The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-12-22
Local correspondence,
ALTOONA. Dec % 1870.

/ ALTOONA, Dec. ~, 1870.
FRiESD MAo-Lecal newB is plentiful enough
put as certain gentleman once remarked i
Is OF such character would befit the col
onns OF the Police Gazette or Haruer's Week
| y rather than those of a respectable journal
IKE the FIREMAN. | will venture, how ever
10 silt some OF them and take the smut out
| ouI as am somewhat pressed for time, my
TASK must needs be hastily attended to-
;, Suite sensation created at the Logan
| nouSe lew Gays ago, caused If ] am rightly
informed, by one of the walters named Black
VINO seems to be possessed of heart too capa-
c'0es !or one woman to fill, taking unto him
! sell wife n o without waiting for wife No l
| 20 shuttle off this mortal coil )" or, to use a
slang phrase, "hand in her chips ard peg out y
! he happiness OF the muchly married indiviti
I uai, however, was of but brief DURATION for
scarcely had he warmed up under the gentle
lhuuence OF the sunny Smiles bestow ed upon
him by his new made, blushing bride or en-
tered into the enjoyment of that blssiul season
known as tie honeymoon, ere some euvious
creature, not the rossessor Of such LARGE"
amount OF matrimonial felicity, Informed wife
NO OF the doings of her sporting spouse. and
then You may he: there trouble in the wig
VAN. Early next morning the deserted and
indignant woman whom ne had fret wooed and
won appeared upon the scene, and in less time
tuan III takes to tell it. the honey moon and all
IT'S sweet delights had vanished into thin air
Suffice it to say that the new conner claimed
DiaCh as Her lawful Out trusnt husband, and
urged her claims with tears and lamentations
hat were heart-fendiEg in the extreme Wife
10, looked daggers at the author of her mis-
fortunes ard cried deception, while wife No
sobbed and sighed and spoke of desertion in
plamuve tones. Husband demurred and plead
absent mipdedDess al excuse for his deliu-
GucncY- Wife No. seemed TO see il III that
light, but as size evidently feared that a man
so absent in mind might get little absent in
body, she concluded to have him kindly carea
for, and with that object in view, was not long
IN introducing him to that amiable and good,
looking official, Sheriff Huff, who knows so
well how to exercise a protecting care orer
persona so absent nInded az the hero OF this
Q er tue tale. Il is elIEost needless to say that
Black IL now enjoying 4 season OF retirement
IRON tic busy scenes Of the cutter world during
which he i'll have plenty of time to reflect on
the mutAbiiity OF things uutabie and the great
danger, this side OF MorEondom, OF running
t"o wives at one and the same time
n NJt less than four husbands were arrested
in this city last week for absent tnindness
which seems 20 be getting epjdegric. The par
ties IL question had such q severe attack of the
disease. that they really forgot they had tanii-
lies dependent upon them for support
Expectation Is On tip toe regards tie lee
ture OF the iEimiAb!e Josh Billings, on 1 burs-
day evening next. hope our people will not
be aggregiously taken in as they were oil
that prince OF kumbug lecturers, DuOhaiIiu.
IN my next | will endeavor TO give the NUN
Der and brief description Of the new buildings
erected in our thriving young city during the
past year, and also the anticipated number to
be put up during the coming ssHson. Wishing
you and all the readers OF the FREEMAN a mer.
~ Christmas and happy New Year. remain
Yours, &c, II. !. II.