The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-23

Henry Leeky was arrested in Johnstown
on sunday last for brutality beating a man
named Jacob Mowrer on tie 29th of last
month, and on being taken before ESQ
Strayer, Monday evening, confessed that he
ma nad struck Mowrer with a ''slung shot"
This was deemed talk enough and conse-
quently he was held in $500 bail I'd appear
ana answer at the next term of Court
Go ask the troubled waves whose cease-
less roar, in fury breaks upon the distant
shore, know ye some spot in all your lonely
round, where bargains great for really cash
are found ?--the answer comes; few words
employed, the place il kept by Myers &,
Lloyd: whp sell all Kind of goods, the best,
at prices lower than all the rest of men in
this wide world you'll meet--Ebensburg's
the town and High they call the street
The Democrcy of Centre comfy, IN con.
vention assembled on Tuesday last, present
ed the name OF d. g. Bush. Esq, for Con-
gress, and delared for Hon. p. Gray Meek.
editor of the Belefonte Watc7,paa, for State
senator. We congratulate Bro. Meek on
the we'll merited honor SO handsomely be-
slowed upon him, and have no hesitation in
saying that a better selection could not have
been made. Hope the oIher counties will
follow suit.
We should have .d,d last week that our
energetic and wide-awake townsmau, Mr..
Geo. Huntley, Joined DR.. Lennon ana Mr.
VIM. A. Jones in their sea voyage from
Philadelphia to Boston, the trip as we are
assured by Mr.. Jones, who has siuce returned
having been very delightful one and
neither of the three gentlemen named if we
except DR.. Lennon, who was slightly affect
ed, suffered from s':a-sickness. MIR. Hunt
ley is now visiting his childhood home among
| the green hills of Vermont.
John Ryan, Esq.. Democratic candidate
for Sheriff, and II. ID. Woodruff, ESQ. late
senior editor of the Johnstown Democrat.
reached our town "Wednesday afternoon. en-
route to the picnic at ST. Lawrence yester-
day. Mr. Ryan Is an nffable, genial gem
tleman, and needs only to he known to be
appreciated for his sterling integrity and
moral worth. He is the kind of man, in
c"ed, that the Democracy of Cambria will
never go back on and his trium plant election
Us therefore foregone conclusion.
-Abrain Goose Is the patronymic of n
Houtzdale confectioner, but lie is only
goose in name, albeit he is of the masculine
gander-no, gender-whiie they are geese In
nature who heed not the advice we gi them
every week TO buy all their maie-up clothing
hats, caps, furnishing goods, etc, from that
prince of clothiers aud most liberal of gen.
tleman. Mr.. Godfrey Wolff whose immense
establishment, wish our readers at all
times to bear in mind, Is on Twelfth street,
next door To the post-ofiice, Altoona.
"A bar of iron interviewed one of Erastns
Bayler's feet Mt tho c. I. Co.'S rolling mill,
Johnstown, on Friday night last, aud al
though no bones were broken, the injured
man no doubt wishes that that particular
foot had not been on that particular spot at
that particular moment Samuel Teese, OF
Hornerstown, met with a like mishap at the
same place on Saturday evening, and Jared
/ Infinitely worse, his right foot being badly
crushed and one of the bones broken by
bar OF iron falling diagonally across 1t.
Hon. VIM. +. Prosser. nernbcr uf
Congress some ten years ago. and subse-
quently postmaster NJ Nashville, Tenn, near
which place he now resides, and DR.. Thos,
J. Grifffhs, surgeon In charge of the u. 8.
Marine Hospital Mt Louisville, Ky, were
among the visitors TO our town last week.
| Mr. Prosher was former citizen of this
place, and not n few OF our citizens remember
very plainly IL not very painfully when he
used to WELD the birch in this locality while
engaged some twenty odd years ago I'm teach
\ ing the young idea how to shoot.
"A mischevous qnack in Altoona advised
young man with more bair than brain to
use molasses water. the theory being that
after the water evapora,ed the rebellio,is
Jocks would coalesce and keep in place. He
made his toilet of Sunday morning, and,
taking prominent pew, concentrated the
attention of all tue flies in the church, much
10 the relief and cdification of the cougrega-
tion. After striking wildly about and dam
aging a paln-leaf in undue vehemence, he
made a break for the door with the flies
swarming about his well-seasone,i poll.
We are glad 10 notice that Capt James
H. Gagehy, of the Sd lIfantry, U. S. A, a
brave soldier. thorough gentleman, and an
earnest friend of the FREEMAN Is at present
on visit to his old home in j Johnstown, and
that lac Is in the enjoyment of good health
and no doubt the posessor of IA easy n con-
science as soldier on duty in the SouIh
could ex pect TO enjoy. Mr.. James Flanagan,
eldest SON Of j udge Flanagan, has also been
taking peep at old aud familiar scenes In
and about Johnstowu, and fs now doing
the Centennial previous to returning TO his
Eone in Chicago.
No danger of business at tire EbensDurg
hardware AMI house furnishing establish
Eient going TO the deInnition bow vows
during the absence OF the proprietor, so long
as that mammoth concern is under the pru-
dent management of proficient and
commodating gentleman as Mr. w i'll.
ConnelI, who has no superior a salesman
and few equals in all that pertains TO a thor
ough knowledge Of the hard ware trade in all
it's branches. Buyers can do no better with
Mr.. Huutley, or any Other man, than they
with his efficient aud attentive clerk,
MIR. Council
AT II o'clock on Sunday night, inst "a
the town tiine-piece was pcaling the hour of
midnight, brick WAS thrown through
large pane OF glass in the show window of
Dibert x Sons hard ware store. Johnstown.
aud ere long still another crash was heard,
after which all remained quiet aud nothing
further was known In regard TO the matter
until the following morning, when 1t was
discovered that sey eral pistols. knives, ETC.,
had been stolen from one of the show cases.
and that the broken window had been used
for the ingress and egress of the burglars.
No clue 70 the perpetrators
We publish on our first page n patriotic
song written 10y Maj. @. Nelson Smith.
gentleman who needs no Introduction TO the
people of this county, aud set TO music by
~. ii. Roscwig. This song has been sung
with great cclat by the Grand Centennial
Choir aud In all the Amy Posts of the
country, and is no doubt as thrilling in the
music, of which we are no judge, as IT. Is
soul ming and patriotic In it's sentiment.
1t is sold NJ the usual price of sheet music
and can be had 10y any of the friends Of the
author or the readers of the FREEMAN by
addressing Mr.. J. II. II. Storey, 2l1 South
Sixth street, Philadelphia.
Peter Paul Gallisath son of CAPTAIN
Il. Galiisati, former citizen of Cambria
borough, this county, but for several years
past a resident OF Pittsburgh, was drowned
i'm the Loyalhauna, near Iatrobe, on Satur-
day last. The unfortunate lad was on a
visit with his parents to the latter place,
and few hours previous To the time set for
the family TO return home he went out TO
ii ish In n dam moi far distant when. hY some