The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-02-03
LETTER FROM puTTsBURcII.


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rar5 mtne ceased writing for the FREEMAN, the nu-
nerous subscribers to your paper have com
correspondence TO your paper is 10 be forever
ul5contlnued Some five thousand letters and
telegramS OF the above purport have reached
me within the last three or four weeks, and /
negin TO teel uncomfortably y great. Amenuen-
tGis anu telegrainS, and the expenses incidental
uhereto are simply enormous, amounting to as
IIHuGh as a small national debt. My usually re-
liable appetite has deserted me, and the sweet
sieeP or Innocence no longer hovers about my
! tfeldS and am invOluntarily forced to eX-
ftItalIl tIl with kings and potentates, Uneasy lies
times have / recently wished that was an ur~
I chin ugain-a sweet, friSky child;
When they put me in my little bed,
ANA when not breaker of anguish
Heaved across my placid BOSOM
1t is only when am sorely vexed that write
I gushing, gentle poetry.
The fifteen hundred dollars that you sent me
came to hand safely few day ago: can scarce
ters that 1 wrote to the FREEMAN were Worth
t@ilnt @ sum or money; but you and your subscri-
. even more, ana it becomes my duty to accent
da dnis tribute to genius as yet comparatively un-
oftneiiHped f,ip ana ltia'notCH The money was judi
/ c'ouSly expended in postage stamps and tele-
graph lines in replying to the injuries from
ucularly the women and children. for this kind
cpnsderation in my behalf. 1t concusiveIy
/ SHOWS an lrreprCSSible disposition TO reward
merit and put virtue a solid foundation /
am am now more forcihly than ever reminded of
the truth of the old and familiar maxim ..Pe
EirtuQus, and you'll not go up II spout sudden
lyr ferhaps this is not the literal meaning
or the aphorism, but am satisfied the point is
palpable. If any of your readers wish to read
me auage IN all ITS original and pristine beauty,
/ refer them to what IL. G. knows about farm
ing literary work alike popular with wet
nurses, politicians and boOtblacks.
Ii may be that the apology / have above pre-
/ sented Tor not corresponding more regularly to
to your readers If Won think il is not nInaee
explain editorally why have been remiss in
/ TINS matter. You saw me last some fifteen years
ago, and you car, more tluentIy clucidate on
/ thls SuhJect than can myself. Do il in your
/ usual bland and sarcastic manner I am SotiS
b know h
/ scribers from the pathetic appeals you make to
them for prompt liquidation of Indebtedness
CIou can define the long words in this commu-
/ nication by reference to Webster Unabridged
! l have read these appeals with consideTab ble
emotion, and if it had not been that YOU and |
had had our photographs taken in the same gal
I lery some twenty years ago, would have re-
mitted the forty-two cents justly due you. But
| knew movement so mercenary in its ten
9enGles would have incurred your everlasting
displeasure. so | wisely concluded that was
not one or the debtors you alluded to in your
nouceS 10 odellhquentS- Had enjoyed your iu-
innate acquaintance. or, ON the other hand, had
mitted the cash on the first intination received
that you needed money would not have silent
known that was included in his list of debtors
But being only a casual acquaintance, conclude
the Freeman is sent to me as a "cOrnplimpnt.T
Taking this view of the matter. | also infer
from the anne standpoint that the editor would
much rather have me remain sort of fOrtu-
ltouS friendand get nothing for his paper than
cultivate my intimacy and receive tHe regular
subscription price il ddUGnce. This has been
my experience with many other virtuous, high
toned editors and it is fair to presume the edi-
tor of the Freeman is exception. This mode
of doing business, although not parta king to a
great extent of Christian socabfiity and resig-
=. nation, rather like. Business is business. and
If the editorial fraternity can stand it can
Editors, as a general thing, are very tenacious
OF their reputation, and value my character
too highly to ask them to compromise their
Eood names by accepting money from me in
payment of subscription. If have taken an
erroneous view of this matter (all men are liza
: Z bic to miStakeS) you can draw on me at sight
for the fOTty-twO cents and will honor the
draft draft But If must pay for the paper you will
| 2cquaintancc Of an editor. OF course this will
, ABOUT balance things am tenacious of my
reputation also, lCLeH must pay for mn paper
? / lmust express my qualification at knowing that
TO settle in response TO your repeated appeals
Now keep them down to the work, and prom
lSe you my vigorous cooperation. MyapolOgy
is now complete. 1t is disconnected. but when
. it is considered that during the time have bcen
been annoying me with the delivery of letters
and telegrams all Of similar purport, there
composition. I promise all, if they pay the
nnT pT.tTT ms @ St us dues hr0mptY that will write
lredfty' IS bad at heart, and no benefactor of
, ments, and now to work.
q Last Saturday our divorce court did a land
office business. Eight applications were heard,
the alleged causes being adultery, abuse and
deSertiOn. With all these discouraging circun-
stances staring lovers in the face, the matrimo-
nial mark I is just as firm as ever.
1t is estimated that between fifty and sixty
lizards in Pittsburgh. Poor washerwomen' how
they suffer in consequence, and how much mis-
Fifteen hundred pounds of slate fell on a man
named Andrew Taylor, on last Saturday, while
he was at work in a coal pit. OF couse he was
instantly crushed to death.
thirteen new cases of smallpox last week,
Michael Maddigan was found on last Saturday
evening in a dying condition in AIIcghenyJcity,
ana before he could he removed 10 a comfort
able place, life fled: His injuries were sns-
tanned from fall. The deceased bid been a
! known in this city. VAC.
FnyNsBURe IN le05-S.-The contributor of
local "reminiscences to our down town cotem.
porary. the Herald, furnishes the following for
this weeks Issue: In 1898 there were three
houses built in Ebersbnrg which nre now stands
! ing, VIZ: The stone house on Hi. street now
! owned bv heirs of r s. Bunn. NJ d; the
house now occupied ty NJ L. Jones as ,iIcr
shor: and The eastern or low er uart Of the honse
: OF Hon A A. Barker The old Court House
Court room in Tic socond %ii a.. sat yesr the
low. An unsuccessful effort was made TO get
the County Seat removed TO Munster, by n man
named VIM. GiIbraih. caricature of odd
Billy Galbrath" with tho new Court house on
hi- back and tho ID assisting him and nuur-
in" the road to Munster Put ilpon a tree
near the Conemaugh creek, causing great
deal Of merriment to the citizens Of Ebepshurg
The first Court held in Eben n>burg was in the
: lndeDcndent church The Judges seat hcinp
! on temporary platform; and the bar partition
; ed off nv beech poles fastened with withes-
The Judges Were Hon. iohr Young President.
Abraham idehrand and Genrse Roberts =
; sociatcs; Sheriff, Philip Noon The most
[ prominent ATTORNEYS were Sum,el Riddle Of
Bedford, James Carson, of Snmer-et and
VIM. r Smith, of Huntingdon The first
) cases of Over and Termner tried in Epensburg.
/ was | believe in Sentemher, 1903 Jacob
Boslev was tried for murder of job GRAY in
Johnstown, (acquited) and Mary Beatty for
: the murder of her child. also from Johnstowu
, She acquitted for the murder but found
: guilty of concealing the death Of the Chi d and
sentenced to three wears in the Eastern reni
tentiary. Mr. Riddle, the counsel for Mrs
Beatty, for making some Insulting remarks TO
the court was silenced for mon his A short
time afterwards n pamnhlet was published u,,>
der the title of Harry Hemock of Conenaugh.
supposed 10 have been written bv Mr. Ridlle
) a burleSque on Judges Young and Roher;s