The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-06-23

princeiy sum Of $40 per month, Chaplain
VIM. t. Davis threw up his commission on
Monday last and retired to the shades of
private life. learing with him the most
supreme contempt for the radical party and
the men who run the post-ofice machine at
Washington.
On Saturday last railroad conductor saw
what he supposed to be the face of a drowned
| boy in pond of water near Blair Furnace.
Blair county. but on fishing him out faint
breathing indicated that he still lived. The
lad was brought to Altoona, where medical
aid soon restored him AID looseued his tongue
sufficiently to enable him to tell that he had
been made drunk by some map. but how he
| got into the pond was a mystery that he
| couldn't explain.
The breaking Of a car coupling caused
the severance of one portion from the other
of the Fast Line west near Cresson on Mon
! day night, and the rear cars afterwards ran
| into the front ones and produced a very
serious wreck, but strange and unaccounta-
bic as it may seem, not single passenger
or employee was injured in the least. So
complete is said to have been the.smash-up
| that only or 81 the cars was deemed fit for
present service, and the passengers were
| delayed four hours at Cresson waiting for
other cars to be forwarded from Altoona.
Never within the recollection of that
mythical individual, vclept the "oldest in
habitant," have so many people assembled
! within the limits of show tent in this vi
cinity as were present at Van AmbuIgh's
menagerie on Thursday last. The collection
! Of animals, il is needless to say, is the
! Ian gest and finest and the wagons and ac-
coutrements the most magnificent and costly,
| that ever travelled the road. aud of course
| the exhibitions meet with decided success
every ywhere, because the management take
| good care to make the merits of the show
known to all men through the medium of
advertising in all shapes and forms.
Our Carrolltown letter came too late for
! insertion in full, but We append therefrom
| the following leading item of news: A sad
catastrophe occurred from lightning at the
southern extreme Of our village last (Mon>
| day. night, causing the death of two valua-
bic horses belonging to the widow Hnpfer.
residing on the plank road, ard almost kill
| ing her second oldest son, Joseph. The
young man was just in the act Of getting off
| the wagon ia take shelter at the house Of
! Mr, Shero when the horses were struck and
instantly killed and he himself was so badly
stunned that DR.. Oatmap had to be called
in to administer to him. Both horses bled
profusely and each of them looked as if it
had beer shot by bullet.
| The hotel keepers of Indiana, having
| been refused license, "shut up shop" on
Monday Of last week and declined to accom-
modate the people who came there to attend
court, thus rendering it necessary for the
| citizens of the town to lodge and feed the
| hungry and shelterless throng. It is said
that the landlords had previously held
meeting and pledged themselves under
| forfeit of $500 to pursue the course they did.
| Citizens and strangers were all indignant,
| and il the papers are to be believed the ''ho-
| telists'' have put their foot in it. for several
| thousand dollars, it is said, have already
been subscribed towards the purchase. rent
Al or erection of a hotel to be run strictly by
water power, and to be kept open without
| intermission or regard for consequences.
"A smooth faced, we'll dressed, innocent
! looking young scamp, aged about nineteen
| or twenty years, succeeded in victimizing
two OF three of our merchants to the extent
of q few dollars worth Of store goods on
Wednesday last. by representing himself to
be SOD of Mr.. Martin Ward, a farmer Of
| Summerhill township to whom we hold the
relationship of son-in-lsw. 1t was evidently
| the first venture of the young scoundrel IN
the swindling business, As he did not buy
very extensively, through fear no doubt OF
being called on for better proof of his iden-
tity than his mere word afforded. Where
he came from or what his real name is re-
mains mystery. He got off safely with
his booty, however, and as he may try the
same game elsewhere, under the name OF
jones Ward, or some other assumed one, we
caution business men to look out for him.
DoINos IN CoURT. The following causes
were disposed of in Common Pleas up to the
time Of the adjournment Of Court on Thurs
day afternoon last:
VIM Keith vs. Jos. Bowers. SANDER. Jury
find for plaintiff in the sum of S400.
VIM Keith vs.. Jos. Bowers. SANDER. Jury
Johnstown Borough VS.. J. Adam Treftz. Sum-
mons in debt. Verdict for plaintiff.
Plaintiff awarded verdict.
Com tn of Pennsylvania vs. Jas A. Patterson
za1lce. Verdict for plaintiff, but Court reserves
judgment D..
tlebangh & Kinter. FeiEned ISSUE Ferdct Tor
| Elizabeth Black VS.. David Simpson- Appeal.
! Stricken from the record at cost of defendant
Jeremiah MEG Gonigle vs.. James Burk and John
six cents damages and six cents costs
| Cambria Iron Co vs. Eizabetn Harshperger'
Martha ]. Gordon and others VS.. David ".
| Harshberger. Etectment- Verdict for PIaiIntln- PI
| Anthony ]. Noel and VIM. Noel Assumpsit.
Jury And for defendant. u,,-
Summons in tresspass Judgment awarded to
/ plaintiff by defendants counsel.
Motions in arrest of Judgment having been
made in the case of Joseph Wherry. conVlcted
| of larceny in the Quarter Sessions and In that
| of John A. Gore, found guilty of rape IN the
| Oyer and Terminer, Judge Taylor reserved MS
! decision until Argument Court.
CORPUS CHRIsTI-The feast of Corpus
Christi, one of the most solemn of Catholic
festivals, was duly commemorated by pro
cession in the interior of the church in this
place on Thursday last. The ceremonies
were grand and impressive. and the good
order observed by the little girls reflected
great credit on the good Sisters in charge,
while the beautiful picture made up by the
white dresses and tastefully arranged bas-
kets from which flowers we're strewn in front
of the sacred Host borne by Father Christy