The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-02-03
Local correspondence.
JoHNsTowN. Jan. g., 1870.

Of market for rail iron. 1t did stop tenn
puralily. but we think for repairs only.
Congress spends its time legislatiug on a
much hurder subject than either iron or steel,
and still Tuus the niger" up in the scale
oi moral IDEAS Our idea is that there
will, before long. be wonderful revolution
in ublic sentiment and that the ''negFo"
will be loathed 10y the very party that has
SO long leItel and patttd him. AT any rate
the tariff is as dead as the Cardiff giant. and.
right OF wrong, it will never ie resuIrected.
We have just reac that Prentice-the
witty, sarcastic, intellectual Prentice-Is
dead. Many a noble cause did he advocate
many fearful battle did he 6ght-and
many an antagonist has he slain. We sup
pose his mantle may as well fall upon Us as
on any other, as lac has ceased to be Prem
tice here, and has become an entered Prem
tlce" in the pre- missed land. Will McShane
object
1t Is thought that Congress will abolish
the FfGHkIns Privilege as they have So long
practctd deception. Ii they do, it will be
ior the sake ui consistency. not reform.
Mr.. William Orr, who has buried about
three thousand persons in fifteen years. met
with sad accident last week-or at least
his heAlse did. As he was passing through
Couemaugh borough, the wheels OF the hearse
hard that the coffin was thrust against the
glass of the hearse. smashing the thick glass
to a thc usaud pieces. The hearse cost near
a thousand dollars. He talks nt suing the
borough tor damages. We saw him in search
OF another glass.
We have bad remarkable January--in-
deed SO remaI Rable AS to be the subject of
comment by the Oldest iuhabltant. aud 1t
deserves to be recorded: as such. Ii has been
often said of March that it came III like
lion and went out like all old elce. So Jan
nary came In as extraordinarily as ARdy
JphMSOR aud went out aS IgnoniniUusiy as
BeH Butler!
Ne never knew that Henry Ward Beech
er was 50 good looking, till the other day,
when accidentally saw his Likeness III
the Police Gazette. No wonder that he at
tracts 50 much attention III Gotham. where
he is known. not only Beecher, but
son cf a Beech er! e.
Tnat deiense OF Edwin NJ. Stanton, pub
lished III your last issue, Is, we fear, too
BtdcE to achtte- wash his political character,
aud as to his moral character. we think uoth-
lug should be SAID against the dead.
Our saloon keepers III great distress
about the cundiIIon of the iIvers. They
will have to 90 it blind. il they do not soon
get eyes (jcc), or at le Ist their ice-crea Sa-
looms VIII become ice-oated next summer.
Hon. ID. j. MulTeil presented petition
in Congress from 45 cltZ, Us Of Cambria
county in favor Of abulishlDg the Frauking
privilege. What silly movement Cam
bria county has about forty thuusaUd inhab-
itants, mere or less, OF whom only forty five
appear to be in favor of measure that all
would endorse. Blind Briarius strikes
The Turnverein Society will have a masque
rade bail in Union Hall, on February 22d
lT is time that every one should know that
the birthday of ashington comes on the
2lst now, If not the 2Uth. By giving d
leap year every four years we leap too far.
ard Gain eighteen hours every huuuI ed years,
aid this time amounts t. more than one day
since the birth ol Washington.
Through the poiiteuess Of Mr.. Leopold
Mayer, the great dry goods merchant here,
we were Invited TO ht ar the inimmutable
Peak Family Of Swiss Bell Ringers" on
Saturday night. and we DO uuhesitatingiy
say that it was tie most talented aud refined
performance ever gwen outside of our large
cities. Johnstown never saw its equal
either as an exhibition of musical skill or
high social culture. The Opera House Of
Johnstown has been greatly hOnoTed by their
presence and their choice Of Il place.
There have been meetings of ali kinds here
lately. The churches have had religious re-
vivals. the United Brethren a conference,
the 5" "iss Bell Ringers two xhibtIons also
lectures, several balls, amt various other Ell
tertaihmenis, which has made the place
quite lively.
The Juhnstowu Literary societies, two in
number, have been greatly truualed for a
year or two back. with hydro cephOiuS. or
rcafer on the brain. Time was wnen the old
society," ,in It's younger yeaIs aud more healthy
condition. was quite brisk institution. but
its old menbers have fallen off, and the
fungus ercreSceRce that grew in their place
Is decidedly 1reak and Wdtery! We under
stand these societies have had no meetings
lately.
We would advise some of our neighbCrS
who buy milk from the wagons-that is
some wagons-to take the advice that ST.
Paul gave to Timothy, and drunk no longer
tCGter."
There is to be "Co operative Lie brary
association" here. The lawyers are all stock
holders by natural as we'll as acquired right,
but more stock is wanted, and we hope the
matter will go head Success in this would
be God send to our lille eary societies.
r. Roy.
ALTOONA CITY, Jan. 81. 1879.