The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-03-17
Local Correspondence
JonNsTowN. March IA 1870

Que ol me ooyS in our place for being ve,y
personal IN our writings We leava II r.
you 10 say whether this is true or false We
nave written Tor year and half for vopr
paper. a long letter every week. and in all
thoSe letters there is not one attack on ,rf
edte shdrdcter. We have been rerRefl bnt
we Terited not against We acknowledge
! pitching into the Literary Society and other
| societies. just tn waken them up for tbeir
own good. but there was NOT one ne,sonal
"iius'on IN these ciitiques. This is not be.
cause the%haracter OF my personal and DO.
litIcal enemies is not invuInerabIa hrt
because we think it is lille thing for one
sinner to cry black sheep at another. We
are all fallible and all come short of drtv
as the judgment day will prove. Hence we
have always studied to avoid attacks upyn
the reputation of Others
A lew weeks ago we passed eulogy upon
retiring officer Of our borough, though we
did so with good deal of the squirminos of
! confcIeIice Our eulogy was reciprocate,7 in
the columns of the last Democrat nv said
individual. Much obliged We will now
iu'il Our promise of taking both sidss bv
trying eulogy in the opposite direction.
aud say that our worthy Burgess, Joseph s.
Strayer, E,q., bids fair to make good and
faithful officer and to out Herod Rerod
For instance, we have not been before. him
yet, though he has been installed 4 month
/ Ahem That's personall
Now that the war of the roses between
Ebensburg and Johnstown has subsidized.
there appears on the political horizon. the
grim and CHASTITY shadows of several aspi
rants for Legislative honors Several per
sons hereabOuts. who took both sides. Inot
"Roo Roy. y )are already trimming their Sails
to catch popular breeze. which shall watt
them in that direction. Ebensburg knows
how to take care of itself, but her open enc
mics are not her IrOrSt ones. Those who
advocated the removal Of the county seat
did SO cOnScienc;ously and publicly, They
let Ebensburg know where they stood. We
have Ole eye on one aspirant. and he shall
have the biggest lift we can give him, if we
do not change our mind till the nominations
come rouLd. IF he gets iu he will have to
run more votes than he did the last time he
was befure the peop!o.
Treachery, hypocrisy and deceit are so
rampant nowadays that even the weather
has Caught the contagion. One can place no
dependence upon IT. 1t is one thing to-daS,
and another tomorrow. We think. how
ever, that there will be rough weather until
late in the Spring. and snow NAV he seen
after the 10Th of May-cOrn- planting day.
Another spelling match is on tAe tApis =
The Hon. Burgess Of Conemaugh borouoh
did say that be could out-spell all the
other Burgesses Of all the other borouohs
around. We do not think that this was Sc
riouSly intended challenge. but some
other Burgess might consider it So in which
case it would be well for Cranky" to be
round to catch the "verjuice," (yerjuice is
the oil of the rose) We will bet on Cone
maugh. If there should be prizes offered
1t would be well enough to have them bought
beforehand and not depend. as was done in
the other match, on the poor. pass:re. sub,
Iects Of the contest TO furnish the "QGarto."
Both theatres have been running here for
the past week. One troupe is called the
Zniretta and Carrcu Pantnmne and Wes-
meal Ballet Troupe. "Znunds, what a
name!" Between theatres and lectures cur
people have had good time Of it this win
ter.
-Four right schools have been in a -four
ishug condition in this and the neighboring
Ooroughs, the expense of which is sustained
by the Cambria Iron Company. The schools
are kept open about five months, aud about
two hundred pupils attend This is liberal
in :he Cambria Iron Company.
Ey the time this is published. two new
postufliees Wiil be opened in our vicinity
The one is called "Cool ersdae'' and the
other Cambria" There ought to be lust
two more-one in RIchland township and
one ii Jackson township. This would
be simply an act Of justice to those town
ships.
There is talk of reducing postage on
letters 10 two cents. Why not reduce all
postage to one cent, and have but one kind
of stamps A paper is as heavy to carry
as letter. and with postage at one cent,
three times the number Of letters would be
written.
Tie scarlet fever is still raging in aud
around cur place. Many family is in
mourning over lost children. The disease
seems hard to manage. 1t is fever of some
kind. accompanied 10y puttid sore throat
1t has been raging for SIX months aud does
not appear to abate any as yet. though we
hope IL soon will.
There is some hopes of return to specie
payments. If the government but takes
the initiative step the banks will follow
We know that some of our merchants are
preparing for the event, and we do sincerely
hope it may come. Such an event would
give col fidence to capitalists and dealers,
mechanics and laborers. We repeat it, sir, ,
let it come!
The FIRST of April will soon be here. and
will bring the usual changes in business
places and families. Extensive preparations
are already being made for the scene, and
many cne will be April fooled in the
change.
: In the confession of one of the Hunting
don murderers, (Bodenberg.) this startlin 9
/ contradiction appears. He first says: If
you reflect upon this affair, how terribly you
battered this woman's head with a shovel,
/ how JeSeecfinyiy she begged you to spare her
life" etc. Afterwards he says; at is true
/ did v hat | ought not have done, in that l
/ have shared the money, because Ikneto moth
ing Of the murder"
Having nothing more at present I will
close, but may write tomorrow.
ROB Roy.
CARRoLLTowE, March IA, 1870.