The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-02-18

| near
Bennington Station. He had got off the
engine upon which he is employed as fire.
man for the purpose of going forward to
| flag the passenger train approaching from
the west, as there was some danger ahead
and after attending to this duty he thought,
as he waa good on jump, he might as well
take short ride on the rear end of the
train. But when he jumped for the car,
like Pady's flee it wasn't there, and the re-
suit was that be sprained one of his ankles
very severely, but am pleased to say not
seriously. | hope to chronicle his recoveay
in a short time.
An old man named Frazer, painter in
the employ Of the Company, while at work
at the coal yard, on -- last, fell and
| broke two of his ribs, be.ides sustaining other
injuries of painful character.
The Democratic Executive Committee of
this city has elected 8. NJ. Woodkok, ESQ
one of the best organizers and most efficient
democrats in the county, as its Chairman,
and has chosen Mr.. John Frantz Secretary
and Mr.. John ]. Potter Treasurer. l think
the gentlemen of tue committee have dis
played good judgment in the Galection of
their officers, and 1 have no doubt the On gan
ization will give good account of itself in
the coming Gubernatorial campaign.
! cannot close without informing your
many readers that Mr.. J. ID. Hicks has again
opened out in bee hive style at Jaggard's
old stand, and has "slathers and gobs" of
goods fit to adorn a peasant or bedeck a
princess. Mr.. Hicks is one of the most gen.
temanly and deserving business men in this
city, and with an assortment such as his and
the disposition he has for doing the fair
thing with all his customers. he cannot fail
to prosper. Financially speaking am real
ly glad to see him or his forked end once
nd ha ir.o
upright position. Yours, &C., Il. /. n.
TIE PROPOSED REMOVAL OF THE CoUNTY
SEAT.-The wide awake and ever interesting
local correspondent of that able and efficient
democratic jnurnal, the Harrisburg Patriot.
in his Notes from the CApito.'' uuder date
of the 18th. thus speaks of the effort being
made to secure the passage of AN act by the
Legislature locking to the removal of the
seat of justice from this place to Johnstown:
The county seat Of Cambria, as everybody
knows or ought to know, is situated in Eb
ensburg. Some Of the John&town people,
becoming alarmed at the rapid growth of
Ebensburg, are pctitioning the Legislature
to remove the county seat to their town
Mr.. Porter, tn abe young member from that
district. is constantly receiving petitions in
1. Tor OF il and remoastrances against it
1he ICulOl-S-TaQCCS are III q large )rlIS.
and | doubt very much whether the I.egis
l4ture will NEEDLE in the matter. 1t should
net. as Ebcnsburg is in the centre of the
county, and Lohnstown near its southern
boundary. Cambria county was erected by
an act of assembly in A. ID. 1904, with its
present boundaries ; the sail act Of assem-
bly, provided that ''the place for )ldlng
the courts of Justice for said county shall be
fixed by the legislature at any place not
greater distance than seven miles from the
centre of said county" which resulted IN
its location at Ebensburg. The point thus
fixed has been the seat of justice for more
than sixty years; that it is the exact geo
graphical ceLtre, being equi-distant from
the northern and eastern aud western boun-
Diary ; that the public buildings-the court
house, Jail, poor house acaGemy-have all
been located here, and that public roads
extend from this point to every portion of
the county, including branch railway.
which brings Johnstowu within two hours
travel by a railway of Ebensburg. while its
distance is not over twenty five miles to the
most extreme portion of the county. Johns
town ON TIE othsr hand, is located within
two miles Of the southern boundary Of Cam
bria county. and almost fifty miles from its
northern boundary The Hon. Robert l.
johnson, Hon. A. A Barker, Philip Collins,
Esq. j, L. Hutchinson, Esq, and nearly
all the prominent men of both parties
unfavorabie to the removal. The reasons
stated in their memorial are amply sufi-
cient to prevent the Legislature from taking
any action in the matter"