The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-05-28
EDrroRrAIrr1Es. Local AND GENERAL

received too late for insertion this week.
The ladies of Johnstown will decorate with
flowers the graves of the soldier dead in that
! place, on Saturday next. Beautiful tribute.
MANY Democrats" solicit meeting of the
| Democracy of Allegheny township and Loietto
| borough at the Mountain House, Loretto, at
o'clock on Saturday evening next, for the pur-
| pose of organizing "W hite Mans Club A
| full turn- out is desirable
! There was forty gallons of the Metropolitan
Oil sold in this place last week by NJ. L. Oat-
man. Pretty good to begin with. The Oil
does not appear to be hard to introduce There
is nothing to prevent it from selling faster than
any Oil i'll the market. 1t is the cheapest Oil
used.
The dead body of raftman named Bowers,
who resided in the vicinity of New Washing
ton, Clearfeld county taken through our
| town last week, with a view TO it's interment at
| home. The deceased is said to have expired
on board Que of the RATS, near Marietta. while
suffering from an attack of fits, to which he was
! subject.
Mr.. Evelyn Evans will give one of his admi-
rable readings at the Court House, in this place.
| on Tuesday evening next. His budget consists
of some of the fir est selections from the most
| popular authors, and the admirable manner in
which Mr.. Evans renders these choice gems Is
| pleasing, interesting and instructive. By all
means let him have be6tting welcome.
a match game of base ball-the first IF the
season for this seetion-c2 me off on the Noun
taineer' grounds on Tuesday of last week.
| The contesting parties were picked mines from
the East and West Wards. The game resulted
IN favor of the East Ward by score of 26 to
"a On Monday of this week, the return game
was played, resulting in favor of the w est Ward
by score of 80 to 36 We understand the
home and home game will be played to morrow
(Friday) afternoon
g. W. Easily, of the Altoona VINDICAToR,
presented his intelligent phiz TO the admring
gaze OF his many friends in this locality on
| Thursday last, but withdrew it ere we had time
| to say much more than How dye do % AL
ways glad to see Cas-, but can scarcely recon
clle ourselt to the absence from our columns OF
his readable letters over the signature OF ''Sku
Bal" He is making the VINDIcAToR hump,
however, and we hope the VINDICAToR will in
return make hump in his pocket book
After few months absence from table,
the TEA CHEFS ADVOCATE has again put in an
appearance, having just been rejuvenated under
the editorial mana cement of our talented Young
tOwnsman, Mr.. Geo. w. Cope 1t now ema-
mates from the printing establishment of Messrs.
McCrum K Dern, Altoona, and is a neat in
appearance it is readable in contents We
trust the new editor will find the 'posish'
pleasant one, and that the ADVOCATE will nev
er fail for want of support from the educational
fraternity,
jacob Grister, while employed in adjusting
strap extending from grindstOne to a drum on
shalt IN a steam plann mill at Ludwick, a
couple of weeks since. became entangled in the
below the knee, and at each revolution of the
shaft his head came in contact with the jost
above and frame below. His head was horri-
bly, manSleI, scattering the bruins and skull
over the room in every direction He leaves a
wife and children living i'll Hempield township,
Westmorelaud county.
1T man is to be Judged by the company he
keeps, we see no good reason why company
may not be judged by the man it keeps. and
when tray cling exhibition like the mammoth
m Il /,
18th June next keeps in advance such a gentle
manly agent as the veteran Couldock, ii is fair
to presume, even If we had no other criterion
10 judge by, that the coming Circus and Me
nagerle Is an entertainment of the most elabo-
rate and gratifying character. Mr. Couldock
Is a frat Class business agent and most agree
able gentleman, and We feel sure that he is the
iorerunner of a first class exhibition.
BIG Thing Its ponderous article to be a
newspaper man. a fellow in any other profes
sion may be smarter and better, but he can
never hope to attain so much notoriety as I've
printer man" y chap that publishes a news
P per can't poke his nose out his own neigh
borhood, Or at least into one where another
Journal is printed We tried it On not long since
and afforded subject for less than three
newspaper paragraphs. The Hollidaysbu-n
STAHDARD, among other things, declared thar
we look ed as fine silk" Perhaps we do
but like a sow's ear, we wouldn't serve to make
a purse of. Cleaner the Altoona CORES
pondent of the same paper, dubs as a notable,
talEs about our good clothes and abundance of
Hesh, thinks the mountain air supplied with
both, and intimates that he has good joke he
intends to get off at expense. What we
are NOTABLE to do lie don't inform US, but
we know what we can do, Jo- Cleaner" If
the joke is not one OF your drv old ones, we can
laugh with loud outlaw, and gain more flesh
thereby than We ever obtained through the NE
dunn of mountain air. or ''mountain dew"
either. Our "good clothes" might suffer in
the meantime, however. All this from one
paper, but if that was not enough, along
comes the Altoona VINDICAToR with a CAMP
BELLS load of criticism which we are expected
To bear just as-EAsLY. 1t goes the whole
hog except the bristles, and to the color of them
it files objections. W ell, we can't help it, but
console ourself with the thought that our wife
lays the ''sweet JUNCTION to her soul'' that we
have the incest HAIR that vegetables on any era
mum in this "neck of Iimber'-and we think
we have the incest HER that ever was given to
man to comfort him. The feeliug is reciprocal
she likes our HAIR and we like our HER and
nobody else cares a darn about the whole sab
ject in dispute. So let ''cry up be the word
CONC w EST Last week we printed
bills for the SAFE of John G. Wherley's per-
sonal property, to take place Saturday |
ncxt-John having purchased farm in
Cambria county and made arrangements to
take possession thereof the lst of June.
John is good hearted fellow, a sound Dem
ocrat and no doubt will; make an excellent !
farmer, having been raised to the business
In the cold country" We. wish him abun- |
dant crops, a ready market and good health |
in his new hone.-Huntingdo Monitor.
GARDENING.--The disagreeable weather of |
the past mon tn or two has deferred many from /
putting in seed, but doubtless all will pitch in /
now and endeavor to make up for lost time
That no further delay may be made in the |
matter we suggest that the necessary impie- |
ments, seeds, and all other articles requireu for
gardening, may be had at the extensive house
furnishing establishment of Geo. Huntley, who |
also has for sale a fine lot of large and healthy !
tomato plaats, just fresh from the hot beds.
Nor to pile up the agony of eloquence too
strongly, state with great confidence that
ladies attired in new styles of spring and sum
mer 6"esS goods bought at the renowned estab