The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-07-30
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

EDTToRIALITEs, LOCAL AND GENERAL
A servant girl at the Mountain House.
Cressou. we are told, died very suddenly on
Sunday last.
Why is the handsomest young lady in
Ebensburg like a hinge2 Because she is
something to adore.
Our friend Huff, now of Greensburg, spent
q day with us not long since, and was greet
ed by all his old friends ION sight"
Our down town neighbor, Edward Glass,
Esq, who has been suffering seriously from
protraCted illness, is now, we are pleased TO
say, slowly convalescing.
It is alleged by persons competent to
Judge. that the wheat crop of Cambria this
wear will more than double the yield of last
season. The same will hold good in regard
10 neighboring counties.
The barn of Daniel Shrader, in Sewickiy
township, Westmoreland county, was struck
by lightning on Sunday week, and barn.
wheat, hay, machinery, etc. to the value of
fifteen hundred dollars. were destroyed.
\ fraCas occurred between VIM. Lane and
Thos. II. Fagen. two plasterers in Holidays
burg, on Saturday, which resulted in the
latter beating the former so brutaly that he
died almost instantly. Fagen arrested.
a German resident of Yoder township,
named John Widman, fell from the iron
bridge near the Cambria Iron Co.'s store,
Johnstown, on Saturday week, and received
injuries which caused his death tie next
evening.
The painters art has made great i'm
provemeut in the outward appearance of the
Town Hall. which is now one of the finest
looking buildings in our town. Messrs.
John Slough aud Jerry Fegan did the work,
and they have certainly done it well.
Mr.. John SkelIy, of Blacklck township.
was thrown from horse, on Saturday last,
and received a severe fracture Of tbs hip
bone Tie injury is of serious character,
and as he is a man Of some seventy years of
age, bis recovery may be considered doubt
ful.
a Scotch miner named John Hodgets,
while intoxicated, fell or lev down upon the
railroad track near the Johnstown station,
on Monday night week. and was run over
aud instantly killed by the mail train west
about halfpast ten O'Clock. His body was
horribly mangled.
The house Of DR.. D. D. Taylor, at Irwin
Westmoreland county, was entered through
a window, by burglars on the night of the
nth inst, ether administered to the Doc
tor while sleeping, and a pocket. book con
tainiug eleven hundred dollars distracted
from under his pillow. No clue to the per
geyrators.
Tad Lincoln in imitation Of boys who
never had President for their father. at
tempted to jump on a passing freight train
at Cresson. on Monday week. but his hold
slipped, and had it not been for the timely
aid of gentleman who stood near, he would
have fell under the wheels and most proba-
bly, have been killed.
Mrs. Kate Moore, Of Bell township, West
saoreland county. was noticed going into an
old cooper shop at HUFF saltWorks, one day
not long since, and shortly after the dead
body of a child was found secreted in the
wells near the building. Tie child is sup
posed to have died from neglect or violence
and Mrs. Moore. who has been separated
from her husband for two years. is supposed
% be the iuhuman mother. Not yet ar
rested.