The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-01-30

county, hut for many years resident of 4 /
toona, Is an aspirant for the nomination for
Treasurer of that city ON the Democrat c
ticket. He is a most esumahle young man,
and If it could he SO arranged that we might
be permitted to cast the full poll of Altoona
at the election, then would Billy receive
unanimous vote.
A Farmers Grange has been organized
in Blair county, with Messrs. John &. Ever
hart and Jacob 5. Nicodemus as its mana
gers. The Hollidaysburg Registe5. was asked
TO become the home organ of the new party
but refused, chiefly as we are told becauSe
II Is anxiety for political preferment and
not love for the farmers that lies a. :he root
OF the Grange movement. The RegiStpr adds
that both Everhart and Nicodcmus are ''oId
pohtIcal hacks and Office-seekers." Tally
one for Over!
Blair county has some good marksmen.
and she also has some very bad ones
Amongst the latter may he clasSed that Sev-
/enteenth street Altoonian of whom it is said
mat II you gave him loaded gun and turned
MN loose III a barn which contained but a
single knot-hole, and then shut all the doors
and told him to bang away and shoot some
thing, the sides, the floor, or the roof of the
structure, he would signally fail TO do rs di-
rected. The bullet would escape through
chat knOt-hole
Madam Rumor is again busy with her
many tong ues, and this time the burtheu OF
her story is that a grand hop--in fact, the
hop of the SeaSOu-iS TO come off in his DIacs
where the festivities are to be held has not
vet transpircd, hut as the young men who
have the matter in hand, and who are be
leved in some circles to be Chock full of orr
glnal sin, are known To he an fUt in such
matters, there is no doubt that the ball will
be a brilliant afiair-wheu il comes off.
Gen. Jacob NJ. Campbell, OF JohEstowu,
has been suggested a tit man for the rad
iCal nomination for Lieutenant Governor
That party mi. h go further in quest Of
candidate and fare worse; but we give due
notice that the Democracy, when the proper
time shall arrive, mean 10 fill the office
named with a man entertaining entirely
different political views from those embraced
by the General This is bad for the General
and his prospects, we know, but II is a state
of affairs for which we can see no radical
remedy.
On Thursday of last week, John Cox,
ESq., ceased to be County Treasurer by
reason of the expiration Of his term of Of
fee, Mr.. y. d. CrISte succeeding to the pos
itiOn. Squire Cox was an exceedingly eff
fioicut and very popular public servant, and
his retirement will he regretted by all with
whom he came in official contact. He filed
the Office two terms, or four years, with in
finite credit 10 himself and 10 the entire sat
istaCtiOn of every person else. Mr.. Crlste,
his successor. is a well known citizen of
Munster, and, we feel sure, will ''lill the
bill'' in every particular.
While returning home on the mail train
from business tour eastward, on Saturday
afternoon last, Mr.. Jacob b. Elite. of Belle
fontr, committee. suicide by shooting HIM
self through the head with a pistol. The
terrible deed was consumnated in The water
closet of one of the cars, which the nntOrtu-
nate man had entered a short distance west
of Mount Union, and where he was found in
dying condition about one hour after. No
cause for the rash act was known TO exist,
although financial troubles have been limited
at, and his friends entertain the hope that
his death was the result Of accident rather
than premelitation
Elaine is the name of the latest oil
for illuminating purposes that has been in
troduCed in this community. 1t claims to
be nothing more or less than carbon oil, but
its peculiar merits consist in the fact that
il furnishes much more brilliant and clear
er light than the ordinary petroleum, Is al
most inodoruus and pure a. crystal in color,
and being perfectly free from benZine and
parahue, Il lamp filled with 1t cannot eX
pludc under any circumstances. 1t Is pro-
nounced 10y the highest authorities the very
best and safest oil that has yet been pro
duced. Geo HUdrley sells it at forty cents
per gallon, or i'll gallon cans at sixty cents
Try it.
The report of the board of Fish Commits
siouers TO the Governor for the year 1873
has been published. The total number OF
black bass introduced into the various
streams OF the State during that period APP
pears 70 have been 2,O4S. We are cEary of
bestowing much applause on n"w-tang!ed
notions particularly when such are the en-
anatiom of Il Legislature that had a Harry
White for a head and a Sam JosephS tor
tail, bar in this particular case we must say
that the Fish Commissioners have done
well. II they continue on they have
begun, they will have all the streams salts
facturiIy stocked in say two hundred and
fifty years from date.
The best coal that has ever been un-
earthed in Cambria county, we verify believe
is that which has just been put upon the mar
ket 10y Messrs. j. NJ. * j. Blown, Of sam
merhill, and which is now being supplied to
consumers in this vicinity by Mr.. Ed. Hum
phreys. 1t is equal, II not superior, IN all
respects to Westmoreland coal, and contains
neither sulphur, iron nor slate, and therefore
deposits no cIiukers, cinders, or other hard
substances in the stove. 1t viii produce
sparkling fire in few minutes after igni-
tiou, and retain fire for fully twelve hours.
We know these TO he facts, as we have kept
fire all night by its aid Without preparation,
and therefore can conscientiously recon-
mend it TO all consumers of coal.
The shooting match for a purse of $500
and the championship of the two counties,
with Henry Behe, of Cambria, and j. L.
Mccartney, of Blair, as the contestants,
came off per agreement at the Eorhtaih
Inn, three miles east Of Summit, on Satur-
day last. Fifteen shots TO the STRING, one
hundred yards, off-hand, constituted the
terms of the match. Mr.. Mccartney proved
the victor his string measuring "a inches,
while that of his competitor reached 0O men
es Another match has been arranged ne
tween Nl!Ilam Hlchter, OF luIS county "l"
Anthony Johnston, OF Blair, the shooting 10
take place on Monday next AT the Fountain
Inn Two separate strings of ten shots each
will be fired at rest, the first at distance
of sixty-sIx yards and the second one hun
red yards from the target, the prizes to be
$50 per string. Much good natured r1Valry
exists between Cambria and Blair counties
on the question OF the superiority OF their
respective marksmen, and although the lat
ter county has got the laugh on MS at pres
ent writing, the 'frosty sons OF thun,ter
seem fully determined to pick their minus
and ifSe again"
THE FEBRUARY number of WOOD
IJorSEHorD NJ IAGAZINF is really marvel
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