The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-05-19
Local Correspondence.
JoHNsroxs. Nav Ia. 1870

who knows nothing OF city life; yet there are
othaTy tnOnssna a,'t such troEedies rlpening in
S ana GOTHAM Is not the worst city in the United
purlieus of such cities in preference to seeking
sf Eurht homes anu rural pursuits. People are
their own philosophy, but the good old way
| Will be found the-best after all.
| "A call has been made for Sabbath School
Convention at this place. The call Is signed by
an the Protestant clerRymen but one. Sabbath
place, but when children are collected in crow ds
| every Sunday without being under any control,
and permitted to swear even in the school room,
and then go and play bali all afternoon on the
same holy day, we begin to think that the
oeTtaniy great need of refoSm and III # tbe 1 Is
vention can do nything to prevent the rising
generation from indulging in open vuigarism,
profanity and rowdyism, either at the Sabbath
school or on the way home, or at home, they
win accomplish good work.
Stealing sod is the order of the day in Johns
town at present. Though property owners no.
tined people not TO take sod from their lots, yet
| the boys and girls have broken into the close
and taken not less than ten acres of sod from
other peoples lots Well, the Greeks taught
their youth If they caught them in the act.
male, appeared in town ltst week and preached
on the Public Square. They We're clad in Shaker
male man preached that Christ would visit
Johnstown within three months, but did not
male man preached q sermon on womans rights
and free love. The clerGymen were out to hear
ought to preach on good manners and gentle
manly deportment-lfttle things, to be sure, but
might learn to their own advantage. For in
stance that all the children from ali the schools
all the time or that the young lads should not
a6use old, steady farmers and other citizens,
blackguard teamsters, because they would not
let all of them ride on a loaded wagon. 1t is for
the beneht OF these lads themselves, and not for
the teamsters, that we speak of these things.
Business has been dull here for the last week,
Notwithstanding the fact that the weather was
fine. Money, somehow, is scarce, and wages are
low, and people are not inclined to purchase
the man from the depth of our heart who has
to keep large family and pay high rent on
at least one-half of our working population are
In that predicament People cannot dress very
lars per day is as little as any family can live on
these hard times, with high rents and high mar
ketS. Less wages Is only another name for
The kicks" kept up the fandango of skating
and riding the velocipede and dancing and mu-
sie and feasting unfit late Saturday night
There was free exhibition on one or two even
inSs- One could have dance for ten cents a
corner. There was an abundance of lunch and
the young folks had merry time generally.
the South as she passed down the vale, left her
robes on the trees and her breath on the gale;
tree as the stars swim in waves ON deep Galilee,
where every wave, with dimPled face, that leaps
and keeps 1t trembling there. Ten thousand
sunsets, mixed up with the brightest ends of
twenty thousand rainDOwS, and the W hole scent
ed with citronella, wouldn't make day glo-
rious as last Sunday. The very preaching was
tie was more delightful, and even the little
Cd d-n! of the boys grated less harshly on
singer blt1ld of nature, carnival of all her
harmonies, with the discords and variations left
out. Oh! 1t was a magnificent day-ldSt Sunday
lrds!
notwithstanding this eestatic episode the Re
the catastrop6e thai befei them at Ebensbarg.
Their lips hang down like the tendrils of n FROST
bitten g3urd They DO not know exactly what
together II they could arrive at the same happy
consummatton OF resolutions blessed by the
laying on OF the hands OF the same Key. Piatt
Soothing syrup nor Godfrey's cordial Will do
any good. Barry Hoggs may yet call a prayer
The citizens of Conernaugh borough, or the
Council rather, did good thing in having an
gine, car, or train Of cars from running faster
than five miles an hour through the said bor-
from school, have to cross the railroad track,
and by running train rapidly they might be
required to ring q befI constantly, when run
ming within the limits of said borough
borough, one day last week, during storm,
while the workmen were engaged inside, but no
were considerably Shattered. 4 saw in the hands
of one of the workmen became filled with the
fame till IL sparkled. 1t is somewhat singular
that house 30 low down and so near the great
piles of rails at the rolling mill would be struck
with this subtle element-but such Is the fact
The water works at Harrisburg are very eX-
pensiye, the coal alone costing something like
S4,o 900 year-the actual aggregate expense not
being less than 5,ooo-and yet water is cheap
er in Harrisburg than here, where the works
cost nothing The water works OF Johnstown
are superior TO any we know of. as the water
comes five mii5-s of its own accord, and has from
can be thrown, by hydrostatic force alone, to
engines entirely. Still those who use it viii
doSbtIess have To paw for it, Perhaps, howev-
er, when the pipes are paid for water VIII De-
cute trick was played on a very good and
upright citizen here few days ago. He had
put up nice fence and in order TO keep intru-
Here" birectiy Beneath this notice some in
This is not posting bill here!
Several political aspirants were here on last
Saturday, advocating the propriety of being
elected to office. There is too ID uch solicitation
dSF 4ce ano TOO ben ntizen eoes s round
asking for Office he either means that he Is bet
ter 6tfed for IL than Others or else he means that
he l. h1t,0y-u for once. Would it not be better
to put card in the papers, and let that card DO
the soliciting f Is right to present % any one tbs
printer would get dollar or two and then peo-
bbtgl boleS To1drR ond Worried heft taxing sutRn.
a sensation story, raised by some of the boys,
was extensively cirGuiated & mere last wee6 O 10
the point below JOhnstOwn. OF course all the
and bat was ti@ n,1tter and Who was ituW
The excitement soon subsided however, when
II was puoicly anno9nceo @ tnat II NUS m Ene oteo'
ring it at the foot of the scaffold, had been
somewhat remizs in the last solemn rites and
had left loophole for the escape of noxious
vapors. Sic transit gloria sensdttoilfs.
ROB Roy.
SUMMERHILL TWP, May 16, 1870.
Friend Mac-The scarcity of local news of in
terest 10 your readers will account for my
! somewhat protracted failure to come to time.
The weather at present Is rather sultry Tor TINS
season of the year. The spring crops are doing
well, and the fall crops, which We're consideral.
! bly, injured by winters trosts, give promise OF
average fruit crop this season. Our farmers
| will be unusually busy for the coming week, II
| the weather continues favorable, planting corn,
| etc. The meadows are in a hourishns cond1-
| gether everything indicates full harvest.
1t is with feelings of profound regret that L
announce the death In Philadelpha, on sature