The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-01-27
Cambria Greenl0u.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Court Is IN session III hoiiiua! sourS 'hls
"s-Local option il Harrisburg is whiskey
'"---Tbe smallpox has nearly disappeared from
Huntingdon county has instructed for Jor-
don for Governor.
-. When are the girls going TO get up Leap
YEAR party ia tOwnt
-Gieurfald is reiOiccd because she has just
iuusei horse thief.
72Tbs new Jail will soon be ready, for the
-srsDticu Of inmates.
-Postmasters must take muuiated traction
81 currency for postage stamps.
The argument Court will take place on
r,,- Monday week, February 9th,
-Tbe task Of writing the financial accounts
If ,ha county for The past year is nearly com
pletsd.
,rooiuted = Republican committeeman i0r the
fnh ward of that city.
The clothing OF four-year~old girl In
Mount Union caught fire ore day last week.
The sir lioi the samo day.
* steam saw mill exploded in Juniata
c,rr,y Tho other day hnG killed one man and
ssysrt,y wounded several others.
Tia water uupleasantness in Altoona is at
q, c.d and ,hst city can nov at its leisure
wash lis face and its dirty clothes.
A Mr. Gordon, OF Ohio, cashed a check
f,- n railroad acquaintance nt Altoona the
other day. dc is no" bemoaning The loss Of
$50
4 monument 10 commemorate the MEM
o-r n "Fore-t' John COvode has been eIect>
.diu West Fairfield township, WestmoreIRnd
county.
-Two Young mon Of Mount Pleasant in
GrIgeI in the mild amusement of shooting at
one another with pistols on Monday of las.
week Nobody killol.
"A little daughter of VIM Hare, Altoona
recently had the bail Of her eve pierced by the
point oi pair OF scisssors, with which she and
? companion were playing.
-IhomnE Surgant, Oh Munster tow nship,
cut his ioot with an axe SO badly, the other dag
thatI Is thought that smputatiUn Cf that mem
Der will become necessary.
--Cleal field was going to take Leap Year
excursion TO Altoona on the 9th, but indeh-
nsly postponed it on account Of the presumed
prevalence of the smallpox in the latter place.
- Rev. Cyrus CttTies, formerly of Cambria
county, has organized a new church peCt in
Hurti' gdon county. 1t is called The Church
Of Christ in America" and already numbers
ten members.
-Mr. Joseph Griffith. formerly of Altoona
but lGtteTly OF Nevada, went to visit The grave
of lis wife in Virginia city on the 18Th ult
Willie standing ut the head of the grave hC
CfOi'ptu uUNE Cedu. fletrl ClEeaee.
Under the repeating act passed at the las
session OF tho Legislature. the spring election
Tor Ward, Borough and Tow nship officers, viii
take place on the third Friday in February
being the sixteenth day of the month.
Tie Herald keeps on telling us that there
we're no empty seats" VIXEN Barker spoke his
temperance piece. All right But how about
the piece itself? Was IT empty ? We don't re-
member having had the Herald's extremely
valuable opinion on that point
They like Judge d can in Huntingdon. BE
led lis first term of Court there a couple OF
weeks ago, and the Monitor IS OF him: The
aciI0n OF the new Judge was highly cOmmend-
able void of either fear, favor, or affection
anu was fGvOTsbly commented upon by those
IN atrsEdsECe."
The sieighing is excellent, ard those own
InS horses and sleighs or sleds are making the
lGsst oi 1t. Hundreds OF cieds laden with um.
Ter, coal, &c drive in town daily, and sleigh.
ing parties are OF nightly occurrence One
Uud al JOIN in the hope that the snow NAV sts,
with Us ill say the first of April.
Ihe Pittsburgh Post saws, that detectiv,
George Strain has returned heme from = trir
10 Philadelphia which he made in tho interests
OF Minnie Aoore, the young woman SO much
at-Cted 10 attaining" other peoples under
clothing. She has been placed in the Convent
OF tho Good shepherd for reformation.
The question OF the expedienov Of centin.
uIIg tho limo of tho Ebonsburg 4 Cro.son
SrHEch Railroad to the rich iron-oro and coal
he'ds OF Blacklick township il not only being
talked about, but is being acted on 1t is with.
~ the range OF possibility that the rail ex,en-
zion may be made inside q year or two.
" hen you 60 to Altoona ctop at the S..
Charles Hotel. Sam. Criste a former Gsm-
brianis landlord, and when say that he knows
how to keep hotel, We only give expression
10 the unanimous verdict of the travelling pub
nc Indeed ii is TIKI hotel of the city, aud the
heavy patronage il receives shows that the fac
is generally known,
At an election Of the Protection Mutual
Fire Insurance Co. of Cambria CO., the follow
ing Board Of Directors YVES elected 10 serve
during tie yepr: Jno. WiIIiams JobS.to,
Moore, Il. A Barker, K. l.. Iohna.on II I
Mills, Juo. Lloyd Geo. M. Reade. E hv,,s. {.
Isaac Crawford, Henry pritchard, Jno Buck
and Rcbt Dcvrenu1, NJ. ID.
-''NaS" is not only welcome on the scor
e friendship to NIL the Fpace he wishes t,
occupy, but is doubiy welcome for the rea
tou that his letters are always instructive anC
nsvsy. This week, however. owing to &c
sire to get away from homo for day or two,
We bad made arrangement. TO fill all our avail
rJle space before "Vag's" latter came TO hand
Most OF il, however, will do just As we'll fol
next week, and in the Tcansime another lettol
will be in order.
- EC attention OF those OF oGT readers de
string to buy real estate is directed to the ad
vertisements in this paper Of Augustin Durhir
and q. & Is. Shields. The former has 2yt
acres in Munster township and the latter hav,
J6I ceres, in Allegheny township for sslo.-
Both farms are in good state of cultivation
md sither would afford a fine Opening for ON,
possessed with the desire TO engage in the az
TculuraI business.
The HollidaysbUrg Standard says tha
Winfield Blake, OF Martiu.burg, left home on
Saturday last, intending to go to Coslmont
Huntingdon county, for. the purpose of trans
tctng business On the evening of the same
Cay boy passing along the Broadtop railroa q
IrscS, between Coalmont end Dudley. found
Nr' hiake's body extended across the track,
severed IN two. The unfortunate man leave.
vile end three children The cause of tho
terrible accident is unknown.
Minnie Moore, q young girl who at one
'!me lived IN this place, but OF late years has
RESIDED IN Pittsburgh is fast achieving an un.
enylabis Dotoriety. Several months ago. she
was sent to the Pttsburg jill for larceny. and
last week she was introduced inside the walls
OF the work house for a like offence. This !,
bad enough, but in addition to that moral de
Hrquency which prevents hor from distinguish
ing between tho principles of MUM and TUUN
Is TO be added tho yica Of