The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-23

afternoon last and was very severely lii.
jured
} Our merchant friend next door NJ l.
Oatman, has fully determined to dispense
with the credit system for all time to come
! Hence cash or its equivalent will henceforth
be the rule, and when you go TO No. 100 High
street, as you will find it to your interest To
do, be sure to take your pocket-boo along.
AS berries are now in season. it must not
be thought strange that our Young LEGAL
friend, Burgess Berry, has only now returned
from his health-seeking visit to Centre coI1n-
ty. He reports himself as much improved
physically, and as there was no room for i'm
provement morally, of course he is all right
Steele, of the Ashland -4drocate, says he
can travel with iDlpurity." And he puts
it in his paper, where his wife can read it.
But then what man can do and what he
does do may be entirely at variance Won
know. And them again, maybe ''impurity''
Is new maine for railroad pass Who
knows?
! The Annual Retreat of the Catholic
/ clergy of the Diocese will be held at I,oret
to Springs. The first Retreat will begin on
| Monday, September 9th, and close On Satur
day morning, September 18th. The second
Retreat Will commence on Monday evening
September 10Th, and close on the following
Saturday morning.
William Walker was badly burned lv
the premature explosion of blast in one. of
the Cambria Iron Company's coal mines at
Johnstown, on Saturday last. Nearly all
the flesh was torn from one of his arms and
the loss of one eye His recovery is doubt
ful, he being an old man.
Prof. Chapnan's normal school closed
its second summer session last Friday. The
examination exercises occupied two days
The number of students in attendance dur
ing the session was torty-three OF whom
thirty-one We're examined and received GER
tificates authorizing them to teach in our
public schools for one year.
E. Z. Long and ID. Wyneland are the
names given by the parties who attempted to
outrage the person of Mrs. John SwatZman
in JohnstOwn last "Wednesday, and John
Roxbury is the title under which the indi-
vidual sails who stole seven dollars from
Oscar Gratfs till in the same place the same
day. All three are in Jail here.
This Is how the Altoona Tribune mildly
puts II: From the continued howlings of
anonymous writer's in the Daily Mountain
Poice, we are led TO the belief that some of
the citizens of Johnstown have become in
sane through fear that the modest and unas-
suming town called Ebcnsburg will prove a
too formidable rival for the kingdom"
OF your charity, or, if that won't prompt
! you, OF your desire to enrich yourself invest
two dollars in the Somerset eliefenterprise
an elaborate advertisement OF which appears
III our paper to-day. Thus you lrjH aid a
! worthy cause, and thus you mag add greatly
! to your worldly possessions. NJ F. Meaghcr
! JOhnStown, j is agent for this county send
your money to him.
Money orders now issued at the
! Ebcnsburg post-Ofiice for any point in Eng
! land, ireland, and other foreign countries
at the following rates On orders not ex-
ceedlng $40, 20 cents over SO and not cx-
ceeding $50, so cents over $50 and not
exceeding $50, as cents over $50 and not
exceeding $40, Sl.0O; over $40 and not
exceeding $50, S1.25.
The Mitfiin county Republican conven-
! ton met at Lewistown last Monday. The
| Congressional cOnferees were appointed by
| the Convention but were uninstructeG The
situation i'll this district is therefore thus
a Rl,ria fprR Rar l.:,-
| ingdon for Guss; Miffiin uninstructed-
Barker will likely get the nomination but
Hon. r. Milton Speer will go back to Wash
| ington with 700 majority.
The EbensburT common school term will
commence September 2d, proximo and con-
/ tinue seven months. The following corps of
| teachers has been selected: Principal, w
/ q M'Clelland salary S75 per month; Room
No. =, H. Berg, salary $50; Room No. 3,
/ Hiss Ellen Lewis, salary $685. Room No.
4, Miss Mollie f. Davis, salary $685. Room
! No. 5, Mrs. Clark, salary $685. Room No.
! T., Miss Mary +. Jones, salary $685..
| Plot for sensation novel. This place
| Tuesday afternoon-young man, married
| young mans step-mother, middle aged
.fdgrdDte dettctu-young mans father returns
| home euneNpectedly-raisesC c ain generally
| threatened prosecutions for bigamy-shock-
ing decentralization. Such are the outlines
| of the story IA rumor has it. For the sake
of our common humanity, we hope it is not
true.
| Gen. J. II. Moorhead, of Pittsburgh.
| spent Monday night in this place on his way
! home by his own private conveyance from
| Cresson Springs He stated to several of
his personal acquaintances here who called
on him that he was in favor of Greeley and
! Buckalew, for the plain and simple reason
| that they were both competent and honest
Gen. Moorehead will make his influence tell
on the result in Allegheny county.
| Indiana county is to have an agricultu-
! raj fair next October. Among the general
! rules of the society, as we find them pub
lished in the Progress, is the one that ''all
manufactures and articles of skilled labor
must he residents of the county" That is
! bad enough but when we further read that
competitors for riding match in the 10th,
! ilth, 18th, 18th, or 10Th classes must have
| been manufactured by persons residing in
| the county''-well, that is still worse
| The Johnstown Tribune tells us that
! harmony is not the prevailing characteristic
! in the Radical camp in Huntingdon county.
1t says 'Messrs Wharton and Ciuss have
n little unpleaSantnesso on hand, Mr.. Wharton
having distributed circulars charging Guss
who is Superintendent of the CasSvile Sol
diers' Orphan School, with improper init
macy with his female scholars. Guss has
! put Wharton under 81, 900 bonds for his APP
pearance to answer the alleged libel
| We mentioned in these columns two or
three months ago that brother of Mrs. Eli
as Jones, of Cambria township, had died in
| New Orleans, leaving her the bulk of his
! fortune. This fortune variously esti-
mated at from S50,000 to S150,00O. Sequal:
On "Wednesday, gentleman from New Or
| leans arrived here, bringing with him drafts
for Sac, 900, which he turned over to Mrs.
Jones as the first installlnent of the bequest.
| The entire bequest he says, will represent
the value of $780, 900.
| William Coulter left his home In Indiana
county some time the beginning of last week,
saying 70 his family that he was going to
| buy cattle. Not returning, search was in
stituted for him. On Thursday following,
his dead body was discovered in the Cone
nanph raSi6pnc9. legs
! only being in the water. be had evidently
! fallen in when the stream was swollen,
which, upon receding, left him as above
stated. His son had repeatedly passed and
repassed the spot where his father was lying,
! but failed to discover him.
We give this story IA we heard IT, but
| prefer not to locate 1t. 1t might have Oc-
Cured in China, but it didn't. The story is,