The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-05-15

! TltITIllT TUaf
body UNDER flag of truce as representatives
OF The sabbath school cause, and both sang
pSaI ms out OF the same hymn-book
Tho steam saw-mill of Hoover Harris
~ Co, situated ON the Tyrone and CiearfeId
Railroad, between Blue Ball and pbiIiDs
burg, was entirely destroyed by fire on SSn-
day morning last between three and f,ur
O'Clock. No lumber was burned. althougb
II was piled very close 10 the mill. Loss
Iio,oIV insurance $40 coo. 1t is thought
that the mill will be rebuilt ut once.
Miss Mary Smearsmau fell headfore-
most into Il ciStcrn from which she WAS
drawing water. in Huntingdon, few DAYS
/ ago, and had it not been for n lirtle child
/ VINO Witnessed the catastrophe and gave the
alarm, she would most undoubtedly have
/ peen drowned. As it was she was taken
! out IN an unconscious coudi ton, bat the
uSuaI TeStorativcs soon brought her grourd
! all right.
Paine and the Pope never did get alonq
/ very smoothly together during the lifetime
OF the renowned atheist, hut we trust that
( Will not he the experience of Mr. lanes
Ialne, OF Harrisburg. and Miss Louisa
/ Pope, of Huntingdon, who have lust bitched
teams matrimonial and propose to nut mn
/ with all lie littls Taj1es which NAV be Wis
. lttd upon them during the balance of life's
/ pilgrmage.
! The locomotive of the Cincinnati OK.
! press east, on Sunday afternoon last. struck
a short pi eCe of railroad iron near South
/ Fork, which purpOsely or mad vertcntly had
been placed in close proximity to one of the
| frogs and sent it whizZing to n distance of
/ fully fifty feet from the track. What might
have been the resultif the piece of iron had
. maintained its position can be as we'll imag-
/ incd as described,
! "A " turnpike sailor" named Edward
/ Wyatt, who would he better off to-day il he
had done all his sailing along the turnpike
/ instead of ventUrins on the railroad track,
was struck by 4 locomotive at South Fork,
this county, on Thursday morning of last
eel Ifttf Il gFpfsa af raj
feet, cutting him very severely about the
head. The unfortunate man was cared for
by the authorities.
In Cambria borough, on Monday night
last, an irtOX iCated individual named ThOs.
. White fired three shots from 4 revolver AT
August Matthews, the second of which
struck Mr.. N. on the forehead and peeled
portion of the skin from his scalp in n di-
rect line clear TO the back Of his head. The
/ other two shots did no damage. White was
( arrested and is now under : ,OOe hail to ap-
pear at the next term of the District Court
to answer.
as yet We have heard not word said aboat
the decoration of the soldiers graves in this
vicinity. How is that? AprOpos of this
subject, see that several of our ex-
changes recommend the trausp,anting of
/ resc-buShes in full bloouI from The gardens
/ TO the graves, but fail to toll how the roses
are TO he made bloom at carly date,
Roses do uot bloom in the Northern States
before the middle of Jene.
Some low-li"ed sCUuudrel endeavored
on Thursday night of last week, TO stop the
water on the people of Joh hnstowu in gen
! cral and the Cambria Iron Works in Drr-
I tlcular 10y chuCking short pieces Of wood,
/ chips, exc, into and otherwise tamperiug
/ with the main pipe at the head of the Wild
cat main on Laurel Hill We know OF
4 nothing worse that could be attempted. I'M
/ less II would be an effort to stop the whisky
! on s"ine of the people thereaway.
/ Some few months ago the wife of RIr J.
I b. Miller, OF LudwiCk, WcstmOreland couu-
/ ty, bought from peddlar 4 box of corn oiut-
/ ment Being sufferer from these pests,
sh" applied some OF the salVe and coon her
/ foot began to intiame and became quite sore.
/ y considerable portion of her foot is already
| eaten away from the effects OF the villaiuous
! ointment, and il WAS At one time feared that,
/ to save her life, amputatiou of that member
! would be necessary. At present, however,
/ the sore gives some slight evidence OF heal
! ing.
An important eiectnent trial is before
/ the United States Circuit Court at Pitts
burgh, which involves the title to Il large
] body of land in this county, located in Croyle
/ and Summerhill townships We under
stand that John L. King and others, who
arc citizens of New jersey, the plain
/ titfs in the case, and the Cambria Iron and
/ Coal Company the defendants, but the
names OF the persons comprising said com
/ pauy we have not learned. +. y. ShOema-
/ ker and George NJ. Reed, Esq, of this
| place, are at Pittsburgh attending TO the
case.
! Mr., John Cochran, aged 20 years,
resident of Altoona; and 4 freight bra keman
/ on the Pa. r. r., was run over by a portion
| "f the train on which he was employed, at
! Portage station, this county, on Monday
| morning last, and had of his legs
/ 50 terribly crushed that it had to be amputa-
| ted and the other one injured to such an eX-
! tent that it is more than probable that ii
/ will eventually have to share the same fate,
! although DIR. John LOWmau and son
/ doing all they can to save the injured limb.
| Mr.. CochrSu's condition is considered very
precarious
The Grouse brothers, of this place,
| while fishing on Friday last at what is known
as the saw-mill dam of Evan j Evans, saw
! yer, Il mile or 50 north OF town, saw what
/ thev verify allege TO have been a full grown
black bear, which they say came 10 the
/ waters edge and qucnched its thirst, and
| then made tracks for the woods from
whence it had come. The Messrs. &. de-
. clare that there is no sell about this, ~ 1t
/ was not one of those bears which are Spclt
differently, and which iucredulous hearers
! sometimes suggest as the most apt to be
/ seen on such occasions.
j. Gibbs Hassnn, deputy rrothonotary,
went hShing last Saturday evening TO Shin
/ kfc's dam, Immediately south of town, where
/ he caught t1rO catfish, each one OF which
| measured elerer inches. On Monday morn
( ing Ellis O. Kerr tried his luck at the same
/ Mace and caught fish Of the same species
/ f,raLUe inches long. These catfish are the
/ growth OF several small fish that were
/ brought here three years ago from the head
! waters Of the Susquehanna, near the Cherry
/ Tree, by Samuel Henry, Peter l.. Linton,
l and other gentlemen of this place, ami depos-
/ ited in the dam of Mr.. Shinkle.
The striking fever among the miners
! seems TO have extended to some of their
J wives. several of whom have of late struck
ont for PASTURES now accompanied by gay
and festive youths who have neither char
arters or currency to lose in the operation.
The latest OF these elnpament haScos is that
of the wife of George J Jenkins, an ore miner
and II. b. preacher, residing in Holiday
burg. who, after nineteen years OF welded
but chiIdlcss bliss, confiScated small sew
inc machine and ten dollars in money, and
then '"Iit out 8" with younger and we. pre-
! nc a better looking man than her nus
hand named Daniel Osborne, also an ore
| miner.
| Warm weather such as we are now en-
| ioving or suffering, as the case may be, can
not fail to induce desire to don winter
g,rrnents and don wearing apparel more IN
| accordance with the eternal htness oi
things and that very common desire hatu-
liz I,.,ds MS to remark that James D.
Mummy. of Star Clothing Hall, 100 clinton
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