The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-08-15

Two JOllnstown printer boys, G.. i,
/ Fink and r. 4. Benford, have established
"print shop ~ Latrobe, and the first
issue of their paper, the Latr3te -Adeance,
, which has reached us, is in every sense of
! the word credit to their mechanical, To-
calistic and editorial abilities. May the
} Adrance find hosts Of advance paying sub
4 scIibers and liberal patrons generally, and
may the proprietors accumulate many
"spons'' in. their journalistic venture.
Eddie LslfGer Geay, aged 19 months
and 10 days, was so terribly burned at
New Florence, Westmerelahd county,
about noon on Tuesday, 7th hist. by his
Clothes taking fire from n lighted stick
With which he was playing at the stove,
that he died the following afternoon. The
child S rarents'werc absent from the house
at the time, and his grandmother was too
feeble to O''save the little unfortunate, al
though She got her hands badly buried in
the effort to do So. 8 n
Wei notice that the maine of our es-
teemed friend, Councilman John Rocket,
of Altoona, has been mentioned in counec-
tion with the Democratic nomination for
Sheriff of Blair county," John is about as
competent and deserving a man. and rs
sound Democrat as our sister cotintY can
trot out, and we hope he will go up Fke
rocket in the convention, and that he won't
have to come down like stick in the cleo
tion. Such q good man ought to 60
through with Il 6zz.
t!'-R. w. BerRBtresser, Esq, General
Agent in Western Pennsylvania for the
Continental Life Insurance Company, is
doing" Ebensburg at present writing.
He is genial gentleman, is we'll up in his
business, and represents one of the sound
est Life Insurance Associations i'll the
world. Seconded by such competent and
worthy gentleman as ]. G. Lake, Esq, of
this place, WHO has been appointed resi-
dent agent, Mr.. B., on behalf of hfs Com
pany. ought to do an extemsive business in
this locality. We believe it to be good
policy to have life insurance policy in the
Continental, and acted on the faith that is
in us several years ago.
-"ShoO fly is not a pleasant ditty
when the shoe flies and strikes a maa
above the left eye, as it did in the case of
a we'll known character in this vicinity the
other day. Whisky produced a quarrel
between himself and another man at Ben,
Williams blacksmith shop, and, as re-
suit, the party of the first part has about
as ugly n cash in his frontispiecc as we'll
directed horseshoe, thrown with great
force, could be expected to produce. The
injured man Rees-ides i'll Blacklici town.
ship, and is generally known as Sam,
while his assailant has on the livery Of
citizenship in this borough. & suit at law
-Altoona's Chief Of Police: Westbrook
by name, after receiving his ticket-of-
leave. oihnrwise discharge, from the May
OF, q few days ago, sold his real estate at
a sacrifice, pocketed the money. deserted
his family, and betOok himself to parts I'M
known in company with a strumpet named
May. ,iWestbrOokc is a~lopherol,s scoun-
drel, FROM all accounts, ys.iid. it is to be
hoped that the efforts now making for his
ramEurp will DrOyn EucpnSSFuI
pblfcenfan of the s5me city, named Doll,
also left between two days, about the same
time, forgetting iii his haste to settle few
"small Williams which he had con-
tracted in that vicinity. Altoona is abuud
antly blessed in malay particulars.