The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-03-20

- he Altoona ITg6HTe need not take
on any extra agony about our new Jail,
for we assure it that escape from that
$4,000 cdifice by any means but strategy,
is nearly as impossible as it would be for
a camel to go through the eye of a needle
or the rich men of the Tribune to secure
entrance to The realms OF bliss beyond.
Rev. Wm \. Fleming's lecture at the
! Presbyterian church, on Monday evening
| last, is said to have been less numerousely
! attended than any which have preceded it.
/ yet there was far from being "a beUuarrv
! account of empty benches The effort it.
| self, which want of time prevented us from
| hearing, is represented to have been well
written and we'll delivered, many portions
| OF 1T being really eloquent, but it was less
history of the "Puritans' the subiact
announced, than it was eulogy of Crom-
well and men of his day and ilk. This lee
ture closed the course, but it is to be hoped
that next winter will see the Inauguration
OF still more extensive if not more bril-
liant course of lectures in our midst
Quite an unpleasant sensation was Gre
ated IL Johnstown on Monday last by the
suspension of all operations at the Cambria
Iron " orks, the employees being notified
on going to work that morning that their
services would not be needed-not at least
for the present. The cause of the suspen-
sion is said to be threatened strike on the
part of some of the miners, which has since
eliminated, the demand being for an in
crease OF wages. The Company have i'm
mense quantities of railroad iron piled up
waiting purchasers, and the probabilities
are that they will fight it out on the suSpen-
sion line if it should take them all summer.
More's the pity, sa an almost complete
stagnation i'll business and great suffering
must be the inevitable result if this state
OF things long continues.
\ -(lnr frianH Cho,la,- DF
township, is the owner Of a COW which is
certainly ''some pumpkins" on the fecun-
dity question, she having given birth to no
/ less than three calves on Tuesday night
/ last, all of which are fully developed and
we'll formed. This Wholesale yield of calf
/ flesh brings the number up To five which
/ this remarkable COW has given birth to,
the other two having came in the usual
order Of one at time, which is doing ex-
! ceedinGly well for q six year old heifcr.
Blair aid Bedford counties, as well as the
/ rest Of mankind, are invited TO tyot out
their veal producing bovines, as Cain
/ thinks he is abel to ''knock the spots OFF,
of all them. Charley is also the possessOr
! Of queer specimen of the lamb Species
! the peculiaritics OF which, however, are of
/ a nature which, to be appreciated, should
/ be seen, not read about.
| "A fearful accident occur red in:Altoona
/ on Saturday afternoon last, whiCh.resulted
in the almost instant killing of a laboripg
man named George II. Curfman and the
serious if not fatal injury of James Bradley.
machinist by occupation, as well as tile
demolition of several thousand dollars
worth of property. 1t seems that an EN-
ploye of the Company named James Kelly
got on an engine which was standing in
tie yard for the purpose of shifting it, but
after getting it under Roadway was unable
from some cause to check its progress. AID
the result was that the locomotive dashed
INTO the lower round house at the rate of
tAllty-hve miles an hour, striking, mutt
lating and doing to death one man and
shockingly crushing the thigh and other
wise iniurrsg another. as above indicated.
Kelly saved himself by jumping from the
flying engine, which kept on It's mad ca
rcer through Tie round house, machine
sl:op and wheel shop, i'll which fully five
hundred men were at work, but, miracu-
lous as it may seem, all hut the two un-
fortunate men I,amcd escaped the impend-
ing danger. Curfmau died soon after the
accident, but Bradley is still alive and The
probabilities now are that he viii survive
his Injuries.