The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-16

Prof Braddock is agent for the sale OF
| the publications of Henry s. Goodspeed &
! Co.. 81 Park Row, New York, and during
| the ensuing month will call on our citizens
! to solicit buyers. His catalogue comprises
| all the standard and late works Bibles and
prayer books, etc, and engravings and pho
tograph albums cotne within his scope. We
commend the Professor to our readers as a
man who can be tied to.
AT Portage, this county, last Monday
Samuel Barnes attempted to jump ON a pass
Ing freight train, but missed his footing and
fell on the track. The car-wheels passed
over one OF his legs, and so dreadfully man
gled 1T that amputation became necessary.
The unfortunate man survived the operation
only couple of hours. He was about 20
years old, and resident of Bedford county:
His remains were inferred at Wilmors on
Wednesday,
Josiah NJ. Christy, OF Gaffitzih, cHf1e to his
death at Cresson last Thursday evening by
the cars running over him. He had gone to
Cresson from Gallitzin that evening and was
endeavUring TO get aboard freight train to
return home, when he missed his footing
and fell on the track. The car-wheels ran
over his legs and a part of his body, and so
severely injured him that he died shortly
afterward.
Charley Albright, Radical nominee for
Congressman-at-large, threatens to come to
Eoensburg some time during the campaign
ana make political speech. Charley used
TO live here, and his memory is kept fragrant
amongst us by remembrance of his cOnnec-
uon with Council City, Kansas, in 1854 A
great many of his old neighbors would like
10 hear his dulcet tones again but would
hear them on the subject of paper towns
In preference to politics.
Randall Morton, who taught school in
Ebensburg for two OF three years prior to
1S4O, was in town on brief visit Tuesday
He was warmly welcomed by many of his
old pupils yet living here, all of them now
middle-aged men, and some of them parents
of children grown to mans estate. Mr.
Morton is a nephew of Hon. Marcus Morton,
of Massachusetts, who ran for Governor of
that State about twenty-five times, and was
elected once by majority. He is now
living in the neighborhood of PittSburg. v
-Ebensburg's new brass band has been
fully organized. 1t is composed of the fol-
lowing named members r. Litzingcr, A.
Y. Jones, John .. Evans, f. V. Barker, j.
l.. Slough, q. w. Jones, George Robinson,
Jerry Pagan, ID. Ii. kinkead, and Erasmus
Smith. The horns, which cost $3.50, arrived
last week, and on Monday evening of this
week the band took its first lesson. Prof.
BraddOck, of Johnstown, is tutor. The Pro-
fessor is leader of Braddock's Johnstown
Band, and under his efficient tutorship we
expect the boys to make rapid progress in
the requirement of the science of music.
The Ebensburg Fish Association isn't a
bad institution, after all Catfish were first
introduced into the Conemaugh here three
years ago, and now that species OF hSh are
not only abundant in this immediate neigh
borhood, but have been caught nearly so low
down As Wilmore. Three live grass pike
were put into the same run, ut the same
point, two years ago, at cost of SO. 1875
EACH and already the small fry are said to
De abundant. Not satisfied with what il has
already done, the Association proposes in
Producing bass and sunfish, and an expedi-
ton to catch and convey the same hither will
60 hence inside n week from date.
-Kleckner's * Co. 5 circus, menagerie and
museum, which exhibited here last Monday,
was good as-yes, we will say better than
the general run of such institutions. And
yet number of individuals from the rural
districts sstrenuouslyinsist that theway three
card monte was played in the side-shows de-
tracted somewhat from the full enjoyment
of the occasion. One man from Blacklick,
we'll known to many Of our readers, was mulct
in the sum of $50, another lost $40, and sever
al others from various localities contributed
in smaller sums toward paying the expenses
of the peripatetic gamblers. We have no
consolation to offer the victims other than
that contained in the axiom, "A fool and his
money are soon parted"