The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-03-25
Local Correspondence.

Dear Free0san-I say "Doar freeman"
because, though we may get larger papers
! papers with more advertisements. etc vet
we never get paper with better eriitorial.
and, may add. local Then the name Free
mani What heart does not bound at the
very thought of being a freeman Would
there were ten thousand such FrecDsGns in
the land.
Since the Inauguration of General Grant
the public mind seems to be enjoying kind
OF Kip Van Winkle sleep, and of course
there is not much local news of i'm portance
| There is some sickness here and in the
neighborhood. Group, catarrh fever and
scarlet fever are prevalent, but not Of severe
type, though some children have died of
| these maladies in this place.
| The Easter holidays are coming on, if holi-
| days you can call them, aud lest the people
should not have enough to eat. Mr.. Jacob
Trsfts, butcher of this place, bought small
beef expressly for Easter. 1t only weighs
$500 lbs, live weight, and was reared by
Mr.. John Smith--one of the Smiths, who
lives IN LigOnisr valley. Mr. Trefts onlv
paid the small sum Of three hundred dollars
for the animal. Il doesn't Look much larger
than an elephant, but will make sweet eat
ing, and if devnured on Easter Sunday it
will take $500 men, women and children
to consume the poor creature. It will be
SiduSDlcTcC Oh next O3tufuaY.
The public schools Of Millville borough
have closed for the present, az we'll as most
of the schools throughout the townships.
We are to have hospital erected within
the limits of our borough, and we hope it
may indeed be a charitable institution.
The weather is still Epasmodic, SO we will
pass 1t by with simple reference, hoping
to do it justice whom it merits justice.
We had an alarm of fire last week in town
which caused US to think that we were living
in Altoona, but the alarm proved false, which
rel need US exceedingly.
We nave lots of mud here-more than
they have in the Dry Tortugas since he re-
lease of the notable prisoner there.
Nothing Of importance has occurred a long
the railroad since 'Braddock's defeat" but
we claim to be the inventors and patentses
of ''Tbe link, bolt and car coupler" men
toned In your paper last week.
We were busily engaged yesterday in as
sisting the son in crossing the line, which
makes our hands tremble awfuIy to-day.
The young Mems Literary Society"
were much pIeased with our notice last
week. Hence, we are induced to make the
following observations We were j,ki1g
about it being young mems society. The
members are all iirer GTdys, and are but
the fragments Of the old Society which ex
ploded ing the war for the maintenance
of supremacy over submission. 1t was once
Que Of the best societies that existed, but
many meu bsrs have gone away. Even the
writer is one of the trudnt members of the
old association. Then We find absent the
man who wanted to know if the 'planets
were inhabited" as we'll as the mar who
wondered IF "civilizatiOn tends to virtue"
We also miss the par mobile .fratrem who
favored compulsory attendance at the COM
mon Schools" and the casuist who was
hunting up the connecting link between
mind and matter. Circumstances over which
they had no control also prevents the attend
ancs of the gentleman who sustains ''Mur-
rays Grammar" and the school master of
jackson township who sincerely believed
that if he would travel round the earth with
the sun the next day would be Sunday. We
might enumerate few more absentees. such
as the man who wluted AiaximilliaG to be
the President of Mexico''-and the learned
naturalist who thought that worlds are c.e.
atsd from progressive atomic matter" but
we furbear. We love that old society, and
wonder oft "when we shall I'll meet aguin.'
If they will permit us TO suggest question
for discussion, which will give fair play all
round. We will feel abundautly com pensated
for this notice. We would propose this
question "DOes the earth reVulve to the
right hand or to the left hand 2" This will
give both sides chance, for if one stands
with his back to the north it will reVolve to
the left. but if he stands with his back to
the south it will revolve to the right. Again,
by changing the phraseology q little. and
making the question read Does the earth
Tcvolve east west 2'' besiies being q
dvuble question, there would be this Advan-
! tage, that while one side is revolving east
/ the other side is going sceSt just as fast. This
! proposition would make it possible for both
side to win the UictOry, and to go home
! wearing the ldureLs of a triumph seldom
attained in literary society. This propo
sitipn Of ours is not intended as a double en-
| tsndre, though We have no doubt some mali
! cous minds will give it that Interpretation.
| The late freeze furnished some of our
| saloon keepers With new crop Of ice, which
! WAS fortunate.
! We are getting up several law suits ex~
! pressly for the new Court when it comes.
| In order to obtain some local news of i'm
portance we seated ourselves at FrazSr's cor
ner on Saturday to hear what people who
| passed by might be talking about. From
| them we cleaned the following intelligence
| Joined the church-Grant's Inauguration
fare to New Castle-the largest beef-pretty
| black eyss-was at the funeral-bought
| some Easter eggs-or any other mau-to
be married soon-as hard times as in 1862
move the first OF April-police took our
! pig-sued him and lost the case-bought it
at Mayer's-I do think he's pretty, etc.
which intelligence / give verbatim. TIP.
THE CATHOLIC WORLD We have last
received this magazine for April. The first
articled is entitled ''The Fable of Pope
| Joan,'' which goes into the whole history
! of the story that woman was once Pope,
and thoroughly disposes of it. The first
| chapter of new story, "Daybreak." is
| given. and bids to be a most interesting
one. The Comparative Morality of Pro-
testant and Catholic countries is an e1-
haustive article, and the writer fairly turns
the tables Of statistics against those who
say that Catholic countries are less moral
! than Protestant countries In the article