The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-01-16

! ~ Siep ana l.. II. Airk. committees ON par
/ OF the Altoona typos, have our than ks io
/ an invitation, handSOmely printed, TO atteuC
/ the first annual festival of the printers a.
/ That city on tomorrow evening, the ami
versary of the bIrth of benjamin Franklin
We shall be there sure, If it is Sin the wood &,
Let none of our readers conclude thai
we trying to riddle any person with 3
paper wad when we give place 20 the fol.
lowing which we find in one of our ex.
changes The drWnmers came down like
wo,ves on the fold: their toes We're all frosted
their noses all cold. Their weather-ueeled
bugles soon shone through the town; 1hev
goonled the money and salted it down: then
took a few orders and lit out of here with
Ihelr heads full of business and skins full
of beer"
"A little five-year-old daughter of the ed
/ ltor of this paper had her left arm painfully
scalded between the wrist and elbow. on
FRIDAY evening last, while attempting to
pour boiling water out of a tea-kettle into a
cup, she having undertaken to make herself
a bowl of cracker soup without the aid or
knowledge of the older members of the
household. Through the medical skill of
DIR. Oatman her sutferings were soon allevi-
ated, however, and she is now doing we'll
1t is needless TO say that she has lost all ap-
petite for cracker soup, unless it comes to
her ready made.
An Englishman named Davis, who in
gratrated himself about a year or so ago into
The good graceS of some of the Christian neo-
pie at Cherry Tree Indiana county, where
he, either properly or improperly, assumed
the role of Baptist preacher and succeeded
IN forming quite Il respectable congregation
and in pushing almost to completion a
very neat church edifice, recently ar
rested and is now being tried in Clear
field on a charge of seduction preferred by a
young lady residing in that county. Davis,
who is married man aud the father of two
or three children, acknowledges, it is said,
the soft impeachment
One day last week, says the Holidays
burg Standard, an Altoona policeman started
out to arrest woman named LantZ, charged
with selling liquor contrary to law. He
found her i'll bed, with revolver under her
pillow, and young baby by her side. He
didn't arrest her Later in the day ID. G.
Ehrhart had a warrant issued for her arrest
on the charge of procuring goods under false
pretenscS. This time the officer didn't get
into the room at all, a number of females
meeting him on the stairs and declaring so
positively that Mrs. LantZ in a very
critical condition that he left at once. There
are some who say the woman is only sham
ming, and that the baby belongs TO her
daughter.
"A couple of sneak thieves entered the
granary of Mr.. John LomerauX, in Black
lick township at a late hour on Thursday
night of last week, and gobhled up a lot of
bacon belonging to that gentleman. The
scoundrels We're tracked on the following
morning from the grauary in question across
the Blacklck, into jackson township, aud
Shearer; and as the occupants thereof are
well known and the evidence against them
of a very positive character, this is to notify
them that if they do not pay for the stolen
meat within a reasonable time they may
expect to get into trouble.
The account given by us last week in
reference to a hundred bushels of corn hav-
ing been stolen from man named Helsel
In Allegheny township, and the alleged
cutting and poisoning of a horse belonging
" ha-
lieved in that neighborhood TO be lie made
out of the whole cloth. Parties with whom
we have cOnversed, and who have had the
very best opportunities for knowing, declare
that there could not possibly have been that
amount of corn in Mr.. Helsels crib after the
recent taking away of tifty-eight bushels
sold by him, and that so far as the horse was
concerned, ii was old and decrepid and had
been ailing for some time past, and instead
of dying from the effects of poison its death
was due solely to natural causes. This
much for the credit OF Allegheny township.
"A fatal accident occurred at the Maple
ton Intersection with the Tyrone & Clear
field Railroad few mornings ago. Couduc-
tor Kinkade's train was just getting under
way, when George Hoover, a flagman, in
attempting to get OH one OF the cars slipped
and the force of :he fall, in the sleety con
dltiOn of the track. carried him under the
moving train, with his hips resting on the
rail In this condition four of the heavily
laden freight cars passed over him, sever
ing his legs from his body. In the fall he
broke his arm, which rendered it impossible
for HIM To assist himself or perhaps he could
have gotten from nHder the cars, as they
We're moving slowly at the time. He was
then taken TO Philipsburg, on the gravel
train, where he died shortly after. He
leaves a wife and four children at Philips
burg.
-Pringle hollow, in jackson township,
has never in AL its experience witnessed
such high old time some of our citizens,
who are there keeping bachelors hall and
getting out timber, iuaugurated not many
evenings ago. From four o'clock in the af-
ternoon until five o'clock next morning
coterie of fiddlers ''rOsined their bows and
sawed Off the Hveiiest airs, TO the merry
sounds of which lads and lassies almost in
Vulnerable ''tripped the light fantastic toe
with spirit and Zest that did ample credit
to their pedal eXtremities. The midnight
supper, which consisted of all the Injuries
aud substantialS that liberal hands could
supply, was gotten up by Miss Leidy and
Miss Kelly, and is said to have been feast
which even a prince might have envied.
All in all, il was most enjoyable party
such, indeed, as AN old resIdenter with fifty
years experience in the vicinity was heard
to remark has never been equalled, much
less surpassed, in all that classic region.
Everything passed off creditahly