The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-01-28
LOCAL CORREsPOsDENCE.
JoHvsrowN, Jan. Is, 1870.

JOHNSTOwN, Jan. 20 1870.
! Dear FTcenGn-I was greatly pleased with the
/ speech of Hon. Edgar Cowan. published in your
/ last paper. 1t is to the point. Why don't our
folks down here get such men as Ed. Cowan,
Judge Black and Brick Pomeroy to lecture here
instead of Anna Dickinson and that ilk? L be-
!leFe we have not had Ii democratic lecturer
in our town yet.
y gentleman came to town the other day to
get his life Insured: lie said he had the heart
disease" and was afraid he would die unless he.
was insured, and offered hundred dollars to
Inc IN agent II ne would save his life The inSu-
his life, but if he would die he would insure him
that his family would get q certain amount Of
money but, said the applicant, that would
be lnsurinS ME to die, and want no death iu-
surance company to deal with. 1 want life
and left the ONCE in short meter.
"A certain lady of this place, who declared
tnat she would never marry the gentleman who
was paying his addresses to her, has finally
Welded TO the pressure, is now married, and
say she would not give him up for thousand
pounds in gold. This recalls the beautiful lines
of Waiter Scott:
Hear what Highland Nora said
The Earlie's son will not wed
For all the gold and all the gear
In all the country far and near.
But Nora's heart is lost and won
She's welded to the Earlie's son."
a little girl named Lizzie Miller, whose pa
rents reside in the Fifth Ward was so shock
iugly burned on Friday last by the ignition of
carbon oil which sac was pouring q fire, that
she survived her injuries only about four hours
Both father and mother were absent when the
sad occurrence took place-the mother having
taken dinner to the father at his work. leaving
the unfortunate child at home. The little girl
was about eleven years Old. Her entire person
almost was burned 10 u crisp. Another terri
bic warning
4 blood aud thunder meeting was held in the
Council chamber on last Thursday evening,
and one on Thursday evening previous, to take
measures for throwing JohnStown into Il state
of seif-defensc. The meetings we're largely at
tended, and the most influential citizens took
part ju the proceedings. We W i'll fight die mon
ster ''Lerna' till the bitter end.
y great effort is being made 20 have the Stony
creek bridge declared free and couaI," in at:-
cordance with the sublime sentiments of the
are lighting both sides with all the energy in
our power. The bridge ought to be free, but
not at tho expense of the stockholders.
a call has been made for meeting TO organ
lze an Agricultural Society We will soon iaVc
any number OF societies. The people are NOV
ing Let rs have an Observation-Disclosures
ShiokiEg-tobacco society for the prevention of
horse stealing
Wm. p. Patton, the great wholesale and re-
tail tGEnituEe dealer III our town. is now erect
ing a large furniture room near LeyergOods
tannery in the Fourth Ward. The building is
TO pc one hundred feeC long, thirty feet wide,
and three stories high. Mr. PattOns present
furniture rooms in the Arcade are entirely in
adequate FOR bis increasing business. He con
templates selling of all his present large stock
OF furniture at cost, to save the trouble OF re-
moving it. as re would otherwise do, when lie
takes possession of thesGew building, whichwiu
be il about Il month from this date. Now is
intends to run the machinery hy steam
and make furniture by the carload. Mr. Pat
ton Is one OF uur most cntcrpriSiuS: :citizcus and
deserves liberal enc oIrag cement.
The weather on last Saturday night took a
sudden and severe cold, and Sunday was BIT
ter cold dag. Perhaps before this is in print
notice such changes were il not that exchanges
at n great distance like to hear something Of
the hymeal condition Of things on and about
the rtcrn&! AllesheEiCs. Rob ROY.