The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-07-21
Locel CORRESPONDENCE.


theiproprietor himself don't act With the great
graves where the mothers of orphan Children, en-
VINO never served in a war of any kind, lie en-
A child was lost-thrilling incident-in the sth
ward; Parents went wild-mother screamed
ana sneQ tears, throwing old Mrs. Niobe in the
shade. The streets were searched-the alleys
were ransacked-the stables were reviewed.
panic, the child was found upstairs in its own
6tn @ ward, died suddenly, one day last week, of
had partaken too freely Being m member Der of of
the Nonaves, he was buried with military hon
A lady residing at Benscreek was bitten by q
fattlesnake one day last week. Medical aid was
procured and she Is now in a state of conveleS-
a little son of Mr.. James williams was seri-
onsly injured a few days since by being thrown
the shock of the fail fracturing his skull. He
scuffing about a fire cracker. He is improvinS
A man named Edward Haasler was instantly
by the cars of the mine, Which IN ran over bmI nst,
he was in the act of leaping from one car to
another, but unfortunately fell between them,
after which he was found terribly mangled and
The Fourth has passed with all its little Incl
dents. the smoke is cleared away. and we can
now look over the field and see what happened
and nothing happened, of course; so we can
speak positively of nothing but the smoke.
we mailed letter for you on last Tuesday
GestInat1on IN time for publication last week
W nat was the causef Ebensburg Branch? If
| that's SO, Ebensburg Branch had better quit
that. The letter was not of much i'm portance,
and that 3%t for for the tSy
shall who is taking the census here does not do
several famles have Been issed a. entire thaf
DO not know whether this is the fact, but will
try and find out.
The small pox have made their appearance
hereabouts, but are of SO mild n character as to
6Ted I no % ia one person 1t Is said
to be very i'll with it.
The streams in this vicinity very low not
withstanding the frequent showers that have
refreshed earth's thirsting surface during the
past month stony Creek contains no more
water than would turn u mill, water horse
and put out big fire.
Maan, s1lIry; meltfpg III weather sust now
springs and cooling breezes-of places where
Gathered feat songsters este Marble pantiye notes in
silver sheets upon smiling lakes Consequently
and the suggestions Of the Weather. d did, With
malice aforethought, repair to sundry country
villages, cooped In by groves and strips OF wood
land, to seek the pleasures of rural prone
made. The first place visited was Mineral Point,
we would delight to call Parnassus on account
of its inspiring scenery, its dreamy atmosphere
saw mill, large quantity of machinery for
turning timber, a store, q smith shop, ware
house, station house, and post-ofice. Mount
ing upon a passing train, we went westward
with q uIltz, and in a few minutes landed at
Morrelville, west of the great and wicked city
of Johnstown. Morrellville Is three miles dis
tant from Johnstown, and is located near the
gap the Conemaugh river forms by forcing its
way through the little mountain that people
swear by. 1t is like Scriptural city, for 1t is
! founded on rock, or rather a thousand rocks.
1t has crept up close TO the hillside, and is
nestled costly among trees and shrubbery, rocks
and brush. 1t contains thirty dwellings, no one
habitants, like those of Mineral Point, are fru-
! gal, temperate and Industrious. They enjoy
scapes and shady bowers, on the south side of
! the murmuring Conemaugh. On the north side
stands another little village named Coopcrsdale,
| containing about thirty dwellings and
| rounded By fields of waving grain andispread
! ing meadows covered with a luxuriant growth
J of grass, through which meander little domeS-
I ticated brooks, making the view picturesque
and beautiful. The people here seem happy
! and contcnted, and live at pleasant distance
J from burning sunshine reflected from heated
/ pavenents. We spent an hour here, lost in the
! raptures of melancholy meditation, then re-
| turned to Johnstown, and took moonlight trip
| to Geistown. three miles TO the southwark, on
/ the Richland turnpike. This is little village
of about twenty dwellings and prosperous
| people. now busted with the plentiful harvest
! that environs their habitations. The moon
! shone in cloudless majesty, unveling her peer
+ less light and throwing her silver mantle over
u.s. and bland zcphyrs from adjoining wood
! land famed our moistened brow as returned
! toward Sodom and GOmorrah. Oh, how we
would like to be farmerl What glorious
| lifeI Nothing to do but to work, and drink in
| these invigorating elements of nature-the cool
water and stirring air-doubly sweet to the
| weary and sunburnt brow, but sweet to all. In
all these visits didn't pick up single local,
| although we went to those villages for that eX-
press purpose. All was nature-na ture--nature.
| Since writing and forwarding the notice about
! the lady whoS was bitten by a rattlesnake at
! Benscreek, learned that she is the wife of Mr..
Samuel Blough, and that she was reaching into
barrel of chop. or feed, when the snake, CON
cealed therein, bit her hand three times. She is
! in a dangerous condition, but may recover.
/ The boys hold high carnival i'll stony creek
bathing In broad daylight. There is little harm
! in small boys going into the water to battle, but
! then old boys and men do so, which Is against
have fairly outwitted the police. There is u
| large rock in stony Creek, near the middle ana
| about opposite Mr.. Fend's ice house. Here the
| ID. q
come upon, them he would have to wade IN
about ten rods to get to their miniature Gibral-
ter, and while he was doing SO the boys could
easily escape to the other side. Larger boys
! tage at the Conemaugh river, and bathe on the
| MilVille side, there being no ordinance in that
borough against cleanliness. ROB Roy.
ALTOONA CITY, July 10, 1870.
Friend MGc-On about the 10th of April
this city, while passing down Eleventh Avenue,
was attacked and severely bitten in the fieshy
The The usual remedies we're applied to the wound,
which caused it to heal very rapidly, and in a
new Gays nee ceG ege @ Mes resmed Work Some six or
eight weeks after the occurrence the leg became
At the SAME time Mr.. G.'s appetite, which had
always been good, began to fail very rapidly,
DISTURBED % by the most frightfui visions and in
describable sensations. His mind also became
Prea mental dstraeton and
much bodily suffering. Thus things went ON
self. From being stout, robust, healthy Ger
man boy, with an unimpaired constitution, he
has become perfect living skeleton, unable
to work and with scarcely strength enough left
to drag his almostzuseless limbs one after the
other. He manifests no signs of that terrible h
malady, hydrophobia, yet his case is one OF the
most deplorable and heart-rending, as well at
one of the most singular and unaccountabIe, It
has ever been my province to see OF hear tell or
A few days ago alyoung man employed in the
Company's Boiler Shop accidentally; ;1nfiicted9 a
slight scratch upon one of his hands while al
work riviting After receiving the scratch ne
walked to the copper bolt cutting department
and bathed his wound-with Il little of the oil he
found there On the following morning his en-
tire arm was frightfully swollen and so very
painful that his friends feared that lockjaw
would ensue. A doctor was summoned and the
poisoned arm was lanced in several places, anc
although it was feared that amputation would
have to be resorted to in order to save his life
| glad to say that he is much better at pres
ent writing.
In a few more weeks the Sisters will take