The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-09-24

young in years, he appears to be old in
crime, for the Greensburg Democrat says
that he has already served term in the
penitentiary for horse stealing....A young
man named Samuel Lyon, Of Conemaugh
township, Indiana county, got one of his
feet entangled in a thrashing machine on
the 9Th, crushing it so badly as to render
amputation necessary. "A Grant and Col
fax pole 40 feet long was successfully
raised at Kimmell, Indiana county, on the
18th. Hon A A. Barker and Rev. Jos.
Glenn delivered speeches on the occasion.
The first number of the Altoona True
Light, campaign paper, has reached US.
1t is edited by the Grant and Colfax club
of that city, and gives promise of affording
valuable aid to our cause. j ohnstown has
a lodge of the ''Knights of Pythias." The
Pittsburg papers last week gave an ac-
count of how one John Fiscus, of Altoona,
loaned 1886 to couple of confidence op-
orators in the former city, taking as secu-
rity for the repayment of the same bond,
and how he ultimately discovered that the
bond was bogus and that his money was
gone and that he had been sweetly taken
in and done for Mr.. Fiscus denies the
whole story, and says he lost no money!.
The Junior Independents of Johnstown
went to Hollidaysburg on the 9th and
played game of base ball with the Ju-
nior Juniatas of the latter place. Score,
10 for the Independents, to 40 for the
Juniatas A Republican meeting, to be
addressed in German by Capt f. Schluem-
back, will be held in Johnstown on the
10Th inst Another Republican meeting,
to be addressed by Hon. Lewis Barker, of
Maine, and Hon Mahlon Chance, of Ohio,
will be held at the same place October I'd
Tho Welsh voters of Johnstown have
formed Grant and Colfax club....Cone-
maugh station has been erected into bor-
ough under the name, style, and title OF
East Conemaugh.. IA game of base ball
between two picked mines Of students OF
St. Francis College, LorettO. captalned re-
spectively by w. c. Stillwagcu and &. j
Akers, was played on the 10TH 1t re,
ulted in favor Of Stillwagen's side by the
extraordinarily low score (nine innings O.
II to 15... A Republican rally will be held
at Belsano this wednesday, evening.
! On, SHAME Tho Johnstown Demo
c,at last week printed the following con-
corning the Republican mass meeting held
here on the 9th instant:
cat the Radical meeting, at Ebensburg, or
last Wednesday evening, the black and, tans
became so elated with bad whiskey, and out.
raceous in their conduct, thwt the Radica
burgess of that town was compelled to loci
up the public houses, and station guard a
| them to protect the inmates from insult anC
the houses from pillage."
The Ebensburg Freeman, not to be out
done in the matter of blackguardism by
the Democrat, said its say in this wise:
ga large number had by this time become
| into xcated, and TO preserve the decency Of
the town, and prevent further violence, oul
| worthy Radical Burgess ordered the public
| houses to be closed.
With the exception of the circumstance
that the public houses were closed the night
in question, (and ,rhy they were closed, We
may say in parenthesis, is beyond our com
prehension to fathom, unless it was on ac
count of lack of CUSTOM the foregoing
statements are erroneous, and calculated
to produce an impression at variance will
the facts The Democrats assertion thai
a guard was necessary to protect the house:
from pillage, is lie manufactured out O.
the whole cloth and the Freem0n'S asser
tion that violence to person or property
was offered, is equally destitute of truth
BY general consent, it is held that tho
meeting was the most respectable and or
derly, taking into consideration the vas
crowd in attendance, ever held in Ebens
burg. As to what is charged concerning
the consumption of whisky, we saw moi
more than half-dozen drunken men thai
evening, and the majority of these were
| Democrats
MASS MEETING AT WILMoRE-A
Sldhu HdsS HeeCihS anu toIcnIiShC proces
sion viii take place at Wilmore on Satur
day evening next, Sept. 10th inst. Able
speakers will be present and address the
meeting on the important political issue:
of the day. The Silver Band, the GleC
Club. and the Tanners of Johnstown, anC
the Tanners of Ebensburg, will be present
Let there be large turn out.
THE TANNERs.-The Ebensburg Tan