The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-01-27
Local Correspondence.
JoHNsrowN. Jan. "a. 1e7

H@iiiee aie Oatnes finton ana Larry bennett,
and they were injured by premature ex-
pioslon OF powder with which they were
blasting ore. One of them has since had
his leg amputated and the other is very bad
" though not dangerously injured.
SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARS.
Johnstown has a regiment and Millville
bali regiment of pupils attending school.
a good place for obsIreperous youth.
We have been informed that the Leg isla
ture contemplstes making an enti'e new
school law. We are opposed to this. The
present law ID deficient in many things, but
the present Legislature is not the body to
make any salutary improvements. The Ill
rectors are now acquainted with the present
formulas and the manner Of trauSacting
business, and if a new system be inaugurated
everybody will De as Ignorant as a iGtoyer
Of the lew regulations.
IMPROVEMENTS.
We would, however, suggest the following
amendments Abolish all Offices that takes
the money from the district and do away
With printing fifty thousand dollars worth
of useless blanks aud senseless county super
intendeut's reports. The Legislature has
stopped the printing Of the Legislative Re
cord" Let them extend the reform. The
law never contemplated the printing Of the
reports Of county supevintsndents.
LECTURE.
Anna Dickeusou. or her ghost, did appear
at the time appointed and did lecture ON
Nothing OnreasanabIe," altho' she called
it ''N hited Sepulchres," just for change.
The substance Of the lecture, however, as
the same. Anna is about the size of a wo-
man. has yuice like man, except when
she pitches in, and then she makes u sound
much like that produced by the axis of the
earth during total eclipse. She does not
gesticulate much but she shakes her left
fat and clutches her right hand as if she
would like TO pull every body's hair. Her
rhetorical flights resemble those of a goose
with one wing clipped, and her diction is not
Of that kind found in the diction cry. She
would have had a full hou.e only for the re-
served seats. which means empty seats. The
fact that holders of season tickets were notI-
fed that they would be charged twenty-five
cents extra for each member of the family
tods significant. Annals subject in English
was -'Murnons and Womsn's Rights" and
her argument reduced to syllogsm stands
thus: Mormon men have more wives than
one. Women are meu; therefore women
have right to more husbands than one.
OFFICE HOLDERS WIDOWS.
1t has become fashion of late, when an
Office holder dies, to give his widow all the
balance Of the money which he did not steal
himself while living. The n. Y. Tribune
urges Congress to make ''liberal" donation
TO Widow Stanton--at least one years sala
ry for her husband not having been Supreme
Judge. Now when it is well known that
Stanton did not die poor, and that one hun
dred, perhaps TWO hundred thousand dollars
have been raised for her By private subscrip-
tion. while at least one hundred thousand
soldiers' sOidops are s0ashing. securing and
scrHbbfng for a living. this proposition seems
preposterous. Still Congress would call this
economy!
THE WEATHER.
Farmers are beginning to think that this
open water. with warm DAYS and freezing
nights, will be very severe on the grain now
ia the ground We hope. however, and be-
lisYe that Snow will SOON come, and that
there will be 'lots and gobs" OF snow yet
before corn planting time, the 10th of May.
GERMAN CATHOLIC CHURoE.
BY accurate measurement and computa-
ton, the number Of bricks in the German
Catholic church are S26, ,0oo. The brick
were made at the brick woI ks Of the Johns
town Manufacturing Co, and the church
was built under the direct supervision of
Ar. John Drumgold, of Altoona.
THAT CHICKEN.
A chicken half dressed-that is. plucked
but not dsern bowsled-ha been hanging
out on Washington street, sigu that
chicken can be bought there, ever since
Christians. 1t must be pretty we'll fTtz by
this lime. Now we would like to get that
chicken out of the way, but do not want to
eat IT, Suppose. for instance, that sumo be-
nevoIently disposed person would buy it and
donate il TO the poor, destitute Mrs. Stanton.
A BALL.
St. Peters Benevolent Society have CT n
cluded to have ball on the last night of
this mouth at Hansman's Hall. on the Rich
land road, about q quarter of mile from
the center Of town. Hacks will run from
the hotels to the HALL. There is nothing so
good for the health AS plenty Of innocent
fun. and on this occasion good music and
better dancing may be expected till the
mUrning of February 1st.
SURPLUS FUND.
The Borough Cauncils report q surplus
fund of SO 900 ON hand. Now would be
good time 10 fix up the Public Square
With a good iron fence, a few evergreen
trees. a water jet or two, fountain in the
center aud grass sward, this Square would
be an ''ernsmeut TO the people going by"
Let It's have il by all means. Gentlemen of
Council, what say ye2
STILL AT 1T.
In the last Borough Council meeting Mr..
Layton charged the Cambria Iron Company
or somebody else with filing up tho Cone
maugh river with cinders, thus obstructing
the passage of the water and giving Johns
town the damned water back on them. If
the charge is true it ought to be attended to,
or we might have another pumpkin food.
REYIvALS.
There are revivals going on in all the Pro-
testant churches In town, and many are re-
ported as getting religion. We Go know
that there is room for reformation. While
there are many good people in our town, it
cannot be denied that corruption still reeks
in high places. This We know to be fact.
POOR FELLOW.
AD old editor named T. 8. Reid who. as
he says, made John Covode, (or Gouode,
and John Covode went back on him, is can