The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-03-21
Local Correspondence.
JoHNsTows, March IS. 1873.


has come at last" Real, genuine March
/ weather prevails here in Jolinstown, and
/ 1t is thought that tho spring will open ear
ly. The sugar season has fairly begun,
and viii soon be over. All fools day is
rapidly approaching. Moving day, too,
! with is turmoil, its trials, its labors, its
suilerings, and lis pnyatious, will soon be
upon us. | have often tried to write up
moving day, but | could never do the sub
Ject full justice. My feeble efforts are
/ somewhere on file in your Office so ! will
content myself now by saying that sin
celely sympathiZe with those who are an
nuaily compelled 10 move from place to
place, to find a shelter for themselves and
tEcir families.
Among those of your patrons who have
not to move may be mentioned Frank W.
Hay, who is still the same clever ard obiig-
. ing man he has always been, md who
still puts up and sells any quantity of tim
ware at his we'll known stand on Washing
ton Street. Hay Brothers Go not move
neither. They can be found on the same
street.
james J. Murphy does not change his
place neither, but will still sell cheap cloth
ing at the Star Clothing Store, Clinton
. street.
The same may be said of John Hannah.
Patrick O'Connell has suspended for 4
short period, to repair his spacious build
. ing. lilo contemPiatcs adding 4 number
of rooms. Nj. Streum has also suspended
temporily, to fix up his house. The Ben
ford House IS about having cUbit added
/ to its stature, another story, moro room,
etc. The new Market House is completed,
ID the counciimen of the borough have
bought thirty chairs, worth $40 apiece, for
| themselves. Another poor-house arrange
ment, except that .. d. T. is not appended
to this item Of expense. The tax-Iayers
/ hereabouts have to sit on two dollar chairs.
John DibeTt is now finishing up MS man
sion. Ditto Jacob Fond. George Fritz is
about building a splendid stable near his
residence. The now Episcopal church is
progressing, also the Albright church, in
the 9th ward.
andy Glass, Johustown's Oldest and
. most efficient policeman, has been put on
the retired list. He and his four brothers
served Ill the war, but what of that? The
poor soldier appeal has lost its talisnan-
! ic power, when stay-at-home patriots Goa
be promoted to the place once occupied by
the dear soldier
CO. who writes some for the Tribune,
says, in panegyric on the dead, that
there is no living hand to-day that can
write the history Of JohnstUwn prior to a
period Of q quarter of a century ago - bat
tn, II he goes back hnnself to a half a cen
tury ago, aud think l could almost write
it's history from 1923. If | couldn't Judge
p could Still it does not matter much
whether it be written at all not if it
should be written as badly as lie writes it.
Pc I"ny could do it quite as well.
Tie greatest wooden factory in the world,
or at !cas: in this county, viii probably be
put in operation about the first of May.
This Immense structure is located in Wood
vale borough, and will have An immense
capacity when put in complete operation.
l intend to write description of 1t and the
new tannery IN the same borough, express
ly for your columns, as soon As can get
time.
The schools are all closing here. One
month more will turn out upon the world
about two thousand pupils, If not scholars.
AprOpOS, 1 would say here that the fifth
month schooling in the townships, Ike the
itth wheel to wagon, is a useless cX-
; pcnse. Tie schools become Etarly de
serted in the spring, .iu.t before the time of
. closing. 1t is not so in the boroUghs,
where chiidren's labor is not required.
We have two daily papers here now, and
there is lively competition or riv:lslIp e2s-
: istipg, which Is sa}utary, if not wholesome,
f l do not care which pig whips. Ore goes
: by steam, and one by gas but the gas As
e . usual. gives the most light, while tie steam
E has the most power. Ny prayer is thai
i both may succeed. The editors have beer
: very kind to me, and | can but wish then
: good luck. / take both papers, and boil
II daily and weekly issues, and If these cdi
: tors had a thousand subscribers like ~,
Q they would soon shine conspicuously in til,
il list of bankrupts. You know how it i
, yourself
G 1t is now proposed to form a new count,
il out OF the first ward Of Johnstown. Tha
IS ward is very poPulous, Judging by the vot
IS polled. The sixth ward will be ready 70
= admission as Stale in the year 1876. Tn
@ territory is large, and there was an acces
:, sion i'll one day to its population Of sixUeel
Y bodies, if not souls.
= The morals of the people here have i'm
G proved ten per cent. since the excitemen
d upon local option. This l know by ocuEa
% demonstration, as well as cardic sensation
II have no doubt that the world would b
c ten per cent. better without ardent drinks
IS But their absence would not affect tn
IF Credit .Uo5EEter and sich like.
lc Summing mp the last winters campaign
> I a"d that we had twenty-f5ur SHOWS
of forty blows, sixty ze'o r.,~,--~, - g.,
is ice-itoods. Not bad for one term.
n The lecture delivered on last Suuda
IN everine by Rev. Francis 3. Cannon, Q.
of B., in the Catholic church of this plac
rs gave universal satisfaction.
s. The tragic death of John Cristanz, {
le East Conemaugh, has produced profoun
l. sensation. lie was an honest man, and h
very honesty was the cause of his deatl
Poor man We Sympa:hlze deeply Wit
IT the family.
= There have been so many accidents an
~, deaths here of late, that / cannot recoI
% them. There is only one step betwce
= time and eternity. And here l wOuld quot
- a slanza from Gray's Elegy, but that foul
,,'' tain Of poetry has been and is tapped by
~ / many that ! lefrain at present.
>fa You cannot fail to perceive that | a
Nv rapidly improving in English, and in ge
~ eIal knowledge. There is an editor
-. Punxsutawny that people poke their fl
NJ at. But that editor Gould puzzle some
eel 'I0 . - - - r
~, BET that not one out of ten editors in II
-, State can tell that. PO YANG.
a
tor CLEARFIELD TWP, March II, 1878
at Mr. EDIToR-As the common schools