The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-01-30
Local Correspondence.
JoHNsTowN, Jan. %, IS


DEAR FREEMAN-Having h,'n'or in NY
head, you need not expect anything serious
from me this week.
1t is now quite probable that the Senate
IF the L. $. Will add some Waite to the Pres
ideut's judgment III appointing officers.
Ii the local of the ,IUhusJown Tribune can
be relied Oh, the High School Literary So
ciety is iii a decp-iOre-a-bie condition.
1t is not true that j. L. Campbell has lost
his TOtce. The little engine, however, has
had a bad cold spell
There is not a more moral place than
Johnstuwn in all PandeInouium. There has
only been two rapes, two runaways and two
elopements within the last three months.
Tue weather and the - Literary Herald -
have had three or four very bad spells lately.
ST. Valentines ; day may have had something
to do with them.
The latest way of comparing get on, is get
(h)onOr and get (h) onest.
Ebenshurg is an old fogy town 1t has
but one Singer, while we have nine quireS of
them.
our Shoemakers, too, are pious people
They are always doing something cor the sole.
We cannot see why there should not be
prayers in the common school, where the
pupils are all taught TO say n. \.
,Jonustown can boast OF sixteen churches,
seventeen schools, and eighty driHkjng Sa-
looms.
The new constitution didn't put an end to
the Philadelphia rings; cause why, rings
have no end.
The Tribune calmly denies the soft i'm
parchment, that one of our judges Is in his
dOioge, one dedf, anG one bIiI,d.
Our little cat, Nanny, III a playful mood
climbed UP a tree about forty feet, and then
sprang down to the ground without sustain
ing any t1adgiHdTy injury, but she was killed.
The senior editor of the JOhnstown UemO-
crat has had the epizootics for over year.
He is now i'll a state OF Transition.
There have been great many conversions
here lately and some inCeTSiOHS.
Several suspicious characters have been
Drowling around Johnstown the past week,
among W hou were Il Congressman and Il Leg
iSiGtOT.
Considerable apprehension is felt here
among our best and wisest citizens for the
grdssiODperS that appeared couple of weeks
Somebody ought to get out IA patent right
for a new school sy stem that would please
everybody.
A false alarm of fire recently brought to-
gether three thousand of our citizens i'll tit-
teen minutes .Stcedring was then given in
free.
A granddaughter of John Brown, whose
soul is marching on, was tenant III the
Johustown lookup not long since.
There is death in our city every day
now, which is one acoy of fixing the popula-
tiou at twenty thousand.
The rolling mill here will pay up all the
hands regularly from this date, which Is an
answer to thousands of pTey-eTs.
There is to be grand reunion of all the
there's in the world ut the great centennial
celebration in 1876.
saw a school-book the other day-a trig-
had sin, sun, SIN, and 60.
sin, co. sin, co. SIN, printed all through II.
AIasl for our system OF education.
Several important changes Will take place
the first of April next around town, among
which will be change OF the moon.
There will be Il Nasty lecture delivered
here. some time III February. Don't go. 1t
is Il sin.
The most attractive sign about town, and
one that ought to draw lots of cuS:oLha, is,
s.The cheapest cQFins in the city.
Not one per cent. OF our teachers, school di-
rectors aud county Superintendents under
stand per cent.
A man in California was killed by falling
uuder 4 nattut harrow. y sacramento pa
nar saws ut was Il huTTO3CtH5 sight
E,nil Young one OF our most popular jew
eIers. has lately purchased a side show case,
sx,.Ir1siveIv for silver ware, which Is a most
attractive piece OF furniture. 1t was made
i'm ohio. The front is composed of paues OF
me hest French glass, aud the case is air
tight or dust tight. Emil Young is doing
+ tIouIishing business, notwithstanding the
1a,,ic tines He keeps at 40 and ll2 Cbn-
ION street Johnstown, whore your readers
can see A full assortment OF all kinds OF Jew
eIrv. which he sells very cheap. CaL and
81. his silver ware show ease.
The bridge of St.ha' Is now located be-