The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-08-20
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.


Our Johnstown letter was not received
until Tuesday night, and as a consequence
we have been forced TO condense its details
The hand that make pie is cJn-
tinual feast to the husband that marries it,
The rule, however, don't hold good liz print
ing offices.
The total number Of emigrants who passed
over the Pennsylvania Railroad from the Ist
day Of January to the 31st day of July, is
given at 17,103.
Governor Geary has pardoncd James Nc
Quown, recently sentenced to the Peui ten
t ary for period of five years, for the killing
Of Geo. Shields in Indiana county.
We have received letter from o. board
Steamship Boston, nearing Liyerpool,'' but
owing TO its extreme length we are forced to
postpone its publication until next week.
lad named Fleming had the flesh on
one Of his legs badly laceratcd at Latrobe,
Oh Monday night week, by having it caught
between the bumpers of two freight cars
a new musical furore has broken out
among the young ladies in this vicinity,
many of them having become attached to
brass bands-which tneywear on their heads
Studies will be resumed at ST. Francis
Collegc, L1retto. on Monday, August 8Ist
They were commenced at st. Aloysius' Sem
mary, same place, Oh Tuesday Of the present
week.
Eaccoons are said to be unusually plentiful
In tits reighborhood Just now, and their
nightly depredatiuns in the corn-tclds are of
a nature anything bat pleasant to the owners
thereof.
James Appleton, ESD. Of Philadelphia,
who, in connection with his brother, excava-
ted the Old Portage Railroad tunnel, died at
Brooklyn, n. Y Su the lIth inst, in the
I'd year of Is age.
Our next door neighbor. NJ. L. Oatman,
IS having the front Of his store-room hand
somcly lettercd. Martin is an enterprising,
wideawakc busincss man, and ne are glad
to know that he is prospering. as he certain
~ deserves TO DO.
Cu Radical iiends in this vicinity have
recognized ".hc eternal fitness of things" by
cleo ting as one OF the Nicc-Presideuts OF their
Grant Club man who can talk horse
with as much facility as Useless Hiram him
self Bully for them
young man picking whort!e berries on
the North Mountain, Huntingdon county,
on the 4th inst, was chased by a wolf The
next day party visited the spot, found the
animals den, and killed two young wolves,
but the oil cue esca ped.
One Of the latest and least commendable
institutions of Ebensburg is a Grant Club
After the election one of the earliest and most
COmmeuCabIe institutions of our town will
he an Emi-Grant Club, with the head waters
tf Salt river as its destination.
4 painful rumor prevailed here last week
TO the effect that a family of seven persons
had been murdered in Clearfield township.
It is difficult to say what gave rise to the re-
port, but we are glad to say that it was al
together without foundation in fact.
Just after dinner on Tuesday our citizens
were startled 10y the cry of ''Eirei' but be-
,1fF IL
scere the flames were subdued. The fire had
teen communicated from the hue to the roof
Of the rcsid nee Of L. A. Tierney, Esq, in
the west end Of town, but only done triding
damage before it was overcome.
In view of Hiram Ulysses predictions
for terp3ichorean amUsctnents, as manifested
on a certain memorable occasion in Wash
iugton city, it is eminently just and proper
that a Grant Club should be supplied with
a Piper, so that ''the ball can go on" at any
time that distinguished, and shortly to be
exinguished, d'tiJte feels disposed to "trip
the light fantastic toe"
Rev. B. NJ. Kerr, pastor Of the Presbyte-
rian church of this place, announces through
our paper to-day his intention TO open Se-
lect High School for Young Ladies, in the
Academy building here, on Tuesday, Sept.
1st. Mr.. Kerr is a teacher of large expe-
fail in his duty to all pupils who may be
committed to his charge.
During the progress of an amateur-very
amateur-game Of base ball on Friday. bat
flew from the hands of one of the players, and
after redOunding from the ground, struck
a little son of Mr.. John Lloyd on the side of
the face and temple, and injured him so much
that it was feared congestion of the brain
would result the same night. The little fell
low is now, however, out of danger and do
ing well.
An extempore club of base ballists, made
up of visitors to the Cresson Springs, accom-
panied by long cavalcade of ''fair ladies
and brave men, came TO our town on We'd
nesday for the purpose of participating in a
friendly contest with the knights of the bat
and ball here They did participate, bat
not to very alarming extent. as the. score
stood at the end of the game Mountaineers
G5 Mullins 80.
The O'Hara picnic, held on Wednesday
last, was an agreeable and most successful
affair-nothing whatever being wanted to
conduce to the enjoyment Of the OCCASION
We have not learned the amount realized,
but rumor says it will not fall much short Of
$500. A handsome benefit for worthy OBJ
ject. To Mr.. Sam'l O'Hara, more than TO
any other one man. is due the credit of bring
ing about this gratifying result.
young man named Delozier, or Clear
field township, was accidentally shot, not
loug since, by pistol in his own hands,
How 1t was done we can't conceive, but we
are told that the ball passed through one of
his arms in two places, below and above the
elbow, and entered his breast, passing up
along the ribs and lodging against the collar
bone. The ball was extracted, and the in
jured man is doing we'll.