The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-01-09

gentleman from Centre county, this State
by whom he has been employed. Mr.. J. is
a first class clerk and a most worthy gen
tleman socially. and his many friends
here unite in wishing him abundance OF
good luck in the old Tar Tree State. Sc
mote it be.
We were glad to welcome once moro
to our sanctum our young friend Geo. A.
Berry Esq. at one time a practising at
toTney in this place, but now a resident of
/ Grand Rapids, Mich, who is at present on
a visit to his many friends here He looks
! well, feels well. and is we'll physically. but
that he will be better by halt in another par
( tlcular before he leaves us we would not
he at all surprised TO hear. although of
course we don't know anything about it
ourself personally.
Some unhung scOundrels not only stole
about a hundred bushels of corn from the
barn of man named IIelsel, in Alleghe-
ny township, on the night before Christ
! mas, but also cut the mouth of n valuable
horse in brutal manner and Their, it is
supposed, administered arsenic to the an
imal, from the effects IF which it died soon
after. Such hellish diabolism would dis
grace the inmates of Pandemonium itself
We hope the Williams may be captured and
punished to the full extent of the law
/ The JOhnstown District Court, which
is in session this week has for the most
part been occupied in the trial of simple
assault and battery cases, the only eXcep-
lions thus far that we have noticed being
! the conviction of VIM. II. Gore for seduc-
! tiOn and fornicatiOn and bastardy Miss
Amelia Rinebolt prosecutriX, and the trial
/ of John Gore and Henry Updegrave for
the larceny of four bottles of wine from the
/ saloon of John ID. Barkley, the verdict i'll
which case we have not yet learned. Eli
sha Dixon, charged with rar", had not at
latest accounts been pat on his trial
( On Saturday night last some miscreant
placed several pieces of metal and num-
Der of cross-tieS on the Pennsylvania rail
road. between Cresson and Gallitzin, with
the evident design of throwing the Fast
Line east from the track. Fortunately
the obstruction was placed in a straight
line of track, and was observed by the en-
gineer in time to check the train, when it
was soon removed. No punishment could
be too severe Cor fiends who would thus
endanger the lives of many persons to glut
feeling of reSenge for some fancied in
jury from the-cOmpany or an employe.
Through the courtesy of Rev. j. w.
Edie, we were favored on Wednesday last
/ with the first peep at a beautiful silver
| Communion Set, - five pieces in all, which
has Just been presented to the Presbyte-
rian church in this place by that prince of
clever gentlemen, George w. Mullin, Esq,
.
Mountain House, CressOn. We never saw
anything more chaste or elegant. and we
are sure that nothing more appropriate for
the purpose could have been selected. The
generous donor is certainly deserving and
no doubt will receive the hearty thanks of
the congregation he has so handsomely re
membercd.
The neatest thing by far in its way
that we have yet seen is the beautiful iron
fence which encloseS the burial lot owned
by VIM. kittell, Esq, in the Catholic Gem
etery in this place. This fence was erect
ed by MessrS. J. & II. A. Shoemaker, of
the Ebensburg Foundry, who have the ex-
elusive right in this county, web as in
Somerset, Westmoreland and Allegheny
counties to manufacture it, having pur-
chased said rights from Mr.. Gearhart, the
patentee. We can conceive of nothing
more desirable for enclosing porticUs. front
yards, cemetery lots, etc, and those who
contemplate improvements of that kind
should not fail to examine this elegant and
substantial rustic fence.
Whether the information was vouch-
safed by spiritual medium or the no less
chimerical revelations of a dream, or wheth-
er based on what was believed to be rella-
bic information, we are not prepared to say,
but certain it is that two OF our citizens be-
came impressed not long since with the
idea that at a certain spot in North Caro-
line box full of gold coin could be had
for the digging. Acting, therefore, on that
belief, they visited the place, employed
few negroes to make the necessary excava-
ton, kept their courage up to the sticking
point for n day and a half, and then sor-
rowfully concluded that there either never
had been any gold buried there or else that
some more cunning men had occupied the
field before them. So no gold and fewer
greenbacks is the sum total of the eXpedi-
ton.
The surviving members of Co. D, Cd
Pa. Vols. who served in the Mexican war,
or at least a portion of them, held re-
union at the Blair House, in this place, on
Friday evening last. The meeting was
presided over by Capt. James Murray,
with Messrs. Daniel o. Evans and Evan
ID. Evans as Vice Presidents and Messrs.
J. d. Parrish and VIM Mills as Secreta-
ries. Brief addresses were delivered by
the President of the meeting and by Maj.
r. J. Crozier, of Altoona, after which the
latter gentleman and John A Blair, Esq,
of this place, were chosen delegates to rep
resent Co. d in the grand reunion OF Mex
lean soldiers to be held IN Washington
CITY on Thursday of next week. Ia the
evening the entire paEty sat down to an
elegant supper prepared by that most ac,
complished of landladies, Mrs. Blair, and
It is needless to say that they did ample
Justice to the bountiful feast. Not the
least noteworthy incident of the reunion
was the fact that it was held on the TWEEN
tv-seventh anniversary of the departure
from this place of Co. d otherwise known
as the Cambria Guards for the scene of
strife.
A CENTENARIAN GONE.-We did not
learn until a few days ego of the death OF
Jacob Deboj, n resident of Barr township,
near St. Nicholas, who was perhaps the old
est man in the county, and whose funeral
took place on the 18th of December. He
was a Frenchman by birth, and as near "a
NE car, learn came to this county about forty
yaars apo. He claimed that he was Jos
Years ears Old Just previous to his death; He
80 I,nouestionabIv a soldier under Napo-