The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-07-13

eter that WAS suspended before the pOSt-office
1t tried to get up to 16l degfteS in the shade nj
died in the effort. Peaee to its pieces.
The editor of the Echo was badly burnt just
before the 4th, by flash of his own-wit. 1t
was unexpected. even by himself, and there is
no danger of the like happening again.
We have received pamphlet from the pen
of Hon. j. II. Swauk, chief clerk of the gricul-
tGrai Department, Washington, being a history
or that institution: 1t is scholarly effort and
Is tersely written.b but deii1ut to the shape of
the pamphlet, which is nearly square. 4 OF the
author fault, OF course.
The following lines were absolutely written
by us without any help whatever. They are
am sitting tonight
And wondering why
Some people get tight
The Fourth Of July.
Is the love they feel
For country strong
That il makes them reel
And stagger along
Or is 1t because,
When they dress fine,
They forget the laws
And remember ecnSinef
am sitting tonight
And thinking me. too,
II Freedom : goddess got tight,
What the plague she would do.
Would she take our flag
And shape the old rag
Into Dolly IdrdeHY
If she would sip and gut
As some people do,
Metnnks she would put
Her own flag through.
Thus am yexed tonight,
And wondering why
So many get tight
On the Fourth of July.
As you are already aware, daily paper is on
the tapis here. 1t is to be called the DAILY
promised for Monday next. Good!
David Buck. a soldier OF the late internecine
war, died in this place few days ago, and was
buried with the honors of war in the Lutheran
cemetery, on sunday, the 23d of June. He died
The AIGrights held Liebesnahl or love
feast in Rlchiand township during the last
week of June. Thousands of people attended
many from Johnstown. There was a run on
the livery stables.
Some folks are very desirous of buying part
or the market square, consisting of four corner
lots divided by two streets, Main and Market,
and is really four lots The market house is
being built on one lot. 1t should have been
built on the four lOts-that is four structures
of the same style, size and shape should have
been built-one for Il butter and egg market
one for meat market, one for vegetables and
one for grains and potatoes, etc. Then it would
have looked stylish.
A boy six years old named Parfitt was drown
ed in MiIlVille borough, June 18th. The water
in stony Creek rose ten feet In four hours, ov-
ing to the heavy rains, and he boy went to see
the flood, slipped in and was taken down the
river.
! We bnve two more new institutions. One is
n carriage drawn by a three feet high poay, and
! the other II carriage drawn 10y a pair of DarTia
/ goats. The carriages Will seat four persons
/ each. COuldn't some of our engine makers get
! up one TO run by StenmF
/ Houses to rent are scarce as hairs in BUTTER
/ and much harder to lind, except two that had
/ the smallpox lust winter. Who wants these :
/ Speak soon. Rob Roy.
MUNSTER, July ., 1874.
Dear FfecmaH-Probably you are not aware
| that one of the finest groves in this county is
one quarter of a mile from Kaylor's station,
ana aefeSSa6le &C ISL 6y roadF and paths from & &eYery
SclOped, close together, and the branches there
/ of afford what the poets call an uml1raUcons
shade fully six acres in extent, covering ground
remarkably level and free from high grass and
undergrOwth, the great dra bblers and demOral-
iIEarS Of fpn Ia in 69f ear
| is the land anywhere of that spongy character
which plays such sad havoc with the fairy-like
shoes and white stockings and underclOJhing of
the bellies OF beauty. Pure cool water is with
| in easy access, and lumber for dancing floors,
/ tables, and like purposes, is near at hand, while
the most desirable places for swings, crOquet
and play grounds, and in fact every purpose
| pertaining TO picnic pleasures, here abound in
| great profusiOn.
In this delightful grove, amid the beauties of
| unadorned nature, II was that your correspond
ent, in company with nearly three hundred
others, spent the Fourth Of July, thanks to our
| worthy young friends. Messrs. Baker, Condon
KaylOr, Noonan, and two or three others, thro
whose energy and good management the affair
was rendered a most pleasing success, although
they had but three days in W hich TO make al
the necessary arrangements. In the forenoon
it raiuCd Il little, but ere the dinner hour mac
arrived fine weather dawned upon us, and from
cd to Tip IT'9 9he @S St %eTe orr
pate in other innocent recreations Ere lona
| ourappetitcS called to the well spread board
where were served with plenty of eXceIIen
cakes and delicious food of all Kind, which thc
I ladies had brought to the ground in abundance
while the committee furnished ice cool rasp
berry and lemonade drinks without money ant
without price. They also furnished candies
nuts and cigars free to their friends, but very
. properly charged strangers for these Injuries
| The afternoon enliVened by fairy feet (anC
a gOodly number that hadn much of the fairy
about them making music over the well iaiC
dancing floor, which recreation continued unit
/, / about O'Clock, when we were relieved from
the oppressive heat by refreshing shower
after which the participants wended their way
| in groups to various houses, where the evening
was spent III dancing ana innocent amusement
| The day passed on pleasantly, no intoxicated
| men rowdieS appearing upon the ground t.
disturb or disgrace our gay little feast.
Much credit is due NeSSrS. Baker, Becher
Eckenrode and Kaylor for the excellent music
furnished on the occasion. and like considera
kindly interest manifested 10y him,
Visitors from Philadelphia, niit ttsburgh Lock
Haven, Altoona, - ohnstown, Lorette, and sew
eral other places, participated with in the
festivities and expressed much delight at the
way III which they were entertained. E. n.
WIDENING THE STREETs.-In Pittsburg, Fifth
Avenue is to be widened from its present di
mensC rs to sixty feet. In Johnstown, the idea
of widening the streeIsi is also entertained. Par
ticularly is this the case with Main street which
is said TO be so contracted that much difficulty
| Is encountered by the multitudes in reaching
s. ]. Hess & Bro. s Ready-made Clothing Store
People must have light clothing this hot wealth
Ijshment of Messrs Hess without running thu
risk of beiag crushed, why, the street must bt
widened. 2H Main street.
THE HERMoAErER-Thirteen hundred ant
fortyInin persons stopped during this week a
Cham. Roberts store TO look at his thermome
ter and thirteen hundred and forty-nine per
sons calculated, How hot - If each one o
4 these thirteen hundred and forty-nine had fol
low ed up his remark by going into Cham S Stor,
and buying thirteen hundred and forty-nins
cents worth of jewelry, or other elegant arti
cles then he would have got a bargain, Cham
would have been pleased and other people
would have had an examyle before thsn or
thy of imitataton.
"THE JuNIATA on HIGH i"'-Such is thC
heading we find in an eastern local exchange
followed by account OF how the Juuiati
river overfowed its banks recently, and made
morasses of meadows and devastation of diver
cOrn-felds. All this Is sad enough; but out o
the cloud of gloom comes the ray of light that
though the Juniata rise never so high, the price
of dry goods, groceries, etc, ut V. s. Barker:
rim not rise He has just received large in
voice of new goods, and Will Just as gladly sci
....nr .dnac reader. at low est rateS. 9th