The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-11-04
Local COrrespondence.

Local correspondence.
JoHNsTowN, Nov. 1, 1869.
Dear Freen.an-Squaw winter Is here in
earnest, and the ground is frozen as solid as
marble. Indian summer will come yet. if
we are to have any this year. Look out,
though, for hard winter in 1870.
GHOSTS.
Milton says that millions of spirit
usl creatures walk the earth unseen, both
when we wake and when we Sleep" and
another poet says that there is time when
GHOSTS, wandering here and there, troop
home to church yards" For two years past
ghost has been troubling the good people
of Johnstown and vicinity. 1t WAS first
seen in MiIlville about two years ago. After
that 1t was seen ia the 5th Ward, Johns
town by two ladies. who discribe it as having
immense proportions. 1t made its appear
ance in the 9th Ward on Saturday night,
the %, ult., and was distinctly seen emerg-
ing from an alley by the school house to
Dibert street, where it halted stone still.
They say that it was higher than the school
house fence, was white streak, without
feet or head, except that it had chullrrs like
turkey gobler. Can it be the ghost of
Kickneepawling come back to assert his
right TO the old hunting grounds And did
tho late victory of the Athletics disturb his
equinimity2 We. leave the solution to the
curious.
FRANKLIE BOROUGH.
This borough is f1ourishing. The school
directors have employed live teacher in the
person of Henry Ely, who will teach both
their schools 1.-TWO in number) with new
looks, and they look for and will have q
better school session than they ever had be-
fore.
EAST coNEMAUaH,
If people tell the truth the furnace at East
Cenemaugh, which was purchased some
eight months ago by the Cambria Iron Com
pany, is put in blast again, and will hence
forth be run vigorously. A passenger car
has been put on their railroad and will run
up every morning with hands and down
every evening, conveying workmen to and
from the place. The Company have track
now from East Conemaugh ria Coopsrdale,
distance of six miles The passenger car
will run the entire distance.
N. z. CHURCH.
The dedication of the M. +. Church proved
grand affair. The audience was very large.
About eight thousand dollars were raised by
subscription, which will pay off the debt.
The entire cost of the building was &G5, 900.
TEMPERANCE.
Elder D. NJ. Kinter preached sensible
sermon on temperance, in the Disciples
church last Sunday. He stated, very truly,
that there was intenperancs In more things
than drinking. There was intemperance in
eating. In dress, in exposure to cold. in
vanity, in pride, and in Thousand other
things. His sermon was not rehdsh of the
old temperance lectures, whose chief state
ment was that thirty thousand persons in
the United States died annually from in
temperance. If this were true it proves
nothing, for as one hundred thousand die
annually, the odd Seuenty thousand must die
from temperance, especially the children,
who are fifty per cent Of all the rest.
ANECDOTE.
This reasoning reminds me Of an anecdote.
A sturdy old farmer told sailor tha: he
should abandon the ocean, for said he, Your
father, grand father, and great-gTandfather
all died on the ocean" The sailor replied,
abandon the land" ''Why 2" asked the
farmer. Because" said the sailor, ''your
father, grandfather, and great-grsndfather
all died ca the land" Be temperate in all
things, especially in the use of liquors!
A PRESENT
We were made the recipient of a bushel
of apples the other day by man who
doesn't take the papers. Now, If IRE got a
bushel of apples from q man who doesn't
doesn't take the papers, by system of rea-
soning which logicians call q fortiorI. how
much more should some one who does take
the paper present you with2
ABOUT TOWN.
I. j. Chapman. Esq, County superinten-
dent, paid US flying visit last week, look
ing hearty. He was visiting schools and
holding 6nal examination for the south of
the county. is
THE CATHOLIC PARSONAGE.
This building is now finished in the very
best style and Is inhabited by Father Gar
Wy, than whom there does not live a more
worthy and exemplary man. The building
is located on jackson street, just beside the
st. Johns Catholic church, and is built ac-
cording to the most approved style of mod
ern architecture. We hope Father Garvey
may be It's tenant for many years.
sTATUoUs.
That statue that was dug up Ia the State
of New York was the statue of the man who
engraved the plates which Joe Smith, the
Mormon, found and finding it there is not
remarkable when we consider that the Gar
den of Eden was located in northwestern
Pennsylvania, now called Edinboro. There
is yet remnant of Paradise in jefferson
county, called the Paradise settlement, and
if we may judge from the doings of the last
legislature, the tower of Babel was located on
Capitol Hill, just west of the State Arsenal.
ROB Roy.
SUMMERHILL TWP, Nov l, 1869.
Friend MGc-Fearing lest my pen should
gather rust for want of use, have resolved
to employ it little with view to let you
know something about matters and affairs
transpiring hereabouss.
Since writing before we haven't had much
of variety of anything except weather, of
which, between bad and indifferent, we have
had as much if not more than any other To-
cality and / prophecy that we will have
another "spell of weather" pretty shortly,