengtt of 1, ,442 feet
 TIE Jennens heirs in this country have
 been trying for ten years to secure $3, ,OOO, 900 fortune in England. During that time l they have sent Lawyer s. c. Cook abou s60,OO0 for fees and expenses. At last they displaced Cook, and when he turned up a their convention the other day they wer,
 so disgusted that they expelled him iron the meeting.
 MANY years ago, when circus was show 1 ing in Gorham, Me, the clown, whose nam,
 was Reynolds, was thrown from horse ant killed. He was buried in the Gorham cem 1 etery, and it Is said that since that tim
 whenever circus has visited the town has been the custom of the company to visi
 the clowns grave and strew flowers on i'
 while the band plays dirge.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-07
His Own Grandfather.

Medical Classics tells of case where 6 fellow got to be his own grandfather. It says: There was 8 widow and her daugh- ter-in-law and 0 man and his son. The widow married the son, and tho daughter married "the old man." The widow was, therefore, mother to her husbands father, and consequently grandmother to her own husband. They had a son, to whem she was greatgrandmother. Now, az the son of Q great-grandmother must be either a grand. father or great-uncle, this boy was one or the other. He was his own grandfather.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-07

TANNER has been pretty thoroughly tanned by the democratic press, but this is nothing to the scoring he is getting from soldiers widows and sons of the "men who expect to be mourned by soldiers widows" But Tanners cheek, :, which is monumental, sustains him through it all,