The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-04-10


recently noticed Hs having been brought to
jail here on n charge Of stealing reYolvers
from Johnstown hard ware store, has been
acquitted in the District Court of the crime
indicated, but has been found guilty of re-
ceiVing stolen goods. Not yet sentenced
} Mr.. Jacob Snyder. we'll known drug
Elstsahd much esteemed citizen of Holidays
/ burg, fell dead at the threshold of his own
/ door, which he was about TO enter on Sum
day morning last, having just been brought
home from church by his son, where he had
/ taken suddenly i'll. His age was about &c
The Herald says that there are 38. coo
acres or land IN one tract along the Black
lick which is thickly covered with cherry
poplar, ash, etc. and underlaid with almost
inexhausIible deposits of coal and iron ore
and also states that 800 600 have been offer
ell and refused for 9, 700 acres in that region
One hundred policemen were sworn into
The service of the Cambria Iron Company
by Register and Recorder Singer yester-
day. Go 10 work nuder certain stipulationG
or Vacate the company houses inStanter
seems to be the two horns of the dilemma
between which the strikers find themselves
The deserved success of Mt. Galiitzin
Seminary, in this place, is notably indicated
by the fact that the good Sisters OF ST. .Jo-
seph find II necessary to add largely 10 their
accommodations hy the erection of an addi-
nonal huilding three stories high and 4OxGO
feet in dimensions, which they have III con-
temptation.
1t IL presumahle that wagons have
tongues OF their own &c waG hut that does
not Seem 10 deter some ,Tohnstown folks
from waGging their tongues in praise OF he
excellent vehicles turned out by AIrssrs.
Barker q Son Rt their extensive manufac-
tory III this place. Such work deserves the
most generous laudationS.
Posters have been printed at this office
for public sale, by F. i. Tierney, Esq. on
Saturday of next week, Of household furni-
ture, COW, sleigh. harness, etc; also dwell
ing house aud lot land near town. Office, etc
Posters have likewise been printed hy
for orphans court sale of Ann Kearney's
estate, on MAY 18th, hy Jos. Criste. trustee.
Our good old friend. S. B. Mccormick
of Johnstown. long and favorahlv known
10 the readers of the Freeman az ''Roh Roy
has taken up his line of march for the gold
en- shores of the Pacific, where our readers
will join IT'S in expressing the hope that he
may long live 10 enjoy the benefits of that
delightful climate, not forgetting, of course,
10 let us hea" from him often.
One of the JuhnStown strikers who re-
fuses tO accedc TO the terms laid down by
the Company in order Ia obtain employment,
was heard to remark tine other day that he
had fought three years to secure the free
dom of the "maU and brother" and he'd
lie damaged If he waHted any body to
fight three years TO obtain n like boon for
him.
The Johnstown Tribune. rather ques-
tionahle authority, learns that Bernard Me
Colgan, Esq, of Wilmore, is an aspiTant
for the Democratic nomination for PrOrhOu-
otary- He certainly deserves and would
NIL the position as well as any man III the
county, and while il Is not our business TO
express preference, We are sure the con-
vention might go further and fare worse
Col. Israel Painter was attacked hy two
or three hIghwavmen at the very threshold
OF the Laird House door, Greensburg, on
w edneSday midnight of last week, and had
not his outcries brought to his assistance the
prophet or of the hotel. he would undoubted-
" have been robbed of "A large sum OF money
which he had that day collected from persons
owing him. The robbers fed on :he ap-
proach of Mr.. BOrlin, the landlord Of the ho-
Tel.
A lady and gentleman from Lancaster
county, relatives of the Zahm brothers of
this place, arrived here yesterday afternoon |
fr,m Florida, where they had been spend !
ing the winter, and which they found it CON
veuient to leave on account of the extreme |
heat-an objection which will sound very /
queer 10 our people 1T this particular june |.
ton, ing how ii SHOWS. They report /,
having frasted on Strawberries. new peas I
and SIGH like, while sojourning in Florida.
A lad named k0ontZ, residing near LO- /
rettO, went 10 his fathers carpenter shop, !
on Saturday morning last, TO start n fire in /
the stove, when 10y some means he SET fire /
to lot of shavings near the front door,
which cut off his means of egrcss, and when [
his father reached the shop soon after, he .
found his sou lying on his face and nearly /
hy the smoke. He At once chuck
ed the PROSTATE boy through the window,
and succeeded in eXrInguishing the flames .
before much damage was done TO the shop.
County Superintendent Chapman in
forms that he recently remained over
nj ght with a friend when upon com pairing
notes. ii was discovered that his father and
his friends father were born in the same
year; that his mother and his friends moth
ar were born in the same year, that he and
'is friend were born in the same year, and
hat his wife and his friends wife were
BORN In the same year. This we think
coincidence of dates, and that
here would scarcely be one chance in a
million of a similar coincidence.
Mr. NJ L. Brown, who until recently
represented the Singer Sewing Machine
company in this place, has transferred his
TO the Victor" sewing machine,
md will hpnceforth do his level best 10 con I
,iuce the people of this vicinity that they
need and ought to have machines of that
Tripe in their possession. The Victor is
certainly first class machine, rivalling all
Is competitors in many particulars, as we
hall endeavor TO show next week, and in
he hands of such trustworthy agent as
dr. Brown il ought TO soon gain its way to
many of the households of this county.