The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-02-11

LEAVE EBENsBURG-
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ton East and Phila. Express West.
At 7.15 p. NJ, connecting with Phila. Ex.
East and Mail West.
LEAVE CREssoN-
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BRIEF MENTIoN.-The public schools of
Ebeusburg will close their winter session on
friday of next week. Mr. @. W. Cope, the
efficient superintendent of the schools, will
open select school on the 18th of March,
and parents will do well to send their chill
dren to him, as he is fully competent to give
instruction in all branches of education.
See his Card.--Petitions against the reuo-
val of the seat of justice from this place to
JohnstOwn have been circulated pretty ex-
tensively, and are being filled up rapidly by
citizens Of all classes and parties in this por-
lion of the county. If right prevails instead
of might these petitions Cannot fail to have
+h, desired effect.--Petitions numerously
s led asking for an increase of taxes in this
borough to ten mills on the dollar, instead
Of five as at present, have been sent on to
Harrisburg, and remonstrances against the
same, bearing fully as many if not more sig
natures. have followed closely in their wake.
We know little about the merits of the
question, but we are told that our borough
debt is only about 5000, and upon the pica
of Improvement, unless there is a marked
change for the better in the future, it cannot
certainly be claimed that the asked for in
crsase IS ueodful or dvisable.--Martin Y.
=. FIegel. of Clearfield county, accidentally
l. L.; Ii /.
week, the hall entering his left eye. He was
on his way to shoot some dogs who were
killing sleep, when he stopped to assist his
brother, vi Sc team had stalled with a stick
Of timber, and the gun was in some way
discharged with the result stated.--Isaac
Morrison. convicted of manslaughter in
CearlieIG county for killing man named
Higgins at OsCeola. in July last, has been
sentenced tc the Western PeuiteIitiary for
suyet years and six months-Iron ore in
large quantities is said to have been found
iu Croyle township, this cOunty.--The
editor Of the Huntingdon Globe says he does
not want the post office at that place. Per-
Aaps the grapCs are sour. Can certain
radical editor hereaway say as much p
The annual election for borough officers will
take pace on Friday.of next week, but thus
far we lave heard no mention made of who
tjyus. All agree that good men should be
selected. but we have heard no one as yet
speak of himself as being in that category.
We under obligations to Messrs
Lennon & Murray for copy of the Catho
lie Family Almanac for 1869. 1t is beauti~
fully embellished, and cOutlins much matter
of general and religious interest. The price
Is only 25 cents per copy. which We con
slider exceedingly cheap.--Hon. John
Scott, u. S. Senator elect, was in town on
Tuesday, attending Argument Court. He
appeared in support of motion for new
trial ia the case of Francis Storm VS. Pa. r.
L. Co.. as counsel for the latter. He bears
his new honors meekly, and as becomes a
man fitted for the high position.--The
Bedford Inquirer SAYS, a Miss Barbara Hart
sock fell in n trance at a religious revival in
Rainsburg while shouting, and remained un-
concious for I57 hours, Icarly a week, dur
ing which time she took DO nourishment
whatever. On reviving she began shouting
again, but soon became quiet and collected,
AS uSual.--John Lloyd, Esq. Scquestrator
Of the II. c. & |. Turnpike Co., will offer a
square Uf ground in the west end of town at
public sale, on the 9th inst.-The coal mi
ners at Lilly's Station, who were on q strike
FOR several days Demanding an advance of
dollar per square yard. have gone to
work again at an advance Of only ouc-foufth
the amount demanded.-Our Branch Road
was showed up for two days last week.
Yesterday was the first Of the Lentcn seaSoD<
An OLD CITIZEN GoNE.-Mr. Emericus
Bcrider died at his residence in Carroll town
ship, this county, on Tuesday, 2Gth ult,
frcm a stroke Of The palsy, aged 81 years. 2
months and 3 days. The deceased was one
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having resided at the place where he died
since the year 1907. He was a we'll to do
farmer, and was beloved and respected by a
large circle Of relatives, friends and neigh
bors. In connection with lis death VIC give
1lace to the following brief sketch of MIR.
BcIrdcr's somewhat eventrul life. written
Ivy himself and published in the dHegbdnt0I
of this place little more than year ago.
II will be perused with interest by all OF
readers. and is more graphic and complete
than anything we could hope to write:
II came to this country with my parents,
from Germany, in the year 1893 We took
passage at Hamburg. and arrived in Philadel-
phia in November. | was bound out to Col.
Caleb Davis, No 4 South Third Street, who
sent me to school. The following year, 1899,
lust before Christmes, the school master said
there would be no school next day, for General
George Washington would be buried that day
! was at George Washington's tuneral-and L
suppose there is no other man in this county
who can say as much. / was bound Out when
J was Id years old to serve six years. After
my term of service had expired, came to Lo-
rettO, Cambria county,-on the 18th day OF
April, 1865. My father had gone there three
years before. In 1907, Rev. Demetrius a.
Galitzn got authority from Henry Drinker
and Jacob Downing, who owned eight tracts OF
land near Carrolltown, for three settlers to
make choice of one hundred acres each of that
land, at one dollar per acre. Thomas Byrne
got the first choice l got the second and
Conrad Luther got the third. My two neigh
bors have been dead from forty to fifty years,
so am the only living one who settled here
when the county was a wilderness. l am S3
years old. l was juryman at the first Court
held in this county. L have been County Audi
tor, aud in 1897 was elected County Commis-
soner. In that year, Paul Benshoof, David
Todd, and myself, Commissioners, contracted
with Arnold Downing to build the present Court